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Unfiltered, unbothered, and 

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unapologetically queer. 
Welcome to the Big Gay After 

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show. 
Welcome to the big Gay After 

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show. 
I forgot what we're doing today.

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Welcome to the big Gay After 
Show. 

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My name is Chris Gorman. 
I'm a show twink here, joined by

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the electric trans queen of 
radio, Miss Esme Russell. 

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Merry Christmas. 
And we're also joined by 

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extremely special guests. 
We are joined by Raquel Blue, 

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otherwise known as Robert 
Rigsby, creator of Closet Ball 

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Tampa Bay and also Roca 
Productions. 

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Welcome into the studio. 
Is this thing on? 

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It is on yes. 
It's just the worst. 

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What a way to start the show. 
Me saying Merry Christmas and 

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you and you asking hello, hello,
hello, hello. 

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Is this thing on? 
Just making sure. 

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That is just the fucking worst. 
I'm sorry, but it is. 

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It's that kind of day. 
It's just that terrible. 

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I'm like, are you serious? 
Is this thing on? 

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Well, so for those who do not 
know, we'll, we'll, we'll start 

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with Roka production. 
So what is Roka? 

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What is? 
What is Roka? 

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It is actually pronounced Roka. 
Is it Roka? 

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Yes, everyone says Roka, which 
is really funny, but it it was 

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my first, the first 2 letters of
my name and my old business 

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partner Casey. 
We started back in 2015 because 

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we had gone to pageants and we 
were seeing all these dancers, 

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but they weren't trained 
dancers. 

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I get that. 
I get what you mean. 

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Like you could tell like they 
were using. 

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Them they were sloppy and and it
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yes. 
As technical. 

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So that's kind of what we saw 
was a niche for us to make some 

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extra money and it worked. 
I'm still here. 

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Awesome. 
So for somebody to go ahead and,

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you know, come up to you and be 
like, hey, I want to get 

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production going. 
How does that work? 

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What what do you go ahead and 
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What's your? 
Problem, you know, The thing is,

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is that first it was all about 
word of mouth and then I got 

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onto Facebook and create a page 
and actually the thing was it's 

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just us showing up to different 
pageants and different events. 

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That was how we have survived. 
People don't really go to our 

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website, they kind of just say 
hey, I need dancers or they just

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randomly call me I need dancers 
for this, I need go go dancers, 

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I need promo models. 
So it's very much of A word of 

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mouth thing still. 
And one of the things I do love 

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about Rocket Productions is I 
believe if you don't have work, 

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you can create it. 
So that's what I really had to 

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do was create the work, creating
work for myself as a dancer who 

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moved to Florida at 35 years 
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I wasn't going to work at Busch 
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old. 
You know, I'd just been dancing 

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in Las Vegas for 11 years and 
I'd come work at Busch Gardens. 

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That was another story for 
another day. 

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But it was very much, it's 
provided me work for a very long

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time. 
And the places that we've, we've

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traveled all over the United 
States performing and that has 

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been a blessing in itself 
because I really didn't expect 

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to come to Florida and just be 
dancing in Boston or dancing in 

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Chicago or. 
Have you ever worked for Busch 

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Gardens? 
I have. 

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Is it just me or is Busch 
Gardens in decline? 

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Yes. 
Well, I don't go to theme parks 

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because I don't do rides. 
I just drink. 

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I will jump on that and say, 
yes, I love. 

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I love love, love, love, love, 
love Busch Gardens. 

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My actually fun fact about me is
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parents, my family have had 
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was a toddler. 
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is that they never adjusted the 
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So we have a full on like past 
nowadays platinum pass for the 

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same price of a toddler price 
back in 2003. 

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So we, we've not increased the 
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So I for the people who have to 
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it is a little bit of a 
disservice the fact that they 

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are in, in the current state 
that they are currently in. 

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There's a lot of times where I 
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arguing, complaining about the 
fact that rides are shut down, 

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multiple rides are shut down and
it's a it's a mess. 

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It's it's a mess and shut it 
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I don't, I don't think Busch 
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entirely. 
I think it needs to be revamped 

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a little bit more. 
Yeah, it looks kind of seedy. 

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It's, it's, you know, The thing 
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was excited to go to Busch 
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some of the other parks when I 
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And it was really exciting to 
see Bush because I'd like to go 

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see the shows. 
That's all I want to see. 

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I've never looked at a Bush and 
wanted to look at it. 

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Oh my God. 
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What you said, you said you 
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At the Bush. 
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I've never, so I've never in my 
life wanted to look at nobody's 

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Bush. 
Same here, I got to get a 

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haircut reminds me. 
But I do like to see shows and 

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theme parks. 
That's what I do, that's what I 

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want to see. 
So literally I just go from show

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to show. 
I saw the ice skating Christmas 

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show and I liked it. 
It was really good. 

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I I haven't been to Busch 
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Yeah, it was really good. 
They were really good. 

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They're very talented. 
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I follow some of them on social 
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like to, you know, whenever I 
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The dancers do the dancers make 
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I think it is a perspective of 
why the dancers are so young. 

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I don't think the money is great
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I think it's great if you're new
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career of being a professional 
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I think that is great. 
Because they prefer young 

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dancers. 
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They're all young and, you know,
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They don't know what's out there
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And it's easier to say you are 
late and, and you know, get that

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excuse. 
But for me, like, I'm late, I'm 

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grown. 
I'm trying to do my best to be 

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on on time. 
And, you know, in the world of 

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entertainment, 15 minutes is 
early. 

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Yes, on time is late. 
Yes, exactly. 

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We say, we always say. 
That on this? 

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Oh, absolutely. 
We just said it today. 

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Yes. 
And we actually we were thinking

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about you. 
Oh yeah, absolutely. 

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And you know what? 
I stayed in contact. 

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Yes, it was not. 
It was not. 

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And yeah. 
Yeah, it wasn't messy. 

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It wasn't messy. 
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contact, that is messy. 
That is definitely. 

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Well, you don't know if they're 
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Chris kept saying she's gonna be
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Eventually. 
Eventually. 

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'Cause I called him when all 
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everything like that. 
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especially with the prices of 
gas right now, like Uber 

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drivers. 
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Uber drivers are choosing not to
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more gas. 
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Like the driver that I had, his 
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explaining to me like the people
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ride is further away, they're 
looking at how much gas it's 

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going to cost them to get there 
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gas prices have changed it and 
they're not making as much money

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as Uber and Lyft drivers as they
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They were making about 60%. 
Now they're making about 30% 

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and. 
Then also the people that don't 

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tip, that's got to be very. 
Was your driver local? 

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Was he here from Tampa or from 
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He was from Clearwater. 
So yeah, so he took a little 

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drive. 
Yeah, he did, definitely. 

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Because I don't know where 
Sumner is. 

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And Sufner, Sufner, Sufner, 
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We're not in Sufner, dear. 
I, I I know this. 

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Yeah, well anyways, going back 
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So closet ball. 
What is closet ball? 

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Closet Ball is a amateur drag 
pad that I started 11 years ago 

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in October for a fundraiser for 
King of Peace. 

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It was supposed to be fun and, 
you know, just kind of can't be 

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to raise money for the church. 
And it became something I didn't

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expect it to. 
The idea was based off of the 

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closet Vault that Nevada Gay 
Rodeo Association has in Las 

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Vegas. 
So I kind of took the idea, but 

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I do give them credit and I kind
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And that first year Georgia 
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She went on to go to National 
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She won some another title after
Closet Ball and then she went on

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to national coming National 
Comedy Queen where she placed 

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11th for her first time and she 
had only been doing drag for 

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three months. 
So I kind of figured I might be 

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good at this. 
And then I did it again the next

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year and then it was again for 
the church and then after that 

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the church and I went separate 
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producing it myself. 
But what it has evolved from is 

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not just a fundraiser, it is an 
organization where now we raise 

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thousands of dollars every year 
for various organizations. 

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That is something I took on a 
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It was meant to when you step 
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chooses the organization that 
the new person will raise money 

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for, for the following year. 
So it is, you know, we did Divas

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and dialogue and we were able to
get a couple of women of color 

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who were trans into their own 
apartment where it was paid for 

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in full. 
We were able to get them to DC 

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last year. 
We worked with assistance of 

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perpetual indulgence and we were
able to raise a lot of money for

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them. 
And I actually got to be a 

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sister for a day, like a real 
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I live sister. 
I need a vaca. 

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I need a. 
What I need a vaca? 

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I need a vaca. 
What was it? 

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Fondi was my raining clouds 
about winter last year when I 

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did it. 
So she gave me that name and I 

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was like, that's cute. 
So this year we're doing Shelter

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Strong and Largo because I've 
been working with them trying to

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get the unhoused housing and 
that's been a journey in itself.

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So it's a great thing 'cause I 
get to teach these kids who are 

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new in the community how to 
promote themselves, how to make 

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themselves business people. 
We did have Closetball here a 

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couple weeks ago, Morgana 
Morgan. 

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And it's also giving them 
experiences that they're not 

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going to get. 
Just being out there in a while 

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doing talent nights, getting a 
seat at the table was pretty 

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much what I do. 
It's taking them and letting 

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them know these are the things 
that you can be doing. 

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These are how you can show your 
face more. 

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You know a lot of people are 
going to tell you when you do 

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these contests every week, get 
new costumes, work on your 

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makeup. 
You need to make sure you have 

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your nails on. 
No ones going to tell you that 

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at those old competitions. 
Not that I'm I'm bashing them in

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any way, shape or form. 
Don't get it corrected, but 

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there's no one there to help 
you. 

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And with Clausible, I get to be 
their biggest fan for 365 days 

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and give them the opportunities 
to do exactly what they need, 

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what they want, and introduce 
them to people who are in the 

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business, who have been around 
the business for a very long 

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time and know their stuff. 
Absolutely. 

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And if I remember correctly from
the Morgana interview, the one 

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of the requirements is that you 
have to have only been doing 

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drag for less than three years, 
right? 

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That's a very, very interesting 
requirement because you know, 

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you see a lot of pageants that 
don't necessarily even have like

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any sort of that other than like
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So it's, that's a very unique 
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And I honestly, I think that 
it's really noble because it's 

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really hard to compete against 
somebody who's been doing drag 

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for 10/15/20 years. 
Like if Esme were to go into 

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Saint Pete Pride or something 
like that, she'd swipe the floor

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like. 
We're not gonna do that. 

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But. 
But yeah, it's it's a guideline.

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But even when you're good girl, 
sometimes they rig those 

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pageants. 
I'm sorry, but they do. 

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Period. 
Or or or what they do is they 

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they pack the judges table with 
judges that lean towards a 

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certain group or a certain 
person. 

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Or style. 
Yeah, or so and and making 

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making the judge judges table, 
not not rigging the pageant, but

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making it ineffective to pick 
the right one, correct. 

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You see what I'm saying, right? 
So. 

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Because a lot of times you don't
see the the behind the scenes 

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and the work that goes into 
things with pageants. 

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But this one it, it's, it's 
plain as day. 

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You have one hour to go get into
drag makeup with a makeup artist

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to help her. 
It's not a lot of long time. 

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No, it's not. 
It's very. 

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It's very. 
Hard to people. 

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People must get really nervous. 
It's. 

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So much fun. 
It's, it's a lot of fun because 

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you know, the one thing I tell 
people is, yes, have fun because

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this is not going to be 
something that you're going to 

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get to do most of the time in 
your career more than once. 

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You've got to practice before 
you get there. 

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Absolutely it's in. 
It's in their information packet

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to practice with your makeup 
artist so you don't go out there

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for the first. 
Time and they can't do their own

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makeup. 
They cannot, which is a prereq. 

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One of the first things that I 
tell drag children is learn to 

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do your own makeup. 
Right, right. 

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Because nobody like can be 
depended on all the time, you 

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know what I'm saying? 
So. 

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Well, I I do remember a drag 
queen in Las Vegas that never 

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painted her own face. 
She literally had a makeup 

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artist. 
Paul doesn't. 

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No, I know. 
No, she doesn't. 

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That's my sister that does her 
makeup. 

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But yeah, it was one of those 
things where I wanted people to,

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well, before it was just to be 
fun. 

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But now it's more of a serious 
system now where people aren't 

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my my girls are, and my guys are
going to national pageants now 

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and getting them there, 
choreographing talents for them,

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especially with rocket 
productions and getting them 

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outside. 
Now you have a You have the male

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Mr. Closet Ball and the female. 
No, Closet ball is a general 

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title. 
It does not have a gender or a 

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sexuality or all of the above. 
It is for anyone in any kind of 

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draft. 
So when the contestants compete,

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they compete against each other 
and anybody could win, then a 

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man could beat out a queen. 
So I don't like that you could 

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never get me as a contestant in 
that kind of foolish, you know, 

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I'm telling that's just pure 
foolishness. yo-yo, I'll, I'll 

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tell you the truth. 
I'll. 

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But you know, I'm not gonna lie 
to you. 

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Well, I think that it's, it's 
everybody's personal 

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perspective. 
Cause honestly from an 

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individual's perspective, I 
would love to see an Esme 

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Russell versus Apollo Infinity 
drag off. 

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Not doing it 'cause let God 
forbid we get a bunch of his 

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friends on the judges table, 
then they then he ends up 

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winning and I sit and I sit 
there in the corner going. 

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I know this man did not beat me 
well. 

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You know, the thing that I do 
about I'm very specific. 

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I do have a formula for my 
judges and it's it stays the 

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same way. 
Every year. 

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I pick one of my judges is the 
winner from last year. 

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So this year Fondy will be on 
the judges panel. 

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I pick a local celebrity who has
no idea anything about drag 

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whatsoever. 
And then I pick usually a male 

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entertainer and a female 
entertainer. 

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That's the other one. 
See, I'm because I for 

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pageantry. 
You got to realize though, I've 

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done a lot of pageantry. 
One of the things that used to 

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shock me all the time is when 
they start reading off the 

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judges panel and they go. 
And by the way, from A&B florist

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shop right here, just as an 
example, or, or Sunshine Florist

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shop right here in Ybor City. 
Hold on a second, a florist 

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judging my drag. 
What does a florist know about 

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makeup, hair, wigs? 
You know what I'm saying? 

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It would just send me into a 
tizzy. 

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I would just panic because let's
just face it, drag is very hard.

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It's very hard. 
It's very. 

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And it's very expensive. 
Right. 

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It's not good drag because 
anybody can do drag, but good 

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drug, it's expensive. 
Well, one of the things about 

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closet Ball, it is a very 
serious pageant. 

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But ideally what I want people 
to do is one of the rules I tell

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all of my judges every year. 
You can take away the makeup, 

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you can take away the drag 
clothes. 

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Do you have a person that is 
talented? 

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Can I book this person to work 
next week? 

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That's what I'm looking for. 
Because all of the aesthetics of

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drag can be fixed, can be helped
and the drive for people. 

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You can't buy that. 
You can't teach that. 

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It's something that has to be 
there. 

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And that's why I always have a 
judge that doesn't have anything

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to do with the drag community 
because I want to see from their

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perspective. 
Are you entertained by this 

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person? 
And then the other, you know, I 

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have, you know, the former there
because they have gone through 

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it. 
So they know exactly what I'm 

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looking for because they've just
done it. 

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And then I have, you know, a 
male and female representing 

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judges on the panel every year. 
So that if I do have a male 

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contestant, there is the male 
perspective as well as the 

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female perspective. 
So that fifth spot is always 

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kind of a who's available or 
usually I keep it for like the 

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one stepping down, like is there
a person you would like to see 

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perform at closet ball? 
So I usually leave that spot. 

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What did you have in? 
I know, I know. 

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You did it at Hamburger Mary's 
for years. 

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Yeah, it was at Hamburger Mary's
last year. 

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It was at Shelter Strong, which 
is no longer there. 

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So you have to move it again 
now. 

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I have to move it again this 
year. 

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What? 
What are you thinking of? 

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I'm, I'm looking at, just 
looking at a couple of venues. 

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I know that Morgana Morgan, 
who's our reigning, she performs

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a lot at Disco Pony. 
So we're looking at that because

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it it would actually be a great 
venue. 

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But I am also looking at now 
that I have to find another 

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venue, the expenses of what it's
going to cost me to produce it 

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this year. 
So that is always a huge 

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difference on where it goes, but
it has to be somewhere local. 

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Yeah, of course, because you're 
doing it right here. 

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It's a lot. 
Of how many years have you done 

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it now? 
In October it will be 11 eleven 

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11th anniversary. 
I know it's exciting like all of

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these people that I you know, 
Adam Cole, he was my first male 

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winner is my best friend. 
He's like my little brother, but

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he does better than me. 
But you know, taking him and 

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learning all the things that I 
had to learn too. 

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For a male entertainer, how he 
needs to look at all times, how 

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he needs to represent the kind 
of music that he needs to start 

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performing. 
And I learned a lot from him. 

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And every, every year I learned 
Morgana is blue. 

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So learning and learning. 
We we interviewed her here. 

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Yeah, she came very normal 
looking, but you know. 

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She's amazing. 
I mean, like she loves the idea 

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of Comic Con. 
She loves the idea of, you know,

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characters and anime and things 
like that. 

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So what I've been doing is 
investing time and learning 

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about Comic Con. 
I am a, I'm a stickler about, 

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I'm a stickler about so many 
things, you know, but even the 

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name of a person, you know, the 
name of a person has a lot to do

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with how they're going to 
navigate in the, especially in 

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our industry, you know what I 
mean? 

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I always tell Queens avoid names
that are offensive, that offend,

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you know what I mean? 
Yeah, I think that's important 

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because I think when you're 
younger you're trying to have 

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something that's fun or 
effective. 

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But when I even when I was 
choosing my drag name, it was 

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something that related to what I
do, which is rock Hell, which is

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2 words ROCKHELL. 
As a dancer, that's what I want 

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people to know, that I'm going 
to rock it out on the stage. 

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So it's and this. 
Is my favorite color. 

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And then if God were to come, 
you'd go to hell. 

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Well, I'm just saying when he 
saw you up there at high heels 

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in a makeup, he was said you 
straight. 

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So I get it. 
You're rocking it out while 

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you're going to hell seeing. 
Curtains. 

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I got to put curtains in there 
'cause it's going to be hot. 

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We're all going here. 
We'll be there alone. 

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We're all going to be sitting 
down there with many little mini

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air conditioners trying to cool 
off. 

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It's going to be warm, but we 
won't be alone. 

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Well, you know, one of the 
things I forgot is with 'cause 

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about how fun it actually is 
during the year for me is 

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learning different aspects of 
drag, 'cause even as a promoter 

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and the owner, I'm learning so 
many different aspects of drag, 

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which helps my drag as well. 
So learning from these, these 

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younger entertainers, like you 
know, Fondy was on the radio 

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show too. 
I think all of them have been on

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here in the past four years. 
Yeah, at least if I remember 

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correctly. 
I think most of them have been 

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on here, yeah. 
You came to our nighttime show. 

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Yeah. 
Yeah. 

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So that's a rough one, wasn't 
it, that. 

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Was more it was rough. 
Could you imagine if I had been 

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late doing that this morning? 
We. 

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Did it we would have been fine. 
We, we did it for years. 

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I mean, we did it, you know, we 
talk about it all the time. 

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How many years we did it And, 
and it was it was hard. 

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It was that 12 to 3 three. 
I mean literally, you have to 

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stay up past your bedtime to get
to work well. 

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What I always did was I always 
went to sleep early so I could 

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wake up and I didn't bring 
anything to drink at all. 

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Yeah, well, you can't drink in 
here. 

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No, I know. 
But like I usually really 

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thirsty late at night, so I 
always had like something 

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because I know that you have to 
have it by the wall, but. 

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Yeah. 
Well, even in here it has to be 

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in a closed container. 
Yeah. 

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But I think we got in trouble 
because of our, our Co, our Co 

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anchor or host Brian, I think he
had a drink or something. 

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They saw him on camera. 
No, he was eating. 

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Ohh he was eating, he was 
eating. 

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I'm gonna tell you, Candy by the
board. 

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By before he got caught I had 
been doing it for not eating, 

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but I had been drinking in my 
for a long time. 

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Hmm. 
You know, just I don't even, I 

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don't know how it happened. 
But I remember the last time I 

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was eating nuts and cranberries 
from the gas station that was 

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next door. 
Yeah. 

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Yeah. 
But it's fine. 

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But yeah. 
Yeah, but eating when you're 

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talking on the mic is just not 
great. 

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I'm not into AMSR. 
I'm not into it. 

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I can't stand. 
It what is what is MASR? 

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It's like the the when like 
you're listen to something and 

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it gives you like that tingly 
feeling and stuff like that. 

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It's like where you like see 
people on TikTok and everything 

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like that and they're 
intentionally making the noise. 

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So it's autonomous sensory 
Meridian response, a deeply 

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relaxing static like tingling 
sensation that typically starts 

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at the scalp and moves down the 
neck and spine. 

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Can I tell you what sets me off?
And, and we were talking about 

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it yesterday and I you're 
wearing flip flops today, but 

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those those flip flops had the 
two straps that like they called

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the lesbian flip flops. 
Oh my God, do you know which 

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ones I'm talking about? 
OK, let me say something. 

452
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:55,440
What's the company that makes 
them I? 

453
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:57,760
Have no idea. 
OK, they're not cheap, by the 

454
00:22:57,760 --> 00:22:59,600
way. 
They're very expensive. 

455
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:01,560
They're like the Dark Martins 
for lesbians. 

456
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,120
OK. 
Yeah, they're like $100. 

457
00:23:03,120 --> 00:23:06,320
They're not cheap, These flip 
flops, I can't stand seeing them

458
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,000
on men. 
OK, well, I can't stand seeing 

459
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,160
them on women. 
First of all, I don't know what 

460
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:16,040
it is about those flip flops. 
And last night I was with my son

461
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,560
Shane and my my daughter 
Veronica. 

462
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:23,400
We were at the movie, watching 
the movie and this guy, I 

463
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,240
arrived early with Shane cause 
Veronica was with Autumn V. 

464
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:27,520
They had gone to dinner 
somewhere. 

465
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:31,320
So I'm sitting there in the 
theater getting ready to walk in

466
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,760
to go see our movie. 
And Shane says to me, look at 

467
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:35,280
those flip flops. 
I've got a pair at home. 

468
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,920
And I look at the guy's feet and
I go, don't you ever wear those 

469
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,840
flip flops around me because 
those flip flops are nasty, He 

470
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:43,920
said. 
You don't like, I'm gonna say I 

471
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,120
have a phobia about those flip 
flops. 

472
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,040
So do you have a phobia with the
sound, the crunchings and the 

473
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,360
paper? 
Oh yeah, It's like, like one of 

474
00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:53,480
my biggest pet peeve is to hear 
people eat. 

475
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,040
And a lot of times like they 
will make you know. 

476
00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,240
Noises. 
Sounds like crunching and. 

477
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,440
It does sound gross, right? 
It sounds very primal. 

478
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:08,080
Like that one of the OK Speaking
of movies and Veronica. 

479
00:24:08,120 --> 00:24:11,520
PS I'm referring back. 
Veronica was our host for Closet

480
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,000
Ball last year and I think I've 
already asked her to host it 

481
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,200
again this year. 
But anyway, point of story, I 

482
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,400
don't go to movies because I 
hate the sound of popcorn. 

483
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,840
OK. 
Yeah, like hearing popcorn 

484
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,320
crunching during a movie. 
So I don't even notice it. 

485
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,320
So what's going to happen now, 
bitch? 

486
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:34,640
It's now the next time I'm in a 
fucking movie theater, I'm going

487
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,960
to become hyper aware of the 
fucking sounds around me because

488
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:39,880
that's what you just did right 
now, you fucking bitch. 

489
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:44,080
You just planted, you planted a 
seed in my mind and now I'm 

490
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,720
going to be like, man, this 
fucking theater is noisy as 

491
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,480
hell. 
You know what I mean? 

492
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,840
Because that's what happens. 
You somebody says something, 

493
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:53,800
can't unhear it. 
So I hope that the next time you

494
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,680
see those flip flops, you think 
of me. 

495
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,800
I will think. 
Of I just stare at them. 

496
00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:02,120
There was a really good looking 
guy last night with a pair on, 

497
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,800
mind you, very handsome guy. 
He had nice feet. 

498
00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:09,760
Even with those nice feet I 
couldn't look at them. 

499
00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:12,880
Fucking ugly ass. 
I wanted to walk up and say 

500
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:16,360
don't wear those shoes again, 
man, you're so fucking cute. 

501
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,720
You look like a lesbitarian in 
those those shoes. 

502
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,000
I'm going to go to Gulfport 
Pride and I'm going to take all 

503
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,600
the pictures of. 
Those shoes, people wear them 

504
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,000
there. 
Gulfport pride. 

505
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:28,120
Come on now girl, think about 
it. 

506
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,720
I just don't even. 
I can't even about it. 

507
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,800
I can't. 
I can't even imagine. 

508
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,720
No, seriously, I don't know what
it is about about those shoes, 

509
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,960
but it really freaking affects 
me. 

510
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:42,480
And I try to like hold it like 
like I, I, I look at them and I 

511
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,000
start doing these weird 
contorted things with my face. 

512
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,000
Like it's like almost like I'm 
having a moment or something, I 

513
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,120
don't know. 
Well, I, I definitely have a 

514
00:25:50,120 --> 00:25:52,640
tail like when it comes down to 
people eating, which is why like

515
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,360
videos, like I'll watch a video,
but I'll put it on silent when 

516
00:25:55,360 --> 00:25:59,440
they start eating it, but like. 
Chris, any phobias like that? 

517
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,080
No, not really. 
You guys are really fucking 

518
00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,640
weird to be honest. 
I don't know, we're weird. 

519
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,160
It's. 
Just not weird, it's just I 

520
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:08,360
can't. 
Some people can't do it, yeah. 

521
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,680
Well, I I know growing up my dad
always had that smacking sound 

522
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:15,600
when he was eating and it just 
drove me insane for years. 

523
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,200
Yeah, I would give anything to 
hear it again, but. 

524
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,680
That's something. 
So you know what, what my it's 

525
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,080
not really a phobia, but it's 
the literally the most annoying 

526
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:28,360
thing that somebody else can do 
around me is overstay the 

527
00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:30,960
conversation. 
When I'm having a conversation 

528
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,480
with somebody and another person
comes in and then I go back to 

529
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,200
talking to the person that I was
originally talking to and the 

530
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,840
guy just kind of stands there 
and just watches. 

531
00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:41,960
Yeah, I'm like, I'm not a 
fucking entertaining. 

532
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,240
He also he also. 
Now come to think of it, he also

533
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:46,880
hates breathing in the 
microphone. 

534
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:50,880
No, I think that was worse than 
the long conversation. 

535
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,040
Girl, this motherfuckers got an 
ear like a fucking deer in the 

536
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,360
forest. 
He will come back the next week 

537
00:26:57,360 --> 00:27:00,080
about I don't know who was 
breathing in the fucking mic 

538
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:06,520
last week, but I could. 
I could hear it's like Darth 

539
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,640
Vader. 
It sounds like Darth Vader. 

540
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,800
But I get it though, because 
you're trying to be 

541
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,560
professional. 
You want the image of the show 

542
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,000
to look good, and that's just 
not a good look. 

543
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:20,800
It's a good time, Jesus. 
Jesus. 

544
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:26,040
You know the the other thing? 
When I was working in Ohio at 

545
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,920
Cedar Point, I used to watch 
this little video called Tiny 

546
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,320
Kitchen. 
I don't know if you've seen it, 

547
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,400
but it I was obsessed with it. 
Just sitting there at work every

548
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,720
day watching this little tiny 
chef cook. 

549
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,800
Tiny. 
Tiny little food, tiny kitchen. 

550
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,800
But wait a minute and he cooks 
on a tiny little frying pan and 

551
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,640
tiny little pot. 
And when he makes the the little

552
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:51,160
rice rice pot was this tiny like
this little. 

553
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,120
That's that's my thing, but. 
Who the hell it's? 

554
00:27:54,120 --> 00:28:00,120
Relaxing to me. 
So I was like, hold on, 'cause I

555
00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:03,160
like rice a lot. 
The rice pot really freaked me 

556
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:07,240
out because as a, you know, of a
Cuban ancestry, when I eat rice,

557
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,080
I have to have a lot of rice. 
OK, more than the actual food. 

558
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,480
I'd eat a lot of heavy rice. 
So I'm looking at the pot. 

559
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,080
There might have been in the 
little pot maybe 14 grains. 

560
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,960
I'd like it so cool. 
Like the little filet mignons 

561
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:20,600
are like I don't know how they 
make it. 

562
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,160
I don't I don't understand. 
Yeah, the little piece of steak 

563
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,800
is so tiny. 
Not it all looks real too, 

564
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,280
right? 
And I just don't understand. 

565
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,680
So cute. 
And like, you know, like this, 

566
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:35,000
the stove is done with like a 
little tea candle and then the 

567
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,040
little refrigerators and the 
little knives. 

568
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:39,520
I just don't know. 
But that's. 

569
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,200
But does that show still exist? 
Yes, yes, I watch it all the 

570
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:43,560
time. 
What? 

571
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:44,600
Channel. 
Is it on? 

572
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,360
It's on YouTube. 
Oh, I've got to. 

573
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,320
What is it called? 
Tiny kitchen. 

574
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,640
Tiny kitchen. 
I've got to go look this up. 

575
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:52,840
It's. 
So much fun. 

576
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,560
Oh, I'm going to watch it 
because you know that just I. 

577
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,680
I zoned out. 
I. 

578
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaking of zoning out, I was 
zoned out the entirety of that. 

579
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,080
It doesn't matter. 
We, we were having our, we were 

580
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,560
having a very fun conversation. 
We're having a moment. 

581
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:07,360
Y'all's own moment. 
It's cute. 

582
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,440
Anyways, Miss Esme, what are we 
going to talk about on the after

583
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:11,960
show or on the after? 
I have no idea. 

584
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:13,680
I have no topics. 
God damn. 

585
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,960
Today, today I really didn't do 
any topics and really today was 

586
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,440
one of those days when I should 
have done as many as possible. 

587
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,320
But but you told me, you kind of
relaxed me when you said I got a

588
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,560
lot of them. 
I always got a lot of topics. 

589
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,600
I got 18 pages worth of notes. 
There's definitely topics and 

590
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,720
topics and topics, but we've got
an annoying Jingle permanently 

591
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:36,440
banned from Airways in 
California after their deceptive

592
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,040
practices. 
We're going to go ahead and talk

593
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,000
about that. 
After that, we're also going to 

594
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,200
go ahead and talk about that 
teacher in an uncensored 

595
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,200
fashion, the one that hung the 
black baby doll. 

596
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,240
We're going to definitely talk 
about that. 

597
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,800
Completely uncensored. 
Shakira acquitted in a Spanish 

598
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,680
tax fraud case. 
We'll talk about that and then I

599
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:56,680
don't know what else we'll talk 
about. 

600
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,120
We'll talk about maybe Esmay's 
boobs a little bit, but first 

601
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,760
let's go ahead and throw it over
to Claire Leeson from Project No

602
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,600
Labels for our big gay News. 
Then over to Joanna Grasso for 

603
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,520
Joe on the Go, our community 
calendar. 

604
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:11,520
We'll be right back. 
I'm Claire Leeson from Project 

605
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:15,200
No Labels and this is your LGBTQ
news from around the country and

606
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:19,440
right here in Tampa Bay in 
Florida from watermark out news.

607
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:23,040
Equality Florida Action Pack 
announced May 8th that Joe 

608
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,960
Saunders will serve as its first
executive director. 

609
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,360
Saunders most recently served as
Equality Florida Senior 

610
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:33,720
Political Director and is 1 of 
Floridas first openly LGBTQ plus

611
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,920
state legislators. 
The Pack says his appointment 

612
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,480
comes as it prepares an 
aggressive 2026 strategy to 

613
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,240
elect pro equality candidates 
across the state. 

614
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,920
It's priorities include breaking
up Republican super majorities 

615
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,640
in the Florida House and Senate,
growing the number of LGBTQ plus

616
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,920
lawmakers in Tallahassee. 
Also from Equality Florida, 

617
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:58,160
whole survivor and national 
LGBTQ plus advocate Brandon Wolf

618
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,640
has rejoined the organization as
senior director of communication

619
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,680
Strategy. 
Wolf has become one of the 

620
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,720
country's most visible voices 
for LGBTQ plus equality and gun 

621
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,640
violence prevention since 
surviving the post tragedy. 

622
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,640
He Co founded the Drew Project, 
testified before Congress and 

623
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,880
later served as national press 
secretary for the Human Rights 

624
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,320
Campaign. 
His return comes just weeks 

625
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,560
before Orlando marks 10 years 
since the Pulse attack, and 

626
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,720
Equality Florida says he will 
help shape the organization's 

627
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:31,160
messaging during a critical time
for LGBTQ plus Floridians in 

628
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,400
Orlando. 
From West to city. 

629
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,960
Officials have unveiled updated 
plans for the permanent memorial

630
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:38,960
at the former Pulse nightclub 
site. 

631
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,640
The design includes the Angel 
Ellipse, A colonnade displaying 

632
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,280
the names of the 49 victims, 
along with a reflecting pool 

633
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:47,960
where the dance floor once 
stood. 

634
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,320
Plans include an obelisk marking
the date of the attack, rainbow 

635
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,600
glass panels and a visitor 
pavilion. 

636
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,680
Construction is expected to 
begin in September and be 

637
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:03,080
completed by September 2027. 
In Sports News from ESPN, Jason 

638
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,880
Collins, the Nbas first openly 
gay player, has died of brain 

639
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:11,080
cancer at 47. 
Collins came out in a 2013 

640
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:15,120
Sports Illustrated cover story, 
becoming the first publicly gay 

641
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,400
athlete to play in one of North 
America's four major men's 

642
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:22,520
professional sports leagues. 
He retired in 2014 after a 13 

643
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:26,080
year NBA career and later served
as a global ambassador for the 

644
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,440
sport. 
And finally, in international 

645
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:32,160
news from the Washington Blade, 
King Charles the Third said a 

646
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:36,040
transgender inclusive ban on 
so-called conversion therapy is 

647
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,840
among the British government's 
legislative priorities. 

648
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,160
The proposal would apply to 
England and Wales and follows 

649
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,880
years of debate over whether 
gender identity would be 

650
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,160
included. 
Please remember to stay safe and

651
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:48,760
treat yourself and others with 
kindness. 

652
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,880
This has been your LGBTQ plus 
news for the Big Gay radio show.

653
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,480
I'm Claire Leeson on 88.5 WMNF 
Tampa. 

654
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:04,040
Hey, hey Tampa Bay, it's Joanna 
Grosso with Joe on the Go Tampa 

655
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,960
Bay, your weekly guide to what's
happening around the city. 

656
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:08,680
Here's what's coming up this 
week. 

657
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,640
Starting on Thursday, May 21st, 
St. 

658
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:15,640
Pete Pride in the Tampa Bay LGBT
Chamber are hosting Pride 

659
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:19,280
Connect at Florida Rama from 
6:00 to 8:00 PM is a networking 

660
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,280
and community event inside one 
of Saint Pete's most immersive 

661
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,200
art spaces, bringing together 
local professionals, creatives 

662
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,120
and community members for an 
evening of connection and 

663
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:31,440
interactive exhibits. 
Then over Memorial Day weekend 

664
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,440
on Monday, May 25th, a community
gathering honoring fallen 

665
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:38,240
service members from Mcdill Air 
Force Base will take place at 

666
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,760
1920 Ybor in Tampa. 
The event is expecting to bring 

667
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,080
together veterans, local 
leaders, and community members 

668
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,080
for an evening of remembrance 
and support. 

669
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,960
And looking ahead to the end of 
the month, Saint Pete Pride Kick

670
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,680
Off Weekend takes place May 29th
through the 31st with this 

671
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:56,080
year's theme Here Comes the Sun.
The weekend includes a street 

672
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:58,600
festival in the Grand Central 
District, community events, 

673
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,120
entertainment and celebration 
leading into Pride season. 

674
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,080
For more info, behind the scenes
and weekly updates, follow along

675
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,360
on Instagram at Joe on the Go 
Tampa Bay. 

676
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,120
Have a great week, Tampa Bay, 
and I'll see you out and about. 

677
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:19,040
You're listening to the only 
LGBTQ radio show in Tampa Bay, 

678
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,920
The Big Gay Radio Show on 88.5 
WMNF. 

679
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,239
Welcome back to the Big Gay 
Radio Show. 

680
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,520
My name is Chris Gorman. 
I'm your show twink here, joined

681
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:33,040
by the electric trans queen of 
radio, Miss Azmi Russell. 

682
00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:34,600
Keep them flip flops off your 
feet. 

683
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,520
And Robert Rigsby, welcome into 
the studio. 

684
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,000
No chewing with Robert. 
No chewing. 

685
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,360
No. 
No smacking, no. 

686
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:47,560
No, no smacking and no no heavy 
breathing on the microphones 

687
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:49,280
with. 
Chris, So I had AI had a 

688
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:53,040
guidance counselor back in 6th 
grade who anytime that I saw 

689
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,639
her, I don't know if she was 
just caught, like I just caught 

690
00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:57,800
her at the wrong times every 
time. 

691
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,280
But every time that she was 
there or that I would go and 

692
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:05,160
talk to her, she would be eating
a salad literally every single 

693
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,560
time. 
And then and she would also go, 

694
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:13,360
yeah, yeah. 
And I'm like, bro, shut the fuck

695
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,040
up. 
Like I don't want to hear your 

696
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,320
fucking smacking. 
Let's go move the fuck on. 

697
00:35:17,720 --> 00:35:19,960
Anyways, moving on. 
Speaking of. 

698
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:23,200
Very aggressive. 
It's my trauma. 

699
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,920
It's my trauma. 
A California judge has ruled 

700
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:31,200
that the Cars for Kids ads 
misled donors by not saying that

701
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:35,960
the the donations fund Orthodox 
Jewish programs connected to 

702
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,480
Aura, not broad children's 
charities in California. 

703
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:43,320
The ruling bars Cars for Kids 
from airing its famous 

704
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,640
commercials in California's 
unless the ads include clear 

705
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,600
spoken disclosures about the 
group's religious affiliation, 

706
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,960
where the money goes and who 
benefits. 

707
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,920
Testimony shows that about 25% 
of Cars for Kids revenue comes 

708
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,520
from California, but the 
organization has little direct 

709
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,040
programming there beyond what 
the the court described as 

710
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:06,400
branding exercises. 
Allegedly, the court testimony 

711
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:08,360
or it's not even alleged 
anymore. 

712
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:14,160
The court testimony revealed 
that $16.5 million was spent on 

713
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:19,400
on a building purchase in 
Israel, with another 437,000 

714
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:25,000
spent on Middle East outreach. 
Cars for kids has faced scrutiny

715
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,640
before, including fines in 
Pinellas, OR, excuse me, 

716
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:31,520
Pennsylvania and Oregon. 
And a Minnesota investigation 

717
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:36,240
found that less than 1% of 
donations in that state actually

718
00:36:36,240 --> 00:36:38,960
benefited local children. 
What is it called? 

719
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,320
Cards, cars for kids. 
It's when you would go ahead and

720
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:46,400
donate your car and they would 
take the money and, and very 

721
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,720
clearly go ahead and give it to 
Israel basically. 

722
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:52,720
Yeah. 
And then, of course, Hills 

723
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,280
Israel. 
Now that's a very, you know, 

724
00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:01,680
controversial subject because, 
you know, they're dealing in, in

725
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:03,480
the attack of the Palestinian 
people. 

726
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,600
Correct. 
So it's just that whole thing is

727
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,280
just, you know, it's 
complicated, right? 

728
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:14,880
Because I'm not anti Jewish, but
I am not anti Palestinian 

729
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,600
either, you know? 
So I think that an issue that 

730
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:22,800
is, you know, being presented 
and it's honestly from, you 

731
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:28,120
know, a lot of these Israeli 
nationals who are very, very 

732
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:32,440
wanting the Zionist state. 
They essentially believe that 

733
00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:37,040
anybody who goes ahead and 
doesn't believe in Israel as a 

734
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:41,760
state is anti-Semitic and that's
not the case. 

735
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:46,000
You can be pro Jewish 
individuals and also be against 

736
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,600
the Israeli state. 
Honestly I if if if you want to 

737
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,600
go ahead and buy up a bunch of 
fucking land and make your own 

738
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:55,480
Jewish state that's perfectly 
fine. 

739
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:59,520
But you shouldn't attack a the 
Palestinian people just because 

740
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,280
they won't go ahead and give you
their land. 

741
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:07,880
And so I you can go ahead and be
critical of the decisions that 

742
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,520
Israel is doing and not be 
anti-Semitic. 

743
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,520
The other thing is, is that it's
very similar to the people who 

744
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:18,200
say that you can't be critical 
over America without being anti 

745
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,840
American. 
No, you can go ahead and call 

746
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:24,600
out the American government and 
still be pro America. 

747
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,480
I'm very pro America. 
I believe fully in the 

748
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,440
Constitution. 
Otherwise I wouldn't be fucking 

749
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:34,680
studying it. 
So it's a very, very unfortunate

750
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:39,240
situation and it's all goes back
down to branding and how things 

751
00:38:39,240 --> 00:38:42,680
are marketed to us. 
Like we talked about this during

752
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:47,400
the No Kings protest about how 
certain groups have very good 

753
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,280
programming in terms of how they
market themselves and how they 

754
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:55,160
essentially make the other side 
look bad. 

755
00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,560
And you know, honestly, the 
Israelis do a really good job of

756
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:04,320
trying to go ahead and pair 
criticisms over the Israeli 

757
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,800
government with anti-Semitism. 
Azmi, what's your saying? 

758
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:11,800
No, I was thinking that, you 
know, with the No Kings March, I

759
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,760
always thought that the name No 
Kings is was not a good name. 

760
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,120
I didn't like it. 
I always thought it was more of 

761
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:23,520
an anti fascism March rather 
than you know what I mean. 

762
00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:26,480
Which I think that that would 
be, you know, because. 

763
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,200
Trump really doesn't want to be 
a king. 

764
00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:31,120
He really doesn't. 
No, he wants to be a fascist. 

765
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,400
He wants control. 
He wants full control. 

766
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:38,720
Yeah, 'cause Prince Charles kind
of let him have it. 

767
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:40,800
You know when he spoke to, you 
know when he spoke to the 

768
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:45,200
Congress, when he said even a 
king has to answer to his 

769
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:50,960
people, Girl, I mean, you can't 
get a dig better than that one. 

770
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,400
Well, even a king, he's even a 
king has to answer to his 

771
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,920
people. 
Well, the the the picture that 

772
00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:01,120
came out yesterday of him in 
China or his hair all over the 

773
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,000
place. 
Oh yeah, I posted it. 

774
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,800
I'd laugh so hard 'cause he 
looked like one of those 

775
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,280
lollipops that stuck in your 
couch. 

776
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:09,800
Yeah, yeah. 
For like months. 

777
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,000
Yeah, yeah. 
Find it. 

778
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,080
And you're like, what is this? 
That's what he looked like. 

779
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:18,840
It was, yeah, he's, I, you know,
the thing that's happening is 

780
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,040
it's really hard for us to get 
ahead what's happening overseas 

781
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,080
when we can't get ahead of 
what's happening at home. 

782
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:28,440
And it's very, very frustrating 
because we see the problem and 

783
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,200
how the world is reacting to 
what is happening in the Middle 

784
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:34,280
East. 
But we are also part of the 

785
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:39,400
problem too, where we're looking
at other countries literally 

786
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,760
making fun of our government 
laughing. 

787
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,200
President Xi did it right in 
front of her when he spoke to 

788
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,520
the Chinese and Trump was in the
audience. 

789
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:50,080
He said you are you. 
The American people, and I'm 

790
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:53,640
quoting him now, are living in a
country in decline. 

791
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:55,880
Just full of clowns. 
Just. 

792
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:57,600
In decline. 
We're going down. 

793
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:01,600
We're not going up. 
And Trump interpreted as that he

794
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:03,560
was talking about when Biden was
in office. 

795
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:08,040
No, no, that's not what he said.
He said you are currently living

796
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:11,600
in a country in decline. 
Who's the current president? 

797
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,040
It's a Biden. 
It's you. 

798
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:18,160
Yeah, well, he was probably 
asleep during that part, girl. 

799
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,040
He does a lot. 
He sleeps everywhere girl, 

800
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:26,080
except except at at at at 1:00 
in the morning. 

801
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,920
If you go on true social, he's 
posted 140 times. 

802
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:32,840
He's awake now because he's 
slept all day. 

803
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,400
It's it's very. 
It's just crazy to me. 

804
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:38,840
What was it A. 
Country in decline? 

805
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:43,080
That's a powerful statement. 
He did what, 20 something 

806
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:47,160
offenses just at that state 
dinner to the Chinese culture 

807
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:50,040
just by being himself. 
Did you see him when? 

808
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:51,400
When put Camilla and Charles 
were here? 

809
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:52,960
Did you see him push in front of
Camilla? 

810
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:54,440
Yeah. 
He shoved her. 

811
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:56,920
Yeah, he shoved her. 
A woman. 

812
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,600
OK. 
I mean, it's just unbelievable 

813
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:02,280
to me. 
What is it? 

814
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:03,360
Yeah. 
What is it? 

815
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,720
Somebody walk up to walk up to 
him and say, excuse me, what is 

816
00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:08,560
wrong with you? 
I what? 

817
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:12,040
Is wrong with you you. 
Know Melania is never anywhere 

818
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,880
so she hates us not. 
And when she, oh, by the way, 

819
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:16,920
when she is next to him, he does
this. 

820
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:19,640
Have you seen him do this? 
And Melania couldn't come here 

821
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:20,680
today. 
Hold on. 

822
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:24,760
She's standing right there. 
But my favorite is like when he 

823
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:26,560
reaches out for. 
Her and she smacks. 

824
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,840
She smacks it. 
Don't touch me SO. 

825
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:32,680
What do you got, Chris? 
Well, I want to go back to the 

826
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:36,160
black baby doll story for those 
who missed it. 

827
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:39,440
A parent says a teacher at 
Barrington Middle School in 

828
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,640
Hillsborough County hung a black
baby doll by the neck with a 

829
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:44,800
charger cord in an art 
classroom. 

830
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,160
The parent says students 
recorded the video and took 

831
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:50,000
photos after several children in
the class questioned why the 

832
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,200
doll was hanging over the 
classroom television. 

833
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,440
According to the Post, the 
teacher allegedly told the 

834
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,640
students that she did it to get 
their attention. 

835
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,720
I would like to know what your 
perspective is on this, Robert. 

836
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:04,120
Because we, we went ahead and we
went off on this person. 

837
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:08,480
We went the fuck off. 
Well, I, I, I know coming from 

838
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,040
Mississippi, a lot of people 
don't know that, but I'm 

839
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:13,520
originally from Mississippi. 
So I, I have dealt with the 

840
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:18,080
prejudices of all sorts and all 
kinds my entire life. 

841
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:23,320
Waking up black is something I 
don't do on purpose. 

842
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:25,400
It's just the hands that I was 
given. 

843
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:30,920
But again, I still 100% believe 
that hate is always taught 

844
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:32,840
because we don't come out hating
people. 

845
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:37,560
We don't learn to speak hate 
because the words that we learn 

846
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:41,200
come exactly from the source. 
So when it comes down to this, 

847
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,920
again, like looking at something
like that, even if it's an art 

848
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:49,080
class, you have to understand 
kids are impressionable and kids

849
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:52,360
have, you know, unlike when I 
was growing up, we didn't have 

850
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:55,280
the Internet. 
You know, everything that we saw

851
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,840
was actually happening in real 
time. 

852
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:04,160
So when it comes down to this 
situation #1 if that's how she 

853
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:07,240
needs to get their attention, 
then the school board needs to 

854
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:11,280
get her attention by having her 
completely released from her. 

855
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,720
Job Well, she's been suspended. 
Yeah, but completely. 

856
00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:16,680
And, and they're reviewing the 
case, which, listen, anybody 

857
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,920
that sees that video, like I 
said in the earlier show, anyone

858
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,240
that sees that video did nothing
to review. 

859
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,960
OK, the video is 
self-explanatory. 

860
00:44:25,240 --> 00:44:27,160
She's standing at the front of 
the class. 

861
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:29,800
She's standing at the front of 
the class with the black baby 

862
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:34,720
doll hung by a cord on the TV. 
So all the children are 

863
00:44:34,720 --> 00:44:36,520
literally facing it, looking at 
it. 

864
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,280
And you could, you could. 
It's just it's, you don't hear 

865
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,280
any sound, but you don't have to
hear any sound. 

866
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,160
The visual is very very strong. 
You didn't need to hear the 

867
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:45,960
sound. 
Yes, and that's not a class 

868
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,240
where she's teaching, even if 
she was teaching the lynchings 

869
00:44:49,240 --> 00:44:52,160
and all that, which in the state
of Florida, but they're happy 

870
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:54,600
they're not allowed to in the 
state of Florida because it 

871
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:56,360
didn't exist. 
So yeah, it didn't happen. 

872
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:58,280
It was all made-up. 
Apparently so. 

873
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:03,240
But since that can't be it, so 
it was done as a scare tactic 

874
00:45:03,240 --> 00:45:05,960
for the children. 
But keep in mind the African 

875
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:09,440
American children or the black 
children, OK, that are in that 

876
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,920
classroom, they had to witness 
that. 

877
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:16,160
And it was bad enough for the 
white children, but the black 

878
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:20,560
children with a black doll, the 
representation is there, OK. 

879
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,320
And one of the children, the one
that videotaped it, that the 

880
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:26,280
video is gone. 
You know, I'm, I'm sure that I 

881
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:30,280
am sure that by tonight's it, 
it'll be viral. 

882
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,560
It'll be all over the world. 
It'll be all over the world. 

883
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:37,280
I guarantee you that video will 
travel all over the world. 

884
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:40,280
Because I look got it and I 
couldn't believe what I saw. 

885
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,880
I thought it was AI. 
I thought Chris had sent me some

886
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:44,480
AI thing. 
No, I don't. 

887
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:48,720
I was like this is crazy and 26 
it's it's crazy. 

888
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,800
Well. 
It's currently up to 633,000 

889
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:53,800
views. 
Oh, no, it's going to go much 

890
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:55,760
higher than that. 
It's, it's going to go. 

891
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:59,800
I, I guarantee you. 
It's, it's, it's a must watch. 

892
00:45:59,960 --> 00:46:02,360
It's a must watch because yeah, 
yeah, it's. 

893
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,120
Also from Florida. 
But are we surprised? 

894
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:06,680
We're not surprised. 
I mean, you know, I think it, 

895
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,640
you know, if it had been 
Mississippi, it probably would 

896
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:13,760
have been swept under the rug 
because of the the level of 

897
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,200
ignorance and Mississippi, But 
coming from Florida, like 

898
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:18,680
everything is being red flagged 
because people are just 

899
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:22,160
outlandishly crazy right now and
we can't do. 

900
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:23,680
Anything. 
Did you know that the Democrats 

901
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,640
are leading in the polls here in
Florida? 

902
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,600
I do. 
We are leading in the polls not 

903
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:32,360
only for governor but for 
senators as well, so we're doing

904
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,440
very well here in. 
Florida and Florida is there. 

905
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:39,560
Florida can turn blue and the 
gerrymandering that they're 

906
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:43,520
doing, they're doing. 
But I told Chris, and I'm going 

907
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:46,240
to stand by what I said with the
gerrymandering, it's going to 

908
00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:48,640
backfire on them. 
It sure is. 

909
00:46:48,720 --> 00:46:51,880
Because you know Republicans 
will turn on you if they're not 

910
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,520
if the if the if the bottom line
on them hurts. 

911
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:58,680
And the bottom line for 
Republicans is not pedophilia. 

912
00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:01,360
The bottom line for them? 
No. 

913
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,960
I'm telling. 
The bottom line is not racism. 

914
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:10,600
The bottom line for them is not.
The bottom line for them is 

915
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:17,360
money, MONEY, money. 
That gasoline and food prices is

916
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:20,360
out of control. 
The cost of living in Florida, 

917
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:22,720
out of control. 
It's bad. 

918
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:24,840
DeSantis has not helped the 
state. 

919
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:29,440
Well, the, the, the way we're 
heading, we're, you know, I keep

920
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,280
telling people that we do need 
to make sure that everyone is 

921
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:36,600
registered to vote and to also 
check where your voting poll is 

922
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,640
because they can sneak up on you
that it can change and you go to

923
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:41,080
the poll and that's not the 
right one. 

924
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:44,680
So as you said earlier in the 
other show, please make sure 

925
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:47,000
you're checking where your 
voting poll is. 

926
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:48,520
Make sure it is the same 
location. 

927
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:50,200
Make sure you're registered to 
vote. 

928
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:54,240
Registered to vote is number. 1 
I went to go get my driver's 

929
00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:58,680
license to renew it between 
November of last year and when I

930
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:02,560
went to get my license in April 
I had been removed from the from

931
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:05,320
voting so I had to re register 
again. 

932
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:09,200
They took me off and I didn't 
take my and I didn't take myself

933
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:12,120
off. 
So you need you need to check 

934
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:14,040
you need to check your voter 
registration. 

935
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:18,480
Make sure get get it confirmed. 
Well, I got another topic for 

936
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:20,320
US. 
Senators unanimously approved a 

937
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,640
resolution to withhold their own
pay during government shutdowns,

938
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:28,000
aiming to make federal closures 
personally costly for lawmakers.

939
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:30,800
The measure passed with 
bipartisan support, which is 

940
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:34,240
very rare after a stretch of 
unusually long and repeated 

941
00:48:34,240 --> 00:48:37,080
shutdown fights in Congress. 
Supporters say Congress should 

942
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:40,520
face consequences when it fails 
to fund the government, calling 

943
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:44,080
it one of lawmakers most basic 
responsibilities. 

944
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:48,080
Completely freaking agree. 
The proposal reflects growing 

945
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:51,600
frustration inside the Senate 
over shutdown standoffs becoming

946
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:55,480
more common and more disruptive.
I am on board. 

947
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:58,280
I think that if you can't do 
your job, you shouldn't get 

948
00:48:58,280 --> 00:48:59,440
paid. 
Absolutely. 

949
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,840
It makes no sense. 
It it will literally never. 

950
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:07,680
The fact that it's still like 
that wasn't a thing before. 

951
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:12,600
That's mind numbing to me. 
How do you get paid to not do 

952
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:13,480
your job? 
Yeah. 

953
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,240
I agree. 
Like Esme, Can you imagine if 

954
00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:21,360
you showed up to a booking and 
you just kind of stood there and

955
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:23,440
did nothing? 
Those are the Drag Race girls. 

956
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:28,320
Girl, watch me cancel. 
Not cancel. 

957
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:29,520
Not cancel for telling the 
truth. 

958
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:30,960
You'll be cancelled. 
I'm gonna say for telling the 

959
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:34,200
truth. 
Not all of them, but most of 

960
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:34,880
them. 
There's. 

961
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,440
A lot of them there's. 
Just a lot of good ones that do 

962
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,720
there's a lot of good ones that 
do perform and they are great 

963
00:49:39,720 --> 00:49:41,720
acts, right, But there's a lot 
of them girl, that when they 

964
00:49:41,720 --> 00:49:44,200
show up, you're like it isn't 
just a performance, it's what 

965
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:45,520
they're wearing I'll. 
Be honest. 

966
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:47,520
Though that's all the money they
made they don't have no money 

967
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:48,640
for. 
This it this it. 

968
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:50,960
One of the the people that I 
will always go ahead and and 

969
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:54,440
shout out as a performer is 
Discord Adams as a RuPaul girl. 

970
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,040
She actually actually fucking 
performs. 

971
00:49:57,040 --> 00:50:00,120
I mean, she's, she was, she's 
doing music with Adriana 

972
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:03,080
Sparkle. 
I, I fuck with her, I fuck with 

973
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:03,840
her. 
She's. 

974
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,280
Great. 
Yeah, definitely. 

975
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:09,960
Well, I as made to you. 
Are you sure you don't have any 

976
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:11,440
other any other? 
No, I don't. 

977
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:13,200
Well, I still got a ton more so 
don't worry. 

978
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,400
Don't worry. 
Minnesota prosecutor has charged

979
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:20,160
ICE officer Christian Castro 
with four counts of second 

980
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:23,520
degree assault after authorities
say that he shot a Venezuelan 

981
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,760
man through a front door during 
a January immigration operation 

982
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,880
in Minneapolis. 
Prosecutors say the man who who 

983
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:35,400
was shot, Julio Caesar, Sosa 
Silas, Silas Whatever, was hit 

984
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:38,680
in the thigh after Castro fired 
into the duplex while chasing 

985
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:41,240
another man during a 
confrontation tied to the Trump 

986
00:50:41,240 --> 00:50:44,160
administration's immigration 
crackdown in the state. 

987
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:48,560
I am glad that we are that 
'cause I made this point earlier

988
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,760
that, you know, out a couple 
shows ago while while by a while

989
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:58,080
back was that, you know, these 
individuals who are doing bad 

990
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:02,280
deeds within ICE, they will be 
held to the prosecution. 

991
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:07,200
If they are not following the 
procedures outlined by ICE, they

992
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:10,400
will have local prosecution. 
It might not be a federal 

993
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:14,520
prosecution, but Minnesota 
absolutely will go ahead and 

994
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:19,600
enforce their own laws against 
these ICE immigration officers. 

995
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:21,680
Whether or not that goes 
through. 

996
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:25,480
I, I don't know. 
I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm confident 

997
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:28,400
in the court system, in the 
judicial system that it, it has 

998
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,800
held up this so far and it'll 
continue to. 

999
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:36,800
But that said. 
So Nazi Germany, when the 

1000
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:41,960
soldiers in the, in the, you 
know, the Nazi regime after the 

1001
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:46,800
after the war, many of them were
charged, many of them went to 

1002
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:50,600
prisons because of the crimes 
that they committed. 

1003
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:54,200
Because The thing is, is that 
the, the excuse that they made 

1004
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:56,080
was that they were following 
orders. 

1005
00:51:56,440 --> 00:52:00,880
And that is simply not an excuse
that just in just so, so all 

1006
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:04,160
these ICE agents that are 
violating the law when they show

1007
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:06,160
up in court with their lawyers 
talked about, well, we were 

1008
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:08,600
following orders. 
Well, you should have not, you 

1009
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:11,880
should have left, OK, because 
that's not, you know, following 

1010
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:13,680
orders. 
That's not an excuse. 

1011
00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:16,160
While you're breaking the law is
not an excuse. 

1012
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:20,160
But that's also come up again 
with the whole situation with 

1013
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,200
the the military going over to 
the Middle East. 

1014
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:26,240
A lot of them are like, this 
isn't our war. 

1015
00:52:26,240 --> 00:52:29,480
This has nothing to do with us. 
But yet they're having to still 

1016
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:34,360
follow the orders of this clown 
that's in office that is not 

1017
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:36,280
doing anything. 
And Cuba is going through things

1018
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:39,400
too, right now. 
And it's very sad because now 

1019
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:43,160
they've gotten to the place 
where now you have Cuba, who's 

1020
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,560
just stuck and they don't have 
anything because gas prices are 

1021
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:49,480
so high and, you know, the 
people don't want. 

1022
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:51,680
To I don't think the Cuban 
people are going to surrender. 

1023
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,280
No, I think what they're going 
to and I think start coming 

1024
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:55,840
here. 
And well, they will. 

1025
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:57,680
They can't come here. 
I'm just going to tell you that 

1026
00:52:57,680 --> 00:52:59,080
right now. 
They're there. 

1027
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:02,160
The, the, that border is like 
Fort Knox. 

1028
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:05,120
They come here. 
I'm going to tell you, the Trump

1029
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:08,400
administration, I wouldn't be 
surprised if he even shot at 

1030
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:09,680
them as they're crossing the 
border. 

1031
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:12,600
I mean, I nothing with that, I 
mean, surprises me. 

1032
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:15,840
Nothing surprises me. 
I would not advise anyone right 

1033
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:20,440
now during this administration 
to attempt to cross that border 

1034
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:23,560
illegally. 
So stay put wherever you're at. 

1035
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:26,120
I'm not surprised. 
No matter how bad it is, you're 

1036
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:28,560
better off there 'cause you're, 
you might not make it over that 

1037
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:31,440
border 'cause I'm telling 
they've got it locked up right 

1038
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:34,000
and they're not playing. 
We didn't have ice during Biden,

1039
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:35,680
no. 
So I'm well, we did. 

1040
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:38,600
Have ICE, but it wasn't enforced
the way that it is now. 

1041
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,160
Wasn't what it is now. 
Yeah, it's evolved into 

1042
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:42,000
something else. 
It's. 

1043
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:43,760
Crazy. 
Yeah, and it's dumb. 

1044
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:46,880
Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's 
definitely ICE has gotten a 

1045
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:51,560
different, has taken a different
tone under this administration. 

1046
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:53,600
Yeah. 
Honestly, I disagree and the 

1047
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:57,760
reason why I disagree, other 
than the fact of, of personal 

1048
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:02,000
policy, you know, I think that 
there was still a, a, a major 

1049
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:03,560
issue when it comes to 
immigration. 

1050
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:06,520
Yeah, but they weren't going 
into cities terrorizing people. 

1051
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:08,200
Yeah, but they were still 
putting kids in cages. 

1052
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:10,480
That that is correct. 
Jalen did that during the 

1053
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:11,480
halftime. 
Correct. 

1054
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:14,520
But yeah, but there was, it was 
a totally different energy. 

1055
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,800
You know what I mean? 
This is this is I'm not saying 

1056
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:20,560
that Biden or or Obama did it 
because Obama, Obama was doing 

1057
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:24,400
it as well, but this is all of 
their policies on steroids. 

1058
00:54:24,720 --> 00:54:26,960
They've they've taken it up. 
That I can agree with. 

1059
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:28,920
They've taken it up to another 
level. 

1060
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:32,520
You know this level is just. 
But these, these vague, these 

1061
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:35,160
vague policies that they have 
gone ahead and pushed have 

1062
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:38,440
emboldened the people that were 
already a part of ICE and 

1063
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:40,320
immigration and Border Patrol 
and all that. 

1064
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,400
They have emboldened them and 
wanting. 

1065
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:46,160
These people are racist. 
A lot of them, a lot of them are

1066
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:48,080
racist. 
Are in the KKK. 

1067
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:52,880
Being emboldened to go ahead 
ahead and take drastic action is

1068
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:56,520
going to lead to what we have 
seen, which is multiple people 

1069
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,400
getting shot, multiple people 
being killed. 

1070
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:02,720
And honestly, I'm glad that 
there's prosecutors out there 

1071
00:55:02,720 --> 00:55:07,240
that are still going ahead and 
enforcing the law because it 

1072
00:55:07,240 --> 00:55:09,800
should be enforced and it 
shouldn't be a situation where 

1073
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:12,160
these people go ahead and just 
get off Scott free for shooting 

1074
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:14,720
people anyways. 
Trump Mobile has started 

1075
00:55:14,720 --> 00:55:18,400
shipping it's T1 smartphones 
about nine months later than 

1076
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:21,680
originally promised. 
NBC News tested one of the first

1077
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:25,720
review sets sent to mobile, 
Excuse Me, sent to media outlets

1078
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:29,080
after customers who pre-ordered 
also began receiving shipment 

1079
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:31,120
notices. 
The phone arrives heavily 

1080
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:35,040
branded in with Trump imagery 
and messaging, including Trump 

1081
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:37,560
branding in four places right 
out-of-the-box. 

1082
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,360
The device comes preloaded with 
Truth Social. 

1083
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:45,040
This an NBC note. 
NBC News noted that the phone 

1084
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:48,760
has an American flag design on 
the back, but with 11 stripes 

1085
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:53,680
instead of the traditional 13. 
The article also says that the 

1086
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:57,400
Made in the USA language that 
appeared when the phone was 

1087
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:02,320
first announced is no longer a 
part of the company's marketing.

1088
00:56:03,240 --> 00:56:05,640
So the Trump phones that were 
promised to be made in the 

1089
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:08,160
United States are no longer in 
the United States? 

1090
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:11,080
Who would a fucking thought? 
It's almost like we didn't have 

1091
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:14,440
the infrastructure to do 
something like make manufacture 

1092
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:17,240
phones. 
Sense to me, you know well, I 

1093
00:56:17,240 --> 00:56:20,520
mean I what I was reading is 
that like the phones are going 

1094
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:25,560
to prevent you from seeing any 
LGTBQIA plus information any 

1095
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:31,840
anti republican information just
random stuff but like y'all come

1096
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:36,240
on like I just I mean it was 
just on there that trump has his

1097
00:56:36,240 --> 00:56:39,400
own prescription stuff now and 
I'm like why are you people 

1098
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:42,880
investing in? 
Trump RX, which I I've had 

1099
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:48,040
opinions over Trump RX because 
Good RX, which is in my opinion 

1100
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:51,120
a substantially better platform 
that people should go ahead and 

1101
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:55,320
use it. 
It's literally takes the deals 

1102
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:58,200
just from Good RX and just puts 
them with Trump's name on it. 

1103
00:56:58,240 --> 00:57:02,320
It fucking pisses me off. 
Yeah, the the phone thingy is 

1104
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:05,760
very much like y'all, because 
you look at the people that 

1105
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:08,280
bought these phones, look at the
people that bought these phones,

1106
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:09,800
okay? 
Most of them got 2 teeth in 

1107
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:13,000
their mouth and they are 
fighting and it is very much 

1108
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:15,640
like okay, let's get a gold 
Trump phone, okay? 

1109
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:19,720
So if you can't afford gold, why
would you buy a phone that is 

1110
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:22,160
made out of gold, which is now 
apparently being made in China, 

1111
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:24,320
correct? 
I don't know if it's made in 

1112
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:27,000
China, but not in the US. 
Yeah, it's probably China. 

1113
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:30,680
But I do believe it's being made
in China because it's just dumb.

1114
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:32,960
Just dumb. 
And now he wants to put his name

1115
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:35,080
on money, too. 
And I'm like, I think that would

1116
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:38,640
be the only time I would ever 
burn money is if I got a dollar 

1117
00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:43,080
bill with that man's face on it.
Esme, what's your perspective on

1118
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:46,720
the Trump phones? 
So, you know, there's the the 

1119
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:50,080
phone got a lot of bad news this
week, earlier in the week. 

1120
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:53,960
Well, last week, actually, when 
when they said they weren't, the

1121
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:56,760
phones probably weren't going to
get delivered at all. 

1122
00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:57,840
Last week it was. 
Very. 

1123
00:57:57,840 --> 00:57:59,960
Yeah. 
So they pulled these phones out 

1124
00:57:59,960 --> 00:58:02,520
of their ass. 
OK, I don't know where these 

1125
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:05,760
phones have been, but somebody 
called them and said we got to 

1126
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:08,680
find some phones. 
We got to put Trump's name on 

1127
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:11,480
those phones. 
Don't be, you know, and they're 

1128
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:14,760
probably crappy phones too. 
Yeah, I guarantee you they're 

1129
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:17,960
crappy phones 'cause everything 
that he does is a grift, you 

1130
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:21,320
know, it's just, absolutely. 
It's just just a big grift like.

1131
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:24,320
Money he's made, period. 
I don't, I don't. 

1132
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:27,480
I don't want kids. 
Yeah, I know they're yeah, they 

1133
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:32,760
are making so yeah. 
So I don't want any phone from 

1134
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:37,400
Republican or Democrat. 
I don't want any phone that 

1135
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:41,560
blocks any information from 
coming in, good or bad. 

1136
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:46,080
I want to determine, I want to 
be allowed to determine what I 

1137
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:48,760
want to look at at any given 
moment. 

1138
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:52,000
OK, And that includes. 
Foot fetishes. 

1139
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:55,440
Yeah, and that and that includes
GOP stuff. 

1140
00:58:55,920 --> 00:59:00,680
I because I want to see what the
GOP has to say. 

1141
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:03,760
So let's say that someone came 
up with a phone that blocked all

1142
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:06,520
of Trump's words, for example. 
I don't want that. 

1143
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:09,200
I want to know what Trump is 
doing. 

1144
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:10,880
I want to know what everybody's 
doing. 

1145
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:14,040
I want a phone that is not, you 
know, I don't want to block out 

1146
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:16,280
LGBT so. 
Keep your enemies close. 

1147
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:18,640
So they're going to lose a lot 
of money on those phones 

1148
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:22,560
ultimately when people find out 
that they can't access their 

1149
00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:28,320
homosexual websites because 
let's face it, the GOP is stock 

1150
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:33,080
full full of them of queers, 
Queens, fags and all kinds of 

1151
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:34,800
other things. 
Just look at whatever the fuck 

1152
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:35,720
Lindsey Graham is. 
Well. 

1153
00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:38,480
Yeah, all those people that like
OK, diapers and things like 

1154
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:41,240
they're, they're Republican. 
OK, so they're chock full of 

1155
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:42,600
them, so you know what I'm 
saying? 

1156
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:44,840
Real butthurt. 
So they're not going to be happy

1157
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:47,480
when they go to when they go on 
their favorite website and go 

1158
00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:49,760
girl, I can't see men eating 
ass. 

1159
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:53,720
My favorite videos of men eating
ass. 

1160
00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:58,240
Well, you, you better get you a,
you better get you a new phone, 

1161
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:00,040
sis. 
Or just go to Home Depot. 

1162
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:05,480
Homeo Depot, Homeo Depot, Homeo 
Depot. 

1163
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:08,960
I did learn that if you show 
your jock strap, that means that

1164
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:10,840
you are willing to do things in 
the bathroom. 

1165
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:14,960
That's exciting. 
Interesting, interesting you're.

1166
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:18,640
Well, anyways, a Spanish court 
has cleared Shakira in a tax 

1167
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:22,640
fraud case tied to the 2011 tax 
year, ruling that prosecutors 

1168
01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:25,000
failed to prove that she was a 
legal resident of Spain. 

1169
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:27,880
That year, the court ordered 
Spain's government to return 

1170
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:33,080
more than €55,000,000 in with 
Shakira's lawyer in fines, with 

1171
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:35,920
Shakira's lawyer saying the 
total repayment with entrance 

1172
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:39,480
with interest will be about €60 
million. 

1173
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:43,360
So about $65 million. 
Yeah, so under Spanish law, 

1174
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:46,800
someone must spend more than 183
days in account she. 

1175
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:52,400
Spent 16163. 163 Uh huh. 
They only, but they proved that 

1176
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:55,160
Shakira was only in Spain for 
163 days. 

1177
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:59,400
Prosecutors argued that Shakur's
relationship with former soccer 

1178
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:05,960
star Gerard Pique Piquet tied 
her financially and personally 

1179
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:07,760
to Spain. 
The court rejected that 

1180
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:09,560
argument, saying the 
relationship could not be 

1181
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:12,440
legally treated like a marriage 
and that officials failed to 

1182
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:15,640
show Spain was in the center of 
her economic activity at the 

1183
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:18,000
time. 
So a lot of people in her camp 

1184
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:22,680
suspected after the breakup he 
went to the government. 

1185
01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:24,360
And said hey. 
Go get her. 

1186
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:26,640
Do you see what I'm saying? 
As revenge? 

1187
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:30,920
But I'm gonna tell you this, 
this relationship broke up years

1188
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:32,760
ago. 
Shit I mean though that's close 

1189
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:36,280
though. 163 days compared to 
183. 

1190
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:37,520
I know cutting it close, she 
was. 

1191
01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:39,360
Trying to get close, but I'm 
gonna tell you this. 

1192
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:44,240
I believe that they they were 
just looking for it. 

1193
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:45,520
They wanted, you know what I 
mean? 

1194
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:49,120
Because let's face it, she 
didn't try to scam that 

1195
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:50,360
government, you know what I 
mean? 

1196
01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:52,200
That was the leasing on her 
mind, I mean. 

1197
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:53,640
But they pay. 
They're gonna pay her money 

1198
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:54,560
back. 
They will? 

1199
01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:55,720
Yeah. 
They're gonna give her money 

1200
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:56,240
back. 
Yeah. 

1201
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:59,840
Keith Hernandez had an awkward 
on air slip during Sunday's 

1202
01:01:59,840 --> 01:02:03,920
Subway Series broadcast when he 
accidentally mixed up Jazz 

1203
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:09,000
Chisholm Junior's name with jizz
Chism or jazz jism. 

1204
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:11,360
Sorry, jazz jism. 
So. 

1205
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:14,280
He's made that mistake before. 
This is not the first time he's 

1206
01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:17,920
done it. 
About 3 years ago he said it and

1207
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:19,600
people laughed. 
People thought it was funny. 

1208
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:23,960
They think it's funny now. 
He's not in trouble, but it is 

1209
01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:28,760
calling somebody jizz. 
Jazz Jism. 

1210
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:31,320
It goes back to picking your 
names. 

1211
01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:34,400
I'm telling you, but I'm going 
to tell you though, the man is 

1212
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:38,280
72 years old and you know, I'm 
not saying that that's an 

1213
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:41,000
excuse, but you know, sometimes 
when you're talking really, 

1214
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:43,680
really fast, you can 
mispronounce 'cause he did it 

1215
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:47,720
before, about 3 years ago. 
So, and he's highly respected 

1216
01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:51,200
and he's never known to be 
racist or anything like that. 

1217
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:52,200
But don't. 
Work. 

1218
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:55,280
But jizz girl, the jizz part 
just kills me. 

1219
01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:58,520
So he's he's Mr. He calls him 
Mr. Sperm I. 

1220
01:02:58,560 --> 01:03:01,280
Guess, Mr. Sperm, I like that 
this. 

1221
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:04,760
Is not on the radar, but it's. 
Just, it's just silliness. 

1222
01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:07,480
It is silliness. 
He he was embarrassed, but 

1223
01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:09,280
people are not making fun of him
about it. 

1224
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:13,080
You know he had a senior moment,
you know what I'm saying? 

1225
01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:16,160
We all have those. 
Yeah, trust me. 2 Navy fighter 

1226
01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:19,760
jets collided mid air during an 
air show at Mountain Home Air 

1227
01:03:19,760 --> 01:03:23,440
Force Base in Idaho. 
All four aviators safely 

1228
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:25,160
ejected. 
The crash happened Sunday 

1229
01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:29,600
afternoon during the Gunfighters
Skies Air Show about two miles 

1230
01:03:29,600 --> 01:03:33,280
northwest of the base. 
Officials said the aviators were

1231
01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:36,000
in stable condition and were 
being evaluated by medical 

1232
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:38,600
personnel. 
Video shared online show The 

1233
01:03:38,600 --> 01:03:42,520
Jets colliding in the air before
spiraling down in flames, with 

1234
01:03:42,600 --> 01:03:45,040
four parachutes deploying near 
the crash site. 

1235
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:50,880
That's a very scary thing. 
I saw that video and it was, it 

1236
01:03:50,880 --> 01:03:54,520
was insane. 
I, I, I think that and I and I 

1237
01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:58,320
went to an air show before I, 
when I was working with the 

1238
01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:02,640
bone, they sent me to Macdill 
Air Force Base for their air 

1239
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:06,800
show before they, they stopped 
doing them for, for renovations.

1240
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:10,280
And I, I loved it. 
It was great and all. 

1241
01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:12,120
It was cool. 
It was really cool to see all 

1242
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:15,360
those jets, but I couldn't help 
but shake the I couldn't help. 

1243
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:18,280
I couldn't shake the thought 
that, my God, this is a fucking 

1244
01:04:18,280 --> 01:04:20,880
waste of money. 
Yeah, this is one of the biggest

1245
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:23,320
waste of taxpayer dollars that I
can think of right now. 

1246
01:04:23,680 --> 01:04:26,360
Like, apart from going ahead and
giving money to Trump, like 

1247
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:29,400
literally we're just burning jet
fuel. 

1248
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:35,040
I think they do it to promote 
the military and to and to give 

1249
01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:38,480
Americans a sense of pride of 
the military and what they're 

1250
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:41,840
capable of doing. 
So it's kind of like it's like 

1251
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:47,280
to soften the blow because no 
other part of our government 

1252
01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:50,040
absorbs more money than our 
military. 

1253
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:55,080
The largest amount of money 
doesn't go to food or or to 

1254
01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:57,320
Social Security or to even 
healthcare. 

1255
01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:01,000
It goes to the military budget. 
So I think it's a way to say to 

1256
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:03,560
the people, see what we do, this
is where your money is going. 

1257
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:05,240
These are what these crafts can 
do. 

1258
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:08,000
It's, it's just, it's a way of 
showing off 'cause you know, you

1259
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:13,040
have the Air Force show choir. 
I got to see them a couple times

1260
01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:16,960
when I was in Vegas. 
You now like just found out that

1261
01:05:17,080 --> 01:05:20,280
the Army also has a cheerleading
squad that just started, which 

1262
01:05:20,280 --> 01:05:22,360
is pretty awesome. 
But it's all those things like, 

1263
01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:26,320
excuse me, because I grew up at 
Keesler Air Force Base in 

1264
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:30,360
Biloxi, Ms. So I grew up on the 
the military base. 

1265
01:05:30,360 --> 01:05:35,680
So these are all things that we 
all need as patriots of America 

1266
01:05:35,680 --> 01:05:40,840
to see that there is something 
else that the the government can

1267
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:44,000
offer through the military, 
something that's uplifting, 

1268
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:46,480
something that gives you, you 
know, like when we're in a time 

1269
01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:50,560
of crisis, like where you see 
the military band come out and 

1270
01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:51,880
parade around and stuff like 
that. 

1271
01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:54,640
It's just to give you like a 
little boast of patriotism. 

1272
01:05:55,040 --> 01:05:57,600
There's nothing wrong with that.
I mean, like, I don't believe in

1273
01:05:57,600 --> 01:06:00,680
air shows are fun for me because
it just looks like a disaster 

1274
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:01,880
waiting to happen. 
Yes. 

1275
01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:04,760
Well, they play too much. 
Yeah, I'm like, that's great 

1276
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:06,600
that you can do that. 
Let's you know. 

1277
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:08,240
What happens when you play too 
much? 

1278
01:06:08,560 --> 01:06:10,480
You know exactly. 
What the fuck just happened 

1279
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:12,080
literally. 
Playing too much the. 

1280
01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:15,240
Planes blow up and now we don't 
have two planes to bomb is or 

1281
01:06:15,240 --> 01:06:16,760
bomb Iran and. 
They're lucky. 

1282
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:19,680
Oh, no, yeah, they're lucky. 
We didn't lose to any of the the

1283
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:20,520
pilots. 
Pilots. 

1284
01:06:20,520 --> 01:06:25,120
Yeah, That's that's. 
Jermaine Jackson's in the news 

1285
01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:28,320
and not for the Michael movie. 
Jermaine Jackson has been 

1286
01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:32,000
ordered to pay more than $6.5 
million to a woman who accused 

1287
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:36,000
him of raping her in 1988 after 
he reportedly never responded to

1288
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:38,080
the lawsuit. 
The judgement was entered by 

1289
01:06:38,080 --> 01:06:40,600
default, meaning the court ruled
that the accuser in the 

1290
01:06:40,600 --> 01:06:44,480
accuser's favor because Jackson 
allegedly did not appear or file

1291
01:06:44,480 --> 01:06:47,200
a response in the case. 
The lawsuit was filed December 

1292
01:06:47,200 --> 01:06:50,320
2023 under California's Sexual 
Abuse and Cover Up 

1293
01:06:50,320 --> 01:06:53,120
Accountability Act. 
The accuser, Rita Butler 

1294
01:06:53,120 --> 01:06:57,680
Barrett, claimed Jackson came to
her Encino home in the spring of

1295
01:06:57,680 --> 01:07:01,480
1988 and violently raped her, 
court documents say. 

1296
01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:04,240
The payout includes damages, 
court costs, medical expenses 

1297
01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:07,480
tied to the allegations. 
Wow. 

1298
01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:12,120
Yeah. 
What's your perspective, Esme? 

1299
01:07:12,480 --> 01:07:14,320
This family's always embroiled 
in something. 

1300
01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:17,240
It's just, you know, I mean, 
that doesn't surprise me at all.

1301
01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:19,400
The fact that he didn't show up 
to court tells me everything I 

1302
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:22,560
need to know, right? 
OK, 'cause even if I don't go, I

1303
01:07:22,560 --> 01:07:23,840
would have sent a 
representative. 

1304
01:07:24,360 --> 01:07:26,720
I said let's hash out this 
situation, 'cause I'm innocent, 

1305
01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:29,840
I didn't do anything wrong. 
TMZ, OK, I'm not going to pay 

1306
01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:31,400
you no money, 'cause I didn't do
anything wrong. 

1307
01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:33,560
The fact that he had to, the 
fact that he didn't show up and 

1308
01:07:33,560 --> 01:07:36,320
paid out means that everything 
that I need to know. 

1309
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:39,840
TMZ reported that Jackson was 
never personally served because 

1310
01:07:39,840 --> 01:07:42,760
his lawyers allegedly struggled 
to track him down. 

1311
01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:44,040
Yeah. 
No. 

1312
01:07:44,040 --> 01:07:45,520
No, no. 
Not even. 

1313
01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:47,480
And the judges said you got to 
pay. 

1314
01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:50,760
No, no, you, you, you know, you 
were being served somebody. 

1315
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:54,720
He probably got many messages 
from the court saying show up 

1316
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:57,720
here, Let's let's get this 
resolved, 'cause if you don't 

1317
01:07:57,720 --> 01:07:59,600
show up, we're going to handle 
this without. 

1318
01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:01,840
You show up to your job like 
especially back in the 80s when 

1319
01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:04,720
it was important that they did 
hand deliver everything. 

1320
01:08:04,760 --> 01:08:07,000
Yeah, no, he's, he's definitely,
he screwed up. 

1321
01:08:07,160 --> 01:08:10,160
Well, the fact that he paid 
because, I mean, innocent people

1322
01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:12,280
don't pay, no. 
Well, he hasn't paid yet. 

1323
01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:16,600
It it, it just says that he is 
ordered to pay the rape accuser 

1324
01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:18,840
he has been ordered to Well. 
Let's see what he does. 

1325
01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:21,200
We'll see. 
Researchers say the Andes strain

1326
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:25,600
of the hantavirus may remain in 
human sperm for nearly six years

1327
01:08:25,600 --> 01:08:29,279
after recovery, raising concerns
that it could potentially be 

1328
01:08:29,279 --> 01:08:32,600
spread through sex. 
The study comes from a peer 

1329
01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:35,399
review or the findings come from
a peer reviewed study in the 

1330
01:08:35,399 --> 01:08:39,920
journal Viruses that tracked a 
55 year old man infected with 

1331
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:42,439
the Andes strain. 
Scientists found no trace of the

1332
01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:45,760
virus in the man's blood, 
urinary or respiratory system 

1333
01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:49,920
years later, but it was still 
detectable in his semen up to 71

1334
01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:53,560
months after infection. 
Researchers say the test can act

1335
01:08:53,560 --> 01:08:57,040
as a safe harbor for certain 
viruses or the testes, excuse 

1336
01:08:57,040 --> 01:08:59,800
me, not the test. 
Testes can act as a safe harbor 

1337
01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:03,240
for certain viruses because the 
immune system avoids attacking 

1338
01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:08,160
sperm producing tissue. 
So we might have another STDSTD 

1339
01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:09,800
to worry about. 
Oh my Lord, I don't have. 

1340
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:12,479
Sex rat sperm. 
Rat sperm. 

1341
01:09:12,760 --> 01:09:13,600
We're good. 
I love it. 

1342
01:09:14,560 --> 01:09:17,200
We're good, Oh my God, but. 
Chris, I think we're trying to 

1343
01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:20,399
wrap it up. 
Well, yeah, I think, I think 

1344
01:09:20,399 --> 01:09:22,479
that I think that it might be 
that time. 

1345
01:09:22,479 --> 01:09:24,279
I think we need to end it on the
rat sperm. 

1346
01:09:24,399 --> 01:09:26,760
The rat sperm, the. 
Rat sperm. 

1347
01:09:26,960 --> 01:09:29,479
That's so. 
I mean, I'm just telling you 

1348
01:09:29,479 --> 01:09:31,680
that's what it is. 
That's what it is. 

1349
01:09:32,160 --> 01:09:34,240
Girl, my poor ears are done. 
I don't know why. 

1350
01:09:34,240 --> 01:09:36,600
The hell that went that well, 
that was crazy. 

1351
01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:41,319
She got me together. 
Good morning, everybody. 

1352
01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:45,319
Good morning. 
She got me right together. 

1353
01:09:45,640 --> 01:09:48,359
Well, for some reason it wasn't 
playing. 

1354
01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:50,200
It wasn't playing. 
I was trying to have the 

1355
01:09:50,200 --> 01:09:51,760
background music. 
It wasn't. 

1356
01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:54,440
Wasn't doing it. 
Sorry about that, thank God I'm 

1357
01:09:54,440 --> 01:09:56,920
not hard of hearing but. 
Thank God you don't need to pee 

1358
01:09:57,040 --> 01:09:58,920
anyways, no. 
Oh my God, that's crazy. 

1359
01:09:58,960 --> 01:10:01,560
Well, Raquel, thank you so much 
for joining us. 

1360
01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:04,120
It's been a pleasure. 
Thank they say better late than 

1361
01:10:04,120 --> 01:10:06,000
never. 
Better late than never. 

1362
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:08,880
Exactly. 
Do do believe in, you know, 

1363
01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:11,120
showing up, even if it's late, 
I'd still show. 

1364
01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:11,840
Up. 
It's good. 

1365
01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:14,920
Time they'll show up as a lady. 
I don't like this particular 

1366
01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:19,240
illusion very much. 
Well, for people who want to 

1367
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:22,760
find more information about you 
and and all the things that you 

1368
01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:25,640
do, where can people find that? 
I'm I do not have Facebook 

1369
01:10:25,640 --> 01:10:27,600
anymore because I get tired of 
dealing with that, but you can 

1370
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:30,720
find me on Instagram, Mr. Dance 
40. 

1371
01:10:31,040 --> 01:10:34,720
You can also find me on 
Snapchat, Mr. Dance 30. 

1372
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:36,400
All of the things, all the 
events. 

1373
01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:39,800
I'm new to the love the Golden 
Rule board. 

1374
01:10:40,120 --> 01:10:42,800
I'm very excited to that. 
I'm a new member of Florida Gay 

1375
01:10:42,800 --> 01:10:46,200
Roadie Association, so I have a 
lot of things coming up and I'm 

1376
01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:49,960
super excited for Pride Month 
and super excited for the next 

1377
01:10:49,960 --> 01:10:52,080
adventures. 
Please check it out. 

1378
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:54,600
PSI cook a lot. 
So you're going to see a lot of 

1379
01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:55,760
that soon. 
Yeah, I don't. 

1380
01:10:55,840 --> 01:10:58,360
Know I won't be going to your 
house for dinner because of the 

1381
01:10:58,360 --> 01:11:00,160
rat sperm. 
The rat sperm. 

1382
01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:02,320
The rat sperm just not in my 
face. 

1383
01:11:02,320 --> 01:11:04,920
Yeah, well, but thank you guys 
so much for having me. 

1384
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:07,200
Of course. 
And Speaking of Facebook, I'm 

1385
01:11:07,200 --> 01:11:09,440
glad to report that I'm finally 
back. 

1386
01:11:09,440 --> 01:11:12,160
I've been banned for three weeks
and now I am back. 

1387
01:11:12,160 --> 01:11:16,920
Finally, yeah, I I don't know 
why I was banned for so long, 

1388
01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:20,000
but it is what it is. 
They according to my friend over

1389
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:23,560
at Meta, that department had a 
backlog of cases and I'm like, 

1390
01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:29,800
well maybe you should fix the 
fucking backlog anyways as made.

1391
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:32,400
Do you have any last minute 
thoughts or last minute advice? 

1392
01:11:32,680 --> 01:11:35,040
Well, no, I was just going to 
say the same thing I said in the

1393
01:11:36,760 --> 01:11:40,680
first show in our daytime, right
In our daytime show, the 11 AM 

1394
01:11:40,680 --> 01:11:43,280
show on Tuesdays. 
I always remind everybody, 

1395
01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:47,280
please check your voting status.
November is literally right 

1396
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:50,600
around the corner. 
Make sure you're I, I just went 

1397
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:54,640
to the DMV to get my license 
renewed and I, I, I wasn't 

1398
01:11:54,640 --> 01:11:57,600
registered to vote. 
They had taken after last year, 

1399
01:11:57,600 --> 01:12:00,440
they took me off. 
So everybody make sure you 

1400
01:12:00,440 --> 01:12:03,400
check, don't wait until the last
minute, get a confirmation. 

1401
01:12:03,400 --> 01:12:05,600
It was because you're trans. 
They took your voting because 

1402
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:06,440
you're. 
Probably. 

1403
01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:09,320
Boo. 
Anyways, if you haven't heard it

1404
01:12:09,320 --> 01:12:11,520
already, you are loved, you are 
appreciated and we thank you so 

1405
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:13,840
much for your support of The Big
Gay Radio Show and the Big Gay 

1406
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:15,880
After Show and WMF Community 
Radio. 

1407
01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:17,720
Hope you have a wonderful rest 
of your day and we'll see you 

1408
01:12:17,720 --> 01:12:18,880
next time. 
Bye.