Speaker 1: Coming to you from the dining room table at East
Speaker 1: Barbary Lane. Welcome to a special minisode version of Full Circle,
Speaker 1: the podcast, a weekly visit to our home where we
Speaker 1: squeeze a few headlines through our decidedly queer lens and
Speaker 1: see what happens. I am your host, Charles Tyson Jr.
Speaker 1: This minisode is brought to you by freshly minted White
Speaker 1: Tears and the Eternal Search for consistent sanity and intelligence
Speaker 1: on the Internet. Welcome to the Full Circle Table. Hey y'all,
Speaker 1: it's the first minisode of twenty twenty five that didn't
Speaker 1: take long. Martha Madrigal is being fabulous and a motherfucking
Speaker 1: rock star out there in the world as per usual.
Speaker 1: So today you get me. Yeah, life be life, and
Speaker 1: and Martha and I were all ready to settle in
Speaker 1: and record a regular episode and then things happened. And
Speaker 1: but you know, I know you love it. I know
Speaker 1: you miss it. It has been a while since I've
Speaker 1: had ya all to myself. Let's just enjoy it, shall
Speaker 1: weait A lot of things. A lot of things are
Speaker 1: going on at the moment, starting with Los Angeles. Man
Speaker 1: Lo La is on fire. Every day. We're getting updates
Speaker 1: on the devastation to not just the immediate environment, but
Speaker 1: you know, to the lives of residents that have been upended,
Speaker 1: the wildlife that have been uprooted, the ongoing ecological impact,
Speaker 1: the resources that are being strained to their limit. It's crazy,
Speaker 1: Martha and I. Our hearts go out to everyone that
Speaker 1: has been impacted by this tragedy man, whether directly or indirectly.
Speaker 1: Like if you have family on the West Coast, we
Speaker 1: know that you're you're going through it too. There is
Speaker 1: currently a gofund me that is dedicated to a relief
Speaker 1: for folks suffering from the wildfire. Currently there is over
Speaker 1: three point five million dollars raised. We are going to
Speaker 1: include the link to the GoFundMe in the notes to
Speaker 1: this minisode, so that if you are so inclined, you
Speaker 1: can offer some help as well. I'm sure it will
Speaker 1: be greatly appreciated. No amount is too small, no amount
Speaker 1: is too big. Keeping everyone in our thoughts, minds, and
Speaker 1: hearts as we get through this time. What else is
Speaker 1: going on with me? I mean, the last time we talked,
Speaker 1: I was still getting used to my non existent sleep
Speaker 1: schedule because of my job. That's sort of changed the
Speaker 1: fact that I am now on adderall for my ADHD
Speaker 1: does help. My work output has definitely gotten better. So
Speaker 1: there's that I'm sitting here looking at the Christmas tree
Speaker 1: that is still up even though it is Wednesday, January fifteenth.
Speaker 1: But you know what, we didn't put the Bad Boy
Speaker 1: up until Christmas Eve this year because, you know, the
Speaker 1: week that we would have been decorating for the for
Speaker 1: the holidays, we were hosting Nico Lang, friend of the pod,
Speaker 1: for their book tour. So we're gonna we're taking the
Speaker 1: extra time. Had we put the decorations up at the
Speaker 1: time we normally would have, then they would have been
Speaker 1: put away by Now we're using the same timetable. Damn,
Speaker 1: it is just being pushed back. But we're going to
Speaker 1: make sure that we get back to normal because not
Speaker 1: trying to have a Valentine's Day tree in our house.
Speaker 1: As Martha mentioned at the end of our last episode,
Speaker 1: we have finally hit our ten thousand download marker, which
Speaker 1: is where the magic supposedly really happens again. I want
Speaker 1: to thank everyone that has been listening to us since
Speaker 1: the beginning. I want to thank you and welcome all
Speaker 1: of our new listeners and you know the sometimey ones
Speaker 1: a y'all out there, We're glad you're here too. There's
Speaker 1: always something to enjoy. We've got some really wonderful things
Speaker 1: coming up in the very near future for the show.
Speaker 1: We've got authors, we've got artists, we've got you name it,
Speaker 1: we got it. Because as long as they are queer folks,
Speaker 1: there are going to be fabulous things to talk about,
Speaker 1: because that is what we do. We're here, We're queer,
Speaker 1: We're fabulous. Don't fuck with us. God damn it real quick.
Speaker 1: I just want to acknowledge we lost a fabulous performer
Speaker 1: in the past weeken some change. Drag performer The Vivian
Speaker 1: passed away suddenly on January fifth at the age of
Speaker 1: thirty two, and no official cause of death has been released,
Speaker 1: but it's definitely a big loss. She was a brilliant performer, comedian, actor.
Speaker 1: She of course was the first winner of Drag Race UK.
Speaker 1: But in her own right, she was the definition of
Speaker 1: a rising star and I was looking forward to seeing
Speaker 1: how high she was going to soar. I was looking
Speaker 1: forward to that Jinx Monsoon Vivian team up that just
Speaker 1: seemed completely inevitable, that was going to be insanity at
Speaker 1: its best, and you know it's celebrity Deaths don't normally
Speaker 1: hit me but so hard, with a few notable exceptions.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this was a tough one because for one thing,
Speaker 1: it came out of nowhere, and it was so sudden,
Speaker 1: and she was so young. So rest in peace. Rest
Speaker 1: in peace. Also, singer Sam Moore passed away at the
Speaker 1: age of eighty nine. This was last week. Sam was
Speaker 1: one half of the Sam and Dave duo, famous for
Speaker 1: the evergreen hit soul Man and hold On I'm Coming.
Speaker 1: He passed away due to complications while recovering from surgery.
Speaker 1: Talk about a major presence in R and B and
Speaker 1: soul music the Sam and Dave Duo. They transformed the
Speaker 1: call and response of gospel music into an amazing stage
Speaker 1: show that just made their star rocket and soul Man
Speaker 1: is one of those songs that you can escape. You know,
Speaker 1: if you go to a wedding, a bar mitzvah, a
Speaker 1: birthday party of anyone older than forty five, you were
Speaker 1: going to hear that jam and as well as you should,
Speaker 1: So rest in power. Sam Moore. Might have to listen
Speaker 1: to a couple of your amazing hits before day's end,
Speaker 1: Anita Bryant also died, but I'm not going to get
Speaker 1: into that now because I want to save that up
Speaker 1: for when Martha is here, because she's going to want
Speaker 1: to send her teeth into that bitch and I want
Speaker 1: to watch. So just suffice it to say she did
Speaker 1: and to paraphrase the hilarious moms maybly you're only supposed
Speaker 1: to say good things about the dead. She did good. Anyway,
Speaker 1: there's some good news. First off, there was an ongoing
Speaker 1: battle for control of basically the heart of Philadelphia. The
Speaker 1: Sixers had this hair brain plan to put a new
Speaker 1: arena smack in the middle of what is the Fashion
Speaker 1: District and a good chunk of Chinatown. And you know,
Speaker 1: nobody wanted this except the people that would stand to
Speaker 1: make money for it, and protesters were very vocal about it.
Speaker 1: And luckily, as of January twelfth, the Sixers decided to
Speaker 1: pivot and the plan is no longer going into effect.
Speaker 1: Everything was greenlit, the legislation was passed allowing the plan
Speaker 1: to move forward, but seemingly out of nowhere, the Sixers
Speaker 1: pulled out and reversed their idea. They're not going to
Speaker 1: put the arena smack in the middle of the city,
Speaker 1: which is just the smart thing to do. They're always
Speaker 1: trying to come for Chinatown, They're always trying to devastate Chinatown,
Speaker 1: and it never doesn't feel like racism, you know, And
Speaker 1: I'm just glad that, at least for the moment, this
Speaker 1: has been thwarted. Sources say that although the deal is
Speaker 1: quote off the table, the sixers in the Comcast partnership
Speaker 1: are still planning real estate developments and investments in market
Speaker 1: of Center City Philadelphia. So, you know, this particular fockery
Speaker 1: might have been thwarted, but lord knows what else they
Speaker 1: got coming. But can we at least think about things
Speaker 1: that would benefit the city, benefit the people that live,
Speaker 1: their work there, travel to and from, you know, instead
Speaker 1: of making it what would have been a hell scape
Speaker 1: like had that stadium gone up smack in the middle
Speaker 1: of the city, god forbid, you needed to enter or
Speaker 1: leave Philadelphia via public transportation or driving hell as a pedestrian,
Speaker 1: it would be insane. If people are going to a game,
Speaker 1: if people are leaving a game, it would just be insanity.
Speaker 1: Nobody wanted it. It wouldn't have had the positive impact
Speaker 1: on surrounding businesses, that they tried to say that it would,
Speaker 1: because I know personally, if I knew that there was
Speaker 1: a game and I wanted to do anything else in town,
Speaker 1: I would be like fuck that I'm not going in town,
Speaker 1: and that I feel like would have been the prevailing mindset.
Speaker 1: It's like, up, stay out of the city. There's a game.
Speaker 1: You know it's going to do the exact opposite of
Speaker 1: what they say it's going to do. And I don't
Speaker 1: know that it would be as successful as they thought
Speaker 1: it would be, even for the people that you know
Speaker 1: are paying to come to the games. But don't get
Speaker 1: me to line. All I know is folks are so happy.
Speaker 1: Business owners and residents in Chinatown are thrilled. The no
Speaker 1: Arena coalition is ecstatic. Quote. We're relieved to hear that
Speaker 1: the nightmare of a Center City six ers arena will
Speaker 1: not haunt our city anymore. To every Philadelphian who called
Speaker 1: marched testified in Warren City Hall that this was a
Speaker 1: raw deal. This wind belongs to you, and the lesson
Speaker 1: for politicians is to trust the people. Come on now,
Speaker 1: to the five council members who stood on the right
Speaker 1: side of this fight, we will not forget and there's
Speaker 1: also a list of the council people who were ready
Speaker 1: to decimate their city and wherever they go, whatever they do,
Speaker 1: we know what you did, motherfucker. Moving on. So in
Speaker 1: a piece of good news coming out of California, out
Speaker 1: California State Senator Scott Wiener has introduced a bill to
Speaker 1: protect trans people's privacy in preparation for the incoming Trump administration.
Speaker 1: As we all know, Orange Voldemort and his co horts
Speaker 1: are just obsessed with trans people for whatever reason and
Speaker 1: are trying to do everything they can to make trans
Speaker 1: people not exist or something, which we know is impossible,
Speaker 1: but lord knows, it doesn't stop him from trying. Scott
Speaker 1: Wiener said, Trump's ire towards trans people and his planned
Speaker 1: assault on their rights will only embolden abusive right wing extremists.
Speaker 1: Lord knows. The bill SB fifty nine, also called the
Speaker 1: Transgender Privacy Act, would establish an automatic process to seal
Speaker 1: all court records regarding someone's gender transition in the state,
Speaker 1: including retroactively sealing those that already exist. It would also
Speaker 1: ensure all gender transition records that refer to the person
Speaker 1: by their dead name or sex assigned at birth would
Speaker 1: be sealed. A similar law applying only to youth, was
Speaker 1: passed in twenty twenty three. Wiener's bill specifically applies to
Speaker 1: those over eighteen. Wiener said in a statement quote, the
Speaker 1: incoming Trump administration and Republican congressional leadership have made clear
Speaker 1: that targeting and erasing trans people is among their highest
Speaker 1: policy priorities, and California must have our trans community members backs.
Speaker 1: Making this personal identifying information public after someone transitions, including
Speaker 1: a person's dead name as well as the basic fact
Speaker 1: that their trans are non binary, pointlessly exposes trans and
Speaker 1: non binary Californians to harassment and potential violence. So if passed,
Speaker 1: California would join Washington, Oregon, and New York and having
Speaker 1: some form of privacy laws to protect trans people from
Speaker 1: being forcibly outed by state records. And you know, any
Speaker 1: protection is going to be greatly needed in the upcoming
Speaker 1: years because it's going to be a fucking witch hunt.
Speaker 1: It's already started and we're going to get into that
Speaker 1: in a little bit. When we get to the cavalcade,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like it's an attack. It's an assault.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous, is what it is. But as long as
Speaker 1: there are thinking people who have any kind of power
Speaker 1: and influence that are willing to use their voice, there
Speaker 1: will be hope. So thank goodness for that. Sid Simpson,
Speaker 1: the co chair of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Clubs
Speaker 1: Transgender Caucus, said to the Bay Area Reporter, as Trump
Speaker 1: and his cronies continue their cynical incitements of violence against
Speaker 1: transgender people, it's critical that we fight back with progressive
Speaker 1: protections at the state level. It's really scary to know
Speaker 1: that there are people out there who want to hurt you,
Speaker 1: and that your personal information is just sitting there for
Speaker 1: them to exploit. The right to privacy and the right
Speaker 1: to be safe are precious to our community, and we've
Speaker 1: got to fight for them here here. And you know
Speaker 1: that's always been true, but it's going to be even
Speaker 1: more true as we move forward. You know, you can't
Speaker 1: stay out of the conversation and claim to be an
Speaker 1: empathetic person and claim to be a noble person. You
Speaker 1: can't stay out of the fight. You have to get
Speaker 1: a little dirt on you, you know, otherwise you have no integrity,
Speaker 1: you have no backbone, and you'll be next moving on.
Speaker 1: I'd like to jump ahead to one of our favorite
Speaker 1: segments that we like to call.
Speaker 2: Employ people taking pleasure and name.
Speaker 1: So this story is about a certain motherfucker who actually
Speaker 1: is the reason why this segment exists. Little miss George
Speaker 1: Santos is back in the goddamn news. The headline in
Speaker 1: LGBTQ Nation reads, Federal judge smack down George Santos's attempt
Speaker 1: to delay sentencing until August to record podcasts. Yeah. Yes,
Speaker 1: the podcast sphere is wide open to everyone. But bitch,
Speaker 1: we don't need you. You got other things you need
Speaker 1: to be doing, like taking your ass to jail. So
Speaker 1: George Santos, who is a former US House representative, in
Speaker 1: case y'all forgot, he was there all of five minutes
Speaker 1: before we found out that he lied about everything, everything, everything,
Speaker 1: Who he is, who he was, who he will be,
Speaker 1: where he worked, where he didn't work, who his mama
Speaker 1: and daddy is, where they're from, who they are, what
Speaker 1: they are. He lied about everything, and you know, again,
Speaker 1: the jury is still out. I'm waiting for my confirmation
Speaker 1: that he's not even really human. He is a stack
Speaker 1: of while raccoon's wearing a trench coat. Because lied about everything.
Speaker 1: So he was ousted. He was indicted for fraud using
Speaker 1: campaign funds for personal things like only fans, subscriptions, and
Speaker 1: clothes and just messy queen, messy, messy queen. This bitch
Speaker 1: said he needed more time to pay his criminal fines
Speaker 1: using earnings from his recently launched podcast, Pants on Fire
Speaker 1: with George Santos. He called it pants on Fire That's
Speaker 1: more egregious than OJ Simpson's If I Did It book,
Speaker 1: But anyway. His sentencing was originally scheduled to occur next month,
Speaker 1: but he wants to have until August to give him
Speaker 1: time to pay off the two one hundred and five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars that he owes in forfeiture. He plugged guilty
Speaker 1: to wire fraud and aggravated identity. theF District Court Judge
Speaker 1: Joanna Sebert only allowed the sentencing to be delayed until
Speaker 1: April twenty fifth, noting that he hasn't made any payments
Speaker 1: toward the amount he owes despite his promises and predictions
Speaker 1: since pleading guilty. I hope y'all didn't think that he
Speaker 1: was going to do something he said he was going to,
Speaker 1: especially in terms of paying his bills, because he ain't
Speaker 1: never never, never, never, never never In recent court hearing,
Speaker 1: Santos's lawyers argued that he deserved a delay in sentencing
Speaker 1: now that he has quote a viable path to pay
Speaker 1: the fine through the quote promising revenue stream of his podcast,
Speaker 1: which was launch just last month. I'm sorry. There are
Speaker 1: individuals out there who are making a more than a
Speaker 1: decent living as a podcaster. But to make plans on
Speaker 1: future revenue from a podcast, no matter who you are,
Speaker 1: that's not a good plan, booboo. You may as well
Speaker 1: just be like when my tax refund comes, or when
Speaker 1: I hit the lottery, or when Ray Ray give me
Speaker 1: back my fifty bucks. You know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: chack you, but no integrity, no shame, So why am
Speaker 1: I surprised? Prosecutors argued that Santos had sufficient time to
Speaker 1: secure the funds to pay his two hundred and five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars fine. I just feel like that number of bears.
Speaker 1: Repeating they called his claims of being able to pay
Speaker 1: the fines through his podcast speculative hello, and said that
Speaker 1: delaying sentencing could set quote a perverse incentive structure that
Speaker 1: rewards famous defendants. Despite this, the judge said she'd delay
Speaker 1: his sentencing as a one time courtesy. I'll give you
Speaker 1: a little bit of time. She knows he ain't gonna
Speaker 1: come through, because why would this be any different. In August,
Speaker 1: Santos admitted to using another person's identity and credit cards,
Speaker 1: as well as campaign funds, as we said, for his
Speaker 1: own personal benefit. He originally faced twenty three federal charges
Speaker 1: of campaign finance fraud, including wire fraud, identity theft, money laundering,
Speaker 1: theft of public funds, making materially false statements to both
Speaker 1: the Federal Election Commission and the US House of Representatives.
Speaker 1: He initially pleaded not guilty to all charges, calling them
Speaker 1: a baseless witch hunt, but then later accepted a plea
Speaker 1: deal because he didn't want to go to trial and
Speaker 1: possibly suffered decades of prison time because you did that shit, baby,
Speaker 1: we can see you now. In addition to his two
Speaker 1: hundred and five thousand dollars fine, he also owes an
Speaker 1: additional three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars in restitution
Speaker 1: and could face up to eight years in prison for
Speaker 1: his criminal misdealings. Thing says, it's clear to me now
Speaker 1: that I allowed ambition to cloud my judgment, leading me
Speaker 1: to make decisions that were unethical and guilty. It's clear
Speaker 1: to you now, Bit you knew you are messy, stunt queen.
Speaker 1: Pleading guilty is a step I never imagined i'd take
Speaker 1: a bet, but it is a necessary one because it
Speaker 1: is the right thing to do. Yeuh huh. It's not
Speaker 1: only a recognition of my misrepresentation to others, but more profoundly,
Speaker 1: it is my own recognition of the lies I told
Speaker 1: myself over these past years. Bitch, you wrote this for you.
Speaker 1: I don't believe you wrote that. I don't believe you
Speaker 1: know how to write. I don't believe you went to
Speaker 1: school because raccoons can't write. So yeah, no one believes
Speaker 1: anything this person has to say about anything ever, and
Speaker 1: the fact that you're even getting until April is very very,
Speaker 1: very very kind. And pardon me while I utter a
Speaker 1: healthy a fall befall as we revel in this latest
Speaker 1: installment of.
Speaker 2: Shy people taking pleasure and your maine.
Speaker 1: That was tasty. So this is the point in the
Speaker 1: show where if Martha were here, she would say to me,
Speaker 1: do you have a fifteen minute fave, to which I
Speaker 1: would respond I do. So my fifteen minute fave this
Speaker 1: week comes from doci of whom I have become more
Speaker 1: and more of a fan as the days go on.
Speaker 1: Like she is just everything. She is a phenomenal rapper.
Speaker 1: The first time I actually paid attention to her, it
Speaker 1: was a video of a live performance and my girl
Speaker 1: was spitting and the mic was on. I was thoroughly
Speaker 1: impressed at a her lyricism, be her flow, and see
Speaker 1: her breath control. She was not bullshitting. She is the
Speaker 1: real deal. She's an EMC and her fellow mcs agree
Speaker 1: and hold her up as you know, this new hope
Speaker 1: for the genre. And she's an artist. She's just this
Speaker 1: like she is a creative force. Her performance on Stephen
Speaker 1: Colbert's show was beautiful. Her and her backup dancers connected
Speaker 1: by their braids. It was just beautiful imagery. I'm just
Speaker 1: a huge fan. And so my fifteen minute fave this
Speaker 1: week is Denial is a River, and it harkens back
Speaker 1: to you know, the real pure hip hop of the nineties.
Speaker 1: You know, it's got this real hard beat, it's got
Speaker 1: a nice articulate flow, it's telling a story, it's personal.
Speaker 1: I can't stop listening to it. And there's a perform
Speaker 1: of her doing it with the amazing Isa Ray and
Speaker 1: I can't stop watching that either. It's just I'm obsessed.
Speaker 1: I am obsessed with doche I'm obsessed with this song.
Speaker 1: I can't say enough good things about her or it.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna go out to the break with Denial
Speaker 1: as a river by Dochi. We'll be right back.
Speaker 3: So if you are, why don't you just tell me
Speaker 3: what's been going on?
Speaker 1: Ka?
Speaker 4: Remember old dude from twenty nineteen, nice clean nikka demmy
Speaker 4: dirty hooded Entree took a scroll through his zig just
Speaker 4: to get a DM from his wife. I was so confused,
Speaker 4: what should don't she do? She didn't know about me,
Speaker 4: and I didn't know about so I opened up the
Speaker 4: messages and had to hit the zoon.
Speaker 5: Turns out the girl was really a dude nick.
Speaker 4: To pinky slipped back till I slipped back, got my
Speaker 4: lick back, turned the nikka to a nicknack. I'm fare
Speaker 4: Jawne dropped a couple of songs, and then I've been
Speaker 4: and got signed. That was twenty twenty one, Okay, I
Speaker 4: feel like this is the perfect opportunity for us to
Speaker 4: just take a second and kind.
Speaker 1: Of unpack what's happened to you?
Speaker 3: You know this guy cheated on you.
Speaker 4: And nah, fuck it, I kind of recognition bible recordect.
Speaker 4: I'm making so much money, I'm all ottle, but and
Speaker 4: then I'm moving so fast. Some time to process and no,
Speaker 4: I'm not in that gang, but I'm always on set. Bristwatch,
Speaker 4: drip drop label. Want the Tiktoks? Now I'm making TikTok music.
Speaker 2: What the fucked?
Speaker 4: I need a plans, need a detox. But we ain't
Speaker 4: got time to stop. The charts need us fast forward
Speaker 4: me twenty twenty three. I'm stacking lots of cheese and
Speaker 4: making Monty. My grass is really green, and honestly, I
Speaker 4: can't even have no more. This is a really dark
Speaker 4: time for me. I'm going through a lot.
Speaker 6: By a lot, you mean drugs, I wouldn't have drugs.
Speaker 2: No, it's no, I'm not just.
Speaker 1: And we're back. So I just want to jump into
Speaker 1: this real quick. It's time for the cavalcade of nonsense.
Speaker 1: So social media, as I repeatedly said, is a fucking sewer.
Speaker 1: We've already jumped ship from Twitter, slash x slash ill
Speaker 1: who raised you? And by we I mean full circle,
Speaker 1: I mean me, I mean Martha, I mean any place
Speaker 1: where our names were connected to that cesspool. I deactivated.
Speaker 1: Now Meta is losing their goddamn mind. And by they,
Speaker 1: I mean he. It's all Mark Zuckerberg. Meta unfortunately encompasses
Speaker 1: not only Facebook, which I've been over forever, but Instagram,
Speaker 1: which was my safe space, threads, which was, you know,
Speaker 1: my safe haven after we left X. Basically, Zuckerberg is
Speaker 1: eliminating fact checking from the apps, which you know, you'd
Speaker 1: hardly know that they were even there considering some of
Speaker 1: the nonsense people are saying on those apps, and he's
Speaker 1: leaving it up to the community as a whole to
Speaker 1: uphold the standards of truth and proper information. There's flat
Speaker 1: earthers on Facebook. There's the shit that gets said. It's
Speaker 1: like I, I often fear that it's going to infect
Speaker 1: me and I'm gonna start getting stupid, Like it hurts
Speaker 1: sometimes how stupid people are in fucking social media, like
Speaker 1: I just uugh, just ugh. And if that wasn't bad enough,
Speaker 1: he's basically eliminated the hateful conduct guidelines that were in place,
Speaker 1: which again I wasn't thoroughly convinced that there actually were
Speaker 1: in some cases because for the past four fucking years
Speaker 1: I'm constantly reporting shit people say, homophobic and transphobic and
Speaker 1: racist shit that people say, and it always gets bounced back.
Speaker 1: We didn't remove the post because we feel it didn't
Speaker 1: violate our community standards. Meanwhile, if you say men are trash,
Speaker 1: you get put in Facebook jail. But now like it's
Speaker 1: perfectly fine according to these guidelines over at Instagram and
Speaker 1: Facebook and threads to say shit like gay and trans
Speaker 1: people have a quote mental illness. That's the kind of
Speaker 1: shit that I would report to no avail, but at
Speaker 1: least you know I was getting in their ass about it.
Speaker 1: But now it's just not even a thing. The changes
Speaker 1: made to the Hateful Conduct Policy include removing language prohibiting
Speaker 1: content targeting people on the basis of their quote protected characteristics,
Speaker 1: which include race, ethnicity, gender identity when they are combined
Speaker 1: with quote claims that they have or spread the coronavirus.
Speaker 1: So you can just say whatever the fuck you want
Speaker 1: about the pandemic and coronavirus, which has already been a
Speaker 1: thing that people have been battling. People just spread all
Speaker 1: kinds of misinformation which leads to anti Asian violence and hate. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's fine, We're letting that go if you want to say,
Speaker 1: for instance, women shouldn't be allowed to serve in the military,
Speaker 1: or again, like I said, saying that queer and trans
Speaker 1: people are mentally ill, which is the current battle that
Speaker 1: I've been fighting online. That's perfectly fine. Originally, the hateful
Speaker 1: conduct policy was opened by noting that hateful speach may
Speaker 1: quote promote offline violence. That's been a thing in the
Speaker 1: policy since twenty eighteen. It's been removed from the updated version.
Speaker 1: You can't say that you're going to incite violence, but
Speaker 1: you can say the thing that will incite the violence.
Speaker 1: It's what are they trying to do? I really don't
Speaker 1: I really don't get it. This is all coming about
Speaker 1: because Zuckerberg feels that the company's current rules in these
Speaker 1: areas are just out of touch with mainstream discourse. Remember
Speaker 1: when stupid people felt too intimidated to contribute to conversation
Speaker 1: with smart folks because they knew they couldn't keep up.
Speaker 1: We've emboldened these motherfuckers into thinking that their opinions are
Speaker 1: just as valid, like, well, I have my right to
Speaker 1: my opinion, Yes you do, but you don't have to
Speaker 1: say everything that comes into your fucking little pea brain mind.
Speaker 1: I learned that shit when I was three and four
Speaker 1: on the bus. You don't just say what you feel
Speaker 1: like saying. There's this thing called polite society. Other people exist.
Speaker 1: You are not the main character in this world. This
Speaker 1: is not the U show starring you. But you know
Speaker 1: that's all gone. People can just say whatever they want.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if it's based in fact. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if there's any kind of evidence to back up
Speaker 1: what they're saying. No, no, no, no, no. This is you know,
Speaker 1: we have to have an open discourse. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: not allowed to say things like calling immigrants things like insects, animals, pathogens,
Speaker 1: other subhuman life forms. Just saying that they're criminals are immoral.
Speaker 1: But part of me thinks that's because there are white
Speaker 1: immigrants too. You still can't blatantly be a Holocaust denier.
Speaker 1: You can't post blackface, you can't say things about Jewish
Speaker 1: people controlling the media. There's also a specific ban against
Speaker 1: comparing black people to farm equipment. Does that mean you
Speaker 1: can can't call someone a hoe? I don't child. I
Speaker 1: just this shit is scary and it's emboldening this wild
Speaker 1: wild West mentality that's been gaining traction for the past
Speaker 1: eight goddamn years, and I just don't I just I
Speaker 1: don't know what to do. This motherfucker actually said it's
Speaker 1: not right that things can be said on TV or
Speaker 1: the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms, as
Speaker 1: though they should be said. They're either there's certain shit
Speaker 1: you're just not supposed to say out your face. What
Speaker 1: happened to that social media broke people? I swear to god,
Speaker 1: no one has manners, no one has any kind of
Speaker 1: sense of decorum. No, there's no sense of like individual responsibility.
Speaker 1: I can just say whatever the fuck I want because
Speaker 1: I'm sitting in a base in my mom's house and
Speaker 1: nothing's going to happen to me. But I will say
Speaker 1: what I've been saying, don't let your little president get
Speaker 1: your ass kicked. We all know that Zuckerberg has contributed
Speaker 1: to Trump's campaign in the millions, so he's part of
Speaker 1: that machine too, So none of this is actually surprising.
Speaker 1: But when you have so much of the pulse of
Speaker 1: American conversation under your control, this is some dystopian shit.
Speaker 1: But you know, online is online, real life is real life,
Speaker 1: And I say the same shit to people's face that
Speaker 1: I say in the front of this mic. So don't
Speaker 1: get it twisted. I will tell you about yourself and
Speaker 1: how your mama raised you wrong, and how you barely
Speaker 1: have four brain cells to click together. And you know
Speaker 1: what Wolf under a Rock raised you. Don't let your
Speaker 1: little president get your ass kicked. It's terrifying. The oh,
Speaker 1: you can just say trans people aren't real, gays aren't normal,
Speaker 1: trans people are freaks, women are crazy. But say men
Speaker 1: are trash, and see what happens to you. Say white,
Speaker 1: say the word white, and see what happens. It's fucking disgusting.
Speaker 1: And they call it protecting free speech, but they always
Speaker 1: want to they always want to lean into that whole
Speaker 1: right to free speech thing, but they always want to
Speaker 1: leave out that bit about yelling fire in a crowded theater.
Speaker 1: That is supposed to be the part about, you know,
Speaker 1: personal responsibility. You are not immune from the consequences of
Speaker 1: the shit you say. But they forget to mention that part.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what's emboldening these motherfuckers. You got
Speaker 1: to say all of it, mister free speech, You gotta
Speaker 1: say all of it. Glad President and CEO Sarah Kate
Speaker 1: Ellis was swift to comment Zuckerberg's removal of fact checking
Speaker 1: programs and industry standard hate speech policies make metas platforms
Speaker 1: unsafe places for users and advertisers alike. That's right. This
Speaker 1: goes for the advertisers too. They can just say whatever
Speaker 1: the fuck they want to Without these necessary hate speech
Speaker 1: and other policies, Meta is giving the green light for
Speaker 1: people to target LGBTQ people, women, immigrants, and other marginalized
Speaker 1: groups with violence, vitriol, and dehumanizing narratives. With these changes,
Speaker 1: Meta is continuing to normalize anti LGBTQ hatred for profit
Speaker 1: at the expense of its users and true freedom, True
Speaker 1: freedom of expression, fact checking and hate speech policies protect
Speaker 1: free speech. Thank you. There's definitely responses against this, trying
Speaker 1: to return assemblance of normalcy. Erica Hilton, who is a
Speaker 1: black trans member of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies, has asked
Speaker 1: the UN to investigate this shift in Zuckerberg policies. Policy
Speaker 1: changes by large corporations like Meta continue to put the
Speaker 1: lives of LGBTQIA plus individuals at risk, Hilton wrote in
Speaker 1: a document sent to Nicholas Levrat, the UN Special Rappertoire
Speaker 1: on minority issues. She added that Meta's new policies can
Speaker 1: be considered complicit in the dissemination of practices that violate
Speaker 1: the rights of groups protected by Brazilian legislation. Indeed, and
Speaker 1: anywhere and everywhere else. Now one response that I do
Speaker 1: kind of love the queer staff at Meta have reportedly
Speaker 1: started taking time off because of mental illness. I'm calling
Speaker 1: out mentally ill. You can't have it both ways, you
Speaker 1: just can't. The actual phrasing of the hate speech guidelines,
Speaker 1: as far as that goes, are as follows quote. We
Speaker 1: do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormal when based
Speaker 1: on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse
Speaker 1: about transgender is and homosexuality and common not serious usage
Speaker 1: of words like weird transgenderism. That is the word that
Speaker 1: is banded about by these right wing people when trying
Speaker 1: to eradicate trans folks. I've been saying for it's been
Speaker 1: this ongoing rant with me. I looked at it in
Speaker 1: a timeline the other day, like twenty twelve to twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: I was like, if it weren't for the fact that
Speaker 1: I have a dance company and a performance series to promote,
Speaker 1: I would just deactivate all this shit because I can't
Speaker 1: take it. And then twenty fifteen to twenty twenty, I'm like,
Speaker 1: if I didn't have this bar to promote, I would
Speaker 1: just activate all this shit because it's becoming ridiculous. I
Speaker 1: can't take it. And then fucking starting in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two till five seconds ago, I'm like, if I didn't
Speaker 1: have this podcast to promote, I would just deactivate all
Speaker 1: this shit because it's fucking ridiculous and it's only getting worse.
Speaker 1: I thank goodness for places like Blue Sky, which so
Speaker 1: far are being very diligent about not allowing hate speech
Speaker 1: on its platform. There's also I discovered a social media platform, Spill,
Speaker 1: which is black owned and black run, and so far
Speaker 1: I'm enjoying that. There's also a Lemon eight, which is
Speaker 1: an alternative to TikTok. So you know there's up and
Speaker 1: coming platforms that are showing up, and you know, at
Speaker 1: least right now, it feels like social media used to
Speaker 1: feel back in the early MySpace days. You know, when
Speaker 1: it's just like fun and lighthearted, and so I go
Speaker 1: there to like decompress. But you know it's not gonna
Speaker 1: be long before Joe Mouth breather discovers that the shit
Speaker 1: exists and then tries to make a profile like I'm
Speaker 1: over social media, but it's like I'm trapped in the
Speaker 1: shit and I don't know what to do. So that
Speaker 1: being said, just remember you can always log off. You know,
Speaker 1: these people rarely have the courage of their convictions. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of people that are a lot of mouth,
Speaker 1: but when you confront them, they fold, Like if you
Speaker 1: confront them in real life, they tend to fold. Look
Speaker 1: them in the eye for longer than thirty seconds and
Speaker 1: see what happens. I'm just saying it's horrible, but it
Speaker 1: seems like it's a necessary part of society. For right now,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. It's like a fucking
Speaker 1: hamster wheel. So it's bullshit. I hate it, and we're
Speaker 1: going to see how long it takes before we're able
Speaker 1: to extricate ourselves from this nonsense. There's always discord full
Speaker 1: circles over on Discord and Blue Sky, so you know,
Speaker 1: Holatus show. That's all I can take of that for
Speaker 1: right now. So I wanna have a little break and
Speaker 1: come back with a little pop culture to cleanse my
Speaker 1: paletca be right back let's see. No, not ever heady
Speaker 1: to watch that yet?
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Speaker 1: And we're back. I'm sorry, and we're back. I had
Speaker 1: to do both of those. The Golden Globes happened, and
Speaker 1: I didn't watch them this year because AO had to
Speaker 1: work and b I feel like I haven't seen enough
Speaker 1: of the things that were nominated, But after the awards,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, there's some stuff I gotta check out,
Speaker 1: like Amelia Perez, which won Best motion Picture Musical or
Speaker 1: Comedy over Wicked, which I was like, damn, because it's
Speaker 1: like the hypeover Wicked is insane. Martha and I still
Speaker 1: haven't it, but apparently we're going to rectify that this weekend.
Speaker 1: It also won over The Substance, which I haven't seen
Speaker 1: but I want to see. Amelia Parez also won Best
Speaker 1: Non English Language Motion Picture, and apparently that film has
Speaker 1: some strong positive trans representation, so that might be something
Speaker 1: that I can convince Martha to check out. Adrian Brody
Speaker 1: got Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Dramatic
Speaker 1: motion Picture for The Brutalist, which I've been wanting to see.
Speaker 1: He beat out Daniel Craig and Queer, which I also
Speaker 1: want to see because it's based on William S. Burrow's
Speaker 1: novel and I feel like I need to see everything
Speaker 1: based on WILLIAMS. Burrows, even though when I read Burrows
Speaker 1: Ma's Cross, like I read Naked Lunch once and was like, well, damn.
Speaker 1: I tried to read it again and I was like, nope,
Speaker 1: but I've seen the movie like eleven thousand times. And
Speaker 1: Coleman Domingo was also nominated in this category for Sing Sing,
Speaker 1: which I watched Coleman Domingo do anything because Fias Zoe
Speaker 1: Saldana won Best Performance by a Female Actor in a
Speaker 1: Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture again for Amelia Paez.
Speaker 1: There was some really cool stuff and I definitely want
Speaker 1: to check it out. Wicked did win for Cinematic in
Speaker 1: Box Office Achievement, which is a new category, and that
Speaker 1: makes sense because the marketing game for Wicked was in Sanata.
Speaker 1: Like I'm surprised, like they didn't just bring in the
Speaker 1: Akas as part of their marketing campaign because of the
Speaker 1: Pink and Green Child. Best Television Series Drama went to Showgun,
Speaker 1: which everyone in their mama keeps telling me I have
Speaker 1: to watch. Hacks won for Best Television Series Musical or
Speaker 1: Comedy because duh, gene. Smart one for Best Performance by
Speaker 1: a Female Actor in a Musical or Comedy Television Series
Speaker 1: also for Hacks again because duh beating out Katherine Han
Speaker 1: in Agatha all Along, which that makes sense, like as
Speaker 1: much as I love Catherine Hahn and she killed it
Speaker 1: in Agatha Along and Jean Smart. She even beat out
Speaker 1: Quinta Brunson, which was probably her real competition in that category.
Speaker 1: For Abbott Elementary. Jeremy Allen White won Best Performance by
Speaker 1: an Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy for
Speaker 1: The Bear, which Martha loves. I could not. I couldn't
Speaker 1: watch that show. It's too stressful for me. Colin Ferrell
Speaker 1: won Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, anthology, series,
Speaker 1: or Motion Picture made for Television for The Penguin, and
Speaker 1: damn it definitely should have because that was some like
Speaker 1: superior acting. Talk about disappearing into a character that was
Speaker 1: Colin Farrell in The Penguin. We finished that this past
Speaker 1: weekend and it was a so good, Like I'm so
Speaker 1: glad that I got Martha into it. She really enjoyed it,
Speaker 1: as I knew she would sometimes you gotta listen to me.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we got some stuff to catch up on,
Speaker 1: and I always learn about new things to watch because
Speaker 1: of the Golden globes. That's just like how that works.
Speaker 1: I finally, finally, finally finished watching Interview with the Vampire.
Speaker 1: I was watching it when it was first run with Martha,
Speaker 1: but she wouldever for whatever reason, wasn't feeling it and
Speaker 1: fell off. And then there's just so many fucking things
Speaker 1: to watch on TV, so I never got to finish it,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, damn it, I can't watch Mayfair Witches
Speaker 1: until I finished Interview with the Vampire because that's just
Speaker 1: the way it is. And I finally finished it, and
Speaker 1: damn it, it was so good. And I bet you
Speaker 1: I can convince miss Thing to go back and finish
Speaker 1: the season with me, because YO, so good and so
Speaker 1: gay and so fabulous, just just just good. It was
Speaker 1: just good. Real quick. I read in Queerity that they
Speaker 1: are remaking the film The Running Man, and the cast
Speaker 1: is going to be like all kinds of queer, and
Speaker 1: it's going to be all kinds of homo erotic, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, more homo erotic than the Arnold Schwarzenegger version
Speaker 1: where everyone's running around and span dex oneseas and shit.
Speaker 1: But okay, I want to see how that works. The
Speaker 1: Running Man is based on Stephen King novel under his
Speaker 1: pseudonym of Richard Bachmann, and it's set in it when
Speaker 1: it was written back in the day. It was set
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, and it's about a dystopian future
Speaker 1: where murderer is televised murderers entertainment. Maybe I don't want
Speaker 1: to watch this shit that I'm saying it out loud,
Speaker 1: but the cast, I'm excited. Sean Hayes is going to
Speaker 1: be involved. We don't know as whom yet. Coleman Domingo
Speaker 1: is going to be playing the TV host, which in
Speaker 1: the original film was played by Richard Dawson, so I'm
Speaker 1: excited about that. Glenn Powell is going to be playing
Speaker 1: Ben Richards Queer actor Katie O'Brien is going to be
Speaker 1: playing the Maria Kenchieda Alonso part from the original. I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I'm excited because I love the Running Man. I've seen
Speaker 1: the movie like eleven thousand times. I'm curious to see
Speaker 1: if they're going to stick with the format that the
Speaker 1: movie the original movie gave as far as the ending,
Speaker 1: or if they're going to go with the much darker
Speaker 1: ending of the book. But I'll be there and I
Speaker 1: really I want to see Coleman Domingo as the host
Speaker 1: because that's a role that he can sink his teeth
Speaker 1: into and you get to be evil and charismatic. Ooh,
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I just want to see what he's
Speaker 1: gonna wear because ooh, child, And that's kind of all
Speaker 1: I have for pop culture. So you know what we
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Speaker 1: that we've gotten that out of the way, thank you
Speaker 1: for sitting down and listening to just me in another minisode,
Speaker 1: first minisod of twenty twenty five. Who I appreciate each
Speaker 1: and every one of you. We love our listeners. You
Speaker 1: are everywhere. You are all across the US, you are
Speaker 1: all across the world, and we are so grateful that
Speaker 1: you come to us. Each week. Martha and I will
Speaker 1: be sitting down with a wonderful author of a cool
Speaker 1: children's book called The ABC's of Women's History. I must
Speaker 1: have said the word wonderful like eighteen thousand times while
Speaker 1: I was reading it, and it's so inclusive and it's
Speaker 1: so much fun, and it's not just for young readers.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna be talking with the author of that
Speaker 1: book in our next episode, and hopefully after that Martha
Speaker 1: and I will be sitting down again and talking about
Speaker 1: more things with you, because that's what I enjoy doing.
Speaker 1: I enjoy sitting with my baby and hashing through this
Speaker 1: shit because it's how I stay sane. So in the meantime,
Speaker 1: I have been your host. Charles Tyson Jr. Martha Madrigal
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