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 Hello from Baehr and Curadh, a podcast from the Land of Awes Information Services.

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 I love you, Curadh.

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 I love you, Baehr.

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 This is episode 156 of the Baehr and Curadh podcast.

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 We're going to talk about why stupid people become successful.

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 You read the headlines and I'll read the synopsis.

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 Ikea steps up with their support of the queer community whilst others cowled.

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 It seems far more important than ever that we share any good news regarding businesses

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 that continue to step up to the plate on their continuing generous support of the queer community.

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 A shining example of this is Ikea, now the world's largest furniture company, whose first

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 advertisement featured a gay couple in 1994.

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 That's way ahead of its time, wasn't it?

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 You never saw that, ever.

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 Did you see that commercial?

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 I remember hearing about it.

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 I don't think I saw it, though.

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 I don't really remember seeing it or hearing about it.

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 Well, I was in college at the time, so maybe that's why I heard about it.

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 Maybe it was Big Stink or something about that, so.

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 Well, about the time you were in college, I was entering the workforce, so.

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 I wasn't out yet, either, so.

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 I probably, well, I was probably still running the gay information line, but, um, 1996, I

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 shut down the Land of Oz.

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 The Land of Oz bulletin board system in 2000, because that computer would not work on Y2K.

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 So, you had to shut it down.

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 And I said, this is, I'll have to spend a lot of money to get a new computer, and bullet

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 boards were kind of on their way out anyway.

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 The internet was taking over, so I said, well, we'll close that down.

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 But I, I also think another company that has not stepped down is AT&T.

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 I didn't know that.

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 Which, since we're going to have to get our own phone plan here pretty soon, um, I think

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 that's the one we'll go with.

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 And the phone I have has been on AT&T for many, many years, and it's working.

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 all connecting at the same time, I, I can imagine that's a problem.

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 I don't know if your phone can be converted over to AT&T.

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 I think you flash it over.

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 Just have a policy of my own.

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 Texas GOP killed recent bill on emergency alerts.

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 The measure, House Bill 13.

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 Keep in mind, this is a bill that's been in place for a long time.

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 Keep in mind, this is a bill that's been in place for a long time.

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 both of which would have been aimed at facilitating better communication between first responders.

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 It was right after the floods.

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 Texas GOP holds special session to address...

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 Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called a special legislative session

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 to address the deadly floods that have left 134 people dead and 101 others missing.

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 Those numbers probably have changed since then.

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 state GOP lawmakers have...

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 none of which address the flooding.

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 Instead, they seek to ban transgendered women from using women's bathroom facilities.

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 That's what they did instead of dealing with the flooding.

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 Because, I mean, they're disgusting.

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 First trans people, now bisexuals.

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 Stonewall National Monument website further erases queer history.

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 A website for the New York Monument, which...

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 Which commemorates the historic 1969 riots outside the Stonewall Inn, led by transgender women of color, has seemingly removed all mentions of bisexual people from its official description.

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 It's unfortunate that our park system is under federal control.

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 It doesn't change history.

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 It just tries to erase us.

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 In preparation for the change of administration, a whole lot of public employees went to extreme measures to record everything the way it was before Trump got his dirty hands on it.

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 And archive.org, the Wayback Machine, where you can look and see what a website looked like at a time and period, they went in overdrive trying to record everything.

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 Gay men share the best and worst things about getting older.

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 The worst thing about gay men getting older is you become invisible in a culture that values youth and beauty above all else.

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 The worst thing about gay men getting older is you become invisible in a culture that values youth and beauty above all else.

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 What else do you say?

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 Yeah, here we talk about Republicans being awful, and here we're awful to each other all the time.

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 I mean, it's spot on.

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 But this is more tongue-in-cheek instead of what we're talking about.

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 I could have thought of it.

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 They are a very, very busy, active group here in town.

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 I know the guy who is in charge.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Although his husband died...

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 ...not too long ago.

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 That's too bad.

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 But they had something several days every week of the calendar.

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 We kind of looked at that, but...

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 But just on a note, I mean, you know, just don't go.

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 I can't say that it's the same for all cities across the country, but at least here, I really,

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 really recommend Primetime.

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 Is it a nationwide thing, or is it just a local thing?

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 It's nationwide, yes.

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 There are chapters all over the place.

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 I didn't realize that.

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 Jim Oberfeld fears same-sex marriages will be erased under Trump.

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 Jim Oberfeld, the American civil rights activist, and lead plaintiff in the 2015 Oberfeld v.

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 That's sad.

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 Everybody's been worried about this.

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 And the way the Supreme Court's been leaning?

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 Mm-hmm.

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 I'm going to be surprised.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 I just, you know, yeah, I just, it's terrible news all the way around.

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 There's nothing good about it.

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 Nothing good to say about anything.

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 And maybe the only reason there's been no movement on that is 70% of Americans favor

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 same-sex marriage.

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 Mm, okay.

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 So, it'll still, well, yeah, well, it can never come down to us again.

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 I mean, you know what I mean?

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 What if the Supreme Court says, no, it doesn't exist?

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 When are they going to put it to a vote?

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 To a vote?

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 Yeah, it'll never come back into the hands of the people again.

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 Oh, kind of like abortion.

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 Yeah.

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 So.

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 Yeah.

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 The worst thing people did by voting for Trump was stacking the Supreme Court.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 For years.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 For years and years and years and years.

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 And that's going to affect us for years and years and years.

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 That is a lifetime appointment.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 That's the only way you can get a...

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 The only way you can get a Supreme Court judge out is to impeach them or they themselves

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 announce that they want to retire.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Or, of course, die.

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 Yeah.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 So, we'll be living with those consequences for generations.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 You're right.

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 Yeah.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 But the past few of them, yeah, and right now it's severely stacked against us.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 So.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 And I just saw the other day Kim Davis, the, I want to say justice of the peace, she was

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 the county records keeper or whatever that was supposed to record gay marriages or all

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 marriages and refused to, and I think she went to jail for five days because of that.

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 She is asked the Supreme Court to overturn it.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 And she has become the poster child of the Supreme Court.

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 for the religious right anti-marriage people.

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 Really?

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 Mm-hmm.

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 That doesn't surprise me.

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 Those five days in jail got her a lifetime of cushy-speaking jobs.

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 Oh, yeah.

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 And books and what have you.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 That's infuriating.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 All right.

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 Tennessee woman denied prenatal care for being unmarried.

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 At a town hall in Jonesboro, Tennessee, a 35-year-old woman shared her story.

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 She was denied prenatal care by her physician

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 because they objected to the fact that she wasn't married,

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 nor did she plan to be,

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 and she had been with her partner for 15 years,

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 and they have a 13-year-old child.

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 Hmm.

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 What do you say to that?

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 Once again, it's the Supreme Court.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 The Supreme Court said that anybody can say,

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 you're interfering with my religious rights by demanding your rights.

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 Yeah.

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 Yeah.

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 It's just, it's hypocritical.

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 Yes, it is hypocritical.

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 Yeah.

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 But I can't help but think, if I was her,

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 I would want to know that my doctor felt that way,

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 so, I could find a different one.

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 Yeah.

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 You'd think she would know that, though, after, I mean,

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 unless she doesn't go to the doctor at all.

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 I mean, it says that she has a 13-year-old kid already.

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 So, you know what I mean?

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 I'm surprised that she doesn't know that they kind of lean towards that.

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 And think about it.

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 This could happen to anybody for any reason.

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 Oh, yeah.

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 Your doctor could say, you're a Jew, and I won't treat Jews.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 And that's where we're headed.

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 That is where we're headed.

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 That's exactly where we're headed.

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 So, yeah, and people don't think we're that close to it.

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 And sadly, I think it's right around the corner.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 You know what I mean?

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 So, yeah.

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 Well, remember that experiment into democracy.

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 The previous democracy only lasted about 200 years.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Way overdue.

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 Yep, way overdue.

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 All right.

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 Why stupid people become successful.

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 This is a bit of a long one.

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 There are plenty of people in the world who are 100 times smarter and more skilled and more talented,

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 but they'll never have the opportunity to make a dent because they don't have the same resources.

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 And when rich people are born and raised in those environments,

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 they generally don't get the life experiences that normal people get,

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 which are essential for developing competence and ingenuity and problem-solving,

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 and, of course, empathy.

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 But they don't have to learn those skills.

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 They can just throw money at their problems.

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 When we wind up with millionaires and billionaires who don't know how to pump gas

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 or make a grilled cheese sandwich or do laundry or treat people with respect,

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 the public goes,

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 Wow, look at how smart those people are.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Mm-hmm.

382
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 It's pretty sad, isn't it?

383
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 It is.

384
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 Yeah.

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 But it's so true.

386
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 Mm-hmm.

387
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 That's what's so sad about it is that it nails it all the way around about it.

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 I think it was Marcos.

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 What's her name?

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 Manelka Marcos?

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 What was her first name?

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 Manelka Marcos?

393
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 Yeah.

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 She had something like 2,000 pairs of shoes and didn't know how to tie them.

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 Mm-hmm.

396
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 Because that, yeah, that spoiled, I guess you would say, or pampered.

397
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 So that's sad, though.

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 But it's, I mean, it is true.

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 I mean, there's always passes given out to the rich.

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 I remember a quote once said,

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 Weird, rich people are called eccentric.

402
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 Mm-hmm.

403
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 The rest of us are just called fucking crazy.

404
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 Yeah.

405
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 It's true.

406
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 That's true.

407
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 He has nothing to say about that.

408
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 Pretty much nailed it on the head.

409
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 But yeah, it's, well, and then you'll see people who are wealthy,

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 they don't get put in the crappy status,

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 they don't get state-run psych homes either.

412
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 No, the mental health, no.

413
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 Mm-hmm.

414
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 Yeah.

415
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 They go in like these posh.

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 They don't end up on the streets.

417
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 Mm-hmm.

418
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 Yeah.

419
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 Yeah.

420
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 So, sad.

421
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 So really, all it takes to be a success in this country is to have a whole bunch of money.

422
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 Mm-hmm.

423
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 It solves everything.

424
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 It'll buy you a presidency.

425
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 It'll buy you a presidency, yes.

426
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 Mm-hmm.

427
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 So.

428
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 That's a good statement right there.

429
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 Mm-hmm.

430
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 Mm-hmm.

431
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 Okay.

432
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 Barack Obama calls for gay mentors to guide young boys away from ignorance.

433
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 Obama explained that such mentors serve two purposes.

434
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 They help straight boys develop kindness and understanding.

435
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 They also help create safe spaces for young people questioning their sexuality.

436
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 He said, you need that person in your friend group so that when you have a boy who is gay

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 and they submit to you; you can help them.

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 have somebody that they can say okay I'm not alone in this hmm yeah, it's deep it is but and

439
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 even for kids who don't know an openly gay person suddenly it's becoming very difficult for

440
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 teachers to be supportive mm-hmm yeah, I mean they'll go after a teacher even if they're not

441
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 gay even if they're just suspected to be gay or Arthur just being helpful to a child who's

442
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 questioning mm-hmm I'll take you get in trouble it's sad that's very sad because they've been

443
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 trying to try to be helpful mm-hmm I mean yeah just that's work hmm um and

444
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 Obama is a pretty good example of this because his philosophy evolved, he was not in favor of

445
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 gay marriage at first no really mm-hmm but he eventually came around and embraced it hmm and

446
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 we say this all the time um that the key to acceptance is coming out mm-hmm let somebody

447
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 know you're gay so that that religious zealot out there who says uh gay people are awful and I

448
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 I don't know any mm-hmm well they can't say they don't know any because if they're if they're

449
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 surrounded by them yes if somebody comes out mm-hmm they can say well you know this is not

450
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 the how do I put that it's rare instead of only hearing bad things about gay people they could say

451
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 I know a person and he's not I know a person I don't know a person I don't know a person and he's

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 not bad mm-hmm yeah get him and this is something that I I've how do I put that something that I've

453
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 tried to do my entire life or since I came out okay just keep coming out to people well uh-huh

454
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 kiss your husband in front of people mm-hmm so there's basically be opening it out uh-huh yeah

455
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 be the change that you want to see in the world yeah, I think I mean I don't we don't show much

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 public attention to each other I mean we do and I don't know all the time yeah, I mean we don't

457
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 openly just make out or anything like that but no we kiss each other in public and stuff like that

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 so yeah, okay pretty much every time we say goodbye to each other oh yeah well you know every

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 time because I've got

460
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 never you know never know what it can happen and I don't want to hmm it's my

461
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 big thing I wouldn't do it at a at a manga rally but no but I don't think we'll ever be at a manga rally

462
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 at the grocery store the mall yeah at a manga rally I don't think I don't foresee us ever going to a

463
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 manga rally though so I think it's all suck it all right do you have a joke for us this week yes you want to know what I think

464
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 trump's big beautiful bill is named after what I'm afraid to know the answer is the name of his future cellmate in prison

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 that's good that's really good that's the best part is how smug you get after you tell the joke

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