Set Out Some Mt. Dew and Pepperoni Rolls for Mothman

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Welcome to Queernecks, the podcast that puts the yehaw in y'all means all.

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I'm your host, Beck,

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Dash: and I'm your host.

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Dash.

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Welcome to today's episode.

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Well, I'm glad that whatever

got Shanna didn't get you

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Beck: You and me both, brother.

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She was technicolor yawning

all evening, as they, they say

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Dash: I've never heard that.

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Oh.

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Beck: I felt so bad for her.

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And I try to stay very calm when

she doesn't feel good because she's

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emotional and sometimes she gets panicky.

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And so I try to stay real cool

and calm and collected, but

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inside I'm like, "Oh my God.

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Oh my God, I need to help."

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You know?

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I feel bad, but she's okay.

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She's doing all right today.

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Yeah

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Dash: food poisoning is, it's a very

frustrating feeling because it's not

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like a stomach virus or something where

you're like, "Okay, I know, know I c

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I wasn't in control of whether this

happened to me or not But food poisoning

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you're like angry at the thing you ate

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Beck: Yeah.

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And then we had Chinese food for

dinner, so we're not gonna be able

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to have Chinese food for a long time.

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Dash: Oh bless her

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Beck: Yeah, yeah.

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It's a byproduct of

the, uh, the situation.

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Listeners, in case you don't, my

wife had um, we think, th- there's

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no guarantee, but it's the only thing

we really had different yesterday.

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I had McDonald's for breakfast.

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I like a good McGriddle now and then.

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And she had Dunkin'.

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She had a croissant bacon sandwich, and

she was very ill yesterday, last night.

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And instead of like, you know, being

in control, you just feel like it

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just needs out of you right now,

like no matter which direction

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it goes, and it's just the worst.

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Dash: You know yeah we wish her her

well Have you ever done it to yourself

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Like you cooked something Like it's one

thing to get it from a restaurant and

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it's another thing to do it to yourself

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Beck: No, I don't…

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I'm very careful when it

comes to food and stuff.

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My sister, on the other hand, will, and

her family, will eat anything anytime.

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Like, when we were doing my mom's

wake right after she died I love

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the baked spaghetti from Giovanni's.

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It's one of my favorite things

in the whole world, right?

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And my nephew likes it as well, and

he had eaten some, and he had left it

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on the table in the back part of the

house, so nobody had cleaned it up.

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And the next morning, I got up and

found him eating that spaghetti,

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and I was like, "Jacob, no."

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And my sister was like, "What?

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With all the chemicals they

put in it, I'm sure it's fine."

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Spaghetti that had been sitting

out for, like, 18 hours,

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you know, not refrigerated.

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I just could never.

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Dash: on

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the one hand I I s I I kinda understand

what she was thinking even though it's

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not accurate cause there are certain

things that Like for instance the

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preservatives and stuff we put into food

to stop it from spoiling as quickly to

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make it a little bit more shelf stable

processes we do to food Like that can

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keep it edible for longer if you take

care of it right Like so a a piece of

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cake in the fridge will a storebought

cake is gonna live longer not if you just

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leave it out at room temperature Like

preservatives all that stuff don't cancel

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out bacteria and as soon as something

hits the air it's got bacteria on it

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Beck: Yeah.

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Dash: and if you leave it sit and it's

got access to sugar which is what bacteria

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eats which is what food is made of

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Beck: You know what's really bad

is that my sister is a manager

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of a med- med lab at a hospital.

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She knows germs and bacteria

better than anybody.

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And she's like, "Oh, it's fine."

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I'm like, I just could not.

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I, I was appalled.

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And they were all like, "No,

we do this all the time."

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I was like, maybe that has

caused the crazy in your family.

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I don't know.

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Yeah, apparently.

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Apparently.

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I saw that video the other day

and now it's just in my head.

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Do you know the little kid

that says, "Apparently," like

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100 times in the same video?

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I saw it the other day.

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It's

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Dash: though He's at an event of some kind

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Beck: It's a news video and, uh,

I forget what he's talking about.

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I just watched it the other day.

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What?

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He's at the fair.

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Dash: Yeah

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Yeah I thought

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Beck: Yehaw.

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Dash: like a a fair or a street

vendors type thing and yeah

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they were trying to get a an a

a soundbite out of him about the

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Beck: Yeah

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Dash: and he just So unselfconscious Yeah

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Beck: Yeah.

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So every time I've heard that word, which

you, uh, I d- I can't believe how many

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times I've heard it over the last week.

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It's more common than you would think.

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Come on, Rue

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Dash: Well it's I think it's that

BaaderMeinhof effect of once something

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becomes salient to your perspective

notice that it's a lot more common than it

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Beck: Yeah.

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Dash: had paid any attention to it

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Beck: Yeah, yeah

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Dash: For the longest time I couldn't

figure out whether our like phones and

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social media were listening to us or

not because I was like It could be Bader

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Meinhoff This was way back in the day

before they had admitted that they were

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data farming us So like when we started

to get ads and things on websites for at

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during Web 20 I was like this doing here

How did you know I was thinking about that

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Beck: Right?

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It is wild how they, it really,

shit comes up immediately after

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you start talking about it.

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Dash: cause I've been thinking about it

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Beck: Yehaw.

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Dash: Wait a minute

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Beck: Yehaw

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Dash: That's a bridge too far you know

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Beck: Yeah

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Dash: That's one reason I have like

my group chats are in Signal It's not

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because I think I'm some sort of elite

spy and the government wants to know

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what I wanna know It's be it's so that

I can fucking talk to people without

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my algorithm and AdSense and whatnot

listening to me cause like if if you say

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Oh man I'm craving some Taco Bell and

then on on your fucking TV you're watching

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YouTube and you know I I don't have

YouTube Premium I'm a cheapskate a Taco

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Beck: Same

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Dash: comes up I'm like No no no

no You're not doing that to me

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Beck: Have you ever

used the Taco Bell app?

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Dash: No I haven't frequented Taco

Bell much since uh like restaurants

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started to do apps I've used the

the McDonald's one several times

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Beck: The, uh, Taco Bell app,

when you place an order, it

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rings the Taco Bell bell.

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It goes dong.

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Dash: Nice

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Beck: Makes me laugh every time.

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But you get free stuff.

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You get like they call it their hot

tier item, and we always get either

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the potatoes or cinnamon twists

or chips and cheese or something.

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And you can get that free.

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So I mean, it's the same thing ordering it

through the box or through the, the thing.

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You just get free stuff if you

do it through the thing, so

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Dash: Yeah I mean I love a rewards

program We're gonna have to stop talking

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about food so poor Shana can relax Sorry

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Beck: do have some new stuff at Taco Bell.

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They, they have been

innovating their menu recently.

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They have the Cantina Chicken menu.

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Shana gets the Cantina

Chicken Quesadilla Roll Up.

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It looks pretty good

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And then they have the mini taco shell,

like taco salads, but they're tiny.

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You know how they have like d-

they put the salad in the shell?

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They have miniature ones of those now.

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They just brought the

Enchirito back yesterday

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Dash: I think there is a there's a

Taco Bell over in the city that I

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go to my boxing class in so maybe

I'll go by there Man I ate like a

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fucking trash panda yesterday cause

I had a bunch of errands to run

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I can't be trusted Like when I'm at home

obviously there's nothing near here so

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where am I gonna get garbage food I I

can only eat what I cook And that's been

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kind of That's been straight up exposure

therapy for me because I used to love to

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cook but my OCD had gotten so bad that I

couldn't do it anymore Talking about being

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scared of foodborne illness I couldn't

touch food I would If I had to touch a

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piece of especially poultry or or pork

one of the b ones that has the bad stuff

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in it it's like I would touch it and I'd

have to wash my hands and touch it again

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have to wash my hands and then I couldn't

cut it without having to like If I set

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the knife down I'd have to wash a new

knife And so it I had gotten so trapped

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by my neuroses that I had gone to a place

of a really restricted diet and not very

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happy Like food should make you in an

alleged developed society like ours food

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should be able to bring you happiness

and comfort at least some of the time and

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I wasn't having that experience I was I

was just trying to calorie max so that I

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didn't die And so I you know moving here

where there just were no options I had

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to start cooking And so yesterday or I

don't remember someday I made uh chicken

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curry I was cutting it and I didn't wash

my hands in between I was like I just

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washed everything afterwards like a normal

person I imagine a normal person is like

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This is weird sitting in the

hallway recording That's my stairs

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Beck: know.

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That's my bathroom behind me.

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I have a bathroom and

Shana has a bathroom.

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That's mine.

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Dash: That's nice

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Beck: Yeah

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Dash: I have the one bathroom and it's

upstairs but I also have just called a

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roughout which is in just one commode

in the basement And in these old houses

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they weren't even really intended to

be used It's for the water pressure

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Beck: Yeah.

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I read that some- somewhere recently.

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Uh, we wanted a, a corner unit that

had sliding glass doors on the first

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floor, and to get that we had to take

a two bedroom, two bathroom, which is

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one of the reasons it's so expensive.

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Plus it's an ADA apartment, so it's got

some bells and whistles in it, like the,

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the kitchen's bigger things like that

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Dash: To have the the handlebars

in the bathtubs and stuff

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Beck: Uh, no, it, they didn't go that far.

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The building next to us has a couple

of people in wheelchairs, and they

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have, uh, electric opening doors.

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So I think they have…

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This one I think is, uh, meant for

wheelchairs because everything's so wide.

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Like, you can get in and out

of everything really easily

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Dash: Oh I bet that's easy to move into

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Beck: I, I dragged a couch

through the glass doors.

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It was, you know, I m- next time

I move, I'm using movers c- again,

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'cause I'm not, I'm not, I'm too old

for that shit now And I don't have

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any friends that would, you know, I

could pay in beer and pizza anymore, so

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Dash: You know that's not the we're

not living that college kid experience

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Beck: Yeah.

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Dash: can

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Beck: my brother used to help me.

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he, he did a Forrest Gump impression.

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He said, "I'm wearing my moving

shoes," when he was helping me move,

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and that was a dumb joke that we…

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One of the good memories I have of

my brother, him in his moving shoes

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Dash: Yeah Yeah my whole family has

helped me move several times before back

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when I you know was younger and they

were closer and they were younger too

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Uh come up and just my dad they would

bring one truck or another and we would

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load all of my shit in it and take it

from one shitty apartment to the next one

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Beck: Yeah.

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Before my dad died, he would show up with

his trailer truck and a couple of his m-

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men friends that I had never met before,

and they would just move all of our shit.

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Like, they were just, you know, we would

have it all boxed up and ready to go, and

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they would put it on the trailer, and Mark

would follow us to where we were going.

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They would unload it,

and they would leave.

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It was wonderful.

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I … That was one thing my dad really did

help me with was, was moving and stuff.

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He was really great about that

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Dash: Well I think I mean that's the kind

of thing that it's not very difficult to

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b you know like that doesn't take a ton

of forethought It's literally you just

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show up and you do what you're told kind

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Beck: Yehaw

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Dash: And that kinda that appeals

to some folks Other folks hate

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that kinda thing Like I'll help

you do literally anything else

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Beck: Yeah.

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Dash: help

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Beck: That would be me.

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I hate moving with a passion.

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Dash: Like You

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that need done

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Beck: We decided we're gonna stay in this

apartment because they sent us the lease

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renewal, and it's only a $30 increase.

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And where Wenda and Baby have

passed, our rent for pets will

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go down $30, so we'll even out.

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So there's no raise in the rent, so we

might as well stay here for the year

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Dash: If you can make it work

and you don't have to add that

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stress of moving and you know the

place is c comfortable fuck it

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Beck: Yeah.

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Yeah, it's very small, but it's 950

square feet, the, the whole apartment

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Dash: I have heard much

worse I've lived in

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Beck: Yeah.

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Dash: I I

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Beck: Yeah, for sure

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Dash: 190 square foot

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Beck: Wow

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Dash: apartment Yeah It they're they're

called shotgun apartments I think is

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the style and you'll recognize this

layout So you walk in the door it has

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one door Sometimes there'll be another

door out the back but and it into what

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is on one side kitchen the other side

living room They're one room and they're

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sort of stuck together Behind them is

a bedroom th through a door and then

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inside the bedroom is the bathroom And

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Beck: Yehaw

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Dash: walk

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Beck: That's the exact layout of

a girl that I dated in college,

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what her apartment was like

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Dash: Yeah So I there was a lot of those

in Richmond and so I I lived in several

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of them And you know back then I paid

300 bucks in rent for several years there

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that was my budget so I would just go

with whatever I could find But Richmond

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was so Some college towns are very good

at being college towns in terms of having

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a wide variety of the stuff you need for

people to to be able to live comfortably

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and Richmond was one of them And I've

lived in a shitload of college towns

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Beck: Yehaw

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Dash: Cause I work at

you know work in higher

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Beck: Yehaw

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Dash: and I typically It c I think people

have their own preferences I I know people

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who have worked in higher ed for as long

as I have but never once lived in the same

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town as the college they work at because

they don't want that experience But that

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I I was never rich enough to do that

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Beck: Yeah, I loved living in BG.

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I really did.

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Uh, they dragged me out of

there kicking and screaming

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Dash: Aww

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Beck: LFBG, I, had a sweet deal.

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I was paying $750 a month for

a two-bedroom apartment with a

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garage and off-street parking and,

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you all the

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Dash: was was pretty sweet I

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of the not parties really but some of

the gettogethers we had over there with

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Andy would come over Cleatha would come

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Beck: Uhhuh

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Dash: And Andrew And just sitting

around everyone had s people would

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have their preferred substance and

some folks would have none By that

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Beck: Yehaw

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Dash: I wasn't I wasn't drinking anymore

so you know we would just sit around

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We watched a lot of YouTube We'd be

cooking something and just hanging out

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listening to music maybe I don't know

Don't have those experiences anymore

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Beck: Yeah, I miss that stuff.

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It's, 'cause I'm still in the same

place, but everybody's gone, you know?

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And it, there's just echoes of everybody

around, so that's, that's one good

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reason that I'm not in BG right now.

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I think it would be even

more lonely than it is.

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But then again, we don't know a

single one of our neighbors here

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Dash: Well that's how it felt going back

to Richmond when I went back to work

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at EKU after being gone for 12 years or

something of the the ghosts were there

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Like sort of like the impression of where

things had been was still there but the

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thing wasn't there anymore and it was it

was actually kind of lonelier than just

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being lonely somewhere although yesterday

I went to hang out with my friends up in

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who do live up in the the town where the

college we worked at was and that was fun

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hadn't done a some serious socializing

for like many many hours in quite a while

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Beck: I went to the drive-in again

this week and we saw Toy Story 5

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Dash: I didn't even know that was

out until I saw Amy Beshear post

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with Tyler Childers about it on

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Beck: Yeah.

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Well, we had seen one through

three, so we watched Toy Story 4

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this week, and then we watched 5.

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It was pretty good.

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It still holds up.

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I think, I don't know what else

they can do with that story.

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Like they've, you know,

they've, they, I think they have

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reached the end, but who knows?

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There could be Toy Story 17.

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They could keep coming up with ideas

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Dash: Thought they were gonna do that

with those Cars movie for a while

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I I saw the first one I don't think

I've s I haven't seen any of the other

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actual Toy Story ones but I watched that

Lightyear movie which it is still the

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same franchise but it's like a l more of a

tween movie I think And they had replaced

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Tim Allen with Chris Evans the voice

of Lightyear was cute I really liked It

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Beck: I haven't seen that one

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Dash: there his there's a a lesbian

couple he like has a a peer or maybe a

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commander I don't know and we experience

the passage of time through their

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relationship and like them raising

their daughter It's really sweet

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Beck: Yeah.

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The, the second movie that was playing

was that Nate Bargatze movie that's out.

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We watched a little bit of it,

but I had to pee so we left

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'cause it was really bad, so

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Dash: The first yeah the first I heard

about this man was over apparently

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he's being canceled or something

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Beck: Yeah, I knew who he was 'cause I

follow a lot of, uh, stand-up comics and

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things like that, so he wasn't new to me.

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Dash: Okay

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Beck: but yeah, he- because he showed

up at the, at the UFC fight, uh,

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people are saying that he politicized

his work, and so now they're trying

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to cancel him, which I disagree with.

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I, I, you know what I mean?

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Like, if he wants to go to

something like that, that's fine.

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I don't think we should

cancel him over that.

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I don't know.

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Maybe I'm wrong.

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Cause we don't know why he went, you know?

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He could've been, there's a lot of

different reasons he could've went

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Dash: I mean you know I like MMA I don't

like UFC because I don't like Dana White

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I uh that that whole organization I d I

don't like but I love martial arts I like

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mixed martial arts And uh I guess I could

understand if I was like a mega fan wa

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if I go to every single UFC like there

are some people who are completionists

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there are some people who are like I go

to every single UFC and this one just

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happens to be white nationalist shit show

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Beck: Right?

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Dash: I don't know It's sucks when

the thing you like becomes politicized

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and that I think that goes for a lot of

pop culture things and I think people

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from working class background like the

things that are most popular for us like

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NASCAR mixed martial arts monster trucks

ra dude what whatever it is whatever

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stuff that people who are bluecollar

backgrounds like it tends to get really

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politicized i in rightwing ways and

it's like it sucks because now I have

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to think about that I'm trying to enjoy

this thing I don't know I wasn't rich

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enough to become a soccer fan I'm sorry

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Beck: Yeah, I was never, I was

never introduced to soccer.

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I guess my sister played when she was

really little, but, but by the time

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mom got to me, that was out the window.

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And then I never got, uh,

exposed to basketball either.

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I don't think I've ever played

anything beyond HORSE ever.

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I've never played an

actual game of basketball.

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I wouldn't even know how to do it.

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But softball, I was all in on softball.

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Dash: of comedians we we did uh have

assignment from last week that is was

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pretty fun we I mean we talk a lot about

humor and comedy We both like standup

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and we also both like to be funny

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Beck: Yehaw

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Dash: And I think the past we have

talked about like why we think humor is

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important so I was thinking about that

while going over all the many options

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for um sets I could talk about But I

I was thinking humor's actually pretty

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queer Like in practice making fun of

something is queer like in the the queer

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theory sense of the word Like tr you're

trying to ruin it a little bit You're

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trying to to fuck it up a little bit

so that it becomes a ridiculous version

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of itself or or it makes it it makes

a a statement about something else Do

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you know what makes a certain joke or

comedian or set stick with you personally

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Beck: If you can make me laugh without

going into, like, dick jokes, that is

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a standout performance to me, right?

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Because I, I just think people that go

straight for the, the sexual humor and

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stuff like that, that's easy marks, right?

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Telling me a poop joke,

that's an easy mark.

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if you can make me laugh without going

for the low-hanging fruit, that's really

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what I find, uh, good about comedians.

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So finding something, some common ground

and exploiting it without going low,

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I guess, is what stands out to me.

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Like Mitch Hedberg, is

one of my favorite…

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I had him as, uh, 'cause I, I wa- I

watched several different things this week

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trying to figure out what I wanted to do,

and I watched a couple of Mitch Hedberg's.

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He was one of my…

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I had, I narrowed it down to three

options, and he was number three.

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So I watched some of his stuff

this week, and he was so funny.

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And I still, like, I still

quote him all the time.

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Like, every time I get a donut and they

try to give me a receipt, I'm like, you

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know, "I just can't imagine what I'm

gonna have to prove that I had a donut.

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They gave me a receipt, and

I filed under D for donut."

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Dash: Yeah he had this talent

for finding the absurd in things

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that we all take for granted

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Beck: he said, "Some people get cavities.

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: 00:21:09

I call them a place to keep keys."

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: 00:21:13

Dash: I remember Janeane Garofalo once

made a joke about somebody It was in

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: 00:21:18

a movie actually I think it was that

one with Uma Thurman they're like

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: 00:21:23

trying to sell her pore minimizing

creams or something like that and

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: 00:21:27

she was like No Do you have any

pore maximizing creams I would like

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: 00:21:31

somewhere to keep my spare change

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: 00:21:35

I sh and she's another example of somebody

who's just extremely dry But also there's

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kind of uh something that I don't really

love are the angry comedians Not not

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Beck: Yehaw

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Dash: not being angry

it's the screaming right

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: 00:21:49

Beck: Yeah.

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: 00:21:50

Dash: I can't

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: 00:21:51

Beck: Yeah.

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Dash: Although my the exception uh to

the angry comedian rule is Lewis Black

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: 00:21:57

who i he does use like screaming to

punctuate his joke I I like him and even

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: 00:22:04

though like occasionally he will scream

Do you have a favorite kind of joke

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: 00:22:09

Beck: Observational humor,

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: 00:22:11

Dash: Yehaw

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: 00:22:11

Beck: my favorite kind.

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: 00:22:12

The, the absurd and the ordinary.

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: 00:22:14

You know, the, the noticing the

neurodoses of people in general.

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: 00:22:18

You know, I like that kind of thing.

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: 00:22:20

Things that catch you off

guard are my favorite.

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: 00:22:22

I also am not a screaming

fan of that kind of stuff.

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: 00:22:25

Sam Kinison is probably my least.

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: 00:22:26

Him and Andrew Dice Clay are probably

my least favorite comedians ever.

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: 00:22:30

But I do like people like Brian

Regan, who kinda yells, right?

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: 00:22:33

But he is so clean that, that you can't,

you know, he does it in a really funny

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: 00:22:38

way, so I give him some, some slack there.

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: 00:22:41

Dash: On the topic of like sexual

humor and stuff like that I was

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: 00:22:45

thinking about it as you were talking

cause and I'm like I just don't want

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: 00:22:48

that from straight people Like I

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: 00:22:50

Beck: Right?

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: 00:22:51

Dash: I want it in a context that it

goes the extra mile of humor Cause

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: 00:22:58

the way that like queer people do like

innuendo and comedy it's just smarter

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: 00:23:04

They're more intelligent St straight

comics aren't very smart to me I know

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: 00:23:09

Beck: Yehaw

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: 00:23:10

Dash: reductive it's generalizing I

don't care I think that having to be more

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: 00:23:14

creative in life in general because you

live in a marginalized identity makes

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: 00:23:19

you more creative in any art you do

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: 00:23:22

Beck: Yeah

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: 00:23:22

Dash: there's lots of ways to be

marginalized Queer is not the only one

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: 00:23:25

so it doesn't mean straight people can't

have that experience But know the I

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: 00:23:29

think there's a reason a lot of comedians

have certain marginalized experiences

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: 00:23:33

Beck: Right.

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No, I agree with that completely.

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: 00:23:35

The people that I have found

to be funniest in my life are

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: 00:23:37

people that had kinda a tough

way to go sometimes, you know?

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: 00:23:41

Because you, I think it's because you

have to find ways to laugh at life or

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: 00:23:45

you're just gonna kill yourself, you know?

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: 00:23:48

Like, when, when…

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: 00:23:49

Like, I, I figured out when I was

very young that it was easy to make my

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: 00:23:53

mom laugh, and when she was crying, I

could change that by making her laugh.

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: 00:23:57

And so I became funny basically,

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: 00:24:00

Dash: that's more than one kind of trauma

Like that's a childhood trauma that in

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: 00:24:04

w that like made you responsible for the

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: 00:24:07

Beck: Mm

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: 00:24:08

Dash: of your parent Like that's a

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: 00:24:09

Beck: Yeah

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: 00:24:11

Dash: And humor I think it I think it

has two It it has it can have lots of

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jobs but two of its very important jobs

are like a utility to keep someone safe

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to manage a situation to f some sort

of social component right Like inter

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: 00:24:28

interpersonal type of utility And the

other is to mock power I think the

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most important thing humor can do is

mock dominant paradigms I notice you

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: 00:24:38

your brand of humor is you like

p puns and I I like wordplay

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: 00:24:44

and puns and stuff too One of my

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: 00:24:47

Beck: Yehaw

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: 00:24:47

Dash: of jokes is called a malapropism

it's named after a character named

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Mrs Malaprops who in turn was named

after Malaprop just means misusing

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: 00:24:59

a word in a very specific way So

it's when you a person uses a word

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: 00:25:04

that sounds similar to a word but

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: 00:25:06

Beck: Yeah.

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: 00:25:08

Dash: my and my mom used to make these

these were very popular jokes w where I

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: 00:25:11

grew up in in Jellico and Williamsburg So

my mom would say if she had a a medication

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: 00:25:16

to pick up she was going to pick up her

subscription I just thought that was

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: 00:25:20

hysterical because it's yeah you you

subscribed to life for that Yogi Berra

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: 00:25:26

was really big on these that's one A a

lot of his witticisms they're malapropisms

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: 00:25:33

Like when he he was talking about switch

hitting and he said Yeah you hit from both

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: 00:25:36

sides of the plate cause he's amphibious

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: 00:25:40

And I just I I fucking love It's

so it just seems so clever to

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: 00:25:45

me and it's also like just the

nerdiest kind of humor But then on

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: 00:25:48

Beck: Yehaw

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: 00:25:49

Dash: of the spectrum I can

love when a drag queen is making

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: 00:25:53

you know like innuendo about

or something Like I can enjoy

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: 00:25:57

Beck: Yeah

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: 00:25:58

Dash: I just need it to be

clever not gonna get me laugh

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: 00:26:02

by saying the word dick Like

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: 00:26:06

Beck: Right

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: 00:26:06

Dash: I can make I just made myself

laugh D but so that that's not

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: 00:26:10

quite accurate If I say it then

I can laugh at it I don't know

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: 00:26:19

So we both picked two specific

or a specific set So I haven't

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: 00:26:25

seen the one that you sent

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: 00:26:28

Beck: Okay.

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: 00:26:28

It's a three-minute kind of

compilation of a, of a larger set,

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: 00:26:32

and it hit all of the quotable parts

of it, so I thought it was perfect.

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: 00:26:36

Like, I quote that, that thing…

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: 00:26:38

I've been quoting it for years, so

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: 00:26:40

Dash: and I picked one This was actually

voted the most important or funniest

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: 00:26:47

joke of all time by a British poll

it is Emo Philips famous Golden Gate

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: 00:26:54

Bridge bit it's the section when it'll

often be clipped to like maybe a four

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: 00:27:00

or even fiveminute section We don't

need to listen to the whole thing

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: 00:27:03

especially because he is such a fucking

weirdo Have you seen this guy before

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: 00:27:06

Beck: No

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: 00:27:07

Dash: Oh he's weird His affect is gonna

So this is from 87 I don't know the name

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: 00:27:13

of this special Let me see if it says

in the description Uh the Hasty Pudding

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: 00:27:18

Theater HBO special from 1987 so the setup

to this joke is that he says We need to

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: 00:27:24

be kinder to each other We need to learn

to celebrate what we have in common and

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: 00:27:32

know recognize the humanity in each other

And he starts to tell a story about he

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: 00:27:37

walks he's walking along the Golden Gate

Bridge and he sees someone standing up on

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: 00:27:40

a ledge and they're you know like they're

gonna jump And he stops them and he's

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: 00:27:46

like What's going on You have so much

to live for The and there's a bizarre

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: 00:27:50

bit in here about how the guy wants to

kill himself because he has a horse face

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: 00:27:54

So he starts making all these about how

his face is like a horse and they're

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: 00:27:58

very funny but I cut them out because it

goes on kind of a long time but anyway

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: 00:28:03

he starts to say Don't you have anything

to believe in You know Isn't what isn't

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: 00:28:07

it great that you know God is out there

And so this becomes a bit it's one of

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: 00:28:11

the most famous bits about religion in

comedy and so he asks the guy about his

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: 00:28:17

religion so that's where I'm gonna pick up

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: 00:28:20

Speaker: They said, I

used to believe in God.

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: 00:28:23

I said, that's good.

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: 00:28:25

Were you a Christian or a Jew?

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: 00:28:28

He said a Christian.

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: 00:28:30

I said, me too.

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: 00:28:31

Protestant or Catholic?

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: 00:28:33

He said Protestant.

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: 00:28:35

I said, me too.

531

: 00:28:36

What franchise?

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: 00:28:39

He says Baptist.

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: 00:28:40

I said, me too.

534

: 00:28:42

Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?

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: 00:28:44

He says Northern Baptist.

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: 00:28:46

I said me too.

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: 00:28:47

Northern Conservative Baptist

or Northern Liberal Baptist.

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: 00:28:50

Just, he says Northern

Conservative Baptist Tyson.

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: 00:28:53

Me too.

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: 00:28:54

Northern Conservative,

fundamentalist Baptist, the Northern

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: 00:28:57

Conservative Reform Baptist.

542

: 00:28:59

He says Northern Conservative,

fundamentalist Baptist, Tyson.

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: 00:29:03

Me too.

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: 00:29:04

Northern Conservative, fundamentalist

Baptist, great Legs region, Northern

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: 00:29:08

Conservative, fundamentalist

Baptist, Eastern region, and he says

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: 00:29:11

Northern Conservative, fundamentalist

Baptist, great Lake region.

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: 00:29:14

Me too.

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: 00:29:15

Northern Conservative, fundamentalist

Baptist grade, legs, region.

549

: 00:29:18

Cons of 1879, Northern Conservative,

fundamentalist Baptist, great Leg Region.

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: 00:29:24

Cons of 1912.

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: 00:29:25

He says North Conservative fundamentalist

Baptist grade Legs, region.

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: 00:29:28

Cons of 1912.

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: 00:29:30

I said die heretic, and I pushed.

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: 00:29:41

Dash: I fucking love that

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: 00:29:42

so

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: 00:29:42

Beck: That was great

557

: 00:29:43

Dash: in in my head like I'll I'll hear

Die heretic or I'll say it under my

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: 00:29:48

breath if I don't like something There's

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: 00:29:51

Beck: That's hilarious

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: 00:29:52

Dash: about that joke you know I

mean first it's the ridiculousness

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: 00:29:55

of whether someone agrees with our

fundamentals or our religion whether

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: 00:29:59

we care whether they live or die But

also like we were talking about there's

563

: 00:30:03

45000 denominations of Christianity

How do they even talk to each other

564

: 00:30:10

Beck: It, that reminds me

of a, a comic that I had.

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: 00:30:12

There were two, like they were at

war and there were two sides, one

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: 00:30:15

on the left, one on the right, and

there was empty space between them.

567

: 00:30:18

And one had a, uh, a flag with a rabbit

on it, and the other had the, the same

568

: 00:30:22

flag, but the rabbit was upside down.

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: 00:30:24

And, you know, they were, they were

saying that they were, you know, at war.

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: 00:30:28

And it basically is the same shit,

just a different way of phrasing it.

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: 00:30:32

That's hilarious

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: 00:30:34

Dash: And I honestly like that's the

one of his that I've seen the most is

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: 00:30:38

I don't He kind of annoys me actually

his whole like performance style his

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: 00:30:43

affect kind of gets on my nerves but

you know I get it right It's it's just

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: 00:30:48

a that's his thing It's a shtick It's

very 80s to me in that way But yeah

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: 00:30:53

Beck: Yeah.

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: 00:30:54

Dash: I fucking love

578

: 00:30:55

Beck: Good comedy has no, has no time.

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: 00:30:57

Like, it's timeless, right?

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: 00:30:59

That would be funny in

: 1989

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: 00:31:02

That, that's, that's good comedy.

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: 00:31:04

Yeah

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: 00:31:05

Dash: heretic And I pushed him over Well

listeners let us know if you've heard

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: 00:31:09

of Emo Phillips before if you heard

that bit before and of course let us

585

: 00:31:14

know what your favorites are I have John

Pinette pulled up here This is Beck's

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: 00:31:19

choice bit called Raviolis and a Nap

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: 00:31:23

Beck: is, which is a mantra

of mine, as you will see.

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: 00:31:27

Speaker 2: Uh, I went to the gym today.

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: 00:31:30

Listen, first, first, listen,

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: 00:31:35

since February I've been going to

the gym five or six days a week.

591

: 00:31:39

I don't like it.

592

: 00:31:40

I go because I wanna be healthier.

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: 00:31:43

I have such a long road ahead of me.

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: 00:31:45

I, I lost a hundred pounds

and, and people say to me.

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: 00:31:50

Wow.

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: 00:31:51

We can really see it in your face.

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: 00:32:01

How big was my head before

I started this journey?

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: 00:32:05

Apparently I was the Kool-Aid man.

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: 00:32:08

Nobody ever said anything to me.

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: 00:32:10

Oh yeah.

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: 00:32:11

Kool-Aid here.

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: 00:32:15

That's John.

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: 00:32:16

His head's the size of a manhole cover.

604

: 00:32:19

We don't talk about it though.

605

: 00:32:23

So in February I hired a trainer.

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: 00:32:27

I've had many since then.

607

: 00:32:30

Some quit some turn to drugs and alcohol.

608

: 00:32:35

Then he says to me, give me a sit up.

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: 00:32:41

I said, oh, nay, nay.

610

: 00:32:42

I, I don't do ups.

611

: 00:32:46

I told him that when I signed up.

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: 00:32:47

I don't do ups, I do downs.

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: 00:32:51

Sit down, lay down.

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: 00:32:54

Blackjack.

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: 00:32:54

I'll double down,

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: 00:32:58

gimme a cheeseburger, I'll wolf it down.

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: 00:33:05

Put on little music.

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: 00:33:06

I'll boogie down, but I don't do ups.

619

: 00:33:11

Ups, SIFY, gravity.

620

: 00:33:13

Gravity is a law.

621

: 00:33:16

I obey the law,

622

: 00:33:19

so I, I see people at the gym and,

and I just don't think healthy.

623

: 00:33:28

I'm on.

624

: 00:33:29

I do this machine.

625

: 00:33:30

Do you know this horrible machine?

626

: 00:33:31

I don't know the name of it.

627

: 00:33:32

I call it the horrible machine.

628

: 00:33:34

I started in February.

629

: 00:33:36

I could do five minutes, but

I would have to cry for two

630

: 00:33:38

and a half of those minutes.

631

: 00:33:40

People don't wanna see that at the gym.

632

: 00:33:41

They complain.

633

: 00:33:42

Take him off that machine.

634

: 00:33:43

He's crying.

635

: 00:33:45

Now I can do 45.

636

: 00:33:46

Said it's a real miracle, but Oh, okay.

637

: 00:33:50

Yeah.

638

: 00:33:50

And I'm a pleasure to be around too.

639

: 00:33:53

I see other people working

out on the machines.

640

: 00:33:55

They're thinking, what

machine am I gonna do next?

641

: 00:33:57

Maybe I'll do weights.

642

: 00:33:59

And I'm thinking if I do 45

minutes and live, I'm gonna

643

: 00:34:01

have raviolis and a nap, so.

644

: 00:34:05

So the last 15 minutes is a chant,

ravioli's in a nap, ravioli's in a nap.

645

: 00:34:13

I am like this on the machine.

646

: 00:34:14

The trainer comes by and

says, I see you're sweating.

647

: 00:34:16

That's great.

648

: 00:34:17

You know you're burning fat.

649

: 00:34:18

Oh good.

650

: 00:34:19

I hope it's a control burn.

651

: 00:34:22

'cause if this baby goes up

all at once, it's gonna be a

652

: 00:34:25

mushroom cloud over this gym.

653

: 00:34:32

Beck: So raviolis and a ma- nap

is one of my mantras for life

654

: 00:34:37

Dash: I'm well and I was thinking

about like both of our uh decision

655

: 00:34:41

process was about whether we have

a vocal stim resulting from the bit

656

: 00:34:48

Uh so I definitely like if it's

something that becomes part of my

657

: 00:34:53

lexicon or part of like you say mantra my

selftalk apparently that's important in

658

: 00:35:01

Beck: Yeah, the…

659

: 00:35:01

Dash: it it sticks with me

660

: 00:35:03

Beck: I don't do ups, I do downs.

661

: 00:35:05

That's another one that I have used.

662

: 00:35:07

Dash: Ugh

663

: 00:35:09

Beck: Gravity is a law.

664

: 00:35:10

I obey the law.

665

: 00:35:12

Dash: Gravity is a law

666

: 00:35:14

Beck: There, the other one that I

considered doing, uh, was another

667

: 00:35:17

John Pinette where he goes to a

waterpark with his family, and

668

: 00:35:20

that one was pretty funny too.

669

: 00:35:22

As somebody who's been to a

waterpark while fat, it was hilarious

670

: 00:35:31

Dash: I remember there was kind of a

heyday of comedy specials back in the

671

: 00:35:36

2000s Uh maybe this is a kind of the

when Comedy Central started It used to

672

: 00:35:41

be the Comedy Channel and then it became

Comedy Central around that time And

673

: 00:35:45

that was when comedy like standup comedy

anyway became so accessible to those

674

: 00:35:52

of us that didn't have Sirius XM Radio

675

: 00:35:54

Beck: Right

676

: 00:35:55

Dash: didn't know how to buy a comedy

album Do you remember buying comedy albums

677

: 00:36:00

Beck: I had a Bill Cosby

one, thank you very much.

678

: 00:36:03

Like, yeah.

679

: 00:36:04

I used to think Bill Cosby was a great

comic, and then he did what he did, so

680

: 00:36:08

Dash: He was just also

a piece of shit rapist

681

: 00:36:12

Beck: Yeah.

682

: 00:36:13

But y- b- not to say but,

you know, excuse, excuse.

683

: 00:36:17

I, I really did find him to be…

684

: 00:36:19

Like, he had some really funny stuff

like when he was talking about, uh,

685

: 00:36:22

having a fart in front of his kids.

686

: 00:36:24

Like, that's one of the funniest pieces

of writing I have ever seen ever.

687

: 00:36:27

It's hilarious 'cause he talks about

an elephant going under the chair.

688

: 00:36:31

It's really funny.

689

: 00:36:32

Dash: Did you see that elephant

that went under there Yeah it

690

: 00:36:35

Beck: yeah

691

: 00:36:35

Dash: up about three feet

692

: 00:36:37

Beck: Pretty much.

693

: 00:36:38

That's pretty much the bit, and

694

: 00:36:39

Dash: Yehaw

695

: 00:36:40

Beck: that had me rolling

when I was young, you

696

: 00:36:42

know

697

: 00:36:42

Dash: know what's funny is I'm

pretty sure that closes that

698

: 00:36:45

special that's the end of Bill Cosby

699

: 00:36:48

Beck: Yeah.

700

: 00:36:49

Yeah

701

: 00:36:50

Dash: I remember that special for

talking about grandparents in particular

702

: 00:36:55

like what it was like to watch your

parent change their whole treatment of

703

: 00:37:01

children when they become a grandparent

I remember he said uh That's not the

704

: 00:37:06

person that raised me That's an old

705

: 00:37:09

Beck: Yeah.

706

: 00:37:09

Dash: trying to get into heaven

707

: 00:37:14

And it was like that is exactly what

it feels like interacting across those

708

: 00:37:20

generations but I mean yeah he for

comedy he was a very important person he

709

: 00:37:25

Beck: Yeah

710

: 00:37:26

Dash: a rapist and also

711

: 00:37:28

Beck: Yeah

712

: 00:37:29

Dash: He he contributed to

respectability politics for Black

713

: 00:37:33

Beck: Yep.

714

: 00:37:34

Yep

715

: 00:37:35

Dash: He was very influential in that

Intentionally influential I remember when

716

: 00:37:40

he was first like his first the first big

uh set of accusers he had been accused

717

: 00:37:45

before and nobody listened whenever

this was that he was actually indicted

718

: 00:37:50

maybe 15 years ago now it's been a while

I was talking to my grandparents and

719

: 00:37:54

I remember they were like Well they're

trying to ruin his life I was like Why

720

: 00:37:59

are you defending him Why are white

people Bill Cosby so much And I started

721

: 00:38:07

thinking about how important he is to

hegemonic whiteness Like he's one their

722

: 00:38:15

token he's a success story The Huxtable

the show he's a fucking doctor He's

723

: 00:38:21

something that white people can point to

and say I'm not racist I like Bill Cosby

724

: 00:38:25

Beck: Yeah, he's a model minority

725

: 00:38:27

Dash: Yeah model minority that's

right And the way he spoke to and

726

: 00:38:31

about other Black men in particular

727

: 00:38:34

Beck: And their pants especially.

728

: 00:38:36

The, the only time I've ever had

to throw a kid out of class, I've

729

: 00:38:39

been teaching since 2013, right?

730

: 00:38:41

And the only time I've ever had to

ki- kick a kid out of class was we

731

: 00:38:45

were talking about rape, and a k-

he just went off and started talking

732

: 00:38:49

about how Bill Cosby was framed.

733

: 00:38:51

And, you know, that's a conversation

we could have had if he would've stayed

734

: 00:38:54

reasonable, but he started screaming

about it, and he was a young Black

735

: 00:38:58

man, which I found really interesting.

736

: 00:39:01

and a football player at that.

737

: 00:39:02

Like, he was a, you know, exuded a lot

of masculinity and that kind of thing.

738

: 00:39:06

He, I had several problems

with that kid that semester

739

: 00:39:09

but that was just one of them.

740

: 00:39:11

Dash: I can't imagine what

it must be like to be a Black

741

: 00:39:15

man in America in general but

742

: 00:39:18

Beck: Yehaw

743

: 00:39:19

Dash: any Time something like that happens

Like you know that that is impacting

744

: 00:39:24

their real daily lives in ways that we

could just never fathom You know I mean

745

: 00:39:30

Beck: Yehaw

746

: 00:39:30

Dash: it's something every time

there's a a school shooter now or

747

: 00:39:33

something everybody's like Well they're

probably a transgender or something

748

: 00:39:36

Beck: Yehaw

749

: 00:39:37

Dash: but I don't It's not like People

can't tell that I'm trans right A

750

: 00:39:40

Black man has to walk around visible

as a Black man so cause I remember do

751

: 00:39:45

you remember OJ I was in middle school

during you know the when the chase

752

: 00:39:50

Beck: I was in high school, yeah

753

: 00:39:51

Dash: the kids at school it was very

tense between the Black kids and the white

754

: 00:39:56

kids during that whole trial You know

755

: 00:39:59

Beck: We didn't have any Black

kids for that to be a problem.

756

: 00:40:01

We had two girls that were of

mixed race, and that was it

757

: 00:40:04

Dash: Oh Well there there was quite a few

Black kids and then there were the white

758

: 00:40:07

kids who like hung around with the Black

kids and wanted to be like them So I tried

759

: 00:40:12

to find the the Kathleen Madigan bit that

I also uh It's a vocal stem for me but

760

: 00:40:17

I couldn't find it It's not really that

important It's one little thing she says

761

: 00:40:20

about the nightly news she's talking about

how antiquated the concept of sitting

762

: 00:40:26

down in front of the TV and someone

going Do you know what happened today

763

: 00:40:32

Beck: Right

764

: 00:40:33

Dash: I can hear her in my head

regular points during the day s

765

: 00:40:36

going Do you know what happened today

766

: 00:40:39

Beck: She reminds me a lot of

my college roommate, my freshman

767

: 00:40:41

roommate 'cause she's also from St.

768

: 00:40:43

Louis.

769

: 00:40:44

She's very funny.

770

: 00:40:45

She has a raspy voice kinda like that.

771

: 00:40:47

So they, they're very similar.

772

: 00:40:50

I also had a couple of her specials.

773

: 00:40:53

Dash: Yeah

774

: 00:40:53

Beck: Her later stuff, she's

getting a little more cynical,

775

: 00:40:56

uh, which I don't enjoy as much.

776

: 00:40:58

But she's really funny and especially

her first, her first couple of specials

777

: 00:41:02

Dash: That's that's a really valid

observation because cynicism it's bad for

778

: 00:41:07

us in general right Like a little bit of

it like we can't help it sometimes but you

779

: 00:41:12

should never reward cynicism You should

never water your cynicism flower yourself

780

: 00:41:18

It is not good for you It's bad for your

worldview It's bad for your ability to

781

: 00:41:23

relate to people and to feel connected

And so whenever it shows up and doesn't

782

: 00:41:30

leave somewhere I can't stay there You

know Like I I can't stay here with you

783

: 00:41:37

while you make us all miserable I had to

uh get rid of a friend for that reason I

784

: 00:41:42

was like This constant cynicism spewing

out of you at all times I can't live with

785

: 00:41:49

it I literally cannot live my life with

you in it I'm sorry It's only happened

786

: 00:41:54

I've I have cut two exactly two people

off as friends and he was one of them The

787

: 00:42:00

Beck: Yeah

788

: 00:42:00

Dash: gun on me

789

: 00:42:02

Beck: I lost a couple of friends over

Trump being elected but that's really

790

: 00:42:05

the only time I've cut many people off.

791

: 00:42:07

People I never would've thought would've

voted for him, and they absolutely did.

792

: 00:42:11

And then I got into it in,

with a girl that I had been

793

: 00:42:13

friends with since I was 16.

794

: 00:42:15

We, my first job, or no, my

second job I worked at a Fazoli's

795

: 00:42:18

and we worked together there,

and we became really close.

796

: 00:42:21

She was talking about how being deaf was

not a disability and et cetera, et cetera.

797

: 00:42:26

And I was like, "What the

fuck are you talking about?"

798

: 00:42:29

You know, and my best friend is

deaf, so I have a particular, you

799

: 00:42:32

know, I, I am defensive about people

talking shit about deaf people.

800

: 00:42:37

Dash: That's

801

: 00:42:37

Beck: so we got into it over that.

802

: 00:42:38

Yeah.

803

: 00:42:39

Yeah, I think she was trying to say that

deaf people are just like regular, normal

804

: 00:42:44

people, which of fucking course they are,

805

: 00:42:47

you know

806

: 00:42:47

Dash: but uh but that is so We are very

very bad at talking about disability

807

: 00:42:53

in an affirming way in like a way

that centers the person and not the

808

: 00:42:59

between them and any random person

as though we don't all have something

809

: 00:43:04

that needs a little help right

810

: 00:43:07

Beck: Right

811

: 00:43:08

Dash: like I'm wearing glasses right

now That's a prosthetic but we like

812

: 00:43:12

to talk about them like Oh you're

you're not deaf person you're just

813

: 00:43:16

a a person you know It's like well

uh okay deaf people aren't people

814

: 00:43:22

Beck: No, ha- let him make a phone call

and tell me that it's not an impairment.

815

: 00:43:25

You know what I mean?

816

: 00:43:26

Like, turn on the radio, tell

me it's not an impairment.

817

: 00:43:30

'Cause my best friend, when I met

her, she was fully hearing, right?

818

: 00:43:33

And it's a de- degenerative thing, and the

older she got, the worse her hearing got.

819

: 00:43:37

And now she wears hearing aids

b- in both ears, and we can't

820

: 00:43:41

really communicate by phone.

821

: 00:43:43

So we do a lot of texting.

822

: 00:43:45

Dash: Yeah I actually always had weird

hearing and then some things happened

823

: 00:43:49

to make it worse I uh have had a lot of

traumatic brain injuries between being

824

: 00:43:57

in car accidents or doing stupid shit or

being an addict and just falling a lot

825

: 00:44:02

Like I've I've had a lot of concussions

But I also struck by lightning Not It it

826

: 00:44:09

wasn't like literally I wasn't actually

struck by lightning but it was through

827

: 00:44:12

the phone you know Um and I don't even

know if that really counts but I do

828

: 00:44:17

know that it knocked me unconscious and

so A lot of things have happened to my

829

: 00:44:22

my brain and so my hearing started to

get worse as I got older and now I wear

830

: 00:44:28

hearing aids Um it's it's not even worth

it sometimes to try to talk to people

831

: 00:44:33

about that impacts my experience because

I can communicate I speak normally and

832

: 00:44:40

so it's like they just forget again and

then it becomes like I have to bring

833

: 00:44:44

it up all the fucking time and advocate

for what I need all the fucking time and

834

: 00:44:47

I'm just not gonna do that So I'm just

835

: 00:44:49

Beck: Right

836

: 00:44:49

Dash: A lot of the times

I'm just gonna smile and nod

837

: 00:44:52

Beck: Yeah, that's what,

838

: 00:44:53

that's

839

: 00:44:53

what my friend does.

840

: 00:44:55

Dash: Well um okay We've we've been

talking for a really long time Maybe it's

841

: 00:44:58

time to hear from this week's sponsor

842

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Beck: Nice

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: 00:45:04

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: 00:45:08

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845

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cylinder of sheet metal and wire mesh

sitting right in the middle of the single

846

: 00:45:18

wide It's humming away like an angry

hornet and it'll keep the living room hot

847

: 00:45:23

enough to sweat and the back bedroom cold

enough to hang beef For folks without the

848

: 00:45:27

credit score for a propane contract winter

means hauling around that blue fivegallon

849

: 00:45:32

jug and counting out pennies at a clearly

haunted gas station All season long the

850

: 00:45:37

children run a rotation on the red siphon

pump catching their first buzz while they

851

: 00:45:41

squeeze the bulb until they hear that

whoosh whoosh sound of the tank filling

852

: 00:45:45

up Gather the family for a seance to

conjure the heat Click the lighter watch

853

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that giant cotton wick catch and then

fiddle with the knob until the flame stops

854

: 00:45:55

smoking black soot and settles into a nice

radioactive blue There never was a less

855

: 00:46:00

efficient heating source meaning everybody

in the house is forced to crowd around it

856

: 00:46:03

within a fourfoot radius like some redneck

Stonehenge they just hadn't invented tip

857

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over switches yet when this particular

model was made so everyone does high

858

: 00:46:13

knees through that corner of the living

room just to be safe The trailer can

859

: 00:46:16

become a redneck Viking funeral in under

40 seconds if we're not careful And when

860

: 00:46:21

a winter storm knocks out the grid for

three days this heater becomes a stove You

861

: 00:46:25

just set a greasy cast iron skillet right

on top of the metal safety guard drop

862

: 00:46:29

in some ground beef and fry up a batch

of living room burgers while you watch

863

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outside it's dinner and a show provided

864

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also doubles as a highspeed clothes dryer

865

: 00:46:40

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866

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perennially on the edge And now come on

869

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back to Queernecks We just put a co pot

of coffee on the Coleman lamp And and we

870

: 00:47:03

really did that one time Mom was fixing

some burgers and the power went out and

871

: 00:47:07

so she went and turned the kerosene heater

on and stuck the cast iron skillet on top

872

: 00:47:12

of it and finished cooking the burgers

873

: 00:47:14

Beck: That's hilarious.

874

: 00:47:16

My sister, I shared a bedroom with

her until I was, uh, technically

875

: 00:47:22

until I was, like, 13, but I moved

out to live on the couch at some

876

: 00:47:26

point because I couldn't handle it.

877

: 00:47:28

She, we had a little bedroom

that had carpet on the walls,

878

: 00:47:31

so it was, like, hot in there.

879

: 00:47:33

It was the '80s.

880

: 00:47:33

It was hot pink.

881

: 00:47:34

It was a thing.

882

: 00:47:35

And she would keep one of those square

kerosene heaters in there with the

883

: 00:47:39

door shut and on full blast all night.

884

: 00:47:42

Like, I couldn't breathe in there,

so I refused to sleep up there.

885

: 00:47:46

It was crazy.

886

: 00:47:47

So I slept downstairs.

887

: 00:47:49

My sister's nuts

888

: 00:47:50

Dash: That might be another

reason she's a little off

889

: 00:47:53

Beck: Yehaw

890

: 00:47:54

Dash: That's carbon monoxide man

That's that's what we had was one

891

: 00:47:58

of the little square ones You can't

find those anymore The only kerosene

892

: 00:48:01

Beck: Yehaw

893

: 00:48:01

Dash: that I was able to find are the

giant ones that are just for outdoor

894

: 00:48:06

but yeah I remember cause we would

uh in the winter we would get up and

895

: 00:48:10

that thing on and sit in front of

it and shiver and get dressed there

896

: 00:48:14

Beck: Yehaw

897

: 00:48:14

Dash: I miss that kerosene

heater And I have cooked many a

898

: 00:48:18

pot of soup over a Coleman lamp

899

: 00:48:22

Beck: Yehaw

900

: 00:48:23

Dash: The power goes out pretty often

in Eastern Kentucky because of the

901

: 00:48:26

ice storms and things it and it's it's

like I think they've done the best

902

: 00:48:31

they could to make it a strong grid but

it's just the way the weather is there

903

: 00:48:36

Beck: Yeah.

904

: 00:48:36

My parents had a generator on their house.

905

: 00:48:38

As soon as the electric went

out, the generator kicked on.

906

: 00:48:40

It was hardwired.

907

: 00:48:41

It was a big one.

908

: 00:48:42

It was propane.

909

: 00:48:43

Dash: I'm

910

: 00:48:44

Beck: Yehaw

911

: 00:48:45

Dash: for a backup power station

currently actually Mostly for the

912

: 00:48:49

camper but also because the power

goes out here Not for any good excuse

913

: 00:48:54

though just a shitty power grid

914

: 00:48:57

Beck: Yeah.

915

: 00:48:58

We're pretty lucky here.

916

: 00:48:59

The, my little town, people on the

other side of the town have been having

917

: 00:49:02

some issues with the power going out

like every day, but we're 100% on.

918

: 00:49:07

Like, we've had no issues with it, so

919

: 00:49:09

Dash: Everything's a little bit shitty

here You know internet's kinda spotty send

920

: 00:49:13

us an email Th there's So the hot water

heaters you have two different breakers is

921

: 00:49:21

for the electricity and the other one is

just for the hot water heater and they'll

922

: 00:49:25

turn They have a it control over it and

they can turn it off And so they'll send

923

: 00:49:29

you an email and be like Hot water control

going on They don't tell They don't email

924

: 00:49:34

you to tell you when it's over And so

it's like All right Hope you showered

925

: 00:49:41

There's still a broke down

SUV across my driveway

926

: 00:49:45

Beck: Oh yeah?

927

: 00:49:46

Do you know whose it is?

928

: 00:49:47

Dash: No and if this was Eastern Kentucky

it'd have been stripped down and sold

929

: 00:49:50

for parts by now That's mine Like

930

: 00:49:53

Beck: Right?

931

: 00:49:54

Dash: me now I I am kinda gobsmacked

at how inconsiderate and rude that is

932

: 00:50:00

Beck: Right?

933

: 00:50:01

Especially for the Minnesota nice up there

934

: 00:50:03

Dash: I think the Minnesota nice

is how they get away with being so

935

: 00:50:06

inconsiderate and rude cause people won't

936

: 00:50:08

Beck: Yehaw

937

: 00:50:09

Dash: And there's no police to call

938

: 00:50:11

Beck: Do you not have

a sheriff or anything?

939

: 00:50:12

Dash: no we got a sheriff not in

this county I mean I don't know

940

: 00:50:16

how it works You never see him

941

: 00:50:18

Beck: Did, did you know that

communities have to pay the sheriff's

942

: 00:50:20

department to have coverage?

943

: 00:50:22

Like

944

: 00:50:22

you want

945

: 00:50:23

there to be a sheriff's deputy, like it…

946

: 00:50:25

So where I come from there's a little

town called Rubyville, for example.

947

: 00:50:29

It's way out in the

backside of the county.

948

: 00:50:31

You have to go out a country

road, then another country road to

949

: 00:50:33

get to that country road, right?

950

: 00:50:35

Shit, what were we just talking about?

951

: 00:50:36

My, I lost my train of thought

952

: 00:50:39

Dash: Sheriffs

953

: 00:50:40

Beck: Sheriffs.

954

: 00:50:41

So if you wanna have a sheriff that sits

out there, so if somebody calls, "Hey,

955

: 00:50:43

I need the sheriff," and there's one

close, your community has to give money

956

: 00:50:47

to the sheriff's department in order for

there to be, like, coverage out there.

957

: 00:50:51

You have to sponsor

the, the police officer.

958

: 00:50:53

Otherwise, they could be

anywhere in the county when

959

: 00:50:55

somebody from there calls them.

960

: 00:50:58

I only learned that a couple of years ago

961

: 00:51:00

Dash: Maybe that I don't know maybe

that's going on here because I I

962

: 00:51:03

never see them I I got stopped by one

once up in Morris but not down here

963

: 00:51:08

Beck: So who would you call if somebody

was trying to break into your house?

964

: 00:51:11

Dash: No idea I mean I would dial 911

I don't know who would be answering

965

: 00:51:15

it or how far away they would be

966

: 00:51:17

Beck: Ow

967

: 00:51:18

Dash: Yeah And that's why the

statistics look like they do It

968

: 00:51:22

looks like there's more crime in in

cities or Black neighborhoods and

969

: 00:51:25

it's because they're policed more

There's more cops in those got rid

970

: 00:51:30

of the cops here There are no police

971

: 00:51:32

Beck: So there's no crime

972

: 00:51:34

Dash: Exactly Did you bring a

noun of Appalachian interest

973

: 00:51:38

Beck: let's see here

974

: 00:51:42

and now it is time for our

Appalachian noun of interest.

975

: 00:51:45

Today's noun is the humble tobacco barn.

976

: 00:51:48

Now listen, a tobacco barn is not

the prettiest barn in the world.

977

: 00:51:51

Nobody's getting married in one,

unless the photographer is going for

978

: 00:51:55

seasonal allergies, uh, meets tetanus.

979

: 00:51:57

These barns are usually painted

black or otherwise dark.

980

: 00:52:00

They're tall, a little crooked, and

standing out in the field looking

981

: 00:52:03

like they know family secrets.

982

: 00:52:05

But around here, that kind of building

stands for more than function.

983

: 00:52:08

Tobacco barns were built

for curing tobacco.

984

: 00:52:11

That means the tobacco was hung

up inside the barn so that it

985

: 00:52:14

could slowly dry and change.

986

: 00:52:16

It was not like tossing wet socks

over a chair and hoping for the best.

987

: 00:52:19

There is a real process to it.

988

: 00:52:21

Air has to move through the barn.

989

: 00:52:22

The leaves have to dry at

night at the right speed.

990

: 00:52:25

Too much damp and the tobacco could rot.

991

: 00:52:27

Too much dry air and

it could cure too fast.

992

: 00:52:29

So these barns were built with that job

in mind, and a lot of them had wooden

993

: 00:52:33

boards with spaces between them or little

doors and vents that could open and close.

994

: 00:52:37

They might look rough because

they were working farm buildings.

995

: 00:52:40

They did not need to be cute.

996

: 00:52:42

they needed to keep the crop from

turning into a moldy sadness curtain.

997

: 00:52:46

In burley tobacco country, which

includes a lot of Appalachian Kentucky,

998

: 00:52:50

Tennessee and Ohio and nearby places,

tobacco was usually air-cured.

999

: 00:52:54

That means the barn itself

helped control the process.

: 1000

00:52:57,287 --> 00:52:59,187

No fancy machine was doing all the work.

: 1001

00:52:59,437 --> 00:53:02,337

The farmer had to watch the weather,

open the barn up, shut it back

: 1002

00:53:02,337 --> 00:53:03,967

down, and hope the leaves behaved.

: 1003

00:53:04,237 --> 00:53:08,747

And tobacco, much like certain relatives

at Thanksgiving, did not always behave.

: 1004

00:53:09,297 --> 00:53:12,577

So for a lot of Appalachian families,

tobacco was not just a crop.

: 1005

00:53:12,817 --> 00:53:14,527

It was the thing that paid the bills.

: 1006

00:53:14,767 --> 00:53:18,057

Tobacco bought school clothes, it

helped cover Christmas, and it was

: 1007

00:53:18,057 --> 00:53:19,747

the crop that kept the farm going.

: 1008

00:53:19,997 --> 00:53:23,077

It was also a whole family job, which

is a polite way of saying nobody

: 1009

00:53:23,077 --> 00:53:26,067

got to sit around being lazy on the

porch while everybody else worked.

: 1010

00:53:26,347 --> 00:53:28,177

That barn was where all the work ended up.

: 1011

00:53:28,547 --> 00:53:31,017

You can still see some of these

relics out in fields, though

: 1012

00:53:31,017 --> 00:53:32,537

not as many as there used to be.

: 1013

00:53:32,787 --> 00:53:35,287

Some are leaning, some have

roofs that look like they gave up

: 1014

00:53:35,287 --> 00:53:36,657

during the Bush administration.

: 1015

00:53:37,007 --> 00:53:39,537

Even still, others are wrapped

up like weeds in the woods,

: 1016

00:53:39,747 --> 00:53:41,197

trying to consume them whole.

: 1017

00:53:41,357 --> 00:53:44,597

And every so often, you pass one and

think, "Somebody ought to save that."

: 1018

00:53:44,807 --> 00:53:48,197

But then you keep on driving, because

saving a barn costs barn money,

: 1019

00:53:48,227 --> 00:53:50,007

to which I say, "In this economy?"

: 1020

00:53:50,377 --> 00:53:52,917

The thing about tobacco barns

is that they carry a complicated

: 1021

00:53:52,917 --> 00:53:54,747

story in those old boards.

: 1022

00:53:54,977 --> 00:53:58,387

Tobacco helped a lot of Appalachian

families survive for generations,

: 1023

00:53:58,627 --> 00:54:02,047

but tobacco also came with health

repercussions, lots of hard labor,

: 1024

00:54:02,317 --> 00:54:05,627

and greedy companies that got rich

while small farmers took all the risk.

: 1025

00:54:05,867 --> 00:54:08,297

So you cannot talk about tobacco

barns like they are just a

: 1026

00:54:08,297 --> 00:54:09,527

cute old country building.

: 1027

00:54:09,787 --> 00:54:11,787

They are part of the

Ap-Appalachian history that is

: 1028

00:54:11,797 --> 00:54:13,987

useful and sad at the same time.

: 1029

00:54:14,237 --> 00:54:16,807

But you know, Appalachia knows

what to do with complicated.

: 1030

00:54:17,097 --> 00:54:19,827

We do not have to pretend something

was perfect for it to matter.

: 1031

00:54:20,087 --> 00:54:24,087

A tobacco barn can remind us of hard work,

late summer air, and people coming home

: 1032

00:54:24,327 --> 00:54:28,357

worn out, dirty, and ready to sit in that

one chair everybody knew not to touch.

: 1033

00:54:28,814 --> 00:54:30,794

It was more than a building

standing in a field.

: 1034

00:54:30,804 --> 00:54:34,094

It was a place where a family waited to

see if the year would turn out all right.

: 1035

00:54:34,394 --> 00:54:38,414

So this week, we honor the tobacco barn,

the old wooden thing standing out there

: 1036

00:54:38,414 --> 00:54:42,274

in the field, leaning a little, holding

on anyway, which to my ears is the

: 1037

00:54:42,274 --> 00:54:44,224

perfect analogy for being Appalachian.

: 1038

00:54:44,474 --> 00:54:47,534

That's our noun of Appalachian

interest this week, the tobacco barn

: 1039

00:54:48,059 --> 00:54:51,569

Dash: that was a lot of people's first

job A lot of peop like kids would get

: 1040

00:54:51,589 --> 00:54:57,129

jobs bundling and hanging the tobacco

they would get sick from the exposure

: 1041

00:54:57,129 --> 00:55:01,629

if they touched it you know like the

the juices or whatever come out after

: 1042

00:55:01,629 --> 00:55:06,609

it's been harvested but that's probably

how they got addicted to nicotine

: 1043

00:55:06,609 --> 00:55:08,589

It's probably why everybody smokes

: 1044

00:55:09,340 --> 00:55:09,350

Beck: Yehaw

: 1045

00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:14,168

Dash: In Appalachia Like literally

everybody smokes It is expected

: 1046

00:55:14,868 --> 00:55:17,388

Beck: My Papaw started smoking

when he was like 10 years old.

: 1047

00:55:17,718 --> 00:55:19,828

Like, it was just a

thing that everybody did.

: 1048

00:55:20,198 --> 00:55:22,108

Like, everybody in my family smoked

: 1049

00:55:22,808 --> 00:55:22,958

Dash: Yeah

: 1050

00:55:22,958 --> 00:55:29,735

it was it was a sign of maturity Like

it a lot of things a lot of these came

: 1051

00:55:29,735 --> 00:55:37,846

together and working and smoking coffee

even alcohol they all kinda ran together

: 1052

00:55:38,546 --> 00:55:42,684

And I still like there are certain

class affectations I can't get rid

: 1053

00:55:42,684 --> 00:55:47,575

of Like quitting smoking was so hard

because it goes with coffee you know It

: 1054

00:55:47,575 --> 00:55:50,295

goes with coffee and a donut whatever

: 1055

00:55:50,995 --> 00:55:52,555

Beck: Mine was driving and smoking.

: 1056

00:55:52,565 --> 00:55:55,405

That was what was really hard

for me, 'cause I was a chain

: 1057

00:55:55,405 --> 00:55:57,825

smoker when I was driving, just

lighting one after the other.

: 1058

00:55:59,456 --> 00:56:01,946

Dash: soothing And it's like

h that's how you think That's

: 1059

00:56:01,946 --> 00:56:03,266

how you get time to yourself

: 1060

00:56:03,455 --> 00:56:03,855

Beck: Yehaw

: 1061

00:56:04,249 --> 00:56:06,579

the romantic affect of smoking.

: 1062

00:56:06,679 --> 00:56:07,119

Like,

: 1063

00:56:07,226 --> 00:56:07,676

Dash: Yeah

: 1064

00:56:09,082 --> 00:56:10,702

since I quit It's been a little more

: 1065

00:56:12,164 --> 00:56:13,274

Beck: I'm so proud of you

: 1066

00:56:13,459 --> 00:56:16,732

Dash: yeah maybe a week week

or two ago It's been six months

: 1067

00:56:17,335 --> 00:56:18,105

Beck: That's awesome

: 1068

00:56:18,648 --> 00:56:23,218

Dash: I guess we should, uh, spin

this wheel and see what our assignment

: 1069

00:56:23,297 --> 00:56:28,024

for next week is All righty Okay,

we've already done that one.

: 1070

00:56:28,184 --> 00:56:29,154

I'm gonna spin again.

: 1071

00:56:29,884 --> 00:56:31,374

It landed on book report again.

: 1072

00:56:32,354 --> 00:56:34,024

Is this, is this thing weighted?

: 1073

00:56:35,661 --> 00:56:36,351

Oh, okay.

: 1074

00:56:37,051 --> 00:56:41,621

So similar to, to what we did

today, this landed on YouTube night.

: 1075

00:56:41,631 --> 00:56:42,711

So if there

: 1076

00:56:42,818 --> 00:56:43,048

Beck: Okay

: 1077

00:56:43,571 --> 00:56:47,701

Dash: a YouTube clip or thing

that, that is important to you,

: 1078

00:56:48,151 --> 00:56:52,321

I assume mine will be something

funny, but there are also some…

: 1079

00:56:52,651 --> 00:56:56,791

I mean, if there's a music video or

something you wanna watch we can think

: 1080

00:56:56,791 --> 00:57:01,494

about whether we wanna do that piece

live, like livestream it or something.

: 1081

00:57:01,994 --> 00:57:07,554

May not be time to set it up, but anyway,

just thinking about videos that we can

: 1082

00:57:07,554 --> 00:57:12,524

watch on YouTube and share with each

other and share with our listeners.

: 1083

00:57:12,774 --> 00:57:15,394

Why do you think YouTube

night is so important for…

: 1084

00:57:15,424 --> 00:57:19,304

It's like, there's a, many people

online have joked about how every

: 1085

00:57:19,304 --> 00:57:21,184

gay person has a YouTube night

: 1086

00:57:22,261 --> 00:57:22,711

Beck: I don't know.

: 1087

00:57:22,721 --> 00:57:24,681

This is my first experience with it, so

: 1088

00:57:25,172 --> 00:57:28,222

Dash: Well, but you and Shanna, you

watched YouTube together in your,

: 1089

00:57:28,567 --> 00:57:30,327

Beck: Oh yeah, all, all day every day

: 1090

00:57:30,443 --> 00:57:34,473

Dash: like, this was something that,

uh, me and Sabrina and Eric and lots

: 1091

00:57:34,473 --> 00:57:36,183

of other people were often invited.

: 1092

00:57:36,513 --> 00:57:42,583

We would just get together over at

Eric's apartment and take turns with

: 1093

00:57:42,583 --> 00:57:46,873

his controller looking up YouTube

videos that we remember liking.

: 1094

00:57:46,873 --> 00:57:52,043

And so we would play music

videos for each other or funny

: 1095

00:57:52,043 --> 00:57:54,703

clips of, you know, weird shit.

: 1096

00:57:55,403 --> 00:57:59,553

Also, we would do a kind of algorithm

free fall where we would just let it

: 1097

00:57:59,563 --> 00:58:04,543

suggest choose based on the thumbnail

whether something we should watch it, and

: 1098

00:58:04,543 --> 00:58:06,583

found some really cool stuff that way.

: 1099

00:58:07,382 --> 00:58:07,632

Beck: Yeah

: 1100

00:58:08,332 --> 00:58:11,342

Dash: Maybe it's part of,

part of the larger, like, role

: 1101

00:58:11,362 --> 00:58:16,322

YouTube has kinda played in, in

media culture, but okay, yeah.

: 1102

00:58:16,682 --> 00:58:17,272

It sounds fun.

: 1103

00:58:17,722 --> 00:58:23,366

Uh, listeners, if y'all have a, a

YouTube video suggestion, let us know.

: 1104

00:58:23,666 --> 00:58:25,456

Comment on the Facebook.

: 1105

00:58:26,206 --> 00:58:29,906

can at us on Threads and I'll

check it once in a blue moon.

: 1106

00:58:30,756 --> 00:58:34,166

email us at [email protected]

: 1107

00:58:34,596 --> 00:58:34,806

your

: 1108

00:58:34,965 --> 00:58:35,305

Beck: Perfect.

: 1109

00:58:36,005 --> 00:58:37,115

Yep, let's do it.

: 1110

00:58:37,815 --> 00:58:38,765

Ba da dum bum bum bum

: 1111

00:58:39,465 --> 00:58:42,765

Dash: Well, hope, hope Shana

continues to feel better

: 1112

00:58:43,662 --> 00:58:44,082

Beck: Thank you.

: 1113

00:58:44,082 --> 00:58:45,732

I'll, I'll pass along your well wishes

: 1114

00:58:46,561 --> 00:58:46,801

Dash: Okay.

: 1115

00:58:47,191 --> 00:58:49,681

And y'all just take it

easy the rest of the day

: 1116

00:58:50,576 --> 00:58:52,556

Beck: Yeah, I'm gonna take some

garbage out, but other than

: 1117

00:58:52,556 --> 00:58:53,966

that, that's, that's the plan

: 1118

00:58:54,165 --> 00:58:54,625

Dash: Yeah.

: 1119

00:58:54,855 --> 00:58:56,985

Got a little, little cleaning up to do as

: 1120

00:58:57,392 --> 00:59:00,002

Beck: Yeah, we had like baby's

bed still in our bedroom.

: 1121

00:59:00,002 --> 00:59:02,202

We just never could throw it

away, so I'm gonna take it out to

: 1122

00:59:02,202 --> 00:59:04,352

the garbage and stuff like that.

: 1123

00:59:04,432 --> 00:59:05,542

So it's not…

: 1124

00:59:06,382 --> 00:59:09,032

Yeah, it's, it's been six months, so.

: 1125

00:59:09,732 --> 00:59:10,122

Dash: All right.

: 1126

00:59:10,142 --> 00:59:12,842

Well, listeners, thanks for hanging

out with us for another week.

: 1127

00:59:13,582 --> 00:59:17,732

And send us your suggestions

for funny or weird YouTube shit.

: 1128

00:59:18,432 --> 00:59:21,782

We'll see you back here,

and have a good week

: 1129

00:59:22,581 --> 00:59:23,121

Beck: Yeah.

: 1130

00:59:23,821 --> 00:59:28,091

Oh, today is West Virginia Day, so,

uh, or yesterday was West Virginia Day.

: 1131

00:59:28,091 --> 00:59:31,391

So if, uh, make sure that, uh, you've

still left out some Mountain Dew

: 1132

00:59:31,391 --> 00:59:33,391

and, and pepperoni rolls for Mothman.

: 1133

00:59:33,821 --> 00:59:34,221

So

: 1134

00:59:34,324 --> 00:59:34,734

Dash: right?

: 1135

00:59:35,101 --> 00:59:35,431

Beck: yeah

: 1136

00:59:36,074 --> 00:59:37,464

Dash: Happy West Virginia Day.

: 1137

00:59:38,095 --> 00:59:38,405

Beck: Yep.

: 1138

00:59:38,634 --> 00:59:38,794

Dash: be

: 1139

00:59:38,935 --> 00:59:39,495

Beck: All right, homie

: 1140

00:59:39,654 --> 00:59:41,324

Dash: s- say hi to your mom and them

: 1141

00:59:42,063 --> 00:59:42,713

Beck: Bye

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