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I'm Megan Bennett, I'm Leslie Meyer and this is Gen X.
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Women Are Sick of this.
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Shit.
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Hi Leslie.
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Hi, Megan.
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How the hell are you?
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I'm great.
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How are you Well?
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You're well now.
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I am well now, Hallelujah.
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Last weekend I was sick as fuck I'm going to say sick as fuck from Saturday evening until Wednesday night.
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Okay, I, finally I went back.
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I did a half day on Thursday.
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I saw like three clients because that was all the energies I had, and then I remained scared of food until Tuesday.
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How much did you lose?
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I don't know.
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Probably 10 pounds.
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I bet it was insane.
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It's the worst diet ever.
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In my whole life.
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Wow, I had a puke baby at one point, and that's all we need to say about that, did you?
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Name the puke baby.
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It was baby puke Baby.
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It was I threw I had nothing to throw up in other than my t-shirt which I had to take off of my body to hold the puke baby.
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It was surreal and I just am going to share that because that's life.
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Is that one of the two dolls?
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you're allotted.
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It is one of my two dolls, my puke baby, you can't have 30.
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And I don't know what the other one would be like my toothbrush.
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Maybe that those were the two things that.
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I would be allowed.
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I just didn't understand that a body could do all of those things.
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I bet your ribs hurt.
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It was awful.
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Everything hurt, yeah, and I just had no confidence that anything would ever stay in my body again.
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Zero confidence.
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Do not get any kind of stomach virus.
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It is I boo.
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Wash those hands.
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Don't recommend, don't like your hands Wash everything, all the time, every restaurant that you go to.
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Do not fuck around, don't get cocky.
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No, no.
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Don't get arrogant.
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So this is I can't.
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I I'm a big fan of going on cruises and my family's been going on cruises for a long time.
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Sure, sure we, we won't sail out of the United States at this point, at least for the next three years, and 200 and a half days because they decided they're not going to do ship inspections anymore.
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Oh shit, the norovirus is like a real problem All the time, like all the time you hear about cruises, just like people being quarantined and like and it's so contagious, who cares?
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What if everybody gets sick?
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No, it's ridiculous.
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There are certain public health measures that protect the public, all of them, every part of the public.
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That should just remain in place.
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It's like it's just too hard, well you know, fuck those rules because they're not my rules, right.
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They're somebody else's rules.
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And only my rules can be here.
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I'm glad you're not dead.
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Me too.
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High fives, high five, not dead.
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Not dead.
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Here's to not dead.
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So there that's just that's just some gossip, here's to keeping your lunch down.
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I'm very happy for you, thank you.
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Oh, I guess I should should ask when you started feeling better, did you have like a half, like a meal that was like your.
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Oh god, no I have had no you just work, you're just working, your way very gingerly.
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I was sort of like eggs, saltines, okay, protein.
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I was a little scared of vegetables because what the fuck?
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I thought I was gonna be fine.
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Baby had like, and I went to the tiny egg root with like a couple of saltines.
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I was like, okay today.
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Then I got really bold and I had some of a protein like pre-made protein smoothie.
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Okay, oh no, that's what led to the puke.
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Baby, ooh.
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Okay, I think it just activated puke babyness somewhere in my upper GI tract.
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Here we are.
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This is what we talk about.
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We talk about puke babies.
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We age.
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What's happening in our bodies?
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Or not happening the way that it's supposed to, anymore what's happening?
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in our bodies, ew puke baby.
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But you know it's not so bad.
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I mean it recovered and fine, it's all good.
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Your body probably needed it.
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You just needed a little break.
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You need a little time on the toilet and a lot of time.
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So many ways I could get a break.
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So many ways that would be better.
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It was the worst kind of break because I couldn't even like watch tv or read or anything.
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I was out like my head was gone asleep, and that was all you could do the worst sick in probably the last 12 years.
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We could talk about it for 45 more minutes let's not do that or we can talk about transition to uh, what's the hot goss right now?
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So white smoke, white smoke, white smoke.
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Wait, what does that make me think of?
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Uh, oh uh, the thing you say when you're around the fire and the smoke's coming at you Like white rabbit, white rabbit white rabbit, oh, white rabbit, or something like that.
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Yeah, there we go.
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I think white rabbit's the thing you say first thing in the morning of the first day of a new month, is it?
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Yeah, it's for good luck.
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I've learned something new today.
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First thing, when you wake up, you're supposed to say, on, like the 1st of June or whatever, is White Rabbit.
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This is why this is why I can't say it White Wabbit, white Wabbit, white Wabbit.
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Would you like to talk about the Wackley Wabbit?
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That explains why I never win at gambling, because you don't say that Because I have not said that, not even in 51 years of my life, not even one time I fixed it.
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June is coming, here we go.
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I'll try it out, and then I'll go get a lottery ticket.
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It's no good morning Tim.
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None of that shit.
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Nope, it has to be White.
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Rabbit three times.
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Okay, but you were saying White Smoke.
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White Smoke, white Smoke we got a new.
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We got a new on a rope, pope on a rope yeah, I mean, we don't know if he's on a rope, but he seems nice, he seems pleasant, he's american, he yes, he's midwestern.
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We will hear the homily in english for the first time, which is sort of interesting from chicago, chicago uh, don't put.
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Don't put no ketchup on that pope's dog.
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Nope, don't do it.
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I hope the pope would say that pope leo the 14th, which if you followed from the beginning, you know about dr leo marvin, yes, and we're certain that that pope leo wanted to name himself after our cat.
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He chose that name just for yeah absolutely, as he knows about dr leo I saw somebody say on twitter and it made me laugh a whole lot but because he's the first American, but he's also a Midwestern pope.
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Yes.
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And so they said instead of pope, he's an oop, oop, I'm on board with that.
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Oop, I think that's great, and if you're listening to us from anywhere else besides the Midwest, you don't get that joke.
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The Midwest, you don't get that joke.
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But whenever a overly polite Midwesterner accidentally bumps into somebody or something, they can't help themselves.
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They say oh, oh yeah, we have t shirts to prove it, we do it's kind of silly, but that's, that's a Midwestern thing, pope Leo's come out.
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you know kind of punching a little bit, naming some names dropping some things, dropping some nuggets.
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I was reading sort of his uh like resume on different things.
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Um, you know, he's kind of misaligned with the lgbtq stuff in my opinion but so was the pope before him at the beginning okay, fair, fair point I and I am open like there needs to be a space of gray and like we don't.
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It's not like we have a fucking choice.
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Right, this is the Pope, this is who we hope, leo, and there could have been much worse choices, absolutely so I do think in order to be considered to be Pope, you have to temper your beliefs verbally out there, you know, in order.
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I just don't think if you came off and you said, right, I am uh 100 pro lgbtq, trans, everything, um, you know, I mean, he's already said he's pro migrant, he's pro immigrant, he's you know all these things human dignity of all people right you take it one more step though, and you're like, oh no, I'm not going to do it too much More women in positions of power in the Catholic Church.
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He wants to be popular.
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Popular.
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He wants to be popular Okay.
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So there we go.
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Two theater dorks with.
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Who are non-Catholic by the way, non-catholic theater dorks with microphones.
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I apologize, but we appreciate a good Pope Absolutely, and you cannot deny the influence in the world.
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And so here we go.
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We're going to see what happens.
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Right after I saw the announcement of the Pope being Pope-ified, I then read that the reason that there had not been an American Pope Did you read this?
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No.
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Up until this point.
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One of the theories is because-.
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We're all a little gauche.
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The United States had a lot of political power and financial power in the world and one of the theories was that you would not see a pope in the United States until the United States was in decline Because they did not want to give that much power to one.
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I think I totally see that.
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I see it as a balance which I can absolute balance act here Really fascinating.
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I don't remember where I read that, but when I read it I said that's true.
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Well, that seems like now it's set on the internet, and now it's a fact.
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It's a fact.
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Well, that seems like it's tracking, and now it's set on the internet.
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And now it's a fact, it's a fact.
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Just keep JD Vance away from him, because JD Vance kills popes.
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I said it, I mean it, he does it.
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He did it.
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We don't want to spread misinformation, okay.
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Nothing, everything on this podcast is true, we rarely share misinformation.
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True man, all of it, JD Vance's original.
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It checks out, see, see, see we have been fact-checked.
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He's trying really hard to say something.
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He kept pushing the button and I was like what's happening?
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Okay, but this isn't the only thing we're talking about today.
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No, what else we talk about today?
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Oh wait, do we have anything we're sick of?
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Oh, I was sick of being sick.
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God, so many things.
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Sick of being sick.
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That was one of the things.
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Sick of it being cold.
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It's starting to improve it alcohol.
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I wrote something down oh people fucking going after public television.
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Oh yeah, defunding PBS and.
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Npr because we're the Mr Rogers generation.
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Don't you think that if Fred Rogers were still alive and this shit was going down, he would probably rip off his little bow tie and just fucking?
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And he would say it wasn't a bow tie, was it?
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It was a straight tie.
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But still Now listen, we need to talk about who is living in our neighborhood.
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Yeah, I feel like he would probably, in the sweetest possible way, just hand it right back to the Trump administration.
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Take that trolley and knock you out.
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Using words that they would not know the meaning of probably.
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So he's defended it before there's, I know footage of him defending pbs.
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So the day that the funding was removed was the anniversary of that moment in congress where fred rogers sat in front of congress and defended of, of course, Because performative cruelty is what 2025 is all about.
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Yeah.
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So in reaction, which we should have been donating all along, we did start donating to our local public television station.
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Yes, because we watch a lot of public television and it's important and we need it.
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And that's all I have to say.
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And you can get a copy of Les Mis.
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If you give them a certain amount of money, they will send you a copy the public television fundraising-a-thons but, prizes.
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I would always be like, okay, but what's the next thing?
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What about if I hold out just a little bit?
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longer they might.
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What if I get two free tickets to the symphony I?
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really need those watching.
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Watching les mis for one of the one of the telethons.
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Uh was the first time that gillian saw the british version of les mis like we watched it and of course, they interrupt every, you know 15 minutes or whatever, like six hours long, right, and you're like holy jesus like oh my god, just get on with your next french revolution already it's the longest revolution ever, god it's in real time.
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It's in slow motion, it's sort of like it's a real time french revolution so anyway, uh, give to public, yes, public television.
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Donate to your local station watch Mr Rogers.
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Be a good person and Sesame Street and Sesame Street.
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Support your Sesame Street Bob Ross, even though he never got a dime.
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Someday we will know how to get to Sesame Street.
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I don't know At 51,.
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I'm thinking, I'm not giving up the ghost.
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I don't think we're going to ever know I won't get there.
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It's sort of like the Yellow Brick Road I'm not going to get there, but I'm okay with it.
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The adventure is in the journey.
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It's in your mind.
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Yeah, sesame Street is beautifully positioned somewhere in your mind.
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Yeah, sesame Street is beautifully positioned somewhere in your mind.
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Yeah, there are many things Gen X Women Are Sick of.
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Four prizes.
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I love robin robin, that frog robin, der frog robin, he was the nephew of kermit der frog.
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I do remember that.
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I think it's just kermit that frog, it's winnie der poo.
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Get my, get my critters mixed up.
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Kermit the.
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Frog.
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Kermit the Frog.