1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,040 The views expressed on The Big Gay After Show may not 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,720 necessarily reflect the views of the Nathan B Stubblefield 3 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:09,880 Foundation or those of the staff or management of WM and F Tampa. 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:17,080 Listener discretion is advised. Where the TS hotter, the laughs 5 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:20,360 are louder, and nothing's off limits, this is the Big Gay 6 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:27,520 after show. Welcome to the big Gay After 7 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:28,760 show. My name is Chris Gorman. 8 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:33,040 I'm your show twink here joined by the electric trans queen of 9 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:35,560 radio, Miss Esme Russell. Hello. 10 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:39,200 Hello. How are you, Gracia? 11 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,480 I don't speak your language. I know you don't. 12 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:44,960 You be going to school for the student speaking. 13 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:49,240 So I I'm sorry. You know what gets me though is 14 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:52,080 that you will not give me her number because I would call her. 15 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:53,440 You know what? You know what's funny? 16 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,720 I'm taking her again this next over the summer. 17 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:58,920 I'm taking her for for my Spanish. 18 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,560 Spanish. Yes, Argentina. 19 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,000 Oh, Argentina. OK, Yeah. 20 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,400 Oh, their Spanish is beautiful. Yeah, Argentina Spanish is 21 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:09,640 gorgeous. Yeah, yeah. 22 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:12,000 It's not as fast as mine. Same. 23 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:12,760 Yeah. Yeah. 24 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:16,040 But sure, they speak beautiful. They they have a beautiful 25 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:17,880 accent too. Oh my God. 26 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,040 Well, don't, don't be rude about about the her. 27 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,360 She, she, she, she, she's a good teacher. 28 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,360 And I was actually talking to your, your, your daughter. 29 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:29,520 No, it was Shane actually who I was talking to. 30 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,200 And I, I told him, I gave him a little secret. 31 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:36,320 I'm going to go ahead and tell you this as me. 32 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:39,760 I understand more Spanish than I let you know. 33 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:45,160 Just letting you know that I do understand certain things. 34 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:52,240 I'm not going to respond to that. 35 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,200 I'm not responding to that. I'm. 36 00:01:55,760 --> 00:02:02,000 Not responding. I'm not responding to that in 37 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:13,960 Spanish. You're not convinced? 38 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,040 OK anyways. I said I'm withholding my 39 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:22,720 opinion. I I'm withholding my opinion. 40 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:25,320 Holding my opinion. Hold your opinion to yourself. 41 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,320 I know for a fact. I know for a fact. 42 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:32,520 I won't speak it, but I at least understand it enough to go ahead 43 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,040 and and I can. I could pick up a little bit. 44 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:36,840 I could pick up a. Little bit I do know this, that 45 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:38,440 if you wanted to speak it you could. 46 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:39,960 Oh absolutely. But I don't want. 47 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:41,960 'Cause you're not a dumb person. No, but I don't. 48 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:45,680 I know dumb people. Yeah, we talk about dumb people 49 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:47,360 all the time. Oh yeah, I just don't want to. 50 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:49,680 I just don't want to. Anyways, We're also joined by 51 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:53,720 we're joined by Lexi Long, Orlando Drag Race Live Season 10 52 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:55,320 winner. Welcome into the studio. 53 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,440 Hello, I'm so happy to be here, you guys are so fun. 54 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:03,160 So, Lexi, we didn't talk to you about your other job, Your real 55 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:04,920 job? Yes, your real job which? 56 00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:07,120 Is my day job. Which is that you work at Walt 57 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:08,760 Disney World. Yes, I do. 58 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:10,600 I'm an entertainer at Walt Disney World. 59 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:14,240 I work in entertainment. I can't say too much about what 60 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:15,920 I do, but I perform for a living. 61 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:20,600 It's, it is a very interesting dichotomy of my life going from 62 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,720 because some days I'll go from Disney straight into drag, 63 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:25,880 right? So it it is very interesting 64 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:29,800 going from one to the other, but it does make you realize that 65 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:32,840 entertaining people is very similar no matter the type. 66 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:34,160 Of how long have you worked for Disney? 67 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:36,560 I've actually not worked there very long. 68 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:40,880 I've worked there for about 6 months, not even a year. 69 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:42,920 The hiring process, was it difficult? 70 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:47,760 So it's like a classic audition, you know, for entertainment, you 71 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:51,120 go into it depends. Everyone's story at Disney is 72 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:52,680 different. Yeah, really, honestly. 73 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:57,640 But my story started with a big cattle call audition at their 74 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:01,600 rehearsal facility. And essentially you just show up 75 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:05,840 to this giant cattle call, All these boys are there and they 76 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,840 whittle you down. As the time goes on, you learn a 77 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:12,240 combination and they just eliminate more and more and more 78 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,320 and more people. For ours, they kept us all day. 79 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:16,959 They made us go home for three hours. 80 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:21,560 We came back later on in the day and then we we did some 81 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:23,800 partnering with some girls, some dancing. 82 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,400 It, it really depends because there's so much, so many types 83 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,200 of entertainment in the park. So each audition is going to be 84 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:32,840 different depending on what they're looking for. 85 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:35,120 But yeah, it was a long experience. 86 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,320 Some people audition for one thing and end up getting another 87 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,760 gig. Absolutely, Absolutely. 88 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:44,920 They'll say to you you're not a good fit for this, but we would 89 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:47,640 like you to do this role absolutely in this thing. 90 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,560 Because with a lot of what Disney is, it's, it's not even 91 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:52,640 about like how good or bad you are at something. 92 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,520 It's about what you look like or, or where you fit into the 93 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:59,080 system perfectly, you know, So I mean, a lot of times you could 94 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:02,720 go in for one thing, your height, your Oh my goodness, 95 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:04,920 it's the littlest things you could never think about. 96 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:07,840 Your teeth, your eyes, your nose, your face, your, your 97 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:11,560 voice, your voice, how thick your your calf is could mean the 98 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:13,680 difference of not fitting or fitting a costume. 99 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:18,600 Like you get a 3D body scan when you first get hired and you 100 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,040 stand in this thing and you hold this bar and it spins around you 101 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,400 and takes a a live 3D photo of you. 102 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,480 And from that photo they can see which costumes you do and you 103 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,200 don't fit into. And it it can be very specific. 104 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,000 Like I said, the your wrist is too big or too small. 105 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,640 Like it's it's so specific. So it really is about just like 106 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:40,840 who you are and how you can be used in the system. 107 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:46,200 Is there ever a shortage of dancers or do you guys always 108 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,680 have dancers? We do always have dancers. 109 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,320 We do always have dancers. I will say I, it does feel like 110 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:54,280 sometimes there's, there's not many of us that do each skill. 111 00:05:54,280 --> 00:05:56,960 So like if there's a very highly skilled, like let's say parade 112 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:01,760 or show, there's not a ton of us that do that because I don't I 113 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:04,320 don't think they want to have too many people in there because 114 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,680 they want to have people who care and who are skilled. 115 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:08,600 Once you get. How many parades do you do a 116 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,160 day? So I'm doing my right now I'm 117 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,800 doing the night time parade. So I only do 2 parades at night 118 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:18,200 but. And how long, How long, How many 119 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,400 hours of work is that? That is about a six hour day of 120 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:25,160 work for two parades. The parade itself is probably 121 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,560 about 3045 minutes. But one would never even be able 122 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,240 to understand what it's like to start and finish a parade 123 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,960 dancing. And what you don't get is so I 124 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,880 grew up dancing my whole life. OK, but there's a difference 125 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:40,240 between dancing and then dancing and moving forward at the same 126 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,600 time. You would never think it's such 127 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,720 a, a mind boggling thing, but it's adding it's, it's adding so 128 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,160 much more physicality to it because you're not just dancing 129 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,760 in one spot on the stage. You're getting, you're going 130 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:52,840 somewhere. You're guiding. 131 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:54,040 You're. You're guiding, yeah. 132 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,600 And there's a float behind you and a float in front of you, so 133 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,200 you better move, you know? So it it definitely. 134 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,760 Talk to you. You know, no, not really. 135 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:04,880 They'll they'll scream some things, but it's one of those 136 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:06,680 things where it's like, baby, I don't have time. 137 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:08,880 I'll give you a little smile, a little wave, you know? 138 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,320 But because you're dancing. But that's the most I can give. 139 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:13,720 Yeah, No, no talking for sure, for sure. 140 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:18,360 But yeah, and it's pantomime. Yeah, I mean, I'm just waving 141 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:20,000 inside. I'm allowed to talk. 142 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:22,360 You are allowed to talk. We're allowed to talk. 143 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:26,320 So the music is playing and you learn the song, so it's 144 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:29,480 basically pantomime. We're well, so we're not singing 145 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:31,200 to this, we're not lip syncing to this song. 146 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:33,880 So it's it's like but. You but you have done roles for 147 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:35,520 your lip syncing. I have not. 148 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,120 No, I have not. There is, I will say, like the 149 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:39,640 Castle show. I think they do some. 150 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:41,440 Lip syncing. I know that they do. 151 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:44,400 They definitely do, but in parades and stuff, actually a 152 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:45,920 lot of times it's the the character. 153 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:48,120 There's like Mickey and Minnie and stuff they'll do. 154 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,440 It's called head sinking and they'll move their head back and 155 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:52,880 forth. Masters at it, yeah. 156 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:54,640 And it's not just head sinking, it's body sinking. 157 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:56,880 It's but it's and whole physical, yeah. 158 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,320 Yeah, it's crazy. It really is. 159 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:01,400 Like they're directing orchestra, right? 160 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:05,960 I love to watch Mickey at Fantasmic. 161 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,480 His. Movements are so fat arms and 162 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:14,760 then the arms are just it's the arm movements are so big and so 163 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:15,800 fabulous. It's. 164 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:17,960 Thrilling. I love watching Fantastic. 165 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:20,800 I love Fantasmic. I do love Fantasmic a lot and. 166 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:22,920 The behind the scenes, I mean Fantasmic is like. 167 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,360 Beautiful. I see how they cover up a Ariel 168 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:27,040 with a little tarp. They bag the fish. 169 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,640 They bag is that they call Bag the fish? 170 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:31,120 Yeah. So she does. 171 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:32,919 Yeah. So the fireworks don't get her. 172 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,840 It's great. It's just, it's so, so Disney's 173 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:37,200 amazing there. There really is. 174 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,360 The professionalism is just. Yes, it's a great company to 175 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:42,799 work for. You, you, you really learn you, 176 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:46,160 you learn about professional work, right, Because everyone 177 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:49,640 there is a true professional. Now in the drag space, it's very 178 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:51,360 different because you're working with a lot of people. 179 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,120 I mean, there's no audition to get and work in the gay club, 180 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,200 right? Over the course of my life, I've 181 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,520 learned I've known Queens that have been in Fantasmic. 182 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:03,600 Yes. So yeah, that have done both the 183 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:07,280 Evil Queen, yes, Maleficent and Maleficent, Yeah, yeah. 184 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:10,360 Maleficent is usually always a man, and no one would ever know 185 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,160 that. Well, she's up there so far up 186 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,360 anyway. Yeah, you know, and the and the 187 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:17,640 movements are so outrageous and big and. 188 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:21,760 You know, just waving the arm. Waving the arm. 189 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,640 Yeah, so it's perfect. And you need someone tall and 190 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:26,360 long for that. It'd probably be a great 191 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:27,360 Maleficent. I wouldn't. 192 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:30,760 That is one of my dream roles, but everyone wants it, so she. 193 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:32,520 Goes you're everybody wants it. Yes. 194 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:34,720 But yeah, it's my, it's in my height range, so. 195 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:36,880 Yeah, it is your height. Oh yeah, 'cause she's, yeah, 196 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:38,040 she's up there. She's tall. 197 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:39,640 She she's a big girl. Yeah, big. 198 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,520 Girl Jafar would be another one. Jafar would be a good one, yeah. 199 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:45,640 Yeah, let's go into some hot topics, Miss, says me. 200 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:47,160 Alrighty. I got something I. 201 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:49,000 Just I just love the Disney conversation. 202 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,080 Oh definitely. I'm a Disney fan. 203 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:54,400 I just love and movies. I love Disney movies as well. 204 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,000 Who doesn't? Let's jump into this. 205 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,320 Former Exodus International leader Allen Chambers was 206 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,280 arrested in Central Florida after investigators say he tried 207 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,760 to arrange a sexual meet up with someone he believed was a 14 208 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,520 year old boy. Chambers, 54, was charged with 209 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,880 solicitation of a minor via computer, transmitting harmful 210 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:15,880 material to a minor and unlawful use of two way communication 211 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,000 device, according to Orange County Sheriff's Office, A 212 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:23,840 undercover detective poised as a pose poised posed as a 14 year 213 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:26,800 old on Snapchat and began communicating with Chambers 214 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:28,560 earlier this year. It's always the same. 215 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:33,600 He said Chambers introduced himself as a 50 year old man 216 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:37,240 named John David. That's one of the worst fucking 217 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,960 names I've ever heard. And later moved the conversation 218 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:44,680 to text messages and Telegram. The arrest affidavit said that 219 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:48,120 Chambers allegedly sent sexually explicit messages and photos 220 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:50,560 while trying to set up an in person meeting. 221 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:55,760 No bond is currently listed. Exodus International shut down 222 00:10:55,760 --> 00:11:00,080 in 2013 after Chambers publicly apologized to the LGBTQ plus 223 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,720 community and acknowledged the harm the organization created 224 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:07,680 through the its promotion of conversion therapy. 225 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:12,080 It's always the same people. Yep, it's always the same 226 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:14,720 people. I'm so tired of this. 227 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:19,520 I'm so tired of the hate that we get from them and the and how 228 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:25,040 steadfast they work to pass laws to hurt us to to prevent us from 229 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:27,440 living well. He even acknowledged it during 230 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:29,600 his apology to the LGBTQ community. 231 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,960 He said that he had hidden his own attraction to men and 232 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,480 expressed regret for the pain. Link to the group's work. 233 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,960 I mean, hey, right there. I, I think that that and itself, 234 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,920 the fact that he's just owning up and admitting it, it's, it's 235 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:45,800 proof in it and it's I. Had someone tell me the other 236 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:55,000 day that they didn't see how being gay was political or why 237 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:59,520 we had to politicize it. And I said to that person, it is 238 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:03,120 political. Being gay is political and your 239 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:06,800 side has made it that way. You've outlawed me from using 240 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:08,920 women's spaces. That is political. 241 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:12,600 OK. You've you consistently trying 242 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:16,040 to ban men and women from marrying each other. 243 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:19,640 That is political. It's it's a political movement. 244 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:21,760 Yeah, OK. It's not personal. 245 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:24,440 It's political. It may be personal as well, but 246 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:26,200 you're making it political. Absolutely. 247 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:28,680 You're trying to outlaw my existence. 248 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:33,720 They're saying on White House documents that trans people are 249 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:37,280 a terrorist movement. That is political. 250 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:40,200 Yeah, that is political. I am not a terrorist. 251 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,600 No, When you bring it in that space, you bring it in that 252 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:43,640 space. You're bringing it. 253 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:47,000 You're making it political. This idea that it's that being 254 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,160 gay or being trans is not political. 255 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:52,480 It is political if you don't want it to be political if you 256 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:55,320 want it to stop. Stop talking about us. 257 00:12:56,120 --> 00:13:00,280 Get our names out of your filthy fucking mouths because you're 258 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:02,720 all a bunch of perverts, y'all Smith? 259 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:05,880 They're all a bunch of perverts. Totally. 260 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:08,160 Agree, Totally agree. I mean, just all of them. 261 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:12,360 Every accusation is a fucking confession. 262 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:16,200 Every single, every time you hear one of them go, well, those 263 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,440 transgenders are we're going to stop all these gays from 264 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,200 sleeping with each other and we're going to convert them back 265 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:25,440 to Christianity. Every one of those people ends 266 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:29,880 up turning out to be some gay guy that that didn't come out 267 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:31,240 and was trying to meet with other gay. 268 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:33,920 Guys and just like he said how after all of this then he admits 269 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:35,920 it right then he then he owns up and says. 270 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:38,000 They're usually married by the way, right? 271 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:39,600 Which is 'cause. They're in a trapped. 272 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:42,320 Situation Can you imagine the wife how she must feel and the 273 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,880 children how embarrassing that is for a wife and. 274 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:51,160 And it's, it's, it adds an extra level of shame to this already. 275 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:52,840 They're already feeling shame, right? 276 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,720 So then now this family is feeling this shame and it's, and 277 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:58,160 it sucks because it's like, we could have all just been honest. 278 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:01,200 And now there's so much shame attached to this thing. 279 00:14:01,560 --> 00:14:03,480 And that's why it's political, right? 280 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:05,720 You know, it's, it's, it's become this thing. 281 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,160 It's not. Just no wonder that every time 282 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:12,280 there's a Republican anything, convention, gathering, meeting, 283 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:17,240 golf, whatever, a grinder literally blows. 284 00:14:17,680 --> 00:14:19,880 Up. Am I right or not, Chris? 285 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:24,000 A former Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission 286 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,160 biologist who was fired over a social media post about 287 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:30,400 conservative commentator Charlie Kirk has reached a cash 288 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,000 settlement with the agency, according to court documents. 289 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:36,480 Brittany Brown had worked for FWC for seven years before being 290 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:39,600 terminated after reposting a message to a private Instagram 291 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:43,560 Story following Kirk's 2025 assassination. 292 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:47,520 The reposted message mocked Kirk over past comments about school 293 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:51,200 shootings, saying Wales cared exactly as much as Charlie Kirk 294 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,200 cared about children being shot in their classroom. 295 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:57,880 Brown's attorney argued that the Instagram account was private 296 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:00,600 and had no connection to her work at FWC. 297 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:04,640 The settlement terms and payout have not been made public, and 298 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:07,000 also the judge has denied Brown's request to get her job 299 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,280 back. Good. 300 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:12,320 I'm glad that she finally, she got her money. 301 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,680 It sucks that she's not gonna have, you know, the ability to 302 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,680 do her work. But it's good that she got her 303 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:22,440 money, got her bag. That's gonna happen to a lot of 304 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:25,000 people, though, A lot of people who have gotten fired over 305 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,080 these, you know, Commons, that's, that's First fucking 306 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:29,920 amendment. One of the things that happened 307 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:33,080 with Charlie Kurt's death is they tried to give him a 308 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:36,920 sainthood when he died. So the way that he was murdered 309 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:38,840 was terrible. Absolutely. 310 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,280 I mean, you cannot. There's just no way to fix that. 311 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:42,880 It's human like that's. That's terrible. 312 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:46,040 That's somebody's husband. That was somebody's dad, you 313 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:50,120 know, that's somebody's son. But he was not a good guy. 314 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:54,720 No, OK. I mean, we couldn't say that at 315 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,160 the time of his death because we were trying to be politically 316 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:00,080 correct. But in retrospect, and and and 317 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,800 it's not because I'm saying it, all you got to do is go on the 318 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,760 Internet and look up his speeches and hear the vile, 319 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:09,880 terrible things that he would say. 320 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:16,520 You know, transphobic, homophobic, racist. 321 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:18,560 Yeah. Just just bad. 322 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:21,920 He was not a good guy. It does not mean that he 323 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:23,400 deserved to die. No. 324 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:25,600 And I would never, I would never condone that. 325 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:29,920 And and I'm very saddened that he was murdered because I, I 326 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:33,320 feel like, you know, people like Kim, I always have hope that 327 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:36,160 they'll convert, that they'll realize they've made a mistake. 328 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:39,760 I'm seeing Candace Owen right now. 329 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:42,720 Candace Owens the perfect 1. Tucker Carlson is another one. 330 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:45,040 Joe Rogan is 1. Candace Owen, you know, she was 331 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:48,960 talking to Biden's son the other day and she apologized to him 332 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,480 for calling him a drug addict and a, you know, crack head and 333 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:54,360 all that. And, and I thought to and he 334 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:56,600 said, well, I was a crack head. You were saying the truth. 335 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:59,800 And I love that he owned it. He said, I just didn't want to 336 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,040 hear it, But I was at that time a crack head. 337 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:04,839 She goes, I shouldn't have been calling you that because you 338 00:17:04,839 --> 00:17:07,079 were dealing with an illness. He goes, you're right about 339 00:17:07,079 --> 00:17:08,000 that. You are. 340 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,480 And but she owned it, though, and he owned it. 341 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,680 And I thought, wow, what's going on here, man? 342 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:16,000 That's what we're all missing, right? 343 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,040 It's just at the end of the day being being people and talking 344 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:21,400 to each other about stuff and taking all this, all this 345 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:23,319 external weight and pressure away. 346 00:17:23,319 --> 00:17:26,640 And really, we're just people talking like it's really. 347 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,120 That simple. But I've just, she's really 348 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:33,880 surprised me, you know? I like to believe that come 510 349 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:38,000 years from now, we'll have that sort of open dialogue back again 350 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,440 because what you're seeing right now with Candace Owens and 351 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:45,480 Hunter Biden was, as you know, as May what was happening with 352 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:49,040 Mitt Romney and Obama. What was his name? 353 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:54,160 McCain and Obama, Bush and fucking dildo, whatever his name 354 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:55,320 is. Gore I. 355 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,760 Watched that interview with her and I thought Candace Owen is 356 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:04,080 being decent and respectful and she's asking valid questions. 357 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:06,880 And she since I mean, her apology was real. 358 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:09,360 You know, you can look in somebody's eyes. 359 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:11,360 It wasn't like it wasn't a last minute. 360 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:14,360 She goes, I really, I really missed the mark with you. 361 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:18,440 I, I, I think about what I said at that time and I feel really 362 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,720 bad about it. I don't, I don't know why I was 363 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,400 feeling like that or why I was, you know, I'm like thinking to 364 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,120 myself. She's analyzing herself. 365 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,880 It's the House of Cards. Once you once 1 little thing 366 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,840 falls right, everything starts to deconstruct. 367 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:34,840 And I'm thinking, OK, this is what we're this is progress. 368 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,760 Absolutely. This is progress here, OK? 369 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,120 And I know that there are people that she speaks to that want her 370 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:46,400 to be hateful and to continue the nastiness, but she's just 371 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:50,680 not there right now, you know? I think that because Charlie 372 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:54,080 Kirk was essentially a brother to her, I think the loss of 373 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:57,960 Charlie Kirk really opened her eyes to the way that the the 374 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:01,960 Conservative Party has been treating certain people. 375 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:08,720 And she feels, and at one time I was in argument about it with 376 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,640 myself internally, but I don't think that I don't feel that way 377 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,160 anymore. She feels that he was murdered, 378 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,120 that he was set up, that it was planned. 379 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,840 She really feels that way. She's even said that she thinks 380 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:26,400 that the wife knew about it. I've heard this stuff the. 381 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,160 Wife has said that there was there are problems in their 382 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:31,320 marriage. All of this is conspiracy 383 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,320 theories. Now Erica Kirk is a whole nother 384 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:34,840 topic. Girl, we going to start. 385 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:37,760 That girl who go. Girl, the eyes. 386 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:39,240 Don't forget the eyes they Pierce. 387 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:42,200 Girl, when she dressed up like Janet Jackson to do that 388 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:46,800 interview, I thought I was going to freaking lose my mind. 389 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:52,320 I was ready for the. I think it was, it was, it 390 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:54,160 wasn't intentional, I don't think. 391 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,840 But she looked like she looked. She looks just like the fucking 392 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:01,000 Rhythm Nation tour. She carries herself like a 393 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,520 Jackson, coming also on these stages with pyrotechnics and and 394 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,120 lighting and fireworks. I'm like, oh. 395 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:09,280 Look, Speaking of Disney, she's a whole Disney show. 396 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:11,960 Literally. She like she, she kind of. 397 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:13,120 She's got the budget too. She's. 398 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:14,440 Got the show. Yeah. 399 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:19,080 Yeah, she was. She was the submissive wife that 400 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:23,600 Charlie Kirk did not want her to be seen or to be heard. 401 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:26,600 Stay behind me. Raise the kids. 402 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:28,240 Don't talk. Don't be seen. 403 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:32,240 When I let you out of your cage to come out, you stand right 404 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,640 here and don't speak. Do you know how they met? 405 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:36,040 No. How did they meet? 406 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:41,000 It was a job interview. He took her out to a lunch for a 407 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,480 job interview. And then on this job interview 408 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:45,440 at the end, he was like, do you want to go on a date? 409 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,640 How creepy and weird is that? Like, that is the start of all 410 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:51,720 of this whole thing that we're looking at right now. 411 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,600 That was the start of it. And like, you can't ignore how 412 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,840 something starts because it will affect how it ends. 413 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:00,640 You know what I mean? And just thinking about that is, 414 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:04,160 so it really puts into perspective like how these 415 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,680 business businessmen work and how this industry works, right? 416 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:10,560 It's crazy. It's so crazy to think about. 417 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,160 Well, I got one more topic before we go into news. 418 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,920 A West Virginia man was arrested after deputies say he repeatedly 419 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:21,280 called 911 to report zombies, ghost, and a UFO at his home. 420 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,080 Randolph County, yeah. Randolph County detectives, 421 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,800 Deputies, I should say, identified the man as 33 year 422 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,680 old Clinton Wayne Nealon of Elkins, WV. 423 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:36,200 Investigators say Nealon falsely claimed that he was being 424 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,840 harassed by several people when deputies arrived at his 425 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,960 residence. He also allegedly said that he 426 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,320 was a police officer from Louisiana. 427 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,040 Authorities later determined that he was not a law 428 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,440 enforcement officer and accused him of impersonating an officer. 429 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:54,280 He was charged with misuse of a local emergency telephone system 430 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,040 and impersonating a law enforcement officer. 431 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,440 He is bought. His bond is 2500 cash only 432 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,920 that's in. I want to know what kind of 433 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,040 psychosis that he's going through. 434 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,520 He should not be in jail. He needs to be in a, a, a mental 435 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,600 health institution. He needs to be. 436 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,160 He needs to find help. A lot of times people have 437 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:15,920 mental health issues and they put them in jail. 438 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,480 Yeah, so often. Very much of the time, actually. 439 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,640 Very much so. And, and it's the reason why, 440 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,600 you know, in prison, you know, they don't go ahead and get 441 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:26,560 rehabilitated. No. 442 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:27,720 And, and they're not, they just sit there. 443 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:29,080 They're not going to help him there. 444 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,680 He's not going to get the help that he that he desperately 445 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:33,600 needs. That's just so sad. 446 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,320 It's, it's, it's, it's, it really is sad. 447 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:39,280 And I really hope that he can get the help that he needs. 448 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:43,640 But it's, it's a broader issue that we really need to focus on 449 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,640 when it comes to this. This country is the actual fact 450 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,440 that, you know, we're not rehabilitating these people. 451 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:54,520 And I mentioned this on on air a couple weeks ago, either on the 452 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:58,080 after show or on the main show that, you know, slavery is still 453 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,840 legal in this country. You have to be convicted of a 454 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,400 crime, but it's still legal. It is still 100% legal to be a 455 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:08,000 slave so long as you are incarcerated. 456 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,520 And that's, that is part of the 13th Amendment. 457 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:15,240 So it's, it's it, it really is, it really is mind boggling. 458 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:19,600 Well, Esme, I'm assuming you don't have any anything, any 459 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,280 topics? Well, I do have one topic and I 460 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,480 do want to cover it when we get back from the break. 461 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:30,040 And that is what if you're if you refuse to give up your room 462 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:34,080 for a family guest? Yes, I think this is this kid 463 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,560 really is my hero. I really like him a lot. 464 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,760 I'm I, I'm going to tell you, I really do like this kid a lot. 465 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,320 I wish I could write him a letter, you know, and just say 466 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:45,760 to him, good job. Good job for standing up for 467 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:47,240 yourself. You know what I mean? 468 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:49,680 Well, I got a little bit more breaking news. 469 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:53,160 Not really breaking when you when you're hearing it now, but 470 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,560 breaking to us. A federal appeals court is 471 00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:00,520 blocking Alabama from using its GOP drawn congressional map. 472 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:05,040 We also have a family saying that Amazon Bot Earn may have 473 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:10,080 arrived with somebody else's ashes inside Southwest Airlines 474 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:15,480 banning human like robots. And then we've got also a house 475 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:20,040 proposal that might charge EV owners for Rd. costs. 476 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,680 We got all that and more coming up after the break, but we're 477 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:24,520 going to go ahead and throw it over to Claire Leeson from 478 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,240 Project No Labels for our big gay news and then over to Joanna 479 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,640 Grosso for our big gay community calendar. 480 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:35,600 We'll be right back. I'm Claire Leeson from project 481 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,680 No Labels and this is your LGBTQ plus news from around the 482 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,480 country and right here in Tampa Bay in national news from 483 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,960 watermark out news, the US House of Representatives passed a 484 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,720 federal don't say trans bill on May 20th that critics say Wood 485 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:51,920 forest teachers to out transgender students to their 486 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,000 parents. The legislation would require 487 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,120 schools to obtain parental consent before allowing students 488 00:24:57,120 --> 00:25:00,520 to use their preferred name, pronouns and gender markers, and 489 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,560 would restrict federal funding for schools that teach concepts 490 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,280 related to what the the bill calls gender ideology. 491 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,520 Supporters argue parents should direct conversations around 492 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,560 gender identity, while opponents warn the bill could place 493 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:16,320 transgender students in unsafe situations at home and increase 494 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,040 the risk of harassment, abuse or conversion therapy. 495 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,760 The measure passed mostly along party lines, with eight 496 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:23,960 Democrats joining Republicans in support. 497 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,640 In Winter Park from West Orange County, deputies announced the 498 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,800 arrest of Allen Chambers, a former leader of the now defunct 499 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,960 conversion therapy organization Exodus International. 500 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:36,880 Investigators say Chambers believed he was communicating 501 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,480 online with a 14 year old boy who was an undercover detective. 502 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,760 He now faces charges including solicitation of a minor and 503 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,040 transmission of harmful material to a minor. 504 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,640 Chambers previously made national headlines in 2013 when 505 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,880 he apologized to the LGBTQ community for the harm caused by 506 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,040 Exodus International before the organization shut down in 507 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,880 Colorado. From PBS The state Supreme Court 508 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,720 has ordered Children's Hospital Colorado to resume gender 509 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,040 affirming medical care for transgender minors. 510 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,720 The hospital had passed treatments earlier this year 511 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,360 amid pressure and investigations tied to the Trump 512 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:11,680 administration's policies surrounding transgender 513 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:15,160 healthcare for transgender girls sued the hospital, arguing the 514 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,600 suspension violated Colorado's anti discrimination laws and 515 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,000 placed their mental health at risk. 516 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,320 In a 5 to 2 ruling, the court sided with the families, saying 517 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,560 that immediate harm faced by the patients outweighed potential 518 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:28,440 federal consequences for the hospital. 519 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,960 And finally, from The Associated Press, former Congressman Barney 520 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:35,320 Frank has died at the age of 86. Frank served in Congress for 521 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,840 more than three decades and became one of the nation's most 522 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:39,960 prominent openly gay political leaders. 523 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:43,240 Known for his sharp wit and outspoken advocacy, he helped 524 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,760 bring national visibility to LGBTQ rights while also playing 525 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,640 a major role in shaping financial reform legislation 526 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,360 following the 2008 economic crisis. 527 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,200 Frank is survived by his husband, Jim Reddy, along with 528 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:56,720 his siblings and extended family. 529 00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,400 Please remember to stay safe and treat yourself and others with 530 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,560 kindness. This has been your LGBTQ plus 531 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:06,120 news for the Big Gay radio Show. I'm Claire Leeson on 88.5 WMNF 532 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:13,600 Tampa. Hey, hey Tampa Bay, it's Joanna 533 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,120 Grosso with Joe on the Go Tampa Bay, your weekly guide to what's 534 00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:19,760 happening around the city. Here's what's happening this 535 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,640 week. Starting on Sunday, May 31st, 536 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:27,240 Cool Vibes Hub and Grub in Saint Pete is hosting a drag brunch 537 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:31,360 bingo benefiting the Never Say Never Foundation beginning at 11 538 00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:34,160 AM. Expect bingo, drag performances, 539 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:36,800 brunch, fives, and a fun afternoon supporting a great 540 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,040 'cause. Then on Thursday, June 4th, the 541 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:43,440 Royalty Pride Art Show opening reception takes place at Saint 542 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,440 Petersburg City Theater from 5:00 to 8:00 PM. 543 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,720 The event will feature local artists, light food and drinks 544 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,200 in a night centered around creativity, community and a 545 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:56,000 Pride season celebration. And on Sunday, June 7th over in 546 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,800 Ybor, Wigs and Wit returns to Tampa Bay at the Commodore at 547 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,320 7:00 PM. The show brings comedians and 548 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:06,320 drag Queens head to head for a live talent competition where 549 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,480 the audience helps decide the winner. 550 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,480 For more information behind the scenes and weekly updates, 551 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,120 follow along on Instagram at Joe On the Go Tampa Bay. 552 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,000 Have a great week, Tampa Bay, and I'll see you out and about. 553 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:27,000 You're listening to the only LGBTQ radio show in Tampa Bay, 554 00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:30,840 The Big Gay Radio Show on 88.5 WMNF. 555 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,520 Welcome to or welcome back to the Big Gay Radio Show. 556 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,640 My name is Chris Gorman. I'm your show twink here, joined 557 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,320 by the electric Esme Russell. What you talking shit about 558 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:42,880 there? Over there? 559 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,440 I press the wrong button. What up what you say? 560 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,360 I say you have lost your motherfucking mind. 561 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,400 What you mean? What you mean? 562 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,480 The way you were repeating everything he was saying. 563 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,680 On I, I know all of the things that Sean says by heart at this 564 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,000 point. I said I don't understand what's 565 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,680 going on here, but were you saying it over what he was 566 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:02,800 saying or? Yes, of course, absolutely. 567 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,480 Off air, obviously, with the mic muted. 568 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,600 Oh, OK. Like, no, no, definitely. 569 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,560 I wasn't saying it while we were on air, but yeah. 570 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,640 Anyways. We're also joined by Lexi Long, 571 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,520 Orlando Drag Race Live season 10 winner. 572 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,000 Thank you so much for joining us. 573 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,520 Hello. Hello. 574 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,120 Well, Esme, here's a wild story for you. 575 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,920 A Southern California family says an urn that they bought on 576 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,800 Amazon appeared to contain somebody else's ashes. 577 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:32,120 The urn was one of several purchased after the death of a 578 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:36,000 family's grandfather and so relatives could keep each part 579 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,520 of his ashes. Family member Mark Culbertson 580 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:44,200 said every arrive or every urn arrived empty except for one, 581 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,360 which contained what looked like cremated remains. 582 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:51,320 Culbertson says the family believes the ashes belong to a 583 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,240 stranger and wants to reunite them with the correct family. 584 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:58,640 He says Amazon initially apologized and offered a $20 585 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,960 refund credit, but there was little little else that they 586 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,680 could do because the order was placed over a year ago. 587 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,280 Frustrated by the response, they reached out to the media to to 588 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,200 get the attention that they for the situation. 589 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:17,000 Jesus fucking Christ, as May Can you imagine going ahead and 590 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,040 being traumatized with fucking death of a family member and 591 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,400 then finding somebody else's ashes in the urn that you buy? 592 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:29,960 So my guess is this day that that the urn was returned, 593 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,040 somebody had initially bought it. 594 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,120 Well, Can you imagine being returned? 595 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,240 Somebody put the ashes in the urn and forgot to take the ashes 596 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,840 out when they returned it. But what's so, OK, Amazon 597 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,800 doesn't do any sort of service like that, right? 598 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,600 They don't do cremations, no. So then how did these ashes end 599 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,520 up in this urn? That's what I'm saying it has. 600 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:54,400 Somebody bought the urn for their family members ashes. 601 00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:00,000 They put their ashes in the urn and then after looking at the 602 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,440 urn, they said now we're going to return it. 603 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,840 We don't like that, that urn, you see what happened and they 604 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:09,760 forgot to take the ashes out. Imagine being that person, 605 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,040 you're dead, and then you're thrown back into an Amazon 606 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:13,960 storage facility. They. 607 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,640 Send you back to the store and they resold it. 608 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,680 Well, they should be able to track that then, right. 609 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,960 I mean, you would think with the technology, because if they see 610 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,520 who returned this and then I don't know because maybe they 611 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,200 just put these things when they returned back on a stock shelf, 612 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:29,720 you know. Maybe, but. 613 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:31,240 That's insane. That's. 614 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,160 Exactly what happened. It's the only explanation. 615 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,400 Right, Right. That is so wild. 616 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,400 That's also kind of eerie, kind of weird. 617 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,080 And you're like, whose body is this? 618 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:45,000 Yeah. Anyways, a federal a federal 3 619 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,360 judge panel blocked Alabama's Republican drawn congressional 620 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,320 map from taking effect, saying the districts were intentionally 621 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,520 drawn to discriminate based on race. 622 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,880 The judges said they could not allow Alabamians to vote in 2026 623 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,440 under what they called the map map tainted by intentional race 624 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,080 based discrimination. The ruling is a major set back 625 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,800 for Republicans who hope the new map would help them pick up a 626 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,880 congressional seat in the midterm elections. 627 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,160 The disputed map would have eliminated one of Alabama's two 628 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,520 majority black congressional districts. 629 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,120 Alabama Republicans. That's that's pretty much it to 630 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:20,960 the end of the story. I got a lot of other notes on 631 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:22,560 there, but they're. Going they're listen, they're 632 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,480 desperately trying to cheat. Oh, very much so. 633 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,720 They know their ass is going to get handed to them in the 634 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,640 midterm. No amount of backfire, no amount 635 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:36,000 of gerrymandering that you do is going to be able to fucking get 636 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,200 the to keep the blue wave from happening. 637 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,400 The blue wave's going to happen whether you like it or not. 638 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,320 And people, and let me tell you, it's going to be a tsunami. 639 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,840 All you need to do, I'm just telling you, is go to the 640 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,080 grocery store and start shopping. 641 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:55,920 And once you realize how little your money goes, how far it 642 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,840 goes, it doesn't go very far, you're going to realize that you 643 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,800 they're in trouble. They're in big trouble. 644 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,480 It's survival at this point. It's not even about like what 645 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:05,600 you believe and what you don't believe. 646 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,320 It's like I need to survive. People are not going to be 647 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,080 voting because they like Democrats. 648 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,080 People are voting for Democrats because they cannot afford to 649 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,080 survive anymore. That is exactly correct and I 650 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,040 don't care. Listen, it's like when people 651 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:22,280 say, well, Lincoln will Lincoln free the slaves, But he really 652 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,160 didn't want to write the emancipation of Proclamation. 653 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,960 It was more of a political, I don't care what his reason was. 654 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,600 I don't care. I don't care why you're voting 655 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:32,200 Democrat. I really don't care. 656 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:33,760 Just vote. Right, right. 657 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:35,200 I don't care why you're doing it. 658 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,440 I know you. I know that many people are not 659 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,320 Democrats and they're going to vote Democrat because of the 660 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,040 cost of living right now. Here's the thing, I really hope 661 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,640 that's the way because unfortunately people are so 662 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,320 attached to whatever they are or whatever they think they are, 663 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,680 that sometimes they will put their own beliefs out the window 664 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,480 just to identify with something. So there's about 34 to 35% of 665 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,920 the electorate that is not going to budget. 666 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:04,560 They're not going to budget with the pedophilic accusations. 667 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,800 They're not going to budget that he's an adjudicated rapist. 668 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:12,719 They're not going to budget that he has been charged and 669 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:16,679 convicted of sexual assault. They are not going to budget 670 00:34:16,679 --> 00:34:18,679 that the prices of gasoline have gone up. 671 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,000 They're not going to budget that the price of food is 672 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,760 skyrocketing. They're not going to budget 673 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,440 that. He is grifting off of the 674 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,400 presidency every day, millions and millions of dollars. 675 00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:34,600 They're not going to budget for any of that. 676 00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:38,360 They're going to vote for him, even if he sinks them like the 677 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:42,440 Titanic into the ocean. So I, I do kind of want to push 678 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:43,800 back a little bit on that though. 679 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,639 And the reason why I do is because of the fact that you've 680 00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:50,000 got people that I genuinely thought were going to be never, 681 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,480 never or not Trumpers. I always thought people like 682 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:59,000 Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan would always be, you know, those Trump 683 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:03,800 MAGA loyalists. And yet recently they haven't 684 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,600 been well, they've been very critical. 685 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,400 These are educated people. So what what I'm talking about 686 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,120 is that is. The uneducated Because you're 687 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,400 exactly right. I think it's about 25% of the 688 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,000 American population is. Illiterate. 689 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,440 I don't know how to put this. They're dumb fucks. 690 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,560 Pretty much. They're voting against their own 691 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,160 interests. In simple terms. 692 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:27,040 In simple terms, they're voting against themselves in order. 693 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:31,960 They're voting not based on bettering the lives of American 694 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:33,880 people. They're not voting for equal 695 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,400 rights. They're not voting for equality 696 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,320 or any of that. They're voting on their hate. 697 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,640 It's sad 'cause they don't even realize it. 698 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:45,040 They hate those transgenders, they hate those homosexuals, 699 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,320 they hate those immigrants, The others. 700 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,880 He's otherwise those. People, that's what they're fed 701 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:54,560 though too, and they eat it up. And those people, no matter what 702 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,360 we do, they're not coming around. 703 00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,200 He's got them by the he's got them locked in a death grip. 704 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,920 It is. I still think that the midterms 705 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,840 are going to be a little bit more eye opening in in a in a 706 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:10,080 refute to that, to be honest, I think that there's going to be a 707 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,040 lot. More 75% of the vote is better 708 00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,440 than nothing true. Do you see what I'm saying? 709 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,240 Absolutely. Cause we, we need more than 50%, 710 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:23,600 yeah, we need like 60 or 70% yeah to be a landslide win. 711 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,040 But if we can get 70 to 75% of the vote, I'm in. 712 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,640 I'm like. Esme, you need to understand the 713 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,320 the it's not. It does not matter. 714 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,560 Landslide. In my opinion, landslide doesn't 715 00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:34,120 matter. Win. 716 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:34,640 We win. What? 717 00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:36,680 No, it doesn't even matter whether or not we win. 718 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:40,360 The way we get this fucker out of office is with a 2/3 719 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:41,240 majority. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 720 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:46,680 So you're you're exactly right. We need between 60 and 70% so 721 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,560 that we can have the Senate votes to get the fucker out of 722 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,480 office. Get get all these people out of 723 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:53,600 office. Fire them all. 724 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,120 The whole kid in Kabuto needs to go because they're a threat to 725 00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:57,920 democracy. So you're exactly right. 726 00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:59,760 You're absolutely right. Something that's going to happen 727 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:01,080 because it's being talked about now. 728 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,360 They're already laying the ground for they're about to pack 729 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,120 that court they're talking about they're. 730 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,120 Doing anything to give themselves a cushion for the 731 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,360 future, They'll do and. We are going to pack the court. 732 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,280 Oh, baby, yeah. We are going to pack that 733 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:13,560 freaking court I. Was. 734 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,480 Going to say the Republicans already did. 735 00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,640 It's already there. We're going to be in court. 736 00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,840 We're going to add more seats. Oh yeah, and let me tell you, 737 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:23,920 the ones that are there better be careful they don't get 738 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,760 impeached if we get a majority. I'd like to see Clarence Thomas 739 00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:29,000 'cause. There's a few of them in there 740 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,560 that we got there. He's got a lot of questionable 741 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,040 stuff on his record that you know what I'm specifically 742 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:36,960 we're. Starting his finances, let alone 743 00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,280 the other. Let alone the other like 744 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,560 accusations, the rape accusations, all that other 745 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:42,760 stuff. You are absolutely right. 746 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,200 His financials should be called into question in every single 747 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,560 aspect. He is not going ahead and 748 00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,000 holding himself to the way that the court should be holding 749 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,880 themselves and not recusing himself from certain cases. 750 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,360 And, you know, that might just be what it will be to wake some 751 00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,560 people up because sometimes until it involves money, they 752 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,520 don't even realize it because it it doesn't affect them. 753 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,680 And that's something with all of that stuff is people don't think 754 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:06,960 about things and. So listen, I got to talk. 755 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,360 I've been dilly dallying around this story. 756 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:15,400 So this family have an only son. They have a very small home. 757 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,960 They have a master bedroom, they have a guest room and they have 758 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,880 the son's bedroom. They got family members that 759 00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:28,240 like to visit them and they've been for years now this kid has 760 00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:31,480 been dealing with these family members visiting and he has to 761 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:35,760 give up the room. So 2 days before their arrival, 762 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:40,280 not not two weeks, not a month before they get here, his mom 763 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,440 and dad tell him you got to give up your room. 764 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:46,040 This these family members are coming and they're bringing some 765 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:47,720 other people with them and you have to give up. 766 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:49,920 And he said, no, I'm not doing that. 767 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:51,880 I'm not giving up my room anymore. 768 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,600 And they're furious at him. They say that he's breaking 769 00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,520 family tradition, that he's being disrespectful. 770 00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:59,960 He said they can sleep in the living room and in the guest 771 00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:02,480 room, 'cause I'm not. So the guest room can't hold 772 00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,960 everybody. The guest room is very small, so 773 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:10,000 some of them would have had to sleep in his room and he would 774 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,600 have ended up sleeping in the living room. 775 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:16,240 But he says this is his, this is his explanation. 776 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:22,760 I have studies for school and I need my rest and I need a quiet 777 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,040 place to study. And you're going to pack this 778 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:28,960 house full of people and I'm not going to have any privacy as I 779 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,920 study for my schooling. So no, I'm not giving up my 780 00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:33,400 room. Don't ask me. 781 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,080 I'm not doing it. I'm not cooperating. 782 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,880 And don't tell me this is your house, because this is my house 783 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:40,680 too, because I live here. Wake it up. 784 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,000 I didn't ask to be born. That part. 785 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,000 Parents do that all the time. But he's letting them have it. 786 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,440 And I'm like, listen, I don't know who this kid is, but I'm 787 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:53,280 all for it. I am very respectful of him. 788 00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,640 I'm very respectful that he is handling this like an adult. 789 00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,680 And this is what he also said. He said if they wanted that room 790 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,840 so badly they should have given me at least two weeks notice and 791 00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:04,680 so that I could have found somewhere to go. 792 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,520 Not find somewhere to go. This boy is doing business. 793 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,600 Oh yeah, so I could have found somewhere else to go. 794 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:14,000 So you know what, if y'all don't want me here, let me know. 795 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,400 So he's like literally talking about y'all want to take me to 796 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,080 court for this? Y'all want to sue? 797 00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:22,120 Me, I'm dead. So they the family members did 798 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:23,760 come and they ended up in the living room. 799 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:25,320 They all ended up sleeping in the living. 800 00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:26,400 Room. But here's the thing about it. 801 00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,520 It's like, why can't this family get like a hotel? 802 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,480 But he's that's the other thing. So there's a lot of tension in 803 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,800 the house. They say right now while this 804 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,600 was going on. So it's like everybody, nobody 805 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,200 speaking to each other. It's a lot of anger. 806 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:43,360 The the visiting family is upset with the boy and the parents for 807 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:46,600 not standing up to him. They're mad at him for putting 808 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,680 him in this. So there's a lot of tension in 809 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,720 the house. So, you know, people just make 810 00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:54,640 themselves at home. Oh yeah. 811 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,680 It isn't like these are wealthy people, they have a very small 812 00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:58,480 home. True. 813 00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:02,840 You said it best, the next time you visit, do us all a favor. 814 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,000 Get a fucking hotel room. Yeah. 815 00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,320 Don't put us in this situation. We're not responsible for your 816 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,320 conveniences and your comfort while you visit here. 817 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,400 And no tea, no shade. If you can't afford a hotel, 818 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,240 maybe it's not a good time to do a visit. 819 00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,960 Yeah, you don't have the money. Maybe we maybe you should stay 820 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,280 home You. Obviously do not have the money 821 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:22,560 you have to stay with us and are sleeping on the floor in our 822 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:23,240 fucking living. Room. 823 00:41:23,240 --> 00:41:24,960 Is this even a smart visit you're planning? 824 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,320 This is even smart after all. But I'm going to tell you, I 825 00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,640 respect that kid so much. That's so fierce. 826 00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,240 I love that. I, I, they, they have raised an 827 00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:34,200 adult. That they have. 828 00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:37,200 Raised an adult. His reaction was very adult. 829 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:39,960 I'm very, very sorry, but I'm not doing it this time. 830 00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:42,760 And the reason is you did not give me enough time to prepare 831 00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:44,680 because I could have found somewhere else to go. 832 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,000 And he dealt with it before. Many times. 833 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,280 You know so. Well, all through his childhood 834 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,320 he dealt with it right. And it's the same group, so he 835 00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,880 doesn't say if there are sisters or if it's an uncle. 836 00:41:55,240 --> 00:41:57,160 Cousin. Whatever, they're 837 00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:01,400 inconveniencing him and Goddess and his reasoning is beautiful, 838 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,120 distracting me. I got to study. 839 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:07,920 I need my privacy, I need my space to study and oh and I need 840 00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,920 to be able to sleep and I don't need a lot of noise around me 841 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,200 when they're walking around and moving around. 842 00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,120 I got school in the morning. Yeah, I have stuff to do. 843 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:17,760 Girl, I love it. What do you think, Chris? 844 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,720 Little businessman. Honestly it it's very much a a 845 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,480 situation where the parents are acting like they own the child 846 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,320 and. You said that earlier today to 847 00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:28,000 me and I thought that was exactly correct. 848 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,400 It's a very unfortunate thing that a lot of parents think that 849 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,080 they should be doing, and it's the same thing that happens when 850 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,400 it comes to trans children and them using their preferred 851 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,760 preferred name and pronouns during school. 852 00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:43,800 A lot of parents think, oh, I own the child so I should be the 853 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,600 person who makes the decision as to what they're called and what 854 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,040 their pronouns are. That's not the case. 855 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:50,960 You're raising an other fucking human being. 856 00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:54,120 This is a actual person. You can't go ahead and treat 857 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:57,640 them as if they're just some some of your property. 858 00:42:58,080 --> 00:42:59,400 Well, I'm going to tell you that. 859 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,880 I'm going to say this kid made an adult decision. 860 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,840 Oh yeah. And he stood up to them and I 861 00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:06,600 respect that. And that means when he goes out 862 00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,280 into the workforce, he's going to stand up to people. 863 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,640 He's not going to, he's not going to be rolled over. 864 00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:13,240 It's not what they say. When you roll, you roll. 865 00:43:13,240 --> 00:43:15,120 Somebody. He's not going to be easily 866 00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:16,960 rolled over. He's going to stand up for 867 00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:18,880 himself and I respect. That that's a good thing. 868 00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:20,680 You know what I mean? And don't tell. 869 00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:22,560 Oh, and I love what he said. And don't tell me this is your 870 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,360 house, because I live here too and I didn't choose to be born. 871 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,280 But that's manipulation on the parents part. 872 00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,400 I didn't choose to be born. But I say, but it's so true, 873 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,800 though he's right about that. Parents will do that all. 874 00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:35,640 This is our house. That's our rules. 875 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:37,240 It is your house. But I live with you. 876 00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:38,960 I'm your child. I'm not. 877 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,200 I didn't ask to go live here. Yeah, I wasn't hatched. 878 00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,600 I'm your relative. I'm your blood direct blood 879 00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:48,200 relative. I have your child so wild 880 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:51,000 talking about. I I the other thing that I don't 881 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:55,200 really understand is the the older generation who's OK with 882 00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,080 having other people stay in their house. 883 00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:00,160 I don't, I will never invite somebody to sleep in my house. 884 00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:01,880 I'm honestly. Right there with you. 885 00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:03,680 I hate having guests. I hate. 886 00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:07,800 It, I mean, I'm fine with guests during the day, but that's 887 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,120 different. I rarely if if I'm doing a 888 00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:14,040 sleepover, like I have to trust you, I have to know who you are. 889 00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,040 I have to know that you're not going to steal my shit. 890 00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:18,760 I have to know that you're not going to go ahead and make 891 00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,520 yourself at home to the point where it's uncomfortable. 892 00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:24,560 Would you go to that house knowing that the kids said no? 893 00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:27,480 'Cause you know no. You know the kids, the parents 894 00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:29,240 had to tell them. No I would not. 895 00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:30,560 That's actually such a good point. 896 00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,360 And that family still showed up. Young brother sleeping in the 897 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:34,480 living room. Wow. 898 00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,280 Sleeping in the living room, on the floor, all over the place. 899 00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,000 And you're right about the tension in that house. 900 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,080 Well, he said that the article said it of the tension could cut 901 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,280 it with a knife. Nobody nobody is speaking to 902 00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,200 anybody. The the family that's busy is 903 00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:51,000 mad at the the the two parents, right, because they won't stand 904 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,800 up to their kid. The two the kid is married at 905 00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:57,640 their parents and the family for putting him in that situation. 906 00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:03,680 So they're mad at the family for visiting because they're 907 00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:05,600 fighting now with their kid because of them. 908 00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:09,320 Because this is a Why don't y'all get a freaking hotel? 909 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:12,920 Just get a hotel. Well, it's a as a, you know, 910 00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:16,760 former child, I literally. A former child. 911 00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:21,320 As a former child I would use my room as a safe haven and having 912 00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:24,800 other people saying in my safe haven makes it not a safe haven. 913 00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,000 So true. Anyways, let's move on. 914 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:31,240 Southwest Airlines has banned all human like or animal like 915 00:45:31,240 --> 00:45:34,600 robots from both carry on or checked baggage regardless of 916 00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,760 size or purpose. The airline says policy change 917 00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:40,560 followed several recent incidents involving passengers 918 00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,480 trying to fly with humanoid robots. 919 00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:46,320 In one case, a passenger brought bought a separate seat for a 920 00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:50,160 human a humanoid robot on a Southwest flight out of Oakland. 921 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,480 That robot reportedly delayed the flight after the airline 922 00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:56,800 staff determined its lithium battery was too large to meet 923 00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,560 safety rules. Another incident out of Las 924 00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,680 Vegas captured on Instagram showed a robot causing confusion 925 00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,640 during boarding. SW ultimately allowed both 926 00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,960 robots on board at the time. The 1 passenger had to remove 927 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:13,800 the robot's batteries before flying the FF FAA says lithium 928 00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,720 batteries are banned from checked bags because they can 929 00:46:16,720 --> 00:46:21,120 overheat, and they data shows that there have already been 29 930 00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:25,280 verified lithium battery in incidents involving smoke, fire 931 00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:29,480 or extreme heat in 2026. SW says the robot ban is meant 932 00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:32,880 to remove confusion about what passengers can bring onto planes 933 00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:37,560 as May no I robot for you. Yeah, at least the robots aren't 934 00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:39,040 going to be taking over the airlines. 935 00:46:39,240 --> 00:46:41,880 Well, that's a good thing. I, I, you know the battery, 936 00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,000 every problem is really, really scary. 937 00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:48,640 I just saw a movie not too long ago where the battery, there was 938 00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:53,680 an always an international flight and there were over 233 939 00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:57,200 passengers on board the ship on the plane and they were crossing 940 00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:02,880 the ocean and the lithium battery inside of the hold of 941 00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:07,120 the ship underneath caught fire. And the crate that it was in 942 00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:11,560 caught fire and then that crate ignited another crate and it 943 00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:16,360 created a firestorm underneath. When the fire started, they 944 00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:22,000 registered the fire on their screens in the cockpit and one 945 00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:27,040 of the pilots went down into the hold to to put the fire out 946 00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:31,240 because the fire extinguishers weren't strong enough to put it 947 00:47:31,240 --> 00:47:33,960 out. The fire extinguishers came on, 948 00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:35,720 but it weren't strong enough to put it out. 949 00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:41,960 So when he went down there to spray the right, the lithium 950 00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:47,280 battery exploded and blew a hole on the and he blew out the hole 951 00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:51,320 and all the all the luggage flying out the hole and that 952 00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:55,680 caught caused the ship to destabilize and they went it's a 953 00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:57,920 movie though, but they went into the water. 954 00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:00,640 That is insane. That's what we need to be scared 955 00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:02,680 of. They went into the water and 956 00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:06,960 they were in that water for about 24 to almost 48 hours. 957 00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:10,280 I was shark circling that, that, yeah. 958 00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:14,240 So out of 233 passengers, only 37 survived. 959 00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:18,360 Speaking of sharks, you know how I I've, I take that boat, the 960 00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,720 little 13 foot skiff like 20 miles offshore sometimes that. 961 00:48:21,720 --> 00:48:23,400 Bathtub that. He the little bathtub that I 962 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:24,760 drive in. Yeah. 963 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:27,760 Yeah. For some reason my TikTok page 964 00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:31,080 has been non-stop people in those similar boats being 965 00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,960 surrounded by sharks. Your TikTok is listening. 966 00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,560 The TikTok is watching. TikTok, you don't stop. 967 00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:38,320 TikTok, you don't stop, but it's it's. 968 00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:40,480 That's what, that's what Rosie O'donnell's easy with Rosie 969 00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:43,280 O'Donnell, she goes she but she puts her mouth together. 970 00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:45,040 She goes TikTok. You don't stop. 971 00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:48,560 She's not wrong. She like puts it in her lips 972 00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:50,840 real tight, her talk, talk, don't stop. 973 00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:54,800 Well, I just, I feel like I, I feel like the bad vibes are are 974 00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:56,960 coming around through TikTok with those sharks. 975 00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:58,640 I don't like that. I don't like the vibe. 976 00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,560 Well, we haven't even been out on the boat recently in a while. 977 00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,840 Well, I'm gonna tell you, you gotta be really careful. 978 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:06,800 Oh, yeah. Because those things are, you 979 00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:08,840 know, they're. Well, we're more prepared now, 980 00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:12,040 but we when we went 20 miles off last time. 981 00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:13,440 We got some big sharks in the water. 982 00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:16,680 We didn't have any radio, we didn't have. 983 00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,440 We had flares, we had life jackets and everything. 984 00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:20,680 But Sean? Sean was. 985 00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:25,640 Listen, a life jacket in that water is basically me going to a 986 00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:28,560 sushi restaurant and you dangling the sushi over my mouth 987 00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:30,720 like. Literally. 988 00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,480 OK, that life wrap is just to keep you alive. 989 00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,120 You long enough for the shark that wants to eat you. 990 00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,600 Live baby. Well, Sean was the one who was 991 00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:41,760 going swimming in it. Sean was swimming in it, no? 992 00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:43,800 You could, you won't. See, I can't do that. 993 00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:48,720 I I call this old people fears. Old people fears. 994 00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:49,000 Yeah. Yeah. 995 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,720 Like when you get old, like my age, I'm 65. 996 00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:54,840 So when you get to my age, you start getting scared of 997 00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:56,600 different things. Like I couldn't do that. 998 00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:59,080 No, I wouldn't do that. Oh absolutely not. 999 00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:00,520 I wouldn't. It's just like when people 1000 00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,040 skydive. Oh hell no. 1001 00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:03,840 I am not jumping out of no plane. 1002 00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:05,360 No, on a skydive. Nope. 1003 00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:07,240 Nope. Oh, you know what I really want 1004 00:50:07,240 --> 00:50:08,640 to do? I want to start trying clip 1005 00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:10,720 drive clip diving. No, no, I'm not. 1006 00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:12,720 I'm not diving, jumping off no Cliff. 1007 00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:14,640 I wanna, I'm brave, but I'm not that brave. 1008 00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:16,360 No, I'm not jumping off no Cliff. 1009 00:50:16,720 --> 00:50:19,120 The bravest thing I do is put on ladies makeup and high heels. 1010 00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,480 Well, Lexi, the the other thing that the 20 miles isn't even 1011 00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:27,320 really that big of a deal. We took the 13 foot across the 1012 00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:32,040 Sunshine Skyway and ended up basically dragging a 30 foot 1013 00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:35,600 sailboat across the Tampa Bay channel, the mouth of Tampa Bay 1014 00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:40,480 and we there was literally a. 20 miles out is scary. 1015 00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:43,760 It was scary. But you could technically swim 1016 00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:46,760 it to shore. You could, but I'm going to tell 1017 00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:48,480 you. I don't know if you gonna make 1018 00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:49,440 it. I'm not gonna make it. 1019 00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:52,800 Miles, that is. 20 miles, people have done things well. 1020 00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:54,400 Some people what people don't realize. 1021 00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:57,760 Also, 20 miles. You don't got no self-service 1022 00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,400 either. You are so far away from the 1023 00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:05,240 land that your phone is on SOS mode and only the satellites 1024 00:51:05,240 --> 00:51:08,200 work. And yeah, you're you're kind of 1025 00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:09,200 shit out of luck. Nice. 1026 00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,120 And scary. That is really scary. 20 miles 1027 00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:13,320 is the that's the drive in itself. 1028 00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:14,080 You know what I mean? 20. 1029 00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,720 Miles is a long time. Yeah, you could swim it, but I 1030 00:51:16,720 --> 00:51:17,840 mean you, I don't know. It's. 1031 00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,800 Like about two hours to get there, 3 hours to get there out 1032 00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:24,280 out that far. That's like that, that island. 1033 00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:27,840 What's that island that had the prisoners starts with an A 1034 00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:30,000 Alcatraz. Alcatraz, Yes, and people would 1035 00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,360 try to swim to the shore. I wonder how long that was 1036 00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,720 'cause they could never make it because the currents would send 1037 00:51:35,720 --> 00:51:37,400 them in different directions. Yeah, that's the problem. 1038 00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,840 It's the currents and then the and then the the this, you know, 1039 00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,920 those, the, the aquatic creatures, I mean, yeah, sharks, 1040 00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:46,240 you know, you're in their house. People say I can't believe that 1041 00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:48,440 I got bit by a shark. You're in their house. 1042 00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:48,860 Yeah. Mm. 1043 00:51:48,860 --> 00:51:51,160 Hmm. You're inside their house. 1044 00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,200 That's where they live. You don't got gills, they have 1045 00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,320 gills. Yeah, that's where they live. 1046 00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:58,600 What you know, what's really gotten really scary now and then 1047 00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,840 I, I keep hearing about it more and more and it's starting to 1048 00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:05,160 really scare me is the crocodiles that get inside the 1049 00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:06,160 beach. Oh my goodness, they're 1050 00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,920 everywhere. I'm like, I'm not clear at that. 1051 00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:12,920 So this lady's on the beach swimming and the husband is 1052 00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:16,480 screaming, like trying to signal and she thinks he's joking. 1053 00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:18,680 And the crocodile had his mouth open. 1054 00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:21,880 He was heading straight towards her and she's in the beach water 1055 00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,560 and he's screaming at her. And she finally realized that 1056 00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,040 and she ran and she started swimming and, and, and was able 1057 00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:30,800 to escape, but. Don't they not like salt water? 1058 00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,000 Like why are they even? Apparently they can breathe salt 1059 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:34,800 water too. I did not know that. 1060 00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:39,800 What the what? House lawmakers have introduced 1061 00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:43,720 A bipartisan proposal that would charge electric vehicle owners a 1062 00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:48,800 new $130.00 annual fee to help pay for Rd. repairs and Hwy. 1063 00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,640 infrastructure. Plug in hybrid owners would pay 1064 00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:54,720 a smaller yearly fee, a fee of $35. 1065 00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:58,160 The bill would gradually raise those fees starting 2029, 1066 00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:03,600 increasing by $5 each year until EV owners pay $150.00 annually 1067 00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:05,960 and plug in owners pay $50 dollars. 1068 00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:10,560 Supporters say the idea is aimed at replacing gas tax revenue 1069 00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:13,600 that EV drivers largely avoid. Because they obviously don't 1070 00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:15,280 pay. They don't buy gasoline. 1071 00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:20,760 The legislation also includes new safety rules for autonomous 1072 00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:22,920 commercial vehicles like buses and trucks. 1073 00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:26,520 Autonomous school buses carrying children under the bill could 1074 00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:29,480 still be required to have a human driver on board. 1075 00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:32,440 Passenger self driving cars would not be covered by the 1076 00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:34,560 proposed federal safety standards in the bill. 1077 00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:39,120 And the debate over EV fees has been growing nationwide because 1078 00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:44,520 of this. Apparently they say that the 1079 00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:52,560 electric, an EV driver pays about less than $88.00 that they 1080 00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:54,680 would usually pay in federal gas tax. 1081 00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,480 So they don't pay that $88 anymore. 1082 00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:00,880 So that's why they would like to go ahead and and get that money 1083 00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,360 back basically through the tax. Punish them. 1084 00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:06,280 Basically punish. Them for punish them for. 1085 00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,360 Doing good. By by doing something that helps 1086 00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:10,560 with the environment. But I'm going to be honest, this 1087 00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:13,160 administration doesn't care about science, the environment 1088 00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:14,320 or anything like that. Well, this is the. 1089 00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:15,800 House. This is the house. 1090 00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:17,720 This isn't something thing that Trump is pushing. 1091 00:54:17,720 --> 00:54:20,360 This is, this is something that is bipartisan and it's in the 1092 00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:23,480 House. So it is it's it's not the 1093 00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:26,360 specific administration's attempts, but. 1094 00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:29,000 I don't think we should punish people that have electric cars. 1095 00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:32,560 Oh, no, I disagree. I think that if if you want to 1096 00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:34,800 have an electric vehicle, you should be entitled to the 1097 00:54:35,240 --> 00:54:37,720 benefits that come with it. And that's not paying the 1098 00:54:37,720 --> 00:54:41,520 federal gas increase like or federal gas tax. 1099 00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:45,120 But also, like, isn't that stuff supposed to go toward, like, get 1100 00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:48,920 like how we get gas, Right. And it's like, there's no means 1101 00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:52,800 of getting electric for a car besides just electricity. 1102 00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:54,840 Electricity, you know? So, yeah, well. 1103 00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:59,640 Obviously, you know, this is all proposed, so we'll see what 1104 00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:00,880 happens. We'll see what happens. 1105 00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:05,320 An Iowa man is suing Nintendo after he claims that he was 1106 00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:10,200 denied being an official Pokémon professor even though he scored 1107 00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:14,000 a 100% on the required exam. The lawsuit says the 1108 00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:17,000 certification was initially denied because of a low level 1109 00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:20,520 Illinois felony from more than 10 years ago found during a 1110 00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:22,840 background check. After he challenged the 1111 00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:25,960 decision, the lawsuit claims Nintendo and the Pokémon Company 1112 00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:29,440 International shifted their reasoning and pointed to 3 1113 00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:33,080 Pennsylvania misdemeanors that did not result in guilty 1114 00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:35,640 findings. The man, 34 year old Kyle Owens, 1115 00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:39,080 argues that the changing explanations show arbitrary 1116 00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:41,640 decision making and inconsistent standards. 1117 00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:45,760 Owens says being denied Pokémon Professor status cost him access 1118 00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:50,600 to special tools, event hosting privileges, customer traffic and 1119 00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:53,080 other business opportunities tied to the role. 1120 00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:58,400 He's asking for $341,000 in damages and wants the court to 1121 00:55:58,720 --> 00:56:02,520 officially grant him his Pokémon Professor certification. 1122 00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:04,680 What? I didn't even know that you 1123 00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,720 could become a certified Pokémon Professor. 1124 00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:11,640 That's who's who's like who's this overhead person that's 1125 00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:13,280 saying these people are professors? 1126 00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:14,320 Like that's. Nintendo. 1127 00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,720 Oh, this is a Nintendo. Thing this is officially 1128 00:56:17,720 --> 00:56:19,400 Nintendo. Wow. 1129 00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:22,760 He is suing Nintendo and The Pokémon Company International 1130 00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:24,840 for this. Esme. 1131 00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:27,200 Do you have any thoughts? Are are you wanting to be a 1132 00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:30,720 Pokémon Master I? Just think it's so silly though. 1133 00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:34,240 It's a very silly lawsuit. But I'm going to be honest, 1134 00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:38,080 Pokémon people that do the Pokémon thing, they take it so 1135 00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:39,360 seriously. Very much. 1136 00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:44,720 Yeah, well, Exhibit A, this. Guy like you know. 1137 00:56:44,720 --> 00:56:47,800 I mean $341,000 in damages. Jesus. 1138 00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:49,040 Same thing. It's the same thing. 1139 00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:53,000 But you know, I can only compare it to like, Star Trek fans. 1140 00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:55,880 Like I'm a Star Trek fan. Yeah, Star Wars fans too. 1141 00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:56,920 They take. Oh yeah. 1142 00:56:57,240 --> 00:56:58,720 Very serious. Oh yeah. 1143 00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:02,200 You know, whoa, the. Lord, the this the that. 1144 00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:03,480 Well, did you see that in this movie? 1145 00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:06,440 That this part. And take it so serious. 1146 00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:09,720 Yum Yum. I was like, God, even in the 1147 00:57:09,720 --> 00:57:13,360 movie theater I was watching people just cheering and. 1148 00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:15,200 Here they dress up. They. 1149 00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:17,200 Yeah. Just they take it so serious. 1150 00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:22,560 So you know, the thing with Pokémon is when I. 1151 00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:23,920 Hear the word? You sound like a boomer. 1152 00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:26,280 When you set up Pokémon, it's Pokémon. 1153 00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:30,760 Yeah, when I, when I when I think of Pokémon, I think no. 1154 00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:34,160 But when I think about it, I think about hey, poke me, Poke 1155 00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:39,000 me, man, Poke me, man. You know, that's what I'm 1156 00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:40,840 thinking. But also like, isn't this 1157 00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:43,440 supposed to be like a fun activity and we're turning it 1158 00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:45,920 into this like it's becoming not fun? 1159 00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:48,560 It's like, what do the kids say? Sometimes they go, girl, it's 1160 00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:49,200 not that. Same. 1161 00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:50,200 That serious? Not that. 1162 00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:51,720 Deep. I hear the kids say that like, 1163 00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:54,000 yeah, like you'll be upset over they go, girl, it ain't that 1164 00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:56,040 serious. Seriously, it ain't that 1165 00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:59,680 serious. Calm down, touch some grass. 1166 00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:02,560 Yeah, right. Yeah, some grass girl. 1167 00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:05,240 Get in touch with nature. Ground yourself. 1168 00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:07,120 Walk a trail. Walk a trail. 1169 00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:08,880 Look at the sun. Or maybe don't, I don't know. 1170 00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:10,680 Yeah. That's funny, yeah. 1171 00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:15,720 Miley Cyrus received the 2800 and 45th star on the Hollywood 1172 00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:19,040 Walk of Fame during a ceremony in Los Angeles on Friday. 1173 00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:23,080 Cyrus called the honor an accumulation of devotion and 1174 00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:26,560 said my name is laid in gold and pink terrazzo. 1175 00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:31,440 The in the story actually, it was actually really surprising. 1176 00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:35,760 They said Wrecking Ball was the first number one hit that Miley 1177 00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:39,200 Cyrus had despite having all the Hannah Montana success and 1178 00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:42,400 everything like that. I genuinely thought she had more 1179 00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:46,440 hits before Wrecking Ball, but it does seem wrong. 1180 00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:51,880 But, but don't forget that she won her first Grammy in 2024. 1181 00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:55,480 And that is so true. Literally so surprising she's 1182 00:58:55,480 --> 00:58:59,640 been around though for so long and like she's so young still. 1183 00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:03,720 She's so talented. Is and you know, she's she's one 1184 00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:05,760 of those. She reminds me a lot of a modern 1185 00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:09,160 day Stevie Nicks. Oh, I love that she. 1186 00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:13,160 Has that kind of gravelly voice, yes, but it's so sexy. 1187 00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:14,280 Textured too. It's. 1188 00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:15,720 Textured. Yes. 1189 00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:19,720 Yeah, I'd love that about her. She's stunning and she and she 1190 00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:22,040 loves the gays. She loves the gays, and she 1191 00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:23,400 knows all these like Drag Race girls. 1192 00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:25,440 She knows them by name. Messy either. 1193 00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:28,880 No, she's not. Messy with drugs or do you know 1194 00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:30,920 what I'm saying? Do you know that even in her 1195 00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:33,640 Wrecking Ball era, like her mom was her manager and everyone 1196 00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:35,000 would be like, where's this girl's mom? 1197 00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:36,760 And she's like literally on tour with me. 1198 00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:38,600 Like, my mom's right here. Like she's. 1199 00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:42,560 She's not messy at all, no. No, she's, she's such a such a 1200 00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:46,200 grounded person and really knows who she is, you know, and it's 1201 00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:49,280 honestly, again, crazy. Everything in her career took so 1202 00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:52,040 long, like the, the, the the star and the Walk of Fame. 1203 00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:54,000 To me, that's crazy 'cause it's like I feel like that's 1204 00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:56,600 something that I I feel like she should have already had. 1205 00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:59,240 Yeah, but one. Of her cast mates who played, a 1206 00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:02,360 young teenage boy was actually in his 30s. 1207 01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:06,480 Yes, yeah. I was very shocked at that. 1208 01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:10,080 I always thought he was like a little kid, but he's not. 1209 01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:12,560 Conditioned or something like. Yeah, yeah. 1210 01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:14,880 I was like, Oh my God. Wow. 1211 01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:19,000 So when he got the gig, he lied about his age. 1212 01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:21,560 Jason Earls. And then they found out about 1213 01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:23,600 it. Yeah, Jackson Stewart, Jason 1214 01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:25,480 Earls by. The time they found out about 1215 01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:28,840 it, the TV show had the the IT was groundbreaking. 1216 01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:32,320 They had broken through. So they pulled him into the 1217 01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:34,720 office and they said, listen, we know what's your secret? 1218 01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:38,360 And he goes, what is that? He goes, you lied about your age 1219 01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:41,640 and. Yeah, he's crazy. 1220 01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:43,000 He. Looks like a little kid. 1221 01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:45,920 But also like if he looked the part, I mean, I guess he was 1222 01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:47,480 just trying to really store himself. 1223 01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:50,720 He really looked the part. He still looks like a kid. 1224 01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:52,600 That's like the kid from Malcolm in the Middle. 1225 01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:56,320 Not that kid is, you know. Well, Stephen Colbert is 1226 01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:59,320 officially off of the television. 1227 01:00:59,880 --> 01:01:03,280 What a great goodbye to him. But he he returned to late night 1228 01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:07,320 television for one special appearance on Michigan Public 1229 01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:11,240 Access program Only in Monroe. The appearance mirrored a 1230 01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:14,840 surprise visit he made to the same show in 2015 before 1231 01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:16,640 launching The Late The Late Show. 1232 01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:23,000 After after his last show, which featured appearances from Paul 1233 01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:26,360 McCartney, Ryan Reynolds, Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth 1234 01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:31,280 Meyers, he went ahead and I, I just lost what I was reading. 1235 01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:34,360 My God. Oh, oh, but excuse me, that's 1236 01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:37,040 what it was. Donald Trump went ahead and 1237 01:01:37,040 --> 01:01:43,000 reposted an AI video of him throwing Colbert in a dumpster. 1238 01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:45,960 And a dumpster I saw. Him with these AI videos, he's 1239 01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:47,480 like a child. It's so weird, he's. 1240 01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:50,360 Just said angry. He's very immature. 1241 01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:53,920 He embarrasses us on the, on the national stage and he 1242 01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:56,280 embarrasses on the international stage. 1243 01:01:56,600 --> 01:01:58,760 Our president is an embarrassing human being. 1244 01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:00,760 I mean, it's very sad. It really is. 1245 01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:04,520 You know, it's just some, it's unbecoming behavior of a, of an 1246 01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:08,000 office that that has always held such respect around the world. 1247 01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:12,320 Very sad anyway. I got one more topic before we 1248 01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:15,520 want to go ahead and wrap up. Sharon Osbourne and son Jack 1249 01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:19,600 Osbourne are creating an AI powered avatar of Ozzy Osbourne 1250 01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:21,600 10 month after the rock legend's death. 1251 01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:24,920 The project is a partnership with Hyperreal and Proto 1252 01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:29,320 Hologram announced at Licensing Expo 2026 in Las Vegas. 1253 01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:33,080 The digital version of Ozzy will appear as a life-size hologram 1254 01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:35,240 that can interact and speak with fans. 1255 01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:38,280 The hologram is expected to launch later this summer in both 1256 01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:40,160 the United Kingdom and the United States. 1257 01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:43,920 Sharon compared the idea to Elvis Presley's lasting cultural 1258 01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:46,840 presence, saying that she wants people to continue remembering 1259 01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:53,360 Ozzy Osbourne the same way. No, no, when, when you die, you 1260 01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:55,160 die. Whether or not you want to go 1261 01:02:55,160 --> 01:03:00,760 ahead and put up a, a, a video of you being fake and being a 1262 01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:03,360 fake person, that's fine. That's not a real fucking 1263 01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:05,480 person. Just let him fucking die. 1264 01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:09,560 Like you can go ahead and do all these like different things with 1265 01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:13,760 this person to talk about how he's his lasting legacy, all of 1266 01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:16,720 his music and everything like that without going ahead and 1267 01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:20,080 using some random hologram. Like I, I always felt I found 1268 01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:22,880 that weird when Michael Jackson started. 1269 01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:24,920 Like there was accusations or not accusations. 1270 01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:28,440 There was times where he was doing hologram stuff, like if 1271 01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:31,920 you remember that, yeah. And ABBA died, Yeah. 1272 01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:32,800 And they did one of. Oh. 1273 01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:34,960 The in the. Steer, they did one of Whitney 1274 01:03:34,960 --> 01:03:37,760 Houston, which was really good. Yeah, the one of Whitney was 1275 01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:38,960 great. It looked like she was really 1276 01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:40,520 there. But I just I don't have been in 1277 01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:43,320 this interactive situation 'cause I think it seems very 1278 01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:45,560 unique. So with AI, they can really do a 1279 01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:47,800 lot of stuff now. They can make those holograms 1280 01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:49,960 talk back to you and everything. I don't like that. 1281 01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:52,680 Yeah, like there's a they have their art that they made in 1282 01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:54,840 their lifetime. So they, what they do is, is 1283 01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:58,120 they, they take recorded vocals, they piece it together and they 1284 01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:01,080 splice it and they, it sounds like the person is there 1285 01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:03,600 standing talking. Also, no offense comparing to 1286 01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:05,760 Elvis is a little brave but. Yeah. 1287 01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:08,280 You know, true. Got a lot of people, girl. 1288 01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:11,880 A lot of people live in fantasy worlds. 1289 01:04:11,920 --> 01:04:14,000 Yeah. You you work in a place where 1290 01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:17,320 there's a lot of fantasy. Oh baby, delusion is the name of 1291 01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:19,400 the game. No, but but it's not delusional 1292 01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:21,960 there. The fantasy there is generating 1293 01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:23,920 millions and millions and millions and millions and 1294 01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:25,720 millions and millions and billions of dollars. 1295 01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:26,920 Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. 1296 01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:30,200 So the so it's not a delusional no Mickey. 1297 01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:33,520 Mickey is very real. Oh yes. 1298 01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:38,080 And he is generating real money. Yeah, yeah, it's. 1299 01:04:38,080 --> 01:04:39,880 Crazy. It's why it's it's insane. 1300 01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:42,960 It's play time, but for us, those of us that visit the park, 1301 01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:45,040 but it's. It's work for. 1302 01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:49,400 Us it is work, but it's also it's a business that's a that's 1303 01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:53,600 a thriving yeah the Disney brand is exceptional. 1304 01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:56,680 I've, I've always been a fan. I hate when people try to say, 1305 01:04:56,720 --> 01:04:59,760 oh, Disney, that Disney's always been a great brand and. 1306 01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:02,440 What people don't realize is Disney is running all of this. 1307 01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:05,000 They just don't know. Disney owns radio stations. 1308 01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:08,120 Disney owns news stations. There's a reason you don't hear 1309 01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:09,880 about tragedies in their park, girl. 1310 01:05:10,040 --> 01:05:12,400 Of course. And Disney owns a good portion 1311 01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:13,920 of Orlando. Oh yeah. 1312 01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:16,040 They pay for all the cleanup and everything. 1313 01:05:16,160 --> 01:05:18,680 Orlando is there because. Of Disney all those interstates 1314 01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:21,560 get repaired and fixed because of the Disney so that you can 1315 01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:25,880 have a beautiful Yep Oh yeah Yep side of the road cleaning 1316 01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:28,840 everything all done by Disney. They're magical. 1317 01:05:28,920 --> 01:05:30,000 Well. Chris, we are done. 1318 01:05:30,040 --> 01:05:32,720 We are done, Lexi. Thank you so much for joining. 1319 01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:34,200 Us Thank you so much for having me. 1320 01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:36,200 You guys were such a good time. Of course. 1321 01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:38,800 Well, for people who missed it on the main show, where can 1322 01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:40,440 people find more information about you? 1323 01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:43,520 Yes, you can find me online on my Instagram, Facebook. 1324 01:05:43,520 --> 01:05:45,680 I am the Lexi Long. Well, thank. 1325 01:05:46,640 --> 01:05:49,600 Yes, thank you again, Miss Esme, It seems like you're getting the 1326 01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:50,720 fuck out of here. So because I. 1327 01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:53,200 I got to go to the bank and I got to go to Walmart. 1328 01:05:53,840 --> 01:05:56,000 Wake it up. Well, enjoy your Walmart trip. 1329 01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:58,280 I'm going to the pool so we'll see you all later. 1330 01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:00,680 Thank you so much for listening. If you haven't heard it already. 1331 01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:02,760 You are loved, you are appreciated and we thank you so 1332 01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:07,040 much for your support over the big gay radio show Esme stay 1333 01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:09,080 being a bottom. Adios bye.