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The Earthquake, the Eclipse, and the Gay Pop
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April came in and knocked the girlies down off their feet a little.
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Introduction and Community Engagement
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Thanks for listening to Gather Them Podcast.
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I am Jerome, the host, the showrunner, the writer, the engineer, all of those things.
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This is how I can grow my listenership and expand the podcast a little bit.
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And again, I appreciate everyone that listens.
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And let's get into the show.
Personal Reflections and Recent Experiences
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Hey y'all welcome back to another episode of gather them podcast I'm your host Jerome and we're back another week I have my window open and I might close it at some point I'm just letting this instant die out um
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I don't know.
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I've been burning incense a lot lately.
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I feel like it's been good in terms of like cleansing or representing cleansing for me.
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And so I've just been like, you know, burning incense, trying to feel more centered, more present and...
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you're not really supposed to breathe in and incense smoke, I guess.
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You're not really supposed to breathe in smoke, period.
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Like that's what you're not supposed to do, but that's why you're supposed to open a window.
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And so I, you know, could either put the incense out or I could close it, but we'll see.
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I mean, it's,
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kind of stuffy in here.
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I don't know.
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We'll see how the background noise gets.
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But yeah, so we're back.
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This is another week.
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Another episode of PopCast was not present last week, but you know what?
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Definitely going to make up for that.
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Last week was a lot.
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I just, I don't know what happened to me.
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I just felt like overwhelmed with
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Or just exhausted, mainly.
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Like, not so much overwhelmed, but exhausted.
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I felt very exhausted.
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Last weekend, from Thursday until basically Monday morning, like, I really... I was treating it like it was a weekend.
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And the funny part about it was the fact that it actually was not the week... Like, I did not have a four-day weekend.
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I had a literal two-day weekend like everyone else.
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But it was because of the fact that I just was so out of it.
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I don't know.
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I went to work Friday and I was like, I need to leave early today.
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Or I was, I asked to put my hours in, uh, cause we got some hours during social work month.
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Like that was one good thing that did come out of it, but it still could have been like a whole day.
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I'm just saying, um,
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We got a couple hours to leave early without using our time.
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And I thought that was great.
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Like, I mean, it's a like, it's one of those things where I'm like, it's a start.
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Okay, great.
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Cool.
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So I used my two hours and then I already had planned to leave early, but...
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It was like when Friday came, I just felt like doing nothing.
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It was hard to do anything, hard to get motivated.
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And I just was ready to leave.
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I was done.
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And I realized, the thing that I realized is that...
Drag Show Insights and Career Day Memories
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So last week was actually a really busy week for me.
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And in the sense that I had completed my grant writing project.
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So I completed that on Tuesday, April 9th.
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I had to turn it in early because Wednesday I went to a drag show called Snatcherella 3000, I believe it was.
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Snatcherella 3000.
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It was a drag show or a drag performance piece of basically the way it was modeled or I'll say it like this and I'm probably like I'm just really like naive when it comes to.
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drag and like what certain things are because especially when I'm coming into something and it's like season six um if the promo looks like WWE or like wrestling I'm gonna think that queens are gonna be jumping off the top rope like that's just me um me personally I'm gonna think that queens are jumping off the top rope but there was none of that none of none of the queens were jumping off the top rope
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I had a good time, though.
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Overall, it was a crowded space.
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It's Frankie Bradley's here in Philly.
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It's a nice spot, though.
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I love, I feel like Frankie Bradley's needs the
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Taboo treatment, because it's becoming the new go to spot.
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Don't want to get too distracted because I have to keep on time just because I have to do my own call shift, whatever.
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But I do want to just kind of talk about why I like have been just so tired or what made me realize that I was so tired.
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And so.
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Frankie Bradley's Cool Place.
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We'll definitely maybe talk about it more in a different episode.
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But because I am planning to go again for something soon.
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I know God is Gaga is tonight, but I'm not doing that.
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I am doing something else and I can't off the dome.
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I can't think.
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But anyway, I'm
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That's not the point.
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So we went to that Wednesday.
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It was really good.
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I forget who won.
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I think it was DJ... I forget the queen's name.
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One I wasn't familiar with, but she was good.
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I mean, I think, you know, Mandy Mango fucked it up, but that's just me being biased.
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Mandy Mango is that girl.
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But...
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Yeah, I thought it would be Queens jumping off the top row.
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And I was standing the whole time because there was really nowhere to sit.
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One of my co-workers offered me a seat because I went with two of my well, three of my co-workers, actually, because we were going to support Mandy, who used to be our co-worker.
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And so it was really nice to just kind of have a little outing and.
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uh support
Natural Phenomena and Weather Adjustments
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them and um be able to i don't know have some fun so that was great uh what else what else what else i don't know why i put this thing in my calendar i'm looking at something that's in my calendar right now and i'm like why was that in there okay but yeah sidebar so yeah i think that that between that those two things i think i was just really exhausted by the end of the week and i was just like
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Like I felt so I didn't feel creative.
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I didn't have any thought like there were no thoughts, no nothing.
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Like I just felt like I had to rest.
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And all I did was really sleep the weekend away.
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And I feel like it was a combination of that and then me anticipating my on call shift, which.
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Oh my God.
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I'm praying to God.
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It's just nothing.
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I hope nothing comes of it.
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I really do.
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I hope there's nothing like no one even thinks to Google.
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Like I don't want anyone to Google.
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I don't want anyone to have an exposure or if there is an exposure, I just want them to go to the ED.
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Like I don't want them to even call.
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Like that's just how I feel about it right now.
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Um, cause I got this stuff I gotta do this weekend that, um,
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You know, some stuff.
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I'll talk about some of it over the... Like, I got things in the works.
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I got some things in the works.
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So, you know, I already told you guys I was going to have Terrence on the show again.
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I'm going on his podcast for an episode, and I will let you guys know when Nat is out.
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But, yeah, I got some shit I got to do this weekend.
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I can't be, like, all... You know, and the shift ends Sunday morning, which is great because the, you know...
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I can still have time to do the podcast stuff, but it's just like just the anticipation of when the phone is going to ring or if it's going to ring.
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I don't think I've had a shift where it has not ring once, but I'm hoping that this is the one because some people get that shift where nothing happens.
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And I'm like, great, perfect, nothing.
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There's a lot of reasons I feel that way about the hotline, but you know.
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Whatever.
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What else?
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What else?
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Yeah, so that was last week.
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And then, you know, like I said, I have stuff coming up for this week.
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I will say I also had to change my panties multiple times this week when I got home.
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Because, girl, I mean, it was getting warm.
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Like, yesterday was a little cooler.
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But the beginning of the week was warm.
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And I was like, okay.
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it's the springtime weather and I walked home from work of course it takes you 50 years on the bus to get home um but I had to come home and change my outfits because I was like drenched in sweat like that's how bad it was
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Um, but I'm glad it is getting nicer out cause I'm sick of the cold.
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And, you know, with it being a little cold again, I'm like, uh, like I'm not ready to turn the AC on.
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I will say that like I will, first and foremost, I will say that I'm not ready to turn the AC on because the AC just is too much, um, in terms of money.
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And it's also nice to go outside and not have to
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Like, I like wearing layers.
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Like, that's the thing.
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I do like wearing layers outside.
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Inside, I don't really care.
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But... I mean, when I'm in my house by myself, I'll walk around naked.
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But... I stare at my own posterior.
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But... I don't know.
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It's just something about being outside where I, like, feel like... It's almost like extra protection.
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Um...
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That's just me.
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I don't really... I'm not really... Like, when I think about it, I'm not really the kind of person that's, like... I want to wear, like, really short shorts or... anything like that.
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Like, sometimes I think it'll be cute, but I feel like I don't like when people stare at me now.
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I feel like I would be getting way more attention then.
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And I just don't really want to do it.
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Like, I would have to be in the mood to do it, I feel like.
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But I like wearing clothes, clothes.
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But them jeans would stick into my thighs.
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Yeah.
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The drawers was wet and I just had to take them off and sit in front of the fan.
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First thing is I got in and I was just counting that as my exercise for the week.
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Cause I just was, I did it three days this week and I was like, yep, this is my exercise.
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Um, to be, to be, you know, announced when, if I did walk home Friday afternoon after work, actually, no, I won't be doing that.
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Cause I'm going to a training.
Cultural Reflections and Celebrity Impact
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I'm going to a training and,
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on friday well not a train it's like more uh it's like a presentation or a workshop i guess i don't know if it's like necessarily a training i guess it is a training because we get social work credits for it um which i had to remember that because it's time to renew the license already well next year well
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Jersey is August, so that's coming up.
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But yeah, and then the week before that, I just wanted to share a little bit, not too much.
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I did do the career day thing.
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Oh, before I even did that.
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So I did my prep presentation, which was Thursday before.
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The first Thursday of this month, whatever the fourth was.
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I think that was Thursday because the fifth was career day.
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So I did my presentation at work that was for HIV prevention, medication that I've kind of talked about before.
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It's my work.
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It's what I do right now.
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And...
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I felt like very, like up until the end, that's also another piece I think of why I felt completely drained because having done that presentation, and I think I did mention it on that week's show, was that I was working on it up until the end and I didn't know how it was going to go.
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But I got a lot of good feedback from that.
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And so I did mention that in that episode.
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But I think that was also part of that whole situation of why I felt like really drained, reflecting.
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Because I'm like, I did two really big projects.
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I did a project for work and a project for a course that I was taking, plus still doing stuff for the podcast.
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So I'm like, of course I was drained.
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That makes a lot of sense.
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I had no like creative thoughts, anything.
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but not too much because not too much on that.
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Cause like we already talked about it, but I did do career day and, um, career day, another big thing that I've been thinking about.
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So, uh, career day was really good.
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I think it was just interesting how there wasn't that many people, um, there that went to Bodine.
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Like that's where I went to high school, like shout out Bodine.
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Um,
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There weren't that many people that were like, there was like maybe one other person that I recognized that was in my class or knew from my class.
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But everyone else, I was like, I don't know who these people are.
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And it could have been other alumni.
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I just didn't know who they were.
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But they partner with a lot of the Friends of Bodine.
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They have this organization, Friends of Bodine, which I guess they help support the school and, you know, do different things.
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events and fundraisers and raise money and all of this and any other for um and it's like it's like friends of bodine and alumni or something like that so um i'm kind of like i felt good doing it i was nervous a little bit mainly because i was like i don't know what the fuck i'm gonna say
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But it did come together.
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And so I'll talk about that a little bit more when I do my episode when Alexis comes on.
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So I'm excited.
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I'm excited about that.
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But it did come together.
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Yeah.
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I was just thinking of, I was like, is there anything else I wanted to share about that?
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And I'm like, there is stuff I want to share, but I think I can also wait.
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I can wait.
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I feel like I can wait to share the stuff.
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I'm going to make y'all wait.
00:15:20
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That's like a geeky thing to make people wait over.
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The fact that I literally want to make you guys wait over fucking like a career day thing is insane.
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I'm going to close this window now.
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Hold on.
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okay that's better all right so um oh and there also was the earthquake thing i barely felt the earthquake um there's a lot of it's been literally like an earthquake and a clip and an eclipse since i've last done this podcast that's crazy um
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two like big, like actual science-y events like happened in between podcasts.
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That's crazy.
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Yeah, we had an earthquake on the career day.
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And then I felt it because we were, I was in the basement and it was so crazy because I was in my homeroom advisory for my 12th grade year.
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And we were like, I just, you know, we're talking or whatever.
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And I was talking, I think, and I was like,
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What the fuck is, like, what was that?
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But I was also thinking it was like a truck.
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Because sometimes I can feel, like, the vibration of, like, trucks when they go by.
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Or I'm used to it, like, going, like, walking down the street or across a bridge.
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Like, a drawbridge.
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And there's, like, that shaking from a truck.
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So I was thinking, maybe it's just a truck.
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Like, I don't know.
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Like, construction's happening all the time in Philly.
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I have no clue what the fuck's going on.
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And come to find out, it's like it was an actual earthquake.
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only a 4.8 and i don't think anyone got seriously injured i didn't hear anything about that part but um it was interesting because a lot of people was like is that was that an earthquake was that an earthquake and i just was kind of like maybe but we're still here so i was like so it really don't matter uh
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I think I'm ready for the rapture.
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I'm ready for the clouds to go ahead and crack the fuck open.
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I'm ready for that.
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And then we had the eclipse, which leading up to it, I already wasn't really looking for it.
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And then it kind of happened.
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And I'm like, maybe that also drained my energy a bit.
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The sun and the moon playing footsie a little bit like that.
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I don't know if it was that or...
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It could have been a combination of all those things.
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But I just was like out of it.
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And even leading up to the clips, I started feeling that like...
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like overwhelmed, just like off kilter, out of sorts.
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And last week I just felt very out of sorts.
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And that was, it was, it was a bad joint, but yeah, my experience just kind of leading up to it though, was just that, you know, I was like, okay, I'm watching these spiritual TikTokers and seeing people talk about the eclipse and how it's going to be very significant.
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It's going to make a shift and blah, blah, blah, next Y and Z. And, um,
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Then eventually I kind of fell off of it because I was like...
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I just want to see, like, you know, I just want to see what happens to myself.
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And I just want to know, like, who might have been the most right or, like,
Spiritual Events and Tragic News Discussions
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whatever.
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Like, I don't know.
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Like, I just feel like there is, like, because we know that the moon does control or, like, does influence.
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I'll say it that way.
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Influences the tides on Earth and water and the push and pull and things like that.
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And so...
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And people say it's not far-fetched for the moon to actually have, like for, like we know that sunlight does.
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Sunlight gives us vitamin D. It has an effect on us.
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The moon also has an effect on us probably because of the way in which it controls the tides of
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of the water.
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I feel like it, you know, there's other things that are probably going on too.
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But needless to say, there was a woman that killed her partner and threw her kids out of the car because she believed some TikTok nonsense about the eclipse.
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And I don't know how people can live their lives like that.
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Like, that's a lot to believe someone on open faith that
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about something that even if it were to happen, like, why would you want to kill them?
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Like, I don't, I don't, I didn't read the article completely.
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Cause I was like, this is crazy.
00:19:52
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Like, I feel like people like take spiritualism way too far and it never calls for that.
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Like, I don't think like, even if it weren't a, I don't know, even if it weren't a 10 commandment or against the law or whatever, like, I feel like,
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whether it's, you know, moral, whatever.
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I feel like it's just wrong to kill somebody.
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Like, I feel like that's kind of, that's fucked up regardless.
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So I don't think that there would ever be a situation where, um, a creator would say, I want y'all to just start killing each other.
00:20:31
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Like that's crazy, right?
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Like that feels crazy.
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And it's interesting.
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I'll talk more about this at the end of the show, a little bit more, a little bit more about what, uh,
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you know, about, uh, violence against other humans, you know, things like that.
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So, yeah, so it was a lot of, a lot of things.
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And also Dubai is, like, flooded right now.
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But that was also, like, part of, um...
00:21:01
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That was part of the government playing around.
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Didn't get to report other things last week.
Entertainment Industry Losses and Emotional Complexities
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Rest in peace, Chance Perdomo.
00:21:15
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He passed, sounds like from a vehicle accident, and he was very young.
00:21:21
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I didn't realize he was in his late 20s still.
00:21:23
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I feel like that thing about...
00:21:27
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Gen Z looking older than millennials or it's true because he looked like a millennial more so than he looked like he was in Gen Z. So that, that was a little odd.
00:21:38
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Um, or not odd, but it was just like, Oh, I didn't realize he was so young.
00:21:43
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Um, I mean, still would have been young, like if he was in his thirties, but, um,
00:21:49
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Yeah, like he was 27, and that's really sad.
00:21:52
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And just...
00:21:57
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I think they were doing or working on Gen V. I know they were working on another season of The Boys, but Gen V is also still in production or they're working on a second season because it was renewed.
00:22:17
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So I'm like, well, damn, that's like really...
00:22:20
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Fucked up.
00:22:20
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Again, not that, you know, that matters in the grand scheme of things, of course.
00:22:26
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It's just unfortunate because he is a, or was a young, a young actor.
00:22:42
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Yeah, he was a main character.
00:22:43
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That's sad.
00:22:44
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Oh, yeah.
00:22:48
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Yeah, that's a shame.
00:22:51
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Also, I guess also OJ Simpson died.
00:23:00
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I don't really know how to feel about that because, again, we believe he killed someone.
00:23:06
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We don't know for a fact that he did, I guess.
00:23:11
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But...
00:23:13
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I still feel bad.
00:23:14
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I mean, it's not like nobody.
00:23:16
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Here's the thing about death.
00:23:17
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Like death, death is one of those things where you're like.
00:23:22
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You don't really wish it on people.
00:23:24
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You don't really try to.
00:23:27
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I don't know, like you don't really try to.
00:23:31
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Be happy when people die and things like that.
00:23:34
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There are certain people that I think deserve it because they don't benefit humanity.
00:23:39
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I think that there are certain people that are.
00:23:43
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you know, that hindered society, you know, as a whole.
00:23:48
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And it's because of their own selfishness and greediness.
00:23:50
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I do feel like there's certain people that when they kick the can, I'm like, well, all right, bye.
00:23:56
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But it wasn't like he was just this person that was just doing all this like crazy stuff.
00:24:02
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So I don't know, like, or I don't really know much about him to feel any kind of way.
00:24:06
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Maybe that's what it is.
00:24:07
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But I was just kind of like, oh, well, that's unfortunate.
00:24:11
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But yeah,
00:24:15
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You know, if he didn't really kill someone.
00:24:18
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But either way, Caitlyn Jenner jumped in and was like good riddance, which was wild as shit.
00:24:23
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And the crazy thing is I was smacked as fuck when that came out.
00:24:27
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Because I thought... Like, when I woke up the next morning, I thought it was...
00:24:33
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I thought I made it up and I was just gagged.
00:24:37
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Like I was dying because I'm like, girl, not you of all people talking about some good riddance.
00:24:43
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Well, you actually fucking kill somebody.
00:24:46
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That's wow.
00:24:52
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Also shout out to Philly's drag queen, Safira, Safira Cristal, I think is her name.
00:25:03
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I have not watched this season.
00:25:06
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Hopefully she wins, though, because she's in the top three.
00:25:09
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When this comes out, of course, it'll be Friday.
00:25:12
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And by this point, Friday night, people will know who won.
00:25:19
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But hey, and then it's funny because the gays are like, grease the poles.
Cultural Impact of Media and Social Media Frustrations
00:25:24
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Because drag races basically are, and I say are, as in like...
00:25:30
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gay men, not mine, but like gay cultures, uh, version of football or sports in general.
00:25:41
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Um,
00:25:42
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Which is kind of funny because straight men do get into drag race.
00:25:46
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Even as I'm thinking in the top of my head, I know a couple.
00:25:51
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That's crazy.
00:25:55
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Because I do know a couple of my girlfriends that have said that their boyfriends have gotten really into drag race.
00:26:03
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And I'm like, really?
00:26:04
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I don't even get really into drag race.
00:26:06
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But it's the competition piece.
00:26:08
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They like the competition piece.
00:26:10
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um so i feel like if y'all like when people were talking about straight men using gay lingo i'm like maybe your man's watching drag race maybe that's what's going on under the covers or at their homies i'm not going anyway moving on um anyway but i will say also even if she don't win um
00:26:38
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shout out to the top three because they're all part of the northeastern part of the U.S. So, I mean, shout out to that, but go Philly, of course.
00:26:47
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All right, we are going to do a couple quick grind my gears.
00:26:52
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And these are just a couple things that have been bothering me over the past couple weeks or things that I've just kind of been thinking about long term and have not really said anything about or put pen to paper.
00:27:04
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But
00:27:07
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Oh my God, excuse me.
00:27:08
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My allergies are like really crazy.
00:27:11
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So if you hear me like wheeze or that mucus, that's what that is.
00:27:16
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It's not sexy at all.
00:27:18
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And I'm so sorry I can't do anything about it.
00:27:20
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But...
00:27:24
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The first thing that like really pissed me the fuck off when I thought about it this week was I went to click on someone's caption and Instagram because they had posted a link to a contest and it was for a Kate Bush vinyl.
00:27:41
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I believe it was.
00:27:43
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And it was being sold for record day in the UK.
00:27:46
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Yeah.
00:27:47
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And I didn't know if it was like a thing where you had to actually show up in store or if you could enter online.
00:27:52
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And so I went to click, of course, because you can click in like Facebook.
00:27:58
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Twitter, no one's really putting a link in TikTok, but like you can post or X, I guess you can post, um, an actual link, um, and then click on it.
00:28:11
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But whatever reason, Instagram has not fixed that feature or done anything about that.
00:28:16
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And so I went to the actual Kate Bush page and then went and clicked the link in the bio and
00:28:21
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got very confused as to what to do, and then found out it was in person anyway, which means you had to be in the UK, and you had to go on Records Day, which I think is Saturday, which would have counted me out anyway because I have to do a call.
00:28:36
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So I feel like with Instagram at this point, my biggest issue with them is the fact that
00:28:46
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Why the fuck can't you click a fucking link in a fucking caption?
00:28:50
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Why do I have to actually go to this person's page, scroll through, actually find within like the link within the link just to get to where I need to be?
00:29:03
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To see if I can answer this.
00:29:05
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Like, find out what the details are.
00:29:06
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Like, where the shit's going to be at.
00:29:09
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Like, when they're going to do the drawing.
00:29:10
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Like, why do I have to... And it'll be any article.
00:29:13
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Because I can do a research, like, search or whatever on them.
00:29:20
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Or I can see a thing come up for them.
00:29:23
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Like, the them is the name of the newspaper or the magazine or article.
00:29:31
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online for queer people.
00:29:34
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And it's a news source for queer people.
00:29:37
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And when I go to...
00:29:41
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look at their stories or when I look at their posts, they'll say, click on the bio for more.
00:29:46
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And then you click on the bio and then you have to go through like the different articles that have pictures to them.
00:29:52
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So the pictures I'm trying to like correlate them to the instant, what I saw on Instagram to make sure I click the right one.
00:29:59
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And then I have to also open it up inside of Chrome browser and
00:30:06
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So it's just like, it's too much, it's too many steps.
00:30:09
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It's not streamlined enough.
00:30:11
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And I think that Instagram has had enough time to go ahead and fix that and make that a thing and stop fucking up the algorithm and people...
00:30:21
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The hashtags and people not getting noticed.
00:30:23
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And like, I hate that you have to fucking pay to get noticed on these apps now.
00:30:28
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That's the only way because I used to get so much engagement.
00:30:31
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And that's how I got a lot of my followers in the past and friends that it was through that engagement of people.
00:30:39
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connecting people or connecting with people, um, that were like-minded or, um, getting to know people or make internet friends was through the different ways in which I was able to showcase my art and, um,
00:30:59
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Or my life, like whether it was just like a regular picture where I thought I look good or if it was something that like a photography photo.
00:31:05
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And I just feel like now it's like you got to literally pay per day, like per post, how many days you want it to run and like who do you want it to reach and all of this and that.
00:31:17
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And also, too, then people also don't like everything on Instagram anymore because, you
00:31:24
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The algorithm is the one thing.
00:31:26
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And people also will only really like your photos if they're photos of you looking like flexing or doing something that is just like very regular, like people just be doing.
00:31:42
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Like it's not like I feel like we have just like we've been in flex culture for so long and I'm actually very sick of it.
00:31:50
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Two, that can be another rant for a different day.
00:31:54
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Yeah, those posts are the only posts that really get noticed and or get any engagement or any likes, like if you're shirtless or if you're, you know, dialed up and all the way dressed up or if you're flexing with a car and a chain and all this and that like those things get likes.
00:32:13
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But I feel like.
00:32:15
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Or if it's comedy and, you know, it goes viral or whatever.
00:32:18
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Like, but again, I feel like in order to go viral with anything that's not automatically off the rip appealing, like if you have to actually put on a skit and, you know, whatever, it's a lot harder, it feels like, to go viral now or get some kind of like notice.
00:32:36
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Or attention.
00:32:37
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That's why I don't be worrying too much when I be on X and I be talking about Nicki Minaj or something and I'm criticizing her and I'm like, the Barb's could eat me up right now, but they probably won't see this.
00:32:50
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So...
00:32:51
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I guess that's the good and the bad, the gift, the curse, whatever.
00:32:55
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I also want to say I'm just sick of interviewing.
00:32:57
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I hate having to, I'm like just becoming sick of
Job Market Challenges and Gaming Nostalgia
00:33:01
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these jobs.
00:33:01
Speaker
Like I'm tired of working a nine to five.
00:33:04
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I'm really tired of feeling like you have to prove you're enough for a position just for them to pay you crap anyway.
00:33:15
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Like, I don't like that.
00:33:18
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And I don't like that in current jobs.
00:33:19
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Like, I don't like in current jobs where you have to constantly, like, keep, like, performing at, like, your top max in order to get some kind of, like, acknowledgement or award or recognition for what you're doing.
00:33:39
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When it's exhausting to live in this world right now and every day is different, like not every day you're going to be at your best.
00:33:45
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Not every day you're going to have like this burst of ideas or the executive function to do stuff.
00:33:51
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You're literally just trying to get by like most of the time.
00:33:56
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And when a job don't pay me enough, I already start to like...
00:34:00
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clock out, like, in my brain.
00:34:02
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Because I'm like, okay, there's only but so much I can give you because I'm still worried about the fact that my needs are not met all the way.
00:34:11
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You know, the fact that I got, you know, as soon as I get a paycheck, it's going to all go to rent or I'll go to my car and I'm going to be, like, struggling for the next couple weeks.
00:34:21
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Like, I'm not, you know, like, it's just one of those, I can't give myself, like, all of myself to something that's not
00:34:29
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giving all of itself to me.
00:34:32
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And that's something I think I realized over the past year.
00:34:37
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I think I always knew it and I've done it to some capacity, but I feel like I'm getting a lot better at it and like saying what I have capacity for and what I don't.
00:34:46
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And I,
00:34:48
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And when it comes to interviewing, I'm like, I can tell you all the things I do, all of the experience that I have, how I've handled certain situations, a lot of which I have to make up off the fly because it's hard as crap to come up with a...
00:35:05
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Like, it's really, really fucking hard to come up with an example of something when you don't really know what the questions are going to be.
00:35:12
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And the thing is, is like, you can always prep for an interview, of course, and have cases and scenarios lined up.
00:35:20
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But sometimes you get curveball questions.
00:35:23
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And sometimes those curveball questions are things like,
00:35:27
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When you had a disagreement with a supervisor, tell us about it and what happened.
00:35:32
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You don't want to put one like your worst fucking front.
00:35:35
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And of course, no one's going to... I mean, no one that really knows anything about interviewing is going to shoot themselves in the foot and give an example that is nuanced or one that doesn't really sound... That sounds worse than what it is or it sounds worse...
00:35:57
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because you're trying to explain the disagreement.
00:36:02
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And it's like, because there's one example I could have used.
00:36:06
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And I just was like, this is going to sound crazy.
00:36:10
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If I say it out loud, it's not going to, because there's too many players.
00:36:13
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It's not just me.
00:36:15
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And also the thing was not my fault.
00:36:17
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Like, so, you know, trying to explain that and how I got looped into it in the first place would have been wild.
00:36:25
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And then like,
00:36:27
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It just would have took too long.
00:36:28
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So it's very hard to do that and be prepared.
00:36:33
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And I just don't like when jobs are like, okay, you're great.
00:36:36
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Or people in general, I don't like when they're like, you're great.
00:36:39
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Like, you're amazing.
00:36:41
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Like, you have so many good qualities and, you know, X, Y, Z, and you have this experience that's really great, but it's just not what we're looking for.
00:36:49
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And I had that experience recently with a job where I just kind of like,
00:36:54
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ate it.
00:36:54
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And I was like, okay, like, you know, just tell me how I could have done better.
00:36:58
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Of course, one of the things that comes up is not having supervisory experience.
00:37:03
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And it's, again, it's like, well, if I'm telling you, I'm literally overseeing a bunch of people, I'm checking in, I'm seeing if things like boxes are crossed, X's are crossed, T's are dotted, or I are crossed, I's are dotted.
00:37:20
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If I'm doing all of that stuff, then
00:37:25
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And also being like, if I'm telling you I'm skilled at a lot of different things, I can oversee and navigate a program more.
00:37:37
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But I feel like you can easily transfer that to being a starting supervisor because I feel like a lot of supervisors aren't great anyway.
00:37:48
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And so I personally just feel like
00:37:53
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When someone says something, when it's like, oh, we didn't tell you, you know, you're great and we're really impressed with your qualities and blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:38:00
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But like, you know, you don't have supervisory experience.
00:38:04
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That doesn't mean anything to me.
00:38:05
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That doesn't mean, again, it's like, how do people even get experience if you don't get experience?
00:38:12
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Like it's a catch 22 of there's past jobs where I could have, I've tried to get the experience of becoming a supervisor, but those opportunities are,
00:38:24
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were either snatched away because of funding or, you know, the position, like, the person was never going to leave.
00:38:35
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Excuse me.
00:38:40
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The money wasn't great.
00:38:41
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Like, I tried to do it, and I really could have had a supervisory position.
00:38:46
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And I really tried to do it.
00:38:50
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One of the previous times I interviewed and got a job and all of this and the other, but the money that they were going to give me was just shit.
00:38:59
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Like, I'm not going to take $1.90 more than what I'm getting now just to do more work and oversee people.
00:39:07
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Like, I'm not going to do that.
00:39:09
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That's literally stupid.
00:39:11
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Like, why would anyone do that?
00:39:13
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So, and they're like, well, we have all these rules, blah, blah, blah, like, whatever.
00:39:18
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Maybe I'll talk about it on my tell-all, but like, it just...
00:39:22
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And I talk about tell all like as if I'm somebody, but I'm just meaning like in the podcast world, like maybe I'll tell it one day when I'm out, but I
00:39:33
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Girl, it's just like, I just don't understand what people will be looking for when it comes to, like, candidates sometimes.
00:39:42
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Because if I'm telling you I have the experience of doing X, Y, and Z, and that I'm curious and I'm interested to learn and I'm a quick study and I'm willing to jump in if things go left or, like...
00:39:55
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somebody doesn't show up to work where we have we're short staff like if i'm telling you all these things that make a good manager like why would you not it's almost like you want to hire a bad manager then because a bad manager is going to be like well we're short staff but i'm not doing it so whatever like and that's how most of these jobs have worked and then the the burden falls on the other workers who then quit so i just be like well maybe it just wasn't for me
00:40:25
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And that's fine.
00:40:25
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Let me drink a little bit more water.
00:40:30
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Might have been that instant that tried to take me out.
00:40:33
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Another thing that grinded my gears this week was the fact that the NES, the NAS emulator, was uploaded to iOS store, but was taken down in fear of... I guess the developer was just afraid that they were going to get in trouble.
00:40:50
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And it's not so much that, because I get it.
00:40:54
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I mean, why even put it up in the first place?
00:40:56
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My question is like...
00:40:59
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I don't know.
00:40:59
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I guess I do stuff like that too, where I think it's a good idea and then I backtrack.
00:41:02
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But, um, I don't going in knowing that like legally, I don't own these games.
00:41:09
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I feel weird about putting this on and on the app store.
00:41:12
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Like, why would I do that?
00:41:14
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Um, that to me is, is the part where I'm like, all right now, but the part with, um,
00:41:24
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the part that I'm really like annoyed with is the fact that we actually even need emulators because, or like that someone would have that fear of having to upload an old gaming, you know, games or whatever, or emulator for Game Boy, whatever it is.
00:41:43
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Because the fact of the matter is, is that there's a lot of old games that people want to play right now that aren't getting remastered.
00:41:50
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And also that aren't,
00:41:54
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that won't play on a modern game system.
00:41:58
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And people, like, we live in, like, houses, okay?
00:42:03
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Like, you're selling to people that live in houses, apartments, maybe you're sharing a, you know, room, maybe sharing a house or whatever because, you know, no one can live on their own now.
00:42:18
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And I think it's, like, very unrealistic to expect people...
00:42:23
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I mean, people do it.
00:42:24
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People keep buying new game systems and they keep buying the new games and all of this and that.
00:42:29
Speaker
But you can't expect that a game from like 20 years ago is going to...
00:42:38
Speaker
Like someone's not going to want to play it.
00:42:40
Speaker
Like someone's going to like I get the urge all of the time to play X-Men Legends.
00:42:45
Speaker
And I sold my GameCube and I am like I still have the game, but I'm like reeling because I really want to play the game.
00:42:53
Speaker
But I don't have the GameCube anymore.
00:42:56
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But also, I'm just like, I'm not going to fucking plug.
00:42:59
Speaker
Like it's impossible to plug a GameCube in almost now with these new TVs.
00:43:04
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I mean, there's still the function to do it, but the graphics look terrible.
00:43:09
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Everything just looks terrible.
00:43:10
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So I'm like, well, the only other thing I could think to do then is to do the remasters or let people make these emulators and improve the game.
00:43:20
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But these companies want to make subscription services and they want to like.
00:43:25
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make you buy a subscription service to play a game.
00:43:27
Speaker
But then it's like the game is not even available.
00:43:29
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Like the one that you actually won is not available because they haven't put it on there yet.
00:43:35
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And then you have to just sit around and wait.
00:43:37
Speaker
It's just too much.
00:43:38
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Like, I don't, I don't like it.
00:43:40
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And I just feel like, I feel like with games out of all of the media that exists, I just feel like,
00:43:51
Speaker
It should be free.
The Art and Impact of Music and Film
00:43:55
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Like an old game after a certain amount of years should just be when it no longer works for a system.
00:44:01
Speaker
Like literally, like if you can't plug in your PS5 and play your PS1 game, then your system literally like you need to be able to like just be able to buy an emulator and play the game.
00:44:15
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Like, I'm sorry, you know, that.
00:44:18
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It's unfortunate that technology moves in that way, but also that's unfair to the fans that initially brought the shit and that technology is moving in the way that it did or the way that it is right now.
00:44:33
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So to me, it does not make sense.
00:44:38
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I mean, sorry, so sad.
00:44:40
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You can, of course...
00:44:42
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Any other media, like you can buy a book, you can buy an actual game.
00:44:47
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It's the console that's the problem.
00:44:49
Speaker
And you're going to want that they keep making new consoles for new games.
00:44:54
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Like they keep making new games for new consoles, I should say.
00:44:57
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But...
00:44:58
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And you're going to want to play those new games.
00:45:00
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So you're going to want to buy the new console.
00:45:02
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And then you're not going to keep the old console forever.
00:45:05
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Because it's like, where do you even put it?
00:45:08
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Unless you have the space to actually put it somewhere.
00:45:11
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And then the graphics look terrible.
00:45:13
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The play is a little, like, eh.
00:45:17
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Like, it's meh.
00:45:17
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Like, it's not that great.
00:45:19
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And when you're thinking of, like, these future games.
00:45:23
Speaker
You know, when I was playing, I was playing Mario...
00:45:27
Speaker
Sunshine and before I sold my GameCube and I was just like the play on this is weird like it is very weird I don't know how I played it played on this before I think it's like learning the controller again but even the like I was excited going in to play it but even the gameplay I was just like all right I kind of want there's other things you can do like
00:45:54
Speaker
I don't know, like run faster or do more like stunts, more tricks, more whatever.
00:46:01
Speaker
Like the fact that I'd be playing Batman, I'd be like really lost playing a game, not knowing what to do.
00:46:07
Speaker
And...
00:46:11
Speaker
like, I can, there's only, like, three things you can do on, like, Mario Sunshine.
00:46:17
Speaker
It's just so, it's not as fun.
00:46:20
Speaker
Like, it's not as fun.
00:46:20
Speaker
And I know it's a different caliber of game, whatever, fine.
00:46:24
Speaker
But I just feel like with these newer games, you can do more because there's more control options.
00:46:29
Speaker
And that's why I would love remasters, but the continuity between game systems and...
00:46:40
Speaker
And gaming just doesn't make sense.
00:46:44
Speaker
And I don't really know of a good way...
00:46:48
Speaker
to fix that especially when it comes to the owning piece because if streaming goes away or if the internet dies then there's no way to get those games like you just have to eat that you know we were talking about that today at my job but like about the uh we're overdue for solar flare and if it knocks out all the internet like yikes we are pretty fucked here on earth but moving on um
00:47:18
Speaker
Oh, also, lastly, the last thing that I have was just stop touching your faces and your bodies.
00:47:25
Speaker
I saw a photo of Megan Fox and she just looked like some regular old somebody like anybody.
00:47:33
Speaker
And I don't like that.
00:47:34
Speaker
I feel like plastic surgery just starts to take away the things that make people unique.
00:47:38
Speaker
And I want people to stop fucking doing that bullshit.
00:47:42
Speaker
All right, so we're going to move into the Media Lab.
00:47:47
Speaker
And before we even get into the Media Lab real good, I just want to sidebar real quick and say that...
00:47:56
Speaker
Cowboy Carter is still such a good album.
00:47:59
Speaker
Like, I feel like it's taken me so much time to move through the album because the fact that the first half, like up until Spaghetti,
00:48:12
Speaker
Like, not even then.
00:48:13
Speaker
Like, I feel like once the first half or first, like, arc or part of the song is—or songs are done from, like, American Requiem to My Rose—or, yeah, My Rose, and then the interlude of the Willie Nelson Smoke Show or Smoke Hour.
00:48:34
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:37
Speaker
there's like, wow, that's a lot to sit with.
00:48:40
Speaker
And then you go into a different story or a different theme of the album.
00:48:45
Speaker
And then by the time I got to spaghetti, I'm like, Beyonce, like I, there's a lot to hold.
00:48:51
Speaker
There is a lot to hold in this album.
00:48:54
Speaker
And, uh,
00:48:56
Speaker
There's songs that are really standing out to me that did stand out before, but they're really catching my attention now, and I'm like, wow, this is making me feel some kind of way.
00:49:08
Speaker
Like, emotional.
00:49:09
Speaker
And so I just wanted to say that.
00:49:12
Speaker
And I also feel like because this album is just so long, I feel like we're not getting at three until 2027.
00:49:18
Speaker
I really...
00:49:20
Speaker
really feel like Beyonce's like, y'all need to just sit with this shit first, and then we're going to get into the rock bag.
00:49:28
Speaker
And I'm okay with that.
00:49:30
Speaker
She's giving a lot, so I'm not rushing.
00:49:34
Speaker
The first thing I did want to talk about, though, in the Media Lab was Courtney Love's
00:49:38
Speaker
Yeah, Courtney Love's interview.
00:49:43
Speaker
I didn't get to actually complete the article, but the little excerpts I saw to talk about it lead me to...
00:49:57
Speaker
believe that, you know, her point and all of like what she was saying in her interview was that, because I read some of the first half of it.
00:50:06
Speaker
And the point was that, at least this is what I'm, you know, hypothesizing based off of what I've already read, is that she does think about music and the way of
00:50:25
Speaker
impact.
00:50:27
Speaker
So she does have her favorites.
00:50:28
Speaker
She does have the people that she listens to.
00:50:30
Speaker
I know she said she listened to Lana Del Rey and Lana Del Rey needs to go on like a seven year break before making another album, which I actually agree on.
00:50:39
Speaker
Like that's
00:50:41
Speaker
I think she's pretty much right.
00:50:43
Speaker
Lana's put out the last couple projects have been just okay to me.
00:50:47
Speaker
In the grand scheme of things, Norman fucking Rockwell, that album was her top album.
00:51:02
Speaker
I don't really know how to explain it.
00:51:05
Speaker
I mean, outside of the fact that
00:51:09
Speaker
It's her most interesting.
00:51:11
Speaker
I think it's her most interesting one that balances.
00:51:14
Speaker
It's a good balance between what she's doing now and what she was doing before.
00:51:19
Speaker
It feels almost like if.
00:51:23
Speaker
Born to die.
00:51:26
Speaker
If her character in that.
00:51:30
Speaker
album that she was like this Lolita and like portraying this like vulnerable girl like really decided to put her panties on and like
00:51:42
Speaker
be like, no, this is, you know, what the shit is.
00:51:44
Speaker
And, you know, there's still those moments of like uncertainty or like about, you know, relationship or, you know, whatever.
00:51:51
Speaker
But overall, like it's a stronger album and Born to Die is always going to be one of my favorites.
00:51:58
Speaker
But when I listen to Norman fucking Rockwell, it sounds way more like, whoa, like,
00:52:05
Speaker
Lana, like this Lana is not a victim.
00:52:07
Speaker
This Lana is telling her truth and this Lana is still experimenting with some really big...
00:52:20
Speaker
some really big like ideas and, you know, instrumentation and structuring and all of this.
00:52:26
Speaker
And I feel like the only song I didn't like when there was the cover, I'm doing time.
00:52:30
Speaker
It's not a bad song or anything.
00:52:31
Speaker
I just don't care for it in the sense of like the space of the album.
00:52:35
Speaker
Like it feels like it was like a thing you just throw in there.
00:52:41
Speaker
It does give Cali vibes.
00:52:42
Speaker
And that's what the album does give.
00:52:44
Speaker
The album does give California vibes immensely.
00:52:48
Speaker
I think.
00:52:50
Speaker
But back to the article.
00:52:53
Speaker
So I do agree with that.
00:52:56
Speaker
I also, you know, when she said that she, I guess was asked because she's creating a podcast about talking about her love of women in music and music.
00:53:12
Speaker
She already knew that everyone was going to be upset and, you know, or that they are upset with her voice and her opinion.
00:53:20
Speaker
But, you know, why she doesn't really kind of give a fuck because she's all like made a career out of being unlikable.
00:53:28
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:29
Speaker
Which is funny because I feel like she's still likable to me because I feel like I kind of get her point.
00:53:36
Speaker
And so she was talking about the idea in this interview about the idea of dominating in the music industry and the music scene and what that looks like.
00:53:48
Speaker
And I feel like dominating is a very broad term because I understand what she means in the way of
00:53:58
Speaker
Taylor Swift is dominating because she has the draw.
00:54:01
Speaker
She has the pull.
00:54:02
Speaker
She has the cells.
00:54:04
Speaker
She's really popular.
00:54:06
Speaker
She's really, you know, I mean, she's not super interesting.
00:54:11
Speaker
I have a theory behind that, but she's not like the girl that's like breaking or making this like lasting impact that is
00:54:24
Speaker
culturally significant now like not to compare her to a Beyonce but Beyonce like I've talked about before seems to be striving for a Michael Jackson status of being a household name being a person that does not defined that's not defined by a genre of music and that is
00:54:54
Speaker
willing to collaborate with a bunch of different people to make her actual vision come true.
00:55:01
Speaker
Like she's an actual artist, artist, you know?
00:55:06
Speaker
And so I feel like I get her point.
00:55:11
Speaker
Like I get like that, that, that thing, like some are like some artists are, some artists are talented and other artists are talented, but creative.
00:55:24
Speaker
if that makes sense.
00:55:25
Speaker
Like, not to shit on, you know, y'all faves too much, but there's artists that are talented, and that are talented and can put together good lyrics and, you know, impactful words and, you know, blah, blah, blah, and then, you know, X, Y, Z. But, like, I ultimately feel like the best artists are the ones that break the...
00:55:50
Speaker
they break everything that we know down and create something new or to create something new.
00:55:56
Speaker
I feel like that's kind of the point of life is nothing lasts forever and everything changes.
00:56:04
Speaker
And I feel like an artist that is able to, um,
00:56:10
Speaker
like create their own genre or create a space in a genre that wasn't really there before, no one really noticed or something.
00:56:21
Speaker
That stuff feels like very culturally significant for people versus, you know, just singing or twerking on stage or whatever.
00:56:30
Speaker
Like that's not as impactful.
00:56:33
Speaker
Like I think that
00:56:37
Speaker
this is going to be a big one.
00:56:38
Speaker
But I feel like Taylor Swift has outlasted a lot of people.
00:56:43
Speaker
And that is the one thing I will give her credit for.
00:56:45
Speaker
And I think the fact is that, like, why she's been able to do that is because of how regular she appears.
00:56:56
Speaker
Like, she's very plain Jane, like,
00:57:01
Speaker
She, I mean, they always told her as a Southern girl, but she's from fucking Pennsylvania.
00:57:06
Speaker
Like, bitch, I'm from fucking Pennsylvania.
00:57:10
Speaker
Really from Maryland.
00:57:10
Speaker
I'm a little bit more Southern than her, but I live in Pennsylvania.
00:57:16
Speaker
But it's like, yeah, that's not Pennsylvania.
00:57:20
Speaker
So I feel like with her, like, you know, when an artist like that, it's like people have already connected to her.
00:57:26
Speaker
She's like this girl that lived in a small town and she, you know...
00:57:33
Speaker
sings about, like, the things she sings about, I don't really know, outside of, you know, love or whatever.
00:57:40
Speaker
I don't really know all the things she sings about.
00:57:42
Speaker
But I think there's something because of how, like, she's just...
00:57:50
Speaker
That, like, she's not, like, trying to be over the top.
00:57:54
Speaker
She's, like, more so being herself, which is a regular white girl.
00:58:00
Speaker
Um, not to make it too much about race, but, I mean, it kind of, sort of is.
00:58:07
Speaker
I feel like people connect with that.
00:58:08
Speaker
And that's why a lot of Black people don't maybe connect with her as much.
00:58:11
Speaker
Because I don't often hear Black people say, turn on that new Taylor Swift joint or let's listen to Taylor Swift.
00:58:17
Speaker
We kind of be like, all right, we let y'all have her.
00:58:22
Speaker
And there are songs I've heard that I feel like everyone likes.
00:58:27
Speaker
There's at least one that people like.
00:58:30
Speaker
But overall, I feel like she appeals to a lot of kids, a lot of young adults.
00:58:41
Speaker
She's a lot of older people that are conservative, crazy conservative.
00:58:47
Speaker
She appeals to a lot of people.
00:58:49
Speaker
And so I think that the point is that she is...
00:58:55
Speaker
That, you know, her being plain and basic is the thing that makes her famous or that keeps her famous.
00:59:03
Speaker
Because it's not like she's... Now, I've been seeing Coralie Red.
00:59:08
Speaker
Coralie... Coralie Ray?
00:59:11
Speaker
Coralie... I don't know.
00:59:12
Speaker
But I've been seeing her on my... And I had to literally... Like, I was getting to the point where I have to, like, block her name on X. But they keep showing me photos.
00:59:23
Speaker
But...
00:59:25
Speaker
and videos about her.
00:59:28
Speaker
Um, and she's just like, I don't know, this whole like shift and like trying to create a new image, but the image is what everyone else is doing.
00:59:38
Speaker
And, you know, people are like, this is not what she's really done before, which doesn't, I mean, I've seen the one video with her, Nicki Minaj, and just kind of knowing a little bit about her, um, from what I've heard on like podcasts and things like that.
00:59:55
Speaker
It's like, when you start following people, I feel like that's when you really just start to
01:00:05
Speaker
not be memorable and i think a lot of people and i might have said this a few weeks ago but i think a lot of people aren't special and i think that a lot of people are and that's okay like that's literally fine like not everyone needs to be special i want to say that before i move on but like sometimes it like it really is like sometimes life is just life like
01:00:31
Speaker
I think, you know, there are people that do stand out more than others, but I think some people are.
01:00:38
Speaker
And that's fine.
01:00:39
Speaker
I think we've got, that's why I feel like we're over, or I'm over, like, celebrity culture and, like, over...
01:00:49
Speaker
consumerism and capitalism and all of these things because it's all empty.
01:00:54
Speaker
Like, it doesn't really showcase anything.
01:00:57
Speaker
Like, sure, you have a car.
01:00:58
Speaker
Sure, you have money.
01:00:59
Speaker
Sure, you have nice clothes, whatever.
01:01:01
Speaker
But are you a good person at the end of the day?
01:01:05
Speaker
And I think that does resonate with people when they see Taylor Swift.
01:01:09
Speaker
Like, yeah, she is a rich person, but she also has this very regular appearance and does not, like, larger-than-life
01:01:17
Speaker
Kind of thing that like Beyonce goes for more so.
01:01:23
Speaker
But I feel like Beyonce has to do that in order to be.
01:01:27
Speaker
Because, again, she has to be.
01:01:32
Speaker
Us like defining staple or make carve out her space.
01:01:36
Speaker
And also Beyonce's been around a lot longer.
01:01:39
Speaker
Like, I think the thing too about Beyonce and why we don't really, I don't know if we will see another Beyonce in this lifetime is because of social media, because of labels ruining everything.
01:01:58
Speaker
the industry for corporate greed and different things like that.
01:02:05
Speaker
And so I don't know.
01:02:06
Speaker
I really don't know.
01:02:07
Speaker
But, and not everyone can be a Beyonce.
01:02:10
Speaker
And that's my point.
01:02:11
Speaker
Like, not everybody is, like, special.
01:02:14
Speaker
Like, not everybody is going to be that girl.
01:02:19
Speaker
And that's okay.
01:02:20
Speaker
It is fine.
01:02:21
Speaker
Like, not everybody can be that girl.
01:02:23
Speaker
Not everyone can be that bitch.
01:02:29
Speaker
Yeah.
01:02:30
Speaker
So I respect Courtney Love.
01:02:33
Speaker
I'm going to finish the article, but I just respect her for saying that.
01:02:36
Speaker
And then the fact that she said that she's, she likes that, she doesn't like Beyonce's music, but like she likes what she's doing.
01:02:45
Speaker
And I think that people, that went over people's heads like terribly because they was eating her up on X or trying to eat her up.
01:02:51
Speaker
But I just feel like she is the kind of person that
01:02:59
Speaker
Knows that.
01:03:00
Speaker
That is, like, smart enough to make that distinction that you can recognize that someone's very talented, but you can also recognize when the music's not for you.
01:03:10
Speaker
And I think that that takes real...
01:03:18
Speaker
It takes, like, bravery, but it also takes, like, knowing yourself to know that.
01:03:23
Speaker
And to eat somebody up over the fact that, like, they don't like the same things as you is so childish.
01:03:28
Speaker
So that's how I feel about that.
01:03:32
Speaker
Also, there was the gay pop thing with JoJo Siwa.
01:03:35
Speaker
And I feel like the thing she meant about gay pop was the fact that...
01:03:42
Speaker
I think she honestly meant in her phrase, because I was researching a little bit, I think she just meant that she wanted more...
01:03:58
Speaker
I think the idea is that she wants to just add to what people have already done in the community for gay anthems.
01:04:06
Speaker
That's just kind of how I read it.
01:04:08
Speaker
I didn't read it as like, she wants to create a genre called gay pop and the genre is going to be... I don't know.
01:04:23
Speaker
this big new thing that everyone just jumps into.
01:04:26
Speaker
Cause we already have gay pop.
01:04:27
Speaker
Like we have gay artists that are writing pop music.
01:04:31
Speaker
Like we have those people doing that.
01:04:34
Speaker
But I feel like she meant it as, and like she wants to add it to the club classics or whatever,
01:04:41
Speaker
the pride, um, the pride parade.
01:04:45
Speaker
Like she wants to be in the numbers with the girls and, and that she does want to create her own genre.
01:04:52
Speaker
She had mentioned, um, in another interview of, you know, wanting to be in the genre or wanting to create a new genre.
01:05:00
Speaker
Um, she's mentioned that with her record label and, um,
01:05:05
Speaker
I mean, I think that's amazing.
01:05:06
Speaker
Like, I think that more artists need to think that way.
01:05:12
Speaker
And she, you know, her song, Karma, it's actually really, it's not bad.
01:05:16
Speaker
It's not my cup of tea in particular.
01:05:20
Speaker
I might, like, hear it and be like, oh, yeah, I know that song and like it or not tell someone to turn it off or whatever.
01:05:26
Speaker
But I feel like with her, she is...
01:05:32
Speaker
like, trying to, like, she was trying to go back in time a little bit to pull and redo, like, that EDM, like, clubby, like, almost, like, rock-ish kind of vibe.
01:05:50
Speaker
It's like, it feels like there's a bunch of that going on in the song, where these, like, there are these kind of, like,
01:05:59
Speaker
rock nodes or like very like punk inspired of like telling someone off or whatever.
01:06:06
Speaker
But yeah, I don't know if I listened to it again, though.
01:06:16
Speaker
There was one part that did grab me because at first I was like, what?
01:06:18
Speaker
And then there was like the long pause.
01:06:20
Speaker
And I think that was after she would have mentioned the cheating or whatever.
01:06:24
Speaker
And I was like, oh, OK.
01:06:26
Speaker
Like it was really you could feel that effect in the song, like the effect of the pause from that song.
01:06:34
Speaker
And so I feel like that in itself was like, wow, OK, I see you, girl.
01:06:40
Speaker
But I think people are really just stupid and honestly, they just don't.
01:06:44
Speaker
Their brains are wrecked.
01:06:46
Speaker
I started watching X-Men 97.
01:06:48
Speaker
I won't talk about it right now because I'm going to talk about it later with Terrence.
01:06:55
Speaker
I saw the trailer for Maxine.
01:06:57
Speaker
I don't know how I feel about it with the Night Stalker being involved.
01:07:00
Speaker
I feel like the Night Stalker gets brought up too much and I feel like
01:07:07
Speaker
again with these like serial killers like why are we giving them so much attention i mean i'm curious whether or not um if she's gonna be involved with the night stalker like if she's gonna be killing people too or if um she's going to be a victim of the night stalker um i just thought she was gonna be going to you know la or whatever and trying to get famous and whatever i didn't think it was gonna be all this like
01:07:37
Speaker
this grittier subplot or, you know, maybe main plot of this big murder situation.
01:07:46
Speaker
Now, I feel like it does still have that has to happen.
01:07:49
Speaker
Yes, because X and Pearl are both movies that are that's kind of the point.
01:07:55
Speaker
But even in Pearl, like I think back on that and that was not the initial intention of
01:08:00
Speaker
of the movie, it seemed like.
01:08:02
Speaker
It seemed like there's just this war going on and World War I, I guess, I think it was, and the Spanish flu was happening and people were getting sick and blah, blah, blah, and they had to wear a mask and all of this and that.
01:08:20
Speaker
And it seemed to really take place in a time when we were...
01:08:29
Speaker
Like it mirrored our time.
01:08:30
Speaker
And I think that was like the perfect way to release a movie.
01:08:34
Speaker
Like having Pearl wear a mask in a movie and then like going outside and having to wear a mask in real life.
01:08:39
Speaker
It's like, yikes.
01:08:42
Speaker
And it's a good movie.
01:08:43
Speaker
That's a good ass movie.
01:08:45
Speaker
I actually want to watch it again.
01:08:46
Speaker
I just watched it too last weekend.
01:08:48
Speaker
I want to watch that joint again.
01:08:49
Speaker
But I hope it just plays into the plot or like picks up after X and there's some kind of connection.
01:08:57
Speaker
Because it's a sequel, but it doesn't, I don't know if it's going to directly follow in the same way that Pearl is a prequel, but doesn't directly follow as well.
01:09:13
Speaker
Yeah.
01:09:14
Speaker
So did see that.
01:09:17
Speaker
I'm still going to see it regardless, but I'm a little like, eh, I don't know.
01:09:21
Speaker
Pretty Little Liars Summer School is coming back May 9th.
01:09:26
Speaker
I can't wait for that.
01:09:28
Speaker
I've been waiting for that for a while.
01:09:30
Speaker
Sidebar, Disney, Hulu.
01:09:34
Speaker
They're talking about cracking down on passwords in June and...
01:09:39
Speaker
Is Max in that?
01:09:40
Speaker
Like, I hope Max is not in that.
01:09:42
Speaker
Like, I, because I share an account with my friend and I pay her the money for the account so we can get more of the bundle, like stuff included in the bundle.
01:09:52
Speaker
And if they're going to be cracking down on password stuff, like...
01:09:55
Speaker
I guess I'm going back to cable TV or I'm going to crack a book open and sit down somewhere.
01:10:00
Speaker
Cause I'm not going to do this with y'all.
01:10:02
Speaker
Like, I'm really not going to do this with y'all.
01:10:04
Speaker
Like I've had Hulu for a, like even before I even shared with my friend and that became a thing, like I've always been tapped into Hulu.
01:10:13
Speaker
And so I,
01:10:14
Speaker
For that shit to be, like, part of this, fuck a monopoly.
01:10:19
Speaker
Like, fuck y'all monopolies.
01:10:20
Speaker
Like, I hate the way the future... The future sucks.
01:10:25
Speaker
Like, the future kind of sucks.
01:10:27
Speaker
Lastly, I just want to talk about the Rico Nasty and Boy Noise EP called Hardcore Dreams.
01:10:37
Speaker
It's really good.
01:10:38
Speaker
It's very short.
01:10:39
Speaker
It's basically, it feels like a change of pace for Rico, but not really because it sounds like an elevated voice.
01:10:46
Speaker
version of her, um, aesthetic.
01:10:50
Speaker
And, like, it gives, like, sugar trappiness.
01:10:54
Speaker
But I always felt like sugar trap felt, like, rave or club inspired anyway.
01:10:59
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And so, I think reflecting, um...
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yeah on that i feel like that feels intentional like it feels like it's growth on her moving forward as an artist i also feel like um i can't be mad at her forever like i'm still annoyed with her about the whole thing with her like stealing from creators but and i don't know she's ever said anything after about like that um
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I hope she isn't, but if she is, I hope she just tries to understand that people work hard and things are... Even if someone's stealing your shit, that don't mean that you gotta steal other people's shit.
01:11:37
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I get that.
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Just keep creating, keep pushing.
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Because she's such an amazing artist that has a lot of ideas and a lot of talent.
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And I just would say just not letting the
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letting the fact that someone steals from you be the reason why you stole from other people.
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Because people be working hard.
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And shit is hard.
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Like, it's not easy.
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And I think that she's in a very niche lane when it comes to rap.
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She's going to appeal more to someone like me that is, that has that, like,
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goth aesthetic that is like more alternative, you know?
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So as a rapper, like her style is very specific and she's only going to appeal to certain people and that's okay.
01:12:24
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Um,
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And that just doesn't mean you need to, you know, be mad about or I'll say not be mad, but like still from other people.
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I'll just say that.
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But she's like an enigma.
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Like, I still can't really figure her out.
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Like, she's an artist that I can listen to when I'm happy, I'm angry, when I'm in love, when I want to pop pussy, when I need to self-reflect.
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I just love how each project just kind of feels like its own thing or some like elevated version of her past work.
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Like it's not ever the same.
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And that's so interesting about her.
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Love that.
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And that's it.
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That's all I got for the Media Lab.
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Moving into the final thoughts.
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I can't believe we're here now.
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I felt like it's been taking
Gun Ownership Debate and Safety Concerns
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a while.
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And I feel like it's only that only reason I feel that way is because I'm on call right now.
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Um, so I feel like I sped through the episode or I sped through way quicker than what I wanted to, but it is fine.
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I, these are all the things that I did write down.
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So, um, so the last thing I just wanted to kind of like, just talk about was just pondering the reason why we even need guns because, um,
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The way in which it feels like civilians are getting shot left or right, that people aren't being held accountable for their actions,
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Or there's gun, like, like people being able to easily get guns, like no criminal history check.
01:14:04
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And then it's like this woman.
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So her name is Lolith Hall, I believe.
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That's how you pronounce her name.
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But she's a 61-year-old Lolitha.
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Lolitha Hall.
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And she was shot by a man in Ohio.
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She was 61 and he's 81.
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And apparently he shot her, like fatally shot her because...
01:14:37
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He thought that she was working for a scammer that had just called him that day and had thought that she was connected to the scam.
01:14:46
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And she really lost her life over that dumb shit.
01:14:48
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Like, I don't respect scamming.
01:14:52
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I don't respect scamming from everyday regular people at all.
01:14:56
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Like, I don't support that.
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And I think that that is it is fucked up because we all are struggling.
01:15:02
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Yeah.
01:15:06
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But to get mixed up in something like a scam call, like, and lose your life over that, that is really wild.
01:15:14
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And I, and I can't even get into the whole, like, the white versus black thing, because I just feel like, okay, like, that's,
01:15:27
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Like, it doesn't even feel like the point.
01:15:29
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Like, the point of it is the fact that this man, his first instinct was to shoot an unarmed woman.
01:15:37
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Like, what?
01:15:38
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Like, who does that?
01:15:39
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Like, no one... Like, and she literally, I think, came to his porch and he, you know, thought that she was trying to scam him or whatever and...
01:15:48
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He shot her once, which, because she tried to walk away, but he shot at her or shot her once.
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And then they both got into an argument.
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And then he shot her, I guess, some more.
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And...
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Now he's being charged for murder.
01:16:04
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And it's like, this is so insane.
01:16:08
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So it made me think about... The thing that then made me think about was the fact is, like, why do we even need guns?
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Like, what is even the point?
01:16:16
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Because they're supposed to...
01:16:20
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To protect people.
01:16:22
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Like, that's the whole point, is to protect people from other people, animals, creatures, whatever.
01:16:30
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I don't know.
01:16:31
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You know, whatever.
01:16:33
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They're supposed to be a protective thing.
01:16:36
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And that was...
01:16:38
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And I don't like looking up gun law because it gets very political.
01:16:41
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It starts to get like, well, every American has a right to own a gun.
01:16:44
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And that's like the first thing that pops up on Google.
01:16:46
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And it's like, okay, like, cool.
01:16:49
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But at the same time, like, people are dying.
01:16:54
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Like, everyday regular people are just losing their lives because of guns and
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misunderstandings and miscommunications or just being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
01:17:06
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And it's happening way, way, way too much.
01:17:09
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So I did a little bit of research.
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And so there was a Pew Research article and a listed research from the CDC that basically said that in 2021,
01:17:25
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That 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides.
01:17:32
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And that was like 26,000 people about.
01:17:34
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That's just me estimating.
01:17:35
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And then like 43%, around like 20,000 people.
01:17:47
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Yeah, 43% were murders, according to the CDC.
01:17:51
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And then there were only 3% of people that actually were harmed by law enforcement.
01:17:59
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They had to make an other category for the 3% because it encompassed... The percentages for each individual thing were so small that they had to lump everything together.
01:18:08
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They had to lump together the fact that law enforcement does sometimes have to shoot people.
01:18:16
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Accidental deaths, so people accidentally killing themselves or getting shot or finding a gun, like kids finding a gun and shooting themselves accidentally.
01:18:24
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Home invasion, so people getting shot for break-ins, things like that.
01:18:28
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And that's one of the reasons why I would say, okay, like, have a gun because you just never know what the fuck is going to happen.
01:18:35
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Or why I would support, like, the idea of guns.
01:18:42
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Because...
01:18:44
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I think that if anyone does break into your home, like, yes, your property, like, I feel like you should have the right to defend yourself.
01:18:50
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Now, if you're renting or whatever, that becomes a whole thing.
01:18:55
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But for the most part, I do feel like if you if someone is intending to arm you like in your own home, like you do have the right.
01:19:04
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to blow them away.
01:19:06
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But the problem with it, like the biggest problem with it is that in that 3%, that doesn't really happen that much because it's lumped in with other percentages to make up a whole 3%.
01:19:19
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Like that's wild.
01:19:21
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And I try to think of it like, okay, 2021, like what were we doing?
01:19:25
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You think, you know, that, um, you know, COVID would have, um,
01:19:33
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I think COVID may have played a part in this too, but I mean, you still can't look away at the fact that 43% is pretty high.
01:19:41
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I... That's just wild.
01:19:46
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I just can't.
01:19:49
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Um...
01:19:50
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And also, like, where the shooters at when the crimes are happening?
01:19:54
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Like, when people are getting mugged and raped and all of this, that, and the other.
01:19:59
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Like, the fact that people be witnessing people getting sexually touched in public and not saying nothing or, like, doing anything about, like, someone that, I don't know, like, no one really ever has a...
01:20:14
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Like, it never seems like a civilian has a gun on them when it really counts.
01:20:17
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Like, people be having a license they fucking carry, and it's like, bitch, you don't ever fucking use it, because...
01:20:24
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you don't be where the criminals be.
01:20:25
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The criminals be randomly just popping up in like the gas stations or convenience stores or the liquor store, whatever.
01:20:33
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And it's just like, but the people that should, that the point of license to carry is to protect people in public.
01:20:42
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And nine times out of 10, most people don't readily have a gun on them.
01:20:48
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Most everyday Americans, like, or you're not in that place where,
01:20:54
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I'll say it that way.
01:20:55
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So they don't have a gun on them.
01:20:57
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And at the same time, they aren't in those spaces that the actual violent crimes are happening in.
01:21:05
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I don't know.
01:21:05
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Like that just to me, don't sit right with me.
01:21:08
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And my point is just that I feel like they aren't protecting people, even if it is a 2021 study, like whoop-de-woo.
01:21:16
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Like, I just feel like if, like they're not protecting as many people as we love to believe that they do.
01:21:25
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The other 53% or the 53% that was the highest suicide.
01:21:30
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I mean, I feel like as someone as passively suicidal, um,
01:21:34
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you have more than one way you've thought about killing yourself.
01:21:37
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Like, I feel like when the active, like, plan switches in and you have the intention of doing it, like, you're going to figure it out one way or another.
01:21:47
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And not to be morbid, but I even in high school, like, and not like I said, not to be cute and funny, but like me and my friends have had this conversation, me and my high school friends had this conversation about like,
01:22:01
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if we were to, if we had to die, like if someone was like, oh, we have to kill you or whatever, what would you choose?
01:22:11
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And there's more than one way that we've talked about or like more than one way that, you know, sounds like, okay, that actually, you know, wouldn't be bad or whatever.
01:22:23
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Again, not promoting suicide, like definitely not doing that.
01:22:27
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But my point is just that,
01:22:29
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I know as a person that struggles with depression and sometimes thoughts of suicide, I have thought of more than one way that
01:22:41
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But, and I don't have a plan.
01:22:44
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Like, that's, like, important.
01:22:45
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I've thought about it, don't have a plan.
01:22:48
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And I don't have any way to, like, execute the plans.
01:22:51
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That's also kind of the other part.
01:22:53
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If there were plans.
01:22:54
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Like, I don't have any execution, like, whatever.
01:22:58
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But anyway, I just kind of feel like
01:23:02
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if guns were taken away, people would still kill themselves.
01:23:04
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Like, that doesn't matter.
01:23:06
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Like, the point is just that people are, like, the people that are supposed to be protected by guns are not being protected by guns.
01:23:15
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Like, that's point blank, period, end of the day, is how I feel.
01:23:23
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So I actually don't think that, you know, we actually need guns.
01:23:27
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I think that we just create fear and chaos in society when, you know, guns play into the story.
01:23:36
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Also, I think we just need to get back to fighting hand to hand.
01:23:39
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Like...
01:23:41
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mono-y-mono.
01:23:42
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Like, I really feel like we need to just start swinging.
01:23:46
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Again, like, bring that back.
01:23:47
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Like, I think that's the problem.
01:23:49
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We need to bring real fighting back.
01:23:51
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We need to bring back the swords, the shields, the bow and arrow.
01:23:59
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Like, I feel like we really fell off with that.
01:24:01
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Like, I feel like when the gun was created, it was all, here we go.
01:24:05
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Like,
01:24:06
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This is going to get out of hand.
01:24:08
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So I feel like, yeah, we need to get back to hand-to-hand combat.
01:24:13
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Because I feel like if you can't beat me hand to hand, then you don't die.
01:24:18
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Like, you just have to sit with that.
01:24:20
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Like, you just have to sit.
01:24:21
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You can move, you know, if you have to.
01:24:24
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Or, you know, if, you know, I don't know.
01:24:27
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If I lose, like, I'm not going to feel no kind of way.
01:24:30
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Like, I really do think sometimes people just need their asses beat.
01:24:34
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And, you know, then they be like, okay, all right.
01:24:36
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I kind of see where I fucked up at.
01:24:37
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Yeah.
01:24:39
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So eventually, like it doesn't happen right out, but most people be like, well, damn, fuck.
01:24:45
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But I feel like when it comes to like the gun thing, like just to be like, oh, well, you know, I can just take your life.
01:24:51
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That's fucking crazy.
01:24:52
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That's insane to me.
01:24:53
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And I think it's just uncalled for.
01:24:56
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So that's where I stand on it.
01:24:59
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And that's it.
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That's all I got for y'all.
01:25:04
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I want to vamp a little bit.
01:25:05
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I feel like we did a good amount of time.
01:25:07
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Did a good amount of time.
01:25:12
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I'm so glad this month's almost over.
01:25:14
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Ciao.
01:25:17
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But anyway, that's it from me.
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01:25:34
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01:25:45
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01:25:54
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01:26:06
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01:26:19
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01:26:26
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01:26:34
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I get it to promote your stuff.
01:26:35
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But if you don't even got no following, it's like, girl, we got to help each other.
01:26:40
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01:26:52
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Any urges to follow me?
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Oh, I have something coming.
01:26:55
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I can't talk about it now.
01:26:56
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I want to talk about it.
01:26:57
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I mean, I guess I could just say it's going to be a website, but it's going to be for not just for the podcast.
01:27:03
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It's kind of for a hub of my own creative things.
01:27:09
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But that's kind of sort of in the works in the background.
01:27:13
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But that'll be coming.
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God, my brain is like fried today.
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01:27:38
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I don't have a TikTok that's very specific to...
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I'll just say that.
01:27:45
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The links in the bio of my Twitter and my Instagram.
01:27:50
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Yep, links in the bio.
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So y'all can go click them links and y'all can find the TikTok.
01:27:55
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It'll be there.
01:27:56
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So.
01:27:59
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All right.
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That's it for this episode.
01:28:01
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I hope everyone has a good weekend.
01:28:03
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Oh, and a safe 420.
01:28:06
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I forgot that was also this month.
01:28:08
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Like this is, this month's been a lot.
01:28:10
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It's, it's giving this month is, is really giving earth, earth, earth day, 420, you know, Arbor day.
01:28:19
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We, it's eclipse earth.
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It's giving a lot like this month, this month is a lot.
01:28:25
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Airy season going into Taurus-y.
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So I hope everyone has a good weekend, good, safe weekend.
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And I will talk to everyone again next week.
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Peace out, Girl Scouts.