Mentally Odd Transcript: Creatives and Dungeon Purveyors: Gene and Say

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Wednesday Lee Friday

You are listening to The Mentally Oddcast. My name is Wednesday Lee Friday. Do find us on Koffee. This week, we have Jean and Say. And I met Jean and Say because I married into a family and they were in it. So now we're all family. And I feel so lucky to know these two.


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um And since it's a show with two guests, we're going to have our guest. introduce themselves. So here they are.


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Gene

Hi everybody.


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Say

All right. Bye. One minute.


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Gene

I'm. ah Gene, and I go by KingSan3.


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Say

Gene, and I go back. in the front Great. i worth


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Gene

I'm the ruler of House Aeternum.


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Say

God bless you.


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Gene

I'm a service Top. I do sensual.


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Say

attention.


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Gene

play and all sorts of impact things.


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Say

play. I'm a daddy.


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Gene

I'm a Daddy Dom.


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Say

pan P .N.


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Gene

Handler. pianist, gamer, and the gentleman.


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Say

and the job.


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Say

Say.


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Gene

Say.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Nice.


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Say

Yes, um I'm Say, and I am the head submissive to um House Aeternum. I'm a friendly disabled therian pup who enjoys role-playing, character creation, world building, and board games.


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Gene

House Aeternum.


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Say

nothing three


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Nice.


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Say

Yeah.


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Gene

Yeah.


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Say

Thanks.


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Gene

Thanks.


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Say

Yeah.


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Gene

Yeah, Carolee, you do great.


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Say

If you're willing, you did great.


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Gene

We got a little bit more.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Aww.


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Say

Um, health insurance for life.


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Gene

HealthEternum strives. to create.


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Say

the greed.


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Gene

a union in between freedom of expression and creativity while blending reality


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Say

I give you the freedom. of expression and creativity. mind Howdy.


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Gene

and fantasy through.


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Say

and industry through Serious.


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Gene

sharing positive energy.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Nice.


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Gene

awesome


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Right on. Love it. So welcome to both of you. Um... Regular listeners know that we start always by asking guests to tell us the story of the first horror movie that they remember seeing, and I don't know either of yours.


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Say

um Let's see.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Who's going first?


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Say

Well, going going like way back to when I was a kid, my dad used to like always have just horror flicks on, you know, like the black and whites um like.


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Gene

you know like


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Say

um Halloween was a big one. Pumpkinhead, Leprechaun. uh dracula which is like the black and white the black and white ones and then uh i don't know what it's called but like it's got the headless horseman in it i think


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Gene

I think it's Sleepy Hollow


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Say

Sleepy house.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Yeah, it is.


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Say

That's got me.


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Gene

that's got ah I feel like that's the one.


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Say

Yeah.


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Gene

There it is. that Is that the main one?


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Say

got me It was good.


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Gene

Headless Horseman?


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Say

That was the first one, yeah.


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Gene

Ickabod!


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Yep.


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Say

Um,


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Gene

Um, For me, I'm not sure which one was the first one because of like VHS dubbing issues.


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Say

For me, it's constantly changing. doesn't being


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Gene

you know so they


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Say

You know? the


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Gene

They will record one and then tape over half of another one sometimes.


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Say

they will report a new accident. over


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Gene

so the movies get confused.


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Say

the movies


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Oh no!


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Say

views.


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Gene

But.


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Say

Right.


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Gene

I know it was squirms that I think was probably the oldest one.


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Say

I know. rooms. that people probably plan


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Gene

um and The Return of the Living Dead.


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Say

Um, The return. Yeah.


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Gene

and Halloween.


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Say

And how are we?


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Gene

Those are like all all kind of together.


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Say

That was it. have


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Gene

But um for some reason with squirms.


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Say

But. the Sunday news. words.


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Gene

i get legend in there because


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Say

I did. legend in there because


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Gene

as I was saying, the vh prop VHS problem.


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Say

as a representative of each product.


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Gene

uh Legend was.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

yeah


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Say

Legendary. Right?


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Gene

Right.


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Say

Um, Word.


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Gene

ah before squirms so you have you know Tim Curry you know


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Say

uh experience So we have. take


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Gene

off.


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Say

he's gone


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Gene

He's gone now, unfortunately. Wonderful man.


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Say

Wonderful.


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Gene

Um,


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Say

Um,


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Gene

But...


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Say

But.


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Gene

He was laughing at the end, and then it led into this Quirms movie where...


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Say

He was laughing. video this times movie be where


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Gene

the electricity.


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Say

the electricity.


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Gene

um made the worms want to eat.


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Say

Amazing. or just like. You hear me?


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Gene

humans I guess


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Right. Right. Yep. Yep.


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Gene

Yeah.


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Say

and


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Oh my god. that is wild it actually reminds me of the time that my uh old boyfriend this you know, before I met H, obviously. Um.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

My old boyfriend came over with a VHS tape and he was like, hey, they played that movie you like on TV. And I taped it and I caught all the the commercials out.


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Say

See you.


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Gene

See yeah


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Wednesday Lee Friday

And it was it was Monty Python's Life of Brian, which I do love that movie, right?


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Gene

Okay.


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Say

Okay.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

So we watched it and I was like, what a thoughtful gift. And he'd spent money buying a blank tape and everything. That's so nice. And then like. The credits started for like five seconds and then.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Bam! Hardcore pornography.


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Gene

oh


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Say

Oh.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

but ah


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Say

This way.


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Gene

Oh my gosh.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Actually, Jean. Let's have you back up off your mic a little bit.


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Gene

Yes.


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Say

Yes.


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Gene

How about now?


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Say

How about now?


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Great.


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Gene

Okay.


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Say

Okay.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Awesome. Alright. Um... Okay. so but i mean you guys aren't really horror people necessarily that's that's not your genre of choice Um.


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Gene

Well.


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Say

well


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Wednesday Lee Friday

so


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Gene

Mm hmm.


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Say

Mm hmm.


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and And that's okay.


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Say

for it.


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Gene

yeah like it's it's not exactly my thing but i do uh enjoy the dark side like i'm an october kid


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Say

Yeah, like it's it's not exactly my thing, right? I do. uh, enjoy the dark side. I'm going to have to.


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Gene

So Halloween's my default.


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Say

So, Halloween is my b-fall. you know i kind of grew up in rudolph raising rudolph the red news reindeer


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Gene

you know I kind of grew up on Rudolph the ra near ra rudolph the Red Reindeer and Nightmare Before Christmas.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Sure.


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Say

And like a nightmare. conference This was like right there.


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Gene

This was like right there. So that whole stretch from Halloween and the leaves start falling all the way up to Christmas is all spooky time.


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Say

that whole stress in my mind and the leaves start falling away.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Right.


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Say

Of course this is all spooky time.


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Gene

so You know.


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Say

You know.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Right.


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Gene

But at the same time, though.


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Say

but at the same time


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Gene

um in the media that i watch you know i the way that they kind of do it and nowadays isn't been my my cup of tea for horror like i do like the older ones like if they did more returning living deads and


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Say

Um, in the media that i watch you know the way that we kind of do it nowadays. in my cup of tea for hard. like i do like the older ones like if they did more we're tired of looking dead and


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Gene

Halloween's Michael Myers creepy.


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Say

Halloween Michael Myers movie.


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Gene

stuff um then i'd be more in but it's got more into the gore side of of things and like you know, slashers.


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Say

stuff then I'd be more in. he's gotten more in the before side of of things um and like you know, the splashing.


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Gene

They're real good at that these days, but it's not what I'm exactly looking for.


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Say

they're real good at that these days but is not what exactly we're causing as well.


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Gene

Conjuring was all right.


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Say

by the moment


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Gene

but um


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Say

dark fantasy really to win.


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Gene

Dark Fantasy is really the one. that I like.


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Say

that i'm


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Gene

um nowadays it's it has everything i need in there you know so it's a cross between um


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Say

nowadays. it has a need in there you know so it's a cross between um Rick Vader.


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Gene

Rig Veda is like an old anime that I really like.


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Say

It's like an old anime. that I really like.


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Gene

and Dune.


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Say

And do it.


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Gene

I want some sword and sorcery and I want some...


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Say

i want some sword and sorcery and i'll do some technological dystopian


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Gene

technological dystopian.


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Say

Game of Thrones.


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Gene

Game of Thrones.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Sure, sure.


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Gene

e


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Say

Things move, you know.


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Gene

things going on, you know?


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Well, you can make anything scarier once you put in the politics.


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Say

Hmm.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

once you have you know bad people playing those games and not caring who they hurt


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Say

Yeah.


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Gene

oh Hmm.


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Say

No.


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Say

Hmm.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

It can get really scary.


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Say

black


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Gene

Reckless.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Um. Yes. So, all right, now. I want to hear about the tea house. And I think, say, you are probably the correct person to explain this.


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Say

he


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Gene

Mm-hmm.


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Say

yes i love uh yapping over this one so um i got the like the idea i was feeling kind of disconnected for a while from like role play all the it seemed like the paragraph style role play was a dying art form And um my old roleplay groups was like Frecadia and like Golden Tether and they were all dying off.


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Say

And um I remember this nostalgic feeling I had. um Back when I played on Gaia Online, like back in like... 2009 you know I'm like Like a teenager just stuck to their computer.


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Say

um But yes, I was like, let me get back to my roots and you know feel how ah that feels for a while and Um...


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Say

I started to do VTuber streams on reality and you can, you know, get that on your like mobile phone and it allows you to customize an avatar character.


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Say

And you can build your own room through the furniture and stuff you can get. um and stream to an audience using your voice. Um... And I never.


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Say

believed that it would blossom into this beautiful creation of almost 400 member community on Discord server. um


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Wednesday Lee Friday

wow


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Say

Yeah.


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Gene

ah


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Say

So. um I do have some lore for the tea house. The tea house is a magical high fantasy role play set in a feudal Japanese era geisha house.


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Say

And it comes in the form of a traveling two-story tall carriage. with a pagoda style roof lanterns all around it gilded wheels that move on the power of enchantment with no drivers or mounts like Howl's Moving Castle, or...


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Say

you know, Studio Ghibli's. i love I love Studio Ghibli's. My favorite is Princess.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Yeah.


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Say

mononoke


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Gene

Mm-hmm.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Oh, okay.


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Say

Yeah, but this carriage can appear across any space-time dimension or era. and therefore your character coming in can be from any universe, have any power or ability.


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Say

any alignment um be any species or race and be, yeah. So there are no level caps or strict level system.


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Say

um And we go off our of our own mechanics. So Jean here actually built our mechanics. They're flavored like D and &D. We use dice, but they're simplified so even beginners can pick up and play.


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Gene

even beginners can pick up.


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Say

Yes.


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Gene

Yes.


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Say

Yeah.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

See? now i have like two reactions to that my initial reaction is oh my gosh that would allow people so much freedom to do whatever makes sense and is meaningful to them which is amazing on the other hand i think about myself having like five or six different streaming services and trying to pick a movie and i don't know how because i don't know what kind of move ah mood i'm in so i wonder if that


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Gene

Yeah.


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Say

Yeah.


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Gene

Yeah.


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Say

Yeah.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

the The choice being so expansive.


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Say

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

If if that. doesn't deter people from like making a decision and go with it or do you have to can you change your mind later with what you're doing


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Say

Yeah, right. Right. It's all about experimentation and like freedom of like expression and creativity. So like.


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Gene

Like... It really is.


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Say

it really is what you what the person makes of it you know, with their imagination, you know.


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Gene

what they have time for.


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Say

Yeah, and we're we're very loose with drop in and drop out. We know life happens. so


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Gene

Mm hmm.


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Say

you know it's It's pick up and go. in my own...


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Gene

You might only have time for maybe a paragraph or, you know, a few sentences.


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Say

may be a paragraph you know, a few sentences.


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Gene

And if that's where you're you're at, you know, that's...


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Say

And if that's where you're you're at, you know that's... that's something that you can do you might just be able to get off you know


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Gene

that's something that you can do you might just be able to get out get out that one line And, you know, still want to be actually.


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Say

and a good one that we actually...


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Gene

able to play.


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Say

able to play


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Gene

um So.


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Say

So. That's the type of way we want it to be, where you can kind of pump in.


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Gene

that's the type of way we want it to be where you can kind of pop in and maybe continue your story over time.


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Say

and maybe continue your story over time.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

And this is on Discord, so anybody who wants to do it with a Discord account can just kind of pop in and see what's up.


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Gene

Yeah.


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Say

Yes.


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Gene

Yes!


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Wednesday Lee Friday

That's amazing.


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Say

Mmm.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Now, you guys mentioned Studio Ghibli, so I think we should pause for a minute and talk about that. Not pause, pause, but like, you know, deviate from our...


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Say

Yeah.


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Gene

Okay, okay


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Say

yeahly


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Wednesday Lee Friday

our our ah planned remarks. um


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Say

Mm hmm.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Because. When I was working at the Madstone Theater, We had spirited away. So I was able to watch that on the big screen a whole bunch of times.


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Gene

oh


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Say

Oh, that's great. e


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Wednesday Lee Friday

And I am a person who at that time knew nothing of of anime, I think.


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Gene

oh What a wonderful introduction.


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Say

on


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Wednesday Lee Friday

ah Kimba the White Lion was like the only anime thing I had really ever seen with any regularity.


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Gene

oh Mm hmm.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

And then people tried to gaslight me into thinking and it that it didn't exist because of Disney.


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Gene

oh


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Wednesday Lee Friday

and


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Gene

Right.


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Say

i


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Wednesday Lee Friday

like you well you know that whole thing with with kimber the white lion and disney's like oh what is that like you


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Gene

Oh my gosh. Yep, Mike. Uh huh.


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Say

Yay.


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Gene

Cheese.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Copied it shot for shot, you bitches. um


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Gene

Yeah, right.


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Say

Yeah. really Come on.


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Gene

Come on. And you can't ignore it.


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Say

and you can't ignore there's a whole bunch of people there's a whole group of people that were exposed to Kimber the White Light.


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Gene

There's a whole bunch of people. There's a whole group of people that were exposed to Kimba the White Lion.


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Say

you know.


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Gene

you know just Throw them under the rug.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Yep. Yep.


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Say

Roman or not.


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Gene

because keep flooding it with uh all the disney stuff you'll never remember this you know


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Say

Yes. keep following with uh all the goofy stuff you'll never remember this you know Yeah, but yeah.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Yeah, so...


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Say

love this


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Wednesday Lee Friday

So in terms of, like, what what is your favorite Ghibli and and why is what I want to know.


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Say

um Princess Mononoke. I love the just the artwork of it, the story. the the expression of this like...


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Gene

the expression of this light. Wilderness.


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Say

wilderness like...


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Gene

Like. Like, wild.


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Say

like wild Lady.


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Gene

And...


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Say

and their attachment to...


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Gene

their attachment to


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Say

to the nature and then having to do battle with the industrial people.


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Gene

to the nature and then having to do... See ya. industrial people.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Okay. All right. Jean?


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Gene

Yeah.


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Say

For me...


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Gene

For me, um...


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Say

um


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Gene

I...


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Say

I... i was trying to pinpoint one but i really think it's just the world that they create in these um in these movies like all of them have like a


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Gene

I was trying to pinpoint one but I really think it's just the world that they create. in these um in these movies like all of them have like a alternative universe sort of feel But they're all.


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Say

alternative universal appeal. um but they're all possibly connected somehow.


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Gene

possibly connected somehow.


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Say

you know


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Gene

You know, um it makes you.


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Say

Um. It makes you. move a little slower and get to the place of life but it's also some high hidden drama somewhere.


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Gene

move a little slower it gives you a slice of life but it's also some high hidden drama somewhere um You know, so, but that being.


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Say

you know So, but that being.


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Gene

All said, I think the the one that impressed me the most recently was the cat returns.


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Say

all said i think the the one that impressed me the most recently was the cat returns Okay. okay


00:13:19.46

Wednesday Lee Friday

Oh, I haven't seen that.


00:13:20.96

Gene

Aw, it's...


00:13:20.95

Say

um is is If you liked it...


00:13:23.22

Gene

If you like cats. Oh, my gosh.


00:13:24.55

Say

Oh my gosh.


00:13:25.87

Gene

It ah really brings.


00:13:26.30

Say

It really brings... cats alive like what are the cats doing out there what are the other cats doing


00:13:27.87

Gene

cats alive like what are the cats doing out there what are the alley cats doing they're doing this they got a whole universe going on


00:13:31.56

Say

They're doing this. We got a whole university going on right now.


00:13:35.89

Gene

That you don't know about.


00:13:35.94

Say

that you don't know about.


00:13:37.51

Gene

you know People disappearing?


00:13:37.50

Say

You know. People disappear, maybe.


00:13:39.41

Gene

Maybe. maybe maybe they but became a cat you know maybe maybe they're over there in some alternate universe and became a cat you know who knows i don't know what happened but


00:13:40.31

Say

Maybe, maybe they could've flown a cat, you know? Maybe, maybe they could've gone over there, off of the universe, and they can't attack.


00:13:42.68

Wednesday Lee Friday

Oh wow.


00:13:44.46

Say

Who knows? I don't know where. wow


00:13:47.26

Wednesday Lee Friday

no No spoilers, no spoilers.


00:13:49.22

Say

Let's play.


00:13:48.86

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yeah, I would actually...


00:13:49.22

Gene

no spoil and No spoilers, no spoilers


00:13:49.56

Say

Let's play.


00:13:50.74

Wednesday Lee Friday

you Even though I do have a special relationship with Spirited Away, I would say that my favorite is Howl's Moving Castle.


00:13:54.72

Gene

Mm-hmm


00:13:57.63

Say

oh yeah


00:13:57.77

Wednesday Lee Friday

Because first of all...


00:13:57.92

Gene

Ah, yeah.


00:13:59.09

Wednesday Lee Friday

I thought...


00:13:59.77

Gene

Oh.


00:13:59.85

Wednesday Lee Friday

ah Up until I saw that, I thought it was weird to have a crush on a cartoon. And then I saw that and was like, oh. But but also, man, Calcifer.


00:14:06.89

Gene

Yeah.


00:14:06.87

Say

Yeah.


00:14:10.80

Gene

Mm hmm.


00:14:10.77

Say

na


00:14:10.95

Wednesday Lee Friday

The... The whole concept of a ah character that is sentient.


00:14:12.35

Say

Yes. Bye.


00:14:15.36

Wednesday Lee Friday

flame is Amazing.


00:14:16.20

Gene

Sentient living flame, yeah.


00:14:16.26

Say

Yo, fire.


00:14:17.18

Wednesday Lee Friday

that


00:14:18.14

Say

He's so cute.


00:14:18.24

Wednesday Lee Friday

That's just mind blowing to me.


00:14:20.42

Say

Yes.


00:14:20.44

Gene

Yes!


00:14:21.68

Say

i love that we love that and that's just part of the what


00:14:21.64

Gene

Love that we love that and that's that's part of like what you know the tea house you can do you know if you have some character that you like that may not have been something that you think is amazing you know like a calcifer character what if your whole character design with Calcifer.


00:14:24.37

Say

you know the tea house you can do you know You have some character that you like there. may not have been something that you think. is amazing you know like a castle for character what your whole character design was ga


00:14:36.95

Gene

you know it's not like you had ah oodles and oodles of lines you know or whatever you know so being able to have the space for a character or a side character like that you could do that here you know and and post you know frame it


00:14:36.93

Say

you know it's not like you have oodles and oodles of lies, you know?


00:14:37.52

Wednesday Lee Friday

Mhm.


00:14:40.22

Say

or


00:14:40.83

Wednesday Lee Friday

Right.


00:14:42.05

Say

You know, so being able to have this baseboard character through or a side character. You can do that in here. both you know, framing. you know, the way you went.


00:14:49.57

Gene

you know the way you want. So that it'll, it'll...


00:14:51.05

Say

So that will be all. feel the character you know


00:14:52.32

Gene

feel the character you know


00:14:54.53

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yes. and that's i mean that's the kind of thing that's like sort of fanfic Adjacent


00:15:01.26

Say

Mm-hmm.


00:15:01.28

Gene

ah


00:15:01.56

Wednesday Lee Friday

And. Fanfic is something that I actually have kind of a complicated relationship with because I used to be really against it.


00:15:08.74

Gene

ah


00:15:08.94

Wednesday Lee Friday

I was very like, well, that's disrespectful to the original author to do it without permission.


00:15:13.76

Say

mm-hmm


00:15:13.34

Wednesday Lee Friday

And then.


00:15:13.74

Gene

ah


00:15:15.41

Wednesday Lee Friday

you know and i just didn't i think i refer to it as as literary masturbation at one point in my old live journal and people were mad they were mad and the thing is that like


00:15:20.81

Say

Very nice.


00:15:20.83

Gene

Fair enough. Mm-hmm. mm-hmm


00:15:27.14

Wednesday Lee Friday

They were right. I was being super judgmental about something that gives people not just like enjoyment, but that can be used.


00:15:30.43

Gene

uh-huh


00:15:38.72

Wednesday Lee Friday

you know, to... to to cope with things, to to deal with it.


00:15:42.65

Say

mm-hmm


00:15:42.91

Wednesday Lee Friday

like it's you know it's It's being able to create an emotionally charged story.


00:15:43.78

Gene

Yeah.


00:15:43.75

Say

Yeah.


00:15:48.44

Wednesday Lee Friday

With deep character development without having to write an entire as novel series, you know, you could just jump in there because everything already exists.


00:15:53.14

Gene

Yeah, right.


00:15:53.12

Say

Yeah, right.


00:15:58.05

Wednesday Lee Friday

And and it's it's weird because some people say that. Like what's happening in Star Trek right now is like fanfic because it goes in so many different directions.


00:16:03.21

Gene

Mm-hmm.


00:16:06.95

Say

Mm-hmm.


00:16:07.31

Wednesday Lee Friday

But, you know, if the Roddenberry estate says that it's Star Trek, then it it is.


00:16:11.47

Say

mm-hmm


00:16:12.48

Wednesday Lee Friday

That's really all there is to it.


00:16:12.68

Say

There you go.


00:16:12.71

Gene

There you go.


00:16:14.19

Wednesday Lee Friday

so


00:16:14.36

Say

Right.


00:16:14.38

Gene

Right. You can't argue with that


00:16:15.80

Say

We can't read you.


00:16:15.67

Wednesday Lee Friday

So this leads me. into my next point, which is about... Why? the fantasy genre the people that create it and the people who enjoy it and game in it Um.


00:16:27.71

Wednesday Lee Friday

very, very popular amongst people. So I want to hear from each of you why you think that might be.


00:16:37.51

Gene

Okay.


00:16:37.51

Say

Okay. um


00:16:38.41

Gene

Uhm?


00:16:39.85

Say

Yeah, and getting to that, um we're...


00:16:39.88

Gene

Yeah, and getting to that... um We're.


00:16:43.81

Say

talking about how


00:16:43.80

Gene

Talking about how. People can do the fanfic right?


00:16:45.91

Say

people can do the fancy place. um and the fan fiction thing like you can there's all levels of it i say like a percentage you get a hundred percent you say


00:16:48.19

Gene

And in fan the fan fiction thing, like you can there's all levels of it.


00:16:48.66

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yep.


00:16:52.82

Gene

I'd say like a percentage. You could 100 % just say.


00:16:56.27

Say

I'm playing Captain Zola Picard.


00:16:56.30

Gene

I'm playing Captain Jean-Luc Picard. and then i'm gonna see i'm gonna


00:16:58.62

Say

and then i'm gonna see i want


00:17:00.43

Gene

play this character as if I was answering as Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise.


00:17:00.45

Say

Play this for yourself. if i was is Captain Jean-Luc Picard from the USS Enterprise.


00:17:07.17

Gene

You know you could do that.


00:17:07.15

Say

You know we could do that.


00:17:08.49

Gene

um Or you could you know be like, well, what if there is an adjacent ship instead of USS Enterprise?


00:17:08.47

Say

um Or you could, you know, be like, well, what if there is an adjacent ship instead of USS Enterprise with a USS, you know, Stargazer?


00:17:13.49

Gene

What if the USS you know Stargazer? you know And you know your character wasn't you know so militant and precise.


00:17:16.51

Say

you know and you know your character wasn't so militant and precise.


00:17:20.51

Gene

as


00:17:21.17

Say

as uh just no luke's character but maybe it's a little more rough and gruff like dwarf


00:17:21.19

Gene

as Jean-Luc's character, but maybe it's a little more rough and gruff, like Worf, you know, and you got a whole different...


00:17:25.72

Say

and um you got a whole different


00:17:28.37

Gene

Thing you could do and that's like I don't know


00:17:28.35

Say

thing you can do and that's my comment.


00:17:31.30

Gene

80.


00:17:31.30

Say

Amen.


00:17:32.53

Gene

70%, you know, there's a difference how much influence and how much you you put into there and how much is different.


00:17:32.54

Say

70%, you know, there's a difference how much influence and how much you put into there and how much is different.


00:17:39.16

Gene

But the context is there, you know.


00:17:39.14

Say

but the context is there. you know


00:17:42.00

Gene

um And it it lets people.


00:17:42.01

Say

and it it lets people be able to come in and walk into.


00:17:43.70

Gene

be able to come in and walk into.


00:17:46.42

Say

um of the universe where there's


00:17:46.43

Gene

um a universe where there's


00:17:49.04

Say

a lot of possibilities.


00:17:49.06

Gene

a lot of possibility All right.


00:17:50.79

Say

All right, so.


00:17:51.55

Gene

So.


00:17:52.80

Say

Yep.


00:17:52.83

Gene

Yep.


00:17:53.92

Say

um I think it's because, getting back to the question about why...


00:17:53.92

Gene

I think it's because, getting back to your the question about why...


00:17:58.47

Say

neurodivergent people.


00:17:58.42

Gene

neurodivergent people. um really cling to the fantasy genre.


00:18:01.11

Say

really cling to fantasy genre. is I think it's they're not stuck with one game.


00:18:04.15

Gene

um is i think it's they're not stuck with one game one program You know, like the mainstream narrative is.


00:18:07.28

Say

one program. you know like The main scenario is... push numbers.


00:18:10.97

Gene

push realism.


00:18:12.94

Say

And, you know.


00:18:12.95

Gene

And, you know, you kind of get fatigued at seeing, okay.


00:18:14.28

Say

Behind the scenes. team that's seeing okay.


00:18:16.53

Gene

and being restricted to the bounds of reality you know you get to finally get out of here um


00:18:16.53

Say

and being restricted from the bounds of reality you know if you get to finally to get out of here um and see what you can do, like an escape.


00:18:21.93

Gene

and see what you can do. It's like an escape. You get to tell.


00:18:24.55

Say

You get to tell. the story that might be playing in your mind the way you think you know and and having the freedom of expression.


00:18:25.96

Gene

the story that might be playing in your mind, the way you think, you know, and, and having the freedom of expression, I think really catches.


00:18:31.89

Say

I think really catches.


00:18:33.46

Gene

you know gets the wheels turning


00:18:33.44

Say

you know get the wheels turning hmm


00:18:36.30

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yeah. Well, and the fantasy genre also has components that are similar to speculative fiction. Which is another, like, if if you are the sort of person who is, like, if you're disabled.


00:18:44.52

Say

Mm hmm.


00:18:44.66

Gene

Mm hmm.


00:18:50.28

Wednesday Lee Friday

or if your mental health has prevented you from accomplishing your goals, um that sort of thing.


00:18:56.63

Say

mm-hmm


00:18:58.45

Wednesday Lee Friday

Then. You know, playing the what if game. can be helpful and therapeutic in a lot of different ways you know just to say like well what if we valued this component of people that we don't.


00:19:12.76

Wednesday Lee Friday

you know, show value for now.


00:19:14.81

Say

um


00:19:15.10

Wednesday Lee Friday

You know, back in the day, I was talking about this a couple of weeks ago with a guest. about um you know, the tribe and what is valuable to the tribe and like how there's day people and night people, because in caveman times, somebody had to stay up all night to make sure that other tribes didn't come and mess with us while we were sleeping.


00:19:24.77

Gene

Yeah.


00:19:26.67

Say

mm-hmm


00:19:26.64

Gene

Uh-huh.


00:19:30.39

Gene

Yeah.


00:19:30.39

Say

Yeah.


00:19:34.50

Wednesday Lee Friday

And oftentimes the the most, like, if someone is physically disabled or mentally ill, they might be the shaman.


00:19:34.70

Gene

Yeah.


00:19:34.67

Say

Yeah.


00:19:43.11

Wednesday Lee Friday

Or. you know the midwife they might be the person that has the the knowledge that the more.


00:19:45.34

Gene

Yes.


00:19:48.16

Wednesday Lee Friday

able-bodied people did not have you know that sort of thing And that's another thing that I think fantasy genres explore. with more frequency and depth than a lot of other genres.


00:20:03.10

Wednesday Lee Friday

So that that might factor in. I don't know. What do what do you think, Say?


00:20:08.17

Say

oh Yeah, that's a good point as well. And, um yeah, like I wanted to second off of what Jean was saying a little bit because I feel like it's, you know, the build your own way experience.


00:20:14.48

Gene

i wanted to second off what gene was saying a little bit because i feel like it's you know the build your own weight, experience. And maybe we...


00:20:22.25

Say

And maybe we prefer things that allow us to better express.


00:20:23.21

Gene

of her things that allows... The better.


00:20:26.65

Say

you know our


00:20:27.39

Gene

you know our creativity without the pressures of like real life you know


00:20:28.70

Say

creativity without the pressures of like real life hanging you know weighing us down right so we always we already have a hard enough life time just living


00:20:34.12

Gene

so we always


00:20:34.42

Wednesday Lee Friday

Mm hmm.


00:20:35.16

Gene

We already have a time.


00:20:39.54

Say

um But...


00:20:42.00

Gene

You know, so I want to replicate it in my characters.


00:20:42.21

Say

you know so why do i want to replicate into my characters and i'm like you know and give me dragons like give me tall ass spider ladies i'm i'm actually just making a drider character um That's a dro drowl spider.


00:20:45.10

Gene

you know. And give me Drake. Give me all it.


00:20:48.26

Wednesday Lee Friday

no


00:20:49.90

Gene

obviously just making a brighter character. That's all.


00:20:56.05

Gene

So.


00:20:55.90

Say

so yeah give me super powerful supernaturals and Thank you guys.


00:21:00.56

Gene

Heck yes.


00:21:00.86

Wednesday Lee Friday

Nice, nice. Okay. Cool. Yeah. um So one of the things that the three of us have in common are variations on ADHD. Like I also... um they they They tell me I have autism now, um which you know would have been good to know when I was, say, seven.


00:21:18.97

Gene

Mm hmm. ah


00:21:20.53

Wednesday Lee Friday

um


00:21:21.21

Say

thing. Yep.


00:21:21.80

Wednesday Lee Friday

but uh what i don't know about you guys is how like your story of of how you came to seek help and were diagnosed and then treated. So that's what I want to hear.


00:21:33.79

Say

Um... like I had a hunch for a like a long time like many years because of one of my special interests is like psychology and I watch a lot of the like the videos and ah read the articles and things like that and I was just always very different like I didn't fit in with my peers in class I was like


00:21:37.77

Gene

like many years because of one of my special interests of like psychology and i watched a lot of like the videos and um read the articles like that and i was just always very um different like i didn't fit in my peers plans it was like Horribly bullied.


00:21:53.43

Say

horribly bullied um in school and i was just you know like just um super reserved and i felt i didn't fit in anywhere um it was actually


00:21:54.96

Gene

Oh. school. And I was just, you know, like just, um... Super. I'm reserved and I don't, I didn't get anywhere.


00:22:06.62

Say

Only three years ago that I was officially diagnosed with autism and also with um high markers for ADHD. uh And it's called Odd HD, I think.


00:22:20.49

Say

So, yeah.


00:22:20.60

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yep. Yep.


00:22:22.43

Say

And for me, treatment is just like. Like a daily... practice of skills trying to stay on top of daily prescribed medicines and that's just a downer for sure.


00:22:36.49

Say

um but you know like what i find that helps me most is Finally finding, having found a therapist that I mesh well with. and that they're actually using like dbt which is a treatment plan that I had asked for many times before, but... they always kind of default back to cbt which is like talk therapy and then


00:23:00.100

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yep.


00:23:01.09

Say

I get re-triggered and then we go back. So yeah, and having my support system and Jean definitely has helped me. so Yeah.


00:23:11.31

Gene

Yeah that dumb DBT


00:23:11.87

Say

That's what I'm thinking. They really don't


00:23:13.73

Gene

They really don't. They don't stress.


00:23:15.78

Say

We don't stress.


00:23:16.93

Gene

how important


00:23:16.90

Say

how important it is. That is as.


00:23:18.24

Gene

that is as something to be able to use as an everyday skill.


00:23:19.92

Say

something to be able to use every day. skill.


00:23:23.65

Gene

Um, like.


00:23:23.65

Say

at like


00:23:25.14

Gene

say with sans you know um like there's a lot of stuff that you can get into


00:23:25.11

Say

same stance you know like there's a lot of s stuff that you can get into Um, and if you don't


00:23:29.49

Gene

um and If you don't.


00:23:32.28

Say

end up having these skills.


00:23:32.30

Gene

end up having these skills. Good. you can be in a world of trouble when talking to people.


00:23:34.47

Say

you can be in a world of trouble. when talking to people.


00:23:37.14

Wednesday Lee Friday

Mm hmm.


00:23:39.17

Say

So a lot of people out there in the world and on TV and in in the...


00:23:38.88

Gene

So a lot of people out there in the world and on TV and in in the...


00:23:43.72

Say

in politics man they can definitely benefit from being able to hold two sides at once.


00:23:43.40

Gene

in politics man they could but definitely benefit from being able to hold two sides at once Two ideas at once and be able to examine them.


00:23:50.47

Say

two i ideas at once. and be able to examine them and that's what dbt gets into into


00:23:53.39

Gene

you That's what DBT gets into.


00:23:55.34

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yep. yep um it's It's interesting because... I... Finally, after like six months on the wait list. got an appointment with a nurse practitioner and that's what she suggested was that I get into DBT.


00:24:09.01

Say

visit


00:24:10.77

Wednesday Lee Friday

And I had misheard her initially and was like, CBT, damn it, come on now.


00:24:15.53

Say

All right.


00:24:15.22

Wednesday Lee Friday

and


00:24:15.52

Gene

ah


00:24:16.53

Say

um


00:24:16.74

Wednesday Lee Friday

and they were like no no no this is different and honestly i know very little about it i should have sat down and immediately started doing research but we have paramount plus right now for star trek so instead what i did was smoke some pot and re-watch dexter so


00:24:30.09

Say

No, it is.


00:24:31.28

Gene

Dexter. I want to rewatch Dexter.


00:24:31.70

Say

I want to realize that.


00:24:32.39

Wednesday Lee Friday

Whoops.


00:24:33.25

Say

Yeah.


00:24:33.93

Wednesday Lee Friday

Oh my god, there's so much Dexter now. There's so much of it, and it's all so good.


00:24:38.41

Say

Did they come out with new Dexter?


00:24:38.44

Gene

Did they come out with new Dexter?


00:24:40.49

Say

like a whole i knew that they if they had those hiatus for the break but i wasn't sure if they came out with a whole new series of of dexter or not


00:24:40.52

Gene

like a whole I knew that they they had the the hiatus or the break, but I wasn't sure if they came out with a whole new series of Dexter or not.


00:24:49.27

Wednesday Lee Friday

Okay. Pause. We're not pausing, but like, all right, so here's the deal.


00:24:52.71

Gene

Okay.


00:24:53.52

Wednesday Lee Friday

So we had the original Dexter series.


00:24:54.15

Gene

Okay.


00:24:56.06

Wednesday Lee Friday

It's eight seasons, right?


00:24:57.76

Gene

Right.


00:24:58.62

Wednesday Lee Friday

So then... There's a show called, I think this one is Dexter. New blood. okay was the next series and this is this picks up on dexter i think 20 years like 10 years later


00:25:06.34

Gene

Okay.


00:25:06.33

Say

Okay.


00:25:12.08

Wednesday Lee Friday

10 years later, and he's living out.


00:25:11.92

Gene

Oh.


00:25:11.87

Say

Oh.


00:25:15.03

Wednesday Lee Friday

West, someplace cold.


00:25:17.46

Gene

Okay.


00:25:17.41

Say

Okay.


00:25:17.59

Wednesday Lee Friday

And um so, yeah, completely different guy. And he's got a new identity, right? And he's dating the sheriff.


00:25:22.22

Say

Of course.


00:25:22.09

Gene

Of course. Of course.


00:25:24.14

Wednesday Lee Friday

of this, this town. And it's, um Yeah.


00:25:26.27

Gene

or


00:25:27.74

Wednesday Lee Friday

It's this amazing little setup. He's got a job. He works at the ah sporting goods store. So he has access to guns and gun records and stuff. um And then like in the first episode.


00:25:35.92

Gene

Perfect. Aww.


00:25:39.05

Wednesday Lee Friday

his son, Harrison, shows up. He's, you know,


00:25:42.34

Gene

a


00:25:42.48

Wednesday Lee Friday

18, 19.


00:25:43.74

Say

Okay.


00:25:43.72

Gene

e


00:25:43.83

Say

again


00:25:44.18

Wednesday Lee Friday

so so yeah so that's kind of how that series goes at the end of that series spoiler alert We do not think that he is alive. And we think that the series came back for one season.


00:25:54.04

Gene

oh


00:25:54.00

Say

and


00:25:57.62

Wednesday Lee Friday

to to kill dexter is is basically the way they set it up and you're like oh no dexter's dead but you know that's kind of that he probably deserves that After all.


00:26:01.60

Gene

Ha ha.


00:26:07.23

Gene

Sure.


00:26:08.19

Say

you know


00:26:08.21

Gene

You know.


00:26:08.59

Wednesday Lee Friday

But he's he's not dead. They have another series that's separate and it's a separate, it's not the same series.


00:26:13.35

Gene

oh


00:26:15.08

Wednesday Lee Friday

It's like they do it as a separate series for reasons that that you'll get when you see it.


00:26:17.43

Say

Okay.


00:26:17.45

Gene

Okay.


00:26:19.54

Say

Yeah.


00:26:19.56

Gene

Yeah. Okay.


00:26:20.10

Say

Okay.


00:26:20.52

Wednesday Lee Friday

but it's a different production team because the the series when it came back It was like they were trying really hard to not look like the original Dexter.


00:26:30.24

Gene

Hmm.


00:26:30.26

Wednesday Lee Friday

And they succeeded in that, but fans didn't love it.


00:26:30.22

Say

and


00:26:32.78

Gene

Right, right


00:26:32.80

Say

Right.


00:26:33.19

Wednesday Lee Friday

So the next time they kept a lot of the initial. Dexter things that they had taken out.


00:26:39.50

Gene

Yeah.


00:26:39.49

Say

Yeah.


00:26:40.76

Wednesday Lee Friday

And then at the same time, they did a prequel Dexter show, which is Dexter.


00:26:45.46

Gene

Amen.


00:26:46.91

Wednesday Lee Friday

just getting out of medical school in 92.


00:26:50.31

Say

Okay.


00:26:50.30

Gene

Okay.


00:26:51.62

Say

Yeah.


00:26:51.38

Wednesday Lee Friday

Which is interesting because I didn't realize Dexter and I were the same age.


00:26:51.64

Gene

Yeah.


00:26:55.71

Gene

Okay.


00:26:55.68

Wednesday Lee Friday

like I don't know how old Michael C. Hall is, but the character of Dexter is the same age as me.


00:26:57.92

Gene

Mm hmm.


00:26:57.97

Say

Mm hmm.


00:27:00.24

Say

Okay, you're okay.


00:27:00.27

Gene

Okay, okay.


00:27:00.84

Wednesday Lee Friday

Because he graduated under undergrad the same year I did.


00:27:04.43

Say

Oh.


00:27:04.46

Gene

Oh, okay.


00:27:04.50

Wednesday Lee Friday

Um. yeah so so yeah and that series was wonderful the people that they cast to play the characters as much younger people exceptional it it's fanfic-y because they they rewrote a lot of things


00:27:15.41

Gene

ah


00:27:20.43

Wednesday Lee Friday

you know they


00:27:20.81

Gene

Okay.


00:27:21.62

Wednesday Lee Friday

A lot of it is is very, very retconned. And so you have to... prepare for that going in so it doesn't bother you but like


00:27:28.42

Gene

Oh, don't retcon.


00:27:28.48

Say

All right. nine


00:27:30.29

Gene

Aww.


00:27:30.26

Say

um


00:27:30.44

Wednesday Lee Friday

and they only but they only did one season they promised us another season and then they kind of yanked it back and so that was disappointing because there's there's a whole lot to like about that series


00:27:40.84

Say

God bless you.


00:27:40.86

Gene

Not yet.


00:27:41.37

Wednesday Lee Friday

If you're listening Paramount, get your shit together.


00:27:43.85

Gene

Come on!


00:27:43.90

Wednesday Lee Friday

Showtime.


00:27:44.62

Gene

Right.


00:27:45.12

Say

Right.


00:27:45.11

Wednesday Lee Friday

Give me more show.


00:27:46.54

Say

There are so many good shows out there.


00:27:46.59

Gene

There are so many good shows out there and that found a way to slip through the cracks of the the the money gods to just give them the money they need to do this show.


00:27:49.83

Say

found a way to slip through the cracks of the the the money god who just give them the money they need to do this show Yeah.


00:27:57.71

Wednesday Lee Friday

What? And... I mean, I love that the internet has that kind of power now because that really is the internet using their power for good to say, wait a minute, we are not done with Brooklyn Nine-Nine.


00:28:05.01

Say

Who am I?


00:28:04.97

Gene

Yes.


00:28:07.54

Wednesday Lee Friday

You give us that shit back.


00:28:09.41

Gene

<unk> Right.


00:28:09.40

Say

who


00:28:09.64

Wednesday Lee Friday

you know. or Family Guy, or Futurama. Like, hey, if we bring this back, will you guys want it? Like... I don't know. Are you going to make it good?


00:28:17.31

Say

Thank you so much.


00:28:17.28

Gene

Are you going to be good?


00:28:17.46

Wednesday Lee Friday

Because if you make it good, we'll come back.


00:28:20.41

Gene

Are you going to try and change everything about it to toot your own horn somehow?


00:28:20.22

Wednesday Lee Friday

who


00:28:20.30

Say

I'm going to sign. change everything about it to teach your own currency policy.


00:28:24.97

Wednesday Lee Friday

Right.


00:28:25.78

Say

um


00:28:25.78

Gene

Oh.


00:28:26.44

Wednesday Lee Friday

It's like, okay, those of us who were alive when they did New Leave It to Beaver are ambivalent to about, you were we're suspicious, but we're cautiously optimistic.


00:28:34.95

Gene

feel


00:28:36.49

Wednesday Lee Friday

And then, you know, stuff like Futurama or, my God, the new Beavis and Buttheads are fantastic.


00:28:36.43

Say

Right.


00:28:36.46

Gene

Right.


00:28:41.53

Gene

owner


00:28:42.26

Wednesday Lee Friday

Have you guys checked those out?


00:28:42.82

Say

Nice.


00:28:42.84

Gene

Nice.


00:28:44.12

Say

No, I haven't seen the any advertisements for it.


00:28:44.15

Gene

No, I haven't seen the any advertisements for it.


00:28:47.36

Wednesday Lee Friday

Well, it's on it's on Paramount Plus, and they just dropped the third season of the new ones.


00:28:50.19

Say

Amen.


00:28:50.20

Gene

Oh.


00:28:51.84

Wednesday Lee Friday

And here's the thing. half of the episodes are them in high school you know doing new crazy shit


00:28:59.86

Say

Okay.


00:28:59.90

Gene

okay


00:29:00.16

Wednesday Lee Friday

The other half are them 20 years later. So they're.


00:29:05.00

Gene

okay


00:29:04.81

Wednesday Lee Friday

you know broken down almost 50 and it shows like how they turned out and It is. jarring in some ways i'll tell you and it's you know it's sort of sad it's sort of sad to be like wow so beavis just kept getting abused by butthead well into adulthood that's a shame um


00:29:15.87

Gene

Okay.


00:29:25.67

Wednesday Lee Friday

but But, yeah, I mean, as a viewer... getting to watch it. It's great stuff.


00:29:29.15

Say

Right.


00:29:29.19

Gene

Right.


00:29:29.69

Wednesday Lee Friday

And plus ah a lot of the stuff they're spoofing are um like, you know, the videos that used to be all music videos.


00:29:35.80

Say

oh yeah


00:29:35.68

Gene

Oh yeah, yeah.


00:29:36.66

Wednesday Lee Friday

They do some music videos, but then also they do stuff from YouTube.


00:29:41.49

Gene

Okay.


00:29:41.46

Say

Okay. good so there's no final ways to integrate different source of media into the show


00:29:42.28

Gene

Good. So they're still finding ways to integrate different sorts of media into the show.


00:29:46.59

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yeah. Yeah, and I think it's well worth your time.


00:29:47.40

Say

Let's go.


00:29:47.32

Gene

That's cool.


00:29:50.07

Say

Okay.


00:29:50.09

Gene

Okay. Yeah, yeah, I definitely was um a kid watching all that I watched um what, ah Daria, B with a butthead.


00:29:50.76

Say

yeah yeah i definitely was a kid watching all that I'll watch them. What, Daria, we just played here.


00:29:57.24

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yep. Yep.


00:29:58.02

Say

Yeah.


00:29:58.05

Gene

Yeah, who else was there?


00:29:58.70

Say

um Who else is there? King of the Hill?


00:29:59.75

Gene

King of the Hill was part of the group. ah Well, a little later I guess.


00:30:01.90

Say

For me and my best friend, it was Beavis and Butthead.


00:30:02.01

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yep.


00:30:03.51

Gene

My best friend.


00:30:06.44

Say

in And.


00:30:08.96

Gene

Settler.


00:30:08.91

Say

South Park. Celebrity definitely.


00:30:09.69

Gene

Celebrity Death Match.


00:30:11.18

Say

software in


00:30:11.53

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yep. Yep. Brandon Stimpy was also going on around that time.


00:30:14.49

Say

Ooh.


00:30:14.58

Gene

Aw, yeah.


00:30:15.80

Say

Our real monsters, our real monsters.


00:30:15.98

Gene

Good stuff. The good stuff, real monsters, the good stuff.


00:30:19.55

Say

this one


00:30:20.14

Gene

Yes.


00:30:21.57

Wednesday Lee Friday

Right on.


00:30:24.81

Wednesday Lee Friday

so So wait, I think we only heard one of your your ADHD diagnosis stories. Now we need the other one.


00:30:31.21

Gene

Oh, mine's not.


00:30:31.17

Say

oh mine's not mine's terrible mine's body covered with um


00:30:32.19

Gene

Mine's terrible. Mine's spotty coverage. is


00:30:36.19

Say

All the way.


00:30:36.22

Gene

All over the place. so


00:30:37.09

Say

so I haven't been able to.


00:30:38.20

Gene

I haven't been able to have...


00:30:39.90

Say

um


00:30:39.58

Gene

um


00:30:40.93

Say

continued


00:30:40.98

Gene

continued


00:30:43.04

Say

mental care right because of how


00:30:43.10

Gene

mental care right because of how I fall in between the cracks of being able to get.


00:30:47.05

Say

i fall in between the cracks of being able to um


00:30:49.77

Gene

um you know, covered.


00:30:50.60

Say

you know So I...


00:30:51.82

Gene

So I, um...


00:30:52.94

Say

um end up kind of going off of what sprays are and smoking up my own videos and seeing things.


00:30:53.82

Gene

End up. kind of going off of what say is learning and looking at my own videos and seeing things um and looking at the signs of the writing on the wall and the issues i have and i'm like Yeah.


00:31:00.52

Say

Amen. looking at the signs and writing on the wall and the issues i had like yeah Yeah.


00:31:05.32

Gene

Yeah. that yeah i got some of that i got some of that and that


00:31:06.52

Say

that yeah i got some of that i got some of that in yet


00:31:09.11

Gene

And that too.


00:31:09.11

Say

and that too I see.


00:31:10.50

Gene

That's it. Yeah. You know, so but another thing that really called me out was.


00:31:12.14

Say

you know. so but another thing that really called me out


00:31:16.82

Gene

Russell Barkley.


00:31:16.80

Say

Russell Barkley. He's got a video.


00:31:18.42

Gene

He's got a video on YouTube that really lays out.


00:31:19.12

Say

button YouTube that really So. how ADHD works and ADD works.


00:31:23.16

Gene

um how adhd works or add works


00:31:26.76

Say

what to do about it, how to treat it.


00:31:26.80

Gene

um what to do about it how to treat it


00:31:29.84

Say

he He goes in.


00:31:29.88

Gene

he He goes in. he He tells you what you are and what you're doing if you have it.


00:31:30.88

Say

He tells you what you are and what you're doing, if you have it. I was sitting on the couch just listening to...


00:31:36.25

Gene

i was sitting on the couch just listening to uh him go in on these things and i was like oh


00:31:39.09

Say

them going on these things as well.


00:31:41.61

Gene

Oh!


00:31:41.59

Say

oh I need to do this.


00:31:42.65

Gene

And they do this.


00:31:43.84

Say

oh


00:31:43.86

Gene

go And they do that.


00:31:44.44

Say

and they do that now.


00:31:45.32

Gene

go And you got you can't let them do this.


00:31:46.06

Say

And you got it.


00:31:46.57

Wednesday Lee Friday

Hmm.


00:31:48.96

Gene

You know, they're ripping into me like, yeah, that's me.


00:31:49.44

Say

it'll be we're ripping into me. Like, you know, that's me.


00:31:52.12

Gene

So I have all of that, apparently.


00:31:53.08

Say

Yeah.


00:31:53.58

Wednesday Lee Friday

Try to watch TV, sir. Quit calling me out.


00:31:56.64

Say

Thank you.


00:31:56.69

Gene

Right.


00:31:57.57

Wednesday Lee Friday

ah


00:31:57.79

Gene

Call me out to the backs.


00:31:59.92

Say

So...


00:31:59.40

Gene

So for sure, like if if I was.


00:32:00.70

Say

For sure.


00:32:02.41

Gene

have had any doubt.


00:32:02.42

Say

Can I have a ditty down?


00:32:03.90

Gene

that, you know, I was on the...


00:32:03.86

Say

that, you know, I was on the...


00:32:06.94

Gene

ADHD.


00:32:07.07

Say

ADHD.


00:32:08.37

Gene

spectrum like he definitely made sure i knew so


00:32:08.32

Say

spectrum Like he definitely made sure I do. so I feel like


00:32:12.15

Gene

I feel like


00:32:13.24

Say

This is another thing that for medical, the medical industry, and how America does things.


00:32:13.28

Gene

This is another thing that for... medical the medical industry and how America does things. There it felt a felt like when I was watching this video it felt like they were getting


00:32:20.55

Say

It felt like, if you're watching this video, it felt like... They were getting. their information from him.


00:32:24.95

Gene

their information from him.


00:32:26.94

Say

What was the name?


00:32:26.99

Gene

but it was like Whisper down the lane watered down


00:32:27.75

Say

whisper down the lane, watered down.


00:32:30.68

Wednesday Lee Friday

Mm hmm.


00:32:30.98

Say

information that they got And so.


00:32:31.02

Gene

information that they got and so you you get the little things and they're like yeah you know it's this and it's kind of that it's like


00:32:33.31

Say

you get the little things and they're like yeah you know it's this and it's kind of that it's like Thank you.


00:32:38.70

Gene

They didn't. spend their whole


00:32:40.04

Say

spend their whole you know 20 years researching this like this guy was so everything that he was saying was just


00:32:41.80

Gene

you know 20 years researching this like this guy was so everything that he was saying was just high potency.


00:32:47.56

Say

high-potency


00:32:49.84

Gene

You know stuff he hitting you right in the chest, you know, so


00:32:49.67

Say

You know stuff he's getting right to jesse and also I like.


00:32:53.56

Gene

I like.


00:32:53.47

Wednesday Lee Friday

Well, there's no experience like living it and that's...


00:32:54.43

Gene

Mm-hmm.


00:32:56.96

Say

um


00:32:57.51

Gene

Mm-hmm.


00:32:57.25

Wednesday Lee Friday

I mean, if you've been in therapy for a long time with a lot of different doctors, like as a poor person, for example, a lot of times I would go get therapy and it was talking to.


00:32:57.49

Say

um


00:33:07.98

Wednesday Lee Friday

students, you know like undergrads or grad students who were who are on schedule to become therapists, but they're not licensed therapists yet.


00:33:09.38

Gene

Mhm.


00:33:09.34

Say

you Right.


00:33:10.33

Gene

Right.


00:33:14.89

Gene

Mm-hmm.


00:33:17.54

Wednesday Lee Friday

And you know when I'm 19 and I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. Sure, that's going to be helpful. to talk to someone who has done a whole bunch of hours of of classroom and and practical.


00:33:30.83

Say

Mm hmm.


00:33:30.77

Wednesday Lee Friday

you know, education and experience.


00:33:31.19

Gene

Mm hmm.


00:33:31.63

Say

um


00:33:32.59

Wednesday Lee Friday

Sure. That's going to be helpful to me by the time I'm 35. I don't need some 22 year old person who lives with their parents telling me all the different ways that I can not be depressed.


00:33:36.62

Gene

Mm hmm. Mm-hmm.


00:33:41.07

Say

Hmm.


00:33:44.25

Gene

a


00:33:44.58

Wednesday Lee Friday

you know, when I'm not having, you know, some pampered person that hasn't lived any life yet, it it starts to feel condescending at a point.


00:33:46.01

Say

Great.


00:33:46.04

Gene

Right.


00:33:52.97

Gene

Right.


00:33:55.35

Say

Right.


00:33:55.40

Gene

Right.


00:33:55.95

Wednesday Lee Friday

which isn't i mean and that's a drag because they're just a young person trying their best


00:33:56.33

Gene

And.


00:34:01.52

Wednesday Lee Friday

But.


00:34:01.72

Say

Yeah.


00:34:01.77

Gene

Yeah.


00:34:02.35

Wednesday Lee Friday

They're not. You know that the problem is that there are not options that meet my needs.


00:34:08.65

Say

and


00:34:08.93

Wednesday Lee Friday

And that that is the problem as I see it, that so many people... who need mental health treatment. can't i mean they would love to get it but the options just aren't there or they're there but they're not affordable you know and and


00:34:21.89

Say

Yeah.


00:34:21.87

Gene

Yeah.


00:34:23.83

Wednesday Lee Friday

Because, like, I don't know. You ever talk to a MAGA person? I mean, don't.


00:34:28.51

Gene

ah


00:34:28.93

Wednesday Lee Friday

But if you do, they'll they'll say, when you talk about, for example, gun violence, and they'll say, well, guns aren't the problem. The problem is mental health.


00:34:37.40

Say

Mm hmm.


00:34:37.45

Wednesday Lee Friday

Oh, so you expect...


00:34:37.43

Gene

ahha


00:34:38.98

Wednesday Lee Friday

support expanded affordable mental health treatment right to anybody who needs it


00:34:41.90

Say

mm-hmm Mm hmm.


00:34:43.54

Gene

hu


00:34:43.56

Wednesday Lee Friday

Well, no, no, of course not.


00:34:44.100

Say

Amen.


00:34:44.53

Wednesday Lee Friday

That's not my responsibility.


00:34:45.05

Gene

a


00:34:46.06

Say

Well, I got some stories for you later.


00:34:46.10

Gene

a


00:34:46.53

Wednesday Lee Friday

Like, dude, just


00:34:48.40

Gene

ah


00:34:49.33

Say

I got some stories for you later about that one.


00:34:49.71

Wednesday Lee Friday

Just... Just say you don't care. um Yeah, okay.


00:34:53.08

Gene

ah


00:34:54.29

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yeah. i'm down i like a good story um So. So I guess seeking treatment. You guys have had like mixed success.


00:35:04.36

Say

oh yeah Definitely mix.


00:35:05.03

Gene

Next. Definitely mix. you know


00:35:06.97

Say

You know, this was a... Want me to go?


00:35:09.40

Gene

Yeah.


00:35:09.65

Say

Yeah, go for it.


00:35:10.09

Gene

Yeah, go for it


00:35:10.49

Say

All right. So yeah, I've had a very, very poor experience. um Aside from the mental health side, I spent countless failed attempts at therapy, medication trials for 10 plus years.


00:35:25.07

Say

It took six years alone just to get the proper diagnosis for the AS condition, which is... It stands for ankylosing spondylitis. It's a...


00:35:36.56

Say

inflammatory autoimmune disorder. So basically my... body overproduces inflammation that creates chronic 24-7.


00:35:48.18

Say

Um... But... And then it took the... you know like i only got diagnosed three years ago for the autism and you know multiple multiple therapists and never they never considered it so Uh, his Always.


00:36:01.91

Wednesday Lee Friday

can Can I?


00:36:02.85

Say

put


00:36:02.48

Wednesday Lee Friday

I'm sorry. Can I? Can I just break in to say. Do you think the reason it took so long to get a proper diagnosis for a physical ailment? is that... Doctors we're not listening to you.


00:36:13.27

Wednesday Lee Friday

that you were not.


00:36:13.89

Say

Yeah.


00:36:14.65

Wednesday Lee Friday

believed.


00:36:15.40

Say

Amen.


00:36:15.49

Gene

er


00:36:16.28

Say

Yeah.


00:36:16.47

Wednesday Lee Friday

Because I don't want to assume that. But.


00:36:18.43

Say

That's what happens now.


00:36:18.44

Gene

That's what happened, yeah.


00:36:19.10

Wednesday Lee Friday

i I do want to ask about it because...


00:36:21.49

Say

Mm hmm.


00:36:22.52

Gene

Hey.


00:36:22.49

Say

Yeah, no, I felt like a number in the system, especially where I lived in Philly, which is like, you know, super populated, dense populationulate ah population. that's where I'm originally from, doctors for years were acting like I was lying, exaggerating my symptoms, only to be later diagnosed. so Mm hmm.


00:36:43.90

Wednesday Lee Friday

Damn.


00:36:46.41

Say

Yeah, the weight.


00:36:46.45

Gene

Yeah, the way


00:36:46.59

Wednesday Lee Friday

That sucks.


00:36:47.80

Say

the way that um because i was i was there with these times too and the way that


00:36:47.85

Gene

The way that um I would, cause I was, I was there most of these times too. And the way that they.


00:36:53.40

Say

Maybe.


00:36:53.44

Gene

they parsed or try the take the information in when they are viewing.


00:36:54.58

Say

parse through privately. information in. when they are viewing.


00:36:58.87

Gene

um or trying to make a give a diagnosis they would filter out things you know


00:36:58.83

Say

um they're trying to make a give a diagnosis they would filter out things you know Like.


00:37:04.08

Gene

like me. one would do but


00:37:04.61

Say

one would do but their stuff they filter out too much so ankylosing spondylitis because it normally presents in men


00:37:06.32

Gene

There's stuff that they filtered out too much. So ankylosing spondylitis, because it normally presents in men and presents men a specific way.


00:37:12.46

Say

and present men a specific way. Um, they just dismissed that it was possible that she had been protesting for it.


00:37:15.63

Gene

um they just dismissed that it was possible that she hadn't never tested for it


00:37:21.17

Wednesday Lee Friday

ah


00:37:21.37

Say

you know


00:37:21.41

Gene

You know.


00:37:22.26

Say

Like, they were, they felt...


00:37:22.31

Gene

Like that for this old.


00:37:24.23

Say

These things got these spondylophoresis.


00:37:24.31

Gene

These things got, these spondylophoreopathies, they got skipped over because they didn't think, ah you know.


00:37:27.10

Say

Peace. God flipped over. because they do, they have, you know. you're young you know you get there on time yeah you know there's nothing wrong with you you just


00:37:32.60

Gene

You're young. You know, you get that all the time. yeah You're young. There's nothing wrong with you. You're just...


00:37:36.70

Say

You know, she'll take some non-steroid and go to therapy.


00:37:36.74

Gene

you know so here take some some uh non-steroidal anti-inflammatories and go to therapy you'll be fine's fine


00:37:41.77

Say

Be fine.


00:37:42.31

Wednesday Lee Friday

Oh my gosh.


00:37:45.03

Gene

is how they treated it.


00:37:44.83

Wednesday Lee Friday

How condescending.


00:37:45.10

Say

i speak Yeah.


00:37:46.30

Gene

Yeah. Right.


00:37:48.06

Say

question There is crazy.


00:37:49.27

Gene

There is a... craziness.


00:37:52.25

Say

Yeah.


00:37:52.38

Wednesday Lee Friday

It is. And then. They charge you an awful lot of money for that. that non-treatment as well.


00:37:58.80

Say

Mm hmm.


00:37:59.10

Wednesday Lee Friday

I actually... In my experience, if you are like dirt poor and you you can't work. you have often more opportunities to see doctors than people who are employed.


00:38:09.18

Say

Mm-hmm.


00:38:09.23

Gene

Mm-hmm Mm hmm.


00:38:10.89

Say

Mm hmm.


00:38:11.55

Wednesday Lee Friday

Because if you have any income at all, they just expect it to to go to whatever care it is that you need.


00:38:17.71

Gene

Uh-huh.


00:38:17.72

Wednesday Lee Friday

um uh you know what we're actually gonna i'm not gonna pause but i'm gonna Stop for just a second because H just came home and I was not expecting him for two more hours.


00:38:26.56

Gene

Oh, okay.


00:38:26.47

Say

I love you.


00:38:28.28

Wednesday Lee Friday

So hang on one sec.


00:38:28.58

Gene

oh


00:38:29.69

Say

Really? Okay.


00:38:30.28

Gene

Okay.


00:38:31.36

Wednesday Lee Friday

Hey. That's next to you. powers out Oh, is it? Yep. Oh. Well, we have power here, and I'm interviewing Jean Insay. Yep.


00:38:44.65

Say

Hi, hi.


00:38:46.27

Gene

Hello!


00:38:46.22

Say

Hello.


00:38:47.02

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yeah, I always have my D and &D on. when I record. Yes, apparently H sent me multiple texts, but I did not receive them because I'm interviewing and my DND was on.


00:38:58.03

Say

Yeah.


00:38:58.06

Gene

Yeah.


00:38:58.12

Wednesday Lee Friday

They don't have any power at his work.


00:39:00.05

Gene

Oh.


00:39:00.01

Say

Oh. His power went out.


00:39:01.64

Gene

Ooh. Again, work like that.


00:39:02.67

Say

It's going to work right through. Now they sit at home.


00:39:04.85

Wednesday Lee Friday

No, no.


00:39:06.55

Say

can't see anything


00:39:06.60

Gene

Can't see anything.


00:39:09.05

Say

Where's the thing?


00:39:09.03

Gene

Where's the thing at?


00:39:11.31

Say

Oh, that'd be cool.


00:39:11.49

Wednesday Lee Friday

Okay, so...


00:39:14.02

Say

That'd be fun.


00:39:14.60

Gene

Right.


00:39:15.47

Wednesday Lee Friday

like getting Getting back into it. um


00:39:18.08

Say

Okay.


00:39:18.95

Wednesday Lee Friday

Now, as a disabled person myself, It's terrifying to think what the fash wants done with people like me so How are you guys? dealing with like the latest pronouncements of the worst Kennedy.


00:39:35.29

Say

I try to stay the hells off the news outlets and the stuff where I will go insane.


00:39:39.86

Gene

So basically, Jean is like my ear to the ground.


00:39:40.18

Say

So basically, Jean is like my ear to the ground.


00:39:44.88

Gene

Um...


00:39:44.81

Say

um He lets me know what to work out, like, you know, what I'd be looking out for and stuff like that.


00:39:45.63

Gene

He lets me know. to work out, like, you know, why you'd be looking out for or stuff like that.


00:39:50.26

Say

But yes, I hate this current regime.


00:39:50.39

Gene

But yes, I hate this current regime. Um...


00:39:53.50

Say

um And here's the story drop that even...


00:39:54.16

Gene

and here's story about. Even... Hi.


00:39:57.98

Say

I had a MAGA hat supporter come to my door delivering my pills.


00:39:58.49

Gene

is a mega handful. order comes by door delivering my pills.


00:40:03.67

Say

where we moved up to in the mountains and it feels like I'm surrounded by a sea of red.


00:40:03.63

Gene

Where are we going? those two in the mouth. and it feels like I'm surrounded by a sea of red. And...


00:40:09.65

Say

And definitely unpleasant and I'm always terrified for the clock to roll back and the lingering question on me and people like me's mind.


00:40:13.10

Gene

it's terrifying


00:40:20.25

Say

is always like are we going to end up back in shackles like old times like can we can we not be Rewinding the clock back there back to there. Like please. So yes, I despise this and I will fight tooth and nail for my freedom.


00:40:34.71

Say

so


00:40:35.28

Gene

Uh-huh.


00:40:37.48

Wednesday Lee Friday

you know, I want to just. point out one thing. I don't know if if listeners know that. ah that a lot of the people who were being intentionally put out of their jobs, their government jobs.


00:40:50.50

Gene

Oof.


00:40:50.43

Say

Mm-hmm.


00:40:50.44

Wednesday Lee Friday

are non-white people. And. When I hear. my fellow white people talking about it, one of the things... that is presumed is well they're racist so they don't want to be around you know People of color and so they fire them but


00:41:07.56

Gene

Um.


00:41:08.34

Wednesday Lee Friday

It seems pretty clear to me. that They know that. It's not. bad people who commit most crimes it's desperate people and so they are going out of their way to create desperation in specific communities and suddenly removing someone's livelihood.


00:41:28.98

Wednesday Lee Friday

is a great way to do that. and ignoring people's medical needs or the needs of their their families. That's another great way to do that because it makes people desperate.


00:41:40.83

Wednesday Lee Friday

That is why the former CEO of UHC is not alive anymore, because someone was just that.


00:41:41.08

Say

you


00:41:45.15

Gene

ah


00:41:47.02

Wednesday Lee Friday

desperate. Um. So yeah, I...


00:41:50.75

Gene

hu


00:41:52.11

Wednesday Lee Friday

i it's It's terrifying in a lot of different ways. Really? Millie is freaking out because H is home.


00:41:59.50

Gene

mm-hmm


00:41:59.43

Say

maybe Oh.


00:42:02.14

Gene

oh


00:42:03.12

Wednesday Lee Friday

Poor dog. She loves him so much.


00:42:08.78

Wednesday Lee Friday

Plus, you know, he goes outside, so he smells much more interesting than I do because I'm mostly here.


00:42:13.06

Say

It smells like everything.


00:42:12.98

Gene

He smells like everything.


00:42:14.89

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yep.


00:42:14.70

Gene

Everything they can't see. When I get out there, I'm going to smell it.


00:42:18.28

Say

I'm just letting you see it.


00:42:19.48

Gene

I'm going to see it. I get it.


00:42:20.93

Say

I get it. um


00:42:22.57

Wednesday Lee Friday

well and the wild thing about millie is like before i got her she had never been inside


00:42:22.88

Gene

again


00:42:28.90

Wednesday Lee Friday

She was born on a farm and had they they never invited her in. and She just lived at the farm.


00:42:33.97

Gene

Hmm.


00:42:34.94

Say

Wow.


00:42:34.99

Gene

Wow


00:42:34.97

Wednesday Lee Friday

She was... I mean, she was young. I got her. She was nine weeks old.


00:42:40.75

Say

I grew up with one of these.


00:42:41.37

Gene

Grew up with all that land.


00:42:43.36

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yep. Yep. And now she's in an apartment and she loves it. She loves being. snuggled up under things she likes uh hiding out she's uh i mean you know she's she's pretty out and about but being a puppy she still sleeps like 18 to 20 hours a day But boy, once she wakes up, you know about it.


00:43:05.93

Wednesday Lee Friday

Okay, so yeah, but we were talking about... being a disabled person here in America.


00:43:11.04

Say

yeah


00:43:11.91

Wednesday Lee Friday

right now.


00:43:13.12

Say

Yeah.


00:43:13.14

Wednesday Lee Friday

um A lot of people assume that if you are disabled, either physically or mentally, that you receive ah disability assistance in the form of money from from the state and and also the federal government.


00:43:26.32

Wednesday Lee Friday

um That has not been my experience. What what about you, say?


00:43:32.23

Say

Um, yeah, I spent actually four plus years and, you know, we, you've heard about how long it took to get the diagnosis first and before. you can even apply you need to have the diagnosis so then


00:43:47.46

Say

four years of paperwork and um to prove that i was disabled so no it's not been my experience either many disabled people go unfortunately unseen and unheard for years suffering alone with their condition and have to fight against a system that is meant to keep


00:43:47.62

Gene

Four years of...


00:43:52.33

Gene

So... No.


00:44:01.77

Gene

Suffering.


00:44:07.78

Gene

you know keep you from


00:44:07.65

Say

you know keep you from getting these resources. That's what it feels like.


00:44:10.73

Gene

This really feels like that.


00:44:10.72

Say

there's really Yeah, especially if you're any kind of different.


00:44:16.32

Wednesday Lee Friday

Okay. Well. That's distressing.


00:44:20.66

Say

and


00:44:20.74

Gene

a


00:44:20.72

Wednesday Lee Friday

Um. So I guess what I want to ask is like in a very general way, I know. Like. Bearing in mind that it takes a long time to get help, once you get help, once you are in a room with a therapist,


00:44:35.25

Wednesday Lee Friday

Um. Did you feel... Like. well received did you feel heard initially did it take a couple of tries like what was that experience like


00:44:42.15

Say

you


00:44:45.26

Gene

Woohoohoo!


00:44:45.95

Say

You know, again, in my most recent experience in my ah current like medical health situation, I was juggled more than like around four or so times within the frame of two months after my therapist I was seeing for two years abruptly quit without notice.


00:44:47.53

Gene

And now again in... My most recent experience... Hi. medical health situation. i always juggle for like around four or so times within the frame of two months After my therapist I was seeing for two years.


00:45:06.00

Gene

abruptly quit without notice.


00:45:09.22

Wednesday Lee Friday

Oh. Ouch.


00:45:10.77

Say

ah yeah so i've been like juggled and bounced back and forth and i have very little trust right now


00:45:11.50

Gene

Yeah, so I've been juggling and bouncing and I have very little trust right now.


00:45:17.71

Say

in the current medical system unfortunately the second Part of this is being pushed a single drug option by my rheumatologist.


00:45:17.72

Gene

in the current medical system. The second. part of this um being pushed a single drug option by my dermatologist after many times


00:45:28.02

Say

after many times asking for other options


00:45:29.47

Gene

for other options And then...


00:45:31.74

Say

and them barring me pretty much from seeking other opinions because of an unwritten policy so


00:45:33.68

Gene

Barring me pretty much from seeking other opinions. because of our unwritten policies. Mm hmm.


00:45:39.81

Wednesday Lee Friday

oh


00:45:41.07

Gene

craziness again.


00:45:41.21

Say

Crazy. Again. Cow.


00:45:44.45

Gene

How?


00:45:45.89

Wednesday Lee Friday

Now... that That actually, I mean...


00:45:51.34

Wednesday Lee Friday

Sorry, I just lost my train of thought. But what one of the things that... um people discuss in in mental health circles is that like, yes, these people, they go to medical school.


00:46:02.74

Wednesday Lee Friday

There is a lot of specialized training to be a psychiatrist or a psychologist.


00:46:07.86

Say

Mhm.


00:46:07.90

Wednesday Lee Friday

um but Reading about these conditions is not the same as having them.


00:46:13.97

Say

No. is


00:46:14.32

Wednesday Lee Friday

And that as someone who is living with a condition. it can feel very frustrating to be very clearly and articulately articulately explaining what is happening, how you feel about it and what you want to change. and then Not being heard.


00:46:33.89

Say

Mm hmm.


00:46:33.90

Wednesday Lee Friday

So... What? What do we do about that? Like, how to how to how do you how would you advise someone in that position as someone who has eventually found therapy that they feel good about?


00:46:46.36

Say

Yeah. Um... yeah, to like not give up really because it is kind of... Um... i guess like ah a gamble you know it's like trial and error and there's a yeah


00:47:01.29

Gene

Advocation, too.


00:47:03.28

Wednesday Lee Friday

Mm hmm.


00:47:03.38

Say

And um asking what you you, you know, kind of have an idea what you may want to. um See? How to, um... ask for it.


00:47:14.40

Say

yeah yeah right you gotta be able to articulate your needs to to them you gotta be able to project that.


00:47:14.08

Gene

yeah yeah Yeah. Right. You got to be able to articulate your needs to the to them. You got to be able to project that. You know, if you're coming in and you know that you haven't had a stomach ache like this before, you've had regular stomach aches.


00:47:21.82

Say

You know, if you're coming in. and you know that you haven't had stomach aches like this before you can have regular stomach aches this is


00:47:27.90

Gene

This is.


00:47:29.24

Say

Hi.


00:47:29.15

Gene

Highly.


00:47:30.11

Say

Unusual.


00:47:30.17

Gene

Unusual. You can't just go home with a Pepto-Bismol.


00:47:31.74

Say

You can't just go home.


00:47:32.84

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yep.


00:47:34.00

Say

with a tetrabismol. prescription.


00:47:36.09

Gene

prescription You know, being able to.


00:47:36.77

Say

you know. uh being able to


00:47:39.37

Gene

hit them with facts that you can um more facts that you can get about your condition helps them be able to make a better decision you know if you come in there and you're like you know i have an issue like


00:47:39.42

Say

hit them with facts that you can um more effects you can get about your condition helps them be able to make a better decision. you know if you come in there and you're like you know i have an issue like only You're the only person you know what's going on in your mind.


00:47:50.19

Gene

only you're the only person that knows what's going on in your mind and you know what i mean in your body you know like you and you're you're


00:47:53.88

Say

And, you know, i mean in your body, you know. cases to present your case to the doctor.


00:47:57.34

Gene

cases to present your case to the doctor. The way we want it to be like, you know, it's like you you see House and you see other shows.


00:48:00.73

Say

the way we want it to be like you know is like you see house and you see other tools you come into the doctor and it's like doc you got something wrong we ask you a list of questions give you a bunch of prompts that eventually gets them to the solution


00:48:04.74

Gene

You come into the doctor and it's like, Doc, I got something wrong. and They ask you a list of questions, give you a bunch of prompts that eventually gets them to the solution. But it's just like not that way in real life.


00:48:13.27

Say

but it's just like not that way in real life so it's almost like you need to be your own doctor to halfway you have to be in the uh You have to be the...


00:48:16.40

Gene

So it's almost like you have to be your own doctor to halfway.


00:48:17.09

Wednesday Lee Friday

Right.


00:48:20.58

Gene

You have to be the the cutty. You have to be the. ah


00:48:23.97

Say

the athlete.


00:48:24.05

Gene

I forget um what Omar Epps' character was.


00:48:25.06

Say

with Mario's character, because you have to be...


00:48:26.44

Gene

You have to be the character that is...


00:48:27.42

Say

um the character that is. halfway giving you what's what the problem is about your body you're your own specialist


00:48:30.00

Gene

halfway giving you what's the what the problem is about your body you're your own specialist


00:48:34.93

Say

coming.


00:48:34.97

Gene

um coming to another specialist and you're consulting about


00:48:35.47

Say

to another specialist and you're consulting about.


00:48:38.84

Gene

would be an issue that that They deal with that a lot better.


00:48:40.28

Say

And I think people would have a lot better. you know


00:48:41.90

Gene

You know, I would say that's.


00:48:42.91

Say

to say that. that's the way


00:48:43.83

Gene

That's the way.


00:48:44.23

Wednesday Lee Friday

It.


00:48:45.02

Say

if they're you know it's possible but we still have to believe you


00:48:45.07

Gene

if they're you know it's possible but they still have to believe you


00:48:48.53

Wednesday Lee Friday

Right. I always think like.


00:48:49.74

Say

But that's one.


00:48:51.34

Wednesday Lee Friday

It's why I can't watch House.


00:48:53.33

Say

Mhm.


00:48:53.40

Gene

Mhm.


00:48:53.33

Wednesday Lee Friday

Or shows like that. Because you see this guy and somebody comes in and says, yeah, I'm having this pain and I feel like this. and you know, also my foot feels wiggly or whatever.


00:49:04.47

Say

This is fun.


00:49:04.55

Gene

Right.


00:49:04.53

Wednesday Lee Friday

And he's just like, well, I'm going to get to the bottom of this.


00:49:07.49

Gene

Right.


00:49:07.19

Wednesday Lee Friday

And he's, you know, he's so determined.


00:49:08.09

Say

Yeah.


00:49:09.100

Wednesday Lee Friday

He's doing all this research, making calls to people on the other side of the world.


00:49:13.92

Gene

ah right Help!


00:49:14.28

Wednesday Lee Friday

And it's like in real it.


00:49:14.79

Say

help me.


00:49:15.28

Gene

Me.


00:49:16.06

Wednesday Lee Friday

in real life the doctor would be like uh-huh are you sure you're not lying Like.


00:49:20.30

Say

Right.


00:49:20.35

Gene

Right.


00:49:20.54

Wednesday Lee Friday

What?


00:49:20.61

Say

yeah yeah like come on you got 15 minutes finish until my lunch break.


00:49:21.46

Gene

That's it.


00:49:22.47

Wednesday Lee Friday

Well. That certainly sounds like it's all in your mind.


00:49:27.53

Gene

Right.


00:49:27.54

Say

Great. I gotta get you out.


00:49:28.33

Gene

I got to get you out in 15 minutes.


00:49:29.24

Say

in 15 minutes yeah you got 15 minutes come on


00:49:30.34

Gene

How can I make this?


00:49:30.79

Wednesday Lee Friday

Seriously.


00:49:31.64

Gene

Yeah.


00:49:32.81

Say

Come on, make this happy.


00:49:32.37

Gene

ah come on make this snappy what what do you want we want drugs all right we're drug seeking here you go could take Take this to the the drug person.


00:49:33.46

Say

What do you want? Do you want drugs? All right, do you need drugs again?


00:49:35.48

Wednesday Lee Friday

yeah


00:49:36.07

Say

Here you go. You can take this to the drunk.


00:49:38.58

Gene

I just want to get you out.


00:49:38.77

Say

I just want to get you out.


00:49:40.53

Gene

like Help.


00:49:40.58

Say

do you No.


00:49:42.24

Gene

Me.


00:49:42.18

Say

Me. I didn't want to be.


00:49:43.38

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yep.


00:49:43.96

Gene

Yeah.


00:49:45.09

Say

i didn't want to be


00:49:44.75

Gene

I didn't even want to be here. Help me.


00:49:46.52

Say

Help me.


00:49:48.25

Gene

you know


00:49:47.83

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yeah, although I will say that... Ever since my extreme poverty got me an all expenses paid trip to U of M hospital. They treat me like a queen.


00:49:59.99

Wednesday Lee Friday

not Not the gay kind, but like the rich. ruling things kind that place is exceptional in terms of like the day-to-day care but then the institutional stuff um I'm going to actually share something about my life with you guys. and And listeners, well, my listeners know I smoke weed. If you if you ever listen to this show, you you know that I smoke weed, right? Um.


00:50:24.85

Wednesday Lee Friday

And that's just something that is ah part of my general wellness routine. Um.


00:50:30.38

Say

Mm hmm. Mm hmm.


00:50:31.52

Wednesday Lee Friday

I have a MedCart. You know, a doctor was like, yes, you have PTSD.


00:50:33.72

Gene

Amen.


00:50:36.33

Wednesday Lee Friday

You will definitely benefit from this. So here's a prescription. um So the last time I was at U of M for an issue with my heart. My chart said that they were treating me.


00:50:48.84

Wednesday Lee Friday

for cannabis dependence.


00:50:51.66

Say

And whoo!


00:50:51.73

Gene

Cool.


00:50:52.09

Wednesday Lee Friday

And. I was Hoppin' mad. that they would say that.


00:50:55.57

Say

Yeah. Mm hmm.


00:50:57.15

Wednesday Lee Friday

and uh Then one of the nurses was like, yeah, I think they have to do that because, you know, you're like funded by such and such program that if you're if they know that you're using, they have to put this down here.


00:51:02.15

Gene

if


00:51:05.28

Gene

Oh, no.


00:51:05.27

Say

Oh yeah.


00:51:09.07

Wednesday Lee Friday

And I'm like, wait a minute.


00:51:09.24

Say

No.


00:51:10.04

Wednesday Lee Friday

We also have private health insurance.


00:51:10.69

Say

Huh?


00:51:12.97

Wednesday Lee Friday

And now my insurer thinks that I went to one of the best teaching hospitals in the country. for cannabis dependence.


00:51:21.16

Say

Wow.


00:51:21.20

Gene

Wow


00:51:22.16

Wednesday Lee Friday

i want that removed from my chart i want it taken off my chart and they were like i'm not sure we could do that and i was like well Let me try this another way.


00:51:22.27

Gene

Come on.


00:51:23.84

Say

a and mean


00:51:29.25

Gene

Whoa.


00:51:31.70

Wednesday Lee Friday

I would like in writing to know precisely what parts of the care that I received here were related to my cannabis dependence.


00:51:41.85

Say

Yeah.


00:51:41.87

Wednesday Lee Friday

I needed itemized list of that. And, uh, Kel's surprise, they took it off my chart.


00:51:45.66

Gene

Mm-hmm.


00:51:47.97

Say

Yeah.


00:51:48.02

Gene

Yeah.


00:51:48.03

Wednesday Lee Friday

So.


00:51:48.84

Say

Right.


00:51:49.11

Wednesday Lee Friday

who


00:51:48.87

Gene

Right.


00:51:49.76

Say

We are out.


00:51:49.81

Gene

You're a problem.


00:51:50.80

Say

two steps away from malpractice technique like he better stop


00:51:50.87

Gene

two steps away from malpractice checkmate. Like, you better stop.


00:51:54.89

Wednesday Lee Friday

Well, and you know, I'm not even, like, I was... very upset about that particular situation.


00:52:01.05

Say

Yeah. Shoot.


00:52:03.20

Wednesday Lee Friday

But they have literally saved my life three or four times at this point.


00:52:03.41

Gene

true


00:52:07.36

Wednesday Lee Friday

I mean, the last time, the paramedics certainly gave an assist. But ah I've been at death's door several times since 2022.


00:52:11.40

Say

mm-hmm


00:52:17.35

Wednesday Lee Friday

Every time I managed to come home and get better. So I have those people to thank for that, ah just despite my cannabis dependence.


00:52:20.69

Gene

Yes. Yes.


00:52:22.69

Say

Yes. Yes.


00:52:25.28

Wednesday Lee Friday

so ah


00:52:25.82

Gene

so Apparently.


00:52:27.88

Say

moment.


00:52:27.92

Gene

Oh my gosh.


00:52:28.19

Wednesday Lee Friday

ah I assure you, if it turns out that God is real and heaven is a place, no way am I going to get there and be like, damn it, why did I smoke all that weed?


00:52:37.87

Gene

No way.


00:52:37.52

Wednesday Lee Friday

No, it's it's never going to be a regret for me.


00:52:37.64

Say

You know.


00:52:41.31

Gene

No way.


00:52:41.32

Say

oh


00:52:41.35

Wednesday Lee Friday

Plus, you know, no glaucoma. That's good.


00:52:44.29

Say

Yeah.


00:52:44.26

Wednesday Lee Friday

Um...


00:52:44.33

Gene

Yeah.


00:52:45.24

Say

Positives all around.


00:52:45.27

Gene

positives all around for that one right


00:52:46.50

Say

yeah


00:52:47.68

Wednesday Lee Friday

So listen, if we can get serious for a minute.


00:52:48.52

Gene

Good for your eyes.


00:52:50.52

Wednesday Lee Friday

Both of you guys gave me consent to ask about a time when you felt in legitimate fear for your life. So what is it that you would like to share?


00:53:03.82

Say

and


00:53:04.79

Gene

Shall I go?


00:53:04.79

Say

so You want to go first? year Yeah. Yeah.


00:53:06.69

Gene

Yeah, I can go


00:53:08.44

Say

So.


00:53:08.51

Gene

um So.


00:53:11.33

Say

for me is


00:53:11.33

Gene

For me, it's


00:53:13.48

Say

difficult for me to they be like in the fiercely the same way that I would experience in a dream.


00:53:13.69

Gene

Difficult for me to... Let's see. like in the fear state the same way that I would experience in a dream.


00:53:21.77

Say

um you know i've experienced like that that more frightful fear and i think it goes back to that


00:53:21.83

Gene

um You know, I've experienced like that. that more frightful fear. And I think it goes back to that. um


00:53:28.05

Say

that hard training for time.


00:53:28.11

Gene

that hard training as a child. But yeah, that fear training.


00:53:31.26

Say

Bye. Yeah, that's your thing.


00:53:32.97

Gene

um It showed me like I was thinking about it that


00:53:34.33

Say

it's so neat like i'm thinking about it that Um,


00:53:37.24

Gene

um there's a certain amount of context that's just missing in the in the dream.


00:53:37.94

Say

there's a certain amount of contacts and it's just missing in the in the dream. and that


00:53:42.53

Gene

and that


00:53:43.37

Say

that whole thing of how do I do it here.


00:53:43.46

Gene

That whole thing, how did I get here? Why am I falling?


00:53:45.75

Say

Why are we following? That part.


00:53:47.21

Gene

That part. is the part that drives the most fear for for that and it induces the most feelings from my body of fear.


00:53:48.03

Say

is the part that drives the most fear for for that and it induces the most feelings from my podcast. Um, Bye.


00:53:55.99

Gene

Um, But.


00:53:57.87

Say

literally like out in the world.


00:53:57.94

Gene

literally like out in the world.


00:54:00.63

Say

That's all.


00:54:00.71

Gene

um i felt


00:54:02.77

Say

I've been in fights on all occasions.


00:54:02.84

Gene

I've been in fights and altercations. you know This is fighting off thieves.


00:54:06.47

Say

fighting off thieves, is maybe just walking home.


00:54:07.54

Gene

This is maybe just walking home from school, you know people pulling out.


00:54:09.55

Say

from school you know, people pulling out. on the next one.


00:54:12.31

Gene

Pull out a knife, you know people that May have or could have had a weapon.


00:54:13.25

Say

you know people that may have. or could have had. with i wouldn't know


00:54:16.36

Gene

I wouldn't know


00:54:17.84

Say

you know, as Dennis.


00:54:17.89

Gene

um or you know i've been in situations that have had friends that have been unfortunate enough to be in the same sort of situations and not be able to not you know not surviving those you know um and so


00:54:19.99

Say

I've had friends that have been unfortunate enough to be in the same sort of situation. and not be able to not you know not survive you know um so living.


00:54:30.65

Gene

living.


00:54:31.71

Say

When I grew up in


00:54:31.78

Gene

When I grew up in... you know richard allen and the projects there


00:54:33.75

Say

you know, Richard Allen's projects. here and it was a lot of issues going.


00:54:36.19

Gene

And it was a lot of issues going on.


00:54:39.81

Say

And so I really had to be careful with my, where I was.


00:54:39.86

Gene

And so I really had to be careful in mind where I was.


00:54:44.39

Say

where I was going, what I was doing, and keeping my wits about me as I traveled, you know, and so I feel like that.


00:54:44.47

Gene

where i was going what i was doing to keep my wits about me um as i traveled you know and so i feel like that


00:54:51.17

Say

Um.


00:54:51.24

Gene

um


00:54:53.11

Say

that sort of presence.


00:54:53.17

Gene

That sort of presence.


00:54:55.26

Say

definitely


00:54:55.37

Gene

definitely was able to


00:54:57.20

Say

was able to whittle down those feelings of fear and just look at it.


00:54:58.93

Gene

whittle down that those feelings of fear and just look at it.


00:55:02.83

Say

as like being prepared.


00:55:02.89

Gene

as like being prepared you know for for what i'm doing uh and being prepared for the fights you know being prepared looking at the situation and being able to be um you know present


00:55:04.68

Say

you know for what I'm doing. being prepared for the fights, you know, being prepared looking at the the situation. and being able to be you know, present.


00:55:16.07

Say

Um,


00:55:16.12

Gene

Um,


00:55:17.43

Say

of that.


00:55:17.50

Gene

Other than that.


00:55:18.35

Say

It's the only real legitimate time where I get into this.


00:55:19.05

Gene

The only real legitimate time where I got the the fears getting pulled over by the cops.


00:55:21.49

Say

The fear is getting pulled over by the fear.


00:55:24.00

Gene

like it's is It's a crazy visceral fear, you know, just seeing a cop.


00:55:25.75

Say

This is is crazy.


00:55:25.80

Wednesday Lee Friday

Sure, sure.


00:55:27.48

Say

visible fear, you know, just be in the God.


00:55:29.64

Gene

out there is it like...


00:55:29.93

Say

out there is like um


00:55:32.77

Gene

hi Ah.


00:55:33.44

Say

You know, it was mine.


00:55:34.09

Gene

you know what's going to happen you know so and i think that calls to the uh that removal of context you know why why would i be


00:55:34.89

Say

You know, so. here nothing that calls to the uh the removal of context. Why would I do that? um


00:55:42.89

Gene

um


00:55:43.73

Say

experience the worst scenarios.


00:55:43.97

Gene

experiencing the worst case scenarios like how I've seen some people.


00:55:46.04

Say

how I've seen some people. um get into


00:55:47.90

Gene

get into. some friends of mine you know not doing anything illegal and find themselves in the the worst.


00:55:49.10

Say

some friends of mine you know not doing anything illegal and find themselves in the worst come from the legal system.


00:55:55.76

Gene

come find to the legal system you know um so i think that's probably the most, those are the most.


00:55:57.53

Say

You know, so I think. That's probably the most. All the best. most real.


00:56:02.67

Gene

real legitimate fears that ah that I have to...


00:56:03.33

Say

legitimate peers that that I have to do. that I have experienced.


00:56:06.43

Gene

that I have experienced um and you know tried my best to fight.


00:56:07.96

Say

Um, and you know try your best to fight


00:56:12.50

Gene

Um,


00:56:13.49

Say

In my life.


00:56:13.57

Gene

in my life.


00:56:15.83

Wednesday Lee Friday

Damn. Well thank you. Thank you for that. Say.


00:56:22.07

Say

um Yes. i do want to make a disclaimer remark for uh self-harm and you know, can we, I don't know.


00:56:33.64

Gene

See you.


00:56:33.31

Say

can see it is unaliving now I don't know


00:56:36.93

Wednesday Lee Friday

You should feel free to use whatever language seems right for you. The show carries a general spoiler warning, or spoiler warning, a general ah trigger warning for that type of content.


00:56:41.60

Gene

Okay.


00:56:45.22

Say

Yeah.


00:56:48.42

Wednesday Lee Friday

And then in the transcript, the transcript actually does that automatically.


00:56:49.01

Say

Okay.


00:56:49.32

Gene

Okay.


00:56:53.16

Wednesday Lee Friday

so


00:56:53.30

Gene

Okay.


00:56:53.41

Say

All right.


00:56:54.45

Wednesday Lee Friday

Feel free.


00:56:54.68

Say

So yeah. um So disclaimer for self-harm and suicide. Um... I sat at the edge of the window. Looking down two stories.


00:57:07.05

Say

I felt numb and betrayed by the world helpless, vulnerable, alone. The voices were whispering in my ears.


00:57:17.39

Gene

Nothing.


00:57:17.23

Say

Nothing but a burden.


00:57:19.37

Gene

You're worthless.


00:57:19.23

Say

You're worthless. You're useless.


00:57:21.22

Gene

You're useless.


00:57:22.46

Say

Pathetic. Too much. m 'lings dangled off the edge.


00:57:25.21

Gene

My legs.


00:57:28.99

Say

And my eyes zoomed in to the cement and the trash bags below. And the gate.


00:57:33.60

Gene

In the game.


00:57:34.56

Say

Swing in there and that looked appealing


00:57:35.12

Gene

there that looked appealing. I can impale my soul.


00:57:36.90

Say

I could impale myself on it on the way down and really get the job done.


00:57:39.28

Gene

It really is. the thoughts


00:57:41.42

Say

The thoughts were spinning.


00:57:43.25

Gene

They weren't mindful.


00:57:43.16

Say

They weren't my thoughts.


00:57:44.88

Gene

It was a darkness.


00:57:44.75

Say

It was a darkness.


00:57:46.34

Gene

What the heck?


00:57:46.24

Say

that had consumed me.


00:57:47.97

Gene

Kick me out of the...


00:57:47.82

Say

kicked me out of the pilot seat and inside my own body.


00:57:48.96

Gene

Let's see. inside my home. Just as my first setup


00:57:51.12

Say

Just as my heart sped up. and I was prepared to leave to my next chapter.


00:57:52.81

Gene

And I was prepared to leave. my next chapter. There was a sharp


00:57:56.55

Say

There was a sharp voice that cut through the dark place.


00:57:57.68

Gene

Voice that cut through. a dark place. and snap me out


00:58:00.21

Say

It snapped me out.


00:58:01.55

Gene

And I stumbled back off the ledge.


00:58:01.64

Say

And I stumbled back off the ledge. So please...


00:58:04.64

Gene

So please. If you do


00:58:05.93

Say

If you do, anybody out there whose audience...


00:58:06.83

Gene

Anybody else here?


00:58:10.09

Gene

You see something?


00:58:09.93

Say

You see something please do say something speak up say something you never know whose life you might be saving


00:58:11.09

Gene

Please.


00:58:14.48

Gene

you never know You might be safe.


00:58:17.79

Say

Um. yeah Thank you.


00:58:22.74

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yeah.


00:58:23.97

Say

Yeah.


00:58:24.05

Gene

Yeah, that's...


00:58:24.87

Say

um


00:58:24.70

Gene

um


00:58:25.54

Say

you know


00:58:25.62

Gene

you know


00:58:26.52

Say

Thursday is found.


00:58:26.59

Gene

There stays talent of like How?


00:58:30.81

Say

She went through um a really rough situation and i was i was out there and both work hard


00:58:30.90

Gene

She went through a really rough situation you know i was i was there and it was it was hard um to be able to.


00:58:37.55

Say

be able um


00:58:39.31

Gene

um


00:58:40.73

Say

It was hard for her to be able to come through that.


00:58:40.77

Gene

It was hard for her to be able to come through that, you know, and have that realization.


00:58:42.19

Say

you know if you have that realization. um


00:58:44.58

Gene

um how close he was.


00:58:45.34

Say

how close you are. So...


00:58:47.33

Gene

So.


00:58:47.46

Wednesday Lee Friday

Absolutely. and that's i mean that's one of the reasons that we that we do this. it's It's why we ask the question. um Because sometimes...


00:58:58.04

Wednesday Lee Friday

We're in fear for our life and... there's there's really nothing we can do. And then sometimes there are things that we can do. And that's that's the point. The point is to recognize what is within your control, what is within your power.


00:59:13.26

Wednesday Lee Friday

So that you won't... take that drastic step. And sometimes It it doesn't even take very long to to bring someone out of, I mean, if they can get through, you know, the next day, the next hour, the next five minutes.


00:59:26.71

Wednesday Lee Friday

It can be enough to say. no man i don't want to die i just want it to be different i want things to be better um


00:59:32.93

Say

V. Amen.


00:59:35.48

Wednesday Lee Friday

for For my experience, nothing cures a suicidal ideation. Like... Almost dying. outside your control.


00:59:45.48

Gene

ah


00:59:46.23

Wednesday Lee Friday

You know, like, oh man, that was actually really painful. I don't want to do that again. Cause like my whole thing was, I was not afraid to just die, but I was terribly afraid.


00:59:58.27

Wednesday Lee Friday

to be badly hurt. and have to live in tremendous pain. The first time I was going to, you know, I had ah a gun for that purpose, but it was a 22.


01:00:10.80

Wednesday Lee Friday

And I was afraid to shoot myself with a .22 and live. I. you know. that i Actually, there's there's a ah guy here in town. that tried to to do that with a shotgun.


01:00:24.17

Wednesday Lee Friday

And he survived. and


01:00:26.54

Say

Peace.


01:00:27.11

Gene

Shocker.


01:00:27.30

Say

Exactly.


01:00:27.57

Wednesday Lee Friday

it's It's very apparent when when you look at this fella. So. and And he's, you know, he's just around town. You'd see him on the bus and be like. ah you know It can be a little startling, honestly.


01:00:42.07

Wednesday Lee Friday

but But yeah, the the the point being that... it ah You never know when it's going to make a difference. And that's why. You know, we we try to curtail that.


01:00:54.35

Wednesday Lee Friday

casual human cruelty that we feel and that multiplies as the world gets worse and worse. It's more and more common to have a bad day and snap at someone or be impatient.


01:01:06.01

Wednesday Lee Friday

or just wish somebody would get the fuck out of your way so you can get to work or whatever, you know?


01:01:10.72

Gene

a


01:01:10.63

Say

no


01:01:12.09

Wednesday Lee Friday

So... So yeah, those those little things and just regarding the other person for a second instead of ourselves. When we could muster it, it makes so... much of a difference and we may never even know how much of a difference we're making


01:01:29.41

Say

Mm hmm.


01:01:30.99

Wednesday Lee Friday

So thank you so much to to both of you guys for that. that's you know we we dig pretty deep around here and and that's that's why so If we can move on to something lighter.


01:01:42.84

Say

Yes, sure.


01:01:42.93

Wednesday Lee Friday

I know you guys are gamers.


01:01:43.06

Gene

ah sure


01:01:44.44

Wednesday Lee Friday

ah you You game with someone that I know.


01:01:45.31

Say

Yes.


01:01:45.36

Gene

Yes.


01:01:46.83

Wednesday Lee Friday

um I'm not really a gamer myself.


01:01:47.85

Say

Hehe.


01:01:48.87

Gene

Really?


01:01:49.88

Wednesday Lee Friday

you know i play like bejeweled and stuff or like word games but we have played uh Yeah.


01:01:53.52

Say

That's a good one.


01:01:53.59

Gene

That's a good one. I like Bejeweled.


01:01:56.80

Wednesday Lee Friday

So, so we have played the cyanide and happiness game. We've played joking hazard. on our phones um so So let's plug those guys right quick. I just want everybody to know that it's like really fun and dirty and stuff.


01:02:12.21

Say

Yeah, this is outrageous.


01:02:12.28

Gene

Yeah, it's so it's outrageous, this game.


01:02:13.46

Say

This game. um


01:02:14.65

Gene

i think you know its it started from um the other game what's the other game that they had the um


01:02:15.49

Say

i think you know It started from London. being the other games


01:02:22.40

Say

They have the black aluminum cars.


01:02:22.48

Gene

They had the black and white cars.


01:02:24.13

Say

Cards Against the Mayor.


01:02:24.22

Gene

Cars against humanity.


01:02:25.64

Wednesday Lee Friday

Mm hmm.


01:02:25.63

Say

Cards Against the Mayor.


01:02:25.70

Gene

Cars Against Humanity, but...


01:02:27.51

Say

Time up.


01:02:27.60

Gene

Turned up.


01:02:28.80

Say

turned out Like.


01:02:28.84

Gene

turned up because it's pictures like There's one thing where you can have the words there, but a picture's worth a thousand words.


01:02:30.92

Say

There's one thing where you can add the words there, but... pictures worth a thousand dollars and the way they end up having these pictures come together.


01:02:34.92

Gene

And the way they they end up having these pictures come together and the way you get to tell the stories is gritty, is funny.


01:02:39.15

Say

We get to tell stories. is It really is funny and heavy.


01:02:42.58

Gene

and having


01:02:43.85

Say

other people make their stories with the same type of cards.


01:02:43.92

Gene

other people. make their stories with the same type of cards.


01:02:47.58

Say

is again this algorithm best explained.


01:02:47.64

Gene

is Again, it's outrageous. It's best explained.


01:02:51.11

Say

playing the game.


01:02:51.18

Gene

Playing the game. So give it a shot.


01:02:52.04

Say

Forgive me.


01:02:52.54

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yeah.


01:02:53.96

Say

Yeah.


01:02:53.84

Wednesday Lee Friday

Joking hazard. Do it up.


01:02:56.02

Say

Yeah, I definitely enjoyed the parody of it and the absurdity with the little pictograms with the car like the cartoony cards. Yeah.


01:03:04.25

Gene

Yeah.


01:03:04.92

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yep. Yep. Well, and the cartoon that it's based on is hilarious and equally filthy, so...


01:03:10.01

Say

Yeah, I also have watched a couple of them.


01:03:13.37

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yeah, I mean it


01:03:14.12

Gene

Good job capturing that. Oh, man.


01:03:16.09

Say

um


01:03:15.96

Wednesday Lee Friday

H and I'll just... get in a wormhole with those. Like, have we really been sitting here for an hour watching 45 second cartoons that are filthy?


01:03:25.36

Say

o Are we able to drop some other ones some other games that ah we found interesting?


01:03:25.84

Wednesday Lee Friday

like Oh.


01:03:31.22

Wednesday Lee Friday

Oh, please, please do.


01:03:33.28

Say

Yeah. um There is this one I've been following called 13Z. It's a... um actually like a female-led production team.


01:03:45.50

Say

uh and it's kind of got like those tea house kind of vibes and it's coming out soon and we got a chance to demo it It's like a roguelite dungeon crawler based around Chinese zodiac animals.


01:03:55.12

Gene

based around Chinese zodiac animals. There's like different forms.


01:03:58.53

Say

There's like different forms. They have a human form and an animal form that they could transform into.


01:03:59.68

Gene

They have a human form and an animal form. form that you transform into a four-player co-op.


01:04:04.32

Say

a four-player co-op


01:04:06.60

Gene

The boss fights are really fun and challenging.


01:04:06.70

Say

The boss fights are really fun and challenging.


01:04:10.26

Gene

Mm-hmm.


01:04:10.20

Say

Mm-hmm.


01:04:11.37

Wednesday Lee Friday

Nice, nice. Jean, is there a game you want to tell us about?


01:04:16.93

Gene

Oh, well.


01:04:16.85

Say

Oh, well. i Would say not in particular, but I'm a big fighting gamer


01:04:18.37

Gene

I would say not in particular, but I'm a big fighting gamer.


01:04:22.12

Say

Um,


01:04:22.21

Gene

um


01:04:23.10

Say

13z is definitely a good formula.


01:04:23.18

Gene

13 Z is definitely a good fun when we're we had a chance to try and do um


01:04:25.94

Say

I had a chance with Brian do a...


01:04:29.73

Gene

Uh... voice acting role for them they were kind of doing auditions and stuff so we um we're going to put our hat and into that which was interesting um but yeah for me i'm a fighting gamer so from that horror


01:04:30.35

Say

voice actors were for them. They were probably doing auditions and stuff. So, yeah. we're going to put our hat into that. Susie, excuse me. But yeah for me, I'm a fighting gamer. from that word That whole thing that we talked about.


01:04:42.75

Gene

That horror vein that we were talking about. um Mortal Kombat.


01:04:44.81

Say

um Mortal Kombat. You know, so I grew up.


01:04:46.91

Gene

you know so i grew up with


01:04:47.48

Wednesday Lee Friday

Right, right


01:04:48.45

Say

with that's the one of the goriest you know things that you can have out there throughology you know


01:04:49.00

Gene

that's like one of the goriest you know things that you can have out there fatality you know


01:04:54.15

Say

Finished.


01:04:54.21

Gene

Finish it.


01:04:56.04

Say

So...


01:04:56.11

Gene

So.


01:04:56.78

Say

that that from Mortal Kombat with Street Fighter.


01:04:56.86

Gene

that that From Mortal Kombat went to Street Fighter, Street Fighter.


01:05:00.30

Say

uh street fighter um techie


01:05:02.11

Gene

Tekken.


01:05:03.68

Say

And...


01:05:03.76

Gene

And to XKL.


01:05:04.71

Say

to FVR. Unfortunately, their UXEO is on the way out.


01:05:06.15

Gene

Unfortunately, their 2x AO is on the way out.


01:05:09.36

Say

is the League of Legends fighting game.


01:05:09.45

Gene

is the League of Legends fighting game.


01:05:11.88

Say

and uh league of legends has been around for a while they had a show


01:05:12.83

Gene

League of Legends has been around for a while. They had ah um a show come out.


01:05:17.37

Say

our team.


01:05:17.44

Gene

arcane.


01:05:18.62

Say

It was really good and the game was really good and I played it.


01:05:18.68

Gene

and that That was really good, and the the game's really good, and I play that.


01:05:22.35

Say

So let's get this moving.


01:05:22.44

Gene

So that's whitla really fun. So.


01:05:23.85

Say

So. It's worth thinking about.


01:05:24.72

Wednesday Lee Friday

Nice.


01:05:24.87

Gene

as far as fighting games go


01:05:27.10

Wednesday Lee Friday

All right. Cool. Before we get into the next topic, now is the time when I read the names of our top sponsors. And these are people that give us money every month from our Ko-fi site. Ko-fi is K-O hyphen F-I. We are there as sometimes hilarious horror because the show used to be brought to you by the magazine.


01:05:48.03

Wednesday Lee Friday

And now we're just the show. So big thanks to Bradley and Fred, ah Rusty Shackelford, Lilith.


01:05:50.83

Gene

Hmm.


01:05:56.55

Wednesday Lee Friday

Brianna Simmons, low-key. That One Fool, Nimue Ravenfall, and Alison Hough. Thanks so much, everybody. So. Next topic. House Asternum.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Tell us everything.


01:06:11.58

Say

Hey.


01:06:14.87

Say

House of Carnaby.


01:06:14.95

Gene

House Aeternum.


01:06:17.30

Say

Yeah, so.


01:06:17.40

Gene

Yeah, so...


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Say

We have originally...


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Gene

He is originally Started as a three-year anniversary gift right


01:06:20.46

Say

started as a year. anniversary gift right uh part Oh.


01:06:25.29

Gene

Oh.


01:06:26.23

Say

Well, I bet it.


01:06:26.30

Gene

my bad I'm sorry all right so


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Wednesday Lee Friday

a


01:06:29.08

Gene

i'll i'll let you tell that part because that's your thing you know but our our house design um I'm not sure if you have an image of it.


01:06:29.02

Say

I want to be able to live with you. That's the thing. you know, but our design. um if you have an image of it


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Gene

um we should send it Pardon my email.


01:06:37.52

Say

Let's just send it. it or in my email. is It was made by Simeon.


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Gene

it's It was made by Say.


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Say

and uh this r2 um elements.


01:06:41.20

Gene

And it's R2. elements signs put together.


01:06:44.94

Say

signs put together.


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Gene

um it's um


01:06:46.48

Say

In dragonic form. Yes, in trigonic form, yes.


01:06:48.87

Gene

Yes, in dragonic form, of course. The immortal dragon, as it were.


01:06:51.39

Say

the immortal dragon Doesn't work.


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Gene

um and uh mine's the blue one and hers is the red one and um mine represents air Libra.


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Say

And that's the one, and here's the red one. And mine represents care. Libra. um


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Gene

um primarily and a lot of other qualities that.


01:07:02.77

Say

or primarily and along with other qualities that represent me.


01:07:05.96

Gene

represent me.


01:07:07.22

Say

And Saze is...


01:07:07.31

Gene

um and says is will be cancer and the crab and the water sign when those kind of go together and represent her she's


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Say

be cancer and require the water sign when they will kind of go together and represent her. but really cool.


01:07:16.25

Gene

put really cool um


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Say

I actually ended up showing this to the crab for the crab dragon.


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Gene

uh accent in it showing that she's the the crabs like a crab dragon and kind of like an air dragon i'm holding the uh a scale if you look into the the details um but


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Say

kind of like an air drain hopefully a scale. if you look into the the detail. but.


01:07:29.45

Gene

What we want to do for.


01:07:29.37

Say

What we want to do for... House Aeternum um is


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Gene

House Aeternum is...


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Say

Have it be a space for media sound.


01:07:34.43

Gene

Have it be a space for BDSM.


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Say

and adult gaming.


01:07:36.51

Gene

and adult gaming.


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Say

um


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Gene

um


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Say

if they will tell you more about what our


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Gene

say we'll tell you more about like our


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Say

humble beginnings of where uh what we represent


01:07:41.39

Gene

humble beginnings and where uh what we represent um in a minute


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Say

in a minute. So, but generally we want to be able to represent.


01:07:46.40

Gene

So, but generally we want to be able to represent.


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Say

wise month of people that want to do gaming.


01:07:51.48

Gene

a wide swath of people that want to do gaming and they want to do kink and have those things work together.


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Say

and they want to do cake, you know, and have those things work together without being of having some creepy weird hair in the middle, you know.


01:07:58.91

Gene

without without having some creepy weird layer in the middle you know um so


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Say

um


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Mm hmm.


01:08:04.40

Say

So. using different techniques that we've gotten over the years with my negotiations.


01:08:05.53

Gene

Using different techniques that we've gotten over the years with negotiations and um you know intentional ethical behavior.


01:08:09.63

Say

and um you know intentional ethical behavior.


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Gene

We want to have a space that's welcoming for everybody to be able to express.


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Say

um we want to have a space that's welcoming for everybody to be able to express


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Gene

um their uniqueness you know, in a way where, you know.


01:08:18.36

Say

their uniqueness. you know, in the way where it's, you know. able to help.


01:08:23.54

Gene

able to help.


01:08:24.73

Say

other people you know just being able to be who you are


01:08:24.82

Gene

other people. you know Just being able to be who you are. in the space and be a little different and do it with a little fun is something I believe that we definitely need.


01:08:28.40

Say

in the space and be a little different and do it with a little fun. is something I believe that we definitely need.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Yes.


01:08:36.92

Say

So.


01:08:37.01

Gene

so


01:08:37.64

Say

We both knew that.


01:08:37.72

Gene

We both believe it.


01:08:38.81

Say

Mm hmm. Yeah.


01:08:41.18

Say

So, House Aeternum, yes, it was originally started as a three-year anniversary gift. I created the House Crest Emblem. It was a representation of my idea of the feeling of soul-bound or soulmate connection with Jean. And the motto is Immortalis in Aeternum, which in Latin stands for immortal means forever. As a testament to our love and values. hopefully continuing to prosper for eternity and beyond. um


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Say

and they want to share us with the world in and various ways through our projects and our creative spaces. BASM is just one of those spaces, and we wanted to have a dungeon hall rental space, but the community is a little conservative around around us, but so it's still a ah work in progress.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Sure.


01:09:36.63

Say

Yeah.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Okay. Now. I know from my own writing, back when I was doing sex writing, a lot of... um BDSM spaces. are, like like you guys were saying, very focused.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

more specifically to the needs of women and people who are AFAB. um And I think. That. The... The... ah main reason for that focus.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

might be that in most... Commodified sexual spaces anything that involves you know money or or ah charging admission or a profit margin or anything like that.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

uh the women are the commodities they're not


01:10:20.36

Say

Amen.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

the people who are on the receiving end of of all the the pleasure and the fantasy that's going on there. um Is that accurate? or am i misunderstanding what typically happens at at places.


01:10:34.40

Say

Right.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

And, uh... that you guys are i mean i think more and more bdm spaces do um focus on on women. But is is that why? Is it because that's something that's lacking in the community?


01:10:49.42

Say

um Like...


01:10:49.52

Gene

Um... like From our experience, or at least from my experience, when I've gone to these spaces,


01:10:50.82

Say

from our experience, or at least from my experience, when I've gone to these spaces. the people that...


01:10:56.18

Gene

um The people that...


01:10:57.97

Say

post them.


01:10:58.08

Gene

host them.


01:10:58.86

Say

It kind of focused on


01:10:58.66

Gene

It kind of focused on


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Say

providing the space.


01:11:01.10

Gene

providing the space.


01:11:02.80

Say

and then they may have an activity when they're there.


01:11:02.88

Gene

And then they'll they may have activities when they're there. like they're Of course, like they have their...


01:11:06.70

Say

And of course, they have their... their war.


01:11:08.91

Gene

their lore right the lore is like all this stuff is happening here you know and they they they may use imagery that suggests


01:11:09.93

Say

Right. The lures. all this stuff is happening here you know and it even made this imagery that suggests


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Mm hmm.


01:11:17.37

Say

the same things that you're used to seeing.


01:11:17.45

Gene

the same things that you're used to seeing but usually in the space they're they're trying to have it be facilitate a space where people


01:11:19.37

Say

Wait. usually in the space there driver and review. facilitate a space for people. can do their thing emotionally.


01:11:26.06

Gene

can do their thing amongst themselves you know so it's it kind of starts like


01:11:27.44

Say

So. you know So it's kind of stressful.


01:11:29.53

Wednesday Lee Friday

Okay.


01:11:30.75

Say

as his own group, so people


01:11:30.83

Gene

as ah as its own group. So people...


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Say

typically have a conversation about where to go to.


01:11:33.77

Gene

Typically. have a conversation of some sort to go to a munch or some sort of organizational event that's not directly kink related.


01:11:37.22

Say

Amen. um or some sort of uh organizational event that's not directly deleted. And then.


01:11:44.30

Gene

And then. from their you know the form their connection.


01:11:45.02

Say

from their you know the and form their connections or maybe


01:11:48.56

Gene

So maybe it it doesn't work out.


01:11:49.35

Say

it doesn't work out maybe it does be' like yeah


01:11:50.52

Gene

Maybe it does. you're like yeah


01:11:52.21

Say

made me think Christmas kind of cool.


01:11:52.30

Gene

maybe that person was kind of cool and let's talk about meeting up


01:11:54.25

Say

Now let's talk about meeting up. you know, or, you know, to discuss.


01:11:56.29

Gene

you know or you know discuss whatever they're going to discuss.


01:11:58.34

Say

Whatever you want. guys. I do. ideally


01:12:00.25

Gene

Ideally though.


01:12:01.92

Say

It was a negotiated thing.


01:12:01.55

Gene

they would have a negotiated thing.


01:12:04.15

Say

This is where people get tricked up here.


01:12:03.87

Gene

This is where people get tripped up here.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Yep. Yep.


01:12:06.28

Gene

Right here is around where negotiation would happen if you're going to go to this space with the person.


01:12:06.20

Say

right here. there's a round of negotiation happening if you're going to go to do this place with the person So.


01:12:12.43

Gene

um


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Say

You just have to talk with them.


01:12:14.19

Gene

You have to talk with them.


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Say

You think all this stuff's cool.


01:12:15.28

Gene

You think all the stuff's cool.


01:12:16.27

Say

You say, hey, most of this might be a dom, so it might be a sub.


01:12:16.38

Gene

You say someone someone might be a dom, someone might be a sub.


01:12:19.14

Say

And they go over their boundaries.


01:12:19.24

Gene

And they go over their boundaries and they go over the things that they want to do, what they want to see, if it's impact or.


01:12:21.17

Say

to go over the things that they want to do what they want to see if it's impact or


01:12:24.55

Gene

or what have you, and then you get to the space.


01:12:25.03

Say

or what have you And then you get to the space. And at this point, you know, um


01:12:28.89

Gene

And at this point, you know. um


01:12:31.21

Say

there's a lot of you see


01:12:31.32

Gene

there's a lot of you see


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Say

a lot of people coming in with more preformed groups.


01:12:33.61

Gene

a lot of people coming in with their own preformed groups.


01:12:36.85

Say

And they're doing.


01:12:36.93

Gene

And they're doing.


01:12:37.97

Say

the things that they had already talked about.


01:12:37.54

Gene

the things that they had already talked about.


01:12:40.38

Say

doing in their own context.


01:12:40.43

Gene

doing in their own context so


01:12:42.22

Say

So. That's what I'm used to seeing.


01:12:43.08

Gene

That's what I'm used to seeing.


01:12:44.16

Say

And then you get other people that come in.


01:12:44.38

Gene

And then you get other people that come in and then they might be by themselves trying to maybe see what's going on.


01:12:46.87

Say

and then they might be by themselves trying to see what's going on maybe trying to meet someone.


01:12:50.64

Gene

or maybe trying to meet someone um and you know at that point already though the the the


01:12:53.09

Say

and you know at that point already the the community has already been formed a bit.


01:12:57.76

Gene

the community has already been formed a bit and the person that's running the event is kind of


01:12:59.92

Say

and the person that's running the event kind of you know putting out some appetizers for the group


01:13:03.10

Gene

you know putting out some appetizers for the group


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Okay.


01:13:07.84

Say

he Um. Yeah. Oh, well, I guess and and in my experience, it hasn't been like women's specific focus and um more of a queer focus.


01:13:21.29

Gene

Mm-hmm


01:13:21.15

Say

At least the spaces I frequent, in we're all like ah LGBT friendly and inclusive, though I can see how women can feel more heard in some of the more vetted BDSM environments.


01:13:26.64

Gene

Absolutely.


01:13:33.12

Gene

Mm-hmm. Uh-huh. uh-huh


01:13:34.89

Say

that focuses on best practices communication becomes the forefront.


01:13:39.74

Gene

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.


01:13:39.74

Say

and learning about negotiations and setting boundaries. ha


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Gene

paramount


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Yes, like very specific forms of of consent. because the activities are so often out of the norm.


01:13:48.62

Say

Yes.


01:13:48.72

Gene

Yes.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

there is less that one can assume.


01:13:55.83

Say

Right.


01:13:55.93

Gene

right You can't just go in there being like, hey.


01:13:55.95

Say

You can't just go in there and be like, hey.


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Wednesday Lee Friday

You know.


01:13:58.78

Gene

Do stuff to me that's kinky.


01:13:58.68

Say

do stuff to me that's monkeyy like, well, come on.


01:14:00.67

Gene

like Well. Come on, you can't just do that, you gotta talk.


01:14:02.69

Say

we can If you actually do that, you gotta talk, you gotta communicate.


01:14:05.39

Gene

Got to communicate.


01:14:05.97

Wednesday Lee Friday

Well, and and that's the thing that like BDSM, even if you know your partner pretty well, it's not something that you should just jump into.


01:14:06.91

Say

Yeah.


01:14:06.99

Gene

Yeah.


01:14:14.44

Gene

o


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Last time I was in the hospital, the nurses were telling me stories about people that came into the yeah ah ER r after seeing one of those shades of whatever movies and ah and just thinking they might just jump into, you know, handcuffs and spreader bars and whatnot.


01:14:23.07

Say

No.


01:14:23.16

Gene

add Hmm.


01:14:30.39

Say

um


01:14:30.42

Gene

a


01:14:30.50

Wednesday Lee Friday

and ah No, you you can't just do that. End. Um. but But also, I know that BDSM spaces are often...


01:14:38.04

Say

oh


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Wednesday Lee Friday

Away. like those kind of activities are a way for people with trauma. to reclaim control and and power because because of all that because their needs are being discussed and their boundaries are being respected and that gives them freedom to explore things that


01:15:01.80

Say

Good morning.


01:15:01.86

Gene

mm-hmm


01:15:02.27

Wednesday Lee Friday

you can't really do it in an unsafe environment. Can you speak to that at all?


01:15:10.72

Say

Oh, well Absolutely.


01:15:10.81

Gene

Oh, well. Absolutely.


01:15:12.48

Say

um


01:15:12.28

Gene

um


01:15:13.77

Say

People all the time, they're able to use...


01:15:13.80

Gene

People all the time, they're able to use...


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Say

um


01:15:16.79

Gene

these skills and these techniques um through negotiation to deal with.


01:15:16.85

Say

these skills and these techniques. through negotiation. to deal with um things in their own specific context.


01:15:23.11

Gene

things in their uh their own specific context you know i think of it like a like a martial art


01:15:25.24

Say

you know I think of it like a martial art. also like or any form um that you're practicing


01:15:29.00

Gene

Also like or any form uh that you're practicing


01:15:33.40

Say

um


01:15:33.50

Gene

um we when you get


01:15:34.78

Say

when you get to our level of it where it's almost religious.


01:15:35.87

Gene

to a level of it where it's almost religious.


01:15:39.20

Say

you can


01:15:39.28

Gene

um you can


01:15:41.01

Say

you know use this


01:15:41.12

Gene

you know use this to be able to express your emotions.


01:15:43.08

Say

to be able to express your emotions.


01:15:45.86

Gene

that That's how.


01:15:46.46

Say

That's how. i've been I've been looking at it.


01:15:47.66

Gene

I've been, I've been looking at it. And so like the sky is the limit really.


01:15:49.46

Say

And so like pride is the limit, really. with


01:15:51.52

Gene

with transform the storytelling when people get into


01:15:52.36

Say

transform the storytelling that people get into. um whatever practice they are you know then when you get into um


01:15:55.60

Gene

um whatever practice they are you know and when you get into um Dom space, subspace, you know, head spaces.


01:15:59.69

Say

Dom space, sub space. you know head spaces


01:16:03.13

Gene

um you know when you're able to do that and be able to let go because you have already put all the guard rails in place and i've seen it open up a lot of um


01:16:03.04

Say

um you know And we were able to do that. be able to let go because you have already put off guard in this place. and i've seen it open up a lot of um untapped levels of emotional depth.


01:16:14.76

Gene

untapped levels of emotional depth.


01:16:19.43

Wednesday Lee Friday

Okay.


01:16:21.97

Wednesday Lee Friday

Cool. Now, is there anything else that we should know about BDSM culture? Like what's something people would not suspect that would be surprising? about the culture.


01:16:34.94

Gene

For me, I'd say...


01:16:35.16

Say

For me, that's the How?


01:16:37.90

Gene

How?


01:16:38.14

Say

of you nice people are.


01:16:40.68

Gene

Nice people are.


01:16:42.40

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yep.


01:16:42.24

Say

Like, I always think that you...


01:16:42.34

Gene

like I would think that you you know you wouldn't think that it's so friendly and inviting when you go into a place like this.


01:16:44.11

Say

you know the paper this is so friendly and inviting when you go into a place like that you think everyone has there.


01:16:49.84

Gene

You think everyone has their their their game face on, their dom faces on.


01:16:51.47

Say

their their game face on their dog faces on you know everyone's in there having fun having a good time usually you know you might have um


01:16:54.30

Gene

Everybody's in there having fun, having a good time usually. You know you might have... um


01:16:58.50

Say

you know a couple people that might be into


01:16:58.56

Gene

you know a couple people that might be into


01:17:00.87

Say

you know living out exactly to the T, their character.


01:17:00.95

Gene

you know living out exactly to the t their character you know i'm dom such and such and when i come out here


01:17:04.80

Say

you know, I'm Dom, first and foremost. And we're not coming out here. The word, my word is lost, you know what I mean?


01:17:09.19

Gene

the word My word is law. you know and the


01:17:11.50

Say

that's the thing the people like being under this person because they know that guy's word is law you know and they just you see them and you know people grab you gravitate toward that and you know other people are just like hey yeah you know Take a look at what I've got here.


01:17:11.56

Gene

that's That's their thing. And people like being under this person because... they know that guy's word is law, you know, and they just, you see them and, you know, people can gravitate through that.


01:17:22.17

Gene

And, you know, when you got other people are just like, hey, yeah, you know, take a look at what I've got here.


01:17:26.42

Say

here you like this vlogger this is a really cool vlogger you know check it out and you know what i can do with it what me and my partner can do you know


01:17:27.00

Gene

you like this vlogger this is a really cool vlogger you know check it out you know look what i can do with it look at what me and my partner can do you know um and view it more and use it more of as a um


01:17:34.00

Say

and view it more and use it more of as well.


01:17:37.41

Gene

uh a time for exhibitionism you know so people can see


01:17:37.31

Say

a time for exhibitionism, you know so people can see. you you know it's like a nice environment to be able to


01:17:41.18

Gene

you you know it's like a nice environment to be able to


01:17:45.25

Say

express yourself and then be able to get like a mutual appreciation.


01:17:44.95

Gene

um express yourself and then be able to get like a mutual appreciation for your particular art form.


01:17:49.04

Say

for your particular art. you know


01:17:50.86

Gene

you know.


01:17:51.56

Say

the uh


01:17:51.65

Gene

be, uh... you know, like I was saying, BDSM being an art.


01:17:52.58

Say

you know, let us know what BDSM is. and art were being similar to


01:17:55.63

Gene

or being similar to


01:17:59.36

Say

martial arts or any discipline like that.


01:17:59.50

Gene

martial arts or any discipline like that. um when you're doing these moves you're doing this practice um these practice motions but you're you're really um tapping into


01:18:02.79

Say

You're doing. moves you're doing this practice these practice motions but you're you're really um tapping into the multiple things and cutting into it.


01:18:10.77

Gene

multiple things that can happen into an i e an idea.


01:18:12.32

Say

i an idea. You know?


01:18:14.05

Gene

you know.


01:18:16.09

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yes. Now what you are saying makes so much sense. And there is a parallel to that in the horror community.


01:18:23.61

Gene

o


01:18:23.75

Wednesday Lee Friday

Because people assume. that people who make horror and people who love horror are mean, they're scary, they're withdrawn they could be a serial killer you never know and then you go to a horror convention and everybody's hugging and smiling and sharing pictures and you know pretending to attack each other or whatever i mean just it's a it's a fun welcoming environment


01:18:34.89

Say

Right.


01:18:34.95

Gene

Right, of course


01:18:35.23

Say

you


01:18:42.27

Say

oh my gosh


01:18:43.20

Gene

Yeah.


01:18:48.66

Wednesday Lee Friday

You know. uh try try to be a bully in front of a horror fan and see what happens to you because odds are that horror fan is gonna get up and show you what horror fans are made of you know but they they will


01:18:53.64

Gene

ah


01:18:54.76

Say

Good morning.


01:18:55.12

Gene

ah


01:18:59.95

Say

Right.


01:19:00.05

Gene

Right.


01:19:00.84

Say

We've been training this one.


01:19:00.93

Gene

We've been trained in the fight. Jason, like...


01:19:02.19

Say

jason like


01:19:02.61

Wednesday Lee Friday

but but But that's the thing, that there's an honor to that. And the thing is, my my theory actually is that... in the the horror community, like the BDSM community.


01:19:13.79

Wednesday Lee Friday

you are If you're a member of that community, you are a person who knows that not everyone loves or respects or understands what you do, but you're doing it anyway because you're being true to yourself and your people.


01:19:21.76

Say

yeah mm-hmm


01:19:27.81

Gene

Mm hmm.


01:19:27.76

Say

Mm-hmm. Yes.


01:19:28.98

Gene

Yes.


01:19:29.40

Wednesday Lee Friday

and And I think that that... at its core. is the difference between... conservatives and progressives because conservatives in this country, like the far right.


01:19:42.80

Say

mm-hmm


01:19:42.88

Wednesday Lee Friday

They're lying about who they love. They're lying about what they want. They're lying about what they believe outwardly, you know, like these, these like anti-choice people and then their mistress gets knocked up and they're paying for the abortion or whatever, you know, and like a whole bunch of those dudes are turning out to be gay and like, you know, and it's like, it's fine.


01:19:52.52

Gene

Uh huh. her


01:19:56.44

Say

Mm hmm.


01:20:00.52

Say

music


01:20:02.63

Wednesday Lee Friday

and Just, just be gay if you want to, but they can't because. That's what their culture is. Their culture says they can't do it.


01:20:08.19

Say

thank


01:20:08.23

Gene

their culture.


01:20:09.87

Wednesday Lee Friday

So they're miserable and they take it out on everyone. And that's why they are so. gleeful about hurting people meanwhile the democrats are having the kind of sex they enjoy eating the foods they like treating each other basically well i mean i'm not going to say there's not still some bullshit among progressives and democrats and whatnot because you know because because greed is everywhere there's no escaping the greed and that part of it will certainly poison the well so you know but but that aside


01:20:28.97

Say

yeah


01:20:29.06

Gene

Yeah, yeah, yeah


01:20:33.16

Gene

over


01:20:37.26

Gene

hello


01:20:40.53

Wednesday Lee Friday

People who are living authentically. are going to be happier than people who are miserable because they're hiding half the things that make them them.


01:20:51.34

Gene

Yes.


01:20:51.78

Say

Yes. Yes.


01:20:52.29

Gene

Yes.


01:20:52.57

Say

You need that.


01:20:52.66

Gene

You need that.


01:20:53.60

Say

You need that to be able to be you.


01:20:53.48

Gene

You need that to be able to be you. I think.


01:20:56.08

Say

I think. you know, maybe it's it's part of...


01:20:57.16

Gene

you know maybe it's is's part of a


01:20:59.08

Say

um you know, quicker thing, you know.


01:21:00.13

Gene

you know, a Quaker thing, you know, that.


01:21:02.21

Say

that there's people


01:21:03.18

Gene

They're people.


01:21:04.43

Say

We need people to be who they are.


01:21:04.53

Gene

We need people to be who they are.


01:21:06.66

Say

You might be.


01:21:06.76

Gene

like If people are able to be who they are, I feel like you can tap more into human potential.


01:21:07.60

Say

if people are able to be who they are i feel like you can tap more into human potential but it's hard for humans to be.


01:21:13.82

Gene

But it's hard for humans to be.


01:21:14.10

Wednesday Lee Friday

Mm hmm.


01:21:16.07

Say

who they are because of the cultures that they're in and the things that you have to do.


01:21:15.57

Gene

who they are because of the cultures that they're in and the the things that you have to do.


01:21:20.67

Say

you know, or the things that you.


01:21:20.77

Gene

you know, or things that you are supposed to do or not supposed to do.


01:21:22.29

Say

or supposed to do or not supposed to do. We can get wrapped up in it.


01:21:24.17

Gene

and People get wrapped up in that. you know.


01:21:25.61

Say

you know um


01:21:26.24

Gene

um


01:21:27.08

Say

i got this


01:21:27.17

Gene

i Got this thing


01:21:28.35

Say

that we can talk about now for the right time.


01:21:28.45

Gene

that we can talk about later i'm not sure the right time i had it


01:21:30.56

Say

ahead for a little later.


01:21:31.23

Gene

for a little later, but


01:21:32.15

Say

but Good ol' anime.


01:21:33.90

Gene

Good old anime.


01:21:35.30

Say

Thank you.


01:21:35.41

Gene

tech here.


01:21:36.37

Say

from minority.


01:21:36.40

Gene

from naruto


01:21:37.65

Say

the way of the ninja


01:21:37.68

Gene

Your way of the ninja, right?


01:21:40.36

Wednesday Lee Friday

Okay.


01:21:41.42

Say

The way of the ninja.


01:21:41.53

Gene

The way of the ninja, your ninja way is just a a belief system or a way of looking at things that is like.


01:21:42.21

Say

Your ninja way. is just a ah belief system or a way of looking at it. instead it's like You got to do the way.


01:21:49.01

Gene

You got to do the way.


01:21:51.35

Say

You got to do life the way that you can do life.


01:21:51.44

Gene

You got to do life the way that you. can do life. you know You can't walk in someone else's shoes all the time.


01:21:54.02

Say

You can't walk into someone else's shoes all the time. you have to be able to identify, to be able to.


01:21:56.91

Gene

You have to be able to identify, to be able to...


01:22:00.62

Say

introspect.


01:22:00.72

Gene

introspect.


01:22:01.97

Say

um


01:22:02.07

Gene

um


01:22:02.91

Say

you know


01:22:03.01

Gene

you know uh introspect.


01:22:03.75

Say

um Interesting. There's not a word.


01:22:05.89

Gene

There's another word that I want to use.


01:22:09.52

Say

It was an accountability. what's that is it accountability accountability no this is more about knowing yourself knowing yourself knowing yourself Awareness.


01:22:10.98

Gene

What's that? No, it's more about knowing yourself. Knowing yourself and being able to project yourself awareness.


01:22:16.25

Wednesday Lee Friday

Oh. awareness.


01:22:18.44

Gene

Yeah


01:22:19.66

Say

and being happy awareness of yourself to be able to put that


01:22:19.72

Gene

and being having the awareness of yourself to be able to put that


01:22:23.44

Say

Work on it.


01:22:23.55

Gene

Work on that. and put that forward.


01:22:24.45

Say

and put that forward um honestly of course definitely when when possible you know the courses sometimes


01:22:26.15

Gene

um honestly of course and ethically when when when possible you know of course there's sometimes where


01:22:31.27

Wednesday Lee Friday

Mm hmm.


01:22:32.38

Say

you have to


01:22:32.47

Gene

you You have to... react and you know but you still want to train in your way so that when that situation comes up, comes up you'll be able to react in a way that is core to you.


01:22:33.80

Say

react And, you know, but you still want to train in your way. when that situation comes out. comes up you'll be able to react in a way that is forward to you You know, is that's how I...


01:22:45.39

Gene

um you know that's that's how i I view a lot of a lot of that when people don't end up.


01:22:47.33

Say

I view a lot of. a lot of that when people don't end up They're fighting, I think.


01:22:52.35

Gene

They're fighting it. I think in.


01:22:53.61

Say

in um


01:22:53.86

Gene

um


01:22:54.73

Say

Christianity would refer to as punching the spirit.


01:22:54.83

Gene

Christianity, they refer to as quenching the spirit.


01:22:58.07

Say

is like you can't...


01:22:58.17

Gene

is like you can't


01:22:59.53

Say

if if you got this thing that's pulling at you you gotta adjust that you know and you figure it out and get yourself ready


01:22:59.52

Gene

If... If you got this thing that's pulling that, you got to address that. You know, and you figure that out and get yourself right. you know If you don't get yourself right, you're going to influence.


01:23:08.54

Say

Yeah. if you don't get yourself free you're going to influence possibly poison everything around you.


01:23:11.05

Gene

possibly poison everything around you.


01:23:13.80

Say

so


01:23:13.90

Gene

so


01:23:14.21

Wednesday Lee Friday

mm-hmm Yep.


01:23:17.88

Wednesday Lee Friday

Say anything you want to add to that?


01:23:20.73

Say

um I was going to... Um... Jump back to where we were talking about the ladies. And the BDSM spaces, if that's okay.


01:23:29.01

Gene

Mm hmm.


01:23:32.70

Wednesday Lee Friday

Oh absolutely.


01:23:33.30

Say

Goodbye. Yeah, because I actually have two really great... um role models in the BDSM community community that I personally know of.


01:23:45.84

Say

um One is that I'm honored to say that... um that is a mentor of mine uh elegantly kinky or mistress zeneca who runs out of of


01:23:59.18

Say

philly and she uh does really great lovely and welcoming events such as like vampire valentines and cherry noir and she also has known for her uh handcrafted um like spooky horror uh presentations that she did at the um uptown bard in the garden which she did a stranger things.


01:24:21.39

Wednesday Lee Friday

Oh, wow.


01:24:22.73

Say

Um, yeah.


01:24:23.39

Gene

ah 3d centerpieces is really cool


01:24:25.02

Say

And then... Yeah. It's great stuff.


01:24:27.60

Wednesday Lee Friday

Neat.


01:24:29.06

Say

um And another one that we actually had the honor to staff. for was ah Dungeons and Geekdoms, which is out of New Jersey and that's run by Fire.


01:24:40.32

Say

and It's a large geeky hotel takeover that happens every year around March. And it's heavily queer-centric, amazingly inviting. The panels, they have panels, games, scenes, they like two dungeons. Yeah, and we got to host our pet palooza there one year, and that was really good. Moshing, animals, yeah.


01:25:04.81

Say

Yeah, it's definitely that.


01:25:04.91

Gene

Yes, bet play.


01:25:06.18

Say

Yeah, please.


01:25:06.78

Gene

Got to represent.


01:25:07.89

Say

is


01:25:08.31

Wednesday Lee Friday

ah


01:25:10.51

Say

Yes. I love to wear my tail in my ears.


01:25:11.10

Gene

It was cool.


01:25:13.64

Say

What can I say?


01:25:14.86

Gene

Right, you know but a lot of...


01:25:15.21

Wednesday Lee Friday

Awww.


01:25:16.37

Say

It was good.


01:25:16.48

Gene

it was cool to um present that to people because we were able to see that you know and share that Um,


01:25:17.76

Say

present that to people very and see that, you know, I shared that. um you know demystify i guess


01:25:22.79

Gene

you know demystify i guess pet play because a lot of people it seems like they think that it's like


01:25:24.41

Say

that way because a lot of people it seems like they think that it's like


01:25:26.09

Wednesday Lee Friday

h


01:25:28.46

Say

people wanting to do things.


01:25:28.58

Gene

people. wanting to do things.


01:25:30.67

Say

with


01:25:30.78

Gene

with.


01:25:31.33

Say

they're


01:25:31.44

Gene

they're


01:25:32.19

Say

and with their animals.


01:25:32.29

Gene

animals like and Like, it's not...


01:25:33.10

Wednesday Lee Friday

Okay.


01:25:34.10

Say

They consider bestology which it which it is not, not.


01:25:34.19

Gene

That's not it. Beastiality. It's not that at all. It's not that.


01:25:39.60

Say

good


01:25:39.69

Gene

Ha! you know it's it's like accessing ah an alternative form you know um you talked about theory and Did you talk about BMP?


01:25:40.16

Say

you know it's it's like accessing alternative form. you know you talking about furian they talk about yeah that i'm a theory and that i'm a coyote theory or a aware coyote theory Um... it's very much tied to my uh spiritualism or you know my um Yeah, my spiritualism.


01:26:03.44

Say

yeah is's very much hard to that it doesn't you know represent the think it is you know it's you know getting out your playful beautiful energy it can be as simple as that you know um it could be


01:26:03.53

Gene

Yeah, very it's very much tied to that. It doesn't have to you know represent the the raunchy things that people think it is. It's getting out your playful, youthful energy. It can be as simple as that. you know it can be


01:26:15.35

Say

um


01:26:15.46

Gene

um fun you know it doesn't have to be it could be you're pretending to be a dog you know maybe thinking Rugrats.


01:26:16.45

Say

fine You know, it doesn't have to be it can be you pretending to be a dog. You know. made me think and grow.


01:26:21.62

Wednesday Lee Friday

Well, I mean...


01:26:22.92

Gene

you know.


01:26:22.66

Wednesday Lee Friday

any anybody that is openly talking about the sex things they do on this show It's all about so ah consenting adults, like adults giving informed consent.


01:26:31.70

Say

Yeah, right.


01:26:31.80

Gene

no


01:26:34.20

Say

Yeah.


01:26:34.29

Wednesday Lee Friday

every time we


01:26:35.03

Say

like sexiness get sexy right


01:26:36.55

Wednesday Lee Friday

we We don't tolerate anything else.


01:26:36.86

Gene

Right.


01:26:39.23

Wednesday Lee Friday

um The interesting thing about that kind of misunderstanding is that so often when people are judging other people's sexuality. or or you know what they're actually saying is.


01:26:52.48

Wednesday Lee Friday

The thing that I imagine you doing? is disgusting and you shouldn't be doing the thing that is going on in my head right now when i picture that well and that's why


01:26:58.51

Say

That's very nice.


01:26:58.63

Gene

Mm-mm. Mhm.


01:27:02.99

Wednesday Lee Friday

When people say, like... you know, like When you talk to a MAGA boy about gayness, the first thing that goes into their mind when they hear the word gay is men sucking each other off.


01:27:10.12

Gene

Uh huh.


01:27:15.36

Say

Yeah.


01:27:15.32

Wednesday Lee Friday

like that's Always where it goes.


01:27:15.48

Gene

a


01:27:17.29

Wednesday Lee Friday

Always, always, always.


01:27:17.89

Say

um


01:27:19.27

Wednesday Lee Friday

and but But that's not what they do with heterosexual couples. I mean, a gay couple is a couple.


01:27:25.74

Say

Yeah.


01:27:25.63

Wednesday Lee Friday

And sure, that that probably happens, but that's not all there is, for goodness sake.


01:27:25.86

Gene

ah


01:27:31.29

Wednesday Lee Friday

and But they don't do that with with hetero couples.


01:27:31.39

Say

Bye.


01:27:31.52

Gene

ah


01:27:34.57

Wednesday Lee Friday

You don't say like, oh, so and so and in such and such chick are getting married. um you know, isn't that great? And people don't don't start talking about like, you know, wedding night sex and and very specific genital related things, you know, that's, and so that's the thing.


01:27:42.67

Gene

Right.


01:27:47.40

Say

Great.


01:27:47.39

Gene

Right.


01:27:48.58

Say

Right.


01:27:48.67

Gene

Right. it's not the


01:27:52.57

Wednesday Lee Friday

That's what other people are making it about.


01:27:55.65

Gene

a


01:27:55.71

Wednesday Lee Friday

you know, like.


01:27:56.66

Say

I'm afraid it is, you know.


01:27:56.72

Gene

Your prejudice is showing.


01:27:56.94

Wednesday Lee Friday

Trans people. not right exactly and it's like you know well i don't understand how people can blah blah blah blah blah well guess what you don't have to understand it


01:28:05.62

Gene

Uh huh.


01:28:05.56

Say

Mm-hmm. not for you


01:28:06.40

Gene

it's not for you


01:28:06.40

Wednesday Lee Friday

You know? I don't understand how people can watch the same sporting event. 2020. fucking times during one season and still be entertained by it every single time.


01:28:17.94

Wednesday Lee Friday

Like he's going to hit the ball and then he's going to run.


01:28:17.100

Gene

I get it, I get that


01:28:20.01

Wednesday Lee Friday

Why are we still here for nine innings of this?


01:28:23.12

Gene

Yeah.


01:28:23.64

Wednesday Lee Friday

who but But it's fine.


01:28:24.46

Say

Why do you have a shirt with his name on it?


01:28:24.54

Gene

Why do you have a shirt with his name on it?


01:28:26.76

Wednesday Lee Friday

i wouldn't I wouldn't try to take it from anyone. If that's what you enjoy, do it. You know?


01:28:32.14

Gene

Mm hmm.


01:28:32.86

Say

Yeah.


01:28:32.95

Gene

mm-hmm


01:28:33.03

Wednesday Lee Friday

Just don't scream at your kid because he doesn't do it as well as you think he should. because...


01:28:37.53

Gene

Come on.


01:28:37.43

Say

I'm already drunk.


01:28:38.10

Gene

Right.


01:28:38.60

Wednesday Lee Friday

Sports parents are a whole other issue. But OK, wait. So, Jean, now I am aware. that you make music.


01:28:47.10

Say

Yes.


01:28:47.22

Gene

Yes.


01:28:48.16

Say

um


01:28:48.15

Wednesday Lee Friday

Can we hear some?


01:28:48.26

Gene

um Yeah. uh yeah i i uh yeah we definitely could i have um the youtube


01:28:49.73

Say

Yeah, I mean, yeah, we definitely do it. I have the YouTube. Bye.


01:28:56.29

Gene

fight.


01:28:56.90

Say

ready to go.


01:28:57.01

Gene

ready to go um and that on that is um


01:28:57.89

Say

and that neck is um King Fine.


01:29:00.89

Gene

King sign.


01:29:02.33

Say

Three.


01:29:02.42

Gene

Three.


01:29:03.07

Say

on the only top negative


01:29:03.14

Gene

on on utah on youtube I could try and send you the link, but I know we I could send you some files, the WAV files a little bit later.


01:29:05.57

Say

That's good. try and send you the link, but not I can send you some files, the WAV files. a little bit later


01:29:13.13

Gene

But yeah.


01:29:13.02

Say

But yeah.


01:29:13.08

Wednesday Lee Friday

sweet so yeah we'll um what we'll do is um we'll have the link in the bio uh if you want to go over there and check it out and we will also I have a song at the end of the episode after the Mad Libs, so listen for that.


01:29:26.77

Say

Yay.


01:29:27.02

Gene

Yes.


01:29:28.51

Say

Yeah, I try to go over a lot of different genres that I'm doing.


01:29:28.60

Gene

Yeah, I try to go over a lot of different genres when I'm doing this music.


01:29:28.81

Wednesday Lee Friday

We're out.


01:29:32.72

Say

with music.


01:29:33.22

Gene

It's character music that I end up focusing on a lot in what I've been doing recently with the channel.


01:29:33.69

Say

is character music that I ended up focusing on a lot in what I've been doing recently with the channel. even though we do upload obviously with clips and um


01:29:40.11

Gene

um Even though we do upload some gaming clips. and and some funny things here and there.


01:29:44.43

Say

and some funny things here and there.


01:29:46.44

Gene

um the bulk of it is music that i've done for people's characters as a a commission


01:29:46.35

Say

The bulk of it is music that I've done for people's characters. as a ah commission. So.


01:29:53.29

Gene

um so I have a few ones that I i think ended up.


01:29:54.59

Say

I have a few ones that I i think ended up.


01:29:57.33

Gene

turning out particularly well um and the views seem to think so also


01:29:57.65

Say

turned out particularly well. and the views seem to think so also. that I'll be sending, but.


01:30:03.12

Gene

um that i'll i'll be sending but


01:30:05.23

Say

um


01:30:05.33

Gene

I'm


01:30:05.87

Say

consistently coming out with more music in this season for some reason feeling more music creation in this time around well actually the conditions are starting to come open


01:30:06.50

Gene

consistently coming out with more music in this season for some reason, feeling more music creation-y this time around. so actually the commissions are starting to come open.


01:30:13.48

Wednesday Lee Friday

Wow.


01:30:15.58

Gene

for any character music and character art if someone has a character in mind that they have.


01:30:16.02

Say

for new character music. correct your heart. if someone has a character in mind that they have maybe if they don't


01:30:22.48

Gene

Maybe if they don't.


01:30:23.55

Say

that they would come to us.


01:30:23.67

Gene

that they would come to us and you know share their idea and we would


01:30:25.49

Say

and you know share their idea. and we would ideally want to make their character idea something tangible, something that they can hear.


01:30:29.17

Gene

ideally want to make their character ideas something tangible, something that they can hear. and possibly something that they can see.


01:30:34.46

Say

and possibly something that they can see.


01:30:38.12

Wednesday Lee Friday

That is so cool. That's so cool. And plus, I don't know if you know, I'm about to cut together a new ah book trailer because I'm re-releasing all my long form stuff.


01:30:47.11

Gene

oh


01:30:48.58

Say

Oh yeah!


01:30:48.64

Gene

Oh, yeah.


01:30:48.91

Wednesday Lee Friday

So I'm going to need a score for a book trailer pretty soon.


01:30:51.88

Say

Oh.


01:30:52.04

Gene

Oh, okay.


01:30:52.71

Say

Okay, we have that covered.


01:30:53.08

Gene

Might have that covered.


01:30:54.42

Say

I'm gonna do something like that.


01:30:53.99

Gene

I'll be able to do something like that.


01:30:55.40

Say

Some strings.


01:30:55.57

Gene

Some strings, some orchestral happenings.


01:30:56.67

Say

Some orchestral happenings. Yeah, let us know.


01:30:59.24

Wednesday Lee Friday

Sweet. Sweet! So we're actually nearing the end of our time. So I need to know, is there anything that you guys wanted to cover that we did not get to?


01:31:10.29

Say

Okay. Let me see, let me see, let me see. Oh! Yes, yes, yes. We didn't get to talk about the... The um...


01:31:23.74

Say

The Halloween campaign. For the tea house.


01:31:26.42

Gene

Yes.


01:31:26.72

Wednesday Lee Friday

Oh.


01:31:27.56

Say

That's coming up. Yeah.


01:31:29.04

Gene

Yes!


01:31:30.06

Say

Yeah, this is gonna highlight. for everyone all right so their uh spooky month is coming up and you know we all love that it's my time Yes.


01:31:38.33

Gene

Coming up. and We all love it. That's my time.


01:31:39.29

Wednesday Lee Friday

h Yep. Yep


01:31:41.00

Say

Um... So yeah, it's not only Jean's birthday, but I'm debuting as a professional DM for the first time at our local game store, Mana & Mocha. and pomerton pa so if anybody's interested to um come for the in-person session we're doing haunted forest it's a murder mystery


01:31:51.66

Wednesday Lee Friday

Nice.


01:32:01.99

Say

It's going to be featuring in-person session, custom character music raffle done by Gene over here.


01:32:09.38

Gene

That's right


01:32:09.67

Say

A custom teacup art raffle worth $50 done by the amazing artist Atropa. Grim. um a easel art contest on the reality app and special loot drops throughout the throughout the month and you might get that special legendary weapon that you always wanted or for your character or that special piece of art.


01:32:26.76

Wednesday Lee Friday

Oh wow.


01:32:33.65

Say

You see that?


01:32:33.34

Wednesday Lee Friday

Neat.


01:32:33.76

Gene

Yes it is!


01:32:35.67

Say

There you go.


01:32:35.55

Wednesday Lee Friday

Wow. Cool.


01:32:39.24

Say

The tea hound.


01:32:39.36

Gene

the tea house


01:32:39.42

Wednesday Lee Friday

All right. is Is there anything else that we need to cover, you guys? I don't want to leave anything out because you're both so fascinating.


01:32:47.79

Say

Oh, the coping skills. I guess we could go through someone and one of those really quickly. because that's really good for the


01:32:52.75

Wednesday Lee Friday

oh yeah if you've got if you've got coping skills you want to share about uh for add or for um autism just for you know getting through the day By all means.


01:32:54.65

Say

within you. Yeah.


01:32:59.03

Say

Yeah.


01:33:03.38

Say

Yeah. Yes, yes, for the neurodivergence or anybody that helps with because the... The, um... the mindfulness tech is there.


01:33:13.13

Gene

Mm hmm.


01:33:13.23

Say

so um My favorite go-to is when Jean can help me do the 5-4-3-2-1 technique is the five things you can see.


01:33:24.38

Say

Four things you can feel. 3. You can hear Two, you can smell and one you can taste and it's used for a grounding.


01:33:30.46

Gene

smell one you can taste For grounding. It's like a mic.


01:33:34.51

Say

It's like a mindfulness and DBT exercise.


01:33:37.65

Wednesday Lee Friday

Okay. and And you're finding that helpful? How often do you find yourself using it?


01:33:45.45

Say

Let's see If I'm lucky, like... a couple times a week or so.


01:33:52.40

Wednesday Lee Friday

Okay.


01:33:52.77

Say

We're getting better at it. It's still a work in progress.


01:33:55.85

Gene

Mm-hmm.


01:33:56.55

Say

this


01:33:57.42

Wednesday Lee Friday

Well, and that's actually a really important thing to keep in mind with any kind of ah coping skill or tool or. ah you know even like medications and stuff that it's always a work in progress There's good days. There's bad days. And just because you have a bad day doesn't mean you can't pick yourself up and and start again.


01:34:19.33

Say

Thank you.


01:34:19.73

Wednesday Lee Friday

And that can be really hard to to keep in mind. it's the kind You know, because when things are feeling overwhelming.


01:34:22.45

Gene

little been


01:34:26.04

Wednesday Lee Friday

You know, you get into that, like, what's the point? Why does it matter? Kind of stuff. And that just keeps you from doing what you need to do.


01:34:30.99

Gene

Mm-hmm.


01:34:33.52

Say

Yeah.


01:34:33.58

Gene

Yeah. Yeah.


01:34:34.56

Say

Yeah, the paralysis. What do you call it? The paralysis?


01:34:37.70

Gene

Analysis paralysis. now


01:34:38.56

Say

Analysis paralysis.


01:34:39.20

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yep. Yep.


01:34:41.24

Say

Yeah.


01:34:41.89

Wednesday Lee Friday

That is true.


01:34:42.06

Gene

Mm hmm.


01:34:43.49

Wednesday Lee Friday

Um. Oh go ahead.


01:34:46.93

Say

Yeah.


01:34:47.04

Gene

Yes.


01:34:47.56

Say

um so


01:34:47.31

Gene

um so Their way of the ninja thing is cool.


01:34:49.23

Say

The Way of the Ninja thing is cool. like being It's as easy as it sounds.


01:34:52.32

Gene

It's cheesy as it sounds. It's still one of those things where...


01:34:54.11

Say

one of those things where if you're lost or if you're struggling with like


01:34:56.54

Gene

If you're lost ah or if you're struggling with like.


01:35:01.04

Say

maybe an imposter syndrome I've heard.


01:35:01.16

Gene

Maybe imposter syndrome. I've heard It could be applied to, but.


01:35:03.65

Say

um it could be applied to but Sometimes people feel like they're doing like a...


01:35:07.20

Gene

Sometimes people feel like they're doing like a a mill a wheel mill situation like they're stuck like that too and i've been seeing that um this sort of philosophy has been being used for all sorts of manifest manifestation for people's lives you know um being able to


01:35:09.49

Say

a mill a wheel situation like this stuff like that too and i'm seeing that this sort of philosophy has been being used for all sorts of manifest manifestation uh for people's life you know and i'm being able to have the thing that you're uniquely interested in and to take time to be able to work on that or even possibly make that your thing.


01:35:25.41

Gene

Have the thing that you're uniquely interested in and take time to be able to work on that or even possibly make that your thing. um alongside of that Um, Another.


01:35:33.25

Say

Alongside of that. um Mother. things ikigai


01:35:36.26

Gene

Thing is Ikigai


01:35:38.20

Say

I've heard of that, and they have different ways of...


01:35:38.31

Gene

I've heard of that and they have different ways of representing.


01:35:41.97

Say

representing


01:35:43.56

Gene

how you integrate


01:35:44.20

Say

how you integrate. your work, your life, and other people like socially together.


01:35:45.68

Gene

your work, your life. and other people like socially together as


01:35:50.75

Say

Yes. Nice.


01:35:51.98

Gene

nice tech.


01:35:53.05

Say

for you.


01:35:53.16

Gene

for um you know centering yourself in in


01:35:53.83

Say

you know centering yourself in in in a society or in for your life.


01:35:57.05

Gene

in a society or in for your life.


01:35:59.98

Say

And.


01:36:00.10

Gene

And. i like um


01:36:01.10

Say

I like. um All the fortune telling.


01:36:03.27

Gene

All the fortune telling.


01:36:05.05

Say

oh yeah we didn't get to talk about tarot cards witchy my witchy cells from that


01:36:05.17

Gene

Um,


01:36:05.46

Wednesday Lee Friday

Sure.


01:36:10.44

Gene

Yes! It's good tech. Good humanity. Good humanity in there.


01:36:14.96

Say

in there


01:36:15.30

Gene

yeah like I feel like we need that.


01:36:15.53

Say

Yeah. I feel like we need that.


01:36:18.37

Gene

We need this stuff.


01:36:18.25

Say

We need this. Oh.


01:36:19.63

Gene

And it's like, it has.


01:36:19.51

Say

and it's like has The hands are up now.


01:36:21.67

Gene

It has a a really strong science to this.


01:36:22.83

Say

a really strong science to it too.


01:36:24.100

Gene

to it too.


01:36:26.10

Say

You know, you have, you know, Mars, Alpha, maybe Libras.


01:36:26.24

Gene

You know, you got Pluto, Mars, however it may be, Libras. um Scorpio, Taurus, whoever, or rabbit.


01:36:30.27

Say

um scorpio utaris whatever or grabbing. um


01:36:34.68

Gene

um go rabid ox


01:36:35.38

Say

your rabbit isn't


01:36:38.02

Gene

um, in any of those and they have different


01:36:38.86

Say

in any of those have different


01:36:38.80

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yep.


01:36:41.12

Gene

um techniques for combining those like we found primal astrology um particularly interesting and it mixes mixes your greek sign and your Chinese sign.


01:36:41.84

Say

techniques for combining them. What have we found? primal astrology. particularly interesting. and it mixes your greek sign and your Chinese son. and they they give you another song.


01:36:52.23

Gene

And they they give you another sign.


01:36:54.49

Say

So I'm a butterfly.


01:36:54.34

Gene

So I'm a butterfly.


01:36:55.67

Say

i So I'm a fight and a rabbit.


01:36:56.77

Gene

So I'm a rabbit.


01:36:58.92

Say

that is mixed with uh libra And that's the habit.


01:36:59.05

Gene

that is mixed with um a libra and that's and they have a whole chart on this website that shows you all sorts of um combinations like that but really i mean all of them you know i feel like all a lot of these things can give you um oh the myers-briggs one the enneagrams


01:37:03.01

Say

chart on this website that shows you all different combinations like that. But really, I mean all of them. I feel like a lot of these things can give you, oh, the Myers-Briggs one, the Enneagram.


01:37:15.36

Wednesday Lee Friday

uh-huh Yep.


01:37:15.61

Say

mm-hmm they're all good tools to be able to help.


01:37:16.35

Gene

They're all good like tools to be able to help.


01:37:19.87

Say

you


01:37:19.97

Gene

you


01:37:21.08

Say

and or your character if you're doing a role play


01:37:21.19

Gene

and and or your character if you're doing or a role play. um


01:37:26.10

Say

um help you be able to figure out where you're lacking at or things to look out for for self-improvement.


01:37:27.34

Gene

help you be able to figure out where you may be lacking at or things to look out for for self improvement.


01:37:34.03

Say

you know it's Again, knowing yourself, if you can be...


01:37:34.13

Gene

um you know it's again knowing yourself if you can be your best self um and operate ethically amongst people um then i feel like if everybody's doing that


01:37:37.66

Say

your best self and operate ethically amongst people, then I feel like if everybody's doing that...


01:37:45.84

Gene

We should all be in a better place, you know.


01:37:45.17

Say

We should all be in a better place.


01:37:45.76

Wednesday Lee Friday

Hmm.


01:37:47.19

Say

you know


01:37:47.94

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yes.


01:37:49.03

Say

mm-hmm


01:37:48.78

Wednesday Lee Friday

Yes.


01:37:51.51

Wednesday Lee Friday

All right.


01:37:52.43

Say

Nice.


01:37:53.63

Wednesday Lee Friday

Well, the last thing we do here before the Mad Lib is that I like to give guests opportunity to ask me a question if they have one. So now is the time.


01:38:04.86

Say

Right. Oh, yes. I had heard that you started doing resin projects and I actually have a big interest in that as well. So what tips can you give for like a beginner?


01:38:15.85

Say

Like me.


01:38:16.25

Wednesday Lee Friday

Oh, yeah, I do two part resin and also I've been doing UV resin because H got me a sweet lamp for UV resin.


01:38:25.97

Wednesday Lee Friday

So I make lots of jewelry.


01:38:26.65

Say

That's cool.


01:38:28.44

Wednesday Lee Friday

Um, A lot of it is spooky stuff. I like doing embeds. plus H will make me designs and I can print them out on transparencies and then embed them so I can make like any design in the world so I can do my logo and stuff. um


01:38:43.89

Wednesday Lee Friday

I think the most important thing to keep in mind with resin is to use proper PPE. Like that's the number one thing. Make sure you have ventilation, fans, or an air filter, something like that. You know, use the right kind of gloves, use eye protection, use a respirator mask.


01:39:02.71

Wednesday Lee Friday

Do not mess around with that sort of thing, because... If it is going to impact your health, it will sneak up on you.


01:39:11.10

Say

so


01:39:11.01

Wednesday Lee Friday

You'll feel fine, fine, fine, fine, fine. And then suddenly you'll have a rash or you can't breathe or, you know, so be really careful about that aspect of it.


01:39:16.78

Say

Yeah.


01:39:21.59

Say

Mm hmm.


01:39:21.70

Wednesday Lee Friday

But otherwise... Um. the the The thing to keep in mind I think is that when you do projects, especially when you first start. They're not going to turn out.


01:39:32.85

Wednesday Lee Friday

Exactly the way you planned. There's definitely going to be a learning curve. But. The fact that something didn't turn out exactly how you planned it doesn't mean that it's... can't be enjoyed by someone.


01:39:45.31

Wednesday Lee Friday

I think. Bubbles are one of the things in resin that people get super freaked out about. Oh my God, there's a bubble, it's ruined. But as a consumer, as a person who likes pretty things, a bubble might enhance the design or it might just provide a wabi-sabi kind of uniqueness.


01:39:52.23

Say

thing


01:39:52.66

Gene

her


01:40:02.73

Wednesday Lee Friday

that reminds people that this is the only one of these there is in the whole wide world.


01:40:08.86

Say

That's a nice thought. that's cool


01:40:10.76

Gene

That's cool.


01:40:13.58

Say

um


01:40:13.71

Gene

um


01:40:14.80

Say

I had a question.


01:40:14.91

Gene

I had a question, yes.


01:40:15.91

Say

Yes. um


01:40:16.80

Gene

Um, So...


01:40:17.64

Say

So.


01:40:18.07

Gene

I know for me.


01:40:18.64

Say

I know for me. Return of the living dead.


01:40:20.23

Gene

Return of the Living Dead.


01:40:21.83

Say

was is kind of like my favorite one.


01:40:21.91

Gene

uh was it's kind of like my favorite one it's kind of like my favorite because


01:40:24.44

Say

it's kind of like my favorite because when I was younger than I thought.


01:40:26.75

Gene

um when i was younger and i saw it


01:40:28.89

Say

i thought this is one of the scary movies ever like this this thing was


01:40:29.01

Gene

I thought. was one of the most scary movies ever like this this thing was creepy, it was icky, it was ugly, the one in the basement that they found.


01:40:32.69

Say

creepy it was icky as ugly the one in the basement that they found


01:40:36.81

Wednesday Lee Friday

Mm hmm.


01:40:37.77

Say

Um.


01:40:37.87

Gene

ah And, um...


01:40:38.36

Say

and um


01:40:39.98

Gene

But when I got older, I saw that and I'm like, this is one of the most hilarious movies I've ever seen in my life.


01:40:39.86

Say

but when i got older i saw that and now i'm like this is one of the most hilarious movies i've ever seen in my life before


01:40:44.97

Wednesday Lee Friday

yeah ah


01:40:48.30

Say

Are there any like horror movies like that where you've had with a very different experience of it after viewing it the second time or after years apart?


01:40:48.41

Gene

Are there any like horror movies like that where you've had like a a very different experience of it after viewing it the second time or after years apart?


01:40:58.84

Wednesday Lee Friday

Um... Yeah, I think. There are movies, certainly movies that I found very scary as a kid and then as an adult was like, what?


01:41:10.38

Wednesday Lee Friday

um There is a movie and I don't even remember the name of this movie, but it's about killer bees because in the 70s, we were all very sure that the killer bees were en route and that we were all done for.


01:41:17.36

Say

Hmm.


01:41:17.48

Gene

oh


01:41:19.22

Say

Mm hmm.


01:41:19.30

Gene

o ah


01:41:22.100

Say

The nature is going to kill us in those days.


01:41:23.27

Gene

The nature is out to kill us in those days.


01:41:23.04

Wednesday Lee Friday

Um.


01:41:25.05

Say

That reminds me of birds.


01:41:25.21

Gene

The rabbits, the snakes.


01:41:26.97

Wednesday Lee Friday

I was...


01:41:27.43

Gene

the


01:41:28.04

Wednesday Lee Friday

i was maybe uh five or six and i saw this movie about killer bees and it ends


01:41:28.81

Gene

The birds! you know The bees.


01:41:31.77

Say

ease


01:41:32.02

Gene

bees


01:41:35.02

Gene

go


01:41:36.37

Wednesday Lee Friday

with a guy. There's a whole bunch of Boy Scouts and they're trapped in a school bus because they were on a field trip of some kind.


01:41:42.41

Gene

see


01:41:42.88

Wednesday Lee Friday

And the bees were getting them.


01:41:42.91

Gene

Mm-hmm.


01:41:44.39

Wednesday Lee Friday

They were all over the bus. And so they're trying to shut the windows, but it's a shitty school bus.


01:41:46.17

Say

thank


01:41:49.76

Wednesday Lee Friday

So they're kind of getting in anyway.


01:41:49.94

Gene

It's too late.


01:41:50.06

Say

Me none.


01:41:50.66

Gene

No.


01:41:51.26

Wednesday Lee Friday

Some of them are stuck.


01:41:51.57

Gene

No. Yeah.


01:41:52.64

Wednesday Lee Friday

They're like holding clothes in front of the windows, trying to keep the bees out.


01:41:56.10

Gene

no Ah.


01:41:56.36

Wednesday Lee Friday

But they're killer bees.


01:41:56.61

Say

um


01:41:57.70

Wednesday Lee Friday

So if they get in there, apparently they're going to kill a bunch of children.


01:42:01.31

Say

You'll like it.


01:42:01.06

Wednesday Lee Friday

so some guy is like okay well you know i guess he was the main character i i was a kid but so he's like okay well spray me with bee pheromones and then lower me over it in a helicopter and so that's what they they spray this guy with bee pheromones take a helicopter and lower him down over the bus and all the bees go on him and they sting him to death and he dies


01:42:03.91

Gene

Anyone?


01:42:17.40

Gene

Wow.


01:42:25.52

Say

know


01:42:25.63

Gene

Wow


01:42:25.94

Wednesday Lee Friday

And when I was a kid. I cried so hard. Like, my stepdad was worried. He's like, okay, you you know this is a movie.


01:42:33.32

Say

No.


01:42:34.70

Wednesday Lee Friday

You know what a movie is, right?


01:42:35.72

Gene

yeah right


01:42:36.42

Wednesday Lee Friday

But the thing is, I didn't. When I was a kid and I saw a shark movie, I was trying to figure out like how long ahead of the time that you shot the movie they would pay you so you had time to have fun with the money before you had to go get eaten by a shark.


01:42:38.81

Say

Thank you.


01:42:38.95

Gene

a


01:42:50.61

Wednesday Lee Friday

like i did not as a child did not have a concept that movies were not real


01:42:51.01

Gene

and know


01:42:52.23

Say

Amen.


01:42:52.34

Gene

Mm hmm.


01:42:54.69

Say

you Right.


01:42:56.43

Gene

Right.


01:42:56.59

Wednesday Lee Friday

no one explained that was like when i learned that they weren't really real and i just remember my well anyway


01:43:00.89

Gene

Aww.


01:43:04.05

Say

Mm hmm.


01:43:04.08

Wednesday Lee Friday

Fast forward, like a number of decades. And this movie came on TV. and it was like wow this this dialogue is terrible this camera work is bad like my standards were just not up to snuff when i was in kindergarten man where i did not have a discerning eye so So yes, that that is my ah my main example of that, was that I did not cry the second time through, but I was very upset the first time.


01:43:15.75

Gene

it's right


01:43:20.52

Gene

Oh Shoo!


01:43:31.86

Wednesday Lee Friday

through.


01:43:32.58

Say

Gotcha. That was cool.


01:43:32.69

Gene

Gotcha. That's cool.


01:43:35.52

Say

Thanks. Thanks for that.


01:43:35.64

Gene

Thanks. Thanks for that.


01:43:37.18

Wednesday Lee Friday

All right, kids, it's time for the Mad Lib. Are you ready for this?


01:43:42.70

Say

Let's go.


01:43:42.82

Gene

Let's go. and What is the mad label that we will find out?


01:43:43.75

Say

What is the medical that we will find out? I'm scared.


01:43:46.29

Wednesday Lee Friday

All right, so I am going to give you some parts of speech. You are going to give me words. Usually I do like a whole bunch of the same kind of thing together, but because there's two of you, we kind of got to go every other one. So say we'll start with you. Give me an adjective.


01:44:02.45

Say

adjectives, descriptor things. um Let me see.


01:44:10.73

Say

know i know I know adjectives.


01:44:10.79

Gene

i Got a funny one No adjectives.


01:44:12.89

Say

God damn it. this This one, um I'm going to get one because I was just wondering.


01:44:15.38

Gene

this This one I'm gonna give one because I was just looking it up today because someone said it


01:44:18.14

Say

it up today. The film was The End. Scared.


01:44:20.56

Gene

Scary.


01:44:23.17

Wednesday Lee Friday

Okay. Then say you could give me a noun.


01:44:27.14

Say

Yeah. Nailed it. Scary dog.


01:44:32.90

Wednesday Lee Friday

Okay, I need a plural noun.


01:44:38.48

Say

Oh no, I didn't know we were going back to school. Alright, uh, school.


01:44:42.15

Gene

schools


01:44:44.20

Say

Drugs. Dogs.


01:44:45.52

Gene

Dogs.


01:44:46.26

Say

Dog and dog.


01:44:46.04

Gene

Dog and dogs.


01:44:47.94

Say

oh two Oh, another one. A different one.


01:44:50.30

Wednesday Lee Friday

Well, okay, wait, so I need two more nouns.


01:44:50.72

Gene

I don't know


01:44:52.71

Wednesday Lee Friday

So both of you give me one


01:44:54.62

Say

Oh okay. dogs and um or one people.


01:45:02.44

Say

So we got dog, people and... Amen.


01:45:06.61

Gene

ah


01:45:08.91

Say

i want to say dog work i mean i'll just say the park


01:45:09.01

Gene

I want to say dog park, but I'll just say the park.


01:45:14.41

Wednesday Lee Friday

okay so there's person in room that's going to be say because i'm just calling it um


01:45:16.33

Gene

Central Park.


01:45:20.10

Say

Okay.


01:45:20.22

Gene

Okay.


01:45:20.95

Wednesday Lee Friday

Alright, you know what? I need a bunch of more nouns. I need like five or six more nouns. Just start giving them to me.


01:45:25.57

Say

This makes me want to know. Okay.


01:45:27.92

Gene

Okay.


01:45:29.73

Say

Who else? goal.


01:45:33.34

Say

Mm-hmm.


01:45:33.45

Gene

I like that one.


01:45:34.84

Say

Um... Who knows? um Find someone else. tree.


01:45:43.27

Gene

Dragon.


01:45:43.19

Say

Wagon. Ahoy! All right.


01:45:46.19

Gene

A dragon?


01:45:46.71

Say

Dragon.


01:45:46.90

Gene

Dragon.


01:45:47.95

Wednesday Lee Friday

All right All right. Got it? One two three more singular nouns


01:45:54.42

Say

box


01:45:58.34

Say

Light. A light. Sorry.


01:46:00.87

Wednesday Lee Friday

alright


01:46:01.08

Gene

Sword.


01:46:02.62

Wednesday Lee Friday

sword.


01:46:02.96

Say

Sword.


01:46:04.84

Wednesday Lee Friday

And I need two more plural nouns.


01:46:12.26

Say

Fish.


01:46:16.62

Wednesday Lee Friday

Okay, one more.


01:46:22.48

Say

That's one that comes in a bunch.


01:46:25.91

Say

Bananas.


01:46:27.73

Gene

ah


01:46:29.84

Wednesday Lee Friday

All right, and I need one more adjective from each of you, please.


01:46:38.46

Say

Sultry? How's that one?


01:46:41.40

Wednesday Lee Friday

Nice.


01:46:41.79

Say

That's it.


01:46:41.94

Gene

Fantastic.


01:46:41.98

Wednesday Lee Friday

face.


01:46:42.47

Gene

Hey.


01:46:43.17

Say

dastardly.


01:46:44.20

Wednesday Lee Friday

Dastardly.


01:46:47.44

Wednesday Lee Friday

Okay, I think that's actually an adverb.


01:46:50.32

Say

oops


01:46:50.45

Gene

oops


01:46:52.05

Say

um Let's go.


01:46:52.80

Gene

Let's go


01:46:53.90

Wednesday Lee Friday

No, wait, no, I think I think that's not true. I think no it just it has an ly but it's not actually an adverb that's just me okay so so that's it so here we go


01:47:02.53

Gene

Okay.


01:47:04.79

Wednesday Lee Friday

This is called In... Oh and in local news. small-time Small town life doesn't mean big things don't happen. Here are some of the scary events taking place this weekend and next in Little Dog Falls.


01:47:22.76

Wednesday Lee Friday

Stop by the Brotherhood of the Dogs Lounge. lodge on Sunday for an all-you-can-eat park breakfast. to benefit the town's skull rescue shelter.


01:47:36.23

Wednesday Lee Friday

Mayor say we'll be flipping hotcakes and grilling tree patties.


01:47:42.92

Wednesday Lee Friday

Join us for the grand opening of the town's first Dragon Mart! A limited edition box will be given away to the first 100 Sultry shoppers.


01:47:55.01

Say

Oh.


01:47:55.07

Gene

oh


01:47:56.09

Say

Jazzy.


01:47:55.95

Wednesday Lee Friday

Next weekend is the annual Light Festival. vendors will be selling fresh picked people and baked fish will be available.


01:48:03.53

Say

you


01:48:03.89

Gene

seven


01:48:05.56

Say

really


01:48:06.77

Wednesday Lee Friday

Come hungry.


01:48:07.10

Say

for its big people.


01:48:07.24

Gene

<unk> Respect people.


01:48:09.14

Wednesday Lee Friday

Come hungry and leave dastardly.


01:48:12.35

Say

in delete Yeah, right.


01:48:12.91

Gene

Yeah, that's right.


01:48:13.67

Say

i think go leave that


01:48:14.43

Gene

Nice.


01:48:14.48

Wednesday Lee Friday

And finally...


01:48:16.34

Say

nothing


01:48:16.37

Wednesday Lee Friday

Mark your calendar for the community garage sale.


01:48:16.49

Gene

ah


01:48:20.72

Wednesday Lee Friday

Unearth your unused bananas and sell them for a few bucks.


01:48:23.88

Say

Hmm.


01:48:23.100

Gene

ah


01:48:25.64

Wednesday Lee Friday

Remember, one man's sword is another man's treasure.


01:48:31.96

Say

yeah


01:48:32.19

Wednesday Lee Friday

And there we have it.


01:48:34.10

Say

Nice.


01:48:35.41

Wednesday Lee Friday

Irreverent. All right, you guys, I am so glad we could finally do this.


01:48:37.92

Gene

ah


01:48:39.90

Wednesday Lee Friday

Thank you so much for being here. Stay tuned everybody. Cause there's going to be music. after the outro. um And we will see everybody next week.


01:48:50.93

Say

Ooh. Bye.


01:48:52.42

Gene

Bye everybody. Thank you.


01:48:53.39

Say

Thank you. Thank you.


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