August 15, 2025 • 35 mins
This week Brittany and Windsor chat about some topics a little less heavy. Windsor talks about her thoughts as to why the Pedro wank fest is happening as it relates to hypermasculinity in Hollywood and Brittany talks about artist Ciara's tracing of her ancestry and how she came to officially be a dual citizen.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi, it's Brittany and Windsor and you're listening to Thanks,
I Hate It. The End Times a weekly social commentary
podcast where two friends shoot the shit about social issues,
thro shaded and suspecting targets too many to count, and
drink from the bottom shelf.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
All of the drinks cling or the.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Top shelf, because we're not as berg as we used
to be anymore, and we're not young.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
No, there's no dubra at forty No, absolutely, there's no
jungle juseph forty Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
No, we're not drinking ever clear, We're grown. We're adult.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Panobibles do that when I was twenty one. The fin
body here, clank, clink, all right. So technical issues are
beating our ass. This is what happens when you do
stuff on your own.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And you're in your forties. We are struggling. We're struggling technology.
We're becoming our gray stupid ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It's stupid. But here we are are, hopefully we got
it this time. And the problems were so silly too.
We're talking microphone plugins. We're it was all silly nonsense
so much, But here we are, hopefully we got it
right this time. And fingers crossed. Despite of all of
(01:20):
the horrible craziness in the world. I was telling Brittany
about the latest fuckery that this government was doing. You
know what, this is not what this week's episode is about.
Not this week, Not this week. I'm going to talk
some shit, of course always, but it's it's not as
it's not that deep. It's it's the kind of drama
(01:40):
that we want in our lives. It's a kind of
drama that would rather have than the President standing on
top of the White House.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
The White House that he's actively adding a ballroom to like.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
What is and talking about a nuclear reaster on the
roof and no, like a nuclear missiles. I don't know
what the fuck they're talking about. Putting a nuclear fucking
fusion whatever on the moon?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Is this Independence Day? I feel like this is a
nineteen nineties alien invasion movie.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Like my brother in Christ, I don't know how to
tell you this, but the whole plane of these nuclear
reactors is to generate power, right, that would be their point, Like,
and I'm pretty sure in California they still have.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
One, Like they're still not a nuclear scientist, I don't know,
but that's what they do.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
They generate power, right, So how would we get that
power generated from the moon to hear?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Honestly, at this point, the moon is so ethereal and
the just how we do everything is so ethereal. I'll
be surprised if we ever see that bitch again. I
think we sit on that motherfucker ever again, because we are,
we have regressed in intelligence.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
We are We're hoo hooked. I We'll do that alien
life right, that alien life form.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
That they please is not soeen enough.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Just come here and do what you gotta do, because
I'm done. I'm over it, over it pretty much, but
not what we're talking about today, not yet. Not listen.
Hopefully we will still be able to tell you about
that when that day comes.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Right, We'll still be here recording this podcast. When the
aliens hit.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Honestly, I'm going to invite them in for a drink.
I'm like, listen, we're cool people. This is n't my
land either, and we.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Mine neither. It's not mine or it was made for
the Native Americans who originally inhabited it when they knew
it was Turtle Island, and you know, we didn't have
to come this route. And not saying that, I'm not
whatever to be who I am and whatever. But damn
(03:58):
we didn't really, we didn't have to this.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Honestly though, this country really did gaslight us into thinking that,
like we're really in the best nation in the world.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
The bad child they put us, this is like our
alternative school. We were the kid that could.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They their best to the areas, just like in Australia
they sent their criminals.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
We were not in habits.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So listen, the best and the brightest state in England.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
What's hilarious about that is once I trains like trace
my mother's DNA back to her family coming over not
on the first group of ships, but as long time
historic followers. They came over on the second group of
ships and I promise you if this is your like
your B team, they're not it, I'm gonna tell you.
(04:49):
But the ones that are part of my family, that's
a Z team.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah. They were like, we can't have you here anymore.
You're you're bringing down the property value.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
We were the bad neighborhood people.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
They were just like the ships going to America was
literally their gunshots in the neighborhood to keep the prices down.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, They're like, you know what, we got to get
them out of here. Let's send them to the United
States under you know, thepace.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Go back that far. I from my mother's side, I
can go back to I don't know how many great
grandfathers he is of mine, but he fought for the Union.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I on my mother's side, I could go back that
far ish I don't get over the pond obviously. And
then on my bother's side, because I do both my
biological father and my you know, raised me father and
on their sides. On my biological father's side, I just
got into slavery, which before I could not do.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
So that's impressive. And you'll talk about.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That later, Yeah, slavery, except that we'll be talking about that.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So today I'm going to talk about a topic. Well,
I'm going to start to talk about a topic that
I actually researched very deeply and did my capstone project
in it. And my capstone centered around the idea that
fan perception of masculinity and the perpetuation of stereotypes and
hypermasculinity culture is why there is such a lasting culture
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of homophobia in Hollywood in particular. But now think of
our Superman's and Batman's and Avengers and especially characters like
the Hulk. They think about how none of the actors
who have played them ever have been openly queer. Why
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do you think that is as a society.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, society is pretty much my biggest reason for that,
and the fact that we cannot seem to have a
single thing outside of like, let see, I almost made
a very controversial statement outside of aspects of different religions
that are you know, like that's the only time we
can make believe. We can't bring ourselves to do it
(07:10):
so that people can act and play characters and celevision,
i mean shows.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
The whole point would be their actors, right, So it
all comes back to hyper masculinity. And hypermasculinity is an
exaggerated performance slash ideal of hegemonic masculinity, and it' especially
within media. So it's really when it's concentrated in a
like a character type thing. And actors are characters. They
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are actors are their own brand. That's the whole point.
They are a brand, they are a character of themselves.
It's just how you have to be. And hyper masculinity
specifically focuses on exaggerated emphasis of these quote unquote ideal
ma masculine traits such as strength, aggression, and sexuality like
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these are the type of men that Western culture thinks
are the ideal men. Yes, now, disclaimer, I am in
no way making assumptions or discoursing on main about anyone's sexuality. No,
we don't discuss that. We're not outing people like, we're
not doing it full stop. Nos, unless you're Lindsey Graham,
(08:27):
and then I'm pulling putting all your business out there,
and I don't give up.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Fuck Mike Johnson, I'm talking to you.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Oh, I almost says something I would have had to
cut my ass out. Anyway, If you're getting bent over
a desk while actively voting against queer people's rice to exist,
fuck you anyway. Let's get back to that point. A
few weeks ago, a post on the red carpet of
the Fantastic four premiere went viral for the stupidest fucking reasons.
(08:57):
So in this video, it is Pedro Presca and Vanessa Kirby,
who both starre and Avengers four and it and he
had they're kind of standing prom pose almost she is
very noticeably pregnant, and you kind of see his hand
like he very gently like first touches like her upper arm,
and he goes lower and you can see his finger
(09:19):
like touching her hand, and so you could you can
tell what he's doing is he's looking for like her wrist,
but he's obviously not looking down because cameras are taking pictures,
so he's looking for it. All of this starts with
someone quoting it saying that if this was his wife,
he'd beat his ass. Now I'm gonna be first up.
(09:39):
I'm gonna start talking my shit. Now, you couldn't even
get Vanessa Kirby as your wife, so I'm gonna need
you to sit your ass down. You can't do you cannot.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Your wife usually doesn't want to be your wife.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Seriously, if you could even get a fucking wife. So
while I lost the tweet, of course to find these quotes,
but I saw something that said Pedro Piscal rejected as
fantastic for our first steps bombs at box office. Wait
what they're grossed over three hundred and sixty seven million
(10:10):
dollars already. That's not a bomb.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's not a bomb. We know some bombs.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
That that's not a bomb. And I also need you
to realize people, to realize that we are never going
to see numbers like we used to, especially in this economy.
So when just like on TV, for example, when what
the fuck is that name of that? When Gray's Anatomy
(10:38):
first started, we're talking thirty million people are watching live
an episode. Yeah, they don't even get three.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
The highest number of live views on TV right about
now is between four and five million. That's just how
many people watch because we have streaming services. Also, when
eggs cost seven dollars of fun doesn't When I just
looked at Herba Lessns's shampoo for ten dollars and ninety
nine cents at the grocery store.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Four dollars per a bottle of Swave Suave for.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
The ninety nine cent one that you could get on
the bottom shelf is like four dollars now, So you're
telling me, with all of this inflation, most of us
who live paycheck to paycheck have money to just go
out all willy nilly and guess what else came out? Superman? Oh? Yeah,
you have other very popular movies that are out. People
can't just sit there like we used to. We used
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to sit there all weekend. We would go a movie
to movie to movie to movie. We can't do that
anymore because we're poor. But yeah, anyway, huh, got it
all right, So let's read some tweets what a perfect
man Christian rocker Pedro is so creepy? Like, why are
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you touching her like that?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I mean, did she consent to it? Because that's usually
the for me.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Bob says her actual husband is a cup Firstly, Wow, slutshaming.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That's not very pleasant.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
It's not very pleasant. But if he is, why are
we kink shaming? There is nothing wrong with that?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Why do we care?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Right? Yeah, exactly, he's a creep who gets off on
making women uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
How can you make that assumption?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Trouble Comma managed one of the pigmies, says he's disgusting
and wtf is this casting? Stop trying to make Pedro happen.
He's not gonna happen. Well, guess what, Regina George, He's
already happened.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
He did.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
He's one of the most famous, he's like one of
the top actors in Hollywood right now. He's not new,
he's not new, He's put in the work. Okay, Marvel
casually posting shucks. So the gag on this is this
is from fax Checks, True fact Checks with an American
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flag and a check mark in their bio.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
That's just how I know it's a lie.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Marvel casually posting sexual harassment was not on my BINGO
card for twenty twenty five. Your president is literally on
the Epstein files. It was absolutely on your BINGO card
for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Let's keep the thirty four felonies and one judgment against
him for sexual assault.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah yeah, so, but all of that, all of that
for what. The same men who probably loved the song
blurred lines and supported Robin Thick when he when the
model in the video alleged that he touched her inappropriately
during filming are the ones in these comments. Brad Pitt
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is still working, Ben Affleck is still working.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Right, Johnny depp Arletto.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Is still working, Jared Leto still working, Russell Brand still
working now, mind you, for legal purposes, some of these
are alleged, allegedly allegedly. And then we have an actor
who is actively working on a popular prime time network
TV show that is syndicated, who called the brutal rape
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that was perpetrated by Connor McGregor, that was so violent
that the survivor's tampon had to be surgically removed. Called
that stepping out on his wife.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
That is stepping out on your morality, my guy. M h.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
And that is you should be stepping out on life
at that point. I mean, yeah, full stop. But people
in the comments crying about what about me too? It's
always believed women until it pedro. What happened to believing
women and to that women? Exactly where are the allegations?
Where is Vanessa Kirby saying he touched me inappropriately? Where
is any of his friends or any of his coworkers
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saying that he touched me inappropriately? That is something that
y'all need to understand is is consent. There is another
video from promo with Vanessa where she's in his lap.
Practically she's running her fingers through his hair. She's rubbing
her fingers and her thumb on the back, like on
the nape of his hairline. It is called consent.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And as long as two adults are doing that, two
or more, you know, I don't care, are doing the consenting,
then it has nothing to do with me.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
And you know what, she can consent to him and
then not consent to the next person, or she can
consent to and remove that consent. But I mean there, she.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Could consent and then be like, you know what, I
don't want to do this anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
And that if if that were to have been the case,
that would have been a different scenario that we than
what we're having.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yes we believe women, we do, absolutely, but there's nobody complaining.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
And here's the thing. If that were the case, this
would not be an episode or a conversation.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
We would have to be having a different conversation about
men being gross in Hollywood in general.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Which that could last for ten years three So yeah, seriously.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
And some people have been using his known history of
his debilitating anxiety as an excuse. And while that is
a reason why he does touch sometimes, I don't like
it because that's not what that was. That video was
him looking for her arm. I've seen I've seen videos
where he's anxious and you could see the difference in
his body language and the way you could see it
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on his face. You could see it like in the
way he holds himself and he does like a little pinch,
so he's asking for permission and not like a hard pinch,
like a little pinch yeah, it's a little Oh you
feel me feather touching your arm and then they initiate
the contact. Okay, so first of all, fuck your bitch,
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like you claim you're stupid. But now, but do you
ever wonder why it's pedro all of a sudden creepy?
Why the same men who stand behind Johnny Depp, Donald Trump,
Bill Cosby, p Diddy, bad Pit, and all the hundreds
of men who have been accused of or found guilty
of assaulting both women and men, suddenly saying it's creepy
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when the same men who claim that these women and
sometimes men are just looking for a payday. And it's
not just men in the comments, there are plenty of
pigmies who want to look cool for the mediocre. Do
bros too?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I hate it? Like girl, me grow up, learn.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
To live yourself. But anyway, male privilege all the wild.
They say these things while purposely misgendering his sister. You
got me that fucked up. If you think I'm ever
taking the opinion of a transphobe, seriously.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
No, seriously, literally, if you're gonna start there, then we
don't even need to have the conversation because.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
There's literally some of the people adding into this conversation
are like, he probably fucks his brother too, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Didn't expect so, don't know how to that.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Speechless projections, honey, the projections, the transference.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
But here's why I think it is. I think it
is because he doesn't fit in with their hyper masculine ideal. Firstly,
he's not white. He isn't traditionally Hollywood handsome, which that's
o shade, but Hollywood has a very particular type big.
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It's not one of the prisses.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Blonde eyes, black blue eyes, not black eyes, blonde hair.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Tall, dark, and handser. And by tark they mean Sicilian.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Right, so it's about as spicy as they want to be.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
He isn't He isn't aggressive at all. He's a very
kind man. He is a very gentleman. And he's not
a musclehead. He's not their ideal man. And there are
a lot of rumors about him, rumors we will not
discuss on here. But that type of collective thinking is
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what keeps us stuck in this group we have. So
we have the same five fucking people playing the same
roles over and over and over again. All the Chris
is like, y'alls are pretty, but we're kind of over you.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Like.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
It's not just Vanessa or other female co stars, it's
his friends, it's everyone who is around him. If you
just google Pedro Pascal friends, you're gonna get picture and
picture picture of him with friends of all genders, touching
each other, holding each other, They're cuddling each other. It's
called consent. And I truly think that these men do
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not understand that women can feel comfortable around demand. They
can't seem to process that a woman would want a
man to touch them like that, because they've never had
a woman comfortable with them to the point where they
would want them to touch them like that.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
No, I agree, and I will also confirm that if
you google Pedro Pascal friends, it is tons of images
of him hugging what I'm assuming are his friends.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Oh shit, the kittens in here?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Tons.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Oh you want to see the kitten.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Hold on, I'm just about to show us a kitten,
except if you are not on this exact recording, you
don't get to see it. To go to hell.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I love that. I mean they are projecting their feelings
of inadequacy because they've never had a woman willingly touch
them like that. So they're transferring their bullshit shit people.
Some men actually respect women. Yeah, some men actually cherish women.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I agree. I got her. Oh she she grabs the
cat and forced it.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And the crazy part is someone actually said that the
only person that he hasn't been with that was Bella?
And why is that? Because Bella's a fucking child? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
How old is she young?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
She's in her she's a young teenager. He'd better not
be like that with a child, because there's no world
where a fifty year old co star should be touching
their child co star in the way that he does
other adults.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
She's twenty one. Oh then when they work together, they
were too. I mean, here's the thing. Twenty one is
still I think that's a baby, you know, as being older,
that's somebody I would want to protect and want to
not consider in that way. So I think the point
still stands.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
And also when they met, she was a child.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
And you know that makes a big difference. Oh yeah,
I wonder if they met on Game of Thrones because
they were both on that.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I might have and they worked together on.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
But she was like a like a nine year old.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And then they were worked very closely together during The
Last of Us, which filmed years ago.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, they've they filmed that three or four years ago,
maybe even five. The first season. I don't when let's find.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Out when, I guess was Lining.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Out of Us filmed from July twenty twenty one to
June twenty twenty two, So they started filming that four
years ago when she was a child. She was a
little bit the whole year for one season. That's crazy. Now,
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this is Hollywood culture at its core. And the more
we fucking bend to the will of these idiots who
can't even tell if the earth is flat around it
will always be like this and I will ride for
Pedro until the day comes that's never gonna come. That
there's actual allegations. No, I support that people are over
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here act like he's fucking Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein.
Come on, you guys, not to be mistaken for Harvey Firestein,
which I did that once and I was like, oh
my god, they're gonna let him on Broadway was rowing,
and then I was like, wait, I don't think that's
the same person. Oh, Broadway has some problematic actors on
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their stages.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
To No, definitely but not no, not Harvey Weinstein. Yeah,
so mine is not nearly as dark. When you said light.
During the last episode, we talked about ice, and we
decided we're going to go a little bit lighter this episode.
And so when I said light, I meant light bright,
rainbow bright to the moon bright. And so I actually
(24:14):
chose something that's kind of super positive. And I actually
wanted to talk about how Sierra Princess Wilson, or as
we know her, see eer or at least that's not
funky brush exactly, that's at least how I know her.
She recently submitted her DNA to the country of Benin,
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and I'm gonna say Benin, because last time we tried
to record this, I said it every way under the sun.
Now I'm just going to go ahead, and my American
right right now is to just say it however I
can say it. And so she submitted her DNA some
ancestral information that she was able to obtain through genealogy
research to the country of Benin and they granted her
(24:59):
do citizenship. So now she is Benanian American instead of
just an American. And this is kind of a big
deal because Benin was one of the first countries in
twenty twenty four to say, you know what, way, way, way,
long ago, a bunch of colonizing settler demons came to
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our coasts. They stole our people, and they took them
somewhere else and forced them into servititude and Sierra through
an extensive amount of research. I'm going to be very honest,
doing the research to get yourself back to a country
on the western side of Africa is a lot. It
takes a great deal of time, a great deal of effort,
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and sometimes a great deal of resources and access money.
Exactly because traditionally African Americans are you know, formally enslaved
individuals were not counted as part of the census because
they were considered property. And as a result, well most
people can you know, depending on your family record keeping,
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the circumstances of your life, can get back to about
eighteen seventy that is when the first not you know,
formally enslaved individuals and all of their can their offspring,
et cetera, were counted on the US census. So obviously
that's after that eighteen sixty five, eighteen sixty whatever date
where we formally ended slavery, and I believe that was
(26:30):
during reconstruction. But I am not a you know, a
history officionado, so I can't swear to that. But prior
to that traditionally not counted at all. You don't matter
because you're not actually a you, you are an it.
And so Benin said, you know what we are gonna,
you know, let the people that have DNA access obviously resources,
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We're gonna let them petition our government for citizenship because
that was fucked up. And I will say the African
diaspora as far as I know, because again I'm not
a history buff and I didn't actually make any notes
for this. I'm doing this all on memory right now.
So with that in mind, Benine said, you know what,
(27:12):
you can come home. You're you got the work, you've
got the access, you've got the resources. You can come home.
And this is a very close thing to my heart personally,
because as you know, when I've been doing my genealogy
off and on for like the past four years, and
with the advances of technology, with the access that we have,
I'm going to say, the access that we have right
(27:34):
now and then we've had in the past, I don't
know what that access is going to look like in
the future. I definitely think if you have any questions
or if you were not of the privileged folk that
were able to do their you know, their genealogy through
family or whatever, definitely look into it. Consider those roots.
Even if you're not an African American, even if you're
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not part of the African diaspora, any diaspora, do your
research if you have the access to the resources and
the things necessary to do it, because it feels so
interesting to really be able to say, you know what,
this is where the DNA from me came from. Because
I mean, if you think about it, if we are
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born as women or as biologically sexed vagina having individuals
with all of the eggs that we possibly are going
to have, then that means that when our mothers were born,
they had all of the eggs that they were going
to had, So we were like little imaginary concepts in there.
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And you take that back the essence of you, I mean,
eighteen seventy, eighteen sixties, that's a while ago, but it's
not a thousand years ago. It's not five hundred years ago.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Literally, like a grandson of one of the founding fathers
just died.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Which Wolf and no, I'm gonna say fuck that founding father.
I don't know which one it is, but you know.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I mean that. But it was like they had a
baby at like eighty. Somebody else had a baby at
like eighty their men, Oh yeah, men, I.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Mean, and there we go.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It probably explains a lot why we are all the
way we are because sperm does the degree. Yeah, I mean,
we're not getting the best we can get.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
At eighty, and we already were not the best and
brightest coming over, and so think of really not getting
the best at eighty of not the best and brightest.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
That really shows how young this country is. Just like
China said, we're not worried about what the US has
to say. We've been around for five thousand years. We'll
be around for another five thousand.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
We will be or we were here before you and
we will be here after you. That was such a saying.
I was just like, ooh, I was gagged. Yes, I
didn't even suspect that, but you know what, you're not wrong.
You are not wrong, and so yeah, I definitely think
that if you don't not saying that it's like a
(30:11):
requirement or anything. Listen, I was an adopted person. So
I am very fluid with my interpretation of history, family, ancestry, excess,
things like that. But if you can and you're interested
in it, go for it, especially now because we don't
know how long we're going to have access to things
like seriously, national archives, you know, any of those things.
(30:33):
Your local archives get this information. If you don't have
it and you want it, oh yes, please go to
your local freaking library. Get a library card. It's like free, y'all.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
It's free. And if your local library does not have
the resources for things like ancestry and these other programs
to use, so utilize your local library. If your local
library is small and they do not have the resources.
Many states have like consortiums where you can go to
(31:05):
like I live in Connecticut, you can go to New
Haven with your Brantford a library card. You can go
to Hartford with your Fairfield library card. You go to
the next biggest library, and they're online resources, a lot
of them you can access directly from the internet. There
(31:26):
they're attached to the IP they're attached so all you
need is to be able to get in. And a
lot of libraries even if you do not have an address.
So this is just a general if you need it,
you can get a temporary You can get a library
card in a state or city or town that you
do not live in for a multitude of reasons. Yep.
(31:47):
And you can get a temporary one.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Even Mill Town in Georgia, you can do that.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
You could just say, oh, I don't have a library card,
I'm only here visiting. Do you have a guest pass
for the computer? And guess what, They'll give you a
guest pass.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
And like, for example, my library has ancestry Abisco, so
we can get access to a ton of different records
and it's all free for the patron. So I mean
they don't have everything obviously, like they don't have like
the African ancestry like I sent you. But again, everyone
(32:26):
you have to start your journeys.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Somewhere exactly everywhere is an accessible starting point.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
So if you just are able to go back to
generations and you see on your ancestry that there's that
one family member that you don't know that's really into this,
you can reach out to them and say, hey, it
looks like we have we share this. We're the descendant
of the same person. Do you have any information on them,
you know.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Just ancestry. If you do it through them, I believe
they'll do They'll make those connections for you. They'll say, hey,
you need to check out this, or you need to
check out this, because this might be the same information
for the person that you're looking for. I don't feel
discouraged by the sheer amount of you know, history that
there is in the world, because there are starting places,
(33:14):
and there are like just any place should be an
appropriate starting place as long as it's accessible to you
and it's what you're trying to do.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
And remember, if these services aren't being utilized, the libraries
are not going to continue to pay for them. So
utilize them. Utilizize everything because deserve it. Listen, somebody's paying
for it, and they're not going to pay for it
if it's just going to waste exactly. And I really
think that that show, that ancestry show with that guy,
they should do regular people, not just famous people.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I know, right, what is it finding my roots or something?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah, like you should you should go up there and
be like you're fourteenth cousins with Angela Bassett. If only
and it been like I knew that was my cousin.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
If only.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
All of a sudden planning, like finding Angela Bassett's representation.
I found out today that I'm her fourteenth cousin. I
just wanted to say, so.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
We want to have her on the show. But yeah,
that's all I had. I'm very excited for Era. We
you know what, Yes we can, we could, Yes we
can exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
So hopefully all goes according to plan with these technologicals.
We have no idea what we're gonna bring for you
next week, but nope, we'll think about it. We'll get
back to you. Uh, it's just hard because something fucked
up happens every goddamn day. No it's not, world's on fire.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Got it fixed, damn it.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
So until next week, remember to drink your water. Remember
that you're that bitch, will forever be that bitch, and
consent is paramount.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Got to get us in the homies.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Good night. Always utilize your local libraries please every chance
you get, and remember keep your foot on their fucking necks.
That's the only way we're going to get through it.
That's right, We'll see y'all next week.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Good night, Aye,
Hi, it's Brittany and Windsor and you're listening to Thanks,
I Hate It. The End Times a weekly social commentary
podcast where two friends shoot the shit about social issues,
thro shaded and suspecting targets too many to count, and
drink from the bottom shelf.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
All of the drinks cling or the.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Top shelf, because we're not as berg as we used
to be anymore, and we're not young.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
No, there's no dubra at forty No, absolutely, there's no
jungle juseph forty Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
No, we're not drinking ever clear, We're grown. We're adult.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Panobibles do that when I was twenty one. The fin
body here, clank, clink, all right. So technical issues are
beating our ass. This is what happens when you do
stuff on your own.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And you're in your forties. We are struggling. We're struggling technology.
We're becoming our gray stupid ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It's stupid. But here we are are, hopefully we got
it this time. And the problems were so silly too.
We're talking microphone plugins. We're it was all silly nonsense
so much, But here we are, hopefully we got it
right this time. And fingers crossed. Despite of all of
(01:20):
the horrible craziness in the world. I was telling Brittany
about the latest fuckery that this government was doing. You
know what, this is not what this week's episode is about.
Not this week, Not this week. I'm going to talk
some shit, of course always, but it's it's not as
it's not that deep. It's it's the kind of drama
(01:40):
that we want in our lives. It's a kind of
drama that would rather have than the President standing on
top of the White House.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
The White House that he's actively adding a ballroom to like.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
What is and talking about a nuclear reaster on the
roof and no, like a nuclear missiles. I don't know
what the fuck they're talking about. Putting a nuclear fucking
fusion whatever on the moon?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Is this Independence Day? I feel like this is a
nineteen nineties alien invasion movie.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Like my brother in Christ, I don't know how to
tell you this, but the whole plane of these nuclear
reactors is to generate power, right, that would be their point, Like,
and I'm pretty sure in California they still have.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
One, Like they're still not a nuclear scientist, I don't know,
but that's what they do.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
They generate power, right, So how would we get that
power generated from the moon to hear?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Honestly, at this point, the moon is so ethereal and
the just how we do everything is so ethereal. I'll
be surprised if we ever see that bitch again. I
think we sit on that motherfucker ever again, because we are,
we have regressed in intelligence.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
We are We're hoo hooked. I We'll do that alien
life right, that alien life form.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
That they please is not soeen enough.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Just come here and do what you gotta do, because
I'm done. I'm over it, over it pretty much, but
not what we're talking about today, not yet. Not listen.
Hopefully we will still be able to tell you about
that when that day comes.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Right, We'll still be here recording this podcast. When the
aliens hit.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Honestly, I'm going to invite them in for a drink.
I'm like, listen, we're cool people. This is n't my
land either, and we.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Mine neither. It's not mine or it was made for
the Native Americans who originally inhabited it when they knew
it was Turtle Island, and you know, we didn't have
to come this route. And not saying that, I'm not
whatever to be who I am and whatever. But damn
(03:58):
we didn't really, we didn't have to this.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Honestly though, this country really did gaslight us into thinking that,
like we're really in the best nation in the world.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
The bad child they put us, this is like our
alternative school. We were the kid that could.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They their best to the areas, just like in Australia
they sent their criminals.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
We were not in habits.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So listen, the best and the brightest state in England.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
What's hilarious about that is once I trains like trace
my mother's DNA back to her family coming over not
on the first group of ships, but as long time
historic followers. They came over on the second group of
ships and I promise you if this is your like
your B team, they're not it, I'm gonna tell you.
(04:49):
But the ones that are part of my family, that's
a Z team.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah. They were like, we can't have you here anymore.
You're you're bringing down the property value.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
We were the bad neighborhood people.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
They were just like the ships going to America was
literally their gunshots in the neighborhood to keep the prices down.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, They're like, you know what, we got to get
them out of here. Let's send them to the United
States under you know, thepace.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Go back that far. I from my mother's side, I
can go back to I don't know how many great
grandfathers he is of mine, but he fought for the Union.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I on my mother's side, I could go back that
far ish I don't get over the pond obviously. And
then on my bother's side, because I do both my
biological father and my you know, raised me father and
on their sides. On my biological father's side, I just
got into slavery, which before I could not do.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
So that's impressive. And you'll talk about.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That later, Yeah, slavery, except that we'll be talking about that.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So today I'm going to talk about a topic. Well,
I'm going to start to talk about a topic that
I actually researched very deeply and did my capstone project
in it. And my capstone centered around the idea that
fan perception of masculinity and the perpetuation of stereotypes and
hypermasculinity culture is why there is such a lasting culture
(06:21):
of homophobia in Hollywood in particular. But now think of
our Superman's and Batman's and Avengers and especially characters like
the Hulk. They think about how none of the actors
who have played them ever have been openly queer. Why
(06:42):
do you think that is as a society.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, society is pretty much my biggest reason for that,
and the fact that we cannot seem to have a
single thing outside of like, let see, I almost made
a very controversial statement outside of aspects of different religions
that are you know, like that's the only time we
can make believe. We can't bring ourselves to do it
(07:10):
so that people can act and play characters and celevision,
i mean shows.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
The whole point would be their actors, right, So it
all comes back to hyper masculinity. And hypermasculinity is an
exaggerated performance slash ideal of hegemonic masculinity, and it' especially
within media. So it's really when it's concentrated in a
like a character type thing. And actors are characters. They
(07:40):
are actors are their own brand. That's the whole point.
They are a brand, they are a character of themselves.
It's just how you have to be. And hyper masculinity
specifically focuses on exaggerated emphasis of these quote unquote ideal
ma masculine traits such as strength, aggression, and sexuality like
(08:05):
these are the type of men that Western culture thinks
are the ideal men. Yes, now, disclaimer, I am in
no way making assumptions or discoursing on main about anyone's sexuality. No,
we don't discuss that. We're not outing people like, we're
not doing it full stop. Nos, unless you're Lindsey Graham,
(08:27):
and then I'm pulling putting all your business out there,
and I don't give up.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Fuck Mike Johnson, I'm talking to you.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Oh, I almost says something I would have had to
cut my ass out. Anyway, If you're getting bent over
a desk while actively voting against queer people's rice to exist,
fuck you anyway. Let's get back to that point. A
few weeks ago, a post on the red carpet of
the Fantastic four premiere went viral for the stupidest fucking reasons.
(08:57):
So in this video, it is Pedro Presca and Vanessa Kirby,
who both starre and Avengers four and it and he
had they're kind of standing prom pose almost she is
very noticeably pregnant, and you kind of see his hand
like he very gently like first touches like her upper arm,
and he goes lower and you can see his finger
(09:19):
like touching her hand, and so you could you can
tell what he's doing is he's looking for like her wrist,
but he's obviously not looking down because cameras are taking pictures,
so he's looking for it. All of this starts with
someone quoting it saying that if this was his wife,
he'd beat his ass. Now I'm gonna be first up.
(09:39):
I'm gonna start talking my shit. Now, you couldn't even
get Vanessa Kirby as your wife, so I'm gonna need
you to sit your ass down. You can't do you cannot.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Your wife usually doesn't want to be your wife.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Seriously, if you could even get a fucking wife. So
while I lost the tweet, of course to find these quotes,
but I saw something that said Pedro Piscal rejected as
fantastic for our first steps bombs at box office. Wait
what they're grossed over three hundred and sixty seven million
(10:10):
dollars already. That's not a bomb.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's not a bomb. We know some bombs.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
That that's not a bomb. And I also need you
to realize people, to realize that we are never going
to see numbers like we used to, especially in this economy.
So when just like on TV, for example, when what
the fuck is that name of that? When Gray's Anatomy
(10:38):
first started, we're talking thirty million people are watching live
an episode. Yeah, they don't even get three.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
The highest number of live views on TV right about
now is between four and five million. That's just how
many people watch because we have streaming services. Also, when
eggs cost seven dollars of fun doesn't When I just
looked at Herba Lessns's shampoo for ten dollars and ninety
nine cents at the grocery store.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Four dollars per a bottle of Swave Suave for.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
The ninety nine cent one that you could get on
the bottom shelf is like four dollars now, So you're
telling me, with all of this inflation, most of us
who live paycheck to paycheck have money to just go
out all willy nilly and guess what else came out? Superman? Oh? Yeah,
you have other very popular movies that are out. People
can't just sit there like we used to. We used
(11:32):
to sit there all weekend. We would go a movie
to movie to movie to movie. We can't do that
anymore because we're poor. But yeah, anyway, huh, got it
all right, So let's read some tweets what a perfect
man Christian rocker Pedro is so creepy? Like, why are
(11:55):
you touching her like that?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I mean, did she consent to it? Because that's usually
the for me.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Bob says her actual husband is a cup Firstly, Wow, slutshaming.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That's not very pleasant.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
It's not very pleasant. But if he is, why are
we kink shaming? There is nothing wrong with that?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Why do we care?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Right? Yeah, exactly, he's a creep who gets off on
making women uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
How can you make that assumption?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Trouble Comma managed one of the pigmies, says he's disgusting
and wtf is this casting? Stop trying to make Pedro happen.
He's not gonna happen. Well, guess what, Regina George, He's
already happened.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
He did.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
He's one of the most famous, he's like one of
the top actors in Hollywood right now. He's not new,
he's not new, He's put in the work. Okay, Marvel
casually posting shucks. So the gag on this is this
is from fax Checks, True fact Checks with an American
(13:02):
flag and a check mark in their bio.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
That's just how I know it's a lie.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Marvel casually posting sexual harassment was not on my BINGO
card for twenty twenty five. Your president is literally on
the Epstein files. It was absolutely on your BINGO card
for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Let's keep the thirty four felonies and one judgment against
him for sexual assault.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah yeah, so, but all of that, all of that
for what. The same men who probably loved the song
blurred lines and supported Robin Thick when he when the
model in the video alleged that he touched her inappropriately
during filming are the ones in these comments. Brad Pitt
(13:45):
is still working, Ben Affleck is still working.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Right, Johnny depp Arletto.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Is still working, Jared Leto still working, Russell Brand still
working now, mind you, for legal purposes, some of these
are alleged, allegedly allegedly. And then we have an actor
who is actively working on a popular prime time network
TV show that is syndicated, who called the brutal rape
(14:15):
that was perpetrated by Connor McGregor, that was so violent
that the survivor's tampon had to be surgically removed. Called
that stepping out on his wife.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
That is stepping out on your morality, my guy. M h.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
And that is you should be stepping out on life
at that point. I mean, yeah, full stop. But people
in the comments crying about what about me too? It's
always believed women until it pedro. What happened to believing
women and to that women? Exactly where are the allegations?
Where is Vanessa Kirby saying he touched me inappropriately? Where
is any of his friends or any of his coworkers
(14:54):
saying that he touched me inappropriately? That is something that
y'all need to understand is is consent. There is another
video from promo with Vanessa where she's in his lap.
Practically she's running her fingers through his hair. She's rubbing
her fingers and her thumb on the back, like on
the nape of his hairline. It is called consent.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And as long as two adults are doing that, two
or more, you know, I don't care, are doing the consenting,
then it has nothing to do with me.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
And you know what, she can consent to him and
then not consent to the next person, or she can
consent to and remove that consent. But I mean there, she.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Could consent and then be like, you know what, I
don't want to do this anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
And that if if that were to have been the case,
that would have been a different scenario that we than
what we're having.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yes we believe women, we do, absolutely, but there's nobody complaining.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
And here's the thing. If that were the case, this
would not be an episode or a conversation.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
We would have to be having a different conversation about
men being gross in Hollywood in general.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Which that could last for ten years three So yeah, seriously.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
And some people have been using his known history of
his debilitating anxiety as an excuse. And while that is
a reason why he does touch sometimes, I don't like
it because that's not what that was. That video was
him looking for her arm. I've seen I've seen videos
where he's anxious and you could see the difference in
his body language and the way you could see it
(16:38):
on his face. You could see it like in the
way he holds himself and he does like a little pinch,
so he's asking for permission and not like a hard pinch,
like a little pinch yeah, it's a little Oh you
feel me feather touching your arm and then they initiate
the contact. Okay, so first of all, fuck your bitch,
(17:03):
like you claim you're stupid. But now, but do you
ever wonder why it's pedro all of a sudden creepy?
Why the same men who stand behind Johnny Depp, Donald Trump,
Bill Cosby, p Diddy, bad Pit, and all the hundreds
of men who have been accused of or found guilty
of assaulting both women and men, suddenly saying it's creepy
(17:26):
when the same men who claim that these women and
sometimes men are just looking for a payday. And it's
not just men in the comments, there are plenty of
pigmies who want to look cool for the mediocre. Do
bros too?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I hate it? Like girl, me grow up, learn.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
To live yourself. But anyway, male privilege all the wild.
They say these things while purposely misgendering his sister. You
got me that fucked up. If you think I'm ever
taking the opinion of a transphobe, seriously.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
No, seriously, literally, if you're gonna start there, then we
don't even need to have the conversation because.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
There's literally some of the people adding into this conversation
are like, he probably fucks his brother too, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Didn't expect so, don't know how to that.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Speechless projections, honey, the projections, the transference.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
But here's why I think it is. I think it
is because he doesn't fit in with their hyper masculine ideal. Firstly,
he's not white. He isn't traditionally Hollywood handsome, which that's
o shade, but Hollywood has a very particular type big.
(18:46):
It's not one of the prisses.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Blonde eyes, black blue eyes, not black eyes, blonde hair.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Tall, dark, and handser. And by tark they mean Sicilian.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Right, so it's about as spicy as they want to be.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
He isn't He isn't aggressive at all. He's a very
kind man. He is a very gentleman. And he's not
a musclehead. He's not their ideal man. And there are
a lot of rumors about him, rumors we will not
discuss on here. But that type of collective thinking is
(19:28):
what keeps us stuck in this group we have. So
we have the same five fucking people playing the same
roles over and over and over again. All the Chris
is like, y'alls are pretty, but we're kind of over you.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Like.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
It's not just Vanessa or other female co stars, it's
his friends, it's everyone who is around him. If you
just google Pedro Pascal friends, you're gonna get picture and
picture picture of him with friends of all genders, touching
each other, holding each other, They're cuddling each other. It's
called consent. And I truly think that these men do
(20:08):
not understand that women can feel comfortable around demand. They
can't seem to process that a woman would want a
man to touch them like that, because they've never had
a woman comfortable with them to the point where they
would want them to touch them like that.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
No, I agree, and I will also confirm that if
you google Pedro Pascal friends, it is tons of images
of him hugging what I'm assuming are his friends.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Oh shit, the kittens in here?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Tons.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Oh you want to see the kitten.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Hold on, I'm just about to show us a kitten,
except if you are not on this exact recording, you
don't get to see it. To go to hell.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I love that. I mean they are projecting their feelings
of inadequacy because they've never had a woman willingly touch
them like that. So they're transferring their bullshit shit people.
Some men actually respect women. Yeah, some men actually cherish women.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I agree. I got her. Oh she she grabs the
cat and forced it.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And the crazy part is someone actually said that the
only person that he hasn't been with that was Bella?
And why is that? Because Bella's a fucking child? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
How old is she young?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
She's in her she's a young teenager. He'd better not
be like that with a child, because there's no world
where a fifty year old co star should be touching
their child co star in the way that he does
other adults.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
She's twenty one. Oh then when they work together, they
were too. I mean, here's the thing. Twenty one is
still I think that's a baby, you know, as being older,
that's somebody I would want to protect and want to
not consider in that way. So I think the point
still stands.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
And also when they met, she was a child.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
And you know that makes a big difference. Oh yeah,
I wonder if they met on Game of Thrones because
they were both on that.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I might have and they worked together on.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
But she was like a like a nine year old.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And then they were worked very closely together during The
Last of Us, which filmed years ago.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, they've they filmed that three or four years ago,
maybe even five. The first season. I don't when let's find.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Out when, I guess was Lining.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Out of Us filmed from July twenty twenty one to
June twenty twenty two, So they started filming that four
years ago when she was a child. She was a
little bit the whole year for one season. That's crazy. Now,
(23:07):
this is Hollywood culture at its core. And the more
we fucking bend to the will of these idiots who
can't even tell if the earth is flat around it
will always be like this and I will ride for
Pedro until the day comes that's never gonna come. That
there's actual allegations. No, I support that people are over
(23:29):
here act like he's fucking Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein.
Come on, you guys, not to be mistaken for Harvey Firestein,
which I did that once and I was like, oh
my god, they're gonna let him on Broadway was rowing,
and then I was like, wait, I don't think that's
the same person. Oh, Broadway has some problematic actors on
(23:50):
their stages.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
To No, definitely but not no, not Harvey Weinstein. Yeah,
so mine is not nearly as dark. When you said light.
During the last episode, we talked about ice, and we
decided we're going to go a little bit lighter this episode.
And so when I said light, I meant light bright,
rainbow bright to the moon bright. And so I actually
(24:14):
chose something that's kind of super positive. And I actually
wanted to talk about how Sierra Princess Wilson, or as
we know her, see eer or at least that's not
funky brush exactly, that's at least how I know her.
She recently submitted her DNA to the country of Benin,
(24:35):
and I'm gonna say Benin, because last time we tried
to record this, I said it every way under the sun.
Now I'm just going to go ahead, and my American
right right now is to just say it however I
can say it. And so she submitted her DNA some
ancestral information that she was able to obtain through genealogy
research to the country of Benin and they granted her
(24:59):
do citizenship. So now she is Benanian American instead of
just an American. And this is kind of a big
deal because Benin was one of the first countries in
twenty twenty four to say, you know what, way, way, way,
long ago, a bunch of colonizing settler demons came to
(25:22):
our coasts. They stole our people, and they took them
somewhere else and forced them into servititude and Sierra through
an extensive amount of research. I'm going to be very honest,
doing the research to get yourself back to a country
on the western side of Africa is a lot. It
takes a great deal of time, a great deal of effort,
(25:43):
and sometimes a great deal of resources and access money.
Exactly because traditionally African Americans are you know, formally enslaved
individuals were not counted as part of the census because
they were considered property. And as a result, well most
people can you know, depending on your family record keeping,
(26:05):
the circumstances of your life, can get back to about
eighteen seventy that is when the first not you know,
formally enslaved individuals and all of their can their offspring,
et cetera, were counted on the US census. So obviously
that's after that eighteen sixty five, eighteen sixty whatever date
where we formally ended slavery, and I believe that was
(26:30):
during reconstruction. But I am not a you know, a
history officionado, so I can't swear to that. But prior
to that traditionally not counted at all. You don't matter
because you're not actually a you, you are an it.
And so Benin said, you know what we are gonna,
you know, let the people that have DNA access obviously resources,
(26:51):
We're gonna let them petition our government for citizenship because
that was fucked up. And I will say the African
diaspora as far as I know, because again I'm not
a history buff and I didn't actually make any notes
for this. I'm doing this all on memory right now.
So with that in mind, Benine said, you know what,
(27:12):
you can come home. You're you got the work, you've
got the access, you've got the resources. You can come home.
And this is a very close thing to my heart personally,
because as you know, when I've been doing my genealogy
off and on for like the past four years, and
with the advances of technology, with the access that we have,
I'm going to say, the access that we have right
(27:34):
now and then we've had in the past, I don't
know what that access is going to look like in
the future. I definitely think if you have any questions
or if you were not of the privileged folk that
were able to do their you know, their genealogy through
family or whatever, definitely look into it. Consider those roots.
Even if you're not an African American, even if you're
(27:56):
not part of the African diaspora, any diaspora, do your
research if you have the access to the resources and
the things necessary to do it, because it feels so
interesting to really be able to say, you know what,
this is where the DNA from me came from. Because
I mean, if you think about it, if we are
(28:17):
born as women or as biologically sexed vagina having individuals
with all of the eggs that we possibly are going
to have, then that means that when our mothers were born,
they had all of the eggs that they were going
to had, So we were like little imaginary concepts in there.
(28:39):
And you take that back the essence of you, I mean,
eighteen seventy, eighteen sixties, that's a while ago, but it's
not a thousand years ago. It's not five hundred years ago.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Literally, like a grandson of one of the founding fathers
just died.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Which Wolf and no, I'm gonna say fuck that founding father.
I don't know which one it is, but you know.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I mean that. But it was like they had a
baby at like eighty. Somebody else had a baby at
like eighty their men, Oh yeah, men, I.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Mean, and there we go.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It probably explains a lot why we are all the
way we are because sperm does the degree. Yeah, I mean,
we're not getting the best we can get.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
At eighty, and we already were not the best and
brightest coming over, and so think of really not getting
the best at eighty of not the best and brightest.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
That really shows how young this country is. Just like
China said, we're not worried about what the US has
to say. We've been around for five thousand years. We'll
be around for another five thousand.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
We will be or we were here before you and
we will be here after you. That was such a saying.
I was just like, ooh, I was gagged. Yes, I
didn't even suspect that, but you know what, you're not wrong.
You are not wrong, and so yeah, I definitely think
that if you don't not saying that it's like a
(30:11):
requirement or anything. Listen, I was an adopted person. So
I am very fluid with my interpretation of history, family, ancestry, excess,
things like that. But if you can and you're interested
in it, go for it, especially now because we don't
know how long we're going to have access to things
like seriously, national archives, you know, any of those things.
(30:33):
Your local archives get this information. If you don't have
it and you want it, oh yes, please go to
your local freaking library. Get a library card. It's like free, y'all.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
It's free. And if your local library does not have
the resources for things like ancestry and these other programs
to use, so utilize your local library. If your local
library is small and they do not have the resources.
Many states have like consortiums where you can go to
(31:05):
like I live in Connecticut, you can go to New
Haven with your Brantford a library card. You can go
to Hartford with your Fairfield library card. You go to
the next biggest library, and they're online resources, a lot
of them you can access directly from the internet. There
(31:26):
they're attached to the IP they're attached so all you
need is to be able to get in. And a
lot of libraries even if you do not have an address.
So this is just a general if you need it,
you can get a temporary You can get a library
card in a state or city or town that you
do not live in for a multitude of reasons. Yep.
(31:47):
And you can get a temporary one.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Even Mill Town in Georgia, you can do that.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
You could just say, oh, I don't have a library card,
I'm only here visiting. Do you have a guest pass
for the computer? And guess what, They'll give you a
guest pass.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
And like, for example, my library has ancestry Abisco, so
we can get access to a ton of different records
and it's all free for the patron. So I mean
they don't have everything obviously, like they don't have like
the African ancestry like I sent you. But again, everyone
(32:26):
you have to start your journeys.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Somewhere exactly everywhere is an accessible starting point.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
So if you just are able to go back to
generations and you see on your ancestry that there's that
one family member that you don't know that's really into this,
you can reach out to them and say, hey, it
looks like we have we share this. We're the descendant
of the same person. Do you have any information on them,
you know.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Just ancestry. If you do it through them, I believe
they'll do They'll make those connections for you. They'll say, hey,
you need to check out this, or you need to
check out this, because this might be the same information
for the person that you're looking for. I don't feel
discouraged by the sheer amount of you know, history that
there is in the world, because there are starting places,
(33:14):
and there are like just any place should be an
appropriate starting place as long as it's accessible to you
and it's what you're trying to do.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
And remember, if these services aren't being utilized, the libraries
are not going to continue to pay for them. So
utilize them. Utilizize everything because deserve it. Listen, somebody's paying
for it, and they're not going to pay for it
if it's just going to waste exactly. And I really
think that that show, that ancestry show with that guy,
they should do regular people, not just famous people.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I know, right, what is it finding my roots or something?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah, like you should you should go up there and
be like you're fourteenth cousins with Angela Bassett. If only
and it been like I knew that was my cousin.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
If only.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
All of a sudden planning, like finding Angela Bassett's representation.
I found out today that I'm her fourteenth cousin. I
just wanted to say, so.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
We want to have her on the show. But yeah,
that's all I had. I'm very excited for Era. We
you know what, Yes we can, we could, Yes we
can exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
So hopefully all goes according to plan with these technologicals.
We have no idea what we're gonna bring for you
next week, but nope, we'll think about it. We'll get
back to you. Uh, it's just hard because something fucked
up happens every goddamn day. No it's not, world's on fire.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Got it fixed, damn it.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
So until next week, remember to drink your water. Remember
that you're that bitch, will forever be that bitch, and
consent is paramount.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Got to get us in the homies.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Good night. Always utilize your local libraries please every chance
you get, and remember keep your foot on their fucking necks.
That's the only way we're going to get through it.
That's right, We'll see y'all next week.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Good night, Aye,
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