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Nothing beats the rush of a live football game, but when the Kansas City Chiefs come into the conversation, it's a whole different ballgame. Harrison Buckner's controversial commencement speech has thrown a Hail Mary into the discourse on women's roles in society, and we're not letting it fly by without a tackle. We open up about our own backgrounds, like the sacrifices Ashley's mother made, and debate the critical importance of choice in the path we carve out for our lives. A Change.org petition and the "swift" backlash from diverse communities including Swifties and GLAAD reveal the stakes when public figures fumble on inclusivity.
As the clock winds down, we're switching from controversy to creepiness, previewing the thrills and chills of Universal Studios Florida's Halloween Horror Nights. With haunted houses like Slaughter Cinema 2 and the Goblin's Feast Tavern, we're already feeling the goosebumps. And because we love a good scare, we're inviting you to toss your episode ideas into the cauldron – who knows, maybe we'll chat about them while spinning on Disney's teacups! Join us as we unplug and unwind, where every listen is like the best seat at the game.
Nothing beats the rush of a live football game, but when the Kansas City Chiefs come into the conversation, it's a whole different ballgame. Harrison Buckner's controversial commencement speech has thrown a Hail Mary into the discourse on women's roles in society, and we're not letting it fly by without a tackle. We open up about our own backgrounds, like the sacrifices Ashley's mother made, and debate the critical importance of choice in the path we carve out for our lives. A Change.org petition and the "swift" backlash from diverse communities including Swifties and GLAAD reveal the stakes when public figures fumble on inclusivity.
As the clock winds down, we're switching from controversy to creepiness, previewing the thrills and chills of Universal Studios Florida's Halloween Horror Nights. With haunted houses like Slaughter Cinema 2 and the Goblin's Feast Tavern, we're already feeling the goosebumps. And because we love a good scare, we're inviting you to toss your episode ideas into the cauldron – who knows, maybe we'll chat about them while spinning on Disney's teacups! Join us as we unplug and unwind, where every listen is like the best seat at the game.
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Speaker 3:Kill you, rob and everything that we hold dear no, why was that ashley?
Speaker 1:what? What happened? What happened when we turned the computer on and we plugged everything in?
Speaker 3:we could hear our voices.
Speaker 1:So we and garage band wasn't open, so our microphones are just picking up this random audio and we could hear ourselves with no applications open, no recording software open, nope and um. I spent about what 30 minutes on the computer trying to figure out what it was. I unplugged everything.
Speaker 3:I plugged everything back in did a full reset, an update on the computer and why, ashley?
Speaker 1:why were you hitting buttons?
Speaker 3:Because I was trying to help.
Speaker 1:Because there was feedback on the soundboard. Yeah, but I was trying to help and you were trying to help and what button did you press?
Speaker 3:Direct input no Direct monitor. Direct monitor.
Speaker 1:And you press that on a piece of machinery that I could not see because it's facing you, correct. I think we need to plug a new mic cable in for you, because you're moving over there and I'm hearing it clip.
Speaker 3:Because I'm laughing too hard.
Speaker 1:Is that better? No, I mean, yeah, I can't.
Speaker 3:I can't, I can't. And every time I look at you I just can't stop laughing. Oh God, I'm so sorry.
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Speaker 1:What is up, besties? And welcome back to our first Wednesday episode. Coming to you surprise a whole week early Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop and we're publishing this episode, actually this is our second Wednesday episode. No, this is our first Wednesday episode no we posted a Wednesday episode last week. No, we didn't. Yeah, we did. You mean the one that just went live today?
Speaker 3:on Tuesday, on Wednesday, when did? Oh, yeah, oh, I probably should delete the post I made today.
Speaker 1:The post you made today says we're coming to you this Wednesday.
Speaker 3:Oh, then it's fine, it's no big deal cool cool, so they got.
Speaker 1:They got a bonus episode this week beautiful love that. This is a pretty controversial hold on, why are you jumping straight? I'm too excited ashley does research one time and now she's excited, you know I worked really hard on this episode.
Speaker 3:Guys, somebody should give me some round of applause. Go on, hit the button. I need it.
Speaker 1:Give me the validation let me validate your feelings please thank you.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much I'm hitting all of the wrong buttons on this computer right now thank you so much there we go I would like to to thank celsius and starbucks, coffee and Red Bull, because all three of those things motivated I really want an espresso right now. You know what I really want At one o'clock in the morning. I really want an espresso martini right now.
Speaker 1:That would be nice, do we?
Speaker 3:have an extra mic cord don't we. I don't know. Do we need one Because?
Speaker 1:I want to change your. I keep hearing it, it's just static oh, I'm so sorry and it's bothering me also did you say our last episode was our 19th episode?
Speaker 3:I lied because it is is it yeah no, our last episode was the 18th, according to buzzsprout I'm looking at it right now me too. 18 season 1, episode 18 on the top kiddo so this one is 19 correct. This is number one nine bless.
Speaker 1:All right, we're gonna holy crap.
Speaker 3:can we talk about that for a second? Can we talk about that, though? Like that, that whole concept of the fact that this is our 19th episode? We've done 19 podcast episodes. I would have quit by now, you have every week? No, not every, oh no that's right.
Speaker 1:You just try to fire me every week.
Speaker 3:I try to replace you every week. Fire me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, every week.
Speaker 3:I try to replace you every week. Fire me, yeah. Well, you can't replace me this week because I did. I did some work. Kiddos, britney spears would be proud of me. I put in the work. I worked beep. Okay, let's talk about it all. Right, let's talk about it ready yeah, go ahead. Oh, we're just starting off like this, yeah no pre-show topic.
Speaker 1:I mean we're just doing things wild and crazy. It's our first wednesday episode, let's do it all right.
Speaker 3:Well, this is a wild and crazy episode for a wild and crazy wednesday, so I'm kind of here for it. Um, so, hey, uh, do you, do you know about the kansas?
Speaker 1:I've been calling them the kansas shitty chiefs all week um, I mean, I do uh, not a big fan are you not a big fan of them, or you're not a big fan of football, or both to be honest, I'm not a fan of any form of sport unless I am watching it live in person. I don't like it on tell it's boring to me. Really, you gotta stop every 25 seconds. You miss half the stuff because there's commercials. That's true, like, just be there yeah, that's like I used to go when I was at neiland stadium watching the vols.
Speaker 3:I loved it when I was at a nascar race.
Speaker 1:Watching it in person.
Speaker 3:No, that's the tea, loved it the the orange tea. I got it it's the power tea. Okay, thank you, but anyways but you know who the kansas city chiefs are. Yeah okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they are taylor swift's boyfriend correct yep 110, he's got it right. One really shitty guy correct?
Speaker 3:well, let's talk about that one really shitty guy.
Speaker 1:So, um well, uh such a deep subject for a shallow mind, it really it, really it.
Speaker 3:This took a lot of effort, guys, so the kansas city cheese kicker. Harrison buckner I believe that's how you're saying it, it's B-U-T-K-E-R has made some pretty big headlines due to his commencement speech he gave to the class of 2024 at the Benedict College, which is a Catholic school in Kansas.
Speaker 1:Is it Benedict or is it Benedictine?
Speaker 3:I think it's Benedictine benedict. I'm not exactly sure.
Speaker 1:It's a very prestigious college, though in kansas city it's very, I'm gonna go with benedictine because it's t-i-n-e at the end let's go with that now.
Speaker 3:In a front, in front of a crowd of about 485 male and female graduates, buckner suggested that a woman clarification yes there was a lot more than 485, yes, but this was present.
Speaker 1:This was just the graduating class correct, correct.
Speaker 3:Obviously this is not including all the parents and spouses and the um, boyfriends, girlfriends, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers and sisters that all showed up to you know, support all these people. This is just the 485 people, male and females, who graduated from this college. Mr buckner showed up and he decided to speech, to speech Cool, all right. Now here's where he put his foot in his mouth.
Speaker 3:Buckner suggested that a woman's accomplishment in the home are more valuable than any academic or professional goals. He says, and I quote I want to speak directly to you briefly because I think it is you, the women. I want to speak directly to you briefly because I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you. He then went on to say, and I quote how many of you are sitting here now about to cross the stage and are thinking about all the promotions and titles that you are going to get in your career? Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring in this world.
Speaker 1:I'm going to pause.
Speaker 3:Let's pause.
Speaker 1:For dramatic effect.
Speaker 3:Well, let's pause right there, because I broke down his speech pretty well here in this segment and I'm just like Wow, wow in this segment and I'm just like I, I wow so wow, was he invited? Yes, he was asked by this college to come and speak.
Speaker 3:Buckner holds he has a family that is very catholic and they are very much a part of the church that this college also uh, I don't want to say like represents, but associates themselves with. He's a member of that church um oh yeah, I'm sure this school, oh don't is regretting their decisions oh, don't, don't worry, because because I have all the answers to that question coming up so, initially, just hearing that, just knowing that, what is your opinion on that portion of his speech?
Speaker 3:I, as somebody who has a college degree, somebody who has now actively decided that I will never get married and I cannot have children and has accepted that as part of as part of my life, is okay with the fact that I am a very, very career heavy oriented woman. Very, I mean, you ask all my friends. I literally will answer emails and text messages and phone calls at any given moment yep, you sure will correct um given moment.
Speaker 1:Yep, you sure will correct um I, I, this is that's. This is wild to me. So is he sitting here?
Speaker 3:telling. What is he saying to the women that cannot have children? That he that, no, just wait, that comes up next too oh, lovely yeah, all right, you ready for some more now?
Speaker 3:after buckner told the women in the class that they had been told, and I quote, diabolical lies about pursuing careers, he then went on to speak about his own family and his wife, stating that his family's success is a result of his wife's focus on being a wife and a mother, claiming that her and I quote her life fully, truly started when she became living her vocation as a wife and a mother. I want to know what his wife has to say about that. She has yet to speak now. Harrison's wife, though, does have a college degree. I believe she has a college degree in delusionism dead.
Speaker 3:I mean, she has to to still be married to this one and to still sleep with this one and give him children. Okay, so she attended the College of the University of Georgia where she studied psychology. So she has a degree in psychology, which is she has a passion for helping others and she actively works in the mental health field. Actively works in the mental health field, but, according to her husband, her life did not start until after she became a baby maker and a homemaker.
Speaker 1:Is she? Do we know is she actively working.
Speaker 3:No, she is not working anymore, since he has decided to become a NFL kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs. I have to slow down, because I've been saying shitty all week and it's just stuck in my head. Since he signed with them, she has taken a hard pause and she became a homemaker. She was a wife, she was a mother.
Speaker 1:Well, unfortunately, he probably makes more money than she did doing what she was a wife. She was a, and well, unfortunately, he probably makes more money than she did doing what she was doing. Because god knows how it is in the united states where we spend so much money, an astronomical amount of money, and we're gonna get break that down here in a little bit on these so called fake celebrities, because they can play football and throw some pigskin for a couple of months oh yeah, here's.
Speaker 3:Here's what kills me about that, though. Can we? Can we pause on this paragraph for a second too? So my, my own family, I love to talk about this, and my mother is gonna hate this, but I love to talk about it because my mother is to me such an inspiration, but so my mom, obviously love her.
Speaker 3:Before my dad passed away, my dad worked for the Army Corps of Engineers. He was a very, very high up member of this place and he was very well respected. He knew a lot of people and he was the sole breadwinner in my family. My mother gave up her like I don't want to say her career, but in a sense she did. She gave up her career. She found out she was pregnant with me. She put my dad through college. She made sure that everything was taken care of. She made sure the house was clean and she had food on the table ready to go and breakfast ready for him in the morning and she made sure the kids weren't screaming my brothers and my sister and I weren't screaming so my dad could study and get done. And my dad has a master, had a master's degree and did all of these things because my mother took a step back in her own career and did all of that. With that being said, I 100% support that decision because that is what my mother wanted. My dad never asked her for that. He never expected her to do that. He never said hi, you have to put your needs second. He never said any of those things. He said this is what I would like to do, and my mom said okay, this is how I'm going to help you, and that was it, and that was that is how I was raised. That is the conversation on both sides that I was told.
Speaker 3:So Harrison, sitting here saying, though, that his wife didn't feel like a person until she became a wife and a homemaker, that concept kills me. How, how do you know that? Because you can go and play football, I'm sorry, because you can go and kick a football, because you don't actually play football, but we'll get to that. But like, how, how do you? How, how did that statement come into your head? I need her. I don't know. This just kills me, and it gets just progressively worse. Are you ready? Yeah, go for it. Are you out in La La Land over there?
Speaker 1:No, I'm in the process of reading through his speech as we.
Speaker 3:Oh, you ready for the next? This one, though I'm going to need you to Well, this one and the this, this one, though I'm gonna need you to to well, this one and the next one I'm gonna need you to participate in, okay so buckner then went on to criticize our president, president joe biden, who is in who is a?
Speaker 3:catholic oh my god. And another. And he went on to also criticize another unnamed catholic leaders, and he did this by saying in a quote, for pushing dangerous gender ideologies onto the youth of america, this being an apparent reference to the transgender rights. He then criticized biden for proclaiming his catholic faith while being, and I quote oh my god, please stop saying, and I quote I have to, delusional enough to make the sign of the cross during a prohibition rally.
Speaker 3:He then accused the president, making it appear that you can, and I quote be both Catholic and pro-choice. How wonderful.
Speaker 1:I mean. I think my favorite, though, with going in with that is the fact that he encourages graduates to have Catholic pride but not the deadly sin sort of pride.
Speaker 3:Gotta that you, you gotta wait. You missed my whole thing in a swipe at the lgbtq community. That is when buckner encouraged graduates to have catholic pride, but, and I quote, not the deadly sin sort of pride that has an entire month dedicated to it.
Speaker 1:So literally what I was in the process of saying.
Speaker 3:But come on, don't take away my buzz. I worked hard on this thing. Thank you very much by God.
Speaker 1:I don't know what your cat is on today.
Speaker 3:She's just laying there, Bubba. Then what is all these?
Speaker 1:random noises I'm hearing. Oh, it's you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I hit Gia's tapple game underneath the thing. Oh, that's what it is.
Speaker 1:I don't know. The whole point, in my opinion, to have these forms of commencement speeches is to motivate and congratulate. And I'm like, it just seemed, I don't know, I don't know, I can't. I have yet to process and be able to explain my feelings on how and what this is, because all he's doing is creating division and controversy.
Speaker 3:And it just gets worse. Are you ready for the worst?
Speaker 1:Go for it.
Speaker 3:So Buckner has also likely become the first person in history to quote a Taylor Swift song while criticizing Catholic priests for catering too much to their feelings of partitioners or parish parishioners parishioners, am I saying that word right?
Speaker 1:I don't know, I'm not Catholic.
Speaker 3:I am parish parishioners are you ready for what he said?
Speaker 1:is that? If there's a nun out here listening, can you please let us know?
Speaker 3:I don't think nuns are allowed to listen to things like this are you?
Speaker 1:can we ask people to join us for next week because we have a nun as a special guest? Will you stop before the catholic church comes for us? We don't have ed and lorraine warrant to protect us, okay we'll find him now.
Speaker 3:Would you like me to tell you what he decided to say?
Speaker 1:tell me.
Speaker 3:You're gonna tell me anyways, so tell me and I quote as my teammates girlfriend says, familiarity breeds contempt. Buckner said at one point, quoting swift's song bejeweled. He referenced to us to miss swift, a childless, unmarried superstar and a feminist figure who, by buckner's own definition, is not living up to her potential, which, as we all know, has prompted an additional outcry. Now this comes as the news of Buckner's net worth being only five million dollars, while Miss Swift love that girl. She sits very comfortably at 1.1 billion, which is just coming from her music sales alone. This obviously didn't sit well with many people that Buckner invoked Swift, the pop star who is dating Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelsey and who has become a frequent sight at the Chiefs games this past season, including the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1:Why are you going to bring Taylor Swift into this?
Speaker 3:Because he's an idiot. Like it's not, like it's not, it's not. I mean, is this man literally trying?
Speaker 1:to end his career right now has to be right. I mean, I will say this, and it's an unpopular opinion, but everyone is entitled to their opinions, absolutely.
Speaker 3:But I'm like my guy do you have to go in front of 485 people who have worked four years, if not longer?
Speaker 1:do you wonder if this is a like right on the coat, tails of pot like like? You know how someone goes viral on tiktok, like, uh, the chick-fil-a girl, no chick-fil-a sauce.
Speaker 3:And people are sorry. What?
Speaker 1:hold on, just just listen or the guy that went viral. No, no, shh, this is my time okay, listen to me.
Speaker 3:Okay, I'm listening to you.
Speaker 1:So no chick-fil-a sauce. Lemonade girl like she becomes super popular okay and now she's just out here living her life. I'm just using her as an example, because she came up on my stuff today and people are like she's just posting on her tiktok, just normal, and people are like, wow, really trying to ride that coattail, really trying to like milk? Your part of me is like is this man literally trying to cause a stir, just so his name is brought up and he's talked about and he's popular again? Does he think that this is?
Speaker 3:going to get him some kind of brand deal with Nike. He was never popular. Like he's never been popular. Well, I know, that's what I'm saying. Do you know how bad of a kicker he is?
Speaker 1:Do you think that this is his? He saw this as his chance to cause a stir. So now, when people talk about the Kansas City Chiefs, it's not Taylor Swift and Travis, it's this guy.
Speaker 3:I mean.
Speaker 1:I don't even remember because I don't harris buckner, harris butt kicker correct now here's.
Speaker 3:Here's my favorite part now. I'm sure you all are wondering exactly what the people and by the people we mean the nfl has said to all of this oh, oh, oh, can I? Go ahead, okay, if you don't say and I quote, though I will not say, and I quote, because that's no but you have to give jonathan bean the recognition he deserves okay thank you so the nfl has had this to say uh, they issued a statement wednesday saying that buckner's comments do not reflect the views of the league.
Speaker 1:Harrison Buckner gave a speech in his personal capacity. His views are not those of the NFL as an organization said Senior Vice President Jonathan Bean, the league's chief diversity and inclusion officer.
Speaker 1:He then went on to say that the nfl is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger. So he's pissed off the nfl. Uh, probably gonna cause the nfl a ton of money, because when when people go out and they say things and they do things like this and they're representing brands and they're essentially being ambassadors, you can't just go off on a hinge like that. Dolly parton said it best she's only remained as popular and as famous as she has because she's kept her mouth shut. Do you know?
Speaker 3:what my favorite part about all of this is what do you know the reason why a whole bunch of women started watching football last year? Taylor swift, because taylor swift, as many of you guys that are going to come after me and you're going to say all these things and you're going to strongly disagree you can't, because they literally have statistics that have shown that that is a very true statement.
Speaker 2:Well, it is.
Speaker 3:Women started watching because Taylor Swift is an influential person right now.
Speaker 1:She is everywhere and people lost their minds about it and when you sat down and you did the math taylor was on screen less than one minute. We talked about it in our super bowl.
Speaker 3:Go listen to our super bowl um podcast episode, please. Thank you, yeah, but we watched it because we wanted to see if she was going to be on tv. We wanted to see how cute it was. It was finally a moment where she has been all the men that she has dated, all the songs she have written about them. She has never, she hasn't done that so far with him. They they're not fighting, they're not, they're not broken up. We love it. We're here for it.
Speaker 3:We stay on taylor and that creates a huge economic impact for the nfl, for because women are now streaming services foring services.
Speaker 1:For merchandise Correct.
Speaker 3:It's a thing, it's become a thing, and now you have a kicker for the same team that Taylor Swift is a part of. Now she's dating a man that is an active player for this team, and you're telling all of these women that our lives won't be.
Speaker 1:They don't, they don't take off until we we become wives and mothers, and I'm sure, and I'm sure this is going to cause uh, this is going to cause a downtick in viewership, um, even in the male audience, because there are going to be men that are fans of the kansas city chiefs and that are fans of them that aren't going to agree with this statement and it's going to cause people to leave, and I love there's going to be some slut people out there, maybe even those that are listening to our podcast today, that are going to say that they agree with this man and that what is it?
Speaker 1:travis kelsey's younger brother older brother he did a commencement speech where he chugged a beer and told people to go out and party yep, which is not responsible. But people are now saying, oh, in a world of klein's or in world of kelsey's, be a buckner and I'm just like but you shouldn't be a bigot.
Speaker 3:That's what you want to be. Now here, I I you know. I also feel like, though we're saying a lot of these things about women right now, but I have to kind of take a pause and I also kind of have to talk about what he said about the LGBTQ community, that that is very messed up, and I'm not saying this because we you are my best friend and I love you.
Speaker 3:I'm bestie and I love who you are and I support you no matter what, and I have quite a few of my very closest friends that are members of the lgbtq community and I love and support them. But this was messed up like for you to add the as somebody who was born and raised catholic, for you to add the catholic church into this when the catholic church is going when the catholic church has been the most accepting of the lgbtq plus community, which I find funny.
Speaker 1:It's a thing it's always going to exist because people always well, no people, no people just always want to have an issue with something and they want to point the fact that their religion is the reason that no one else can live their life how they want to. Well, I got newsflash for you I'm not a fucking catholic. Therefore, I am not gonna live my life.
Speaker 3:Are we saying swear words in this episode today?
Speaker 1:Yeah, this one's getting the inappropriate tag. No, I'm not Catholic, I'm not going to live my life like a Catholic. Now am I saying that there? I am not saying that there are not bad, there are rephrase.
Speaker 3:Drink a Stanley, let's talk.
Speaker 1:There are gay people out there that I wish I could banish to an island.
Speaker 3:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Because they do things that are inappropriate, that are foul, that are disgusting. But I promise you right now, if you get online and you go to a porn hub dot com and you type in the nastiest, most disgusting foul topic that you want to, you can find that in the straight category as well.
Speaker 3:No, I don't disagree with you. There are a whole bunch of straight people that I would like to banish to the underworlds, but you don't say those things. You don't add the Catholic Church into this, that's not okay, that's not cool okay considering how the pope is cool with it correct dude. Our pope is dope. I'm sorry a dope pope. I love our pope. He's dope, uh, you're not catholic.
Speaker 1:I am catholic, I was born and I was born and correct.
Speaker 3:I have been baptized, I've had confession, I've had communion, I've done the whole shebang.
Speaker 2:I'm a born and raised Catholic.
Speaker 1:Anywho, it's gross.
Speaker 3:Anyways. So the NFL, though, wasn't the only ones that clapped back at this, and I'm really glad they weren't.
Speaker 1:Wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 3:Do you want to do this one too?
Speaker 2:We're clapping back. I love it.
Speaker 1:So the G-L-A-A-D or GLAAD.
Speaker 3:I was so hoping you were going to do that. You're welcome, thank you.
Speaker 1:Or the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, also issued a statement calling Buckner's speech a clear miss and woefully out of step with Americans about pride, lgbtqq people and women. Um, and I agree with that statement. I I just I don't know, I'm gonna ramble in just so many random directions I feel like his speech could make us ramble in different directions yeah, it just. It's just so. I don't even know how to explain it, I'm just.
Speaker 1:There was no cohesion to it it was just all over the place and random and it's like he went into this commencement speech just wanting to attack people and places and things I just wonder if somebody read this and before you know how like can we, can we?
Speaker 1:can we, can we? Can we discuss how? Um on posts on reddit and on social media things that I'm seeing around. He came so hard for the lgbtq plus community. I did um, but there are people that he went to college with that are speaking out saying that he used to have sexual relations with female cheerleaders yes, at that school, and there are people that have proof of this.
Speaker 3:Now there have been photos, there are videos that are circulating social media right now, obviously all of which seem to have been taken down, but they're still there. So so, mr buckner, you got, I got some questions. This, this just just, it's so messed up, like this whole thing is so messed up. I just I, I can't, I can't, but you know what I'm really happy about what glad and the nfl were not the only people that issued a statement. Do you want to know my favorite people that issued a statement?
Speaker 3:tell me are you ready? So my favorite people had some strong things to say about buckner's speech and, oh guess what? They were women and Taylor Swift fans. They have made their feelings plainly known, including the sisters of Mount St Scully. I'm gonna butcher this. I do apologize. Mount St Scully, isca, do you see that? I am looking at different notes right now okay, I need you to look at my notes first.
Speaker 1:Okay, let me go back. Let me go back.
Speaker 3:Hurry, please, hurry, please, hurry. Mount St Scholastica, scholastica.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's spelled Scholastica, which that might actually be how it's pronounced, but I've learned that Fatima and Fatima are two different words. Yeah, when it comes to the Catholic Church. So we're going to go with Scholastica.
Speaker 3:Monastery no-transcript.
Speaker 2:I need and I'm looking at you for dramatic event.
Speaker 3:Now, the sisters of this don't look at me.
Speaker 1:I'm not our listeners, I'm looking at our listeners.
Speaker 3:I looked at you through your souls. Now, the sisters of Mount Saint Selastica do not believe that Harrison Buckner's comments in his 2024 college commencement address represented the catholic benedine liberal arts college that our founders envision and in which we have been so invested. They sent in a statement. Instead of promoting unity in our church, our nation and the world, his comments seem to have fostered division. And here comes my favorite responses. Yet Are you ready? Now? Such pushback could keep Buckner's social media feeds clogged with criticism for the foreseeable future. It could also be an optical problem for the NFL and the Chiefs, who have both enjoyed the increased support from female fans in the past year, which is what we spoke on earlier. But the speech was largely criticized on social media and has now promoted a Changeorg petition calling for him to be released from the Chiefs. I just have to ask you a question.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:Do you have any guess who started this, that petition?
Speaker 1:Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3:Swifties, which is Taylor Swift's fan group. That's what they call. That's what we call ourselves.
Speaker 1:I feel like this is going to cause controversy on her end now.
Speaker 3:Why is it going to cause controversy? Well, he started it. You came in quoting a Taylor Swift song, a bejeweled, by the way, very good song. So, miss Swift, if you're listening to me, I'm a really, really big fan and I love you. But come on. So looking on TikTok yeah.
Speaker 1:The video and the profile that made the accusations that Buckner hooked up with a male cheerleader at Georgia Tech have been taken down.
Speaker 3:Of course they have.
Speaker 1:The profile is gone.
Speaker 3:Of course it is.
Speaker 1:So I can't even find what the screen name was. Sorry guys, we're doing this on the couch and I'm sitting in the uncomfy spot. My back hurts because I'm an old man.
Speaker 3:I'm shaking because I'm freezing, so it's fine.
Speaker 1:Really, my back hurts because I'm an old man, I'm shaking because I'm freezing, so it's fine. But yeah, the video received over 514,000 likes and nearly 9,000 comments before it was taken down.
Speaker 3:Jeez, oh Pete's hey, speaking of TikTok, though would you like.
Speaker 1:I love that Tick-tack-toe. Oh God, what is that? I don't know. No, the lady, the, the lady she was the speaker of the house or whatever, nancy pelosi what about nancy when she? Was doing something about tiktok recently and she was like she was like we're gonna tiktok or tiktok, tiktok toe, and I was just like this is why old people shouldn't be making laws about social media speaking of tiktok, though, would you like to to know what my favorite response to this speech came from and what was?
Speaker 3:and I put it on my my personal social media page, so if you follow me there, you probably already got this. It came from a tiktok creator that goes by the handle of at in the improv guy, and he said the best thing I have ever heard from this, are you?
Speaker 1:ready, go for it.
Speaker 3:Imagine being a professional football creator whose job is to play less than 20 seconds per football game, which comes out to be less than six minutes per season, which, over a 10-year career, is less than one hour of actually doing your job and thinking to yourself. I'm an important person who does an important thing, so important, in fact, that I need to tell a room full of women about to enter the workforce that their job is to have babies, and they're the ones who had the diabolical lies told to them.
Speaker 1:Hmm, you know what he also said? Um, he told the men of the graduating class to be unapologetic in your masculinity and to do hard things. What?
Speaker 3:the hell to do hard things do you have to do it, wait, wait, as, as a male in the male population, what's a hard thing for you?
Speaker 1:Dilling with women.
Speaker 3:And that's coming from a not straight man.
Speaker 1:No, I'm just kidding. Dilling with you mostly Rude.
Speaker 3:I mean, you're not wrong, though I am very difficult to deal with. Answer me that question though. Seriously, what is a hard thing that you, only you, men, as the male population, only you, has not pertaining anything to me as a woman?
Speaker 1:I'm going to be serious.
Speaker 3:What is a hard?
Speaker 1:Oh she's going to talk? That's not a question that you can ask me, because Buckner will then turn around and look at you in your face and be like you can't ask him that because he's a gay man.
Speaker 3:Okay, pretend you're straight. What's a hard thing that a man has to do?
Speaker 1:Oh, the hard thing is. I got to work nine to five in my blue collar job. So I work nine to five, making poor wages to provide for my wife who's not working because she's at home, because I don't want her to work.
Speaker 3:Because I want to use her as a baby making factory. So we're going to have a mediocre life.
Speaker 1:I really wonder if this would be his opinion if he wouldn't be playing college football and making a decent amount of money right now.
Speaker 3:He only makes five million. You don't make a decent amount of money.
Speaker 1:That's more decent than what I'm making.
Speaker 3:In all seriousness though, yes, your speech was trash. Yes, I don't agree with any of the things you said, but he is actually a very horrible football kicker.
Speaker 1:Here comes my question.
Speaker 3:Go ahead.
Speaker 1:So he just came after Travisvis kelsey's girl.
Speaker 3:Yes, he didn't even say, you know, and my favorite part of that, in that whole little blurb, he didn't even say her name, he said my teammates, girlfriend yeah.
Speaker 1:So here's my question how? Dare you are the rest of these kansas city chiefs getting ready to beat the shit out of him in a locker room because I would pay a lot of money to watch that god, can you imagine Patrick Mahomes doing that? Like do you do you think he's gonna recover from this? Do you think he's gonna remain in football? No, I.
Speaker 3:I think this is a career-ending speech. I hope it was worth it for you.
Speaker 1:I hope that cancel culture is over, so we'll see how this goes.
Speaker 3:I mean there's an entire petition right now asking for him people signing it. I have signed that petition.
Speaker 1:But see, this is when. To have him removed from a football team, but this is when the NFL is going to get caught in a catch 2020.
Speaker 3:They got to figure it out.
Speaker 1:Because they can. Let's see, here's the thing. They can do that, and then he could probably counter Sue, whatever then I hope he does um, because if the nfl gets rid of him, they are getting rid of him and it would be. It'll be a no no, it'll be a violation of his first amendment. Right, great, screw you. Right, you suck. But here's my thing. He said it. You got the right to free speech, but that doesn't mean that there's not repercussions for it yeah, I, just I, I'm.
Speaker 3:I'm so baffled in the idea that I I just want to know how we got here. How did as, as as a woman, how did we get here like a year and a half ago? I have congress all up in my uterus deciding whether or not I'm allowed to have an abortion or not.
Speaker 1:Oh, the pandemic happened and everyone decided let's revert back 50 years.
Speaker 3:Thank you, so much, guys, let's just set the time back 50 years and see if that fixes everything. Thank you so much Like it's hard enough, as it is being a woman in this day and age, because not only do I have to work 17 times harder than you, I will make girl you salary. I still will make 17,000 less than you, and it don't matter if I'm more qualified than you or not can confirm you make more than 17,000 more than I do no, I only make $5 an hour no $8.
Speaker 3:Welcome to Gideon's no, gideon's was $8. Welcome to Gideon's. No, gideon's was $8. I make less than Gideon's. No, I just I can't. I can't, I like how. How did we get to this moment in time that this is something that we are allowed to say out loud? How did, how did, did? Then I have another question, though a very okay, I don't know if this is this is a valid question, but I'm gonna ask the question anyways. Are you ready?
Speaker 1:every question is a valid question yes, but I don't.
Speaker 3:I don't know if this one's holds any gratuity here, so my brain hurts. Be quiet when you get asked to speak at a college. Do you think somebody should read these speeches?
Speaker 3:oh, I'm sure someone did who the heck decided that this was an okay speech to be read, unless this man sent them another speech. They went woohoo, go college. You guys are great, drink a beer, come on. I just I, I, how, how did we sit here and think that this was an okay thing for him to to? Can you like? I'm just wrapping my head around this, okay, and you know what I? What I'm thinking back to is I'm thinking back to these television movies where that couple sits in their bed while the wife is putting on her hand lotion and her husband is trying to love lucy at any of these things, right?
Speaker 3:and they're sitting in bed. Can you imagine harrison sitting in bed with his wife isabel that's his wife's name. Can you imagine the two of them sitting in bed? She's applying her her hand cream and he's typing up this, this speech, and she just goes. You know what, honey, as a wife and a baby making machine, I support you. You gotta be kidding, right I mean like isabel you a woman too?
Speaker 3:how do you not think that this is not cool? Like if, if, if there's ever a moment I have very strongly decided that I will not be getting married so sorry, shan, but like if there's ever a moment that my brain decides to change that right and I decide to become a wife. If my husband ever decided that he was going to have some sort of thought process, that this is an okay thing to even say in front of my friends, our friends oh my God, I divorced you in a heartbeat. And then I'd hire them people in the white coats to come get you, put you in a padded room. Why? Thank you.
Speaker 2:You're welcome.
Speaker 3:I just don't understand. I really I really don't. I think this that's why this was so easy for me to be so passionate about this was because this is obviously something that, as a woman, we go through in society quite often. It is a very well-known fact that that we, on a day and age, get, get passed along and pass by for for men that believe that they can do the job better than we can, or that we're not as qualified or we're not as capable of doing it, because we have feelings and periods and boobs. But like, come on and you know what my favorite thing has been? There's been so many women through through. Obviously the fbi agent that was listening to my phone has been very well aware that this is how I feel.
Speaker 1:So no, no, no. Your. Your fbi agent is clearly a man. It couldn't be a woman yeah, there's no way.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, it might be a woman this week.
Speaker 1:No, no no no, it's probably a man no, because you know she listened yeah she.
Speaker 3:She thought she wanted to be an fbi agent, but she heard his speech and now she's a baby maker now she's just decided to be a baby maker correct because it's not like we don't have enough of those babies out there. No, because we've been told so many diabolical lies, but my TikTok feed has been so many women that have been clapping back at him that have been like you know what I did at 18? I joined the military and then I saw one. She joined the military at 18. She got raped while she was in the service.
Speaker 1:And what the hell? He's over here, do hard things. He's over here kicking footballs for six minutes a season and you got women out here fighting for our rights to just not live in the streets.
Speaker 3:Well, this one was my favorite. She got she. She joined the military. She got raped, she had a baby. Then she decided that obviously her and her child needed to have a better future. So she went through college while she was serving the military, while she was a single mother, and she goes. But you have been told that.
Speaker 1:I've been told diabolical lies well, no, you, but you want to know what he said there's you know what he'd say to her you don't need to go to college, you just need to find you a man correct?
Speaker 3:I don't think so. I don't think so that that, oh I, I hate that. That, oh I, I hate that, I hate that phrase. You know what else I really hate?
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 3:The idea that, as women, we're not allowed to make more than our husbands, that that is a frowned upon societal norm.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, it wasn't that long ago, that that wasn't.
Speaker 3:It didn't used to be.
Speaker 1:Like it.
Speaker 3:It wasn't that long ago that that wasn't.
Speaker 1:It didn't used to be Nobody cared. Well, no, but I'm saying it wasn't that long ago that that was a bigger issue.
Speaker 3:Correct.
Speaker 1:I mean yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, because Congress decided to plant one inside my uterus. Oh well, yeah, I just Do. We want to end on a happier note.
Speaker 1:What kind of happy note would you?
Speaker 3:like to talk about um. Do you have anything you would like to add as um?
Speaker 2:I mean to be like I ranted pretty hard there. I feel like I support I.
Speaker 1:I want to support women. I I don't like football. I hate football um, I don't care about this man. I never cared about this man. I still don't care about this man. He can say what he wants to about me or whatever, but I know that if and when I go out to a pride event, I'm literally going to that event to just celebrate that I am able to be me and walk down these streets without the fear of being arrested like it was not so many years ago correct and I know that there are people out there that are to be married
Speaker 1:yeah, um, and I just, he has no power over me. I'm not gonna sign a petition to get him kicked out of the nfl because I don't care, I don't know, I support you ladies out there.
Speaker 1:I support the lgbtq community. If you want to go for him, go for him. He is not worth my time in the day because we, right here right now, we are doing exactly what he's hoping for. He's getting a full hour long episode about him actually it's probably like 30 minutes because he has invoked these emotions in all of these people and now he is probably surged to a worldwide name. Nobody I didn't even know he existed until. The first thing I heard about was this man who made a commencement speech about gay people and slept with a man in college.
Speaker 3:But I I we're going to counterdict yourself, my guy Like I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1:But yeah, that's my opinion on that Um anything else you want to add? Not on that subject.
Speaker 3:You got a new subject you want to talk about.
Speaker 1:Uh, it's not really a new subject, but two things I think are worth a fun mention and a way for us to end on a fun note.
Speaker 3:Before we start this, thank you so much for for everybody who's made it this far and you've listened to, to the rants and our opinions and our our thoughts on this speech. I know this was not an episode I'm sure a lot of you were planning on listening to, especially coming down from Tiana's Bayou, adventure and Disney.
Speaker 1:Days Girl Tiana took a tumble right into this.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she did. But I just want to say thank you for those that listened to this, because this was something that you and I discussed whether or not this was going to be something we were going to talk about, because it is such a controversial speech and it is such a controversial topic on on whether or not we wanted to take even a voice in this. But I'm just glad we did. I'm glad I really do. I feel like a woman in power who's been vindicated not really, but thanks.
Speaker 1:When you said vindicated, all I could think of was that Southern male going Prince Navid.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna be a married woman.
Speaker 3:All right, give me a happy note go.
Speaker 1:Well, it's not really a happy note for you.
Speaker 3:Why not for me, but more for Julia and other people? Oh yes, please for you. Why not for me, but more for julia and other?
Speaker 1:people. Oh yes, please. So universal studios has super popular on twitter universal studios florida um, but almost as popular as their twitter is their alt account, as I like to call it.
Speaker 3:Halloween horror nights this is a sub tiktok, uh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:A sub twitter account and their handle is horror nights o r l orlando, um. But we have gotten two, three new excitement. Oh well, the third one came out today, but I don't know what it is. Uh, two new exciting things, then there's just two no babe oh yeah, three, three, you're right, yep, yep. So earlier this week we were told it is almost that time. Houses are starting to come out. We're starting to get the names. We have three out of the ten houses confirmed.
Speaker 3:Go ahead and give them to me.
Speaker 1:Slaughter Cinema 2.
Speaker 3:Which is.
Speaker 1:If you're dying for a B-movie horror marathon, head to the Kearney Drive-In. Scream through scenes from Creature Features, grindhouse, gore, spaghetti, westerns and more. Oh my god.
Speaker 3:What's number two?
Speaker 1:This one. I'm really excited about Goblin's Feast. Oh god, it says welcome to the Goblin's Feast Tavern and visit the Goblin Village, where a lavish feast is being prepared for goblins, orcs, hobgoblins and witches, and you're the main course. Ew, I know, I'm so excited. This one, which is currently my contender for, hopefully my favorite house, major Sweets Candy Factory.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:It says you've been invited to chaperone a field trip to the candy factory. The deadly delicious treats turns kit, turns the kids into sugar fueled fiends. I wonder if they're gonna have uh little people running around in there children children. I'm so excited for that, though I'm really, I'm really not excited I think you'll be all right, I'm really not excited.
Speaker 3:I'm so scared it's not even funny like I'm so nervous for it and every like all, all of our friends are just like oh my god, you're gonna enjoy, you're gonna have so much fun, you're gonna love it. Oh my god, we'll put you in the middle. I just I'm so scared, dude. I'm so terrified, like, the idea of doing this with y'all. And the only reason I'm doing it is because it is julia's 21st birthday. Like that is her present. I am literally going in a hall.
Speaker 1:You do realize that these scare actors are just like I know our coaster ethusies, like your brother who get a?
Speaker 3:job they ain't even doing it. You know what they are they're mardi gras float wavers yeah that's how beats to me during mardi gras, I know daytime he's shrek, nighttime he's an ogre.
Speaker 1:I'm not, I'm just so nervous.
Speaker 3:But you know what I am really really excited for. I want to know what I am really really excited for. I want to know what kind of IP houses we're going to get this year. Did I use that term right? Yes, ip, yeah, I want to see like a potential five nights at Freddy's house. I want to see the what's the other one. I'm drawing a blank. I have to see see the what's the other one. I'm drawing a blank.
Speaker 1:I have to sneeze did you have a good sneeze? I did.
Speaker 3:Thank you, I'm so sorry, listen, I sneeze very loudly and I would have bursted out an eardrum. I want to see Ghostbusters, I want to see something like that. I want to see, like I. Really I thought it was cool that they did a Beetlejuice house a couple years ago.
Speaker 1:I loved it, do you? Know, so I do not get scared when I go to these houses and um.
Speaker 3:Well, I feel like you shouldn't.
Speaker 1:Yeah and um, I was. We were in a house. We went through the door. You go through the door and then you turn right. Well, I had you turn right. Well, I had turned. This is the beetlejuice house, right? Yep, I had turned my back all the way around and I was looking at my friend claire and I was like, oh my god, this is so amazing. And I turn around.
Speaker 1:And this was when covid was still a thing, so they had, like all the plastic shower curtains hanging up yeah there was a plastic shower curtain behind me and I knew it was there and I turn around and as I turn around, the scare actor, who was lydia deets get out had her face up against the plastic and she's wearing a silicone face mask that looks like an actual face, so it looked like it had lips and stuff on it so she could be in character without having to have on a medical mask right and she pressed her little step paddle that made her noise go off.
Speaker 1:So the light turns on and I turn around and she's literally inches from my face because she's on the other side of the shower curtain and the line that came out is I myself am strange and unusual, and when I tell you I was on the floor not because she scared me, like oh my god, that's a scary noise.
Speaker 3:I turned around and she was right there I would have pissed my pants right then and there I'd have been like yep, bye-bye. I'm going back out the way I can have a great day. Goodbye and it was fun and I loved it see, but that's my fear, that that is my fear because covid is not a thing anymore.
Speaker 1:I just, I don't know you'll be all right I'm just.
Speaker 3:I'm also really excited to see what kind of scare zones that we get this year, because it was really sad that I didn't get to participate in last year and finding my uh horoscope because I'm a big, obviously I have my leo tattooed on my leg. I'm a massive, I love the fact that I'm a leo and I thought it was so cool that people were finding their horoscopes and I couldn't participate in that was the.
Speaker 3:Thing yeah, yeah, because they had a scare zone that was all about your different horoscopes, so you had to go and find yours. Because Dr Oddfellow- we did. Yeah, yeah, that was last year's.
Speaker 1:I don't recall that yeah, it was over.
Speaker 3:As far as I know, based on the pictures, it was over there by Bourne and that same concept where the tribute store is in that land. That's right there those were aliens.
Speaker 2:No, babe yeah, babe, no, they had, I was there yes, I'm telling you, but they had the horoscope oh I know dr odd fellow was present in every single scare zone yeah, I thought that was crazy.
Speaker 3:Hang on crazy. I can't spell, this is rude and my mic is so dark.
Speaker 1:Zodiac oh yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you're right okay yeah, and then you had to go and find your the dark zodiac was. It was one of the two scare zones that featured at halloween horror nights 10, uh, or not 10, I'm sorry I'm looking at the wrong one, but dark zodiac was what it was called. Wrong thing here we go there it is um nights 32. They did. Singapore had a hallow Nights 10. My apologies.
Speaker 3:Oh good for them. This is located in Hollywood, so it was supposed to be where the scare zone would tie into the event icon, dr Oddfellow, as each of the twisted and disordered Zodiac sign characters were created by him after he harnessed their powers and took over their dimensions.
Speaker 1:Oh, interesting.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:Well, it is two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3:It is. Oh my God, it is Good night. Love you guys, it's been a blast.
Speaker 1:Have fun, guys. Don't know what we're going to talk about next week, but we'll see you next Wednesday.
Speaker 2:Bye.
Speaker 1:Just kidding. Until next time, guys, stay safe, stay educated.
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Speaker 1:Jesus Christ, are you having a stroke?
Speaker 3:It's two o'clock in the morning. All right, guys, have a good night. Love you all. Bye.