You Know How I Feel About John Malkovich

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senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Welcome to Queernecks, the podcast that (00:06):
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puts the Yee Hall in y'all means hall.
I'm your host, Beck,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: and I'm your host. (00:11):
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Dash.
Welcome to today's episode.
Do you remember making your own ringtone?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (00:19):
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
from the radio.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (00:21):
or Yeah.
From the radio.
You remember?
You could also download them

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (00:25):
yeah.
For like

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (00:25):
if you wanted.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Do you remember when the internet (00:26):
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would connect and you'd freak out?
'cause you were gonna have topay for an internet session.
The
data

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: Yeah, and that, that like little (00:32):
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button with the globe icon.
I had one phone, it wasn't a Nokia, Ihad many Nokia, but it was, there was
some other brand that was like tryingto compete with Nokia for whatever the
smallest fuck ass little credit cardsized phone we'd all carry around was.
And the, that button was rightwhere next to something I always

(00:54):
pushed, like send or somethinglike I think it was right next to.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Heaven help you. (00:58):
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Should a website actually load?
Do you remember cell phone,Amazon, way back in the day?
Did you ever try to goon one of those websites?
It just wouldn't load.
It would just you, the the logowould load and that'd be about it.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:10):
Oh, you mean like actually trying to visit the website?
It was quite some timebefore I got a smartphone.
They had, um, I mean people, therewas the Blackberry and the, um,
there was a, a few other ones.
Oh shit, what was it called?
The Sidekick

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (01:29):
I've always paid for my own phone line and my
own phone, so I've always had bottom ofthe barrel, bottom of the line, to me.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: they give away iPhones, I mean, (01:35):
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senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (01:38):
Usually

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:39):
legit.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (01:39):
an, an investment in that before, to get the
iPhone, either you have to pay for anextra line or you have to have an iPhone
to trade in, like for like, or whatever.
And I've, I've never owned an Iproduct besides an iPod in my life.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:54):
Um, yeah, or you have to switch, like
they'll give you one for switching.
But they, they, so they were all ofthose, and then the iPhone basically
is what made it so that a lot morepeople could afford a smartphone.
But I, it was still, so thatwas 2000, I think it was 2008,
the iPhone three came out

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (02:15):
no.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (02:15):
and

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (02:16):
in 2007.
I know that for a fact.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (02:19):
yeah, the iPhone three, was the one that, like
everybody had, literally everybodyhad that one in particular, or 3G.
Sorry.
Um, when did that one come out?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Because my brother died right (02:28):
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before the iPhone came out.
He missed all of, of all of this culture.
That's how I remember.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (02:35):
July, 2008, the iPhone 3G was released.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (02:40):
Okay.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (02:40):
And I don't know why they called the first one, the
3G, but it was still like, it was 2010before I got, and I didn't get an iPhone.
I got an HTC one.
And that was the first time I hadaccess to the internet through a
mobile device because you, that the,the plan actually budgeted for it.
but now I'm stuck with Apple.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (02:59):
I, I,
if they would gimmeone, I wouldn't have it.
Android has too many coolfeatures that Apple don't have,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (03:04):
Yeah, probably.
That's probably true.
I don't even care about features.
I care about like the, theway that Apple is so glitchy.
Like this new iOS they've rolled outrecently, the keyboards trash, like it,
you, it went from being the easiest to useto being the most annoying thing I own.

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but I, you, you become stuck.
And this is why they do this, right?
Like your watch and your phone and yourcomputer, they all talk to each other.
They, you, you develop this not justdependency on the devices, but how
they actually, um, work together.
And so to do something like get, uh.
A different phone that changeswhat I'm used to being able to do

(03:48):
between my phone and my laptop.
But this laptop is also trash.
So

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (03:53):
Yeah,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: listeners, what should I do? (03:53):
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senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (03:55):
coming to the dark side, the Android side.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (03:58):
Yeah, I would if I just knew where to start
because I'm not even that invested.
I don't feel like doing research.
I don't feel like learning new things.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: I used to know a lot about cell (04:06):
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phones when I worked at Amazon.
When I worked at Amazon customerservice, you had to be knowledgeable
in most of the areas of the businessbecause you never knew where
you could get a phone call from.
And back then, Amazon sold, uh,cell phones and cell phone plans.
They had all the major carriers and soyou had to learn the ins and outs of cell
phone contracts and that kind of thing.

(04:27):
It was wild.
I hated it.
That was my least favorite thing to do.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (04:31):
You know, and, and Apple, here's one of the worst
things they did was squash competition.
There was a phone called, it was,it was hard for Americans to saywe
that was far superior to Apple.
And they ran this smear campaignthat basically convinced us all that
they were a national security risk.
As, as though any given cellphone isn't Like if you have

(04:53):
one, it's listening to you.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: I saw a picture yesterday I can't, (04:54):
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I can't think of who it was.
It was somebody high in national security.
He had tape over all of the camera lenseson the back of his iPhone and they were
like, well, if he's doing that, then

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (05:08):
I immediately pick mine up and look at it like.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: it is wild though how you'll be (05:12):
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talking about something and twoseconds later get an ad about it.
You know

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (05:17):
Oh, it's for sure listening to you

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: for sure. (05:19):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: and, and it's exhausting. (05:19):
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There's, did you ever watch that show?
The Good Place?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (05:25):
Yeah.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (05:25):
There's that great episode, where Maya Rudolph's
character, the judge has to go down toearth and try to live, survive an ethical
day where she makes no, ethical mistakes.
She doesn't accidentally purchasea product that, whose parent
company contributes to thegenocide and Dar or, or whatever.

(05:48):
And she comes back up to, and she's like,there is no way it's impossible to, you
would, you would have to spend more thanthe time allotted on this green earth.
Uh.
Researching and digging into every singleway that we interact with our surroundings
to actually make no ethical blunders,

(06:10):
assuming you wanted to,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (06:11):
Yeah.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (06:12):
and it's a little reductive to just
say like, that's capitalism.
Because it's not capitalism.
It's people, people made capitalism

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (06:20):
Right.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: people game capital. (06:20):
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Like the, the reason we likecapitalism so much is that it
is so pure, it's naive, right?
It's like if, if you are so inclined, youcan get away with nearly anything thing.
And so they do,
oh God, we're at war now.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Are we now? (06:41):
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Do they declare it?

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (06:44):
They're, they don't do that anymore.
They just bomb people.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (06:47):
Oh, I

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: But we did bomb. (06:48):
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We did bomb Iran.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (06:50):
Oh good.
That's

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (06:51):
I.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (06:51):
need.
That's exactly what we need.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (06:53):
We bombed Iran because Israel bombed Iran
and Netanyahu has shit on Trump.
And so when they sayjump, he says, how high?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (07:01):
Right?

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (07:02):
And then we got the United, Arab Emirates out here
giving statements like, well, they justweren't properly governing themselves.
And so it's our responsibility and theresponsibility of the United States
and Israel and our allies to make surethat they properly govern themselves.
everything I say, everythingI'm thinking about saying would
like get the FBI called on me.

(07:26):
Y'all know what I'm thinking.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: There's a lot to unpack there. (07:28):
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And they are trying the whole weaponsof mass destruction thing, again,
talking about their nuclear program

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (07:35):
Did you see that reporter asked Vance.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: when you say that person's name. (07:38):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: That's right, Vance. (07:40):
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So, uh, you're saying that Israelpreemptively struck against a program
that you took credit for dismantling.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (07:51):
Yeah.
That it was obliterated.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: It was incredible. (07:53):
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Kaitlyn Collins, I think is thatreporter's name and just, she
continues to give, like everythingshe says is just the Lord's work,
but it almost doesn't matter what good isit to be smart enough to see it anymore?
It just raises your blood pressure.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (08:10):
Right,
which is probably a goodthing for you right now.
So,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (08:13):
Right?
Oh my god.
Yesterday, so it was almost50 degrees yesterday.
It was fairly warm, and so I waslike, I'm gonna go outside for my
walk, which I haven't done lately.
One, 'cause the last time Idid that, I almost passed out
while I was out on a walk.
'cause the temperature gust ofwind hit me and it was so cold.
It changed my blood temp or changed mybody temperature too fast for pots liking.

(08:36):
And I was just like, I'm gonna fainton the side of this fucking windy
ass, lake, like some Victorian orphan.
Somebody's gonna drive by.
It was, so, I, I, I just didn'tgo for walks for a long time.
But anyway, so I went out yesterday and itwas fairly warm and I had on many layers,
but they were kind of light layers, right?
Like doubled up on like a, athermal layer and then another

(08:59):
thin hoodie on top of that.
And then like, my running jacket, AndI was like, this is, this is fine.
This is perfect.
And then I rounded a cornerand the wind was 20 something
miles an hour, and it hit me.
And I was like, this is,no, this is fucking cold.
I'm cold, but I hate just likegiving up on a walk and coming
back inside, especially because ittakes so much to get out the door.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (09:17):
right.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (09:18):
So I started jogging and I was like,
oh, this, this feels pretty good.
This is fine.
And then I knew it wasgoing on quite some time.
I knew that I was jogging forquite a ways and then I was like,
well, I'm just gonna keep going.
And next thing I know, I hadrun all the way around the lake,
which is three and a half miles.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (09:36):
Oh wow.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (09:37):
So I ran a 5K yesterday because I was cold
and didn't wanna come back inside.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Do you not know that? (09:44):
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Like pants exist like

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (09:47):
I was wearing, I was only one layer, but I
was wearing, um, my, my sweatpants andthey're fairly thick, but like the wind
it seriously just straight through 'em.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (09:57):
it was
33 degrees here this week and peoplewere in full t-shirt and shorts combos.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (10:02):
no,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (10:03):
that.
Like I saw so many white legs.
It was ridiculous.
Even
some of the girls were doing it.
It was like, y'all are nuts.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (10:10):
They will, they're so excited to get
that skin back out and, you know,whatever, more power to you.
But like, it couldn't be me.
I may be a white man now,but I, you will not catch me.
Like I get colder than they dohere because I'm not used to this.
I'm, I go for walks inliteral arctic gear.
Like I'll be looking like I'm outin Alaska, but I just love being

(10:31):
outside so much that I'll do it.
several people have commentedlike, I can't believe you go out
for walks when it's this cold.
Which has surprised me because I wouldthink that they would be more used to it.
But they also, I don't think havemy brand of A DHD or whatever it
is, OCD, where I, I just don't feelright unless I have been outside.

(10:53):
It.
It does, it does sound actually kind ofpathological when I think about it now.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (10:58):
I'm listening to a really interesting book.
It's a youth, it's a youngadult book, so it's a little
slow and repeats itself a lot.
Have you heard of Loveless?
Uh, by Alice?
I think it's Osman, O-S-E-M-A-N, I think.
It's the story.
It's a British girl.
She's finishing high school like the lastweek of high school and goes into college

(11:18):
and she's asexual and figuring it out.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (11:21):
Hmm.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: it's the, a story of asexuality and (11:21):
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I've learned a lot about Britishcollege culture, like, have
you ever heard of Freshers Week?

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (11:29):
Freshers

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Yeah, that's what they (11:30):
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call the incoming students.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (11:35):
Okay.
I found the book here.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: it's available. (11:38):
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It's an audio book on hoopla ifyou like, listening to books.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (11:41):
I, I wonder if I would, I I had never had,
the only time I listened to bookshas been, uh, like comedy books.
So for instance, I bought theaudio version of Trixie and K's
books because they read them

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Do you have Spotify? (11:55):
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You can get it, like you get afree, uh, a couple of free audio
books every month as part of

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (12:02):
Oh,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: membership. (12:03):
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So there's that.
And plus Hoopla is free through thelibrary or they might use Libby.
That's the other hubler like app.
All you need is a local library card,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (12:14):
I am thinking about, I was thinking
about getting rid of Spotify.
'cause they're in, they're doing thatthing Netflix did, where they like,
they're increasing prices because theyknow that we won't do anything about it.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (12:22):
right?

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (12:23):
And they're so just seedy, you know?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (12:26):
Yeah.
I'm
pretty addicted to that app though, so.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (12:30):
I, me too.
Like it's every, every time Igo for a walk or I work out or
do anything, I turn on Spotify.
Like I don't have a backup.
Do you think that there is, like,going back to, um, the time splitting
timeline and like divergence theory andstuff like that, do you think there's a
version of you out there that has kids?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: I don't know. (12:51):
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I was nev.
I never wanted him ever really.
So I don't know.
I mean, if if there's infinite universes,then probably, you know what I mean?
But

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (13:03):
Yeah.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: just can't imagine a life (13:04):
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where I would've settled down.
'cause that would've likely requiredthat I be with a man, right?
Like, I have friends that are lesbiansthat have kids, but it, they, that
IVF and all kinds of things like that.
And I'm just saying with theamount of money that I've had, I
probably wouldn't have been ableto afford something like that.
So, yeah, I, I don't, I don't know.

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Why do you think you, I, what doyou think yours would be like?

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (13:28):
Uh, they would, mine would be, I think some of them would
be okay and others would not be okay.
I, I don't know.
I, I'm too, I don't think I, I'm, I'm notsaying this, I'm saying this to be funny.
I don't think I would actually do this.
But like, I, I could see me likewanting to treat them like little
science experiments, you know, like.

(13:49):
Deprive one of sunlight
raise, raise one in a dark room,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (13:55):
one.
Only Coca-Cola.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: teach one of them to read. (13:56):
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I'm just too curious about stuff

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (14:01):
Yeah.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (14:02):
and, and I think, you know what got me thinking
about that is that like, I do thinkthat without realizing it, or meaning
to, or without even really meaningharm, people do kind of do that.
They treat their children sodifferently that it's, it's like
they're trying to get different results.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (14:18):
Yeah.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (14:20):
What do you think they would be like if you had 'em?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Probably funny. (14:22):
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Because that's just the style as an aunt,all of my nieces and nephews, that's the
style of, of parenting that I used withthem and they all turned out pretty funny.
So, smart.
I would hope kind fat because welike pizza and food around here, so

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: Pizza Sounds good. (14:40):
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senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: We ate at Arturo's Pizza (14:41):
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Kitchen in Toledo the other day.
They have these cheese stripsthat are fan freaking tastic.
It's like it's pizza without the sauce.
It's cheese sticks.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (14:52):
What?
Oh, she's okay.
Took me a minute to put togetherwhat you were describing.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: They're the best ones we've (14:58):
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found in all of Toledo.
So if you're local to Toledo,go to Arturo's Pizza Kitchen.
They're really good.
And I
also tried PIs ellos, uh,pizza bread sandwich this week.
It came with sa sausage and pepperoni,which I almost took the sausage
off, but I decided to leave iton there, and it was really good.
I was like, these people know whatthey're doing to make a simple sandwich.
It was good.
Did you ever eat PIs?

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Ands?

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (15:19):
Oh, yeah.
Constantly.
Me and Eric went there all the time.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: there's a second one in the (15:22):
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little town that I live in.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (15:25):
I actually preferred Pellas to the Polys.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (15:28):
Oh yeah.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (15:29):
Yeah.
Both, both of them.
Like

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (15:32):
Oh.
I've only ever eaten at the notcampus polys once, so I can't really
say that I have an opinion on them.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (15:38):
one of them.
And I've, I've, it's been long enough nowthat I have forgotten, which is, which one
of 'em, I absolutely hated their dough.
It didn't taste like anything but flour.
I was like, y'all need to salt this.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (15:48):
I got into an argument with a campus polys, uh,
manager of their Facebook page one time,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (15:53):
Nice.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (15:53):
He, he was Trump supporting with the Poly's
name and I was like, this isn't cool.
And he was like, well, best of luckwith you and whoever you decide to
purchase pizza from in the future.
And it was like, fuck you, buddy.
So I didn't order polys forlike two years at after that.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (16:06):
No, fuck 'em.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (16:07):
Yeah.
But then I wanted some, so I assumedthe manager had changed by then,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (16:12):
Well, and they have so much like the, even the
Poly ice beef is, that's the Hatfieldof McCoys of Bowling Green, Ohio.
Did you know that?
Like they used to be.
They're kind of related.
They used to be one company and thenthey like had some beef and split.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: was a divorce. (16:27):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: Oh, is that what it was? (16:28):
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senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Yeah, it was a divorce and (16:29):
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one took the campus poly.
That's why they spell it different too.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (16:34):
Yeah.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: That's why there's the campus polys (16:35):
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and the Reg regular poly eyes.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (16:38):
Uh, I used to work at Apollo Pizza in Richmond.
While I actually, uh, delivered pizzas forApollos while I was teaching at EKU 'cause
I couldn't afford to, you know, pay on.
It was like they, so there wasa lot of pot high potential for
like, just humiliation doing that.
Like, I was like, eventually I'm gonnahave to deliver to a student that

(16:59):
actually I delivered to many students.
But not one of the ones in myclass, but I did deliver to a
couple of coworkers, which sucked.
But Apollo's, I think Apollo's isthe best pizza in Madison County.
Like, they just have the most amazing.
Recipe, but the Apollos as itis now, is not the Apollos it
was when I was an undergrad.

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It used to be owned by this dude namedCharles, who I, I did know him a little
bit, like I partied with him some.
' like the, some of the guitar guys,the, the guys who were also, I was
in ensemble with, they lived rightabove Apollos and that there's
in a weird apartment up there.
And so the Theder would come upstairsand just take bong rims with them.
And we partied over there all the time.
And then Charles just randomly, thisis probably 20 in the, in the late

(17:44):
two thousands or early 2010s, he justrandomly committed suicide and didn't
talk to anybody, didn't set anything up.
And so Apollo's was empty for a reallylong time until these, just a couple
of lawyers bought it and renovated it.
And it's been open since, but theykept the same recipe of the sauce.
It is.
It's the best pizza sauce I've ever had.

(18:06):
It's garlicy and salty and it'slike got a great consistency.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (18:11):
Yum.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (18:12):
I gained quite a bit of weight.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: You know what I'm gonna say? (18:13):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (18:14):
What?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Giovanni's is my favorite, (18:15):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (18:17):
Mm-hmm.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (18:17):
which is a controversial opinion in Scioto County.
You're either a Giovanni'slover or a Fred's lover.
Fred's is another little mini chain.
It only has like threerestaurants, I think

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (18:27):
Well, actually,
my opinion about Apollos is also, iskind of controversial because there's
a Giovanni's in MAD in Richmond

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (18:33):
Oh, wow.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (18:34):
yeah.
So that people are like, okay, if you,if you like one or the, I mean, they
all, they'll have full on beefs, which Ithink is in, in small towns, especially
with like a lot of food culture.
I think you get that, you getlike friendly rivalries or not
so friendly rivalries betweenrestaurants of similar cuisine like

(18:54):
the, the greasy spoons they had.
Wars The Jacksons was fightingwith the silver dollar, or the
Silver Diner which is now closed.
Jackson still exists and Jacksons is someof the, is the best diner in Richmond.
But I worked for the Silver Diner.
I think I worked for every restaurantin Richmond there for a while.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (19:12):
Yeah, uh, first two jobs were in a restaurant.
It was well it was calledMcComb's Dairy Bar.
It was more well known as dough's,and then they sold it right
before I started working there.
It was a dairy bar and restaurantdairy bar being a place that has
the windows and you walk up to thewindow and place the order and you
get your ice cream or whatever.
and then the secondplace I worked was Olis,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (19:35):
Mm-hmm.
I worked in a lot of Italianplaces, like either just either
pizza or pasta and pizza.
Never an olive garden though.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (19:43):
did you ever eat at Spaghetti Warehouse in Toledo,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (19:45):
Mm-hmm.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: it's supposedly haunted. (19:46):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: Well, haunted by what, (19:48):
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senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: I assume ghosts (19:50):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (19:53):
who's ghost, who's haunting a spaghetti warehouse.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: my big fat. (19:57):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (20:08):
I hardly ever went to Toledo when I lived
there, and I wish I had more.
I, I never really thought of thatplace as a, place, if that makes sense.
Like, I just thought, like, okay, I'mhere to do school and then I'm out.
So I, you know, I, I had my places thatI went and I didn't do anything else.
Wasn't exploring, wasn't tryingto experience things really.

(20:29):
In a very similar fashion.
That's how I'm living here.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (20:32):
Yeah.
Do they have a good park system

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (20:34):
If they do,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: toledo's has been (20:35):
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rated one of the best in thecountry, our park system.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (20:39):
really,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (20:39):
Mm-hmm.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: there's, well there's the city (20:40):
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park here is just the lake.
But in other towns, I thinkthey're probably better city parks.
But the state parks, Minnesotastate parks are awesome.
Like,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Do you have to pay to get (20:51):
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into 'em or are they free?

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (20:54):
uh, you have to pay to park at them.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (20:55):
Gotcha.
And then that covers your admission.
Basically,
Ohio, they're totally free.
You just
in Michigan, you have to buy a license.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (21:04):
Hmm.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Well, I mean, I think Minnesota paysfor theirs out of the parking passes.
So if you pay, um, $35 a year, thenyou get your parking pass and you can
stick it on whatever vehicle you want.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (21:20):
Yeah.
There's also a program for acrossthe country that fourth graders get
in free to all the national parks.
Um, it's a way to get families to goexperience history and things like that.
But yeah, fourth graders, mostof them get free admission.
Yeah.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (21:36):
That's awesome.
Well, and you can check out aparking pass from the public library

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: I went to queer, I went to (21:40):
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one of the library branches.
One of the fun things about the queerlibrary or the the queer book club is that
it changes libraries every, every month.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (21:50):
Yeah.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (21:50):
close to some people, you know, or whatever.
So it rotates.
And so I've got to see a couple ofthe, uh, the libraries around town.
And so we did that this past week.
That was fun.
I like queer book club.
you're in Toledo, you should
join us.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: What did you read? (22:03):
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senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (22:04):
The Harriet Tubman live in concert by Bob the

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (22:07):
Right?
Okay, nice.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: and the next one is the Loveless. (22:10):
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What else is on tap here?

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (22:14):
Oh, you got a whole little brochure.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (22:15):
Yeah.
The next one up is Atmosphereby Taylor Jenkins Reed.
I don't know anything about that one.
Uh, may is bad guys.
A homosexual history or badgaze, a homosexual history.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (22:27):
Oh, cool.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: And June 22nd is RuPaul, the (22:28):
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House of Hidden Meanings.
I like that it's getting me outta mycomfort zone a little bit because I
would never have chosen to read thisbook that I'm, that I'm listening to.
I, I, I try to listen to 'embecause I'm in the car and
it's wasted time, and then I

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (22:43):
Mm-hmm.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: all my other stuff. (22:43):
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I don't have, I just don'thave time to read for fun.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (22:46):
Ooh.
atmosphere, is a historical fiction.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Ooh, I like those. (22:49):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (22:51):
Yeah, I do too.
My friend Bobby, from, from, uh, likeundergrad from EKU, after she wrote
her memoir, she, uh, wrote a historicalfiction book about her own grandmother.
So it was like a mixtureof biography, I guess.
But like, you don't really, wedon't really know much about

(23:12):
her ancestors in Appalachia.
Like, so she

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (23:15):
Oh,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (23:15):
like the,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: my family. (23:16):
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Sorry.
Go ahead.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (23:18):
so she, I guess, learned about the context of
this woman, and I don't know how shechose this particular woman and then
kind of wrote a historical fiction ofher own, ancestor, which I was like,
that's a really interesting idea.
I haven't read it yet.
I kind of for forgotabout it until just now.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: my family is a founding (23:34):
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family of Saville, Kentucky.
so the McGalin County HistoricalSociety has done the full genealogy
back to when the original guy cameover on the dragon from Bavaria in
like 1767 and how he got some land andthen he traveled from North Carolina.
He settled in North Carolina.

(23:54):
Then he, then they moved, uh, thefamily moved to Tennessee, then up to
Kentucky and then to Scioto County.
Like my grandfather wasborn in McGalin County.
it's five volumes long and one, one volumeis nothing but pictures and stories.
And it has storiespeppered in all through it.
Like I use one of them in classwhen we're talking about abortion.
There was a, a story like you just,you're just, you just look through it.

(24:16):
There's random paragraphs everywhere.
You never know what you're gonna run into.
And there was a story that thiswoman she had already had three
kids and she got, she found herselfpregnant, so she tried to eat some
root that if eaten in the correctamount, would take care of the baby.
But she ate too much.
And it, both of them died.
And I used that.
I that, a screenshot of thaton, in one of my slides to
talk about abortion ain't new.

(24:37):
You know, this is

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (24:38):
I know

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: well, they don't know that. (24:39):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (24:40):
I.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: that's why I bring it up that it's (24:40):
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even part, it's part of your history.
Even if you think you've neverknown somebody that tried to
have an abortion, yes, you do.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (24:46):
Yeah, there's this movie about that
in, in Britain called Vera Drake.
It's got a Mel Destan in it, and it'sabout a woman who she's, I think a
midwife, but became known as thisunderground abortion provider for
people who, for whatever reason,needed to no longer be pregnant.

(25:07):
Like some of them would've died.
Men, actually, most of them would'vedied because it's, and it's so, it's not
interesting in a way that is like, oh,people who have always had abortions.
It's, is interesting in.
Like, uh, exploring all the different waysabortions are lifesaving for people that
are not simply a medical crisis, right?

(25:28):
Like there are social reasons whythey could be a death sentence.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: There's a fabulous little video by (25:32):
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PBS called before abortion was legal,I think is the ex is the title.
And it's just a, a few vignettesof women who have gone through
the process and why they did.
They're all older women likegrandmotherly age, talking about what
life was like before they were legal.
And the, the links that they wentto and how they put themselves in
danger and how they almost died.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (25:54):
I,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: lady was on there talking about (25:54):
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her sister and how she did die.
I show that every semester.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (25:59):
wow.
It makes me think of that movie.
If these walls could talk.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (26:02):
I like the second one of that better.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (26:04):
I think about the second one a lot like the.
A couple of those stories are actuallyreally impactful, uh, especially the one
with, um, Michelle Williams and Chloe

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (26:17):
Yeah.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (26:17):
NY in the fifties about the Lavender Menace.
Basically, it's exploring realhistorical moments, but in, in, uh,
like an individual way about how likeactual people were impacted by it.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: I have a Lavender Menace T-shirt. (26:31):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (26:33):
Yeah.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (26:34):
Yeah,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (26:35):
The, some of the students were talking about the
Lavender Menace and because we were,we were talking about, uh, the second
wave kind of, we were talking just moreabout the history of feminist thought
and just the changes and stuff, and Imentioned Betty, free Dan, and one of the
students was like, fuck Betty, free Dan.
And I was like, yeah, I mean, really.

(26:57):
Fuck all, I mean, everybodyhas said something.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (26:59):
right.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (27:00):
That if, if not is reprehensible,
is, you know, not helpful.
Like, but they were like, well, the, shewas the one who coined the phrase Lavender
Menace and wa and started the, the LesBiphobia panic and stuff like that.
And I was like, you're absolutely right.
But like, let's take that a stepfurther and look at the separatism and

(27:24):
exclusion of trans women within thesame group of people who identified
as the lavender menace, right?
The, the, the lesbian separatiststhen became the transphobes.
And on and on and on, right?
Because that's what we do.
People are awful like a group.
what we know about groupmotivation, group identity theory

(27:46):
and all that stuff is that.
Pretty much any, any given groupof people is looking for a way to
exclude at least one of its members,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (27:54):
right.
Secondary marginalization.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (27:55):
you know?
So I'm like, yeah, sure.
Fuck Betty Friedand.
But it's, it's a weird metaphor, but weare not gonna throw the baby out with
the bath water when it comes to thehistory of feminist thought or something,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: like with Margaret Sanger, like she (28:07):
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had some really awful things that shesaid, but we, where would we be with
the, with the birth control pill,without her, you know what I mean?

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (28:15):
right?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (28:15):
planned para would be like, I always, I always
teach Margaret Sanger and I'm like, youknow, if you've ever had sex or enjoyed
it without the, without the, uh, wantof reproduction poor one out for old
Margaret, because she's how we got towhere we are today, but you should know.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (28:30):
Mm-hmm.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: And then we talk about her (28:30):
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eugenics and, and all that.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (28:33):
Exactly.
Yeah.
Same with Temple Grandin.
A lot of people, when they find outthat she, she has expressed opinions
about, if we found a way to preventautism, uh, like the genetic component
to it and stuff that it, it people, youknow, that there's benefit to preventing
people from being born with autism.

(28:54):
People are like, that's eugenicsand we have to, you know, fuck
her no longer anything shehas ever done is of any worth.
And it's like, yeah,that's a mess up thing.
She just said that, but like, she'sspeaking from a place of her own journey.
She's speaking.
We just have to, I don't knowabout, we have to, but like people,

(29:14):
everybody is speaking for themselvespretty much all the time and.
In like looking at and appreciating theother things that she, showed us, right?
Things that we learned throughher inviting us into her journey
is still worthwhile, even thoughwe can't agree that eugenics is a
good idea and we should not agree

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (29:37):
Right.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (29:38):
with, with people who say that kinda shit.
I actually got really into studyingthe history of American eugenics while
I was recovering from, uh, surgery.
I don't know why, but I just was likeone documentary after another about
like these, Richard, what's his face?
The guy, the American main proponent.

(30:00):
There's the, the Kuk family, whichis, lemme see if I'm, let me make
sure I'm pronouncing it correctly.
It's not that CAC family.
Yeah.
So, this was utter bullshit, uh,with this guy proposed this idea
that social success was genetic.

(30:22):
And so Kuk is some amalgamof Greek words that mean like
good and bad in a way, I guess.
I don't know.
I can't remember that part specifically.
I was also on a lot of drugs duringthis period, but he traced an alleged
progenitor of two separate genetic lines,one of which experienced social success,

(30:43):
and the other became like, fallen.
And of course it was allthe woman's fault, right?
Like whoever,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Obviously. (30:48):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (30:49):
But he, but he did this to a real person.
This is, uh, there was a real womanthat he found in an institution that
he decided to make his case studyand traced her lineage back to this.
And that became kind of a,a part of social Darwinism.
And this idea that whether a person is a,is a benefit to society, is also genetic.

(31:13):
And they, uh, this massive like forcedster sterilization campaign came from
just that, like that because, and thisis how like mis, well not misinformation
' cause that shit was just a lie.
But like the news, the way newssensationalizes these things and
transmit this information to everybody,like the whole public was basically
like, yeah, let's sterilize morons.

(31:37):
That's what they called them.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: the same thing's happening (31:38):
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around trans people in in

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (31:40):
That,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (31:41):
So

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (31:42):
yeah.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: new behavior. (31:42):
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They tell them something andthey just buy into it fully.
Oh, hill line and sinker.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (31:48):
I've seen a resurgence of, because of the bathroom
bills and yada yada, people who don'tunderstand what trans people are, what
it can look like, are the also tend to bemost susceptible to this fearmongering.
And so I saw somebody really trying hardto get this guy to understand that what

(32:08):
he's voting for with this particularbathroom bill was to put men in the
women's restroom because they neverdo understand that trans men exist.
You know, one thing that killsme is there's this one logic
that have, that's actually true.
'cause they're like, well, no matterthey'll say like, cutting off your
dick balls doesn't make you a woman.

(32:29):
That's true.
Because if you took a cis man andmaimed him in some way so that those two
parts of his anatomy

, senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: David Reimer. (32:37):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (32:38):
right, he would not be a woman because he
doesn't identify as a woman becausehe identifies as a man, you're making
our argument, you dumb motherfucker.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (32:48):
Right.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (32:49):
We can get them very, very close.
And then it just, well, Adam andEve and Adam and Steve or whatever.
Speaking of David Remer, I sawa video of this Somali woman
whose twins were experimented on,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: So like in what way? (33:01):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (33:02):
one of them was injured, in the, in utero.
So they essentially, they were, um,she was pregnant with twins and they,
she described it as an obsession.
The, the, um, Mount CarmelHospital was having her come to
get prenatal exams twice a weekfor her entire third trimester.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (33:23):
Wow.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: And she was, she was like, I (33:24):
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know something's wrong here.
Her name is Deca.
I don't remember her last name.
I'll, I'll look for, uh,uh, a link about this story.
'cause I just read it this morningand, and I'll put it in the show notes.
But they were doing this someprocedures, like a pelvic sonogram.
You're not supposed todo a pelvic sonogram.
You have to be very careful and youbetter have real good reason for doing

(33:47):
one of those in the third trimester.
And so they did one and theyprobed too deep and injured.
one of the babies.
Yeah.
And she knew it because she was bleedingwhen she left, but they gas litter,
they were like, no, you're fine.
And.
So then when it came time fordelivery, and she wound up with
a, a previa because of the bleed.

(34:10):
And so she had to have C-sectionand she said delivery something.
She could tell something was wrong.
The first baby that they removed,it didn't cry, but it wasn't dead.
And it ne it ha it never has cried.
It was the one that was injured fromthe, the probe And they said, okay,
no, it's perfectly healthy, it's fine.
And so she, they take these two babieshome and it just, it's not eating,

(34:32):
keeps having horrific nosebleeds.
It's vomiting up blood.
They take it to the emergency room, youcan guess what they accused them of.
So CPS gets involved and it'slike, are you abusing the children?
It's like, well, uh,the other four are fine.
So, at first they're not able to getCPS to, to bite, but this hospital, then
they're like, Nope, baby's perfectly fine.

(34:53):
And then of course, eventually the babyhas an aneurysm stroke or something like
that and is put into a vegetative state.
And I thought like, ohmy God, that's terrible.
And I thought that thatwas the extent of it.
They continued to experiment on thisbaby while it's in the hospital.
They're using it as kind of a dummy.
They're letting the residents likepractice intubation on the baby.

(35:15):
So it's getting like extubated, intubatedfive times in a day or something sometimes
so it can no longer eat on its own.
This is absolutely fucking crazy.
And this is not like thisis happening right now.
and they've kind of, they'vetaken custody of it, by.
Accusing the father of abuse.

(35:35):
And so, and then it gets much worsebecause he doesn't speak English.
So, it's a felony charge.
He gets, charged with child abuse,but they hire lawyers, but they think
they hire lawyers, but they actuallyturn out to be just public defenders.
And these public defenders chargethe money, which is illegal.
And then, uh, CPS concludes that therewas no, um, actually there was no abuse.

(35:59):
And they drop the charges, butthe lawyers don't tell them that.
And then they talk the guyinto taking a plea deal.
So he winds up confessing to somethingthat he wasn't even charged with anymore.
So now he's in prison and.
I, it's absolutely fucking crazy.
see, this I did not know about.

(36:20):
And, and I'm sure that many of usare ignorant of a kind of oppression
that's happening in America.
It's just too fucking big.
But this the situation with Somali folks,I just, I feel so every day I learn
more about what's going on with them.
It is crazy.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: I'm, I'm ignorant a hundred percent. (36:36):
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I don't know.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (36:39):
I had no idea.
So, and that's kind of what happened.
I was like, well, I, there'ssomething going on here and
I'm totally ignorant of it.
I need to look more into it.
And I find this story and I waslike, ah, I wasn't ready for this
on a goddamn Saturday morning.
And they've still got this babyhooked up to these machines.
His, they've broken both of his femurs.
Because they're just doing, they'retreating him literally like a, a

(36:59):
living mannequin, a living, uh,like thing for the residents to
practice on at this hospital.
And there's photos of him withall of the, he's like, he's
just not gonna have a life now.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: How terrible. (37:12):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (37:13):
it's awful.
And, and the way this woman was talking tothe press about this was shocking to me.
The mother, you know, becauseshe was just kind of explaining
this as though, like, yeah.
It's just sometimes our, our communitygets targeted for experimentation,
basically medical experimentation.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Well, that rings of, of Nazis and (37:32):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (37:34):
It, it sounds.
Not even Nazis.
I mean, we, we do it.
This is a very American tradition, right?
Henrietta lacks, what was that?
Even 50 years, 50, 60 something years ago.
there continue to be these moments whereI don't care what your experience is if
you're a white person, you know, yourinstinct when you hear something like
that may be to go like, there's no way.

(37:56):
There's no way that happens.
Throw, it's okay to have thatthought, but if the next thought
behind it isn't, my ignorance is theonly thing that my privilege and my
ignorance are the only things thatallow me to even have a thought.
Like not believing thesepeople, then you're not trying,
you're not doing anything.
You're not doing your part.
Just show yourself out.
And you should also be able tolearn about yourself from that,

(38:18):
from that response, because youdidn't ask to have that response.
That's a response that whitesupremacy, white hegemony wants us
to have as white people to go like,no, that wouldn't happen to me.
So I can't see how it would happen to you.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (38:30):
right.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (38:31):
Well, if it happened to you, it wouldn't
be able to happen to them as muchbecause it, the secret would be out.
Sorry for the bummer, but Iread that this morning and it
just came out for some reason.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (38:40):
Yeah.
No, that's just so sad.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: Yeah, it's absolutely fucked up. (38:43):
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senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: And people are (38:45):
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worried about that babymonkey and not the baby human,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (38:48):
I'm sad about punch too, y'all, but like, you know.
He's not my kin

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (38:53):
right?

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (38:54):
Maha.
Baby Maha is my kin.
Like if you want me to care about one morethan the other, it's gonna be baby Maha.
But some good news, the A CLU hasfiled a lawsuit against Kansas
over the driver's licenses.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: What do you mean? (39:13):
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I don't know.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (39:14):
well this was actually very recent, so yeah, this was
just a few days ago, Kansas sent lettersor passed a bill and then immediately sent
letters to trans drivers, pe, transgenderpeople with driver's licenses in the state
of Kansas that they have to surrenderthose licenses and they are immediately
invalid, meaning there's no grace period.
The next time you try to drive withthat license, you will have been

(39:36):
informed that it's invalid, whichmakes it a, yeah, a misdemeanor, So
there are 1700 ish drivers that areimpacted by that in the state of Kansas.
So if you say it's not your first offensefor driving on a suspended license, which
is real technically what this is, thenyou are now a second offender driving

(39:57):
on a suspended license, which means youlose it for a minimum amount of time.
You get a fine, you might go tojail driving on a suspended license.
That's one, that's the thing.
I went to jail for the first time.
So you people aren'tbe able to go to work.
Lots of people lost theirjobs or, you know, whatever.
So, A CLU has filed a lawsuit againstthe state of Kansas, which should

(40:20):
put an injunction on this so thatit's not able to go into effect
immediately the way they had hoped.
But that's kind of what we've, onething we've been worried about than like
people doing is like, that's a prettyeasy way to make trans people illegal
quickly, is to say, make sure you carryyour documentation everywhere with you.
Oh wait, no, that's notvalid documentation.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (40:41):
Right.
That's the whole save act too.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (40:44):
Yeah.
But yeah, the save act, I've beentelling all kinds of people, this
is like, especially now that they'restarting to actually worry about it.
It's like, we warned you that's whatthey've been doing to trans people.
This, this is how they learned it, becausethey saw that it worked on trans people.
It is, man, when this allfinally just fucking collapses,
it's gonna be fascinating.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (41:04):
Yeah, I just hope it doesn't take 20 years.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (41:07):
Mm.
Well, Trump doesn't have 20 years.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (41:10):
Well, if he has a deal with the devil, he might.
Can you imagine a deal they struck like.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (41:15):
Oof.
Yeah.
I think things, things fall apartfaster than they come together.
So, and they set up all of these likewhite women to take the fall for them.
But men continue to underestimate women.
So like, they're not gonna just goquietly and they're almost certainly

(41:35):
not just waiting for it to happen.
Waiting for the next shoe to drop.
At least one, if not most of them, or evenall of them is preparing or is prepared.
Like we think they're cunts now, who,let's just wait and see what they do
when the power they were sucking up to.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (41:55):
Is gone.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (41:55):
yeah, and think about it like so many of
these people were sucking up to powerbecause they wanted to be cruel.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: What happens when he and (42:02):
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Vance becomes president?
Like that's gonna be an even bigger mess.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: They're gonna eat her alive. (42:07):
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Lady Vance don't stand a chance against,I mean, I kind of wanna see that.
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senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (43:56):
Tractor pool, something we know a lot about.
You know, I managed to nevergo to one of those in bg,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (44:01):
Uh, me too.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (44:02):
Oh.
I lived a block from thething, you know, it, it
rattled our windows.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (44:07):
you kind of attended without, uh, your permission

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (44:10):
I was part of a pool town, as they call it.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (44:13):
pole town.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Yeah, if you look up videos online, (44:13):
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because I wanted to see what they did.
You know, I've never been toa tractor pool in my life.
So we Googled it and there's lotsof videos about BG Pool town.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: I, I just love a Midwestern (44:23):
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weirdness like that, you know?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (44:27):
yeah,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (44:28):
I, I would say that there are tractor
pulls back home, but I never saw one

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: I never did either. (44:32):
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But then when we moved down there for theyear, they had them at the county fair.
maybe
it's a, it's a,
new newer thing,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (44:39):
or it's Bader Meinhof and they always had 'em.
And we never noticed 'em becausewe never noticed them before.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (44:44):
right?
What's Bader Meinhof?

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (44:47):
It's a, like the Beder Meinhof effect is when you
don't notice something until you knowabout it, and then you see it everywhere.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (44:54):
yeah.
Okay.
And I've, I've definitelyexperienced that.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (44:57):
So there could have been a tractor pole every
weekend near me, but I didn't know theyexisted, so I wasn't aware of them.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (45:05):
Right.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (45:05):
Sometimes I think that, I used to, when I first
noticed that our cell phones werelistening to us and the ad for everything,
every time I mentioned something wouldpop up, I would be like, is this Bader
Meyerhoff or is my phone listening to me?
Now we know.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: And it listens everywhere. (45:19):
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The other day I was listening to my bookin the car, and if you have your plug,
your phone actually plugged into my car.
Then it has Google Assist right thereon the on the, on the steering wheel.
And if you say like, okay,Google, it'll come up.
And they weren't saying, okay,Google, but they were saying something
that sounded something like it.
And I had to like fast forward my book15 seconds to get through that spot.

(45:42):
'cause it kept going backto it like three times.
I was like, damn it.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (45:46):
Stop eavesdropping for a minute.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Yeah, I'm just listening to my book. (45:48):
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Damn.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (45:50):
I saw people have been saying that
like the AI bubble has poppedlike just over the last few days.
Their stocks have deflated.
And there's a lot of layoffs happening.
There's there guess just somethings happening within the, field
or related to it, that are makingpeople say like, okay, that was it.

(46:11):
There it went.
and I'm like.
What's gonna happen to the economy becausethey just, every red scent some of these
tech giants have, has been sunk into ai.
And also the, the peoplethat they contract with.
So the construction firmsor something like that.
All of their contracts for the nextfive years are building data centers.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (46:31):
Right,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (46:31):
What do I mean?
We have really hitchedour cart to a weird horse.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (46:36):
right.
You just made me think of Mrs.
Grooms or Ms.
Grooms a substitute teacher.
She was like seven foot tall when wewere in sixth grade, and she would always
like, 'cause I don't know if you everhad your teacher sign your yearbook or
whatever, but like we did and she wouldsay, hit your wagon to the stars ours.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (46:53):
Aw.
Oh my God.
Speaking of teachers, I don't knowhow, but Some, some kids recorded
this teacher of theirs, I, as I reallythought this was gonna be like the
South or Appalachia or something.
It was fucking California.
Just saying racial slurs in the classroom.
Multiple days, multiple times.
And then she's like, why areyou recording me saying that?

(47:14):
Why are you trying to ruin my life?
Just because I said these words.
I was like, is this ai?
Nobody can have this little sense ofself preservation, but I think they just
think they're allowed to say it now.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (47:25):
Wow.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: Uh, well, they're not wrong. (47:26):
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They are like, who?
Who is gonna hold them accountable?
Nobody cares

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: So, on three of my ethnic studies (47:31):
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exams that I graded, somebody usedan antiquated term for black people.
I don't know how to say it.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (47:40):
how antiquated.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: um, The, the c in the NAACP. (47:41):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (47:45):
Yeah.
Right.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (47:47):
so we don't use that language anymore.
Right.
Because it s back to Jim Crow andthat kind of thing, and I had three
students using it in their exams.
And the third one I just kindof snapped and I was like,
I, I wrote it out longhand.
I was like, we don't usethis language anymore.
It blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
You know?
And I, I, I, I explained all that andthen I looked at it and the student was
black and I was like, oh shit, you know?

(48:09):
And

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (48:09):
Okay.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (48:10):
her, you know, if it's, if it's your community,
you're allowed to say whatever you want.
So take that with a grain of salt.
And she actually thanked me.
She said she appreciated howpassionately I, I defended that point.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (48:22):
Hmm.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (48:22):
which I thought was a really great, I was, I
didn't know how she was gonna take it.
'cause you know, I wrote allover her exam and, and I, I was
like, no, we don't use this.
And I crossed it out and, butshe was really gracious about it.
So I was thankful for that.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (48:36):
Oh, that's, yeah, that's tough.
I mean, on the one hand, you're right.
Mm.
Well, there's, there's so many hands here.
We're not, this, this isn'teven just two hands, right?
There's, literally no, if we're tryingto keep the peace and be respectful,
uh, then we do, we do not say that word.
But a person who is, who has theidentity that's affected by a certain

(48:56):
slur, somebody who doesn't havethat identity, can't really tell
them how to feel or act around,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (49:01):
Exactly.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (49:02):
around that.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: be using queer unless you are. (49:03):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (49:05):
Yeah.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: you're talking about something very (49:06):
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specific, like queer theory or,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (49:09):
Capital QI,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (49:15):
so I, you know, I totally get that, which is
why I was like, I apologize for this.
It's not my place to tell youwhat you can and can't say.
So do whatever you want in this instance.
I apologize.
But she, like I said,she took it really well.
So I think she just
appreciated that somebody was doing it.

(49:36):
student asked me why I was, whyI, I went into that field and I
couldn't think of anything really,and I just said, I, there's so
much work for white people to do.
I thought I should be a part of it, you

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (49:46):
Yeah.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: And it really is that simple. (49:47):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (49:48):
Yeah.
that's kind of one of the, the funnierthings that a white person will get asked
if they try to advocate in some way.
In anti-racism.
It's like, why are you,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: I, I approach it in class. (50:01):
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I, I'm like, you might've noticed thatI'm a white woman teaching these issues.
The master's tools are never gonnadismantle the mid master's house.
You know, you have to have hands of manycolors, uh, working on these projects.
But especially white people.
White people have a lot of work to do.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (50:16):
Hmm.
Well, and the Master's toolsare made for the master's hand.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (50:20):
Exactly.
I like that essay.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (50:22):
is that Audrey?
Lord,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (50:24):
I have my students read it every semester.
and bell hooks as well.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (50:28):
There is the most random a Lorde photo bomb, uh,
here on this campus in the, like, shewas, she was on campus one day and they
were doing photos for the sports teams.
I think it was a basketball team andshe, but I, I think it was a Lorde, it, I
can't think of who else it would've been.

(50:48):
It was, a black feminist authorbut yeah, it's, it's like
this game of Where's Waldo?
We played when we go down thehallway of the sports, um, building,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: That's hilarious. (50:57):
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I.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (50:59):
do you have a noun of Appalachian interest?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: I do, I do. (51:01):
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I went very traditional this week.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (51:06):
Oh.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: All right. (51:06):
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This week's noun of Appalachianinterest is the dulcimer.
Now, if you've never seen one picture,a skinny little wooden instrument
shaped, kind of like a stretched out,teardrop, it doesn't look flashy.
It, it's not loud.
It's not trying to compete withelectric guitars or a drum kit.
It just sits there in somebody's laplike it's about to tell you a secret.
The Appalachian dulcimer is a mountaininstrument, simple portable, built for

(51:30):
front porches, church basements, andliving rooms where somebody's ant is about
to sing a ballad that lasts 12 verses.
It usually has three or four strings,and you don't strum it like a guitar.
You lay it flat across your lap andpick at it while you're sliding a little
note or your finger along the frets.
It's the kind of instrument thatsounds like a summer's evening.
There's something steady about it.
The tone, the soft and droning almostlike it hums underneath itself.

(51:54):
It doesn't rush, it doesn't show off.
It just keeps time whilesomebody sings about lost love.
Coal mines, hard winters, or that onecousin who ran off and never wrote back.
dulcimer came out of the ScotchIrish and other European traditions,
but it grew roots in the mountains.
Folks built them by hand.
No factory polish, justwood wire and patience.
You can, you could make one ifyou had the tools in the knowhow,

(52:16):
and a lot of people did years.
It wasn't considered fancy.
It wasn't concert hall material, it wasjust something mountain folks played.
Then the folk revival hit in the 1960sand suddenly people outside Appalachia
realized what had been sitting ontheir front porches the whole time.
And still, even now, when you heara dulcimer, it doesn't feel staged.
It feels close like somebody's kneeis bumping yours while they play.

(52:38):
Like you're sitting long enough to listen.
It's not dramatic, it's not booming.
It's just wooden strings anda sound that feels like home.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (52:46):
I love the way a dulcimer sounds.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (52:48):
Yeah,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (52:49):
I can play exactly one song on dulcimer
and it's Go tell Aunt Roadie.
No, a friend of mine actuallymade them growing up.
Well, he was, he's a, he wasmy dad's best friend that he,
they played in a band together.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: that's awesome. (53:01):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (53:02):
Yeah.
It would be, I, I have these momentswhere I think they're very, very
old man moments where I'm like, Ishould learn how to make a DL summer.
I should move into a treeand never shave again.
And,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Start baking cookies in your tree. (53:17):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (53:20):
uh, I just, it, it makes me think like
we, me and David especially usedto sit and design our tree houses.
Like we would draw out floor plans.
Uh, neither one of us slept very well.
And so when we were kids even either ifwe were in the same bedroom or depending
on where we were living, if we were,couple times we lived in these like, uh.

(53:41):
Not very permanent places, and hewould sleep in a hallway situation.
And so we would, we would go whereverwe could while everybody else was asleep
and just plan ways to be anywhere else.
And one of the things we alwaysliked to daydream about was building
these like huge tree houses that,you know, they like spanned multiple

(54:04):
trees and they had different levels.
And, you know what kind of, it waskinda like we were the, we were like,
wanted to be the lost boys and hook,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (54:13):
The little girl in hook looks very much
like I looked when I was her age.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (54:17):
Gabby Hoffman.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Is that who the little girl is? (54:18):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (54:20):
Yeah,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: I didn't know that she wasn't (54:21):
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famous when the movie came out.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (54:23):
no, I think it was her first movie.
She was Dustin Hoffman's daughter.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: But yeah, I looked a lot (54:27):
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like that when I was little.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: Well, she was cute. (54:29):
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She was also, I thinkshe was in now and then.
Do you ever see that movie?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (54:34):
yeah.
It's one of Shannon's favorites.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: You joke like, am I a lesbian? (54:37):
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Why is that movie so queer?

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love it though,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: I do think Christina Ricci's (54:44):
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character is queer in that movie.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Yeah, she (54:47):
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plays a lot of queer characters.
She's like Natasha Leone in that way.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (54:52):
Yeah, agreed.
I think that there was a, a ninetieslike, uh, kind of androgynous
girl archetype that no matter whatthey did, they seemed lesbian.
And those two definitely, I.
Just got in into my head aboutlike different ki different
girl archetypes in the nineties.
'cause there was like the blondegirl, like Buffy the Vampire
Slayer and the cheerleader girl.

(55:14):
The goth girl?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: It is like you're describing (55:15):
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the characters of the craft.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (55:18):
Yeah.
Or any given, you know, like dookay of, of a certain kind of like
high school kid, nineties movie.
Do you have a favorite?

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I like a lot of those movies actually.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (55:30):
Me Too.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Right now I'm watching blasts from (55:31):
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the past, which isn't that exactgenre, but it's from the nineties.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: I love that movie. (55:36):
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Alicia Silverstone
like that, like she was, was.
Better in that movie than I thinkanybody really expected her to be.
But she's kind of overshadowedby him because he's so perfect.
Like he just, he breezesthrough that movie.
He's absolutely on the nose.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: No, I agree. (55:55):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (55:56):
And Christopher Walken is really good in that movie too.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: So is, uh, oh. (55:59):
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Uh, sissy Spacek, she's the wife.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (56:03):
Mm-hmm.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Quietly going crazy. (56:04):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (56:05):
You would,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (56:06):
Yeah.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (56:07):
I mean, I just, it's possible to have empathy for
every single character in that movie.
Um,
I, I mean, being, I, I liked the, uh,the kind of ridiculous dark comedy
type things like the jawbreakers

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Yeah, dropped dead (56:22):
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gorgeous.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: The faculty was really good. (56:24):
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Dropped it gorgeous.
Was awesome.
Even though it's technically 2000

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Heather's (56:29):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (56:30):
Heather's.
Yeah.
Quintessential.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: cruel intentions was another one. (56:33):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: I really liked that one. (56:35):
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Have you seen the, the first one, dangersLiaisons with Malkovich and Glenn Close?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (56:42):
No.
You know how I feelabout John Malkovich, so.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: That's, that's true. (56:45):
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That's gonna be the title of this episode.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (56:52):
One movie, and I hate everything he's in.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: I mean, he is weird. (56:55):
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uh, sorry, brisket.
He was asleep on the bottom part ofmy blanket and I just kicked him.
He's doing that thing wherehe's sitting there blinking at
me and looking very ruffled.
Like, what the fuck?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: My girls are sleeping. (57:07):
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We're going on a road trip later today.
So

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (57:11):
Oh yeah.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (57:11):
yeah, we just wanna get outta the house.
So we're gonna go get a hotel room besomebody else's problem for the night.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (57:18):
Well, it stopped snowing here, so I might still
go outside even though it's nine degrees.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: was 60 degrees here yesterday and (57:23):
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it's almost 50 degrees here today.
So,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (57:27):
Nice.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (57:28):
yeah.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (57:29):
Yeah, we got a air, what's it called?
Wind chill, ambienttemperature, whatever of zero,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Oh, nice boo. (57:34):
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At least
February is over.
This is the last day?
March.
Spring.
Three weeks.
Is spring.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (57:41):
Fuck pucks.
The Tony, Phil, or whatever his name is.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (57:45):
Three
more weeks.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: I'm declaring that invalid. (57:46):
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I don't think, they don't reallyhave spring here though, like it'll
be just winter, winter, winter.
And then one day it's summer

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (57:54):
uh.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: somewhere around may (57:54):
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senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (57:56):
Yeah.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (57:56):
like it really, it legit goes from like shitty cold
blah to it's time for the corn sweat.
Like,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (58:04):
Oh, I forgot about the corn Sweat already.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (58:06):
alright, it's already coming back around.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (58:09):
Yeah.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (58:15):
I think I'm gonna plant something this, this year.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (58:17):
Nice.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (58:18):
a, a little garden box out back.
'Cause I don't think you can plant thingsin the actual ground unless it's, unless
you're like, some kind of actual farm.
'cause the soil here is weird.
I just, I can't figure it out.
It's like a sandy feeling.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: I have a black thumb. (58:34):
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I once killed an air plant.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: I have killed succulents. (58:36):
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I mean, if it needs anythingfrom me, I can't do it.
Like I'm an insideplant's not gonna get it.
But an outside one, I'm, I can do alittle bit better because they kind of
have most of what they need out there.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Yeah, we live in a big complex, (58:50):
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we can't do anything like that.
We don't have any personalspace outside, like even

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (58:56):
Yeah.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (58:57):
because we have, uh, glass doors that open up
into the grass so we could let baby out.
And people walk their dogsright through that area.
It's no, there's no privacy whatsoever.
They're not like, Nope, that's yours.
Like everybody tramples all over it.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (59:10):
Yeah.
Well, and I, I couldn't do, I couldn'tplant anything like that back in Kentucky
because everything grows so well.
And so you're battling like bluegrassand Timothy from getting into your crop.
And I just like, I can't spend everysecond of my life weeding, but here,
everything's kind of shitty, right?
Like nothing grows,nothing overgrows here.

(59:30):
Like grass is just grass.
It's normal.
So I don't know,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (59:33):
My best friend is really into plants.
She was, we in our group chattoday, she was saying how she has
35 succulents going right now.
I was like, damn.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (59:41):
was she training in them for something?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: She, she wants to sell 'em. (59:43):
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She wants to put 'em on,like marketplace, sell 'em.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (59:47):
Oh, nice.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (59:48):
So yeah,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (59:49):
Have you seen the ham goblin on TikTok?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (59:52):
no,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (59:53):
It's a kitten that a woman like I, it raised a red
flag for me immediately because shetakes the kitten, she gets some tongs
and gets a piece of deli ham and feeds itto the kitten, which then is hilariously
aggressive about getting this giant piece.
And it's funny looking, right?
It's kind of cute and the kitten'svery happy and excited, but like

(01:00:15):
she's training it specifically to beaggressive, over this like, she'll,
she'll be like, okay, here it is.
And the cat's like just goingcrazy because it's a kitten.
But also cats cannot eat deli.
It's that shit's full of sodium.
And yeah, so like this kittenis gonna have kidney disease
and pancreatitis quickly.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (01:00:35):
Yeah.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:00:37):
She puts it in cute little outfits.
So it's just, it's justsocial media, right?
She's just torturing thisanimal, not torturing the
animal's, having a great time.
So that's kind of also kind of weird.
It's like, oh, this cat really ishaving a good time, but she's going
to, it's gonna have a real short life.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (01:00:53):
Yeah.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:00:54):
But then, so I was like, I just,
I don't, I don't like this.
So think about, I mean, thisall just feels wrong to me.
And then she is like, come to findout, she's like super hella maga.
And so then we were all like, thankGod, because I kind of already had a
feeling about you and now I can hate you.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (01:01:09):
I used to give baby all kinds of people food,
but number one, she was 14 and numbertwo, she weighed over a hundred pounds.
So, you know, half a bagel waslike, uh, two bites for her.
that's, we, we talked about howshe was fancy being a fancy girl
in Toledo, eating pizza from beingon the hill, eating squirrels and
shit all the time to growing up.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:01:28):
she,

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (01:01:28):
got crab, rangoon and uh, Mexican food and
she got steak sometimes and she got to

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:01:34):
oh damn.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: She loved Chipotle. (01:01:35):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: She's living high on the hog. (01:01:37):
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senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: She loved coconut stuff, like (01:01:39):
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couldn't keep her out of it,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:01:42):
Interesting.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (01:01:43):
I, she never would've had that flavor if it
hadn't, you know, if she hadn't come here.
So she was a big fan of coconut.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: Very brisket eats everything. (01:01:50):
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Like, he's like a dog.
If I'm eaten something and I droppart of it, which is everything I eat,
I just, I, that's what I, how I am.
I drop things.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Gilly was. (01:01:59):
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Our
orange cat.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:02:01):
he is on it.
Just

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Do you have (01:02:04):
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any oranges,

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:02:05):
no.
I've got Oscar's a tux.
Felix is, is Jet Black.
I think that there's some Siamesein him 'cause he has a black tongue.
Have you ever seen acat with a black tongue?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (01:02:17):
No.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: It's real weird. (01:02:17):
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He's like, he doesn't have anundercoat the way, so Siime
is like their only sleek ever.
And um, Ziggy is a tabby.
She's a, a d, not dilute, a mute.
Tabby muted Tabby, so she's likea gray tabby and then brisket.
I don't know, he's some sort of bastard,like he's white and splotchy, but the

(01:02:40):
splotches are tabby and they're brown.
I don't know.
I don't know what that pattern's called,but no, I don't have any oranges.
I have had an orange before.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: He was the best. (01:02:49):
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He was just the best.
We

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:02:52):
Yeah.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (01:02:53):
uh, we had, we had an orange guy, we had Gilly,
and then we had a Russian blue with Ted.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:02:57):
Turd.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (01:02:58):
Yeah, Ted d Bear was his name, Ted, dammit.
The D stood for Dammit.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:03:03):
Where did the name Galee come from?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (01:03:05):
The Saturday Night Live character Gilly,
uh, the knock-Knock who's there?
It's Gilly.
Gilly would come up to you.
cat would come up to you and he'd like,make some biscuits getting ready, and
then he'd take his little paw and tap onyour shoulder, like when he wanted to him.
So knock, knock who's there?
It's Gilly.
And then like, he had bad tummytroubles when we bought him home.

(01:03:26):
At first he just would fill a room,you know, and you'd look over, he'd
just be looking at you and, andone of the Gilly taglines was Cy.
And so that's the pace that he was making.
So that's where we got Gilly.
I always let animals name themselves.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:03:40):
Oh, fire are all over the place.
I mean, if I try, thenit, uh, then I don't know.
Oscar and Felix, Ididn't even really name.
So when, when I named them,they come out something crazy
like Ziggy beef and brisket.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (01:03:53):
Yeah.
Wenda is a, an interesting name.
I think it's, uh, where'sWaldo's girlfriend?
that's the only place I'veever heard Wenda used besides
a coworker that I had once.
She was an old lady that worked inbilling and this one place that I worked

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:04:07):
Oh, I could see that being a wind.
That's some wind to shit.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (01:04:10):
yeah.
But yeah, she's got a very unique name.
And then PETA stands for Pain in the Assand she, she named herself in that way.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:04:17):
Yeah.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (01:04:18):
She was just a pain in the ass from the beginning.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:04:20):
Oh,
well, should we get off here andlet you get on your road trip?

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (01:04:24):
Yeah.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:04:25):
All right then.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Oh, she's driving. (01:04:26):
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I forgot that part.
She's driving a geo metro in,in, uh, a blast from the past.
That's, uh, Alicia Silverstone's caris a geo metro, a red one, a four door.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:04:36):
Oh, well, uncle Steve had a red one.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: That's funny. (01:04:38):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: Well, listeners, uh, thanks for (01:04:39):
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hanging out another I think thisis our 40th episode, I think.
Yeah.
Some, somewhere around there.
I was, we should, I don't know.
I was thinking we could do somethingkind of cool for our 50th episode,
assuming either one of us hasthe time to do anything special.
That should be around June.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Yeah, 10 weeks from now I'll be (01:04:57):
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just working on my dissertation.
So I'll have time.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:05:01):
Yeah.
listeners, let us know what we shoulddo and if you're, if you're new,
we do have a couple new listenerswherever you listen, get on there
and give us a five star red view and.
Tell us a silly story.
You can send us an email with thestory at mailbag@queernecks.com
and just hang on till spring.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230: Three weeks baby. (01:05:22):
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dash_29_02-28-2026_100231: yep, we're gonna make it. (01:05:23):
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Um, fuck Donald Trump and all of them.
Fuck ice

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (01:05:29):
Yep.

dash_29_02-28-2026_100231 (01:05:29):
and stay safe.
Say hi to your mom and them.

senor-becko_30_02-28-2026_110230 (01:05:31):
Bye.

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