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Beck and Dash unpack the Super Bowl's transformation into America's second State of the Union—complete with AI ads, gambling commercials, and Pam Bondi's literal burn book. They discuss Mike Tyson's claim that his sister died from eating ice cream, Kid Rock singing his to-do list, and Tennessee senators investigating Bad Bunny for widespread twerking.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Welcome

to Queer Next, the podcast that puts

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the Yee Hall in y'all means hall.

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I'm your host, Beck,

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

and I'm your host.

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Dash.

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Welcome to today's episode.

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Um, fucking Pam Bondy.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

Oh, we're gonna start there.

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Huh?

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: I mean, I

was just watching videos of, of this.

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I don't, I guess it's a deposition.

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I don't know what you, what the

name of this particular hearing

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they're doing is, but like, my God,

she said my goblin sister Kristie

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Noem is getting too much attention.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: It's wild.

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The whole thing was freaking wild.

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Did you see that?

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They, she had a stack of insult

colored, like a burn book for

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Yeah.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

for different people.

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And she had, she couldn't

even memorize them.

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She had to like leaf through

to get to each one of them.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: And she had

the search history of all the people

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who were interrogating her there.

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And you know, people have called her

out on that, but like, and for what,

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what, what even good is it to point

out the fucked up shit they do anymore.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: didn't

have their library histories too.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Yeah.

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They, people who are like, permitted

access to review the Epstein files,

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they have to create a special

login and it keystrokes them.

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It it like, um, the system they're using

to view them keeps track of which pages

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they view, like what they actually read.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: It is wild.

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It just blows my mind that there was

so much outrage over the kid Rock

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stuff and nothing over pedophile.

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You know, billionaires

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

did you watch the Super Bowl?

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Uh, I.

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Technically, yes.

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watched the

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Yeah,

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: show.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: I

watched, I watched half of the Super

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Bowl because I didn't turn it off

after the halftime show finished.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah,

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Uh,

I watched the second half of it.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: for most of it.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Oh, well,

I mean, the, that was interesting and

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it seemed like it did a great job.

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It was like, it was so cinematic, but

what really, got me was the commercials.

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Like we seemed to be, I mean, we were

selling two products, one of which

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was gambling and the other was ai.

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Just, I didn't even know there

were so many companies that.

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You could bet on sports with.

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But there were two ads

that were terrifying to me.

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They were political, not just political.

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They were I don't know what

you call it, hate group.

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Hate gr hate messaging.

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One was the Stop Jewish Hate,

group, which is on the surface

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it sounds like it is an advocacy

group to like, battle antisemitism.

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But all of these actual like orgs and

things that have been around for much

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longer have denounced this thing.

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And what it actually is, is just this

pet project of the Kraft Group to, like

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promote Israel and Zionism and stuff,

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but the, the, it was the, the story that

they used in this ad that really creeped

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me out because first of all, it's,

it's of a thing that doesn't happen.

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It was like this, this little

Jewish boy, and he's being bullied

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by his peers for being Jewish,

which does not happen, right?

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Antisemitism is real, right?

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There is, there is actual like irrefutable

evidence that, that Jewish people are

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persecuted historically and continue

to be scapegoated and stuff like that.

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But it doesn't look like this.

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It doesn't, kids don't even

know who's Jewish or not.

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If it's not a skin color, they don't know.

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Um.

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So it was like, okay, that,

that's not a thing that happens.

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But the ad Then there's this very tall

black boy that comes up to him and

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he goes like, well, I, I know what

this is like, so I'll be her friend.

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And then that's the ad.

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And so what are we doing?

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We're talking to, to black people

about how they need to become Zionists

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and, and look out for Jewish people.

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It, it made no sense whatsoever, which

is maybe that means it won't do any harm.

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I don't know.

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Maybe we'll get lucky there.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Seems like

some pretty overt messaging though.

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What was the other ad?

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Oh my God.

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It kind of broke the internet.

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It's, you have to go watch it

even though it's kind of painful.

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It's also like Girl Mike Tyson,

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah, I saw it.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: like the, the.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: of being fat.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: My sister

died of a heart attack from being fat.

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No, she didn't.

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She was 24 years old.

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That's something else.

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Killed a 24-year-old bitch.

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I mean, I Maybe you were told

that it was that and I don't

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doubt it because America's food

trauma is deep, but oh my God.

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I used to eat a pin of

ice cream every hour.

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The longer it went on, the more

I think, like I realized that

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my jaw was just hanging down.

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'cause he was clearly in pain,

clearly being manipulated.

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But we also know for sure

that he is, he can be bought.

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Right.

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Jake Paul bought him,

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Right,

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: but I was like,

I mean I just, I think I just learned that

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I could be eating more ice cream for sure.

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I.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

you're slacking.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: I

went out and bought ice cream.

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After that,

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I went out and bought some moose tracks.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

Butter Pecan is my favorite.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: We don't

have a ton of options here, but they

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just happened to have some moose tracks

at the grocery or at the gas station.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Nice.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: But

there was also an Epstein ad, like

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the survivors, some of them wrote

an ad that was just themselves

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speaking about what happened to them.

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They, I didn't see it

and I can't find anybody.

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I don't think they, like, technically if

you buy an ad, it's supposed to play, it's

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supposed to air, but I really don't think

anybody actually was shown that ad msn

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now played It is the only reason I saw it.

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I did see some clips of that

kid Rock halftime show Girl.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: part of the

whole thing is that he added that, that

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verse to that song about dusting off

your Bible and Jesus was on the cross

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and he'll forgive you or whatever, and

like the next day he announced that it

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was available for download and purchase.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Yeah.

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And there's some, some boomers

that went and bought it.

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So it was the number one, like

purchased single on like download

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on iTunes the following day.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: That is so

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: I know.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: gross.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: they're

running around social media going like,

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kid Rock is the number one trending

artist on I on uh, apple Music.

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He's like, no, no, no, no, no.

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He grifted some old boomers

outta 2 99 for a song.

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And um, what's his face?

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That one dude, he just

wants to kiss his fish.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah.

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Have you ever heard

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the the

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: PO Burnham,

that's what I was thinking too.

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Pandering.

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It's so on the nose, these people, and it

sounds like it, it sounds like AI to me.

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And I, I know that maybe we're getting

a little, like we hear AI everywhere.

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Some people are just stupid.

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You know,

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: I

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saw a meme today that said we

should adopt AI semicolon Dr.

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Like AI didn't read

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: yeah.

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Clearly.

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I saw somebody say, uh, commented on it.

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Like this, this man's just

singing his to-do list.

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Like, I just wanna feed my dog.

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Like, who told him he can't feed his dog?

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: right.

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He was literally wearing

his boots during the show.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Yeah.

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And somebody goes like, I could get

all this done before 7:00 AM dog.

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I don't know.

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What's, what's the holdup for you?

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This sounds like a you issue.

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I don't know.

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I mean, some, the, the Super Bowl has

become such an American institution.

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Um, you know, I, I don't watch football.

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I don't watch pro football anymore, and

I've watched I think most Super Bowls,

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for the pageantry and just for the, to

participate in the event or whatever.

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It's usually a good time.

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But this one being so goddamn

politicized and it, and it was genuinely

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exciting too, to see Lady Gaga, right.

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Come out and seeing her, her

little, um, die with a smile.

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Song to that Latin beat, and then

Ricky Martin shows up and I was just

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like, well, this is, isn't this sweet?

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But, and then the rest

of the game was shitty.

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The like really, really boring ass game.

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But, you know, we will participate

in it even if we're not like

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football fans and stuff.

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But like, it was so alarming this year.

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Like that if you are savvy, if you

are literate in what is being said

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and done and shown and, and put

together, for you, that's as good as

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the state of the union address for

what is, because there's no, there was

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not a whiff of our economy anywhere.

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Like I'm sitting there like my

kingdom for a fucking Budweiser ad.

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Somebody dig up Bart Simpson

and make him try to sell me

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a Butterfinger because these.

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These endless ads for, for ai shit.

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Well, and I, I know that that's like

the AI bubble is about to burst.

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They're really working hard to try to

convince us that we needed all that shit.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah,

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: 'Cause

the numbers are in, nobody made any

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money off of all the AI they shoved

into every single one of these SaaS

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or whatever things we already use.

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So that's gonna be over soon.

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They're gonna have to hire back everybody

that thought that they could get rid of.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

did you hear that?

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The French government completely

divested of American technology.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: I did.

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Uh, also Canada, I think it

was no longer considers like

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scholarship on medicine coming out

of the United States as credible.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Oh wow.

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a fun time to be alive.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: you know.

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I was talking to therapy bro this morning

and it, it is objectively terrifying.

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You know?

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I mean, I guess terrifying is, it's

alarming, but it's also kind of like,

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yeah, this is, we told you, we warned

you so many times people have rung this

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bell and now here it is and so let's

just all go down with the ship, I guess,

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: I

guess I'll see you at the camps

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: right?

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' beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: cause

we are both gender traitors

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Is

that what they're calling it?

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: in the in have

you read The Hand Handmaid's Tale Ever.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Yeah.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

Yeah, we are gender traders.

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I just, I have it on the mind.

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I, I read, I've listened, I've

been listening to audio books

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'cause I'm in the car for like an

hour and a half a day these days.

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And I've gotten through several books.

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I just listened to the Harriet Tubman

live in concert by Bob the drag queen,

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uh, this past week which was interesting.

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Not my general cup of tea,

but it was very interesting.

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I thought it was a, a cool idea.

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I, I would think I would've liked it

more if I would've read it instead

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of listening to it because his

affect was so flat, like he just

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sounded bored to be reading the book.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

His man, the way he talks.

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I, I genuinely love Bob.

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I think he is, he's very good standup.

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He's very funny, he's very smart, but

he has these vocal effects and these

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vocal flares that drive me crazy.

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so this is a, i, I don't know this,

is this a, a book or a standup?

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: no, it's a

book that, uh, it's a standalone book.

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It's called Harriet Tubman, live

in Concert by Bob the drag queen.

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basically the, the plot of the,

the story is that people returned

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and that's all that said about it.

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Some famous people returned and

some slaves, they came back.

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And Harriet Tubman decides she

wants to make a hip hop album to

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reach out to the new generation,

to talk about her, her journey.

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it's Harriet, Harriet Tubman

and the Freedman is her band.

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And it's the story of them making the

album and, and Bob coming to terms

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being famous, uh, with his, with his

queer sexuality, the, the, the narrator.

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Anyway and then at the end

he has two new songs that are

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supposed to be from that album.

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It's, it's an interesting

concept, I think.

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And like I said, I think I would've liked

it better if I would've just read it.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Hmm.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

but it was, it was, it was

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farfetched, but a cool concept.

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I, I think, I think it was a neat idea.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

Yeah, I had no idea.

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I, I do like stuff like that,

so I'll, I'll check it out, but,

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: It's

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: you

know, I don't think I'd want.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

the queer book club.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Hmm.

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Okay.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Oh, but we

were talking about The Handmaid's Tale.

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I listened to The Handmaid's Tale.

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I had, I had watched the series

on, uh, Hulu, but I had never

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actually listened to the book.

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So I listened to it, and then

I listened to The Testaments,

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which is the follow up to the,

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Mm-hmm.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: and

so that was pretty good too.

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I don't know if you've read

that one or heard of it.

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Uh, but it's the fall of Gilead.

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The, it's how it gets taken down.

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so I've got the Handmaid's

tail on the brain.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Um, I.

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I have, uh, a few times considered

watching the TV show, but I just,

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: It's a

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: I think

that it goes in that category of

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shit I don't need explained to me.

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And I kind of,

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

Psychologically, it's a lot.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

yeah, and I actually felt that

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way when I read it in college.

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I was like, who's she talking to?

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Because we agree, but she's talking

to me like I need to be convinced.

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Right?

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She, and, and if she's not talking

to me, then I don't think she's

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talking to anybody because nobody

that doesn't agree with her is gonna

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sit there and be talked to like that.

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So I, I've always felt about that,

like, who's the audience for this?

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But I also think that maybe we've

kind of learned that in, in the

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years of white feminism and the.

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The years of Trump and stuff like there,

there is a, a, no matter what your

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political stripe is, there's a kind

of person who just wants to be told

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the things that they already believe.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

It's comforting.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: yeah, and I

would prefer, like if, if I'm with, if

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I'm engaging with people that we agree on

stuff, then I would rather be yes, anding.

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Like we need to be laughing, we

need to be mocking things, we

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need to be building on top of it.

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One time there at BGSU,

the, the student group.

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Had gone to some vendor fair or something

like that, and they, or I don't know,

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they, they met a comedian, a standup,

and they wanted to bring her to campus.

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And so I said, okay.

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And she did fine.

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She had some stuff that was pretty good.

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She, you know, pretty progressive.

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I don't think she had a lot of

experience with college campuses though.

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'cause she, and this was 2015 or 16,

she went into this bit about how we

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should all start hoarding birth control

because they're gonna take it away.

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And nobody was laughing.

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And she, I remember she actually

stopped and she was like, I thought

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you guys would, would like that.

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I, I misunderstood my audience.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah.

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I had a student get mad at me

this week and yell at me in class.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

Oh fuck, hell no.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: he's 18

or 19 years old, young white man.

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And we were talking about.

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Racism, right?

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Because that's, it's an

ethnic studies class.

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And we were talking about racial

formation, specifically about the

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ways that we create race, racial

categories and that kind of thing.

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And he raised his hand and he

said that he didn't understand.

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Basically his argument was that

dividing ourselves into groups in the

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first place is what's actually racist.

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so why don't we stop doing that?

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And then racism would

stop being a problem.

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And I was like, well, that's

colorblind racism that you're

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talking about there, right?

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It's the idea that you don't see

color, that everyone's the same and,

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and that you're ignoring the history

and the trauma of people of color.

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That's all around us.

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There's, there's so much evidence of it.

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And, you know, people

naturally devolve into groups.

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If we didn't have skin color, we

would have, you know, eye color

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groups or, or something that's

just natural the way humans do.

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And he said, well, it, he said,

well, how do we solve racism then?

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And I said, that's a big question.

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I said, you're not gonna

get an answer for that.

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And an ethnic studies 1 0 1 class.

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You're just, you're just

not, you know what I mean?

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Like,

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Is that

what you thought we were doing here?

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: and he,

he got two other people in, in on the

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conversation and they like ganged up

on me and thank God for Wellbutrin,

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because I was cool as a cucumber.

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And I was just like, okay.

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And then I just went on with

my lecture, like I didn't

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even give him the time of day.

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And he didn't, he didn't show

up on the next class day.

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So he showed me,

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Yeah.

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So these other two, what

were their contributions?

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: they

were saying that, uh, that he

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was, because he kept changing

the way that he was saying it.

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Right.

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And he kept basically

saying colorblind racism.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Mm-hmm.

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

narrowing down what he said.

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And they said, one of the guys said

that he agreed with him, and then he

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said he didn't agree with him, and

another guy asked a clarifying question.

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But like it got pretty tense

there for a few minutes

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Yeah.

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Huh?

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What do you think he wanted?

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: to be an

18-year-old that figured out how to

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solve white man that solved racism.

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I, I don't know.

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dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: He

wanted to be let off the hook.

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He wanted to know, how do I go forward

from here and never make a mistake?

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Man, I was serving on a panel one time

with some students while I was, a ga there

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for, um, it was about trans experience

and someone, some, you know, well-meaning

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white lady came and it got to the q and a

portion and she asked them, uh, so what,

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what is like the thing that like people

should never say or do to you and kept

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rephrasing and like, they couldn't answer.

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They were like, could you, I mean, it'd

be great if you could not misgender me.

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Like if I tell you my

pronouns, could you use those?

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And she kept like digging.

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She wanted something else and there

was a, someone who worked there,

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a faculty member who everybody

was terrified of this person.

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Who was also in the audience and,

and turned to this woman and just

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lit in was like, I'm uncomfortable

with the way you are putting, with

386

the amount of labor you're putting

on these students to make you into

387

somebody who can never make a mistake.

388

but like kept going and going and going,

and I was like, that's enough, because

389

this woman just dissolved into tears

and it was her nightmare, you know?

390

And we were like, we forgive you.

391

Like now this is all about

how, how woke you are, right?

392

And how, oh, you put her in her

place and it was like, thank you.

393

But that's still not like

the serve you thought it was.

394

People love to call somebody out.

395

Well, I'm glad that it

didn't bother you, but like.

396

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Well, I mean,

when you're teaching, because I have to

397

go to special pains when I'm teaching

particular topics like privilege to talk

398

about how talking about privilege doesn't

say that white men are evil, right?

399

I say that, that, that nobody is

saying that you, your life hasn't

400

been difficult or that you didn't work

hard for everything that you have.

401

Just that some things in your

life have been easier because

402

of the color of your skin.

403

For example, you're less

likely to be a victim of police

404

brutality if you have white skin.

405

You know what I mean?

406

It has nothing to do with

how hard you have worked.

407

And it doesn't mean that you're a bad

person because you were born with, with

408

this innate privilege that our culture

has given somebody that looks like you.

409

You shouldn't feel bad about that,

but you should know the power

410

you wield and wield it wisely.

411

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: The way

these people have no idea that we've

412

rearranged the heavens for them, for

their feelings, and they wanna go

413

around and cry about safe spaces.

414

In DEI, like I we walk

on eggshells around you.

415

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: As a follow

up for Thursday, I, I was gonna show the,

416

uh, James Baldwin thing, but I decided

not to, and I showed them the John

417

Oliver, uh, critical race theory special.

418

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Mm-hmm.

419

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: them

a PBS like three minute explainer

420

of what it was a professor talking

about what critical race theory is.

421

I made it very clear, there's

critical race theory, which is a legal

422

framework that you, that you come

across when you get to grad school.

423

And then there's talking

critically about race.

424

And

425

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Mm-hmm.

426

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: the

same words, but there are two

427

very different meanings, right?

428

And we are talking critically about race.

429

That's the point of this class.

430

So I made sure that they

understood the difference between.

431

And so, the John Oliver clip

shows a lot of media outrage.

432

And I had them talk about, well,

what's the point of that media outrage?

433

Why are they mis identifying it?

434

And you know what I mean?

435

, But it, it, it, in the video

they talk a little bit about how

436

colorblind racism is really stupid.

437

So I felt vindicated,

438

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Yeah.

439

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

but then he didn't show up for

440

class, so it didn't matter.

441

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

I wonder if he'll be back.

442

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: I didn't know.

443

I think

444

he might've wanted to embarrass me.

445

I don't know.

446

men like to do that to female professors.

447

He's not, he's not the

448

first one that's tried to do

it, and he won't be the last.

449

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: I had

one when I was teaching writing.

450

He came in and he was a non-traditional

student, and we were doing like our

451

one-on-one meetings for, uh, the

final paper this was in English 1 0

452

2, so they had to do research papers.

453

So, uh, there was some actual content

in this stuff and I had them do readings

454

and, you know, we've talked about,

uh, sociopolitical things sometimes.

455

And so he came in and he goes, well,

um, I'm probably older than you, so

456

I'm just gonna give you some advice.

457

And I was like, oh boy.

458

And he goes, I don't know if you

noticed, but there were like some

459

veterans in class with us and I was

like, yeah, most of the class was vets.

460

Like this section is a lot

of non-traditional students.

461

This time slot is very

popular among commuters.

462

Like, and, um, I'm just known as

somebody that, I have relationships

463

with these people through like this

other position I had on campus.

464

So he was like, you should

really like not be as political.

465

You sound like really left-leaning and all

them are probably really right-leaning.

466

And I was like, the kid that

just left here is one of them.

467

And he said, I'm the

best teacher he ever had.

468

Like, people like to think

critically, people like to get

469

out of their like little smaller

worldview and stuff sometimes.

470

I, I like that his justification

was that he was older than me.

471

Not that I'm the fucking teacher.

472

I'm probably older than you, so

I'm gonna give you some advice.

473

First of all, your 25-year-old

ass is not older than me.

474

I just look magnificent for a 31-year-old

475

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: gay

Don't Gray is what they say.

476

No, I'm kidding,

477

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: men.

478

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: man.

479

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

But yeah, man, Pam Bondy.

480

When she said, how dare you accuse me

of what we came here to talk about,

481

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

She is just, ugh.

482

A horrific human being.

483

I don't even believe she's human.

484

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: man.

485

I mean, I know I posted this on

the Facebook page, but I was like,

486

I really think she's enjoying it.

487

Like she, she see her smirking like,

this is, this bitch is gooning.

488

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah, agreed.

489

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: But

since I know that TikTok has changed

490

hands and since then my for you page

has been absolutely fucked because

491

it's trying to give me rage baits.

492

So it's giving me all these like

conservative hot takes and stuff.

493

I wish like these, these social media apps

or any something like that could like.

494

Why can't they change hands gracefully?

495

every time somebody buys some social

media platform, we all have to suffer.

496

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: That's TikTok.

497

I got rid of it a while back.

498

It just, don't know.

499

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

Well, I'm probably going to,

500

now that my algorithm's fucked

501

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah.

502

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

and don't see the point.

503

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah.

504

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: I was on

there for the fucking cat videos and

505

the dog videos, the cooking videos,

drag queens doing eerily accurate

506

performances based on Erica Kirk.

507

Have you seen her

508

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah,

you can get all those from reels.

509

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: reels?

510

Is that the Facebook one?

511

Okay.

512

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: I know

I'm old, but I still like Facebook.

513

I mean, I hate Facebook because what

it's done to our culture, but I still

514

use Facebook because it's how I, I've got

so many years of memories of my mom and

515

dad's comments on my stuff, and you know,

friends that have passed and pictures.

516

Now

517

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

When did you get Facebook?

518

When was your first one?

519

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: 2007.

520

I think

521

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Yeah,

522

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: I

still have my original one.

523

I've never, I've got it from, I've,

I've got memories that are 17 years old.

524

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: I got one.

525

I've, this is the second one and

it's, it, it has always been fake.

526

My first one had my real name for a while

and then I changed it to a fake name.

527

But yeah, I got, I got it.

528

I think it was also 2006 or oh seven.

529

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: I was

working at Amazon when I got mine.

530

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

Did you have MySpace?

531

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yes.

532

was a beautiful time.

533

There were no ads on MySpace.

534

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

I loved MySpace.

535

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah.

536

I was,

537

I I remember being

like, I'm not switching.

538

I'm not going to Facebook.

539

And then I went to Facebook.

540

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Why

did we, why did we all switch?

541

I don't remember.

542

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

it was just a thing.

543

It's what everybody did.

544

So you followed suit

545

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Yeah.

546

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: wouldn't

have never figured out MySpace,

547

but she figured out Facebook.

548

Like, so never would've

figured out how to code a page.

549

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Yeah.

550

' beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: cause

MySpace had us all out there coding.

551

You know what I mean?

552

Like,

553

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: I

mean, you could, you could really

554

customize that, that homepage.

555

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: So

are you watching the Olympics?

556

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Um, yeah.

557

I'm watching every now and

then I'll watch something.

558

It is hard to be interested.

559

One of the reasons why the Olympics

as a, as a broadcast phenomenon.

560

Works so, so well, is that there's

all this hype that leads up to it.

561

We learned so much about the athletes.

562

There's all this lore.

563

I didn't participate in any of

that, so I'm just like trying to be

564

interested in a sport until I learn

enough about something else that's

565

going and I'm just not all right.

566

I don't care about snowboarding, I

567

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah.

568

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

care about ski jumping.

569

To me, it's just them jumping up and down.

570

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: The

uphill skiers are crazy though.

571

Like it's

572

wild to watch them.

573

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: was it

a mountain, mountain something?

574

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: all I

know is they're uphill skiing, and

575

it looks crazy to me right now.

576

They're doing the one where they

ski and then stop and shoot then

577

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: the bi, uh,

578

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

alon or something.

579

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: biathlon.

580

Yeah,

581

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Who

put together shooting and skiing,

582

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: There's

a guy, kind of, uh, following along

583

what we were talking about last time.

584

It was like how the Winter

Olympics or the Redneck Olympics.

585

There's a dude on TikTok who was

like, yeah, who was doing like Summer

586

Olympics versus Winter Olympics, and

he is doing bits like, what if we

587

just ran further on this event at the,

the Winter Olympics are like, stick

588

strap a camera to your head and leap

off of this with knives on your feet.

589

No helmet

590

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: they

were doing the halfpipe last night,

591

and that the girl, the women's

halfpipe, and that was really cool.

592

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

that Lindsay Vaughn injury.

593

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Ooh.

594

Yeah.

595

Yeah.

596

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: her.

597

She, I, I hope she can.

598

Recover from that because my god, I

watched, um, some figure skating, there's

599

a little queer girl on the US team and

she skates around with her Pride flag

600

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: I haven't

601

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

and her name's Amberly.

602

She's funny and smart and she loves magic.

603

The gathering the cards, like, so

like they interviewed her and she's

604

either talking about being a lesbian

or I think she, maybe she's bisexual,

605

pansexual, something like that.

606

Or she's talking about

Magic, the Gathering.

607

another skater, Lou is her last name.

608

I forget her first name.

609

It might be Alice are apparently

being harassed and stuff online.

610

And she said something like, they hate

to see a couple woke bitches winning.

611

And she's a child, right?

612

This is like a 19-year-old person.

613

And she, so I remember seeing her skate

Um, oh, and I've been watching curling.

614

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Oh

yeah, that's of course, one of

615

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: I, I,

616

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: to watch

617

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: I followed

the US mixed doubles team all the

618

way through the round robin, and they

won, they wound up getting silver.

619

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: is ping pong.

620

That's a, that's the

summer Olympics, isn't it?

621

Ping pong.

622

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: summer.

623

Yeah.

624

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: That's

one of my favorite things to watch

625

is Chinese ping pong players.

626

They're

627

hilarious.

628

They are

629

so intent.

630

Yeah, they're really good ones.

631

They are so serious and they are

like there to play to the death.

632

It's hilarious to me.

633

They're so, it's

634

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

There's, there's a tennis match.

635

You know how they do micd up

sometimes on like football

636

players or rugby or whatever.

637

They decided to try it on a tennis match,

and I don't think they've done it since.

638

It, the video is one

of the funniest things.

639

These then these poor women, they

were giggling so hard because

640

of the sounds they kept, ' cause

they all have these, like vocal,

641

I don't know, just stems I guess.

642

Whenever they serve and they're, normally

it's because the, we can't hear them

643

do it and so then they micd 'em up

and they're serving, they're like, ah.

644

And then they would laugh so hard

that they would lose the point.

645

And I, I just, I don't

think it's happened since.

646

' cause it was like it was pornographic

647

My God, can I.

648

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Oh man.

649

Speaking of pornographic, there's

that Tennessee senator that wants to

650

open an investigation into Bad Bunny

651

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

For widespread twerking.

652

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: That,

but he kept, he, he and either the

653

bots or the people who online, who

genuinely believe this, can't stop

654

talking about the, like, millisecond

of the two boys dancing together.

655

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: I saw that.

656

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: And so yeah,

they, what, what even is an investigation

657

into twerking at the Super Bowl?

658

Like who investigates,

whose jurisdiction is that?

659

Is that Beyonce's jurisdiction?

660

Like,

661

fucking, every, every Super Bowl

halftime show is at twerking.

662

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: and most

of them have had non-Americans.

663

This one was

664

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Oh,

665

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: all American.

666

You know what I mean?

667

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: right.

668

Yeah.

669

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: thing that

was so stupid to me, the whole thing.

670

They were all like the All

American halftime show port.

671

He was, how do they not know

Puerto Rico is part of America?

672

Like,

673

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: It's, it's

that cognitive dissonance they do know.

674

Because if you tell them they're, so, my,

that account I told you about GR versus

675

MAGA on TikTok, I was catching up on some

things and I saw, uh, some them fighting

676

with GR about whether the somebody,

somebody said, if the Bible can be written

677

in English, why can't the halftime show

678

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah.

679

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: And so

I was like, oh, this is a good one.

680

All right, let's see how this goes.

681

And so they argue, they're like, the

Bible was not written in English.

682

And they're like, well,

I can read it in English.

683

Okay, well that's.

684

That's a translation, right?

685

Like that has been translated into

English for you to read it because

686

you can't read the original language.

687

Well, what's the

definition of written then?

688

So like, moving the goalpost, but

like absolutely refusing to give up.

689

And so in, in this person's mind or these

people's minds, it became clear that they

690

think that the fact that something is,

is, can be written, typed in a language.

691

That it is written in that language.

692

And it doesn't matter that they're,

that they're wrong or that you prove

693

them wrong because they've decided to be

that what is actually wrong is correct.

694

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah.

695

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Like they

identify as correct about everything,

696

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

What about that video that old

697

Trumpster posted of the Obamas?

698

What'd you think of that?

699

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: you know.

700

I don't know.

701

I feel like I wasn't, like, after I

thought about it some more, 'cause

702

I saw it and I was like, oh God.

703

And I thought about it later

and I was like, I don't think

704

I was angry enough about that.

705

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah.

706

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: And

that worries me, like the getting

707

used to this shit, it scares

me that something like that can

708

happen and I can go like, oh, yep.

709

Classic Trump.

710

And not, and, and that we collectively

don't just go like what in God's name?

711

Impeach, impeach,

impeach, impeach, impeach.

712

Get this motherfucker out of office.

713

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

Did you see the Lizzo video?

714

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Which one

715

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: She posted?

716

She said, well, what if you went

to Walmart and stole an apple?

717

Would everyone in your phone be guilty

of conspiracy of helping you to steal the

718

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: she is?

719

About Epstein.

720

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: apple?

721

Yeah, apple.

722

What kind of like, pick me bullshit.

723

Is that like, I wonder

724

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

I really don't know.

725

I mean, her dancers have accused her of,

of some, of being a shitty person before.

726

Maybe she's a shitty person.

727

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Minnie

Driver was on the list of all people?

728

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: well, um, well,

and so what do we mean by on the list?

729

Because

730

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

that's a good question.

731

I, I, there was a list of

people who are named in it,

732

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: okay,

733

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: know

some of them are just innocent.

734

Like Rebecca Solnit,

the woman that wrote uh,

735

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

explain things to me.

736

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: I follow

her on several platforms and she was

737

talking about her name appeared in

it because somebody quoted her in an

738

email or something and she's like,

so that's why my name is in there.

739

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Um, and some

of the people whose names are in there

740

are likely victims like Emmy Rossum,

741

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah.

742

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: So like

RuPaul's name is in there because

743

they downloaded season two of RuPaul's

Drag Race to watch on the plane

744

But who was the person, you said

745

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Lizzo or.

746

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Lizza?

747

No, there's somebody else you said.

748

Did you?

749

Somebody's name is, name is in there.

750

Oh, mini driver.

751

Yeah.

752

Yeah.

753

Well, I don't know.

754

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: though I

did think it was pretty badass that the

755

Clintons were like, you wanna do this?

756

Let's do it on TV in front of the cameras.

757

You know?

758

I thought

759

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Oh yeah,

760

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: badass.

761

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: like I really

like to think that in some fucked up

762

universe where I find myself in their

position that that's what I would do.

763

I'd be like, you know what?

764

Like this mutually assured destruction.

765

This is what we're doing here.

766

And I, I don't really believe, I don't

believe in an afterlife or anything like

767

that, but like if I'm old and I have the

opportunity to atone or come clean about

768

something, some awful thing I did that is

likely eating me up inside, I'm taking it.

769

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Right.

770

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: wanna take

that shit, you know, because there

771

is always the chance that you could

help somebody and you should always

772

take the chance to help somebody.

773

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah, I agree.

774

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: And, and

what if, what if these things are

775

still happening out there to somebody?

776

Ghislaine Maxwell is gonna take,

she's going to get clemency and

777

she's going to cover for Trump.

778

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah.

779

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: And I

really think that we should just

780

go ahead and prepare ourselves for,

Trump is never going to be punished.

781

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: For

782

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

He's going to for anything.

783

No, he's gonna, he's gonna die in some

golden marble chamber in his shitty

784

diaper and never face any consequences.

785

He will die.

786

His last thought will be how amazing

he is, how, what a great job he did.

787

And we can't change that.

788

We can't make him understand

that he's a piece of shit.

789

We, we just not, we're not gonna get that.

790

So what can we get?

791

And it, and that, that's, I mean, that,

that would feel good, but that's not

792

enough to keep the motivation anyway.

793

So.

794

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: strip all

of the Trumps of all their money.

795

That's what I wanna do.

796

I want Don Jr to be flat broke.

797

I want Ivanka to be

begging on the streets.

798

I want them to work a nine to five job.

799

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Yeah.

800

Uh, we are though gonna see some of the,

some of these other folks, the ones who

801

thought that by sucking up to this regime

or falling in line, or even becoming

802

some of its lieutenants would spare them.

803

We're gonna see those folks eat shit.

804

It's gonna be incredible.

805

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Good.

806

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

I am so ready for the day.

807

But, um, this discourse about

like bad bunny and queer people

808

being on tv, it usually brings

back some oldies but goodies.

809

And one of them has been the why.

810

You gotta shove it down her throats thing.

811

Why do you have to make me

think about you having sex?

812

Right?

813

And I just saw this guy comment

on this, um, this friend of mine

814

from Kentucky, she's like kind

of a famous influencer, actually.

815

Her, her child was one

of my recruits to EKU.

816

and she's been talking a lot about,

she's very leftist and so she's

817

been talking a lot about this stuff.

818

And somebody was in her comments and said

like, I just don't understand why they

819

have to make their personality about who

they have sex with or how they have sex.

820

And I was like, this logic

falls apart instantly.

821

Let me ask you one question.

822

Nobody who here said anything about sex?

823

Like if you hear the phrase, hear or read

the phrase transgender person, and the

824

next thing that goes through your mind

is about a sex act, that's a you problem.

825

They did a, this is a different topic,

but like they, a few times throughout,

826

um, the past, like the 10 years between

leaving there and now I would try

827

to get re-enrolled and, and finish

my dissertation and stuff like that.

828

And they wouldn't change,

they wouldn't update my name.

829

They would, uh, want me to, to

send all this paperwork in and

830

have to get the judge and fax it.

831

Like, you can't email

it, you have to fax it.

832

So I was like, I'm not doing that shit.

833

And then, so this time I was prepared

to have to do that and IE they've

834

apparently totally relaxed on it now.

835

I emailed them and

they're like, yep, done.

836

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Wow.

837

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

Yeah, I was so that's nice.

838

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Did you get

839

yours in the mail?

840

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: I did,

841

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: That's awesome.

842

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: it's

in the car with some other things

843

that I can't carry in yet, but

844

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

I'm so proud of you.

845

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Thank you.

846

I would, I didn't even open it actually.

847

I should do that.

848

I should look at it.

849

I, I don't know where my other ones are.

850

Do you have yours?

851

Did you frame yours?

852

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: No, uh, no.

853

They're still in the covers

in a box in my bedroom.

854

We didn't unpack a lot when

we moved into this apartment.

855

We didn't like unpack all of our

stuff, so there they might be.

856

In my hope chest, I've still got,

did you ever have a Hope Chest or as,

857

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: No.

858

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

called it, a dowry rebox.

859

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: No.

860

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: I got it.

861

My, my grandparents bought it for me

when I graduated from high school.

862

I had a cousin who graduated the same

year and they bought her, it was my

863

first cousin, they bought her one.

864

It's a big cedar box chest and it's

supposed to, you're supposed to put

865

like things for your wedding, like

blankets and, and things like that.

866

And it, it's why they call it

a hope chest or a dowry chest.

867

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Hmm.

868

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

I keep all of my old

869

pictures and memories and

stuff like that in it.

870

I've had it literally since I was 18.

871

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: I heard the

phrase, but I never knew what it was.

872

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: I used

it as a a station for the RT V

873

in our living room for years.

874

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: I had have

had some bad bunny songs stuck in my

875

head though, ever since the Super Bowl.

876

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah.

877

Like what?

878

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

Well, I don't know.

879

Dunno what they're called.

880

It's the, the melodies.

881

'cause I don't, I don't

really know what he is saying.

882

I did like, there was, there was

a lot of like visual storytelling.

883

Super, super cool.

884

And then he named every fucking country.

885

How neat.

886

I couldn't do that.

887

Apparently.

888

I don't love America as much as him.

889

People, uh, people online, like on

TikTok, people from Canada are going

890

like ever since the Super Bowl, I'm

telling everybody I'm from Canada.

891

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: I

thought it was cool that he

892

had a real wedding on there.

893

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

Yeah, apparently they like

894

invited him to the wedding and

he was like, I have a conflict.

895

Do you want to come to the Super Bowl

896

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

Oh, I caught a Chihuahua.

897

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: chihuahua?

898

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Chihuahua.

899

She's so funny.

900

She growls at everything,

except for when you catch her

901

on the couch and lean into her.

902

like, I love it.

903

Give me more.

904

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Wow.

905

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906

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907

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908

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909

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910

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911

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912

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921

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beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: That's fun.

954

That's a good one.

955

Oh, whenever we talk about gender

socialization, we talk about the pink tax

956

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Mm-hmm.

957

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: how,

uh, how men, they get like a

958

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barbecue sauce, like elbow grease.

959

And then women, we get like especially

formulated for your left elbow.

960

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539:

Yeah, there's, uh, like.

961

Four, four in ones washes for like

your hair, body, face, toothpaste.

962

I don't know.

963

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538:

It's like a dollar 99 a gallon.

964

I always tell 'em, I say if you

hear nothing else that I say this

965

semester, buy the men's shaving cream.

966

Like for real.

967

It's so much cheaper.

968

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Trixie

and Katya, they had a bit, um, on

969

an episode a couple years ago where

they were like, if men got periods,

970

tampons would fall from the sky.

971

Like they would come in the mail with

samplers like, you know, samples of Tide.

972

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: You get so much

973

PTO for it.

974

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: Oh, man, I,

I, you know what I wanna try so bad is

975

one of those period pain simulators.

976

Those menstrual cramp simulators.

977

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: Yeah.

978

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: I

wanna try one, I wanna see if

979

it feels like my period did,

980

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: I've seen

videos where women try 'em, like

981

men try 'em, and then women try it

and they're like, oh yeah, that's,

982

that's like grocery store level.

983

I'm still going to the grocery

store, and they're like

984

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: right?

985

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: down and,

986

dash_27_02-13-2026_170539: I remember

being in a, in my communications class

987

in undergrad and the teacher did like.

988

Uh, girls versus boys.

989

It, it's really messed up the stuff

they used to do to us back in the day.

990

And something about like actually

a list of things we don't

991

like about like complaints.

992

A list of complaints.

993

And the first one they said, and they were

so proud of themselves was, girls need to

994

stop blaming everything on their period.

995

What do they think?

996

I dunno.

997

beck_28_02-13-2026_180538: I mean, it's

almost constant every, every fourth week.

998

It's ridiculous.

999

It's like

00:42:47,074 --> 00:42:47,424

00:42:47,424 --> 00:42:49,914

men bled for five days and didn't die

00:42:50,274 --> 00:42:53,164

like they want, like a medal for it,

00:42:53,564 --> 00:42:55,709

and I just said maybe guys should

00:42:55,709 --> 00:42:57,209

stop blaming everything on women.

00:42:57,344 --> 00:42:57,794

00:42:58,194 --> 00:42:59,454

Well, it's all our fault, you know?

00:42:59,854 --> 00:43:00,784

00:43:01,184 --> 00:43:03,014

Do you bring a noun of

Appalachian interest?

00:43:03,044 --> 00:43:05,414

I brought a fun one this week.

00:43:05,814 --> 00:43:06,294

All right.

00:43:06,294 --> 00:43:10,254

This week's noun of Appalachian

interest is the color haint blue.

00:43:10,807 --> 00:43:13,717

If you've ever rolled past an old

farmhouse and noticed the porch

00:43:13,717 --> 00:43:16,327

ceiling Painted a soft, watery blue.

00:43:16,687 --> 00:43:19,177

You might have thought,

well, that's pretty friend.

00:43:19,177 --> 00:43:20,407

That is not decoration.

00:43:20,407 --> 00:43:21,967

That is ghost security.

00:43:22,297 --> 00:43:25,777

See, a hate is what folks used to

call a restless spirit, not their

00:43:25,777 --> 00:43:27,367

dramatic chain rattling kind.

00:43:27,367 --> 00:43:30,577

No, I'm talking about the quiet

ones, the wanderers, the things that

00:43:30,577 --> 00:43:33,457

might slip in behind you when you

forget to latch the screen door.

00:43:33,857 --> 00:43:37,067

And Appalachia people have never

been interested in finding out for

00:43:37,067 --> 00:43:38,897

sure what goes bump in the night.

00:43:39,167 --> 00:43:40,877

So they painted the porch ceiling blue.

00:43:41,277 --> 00:43:42,507

This the idea is simple.

00:43:42,507 --> 00:43:43,887

Spirits can't cross water.

00:43:43,887 --> 00:43:47,037

The pale blue tricks them into thinking

that they'd have to swim to get inside

00:43:47,037 --> 00:43:50,547

and ghosts, much like the rest of

us are not looking to do extra work.

00:43:50,877 --> 00:43:54,177

Like many things in Appalachia,

this tradition goes back to the

00:43:54,177 --> 00:43:58,617

Gullah Geechee people of the coastal

south who used color as protection.

00:43:58,977 --> 00:44:02,037

Over time, the practice traveled

inland and settled right into mountain

00:44:02,037 --> 00:44:05,127

culture where it fit perfectly

with our longstanding belief in

00:44:05,127 --> 00:44:08,637

minding your business and respecting

things that you don't understand.

00:44:09,057 --> 00:44:12,087

Now, some folks will tell you the

color also keeps wasps from building.

00:44:12,377 --> 00:44:13,967

Because they think it's the sky.

00:44:14,267 --> 00:44:15,377

Do I know if that's true?

00:44:15,527 --> 00:44:16,067

I do not.

00:44:16,517 --> 00:44:20,207

But if a single gallon of paint keeps

away ghosts and flying devils with anger

00:44:20,207 --> 00:44:22,127

issues, I'm not asking any questions.

00:44:22,547 --> 00:44:25,427

What I love is that plenty of

people still paint their se ceilings

00:44:25,427 --> 00:44:27,167

paint blue without remembering why.

00:44:27,437 --> 00:44:31,397

It just feels right, like peppering

your beans, waving at passing cars, or

00:44:31,397 --> 00:44:34,517

refusing to whistle at night because

somebody's grandma said not to.

00:44:34,517 --> 00:44:35,597

And that was good enough.

00:44:35,957 --> 00:44:38,957

So if you ever find yourself sitting

in a blue ceiling porch at dusk, and

00:44:38,957 --> 00:44:42,377

it suddenly gets real quiet, just

relax the haint, saw the ceiling, and

00:44:42,377 --> 00:44:43,817

they just kept right on and moving.

00:44:44,217 --> 00:44:46,707

actually know that until very recently.

00:44:47,107 --> 00:44:49,147

it's a, it's all over Appalachia.

00:44:49,547 --> 00:44:49,967

00:44:55,671 --> 00:44:55,891

Um.

00:44:56,291 --> 00:44:59,291

Do you think that like you've ever

seen an accurate representation

00:44:59,321 --> 00:45:02,501

of, things that you've seen on TV

or in movies that have been like,

00:45:02,501 --> 00:45:04,481

yeah, that's accurate to Appalachia.

00:45:04,881 --> 00:45:08,651

there was a, a, a, a thing on Hulu.

00:45:09,116 --> 00:45:11,411

I, I get reminded of it

sometimes in memories.

00:45:11,641 --> 00:45:12,601

Forget what it was called.

00:45:12,601 --> 00:45:17,125

I, I think it started with an h

it was a, a movie about a woman, a

00:45:17,125 --> 00:45:19,855

documentary about a woman who came

from Appalachia and she had to leave.

00:45:19,855 --> 00:45:22,825

She went to grad school and she

came back and it was her, like,

00:45:22,825 --> 00:45:24,295

her love letter to Appalachia.

00:45:24,655 --> 00:45:27,505

That very much felt like let me Google.

00:45:27,535 --> 00:45:28,135

Let's see.

00:45:28,535 --> 00:45:30,115

So not, probably not fiction.

00:45:30,679 --> 00:45:32,929

You don't see very much accurate fiction.

00:45:33,034 --> 00:45:37,294

like, uh, demon copperhead, but I'm still

00:45:37,294 --> 00:45:39,004

angry at the way that book ended, so,

00:45:39,404 --> 00:45:40,379

There's a TV show of that.

00:45:40,779 --> 00:45:41,709

oh no, I'm sorry.

00:45:41,709 --> 00:45:43,359

I thought we were just

talking to media in general.

00:45:43,779 --> 00:45:44,949

Well, no, definitely.

00:45:44,949 --> 00:45:47,919

But I just, for a minute I

was like, how did I miss that?

00:45:48,169 --> 00:45:50,899

Yeah, that one's pretty,

which I think she's local.

00:45:51,299 --> 00:45:57,579

some of the most accurate stuff,

things that, that feel Appalachian

00:45:57,579 --> 00:45:59,899

to me, I've seen was in that show.

00:45:59,899 --> 00:46:02,219

Shameless, those are Appalachians.

00:46:02,219 --> 00:46:02,879

I'm sorry.

00:46:03,208 --> 00:46:04,733

and it's an adaptation.

00:46:05,546 --> 00:46:07,496

Of a British show.

00:46:07,896 --> 00:46:11,406

And that's why, because the British

also feel like that that kind of

00:46:11,406 --> 00:46:17,136

British, um, story and, and the,

uh, like working class, they,

00:46:17,196 --> 00:46:18,696

that also feels very Appalachian.

00:46:19,096 --> 00:46:21,136

But I just thought like,

man, they really missed it.

00:46:21,466 --> 00:46:23,776

They missed the opportunity to make that,

00:46:24,176 --> 00:46:25,796

uh, an Appalachian show.

00:46:26,495 --> 00:46:29,045

that documentary was just Hillbilly.

00:46:29,495 --> 00:46:31,175

It's on Hulu.

00:46:31,515 --> 00:46:35,235

It was, it, I thought it was a good

representation of how I felt about

00:46:35,635 --> 00:46:36,055

00:46:36,355 --> 00:46:37,405

know, I missed Appalachian.

00:46:37,405 --> 00:46:38,665

I wish I could bring it with me, but.

00:46:39,065 --> 00:46:39,395

00:46:39,740 --> 00:46:40,010

00:46:40,055 --> 00:46:41,795

you really can't go home again.

00:46:41,870 --> 00:46:42,373

00:46:42,436 --> 00:46:46,096

once you move away, that's it.

00:46:46,126 --> 00:46:49,456

Like, it, it, you're different

and then you see it different.

00:46:49,856 --> 00:46:52,706

I know that I've talked

about painkiller before.

00:46:53,106 --> 00:46:54,036

Not painkiller dope.

00:46:54,036 --> 00:46:54,426

Sick.

00:46:54,826 --> 00:46:58,456

I don't remember painkiller being

feeling very authentic to Appalachia.

00:46:58,516 --> 00:47:01,156

It's, it's just basically a

different version of the same, the

00:47:01,156 --> 00:47:03,706

same adaptation, but dope sick.

00:47:03,916 --> 00:47:09,256

It felt very realistic to me in an

upsetting way because it was about

00:47:09,256 --> 00:47:14,936

the opioid crisis, but it felt

authentic, it felt like, and I, I think

00:47:14,936 --> 00:47:16,676

they did film it in West Virginia.

00:47:16,926 --> 00:47:19,956

Shanna's, very close family friend.

00:47:20,226 --> 00:47:24,726

Her baby daddy was in one of those,

uh, documentaries about heroin.

00:47:25,156 --> 00:47:26,421

It's, it's very close around.

00:47:27,235 --> 00:47:27,455

00:47:27,655 --> 00:47:28,495

in, in Portsmouth.

00:47:28,495 --> 00:47:31,855

They did, at one of the old, uh,

department stores they used, it was

00:47:31,855 --> 00:47:35,815

all glass door front and they put up

like a, a wall of remembrance of people

00:47:35,815 --> 00:47:37,495

that had died in the opioid epidemic.

00:47:37,495 --> 00:47:39,595

And it was all young people and my brother

00:47:39,645 --> 00:47:39,765

00:47:39,805 --> 00:47:40,585

00:47:40,945 --> 00:47:43,569

And a picture got taken

of it and got shared.

00:47:43,569 --> 00:47:46,479

And that picture, the picture

of the picture of my brother got

00:47:46,479 --> 00:47:47,769

shared in the New York Times.

00:47:47,769 --> 00:47:48,879

It was on Al Jazeera.

00:47:49,279 --> 00:47:49,519

It was

00:47:49,594 --> 00:47:49,924

00:47:50,089 --> 00:47:50,539

00:47:50,539 --> 00:47:53,539

So technically I've had work

in the New York Times and Al

00:47:53,649 --> 00:47:53,939

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00:47:56,449 --> 00:47:58,189

number one customer service agent

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in the world at one point because I

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the number one representative on my team,

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which was the number one team at the site.

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we were the number one site and

we were the number one company

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for a customer service in America.

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So therefore, I was the number one

customer service agent there was.

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I'm good at soft skills.

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I'm good at calming people down,

especially when I can fix their problem.

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it's harrowing being on those phones.

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Like, because I, when I started at

Amazon, I actually started for Target

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because they were doing target.com

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customer service at the same time.

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They did target.com,

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toysrus.com

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and Amazon.

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it was Amazon directly.

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It was the am like I worked for Amazon.

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But one of my very first calls, I

would say in the first week that I

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was taking calls live, I got a lady

calling in, freaking out because she

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had ordered a bed and they had delivered

the frame, but not the mattress.

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And she was dying and

needed to die in basically.

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And like, I like wanted to put the,

the shit in my car and drive it to her.

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I felt so bad about that problem.

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00:49:01,593 --> 00:49:01,983

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Yeah, I did, I did cold calling.

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I never did inbound.

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I also worked for Val Coffee.

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I don't know if you've ever heard of them.

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I love Jabal.

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Shannon and I both worked for them.

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Shannon and I both made the rounds

of customer service, uh, calling.

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'cause Huntington had a

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00:49:17,649 --> 00:49:18,909

00:49:19,074 --> 00:49:19,314

00:49:19,449 --> 00:49:19,809

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was call, there was a few call centers

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in Kentucky, in eastern Kentucky too.

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Like they, that was clearly,

they outsourced to us.

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Sounds friendly.

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are economic reasons why they did it.

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There's captive audiences

that there's no other jobs

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There's no other jobs and they

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don't have to pay them much.

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Amazon only has three North American.

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Well, they used to, like I said, things

have probably changed, but they only

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had three North American call centers.

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There was one in Huntington, West

Virginia, one in Grand for North

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Dakota and one outside of Seattle.

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In Washington.

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I forget the name of that place.

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But yeah, so if you were talking to

somebody in America, you were talking

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to somebody in one of those three

places, people would be so racist.

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They'd be like, oh my God, I'm so

glad I'm talking to an American.

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