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Five Dollar Pound Bag of Mutant Gummy Bears
Episode 23 • 3rd November 2025 • QUEERNECKS • Queernecks
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Dash and Beck discuss 'bless your heart,' the rivalry between Coke and Pepsi in Tennessee and Kentucky, and reminisce about their favorite childhood candies. The conversation then shifts to more serious subjects like the treatment of pets, funeral traditions, and even the ethics around euthanizing animals. The show also includes a deep dive into the humor and chaos of the Dollar Store triangle in Appalachian towns. With a touch of nostalgia and meaningful stories, this episode offers a rich tapestry of life in Appalachia.

00:00 Welcome to Queernecks!

00:32 Bless Your Heart: A Southern Phrase

01:55 Regional Dialects and Rivalries

03:03 Candy and Childhood Memories

07:56 Pets and Their Stories

15:16 Superstitions and Traditions

19:19 Graveyard Visits and Family Plots

23:32 Funeral Superstitions and Anecdotes

24:56 State Songs and Their Histories

25:59 Ohio State's Rock Anthem

26:33 Tennessee's Volunteer History

27:09 Patriotic Acts in History

28:41 Weather Superstitions

29:12 Family Superstitions and Traditions

32:29 Funny Funeral Stories

33:05 Autism and Family Moments

35:17 Fall: The Queerest Season

37:13 Mariah Carey: The Diva

40:49 Challenges of Teaching

45:20 The Dollar Store Triangle

48:29 Small Town Life

50:49 Concluding Remarks

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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, and I'm your host.

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Dash.

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Welcome to today's episode.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: haven't

been taking my A DHD meds because I'm

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in this, this treatment that I guess,

want to be at your natural state for.

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But boy, I am struggling

to do basic things lately.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

Yeah, bless your heart.

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I mean that in a nice way,

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not the mean way.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: you know,

I noticed that a lot of people, who

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I think people outside Appalachia,

one of the things they're most likely

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to know about is bless your heart.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Right?

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: um, I've

encountered several people who think

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that it's only ever negative that

it doesn't get used to mean what it

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actually, what you're actually saying.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: It's

a contranym, that's the word for

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah.

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Right.

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Like, in the same way that

literally now means it's opposite.

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thanks to millennials.

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it

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: to dust means

to put put dust on or to take dust off.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

right, literally does still

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mean literally though.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

uh, bless your heart.

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can still connote.

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I feel for you.

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I'm, I'm hoping things get better for you.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: I think

that's something that happens

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when, like a community that's not

quite majority culture, parts of

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it seeps out into majority culture.

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wonder, do you, I wonder how that

happens, how does certain things get

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chosen to make it to the outside?

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: I, it's a

lot of cultural appropriation I think.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah.

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It, it must have been of use to

somebody at some point because

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there's that capital piece.

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I think, uh, standup comedians

are responsible for it.

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A lot of it

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because, you know, figures of

speech, those feature heavily in

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a lot of comedic storytelling.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Right.

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That's very true.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Um, were you,

were, you grew up, did people say warsh?

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Some

people did, some, some didn't.

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The more common was portmouth

instead of Portsmouth.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

That's pretty good.

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Yeah, that was the same.

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Um, where I lived, some people said

warsh and some people said wash.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

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Some people call it Coke.

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Some people call it pop.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

But never Pepsi.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: never Pepsi?

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Nope.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

my dad worked for Coke.

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I still have his jacket that he

wore driving around, Delivery truck.

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so Coke was in Tennessee and Pepsi was

Kentucky, so I, I think a lot of people

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don't know how many rivalries there

were between Tennessee and Kentucky.

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and The Coke and Pepsi Wars played

out right there on the border.

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There was a Pepsi plant

in Corbin, Kentucky.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Oh, wow.

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I didn't know that.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: they made Dr.

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Pepper there for the longest

time, all through the nineties.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: I

read something today that Dr.

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Pepper ended their, um, cooperation

agreement with Coke, I think it is.

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So you're not gonna see

as much Fountain, Dr.

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Pepper.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

Maybe it'll go back to Pepsi.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: maybe,

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Dr.

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Pepper's always been kind of a free agent.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: yeah.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: I, that's

one of the first things I learned

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about like, I guess the economy

of bottled beverages and this goes

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for candy too, the way like parent

companies and allegiances and stuff.

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There's this fascinating story

about the Reese's Take five bar.

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It started out Hershey's and this

was only like maybe six years ago or

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something, and that candy hasn't been

around very long, and their marketing

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was just people hanging out in hip areas

in like New York City or Los Angeles at

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2:00 AM handing these candy bars out to

people that looked like they had a lot

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of friends, just like boots on the ground

actually grinding, promoting it that way.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Oh wow.

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I love being a good take five.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah.

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It's elite.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

I like watching Myall.

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Its too though.

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I've been on since the summer.

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For me, like if a candy, if I'm gonna

do a candy bar, it's probably gonna

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be some sort of a Reese's thing.

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I love peanut butter, but peanut

butter with chocolate heavenly.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Right.

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One of my favorite candies are the,

jelled raspberry The, they're chocolate

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covered raspberry, raspberry jellies

that you can get from Trader Joe's.

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They are phenomenal

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Uh,

I used to love every Christmas.

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my grandparents on my dad's

side would give us a box of

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Queen Ann's cordial cherries.

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We called 'em chocolate covered cherries.

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We never called 'em cordial cherries.

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maybe it was just colloquial.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah, we

called 'em chocolate covered cherries too.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: My mom had

a thing where, um, she had a special

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gift for each one of the kids, and

she would give them that thing every

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year for like Christmas and birthday.

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and for me it was

Russell Stover Chocolate.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Hmm.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: bought me

probably a thousand boxes of that stuff.

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and when she was passing away, I hadn't

been down there for Christmas because

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of COVID, and there was still a box

wrapped for me on the freezer waiting

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for me when I, when I was there.

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so the, the following Christmas.

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I was kind of sad because I wasn't gonna

get my box of chocolates, you know, and

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you just, you just mourn things like

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Mm-hmm.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: And I was

at the post office and the lady in

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front of me, gave the, the lady at the

behind the desk a box of Russell Stoves.

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And I was like, oh.

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I said, my mom gave me a box

every year and she just passed.

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And the lady was like, well,

I think these belong to you.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Aw.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: I sat in the

parking lot and cried for like 10 minutes.

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'cause my mom found a way to gimme a

box of candy that year anyway, you know,

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

That's big feels.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: it was.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: that's

what, uh, my grandparents got my dad

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every Christmas was Russell Stoves.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah,

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: they

also did, cheese logs and summer

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sausage and cracker boxes, you know?

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Got you.

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Do you remember the Russell

'cause Russell Stover's candies

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have changed over the years.

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They rotate out flavors sometimes.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Hmm.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: They

used to make these little like

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Butterfinger peanut butter bar things.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: English toffee.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: yeah.

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They were so

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: They

were the best thing in the box.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: yeah.

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For real.

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They don't make 'em anymore.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: I also

liked the Russian roulette of it, you

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know, it said the box had that little,

the box top had that little map on it

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that would tell you what it was, but

I didn't know what those things meant,

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: right.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: so I was like.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: A.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah.

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So you just didn't know what you

were gonna get when you got it.

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Uh, like you pick one out

and it could be the maple.

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There was one that was just nobody wanted,

and it was, it was a maple something.

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It was a real, like, thick, and you

couldn't chew it without hurting your jaw

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

Shanna likes that one.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: once.

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You can have 'em.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

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We basically work, we're opposites

when it comes to, to Russell Silver.

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She likes the ones I don't

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Mm-hmm.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: and

I like the ones she doesn't

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like, so it works out perfectly.

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I like the creams,

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

the apricot cream.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: The orange one.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: yeah.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Oh,

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

the apricot cream.

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There's actually a Russell

Stover's, uh, factory, an outlet

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store between here and Detroit.

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You could go in and buy like their

mistakes and that kind of stuff.

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You can buy like all their regular

stuff too, but where it's the factory

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outlet, you can buy all of the, the

mislabeled and all that kind stuff too.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

There's a, an albanese, one too

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: bear people.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

yeah, near there.

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for one semester there, there was a, a

woman in our cohort, um, and she, she

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left, just decided that it wasn't really

what she was wanting, but she knew that

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I liked gummies or that me and Eric,

we, we were all into, you know, candies

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and stuff, and so she brought us a five

pound bag of mutant gummy bears, because

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they were from that plant and they

were all, they were wrong and Right.

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They were like rejects

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Right

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Factory reject baby monsters.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: so you

could get a five pound bag of them

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for, you know, a couple dollars

if you went to that factory.

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And that was one of the funniest

things anybody has ever given me.

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I was like, you've seen

through to my soul.

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It's perfect.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

Do you see Peta peeking up?

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Nuh.

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Oh, there she is.

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She's just chilling.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Well,

I hope this one chills out.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

Wenda shows her age.

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She sleeps all the time.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

I mean, we probably will too

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when we reach a certain age.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

Yeah, she's 14 now.

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I don't know her birthday, but

I, when we got her, the only two

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things they knew about her was, um,

and this is their, their verbiage.

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They said she was a 2011 model

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and that the lady that had her at the

rescue that I went to pulled her out

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of her cage herself, like she was the

one that pulled her out of the cage.

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So she was living the cage life.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Hmm.

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Poor baby.

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wonder she was.

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Just having trouble getting

with it when you got her.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

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She figured it out though,

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: my only

association with indoor pets growing

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up was with, uh, my grandparents

on my dad's side who they were

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rich and they always had a cat.

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and usually of the like,

expensive, kind, you know,

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah,

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: so they had

a Persian for the longest time and their

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cats were always also like crazy and mean.

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So they weren't any fun to be around.

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And so I, I kind of developed

this association with indoor

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pets and unhappiness, right?

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Like, I just, they seemed miserable

to me, but then again, they

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were living with my grandmother,

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: right.

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Only the demons lived with my grandmother.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: like, they

would keep those things on life support,

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you know, like, I mean, they would

live 20 something years, but not in

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any kind of state like the Persian one.

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And I get it, you paid what,

$3,000 for this little eight

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pound animal, but towards the end

there, it had a hole in its side,

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Oh Lord.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: And they

like squirt squirted the food into

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it 'cause it couldn't digest anymore,

which I'd never even heard of.

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It's like a feeding tube, I guess.

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But manually operated.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Well,

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah.

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I mean, I love mine, but my

God, you gotta let 'em go.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: yeah.

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That's a hard.

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lesson that I have learned.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: I I know.

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I, it is absolutely hard.

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I know I'm talking all big right now and

I'm gonna be, you know, I'm gonna need

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some support on the day it comes, but

you will not catch me doing that shit.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: tell you that.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: For sure.

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They tell you when it's time.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Oh,

I've had five that I've had to

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go through that process with

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: You know,

I was thinking the other day, this is

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morbid, but, there was so many animals,

you know, running around, the, the

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mountain side when we lived up there.

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and so when one needed to be

killed, it was me that had to do it.

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So I was thinking like everybody's

like criticize, uh, what's her name?

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This mean bitch that's

going around with, with ice?

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yeah.

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Yeah.

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Um, for shooting a puppy and.

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I have shot puppies and kittens and

things because they were mangled

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by machinery or, farm animals.

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Like they would get stepped on and stuff

you know, just put 'em outta their misery.

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And I was a real little kid doing that.

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but, and I don't, I'm, I'm

sure there's some, well, there

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could be a difference between

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah, because

it, she, she led that dog to the pit.

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there was no mangled in it.

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It was a healthy young dog.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Right.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: difference.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: is

a very, very big difference.

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but I've met a lot of people

since leaving, where I grew up.

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who can't imagine having to do that.

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And it's very normal to kill

things where we're from, I.

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Like, not even, you know, sometimes

the slaughtering animals, like

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kids have to do that and stuff

too, like slaughtering pigs.

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Um, I never had to slaughter a

pig, but, I would have to put the

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strays outta their misery, fairly

often from a very young age.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: My mom

refused to eat chicken most of the

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time because of how many chickens

she had to process as a kid.

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So I'm one of the people that couldn't

imagine having to do it because Mark,

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my dad, he would be like, he would do

that if a, if a dog was in a lot of

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pain or, or whatever the situation was.

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And I, when I had Gilly, I told him

that, um, I thought it was about Gilly's

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time, and he is like, well, just bring

him down here and I'll shoot him.

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And I was like, Ugh.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: No,

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: no.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: no.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: not.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: see, and, and

that is not how I turned out, you know?

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: like

for an aging animal, it's, we go

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to the vet and we do things, we

make them comfortable, you know,

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: They

never took their dogs to the vet.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

we never did either.

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That's what I'm saying, like grow.

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I did not grow up with

that orientation to pets.

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if it survived, it survived, and

you could throw some scraps at it.

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Like you didn't buy cat food.

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We did, like, once we got older and,

and started wanting to take care

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of 'em, you know, we would get the,

cat food and, throw it out there.

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But that also attracted, um,

that created competition.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: raccoons.

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And skunks

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: possums.

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So we would lose the kittens to them

because they would eat the kittens.

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But I've met people who have said, I

have a friend who said to me, um, I

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don't think anyone who's ever killed an

animal, can call themself a good person.

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And I was like, that's a lot of people.

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And I know it's like, I don't even

know if we want to call it privilege.

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It's just that's their experience.

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They've never been in a, in a,

an environment where something

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like that might need to be done.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Have

they never eaten meat before?

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: No.

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This is a vegan

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Gotcha.

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But they probably did

before they were vegan.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

Well, I mean, I love vegans.

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I they're sometimes good people,

um, sometimes bad people,

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

This sounds like the beginning.

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It sounds like somebody asked you

about this at a political debate.

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You're like, I love vegans.

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Some of my good friends are vegan.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

Well, they are, you

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: I know.

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I know.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: but, we're

carnivores and we just are, you know,

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: if someone

has a, an ideal or a principal and they

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can make it work, then that's great.

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Um, but I think it's less about

like whether they're vegans or not.

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It's just, I think there's certain type

of person, if something becomes important

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to them, it becomes their personality.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: I

know queer folks like that,

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah, for sure.

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Um, I think about my best friend's

mom who was a physician and she was a

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vegetarian most of her life, and she

didn't get enough protein, and her doctors

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think that's what led to her dementia,

um, or at least contributed to it,

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: and if this

was a while ago, like there wasn't a

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lot of, um, knowledge about how to.

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Like the, we had this like, buckshot

approach to nutrition, Remember, a plate

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had to have the meat, the starch, the,

you know, the carb, the green veggie.

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like that was, no meal was complete

unless it had all those things in

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it, because that was our best shot

at getting every nutrient we needed.

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now it's totally possible for a

person to have a restrictive diet

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and still get all the nutrients they

need with the information that's

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available, you know, either on the

internet or from people who study this.

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Like, it's their job to

know this kind of thing.

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But yeah, a, a vegetarian or vegan 40

years ago was gonna struggle to get, to

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meet, to meet their nutritional needs.

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I don't know.

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I know that there have been

times in my life when I've been

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obsessed with something and

it's annoyed people around me.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Right.

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But that's the A DHD in us.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: um,

let's give this wheel a spin.

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There's very little left on it.

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Listener.

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Well, I have added a couple of things,

but make sure to comment if you want

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to add, want us to add something to it?

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All right.

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Oh, superstitions.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Superstitions.

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We always did the knock

three times if a, a, knock on

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Mm-hmm.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: if you and

a person are walking along and there's

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like a, a car that comes between

you or whatever, you can't split.

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And if you do, you have to make

three X's and say, bread and butter.

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Bread and butter.

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Bread and butter.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: I didn't,

we didn't do bread and butter, but we,

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we would cross our chest like this.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: or if, if

you split a pole too, or, you know,

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: yeah.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: um, if

your, if your ears are ringing or

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itching, somebody's talking about you

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yep,

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If your hand is itching,

you're gonna get some money.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: yeah,

I just almost said that one.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

Well, it depends on which hand.

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One means you're gonna get money, and

one means you're gonna lose money.

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And I can never remember which is which.

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you throw salt over your

shoulder if you spill it.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Did

you have any good luck charms?

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Uh, when,

whenever I took tests, I don't know

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when I started doing it, but well,

like junior high, high school, I

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would draw a four-leaf clover in the

corner of any exam and I would write

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4, 4, 4, which meant four leaves.

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Four luck for me is what it meant.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Okay.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: so that

was my lucky number and my little

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luck symbol on every exam I took.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: You

know, I can find a four-leaf clover

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pretty much anytime I want to.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Oh wow.

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That's amazing.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: everywhere.

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Um, we just miss them.

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So any given four leaf or any

given clover patch has a few.

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I mean, it's not like they're super

common, but they're a mutation that

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happens and some people can just

see the pattern ' cause he gets

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obscured into the larger thing.

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And so sometimes when, when I'm like,

man, I could use some good luck.

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I'll go find a clover patch and

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: That's awesome.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: I don't know if

I could always do it if, or if there was a

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certain, if there was like a magic number

of TBIs or, um, acid trips that caused it.

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But I definitely only

noticed it as I got older.

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I mean, I have obsessive compulsive

disorders, so my superstitions

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don't make any sense to anybody.

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one time I drove over a

recently departed raccoon.

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Somebody had hit it before I

got there, but it was, I think

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in my mind it was still moving.

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I don't know if that's true, but

it was certainly, you know, at

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the end of its time here on Earth.

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And I just, the, I had this intrusive

thought that its soul floated up through

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the ins, uh, bottom of my car into me.

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And so for a few weeks I

thought I had a raccoon soul.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Is this also a.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: I, I

also knew that I didn't, I knew

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that that was fucking stupid.

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But OCD doesn't care.

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It doesn't care if it makes any sense

or if it's wrong or, you know, you

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can demonstrably prove that there's

no such thing as raccoon souls.

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But the problem is I couldn't, I was

like, I can't prove that it didn't happen.

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So therefore it did.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

That's hilarious.

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go

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: I don't

think my family was particularly

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superstitious, although, you know,

there was some religion, and religion

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is really just kind of superstition,

writ large over a large group of people.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: I used

to flip a lucky cigarette in every

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

Oh yeah, I did too.

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Well you flipped two, right?

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Remember what they're for.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: no.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: One for

good luck, One for a good fuck.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Oh, no, I never

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

That's what we did at EKU.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

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No.

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I just flipped the one and nobody

really ever knew why you did it.

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Just for luck.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Oh.

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Um, uh, if you go under a yellow light,

you gotta touch the roof of the car.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

I would do a cross.

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Um, then there's Perdit too.

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Or pdi.

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Some people call it,

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: we said perdit.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

But there you go there.

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I wonder how many other

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah.

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Listeners, do you have a

version of Perle that you said.

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But, um, what was it though?

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Was it, it was one headlight, wasn't it?

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Mm-hmm.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: you Yeah,

if it was one headlight, you see perle

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: And it

was a big per, if you saw a semi with

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one headlight and then when you go

under the train trellis, like you have

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to pick your feet up off the floor.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: and

hold your breath through a tunnel

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yep.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

and a graveyard.

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If you're driving, you have to hold

your breath through a graveyard.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

Oh, I would die.

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'cause I like stopping and looking at 'em.

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I've always liked a good graveyard

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: I

learned to drive in a graveyard.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Oh, nice.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Mom would,

um, when we would go down to visit the

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graves, which I don't know if, if your

people were like this, and I don't know

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how normal this is outside of Appalachia

listeners, let us know, but you just

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visit the graves, you just go visiting

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: you

do picnics on Decoration Day?

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: mm.

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We didn't do a lot of

like, sitting down really.

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I don't, I don't remember what we did

'cause it, we were kids, so we were

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always just running around doing stuff.

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But the adults, you know, they would

like go and be at one graveside.

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It was usually, you know, a married couple

or something and stay there for a while.

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I don't know what they talked about.

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this is another one of those things,

kind of like recipes that like our

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generation didn't get it handed down

the way all the generations before did.

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Because we moved away and

we got different priorities.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

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I wouldn't even know how to put together

like flowers for Memorial Day or whatever.

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I, I've never been in charge

of any of that for anybody.

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And so I love your mom, but I'm not gonna

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: I.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: your

grave 'cause I'm too far away, you

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know, like, what am I supposed to do?

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I did get her a pretty

headstone though, so,

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: That's nice.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: yeah.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

put, I think it was the 10 year

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anniversary of David dying.

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, His favorite, um, star Trek thing.

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Uh, alien was always, well the

ships anyway, was always the

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Klingon, um, birds of prey.

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So I got a model and built it

and put that on his gravestone.

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don't even know if it's still there

'cause I haven't been back to check.

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And, you know, maybe somebody got it,

maybe it got destroyed, And that's, I

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think that's why I got Starship tattoo.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah,

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: I just saw it,

I was thinking about it and I saw like

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a drawing and I was like, I want that.

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But people, they'll be like,

which enterprise is that?

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And I'm like, I don't actually know.

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This is sentimental to me Fuck off.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: On my brother's

gravestone, they put the Ohio State logo.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

You told me that.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: You just had

to know my mom to understand some of

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the wild things that came out of there.

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God for that brain.

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Um, my brother was a big Ohio State

football fan, so therefore it should

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be on his headstone forever, I guess.

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and he's up in the family

cemetery, which I didn't know.

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Um, but it holds a lot of my birth

family, my dad's family, like my great

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grandparents are up in that cemetery.

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Um, and I didn't know that,

like I'm related to half

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the people in that cemetery.

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And so he got buried

with my Maba and Papapa.

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He's up there with them, but you have

to have a four by four to get up, like

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a four wheel drive to get up that hill.

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And I just am not taking

my car up that hill.

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So I don't know if I'll

ever go back up there.

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It's, it's just on family land

and it's not maintained and it's

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really fallen into disrepair after

the guy that used to do it died.

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:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

ours is a family plot too.

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I, I don't know who maintains it, but it

is always, it has always been accessible.

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It's on Bowlin straight and

it's the Bowlin family plot.

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And so my dad's side is Bowlins Olins.

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so that's where David's at.

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I don't, God knows what's

gonna happen to the rest of us.

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We got no plan.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

Oh, I got a plan.

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It was the weirdest thing in the world.

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Buying your own grave

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

Oh, you told me about that.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

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When, because the, the cemetery

that I put my mom and dad at,

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um, we had to move my mom.

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and we had not buried my dad yet.

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We wanted to keep 'em together.

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So, When we were moved here to

the cemetery, they asked us what

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kind of headstone we wanted.

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And it's traditional, we'll put

like a, a, a standing headstone.

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Well this particular cemetery,

if you want one plot, you have

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to get one of the ones that are

flat to the ground, like a plaque.

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But if you, if you want a

standing headstone, you have

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to get at least two plots.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

you got a two for one,

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

yeah, basically.

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Um,

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: a bogo.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

yeah, but I also picked out my

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own headstone, which is weird.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Wow.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: How

do you pick a headstone that's bo

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that's appropriate both for your

parents and for you and your wife?

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: I don't know,

I might just close my eyes and point

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: We

put a black walnut tree on it.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: That's nice.

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were there funeral

superstitions that y'all had?

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Um.

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I refused to take pictures of

dead people in the casket, though

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I did get a picture of mom.

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I took a picture of my nephew when

she was in the background, but

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she's blurry, so I, I accepted that.

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but like mom wanted me to take

pictures of my brother and I refused.

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'cause I was, I was, you know, a

professional photographer at the

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time, but I was like, absolutely not.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: there was

one in that we never actually did, but I

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knew about, uh, sitting up with the dead,

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: somebody

has to be with them at all times until

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from the moment they die, until you

can get 'em into, into the ground.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

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And they used to have that at your

house, which is why we have living

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rooms now, because there used to be

basically death rooms, funeral parlors,

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah.

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There's a Ray Stevens song about it.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

The, the weirdest thing.

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So when my dad died, so there's

a, there's one funeral home in

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Lucasville, so we, we had everybody,

everyone in my family has gone there.

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I've been to that place a hundred

times over the years, you know?

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and I was there talking to

the guy, his name's William,

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and he's like 80 years old.

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and the guy that owns the place, and I,

I guess he has some dementia or something

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because number one, he told me that he,

um, he learned to smoke cigarettes from

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the on his grandfather's plantation.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Wow,

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: And

then he, and then he asked me who

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my family was, and I told him who

my great-grandmother was, and he

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said she made a beautiful corpse.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Jesus Christ.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Like

what in one conversation too.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: both

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: I, well, I

guess, and then he, he, he asked me if I

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was, uh, related to her husband, and I was

like, no, I was from her first husband.

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He was like, she wasn't married before.

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I said she absolutely was.

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You know what I mean?

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Like, I think I know my grandma's

history better than you do.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: You

know, um, the State Song of

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Kentucky, my old Kentucky Home,

it's a really beautiful song.

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one of the better, like state

songs, but up until it hasn't

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been long, maybe 40, 50 years.

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It had a lyrics that

had to be changed in it.

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And it,

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: wow.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: yeah, it

must have been antebellum because it,

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there's a lyrics that says, oh shit,

what is it tis summer, the Field's

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R Array or something like that.

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And the original lyric was to

summer, the D word are gay.

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:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Oh wow.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: and I learned

that in high school and I was like, what?

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No wonder they changed it.

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:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

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:

Do you know what the

State Song of Ohio is?

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Um, no.

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Hang on.

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Snoopy.

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Snoopy, hang on.

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Did

they play that at the games?

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beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: I don't know.

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But that, that literally is

the state rock song of Ohio, so

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dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Uh, let's see.

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Time for a Dash's Deep dive.

648

:

Beautiful Ohio.

649

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: no, it Google.

650

:

Hang on.

651

:

Sleepy

652

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: I.

653

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

It's the official rock song.

654

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah, it's

the Ohio State, um, marching band.

655

:

It's one of their classics.

656

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: That's not

how I've read it Over the, oh hell.

657

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah.

658

:

It says How Sleepy became a Buckeye.

659

:

Hang on.

660

:

Sleepy debuted in Ohio Stadium on October

th,:

661

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Oh,

662

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: How, hang on.

663

:

Sleepy became Ohio's anthem.

664

:

Yeah.

665

:

It's Ohio State's halftime show.

666

:

Interesting.

667

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: they

are the best damn band in the land.

668

:

They say

669

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Um,

Tennessee's is the pride of

670

:

the Southland Marching Band.

671

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

that's not very creative.

672

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: It's

not, Tennessee is not creative.

673

:

Right.

674

:

Like they don't have a mascot.

675

:

that's why their, um, end zones are

that checker checkerboard pattern.

676

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Huh?

677

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: they're

called the volunteers, and I don't

678

:

know which war they're talking about.

679

:

Which war is

680

:

volunteer from

681

:

War of 18?

682

:

12.

683

:

Okay.

684

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: so recent.

685

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah.

686

:

Tennessee earned the nickname

Volunteer state because of its

687

:

large number of citizen soldiers

ho volunteered for the war of:

688

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Did you know

that when, back in those days, if you were

689

:

conscripted to go to war, you could just

pay somebody else to go in your place?

690

:

It was totally a thing.

691

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: it

was very like aristocratic.

692

:

Like that's a, that's a, um,

nobility thing from the old country.

693

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: When I was

doing the research for my master's

694

:

thesis, there was a woman in Ohio,

in southern Ohio who paid for three

695

:

soldiers to go, um, on her dime.

696

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Hmm.

697

:

And you just had to do it.

698

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: like she did

it on purpose to be patriotic, but you

699

:

could do it because they can't constrict.

700

:

They, they didn't constrict, like

bring women into the army back then.

701

:

But she did it in place.

702

:

Her husband was dead and

she did it in his place.

703

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: but did this,

did the people she sent have a choice?

704

:

Did they, did they volunteer?

705

:

Okay.

706

:

Wouldn't it be fucked up if you could just

go outside and go, you're going to war?

707

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: That's kind of

what they do anyway with 18-year-old boys

708

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah.

709

:

But yeah, to Tennessee's, um,

mascot is the, or the volunteers,

710

:

and so that's not a thing.

711

:

So they don't have a mascot.

712

:

So they have this dog that's cute.

713

:

It's called Smokey and,

714

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

not original either.

715

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: no.

716

:

this one, I'm telling you like the,

the only thing they were ever good

717

:

at was actually playing football.

718

:

And they were so fucking good at that.

719

:

For the first like hundred years that they

existed, they didn't do anything else.

720

:

And now they don't have it.

721

:

Now they're not as good as they used

to be, and so they don't have a brand.

722

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Aw.

723

:

I have some friends down there, um,

in the, the Marysville Loudoun area.

724

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Loudon

725

:

What about weather Superstitions.

726

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

Um, like the, the bird's nest.

727

:

You see 'em up in the trees and you can

tell how bad of a winter it's gonna be,

728

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah,

729

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: the,

uh, the, the leaves turnover.

730

:

The, you can see when it's gonna rain.

731

:

'cause the leaves turnover.

732

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

what my granny always said,

733

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

734

:

I I do that to this day.

735

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: said that it

is because they were begging for rain.

736

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah, you

can always tell it's, it's true though.

737

:

You can always tell,

738

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

was something about crickets.

739

:

Don't, don't kill a cricket

when it's in the house.

740

:

'cause it's bad luck.

741

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: I

think I remember that one too.

742

:

It is bad luck to get a bird in the house.

743

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Um, if

you had a wart, you'd cut a potato

744

:

in half, rubbed it on the wart,

then jumped backwards three times.

745

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

And bury the potato.

746

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah.

747

:

You gotta bury the potato.

748

:

Yeah.

749

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

750

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

There was another one with

751

:

Nichols, but I don't remember it.

752

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

What else is there?

753

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

There was so many superstitions

754

:

around farming and planting too.

755

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Oh, yeah.

756

:

Especially with like the almanac,

757

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Mm-hmm.

758

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: that

that perpetuates a lot of that.

759

:

Sure.

760

:

If I had asked my, 'cause my grandmother

and grandfather, they kept a, uh.

761

:

A garden up on the hill.

762

:

So they were creatures of habit and they

would follow like, like they planted corn

763

:

by the moon, by moonlight for whatever

764

:

reason.

765

:

That was a thing that they did.

766

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: New

Year's Day has a lot of, um,

767

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

oh, the dime and the cabbage,

768

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: yeah.

769

:

And, um, like, not supposed to do any

canning or gardening if you're on your

770

:

period, there's a lot of stuff with brooms

too, like sleeping under somebody's feet.

771

:

They won't get married.

772

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: oh, I heard is

you're gonna be the next to get married.

773

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: okay.

774

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

Which is why I won't let 'em

775

:

sweep under my feet at the bingo

776

:

because they come around and sweep

out all the little tips and things

777

:

that people drop all over the place.

778

:

And I'm like, Nope,

I'll pick it up for you.

779

:

Here you go.

780

:

You, you ain't.

781

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: I,

there's one with pocket knives.

782

:

It's, it's bad luck.

783

:

So don't close a pocket knife unless

you're the one that opened it.

784

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yep,

yep, We found so many pocket knives

785

:

when we cleaned up my mom's house.

786

:

Like my dad had to have

been obsessed with them.

787

:

I think I told you about the

World Trade Center one, didn't

788

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah.

789

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

Why he had that.

790

:

I will.

791

:

That will like perplex

meat until my dying days.

792

:

Why?

793

:

He had that stupid thing.

794

:

Probably somebody traded

him for it or something.

795

:

But why would you trade

for something like that?

796

:

That doesn't even make sense.

797

:

And if somebody gave it to

him, who gave it to him?

798

:

The coolest thing I found like, of just

junk or whatever was a kid's belt buckle.

799

:

it had Mattel, it, it was from the

fifties or sixties and it had a,

800

:

like you know how the buckle comes

out on a, on a regular belt buckle.

801

:

this one had a little gun, a little

pistol that came out when you opened

802

:

it up and it had little snaps in

it so you could pull the trigger

803

:

and actually fire this belt buckle.

804

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Cool.

805

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

It was, it was really neat.

806

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: It

makes me think of cap guns.

807

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

808

:

Well that's what it was.

809

:

It was a little tiny cap gun, but

it looked like a, like a revolver.

810

:

' it was like a cowboy.

811

:

It was really neat.

812

:

I

813

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Oh,

814

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: grenade when

I was cleaning out their house from the

815

:

Korean War.

816

:

My grandfather brought it home with them.

817

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: It is a

wonder that some of us are still kicking

818

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

819

:

My cousin was mad that I got

820

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: of

821

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: I

was like, you're mad that I

822

:

got rid of a a, a grenade from

823

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: a bomb.

824

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

825

:

He was crazy.

826

:

I was like, yeah, I got rid of it.

827

:

I don't care if you're mad.

828

:

I wasn't gonna live in a house with a

grenade from, you know, that far back.

829

:

If I had known it was been there

for that long, I probably never

830

:

would've set foot in the place.

831

:

It's dangerous.

832

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: I

knew so many people growing up

833

:

who were like missing fingers.

834

:

Like it was just really common for men

who worked in any kind of physical job

835

:

to just not have all their fingers.

836

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

My dad had half a thumb

837

:

from a construction,

an ironworker incident.

838

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: and

I'm just thinking now, it's

839

:

been a long time since I've seen

somebody without all their fingers,

840

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

841

:

At my dad's funeral, I did the,

uh, I wanna say epilogue, but

842

:

that's not the right thing.

843

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: um, Elegy.

844

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: yes, thank you.

845

:

I could not come up with that word.

846

:

I, I think I'm on a medicine that's

been bright, frying my brain like that.

847

:

I just lose words in the

middle of conversations.

848

:

um, I gave the elegy at his funeral

and I made a joke and I said, I think

849

:

he'd give it one and a half thumbs up.

850

:

If you can't laugh at your dad's

funeral, when can you laugh?

851

:

Really?

852

:

That's just who I am as a person.

853

:

Folks.

854

:

I, my nephew Jacob, made me almost

cry, laugh at my mom's funeral.

855

:

Like he was.

856

:

So Jacob is autistic.

857

:

That's what you have to know about Jacob.

858

:

And he has Echo and he will memorize

YouTube videos and play 'em frontwards

859

:

and backwards and fast and slow.

860

:

And he's obsessed with his

iPad and, and YouTube videos.

861

:

And his echo means he will repeat the

things that he learns in those videos.

862

:

That's how he con, that's

how he communicates a lot.

863

:

so, um, he was standing there and

um, he just kind of started giggling.

864

:

He had his iPad up to his face,

and when he turned it around,

865

:

um, it was Will Smith's teeth.

866

:

But they were like so zoomed in

867

:

of all the things in the world

868

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: And

did he do the zooming or did he

869

:

find a video that had zoomed?

870

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

he did the zooming.

871

:

No, he did the zooming.

872

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

Did you ever ask him?

873

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: person.

874

:

I

875

:

he's, he is hard to ask

a lot of questions for

876

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yeah.

877

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Um, but

he's got the best comedic timing.

878

:

He is the funniest person I know.

879

:

I swear to God.

880

:

He's hilarious.

881

:

And then after mom's funeral, um, we

kind of had the little thing and we were

882

:

all kind of just standing there and he

grabbed a micro, 'cause he did the Pledge

883

:

of Allegiance at his graduation during,

he graduated in:

884

:

So literally the pandemic, he was in that

class that graduated during the pandemic.

885

:

Um, and so they basically recorded every

one of them coming in and then they would

886

:

leave and then they'd record the next one.

887

:

Anyway, Jake did the, the, pledge of

allegiance at the, at the beginning of it.

888

:

So he knew how to use a microphone and

he went over and said, we love you, mama.

889

:

You will be missed.

890

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Aw.

891

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

892

:

Jake's awesome.

893

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

He sounds like it.

894

:

Yes.

895

:

Ziggy.

896

:

I fed you dinner, so I

don't know what they want.

897

:

You wanna say something?

898

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

I miss having a cat so much.

899

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Mine are

famous in my grippy sock school.

900

:

photo bomb all the time.

901

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

902

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: They're

learning a lot about emotional regulation.

903

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Well,

good cats especially need that.

904

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Oh, well maybe

let's hear a word from our sponsor now.

905

:

Seems like a good time.

906

:

This week's episode of Queernecks

is sponsored by Fall or Autumn.

907

:

If you're fancy.

908

:

It's officially fall, the queerest season.

909

:

Heavy sweaters, Kneehigh socks.

910

:

Mariah Carey yawns and stretches

her wings somewhere in the

911

:

distance, like a pop culture.

912

:

Archangel sensing the first faint

T trimmer of a royalty check.

913

:

Halloween, our gay

Christmas has come and gone.

914

:

The fake blood's drying.

915

:

The wigs are half detangled

and the glitters still in

916

:

places no vacuum can reach.

917

:

We danced with ghosts, flirted with

devils, and remembered what freedom

918

:

tastes like when it spiked with cider.

919

:

But now the air's gone colder

and we can hear it faintly.

920

:

The Jingle Bells the horror movie

known as family Holiday season

921

:

is slowly emerging from the fog.

922

:

Soon every store will

be playing that song.

923

:

You know the one, the Mariah one,

she's coming and she cannot be stopped.

924

:

That's why fall is sacred

among other things.

925

:

It's our buffer zone, our

intermission between camp and chaos.

926

:

The season when the queer community shines

brightest, when we gather, layer up and

927

:

take care of each other while pretending

to be fine about the time change, we

928

:

make soup like it's a love language.

929

:

We swap sweaters and

trauma in equal measure.

930

:

We remind each other that found

family isn't just a phrase,

931

:

it's a survival strategy with

good lighting and matching mugs.

932

:

So light your candles, text

your coven and pull your flannel

933

:

tight because fall belongs to us.

934

:

The soft, the strange, the ones

who know that chosen family

935

:

is the coziest blanket of all.

936

:

This episode is sponsored by

Fall, the sweated sanctuary

937

:

before Mariah rises again.

938

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: That's great.

939

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: I saw her,

I think, I think it was her account, a

940

:

TikTok of her like opening the door and

you could hear the sound of slay Bells.

941

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah.

942

:

She

943

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Not yet.

944

:

Yeah.

945

:

I love, she's in on the joke.

946

:

She is a, a fucking queen.

947

:

She's an ice princess though.

948

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

yeah, She was epic on cribs

949

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Oh, I never

watched that show, but you know, I was

950

:

really obsessed with her from a young age.

951

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: if

you ever want a good laugh,

952

:

watch your cribs episode.

953

:

It's fantastic.

954

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Okay.

955

:

Uh, I don't know what bar it was, but

recently, there was a show, a drag show.

956

:

A, a like intimate one, not some

big, like, you know, um, like lots of

957

:

famous queens were there or whatever.

958

:

And so we don't, nobody knows what

possessed her, but she showed up at

959

:

a drag show somewhere, I'm sure in LA

or something, you know, Palm Springs

960

:

maybe decked out in the trans flag with,

uh, the letters, protect the dolls on

961

:

her back of a, I think she had a jeans

jacket, um, sequined, you know, but in

962

:

the pattern of the fla, the trans flag,

she sang a little song and, and did a

963

:

little performance and then evaporated.

964

:

It's just like she just appeared outta

the ether to say, end another thing.

965

:

And it was just, it was

so Mariah to me, like,

966

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Right.

967

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: was like,

that is, that is diva behavior.

968

:

That's how that's done.

969

:

Spread this far and wide.

970

:

Let 'em know that I said,

I'm going back to my house.

971

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Yeah, I may

look a little butch, but I will still

972

:

have a Mariah Carey break it down moment.

973

:

I will still sing, especially her

early stuff from the nineties.

974

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

Emotions, that album.

975

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036:

oh yeah, yeah, a hundred

976

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: Yes.

977

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: And the Dream

Lover album, the Always Be My Baby.

978

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036:

Fucking love that.

979

:

I, I was, I'm not kidding.

980

:

I was obsessed with her.

981

:

I would sing all of her songs.

982

:

I would go into the, there was this old

trailer that we did live in for a while,

983

:

and my dad and all of his musician friends

gutted it and built soundproof booths in

984

:

it and turned it into a recording studio.

985

:

He put like a little, he had a, it

was like a 16 track at first, but he

986

:

eventually leveled up to a 48 track.

987

:

and he made booths and he put

little, like windows in, so he,

988

:

you could, you know, just like a

li like a real recording studio.

989

:

But inside this like 1950s trailer,

I think my dad might be autistic.

990

:

I'm just now realizing.

991

:

beck_10_10-30-2025_173036: Well, the

A DHD came from somewhere, my friend.

992

:

dash_10_10-30-2025_163036: So I mean,

that was like one of the coolest things

993

:

we had is kids was going over there

'cause it was always instruments around.

994

:

There was, he eventually got like

a full drum kit and he would just

995

:

piece this stuff together as he

found deals on it or save up money

996

:

for it or something like that.

997

:

or trade for it.

998

:

And so there was always, he brought back

from Korea, he was stationed in Korea.

999

:

He found like some, um, nice guitars

like Gibson guitars for 25 bucks

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00:39:56,903 --> 00:39:58,373

and he brought 'em back to America.

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yeah, like had, like, we just had

this awesome playground over there.

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00:40:04,535 --> 00:40:08,714

and so I would go over and would put in

my Mariah tape baby, I would become her

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It's, she just does

something to you, right?

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00:40:14,534 --> 00:40:16,094

Like she's not a gender, right?

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00:40:16,514 --> 00:40:20,114

Mariah is that is she's drag, right?

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00:40:20,114 --> 00:40:22,784

Everybody talks about chapel

room is drag and stuff like that.

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00:40:22,784 --> 00:40:23,924

And I totally agree.

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00:40:24,224 --> 00:40:25,724

Every, we all agree, right?

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00:40:25,724 --> 00:40:26,984

Chapel ruin is incredible.

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00:40:27,225 --> 00:40:31,236

but, you know, Mariah was, was doing

it too, and she was doing it, as a

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00:40:31,236 --> 00:40:35,847

mixed race woman, with a kind of an

unconventional approach to vocals.

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Like all of that stuff she was

doing, that was not a thing.

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-:

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I love Misa Mariah.

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She will forever be in my heart.

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I have so many exams to grade.

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00:40:51,837 --> 00:40:52,827

It's kind of overwhelming.

:

00:40:53,181 --> 00:40:56,511

I gave all four of my classes

exams this past week, and I'm just,

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00:40:57,066 --> 00:40:58,046

-:

and it's midterm, right?

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00:40:59,001 --> 00:40:59,571

-:

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gotta do it again in four weeks.

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yeah, pretty much.

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00:41:04,641 --> 00:41:08,031

Well, my ethnic studies class, I give an

exam four times in the semester because

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00:41:08,031 --> 00:41:09,651

that's what the standard syllabus did.

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00:41:09,951 --> 00:41:12,501

That's too many tests, in my

opinion, for one semester.

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But I, I followed the original

syllabus kinda just because

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I hadn't taught it before.

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I might change that up next semester.

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studies, I give a midterm and a

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final, and that's pretty much it.

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I think three is the magic number

because just a midterm, you've already

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covered nine weeks of information

and you gotta go back and start

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from the beginning when you study.

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exams in a semester is ideal.

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I just don't wanna write a third

one or re reimagine my syllabus.

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don't, I don't know if people know

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00:41:40,323 --> 00:41:42,603

how much work making a test is.

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It's harder than taking

the test, that's for sure.

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Because not only do you have to write

the questions, have to tease out,

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00:41:50,590 --> 00:41:54,580

whether it's too hard in an exam or

whether it's too easy of an exam, you

:

00:41:54,580 --> 00:41:57,040

have to gauge whether, you know, your

students are gonna be able to, if,

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00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:00,610

if everybody gets an A, it's too easy

if everybody gets an F it's too hard.

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00:42:00,820 --> 00:42:03,820

There should be some happy middle

ground there and it, it takes

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some practice to get there.

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Yeah.

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I, I hated it.

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00:42:08,070 --> 00:42:13,189

and that's like, um, I preferred

assigning essays, but you kind of have

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00:42:13,189 --> 00:42:18,637

to, you have to be cognizant of essays

are extremely difficult for some people.

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just Because they're bad writers,

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but because it's stressful and

they have anxiety around it.

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And you just, you're not actually

on a level playing field when

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00:42:29,295 --> 00:42:33,465

you're assigning everybody an essay

as their only grade in the class.

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00:42:33,595 --> 00:42:36,025

cause some people are gonna find that

super easy and some people that's

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00:42:36,025 --> 00:42:37,735

gonna wreck their whole semester.

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00:42:38,265 --> 00:42:42,255

But when I taught writing, that was the

only thing we had that was the only grade.

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00:42:42,435 --> 00:42:45,075

Like I would try, I would

create things that I could

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00:42:45,075 --> 00:42:47,115

get them extra credit because.

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Well, I mean, we know for a fact

even back then, that was 15 years

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00:42:50,788 --> 00:42:55,378

ago, kids were not being taught how

to read or write in high school.

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00:42:55,708 --> 00:42:57,808

Um, now they're not being taught at all.

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What do you mean?

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-:

you know how they teach reading?

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00:43:00,553 --> 00:43:00,973

Now?

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00:43:00,973 --> 00:43:01,648

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00:43:01,811 --> 00:43:04,721

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it's kind of a, it's like guessing.

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00:43:05,075 --> 00:43:09,238

So they write word up on the board or

whatever and cover up parts of it, and

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00:43:09,238 --> 00:43:11,098

they have to guess what's behind the hand.

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00:43:11,288 --> 00:43:13,988

No sounding out, no context clues.

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00:43:14,403 --> 00:43:17,643

so Gen Alpha is not being

taught to read, really?

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00:43:17,733 --> 00:43:20,768

And they're not covered up in

opportunities to grow that muscle

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00:43:20,768 --> 00:43:24,631

themselves because reading is just

not a part of the environment anymore.

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-:

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unless it's in ten second

bursts on the internet.

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issue right now with folks and fully not

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00:43:32,006 --> 00:43:34,076

being able to read more than a paragraph.

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00:43:34,196 --> 00:43:35,276

If, if at all.

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00:43:35,276 --> 00:43:35,306

I,

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-:

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-:

reading, I, I think we used to take

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00:43:38,457 --> 00:43:41,937

it for granted that most people

simply taught themselves to read.

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00:43:42,229 --> 00:43:43,279

I don't know about most people.

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00:43:43,519 --> 00:43:47,209

Some people taught themselves

to read and others.

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00:43:47,471 --> 00:43:51,101

We're in that happy middle of what

we set the lessons to be like.

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00:43:51,971 --> 00:43:56,621

So we were able to capture most people,

like we were writing a really high tide

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00:43:56,621 --> 00:44:01,871

of literacy in the nineties, in the

eighties and nineties, and we didn't

:

00:44:01,871 --> 00:44:03,701

pay attention to how we got there.

:

00:44:03,971 --> 00:44:07,001

We didn't critically think

about what was happening to the

:

00:44:07,001 --> 00:44:09,521

environment as we changed technology.

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00:44:10,151 --> 00:44:14,321

And I actually wrote a prelim

about this and for my master's

:

00:44:14,351 --> 00:44:18,281

thesis, like one of my, um, comps

exams like this I did on this.

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00:44:18,641 --> 00:44:22,361

'cause I was like, we're missing

something big about literacy

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00:44:22,511 --> 00:44:24,000

and, this here we are now.

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00:44:24,338 --> 00:44:24,688

-:

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00:44:24,950 --> 00:44:27,740

-:

generation you get in your classroom,

:

00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,880

I swear in just four short years,

you're gonna get some illiterate fucks.

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00:44:32,037 --> 00:44:35,337

But even when I was teaching

writing, I was like, okay, so,

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00:44:35,637 --> 00:44:39,237

college has now become the new high

school for learning about writing.

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00:44:39,368 --> 00:44:42,218

' cause they didn't know what

a five paragraph essay was.

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00:44:42,741 --> 00:44:47,991

they didn't know how to even think

about what a source should be.

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00:44:48,321 --> 00:44:49,551

This has gotten real pedagogy.

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00:44:50,901 --> 00:44:51,711

We're just talking,

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00:44:54,801 --> 00:44:55,551

oh, listeners.

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00:44:55,551 --> 00:44:58,851

This is what happens when academics get

together and remember that life is awful.

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00:45:01,231 --> 00:45:03,156

-:

complaining to my students today and I

:

00:45:03,156 --> 00:45:04,566

said, are any of you gonna be teachers?

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00:45:04,596 --> 00:45:05,556

And one girl raised your hand.

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00:45:05,556 --> 00:45:08,226

I said, be prepared for

grading to ruin your life.

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00:45:08,616 --> 00:45:08,886

And she

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00:45:08,991 --> 00:45:09,321

-:

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00:45:09,336 --> 00:45:09,546

-:

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00:45:10,002 --> 00:45:13,332

-:

hear something happy then before we

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00:45:13,332 --> 00:45:15,252

have to go back to our dreary lives.

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00:45:15,312 --> 00:45:17,802

And tell me about a noun

of Appalachian interest.

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00:45:18,237 --> 00:45:19,767

-:

I would love to do that.

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00:45:20,097 --> 00:45:20,387

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-:

noun of Appalachian interest

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00:45:22,835 --> 00:45:24,845

is the Dollar Store triangle.

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00:45:25,145 --> 00:45:28,565

Now, if you're from here, you already

know the place I'm talking about.

:

00:45:28,715 --> 00:45:32,165

It's that weird stretch of town where

a Dollar Tree, a Dollar General, and

:

00:45:32,165 --> 00:45:35,465

a family dollar sit within inside

of each other like three crypted

:

00:45:35,465 --> 00:45:36,815

guarding the same parking lot.

:

00:45:37,115 --> 00:45:38,855

No one knows how it happens.

:

00:45:39,005 --> 00:45:41,585

Some say they just grow there

sprouting up naturally anywhere.

:

00:45:41,585 --> 00:45:45,575

Two interstates cross and the rent

drops below $8 a square foot other

:

00:45:45,575 --> 00:45:48,935

believes it's one store just vibrating

at three different price points.

:

00:45:49,265 --> 00:45:52,715

You walk in for one thing like paper

plates, and you walk out three hours

:

00:45:52,715 --> 00:45:57,185

later with the glitter pumpkins, a pair of

reading glasses, a Bible highlighter, and

:

00:45:57,185 --> 00:45:59,075

an off-brand energy drink called Bootsy.

:

00:45:59,345 --> 00:46:00,185

You can't explain it.

:

00:46:00,185 --> 00:46:03,618

You just accept it and you

always forget the paper plates.

:

00:46:03,978 --> 00:46:06,198

Each quarter of the

triangle has its own energy.

:

00:46:06,198 --> 00:46:08,148

The Dollar Tree is the land of false hope.

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00:46:08,388 --> 00:46:11,958

Everything's a dollar 25, and you feel

thrifty until you realize you've bought

:

00:46:11,958 --> 00:46:13,818

12 tiny bottles of ranch dressing.

:

00:46:14,568 --> 00:46:17,208

Dollar General is the

chaotic good of the bunch.

:

00:46:17,268 --> 00:46:20,688

One light on one cashier, and a

line of folks holding antifreeze,

:

00:46:20,688 --> 00:46:21,948

crisps, lights, and milk.

:

00:46:22,518 --> 00:46:25,368

The family dollar is the moody

middle child smells faintly

:

00:46:25,368 --> 00:46:26,898

of mop water, and nostalgia.

:

00:46:27,108 --> 00:46:30,650

Like if regret had its own fragrance

line, those brave enough to do all

:

00:46:30,650 --> 00:46:33,969

three in one trip Report dizziness,

static clean, and an irresistible

:

00:46:33,969 --> 00:46:35,799

urge to buy holiday dish towels.

:

00:46:36,249 --> 00:46:40,119

Anthropologists have tried to map it, but

GPS just gives up and says you're nearest.

:

00:46:40,119 --> 00:46:42,759

Save a lot because if you've

got the triangle, you've also

:

00:46:42,759 --> 00:46:44,199

gotta save a lot in your town.

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00:46:44,869 --> 00:46:46,849

Local swear, the triangle runs on rules.

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00:46:46,849 --> 00:46:48,439

The no outsider understands.

:

00:46:48,739 --> 00:46:50,779

The carts are born with one squeaky wheel.

:

00:46:50,779 --> 00:46:51,019

Two.

:

00:46:51,019 --> 00:46:54,709

If mercury's in retrograde

and the seasonal aisle molts

:

00:46:54,709 --> 00:46:56,329

hourly, you'll swear you saw St.

:

00:46:56,329 --> 00:46:58,969

Patrick's ta next to the pool

noodles five minutes ago.

:

00:46:59,269 --> 00:47:02,059

But now it's Easter grass and

4th of July sparkler and nobody

:

00:47:02,059 --> 00:47:03,379

remembers the in between.

:

00:47:03,829 --> 00:47:06,679

The as seen on TV end cap

isn't an end cap at all.

:

00:47:06,679 --> 00:47:07,489

It's a portal.

:

00:47:07,639 --> 00:47:09,769

Do not make eye contact

with the Bacon Bowl.

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00:47:10,099 --> 00:47:12,979

Uh, people call out into the fluorescent

air like it's the answer them.

:

00:47:13,129 --> 00:47:15,199

Do y'all take Apple Pay price?

:

00:47:15,199 --> 00:47:16,639

Check on the mystery candles.

:

00:47:17,119 --> 00:47:18,349

Where are the batteries?

:

00:47:19,429 --> 00:47:22,729

are both everywhere and nowhere,

which is part of the triangle's charm.

:

00:47:22,949 --> 00:47:26,429

So if you ever find yourself standing

at a crossroad of cheap plastic bins

:

00:47:26,429 --> 00:47:28,739

and seasonal despair, congratulations.

:

00:47:28,739 --> 00:47:30,509

You've entered the Dollar Store triangle.

:

00:47:30,749 --> 00:47:32,639

There is only one safe exit strategy.

:

00:47:32,639 --> 00:47:35,969

When you realize inevitably that you

have forgotten the paper plates, you do

:

00:47:35,969 --> 00:47:38,439

not turn back that way, lies madness.

:

00:47:38,439 --> 00:47:39,939

And three more scented candles.

:

00:47:40,209 --> 00:47:43,959

You wave to the cashier promise you'll

be right back and begin a new life.

:

00:47:43,959 --> 00:47:45,489

Cross the street at the Save-A-Lot.

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00:47:45,729 --> 00:47:48,609

May your dollar store batteries

be surprisingly strong.

:

00:47:48,819 --> 00:47:54,025

Your dish towels unexpectedly absorbent,

and your Bootsy only moderately alarming.

:

00:47:54,205 --> 00:47:54,595

Amen.

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00:47:57,640 --> 00:47:58,510

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Oh, that was a good one.

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00:47:59,410 --> 00:47:59,840

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00:48:00,182 --> 00:48:00,422

I had

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00:48:00,422 --> 00:48:01,172

fun writing that one.

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00:48:01,697 --> 00:48:04,517

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uh, there's always a subway nearby too.

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00:48:05,877 --> 00:48:06,137

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These are all things.

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00:48:06,917 --> 00:48:10,727

Lucasville has a save a lot,

all $3 stores at a Subway.

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00:48:10,727 --> 00:48:14,327

We also got a Wendy's and the day we

moved out they opened the Taco Bell.

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00:48:14,327 --> 00:48:17,927

So I didn't get to experience the Taco

Bell in Lucasville, but there is one now

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00:48:18,167 --> 00:48:19,247

-:

that might have saved your life.

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00:48:19,469 --> 00:48:20,429

-:

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00:48:20,759 --> 00:48:23,519

Um, but there is a Taco Bell

where I live now, so it's

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-:

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00:48:24,419 --> 00:48:25,409

-:

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00:48:25,469 --> 00:48:28,559

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not seen a Taco Bell in a long time.

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00:48:28,559 --> 00:48:28,619

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there's not any fast food restaurants

:

00:48:31,021 --> 00:48:33,991

in this town, but if I drive for

half an hour in just about any

:

00:48:33,991 --> 00:48:35,461

direction, I might find something.

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-:

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00:48:36,098 --> 00:48:38,798

The little town that I live in,

um, there's a smattering of things.

:

00:48:38,798 --> 00:48:41,738

There's a McDonald's and a Taco Bell

and one end of town, and there's a

:

00:48:41,738 --> 00:48:45,518

little diner, uh, that only stays

open until two in the afternoon.

:

00:48:45,751 --> 00:48:48,631

and then there's a Mexican restaurant

downtown and I think like a,

:

00:48:48,721 --> 00:48:50,761

an Irish tavern kind of deal.

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00:48:51,151 --> 00:48:51,481

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-:

and, and then over on the other side

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00:48:53,641 --> 00:48:57,931

of town there's a Mexican place and a

Chinese place and a big, big coffee.

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00:48:58,021 --> 00:49:00,901

So for my little town, it's got

quite a lot of little stuff.

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00:49:01,441 --> 00:49:01,861

-:

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00:49:01,861 --> 00:49:04,141

-:

their Mexican food all the time.

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00:49:04,771 --> 00:49:06,781

-:

here has got a for sale sign in

:

00:49:06,781 --> 00:49:10,621

the window, which is alarming to me

'cause there's only one of everything.

:

00:49:10,936 --> 00:49:14,326

So like the grocery store has

a for sale sign in the window.

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00:49:14,576 --> 00:49:14,996

-:

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00:49:15,494 --> 00:49:17,114

Who just buys a grocery store or

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00:49:17,248 --> 00:49:17,488

-:

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00:49:17,488 --> 00:49:18,028

I don't know.

:

00:49:18,028 --> 00:49:19,768

Are they waiting on Daddy

Warbucks to roll by?

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00:49:21,118 --> 00:49:24,178

Like, is that their only

strategy for selling that thing?

:

00:49:24,178 --> 00:49:25,858

Because I've never seen that in my life.

:

00:49:25,858 --> 00:49:26,278

Right.

:

00:49:26,278 --> 00:49:28,708

A grocery store with a for

sale sign in the window,

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00:49:29,368 --> 00:49:30,238

-:

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00:49:30,328 --> 00:49:31,708

-:

somebody's gonna be driving by and go,

:

00:49:31,708 --> 00:49:34,978

you know, I've always wanted to own a

grocery store in the middle of nowhere.

:

00:49:38,638 --> 00:49:42,448

I I have a dream to sell

$10 boxes of cereal.

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00:49:43,618 --> 00:49:45,953

-:

a family grocery store or is it a,

:

00:49:46,048 --> 00:49:49,689

-:

know, it's just, it's a little market

:

00:49:49,689 --> 00:49:52,329

that is run out of a generic building.

:

00:49:53,353 --> 00:49:58,273

it's fam, I'm sure it's family owned

because it's not affiliated with anything.

:

00:49:58,453 --> 00:50:01,412

and there's not a store brand of

anything and I don't know where

:

00:50:01,412 --> 00:50:04,772

they get their shit, but some of

it is brands I have never heard of.

:

00:50:05,192 --> 00:50:08,852

A lot of it has, it doesn't have quite

the, as much of like fell off the

:

00:50:08,852 --> 00:50:13,382

back of a truck feel as the grocery

store in Morris that I like to go to.

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but you know, I like to go

there because most of it did

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fall off the back of a truck.

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So it's cheap as fuck.

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Have you ever watched

The Middle, that TV show?

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Oh, they have a, a grocery store

called the, the Frugal Hosier.

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The, yeah, the Frugal Hosier

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That's hard to say.

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yeah, that show is really good.

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You should watch it if you like sitcoms

and need a half hour one to laugh at.

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we watched it a, it was one of those

ones you, we watched when we went

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to sleep, and now I've watched the

whole series like six times through.

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But yeah, that's what that made

me think of The Frugal Hoosier.

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back's hurting, so maybe let's go.

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All right, homie.

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listeners, we hope you had a safe and

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fun Halloween if you hung out with, us.

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Thank you.

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And, you know, if you did something

illegal, don't tell anybody about

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it because Halloween is a loophole,

so it didn't actually happen.

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neither the, the calories from

the candy don't count either.

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Yeah, it's, it's all one big black

hole and it don't, it don't count out.

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but thanks for listening.

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you know, let us know if you

have something you wanna put

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on the wheel of what have you.

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Um, you can comment on

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You can send us an email at mailbag.

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At Queernecks.com.

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or you can just send us a message on

Facebook and say, Hey, and tell us a

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superstition from where you're from.

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Did your, did your mom or your granny

or your papa, uh, or your weird cousin

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from down the holler ever have any

weird hangups that come to mind?

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