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Episode 1: Recapping the Hoedown - Live
Livestream Date: May 19, 2024
In this very first episode of The Heathencast, we meet a handful of the cast of Heathen’s who will be appearing on the show. We gab about the Hoedown party we threw the night before recording this episode. We shout out all of our favorite hoedown moments and get excited about upcoming projects.
Find out more about our next big event, Queer & Strange.
Here’s how to find everyone featured in the ep on IG:
We also mention Darby Hunter Art, Planet Gabu, Gogo Von Strange, Foxxy Alabaster, and Rare Gift Curio Co in this episode.
Produced by: Persephonic Media
Audio engineering by: DJ BonBon
Transcripts
And we're live now with the first
episode of the heathen cast.
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:Are we excited?
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:Oh my gosh.
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:All right.
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:What is the heathen cast?
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:No one knows yet because it hasn't come
into existence until this very moment.
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:a legend is born Someone
check the time 604.
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:We're going to check that birth
chart later, 604, 604 mark it.
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:All right.
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:Well, the heathen cast, what, what are we?
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:Well, the Heathencast is the first
podcast being created under the Heathen
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:House umbrella and by Persephonic media.
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:We're very excited to bring
our first one forward.
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:There will be more, so stay tuned.
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:Heathen House is a group of artists,
it's a group of makers, it's a couple
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:businesses, many businesses all
coming together to make magic together
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:in a warehouse in Tucson, Arizona.
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:It's hot here right now.
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:It's very hot.
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:It's getting hotter.
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:It's a bit warm.
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:It's getting hotter.
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:It's extra hot right now.
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:Yesterday was like the
hottest day of the year.
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:And it feels appropriate that yesterday
was also the hot gay summer hoedown.
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:It was really hot.
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:She doesn't get that on camera.
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:The hoedown was hot.
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:Yes.
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:Yes.
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:It was a hot hoedown.
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:So, what did we do last night, friends?
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:Oh man, so many things.
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:What didn't we do?
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:What didn't we do is a better question.
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:We were roping, we were dancing.
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:We were dancing, we were boot
scooting, hoe down throw down, hoe
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:down throw down the hoe down throw down
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:did not play at any point, which,
which is good 'cause I don't
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:think I could have done it.
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:We did.
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:Did your bootstrap Austin truck
bring down Austin by Dasha?
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:We did.
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:We did line dance to that.
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:So we throw a lot of fun parties.
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:We throw a lot of fun parties.
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:That was the second party we've
thrown here in this space.
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:We threw the masquerade in March and
we're here to just chat about what that
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:experience was like and and how much
fun we had and this is the first bit
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:of the heathen cast I like the name
heathen cast because it's like a podcast
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:obviously, but there's such a huge cast
of characters we have within heathen house
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:and It's time to introduce our podcast
listeners to some of these characters.
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:More people will always be
coming in and Popping in and out.
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:This is a fraction.
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:A fraction of the team.
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:A small fraction of the team.
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:I'm super excited about this because
I feel like all of us get the
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:question, like, what is the Heathenry?
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:And that's such an expansive answer.
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:There are so many answers to that
question, depending on who you ask.
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:Well, what is everyone's answer?
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:What's your answer?
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:We're a bunch of fucking heathens.
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:It's, it's pretty, it's pretty
straightforward in my opinion.
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:What is a heathen to you?
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:This is the interview
questions I've been asking.
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:Everyone.
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:Okay.
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:So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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:Who are you?
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:Who are you?
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:Who is she?
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:My name's Rose, TarotByRose333.
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:I'm a Reiki Master, Practitioner,
Teacher, and Tarot Reader local to Tucson.
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:What are your pronouns?
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:She, her.
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:And I host the Sound Baths here
at Monsoon Mystics in Heathen
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:House and at the Heathenry.
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:To me, what it means to be a heathen
is To liberate yourself, to liberate
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:yourself from, you know, the relational
and social standards of the patriarchy
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:and of, you know, the culture of
living in a post colonial society.
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:It's to free yourself completely
from that, leave your ego at the
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:door, and to be fully immersed in a
relationship with what it means to
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:be free in your sense of expression
and to, to delve deeper into love.
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:So it's a cult.
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:Sounds like a cult.
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:We need a ticker.
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:Don't take my word for it.
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:Ooh, that sounds fun.
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:So we've had two so far.
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:On the screen, it'll start popping up.
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:That's awesome.
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:That's awesome.
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:And Rose, you couldn't make
it to the hoedown last night.
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:Couldn't make it to
the hoedown last night.
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:You are a busy mama, business
owner, like incredibly
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:accomplished and talented person.
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:From what you witnessed from the Outside.
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:Oh my God.
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:How was the FOMO?
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:How bad was the FOMO?
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:What are three words you would
use to describe what went on?
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:Okay.
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:So I loved it.
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:It was really giving like MTV's golden
age of reality TV, but incredibly
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:queer, which obviously we love, we need.
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:And I loved that aspect of like
the, the getting the bits and pieces
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:of everybody's like perspective.
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:And so I think that HeathenCast
is going to be incredible for, you
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:know, maybe, maybe you're antisocial.
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:Maybe you're like, you know, somebody
who enjoys media, like I love media.
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:I love watching media.
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:And so it was really fun to
witness and watch and see, you
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:know, what was going down and how
much fun everybody was having.
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:It looked like y'all were
having the time of your lives.
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:And I was so happy for all of you.
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:I was just like rooting you
on my couch, in my pajamas.
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:Thank you, Rose.
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:So, yeah, it was fun.
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:It was fun.
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:We want to pass over to head heathen Wolf.
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:Introductions.
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:Who are you?
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:What do you do here?
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:What's your favorite part of the hotel?
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:All right.
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:I'm Wolf.
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:I'm the head heathen at the Heathenry.
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:I'm the guy that gives you
unsolicited nature facts when you
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:come in to buy a gift for somebody.
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:The one telling you all about the bones,
giving you the bones, the bone daddy.
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:What's the Heathenry?
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:The Heathenry is a curiosity shop.
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:It's a natural history space.
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:It's really focused on a love
and a passion for nature,
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:both living and deceased.
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:That's what I would say the Heathenry is.
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:But the Heathenry has expanded.
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:Exponentially.
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:And it has taken on a new life.
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:It has many pieces, as well.
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:Rose was kind of implying that
depending on who you ask, it's
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:a lot of different things.
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:The Heathenry was the, the like,
birth giver of Heathen House.
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:And Heathen House flagship almost.
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:It's like the flagship store.
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:For sure.
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:It was the flagship store of Heathen
House and then, you know, partnered
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:with Monsoon Mystics to make Heathen
House really what it is, but Heathen
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:House is the collective unit.
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:Yeah.
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:Of all of the makers and, and people
who, who put on the actual events
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:here and the stuff that happens on
all of the workshops and things.
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:And yeah, I'm Wolf,
what are your pronouns?
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:He, they.
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:He, they.
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:What a he, they -n it's a pun!
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:And what was your favorite part
about the hoedown last night?
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:Oh god, so many parts.
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:So many parts.
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:When that woman handed me a horse.
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:A what?
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:If you weren't here, you missed it.
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:I, I was there and I think I missed that.
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:When one of the burlesque
dancers handed me her horse.
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:I missed it.
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:Gave me her, gave me her speed.
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:Oh, was that Foxxy?
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:Foxxy Alabaster?
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:Foxxy Alabaster?
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:Oh God, we need to shout out.
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:I've got it.
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:I've got it.
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:I know I've got it in here.
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:So, so Foxy hands you a horse.
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:Foxy Alabaster.
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:Two Xs on, on Instagram.
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:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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:Hand me a horse.
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:. Yee-haw.
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:Yee.
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:Foxy was a handful.
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:. The performances were amazing.
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:Everyone knows I'm a sucker
for the performances.
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:The dancing, watching everyone
line dance was a hoot.
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:Watching you teach line
dancing was a hoot.
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:I've never taught line dancing in my life.
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:. Well, the roping.
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:Roping cattle everybody was
out roping cows last night.
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:Just real good cowpoke stuff, you know?
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:I really wanted there
to be a mechanical bull.
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:This time we didn't make it happen.
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:Who can say for the future?
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:Don't tease us like that.
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:Still in the works.
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:Wolf always threatening
us with a good time.
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:Wolf's threatening but
raucous and jovial aura.
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:You can't always count on
me to take the fun too far.
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:Amen.
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:Amen.
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:This is why we love you.
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:Amen.
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:So sounds like there were
performers last night.
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:Yeah.
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:There was a whole burlesque
show, a whole burlesque show.
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:How many performers did we have in total?
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:We had four performers in total
and the fabulous kitten Ellie Fury.
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:Yeah.
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:So put on by a Gogo Von Strange.
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:A burlesque icon themselves.
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:There's a lot of burlesque in,
there's a lot of burlesque in Tucson
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:we're blessed.
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:That was bad.
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:I am jumping so many questions ahead
and we'll circle back to this, but
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:I would love to get some of our
burlesque girlies and burlesque
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:other folks on here to chat with us.
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:If you want to be on here,
and you're a burlesque folks.
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:Call us.
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:Call us.
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:DM us.
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:Drop in those DMs.
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:Wolf was making a little,
a little phone call sound.
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:Do you remember?
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:Does anyone remember those phones?
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:When phones used to look like this?
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:Gesture.
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:For the listeners.
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:How old are you, Wolf?
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:So old.
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:Thoughts?
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:I still do the phone call like this.
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:Apparently a Gen Z does it.
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:Like this, flat hand against the
ear, because it's your iPhone.
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:As the Gen Z representative
here, Is it Gen A instead?
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:Gen A?
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:I think so.
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:Gen Alpha?
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:I don't, I don't resonate with,
I've never seen that in the wild.
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:It doesn't resonate, I am also a Gen Z er.
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:Hello, I am answering my
phone with my hand flat.
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:This does feel like
something a high school
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:student would do right now though.
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:Yes.
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:So I think, I think Gen A is the
way to Yeah, that makes sense.
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:I'm sure they're doing that.
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:Okay.
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:As the resident Gen Z folk here.
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:Mm-Hmm?
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:. Whoooo are you?
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:It does.
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:It's us.
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:So, hi, my name is able I am one of the.
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:Currently two tattoo artists here
at the Heathenry and the extension
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:of the Heathenry, the parlor,
which is part of the space that we
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:host these marvelous parties in.
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:Where we're sitting right now.
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:We're in the parlor.
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:Right now.
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:It's like The most like, I don't know,
it's like one of the best like mood
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:vibe places you can go in Tucson,
honestly, at least that I've found.
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:Vibey as heck.
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:Vibey as heck.
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:The vibes are here and it's
like mellow, but it's also like
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:mystical and like kind of intense
because we do have a lot of like,
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:I forget taxidermy and like dead things
around, but it's like in such like cool
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:and nature loving and respectful way.
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:So I feel like there's really
there's a lot that's brought
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:to the table in these spaces.
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:My pronouns are he, him.
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:I'm just a little guy running around and
I am running around most of the time.
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:True.
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:It's the Gemini placements.
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:It's the Gemini placements.
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:What can we say?
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:They got us going.
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:What was your favorite part
about the hoedown last night?
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:I gotta say, your outfit.
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:Was one of my favorite parts.
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:Incredible.
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:Did you win best dressed?
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:I did not participate in best
dress because I had to give the
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:people an opportunity to win.
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:No, no, it wouldn't have been.
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:I think you may have won most chess.
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:Oh yeah.
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:Iconic.
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:We're gonna have to post some
fit pics on the Heathencast
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:Instagram, at the Heathencast.
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:The fit pics will be
coming, that is for sure.
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:Fit pics.
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:Fit pics.
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:Fit pics, you freaks.
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:They are fit for consumption,
not for all ages though.
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:What was your favorite part?
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:Yeah, my favorite part was,
I honestly like the outfits.
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:Was a huge Was being the
hottest person there.
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:And you didn't hear it from him.
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:That was a stiff competition though.
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:For being the hottest person there.
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:There was really, really
stiff competition.
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:Oh, there I wouldn't say that myself
because there were so many wonderfully
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:accoutremented people at the event.
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:It was a universal tie.
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:Yeah, just like really universal tie.
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:I'm biased.
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:And, but I would say outside of
the outfits I always love a good
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:opportunity to dance and have a really
good fun time with other people.
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:queer people, whether that's
led by a really fun instructor
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:or just like freestyling it.
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:So I think that was
probably my favorite part.
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:One of my favorite things
about Abel is that Abel will
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:dance at karaoke night with me.
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:When Rose is here, Rose will dance too.
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:The three of us will cut a rug
in the back at karaoke night.
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:It gets We'll get to karaoke in a second.
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:We'll get to karaoke in a second because
we have one more heathen sitting here
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:who has not introduced themselves.
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:Hi, I'm Hannah.
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:I'm the bartender.
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:Last night I was the tavern wench.
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:That would be like the loon girl vibe.
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:Yeah, which I love.
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:Yeah, I work for minibar at the MSA Annex.
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:I've helped curate several cocktail pop
ups here in town, and now working here
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:at the Heathenry to do mocktail bars.
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:So, I also have a background in
metaphysical arts and astrology,
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:so combining all of those things to
make really tasty, unique drinks.
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:I call Hannah the Mocktail Magician.
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:That's pretty cool.
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:Because we like, truthfully,
pre experiencing the mocktails,
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:There was a lot of hesitation.
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:There was a lot of hesitation on
like, are people going to want these?
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:Is it going to be good?
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:It doesn't have alcohol.
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:Everyone loves alcohol.
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:And then it has so far, all of your drinks
have so far exceeded my expectations and
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:they all have such incredible flavors.
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:I'm never going to get over the
Palo Santo in Mystic Circles ever.
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:And before we get to Hannah's
favorite part about the night.
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:We have to introduce
another heathen joining us.
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:We've been saving you a seat, my friend.
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:It's Tori.
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:All right, Tori, we will get to you.
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:Introductions in a moment.
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:Hannah, what was your favorite
part about the hoedown?
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:I really loved the pink boots
for the collector's zippers.
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:Yeah, those brought me a lot of joy.
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:Yeah.
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:And the outfits were
immaculate, I have to say.
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:Yeah.
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:People show up and show out.
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:to these events.
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:It's kind of insane.
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:Like it's like queer
fashion week of Tucson.
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:It's like they're yearning for, we're all
yearning for an opportunity to just put
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:on our like queerest, themedest, most like
fun, exciting, sexy, or silly, or goofy,
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:or wacky, queer and strange outfits.
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:Yeah.
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:You have to come with your
strength in terms of outfit.
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:All right, Tori.
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:Hello.
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:Tori, who are you?
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:I would like your name,
which I've already given.
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:Oh, well, you know, I'm just Tori,
the mystic from Monson Mystics.
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:Just Tori.
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:Just a little Tori over here.
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:What are your pronouns?
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:She.
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:They, she, they, she, they,
whatever, she, they, whatever.
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:And what, what, what
does Just Tori do here?
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:Well, Just Tori is, I guess, the, Pull out
the scroll and it just drops to the floor.
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:Yeah, there's like a whole laundry list.
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:How would you like me to begin?
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:House mom.
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:Just Tori is, It's not just Tori.
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:I'm Tori.
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:I'm the owner of Monson Mystics, the
magical metaphysical shop next door
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:to the Heathenry and the Parlor, and
one of the heads of house of Heathen
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:House, and just crazy overall den
mom of this collective of queers
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:and fun creatives and magic makers.
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:You had a very, that's
definitely who you are.
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:You had a very particular role to
play last night at the hoedown.
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:I did.
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:Can you tell us about that?
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:I run the Back Alley Snack Shack,
Back Ally, Back Alley Snack Shack,
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:which is our little renegade food cart
out of the back of Monson Mystics.
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:We served the classic traditional
country specialty walking tacos.
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:And if you don't know what a walking
taco is, for anybody who doesn't
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:know, it is a bag of Fritos loaded
with nacho toppings that you eat
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:with a fork while walking around.
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:So good.
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:Yes.
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:My mouth is watering.
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:Yes.
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:So good.
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:The way that idea was like
formed and manifested and then
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:like created and enacted within
like That was Tori's 48 hours.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:That was my stomach.
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:We were just sitting around
and the idea was like, walking
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:tacos would be delicious.
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:And then I said, as I
usually do, I can do that.
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:I can do that.
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:I can make that happen.
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:You'll hear Tori say, I can do that.
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:Or I have done that.
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:It's like, I can fix that.
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:I can fix that.
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:It's a very much hold my crystals.
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:Hold my crystal infused
water while I do this.
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:Hold my brew.
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:Hold my brew.
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:Hold my brew.
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:Hold my chamomile.
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:Scales a ladder, 10 feet in the air.
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:I'm going to ask.
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:I'm going to make a request to reshuffle.
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:I'm going to ask Abel to snuggle up
next to Tori on the couch because
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:I've heard that we are going to have
at least one more person pop in.
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:I have one more thing
that I want to just say.
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:No,
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:absolutely not.
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:Okay.
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:Dad, what do you have to say?
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:Thank you.
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:There was one more piece of last night
that I think was just pivotal would not
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:have, the night would not have been as,
Gay as it was, if it weren't for that
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:piece, and it was the screen printed
Hankies and Bandanas by Planet Gabu that
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:you see me and Maria Elena sporting.
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:I'm literally using mine like
I have consumption over here.
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:Like, the in house hanky coat.
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:Feral.
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:Feral.
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:We got real feral.
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:I got real feral at the
Heathenry's Hot Gay Summer Hoedown.
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:There's such a Such an amazing thing.
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:We had an in house Hanky Code.
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:If you don't know about the Hanky Code.
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:Live screen printing.
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:Not only were these live screen
printed by Planet Gaboo, but all of
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:the Hankys and Kerchiefs were hand
dyed by Planet Gaboo earlier that day.
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:So the colors were like actually beautiful
and aesthetic and you wanted them.
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:Like I wasn't convinced I was
gonna get one and then I did.
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:Yeah, of course you did.
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:Yeah.
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:Wolf, do you want to explain Hanky Code?
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:A little bit?
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:Or did you guys already explain it?
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:I was gonna say, if you don't
know what Hanky Code is, and
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:flagging, one, go on our Instagram,
theheathenry, at theheathenry on
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:Instagram, and two, a quick Google.
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:A quick Google.
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:A quick Google.
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:If you are a queer and you don't know
Hanky Code, just learn your history, babe.
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:And if you're not queer,
learn some queer history.
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:Learn yourselves, school
yourselves, edumacate yourselves.
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:Alright, let's introduce our
next heathen, and have you
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:said your favorite things yet?
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:Your favorite thing of last night?
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:My favorite thing of last night, besides
like, selling out of waffling tacos, which
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:is really fun, I feel like everybody's
wardrobes were, like, kicked up a notch.
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:And I'm just really upset at myself for
not putting, like, I didn't give enough.
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:I've gotta really step up my wardrobe
game for these, because, I was not
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:serving enough country, but everybody
else, you looked incredible last
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:night, by the way, if I didn't
tell you, I was talking to Abel.
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:Thank you, Tori.
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:I know for anyone, for anyone
who's listening, not on YouTube.
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:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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:Abel looked incredible.
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:Abel's fit killed it.
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:Yes.
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:All right.
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:We're going to have a brief
appearance by another heathen
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:before we loop back around.
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:I still haven't introduced
myself, but we'll get to that.
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:We'll get to that.
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:Save the best for last.
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:Alright, so, what our other heathen
like to pop in and say hello?
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:I'd love to hear, oh my gosh, and
then we may have another one soon.
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:Like I said, there's so many heathens.
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:This is going to be a
revolving cast, my friends.
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:There really is a whole cast of
characters between these buildings.
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:Yeah, we cannot do any of
these things by ourselves.
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:The heathen cast is a whole crew.
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:We don't.
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:I don't know if we could.
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:No, we couldn't.
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:No, it's a team.
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:It's a network.
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:It's a community.
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:This is a community establishment.
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:All right.
494
:It's like alternative full house.
495
:Alternative full house.
496
:All right, Lydia.
497
:Can I get, I just spoiled it, but
can I get a name, pronouns, and then
498
:your favorite part of last night?
499
:Oh, okay.
500
:So my name is Lydia.
501
:And what you do here?
502
:Well, who are you here?
503
:Who am I?
504
:That's such a broad question.
505
:Okay.
506
:Oh, that's what I said.
507
:I'm Lydia.
508
:Lydia?
509
:I own Luna Craft.
510
:I am in the loft inside Monson Mystics.
511
:I'm here, I'm queer, and
I'm got wood for you.
512
:I do woodburning, pyrography.
513
:Pronouns are she, they, and I You
play a very special role, like
514
:the night before our big parties.
515
:If you have never come to our karaoke
nights, you have to again, check out
516
:the Instagram because there are stories.
517
:It's not often you can go to a karaoke
night and see your karaoke jockey.
518
:Ride around on a stick horse on a saddle
stool whipping around a microphone.
519
:It did happen.
520
:I don't know who let that
happen, but it happened.
521
:I did.
522
:I did.
523
:I think that was during
Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy.
524
:Actually, it was during High Horse.
525
:Oh, High Horse.
526
:Oh, yes.
527
:Yeah, the horse song.
528
:It was during High Horse.
529
:Gayyy Yes, yes.
530
:Cause then I took the horse and
I made the horse a high horse.
531
:If you're like cheesy.
532
:And you're afraid of doing
karaoke in other places.
533
:This is the place to mess around with
whatever, try out whatever, like nobody
534
:here is going to make fun of you.
535
:This is a safe space.
536
:We love making just a fun time to
just get to sing and mess around
537
:with whatever songs we've got.
538
:It's like karaoke in your best
friend's cool living room.
539
:Yeah.
540
:It's in a living room.
541
:Yeah.
542
:It feels comfortable.
543
:Yeah.
544
:Amazing.
545
:That's me.
546
:All right.
547
:We're gonna reshuffle once again.
548
:Well, just before we take off from
karaoke real quick, I do just want to
549
:acknowledge there's one more pivotal
piece of both karaoke and our parties in
550
:general, and that's behind the scenes.
551
:That's behind the scenes
right now of the podcast.
552
:And that's our good ol pal, DJ Bon Bon.
553
:Yeah, and then, you know, DJ Bon Bon would
not be complete without Darby Hunter Art.
554
:Darby Hunter Art.
555
:@DarbyHunterArt on Instagram.
556
:stickers.
557
:You love DJ Bon Bon's music.
558
:So, they're, they're behind the scenes
right now making this possible, but that's
559
:the other piece of all that music stuff.
560
:We would not sound as great
as we do without DJ Bon Bon.
561
:DJ Bon Bon.
562
:And I sound messed up.
563
:Try to brush over your
favorite part of the hoedown.
564
:Oh.
565
:Darn, you caught that.
566
:I don't want to choose.
567
:Don't say outfits.
568
:Everyone said outfit.
569
:Okay, but those were phenomenal.
570
:Valid.
571
:The cocktails were really good, too.
572
:I mean, there's a whole bunch of
other, the mocktails were great, too.
573
:Okay, I'm pretty picjy when
it comes to drinks above.
574
:They were phenomenal.
575
:They sold out.
576
:They sold out.
577
:And as soon as my spouse bought a
drink and Hannah was like, you better
578
:buy one now or it's going to be gone.
579
:And I was like, Oh, I'll be
back as soon as it might.
580
:Nope.
581
:Nope.
582
:I missed out.
583
:So I'm glad that I stole a sip.
584
:No, honestly, I think my
favorite part, and I wasn't
585
:even unfortunately here for it.
586
:Cause I was next door resetting,
but was just the energy.
587
:Secondhand I got to watch Maria Elena
took some videos and I literally started
588
:crying just watching all of the queer
couples getting to slow dance in a
589
:western bar That is not like a bar bar,
but like in this in this space where
590
:they are safe to just be who they are
and Enjoy the energy in the space as a
591
:collective and it was just I literally
just tears started I'm like, I'm like
592
:full on crying as I was showing, I
understand why you're crying right now.
593
:Amazing.
594
:It's absolutely beautiful.
595
:I think that's probably
one of my favorite.
596
:Another favorite was probably the roping.
597
:That was, that was really cool.
598
:Such a nice touch.
599
:Also provided by DJ Bon
Bon and Darby Hunter Art.
600
:Yes.
601
:All right.
602
:Okay.
603
:We're going to reshuffle.
604
:Is anyone wanting to dip out?
605
:Not wanting to hang out for the next 15?
606
:Okay.
607
:Yeah.
608
:I'm going to hop out too.
609
:Thank you so much for popping in.
610
:Don't forget these faces.
611
:Don't worry.
612
:We will be back for more.
613
:We will be on many more podcasts.
614
:All right.
615
:Well now we have a very Very,
very special heathen popping in.
616
:Extremely.
617
:To just say howdy.
618
:We do.
619
:To do introductions.
620
:You can stay on the couch,
Abel, because Tori's getting up.
621
:Yeah, I was going to pass the microphone.
622
:It is you.
623
:It is you.
624
:It's ye.
625
:We love Tori.
626
:And if, if with this new edition, you
will officially be seeing the entire
627
:staff at the Heathenry, the parlor.
628
:It's the parlor staff right here.
629
:We're missing a few other additions
to the full Heathenry shop team, but
630
:right now you have the parlor folks.
631
:So, so for anyone not watching
on YouTube and listening, that
632
:is me, your little emcee here
who I have not introduced myself.
633
:It's Wolf.
634
:We'll get back around.
635
:It's Wolf.
636
:It's Karolina who's going to introduce
themselves in a moment and it's Abel.
637
:So Karolina, can I get.
638
:Your name, your pronouns
and what you do here.
639
:My name is Karolina.
640
:I use she, they pronouns and
I am the tattoo artist and
641
:co owner of the Heathenry.
642
:Damn right.
643
:Damn right.
644
:Karolina is booked and busy always
because her tattoos are so incredible.
645
:And just like.
646
:Beautiful and delicate and done in
a queer friendly, femme friendly,
647
:gorgeous, gorgeous space that has
been so curated by Karolina as well.
648
:And that's why you're, you're popping in.
649
:A teensy bit, a teensy bit after
the fact, because you're in demand,
650
:my friend, your work is in demand.
651
:Thanks, Maria.
652
:Thanks, bud.
653
:Thanks, I'm trying, I'm doing the thing.
654
:And also because I had to
reschedule this last minute.
655
:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
656
:That's on me.
657
:That was actually, yeah, yeah, yeah.
658
:That was fully on me.
659
:It's fine.
660
:It's fine.
661
:It's fine.
662
:It's fine.
663
:It's fine.
664
:It's fine.
665
:It's fine.
666
:Karolina's art is a big part of
the reason that I'm here too.
667
:So absolutely just.
668
:Karolina's art is a big part
of the reason we're all here.
669
:Thanks.
670
:Don't make me blush.
671
:Oh, blush, blush.
672
:So what was your favorite
part of last night, Karolina?
673
:Oh man, okay.
674
:I mean, I loved all the people
doing their fake tattoos in the
675
:shitty bathroom in the hallway.
676
:Oh, fake tattoos in the shitty
bathroom in the hallway.
677
:If you've been here before, we have a
really, I mean, I like to tell people
678
:the joke if you've seen the meme of like
the, every private tattoo studio has one.
679
:A murderer, like, Alley,
a murder or whatever.
680
:I'm like, we have a murder bathroom.
681
:I mean, our bathroom is nice.
682
:Crystal shout out crystal best,
best assistant in the world that
683
:makes our bathroom beautiful,
but the property bathroom, scary.
684
:And that's where the tattoos were.
685
:It was kind of funny because every time I
walked past, it was just a bunch of you.
686
:Just like, Fucking pressing
them on each other.
687
:Like, you know and then slow
dancing with you, obviously.
688
:Oh, I forgot about that.
689
:That was a moment.
690
:I'm sorry.
691
:I mean, I can't, I can't admit that
I was thinking about that all night.
692
:The tattoos are really fun.
693
:The little tattoo table.
694
:I think it's, it's, we have maybe left out
the fact that we are in fully a warehouse.
695
:Heathen house exists in a warehouse.
696
:It might look real vibey and comfy
in this little YouTube frame.
697
:It and it is vibey, vibey as hell.
698
:But yeah, we we are in a cool warehouse.
699
:There's like a very tall
ghost cat, ghost cat.
700
:I haven't seen the ghost more.
701
:Ghost mice.
702
:Activity on all fronts and
in all dimensions has been
703
:picking up here lately.
704
:Truth.
705
:Do do do do.
706
:Truth.
707
:Oh my gosh.
708
:Okay, so any other like hot
takes about the hoedown?
709
:What else did we love?
710
:Hoedown hot takes?
711
:It was, it was hot.
712
:It was hot.
713
:Like, aesthetically.
714
:I demand more hotness next time, I guess.
715
:Get hoey er.
716
:Yeah, I cannot be the only
shirtless one next time.
717
:Able was the only shirtless person.
718
:Take your shirts off.
719
:You heard it here.
720
:I only had like half a shirt,
like a quarter of a shirt on.
721
:Pasties only next time.
722
:Yeah, they were having a pasties
only party for my birthday.
723
:Pasties only party.
724
:It's decided right now.
725
:We'll have a, we'll have
a What do they call those?
726
:What am I thinking of right now?
727
:Oh my god, what is wrong with me?
728
:The pants with the straps?
729
:Boots with the spurs.
730
:Goddamn overalls!
731
:Suspenders!
732
:Overalls party!
733
:Like a real, nothing under your
overalls, over under party.
734
:How do we make that?
735
:Make it under your overalls.
736
:We got to name everything.
737
:Overalls under, overalls over nothing.
738
:I don't know.
739
:I don't know.
740
:We'll think about it.
741
:We'll workshop that.
742
:We'll workshop that.
743
:We'll workshop that.
744
:Speaking of things that we're workshopping
and thinking looking towards the
745
:future, what are we most excited for
that's coming up on the calendar?
746
:Whether it's confirmed or it's a little
dream or hope you have in your heart.
747
:Or something you as an
individual business is doing.
748
:You have a cool flash event
coming up, Karolina, don't you?
749
:You're, you're on Saturday Adrian
from Out West is going to be
750
:here tattooing with me all day.
751
:We're doing some springtime Spring flash,
even though it hit a hundred degrees,
752
:there's going to be flowers for you.
753
:Flower bitches.
754
:What's the date on the summer, Arizona?
755
:The date is May 25th.
756
:We're starting at 11 a.
757
:m.
758
:We're going to have
some signup sheets here.
759
:We're going to post about
it hopefully by Wednesday.
760
:Adrian, if you see this
Wednesday, man, Wednesday.
761
:And yeah, that's on Saturday.
762
:Karolina, what's your Instagram handle?
763
:Oh, @Karolina.Olivia, like
the state, but with a K.
764
:At the end of that day, too, if
you come here, you get some flash
765
:tattoos and you're not done.
766
:We have a we have a mini market.
767
:We have our little first microburst
market is happening this Saturday,
768
:5/25 so that'll be in Heathen House.
769
:You'll be able to pop out
there and do some shopping.
770
:Some local makers, right?
771
:Yeah, that's happening.
772
:That's right.
773
:10 local makers.
774
:10 local makers.
775
:Wow.
776
:Yeah.
777
:And we're going to have a series of
these microburst markets and they're
778
:going to be different vendors and
different things to see, something
779
:to keep you busy in the summer.
780
:Right.
781
:When it's hot, that's right.
782
:We got to find ways to cool down
and get hot here in the desert.
783
:We had a lot of fun with our
Western party last night.
784
:Do you want to have more Western parties?
785
:Yes.
786
:If you want to have more Western
parties, let us know, please shout
787
:out in the comments or if that's
a thing like right now, tell us
788
:that you want to get hoed down.
789
:Send me a carrier pigeon.
790
:Yeah.
791
:I only accepted requests
by carrier pigeon.
792
:This is me telling you.
793
:Friends, I haven't introduced myself.
794
:Oh my freaking God.
795
:Heeey.
796
:Who are you?
797
:Who are you?
798
:Who am I?
799
:Good question.
800
:Where did you come from?
801
:Who am I?
802
:I'll let you tell me.
803
:No, I'm just kidding.
804
:I knew I was going to see
the panic in your eyes.
805
:How could we describe you?
806
:How indescribable.
807
:I am indescribable.
808
:My name is Maria Elena on the internet.
809
:I am Persephonic777.
810
:I am Persephonic777.
811
:I use she, her pronouns.
812
:I am the producer of this podcast
and the ones that are yet to come.
813
:I am a tarot reader and teacher.
814
:I have a studio space
here that I work out of.
815
:I'm also a licensed massage therapist.
816
:I specialize in craniosacral therapy.
817
:So I do a lot of work with.
818
:With the trauma healing and helping
people feel calm because, wow, is
819
:that hard to do in this day and age?
820
:Oh my gosh.
821
:It's almost like we're all
collectively traumatized.
822
:Almost, it's almost like that.
823
:Late stage capitalism.
824
:Weird, but gosh, has it been so personally
healing to get together with folks
825
:who have similar values and visions
and just bring some frickin joy.
826
:And I just noticed the
cowboy hat on scrungle.
827
:There's cowboy hats on every
little cowboy hats everywhere.
828
:Shout out to Adrian of rare gift curio co.
829
:All right.
830
:Who you will be meeting soon.
831
:Yes.
832
:Me and my buddy, Adrian, we're going
to be telling you all about all
833
:the weirdest shit you ever thought
you didn't know you wanted to know.
834
:But last night.
835
:I gave Adrian a bowl full of miniature
cowboy hats and said, go free.
836
:And so if you put hats on here, yee haw,
yee haw, hi ho silver is what I said.
837
:And they went.
838
:They went feral.
839
:So if you come in anytime soon,
you'll see little hats on things.
840
:It's real cute.
841
:Skrunkles has got a hat.
842
:Yeah.
843
:The bison's got a hat on each horn.
844
:I think that's one of the things
that I'm most excited about.
845
:Upcoming is just getting more of these
really cool podcasts out because we
846
:have so many funky niche interests.
847
:I'm excited for, for you
and Adrian's for sure.
848
:That one's going to be a lot of fun.
849
:What are you excited about upcoming?
850
:Well we have the next big thing I
really want to let everybody know is
851
:this thing we call queer and strange.
852
:Can you read it on my shirt?
853
:All right.
854
:Ah, I'm sorry.
855
:What does that say for
the viewers at home?
856
:Queer and strange.
857
:That's me.
858
:That's what we are.
859
:I thought we already introduced you, Wolf.
860
:Oh, fuck.
861
:I mean, beep.
862
:I think you can swear on this.
863
:That's fine.
864
:Good.
865
:Okay.
866
:Anyways.
867
:Queer and strange.
868
:That's what we all are.
869
:Queer and strange was the very first
event that we put on at Heathen House.
870
:It was our very first market.
871
:It was our very first, like, Let's
throw a party and see if people come.
872
:And you came.
873
:It was like my second market ever.
874
:We all came.
875
:It was so fun.
876
:Like what a thousand other people.
877
:Like a thousand people came.
878
:The gays show up.
879
:And we love you for that.
880
:So we're doing it again.
881
:One year later, queer and strange is back.
882
:It's going to be a market for local
queer oddities and other, you know,
883
:off the normal beaten path makers.
884
:It's also going to have probably food
trucks and music and dancing and.
885
:Mocktails and a drag show.
886
:And it's all going to raise money for
a great nonprofit as yet to announce.
887
:Happy pride month.
888
:Yeah.
889
:This is our pride.
890
:Market, our pride event.
891
:I'm excited for that.
892
:It's coming up.
893
:Yeah.
894
:. Queer and Strange, our Gemini season.
895
:We will also be celebrating
somebody's birthday.
896
:Somebody's birthday.
897
:We got a couple more birthdays coming up.
898
:All of y'all are kind of falling in line.
899
:There'll be this birthday's coming up.
900
:Abel's birthday's coming up.
901
:We got a lot of birthdays in the house.
902
:Rose's birthday is coming up.
903
:Gemini's in the house.
904
:We do right here have a Taurus, a
Cancer, and a Gemini in this order.
905
:I don't know, maybe we're just
filling out the whole Zodiac.
906
:Yeah, that's fun.
907
:That'd be fun.
908
:Sequentially.
909
:One of each.
910
:We'll collect them all.
911
:And then the Antichrist what?
912
:And then the Antichrist will be born?
913
:All right.
914
:You heard it here first, folks.
915
:The prophecy has been uttered.
916
:Karolina, did you, you already
say what you're excited for?
917
:I mean, I talked about Adrian's event.
918
:What else is happening?
919
:Your birthday is coming up.
920
:I guess, yeah.
921
:I mean, is it exciting after your 30th?
922
:What's up?
923
:What's up?
924
:Are you serious?
925
:You're still wallowing in your early 30s?
926
:30's great.
927
:I mean, we got to get away from it, girl.
928
:I don't know what the party's going to be.
929
:Maybe there's, there's going to be a pool.
930
:There's going to be a pool.
931
:It's going to be a pool.
932
:We're going to celebrate you
regardless of whatever is going on.
933
:It's going to be a hot, wet,
Karolina summer, according to Tori.
934
:I'll be pushing for, nevermind.
935
:That was good.
936
:I, I am pushing for a wet t shirt contest.
937
:So actually don't come shirtless.
938
:For that one, wear a white t shirt.
939
:Don't worry, we'll post about it.
940
:Not an opaque t shirt.
941
:A white t shirt.
942
:Abel, what are you most excited about?
943
:Outside of the wet t shirt contest?
944
:Well, outside of the wet t shirt
contest I actually am, like, really
945
:excited about For Karolina's party and
that's going to be on the 22nd of June.
946
:Details to be confirmed.
947
:Details to be confirmed.
948
:Everything to be most likely.
949
:Flying by the seat of my pants.
950
:We're not plugging anything.
951
:I am really excited to look like
a lifeguard during that party.
952
:I may or may not wear a white shirt.
953
:Again, it might not be
fair for me to compete.
954
:So we will, we'll, we'll see, we'll see.
955
:Outside of that I am really excited
for queer and strange especially
956
:because of the fundraiser that
Maria Elena and Wolf are doing.
957
:mentioned.
958
:The reason that it's not decided yet
is because we are about to start in
959
:taking interest from local drag queens.
960
:A lot of whom run in personal circles of
mine have been great friends of mine and
961
:co artists and people who have really
inspired me a lot in my time in Tucson
962
:that we're going to invite to come into
the space and we're letting them input
963
:some of the LGBTQ plus charities that
they would like to see profits go to.
964
:And so collectively we're going
to take in all of their entries.
965
:We're going to kind of talk about some of
our own, but The reason that that's not
966
:decided is because we want to make sure
that the people who are helping raise
967
:those funds are also the people who get
to decide where that money is going to go.
968
:So I'm really excited about that,
and we're celebrating my birthday
969
:during that, so that's really cool.
970
:Yeehaw!
971
:Woo!
972
:Yes.
973
:Well, this has been incredible, friends.
974
:Do any of the heathens in the room have
any, any last notes they'd like to share?
975
:To send us off with any
last things you wanna say.
976
:I'm just so happy.
977
:I love all y'all so much.
978
:This is, is so good.
979
:Don't, don't forget about us this summer.
980
:It's about to be hot as no, not listen.
981
:It's hot.
982
:We're not gonna let you
forget about us this summer.
983
:It's hot.
984
:If you're bored and you're hot,
just come be bored and hot here.
985
:You'll be less bored.
986
:There's so many couches,
you'll be just as hot.
987
:Probably hotter but less, less bored.
988
:All right.
989
:We, everything we do is flying
by the seat of our pants.
990
:So I don't know when the next episode
is going to be, but it'll be coming up.
991
:So keep an eye out for that.
992
:Make sure to subscribe.
993
:Subscribe to our YouTube, we are
going to put video episodes up on our
994
:YouTube, youtube.com/@theheathencast,
follow us on Instagram @theheathencast.
995
:And you should be able to find us
anywhere you listen to podcast at this
996
:point, we're on Spotify or on Amazon.
997
:You can find us anywhere
you listen to podcast.
998
:Wow.
999
:Remember when it like a couple
of years ago, we just rented a
:
00:41:01,932 --> 00:41:03,312
couple of rooms in a warehouse.
:
00:41:03,322 --> 00:41:03,812
I know.
:
00:41:03,822 --> 00:41:04,452
I know.
:
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We've come so far.
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Look what we did.
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We've come so far.
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Mic drop.
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Just kidding.
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I won't drop it.
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It doesn't even matter.
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Cut us off, Albert.
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Cut us off.
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All right.
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Bye, friends.
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We'll see you later.
