Set Out Some Mt. Dew and Pepperoni Rolls for Mothman

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Beck (00:05):
Welcome to Queernecks, the podcast that puts the yehaw in y'all means all.
I'm your host, Beck,

Dash (00:11):
and I'm your host.
Dash.
Welcome to today's episode.
Well, I'm glad that whatevergot Shanna didn't get you

Beck (00:21):
You and me both, brother.
She was technicolor yawningall evening, as they, they say

Dash (00:29):
I've never heard that.
Oh.

Beck (00:33):
I felt so bad for her.
And I try to stay very calm whenshe doesn't feel good because she's
emotional and sometimes she gets panicky.
And so I try to stay real cooland calm and collected, but
inside I'm like, "Oh my God.
Oh my God, I need to help."
You know?
I feel bad, but she's okay.
She's doing all right today.
Yeah

Dash (00:51):
food poisoning is, it's a very frustrating feeling because it's not
like a stomach virus or something whereyou're like, "Okay, I know, know I c
I wasn't in control of whether thishappened to me or not But food poisoning
you're like angry at the thing you ate

Beck (01:05):
Yeah.
And then we had Chinese food fordinner, so we're not gonna be able
to have Chinese food for a long time.

Dash (01:12):
Oh bless her

Beck (01:12):
Yeah, yeah.
It's a byproduct ofthe, uh, the situation.
Listeners, in case you don't, mywife had um, we think, th- there's
no guarantee, but it's the only thingwe really had different yesterday.
I had McDonald's for breakfast.
I like a good McGriddle now and then.
And she had Dunkin'.
She had a croissant bacon sandwich, andshe was very ill yesterday, last night.

(01:35):
And instead of like, you know, beingin control, you just feel like it
just needs out of you right now,like no matter which direction
it goes, and it's just the worst.

Dash (01:45):
You know yeah we wish her her well Have you ever done it to yourself
Like you cooked something Like it's onething to get it from a restaurant and
it's another thing to do it to yourself

Beck (01:56):
No, I don't…
I'm very careful when itcomes to food and stuff.
My sister, on the other hand, will, andher family, will eat anything anytime.
Like, when we were doing my mom'swake right after she died I love
the baked spaghetti from Giovanni's.
It's one of my favorite thingsin the whole world, right?
And my nephew likes it as well, andhe had eaten some, and he had left it

(02:16):
on the table in the back part of thehouse, so nobody had cleaned it up.
And the next morning, I got up andfound him eating that spaghetti,
and I was like, "Jacob, no."
And my sister was like, "What?
With all the chemicals theyput in it, I'm sure it's fine."
Spaghetti that had been sittingout for, like, 18 hours,
you know, not refrigerated.
I just could never.

Dash (02:38):
on
the one hand I I s I I kinda understandwhat she was thinking even though it's
not accurate cause there are certainthings that Like for instance the
preservatives and stuff we put into foodto stop it from spoiling as quickly to
make it a little bit more shelf stableprocesses we do to food Like that can
keep it edible for longer if you takecare of it right Like so a a piece of

(03:04):
cake in the fridge will a storeboughtcake is gonna live longer not if you just
leave it out at room temperature Likepreservatives all that stuff don't cancel
out bacteria and as soon as somethinghits the air it's got bacteria on it

Beck (03:19):
Yeah.

Dash (03:20):
and if you leave it sit and it's got access to sugar which is what bacteria
eats which is what food is made of

Beck (03:26):
You know what's really bad is that my sister is a manager
of a med- med lab at a hospital.
She knows germs and bacteriabetter than anybody.
And she's like, "Oh, it's fine."
I'm like, I just could not.
I, I was appalled.
And they were all like, "No,we do this all the time."
I was like, maybe that hascaused the crazy in your family.
I don't know.

(03:49):
Yeah, apparently.
Apparently.
I saw that video the other dayand now it's just in my head.
Do you know the little kidthat says, "Apparently," like
100 times in the same video?
I saw it the other day.
It's

Dash (04:02):
though He's at an event of some kind

Beck (04:05):
It's a news video and, uh, I forget what he's talking about.
I just watched it the other day.
What?
He's at the fair.

Dash (04:13):
Yeah
Yeah I thought

Beck (04:14):
Yehaw.

Dash (04:14):
like a a fair or a street vendors type thing and yeah
they were trying to get a an aa soundbite out of him about the

Beck (04:23):
Yeah

Dash (04:23):
and he just So unselfconscious Yeah

Beck (04:27):
Yeah.
So every time I've heard that word, whichyou, uh, I d- I can't believe how many
times I've heard it over the last week.
It's more common than you would think.
Come on, Rue

Dash (04:35):
Well it's I think it's that BaaderMeinhof effect of once something
becomes salient to your perspectivenotice that it's a lot more common than it

Beck (04:46):
Yeah.

Dash (04:47):
had paid any attention to it

Beck (04:48):
Yeah, yeah

Dash (04:50):
For the longest time I couldn't figure out whether our like phones and
social media were listening to us ornot because I was like It could be Bader
Meinhoff This was way back in the daybefore they had admitted that they were
data farming us So like when we startedto get ads and things on websites for at
during Web 20 I was like this doing hereHow did you know I was thinking about that

Beck (05:13):
Right?
It is wild how they, it really,shit comes up immediately after
you start talking about it.

Dash (05:19):
cause I've been thinking about it

Beck (05:23):
Yehaw.

Dash (05:23):
Wait a minute

Beck (05:25):
Yehaw

Dash (05:26):
That's a bridge too far you know

Beck (05:28):
Yeah

Dash (05:29):
That's one reason I have like my group chats are in Signal It's not
because I think I'm some sort of elitespy and the government wants to know
what I wanna know It's be it's so thatI can fucking talk to people without
my algorithm and AdSense and whatnotlistening to me cause like if if you say
Oh man I'm craving some Taco Bell andthen on on your fucking TV you're watching

(05:51):
YouTube and you know I I don't haveYouTube Premium I'm a cheapskate a Taco

Beck (05:55):
Same

Dash (05:56):
comes up I'm like No no no no You're not doing that to me

Beck (06:00):
Have you ever used the Taco Bell app?

Dash (06:02):
No I haven't frequented Taco Bell much since uh like restaurants
started to do apps I've used thethe McDonald's one several times

Beck (06:15):
The, uh, Taco Bell app, when you place an order, it
rings the Taco Bell bell.
It goes dong.

Dash (06:20):
Nice

Beck (06:21):
Makes me laugh every time.
But you get free stuff.
You get like they call it their hottier item, and we always get either
the potatoes or cinnamon twistsor chips and cheese or something.
And you can get that free.
So I mean, it's the same thing ordering itthrough the box or through the, the thing.
You just get free stuff if youdo it through the thing, so

Dash (06:39):
Yeah I mean I love a rewards program We're gonna have to stop talking
about food so poor Shana can relax Sorry

Beck (06:46):
do have some new stuff at Taco Bell.
They, they have beeninnovating their menu recently.
They have the Cantina Chicken menu.
Shana gets the CantinaChicken Quesadilla Roll Up.
It looks pretty good
And then they have the mini taco shell,like taco salads, but they're tiny.
You know how they have like d-they put the salad in the shell?

(07:06):
They have miniature ones of those now.
They just brought theEnchirito back yesterday

Dash (07:12):
I think there is a there's a Taco Bell over in the city that I
go to my boxing class in so maybeI'll go by there Man I ate like a
fucking trash panda yesterday causeI had a bunch of errands to run
I can't be trusted Like when I'm at homeobviously there's nothing near here so
where am I gonna get garbage food I Ican only eat what I cook And that's been

(07:33):
kind of That's been straight up exposuretherapy for me because I used to love to
cook but my OCD had gotten so bad that Icouldn't do it anymore Talking about being
scared of foodborne illness I couldn'ttouch food I would If I had to touch a
piece of especially poultry or or porkone of the b ones that has the bad stuff
in it it's like I would touch it and I'dhave to wash my hands and touch it again

(07:55):
have to wash my hands and then I couldn'tcut it without having to like If I set
the knife down I'd have to wash a newknife And so it I had gotten so trapped
by my neuroses that I had gone to a placeof a really restricted diet and not very
happy Like food should make you in analleged developed society like ours food

(08:15):
should be able to bring you happinessand comfort at least some of the time and
I wasn't having that experience I was Iwas just trying to calorie max so that I
didn't die And so I you know moving herewhere there just were no options I had
to start cooking And so yesterday or Idon't remember someday I made uh chicken

(08:37):
curry I was cutting it and I didn't washmy hands in between I was like I just
washed everything afterwards like a normalperson I imagine a normal person is like
This is weird sitting in thehallway recording That's my stairs

Beck (08:54):
know.
That's my bathroom behind me.
I have a bathroom andShana has a bathroom.
That's mine.

Dash (09:01):
That's nice

Beck (09:03):
Yeah

Dash (09:04):
I have the one bathroom and it's upstairs but I also have just called a
roughout which is in just one commodein the basement And in these old houses
they weren't even really intended tobe used It's for the water pressure

Beck (09:16):
Yeah.
I read that some- somewhere recently.
Uh, we wanted a, a corner unit thathad sliding glass doors on the first
floor, and to get that we had to takea two bedroom, two bathroom, which is
one of the reasons it's so expensive.
Plus it's an ADA apartment, so it's gotsome bells and whistles in it, like the,
the kitchen's bigger things like that

Dash (09:37):
To have the the handlebars in the bathtubs and stuff

Beck (09:41):
Uh, no, it, they didn't go that far.
The building next to us has a coupleof people in wheelchairs, and they
have, uh, electric opening doors.
So I think they have…
This one I think is, uh, meant forwheelchairs because everything's so wide.
Like, you can get in and outof everything really easily

Dash (09:57):
Oh I bet that's easy to move into

Beck (10:00):
I, I dragged a couch through the glass doors.
It was, you know, I m- next timeI move, I'm using movers c- again,
'cause I'm not, I'm not, I'm too oldfor that shit now And I don't have
any friends that would, you know, Icould pay in beer and pizza anymore, so

Dash (10:14):
You know that's not the we're not living that college kid experience

Beck (10:17):
Yeah.

Dash (10:18):
can

Beck (10:18):
my brother used to help me.
he, he did a Forrest Gump impression.
He said, "I'm wearing my movingshoes," when he was helping me move,
and that was a dumb joke that we…
One of the good memories I have ofmy brother, him in his moving shoes

Dash (10:32):
Yeah Yeah my whole family has helped me move several times before back
when I you know was younger and theywere closer and they were younger too
Uh come up and just my dad they wouldbring one truck or another and we would
load all of my shit in it and take itfrom one shitty apartment to the next one

Beck (10:51):
Yeah.
Before my dad died, he would show up withhis trailer truck and a couple of his m-
men friends that I had never met before,and they would just move all of our shit.
Like, they were just, you know, we wouldhave it all boxed up and ready to go, and
they would put it on the trailer, and Markwould follow us to where we were going.
They would unload it,and they would leave.
It was wonderful.
I … That was one thing my dad really didhelp me with was, was moving and stuff.

(11:15):
He was really great about that

Dash (11:17):
Well I think I mean that's the kind of thing that it's not very difficult to
b you know like that doesn't take a tonof forethought It's literally you just
show up and you do what you're told kind

Beck (11:28):
Yehaw

Dash (11:29):
And that kinda that appeals to some folks Other folks hate
that kinda thing Like I'll helpyou do literally anything else

Beck (11:35):
Yeah.

Dash (11:36):
help

Beck (11:36):
That would be me.
I hate moving with a passion.

Dash (11:39):
Like You
that need done

Beck (11:43):
We decided we're gonna stay in this apartment because they sent us the lease
renewal, and it's only a $30 increase.
And where Wenda and Baby havepassed, our rent for pets will
go down $30, so we'll even out.
So there's no raise in the rent, so wemight as well stay here for the year

Dash (12:01):
If you can make it work and you don't have to add that
stress of moving and you know theplace is c comfortable fuck it

Beck (12:08):
Yeah.
Yeah, it's very small, but it's 950square feet, the, the whole apartment

Dash (12:15):
I have heard much worse I've lived in

Beck (12:17):
Yeah.

Dash (12:17):
I I

Beck (12:18):
Yeah, for sure

Dash (12:19):
190 square foot

Beck (12:22):
Wow

Dash (12:23):
apartment Yeah It they're they're called shotgun apartments I think is
the style and you'll recognize thislayout So you walk in the door it has
one door Sometimes there'll be anotherdoor out the back but and it into what
is on one side kitchen the other sideliving room They're one room and they're
sort of stuck together Behind them isa bedroom th through a door and then

(12:48):
inside the bedroom is the bathroom And

Beck (12:51):
Yehaw

Dash (12:51):
walk

Beck (12:52):
That's the exact layout of a girl that I dated in college,
what her apartment was like

Dash (12:56):
Yeah So I there was a lot of those in Richmond and so I I lived in several
of them And you know back then I paid300 bucks in rent for several years there
that was my budget so I would just gowith whatever I could find But Richmond
was so Some college towns are very goodat being college towns in terms of having

(13:22):
a wide variety of the stuff you need forpeople to to be able to live comfortably
and Richmond was one of them And I'velived in a shitload of college towns

Beck (13:31):
Yehaw

Dash (13:32):
Cause I work at you know work in higher

Beck (13:34):
Yehaw

Dash (13:34):
and I typically It c I think people have their own preferences I I know people
who have worked in higher ed for as longas I have but never once lived in the same
town as the college they work at becausethey don't want that experience But that
I I was never rich enough to do that

Beck (13:52):
Yeah, I loved living in BG.
I really did.
Uh, they dragged me out ofthere kicking and screaming

Dash (13:58):
Aww

Beck (13:59):
LFBG, I, had a sweet deal.
I was paying $750 a month fora two-bedroom apartment with a
garage and off-street parking and,
you all the

Dash (14:07):
was was pretty sweet I
of the not parties really but some ofthe gettogethers we had over there with
Andy would come over Cleatha would come

Beck (14:17):
Uhhuh
Yeah

Dash (14:19):
And Andrew And just sitting around everyone had s people would
have their preferred substance andsome folks would have none By that

Beck (14:28):
Yehaw

Dash (14:29):
I wasn't I wasn't drinking anymore so you know we would just sit around
We watched a lot of YouTube We'd becooking something and just hanging out
listening to music maybe I don't knowDon't have those experiences anymore

Beck (14:43):
Yeah, I miss that stuff.
It's, 'cause I'm still in the sameplace, but everybody's gone, you know?
And it, there's just echoes of everybodyaround, so that's, that's one good
reason that I'm not in BG right now.
I think it would be evenmore lonely than it is.
But then again, we don't know asingle one of our neighbors here

Dash (14:58):
Well that's how it felt going back to Richmond when I went back to work
at EKU after being gone for 12 years orsomething of the the ghosts were there
Like sort of like the impression of wherethings had been was still there but the
thing wasn't there anymore and it was itwas actually kind of lonelier than just
being lonely somewhere although yesterdayI went to hang out with my friends up in

(15:22):
who do live up in the the town where thecollege we worked at was and that was fun
hadn't done a some serious socializingfor like many many hours in quite a while

Beck (15:35):
I went to the drive-in again this week and we saw Toy Story 5

Dash (15:38):
I didn't even know that was out until I saw Amy Beshear post
with Tyler Childers about it on

Beck (15:43):
Yeah.
Well, we had seen one throughthree, so we watched Toy Story 4
this week, and then we watched 5.
It was pretty good.
It still holds up.
I think, I don't know what elsethey can do with that story.
Like they've, you know,they've, they, I think they have
reached the end, but who knows?
There could be Toy Story 17.
They could keep coming up with ideas

Dash (16:01):
Thought they were gonna do that with those Cars movie for a while
I I saw the first one I don't thinkI've s I haven't seen any of the other
actual Toy Story ones but I watched thatLightyear movie which it is still the
same franchise but it's like a l more of atween movie I think And they had replaced
Tim Allen with Chris Evans the voiceof Lightyear was cute I really liked It

Beck (16:27):
I haven't seen that one

Dash (16:29):
there his there's a a lesbian couple he like has a a peer or maybe a
commander I don't know and we experiencethe passage of time through their
relationship and like them raisingtheir daughter It's really sweet

Beck (16:42):
Yeah.
The, the second movie that was playingwas that Nate Bargatze movie that's out.
We watched a little bit of it,but I had to pee so we left
'cause it was really bad, so

Dash (16:52):
The first yeah the first I heard about this man was over apparently
he's being canceled or something

Beck (16:59):
Yeah, I knew who he was 'cause I follow a lot of, uh, stand-up comics and
things like that, so he wasn't new to me.

Dash (17:04):
Okay

Beck (17:05):
but yeah, he- because he showed up at the, at the UFC fight, uh,
people are saying that he politicizedhis work, and so now they're trying
to cancel him, which I disagree with.
I, I, you know what I mean?
Like, if he wants to go tosomething like that, that's fine.
I don't think we shouldcancel him over that.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Cause we don't know why he went, you know?
He could've been, there's a lot ofdifferent reasons he could've went

Dash (17:25):
I mean you know I like MMA I don't like UFC because I don't like Dana White
I uh that that whole organization I d Idon't like but I love martial arts I like
mixed martial arts And uh I guess I couldunderstand if I was like a mega fan wa
if I go to every single UFC like thereare some people who are completionists

(17:48):
there are some people who are like I goto every single UFC and this one just
happens to be white nationalist shit show

Beck (17:55):
Right?

Dash (17:56):
I don't know It's sucks when the thing you like becomes politicized
and that I think that goes for a lot ofpop culture things and I think people
from working class background like thethings that are most popular for us like

(18:17):
NASCAR mixed martial arts monster trucksra dude what whatever it is whatever
stuff that people who are bluecollarbackgrounds like it tends to get really
politicized i in rightwing ways andit's like it sucks because now I have
to think about that I'm trying to enjoythis thing I don't know I wasn't rich

(18:39):
enough to become a soccer fan I'm sorry

Beck (18:42):
Yeah, I was never, I was never introduced to soccer.
I guess my sister played when she wasreally little, but, but by the time
mom got to me, that was out the window.
And then I never got, uh,exposed to basketball either.
I don't think I've ever playedanything beyond HORSE ever.
I've never played anactual game of basketball.
I wouldn't even know how to do it.
But softball, I was all in on softball.

Dash (19:01):
of comedians we we did uh have assignment from last week that is was
pretty fun we I mean we talk a lot abouthumor and comedy We both like standup
and we also both like to be funny

Beck (19:16):
Yehaw

Dash (19:16):
And I think the past we have talked about like why we think humor is
important so I was thinking about thatwhile going over all the many options
for um sets I could talk about But II was thinking humor's actually pretty
queer Like in practice making fun ofsomething is queer like in the the queer

(19:37):
theory sense of the word Like tr you'retrying to ruin it a little bit You're
trying to to fuck it up a little bitso that it becomes a ridiculous version
of itself or or it makes it it makesa a statement about something else Do
you know what makes a certain joke orcomedian or set stick with you personally

Beck (20:01):
If you can make me laugh without going into, like, dick jokes, that is
a standout performance to me, right?
Because I, I just think people that gostraight for the, the sexual humor and
stuff like that, that's easy marks, right?
Telling me a poop joke,that's an easy mark.
if you can make me laugh without goingfor the low-hanging fruit, that's really
what I find, uh, good about comedians.

(20:24):
So finding something, some common groundand exploiting it without going low,
I guess, is what stands out to me.
Like Mitch Hedberg, isone of my favorite…
I had him as, uh, 'cause I, I wa- Iwatched several different things this week
trying to figure out what I wanted to do,and I watched a couple of Mitch Hedberg's.
He was one of my…
I had, I narrowed it down to threeoptions, and he was number three.
So I watched some of his stuffthis week, and he was so funny.

(20:47):
And I still, like, I stillquote him all the time.
Like, every time I get a donut and theytry to give me a receipt, I'm like, you
know, "I just can't imagine what I'mgonna have to prove that I had a donut.
They gave me a receipt, andI filed under D for donut."

Dash (21:00):
Yeah he had this talent for finding the absurd in things
that we all take for granted

Beck (21:07):
he said, "Some people get cavities.
I call them a place to keep keys."

Dash (21:13):
I remember Janeane Garofalo once made a joke about somebody It was in
a movie actually I think it was thatone with Uma Thurman they're like
trying to sell her pore minimizingcreams or something like that and
she was like No Do you have anypore maximizing creams I would like
somewhere to keep my spare change

(21:35):
I sh and she's another example of somebodywho's just extremely dry But also there's
kind of uh something that I don't reallylove are the angry comedians Not not

Beck (21:45):
Yehaw

Dash (21:46):
not being angry it's the screaming right

Beck (21:49):
Yeah.

Dash (21:50):
I can't

Beck (21:51):
Yeah.

Dash (21:52):
Although my the exception uh to the angry comedian rule is Lewis Black
who i he does use like screaming topunctuate his joke I I like him and even
though like occasionally he will screamDo you have a favorite kind of joke

Beck (22:09):
Observational humor,

Dash (22:11):
Yehaw

Beck (22:11):
my favorite kind.
The, the absurd and the ordinary.
You know, the, the noticing theneurodoses of people in general.
You know, I like that kind of thing.
Things that catch you offguard are my favorite.
I also am not a screamingfan of that kind of stuff.
Sam Kinison is probably my least.
Him and Andrew Dice Clay are probablymy least favorite comedians ever.
But I do like people like BrianRegan, who kinda yells, right?

(22:33):
But he is so clean that, that you can't,you know, he does it in a really funny
way, so I give him some, some slack there.

Dash (22:41):
On the topic of like sexual humor and stuff like that I was
thinking about it as you were talkingcause and I'm like I just don't want
that from straight people Like I

Beck (22:50):
Right?

Dash (22:51):
I want it in a context that it goes the extra mile of humor Cause
the way that like queer people do likeinnuendo and comedy it's just smarter
They're more intelligent St straightcomics aren't very smart to me I know

Beck (23:09):
Yehaw

Dash (23:10):
reductive it's generalizing I don't care I think that having to be more
creative in life in general because youlive in a marginalized identity makes
you more creative in any art you do

Beck (23:22):
Yeah

Dash (23:22):
there's lots of ways to be marginalized Queer is not the only one
so it doesn't mean straight people can'thave that experience But know the I
think there's a reason a lot of comedianshave certain marginalized experiences

Beck (23:33):
Right.
No, I agree with that completely.
The people that I have foundto be funniest in my life are
people that had kinda a toughway to go sometimes, you know?
Because you, I think it's because youhave to find ways to laugh at life or
you're just gonna kill yourself, you know?
Like, when, when…
Like, I, I figured out when I wasvery young that it was easy to make my
mom laugh, and when she was crying, Icould change that by making her laugh.

(23:57):
And so I became funny basically,

Dash (24:00):
that's more than one kind of trauma Like that's a childhood trauma that in
w that like made you responsible for the

Beck (24:07):
Mm

Dash (24:08):
of your parent Like that's a

Beck (24:09):
Yeah

Dash (24:11):
And humor I think it I think it has two It it has it can have lots of
jobs but two of its very important jobsare like a utility to keep someone safe
to manage a situation to f some sortof social component right Like inter
interpersonal type of utility And theother is to mock power I think the

(24:33):
most important thing humor can do ismock dominant paradigms I notice you
your brand of humor is you likep puns and I I like wordplay
and puns and stuff too One of my

Beck (24:47):
Yehaw

Dash (24:47):
of jokes is called a malapropism it's named after a character named
Mrs Malaprops who in turn was namedafter Malaprop just means misusing
a word in a very specific way Soit's when you a person uses a word
that sounds similar to a word but

Beck (25:06):
Yeah.

Dash (25:08):
my and my mom used to make these these were very popular jokes w where I
grew up in in Jellico and Williamsburg Somy mom would say if she had a a medication
to pick up she was going to pick up hersubscription I just thought that was
hysterical because it's yeah you yousubscribed to life for that Yogi Berra
was really big on these that's one A alot of his witticisms they're malapropisms

(25:33):
Like when he he was talking about switchhitting and he said Yeah you hit from both
sides of the plate cause he's amphibious
And I just I I fucking love It'sso it just seems so clever to
me and it's also like just thenerdiest kind of humor But then on

Beck (25:48):
Yehaw

Dash (25:49):
of the spectrum I can love when a drag queen is making
you know like innuendo aboutor something Like I can enjoy

Beck (25:57):
Yeah

Dash (25:58):
I just need it to be clever not gonna get me laugh
by saying the word dick Like

Beck (26:06):
Right

Dash (26:06):
I can make I just made myself laugh D but so that that's not
quite accurate If I say it thenI can laugh at it I don't know
So we both picked two specificor a specific set So I haven't
seen the one that you sent

Beck (26:28):
Okay.
It's a three-minute kind ofcompilation of a, of a larger set,
and it hit all of the quotable partsof it, so I thought it was perfect.
Like, I quote that, that thing…
I've been quoting it for years, so

Dash (26:40):
and I picked one This was actually voted the most important or funniest
joke of all time by a British pollit is Emo Philips famous Golden Gate
Bridge bit it's the section when it'lloften be clipped to like maybe a four
or even fiveminute section We don'tneed to listen to the whole thing

(27:03):
especially because he is such a fuckingweirdo Have you seen this guy before

Beck (27:06):
No

Dash (27:07):
Oh he's weird His affect is gonna So this is from 87 I don't know the name
of this special Let me see if it saysin the description Uh the Hasty Pudding
Theater HBO special from 1987 so the setupto this joke is that he says We need to
be kinder to each other We need to learnto celebrate what we have in common and

(27:32):
know recognize the humanity in each otherAnd he starts to tell a story about he
walks he's walking along the Golden GateBridge and he sees someone standing up on
a ledge and they're you know like they'regonna jump And he stops them and he's
like What's going on You have so muchto live for The and there's a bizarre
bit in here about how the guy wants tokill himself because he has a horse face

(27:54):
So he starts making all these about howhis face is like a horse and they're
very funny but I cut them out because itgoes on kind of a long time but anyway
he starts to say Don't you have anythingto believe in You know Isn't what isn't
it great that you know God is out thereAnd so this becomes a bit it's one of
the most famous bits about religion incomedy and so he asks the guy about his

(28:17):
religion so that's where I'm gonna pick up

Speaker (28:20):
They said, I used to believe in God.
I said, that's good.
Were you a Christian or a Jew?
He said a Christian.
I said, me too.
Protestant or Catholic?
He said Protestant.
I said, me too.
What franchise?
He says Baptist.
I said, me too.

(28:42):
Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?
He says Northern Baptist.
I said me too.
Northern Conservative Baptistor Northern Liberal Baptist.
Just, he says NorthernConservative Baptist Tyson.
Me too.
Northern Conservative,fundamentalist Baptist, the Northern
Conservative Reform Baptist.
He says Northern Conservative,fundamentalist Baptist, Tyson.

(29:03):
Me too.
Northern Conservative, fundamentalistBaptist, great Legs region, Northern
Conservative, fundamentalistBaptist, Eastern region, and he says
Northern Conservative, fundamentalistBaptist, great Lake region.
Me too.
Northern Conservative, fundamentalistBaptist grade, legs, region.
Cons of 1879, Northern Conservative,fundamentalist Baptist, great Leg Region.

(29:24):
Cons of 1912.
He says North Conservative fundamentalistBaptist grade Legs, region.
Cons of 1912.
I said die heretic, and I pushed.

Dash (29:41):
I fucking love that
so

Beck (29:42):
That was great

Dash (29:43):
in in my head like I'll I'll hear Die heretic or I'll say it under my
breath if I don't like something There's

Beck (29:51):
That's hilarious

Dash (29:52):
about that joke you know I mean first it's the ridiculousness
of whether someone agrees with ourfundamentals or our religion whether
we care whether they live or die Butalso like we were talking about there's
45000 denominations of ChristianityHow do they even talk to each other

Beck (30:10):
It, that reminds me of a, a comic that I had.
There were two, like they were atwar and there were two sides, one
on the left, one on the right, andthere was empty space between them.
And one had a, uh, a flag with a rabbiton it, and the other had the, the same
flag, but the rabbit was upside down.
And, you know, they were, they weresaying that they were, you know, at war.
And it basically is the same shit,just a different way of phrasing it.

(30:32):
That's hilarious

Dash (30:34):
And I honestly like that's the one of his that I've seen the most is
I don't He kind of annoys me actuallyhis whole like performance style his
affect kind of gets on my nerves butyou know I get it right It's it's just
a that's his thing It's a shtick It'svery 80s to me in that way But yeah

Beck (30:53):
Yeah.

Dash (30:54):
I fucking love

Beck (30:55):
Good comedy has no, has no time.
Like, it's timeless, right?
That would be funny in1989 or 2026, either way.
That, that's, that's good comedy.
Yeah

Dash (31:05):
heretic And I pushed him over Well listeners let us know if you've heard
of Emo Phillips before if you heardthat bit before and of course let us
know what your favorites are I have JohnPinette pulled up here This is Beck's
choice bit called Raviolis and a Nap

Beck (31:23):
is, which is a mantra of mine, as you will see.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Uh, I went to the gym today.
Listen, first, first, listen,
since February I've been going tothe gym five or six days a week.
I don't like it.
I go because I wanna be healthier.
I have such a long road ahead of me.
I, I lost a hundred poundsand, and people say to me.

(31:50):
Wow.
We can really see it in your face.
How big was my head beforeI started this journey?
Apparently I was the Kool-Aid man.
Nobody ever said anything to me.

(32:10):
Oh yeah.
Kool-Aid here.
That's John.
His head's the size of a manhole cover.
We don't talk about it though.
So in February I hired a trainer.
I've had many since then.
Some quit some turn to drugs and alcohol.

(32:35):
Then he says to me, give me a sit up.
I said, oh, nay, nay.
I, I don't do ups.
I told him that when I signed up.
I don't do ups, I do downs.
Sit down, lay down.
Blackjack.
I'll double down,

(32:58):
gimme a cheeseburger, I'll wolf it down.
Put on little music.
I'll boogie down, but I don't do ups.
Ups, SIFY, gravity.
Gravity is a law.
I obey the law,

(33:19):
so I, I see people at the gym and,and I just don't think healthy.
I'm on.
I do this machine.
Do you know this horrible machine?
I don't know the name of it.
I call it the horrible machine.
I started in February.
I could do five minutes, butI would have to cry for two
and a half of those minutes.

(33:40):
People don't wanna see that at the gym.
They complain.
Take him off that machine.
He's crying.
Now I can do 45.
Said it's a real miracle, but Oh, okay.
Yeah.
And I'm a pleasure to be around too.
I see other people workingout on the machines.
They're thinking, whatmachine am I gonna do next?
Maybe I'll do weights.
And I'm thinking if I do 45minutes and live, I'm gonna

(34:01):
have raviolis and a nap, so.
So the last 15 minutes is a chant,ravioli's in a nap, ravioli's in a nap.
I am like this on the machine.
The trainer comes by andsays, I see you're sweating.
That's great.
You know you're burning fat.
Oh good.
I hope it's a control burn.

(34:22):
'cause if this baby goes upall at once, it's gonna be a
mushroom cloud over this gym.

Beck (34:32):
So raviolis and a ma- nap is one of my mantras for life

Dash (34:37):
I'm well and I was thinking about like both of our uh decision
process was about whether we havea vocal stim resulting from the bit
Uh so I definitely like if it'ssomething that becomes part of my
lexicon or part of like you say mantra myselftalk apparently that's important in

Beck (35:01):
Yeah, the…

Dash (35:01):
it it sticks with me

Beck (35:03):
I don't do ups, I do downs.
That's another one that I have used.

Dash (35:07):
Ugh

Beck (35:09):
Gravity is a law.
I obey the law.

Dash (35:12):
Gravity is a law

Beck (35:14):
There, the other one that I considered doing, uh, was another
John Pinette where he goes to awaterpark with his family, and
that one was pretty funny too.
As somebody who's been to awaterpark while fat, it was hilarious

Dash (35:31):
I remember there was kind of a heyday of comedy specials back in the
2000s Uh maybe this is a kind of thewhen Comedy Central started It used to
be the Comedy Channel and then it becameComedy Central around that time And
that was when comedy like standup comedyanyway became so accessible to those

(35:52):
of us that didn't have Sirius XM Radio

Beck (35:54):
Right

Dash (35:55):
didn't know how to buy a comedy album Do you remember buying comedy albums

Beck (36:00):
I had a Bill Cosby one, thank you very much.
Like, yeah.
I used to think Bill Cosby was a greatcomic, and then he did what he did, so

Dash (36:08):
He was just also a piece of shit rapist

Beck (36:12):
Yeah.
But y- b- not to say but,you know, excuse, excuse.
I, I really did find him to be…
Like, he had some really funny stufflike when he was talking about, uh,
having a fart in front of his kids.
Like, that's one of the funniest piecesof writing I have ever seen ever.
It's hilarious 'cause he talks aboutan elephant going under the chair.
It's really funny.

Dash (36:32):
Did you see that elephant that went under there Yeah it

Beck (36:35):
yeah

Dash (36:35):
up about three feet

Beck (36:37):
Pretty much.
That's pretty much the bit, and

Dash (36:39):
Yehaw

Beck (36:40):
that had me rolling when I was young, you
know

Dash (36:42):
know what's funny is I'm pretty sure that closes that
special that's the end of Bill Cosby

Beck (36:48):
Yeah.
Yeah

Dash (36:50):
I remember that special for talking about grandparents in particular
like what it was like to watch yourparent change their whole treatment of
children when they become a grandparentI remember he said uh That's not the
person that raised me That's an old

Beck (37:09):
Yeah.

Dash (37:09):
trying to get into heaven
And it was like that is exactly whatit feels like interacting across those
generations but I mean yeah he forcomedy he was a very important person he

Beck (37:25):
Yeah

Dash (37:26):
a rapist and also

Beck (37:28):
Yeah

Dash (37:29):
He he contributed to respectability politics for Black

Beck (37:33):
Yep.
Yep

Dash (37:35):
He was very influential in that Intentionally influential I remember when
he was first like his first the first biguh set of accusers he had been accused
before and nobody listened wheneverthis was that he was actually indicted
maybe 15 years ago now it's been a whileI was talking to my grandparents and
I remember they were like Well they'retrying to ruin his life I was like Why

(37:59):
are you defending him Why are whitepeople Bill Cosby so much And I started
thinking about how important he is tohegemonic whiteness Like he's one their
token he's a success story The Huxtablethe show he's a fucking doctor He's

(38:21):
something that white people can point toand say I'm not racist I like Bill Cosby

Beck (38:25):
Yeah, he's a model minority

Dash (38:27):
Yeah model minority that's right And the way he spoke to and
about other Black men in particular

Beck (38:34):
And their pants especially.
The, the only time I've ever hadto throw a kid out of class, I've
been teaching since 2013, right?
And the only time I've ever had toki- kick a kid out of class was we
were talking about rape, and a k-he just went off and started talking
about how Bill Cosby was framed.
And, you know, that's a conversationwe could have had if he would've stayed
reasonable, but he started screamingabout it, and he was a young Black

(38:58):
man, which I found really interesting.
and a football player at that.
Like, he was a, you know, exuded a lotof masculinity and that kind of thing.
He, I had several problemswith that kid that semester
but that was just one of them.

Dash (39:11):
I can't imagine what it must be like to be a Black
man in America in general but

Beck (39:18):
Yehaw

Dash (39:19):
any Time something like that happens Like you know that that is impacting
their real daily lives in ways that wecould just never fathom You know I mean

Beck (39:30):
Yehaw

Dash (39:30):
it's something every time there's a a school shooter now or
something everybody's like Well they'reprobably a transgender or something

Beck (39:36):
Yehaw

Dash (39:37):
but I don't It's not like People can't tell that I'm trans right A
Black man has to walk around visibleas a Black man so cause I remember do
you remember OJ I was in middle schoolduring you know the when the chase

Beck (39:50):
I was in high school, yeah

Dash (39:51):
the kids at school it was very tense between the Black kids and the white
kids during that whole trial You know

Beck (39:59):
We didn't have any Black kids for that to be a problem.
We had two girls that were ofmixed race, and that was it

Dash (40:04):
Oh Well there there was quite a few Black kids and then there were the white
kids who like hung around with the Blackkids and wanted to be like them So I tried
to find the the Kathleen Madigan bit thatI also uh It's a vocal stem for me but
I couldn't find it It's not really thatimportant It's one little thing she says
about the nightly news she's talking abouthow antiquated the concept of sitting

(40:26):
down in front of the TV and someonegoing Do you know what happened today

Beck (40:32):
Right

Dash (40:33):
I can hear her in my head regular points during the day s
going Do you know what happened today

Beck (40:39):
She reminds me a lot of my college roommate, my freshman
roommate 'cause she's also from St.
Louis.
She's very funny.
She has a raspy voice kinda like that.
So they, they're very similar.
I also had a couple of her specials.

Dash (40:53):
Yeah

Beck (40:53):
Her later stuff, she's getting a little more cynical,
uh, which I don't enjoy as much.
But she's really funny and especiallyher first, her first couple of specials

Dash (41:02):
That's that's a really valid observation because cynicism it's bad for
us in general right Like a little bit ofit like we can't help it sometimes but you
should never reward cynicism You shouldnever water your cynicism flower yourself
It is not good for you It's bad for yourworldview It's bad for your ability to

(41:23):
relate to people and to feel connectedAnd so whenever it shows up and doesn't
leave somewhere I can't stay there Youknow Like I I can't stay here with you
while you make us all miserable I had touh get rid of a friend for that reason I
was like This constant cynicism spewingout of you at all times I can't live with

(41:49):
it I literally cannot live my life withyou in it I'm sorry It's only happened
I've I have cut two exactly two peopleoff as friends and he was one of them The

Beck (42:00):
Yeah

Dash (42:00):
gun on me

Beck (42:02):
I lost a couple of friends over Trump being elected but that's really
the only time I've cut many people off.
People I never would've thought would'vevoted for him, and they absolutely did.
And then I got into it in,with a girl that I had been
friends with since I was 16.
We, my first job, or no, mysecond job I worked at a Fazoli's
and we worked together there,and we became really close.
She was talking about how being deaf wasnot a disability and et cetera, et cetera.

(42:26):
And I was like, "What thefuck are you talking about?"
You know, and my best friend isdeaf, so I have a particular, you
know, I, I am defensive about peopletalking shit about deaf people.

Dash (42:37):
That's

Beck (42:37):
so we got into it over that.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think she was trying to say thatdeaf people are just like regular, normal
people, which of fucking course they are,
you know

Dash (42:47):
but uh but that is so We are very very bad at talking about disability
in an affirming way in like a waythat centers the person and not the
between them and any random personas though we don't all have something
that needs a little help right

Beck (43:07):
Right

Dash (43:08):
like I'm wearing glasses right now That's a prosthetic but we like
to talk about them like Oh you'reyou're not deaf person you're just
a a person you know It's like welluh okay deaf people aren't people

Beck (43:22):
No, ha- let him make a phone call and tell me that it's not an impairment.
You know what I mean?
Like, turn on the radio, tellme it's not an impairment.
'Cause my best friend, when I mether, she was fully hearing, right?
And it's a de- degenerative thing, and theolder she got, the worse her hearing got.
And now she wears hearing aidsb- in both ears, and we can't
really communicate by phone.

(43:43):
So we do a lot of texting.

Dash (43:45):
Yeah I actually always had weird hearing and then some things happened
to make it worse I uh have had a lot oftraumatic brain injuries between being
in car accidents or doing stupid shit orbeing an addict and just falling a lot
Like I've I've had a lot of concussionsBut I also struck by lightning Not It it

(44:09):
wasn't like literally I wasn't actuallystruck by lightning but it was through
the phone you know Um and I don't evenknow if that really counts but I do
know that it knocked me unconscious andso A lot of things have happened to my
my brain and so my hearing started toget worse as I got older and now I wear
hearing aids Um it's it's not even worthit sometimes to try to talk to people

(44:33):
about that impacts my experience becauseI can communicate I speak normally and
so it's like they just forget again andthen it becomes like I have to bring
it up all the fucking time and advocatefor what I need all the fucking time and
I'm just not gonna do that So I'm just

Beck (44:49):
Right

Dash (44:49):
A lot of the times I'm just gonna smile and nod

Beck (44:52):
Yeah, that's what,
that's
what my friend does.

Dash (44:55):
Well um okay We've we've been talking for a really long time Maybe it's
time to hear from this week's sponsor

Beck (45:00):
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Dash (45:04):
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so she went and turned the kerosene heateron and stuck the cast iron skillet on top
of it and finished cooking the burgers

Beck (47:14):
That's hilarious.
My sister, I shared a bedroom withher until I was, uh, technically
until I was, like, 13, but I movedout to live on the couch at some
point because I couldn't handle it.
She, we had a little bedroomthat had carpet on the walls,
so it was, like, hot in there.
It was the '80s.
It was hot pink.
It was a thing.

(47:35):
And she would keep one of those squarekerosene heaters in there with the
door shut and on full blast all night.
Like, I couldn't breathe in there,so I refused to sleep up there.
It was crazy.
So I slept downstairs.
My sister's nuts

Dash (47:50):
That might be another reason she's a little off

Beck (47:53):
Yehaw

Dash (47:54):
That's carbon monoxide man That's that's what we had was one
of the little square ones You can'tfind those anymore The only kerosene

Beck (48:01):
Yehaw

Dash (48:01):
that I was able to find are the giant ones that are just for outdoor
but yeah I remember cause we woulduh in the winter we would get up and
that thing on and sit in front ofit and shiver and get dressed there

Beck (48:14):
Yehaw

Dash (48:14):
I miss that kerosene heater And I have cooked many a
pot of soup over a Coleman lamp

Beck (48:22):
Yehaw

Dash (48:23):
The power goes out pretty often in Eastern Kentucky because of the
ice storms and things it and it's it'slike I think they've done the best
they could to make it a strong grid butit's just the way the weather is there

Beck (48:36):
Yeah.
My parents had a generator on their house.
As soon as the electric wentout, the generator kicked on.
It was hardwired.
It was a big one.
It was propane.

Dash (48:43):
I'm

Beck (48:44):
Yehaw

Dash (48:45):
for a backup power station currently actually Mostly for the
camper but also because the powergoes out here Not for any good excuse
though just a shitty power grid

Beck (48:57):
Yeah.
We're pretty lucky here.
The, my little town, people on theother side of the town have been having
some issues with the power going outlike every day, but we're 100% on.
Like, we've had no issues with it, so

Dash (49:09):
Everything's a little bit shitty here You know internet's kinda spotty send
us an email Th there's So the hot waterheaters you have two different breakers is
for the electricity and the other one isjust for the hot water heater and they'll
turn They have a it control over it andthey can turn it off And so they'll send

(49:29):
you an email and be like Hot water controlgoing on They don't tell They don't email
you to tell you when it's over And soit's like All right Hope you showered
There's still a broke downSUV across my driveway

Beck (49:45):
Oh yeah?
Do you know whose it is?

Dash (49:47):
No and if this was Eastern Kentucky it'd have been stripped down and sold
for parts by now That's mine Like

Beck (49:53):
Right?

Dash (49:54):
me now I I am kinda gobsmacked at how inconsiderate and rude that is

Beck (50:00):
Right?
Especially for the Minnesota nice up there

Dash (50:03):
I think the Minnesota nice is how they get away with being so
inconsiderate and rude cause people won't

Beck (50:08):
Yehaw

Dash (50:09):
And there's no police to call

Beck (50:11):
Do you not have a sheriff or anything?

Dash (50:12):
no we got a sheriff not in this county I mean I don't know
how it works You never see him

Beck (50:18):
Did, did you know that communities have to pay the sheriff's
department to have coverage?
Like
you want
there to be a sheriff's deputy, like it…
So where I come from there's a littletown called Rubyville, for example.
It's way out in thebackside of the county.
You have to go out a countryroad, then another country road to
get to that country road, right?
Shit, what were we just talking about?
My, I lost my train of thought

Dash (50:39):
Sheriffs

Beck (50:40):
Sheriffs.
So if you wanna have a sheriff that sitsout there, so if somebody calls, "Hey,
I need the sheriff," and there's oneclose, your community has to give money
to the sheriff's department in order forthere to be, like, coverage out there.
You have to sponsorthe, the police officer.
Otherwise, they could beanywhere in the county when
somebody from there calls them.
I only learned that a couple of years ago

Dash (51:00):
Maybe that I don't know maybe that's going on here because I I
never see them I I got stopped by oneonce up in Morris but not down here

Beck (51:08):
So who would you call if somebody was trying to break into your house?

Dash (51:11):
No idea I mean I would dial 911 I don't know who would be answering
it or how far away they would be

Beck (51:17):
Ow

Dash (51:18):
Yeah And that's why the statistics look like they do It
looks like there's more crime in incities or Black neighborhoods and
it's because they're policed moreThere's more cops in those got rid
of the cops here There are no police

Beck (51:32):
So there's no crime

Dash (51:34):
Exactly Did you bring a noun of Appalachian interest

Beck (51:38):
let's see here
and now it is time for ourAppalachian noun of interest.
Today's noun is the humble tobacco barn.
Now listen, a tobacco barn is notthe prettiest barn in the world.
Nobody's getting married in one,unless the photographer is going for
seasonal allergies, uh, meets tetanus.
These barns are usually paintedblack or otherwise dark.

(52:00):
They're tall, a little crooked, andstanding out in the field looking
like they know family secrets.
But around here, that kind of buildingstands for more than function.
Tobacco barns were builtfor curing tobacco.
That means the tobacco was hungup inside the barn so that it
could slowly dry and change.
It was not like tossing wet socksover a chair and hoping for the best.
There is a real process to it.

(52:21):
Air has to move through the barn.
The leaves have to dry atnight at the right speed.
Too much damp and the tobacco could rot.
Too much dry air andit could cure too fast.
So these barns were built with that jobin mind, and a lot of them had wooden
boards with spaces between them or littledoors and vents that could open and close.
They might look rough becausethey were working farm buildings.
They did not need to be cute.

(52:42):
they needed to keep the crop fromturning into a moldy sadness curtain.
In burley tobacco country, whichincludes a lot of Appalachian Kentucky,
Tennessee and Ohio and nearby places,tobacco was usually air-cured.
That means the barn itselfhelped control the process.
No fancy machine was doing all the work.
The farmer had to watch the weather,open the barn up, shut it back

(53:02):
down, and hope the leaves behaved.
And tobacco, much like certain relativesat Thanksgiving, did not always behave.
So for a lot of Appalachian families,tobacco was not just a crop.
It was the thing that paid the bills.
Tobacco bought school clothes, ithelped cover Christmas, and it was
the crop that kept the farm going.
It was also a whole family job, whichis a polite way of saying nobody

(53:23):
got to sit around being lazy on theporch while everybody else worked.
That barn was where all the work ended up.
You can still see some of theserelics out in fields, though
not as many as there used to be.
Some are leaning, some haveroofs that look like they gave up
during the Bush administration.
Even still, others are wrappedup like weeds in the woods,
trying to consume them whole.
And every so often, you pass one andthink, "Somebody ought to save that."

(53:44):
But then you keep on driving, becausesaving a barn costs barn money,
to which I say, "In this economy?"
The thing about tobacco barnsis that they carry a complicated
story in those old boards.
Tobacco helped a lot of Appalachianfamilies survive for generations,
but tobacco also came with healthrepercussions, lots of hard labor,
and greedy companies that got richwhile small farmers took all the risk.

(54:05):
So you cannot talk about tobaccobarns like they are just a
cute old country building.
They are part of theAp-Appalachian history that is
useful and sad at the same time.
But you know, Appalachia knowswhat to do with complicated.
We do not have to pretend somethingwas perfect for it to matter.
A tobacco barn can remind us of hard work,late summer air, and people coming home
worn out, dirty, and ready to sit in thatone chair everybody knew not to touch.

(54:28):
It was more than a buildingstanding in a field.
It was a place where a family waited tosee if the year would turn out all right.
So this week, we honor the tobacco barn,the old wooden thing standing out there
in the field, leaning a little, holdingon anyway, which to my ears is the
perfect analogy for being Appalachian.
That's our noun of Appalachianinterest this week, the tobacco barn

Dash (54:48):
that was a lot of people's first job A lot of peop like kids would get
jobs bundling and hanging the tobaccothey would get sick from the exposure
if they touched it you know like thethe juices or whatever come out after
it's been harvested but that's probablyhow they got addicted to nicotine
It's probably why everybody smokes

Beck (55:09):
Yehaw

Dash (55:09):
In Appalachia Like literally everybody smokes It is expected

Beck (55:14):
My Papaw started smoking when he was like 10 years old.
Like, it was just athing that everybody did.
Like, everybody in my family smoked

Dash (55:22):
Yeah
it was it was a sign of maturity Likeit a lot of things a lot of these came
together and working and smoking coffeeeven alcohol they all kinda ran together
And I still like there are certainclass affectations I can't get rid
of Like quitting smoking was so hardbecause it goes with coffee you know It

(55:47):
goes with coffee and a donut whatever

Beck (55:50):
Mine was driving and smoking.
That was what was really hardfor me, 'cause I was a chain
smoker when I was driving, justlighting one after the other.

Dash (55:59):
soothing And it's like h that's how you think That's
how you get time to yourself

Beck (56:03):
Yehaw
the romantic affect of smoking.
Like,

Dash (56:07):
Yeah
since I quit It's been a little more

Beck (56:12):
I'm so proud of you

Dash (56:13):
yeah maybe a week week or two ago It's been six months

Beck (56:17):
That's awesome

Dash (56:18):
I guess we should, uh, spin this wheel and see what our assignment
for next week is All righty Okay,we've already done that one.
I'm gonna spin again.
It landed on book report again.
Is this, is this thing weighted?
Oh, okay.
So similar to, to what we didtoday, this landed on YouTube night.

(56:41):
So if there

Beck (56:42):
Okay

Dash (56:43):
a YouTube clip or thing that, that is important to you,
I assume mine will be somethingfunny, but there are also some…
I mean, if there's a music video orsomething you wanna watch we can think
about whether we wanna do that piecelive, like livestream it or something.
May not be time to set it up, but anyway,just thinking about videos that we can

(57:07):
watch on YouTube and share with eachother and share with our listeners.
Why do you think YouTubenight is so important for…
It's like, there's a, many peopleonline have joked about how every
gay person has a YouTube night

Beck (57:22):
I don't know.
This is my first experience with it, so

Dash (57:25):
Well, but you and Shanna, you watched YouTube together in your,

Beck (57:28):
Oh yeah, all, all day every day

Dash (57:30):
like, this was something that, uh, me and Sabrina and Eric and lots
of other people were often invited.
We would just get together over atEric's apartment and take turns with
his controller looking up YouTubevideos that we remember liking.
And so we would play musicvideos for each other or funny

(57:52):
clips of, you know, weird shit.
Also, we would do a kind of algorithmfree fall where we would just let it
suggest choose based on the thumbnailwhether something we should watch it, and
found some really cool stuff that way.

Beck (58:07):
Yeah

Dash (58:08):
Maybe it's part of, part of the larger, like, role
YouTube has kinda played in, inmedia culture, but okay, yeah.
It sounds fun.
Uh, listeners, if y'all have a, aYouTube video suggestion, let us know.
Comment on the Facebook.
can at us on Threads and I'llcheck it once in a blue moon.

(58:30):
email us at mailbag@queernecks.com
your

Beck (58:34):
Perfect.
Yep, let's do it.
Ba da dum bum bum bum

Dash (58:39):
Well, hope, hope Shana continues to feel better

Beck (58:43):
Thank you.
I'll, I'll pass along your well wishes

Dash (58:46):
Okay.
And y'all just take iteasy the rest of the day

Beck (58:50):
Yeah, I'm gonna take some garbage out, but other than
that, that's, that's the plan

Dash (58:54):
Yeah.
Got a little, little cleaning up to do as

Beck (58:57):
Yeah, we had like baby's bed still in our bedroom.
We just never could throw itaway, so I'm gonna take it out to
the garbage and stuff like that.
So it's not…
Yeah, it's, it's been six months, so.

Dash (59:09):
All right.
Well, listeners, thanks for hangingout with us for another week.
And send us your suggestionsfor funny or weird YouTube shit.
We'll see you back here,and have a good week

Beck (59:22):
Yeah.
Oh, today is West Virginia Day, so,uh, or yesterday was West Virginia Day.
So if, uh, make sure that, uh, you'vestill left out some Mountain Dew
and, and pepperoni rolls for Mothman.
So

Dash (59:34):
right?

Beck (59:35):
yeah

Dash (59:36):
Happy West Virginia Day.

Beck (59:38):
Yep.

Dash (59:38):
be

Beck (59:38):
All right, homie

Dash (59:39):
s- say hi to your mom and them

Beck (59:42):
Bye

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