Speaker 1: Coming to you from the dining room table at East
Speaker 1: Barbary Lane. Welcome to a new episode of Full Circle
Speaker 1: the podcast. A visit to our home where we squeeze
Speaker 1: a few headlines through our decidedly queer lens and see
Speaker 1: what happens. This episode is brought to you by Decanted
Speaker 1: jug Wine and the game called will he Annihilate an
Speaker 1: entire civilization? Or is it just Taco Tuesday? In Hell?
Speaker 1: And where in the fuck is Congress?
Speaker 2: I'm your host Charles Tyson Jr.
Speaker 1: And I'm your host Martha Madrigal. Welcome to the Full
Speaker 1: Circle Table.
Speaker 2: This is the worst game of would you Rather? I've
Speaker 2: ever seen?
Speaker 1: This was yesterday and today is the We're recording on
Speaker 1: April eighth, a Wednesday, and yeah, the resident woke up
Speaker 1: with threats to yeah but wow, just wow. So these
Speaker 1: are the times we're living in now anyway for now? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna keep recording. And you know, the man
Speaker 1: is is that dementia? Is its sinility, is it Alzheimer's?
Speaker 1: Is it syphilis? Is it a combination of all of it?
Speaker 2: I was getting gonna say more than one thing can
Speaker 2: be true at the same time.
Speaker 1: M Yeah, whatever, it is.
Speaker 2: Something must be done, and why aren't we doing it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, the twenty fifth Amendment seriously comes to mind,
Speaker 1: because this is unhinged. And you know, if you want
Speaker 1: to balance, just consider what the other side would have
Speaker 1: done if Joe Biden said one Obama would have said
Speaker 1: one of the things this jackass has said, or done
Speaker 1: one of them, or let let Michelle have never mind.
Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying, I do like the
Speaker 1: Democrats are supposed to be the grown ups at this
Speaker 1: point apparently, and you know, whatever nonsense comes out of them,
Speaker 1: it's a game of how ridiculous can they make it.
Speaker 1: It's almost like human lives are not at stake and this.
Speaker 2: Is all just for likes and clicks or something. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: Well that's how well, that's how the nation's being wrong,
Speaker 1: because that was really his biggest gig was being a
Speaker 1: reality show host. Yeah, he liked that the best. I
Speaker 1: think m's the only one he ever got baid for, probably,
Speaker 1: I mean, well, the only one anyone got paid.
Speaker 2: For, because the only one he was actually any good
Speaker 2: at being a fake leader.
Speaker 1: I mean that's subjective, but yes, but yes, So let's
Speaker 1: just talk about what's going on here, because that's enough
Speaker 1: of that. I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 2: Let's start this a better way.
Speaker 1: Hi baby, Hi, Hello, Other than dystopia. It's been a
Speaker 1: good couple of weeks, I know, right, We've been busy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've gone places and done things and met people,
Speaker 2: and yeah.
Speaker 1: We've been out a couple of times to dance related events.
Speaker 2: Yes, we were fortunate enough to get to see Rennie
Speaker 2: Harris pure movement in the culmination of his three year
Speaker 2: residency at Penn Live Arts. Yes World premiere work called
Speaker 2: Losing My Religion, and uh.
Speaker 1: You cried, I did? I did?
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm saying you like I didn't. It was,
Speaker 2: it was it was.
Speaker 1: Very deep, deep moving. Yeah, and I just decided to
Speaker 1: be with the peace in real time because you know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't all exactly spelled out for you, right, but
Speaker 1: here is a seasoned professional telling a story essentially without words.
Speaker 2: Yeah, basically for me, it was why like I said,
Speaker 2: I I saw it at first anyway, as uh, we're
Speaker 2: looking at people in hell because they're like living this
Speaker 2: ongoing cycle, and the cycle was struggle, violence, mourning, protest,
Speaker 2: media attention, then back to normal struggle violence.
Speaker 1: Well, right, but I you know, you're the one who
Speaker 1: said the hell metaphor if anything this way, that we're
Speaker 1: living as hell here on earth. Now, I didn't see
Speaker 1: it as a metaphor at all. I saw it acted out,
Speaker 1: reality acted out.
Speaker 2: So all is how different?
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 3: Actually?
Speaker 1: Very because you know, our reality as hell is happening.
Speaker 1: That's my point all around us. So my point was
Speaker 1: that what my point is. It wasn't a metaphor, but
Speaker 1: it was good. I mean, you know, it was very
Speaker 1: worth seeing. It was, you know, something to be there.
Speaker 1: There were two performances and yeah, we got to see
Speaker 1: the second one. Are they doing anymore with it? Or
Speaker 1: that was that?
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure once the residency is over and
Speaker 2: they go back to touring, we'll start seeing these pieces
Speaker 2: out in the wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was I again very sparingly used the word immersive,
Speaker 1: but that was yeah.
Speaker 2: And and Pure Movement is known for the prolific performances
Speaker 2: of its dancers uh in the genre of hip hop
Speaker 2: and street dance, like these are always gonna be the
Speaker 2: top tier in the styles. And the culminating section of
Speaker 2: the work was the uh, the uprising section, and it
Speaker 2: was too like fierce and funky, like house music, and
Speaker 2: it hit different than than it normally would in their
Speaker 2: performances because yes, you're you're you're vibing to the intensity
Speaker 2: of the movement and there and the dynamics of of
Speaker 2: their of the performance. But because it's not meant to
Speaker 2: be joyful, because it's an active protest, it hits in
Speaker 2: a different place and so like it's cathartic without being
Speaker 2: without that sense of joy necessarily, And that was a
Speaker 2: different viewing experience for me.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it, Yeah, enjoys the strong world, but I
Speaker 1: did enjoy that. You know. Again, yes, these are fantastic dancers,
Speaker 1: and what they were able to do with their bodies
Speaker 1: and together was phenomenal, and so that talent was very
Speaker 1: much on display, indeed. But yeah, there was a point
Speaker 1: at which it was just like, oh my god. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a lot impossible not to just feel it,
Speaker 1: the weight of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you've gotten to see a bunch of his
Speaker 2: work by this point, so you've gotten this in the
Speaker 2: what was.
Speaker 1: The end of a three part a three year residence residency.
Speaker 2: That's were you familiar with Pure Movement before we went
Speaker 2: and saw them the first time. The first year of
Speaker 2: the residency.
Speaker 1: I thought that was the second time we saw them.
Speaker 1: I thought I thought the first year of the residency
Speaker 1: was actually the second time we saw Rennie Harris. I
Speaker 1: could be wrong, but I felt like I had seen
Speaker 1: the work before, but maybe not. But I have gone
Speaker 1: each year for the last right, we went and.
Speaker 2: Saw Lifted, so that was would have been before that.
Speaker 2: That one was really good. It was all house music,
Speaker 2: but the ending kind of got on my nerves because
Speaker 2: it felt like they were saying the devil gave us COVID.
Speaker 2: That was that one.
Speaker 1: That wasn't that was the first one.
Speaker 2: No, the first year of the residency was the retrospective.
Speaker 1: It was all because I remember the one about COVID
Speaker 1: and it was kind of yeah.
Speaker 2: It was chill, not in love with that one. It
Speaker 2: was good till the ending. The ending kind of ruined it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was, yeah, but you know, it's this conspiracy theory,
Speaker 1: that's something. It did read like that a little bit,
Speaker 1: a little bit.
Speaker 2: And you know, I've seen a lot of Rennie's work
Speaker 2: over the years and it bes that way sometimes sometimes
Speaker 2: like I'll like eighty five percent of it and then
Speaker 2: one part of it I'm like, eh, you've done better.
Speaker 1: It sounds like your whole relationship with black people, dah,
Speaker 1: eighty five percent of it just it's I mean, I
Speaker 1: wish I could give away people eighty five percent. I can't.
Speaker 1: Some days I can't gept them.
Speaker 2: Eight eight to five.
Speaker 1: We also saw Quan Young.
Speaker 2: Yes, we saw sadly the final performance of Kunjunglin and
Speaker 2: Dancers Company. They went out with a bang. Their final
Speaker 2: show was called Echo in Flame Fang Wong Awakens, and.
Speaker 1: It was beautiful. It was gorgeous, mean beautiful.
Speaker 2: It's always beautiful and gorgeous.
Speaker 1: Which his work is, yeah, elegant. He uses what is
Speaker 1: that like? What am I trying to say? Space and
Speaker 1: pause and absence as much as movement, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: in such a beautiful way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like it's always visually striking. And then the movement
Speaker 2: is always like at at times it's very athletic and
Speaker 2: and and and virtuosic, and at times it's very like
Speaker 2: subtle and minimal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and what a sweetheart. And he was in the
Speaker 1: lobby when we walked him running over and hooked me.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, he has such wonderful energy, always
Speaker 1: has yeah.
Speaker 2: And I was so grateful, Like so the second half
Speaker 2: was the world premiere of the new work, but the
Speaker 2: first half was repertory, and I was so grateful that
Speaker 2: they opened the show with Pilgrimage, which is like easily
Speaker 2: one of my favorite pieces. And I've told you about
Speaker 2: this piece like unasked many times.
Speaker 1: The simplicity of it is part of the elegance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because apparent simplicity.
Speaker 2: Right, because really all they do is travel from the
Speaker 2: upstage corner of this of the stage to the downstage corner,
Speaker 2: repeating movements. But that's like the most minimal explanation of
Speaker 2: description of it I can give.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because what I saw was nothing like those words.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was exactly like those words, but nothing. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a very minimal description, right. I wasn't prepared, yeah,
Speaker 1: for just how lovely everything was. It was. It was
Speaker 1: a lovely, lovely evening.
Speaker 2: I'm always I love how they use the voice within
Speaker 2: the choreography. They they make like the sound their voice
Speaker 2: their answers. Yes, yes, I will always love that. And
Speaker 2: I imagine it's got to be cathartic as a performer
Speaker 2: because you get though it's not often that you get
Speaker 2: those moments in dance where you get to like be
Speaker 2: that vocal.
Speaker 1: Yes, true, Yeah, exactly, it makes sounds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, lots of ha.
Speaker 1: I'm just we you know, were just actually just still
Speaker 1: talking about what we did. It's just I feel, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel the need to prove that there are still
Speaker 1: Americans with culture exactly, and we're so sorry read to
Speaker 1: star Oh god.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: The No King's Rally, which we are hearing now, something
Speaker 1: like eight million people participated in around the globe. We
Speaker 1: were there in Camden, New Jersey, indeed Wiggins Park, and
Speaker 1: I spoke at the rally.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the main reason we were there was because
Speaker 2: you were a speaker. I was, and you rocked that ship.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. Is that on our website? I
Speaker 1: think it is. Yeah, the YouTube of the what is it?
Speaker 1: I think it's entire might be have gone seven minutes.
Speaker 2: But it's a really quick Yeah, well it's seven minutes
Speaker 2: because I included her intros. Okay, So which was you know,
Speaker 2: significant and substantial?
Speaker 1: It was you know, supposed to be four yes, So
Speaker 1: I tried to keep it to four ish, but I
Speaker 1: didn't time pauses because you never know are you going
Speaker 1: to need them? And I needed a couple.
Speaker 2: So because folks had reactions.
Speaker 1: They did they did. And the saddest part is the
Speaker 1: angle you were angled to the side where there were
Speaker 1: very few people because it's a very steep hill right
Speaker 1: and and that's where the crowd was right Dead's center
Speaker 1: d up with the stage, so there were a lot
Speaker 1: of people there. You can hear them from the like
Speaker 1: there are two there were there were more than that,
Speaker 1: and you can hear them. So yeah, no kings and
Speaker 1: I would do it again. Yeah, I would do it again.
Speaker 1: Brought to you by our local Indivisible chapter, which is
Speaker 1: Cooper River Indivisible. And yeah, I appreciated that they asked me.
Speaker 1: It came from a pea Flag meeting that you know,
Speaker 1: I was running and a good friend who was my
Speaker 1: guest speaker that night, our guest speaker that night, said
Speaker 1: what do you do on Saturday? Well? Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: was like, it's the Ralliant. Yeah, could could would you speak?
Speaker 1: And I said I would. I would narrate the opening
Speaker 1: of an envelope if I thought it was useful, So
Speaker 1: I tried to be useful. I also spoke on Transgender
Speaker 1: Day of Visibility at super Er. Yes you did, America.
Speaker 1: I loved doing that.
Speaker 2: That was a great event and not.
Speaker 1: Just because they paid me, not just because they're not
Speaker 1: no right, but because this suber is a corporation in
Speaker 1: the US that has doubled down with DEI. They've embraced
Speaker 1: that part of their identity. And yeah, you know, as
Speaker 1: many of us now, a whole lot of lesbians strive supers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of queer strives, but especially our lesbians love
Speaker 1: their supers. And it was a beautiful day. They did
Speaker 1: a walk around their parking lot, which is vast. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was a big long walk around their facility which
Speaker 1: is also huge. But what a lovely, warm crowd. And yeah,
Speaker 1: so I got to do that too, And once again
Speaker 1: you rocked that ship. Thank you. You posted that as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I posted. I posted about the event on our
Speaker 2: Instagram uhh and full circle the pot and but you
Speaker 2: can see the video of the Subaru, the teet of
Speaker 2: speech and the no King speech on our website and
Speaker 2: full Circle theepod dot com.
Speaker 1: And we can link to them in the episode notes.
Speaker 2: Yes for today, Yes cool.
Speaker 1: The Rooted Inequality Conference is coming up in the twenty
Speaker 1: first of April. I just confirmed I'll be a panelist
Speaker 1: on day one. There's an intergenerational panel.
Speaker 2: You are just booked in Blessed I know.
Speaker 1: Right, this hosted by Garden State Equality. So I'm excited
Speaker 1: about that. I'm excited for what that conversation might be
Speaker 1: because it's not just a panel talking, but it's a
Speaker 1: panel talking with the audience, right. And we've got high
Speaker 1: school kids. Oh I love that, you know, all the
Speaker 1: way up to my old ass and probably beyond.
Speaker 2: So intergenerational, Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: And I that's something you know, I think is so important.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And you know, it's one of the things
Speaker 1: that I think works so beautifully with the Transformation Collective,
Speaker 1: which is you know, the call Elizabeth and I run
Speaker 1: together because everyone's there together as siblings talking. But we've
Speaker 1: got a lot of generations represented, you know, and I
Speaker 1: think it's an important perspective. I think we need to
Speaker 1: know who our elders are, and we need their perspective
Speaker 1: on queer life and trans life, and we need to
Speaker 1: listen to the youngsters coming up and hear what they
Speaker 1: have to say about the world that they're entering, the
Speaker 1: world we handed them well, that we're handing out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's important to know what they're thinking because I remember
Speaker 1: just how terrified I was on so many fronts in
Speaker 1: the early eighties. Yeah, the selective service notice kicked it
Speaker 1: off when I turned eighteen. That was terrible, you know,
Speaker 1: and there was this this disease going around that we
Speaker 1: knew nothing about, and in particular gay men, We're just
Speaker 1: dropping like flies. It was a difficult time to come
Speaker 1: of age. And I would have killed well for a
Speaker 1: conversation like this, right, you know, to have sat with
Speaker 1: a bunch of a bunch of folks, and especially the
Speaker 1: elders who you know, every time I talk about the past,
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is not our first pandemic, right, the COVID,
Speaker 1: because we lived through the eighties and there's too many similarities.
Speaker 1: And you know, it was actually refreshing to see that
Speaker 1: when when it's happening to CIS had people that you know,
Speaker 1: how quickly vaccines came out and everybody's paying attention and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, that is not how it went
Speaker 1: down in the eighties. Job, not a bit, not a bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we had to scream. We didn't just have to
Speaker 1: beg and cry and die. We had to get loud
Speaker 1: and embarrass people into action. I wonder you know, I've
Speaker 1: thought about that recently. I'm working on now. I'm writing
Speaker 1: a talk that I'll be doing in May, and I've
Speaker 1: thought about that idea of could we even shame these
Speaker 1: motherfuckers at this point? You know, because do they have
Speaker 1: any I mean, I know that they are delicate little flowers.
Speaker 1: They they're they're made of paper, and yet it doesn't
Speaker 1: keep them from lying, it doesn't keep them from you know,
Speaker 1: being ridiculously audacious with their their words, and it seems
Speaker 1: like there is no bottom for these people. Maybe that
Speaker 1: was the wrong choice of word.
Speaker 2: Let that go, but.
Speaker 1: Right, you know, the bar is in hell and they
Speaker 1: keep digging for us. So I just had that thought
Speaker 1: and I made a note about it. You know, it
Speaker 1: was a different time in that Republican politicians could be
Speaker 1: embarrassed and Democrats as well, but we're still talking about
Speaker 1: books then and now, you know that you could shame
Speaker 1: them into action. I'm not sure how that would work,
Speaker 1: because look at what's going on right now. They have
Speaker 1: no shame, they have no decency, they have nothing, nothing.
Speaker 1: They're barely human.
Speaker 2: Right We've even tried setting their things on nothing.
Speaker 1: I know, I know. So the talk that I'm talking
Speaker 1: about is May Sewi and it's called Lies, Damned Lies
Speaker 1: and Statistics, which I believe was a Mark Twain quote.
Speaker 1: But I had to come up with a title, and
Speaker 1: I went, that'll fit. I can make it fit. And
Speaker 1: that's in Medford, New Jersey at the United Methodist Church,
Speaker 1: which is an affirming congregation. And I'll be doing a
Speaker 1: breakfast talk and you know, breakfast and Q and A
Speaker 1: and I love discussions, so I will see what happens.
Speaker 2: I love that you are just doing the things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and for the month of April, Oh, let me
Speaker 1: do this, am I am so.
Speaker 2: Martha is nominated for the twenty twenty six Women Podcasters Award.
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Speaker 1: Voting goes through the end of April. Correct.
Speaker 2: Yes. Voting opened on April first and runs through April thirtieth.
Speaker 1: Would be a lovely thing. Yeah, it's it is lovely
Speaker 1: to be recognized with the nomination, even lovelier still to
Speaker 1: actually win it. And that would be our first award
Speaker 1: for the podcast. Yeah, because some of them you got
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Speaker 2: There's so many nominees throughout the awards, the different the
Speaker 2: different categories. Yes, and you know, just out of curiosity,
Speaker 2: I've gone through and I've you know, perused and there's
Speaker 2: a couple that, like, I'm now following their podcast.
Speaker 1: And listen to Good to Know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a couple that you know, I can feel
Speaker 2: comfortable voting for because it's not going to take votes
Speaker 2: away from you, right, because it's a different category.
Speaker 1: I'm just in the one category. Can certainly peruse and
Speaker 1: see if you recognize anyone else, and you get to
Speaker 1: vote in every category if you so choose. Yes, but
Speaker 1: that is not a requirement. It is not You can
Speaker 1: just go on and vote for us.
Speaker 2: The only requirement is voting from Martha.
Speaker 1: We would very much appreciate it. That would be lovely. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's cool. I'm excited about that. That's fun. And yeah,
Speaker 1: booked and Blessed has been kind of a themed this spring,
Speaker 1: and I do love it because how many times do
Speaker 1: I have to say, we're talking you're talking about us
Speaker 1: without us again, right, you know, include trans people in
Speaker 1: the conversation. If you want to talk about us, have
Speaker 1: us there. You know, hear what we have to say here,
Speaker 1: what you know, you're our perspective on what's going on.
Speaker 1: And I mean all of us, yeah, you know, certainly,
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there are no small gigs. Just there are no
Speaker 1: small gigs. So two deaths. Let's start with the one
Speaker 1: that's easier to talk about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because yeah, So this is from the end of
Speaker 2: last month. Nicholas Brendan passed away at fifty four. Nicholas
Speaker 2: Brendan was He played Xander on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Speaker 1: That's your era, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was a huge fan of the Buffy the Vampire
Speaker 2: Slay series, and I Xander was one of my little
Speaker 2: TV crushes.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: He was just like the goofy, straight dude, but he
Speaker 2: was like a good guy, and Okay, he was always
Speaker 2: there ready to like take one for the team and
Speaker 2: get his ass kicked for his his and he had
Speaker 2: like mostly female friends who were who could all kick
Speaker 2: his ass any given time. But it didn't stop him
Speaker 2: from jumping in the way if the moment arose, right
Speaker 2: then yeah, And as far as we know, like he
Speaker 2: just died in his sleep of natural causes.
Speaker 1: Really at fifty four, that is very young for that
Speaker 1: to happen, I'm saying, yeah, that is very young. Rest
Speaker 1: in peace, Rest in peace. Man. So the next one
Speaker 1: has been reported in so many ways, and.
Speaker 2: This is also from the end of last month.
Speaker 1: Right at the end of last month, Chielle Diamond Sanchez
Speaker 1: McCrae was killed in Virginia. We know that she competed
Speaker 1: in many drag pageants and was a title holder in many.
Speaker 1: She was forty two. Yes, now I believe we are
Speaker 1: talking about a black trans woman, yes, who was also
Speaker 1: a drag performer who was shot and killed Petersburg, Virginia.
Speaker 1: The reporting of this, even in queer news, has been
Speaker 1: all over the place, right, and who in the hell
Speaker 1: I think it might have been the advocate wasn't who
Speaker 1: quoted the family right that she was misgendered in the beginning.
Speaker 1: I think the first fucking time I've ever heard this,
Speaker 1: she was misgendered as a trans woman in the beginning,
Speaker 1: but her family said that was inaccurate. I just want
Speaker 1: to say almost always, probably always, the family is the
Speaker 1: least accurate narrator in death. Yeah, you want to know
Speaker 1: who the person was, talk to their friends.
Speaker 2: Right, And it was her friends who supported the narrative
Speaker 2: of her being a trans woman, right.
Speaker 1: And there is a quote from I believe it was
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one where she talks about her transition.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 1: So the part that bothered me was seeing a correction.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to move from where we didn't link to
Speaker 1: the article, and maybe that's for the best, but again
Speaker 1: it was it was definitely a queer news outlet correcting
Speaker 1: the fact that this was a trans person. I think
Speaker 1: that now there's enough, and I did wait. She was
Speaker 1: also known as Mabel. Her friends called her Mabel, and
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, Mabel reflected on the trials and
Speaker 1: tribulations I had to go through when I transitioned. Okay,
Speaker 1: gay men who are just drag queens don't transition. Correct,
Speaker 1: that's not a thing. It's not a word that applies.
Speaker 1: So you know, I think it's reasonable to say that
Speaker 1: a black family didn't accept the transport, right, and yeah,
Speaker 1: that happens.
Speaker 2: Because we've seen that happenings that they're black.
Speaker 1: But you know, her family looked at the whole thing,
Speaker 1: was not accepting. We we saw this with your best friends.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. We've seen this with queer CIS people,
Speaker 2: where you know, there's the person that we know and knew,
Speaker 2: and then there's the story that the family wants to
Speaker 2: I mean the married lesbian if we're speaking specifically, Yeah, right,
Speaker 2: but we knew it married lesbian and mom and dad
Speaker 2: went all the way back to childhood to eulogize and
Speaker 2: talk about right in the fucking past or read her
Speaker 2: fucking Facebook bio. Yeah, yeah, that's the case.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was the only like thing that sort
Speaker 1: of remotely went to what they were saying, because you've
Speaker 1: missed a couple of weddings in there for one thing.
Speaker 2: Right, that's the part that one of the parts that
Speaker 2: really pissed me off because they they you know, said
Speaker 2: she was dada da da da da da da da,
Speaker 2: And I was like that sounds familiar? Why does that
Speaker 2: sound familiar? And then later on I looked at her
Speaker 2: Facebook and that was her fucking bio word for goddamn word,
Speaker 2: Like you didn't know her right, right? But what do
Speaker 2: you expect when you know the family referred to her
Speaker 2: wife as the woman that lives in my daughter's house.
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly, And that's what happened. And just a note
Speaker 1: to journalists, if you know at a queer fucking news outlet,
Speaker 1: don't quote the family right. Where trans people are concerned,
Speaker 1: you go talk to their friends, right, go talk to
Speaker 1: the people they worked for, even in the clubs. Before
Speaker 1: you talk to mom and dad who are a grieving
Speaker 1: the death of their child, but b are the ones
Speaker 1: who are most likely to miss gender right. It bothered
Speaker 1: me a lot because I just kept looking back and
Speaker 1: forth and got you know, this is not back in
Speaker 1: the day. Back in the day, things were looser unless
Speaker 1: we didn't have the language right, So Marcia p pay
Speaker 1: it no mind, Johnson. You know, if we want to
Speaker 1: talk about Marcia, and you know, did she use her
Speaker 1: birth name at home with her family or she did?
Speaker 1: She did? She was a queen if anything, probably though
Speaker 1: Randy Wicker says, you know, if we really would have
Speaker 1: the terminology she probably we probably would have called her
Speaker 1: a trans woman, right, but that you know, she didn't
Speaker 1: self identify quite in the same way Sylvia did. And
Speaker 1: you know, so there's room for interpretations where I'm going,
Speaker 1: this is not that right, This is not we're not
Speaker 1: living where we don't have the words.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: No one talks about transitioning unless they transition.
Speaker 2: Right. If everyone outside of the house, everyone outside of
Speaker 2: the house, has one version of you.
Speaker 1: And they're calling her she, right, But this particular paper.
Speaker 2: Used he, right, And the only version that refutes that
Speaker 2: is that story being told inside of the house. That
Speaker 2: seems pretty cut and dry.
Speaker 1: To me, right, right, because normally what happens is we're
Speaker 1: misgendered initially and then it's corrected.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: This is saying that she was initially called a trans
Speaker 1: woman and that was she she He was being misgendered
Speaker 1: because his family said no, no, no, no, he just
Speaker 1: did drag right, he wouldn't trans.
Speaker 2: Which says to me that the family threatened a lawsuit
Speaker 2: if they said anything different.
Speaker 1: Well maybe, but that's bullshit, because I agree, you can
Speaker 1: back it up, but that's not who you go to
Speaker 1: I agree. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for the You know,
Speaker 1: we know a lot of loving and supportive families that
Speaker 1: do get it right before also seen them get it
Speaker 1: wrong more than off more. I have a jar pen
Speaker 1: thank you, which is a whole story. But yeah, this
Speaker 1: was upsetting because it was queer press, right, who should
Speaker 1: fucking know better? Who should know better? Who should know better?
Speaker 1: And among y'all you decided, well, they must know. How
Speaker 1: many lesbians get buried in pretty gowns? How many gay
Speaker 1: men we didn't you know died and the partners not
Speaker 1: mentioned and the whole life goes away. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what happened, you know with your friend talk about she
Speaker 1: was in her forties, right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Or were you all just turning? No, you're all just turning?
Speaker 1: What forty three? Is that forty or forty forty four?
Speaker 2: Maybe I would have to go to count the pat
Speaker 2: have to count the pennies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we should probably tell that story because it makes
Speaker 1: no sense without telling the story. But we went to
Speaker 1: the funeral and we went out to eat afterwards, and
Speaker 1: it was I would say, her closest friends, right, you
Speaker 1: and the two or three that were very close friends,
Speaker 1: and y'all were talking about just what a travesty this
Speaker 1: funeral was. It was it was a joke. You know,
Speaker 1: this was a lesbian. We knew her exactly right, thank you?
Speaker 1: Whose wife was in the fucking room? Yeah, but not
Speaker 1: acknowledged in the program, not acknowledged in any of it.
Speaker 1: What they put her in, like a lavender fucking pinafore
Speaker 1: was not the.
Speaker 2: Only part that we accurate was the lavender part.
Speaker 1: Right, but not the style of it. Looked like she
Speaker 1: didn't she wouldn't have. She did not own that. I
Speaker 1: don't think. Yeah, I think they chose that. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't too long after the funeral that and that's where
Speaker 1: I think we started talking about we should host a
Speaker 1: memorial for her actual friends and invite her wife and
Speaker 1: celebrate the life that was not the life that her parents.
Speaker 2: Right, And we did that at our bar.
Speaker 1: But we write the pennies were before the pennies made
Speaker 1: the decision. Yeah, no, that was after what what now?
Speaker 1: Because you started finding pennies. We went to the funeral,
Speaker 1: we said it was an atrocity. We floated the idea
Speaker 1: of a memorial, and then everyone went back their lives
Speaker 1: and you started to find random pennies right.
Speaker 2: This laying its member now, yeah, the bar. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And on the third day or so, you said, this
Speaker 1: is her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then right, because they were they all seemed
Speaker 2: very randomly placed, but intentionally placed, right, And they would
Speaker 2: be in places that like I would be the only
Speaker 2: one in the bar and I'm cleaning, and it would
Speaker 2: be in a spot that I had just cleaned, and
Speaker 2: it'd just be.
Speaker 1: Like and there there were john place. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is this is some this is some what the fuck shit? Right,
Speaker 1: because we weren't doing it and there was no human involved.
Speaker 1: I mean, even if a human was placed, because we
Speaker 1: found some outside too, not the one's inside because the
Speaker 1: bar was locked overnight and there's pennies in the morning
Speaker 1: that weren't there when we closed. Right. So anyway, you
Speaker 1: did set because y'all were turning. It's forty three or forty.
Speaker 2: Four, I think, I want to say forty four.
Speaker 1: And you both had a birthday near each other, yes,
Speaker 1: And you said she.
Speaker 2: Was always twelve days older than.
Speaker 1: Me, and I never let her forget it, right, And
Speaker 1: you said, if this stops at forty four, right, it's
Speaker 1: her yep. And you know because because we're turning forty four.
Speaker 2: And and I said that to you and only you, right.
Speaker 1: And I think we found forty three and I sat
Speaker 1: down on the bench outside and damn if there wasn't
Speaker 1: a forty fourth one right there on the little ledge.
Speaker 2: And that was the last one we found.
Speaker 1: And that was the last, the last penny, and then
Speaker 1: no more. And they were some on the step. There
Speaker 1: would be three in a row on the steps. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were just.
Speaker 2: They were placed where they would be found, right, but
Speaker 2: not easily.
Speaker 1: And we were discovered advertising that was happening, and it
Speaker 1: kept happening in places that even if somebody was fussing
Speaker 1: with us, right they how would they have known? How
Speaker 1: would they First of all, they wouldn't have gotten in
Speaker 1: the bar, a locked bar, Yeah, and you know, could
Speaker 1: they have left them outside maybe? But where they were
Speaker 1: left was just so random. And then the thing that
Speaker 1: was beyond was they stopped at forty four. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was it. Yeah. And then we planned and held a
Speaker 1: memorial and included her wife. We never found another penny, No,
Speaker 1: but we have we have the jar.
Speaker 2: I mean I found pennies the way you want pennies,
Speaker 2: but not like did not feel the same at all.
Speaker 1: No, that was a that was a period of time
Speaker 1: and they were uh, you couldn't miss them. But they
Speaker 1: all felt intentional. But again, there were enough of them.
Speaker 1: There was no way somebody like it, just unless you
Speaker 1: were doing it right.
Speaker 2: And I was not right.
Speaker 1: You were the only one that could have been. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't and we would have held a memorial because
Speaker 1: you said so. You would didn't have to leave pennies
Speaker 1: and freak me out, right, So we when I.
Speaker 2: See change, I just put in my pocket. I don't
Speaker 2: place it intentionally anywhere.
Speaker 1: But you know, you knew that kind of right away
Speaker 1: because y'all were so connected, right and so close, and
Speaker 1: you said, this is what's happening. And she wants us
Speaker 1: to do what we said we were going to do
Speaker 1: because that did not honor her life, right, and it
Speaker 1: left her spouse out in the cold. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: she was allowed to be present and that was it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so we did and it was lovely, you know,
Speaker 1: but yeah, we still have those forty four pennies. It
Speaker 1: fucking matters to us. And you're rarely going to get
Speaker 1: an accurate depiction of especially a queerer trans person's life
Speaker 1: by asking their parents. Unfortunately, and you know this, this
Speaker 1: human was forty two. I'm going to say the parents
Speaker 1: are at least in their sixties, which is very young. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or seventy, which at this point you should know better.
Speaker 1: But maybe that was reality to them, right. Maybe she
Speaker 1: never actually chose to say yo, right, could be, could be.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean a man died, correct, correct, And
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that you know, a major creerent news
Speaker 1: source should be listening to the family above, the friends above,
Speaker 1: what was possible to know publicly and again quotes of transition.
Speaker 1: So rest in power Shale. Yes, she did bring a
Speaker 1: lot to the community. She did work for the community,
Speaker 1: and you know, used our art form not just to
Speaker 1: win pageants but in support of the community. Exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I want to take a break and we'll come
Speaker 1: back with good news. Yeah, we'll be right back.
Speaker 5: And we're back, We're back.
Speaker 1: I love always to focus on the responses to bullshit.
Speaker 1: So right at the top of good news, I wanted
Speaker 1: to share the billboards that are all over Kansas right
Speaker 1: now that say God made trans people you. They hit
Speaker 1: the Kansas Highway after the state revoked trans People's IDs
Speaker 1: and this was the end of march. Organizers with Mayday
Speaker 1: Health say The message is meant to affirm trans kansins
Speaker 1: as state policy moves to erase them from public life.
Speaker 1: This is abhorrent to what they're trying to do or
Speaker 1: what they are doing in Kansas. It is. You know,
Speaker 1: there are those who are saying, we're just they're trying
Speaker 1: to walk us right toward genocide. Yeah, taking away ID.
Speaker 1: I talked about that a little bit. I talked about
Speaker 1: that a little bit at super I said, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all have thought about how unsafe
Speaker 1: this makes trans people, right, having to produce an ID
Speaker 1: that outs them every time they need an ID, not
Speaker 1: to mention what it does to you psychologically, not to
Speaker 1: mention what it does to your spirit. But that's the point.
Speaker 1: Cruelty is the only point they have. Right.
Speaker 2: So people aren't meant to live with this much a
Speaker 2: drug in coursing through their bloodstream at such a steady rate.
Speaker 1: Right. So this is a four week campaign. It spans
Speaker 1: major corridors in Kansas City, Topeka, and wichital seven billboards
Speaker 1: should reach more than one point two million drivers over
Speaker 1: the month. I just love the response, you know, not
Speaker 1: that it won't be dismissed, but good right, because yeah,
Speaker 1: if there's a God and God created people. God created
Speaker 1: trans people period, period, and I think maybe we're here
Speaker 1: to make y'all find yourself and Jesus. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but something would be nice. The Kansas governor, you know,
Speaker 1: who had originally vetoed this shit and then you know,
Speaker 1: the red legislature over rode, apologized to a transactivist who
Speaker 1: was practicing civil disobedience in the capital. Ban activist Samantha
Speaker 1: Boucher used a women's bathroom three times intentionally to trigger
Speaker 1: a misdemeanor under Kansas law, and she got an apology
Speaker 1: from Governor Laura Kelly. She was pushing them to like,
Speaker 1: how are you going to enforce this shit and what
Speaker 1: are you going to do?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: So, I mean, good for her, but SB two forty
Speaker 1: four is the law pushed through by Republicans in February
Speaker 1: that bans trans people from using bathrooms and government buildings
Speaker 1: that match their gender identity. So she made sure she
Speaker 1: went in there not once, not twice, but three times
Speaker 1: and had a law enforcement officer with her at the time. Great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a better apology would be banning the law.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she told the governor, I appreciate your veto, but
Speaker 1: again it was overridden by the Republican supermajority. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of like a supermajority of Republicans might not be
Speaker 1: a good idea, right. I am very sorry that you
Speaker 1: and others are being put in this situation, the governor said.
Speaker 1: Boucher walked away and shouted, and now we will see
Speaker 1: if the Attorney general chooses to enforce the law. Boop. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Her going into the restroom was witnessed by Capitol police officers.
Speaker 1: Police took her to a private room and later told
Speaker 1: a news outlet that they were investigating the situation but
Speaker 1: would not take legal action at this time. Two violations
Speaker 1: may result in a one thousand dollars civil fine, according
Speaker 1: to the law's text, while a third may be charged
Speaker 1: as a Class B misdemeanor. That's why she went in
Speaker 1: a third time. Now. What I hope to have accomplished
Speaker 1: here and in whatever I've become embroiled in as a result,
Speaker 1: is making sure that the nation doesn't forget that this
Speaker 1: is happening here. This law is unprecedented, and it cannot
Speaker 1: be allowed to stand because the domino effect that it's
Speaker 1: going to have across the country is going to be profound, Kansas,
Speaker 1: we get scrappier when you put us against a wall.
Speaker 1: But you know, to go and keep going. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: You know, our resolution is only going to come through
Speaker 1: Congress and the courts at this point. And that's why
Speaker 1: we need to make sure midterms occur that bar yeah,
Speaker 1: and and uh, control of our countries is arrested away
Speaker 1: from these these just sick, villainous people. Moving on.
Speaker 2: New data shows a vast majority of American support trans rights.
Speaker 2: That's good to know.
Speaker 1: I know, despite all these bills, and I've been saying this.
Speaker 1: This is a new survey of over one thousand respondents.
Speaker 1: Eighty five percent of Americans believe that transgender people should
Speaker 1: have the same rights and protections as everyone else. The
Speaker 1: sentiment was agreed upon by ninety two percent of Democrats,
Speaker 1: seventy six percent of Republicans, and eighty seven percent of
Speaker 1: independence there's your voters, right, there's your your populaces. This
Speaker 1: is what people are saying, right. Yeah. The survey was
Speaker 1: conducted by SSRs and funded by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
Speaker 1: It also found that over four in ten Americans now
Speaker 1: know a trans person, which has arise from just one
Speaker 1: in three in previous surveys. While twenty seven percent of
Speaker 1: Americans say that they regularly have conversations with trans people,
Speaker 1: Previous research has shown that knowing a transperson corresponds with
Speaker 1: increased support for trans issues unless you're hiring us, yes,
Speaker 1: I know, for your dirty deeds, and anyway they know
Speaker 1: a transperson. At least there's coin. A large majority of
Speaker 1: Americans agreed that trans people should be able to access
Speaker 1: the healthcare they need eighty nine percent, be protected from
Speaker 1: employment discrimination that's seventy nine percent, and protected from discrimination
Speaker 1: and harassment in schools eighty three percent of respondents.
Speaker 2: That's a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Notably, a majority of Republicans believe that trans people
Speaker 1: should be protected from discrimination in both harenas as well.
Speaker 2: Oh those are those same Republicans I hear about.
Speaker 1: So when are we going to be tired enough of
Speaker 1: the actual pedophiles and the actual rapists and sexual offenders
Speaker 1: trying to say that we're the ones to be afraid of, Like,
Speaker 1: when are we all going to go? You know what,
Speaker 1: stop right? I think we're doing that we've seen, you
Speaker 1: know the results that we're seeing even in deep red
Speaker 1: areas where people are using their primaries and losing their
Speaker 1: seats is indicative of what's going on. They've had it
Speaker 1: with this that they'd actually maybe like you to govern,
Speaker 1: that would be nice and leave trans people alone.
Speaker 2: That'd be great.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, and I've said this, it's a twisted benefit,
Speaker 1: but the more they talk about us, the more you
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to get to know actual things about us, right, right,
Speaker 1: The more you have access to facts about us, the
Speaker 1: more fact checking there is, the more studies are actually
Speaker 1: being funded. So we'll talk about some that shouldn't be Yeah,
Speaker 1: how about it. Amazing people want you to knock it off.
Speaker 1: And medical decisions should be made, you know, especially for minors,
Speaker 1: should be made between a parent and the healthcare expert,
Speaker 1: the doctor, because I want these Republicans to start seeing
Speaker 1: a plumber every time they have a medical issue. Right,
Speaker 1: If they're going to keep fucking with us and listening
Speaker 1: to our doctors, I don't think they should have access
Speaker 1: to them, right, Yeah, I think we should send them
Speaker 1: to a politician and I don't know, have a little
Speaker 1: surgery kit that we give them when they take their
Speaker 1: congressional oath. Why not makes as much sense, doesn't it? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I said they should stop playing doctor and I met it.
Speaker 1: Here's something you probably never thought you'd hear me say.
Speaker 1: Uh oh yay, Georgia What Every single bit of anti
Speaker 1: LGBTQ legislation in Georgia was defeated as their twenty twenty
Speaker 1: sixth session ended. Bamn yeah, the executive director of Georgia
Speaker 1: Equality said, scapegoating lgbt Q plus Georgian's is not a
Speaker 1: winning political strategy.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 1: Wave after wave of anti LGBTI swept through Georgia this
Speaker 1: legislative cycle, but according to one state civil rights organization,
Speaker 1: every single one of them failed. After a late night
Speaker 1: at the capitol to finish out the twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: legislative session. We could not be more excited to share
Speaker 1: that we did it. We successfully defeated all of the
Speaker 1: nearly fifteen pieces of anti LGBTQ legislation.
Speaker 2: And that was Georgia Equality on Blue scot and not
Speaker 2: just in Atlanta. So Georgia Equality tracked twenty five hundred
Speaker 2: Peach State residents who contacted their legislators and nearly four
Speaker 2: hundred who trekked to the capitol to fight for LGBTQ
Speaker 2: rights over the last few weeks. This session. We stopped
Speaker 2: every bill targeting LGBTQ Georgians, even in spite of underhanded
Speaker 2: political maneuvers, said Jeff Graham, the group's executive director, in
Speaker 2: a statement last week. Thousands of Georgians from over sixty
Speaker 2: counties came together to successfully defeat every last one, despite
Speaker 2: state leadership fixating on restricting LGBTQ plus rights as their
Speaker 2: core priority over the past years. We made it clear
Speaker 2: that scapegoating LGBTQ plus Georgians is not a winning political strategy.
Speaker 1: Bitch, I added the bitchmark, Yes you did. There was
Speaker 1: HB fifty four, which began as a bill on home
Speaker 1: health care workers, only to be hijacked by Republicans and
Speaker 1: twisted into an attempted ban on puberty blockers to treat
Speaker 1: transgender youth. This is what they do. This is what
Speaker 1: they do. There was the Riley Gaines Act. She's got
Speaker 1: shit named after her.
Speaker 2: I know, well, they gotta have something that you know.
Speaker 2: Never mind.
Speaker 1: The Riley Gaines Act is that's scratching your sores ooh,
Speaker 1: named for an anti transactivist whose political career was launched
Speaker 1: after tying for fifth play. We can't say it often
Speaker 1: enough in a college swim meet. Yeah, I was gonna say.
Speaker 2: The only Riley Gains act I know is losing and
Speaker 2: then bitching about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. That bill would have forced trans students out of
Speaker 1: the changing rooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity.
Speaker 1: There was SB seventy four, which could have criminalized librarians
Speaker 1: who provided LGBTQ books to minors. Let's see other measures
Speaker 1: that tanked included a forced outing bill for queer students,
Speaker 1: a drag ban, and a bill to create an exemption
Speaker 1: for non affirming parents and caretakers to abuse transuse. Go Georgia,
Speaker 1: Yeah really, go Georgia.
Speaker 2: I I can't put. I can't wrap my mind around
Speaker 2: being in favor of harming children like I just can't.
Speaker 1: I can't either, And that's what they're doing. But they
Speaker 1: label it saving them, right, and they have convinced, you know,
Speaker 1: the people that follow them, no matter what they say,
Speaker 1: and forget about all you know, common sense, right, will
Speaker 1: parrot this bullshit. Let kids be kids, Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: we're doing, right, We're actually letting kids. The difference between
Speaker 1: us is we let trans kids be kids, right, because
Speaker 1: they tell us who they are. It's always gonna work
Speaker 1: that way. No matter what you jackals do.
Speaker 2: Right, it's not let kids be kids, but only in
Speaker 2: the way we want them to.
Speaker 1: No, so they label it as protection, but it's nothing
Speaker 1: but cruelty. Truly. Yeah, it is hard to wrap your
Speaker 1: mind around it. Why are you so invested in my healthcare?
Speaker 1: What do you give a shit?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: How am I affecting your life one little bit? Oh wait,
Speaker 1: if you can make an issue out of me, the
Speaker 1: fact that you know you're diddling children, I guess no
Speaker 1: one will notice. I guess while you pass laws against me.
Speaker 1: That's what's literally fucking happening in this country. And they
Speaker 1: do their shit in the name of g Maybe I
Speaker 1: should start wearing a cross. You think that went home?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: I was going to say I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1: God knows they do. What are we watching? What's the
Speaker 1: tea for? It is a great, great response to a
Speaker 1: check where across Let's see where are we? The UN
Speaker 1: overwhelmingly votes against US proposal limiting the definition of gender. Yay, right,
Speaker 1: and of course they did. The United Nations have overwhelmingly
Speaker 1: voted against considering a proposal from the United States, of course,
Speaker 1: that would ask UN members states to define gender as
Speaker 1: referring only to men and women. The US introduced the
Speaker 1: resolution on the final day of the UN's seventieth Annual
Speaker 1: Commission on the Status of Women it's Women's Rights Conference
Speaker 1: on nineteen March. On March nineteenth, I know because it's
Speaker 1: not an American publication. In a draft seen by the
Speaker 1: publication pass Blue, the US noted quote the many meanings
Speaker 1: or connotations of the term gender that have become common
Speaker 1: in recent years and that are different from accepted prior usage.
Speaker 1: It claimed that the Beijing Declaration on Women's Rights from
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five defined gender as such, but a letter
Speaker 1: from the Women's Rights Caucus sent to delegates last week
Speaker 1: said that the Commission did not hold specific definition of gender.
Speaker 2: Why are people so afraid of a spectrum?
Speaker 1: Great question? Great question? When it came to the US's resolution,
Speaker 1: Belgium's representatives said that it was factually incorrect, of course
Speaker 1: it was, and that it attempts to right the Beijing Declaration.
Speaker 1: Belgium called for a no action motion to stop the
Speaker 1: proposal moving forward. A total of twenty three countries voted
Speaker 1: with Belgium, while seventeen abstained and just two Pakistan and Chile.
Speaker 1: Voted in line with the United States.
Speaker 2: Okay, hey, okay.
Speaker 1: Some of the member states that abstained from voting, including Italy,
Speaker 1: did so as the United States failed to follow due
Speaker 1: process in presenting the motion, but noted that their national
Speaker 1: policies aligned with the US grand So yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: mixed bag, but at the end of the day, the
Speaker 1: UN made some goddamn sense.
Speaker 2: It's so weird seeing the US not being referred to
Speaker 2: as the shiny example of forward thinking.
Speaker 1: Well, we can't be when we have this in the
Speaker 1: White House, I know, And that's you know, and these
Speaker 1: are the people that pick our government and we have
Speaker 1: a bunch of unqualified yahoos running our nation.
Speaker 2: Because usually, see I'm used to, my brain is used
Speaker 2: to when a country sides against the US in terms
Speaker 2: of like you know, social change and innovation, Like they're
Speaker 2: the ones that are like on the wrong side of history.
Speaker 1: Not anymore.
Speaker 2: It's so weird. We're in the upside down.
Speaker 1: While we are, but that's where we belong. With a
Speaker 1: president like this, with quote unquote leadership like this, I
Speaker 1: hate it here. Yeah, yeah, I'm waiting for another country
Speaker 1: to take out our dictator because we think because just
Speaker 1: this is the world that we're living in. They must
Speaker 1: be keeping him very very locked up for real mm hm,
Speaker 1: because we think we can go in and do whatever
Speaker 1: we want, which we've pretty much always thought. But we
Speaker 1: were showing her strength.
Speaker 2: They can't even take his phone away.
Speaker 1: Apparently not. This one was fun.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Vivian Wilson turns Elon Musk's anti trans comment
Speaker 2: into fundraiser for LGBTQ plus Youth.
Speaker 1: I love the way that she plays out her daddy issues.
Speaker 6: Truly, so she launched her Evil Woke Mind Virus merch line,
Speaker 6: benefiting the Trevor Project.
Speaker 2: Wack. Her new product line is both the middle finger
Speaker 2: to her estranged father, Elon Musk and a way to
Speaker 2: give back to LGBTQ plus Youth. At the end of
Speaker 2: last month, the twenty one year old model announced the
Speaker 2: launch of a line of merch featuring the phrase evil
Speaker 2: Woke Mind Virus, available via her open Wave storefront.
Speaker 1: I love it, I do too.
Speaker 2: The slogan, emblazoned on T shirts, ball caps, tope bags,
Speaker 2: and other items, is a snarky reference to one of
Speaker 2: Musk's many anti trans social media posts about her how
Speaker 2: much do they cost and where can I get them?
Speaker 2: Late last year.
Speaker 1: Find the link, put it in the you.
Speaker 2: Know I will late last year. Musky.
Speaker 1: Mm hm, we should start calling him that Musky Musky.
Speaker 2: He posted a video clip from a New York Times
Speaker 2: interview in which Gavin Newsom touted his work on quote
Speaker 2: pro trans legislation. We're sorry your daughter hates you, Elon.
Speaker 2: Newsom's press office responded to america Packs post referring to
Speaker 2: Wilson's estrangement from Musk due to his anti tree trans bigotry.
Speaker 2: Muskie then responded with his own posts in which he
Speaker 2: misgendered and dead named his daughter. Of course, he did,
Speaker 2: and falsely accused her of having quote a tragic mental
Speaker 2: illness caused by the evil woke mind virus.
Speaker 1: Oh daddy, I love this kid.
Speaker 2: Uh huh I do?
Speaker 1: I love her?
Speaker 2: She is Sophia's Yeah, everyone like everyone loves.
Speaker 1: Her and they should and they should and you know,
Speaker 1: she's like, go stand over there. I don't give a
Speaker 1: fuck about your warrior money.
Speaker 2: She's an unofficially official Colby because Sasha Colby took her
Speaker 2: under her wing, like girl, come here, I love you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there we go. Mercury, Stardust and Point of Pride
Speaker 1: have raised three hundred thousand dollars for trans Healthcare and
Speaker 1: I just wanted to shout it out during their fifth
Speaker 1: annual stream athon for trans health. Their goal is to
Speaker 1: raise a million dollars by the end of April. Stardust
Speaker 1: is also known as the trans Handymam right, and she
Speaker 1: is an influencer who shares home repair tips, the author
Speaker 1: of two books on the subject. What started as a
Speaker 1: drag show and a dive bar to raise one thousand
Speaker 1: dollars for gender affirming care for local trans community members
Speaker 1: turned into a twenty four hour live stream to raise
Speaker 1: twenty four thousand that has now grown into the largest
Speaker 1: trans focused fundraiser in the world. Awesome, Yeah, awesome.
Speaker 2: We know about trans Handymam because of our friend of
Speaker 2: the pod Amberlin.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think she is the one that talks about
Speaker 1: our Yeah, I love that. Point of Pride is the
Speaker 1: organization she's now partnered with. They are a nonprofit. They
Speaker 1: celebrate their tenth anniversary this year. They came out of
Speaker 1: efforts to raise enough money for the founder's gender a
Speaker 1: farming care. They are, I'm going to say a nonprofit foundation.
Speaker 1: They raise and award grants. They also distributed thirty thousand
Speaker 1: binders in shapewear. They help provide gender firming care to
Speaker 1: people in off fifty states in over one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty countries.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They have five programs people can apply for, four
Speaker 1: of which are open to people getting procedures done in
Speaker 1: the US and have application cycles that are open at
Speaker 1: certain times a year. The fifth, which is their garment program,
Speaker 1: is open year round and open worldwide. Very cool. Their
Speaker 1: upcoming application cycle starts in May for the HRT Access
Speaker 1: Fund work. Yeah, so this is still going on, Yes,
Speaker 1: I believe so. Right, So if so, we will definitely
Speaker 1: share a link for how folks can donate and also
Speaker 1: access the programs that are there to help transfok I
Speaker 1: love it me too, fun Yeah, I love it. Okay
Speaker 1: one more just because again along with the theme of
Speaker 1: I Love responses, Desanta spand Pride crosswalks in Florida. So
Speaker 1: Miami Beach painted rainbows in a park yep instead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I just saw this. I think it was an
Speaker 1: Idaho like Boise. They you know, said that they're not
Speaker 1: allowed to have Pride flags, so they painted all the
Speaker 1: flagpoles in Pride colors. Uh huh. I just love good responses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw another one like, oh, we can't have
Speaker 2: the crosswalks, okay, fine, so the entire sidewalk they.
Speaker 1: Made, Yeah the sidewalk. Yeah, now have a rule about that. Huh. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When the Disanta administration painted over a rainbow colored crosswalk
Speaker 1: outside of what used to be Paulse Nightclub where forty
Speaker 1: nine people were killed, that was kind of a lastro
Speaker 1: yeah m hm, and trans community members repainted the tribute themselves.
Speaker 1: Many other cities have attempted to stand their ground and
Speaker 1: resist the removal of the crosswalks. Though most have been removed,
Speaker 1: cities and businesses have gotten creative, installing rainbow bike racks,
Speaker 1: moving rainbow crosswalks, two sidewalks, painting private parking lots, yep,
Speaker 1: and even displaying rainbow laser beams in the night sky.
Speaker 1: Take that right. This is we gotta be creative, folks.
Speaker 1: We got to keep being who we are.
Speaker 2: And this is the thing that I really wish these
Speaker 2: motherfuckers would realize. It's like, you know, they think of
Speaker 2: queer people as the shy kid they used to beat
Speaker 2: up in high school, and they think that that's all
Speaker 2: that they're ever going to be, just because they haven't
Speaker 2: fucking grown an inch, oh sign power Exactly. It's like,
Speaker 2: while you were busy trying to like everyone else, we
Speaker 2: were figuring out ways to be as creative is as
Speaker 2: humanly possible, while you were stalking the halls looking for us,
Speaker 2: we learned to be like resilient and resourceful and adaptive,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. It's like the whole time
Speaker 2: you were like being set in your little cis had ways,
Speaker 2: we were learning how to navigate you, and you know what,
Speaker 2: that made us smarter than you.
Speaker 1: It did so and we're resilient, right and so much
Speaker 1: less snowflaky exactly.
Speaker 2: So it's like learn to just you don't even know
Speaker 2: who your enemy is.
Speaker 1: You think you do right right, Some Miami Beach is
Speaker 1: basically putting in a big rainbow brick path in all
Speaker 1: cost about one hundred thousand dollars. Ha mm hmm. But
Speaker 1: the Miami Beach City Commission, Oh this is a quote.
Speaker 1: When the state forced removed the crosswalk and there was
Speaker 1: a crosswalk, there was a rainbow crosswalk right there. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it was our straight allies on the Miami Beach City
Speaker 1: Commission who ensured our gay community would not be pushed
Speaker 1: into the shadows. According to Commissioner Alex J. Fernandez, the
Speaker 1: only openly gay member of the City Commission, I'm deeply
Speaker 1: grateful to my straight colleagues for their leadership and upholding
Speaker 1: the uncompromising values of love, compassion, and equality. It is
Speaker 1: a powerful reminder that our allies will help us overcome
Speaker 1: this moment. Yeah yeah, And we need you as long
Speaker 1: as you're not an asshole. Okay. So what they're doing
Speaker 1: is building a new version of the Rainbow Crosswalk in
Speaker 1: Loomis Park near the original location on Ocean Drive and
Speaker 1: twelve Street, and the display is made up of thirty
Speaker 1: six hundred and six colorful pavers designed by Savino Miller
Speaker 1: Design Studio, which will be placed brick by brick in
Speaker 1: the park, followed by an unveiling said later this week.
Speaker 1: So I assume it's already happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, where.
Speaker 1: The new park display is meant to be permanent installation.
Speaker 1: In February, the Miami Beach City Commission allocated up to
Speaker 1: one hundred twenty thousand from the city's twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: year end surplus to design and install the replica crosswalk
Speaker 1: in the park. You h project is expected to cost
Speaker 1: about one hundred thousand, and it will use both original
Speaker 1: pavers and along with new ones to create a new
Speaker 1: rainbow sidewalk, and there will also be a plaque explaining
Speaker 1: the history of the display, and commissioner Joe Magazine has
Speaker 1: pledged to donate benches to the park.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So if I can ever go back to floridaga
Speaker 1: and I would love to see it. I know, I
Speaker 1: hope to be happy with pictures until then, right, but hey.
Speaker 2: So the original crosswalk was at Ocean Drive and Twelfth
Speaker 2: and Ocean Drive is arguably one of the gayest streets
Speaker 2: in the country.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, shit. Try to drive at night without a
Speaker 1: drag queen interrupting the flow. You can't as she's performing, right.
Speaker 1: I know you.
Speaker 2: Cannot, right, because you can try, but then one of
Speaker 2: the staff from the bar will stop you, and then
Speaker 2: she'll climb on your car.
Speaker 1: There are people and businesses and places we adore in Florida.
Speaker 1: We're still not going back while they have these hateful
Speaker 1: laws in place, unfortunately, because I'm not safe there exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean even in Miami Beach, because you know of
Speaker 1: DeSantis's cruel. I want to know if I need emergency
Speaker 1: medical assistance, I won't get a period, and I won't
Speaker 1: necessarily get it in Florida. So hey, I hope it
Speaker 1: really hurts your tourism anyway. Another lovely response. So I
Speaker 1: added this as a category because sometimes I don't know
Speaker 1: where to put things. So I have one story that
Speaker 1: I'm just going to call water is wet Okay. The
Speaker 1: largest physician organization in the United States reaffirms gender affirming
Speaker 1: care is medically necessary. This came out on March twenty sixth.
Speaker 1: The American Medical Association is setting the record straight on
Speaker 1: trans people's healthcare, expressing its full support of keeping decisions
Speaker 1: in the hands of doctors, patients, and their families. The
Speaker 1: American Medical Association, also known as the AMA, has reaffirmed
Speaker 1: that gender affirming care for trans miners, including some surgeries,
Speaker 1: is medically sound and that access to this life saving
Speaker 1: care should not be impeded damn it. In their March newsletter,
Speaker 1: the nation's largest physician organization stated its position unequivocally. Quote
Speaker 1: the AMA supports gender affirming care as medically necessary per
Speaker 1: our policy end quote. The letter further clarified that the
Speaker 1: board does not endorse the controversial position statements from the
Speaker 1: American Society of Plastic Surgeons, issued this past February. The
Speaker 1: document was created after meeting with Trump officials and repeatedly
Speaker 1: cited by anti trans accolytes grasping for a scientific reason
Speaker 1: to support transphobia. So basically, paper written by Duress over
Speaker 1: a bunch of sycophants did not impress the AMA. And
Speaker 1: good right, Yeah, that's what I wanted to say.
Speaker 2: So what you're saying to me is water is wet.
Speaker 1: It is still, how about it? I dig it? Okay,
Speaker 1: moving on, because there's a lot here. It's time for
Speaker 1: our favorite segment, which we like to call people taking
Speaker 1: pleasure in name.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeahad ah.
Speaker 1: So this is uh, I'm just say it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is from last week.
Speaker 3: I know, I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it. Trump fires Pam Bandy.
Speaker 1: Yep ha ha ha. Just be because, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: just because each their own. I hope she never has
Speaker 1: exactly that's what's happening. I hope she never has another
Speaker 1: job in life except in maybe the prison laundry where
Speaker 1: she belongs. And let's not be joyful about any replacement.
Speaker 1: Who I think it's I don't know, Jim Bob wrestler
Speaker 1: or some shit will always be worse than the last one. Right,
Speaker 1: But the part that's I'm sorry delicious is Pam Bondy
Speaker 1: packing her fucking desk yea bagger. Yeah, at least they
Speaker 1: let you gather these things before you had to put
Speaker 1: the handcuffs on. And I can't wait for that. One
Speaker 1: of our favorite people.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, little miss fifth Yes, Riley Gaines was brutally
Speaker 2: mocked after Thank God, after blaming trans people for winning
Speaker 2: her dentistry career.
Speaker 1: Right see, without even reading it, she's saying that she
Speaker 1: didn't get into dental school because of the quote, I
Speaker 1: gotta no fifth place swimmer has ever been less silenced
Speaker 1: in the history of anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, because for someone that's been silent, she will
Speaker 2: not shut the fuck up.
Speaker 1: I know. So it starts anti transactivist and fifth place swimmer.
Speaker 1: Lely Gaines is getting attention on social media after she
Speaker 1: made a video complaining her dream of going to dentistry
Speaker 1: school was ruined by pro trans university officials because they
Speaker 1: don't want that fucking bigot in their school. Right and
Speaker 1: good yeah, good, oh god, she said woke university administrators
Speaker 1: meeting with a brain despite the fact that she had
Speaker 1: spun her fifteen minutes of fame when she died from swim. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't want her for daring to say that men
Speaker 1: and women are different. I've lost friends, of course. The
Speaker 1: mea has been dishonest to me. I've been called every
Speaker 1: name in the book, not everyone, but we're trying my university.
Speaker 2: I've read a lot of books.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 1: I never get a job, she claimed. Yeah, no employer
Speaker 1: would ever hire me because they would hook me up
Speaker 1: and see that I'm a trans blubb You are, Blanche.
Speaker 1: May the Republican Party keep paying your bills. You dun't grunt.
Speaker 2: Now is the perfect time to point out that to me,
Speaker 2: white tears tastes like raspberry.
Speaker 1: Charles is sipping from his white tears smug as I speak. Uh,
Speaker 1: they do.
Speaker 7: I wanted to go to Deatle school, and they did that.
Speaker 7: I would never get into a dental school, no detal
Speaker 7: school whatever, even look at my obligation that I spoke
Speaker 7: up about.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, honey, this is the only career you're ever
Speaker 1: going to fucking have. Are you telling me? The wheels
Speaker 1: have fallen off? Being fifth place? Right? Like no one's
Speaker 1: feeling your pain anymore? What what's happening. It's unclear if
Speaker 1: she ever even tried to become a dentist, by the way,
Speaker 1: or if the unnamed administrator's alleged comments turned her into
Speaker 1: a quitter. God I love coverage. Since college, Gaines has
Speaker 1: appeared on Fox News, had her name as a byeline
Speaker 1: on several books, started hawking supplements, financial services, and ivermactin,
Speaker 1: and going on speaking tours. According to mother Jones, who
Speaker 1: reported in twenty twenty four that she charges as much
Speaker 1: as twenty five thousand dollars for appearances. Uh huh okay.
Speaker 1: In fact, she has a larger platform than most people
Speaker 1: because hate sells in America right now. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, may the scabs you pick be your own? Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry about people do love.
Speaker 2: To celebrate participation trophies. I mean, look how many silvil
Speaker 2: worry enactments talk.
Speaker 1: About a nothing little girl making something out of nothing
Speaker 1: for herself at the expense of a trans woman. She
Speaker 1: has ridden that until the wheels fell off. But apparently
Speaker 1: she can't get into dental school. Good. I hope she can't.
Speaker 1: It's almost I don't want that bitch in my mouth.
Speaker 2: You can take that out however you like. It's almost like,
Speaker 2: you know, people with standards don't don't want you, sweetie.
Speaker 2: That's why you came in fifth.
Speaker 1: That had nothing to do with She's just not a
Speaker 1: good swimmer. That's why she came in fifth. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: she's not that good.
Speaker 2: There were standards, and because of those standards, she was fifth.
Speaker 1: See. Yeah, which would have been just another Tuesday, right,
Speaker 1: except she found a way to make hate pay at
Speaker 1: great expense, by the way to Leah Thomas, a human
Speaker 1: being who did not deserve the smoke or the scrutiny.
Speaker 2: Correct, Why can't you.
Speaker 1: Belong in hell with Pam BONDI?
Speaker 2: Why can't she just be like other people who may
Speaker 2: or may not have talent in other areas and just
Speaker 2: sell feet picks?
Speaker 1: Did you just ask me to explain the Karens of
Speaker 1: the world. I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2: It was I can't.
Speaker 1: It was a rhetorical question. And you ain't seen her
Speaker 1: feet You don't know, you don't know. You make a
Speaker 1: good point, Yeah, can I imagine? I imagine they're hateful
Speaker 1: and chubby like the restaurant who wants a picture of that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't have time for her. Trump breaks a record
Speaker 1: as a new pole delivers a brutal verdict on his president. Say,
Speaker 1: let's see what this says. I love the headline already.
Speaker 2: I believe it's went something like this boom.
Speaker 1: He reached an unwanted milestone once again. According to the
Speaker 1: latest poll from the University of Massachusetts. Amherst found that
Speaker 1: his approval rating has fallen to thirty three.
Speaker 2: That still feels high.
Speaker 1: It feels really fucking high, right, but it is in
Speaker 1: fact the lowest rating since he returned to the White House.
Speaker 1: It is a five percentage point drop from last July
Speaker 1: and an eleven percentage point decline from last April. Uh huh.
Speaker 1: His disapproval rating, meanwhile, stands at sixty two percent.
Speaker 2: That feels low.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I think there's that percentage of
Speaker 1: oh no, probably in this right. So so sixty two
Speaker 1: and thirty three, what is that? So that leaves two
Speaker 1: percent or something I don't know, Yeah, like two percent,
Speaker 1: which is you know, this is getting close to accurate,
Speaker 1: because that's I think, maggot is you know, no more
Speaker 1: than thirty percent of you know, the percentage of the
Speaker 1: population personally. But what do I know?
Speaker 2: I guess to me, it feels like a high number
Speaker 2: because there's not a minus sign in front of him.
Speaker 1: There should be a minus. I agree, I agree, but
Speaker 1: it's fun every time it drops, and I know that
Speaker 1: he notices every fucking time it drops.
Speaker 2: I hope when they revealed the number, someone was blowing
Speaker 2: a slide whistle.
Speaker 1: Okay, so there's one more right, Yes, the slide whistle.
Speaker 1: Here's a perfect place for it. Remember Christie Noom, Oh,
Speaker 1: good lord, the everyone who got fired. So her husband
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be careful about how we talk about this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: has been accused quote of a bimbo cross dressing fetish.
Speaker 1: In leaked messages and photos, girl Brian Noom allegedly dressed
Speaker 1: in a makeshift breastplate and dressed in tight pants and
Speaker 1: a crop top.
Speaker 2: And by makeshift we mean crooked.
Speaker 1: Yes, they're they're they're sisters, not twins anyway. Uh. He
Speaker 1: has allegedly been cross dressing and messaging sex workers who
Speaker 1: specialize in bimbo fication to turn him quote into a
Speaker 1: girl end quote. Yeah. In hundreds of messages received by
Speaker 1: the Daily Mail, the fifty six year old is allegedly
Speaker 1: shown messaging sex workers who specialize in bimboification. Which is
Speaker 1: a type of role play fetish that involves being turned
Speaker 1: into a stereotypical bimbo or barbie dolls in some cases.
Speaker 2: Yes, I have a friend who sometimes specializes in that.
Speaker 1: Brian messaged three sex workers that he enjoyed their huge, huge,
Speaker 1: ridiculous boobs and sent over twenty five thousand dollars to them.
Speaker 1: In one of the photos included in the report, he
Speaker 1: appears to be wearing a large makeshift breastplate made of balloons,
Speaker 1: under a peach tup and type pink shorts. Another appears
Speaker 1: to show South Dakota's former first gentleman pouting in a
Speaker 1: selfie wearing green tight pants and another balloon stuff wrapped up.
Speaker 8: You know what, Yeah, I am relishing in the fact
Speaker 8: that this has been made public and that it couldn't
Speaker 8: happen to a nicer woman.
Speaker 1: I got no problem with kinks, and I got no
Speaker 1: problem with truly any of this. Obviously to each their own. However, However,
Speaker 1: when you go about destroying queer and trans people or
Speaker 1: your wife does, I don't really give a fuck because
Speaker 1: you were, yeah, and then your kinks are added. I
Speaker 1: have no sympathy, none, none, I don't I can't feel
Speaker 1: bad for either one of you. If people are laughing
Speaker 1: and misrepresenting this, I don't actually give one flying fuck
Speaker 1: because of all the people you've hurt. Again, this has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with kink shaming. No, this has nothing
Speaker 1: to do like do you know you do you baby?
Speaker 1: But again, when your job is to seriously harm queer
Speaker 1: and trans people and you have nothing but derogatory words
Speaker 1: for us, and then we find pictures of you once again,
Speaker 1: fuck you. Msnam is devastated. A spokesperson for Christy Noom
Speaker 1: told The New York Post the family was blindsided by this.
Speaker 1: It's just the shadow of the bloom, and they ask
Speaker 1: for privacy and prayers at the time. No, no, mmm, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. She was head of the DHS. She did
Speaker 1: give one fuck about the privacy of everyone she you know,
Speaker 1: the families she tore apart, put into detention, all the
Speaker 1: lies she told on Trump's behalf. She didn't she had
Speaker 1: no compassion for anyone else. So no, fuck her and
Speaker 1: her privacy and uh yeah, yeah, I hope this is
Speaker 1: yet another reason you never have a job again. Truly, truly,
Speaker 1: And the one thing I did see that came out
Speaker 1: of this is Republican women find more gay men to
Speaker 1: marry than gay men do. But this doesn't mean he's gay.
Speaker 1: This is a kink, right, This is a it's a kink,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I'm not saying that doesn't make
Speaker 1: them a straight man, because usually these kinks follow around
Speaker 1: with this man. Yeah, they've got them. It's the fact
Speaker 1: that they hide them and then they condemn anyone else
Speaker 1: who has them that makes this.
Speaker 2: I was just laughing because I basically cracked myself up
Speaker 2: because in my head I referred to him as a
Speaker 2: cock guy titty have an ass, bitch. That just set
Speaker 2: me off.
Speaker 1: I think someone said. I commented on Alexander Billings post
Speaker 1: and said you think you know him, but you really don't.
Speaker 1: And Alexander said, you want the internet today? It was funny,
Speaker 1: objectively funny.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the stage, titty Askew.
Speaker 1: There you go, that perfect drag name for this one again.
Speaker 1: Sexual kinks, slash proclivities slash whatever you're into, uh whatever.
Speaker 1: You know. The problem is that one of the reasons
Speaker 1: people like this fight against us is because this is
Speaker 1: how they see the word world as a kink and
Speaker 1: a fetish and you know something that they sexualize, and
Speaker 1: therefore they cannot imagine that's not how all of us live, correct,
Speaker 1: And they cannot imagine that someone who was ostensibly male
Speaker 1: would know themselves to be female and do the work
Speaker 1: of whatever transition to make themselves comfortable. They can't comprehend
Speaker 1: that because their fetish doesn't have room for that. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm big enough to say, have at it. You know,
Speaker 1: the fact that your wife didn't know is no big
Speaker 1: surprise to me because they usually don't, right, And I
Speaker 1: doubt you have the kind of marriage where you can
Speaker 1: be honest with each other because you're not honest with anyone. Right,
Speaker 1: you're fucking liars. You're paid liars, and you've done so
Speaker 1: much your wife is anyway, and she's done more destruction
Speaker 1: to this country than many, and she belongs in jail.
Speaker 1: I just hope that her cellmate posts pictures of Hubby
Speaker 1: on the wall with his balloons in his crop tup
Speaker 1: her altcy.
Speaker 2: And her vision will be fucked up if she tries
Speaker 2: to look at them both at the same time.
Speaker 1: Whatever, whatever. Yeah, the shutting for it is all on her,
Speaker 1: but hey, if you're not doing it in secret in
Speaker 1: the dark, then nobody can out you for you know what,
Speaker 1: if you run and tell for yourself, it's over right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's power. This couldn't happen to a nicer gal. Right
Speaker 1: after being fired from her cabinet position, from the cabinet
Speaker 1: to hubby's closet, she went none of it. None of it.
Speaker 1: I don't think a happy please. Yeah, I hope she
Speaker 1: has the life she deserves.
Speaker 2: That part, I feel that part is accurate.
Speaker 1: And I hope there are more photos. Yeah, I hope
Speaker 1: I did that well because again, no kink shame, no
Speaker 1: no king shaming, no kink shaming. And again, you know
Speaker 1: I've said before, not a secret. The only time I
Speaker 1: agree withouting someone is, you know, if by day their
Speaker 1: work is to marginalize others. Lindsey Graham should be out.
Speaker 1: And I'm waiting for the rent point it spills the tea.
Speaker 2: I'm just laughing at the fact that your your nipples
Speaker 2: remind me of of sweet pussy Pauline. One's looking at
Speaker 2: the dresser and the other ones in the closet dough.
Speaker 1: H And that's okay, that's not okay, that's okay. Oh shit, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this has been your moment of.
Speaker 6: Employ people taking pleasure.
Speaker 1: So before we roll out to the break, Uh huh,
Speaker 1: do you have a fifteen minute save? I yell, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a song.
Speaker 2: That I liked for a few years, but it didn't
Speaker 2: It hit me different when I was hearing it in
Speaker 2: the car the other day.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: It's a song from twenty fifteen, actually, and I first
Speaker 2: encountered it when it was used on A World of Dance.
Speaker 2: It is wild Things by Alessia Kara, and you know it.
Speaker 2: It's a cute, poppy ass song on the surface, but
Speaker 2: then I actually listened to the lyrics and it just
Speaker 2: seems appropriate for like the way I feel now. It's like,
Speaker 2: you know, everything about us goes against what you think
Speaker 2: we should be, and our way is better, and so fine,
Speaker 2: find me over here. You know, I make no apologies
Speaker 2: for the way I am. I make no apologies for
Speaker 2: being We're different than you. Find me where the wild
Speaker 2: Things are. We'll be over here while you get your
Speaker 2: shit together or don't. Okay, So we're gonna go out
Speaker 2: to the break with Wild Things by LESSI.
Speaker 1: Your car won't be right back.
Speaker 9: Fine Sable Space is saying social graces by your head.
Speaker 9: Their piece here, but you and dine with pineeers. We
Speaker 9: make our own brules, our own room. Noboyce here. Let
Speaker 9: them sell what they are selling there, nobodyce here. So
Speaker 9: gather all the rebels now, rebel house, and sing a
Speaker 9: loud We don't care if they say no way, no way,
Speaker 9: and we believe the empty chest to those who say
Speaker 9: we can't sit this find all by ourselves. So we
Speaker 9: brought our drum, and that says, how are we dance?
Speaker 9: No mistaken? We make our breaks.
Speaker 4: If you don't like God at a.
Speaker 9: Racing, leave us alone, because we don't leave your policies.
Speaker 9: We have no apologies for being find.
Speaker 4: You have whippe five, you wipe it, finds whip things.
Speaker 9: I lose my balance on these eggshells. You tell me
Speaker 9: to tread, I've gotta be whre want instead.
Speaker 3: And we're back, clear back.
Speaker 1: It's time, I know, for the cavalcade of nonsense, and
Speaker 1: boy is it nonsense. This week I'm going to start
Speaker 1: with the same dark money behind Project twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: is bankrolling a Northwestern study recruiting trans kids. They should
Speaker 1: send a chill up everyone's spine. And I say, if
Speaker 1: there's a trans child in your life, I hope you
Speaker 1: stay far away from this, recruiting them for what let's
Speaker 1: let's keep going. They project twenty twenty five outright calls
Speaker 1: on conservatives to fund and manufacture more studies on the
Speaker 1: negative effects of transforming care. They're trying to write their producer,
Speaker 1: it's the cast report, it's you know, they're producing shit
Speaker 1: that's not real.
Speaker 2: Right, the makeup ship and then go look what we found.
Speaker 1: And apparently Northwestern is their bitch right now. Far right
Speaker 1: dark money has been financing fringe research organizations that purport
Speaker 1: to undermine the evidence backing gender firming care. Among those
Speaker 1: beneficiaries is the Gender Dysphoria Institute, which is recruiting trans
Speaker 1: use and their parents for aya GDS IOGDOS, the Adolescent
Speaker 1: and Young Adult Gender Dysphoria Outcomes Study. Wow, they have
Speaker 1: an agenda. It's not a good one. Right. There's a
Speaker 1: place that they are going with this. It's not a
Speaker 1: good place. And I hope the word spreads as fast
Speaker 1: and as furiously as it possibly possibly can. Yeah. Doctor
Speaker 1: Michael Bailey, who is a psychology professor at Northwestern University,
Speaker 1: especially known for his widely rebuked book of quote Original
Speaker 1: Research a depicting trans women as sex raised men who
Speaker 1: are uniquely well suited to prostitution, is one of the
Speaker 1: leads in the study. Yeah. So the public facing rhetoric
Speaker 1: says that they're seeking to promote evidence based information about
Speaker 1: gender dysphoria. They're lying, Yeah, they're lying. They have a
Speaker 1: predetermined conclusion and they will stuff any information that they
Speaker 1: gather into that conclusion. That's what's going on here, and
Speaker 1: it's disgusting. It is just like Project twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: and the Heritage Foundation. They are a big chunk of
Speaker 1: what is wrong with America right now. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It is both disgusting and very much on brand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so beware what else we got. Portugal. Yeah this
Speaker 1: is kind of heartbreaking because you know, on that fantasy
Speaker 1: list of countries where I'm safe, Portugal's been at the
Speaker 1: top of that list, I know. Yeah, glad we didn't
Speaker 1: pack right.
Speaker 2: Portugal advances three sweeping bills targeting trans rights.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is.
Speaker 2: Towards the end of last month, Portugal's parliament voted to
Speaker 2: advance three sweeping bills that would significantly roll back transgender rights,
Speaker 2: marking a sharp shift for a country long scene as
Speaker 2: a European leader on gender identity. Protections. Yeah by US included.
Speaker 1: Yeah, backed by the center right governing coalition and for
Speaker 1: right lawmakers. The proposals would ban gender firm and care
Speaker 1: for trans youth, require adults to obtain permission from a
Speaker 1: medical team before changing their name or sex marker on
Speaker 1: civical documents, and limit discussion of gender ideology and schools
Speaker 1: for under eighteensm Your.
Speaker 2: Critics of the measures say they echo recent policies see
Speaker 2: in the United States targeting trends people. The bills pass
Speaker 2: their first reading by a wide margin and now move
Speaker 2: forward in the legislative process. It's not the first time
Speaker 2: that people have used the US as a model for
Speaker 2: their fascist leanings.
Speaker 1: Yeah. While these bills still face committee review at a
Speaker 1: final vote, and they could ultimately be vetoed or challenged
Speaker 1: in court, their advancement signals a major political shift in
Speaker 1: the country. Chilling, upsetting, And I guess it's one that
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure it'll be followed and will follow it.
Speaker 1: But how heartbreaking, I know, Yeah, how heartbreaking. It's kind
Speaker 1: of why I'm staying here and fighting for as long
Speaker 1: as I possibly can, because you know, there is no
Speaker 1: guarantee anywhere in the world with dis you know, the
Speaker 1: cancer of the lies being spread. You never know who's
Speaker 1: going to pick them up and run with them, right
Speaker 1: and why or when? Yeah? And you know, Portugal I
Speaker 1: thought was proud of being a safe place for trans people.
Speaker 1: Guessing not and equally heartbreaking. We have listeners in Portugal
Speaker 1: and so you know, just know that our hearts are
Speaker 1: with you. And yeah, I hope they don't pass because
Speaker 1: it's the kind of thing we're seeing here and it's
Speaker 1: not good for anyone's mental health and it's all based
Speaker 1: in lies and we know it exactly. Yeah, I am
Speaker 1: sorry this is happening to you because you live somewhere
Speaker 1: you thought you were ye, same, right, So girl Guiding,
Speaker 1: which is I want to say it's the Girl Scouts
Speaker 1: in the UK. I think they set a September deadline
Speaker 1: for trans girls to have to leave after they have
Speaker 1: been banned the fuck. Yeah, they must leave by September sixth.
Speaker 1: The deadline comes after the December twenty twenty five decision
Speaker 1: to stop allowing trans youngsters from joining groups as part
Speaker 1: of it's updated inclusion policies. Why don't we call them
Speaker 1: exclusion policies because that's what they are. Thank you? Yeah.
Speaker 1: In the fallout of the Supreme Court's judgment that the
Speaker 1: twenty ten Equality Acts definition of a woman refers to
Speaker 1: Bob Wade sex only, Girl Guiding announced late last year
Speaker 1: that with a heavy heart my ass, trans girls and
Speaker 1: young women would no longer be able to join groups.
Speaker 2: I'll give you enlarged, but I doubt it's heavy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's how long they have. The decision effects
Speaker 1: trans members of Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Rangers, and young Leaders.
Speaker 1: They have also said that volunteer roles open to quote
Speaker 1: women only will no longer be offered to trans women.
Speaker 1: So it's any trans girl or who is currently volunteering
Speaker 1: in a role open to women only will need to
Speaker 1: move to a role open to everyone. By September sixth,
Speaker 1: m M advocacy group Transplus Solidarity Alliance said inclusive organizations
Speaker 1: being bullied into excluding people against their will is a
Speaker 1: profound failure of this government to live up to its
Speaker 1: promise to the trans community. Ah yeah, yeah, this news
Speaker 1: will be heartbreaking for the children and volunteers leaders that
Speaker 1: hold Girl Guiding together to fix the problem that doesn't
Speaker 1: exist that part without anti trans law fare. Yeah like warfare,
Speaker 1: but fucking with the laws right, law, fair, love it,
Speaker 1: hate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah that part.
Speaker 1: Although our membership approach has changed, our belief in dignity,
Speaker 1: respect and inclusion has not. We will continue to work
Speaker 1: toward a fair, more equal world for every girl. Bullshit, bullshit. Yeah, basically,
Speaker 1: they've said, although we have decided to discriminate against a
Speaker 1: tiny minority group, our belief and inclusion has not changed.
Speaker 1: Uh huh Okay.
Speaker 2: Someone in the comments of this article decided to post
Speaker 2: the rules of a girl guide, the laws that they
Speaker 2: abide by. A guide is honest, reliable, and can be trusted.
Speaker 2: A guide is helpful and using it right and uses
Speaker 2: her time and abilities wisely. A guide faces challenges and
Speaker 2: learns from her experiences. And this one the person who
Speaker 2: posted it injected their own words. A guide is a
Speaker 2: good friend and a sister to all guides and in
Speaker 2: the parentheses, apart from the ones we've just chosen to ostracize, yep,
Speaker 2: a guide is polite and considerate. A guy respects all
Speaker 2: living things and takes care of the world around.
Speaker 1: Her, except the trainees can go fuck themselves in die
Speaker 1: that part. Yeah, Okay, that's why it's in Camel Kid.
Speaker 1: Yeah India.
Speaker 2: Yeah, India passes a limiting trans protection bill that redefines
Speaker 2: who qualifies.
Speaker 1: As trans Oh, how exciting. India's House of the People
Speaker 1: has passed a new bill that limits the rights of
Speaker 1: transgender people in the country.
Speaker 2: This was past the end of last month. The Transgender
Speaker 2: Person's Protection of Rights Amendment Bill twenty twenty six makes
Speaker 2: amendments to the previous twenty nineteen law that pertains to
Speaker 2: the rights and well being of trans people. The amendments
Speaker 2: redefine who qualifies as trans people and therefore who is
Speaker 2: protected by the law, and also introduces a new system
Speaker 2: for identity certification and stricter punishment for offenses against the transcripts.
Speaker 1: Get this ship. Under the new bill, a medical board
Speaker 1: will be formed to determine identity, with district magistrates issuing
Speaker 1: new ID cards to the trans people that qualify. Punishments
Speaker 1: for those that cause harm to the protected trans people
Speaker 1: will also be graded for different offenses, with the maximum
Speaker 1: jail term for the most serious offenses increasing from two
Speaker 1: years to fourteen What the fuck right?
Speaker 2: Who is this?
Speaker 1: What? Social Justice and Empowerment Minister words don't mean anything
Speaker 1: in India either, obviously. Vernda Kumar explained that the rewriting
Speaker 1: of the bill was to ensure that quote only those
Speaker 1: who face social boycott due to biological issues were protected.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, he said. To ensure that transgender persons can
Speaker 1: avail themselves of the benefits of this act, it was
Speaker 1: necessary to provide a precise definition. Uh huh bish, what
Speaker 1: why do I think it involves? Fingering?
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: Through the bill, the Indian government has insisted that transidentity
Speaker 1: cannot be based solely on personal choice or claimed self
Speaker 1: perceived identity, in case it is misused beyond its original intent,
Speaker 1: in case, at some point in the future, maybe somebody
Speaker 1: misuses that. Okay, let's see. The new bill has come
Speaker 1: under fire good from opposition parties, which have argued that
Speaker 1: the amendments undermine the right to self identification as recognized
Speaker 1: by the countries the court. Mm hmm. If the bill
Speaker 1: is for their welfare, why are they opposing on the streets. Hmmm,
Speaker 1: good question. Yeah. Other opposition politicians have called the amendments draconian, agreed, regressive, agreed,
Speaker 1: and a brazen attack on the constitutional rights an identity
Speaker 1: of transgender people. Agreed, agree, agreed, right, right, right, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're going back to gate keeping as fast as we
Speaker 1: possibly can for no other reason than we want to.
Speaker 1: So God knows what the tests look like. That's not
Speaker 1: in the article I'm saying. I assume obviously fingering is involved.
Speaker 2: And again, we have listeners in India, and I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm just apologizing to everyone around the world that
Speaker 2: listens to our show.
Speaker 1: Well, sorry, it's happening, but we can. Maybe we got
Speaker 1: our own problems over here, so I hope yours resolves better. Yeah. Really, Again,
Speaker 1: we're solving problems that don't fucking exist, right, fix and
Speaker 1: shown name broke fucking exist like the Olympics. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: let's I think we're getting there. Let's create a role
Speaker 1: based on oh, nobody nothing, not a problem, but in
Speaker 1: case we don't want them trainees getting big ideas about.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of being included when Ned Flanders was
Speaker 2: yelling at Lisa Simpsons, Like Lisa Simpson the answer to
Speaker 2: the question that nobody.
Speaker 1: Asked, right, uh, this is right out of CNN house.
Speaker 1: It's not just vaccines. Parents are refusing other routine preventative
Speaker 1: care for newborns. Uh huh. All my hospital shows keep
Speaker 1: showing this. Yeah, and then you cry because your kid's dead.
Speaker 1: One day at an Idaho hospital, half the newborns that
Speaker 1: the doctor Tom Patterson saw didn't get the vitamin K
Speaker 1: shots that have been given to babies for decades to
Speaker 1: prevent potentially deadly bleeding. On another recent day, more than
Speaker 1: a quarter didn't get the shot. Their parents wouldn't allow it.
Speaker 1: When you look at a child who's innocent and vulnerable
Speaker 1: and a simple intervention that's been done since nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: one is refused, knowing that baby's going out into the
Speaker 1: world is super worrisome to me, Patterson said, yeah, he
Speaker 1: has been a pediatrician for nearly three decades. Doctors crastination
Speaker 1: are alarmed that skepticism, fueled by rising anti science sentiment
Speaker 1: and medical mistrust. Thank you Republicans, Hello, thank you Maga hello,
Speaker 1: is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other proven routine preventative
Speaker 1: care for babies. They're killing their own children now, for
Speaker 1: Christ's sake, right, Oh my god, it's like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I picture who were the two old men that you
Speaker 1: used to sit up in the balcony at the Muppets,
Speaker 1: Oh Statlin Walde, I'm picturing the two of them placing
Speaker 1: bets on how many fucking Republicans can we get to
Speaker 1: kill their own children and laughing like how because the
Speaker 1: ones from coming to America right or no? No trading
Speaker 1: places were like, weren't they similar?
Speaker 2: Actually?
Speaker 1: Yeah, one was one. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I never made that connection until just now.
Speaker 1: Well I'm picturing them too, Yeah, because Ralph Bellamy and
Speaker 1: Donimici I think I think were the chew in the movie. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I picture the Koch brothers, for instance,
Speaker 1: sitting there making million dollar bets over just how stupid
Speaker 1: right people really are. A recent study in the Journal
Speaker 1: of the American Medical Association We Just Talked About Them,
Speaker 1: which analyzed more than five million births nationwide, found that
Speaker 1: refusals of VITAM and kay shans nearly doubled between twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen and twenty twenty four, from two point nine percent
Speaker 1: to five point two percent. Other research suggests that parents
Speaker 1: who declined vitamincay shots are much more likely to refuse
Speaker 1: getting the newborns the hepatitis B vaccine and an eye
Speaker 1: ointment to prevent potentially blinding infections. Rates for that vaccine
Speaker 1: at birth dropped in recent years. Doctors confirm more parents
Speaker 1: are refusing the eye medication entiing.
Speaker 5: Dicisions right now because there's conflicting information.
Speaker 1: No, there's information and then there's fucking ridiculous liars. Right,
Speaker 1: it's not that hard. You're an idiot, but you do
Speaker 1: have the resident of the United States undermining established science
Speaker 1: along with he put a heroin, a former in charge
Speaker 1: of whatever the fuck Kennedy's in charge, Jeff Yeah, and
Speaker 1: chaos ensues. Okay. Robert of Kennedy Junior, of course, is
Speaker 1: an anti vaccine activist who belongs nowhere near the job
Speaker 1: he holds.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out this conflicting information. So I guess, like,
Speaker 2: if you say science is good and then I go nah,
Speaker 2: and then someone says Charles said nah ah, then that
Speaker 2: would be the conflicting information.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. There's an idea that natural is always better
Speaker 1: than artificial, said doctor David Hill, a Seattle pediatrician and researcher.
Speaker 1: Nature will allow one in five human infants to die
Speaker 1: in the first year of life. Nature, yeah, which is
Speaker 1: why generations of scientists and doctors have worked to bring
Speaker 1: that number way way down. Vitamin K and other measures
Speaker 1: proven serious problems. Babies are born with low levels of
Speaker 1: vitamin K, leaving them vulnerable because their intestines can't produce
Speaker 1: enough until they starting neeting solid foods at around six
Speaker 1: months old. It's important for helping the blood clot and
Speaker 1: preventing dangerous bleeding in babies, like breeding into the brain. Yeah,
Speaker 1: uh huh. Yeah. Before injections became routine, about one in
Speaker 1: sixty babies suffered vitamin K deficiency bleeding, which can also
Speaker 1: affect the castro intestinal tract. Today the condition is rare,
Speaker 1: but research shows newborns who don't get the shot are
Speaker 1: eighty one times more likely to develop severe bleeding than
Speaker 1: those who do not.
Speaker 2: So when I heard nature allows five infants to die,
Speaker 2: you know what that reminded me. I remember that politician.
Speaker 2: They were having a conversation about women getting pregnant from
Speaker 2: their rapist, and he said something like, the female anatomy
Speaker 2: has a way to shut that down. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 2: giving kind of it's like, you don't know what you're
Speaker 2: talking about when you say with such assertion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and the article, of course it's sanning
Speaker 1: because I to say, these parents love their children, and
Speaker 1: it's a little more complicated, and.
Speaker 2: They love their children, but you've got.
Speaker 1: People like they're bringing back diseases like I don't know, smallpox,
Speaker 1: measles that you were all but eradicated because of this
Speaker 1: baseless sphere, right, because of the whole bullshit nonscience idea
Speaker 1: that vaccines cause autism as of autism is so bad
Speaker 1: that I know a lot of autistic folks who are
Speaker 1: having a good time with it. So none of them
Speaker 1: have the fuck alone.
Speaker 2: None of them have fucking polio and.
Speaker 1: Right, but what they don't have is polio or you
Speaker 1: know what, death right, So yeah, okay, for foxs sake. Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of the doctors said, I understand this is a
Speaker 1: hot topic, and I don't want to disrespect anyone, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, I'm desperately saddened that we're losing
Speaker 1: babies for no reason. Yeah, me too, and I'm happy
Speaker 1: to disrespect them. Right, you were not the scientists. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying we don't ever argue with doctors or
Speaker 1: or advocate for healthcare, but it's gotten to an extreme
Speaker 1: and it's gotten ridiculous and it's baseless. Right, it's baseless.
Speaker 1: You're talking to your fucking doula or or or you know,
Speaker 1: your girlfriend down the street who you fucking drink herbal
Speaker 1: tea with? Not you know, the doctors who are trying
Speaker 1: to keep your kid alive so they don't become a statistic, right,
Speaker 1: and that Unfortunately, we're trusting those people more than we're
Speaker 1: trusting like the scientists and shit, because that's what the
Speaker 1: Republicans have been doing to our brains for low these
Speaker 1: last ten years or so. You can't believe anything, so
Speaker 1: I'm not. You know, Okay, I.
Speaker 2: Don't understand why my baby is sick. I was humming
Speaker 2: while facing east and drinking the homemade kombucha that my
Speaker 2: crunchy blonde dreadlock having girlfriend up the way gave me.
Speaker 1: Right, I don't, and God help us. You know, we
Speaker 1: saw this with COVID. Remember the people that finally wanted
Speaker 1: a vaccine but they already were sick and they couldn't
Speaker 1: get it. It was too late and they died. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I'll have that vaccine now, Yeah right, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: I should get it. Won't now, It won't help you
Speaker 1: right now. It won't help you now that you're dying
Speaker 1: and you have cut your life short and it was preventable. Nope, sorry, sorry,
Speaker 1: Oh God, stupid should.
Speaker 2: Her I mean it hurts the hell out of me.
Speaker 1: So trans women athletes have been banned from the Olympics
Speaker 1: by a new IOC policy on female eligibility. Charles, tell
Speaker 1: me who's going to pay for this policy? It won't
Speaker 1: be trans women. No, we're not even in the game here.
Speaker 2: No sis women, sis women who don't fit in particular
Speaker 2: standards that they think.
Speaker 1: They should keep going, Like who tend to be, Oh.
Speaker 2: Who tend to be? Usually African women. They're just the
Speaker 2: black people. Let's just say black people.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's who this is actually gonna fuck. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: way more than trans people, because we ain't even playing right.
Speaker 1: There was not one in twenty twenty four. Not one,
Speaker 1: not one, no one. This new policy aligns with Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's Executive Order on Women's sports ahead of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight Los Angeles Games. Why are we following a
Speaker 1: man who shits in a diaper on a good day?
Speaker 1: On a good day? It is unclear this was ABC.
Speaker 1: How many, if any, transgender women are competing at an
Speaker 1: Olympic level. No woman who transitioned from being born male
Speaker 1: competed as a twenty twenty four Paras Summer Games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not that one. Exactly, goddamn one, exactly. Let's keep pointing
Speaker 1: that out.
Speaker 2: That's why they're going to come after SIS women, because
Speaker 2: they didn't have any actual trans women.
Speaker 1: To go after. Yeah, we now have a solution waiting
Speaker 1: for a problem. I guess, I guess. Yeah. This is
Speaker 1: such bullshit. Indeed, it's such bullshit. And of course it
Speaker 1: doesn't apply to men, and it doesn't apply to trans men, right,
Speaker 1: It only applies to transgender women and will adversely effect
Speaker 1: CIS gender women who have naturally higher testosteron levels. You
Speaker 1: will be affected, You will be you know, they just
Speaker 1: tortured to CIS women that they thought were trans quite recently. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but let's have a new policy, right for twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 1: just in case, just in case, maybe just in cases
Speaker 1: we never know or something. Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard did compete
Speaker 1: at the Tokyo Olympics in twenty twenty one without winning
Speaker 1: a medal. There's one five years ago. Oh dear god,
Speaker 1: who didn't medal? I don't know. Maybe she came in
Speaker 1: what fifth place? We're not allowed to do that either.
Speaker 2: We won't know because she didn't make it into her
Speaker 2: entire personality and tell us about it.
Speaker 1: Oh, here's one. Before the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics,
Speaker 1: three top tier sports track and field, swimming, and cycling excluded.
Speaker 1: Three top tier sports track and field, COMMA, swimming, Comma
Speaker 1: and cycling. They're the three excluded trans women who had
Speaker 1: been through male puberty. Samenya, who was assigned female at
Speaker 1: birth in South Africa and has high natural testosterone levels.
Speaker 1: One a European Court of Human Rights judgment in her
Speaker 1: years long legal challenge to Track and Field's rules, which
Speaker 1: did not overturn them. Mark my words, Sis, women will
Speaker 1: pay for this, and that's what we keep doing to
Speaker 1: each other and the turfs that fuel this shit. Don't
Speaker 1: you dare call yourself a feminist that part? Don't you
Speaker 1: dare anyhoror? A bill to track transgender Tennesseans has passed
Speaker 1: the House.
Speaker 2: For fuck's sake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, Tennessee lawmakers, with nothing better to do, want
Speaker 1: to track the number of transgender patients seeking gender firming care.
Speaker 2: Why thank you?
Speaker 1: Why? Amid a crowd of chanting protesters, the state House
Speaker 1: passed legislation that would compile data on trans Tennesseans. State
Speaker 1: troopers carried one protester out of the House Galley in
Speaker 1: accordance with rules against vocal protests. Mm hmm, yeah. It
Speaker 1: would also the bill expand healthcare coverage for people de transitioning.
Speaker 1: Now you want to spend money de transitioning, Yes, which
Speaker 1: doesn't fucking happen much and doesn't require funding. They'll expand
Speaker 1: and healthcare coverage for people de transitioning, of which there
Speaker 1: are so few if any, doesn't require anything but stuff anyway,
Speaker 1: and requires clinics to report who is accessing gender affirming care.
Speaker 1: Why on earth? The data, it says would be deidentified,
Speaker 1: meaning the reports would not include names, social security numbers,
Speaker 1: or geographical information. Don't trust that for a second. Collecting
Speaker 1: data gives us the ability to study trends, outcomes, and
Speaker 1: effectiveness of treatment without knowing who the patient is.
Speaker 3: Why? Why?
Speaker 1: No clue? Why see this? Jackass believes gender affirming care
Speaker 1: will eventually fall out of fashion, motherfuck, and it's so
Speaker 1: important to collect as much data as possible. I believe
Speaker 1: that we as a society are going to look back
Speaker 1: on this time that really burst out in twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: that's when you assholes started this shit and think, dear God,
Speaker 1: what were we thinking? This was as dumb as frontal lobotomies.
Speaker 1: This is representative Jeremy Fayson, naturally, a Republican from Cosby
Speaker 1: CSB y huh, no comment, Tennessee. Who was saying this.
Speaker 1: We're yeah, yeah, motherfucker literally yeah, we're going to look
Speaker 1: back on this time that really burst out in twenty
Speaker 1: fourteen when we so doesn't know history right at all?
Speaker 2: When is platforming know nothing? Sis had white men going
Speaker 2: to go out of fashion?
Speaker 1: I wish it would. God, dear God, when are they
Speaker 1: going to stop playing doctor with us again? I want
Speaker 1: to choose their doctors. I want to choose what healthcare
Speaker 1: they're allowed. And when I take away their Viagara, their
Speaker 1: wives will thank me profusely, although I'm not sure their
Speaker 1: boyfriends will be very happy about it.
Speaker 2: That part.
Speaker 1: A chaplain with the Tennessee Equality Project said she's worried
Speaker 1: about being tracked by a legislature that passed a record
Speaker 1: breaking number of bills rolling back protections for transgender Tennesseeans
Speaker 1: in the past few years. No shit, yeah, h yeah,
Speaker 1: get out of Tennessee. I got nothing better. Get the
Speaker 1: fuck out of Tennessee. If you are trans, let's talk
Speaker 1: about John Leithgale list gal life scale. How do you
Speaker 1: say that? I always said list gal.
Speaker 2: But terf apologist is how I've been saying.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that that works. Yeah, that's that's more. More
Speaker 1: to the point, he says that JK. Rowling's transfers have
Speaker 1: been twisted and misrepresented. The actor said he was very
Speaker 1: attracted to the job security of playing dumbled Door, so
Speaker 1: he will pretty much say anything, yeah to justify this
Speaker 1: decisions count who what was the world according to Garp
Speaker 1: where he played a trans woman, right, uh huh the
Speaker 1: twisting in the wind.
Speaker 2: He must have like a gambling debt or something because.
Speaker 1: He's kind of have money from Third Rock. I I
Speaker 1: refuse to believe this man is.
Speaker 10: Broke Third Rock fucking uh Dexter fucking like Broadway, Like
Speaker 10: why that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Apparently he doesn't feel valid in the world unless he's working,
Speaker 1: which and fuck standing for anything if it's a paycheck
Speaker 1: for him, right fuck an He kind.
Speaker 2: Of says that, yeah, like just be a whore man.
Speaker 1: He says he didn't know he didn't know lies. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm telling what he says, but I have he learned
Speaker 1: of her views he'd already committed himself to playing Dumbledore,
Speaker 1: so you have no spine? Still got to backdub the
Speaker 1: whole subject of Rallying's imputed prejudice. It came up after
Speaker 1: everything was already underway. I'd already said yes, I was
Speaker 1: urged to walk away, and I was not about to
Speaker 1: do that. Right, So you were bending over backwards to
Speaker 1: tell us why it's okay not to have a spine
Speaker 1: or stand for any goddamn thing in the right.
Speaker 2: I'm a sniffling bit. You lost money, just say that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Instead of going oh fuck and bowing out gracefully,
Speaker 1: you told the New Yorker the reasons to do so
Speaker 1: were much much stronger to stay than the reasons to
Speaker 1: protest against what Ralling has done, and said, I do
Speaker 1: disagree with much of it. Much of it I think
Speaker 1: has been twisted and misrepresented, and.
Speaker 2: Not the important parts.
Speaker 1: She has doubled down on it at her own cost.
Speaker 1: Is that a word salad? Or do I not know
Speaker 1: what a word salad is?
Speaker 2: And it's all wilted lettuce.
Speaker 1: Yeah. He did not specify which of her views he
Speaker 1: disagreed with or which he believed had been misrepresented, though
Speaker 1: he said he was surprised and disappointed by the tone
Speaker 1: of her social media post. Uh huh, so you do
Speaker 1: know what she's saying. He confirmed he has still not
Speaker 1: met Ralling herself, but was convinced to take the role
Speaker 1: by showrunner Francesca Gardner, who is a Potter fan since childhood.
Speaker 1: Uh huh m de motherfucker. Wow, what a sad whether
Speaker 1: he has played all these roles that were you know,
Speaker 1: he's played queer roles in the past, he's had a
Speaker 1: trans woman in the past. You know, that made him
Speaker 1: seem like an ally and a person who's supported us.
Speaker 1: But but not anymore. Not anymore. Of course, activists are
Speaker 1: calling for Boycott's the Potter franchise. He seemed to question
Speaker 1: whether her views are really so bad. He expressed confusion
Speaker 1: as to why rallys anti trans speech was a factor
Speaker 1: at all in fans support for the show after reading
Speaker 1: an open letter asking him to walk away from the project.
Speaker 1: In February, he told an audience at the Rotterdam Film
Speaker 1: Festival that Potter was a mediation of kindness and acceptance,
Speaker 1: and though he found her views ironic and inexplicable, he
Speaker 1: saw no trace of transphobic sensitivity in the series itself. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: as long as you don't anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love gay people, but Chick fil a is
Speaker 2: so delicious. That's what that sounds like to me.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: So yeah, fuck John, let's go. I used to be
Speaker 2: such a fan.
Speaker 1: The production of HBOS Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Speaker 1: has faced troubles beyond its creators. Anti transfuse actor Papa
Speaker 1: Tiju said he's received racist death threats for playing Potions
Speaker 1: teacher Severus Snape. The series first trailer dropped last week
Speaker 1: and quickly became the most view trailer in HBO's history
Speaker 1: for The Hollywood Reporter.
Speaker 2: So no one should be making Race's death threats. However,
Speaker 2: had you not sucked at the teat of the transphobic
Speaker 2: wizard writer, you wouldn't be in this situation. So I
Speaker 2: got nutting for you. Bruh, Right, log off, get a
Speaker 2: VPN something I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So fuck John lest goo Yeah, sorry, but fuck
Speaker 1: them in the you know, I don't. I don't have
Speaker 1: time for you. You know, you keep tossing your word salad.
Speaker 1: I guess, keep justifying you know something I don't. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. People did ask you to back away. In
Speaker 1: good conscience. And part of that is because of the
Speaker 1: roles you've played and you've made money based on, you know,
Speaker 1: portraying our community. But where the rubber meets the road,
Speaker 1: you say fuck off. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Next, I'm gonna speed through this because basically Rosanda Thomas
Speaker 2: aka Chili from TLC has donated to Trump's campaign wow,
Speaker 2: and liked a series of Maga posts online. But then
Speaker 2: she tried to say that she's not Maga, and she
Speaker 2: denied making the donations. I think it like came up
Speaker 2: to like a thousand dollars altogether.
Speaker 1: And and and her repost about Michelle Obama.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she reposted some conspiracy yeah right, really, Yeah, she's
Speaker 2: trying to act like, you know, I never said that ship.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden we realize she's been
Speaker 2: taking down her Instagram posts like we can't already we
Speaker 2: already saw it, babe, we already saw it. And then
Speaker 2: Cheryl st. James with Salt and Peppa came out in
Speaker 2: her defense. Right now, I think that is twofold one.
Speaker 2: She's already been problematic, Salt, She's already been problematic on
Speaker 2: her own. But just so happens TLC and Salt and
Speaker 2: Peppa and in Vogue are supposed to be going on
Speaker 2: tour together. Uh huh, So I believe that's what that's
Speaker 2: all about. So basically, Chili is fucking it up for
Speaker 2: everyone because people aren't going to go pay money to
Speaker 2: see y'all.
Speaker 1: So she posted, by the way, this thing that said
Speaker 1: that in nineteen ninety four, Michelle Obama was registered to
Speaker 1: vote as a man. And now she's saying, I'm not
Speaker 1: very computer savvy, bitch, So I'm looking for the repost button.
Speaker 1: I see all of these buttons are very close to
Speaker 1: each other. I was scrolling and my thumb hit the
Speaker 1: repost button.
Speaker 2: No, bitch, we've seen you dance.
Speaker 1: You are not that clumsy, So her thumbs are.
Speaker 2: So you're fucking it up for Tea bars, and you're
Speaker 2: fucking it up for in Vogue, none of whom have
Speaker 2: said a goddamn thing. And you're shitting on the legacy
Speaker 2: of left eye. Are you happy? Are you happy?
Speaker 1: Bitch? Uh? There's a question. So she keeps liking megaposts apparently,
Speaker 1: uh huh. But she's been scrubbing her Instagram.
Speaker 2: Like right, it's too late.
Speaker 1: There's screenshots exactly, including two liked posts relating to Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's twenty twenty four election victory yep circulated online. The
Speaker 1: posts were originally shared by the Atlanta News Instagram account
Speaker 1: atl Scoop, an account that she follow us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so maybe now we can have a new tour.
Speaker 2: We can have Chili and Nicki Minaj and Kanye and
Speaker 2: Stacy Dashkin MC or Nick Cannon, Nick motherfucking Canon, who
Speaker 2: now has more angry baby mamas than he has positive,
Speaker 2: positive accomplishments.
Speaker 1: I liked him, we all. Did I know he called
Speaker 1: Democrats the party of the kk K bitch before you
Speaker 1: were born, before any of us were born. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was then, and everybody switched places right because of civil rights? Yeah? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: did he forget he's black?
Speaker 2: I think I think he was part of that whole Does.
Speaker 1: He crossed that money threshold? Like, oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle.
Speaker 2: I think he's part of that new Negro population that
Speaker 2: think they're above race or something.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. You have convinced yourself that hundreds of years
Speaker 1: of history just didn't happen and or something or something.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's a Trump supporter.
Speaker 2: Nick Cannon can't keep his zipper or his mouth shut
Speaker 2: and he needs to work on both.
Speaker 1: Oh god, Okay, how many children does he have? Like
Speaker 1: nineteen fift eleven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got more kids than he's got brain cells apparently.
Speaker 1: M hm. Anyway, when't he married to what's her name?
Speaker 2: For a minute, Mariah Carey?
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's she's smarter than yeah.
Speaker 2: And and she came out with a song called get
Speaker 2: the fuck Out.
Speaker 1: Okay, good for her. One more. I know we're leaning
Speaker 1: in pop culture.
Speaker 2: But this is the dark side of pop culture.
Speaker 1: So it's in the right it is, it's in the
Speaker 1: right place. Okay. So the Last of Us is the
Speaker 1: series where dude from Parks and Red played a gay
Speaker 1: character and it was it was this one of the
Speaker 1: sweetest things, and I cried and you watched.
Speaker 2: It two times in a row, and they made me
Speaker 2: come and watch it.
Speaker 1: I did so I saw it at least three times
Speaker 1: and it was so moving. And apparently they have now
Speaker 1: shit the bed. Yeah, huh, okay, this hurts my heart
Speaker 1: because they have a non binary character, right, I think,
Speaker 1: And they played this wonderful, sweet gay love story and
Speaker 1: now what, there's all kinds of.
Speaker 2: Queer representation allegedly in the game that the last of
Speaker 2: us that the series is based.
Speaker 1: This is the character of Love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the character of a trans man, right, canonically, yes,
Speaker 2: who was in the in the game voiced and mo
Speaker 2: capped by a trans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's fabulous transman. But yeah, there's a We actually.
Speaker 2: Have an actor, yeah, who's familiar with the role, who
Speaker 2: originated the role.
Speaker 1: And it was based on right right? Right? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 1: uh huh.
Speaker 2: And they're casting as cis female to play Love. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The executive producer said she best embodied the character.
Speaker 2: Right, bad answer, because if she best embodied the character,
Speaker 2: then why did you Why did a trans man originate
Speaker 2: the role?
Speaker 1: And I'm never going to accept that argument. Right. This
Speaker 1: just isn't a disappointment over a single casting decision, but
Speaker 1: a statement made by a major franchise that represents a
Speaker 1: huge step backward in trans representation. While some will always
Speaker 1: argue that an actor's job is to portray something they're not,
Speaker 1: there are important reasons to have trans people represent themselves
Speaker 1: in media, from giving transactors a chance to break through
Speaker 1: when they might be denied CIS roles and so often are,
Speaker 1: to providing a more authentic portrayal based on a full
Speaker 1: and personal understanding of the trans experience. Trans Casting for
Speaker 1: trans roles should be the natural choice if you're going
Speaker 1: to tell our stories, right or keep us out your mouth.
Speaker 1: Don't tell our stories. If you're not even going to
Speaker 1: include us in the telling, how dare you? We were both?
Speaker 2: Ian Alexander, who's the original, is a non binary human,
Speaker 2: non binary transman.
Speaker 1: Okay, right, he's in that fabulous transman place. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's what I thought. Too often, marginalized communities are pushed
Speaker 1: out of the conversation about their own identities, whether it's
Speaker 1: in fictional works about their existence or in political discussions
Speaker 1: around access to healthcare. We might one day live in
Speaker 1: a utopia where trans people are so accepted as part
Speaker 1: of daily life that it doesn't matter who plays us.
Speaker 1: But with anti trans hate spreading globally and Trump's America
Speaker 1: being so unsafe for trans people, it's a crucial time
Speaker 1: for us to get to tell our own stories. Uh
Speaker 1: huh yeah, uh huh yeah, they aren't dry in their tears,
Speaker 1: I am motherfuckers. There are two major factors in the
Speaker 1: last of US TV casting that makes this move even
Speaker 1: more appalling. First, it truly felt like we were past
Speaker 1: this when it came to major productions. The last time
Speaker 1: we saw a genuine, good faith attempt to portray a
Speaker 1: trans character with a CIS actor was in Transparent with
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Tambour from twenty fourteen to twenty seventeen. Both the creator,
Speaker 1: Joey Soloway and Tambour himself, who didn't appear in the
Speaker 1: final feature length episode Jr. Was actual occasions have said
Speaker 1: that we need to move past CIS casting for trans roles.
Speaker 1: Uh huh yeah, and even Tambor said I would not
Speaker 1: be unhappy were I the last CIS gender male to
Speaker 1: play a female transgender person on television. The other factor
Speaker 1: came down to who played Lov in the video game,
Speaker 1: right that The Last of Us is based on, and
Speaker 1: the importance of their roles in trans representation and media
Speaker 1: as a whole. Ian Alexander voiced Lev in the game.
Speaker 1: Did the motion capture for the character so literally his movements?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? That sounds like embodying the character to me, thank you?
Speaker 1: And was the model for the character's appearance. Huh? So
Speaker 1: the character looks like Lev, but some CIS woman better
Speaker 1: embodies What the fuck are you even saying?
Speaker 2: This is called trying to play in our face, I.
Speaker 1: Must say they don't like Lev for some reason. I'm
Speaker 1: must say I don't know either Lev wouldn't fuck them
Speaker 1: or stopped fucking them or something like that. Now we're mad,
Speaker 1: right now we're mad. And suddenly we're going to just
Speaker 1: rewrite everything that makes sense because this doesn't make sense
Speaker 1: at all at all. Oh my god. As we moved
Speaker 1: out of the era where trans characters in mainstream media
Speaker 1: were either villains, offensive jokes, or both looking at you,
Speaker 1: Ace Ventura, uh huh, we moved into one where stories
Speaker 1: about trans characters focused solely on the character's transness. That
Speaker 1: was the case with the cis led films Trans America
Speaker 1: and The Danish Girl. Yeah yeah, it was still mostly
Speaker 1: the case when transactors got to play trans roles, such
Speaker 1: as Laverne Cox as Sophia Brissette in Orange Just the
Speaker 1: New Black. But then trans representation reached an exciting new
Speaker 1: point where a character could be trans not as a
Speaker 1: defining point of the character, but as simply a small
Speaker 1: facet right that was incidental to their narrative. And I've
Speaker 1: said that before. I love like Laverne showing up as
Speaker 1: a meter Maide right exactly, or the trainer or the
Speaker 1: best friend or whatever. Right, yeah, uh huh. Alexander was
Speaker 1: at the forefront of that, providing one of the most
Speaker 1: notable early portrayals of this sort of character in Netflix
Speaker 1: THEA in twenty sixteen. Since then, they've taken similar roles
Speaker 1: in everything from Star Trek Discovery to Moon Girl and
Speaker 1: Devil Dinosaur. By casting a CIS actor in the role
Speaker 1: of Love, the showrunners are not only failing trans representation
Speaker 1: in general, but taking trans representation back a decade while
Speaker 1: failing the source material and the trans representation icon who
Speaker 1: defined the original character. That's the hill they want to
Speaker 1: stand on. It's gross. It is it's gross. I mean
Speaker 1: what else I got. You know, we've talked about this before.
Speaker 1: We've talked about, you know, the nuance of a queer
Speaker 1: story or a trans story. You don't understand our lives
Speaker 1: just by studying us, and there are things that we
Speaker 1: would add to a portrayal that you don't begin to get.
Speaker 1: And then when people watch your movie you say stupid
Speaker 1: shit like it's really a universal story. No bitch, yeah
Speaker 1: that so I'm sorry to the actor and Jesus fucking Christ,
Speaker 1: all that HBO money and no goddamn sense, thank you.
Speaker 1: This sounds personal. This sounds like the showrunners at HBO
Speaker 1: are pettyfuckers for some reason. I don't know why, but yeah,
Speaker 1: there's the perfect person to play the character, the character
Speaker 1: literally designed around them, right, and you went, oh, no,
Speaker 1: this cis woman better embodies this character and you think
Speaker 1: that makes sense? Right, You can't possibly.
Speaker 2: I mean, that would have been a way to get
Speaker 2: so many people that are fans of the game to
Speaker 2: watch the show, because it's like, oh my god, they're
Speaker 2: the actual person is going to be in the show.
Speaker 1: You would think you would think, why don't we take
Speaker 1: a break. Okay, take a breath, have a breath mint,
Speaker 1: maybe a little scrub out, and we'll come back.
Speaker 2: And pop the culture with real pop culture.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, we'll be right back, and we're bad.
Speaker 1: We're so so. I've had the television on, yeah right,
Speaker 1: I'm up to date now on all of Chicago Dick
Speaker 1: Wolf's world in Chicago, which is Chicago MED, Chicago Fire Fire,
Speaker 1: and Chicago PD Chicago Pete. Yeah, uh so I'm all
Speaker 1: the way up to date.
Speaker 2: Wow, I know you plowed through Chicago.
Speaker 1: I plowed all the way through Chicago and a lovely
Speaker 1: trip it was. Yeah, So now I just it's a
Speaker 1: week to week thing for me, right, which I'll deal with.
Speaker 1: And I also went all the way through the Pit?
Speaker 1: Oh did you? Yeah? So I'm up to date on.
Speaker 2: The Pit now that show it's it's I get why
Speaker 2: it's it's being so well regarded and awarded.
Speaker 1: It's good. It's a little much. The first couple of episodes,
Speaker 1: we were like, you don't I thought we could eat
Speaker 1: in front of the television. That was not the case
Speaker 1: because it does get a bit graphic because it's on HBO.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there was one where the dude had priapism
Speaker 1: and we just watched them try to get rid of
Speaker 1: that direction for yeah, yeah, because HBO. So that you did,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like a stiff cock under
Speaker 1: those you know what I mean? Not sexual right, like
Speaker 1: oh poor thing.
Speaker 2: Right, poor thing, poor stiff baby.
Speaker 1: That's all you right kind of, that's all Like what
Speaker 1: else is there?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm all the way through the pit. Noah Wiley,
Speaker 1: who we came to love in Er many many years ago,
Speaker 1: is the head of the emergency department in Pittsburgh at
Speaker 1: a Pittsburgh hospital, and they call that the pit. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 1: I understand why it's been interesting.
Speaker 2: I did not watch it near as much as you did,
Speaker 2: but I get it. And you pointed out something that
Speaker 2: you know because I wasn't watching it regularly. Each season
Speaker 2: is one day, one day, so each episode is one hour.
Speaker 1: Of that day, yep.
Speaker 2: Which is a cool device.
Speaker 1: It is, Yeah, it is because it's literally a day.
Speaker 1: And then like from season one into season two or whatever,
Speaker 1: it was like three months had transpired, right, but then
Speaker 1: still it was one day from morning until And.
Speaker 2: That's not a new device like twenty four. That was
Speaker 2: the whole conceit of that show. But it's not one
Speaker 2: that you see that often. You do, you do, and
Speaker 2: it's hard to do well.
Speaker 1: It's interesting, especially when you're binging, right, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, hour after like you're right there with them
Speaker 1: on their shift, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it. The run You've got to
Speaker 2: have a situation where there's enough ship going on that
Speaker 2: you can parse it out hour by hour for an
Speaker 2: entire season, right, And you know, twenty four you got
Speaker 2: motherfucker's running from terrorists and ship and in the pit
Speaker 2: you got you're in the emergency department. So there's gonna
Speaker 2: be plenty of things happening.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah all of the time. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1: It's good entertaining. It's a diversion, you know, we all
Speaker 1: need them. Also, we're in season four of Shrinking.
Speaker 2: Yes, we finished season four Shrinking.
Speaker 1: Do we finished finish?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Wait, No, we haven't finished.
Speaker 2: We're caught up is one? There's two more?
Speaker 1: Two more? Oh ship? Yeah we are not finished, right,
Speaker 1: So I was going to say no that for finished,
Speaker 1: we came to early or something, because that was not
Speaker 1: satisfying at all.
Speaker 2: I love that show. I know it's funny. It is funny,
Speaker 2: and it's sweet. It is and it's on Apple TV.
Speaker 2: You should I recommend Shrinking. And Harrison Ford. Harrison Ford
Speaker 2: is killing it. His character is going through having Parkinson's
Speaker 2: fuck Parkinson's. And Michael J. Fox has made an appearance
Speaker 2: on the show, and I think it's his first time
Speaker 2: since his Parkinson has been manifesting as severely as it has.
Speaker 2: And yeah, he's just as charming as he has always been.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2: I do too, and I imagine playing that role has
Speaker 2: got to be cathartic as hell.
Speaker 1: For him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you know it gets to say fuck Parkinson.
Speaker 1: Parkinson's exactly. No, it's been good. I'm enjoying it. Two
Speaker 1: more to go. Yes, And I also discovered the Dip yes,
Speaker 1: which I want to say is on Netflix because I
Speaker 1: was looking in the preview and I saw Alice and
Speaker 1: Janny next to Bradley Whitford and I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, yes, please, Yeah, let's loot more of that.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting. It's interesting. I'm enjoying it again.
Speaker 2: It's seeing government when it's working or not or not.
Speaker 1: It's seeing how the sausage is made.
Speaker 2: Well, more importantly, seeing government when there's actual smart adults
Speaker 2: in charge of shit.
Speaker 1: Again that is alleged, Yes that there are at least
Speaker 1: some right. Yeah.
Speaker 2: M that's that's the ship I miss.
Speaker 1: I hear that. But there there's a little bit of
Speaker 1: you know, working for an idiot in there too. Oh
Speaker 1: so you get to seek. Yeah, it's it's well done,
Speaker 1: it's well written, it's well done. It's been interesting, and
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm actually good. Ok. Yeah, I forgot
Speaker 1: what the season I member I just ended. I think
Speaker 1: I've seen two seasons now. I think, wow, look at
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't really get to watch much anymore except
Speaker 2: what's playing on the television. When I happened to be
Speaker 2: sitting next to you, kind.
Speaker 1: Of because you your job is not what it used
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 2: I know, fucking busy man.
Speaker 1: You got you got, I got be doing ship. Yeah. Hey,
Speaker 1: one last thing we Yes, So this.
Speaker 2: Is fun because I was sitting and I was like,
Speaker 2: we haven't like, we have so many fellow podcaster friends
Speaker 2: and we haven't gone to visit them at their house
Speaker 2: in a while. So we're going to be guesting on
Speaker 2: the butter Song podcast. Yes, friend John, Yes, and we're
Speaker 2: going to be talking about Anything Goes.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So the question you post to me was name
Speaker 1: your favorite musicals? Right, That's all you gave.
Speaker 2: Me, right, because like sput, a song for each episode
Speaker 2: is about a different musical, whether it be a stage performance.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize it could be movies or a film,
Speaker 1: or films or movies or yeah, so I wasn't clear,
Speaker 1: but anyway I did. I did, and I stand by
Speaker 1: this mention Anything Goes as one of my favorite musicals
Speaker 1: because I love the coldport music of it all. Like
Speaker 1: you know it's music, you know, it's a light hearted
Speaker 1: funny story. You don't watch it really for the plot.
Speaker 2: And I was gonna say, and what a plot, right.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot, but it's it's just a fun
Speaker 1: musical that has stood the test of times since nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty four work when it was originally produced. Just a
Speaker 1: fun show. So we you know, we did record and
Speaker 1: had a blast. Was it was a really fun conversation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you've been listening to our show for a while,
Speaker 2: you have heard us promote the life Spuat of Song
Speaker 2: podcast on our show. So it was fun to go
Speaker 2: over there and play with John.
Speaker 1: For a little bit. It really was. I want to
Speaker 1: do that again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we will be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll find another musical to talk about, but some
Speaker 1: good side conversation and a lot of fun and a
Speaker 1: discussion of So we took the twenty twenty one right
Speaker 1: version of there. It was filmed on the West End,
Speaker 1: so it's a stage production filmed with Sutton Foster reprising
Speaker 1: the role she won a Tony four in twenty eleven. Yes,
Speaker 1: great cast, a lot of fun and that's what we
Speaker 1: watched and that's what we talked about. So while different
Speaker 1: productions have different orders of the songs, and some leave
Speaker 1: one out and some out. No, no, no, no, we
Speaker 1: The conversation we had was about that particular recording of
Speaker 1: the show, and it was really fun. Yeah and worth watching.
Speaker 1: I agree. Yeah. So if you've never seen anything goes
Speaker 1: look for because what was it on YouTube? There you go,
Speaker 1: it's on YouTube. Yeah I had fun, I did too,
Speaker 1: and we need more fun, no kidding, no kidding, because
Speaker 1: we never know is it Taco Tuesday? Or yeah? What
Speaker 1: the fuck is going on? Exactly? Well, while we could
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