How's My Policing?

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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Welcome to Queernecks, the podcast that (00:05):
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puts the Yee Hall in y'all means hall.
I'm your host, Beck,

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: and I'm your host. (00:10):
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Dash.
Welcome to today's episode.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: in high school. (00:15):
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I had a teacher that ifsomebody would burp, you'd say
save the big chunks for me.
And that's what I still think.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (00:23):
awful.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: My high school teachers (00:25):
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were very colorful.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (00:28):
Yeah.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: One of my teachers, we (00:29):
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called him the shore.
He was the French teacher

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (00:34):
Mm-hmm.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: and that was the valley pronunciation (00:35):
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of He was like five two maybe,and like as that wide as well.
He was a very round man.
He would bring a two liter to workwith him every day, and he drove
over an hour to come to work.
Uh, usually MountainDew, but sometimes Pepsi.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (00:53):
I was about to say probably Mountain Dew.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Yeah. (00:54):
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Yeah.
He drove over an hour just to cometo work every day because he lived in
Huntington and we were out in Ville.
So, but he tried his damnedest to teachus French, and then at some point he just
gave up and taught us the least amount.
Though I did end up they do somethingcalled scholarship tests in Ohio.
I don't know if they still do them.
But you take tests on different, likea couple of people from each school,

(01:18):
take different tests and you get rankedand I be, I was 14th in the district in
French, and I know like three words, so

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: What was the competition like? (01:26):
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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Yeah, exactly. (01:28):
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What did they know?
I swear I got it because Igot the word for mustard.
Right.
Which is motard, which isjust objectively funny.
You know what I mean?
Like, that's just a fun word to say.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: gonna remember that forever, so. (01:38):
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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: exactly. (01:40):
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And then we learned things.
He taught us things like,
I feel like chicken tonight.
Like chicken tonight.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (01:53):
Yeah, I took, uh, I didn't take French ever, but I
took Spanish and Latin in high school.
I do remember some Spanish, of course.
I've also done, I'vetaken Spanish since then.
And like I, I took Spanish in collegeand do those like Duolingo things
every so often, uh, just to brush up,especially when I was doing recruitment

(02:16):
in like the Lexington area of Kentucky.
of Spanish speaking parents so I,I got to where I could nominally
communicate with them, but I am.
I don't even know what the stages are,but I'm nowhere near like conversational
or fluent or anything like that.
I'm like, could help you getout of a burning building
level of like, we'll get there.

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It won't be pretty.
But my pronunciation is really good.
And so I have had some really awkwardmoments where I've had to like, sort
of let people down be like, no, Idon't actually know what I'm say.
I mean, I'm like, I can,I'm a really good mimic.
Right?
Just because I can sound like notlike you, because that's silly, right?

(02:58):
No, we're not, you're never gonna soundlike a native speaker no matter how
you get at like the language itself.
But like, I can mimic you really well.
The same thing happened with,there was a woman, uh, a Chinese
woman who came to the a CS program.
A few years after I was still there.
And, uh, so she introducedherself and I just repeated her
name back to her like you do.

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And she's like, wow, yourpronunciation is incredible.
Do you know Chinese?
And I was like, no, I'm justgood at mimicking people.
So good that I don't think Ieven have my own aesthetic.
Uh, when I was like a singer,I could mimic anybody, but I
couldn't tell you what I sounded

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Right. (03:35):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (03:36):
I used to be able to do impressions really
good, but not since I transitioned.
My voice is different now.

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I have no talents like that.
My stupid human trick is thatI can cross one eye at a time.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (03:45):
I don't know.
I don't, I guess impressionsare, I just love people who
are really good at impressions.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: me too. (03:50):
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Standup comedy and comedy itself wasreally a big formative thing if, when
I was growing up, I watched a lotof Saturday Night Live growing up.
And I read a lot of comedy books.
Like there was this one bookthat I tracked down years later
called the something like the BigAmerican Book of Humor or something.
And there was lots of jokes in it and itkind of, I learned a lot from that book.

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And it was just contemporaryAmerican humor in written form.
Like there were skits and then therewere jokes and there were comics and,
sketches and short stories and allkinds of little things like that.
It was a really good book.
But all of that's really been, andthen when I got X XM radio, I got it.
I was one of the firstmillion subscribers.
Like I was early in on xm.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: is big in the comedy. (04:34):
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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Yeah, I listened. (04:36):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (04:37):
that was

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: all I listened to was (04:38):
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the Comedying channels.
I really enjoy, I have,I'm very particular when it
comes to standup comedians.
I don't like, I don't like comediansthat go straight for a dick joke.
Like, that's my least favorite.
Like, you know, that'sthe lowest rung of humor.
And if that's all you got,then you probably suck.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (04:55):
I don't know much about standup, really.
Like I enjoy it, of course.
And there's a handful of, uh, comicsthat I appreciate and can name and can
reference specific things, but they'reprobably ones that anybody could name.
You know, I don't have any like deep cuts.
but I love all kinds of humor though.
And some, one of my favoritethings is improv, not like.

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Improv troops and stuff.
That's cool.
I don't think I could do that, butI did fuck around with it some,
because randomly in high school forlike one year we got a drama teacher.
I don't think we everhad one before or since.
And shouldn't have stayed.
She was a very inappropriate person,but she did know she was educated.
She knew a lot about drama andacting and stuff like that.

(05:41):
And so I took that course and thenwas the year I was really active
in the plays that we would do.
Like, I don't think I was in a playany other, well, maybe we didn't
have 'em anymore after she left, butthat was how I learned about like,
yes, anding and the generosity ofbeing in a comedy duo or ensemble.

(06:01):
Right.
Like how.
How building comedy fromscratch among people works.
And you can kind of, I saw, uh,there's a podcast called Race
Chaser with Willem Belli and 5,000.
They are two formerRuPaul Drag Race queens.
And they recap theseasons they're critical.

(06:26):
Willem hates RuPaul.
It's hysterical.
But she pointed out something like there'sa subtle kind of rigging and sabotage
that goes on that Ru does, especially whenshe inserts herself into the challenges.
And they had an improv challenge andthere was a queen that was eliminated.
And Willem's perspective was thatRu sabotaged her by being a bad

(06:47):
improv partner, intentionally.
instead of Yes, anding.
The scene was somethinglike, check into a hotel.
Right.
Classic improv scene.
And so the queen was like, doyou have any rooms or whatever?
And Ru just kept saying no, no.
And it's like, okay, that's not, howis she supposed to work with that?
If you make a joke, they'resupposed to build on it.
If you're not building on whatever thejoke was, you're sabotaging you're,

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intentionally stomping on the humor.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (07:15):
I don't care if you don't like that person or
what you're there to do a job and ifthe job is to be funny or entertaining
and that's all you got, fuck off.
Like you really gotta try to show up.
I think teaching is similar.
I mean anything like we reallyhave to be so conscious of our
biases when it comes to dealingwith people that we just don't like

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Mm-hmm. (07:35):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (07:36):
working with.
People you don't like is Hard

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: It really is, (07:39):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Founding Kitchen, (07:40):
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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: especially when you're doing a performance (07:41):
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of it, you know, which is what teachingis a hundred percent a performance.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (07:47):
yeah.

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And so when you've got that one annoyingkid that you really hate or somebody
asks a question that is, I don't know,stupid, and you know, like, you know,
sometimes there are stupid questions.
I don't care what they say.
Sometimes there are stupid questionswhen they aren't listening or
they, they get their news froma dubious source or something.
Sometimes there are some,

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: They're just bad faith, (08:09):
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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: yeah. (08:10):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (08:11):
like, you're not asking that because
you want me to inform you, you

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (08:15):
something

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Like when Mr. (08:20):
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Solved racism in my class a coupleof weeks ago when we did the model
minority myth he went on abouthow it's not such a bad thing.
And I'm like, well, that's part of theallure of the model, minority myth, right?
It's the, you know, the, thisis a good thing, so why can't
other minorities do it as well?
Or you know, and what about, what ifyou're an Asian person who's really bad

(08:41):
at math, how are you supposed to feel?

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (08:43):
like math.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Yeah I've done that too. (08:44):
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Uh, in my trainings.
I'll ask like.
Is there any such thingas a positive stereotype?
Because white people, white middleclass people love to allege that
some stereotypes are positive andit's a misunderstanding of what the
words positive and negative mean.
If what we were saying was can andcan't, then maybe, but the a all

(09:07):
Asians are good at math, one comesup, or, uh, people from Mexico are
hard workers or like, okay, we haveto dig into what you think that means.
And then, you know, you're standingthere knowing like, I'm doing
all of this labor and this personis not going to give a fuck.

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Yeah.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (09:26):
Like, man I've had, there was sometimes I've
been like this, wow, this is some ofmy best work and it is wasted on you.
I.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Been there too. (09:32):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (09:34):
there too.
And every time you dosomething, you get better at it.
But still,

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I showed the film White Like Me yesterday (09:38):
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in both of my ethnic studies classes.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: uh, what's that one? (09:43):
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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Have Tim Wise? (09:44):
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the educator's name, his name isTim Wise, and it's really kind
of just a framework at lookingat racism through a white focus.
And he talks about how when hewas a kid, his parents put him
in a pre-K an elementary schoolprogram that was mostly black.
It was predominantly black.
And here he was this little redheadedwhite kid and he said that gave

(10:06):
him an early appreciation for blackauthority figures and things like that.
And that's how he's come to see things.
And it gives you a really goodframework for thinking about what you
can do at, on a personal level becauseyou didn't create racism, right?
And so you can't take, you can'ttake ownership of it or whatever,
but you do have to acknowledge thesystem and that you benefit from it.

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And that's a big thing that people don'twanna acknowledge is that as a white
person, I have benefited from racism.
And once you understand that and realizethat nobody's pointing a finger, they're
just saying that's the way it is, thenyou can open up to a lot of other ideology
that, you know, to do anti-racist work.
'Cause he is like, wouldn't itbe wonderful that if we, uh,

(10:48):
learned about some of thesepeople that were anti-racist?
And he lists like maybe 20 people.
15 to 20 people who were agitators andgot arrested and sat with people during
the sit-ins and walked with people whenthey went into the s desegregated schools
and, you know, and he talked aboutthe white people that did that stuff.
He was like, how much easier would it beif we talked about that there has been

(11:09):
white involvement in this kind of thing?

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (11:11):
Has to be,

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (11:13):
I saw a woman and a granny was at a protest
and you know, one of those like talkersor YouTubers or whoever goes out
with a microphone to the protest andjust barrages people with questions.
And somebody thought they gother, they were like, I've noticed
that all the people out here,uh, protesting are white people.
And she was like, andthat's the way it should be.

(11:34):
She was like, I'm, uh, an old whitewoman what are they gonna do to me?
You know, she's like, I don't risk asmuch as any given person of color when
it comes to civic action or whatever.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Yeah, (11:47):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (11:47):
I forgot what I was gonna say.
Oh well.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I've got a lot of old lady white (11:50):
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privilege, white old lady privilege.
Like the last time I got pulledover, knock on wood, I hope it
doesn't happen anytime soon.
But the last time I got pulled overnot only did I not get a ticket, I got
a survey to rate the cop's performance
and I was speeding in a school zone.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: How's my policing? (12:09):
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I don't know if I just looked likesomebody that would be giving a good
grade or whatever, uh, but I was like,yes, sir, I'll do that for you, but
you better believe I did not put myname anywhere near that bullshit.
So I just kind of tucked itaway and went about my day.
Thank you.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (12:25):
Uh.
Anyway, so we talk, we talked offthe air about maybe like the wheel,
what have you, and how, one of thereasons we haven't been doing it is
because it is a shit load of work

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (12:36):
up with like topics that we haven't done before.
And then on the spot, think of, youknow, like we're both old with a DHD
and Haven't led entirely sober lives.
So, so it'd be like days laterand I'll think like, oh shit,
I should have said this or that

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Yep. (12:54):
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Yep.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (12:54):
So, I've been thinking, and what I think we'll
do instead is like, keep the samecategories, keep them more general
spin it and then we can just like it sothat it, they come up regularly we can,
instead of trying to come up with newstories about them I thought we could
just bullshit about giving advice orjoking about them or something like that.

(13:18):
What got me thinking about it was doingthe camel Cash last week and thinking
about like how many rewards programskeep me going right now or just how
much like, bullshit financial things Ido I know people, for instance, here.
I was talking about RedNecking to a friend.
I was like, Hey, I gotta goto Fargo and sell some shit.
Anybody can wanna go Red Necking.

(13:38):
And he's like, is Red necking?
I was like, well this is kind of like alegal version, but I've just got a bunch
of stuff I don't use and I'm gonna gosee if I can get some money out of it.
And we were talking and I'verealized that he has no idea of
what, of how to even do that.
Like what would that say?
I needed $20 or $50.
I could easily do that.

(13:59):
Right.
I could.
There's something in here that'sworth $20 to somebody somewhere.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (14:04):
It's very easy to turn the garbage you
have around your house into quickcash if you absolutely need to.
I just haven't needed to for a long time.
And I have a bunch of it accumulated.
Like right now I'm looking ata bunch of keyboards that I
built, mechanical keyboards.
know I could get some dollarsout of those if I needed to.
And so I'm.
Preparing to maybe move or atleast like downsize some stuff.

(14:25):
So I'm like, well, I'm just gonnago make some quick cash, go over to
Fargo where they actually have things.
So anyway, I was thinking like we couldtalk about just random shit like that.
'cause I know that you have yourside hustles and things that you do

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Mm-hmm. (14:37):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (14:38):
So the first thing I wanna do is tell this
insane story of how, uh, we, well, weboth recently expanded our households.
You adopted a new baby

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Yes. (14:47):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (14:48):
I don't think the listeners know about yet.
We'll get you a picture,uh, in the newsletter this
week.
You wanna tell us about it?

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: We, uh, we have a new (14:54):
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addition to our family.
Her name is Ru.
She's a five-year-old Maltese.
She was a dumped breeding dog thatcame out of Indiana, and she is
the sweetest, cutest little thing.
Her name Roo came from the fact thatlittle white dogs like that often
have tears like tear stains, andhers look like rouge on her cheeks.
So it comes from the rouge ofthat, and also like McClanahan.

(15:18):
Like Blanche Devereux we just thoughtit, it really fits her, her, when we,
when we got her name was Lily but wewere like, no, she's more of a ru so

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (15:27):
Yeah, for sure.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: my niece said we should call her Rhubarb. (15:28):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (15:30):
I'm sure she'll have plenty of nicknames
as her personality emerges.
That's a good one though.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (15:36):
Well, and I adopted a, Ram 1500 Warlock with a 5.7
liter Hemi engine.
But I wanted to do this with, Ineeded to improve my finances and not.

(15:56):
So I needed a truck.
I need something that can tow things.
A trailer.
I needed something thatcan handle some payload.
I love my Subaru.
I would've kept both if Icould have afforded it, but
Subaru was worth its weight.
Gold, if you like.
It's those things are indestructible.
And so out here, trucks are really cheap.
I was having to go over to Fargoa lot to go to the hospital.

(16:17):
I started looking around.
There's a ton of, it's like ahub for wholesale over there.
So if you are a cheapskate, and Ilearned some of this from my dad
too, who is also a cheapskate.
But the first thing you do ifyou know you're gonna be looking
for a vehicle is case the joint.
Become intimately familiar withthe inventory at every car lot

(16:38):
in a driving drivable period.
This takes

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (16:41):
way, I have spent weeks doing this.
I did it.
I used Autotrader and cars.com.
I built a query of my price range,what characteristics I wanted.
And then as I saw vehicles thatI liked, I would then go to that
Car Lot's website then take alook at everything else they have.
I would watch for whether theirprices adjusted or something.

(17:03):
Some you like, want to know if one isa negotiating car lot or if they do
like that best price thing where theyabsolutely will not negotiate with you.
So, you know, that's kind of normal, butyou know, it, it takes a lot of effort.
But the next level is youinvest in a sales person.
So on cars.com.
Their pictures are there.
It'll say like, contact this salesperson.

(17:25):
And they think they're getting, andthey are, they are getting access to us.
If anybody ever has done salesor marketing or anything, you
know, that like their websites aremost likely run by Spark pages.
And if you interact with them, likesay you send an email or something
through it, it creates a record.
You be of an inquiry, you getassigned directly to that salesperson.
So the one you pick, astrategic point as well.

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So I was like, okay, men my agethink I'm much younger than I am.
Oh, and they're all men.
There are no women salespeople.
So they don't really respect me.
They feel, uh, we, we never meetin the middle because they think
they're in charge and they don'trealize they're not until too late.
And so I was like, okay, I'mgonna, I'm gonna pick a young one.

(18:08):
there's this kid, he's like.
Wore glasses real clearly, young,really skinny, long straggly hair.
And I was like, this is a snowboarder.
He is in it for the quick cash.
And he has expensive hobbies.
And his name is fucking Blake.
So I was like, all right,you're my guy Blake.
So I sent him a message.
When you get the automatedmessage, it means that you've

(18:29):
been, the record has been created.
You've been put into their like, uh,query base, but then they'll send
you one that is, you can tell thatthey've written it themselves 'cause
it'll have poor grammar misspellings.
He didn't capitalize the B in his name.
And so that number is the one you canalways talk directly to them from.
So I'm like becoming friends with Blake.

(18:53):
And then I stopped by and I was like.
Hey, here's what I'm looking for.
And I drove a bunch of stuff.
I knew I wasn't gonna buy, basically,just so I could spend the day with him.
I knew I was gonna buy from him,so I wasn't wasting his time, but
I was investing in him as a person.
this all sounds so fuckingsociopathic, but it's not.
I'm not a sociopath.
So like the day after I bought the truck,I was like, I wonder what Blake's doing,

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but like, if you, for wholesalers,it's all, they don't get new inventory.
Everything they sell is usedand they're just doing trade.
So you can get a great deal fromthem, but they have to spend.
or $5,000 on them between the pointthey get them on trade and then they,
to get them professionally detailedto get their professional headshots.

(19:38):
so I was like, if you get oneof these in this project for it
meets these categories, call me.
I want it before you do all thatto it, because that bumps the
price up by several thousand.
So, and then here's whatI have, appraise it now.
Let me know what you wannagive it, give me for it.
so I, I I got a really good deal onthis fucking truck just because I'm,

(19:59):
the time, I guess, to mount of salt.
Although gas is expensive now,it's not a good time for that.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Yeah, for real. (20:06):
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We, we didn't go through allthat when we got our car.
We searched, carvana a lotand looked at different area.
We knew the kind of car we wanted,so that narrowed it down quite a bit.
Uh, we knew we wanted to get an Equinox sowe looked at all the different places and
we found a place that had a good one withgood mileage at a good price, and we went

(20:26):
up and we were like, we want that one.
And we bought it and left.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (20:29):
Yeah.
Like you don't wanna be ina position to have to haggle
because they always win on that.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (20:35):
you're once, by the time you're there looking at
it, talking about buying it, whateverthe vehicle is, you're locked in.
You're not gonna get the a, you'renot gonna improve your deal.
It's not to say you can't get a good deal.
Like it's the legwork you do.
Up until that point, I also startedwith Carvana to see what they would
offer me on the car, which was good.
They'll give you a different, uh,trade-in amount than Kelly Blue Book.

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Well, what's your, do you have anyrewards programs that you like right now?

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Kroger is a good one. (21:01):
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I always get my gas at a discounted price.
yeah, if you get your groceries onFridays, they usually have a coupon
where you get four times the points.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (21:10):
what?

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Uh, yeah. (21:10):
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And then you can get, use those towardsyour, and then they started a thing
where it's not as good, but if youget a hundred points, you can trade
it in for a dollar off your order.
Instead of doing the 20 centsoff of gas or whatever it is.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (21:22):
Oh

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I'd rather have it off my gas though. (21:23):
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'cause gas is so expensive.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (21:26):
yeah.
Well, and it's per gallon.
So say you have like a large tank,

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Mine's a 14 gallon tank.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (21:32):
I use the upside thing for gas.
You connect your card to it, you selectwhatever gas station you're going to,
and it'll tell you how many it is.
Like, say you get cash backfor whatever uh, gas you buy.
So if it's cents.
per gallon and you have a gallontank or something, then what is that?

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: $2. (21:53):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (21:53):
$2?
Yeah, so you got $2 forfilling up gas that day.
And so like, and it just collects in athing, and then you cash out like a PayPal

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Nice. (22:02):
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What was it called?

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (22:03):
upside.
And it's just, you know, it's a theyget paid through some sort of thing,
like a relationship with the the gasstation, the company that does that.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (22:14):
and then I used my credit card that has 2% cash
back, so I linked that to the upside,so I'm getting like double cash back

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Oh nice. (22:24):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: and then you collect points. (22:24):
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So I'm just like hoardingpoints for a rainy day.
That's my, uh.
Safety net is the pointsI have on my credit card.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I also do these two on my phone. (22:35):
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One is through Facebook.
It's like an invite only thing,and mostly they just wanna see
your data, which I don't care.
But sometimes I'll send you a task to do,like, they'll be like say these a hundred
phrases and you record yourself saying ahundred different, very random phrases.
Um, I guess you're training theirai and they'll give you five bucks.

(22:55):
It takes you 10 minutes to do andthey give you five bucks for doing it.
And I've made severalhundred dollars doing that.
And then the Google Rewards.
I think a lot of peopleknow about Google Rewards.
I've made severalhundred dollars doing it.
I don't know if it works on iPhones,but I know that it works on Androids.
Basically if you go, like, I searchedthe Reds because I wanna know
what time the game is or whatever.

(23:16):
It'll say, which one of these pageswould you have liked better, you know,
to give you version A or version B.
And you say, which one you would've ratherhave had to give you the results that,
that you needed, that kind of thing.
Or it'll ask you if you have a receipt,say you go to Bob Evans, it'll be
like, do you have your receipt?
And then you just put, take a picture ofit and it'll ask you a couple of questions
and you'll get 35 cents or whatever it is.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (23:37):
Oh, Yeah, I've seen, I was like trying to look
at jobs and stuff on the job boards.
The only thing out here is survey taker

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (23:45):
and I, so much, well, the last time I tried to do
that was 2007 though, so it was such apain in the ass and I wound up not doing
it enough to actually make any money.
and I have the Casey's rewards.
Now that I don't smoke, I'm not reallyracking up Casey's rewards like I used to.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Talking to about the camel cash the (24:07):
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other day made me look up the cigarettes.
My mom smoked and like my heartfluttered a little when I saw that
pack of cigarettes that I haven'tseen in like, I don't know, 30 years.
There was like such apart of my childhood.
And then, uh, there was a pictureof the back of the pack and it
was the coupons that came with itand like it took my breath away.
Like Shannon said that she foundsome of those going through mom's

(24:29):
stuff, like they were everywhere.
Like those two couponsgot into everything.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Oh yeah, I see 'em. (24:35):
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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: The blue golden white pack. (24:36):
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Yeah.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (24:39):
Wow.
People collect these old cigarettes

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: cigarette packs and stuff. (24:43):
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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: If I had disposable income like that, (24:45):
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I probably would buy a pack just tohave 'em for the memories, but I'm not
trying to spend money on that right now.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (24:52):
Uh, I've got the other day, like I had this
urge to smoke my pipe that I havejust 'cause I like the smell of it.
One of my favorite smells from mychildhood was my Uncle Jerry's pipe.
He smoked, uh, cherry tobacco.
And I have a pretty nice pipeand some tobacco, but like,
that's just a gateway drug.
That's how you start smoking

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That's how cloves were
for me.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (25:15):
think like this

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I, (25:16):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: just, it's gotta be all or (25:17):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (25:19):
You just don't get to have tobacco again.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: And at this point I am not (25:21):
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fucking with my health anymore.

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I feel that too.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: is so ridiculous. (25:26):
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Were you ever that kid who said like,well, I'm gonna die young anyway and
just continue to make terrible decisions?

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Yeah, pretty much. (25:34):
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None of my aunts made it outtatheir fifties except for my Aunt
Jenny, and she's like almost 80.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (25:41):
I met with a geneticist yesterday and you know,
you can tell when a doctor or someprofessional who's kind of studying you,
for lack of a better word, is about tosay something fucked up because they'll
go like, I have to ask everybody this.
And she goes, is it possibleyour parents are related?
And I said, has anybodyever said yes to that?

(26:04):
Because the answer's yes for me.
She said, no, most people say no.
And I was like, well, they're not likesiblings or first cousins, but yeah,
here's a little bit about where I'm from.
And she was like, okay that'sgonna change things a little.
I was like, great.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I am related. (26:20):
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I'm my own cousin by marriage.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (26:23):
Yeah.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (26:24):
Yeah.
I was like, do you probably don't reallytalk to many people like me, like, for
whom that is actually a factor in their,uh, genetic health that they know of.
You know, I mean, we're all,you know, if you, we could
re on a long enough timeline.
We're all cousins

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (26:39):
but not like in recent history that we know of.
And that's like, I have a cousinwho has traced the genealogy
of my mom's side of the family.
Shockingly, not a ton of.
Visible in breeding, but there's somelike, you know, cousins, but then on
dad's side of the family, there's nogen, like the, all the, you don't get

(27:02):
to know that unless you're one of them.
They're very secretive about it.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (27:07):
So that's gonna die with grandmother.
Like, I don't know shit aboutthat side of the family.
I kind of want to like, I wasn't cur andI remember listening to them all talk.
They would get together at the holidaysand talk about all the ones that,
well this one was related to thatone and is this one still living?
And which one was that one now?
'cause they had so many names,like the same name that like, that

(27:29):
each generation would have, theywould just switch the names around.
So like, I had like three ions two NOLAs.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: It was the liens and my family, (27:36):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (27:39):
Yeah

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Eileen Annaline, Starling Ethylene. (27:40):
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I'm kidding on that last one.
I'm surprised I didn't do that one though.
And my grandfather was Virgil.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Virgil's pretty good. (27:50):
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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Yeah, my ma and papa (27:51):
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were Virgil in our lane.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (27:54):
Wow.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (27:56):
That is country

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (27:58):
I was looking at land for sale and
there's some, uh, acres down therein Portsmouth for a pretty cheap,

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'cause nobody wants to live there,

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: yeah, that's kind of it. (28:05):
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Like, and I had thefilter set so fucking low.
Like I was like this, I knowexactly what this is gonna
give me for this price range.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: right? (28:13):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: And it was that. (28:14):
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And Booneville, Kentucky,

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (28:18):
which is in Ousley County, which.
It all is always one of the top fivepoorest counties in the country.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Oh wow. (28:25):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (28:26):
The and it changed, it shifts subtly just
because the economy does and peoplemove around and stuff like that.
But there was a solid 10 year periodwhere the top 10 poorest counties in the
country were at least 50% in Kentucky.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (28:44):
Like that part of Appalachia is the poorest,

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I'm surprised (28:47):
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CIO County isn't near there.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I don't remember seeing it. (28:49):
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Uh, let's, I wanna see where,let's see what it's at now.
Let's get morbid.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: We do a pretty girl. (28:55):
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I am already obsessed with this dog.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Well, wow, things have changed. (28:58):
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So many of these have not beenupdated since Trump became president.
That is interesting.
' cause they just, they don't,they're not counting anymore.
Wow.
The most recent one I can find, andI'm not familiar with this source,
so let me see what their metrics are.
This is 24 7 Wall Street.

(29:19):
Then site, oh, it's the very firstone is Slee County, Kentucky.
But they're, no, this iscounting down backwards.
Okay.
So that's 25.
So they've really, they'renot even top 10 anymore.
Alabama.
Alabama, South Dakota, Tennessee,Louisiana, McGuffin County, Kentucky.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: where all of my family's from. (29:37):
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That's the county that didthe genealogy of my family.
The goin County Historical Society.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: that's the 19th poorest county (29:44):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (29:47):
country.
And there was some land in Saville,

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: That's the town that my (29:51):
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family is the founding family

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (29:54):
Mississippi.
A lot more further south.
Okay.
Lee County, Kentucky.
Where is, oh, that's Beville.
Yep.
There was a lot of land for sale there.
Yeah.
It's more of like the true south nowthan it was Appalachia at the time.
Georgia, Mississippi.
Louisiana.
Texas.
Texas, Mississippi, Wolf County, Kentucky.

(30:16):
I don't know.
Wolf County.
Where's that?
Uh, Campton.
I don't.
Or listeners, if you're fromWolf County list, know where yet?
Uh, McDowell County, West Virginia.
So this is the top five.
County, West Virginia.
Ditt County, Texas.
Jackson County, South Dakota,Randolph County, Georgia.
Uh.

(30:36):
Queen of county, Mississippi.
Wow.
So Mississippi has really gone to shit.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: So yeah, Kentucky's not even (30:41):
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in the top five anymore.
I mean, the highest we are is six.
That's interesting.
Wonder if it's something to do with thatDemocratic governor we elected in 2019.
Couldn't be.
Couldn't be that dude.
It's snowed yesterdayand it's sunny today.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: It was 71 degrees here yesterday. (30:58):
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It was wonderful.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (31:02):
I think it's gonna be warm today.
It's 50 already.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: That's what it's supposed (31:06):
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to be in the fifties today.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: shiny and beautiful. (31:08):
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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: 3 81 degree days coming (31:11):
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in the next 15 days here.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: It's about fucking time. (31:15):
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Right.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (31:17):
Although I'm, watch me pull up in this 10 day
forecast and it's gonna be some snow.
Uh, yeah, it won't be much, but

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Did it ever melt? (31:25):
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Do you guys have ground again?

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: yeah, it's gone now. (31:28):
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It's just muddy,

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Year two.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (31:31):
nasty shit.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: It's been raining a lot. (31:33):
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Here.
I'll take rain over snow any day though.
I got drenched the other day.
I bought a brand new, uh, umbrellaand didn't test it out and went
to open it and it was broken.
It did not work.
And I got drenched walkingfrom Central Hall over to my

(31:55):
car, like sopping wet, like

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: They kind of have one job. (31:58):
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I even had two students try to fix itfor me and they couldn't do it either.
So finally I just gave up andtook my punishment and at least
my backpack was mostly waterproof.
Like one of the I always put allmy shit in big envelopes, like
for different classes, that waythey don't get mixed up in my bag.
And the top of one of theenvelopes was slightly damp,
but everything else was good.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (32:19):
I've never been able to, I own some umbrellas.
I never know where they are.
They're never with me when it's raining.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (32:25):
If it's not a raincoat, it is no good to
me, it's not going to do anything.
So.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Well, we bought another one. (32:31):
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So I do have another umbrella, butit was too late for the other day.
It's been a long time since I gotcaught out in a rainstorm like that.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (32:39):
I remember it used to pour down there.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (32:43):
It doesn't really hear like it'll
rain, but it doesn't storm.
Not that I recall anyway.
I'm deaf now though, so it couldbe like thunderstorming and
I wouldn't even know, see my

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Small man. (32:53):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: decided to change things up. (32:54):
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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: It's a neat statue. (32:56):
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It's really big.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (32:58):
Change, uh, the conference on Creating Change,
used to be what used to be the gay andlesbian Task Force is in Louisville

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Huh? (33:08):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (33:08):
It's, uh, it's usually in January, so January, 2027.
If I'm anywhere nearby,I might go over there.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Sounds like a good time. (33:17):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (33:19):
It's usually really informative.
Like for ins they're reallyahead of the curve on stuff.
The first time I learned about orstarted to learn about, uh, like the
Palestine, the genocide and stuff,like, essentially like the war machine
that is Israel was at a Creating Changeconference over 10 years ago, I was
like, yeah I'm pretty plugged in.

(33:42):
And I really didn't know ofwhat, you know, organizing
what's looked like in like othercountries that aren't Palestine.
You know, for instance, likewhat people are doing in the us.
because it's, you know, queer peopleare kind of like that, you know,
they're plugged into everything.

(34:02):
Some would say that weare busy bodies, but

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I think it's more that we (34:05):
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don't lead single issue lives.
You know, like Audrey Lord saidissues of genocide and Palestine are
my problem because there are, forexample, gay and lesbian people there.
So there therefore itbecomes my problem, you know?
And I think you get to be more sensitiveto things when you realize how much
more alike we are than we are different.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (34:27):
yeah.
And how, contagious oppression is.
I don't think people are consciouslygoing, like, everything that
happens to anybody else is fine, aslong as it's not happening to me.
Like, I don't think that we would beable to live with ourselves if we were
phrasing it that way in our minds,but through whatever process that is

(34:47):
kind of how we operate in general asmost of the mo most people anyway,
majority culture are like outta sight,outta mind with like oppression, uh,
genocide, all that kind of stuff.
But the likelihood that if it'shappening to anyone, that it
would happen to you one day.
It's pretty high.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Right, (35:06):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (35:06):
I don't understand how that can't be.
I mean, especially with asselfish as we are as people.
Why isn't that your first thought?
Like, good God, if that can happento them, it could happen to me.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: right. (35:16):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (35:17):
I don't know.
Well, let's hear from this week's sponsor.
I saw on TikTok that it's prom season.
There's a lot of con, there's aquite a few, uh, accounts that
post Facebook prom season stuff.
I don't know.
I didn't know this, but apparentlyprom is a very big deal.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: did you go to prom in high school? (35:34):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (35:36):
I went twice.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Yeah, me too. (35:37):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (35:39):
And it, it was definitely like a thing,
it was rite of passage, but like,not to what these people are

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (35:44):
kids are like renting Bugatti and, getting their
dresses made by these designers and stuff.
and it's clearly fun and I'm, Ihope they're having fun, right?
Because they should be, but thatis not what my prom was like,

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Some of them are getting photo shoots, (35:58):
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like they're getting married, theylook exactly like the photo shoots
I would do for somebody gettingmarried and they're prom pictures,
and that's just awkward to me.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (36:08):
It reminds me of like debutante balls
and stuff, like kind of that.
And then there's also this performativesocial media piece of how it's
actually, and this is of course,parents who are doing this because a
kid doesn't have the resources for it.
So.
The parents also have to havethis, like, they have to believe

(36:28):
that it's this important.
Just be not a good parent because I wouldbe like, this shit is not important.
I'm sorry.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (36:35):
But this week's episode of Queernecks
is sponsored by after prom party,
the second weirder and queerer actof prom, where the shoes come off,
the truth comes out, and nobody'sparents know where anybody is.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Amen. (36:51):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (36:51):
it'll start in a driveway or a field, or a house
that belongs to somebody's cousin.
They said it was fine.
are hitched up and tiesare already loosened.
Carefully constructed looks areone wrong step away from becoming
a story for the following day.
pull in slow headlights sweepingover people who suddenly don't
look like they did an hour ago.

(37:12):
The weight of posturing gives wayto freedom and impending revelry.
Nobody is entirely certain what's in thecooler or who brought it, but it has a
kind of authority to sanction the evening.
Music comes from a speaker thatworks harder than it should.
A playlist bounces betweensincerity and chaos.
Like it can't decide whatkind of night this is.
Somebody is laughing toohard, somebody is very quiet.

(37:33):
Somebody is having the best night of theirlife and they don't even know it yet.
Somebody else is realizing gently and allat once that things are about to change.
There's a smaller circle with theirjackets on the ground, conversations
that won't make it to Monday.
This is where the real prom happens,where people say what they meant
to say all year or almost sayit or say something sideways.

(37:54):
That still lands.
The after prom party holdseverything all at once.
relief in the nerves, a littlebit of performance, still
hanging on, but slipping.
You can feel the edge of summer in it.
You can feel the edge of leaving point.
Shoes are abandoned completely.
Somebody checks the time and regrets it.
Someone else decides that it doesn'tmatter what time, it's by the time

(38:14):
the sky starts thinking about morning,the group is smaller, quieter.
The music is lower.
People sit closer withoutmaking a big deal out of it.
There's a sense soft but real thatthe exact combination of people won't
happen again quite the same way.
The engines start and the doorsclose and the night folds up.
My after prom party was in a field.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: The first after prom party was with (38:36):
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my boyfriend, and we won't talkabout that, but the second after
prom party was with all my friendsand we were at a bowling alley.
They stayed open all night,and that was, then we ended
up out at a girl's, uh, house.
Her parents were there, the whole thing.
We weren't that wild in high school.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (38:54):
We occasionally, like once or twice we
were, we would have parties and sothe after junior year, after prom
party was one of the best like nightslike of partying in high school,
like special event type of thing.
And it was my friend Ben, helived out on this, on B Creek and.
Across from his parents.

(39:14):
Like falling down house was a giantfield, and we, we drank like high
school type drinks and we weren'tlike hard partying or anything.
We had like some wine coolers

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Zima. (39:24):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (39:25):
just put blankets out on the sort of damp
ground and literally we pulled hisFord escort up and turned this,
the, his radio up really loud.
The only expensive thing in that fuckingcar was the stereo listened to like,
you know, really bizarre mixture ofmusic, I think until the sun came up.
I think the, like thatwas when we went home.

(39:48):
We had to forge permissionslips and then lie it.
That was like the scariest part wasthere was an actual after prom party
that we were supposed to go to.
You could get a permission slip from yourparents to go to the after prom party that
was hosted by the church or something.
we did that, we didn't go andwe, we just went somewhere else.

(40:08):
I don't know.
We should have been in so muchshit because I feel certain
that they knew what we did.

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My parents didn't ask a lot ofquestions, but I was the first one
in my family to make it to prom.
So, you know,

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: You know, my mom was, they, (40:19):
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she was pretty rigid with me.
So that was one of the few times where Ididn't have to suffer intense consequences
for doing something that I wanted to do.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: my mom was pretty lax and then (40:28):
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she hated my biological father.
And he got in some trouble and had tostart paying arrears on child support.
So he was, we were getting a biggercheck than we were used to, and she would
just give me the whole thing and thatwould be my allowance for the month.
So I was going around with like $400 amonth, like to do whatever I wanted with
that was like a lot of money, you know?

(40:50):
And then she.
Yeah.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (40:51):
lot of money.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: And now she's, she was concerned that (40:52):
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I wasn't good with money because youdidn't teach me to go be good with money.
You taught me, here'ssome money, go spend it.
You know?
And I got good at that.
I can spend some money now.
I,

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (41:08):
What was, do you remember the, like, uh, your
first job, how much money you made?
What was minimum wage?

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: was like 7 25 an hour. (41:14):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (41:16):
What

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I think it might've been, (41:17):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (41:19):
was four?
25.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: That sounds about right back when. (41:20):
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'cause my first job was in 1994.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (41:25):
Yep.
It was $4 back thenfor, I think it was 4 25

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Well, I was working food service, (41:30):
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so it was even lower than that.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (41:33):
Yeah.
At Pizza Hut it was $2 and 13 cents an

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: And then if you made tips, you (41:38):
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were supposed to report them.
But we would just multiply the amountof hours that we worked by 3.15
then say, that was how many tips we made.
'cause that would've at the, bythat time, minimum wage is 5 25,

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (41:54):
It went up from four something to 5 25 in or six.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I did remember that. (42:00):
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I thought I, I didn't remember itbeing that low, but I'm sure it
was 'cause I worked shitty jobs.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (42:06):
I think it's still 7 25 in Ohio.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Maybe that's where I got the number. (42:09):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (42:11):
Ohio's minimum wage, it went up this year.
As of January 1st, 2026.
Ohio's minimum wage is $11 anhour for non tipped employees,
and five 50 for tipped employees.
For smaller businesses, theminimum wage is 7 25 per hour.
What, how does that work?
This rate of, oh, the $11 per hourapplies to employers with annual

(42:34):
gross receipts over 405,000.
Okay, so if you work for like a bigcorporation, you make $11 an hour,
but for a small business it's 7 25.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: That doesn't make any sense. (42:45):
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I mean, it does for the business, but.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (42:48):
Uh, Kentucky is still 7 25 across the board.
I was working at the bowlingalley when it went up to that.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Wow. (42:54):
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You were rolling in it then, huh?
No pun intended.
Rolling.
Get it rolling.
Like a bowling ball.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Yeah, I was, so that was 2009. (43:00):
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I started at the bowling alleyin 2006 at seven 50 an hour.
So minimum wage went up to 7 25.
And, I think I, that was when I went today shift, so I went up to 10 the most
money I made hourly before going onto like a, real, a job, you know, like

(43:21):
this, a white collar job was 10 50 an

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I worked for Amazon and made good money. (43:24):
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It was like 13 an houror something like that.
It was enough to pay our bills.
With Amazon, the best partof the pay was the benefits.
We had really good insurance.
But then you got, uh, vestedcompany stock at the same time

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (43:38):
It's such an, old person thing to say,
but I was thinking the same thing.
Like those things that are as good, ifnot better money, like health insurance
or whatever, they're a really big deal.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: well every six months or so you got (43:52):
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stock in the company for free, you know,and Amazon stock was worth some money.
So

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (43:59):
Yeah.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I know some people that (43:59):
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retired off their stock.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (44:02):
Damn.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: People that were there for 20 years. (44:03):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: I don't know if I can do it. (44:05):
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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Yeah, me neither. (44:06):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (44:07):
Well, did you bring a down of Appalachian

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I did, I bought it. (44:09):
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Brought a surprising one this week.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (44:13):
Ooh.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: All right. (44:14):
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Let's see here.
Lemme get my glasses.
All right, so today's Appalachian nounof interest is a person that doesn't
give off Appalachian energy immediately.
Steve Harvey.
Yeah, I know.
It's not the first namethat comes to mind.
As we've covered in earlier noun segments.
You're probably thinking of abanjo, a front porch, or maybe even
someone like Dolly Parton, not asix foot tall black man in a $3,000

(44:38):
suit telling somebody their answeris wrong on national television.
But stay with me.
Steve Harvey was born in Welch,West Virginia coal country.
His dad was a coal miner.
Like this is not a metaphor.
This is not a country aesthetic.
This is the real deal.
Dirt under your nails, long shifts.
A hard life kind of place.
And that's what gets me, becausesomewhere along the way, we

(44:59):
just stopped claiming him.
Nobody ever says, do youknow who's Appalachian?
Steve Harvey?
We act like a, he just appearedfully formed in a shiny suit.
Already disappointed in somebody's answer,but no, that man came from the mountains.
Now his family moved to Cleveland whenhe was a kid, which if you know anything
about Appalachian makes perfect sense.
That's part of the storytoo, that people leave.

(45:20):
They go where the work is, butthey don't leave empty handed.
They take the stories, the humor,the way of talking, all of it.
And if you listen close,you can still hear it.
Not in his accent maybe, butin the way he tells a story.
The timing, the side eye, the Iknow exactly what kind of mess
this is energy that feels familiar.
I think part of why we don't think ofhim as Appalachian is because we've

(45:42):
got this very narrow picture in ourheads that through stereotypes we've
come to expect a certain voice, acertain look, a certain kind of life.
And usually that doesn'tinclude people of color.
But if I know anything about Appalachia,I know it isn't just one thing.
We are no monolith.
Appalachia is cold townsand church dinners.
It's people leaving and people staying.
It's struggle, it's hustle, and I,it's knowing how to read a room and

(46:05):
knowing when something ain't right.
It's every color, every creed,every kind of person there is.
And there's no one wayto be an Appalachian.
If you've ever watched Steve Harvey,pause stare at someone and just
let the silence do the work, that'sAppalachian communication right there.
No extra words.
Just a look that says everything.
So yeah, Steve Harvey from Welt WestVirginia to Family Feud and somehow

(46:27):
still carrying a little bit of thatmountain energy with him, even if it's
dressed in a whole lot fancier now.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Uh, it's so true. (46:32):
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I did not know that.
Thank you so much,

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Yeah, I have a friend who's (46:36):
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from Welch, and it's pro.
It's apparently a verybackwoods country kind of place.
If you're from Welch listeners andthat's not the truth, let us know,
but that's my understanding of it.
It's Southern West Virginia.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Well, and let us know if you (46:47):
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knew that, you know, how cool.
It makes total sense thoughif you just look at his affect
and how he is with people.
You know, there's a really funny episode,or maybe more than one episode of Family
Feud that is, think they did it for PrideMonth and maybe for, they'll do some of

(47:07):
them for charity, like celebrity versions.
And it was all drag queens.
My God, did they have a time with him?
and you know, he played it he didlike his job basically as the straight
cis host is to play the straight man,to be the person who's sort of like,
oh, I don't know what I've gottenmyself into here, because obviously
the drag queens are gonna cut up.

(47:28):
But I watched it and I was like,oh God, what's this gonna be like?
And it wasn't like, ew, disgusting.
he actually was playing this kind of likeingenue, they were flirting with him.
It was kind of sweet.
I'm pretty sure, I think RuPaul wasthe captain of one of the teams.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I watch a lot of compilations of things. (47:45):
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I watch a lot of YouTube on my tv.
And I am appreciative of news bloopers,compilations in particular, and
sometimes the Steve Harvey compilationscome with those, like, if you like
this, well then you'll like that.
And so I've seen quite a few of those.
I don't actually watch Family Feud, butI see a lot of those compilations, and

(48:05):
I think I've seen RuPaul on there, butI haven't seen that whole episode, so,

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Yeah, I haven't seen it either. (48:09):
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I'm pretty sure I saw a comp, acompilation on TikTok or something,
but it's so true, like the pointabout how we really whitewash
Appalachia, even those of us from

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (48:21):
and it, and I don't, I'm not sure how that happens.
Are we influenced by majorityculture's view of us?
Because I remember distinctly allthe people of color I grew up with,

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (48:32):
and you know, when I put pressure on it, when I look
closely at it, I can see it I can, I seelike how the ways that they were kind of
different but also not different from us.
And those ways aresurprising because it's not.
It's not as simple as like they werecalled a different kind of names
because I don't know, they were kindof, uh, exotic I think to people.

(48:56):
Maybe, the word for that?
There's a word for how majority culture,fetish sizes minoritized people.
I don't know.
It's a kind of Orientalism, but the thingis like they weren't different than us
because they literally grew up there too.

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And like my goddaughters, they weremixed race, you know, and we don't think
of we just don't think of people fromWest Virginia and the Appalachian region
as being a person of color whatsoever.
Um,

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Have black cousins (49:21):
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Yeah.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (49:25):
and I kind of forget about 'em.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: And I think you'll find that all through (49:27):
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the Appalachian region that, you know,and that a lot of people do that.
I don't know.
I think you hit it right on the nailwhen whatever that word you're trying
to come up with, or if there isn't aword for it, you should invent one.
The Orientalism of Appalachia.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (49:40):
Yeah,
I, you know, when I wrote myprelims there, uh, I did that.
I applied it was apost-colonial framework.
I used Saeed and Spivak.
To write about Appalachia,to write about white trash.
This was before Nancy Eisenberg'sbook came out, so I didn't, I looked

(50:05):
and couldn't find any referencesthat had done that specifically,
and that's not really what she did.
She was a, his, she's a historian.
but the person who was the chairof a CS at the time, you know
how they also have a grade on it?
He was angry.
He, that I had done that.
He sort of, he accusedme of racism basically,

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (50:24):
that he said, uh, it's racist to do a
post-colonial reading of, you know what?
I, he didn't actually know what to say.
he didn't say white people,but that was what he meant.
He was, he just said,this is inappropriate.
And I was like, prove me wrong.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: And then eventually he (50:41):
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finally just, he said like, I.
I, I hate that it works.
And I was like, well,that's a you problem.
But they still passed me.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (50:51):
Actually, that was the year that they got rid
of the passing with distinction thing.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Oh, wow. (50:54):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (50:55):
Yeah.
Our cohort was not good.

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Mine didn't do great either.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (51:00):
it would've had to be me and they didn't want to, so they
just got rid of it like the year before.
They still did it.
They stopped it.
Our year.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: claiming total credit, although (51:07):
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it was likely me that broke it.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Way to go, pal. (51:12):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: Yeah, it's fucked up. (51:13):
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It's made up.
Anyway.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (51:17):
so, did, do you want to do Kinky Boots for next week?

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: sure. (51:20):
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That sounds like a good plan.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: It'll be fun, and I don't think (51:22):
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it's a terribly long movie.
So, listeners, we, I lookedinto it and we found this movie.
You can, there's a couple waysyou can watch it for free.
One is the usual, like watchit on plu, on Pluto with ads.
But another this is our chance to reuh, revisit how much we love Public
libraries is an app called Hoopla.
You have this right?

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: you can get it on your tv. (51:42):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (51:44):
Yeah.
It is just like Plutoor Netflix or whatever.
If you have a smart tv, a Roku orprobably Firestick or whatever third
party, you know, TV itself ha almostcertainly has an app for hoopla.
And if you don't know, this is aservice that you sign up to watch titles

(52:04):
available through your public library.
I don't think it's any, I think it hasto be available through your public

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Yeah.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (52:09):
true?

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: They pay a fee. (52:10):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (52:11):
Yeah.
it is like that's an option on hoopla.
I don't know if it means that yourspecific library has to have selected
it, you might be able to contactthem and ask them to, I don't know.
There's a university versioncalled Canopy that works that way.
If it's

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: you just contact them. (52:27):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (52:29):
So if you wanna watch along with us, if
you haven't seen Kinky Boots eitherlog into or create a Hoopla account.
And if you don't have a librarycard, go get one and then
ask the librarians about it.

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Another thing I did on the Hoopla app, youcan get a free pass to the great courses.
Do you know the great courses?

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (52:46):
Yeah.

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I love watching those.
Sometimes they have some reallyinteresting different topics on there
but you can get a free pass to themand you don't have to pay for anything.
So I'm a big fan of it.
I love hoopla.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (52:57):
Yeah.
I.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I'm always either listening to an (52:57):
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audio book or something on there.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (53:00):
It's so cool.
I didn't know that there was a, a videoVI should have assumed, but when I was
looking, I found that there's a TV app.
I was like, fuck.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (53:10):
Brilliant.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Canopy got me this week though. (53:10):
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The movie that I showed in class thatwhite, this, like white like me has
been on Canopy for years and thenout of nowhere this week it was not.
So I had to scramble to find it elsewhere.
So,
Yeah, that's what I thought too.
It had been a steadysource literally for years.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (53:26):
They move around and I wish they wouldn't, but,
you know, I also know why they do.
One time I was trying to teach, I wasstreaming something via Zoom and it
had moved platforms and you know how ithas that, uh, digital asset management
thing that'll make it go blank if you

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (53:42):
it.
I was like, I guess class is canceled.
Fuck.
I promise I own this, butit doesn't matter, you know?

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (53:50):
something doesn't give you streaming rights.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I learned that during the pandemic. (53:52):
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I, because I always play musicvideos before class, like
something thematic to the day.
And we were talking about I think we weretalking about race that day in my women's
studies class, and I showed childishGambinos, Gambinos, this is America.
And they could see the video,but they couldn't hear it, so
they turned the volume of it off.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (54:10):
Aw.
There's a bot in Discord that'll letus watch YouTube videos which is cool.
But there's a lot of things I intendedto do and I just never got around to.
'cause life keeps life
And.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: yeah, like our website. (54:20):
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I feel that

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (54:23):
You know this, we've got plans for this summer, y'all.
do y'all have pride up there?
You got pride at Toledo?

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Yeah, but it's never very big and (54:27):
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I'm one of the people afraid to goto those kinds of events these days.
Like I know you probably shouldn't be,but there's too many crazy people with
guns in this world, and it just scares me.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (54:38):
yeah.
I wouldn't, I don't thinkI would go to the big ones.
Even like Kentucky,Anna Pride is enormous.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Those are the only prides I've really been (54:44):
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to are Chicago and and that kind of thing.
So yeah.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (54:50):
Go.
Yeah.
Find you a small town.
Pride there.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I've been to Charleston, West Virginia. (54:53):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: that one that sounds like it (54:55):
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was probably big, wasn't it?

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: No, Charleston is a tiny little town. (54:57):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (54:59):
Well, yeah, I've been to Charleston,
but not to their pride.

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (55:03):
Pikeville, Kentucky, their pride is in September.
They, I don't know, theyalways have it in September.
maybe 'cause the college kids are back,but there's, they're on their seventh year
this year and they've grown quite a lot.
So the small town prides, they don'tstay small, but they're probably not
ever gonna be like the Chicagos or

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: San Francisco's. (55:21):
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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: to be at Chicago the year (55:22):
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that Obergefell passed.
It was like three weeks after.
And the mood was just amazing.
It was really cool.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (55:29):
I.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Yeah, it was great. (55:30):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (55:31):
Oh, what a time I read that our, this current court,
the Trump Stacked Court, uh, has declinedpretty much all civil rights cases

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (55:44):
women and minorities, and the ones they
have accepted have been cis whitemen complaining about things

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Yeah, I read a story yesterday about how (55:49):
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the US led in like 4,500 refugees lastyear, and all the three were from South
Africa, white people from South Africa.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (55:59):
I hate us,

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I do too. (56:00):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (56:01):
where can we go where could we make our Queernecks haven?

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Well, Canada's the easy answer, but (56:05):
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I don't see why they would want me.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (56:09):
Right.
Yeah.
the trick is like whole immigration thing.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I, (56:13):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (56:13):
not many places that just say, Hey.
Yeah, come on everybody.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: oh, I found out that I get to keep (56:16):
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my job next year for certain, andI gotta sign my contract, so yes.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: a three year contract. (56:21):
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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: No, just a one year. (56:22):
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But if they offer you, if I, if theywould offer me a fourth year, they would
have to make it a three year contract.
So

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: thought that we were up to four. (56:30):
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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: this is my third, (56:31):
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that'll be my third year.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (56:33):
Okay.
All right.
Well, hell yeah.
One more year of molding youngminds and paying for rent.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Yes. (56:40):
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Wonderful.
I don't know what the hellI'm gonna do after this, but
if you've got any job leads outthere, uh, listeners, you let me know.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (56:48):
Right.
We're both desperate for either to makemoney with this podcast or to get jobs.
I'll be podcasting from a hot,a hotspot from my truck soon.
That's not true.
I'm not homeless yet.
And I have family support andsome friends who are gonna stop me
from being from starving to death.
So

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I'll keep you in coconut balls. (57:07):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (57:09):
I ate all those fucking things already.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: They're addictive. (57:12):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (57:13):
It was awful.
I, I mean, it was so good.
They were delicious and they're so lightand fluffy that they don't even make you
feel sick if you eat too many of them.
And so I was just like,

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: I'm so glad you enjoyed them. (57:22):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: they were so good. (57:23):
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But between that and Istarted my meth back.
I'm back on Adderall.
I'm bouncing off the walls today, so

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: a real long walk. (57:31):
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beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Listeners, if you don't know, we, (57:32):
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uh, I, I I sent dash some raffaello.
They're the coconut versionof Ferre Rochet Balls.
They are freaking delicious.
They're coconut and almond.
They are five stars.
Totally worth it.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (57:46):
I
have this like whipped white chocolatemousse on the inside around the nut.
Ugh.
So good.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Yeah, they're delicious. (57:52):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (57:54):
I ate the whole box in like two days.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: When I was teaching American Cultural (57:56):
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Studies at BGSU one of the assignmentsthat I would give my students was a
cultural, it was a culinary tourismassignment where they had to go try a
food that they had never tried before.
That from a non-American culture,I was like, I don't care if
that means you go try churros.
You know, if you've never tried churrosbefore, go try something different.

(58:17):
Wait, what was my point?
What were we just talking about?

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (58:20):
Rafa?

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Raffaello. (58:21):
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Oh, and I recommended to the studentsthat they try like the, either South
side six or the kebo that's in town.
And one of the students wrote,they said, what I learned from
this project is if tells you togo somewhere to eat, you go there.
So if I tell you she shouldeat something, you should eat
it 'cause it's damn delicious.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (58:41):
Nice.
Yeah.
I went to, uh, I stopped by a Mexicanplace in Fargo after I, it took
me seven hours to buy this truck.
That's what it takes to get a deal,you guys, three weeks of prep and
sociopathy, and then seven hoursof hanging out at a dealership.
So I, I got my great deal on atruck and then it was like 10
o'clock at night and I was starving.
And so the only thing open wasthis Mexican restaurant in Fargo,

(59:04):
that plate of food I sent you.
Was, I swear it was one of,it wasn't even a normal plate.
It was one of the, you know, the football

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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: the, uh, oval ones. (59:11):
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Those aren't plates.
Nobody tell the Mexican restaurantsthis, but those are not plates

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: those are platters. (59:18):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (59:19):
Yeah, they're platters, but they piled
high with carnitas and like, uh,all these like sauteed vegetables
and pico de Gao, guacamole, uh,rice, the beans, all the good shit.
A bunch of toasted what are they called?
Tortillas.
He comes out with this plate and Iwas like, it's 10 o'clock at night.
I can't do this.

(59:40):
I thought I was ordering something normal.
I was like, oh no.
'cause I had just eaten a bunchof junk food and popcorn that day,
so I already didn't feel great.
I it was, I was not expecting that.
I still have leftovers.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Wow. (59:52):
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we went out and we got card asada tacosthe other night, and they were so good.
They're my favorite.
They're my absolute favorite.
I want tacos now, to be honest with you.

dash_35_04-10-2026_130546: that sounds good. (01:00:01):
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That's prob I'm probablygonna heat up some leftovers.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Yeah, (01:00:05):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (01:00:05):
last of it.
Well, listeners, it's been real.
Thanks for hanging out with us again.
so next week we will be reviewing themovie Boots with Joel Edgerton and Chi.
Tell Gio four sign up for Hoopla orwatch it on Pluto ahead of time and
get ready for us to laugh about it.

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: sounds good. (01:00:24):
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dash_35_04-10-2026_130546 (01:00:25):
And, uh, we'll see you next time.
Say hi to your mom and

beck-a-roonie-guest999_36_04-10-2026_140546: Bye. (01:00:28):
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