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Orlando Unplugged: Life In Living Color
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Orlando Unplugged: Life In Living Color
Unplugging The Need for a Straight Pride Month?
Dustin & Ashley give you their weekly life updates including registering a car in the state of Florida (with taxes and fees) and then dive into a controversial topic. They discuss a bar in Idaho that is making waves as they have proclaimed June "Heterosexual awesomeness month."
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Need some links
Aldi's Zarita Margarita Wine Cocktail: https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/aldi-wine-based-margaritas/
Website: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2297840/share
Knox Pride: https://www.knoxpride.com/
Stand in Pride: https://standinpride.org/
Orlando Pride: https://comeoutwithpride.org/
Rose Dynasty Center: https://www.rosedynastyfoundationinc.org/rosedynastycenter/
Knoxpride Podcast (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/show/1KXqQwZZDElmShnSvAkFGm
South Press Coffee: https://southpressknox.com/
Old State Saloon Article (WVLT) : https://www.wvlt.tv/video/2024/06/06/bar-names-june-heterosexual-awesomeness-month-gives-free-beer-straight-men/?outputType=amp
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Speaker 3:Hello Ashley, hello Dustin. You're listening to Orlando, unplugged, celebrating life in living color with Dustin and Ashley. Grab a cocktail or a mocktail and let's get unplugged.
Speaker 1:Orlando what is up? Unplugged fam. I'm dustin and I'm ashley, and welcome back to episode 22 of orlando unplugged podcast. That was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:I know I'm pretty proud of us we've done well 22, 22.
Speaker 1:You know what this is, what this is the taylor swift no episode no I don't know about you, but I'm feeling 22 why don't you go ahead and tell everyone, ashley, what kind of cocktails we're having today, because clearly you have been drinking I've only had two sips, but 13, 13.9 apvs got me feeling something um.
Speaker 2:So today we are sipping on zarita, that's what I'm calling it. Uh, it's an aldi brand, so we're bougieing it on a budget.
Speaker 1:It's a strawberry margarita wine cocktail and I have these fancy I will be posting photos of them these fancy little plastic margarita glasses and it's I mean it's delicious, so I like a good margarita, but I wanted something to drink, like when we're doing podcasts and just doing stuff, and I saw this same thing at Trader Joe's a long time ago and we got it, and Julie and I love it.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:But we just found this one a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2:I'm a big fan of this one. I like this one. This one's very, very nice.
Speaker 1:And it's what percent alcohol 13.9.
Speaker 2:13, this one's very, very nice, and it's what percent alcohol 13.9 13.9.
Speaker 1:Kids 100% de gave de gave.
Speaker 2:I don't know what wine is. I have no idea.
Speaker 1:I know what a gave is, but I don't know what de gave is it doesn't taste like, um, I mean, it doesn't taste like a, like a wine cocktail, it tastes like an actual margarita, but I don't think there's any tequila in it at all, is there?
Speaker 2:I don't believe. So the instructions it doesn't say.
Speaker 1:The instructions say pour over ice and enjoy.
Speaker 2:Which we are Pouring over ice and enjoying in my very festive colorful. Do you know what? I just realized? What my cups are colorful because it's Pride Month. Oh my God, oh my God. Look, ashley Ally back at it again.
Speaker 1:You want to tell me about some homophobia that I experienced this week I would love for you to tell me about.
Speaker 2:Do I need to beat some people? I?
Speaker 1:went to the Orange County tax collector's office this week.
Speaker 2:I love that for you. I had an appointment to get my Florida tags.
Speaker 1:Well, I did it all ahead of time. I did all my research. Wow, you're such an adult. Well, hold on, here's where it gets messed up. So $233, because I do not have a state of Florida license plate, so I had to pay for the plate. So it's gonna be $233. And then it said you had the option of a one year or two year registration. Obviously you pick two. Well, I didn't have that option. Why?
Speaker 2:So you know, in total, why didn't you I don't know what that I got a build to it? Did you hear me ask you why, though? That was a weird why, so why, honey?
Speaker 1:and this is why our episodes are two hours long um so anywho, so I get up there the woman is she kind of nice, but she's also kind of rude. Um, this whole time that our interaction's going on, there's an interaction going on beside us of a girl trying to get a floor to something another, and then her, her, I'm gonna call him baby daddy. I don't know who he was.
Speaker 1:Must have been a boyfriend dead but he was over at a different place and then he just walks over and pretty much stands on top of me I love that for you. It's just cussing and yelling and being hateful and the girlfriend's like what's wrong? And she's like they canceling my appointment and canceling my driver's license because I got tickets and they won't let me update my license. And then the man was like that was helping the girl. When she finished, when he finished helping the girl, started helping the man and he was like well, sir, you have this ticket.
Speaker 1:And he goes how do I have a ticket? And well, sir, the ticket was from 2020 for. And then I didn't hear what he said, what it was pertaining to, and the man goes dude, how the hell am I supposed to have a ticket? I was in prison in 2020. And I, and it was just one of those things that me and the woman behind the counter both locked eyes with each other Cause we both heard it and here for my florida tags.
Speaker 2:I'm here for my florida tags and this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I can never be a government employee and it was just.
Speaker 1:It was funny. But anywho, back to the real story here, the real homophobia um give it to me I get my total, and I'm expecting my total to be like 300 dollars, sure a little over 300, sure, and she goes. Okay. Your total today is 389.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, and I was like, oh okay, well, I guess that's just the two. I guess she gave me the two-year one, right? Well then, she pulls out a license plate and she smacks a sticker on it, a sticker that expires 10 2024, that's this year. That's my birthday month, it is, and I said, excuse me, I said this was like a hundred dollars more than it was supposed to be.
Speaker 1:And she goes oh, taxes and fees. And I said, okay, well, can you explain to me why it expires in like six months? And she said, oh, you've been a Florida resident for less than a year and you're trying to transfer a car from out of state. So the policy is that your registration will go until midnight on your birthday and then you can apply for a one to two year registration. So I paid four hundred dollars for a five, six month registration to turn around, have to pay four hundred dollars again?
Speaker 1:and well, no, I don't have to pay the 50 or seven, or it's like 30 or 70 dollars, depending on the but I was just like though in my head I was just like well, that's homophobia, and also far more than I had budgeted for see in this, and everybody asked me why it is that I don't have a vehicle.
Speaker 2:This right here is why I don't have a vehicle.
Speaker 1:Oh, there's more homophobia. Lay it on me. Well, do you remember how, in last week's episode, we talked about unplugging our finances in Orlando? Yes, I remember that episode we made the finance gods of Orlando angry because I get almost the way home. I get to the last red light before my house and I stop and there's a homeless man sitting on the side with a big sign and I didn't see him until I turned and I looked over and he did the full eye contact, he did the nod head and he waved I am.
Speaker 1:I am a sucker yeah, you are to be a decent human being. So of course I wave back and then I immediately look forward and I'm just like don't make eye contact, you know, don't?
Speaker 2:do. Why would you wave kiddo?
Speaker 1:because, because he waved to me, he didn't approach my car he stayed, he stayed off. Okay but then I was like, do I have a couple dollars? Stop, I don't like to give people at. But he wasn't asking for, he was just chilling on the side of the road and like did the head nod thing? And I was like I can respect that because you're not like knocking on my car window you're not holding up a sign that says and then I was like I'm not going to.
Speaker 1:So then the light turns green, I apply the gas and suddenly the sound of what I thought was like a squirrel or something had crawled into my engine and was being crushed by moving gears and I was like what is that? So I let off the gas and it slows down, but it doesn't completely stop. And I'm like, well, there's cars. So I let off the gas and it slows down, but it doesn't completely stop. And I'm like well, there's cars behind me. I'm in the middle of the intersection, I've got to go. So I press the gas again and then I'm hearing this clunk, clunk, clunk.
Speaker 2:And I'm like, what is this noise? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, stop.
Speaker 1:Can you go back, friendship? So then I get to my house, uh-huh, and I turn my car off and I open my trunk, because my trunk is the hood of my car, like my engine, is under the trunk and I open it and I look in there and I'm like I see nothing wrong and I was like okay, I know I'm a gay, but like my dad has taught me decent car skills and decent man skills because you know, I can, I also as a gay man do hard things do you really?
Speaker 1:do so I got back in the car and I turned the car back on and then it just made this god awful noise and I go back and I look. What kind of noise it was. That noise again, but a lot faster.
Speaker 2:Can you give me that noise one more time? This is why our podcast goes so long.
Speaker 1:So then I realized it's the serpentine belt. Serpentine, serpentine serpentine, so do you know what a serpentine belt does on a car? No, I do not. It powers, it charges the alternator, or the alternator.
Speaker 2:See, I'm not a gay and I don't do hard things, so I don't know this.
Speaker 1:It charges the car. Okay, it works your electrical components. It works your air conditioning compressor. Wow, electrical components, it works your air conditioning compressor wow.
Speaker 2:And the engine, wow. When that dies join us next week as we decompress, we de-digest an entire car stop being homophobic.
Speaker 1:Let me tell the story.
Speaker 2:So then, I'm an ally. I cannot be homophobic, and then? So then I was like okay, so now?
Speaker 1:now it like fully disintegrates. Yes, so my car is now inoperable. Love that. So I go back into my house and cry I have about a hundred and something dollars left over from my, my second pay, cause I have two paychecks, right. So, um, this is my off week.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:So this was not a week that I was expecting to have to spend any additional money. So I was like, yeah, I got plenty of money left over. We did not. No, we did not. I couldn't take my car anywhere and I didn't want to pay a tow driver because that's expensive. So I got online and I did some researching and I found a company called AutoNation.
Speaker 1:AutoNation when it's essentially a mobile mechanic. They do brake pads, oil changes, serpentine belts, you know just certain little things. And I was able to get a quote that they would come to my house or to my location. They would replace the serpentine belt with the I call it. Delivery for to have like the technician drive to me is $20. The part obviously costs a lot more. So the original quote was 180 before before taxes and fees.
Speaker 1:Um, it ended up being 211, was the quote before he worked on the car, and then magically it became 228 when he was finished however, it was the most painless thing ever, minus the fact that the technician didn't meet the appointment time and came, ended up coming late, which was a big stressor, but I'm not going to get into that because they ended up coming and he was super. He was super great technician.
Speaker 2:10 out of 10, what's the company?
Speaker 1:again it's auto, nate uh auto, nation, mobile or auto 10 out of 10 auto nation. If you're listening to our podcast, we appreciate you well, technically, I did rate them an 8 out of 10 because I was upset that they didn't come. My original appointment time was 8am to 1pm and they didn't come until almost two. Um, it's auto nation mobile service, so check them out. Um, they do a lot of different things. Totally great, lots of fun.
Speaker 2:Love it Love it.
Speaker 1:Uh, how, how's your week been? Have you had any homophobic things?
Speaker 2:No, I'm a straight white woman. No, no, homophobic things have been happening to me. You know what I have been doing a lot lately, though Squats, I've been drinking a lot, yes, thank you. Thank you for noticing my butt is looking very well, thank you. No, you know what I have been doing, though.
Speaker 1:I've been drinking a lot of Sauvignon Blanc.
Speaker 2:I have been drinking a lot of Sauvignon Blanc, other wines, no, just sevillon. Well, a little bit of moscato. What else have you been doing? Working, I've been working. I've been doing a lot of working, a lot of working, a lot of working. And you know what else I've been doing? A lot of rutting, is that the word? Is that the right word for it? Like I've been just doing a lot of like in a rut, like you know, no like I've been like rotting rotting, I think that's the word.
Speaker 2:Like I've been like taking some time to like lay in my bed and not do anything. Like I've been just like listening to what my body needs. I've been sleeping a lot, but then also not sleeping a lot. I've been just like lazy, lazy, very lazy this week, like work-wise on top of my game, but like the minute I put that key inside my door and I'm home, the laziness kicks in I have times like that.
Speaker 1:I'll get into a rut and then it's like for a month I don't do anything.
Speaker 2:I'm in one of those right now, like I am in a rut like I'm dog sitting this week, so I'm not really I'm cat sitting this week. Yeah, I have geo's cat. Shout out to geo, for we love him love him so I have I have to geo's um cat cedric. That is who I'm babysitting this week well, week and a half, something like that. He's enjoying bonnaroo and theme parks and I'm very sad, but, um, because I want to be at those theme parks very badly, um, but yeah, so that's like all I've been doing cat sitting, working and being beyond lazy.
Speaker 2:That's literally about it. That's not homophobic at all. No, I told you, I haven't been doing Cutsitting, working and being beyond lazy. That's literally about it.
Speaker 1:That's not homophobic at all.
Speaker 2:No, I told you I haven't been doing anything other than being an out. You know what I have been doing, though. I have been looking at all of the merch that I cannot wait to buy in support of you.
Speaker 1:Awesome.
Speaker 2:Speaking of that. That's it guys. He just goes awesome, Awesome.
Speaker 1:Speaking of that, oh god, we're gonna do something a little differently today.
Speaker 2:I'm very nervous for this. I just want you to know that.
Speaker 1:So Ashley has absolutely zero clue what we're about to talk about None whatsoever.
Speaker 2:I got a text message today from you and you were like I know what we're gonna talk about on the podcast. Okay, cool, what are we gonna talk about?
Speaker 1:I can't tell you all right, what you ready? No, okay, let's go. All right, guys. So for today, um I need to start like deep breathing. I came across something interesting online and I wanted to go over it with you and do some things, but in order to do that. So obviously we talked about we're going to have some special guests this month. Yes, we're not doing that this week. We are, I'm pretty excited. I'm going to go ahead and give you a little bit of detail.
Speaker 1:We don't have everything worked out, no, so the last thing that we're doing is we have to find a date that works for this guest yes, um, but I'm super excited to say if, if, everything does pan out on that fingers crossed, we will have uh, mama ashley rose oh, I cannot wait, who is one of the the founder of the rose dynasty foundation. Yes, um, so we're gonna have her on. She is a drag queen here in the greater orlando, lakeland, dayton areas. Today, as we are recording this podcast, they are in the middle of the grand opening ceremonies of the Rose Dynasty Foundation out in I think it's Dayton, is that out near Lakeland?
Speaker 1:I don't remember the exact city, but she's opening a kind of a community center of sorts, so we're going to have her on. She's going to talk about her life being a drag queen.
Speaker 1:uh, we'll probably talk about the don't say gay bill that was, uh, in recent history here, in florida, because she weighed in on a lot of that and some of the work that she's doing for the community, in the spaces that she is creating for not only the lgbtq plus community but the youth of that community, because it is important for you know, give them a safe space that they can just be them.
Speaker 2:I'm so, so excited. Now, with that being said, I'm hoping that we can like share some some secrets. We'll see. I want to share all of them With that being said oh God.
Speaker 1:I just want to preface this is my opinion, I'm not going to speak. I do believe that every human being on this planet deserves their own opinion. I also believe that sometimes those opinions are very immoral and completely against what I believe.
Speaker 2:A hundred percent.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately unfortunately, sometimes people have opinions that suck. They're really bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're awful Opinions that I've seen.
Speaker 1:That's fine, you can have that opinion, but I'm going gonna choose not to associate you because of that opinion, because it's something that I disagree with so much that I just have to say I can't hang out or be friends with someone who has that opinion on things.
Speaker 2:yeah, um now, that being said, you know, my mom had a saying when it came to that that everybody has an opinion, or everybody has an opinion, just like everybody has a booty hole. Sometimes they're clean and sometimes they just stink.
Speaker 1:Oh my god that's hilarious it's iconicly shan now, that being said, I always I don't always have the most popular opinion in the lgbtq plus community, because I don't necessarily agree with everything that people do I.
Speaker 2:I say yes because I've asked somebody who has known you for a minute. I'm gonna say we've had these conversations, I know your views and your opinions on things.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I would agree those may come to light in conversations as we move forward, but anyhow, so just a bit of a brief very brief, skim overview of history of gays
Speaker 2:I love.
Speaker 1:History of the gays. Contrary to what popular, contrary to popular belief um homosexuality, homosexuality- has been around wrong for how long now?
Speaker 1:throughout the entire existence of the human race, correct? Um? So you know, it varied, why? Wildly across different cultures? Um, back in Roman times it was super popular. Relationships between men were common and actually they were often celebrated. Oh yeah, back in, like the Roman Empire, the Greeks viewed these relationships as a form of mentorship, which is kind of odd to me, but I mean, hey, it is what it is.
Speaker 1:Moving forward into the Middle Ages, we saw a shift in attitudes, largely influenced by the rise of Christianity. The Catholic Church condemned same-sex relationships, europe punished those who engaged in homosexual acts, and then those laws that they set in place persisted for I mean centuries. Moving forward into the 19th century, we saw a significant change. In 1861, the Offenses Against the Person Act was passed by the United Kingdom, which decriminalized homosexual acts between men but still imposed harsh penalties. And it wasn't until the late 19th century to early 20th century that we saw the first wave of activism begin to emerge. The first wave of activism begin to emerge, um, and then there's more. You know stuff with oscar wilde, uh, who was in a renowned irish playwright, who was famously tried and imprisoned in uh 1895 for gross indecency due to his relationship to another man oh um, way to be gross, bubba.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um the mid 20th century, we saw the birth of the gay modern, the gay modern rights movement. Um, they, these were a series of events that literally catapulted us into the 21st century, uh, the most famous one being the stonewall riots of 1969 in new york.
Speaker 1:Um, for those of you that don't know, on june 27th of 1969, patrons of the stonewall inn, which was a gay bar in greenwich village in new york. They resisted a police raid, sparking days of protest and clashes with law enforcement, and this pretty much galvanized the uprising of the lgbtq plus community into the modern day. It led us to where we are now, and then, the decades since that movement, we've seen tons of momentum, achieving several significant victories. Moving into the 20th century and the 21st century, we witnessed unprecedented progress and fight for gay rights. Um, we had um I'm looking at my notes here except everything. Um, the netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage in 2001. Um, and then? What year was it? 2015, 26, when? When was gay marriage legalized in the us?
Speaker 1:of course all the notes that I have here. I forgot to put that one in there. Um, yes, google and look, um, but it's something that it's been here forever um 2013.
Speaker 2:Okay, 2013, yeah, that's right, it started in california first, california, california I just spilt the drink on my leg. Wow, and it's very cold let's see when it was legalized in florida. You know, in florida it didn't become legal until 2015. That's when it was legalized in the entire country.
Speaker 1:I in florida. It didn't become legal until 2015. That's when it was legalized in the entire country, I believe I believe so. Yeah, as a result of a ruling in brenner versus scott yep, so that was um the same time that it was legal in the entire country. So, with that being said, it is now gay pride month. Is that right, ashley?
Speaker 2:it is so, or as ashley's been calling it ashley ally awareness month.
Speaker 1:Thank you, yes now in all seriousness absolutely for you, a cisgendered straight woman yes for the record.
Speaker 2:I hate the term cisgendered same I don't listen, I'm just, it doesn't matter in my opinion. I'm just a straight girl, that's it. That's all I got as a biological female.
Speaker 1:yes, am A woman who identifies as a straight woman. Yes, I do you? Enjoy the company of men.
Speaker 2:I do, I really, really do.
Speaker 1:I'm curious. I know we joke that you're an ally, but I'm curious to you as someone who was I, your first like gay best friend.
Speaker 2:No, like gay, no Well kind of On this level. On this level. Yes, kind of on this level on this level yes, yes.
Speaker 2:So to you, what does pride month mean? That I support you and as much of what you would like as possible. That's what it means to me. If this is a month you feel like you want to, to celebrate you a little bit more than you do in january, then I'm here for it. I'm also this is gonna sound really bad because I'm one of those people, though, that, like like Valentine's Day and Swedish Day I believe those are bullshit holidays because I feel like and Hallmark has kind of created this every single day should not be a day that you like. We shouldn't just have one significant day to tell a person that we love them, or that we care for them, or that we do all these things. So I feel the same way when it comes to pride month, like I shouldn't have to look at you and be like hi, I support you, just because june 1st to june 31st says so, or june 30th. There's only 30 days something like that.
Speaker 2:I I shouldn't feel like I shouldn't have to just tell you I support you in those 31 days. I should tell you I support you every single day, which is something I do, so, like I, yes, I think pride month is is fantastic and I love that. You know theme parks and restaurants and and other places. They and I. I cannot wait. I'm hoping that this, this is my, my first year to be able to participate in a pride parade. But, like, I've never felt like I needed to say, oh my god, only in the month of June am I going to say I support you. No, I will support you no matter what, like, as long as you're not trying to like yes in terms of you, like I, like I. I don't want that to be something that, like, I only support you during that month. What about you? What does pride month look like for?
Speaker 1:you so that, honestly, up until recent years, has never been something that I have even like put a thought into, like what is pride month to me? Really uh, yeah, because, as you know, obviously, the way that I've been responding to you this whole time, you're like oh it's pride month, I get to be here and I to me. I'm just like, okay, that's great yeah, which is not at all.
Speaker 2:I was gonna like when I was not that like I chose to be your best friend because you were gay, but I was like oh, this comes with bonuses. It does. And I definitely. One of them was like the fact that I could like decorate my entire body in rainbow and you'd be like, oh my God, I love that.
Speaker 1:Fun fact I hate rainbow, you hate it, I hate rainbow.
Speaker 2:I don't mean to put you on the spot, but you hate it I do so and I hate that you I grew we. We kind of went into a little bit of this in the beginning of this podcast, like back in january when we first started this wave 22 episodes ago I never, formally ever came out to my family. Right.
Speaker 1:For the longest time I had this thing of you know, hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil. Correct, Don't make waves. Yes, you know, I brought my friends around and my roommates around and occasionally, you know, I started having cousins saying like, oh well, you know, everyone knows right. And I was right and I was like okay, cool.
Speaker 1:Well, there's no need to talk about it like I don't need to confirm, because I valued so much the relationship that I had with my dad's side of the family because my mom's side of the family had completely disintegrated and fell apart right, I don't speak to anyone other than my little brother, who's hopefully coming down this september to visit um.
Speaker 1:But I was like, okay, well, there's no reason to make waves. And then, you know, the time came that my grandmother just finally asked me. She said oh, when did you realize you were different? And then, shortly after, that was when my father and stepmother started saying oh, do we need to buy so-and-so, a separate Christmas present, or do you guys want us like a shared present? So like, even to this very day, even though I know my stepmom and my dad hi listen to this podcast.
Speaker 1:You know I've never sat down and looked at them and said I am a gay person because I didn't have to right, because it became a normal part of our lives. I hid it for so long because I was afraid and I was ashamed that my father was going to be disappointed in me because I am his only biological son. He has two wonderful stepchildren with my stepmother, but I am his only technical offspring. Yeah, you're the male line. And for so long I was so ashamed of myself, of thinking that his friends, that we growing up as kids I was a little different. Everyone knew I was a little different really I didn't like.
Speaker 1:I don't like physical pain, yeah uh, and I am very small. I'm very brittle and small boned. I don't have a lot of muscle mass, so I can't do all of these big things. I used to ride dirt bikes when I was a little kid until I crashed no way yeah and I never wanted to get back on the dirt bike because it hurts dad.
Speaker 2:Do you have any videos of that, please can? Can you please send them to?
Speaker 1:me videos? I don't think so. Photos, yes, you have to remember, I grew up in the 90s.
Speaker 2:Videos oh yeah, videos were not a thing.
Speaker 1:Give me that cam quarter um, so it's only been since like 2016. On that, I even have participated in Pride, and the only Prides that I've participated in have been Knox Pride in Knoxville, tennessee. Shout out to Big Gay James and oh my God, I just totally forgot the other host names on the Knox Pride podcast. Shout out to you guys, go give them a listen. So it's only been recent that I've been able to go to these things and I've learned something about Pride. That's still quite an unpopular opinion. What's that? There is a stigma. Yes, with the pride community and the LGBT community, it is a sexualized community. It is all about indecency and inappropriateness.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And I don't think that that's what pride encapsulates no but I think that that is the forms, the only forms, that a lot of our mass media and our social media have encapsulated, correct? Will I say that there are very, very, very bad gay people in the world? Yes, there are but there are also very, very bad homosexual people in the world. Just what? A couple of months ago, we heard a newscast where a mother was forcing her 15 year old daughter to have sex with her father so they could teach her how to have sex in a christian household correct.
Speaker 1:And some people be straight. And I'm not saying I'm not condemning all christians here. That is not at all what I'm saying. I'm not condemning all Christians here. That is not at all what I'm saying. I'm not condemning gay people?
Speaker 2:No, because I think there are good people. There are bad people on both sides, and it does not matter whether or not you're gay, straight, bisexual or whatever you are. You can be bad and you can be good, no matter what is happening.
Speaker 1:But the biggest thing I think Pride has taught me since 2016 to now, I have very devout christian family members, people that have. They've told me they don't approve of my lifestyle, but they want to see me happy and they will always support me correct, and I'm grateful for that. Um, I have an uncle that's a deacon in the church a deacon, a deacon in a southern baptist church.
Speaker 1:But the thing that pride has taught me and that my community has taught me recently, and I'm I am grateful for this. Your religion does not constitute how I live my life, correct, and I grew up in a christian household. I grew up going to church well into high school, and I believe that that is where we are currently at as a society, but it it goes both ways. Oh yeah, our gayness does not constitute how you live your religious lifestyle Correct. But, that being said, there is a separation of church and state, correct. That is what our country is founded on. Yes, I don't care if, oh, it was just separation from the Protestant church or the this church or the Catholic church so we could go and be our own form of Christianity in the United States. That's not what it says on ink. In ink, it says separation of church and state.
Speaker 1:And I'm a firm believer that we should have those separated. They asked me the other day do you want in God you trust on your license plate? And I said no, I don't. Do I believe in God? I believe in a god. No, not necessarily the christian god, not necessarily our version of a god but I talk to whoever is out there, whoever is listening.
Speaker 2:My grandfather is like rolling over in his big chair right now and I'm sure, and I have.
Speaker 1:I have some family that's probably gonna take that with a grain of salt.
Speaker 2:But that's a whole nother topic for a whole nother time.
Speaker 1:It is um, but that is what pride has taught me. My, the pride has recently taught me that I should not be ashamed of who I am as an individual. No, um, I love who I love. Yeah, um, I love the people that I love because they have brought joy into my life. They make me feel valued as a human being, they support me and obviously there is a level of physical attraction there.
Speaker 2:So you were describing all the characteristics of me up until that physical attraction. So way to just ruin that love for me. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1:So, with that being said, pride yes, it is a month-long holiday. I think Pride Month is. I do not disagree that there have been it's very, very commercialized.
Speaker 2:now it is.
Speaker 1:There are reasons for us, as a community, to celebrate ourselves. Do I think it needs to be a whole month long? No, I think anything that is a month long is just ridiculous.
Speaker 2:Listen, don't hate women's month. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1:I'm allowed, Girl you already get a week every month. I kid, I kid, I kid. Listen just because.
Speaker 2:I shed my. What is it? I saw this TikTok trend that's going around right now, where women have been like messing with their boyfriends of their period and they've been putting sheet masks on that peel. They're like honey. It's the time of the month I got to peel my outer layer. Oh, that's disgusting. So I kind of vibe with it though.
Speaker 1:Here is the big conversation for this week's episode.
Speaker 2:I can't wait. Except I'm really really nervous, but I'm ready.
Speaker 1:Why do we not have straight Pride Month?
Speaker 2:So here we go. Oh, this is going to be fun.
Speaker 1:Here is where this is what I found today, so in a recent story by Fox 12.
Speaker 2:Is which? Which fox is that?
Speaker 1:eagle, idaho idaho. That's where potatoes are from um, a bar in idaho, is celebrating what it calls heterosexual awesomeness month. It will be this month. In june, the Old State Saloon announced that it would begin a celebration of heterosexuality with discounts and free beer for couples and men. June is generally recognized as Pride Month for the LGBTQ plus community. In the bar's facebook post they made a post that says june will be oss's inaugural heterosexual awesomeness month. Come join us all month long to celebrate heterosexuals, for without them, none of us would be here.
Speaker 2:Jesus christ, I don't disagree without them, we would not be here, duh, because it takes a man and a woman to make a baby. Unfortunately, so here, well, not nowadays. Well, yeah, actually it does.
Speaker 1:But here comes the fun part, and this is going to be where I want to get your first opinion. Oh jesus, on mondays the bar will celebrate hetero male monday. Oh jesus, where any, any heterosexual male dressed like a heterosexual male will receive a free draft beer. I have a couple questions. Hold on. So the first time I read that part of me wanted to get angry a little bit.
Speaker 2:Part of me wants to hear Harrison Buckner this. I have questions, but wait.
Speaker 1:But then I started laughing because I realized even during Pride Month, not a single gay bar is going to hand out free alcohol. So this man is going to be losing out on money.
Speaker 2:Lots of money, my money, my guy lots of money.
Speaker 1:Here is the first point, ashley yes the bar said that it is looking to hire someone at 15 an hour who will judge to determine if the man's clothing is deemed heterosexual. Now here's my question do you think, according to american laws and the Constitution as a business, this is discrimination 110%? Who are we to define what is heterosexual dress?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was my question. What exactly what does a straight man look like? Like? What does that dress look like? Because, I mean, you and I have been out at places and I've been, I mean, as somebody who is incredibly single. I've been hit on at a bar once or twice with you and you know whatever, and there's been times that I've I've had you know men be like are you with him and you're sitting right next to me who is a very, very gay man, and I'm going nope, not, at least not on Tuesdays, man, and I'm going nope, not, at least not on tuesdays. Like what, what do you what? So like what? What does that look like? What? What does that look like? Because, like, I mean, because you could, you could go both ways with that statement.
Speaker 1:Look at where we are now with the world of tiktok and social media, correct? I follow some very straight men out of california um that. There's one guy. He actually wears women's clothing, not like dresses and stuff but like uh, very avant-garde style. Yeah, this man makes a lot of money in the cosplay industry um portraying characters from animes and other things. Very straight man. He is dating a cisgendered woman. I can't say his name. It's like abundance, I hate that word so much abundance, no, cisgendered.
Speaker 1:Cisgender, yeah, I know, but unfortunately it's where we are in the world, it's how they, it's how they explain it. Um, but I have seen there's a man in a in europe somewhere that he wears a skirt and high heels to work every single day, just to break down some kind of stigma. Straight man, yeah, married to a woman, has children I just don't understand.
Speaker 2:What does that look like? What does that look like?
Speaker 1:because, like, I mean, is that just wearing denim pants and a flannel shirt everywhere?
Speaker 2:because but then that's a cowboy, because when? But when? You and I go to tennessee?
Speaker 1:I've got to tell you something the gays love denim and flannel because uh, what? What is? Orville peck and and Nelson sing Something about cowboys.
Speaker 2:Beer from a horse? No, that's the Save a Horse. Writer.
Speaker 1:Cowboys are secretly fond of each other. Oh yeah, it was a new song that Orville Peck came out with recently and with Willie Nelson. But anywho, like who is that not? I mean, you're discriminating against what someone is wearing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a big fat no-no. Red flag, red flag, red flag, red flag on the play. Not a fan. Not a fan of that Because, like I mean, I could also flip that Because as a woman I grew up being very tomboyish. I could not fit into oh, this is for heterosexual males yeah, yeah, but I could not fit into women's jeans growing up, so I wore men's carpenter jeans to school every day. Sends carpenter jeans to school every day, would I be considered? What does that look?
Speaker 2:like, if I'm, if I'm, a straight woman, am I dressing like a man? Like there are times that like, what does that look like shorts and a t-shirt? Is that male things? Because if that's the case, I'll be looking like a dude every day then now here's where this gets interesting okay, I feel like this just gets worse where this gets interesting.
Speaker 1:Okay, I feel like this just gets worse the the point that he makes about they're gonna hire someone who determines looks like a heterosexual male. Sure, this is the only part I disagree with 100. I mean, I think it's a. I feel like it's a bit of a reach to do it in june, because I'm just like, okay, that's great, if you want to do it, do it whenever, but do it in july. Would you do this in hispanic hispanic heritage month? Would you do this in black history month? Would you do this during asian? Uh, what?
Speaker 1:is pacific islanders month no, you're doing it right now because it's pride, correct? Um, and I don't like, and even still I'm like. That's fine. If you want to do that, go for it. It's your right as a heterosexual person. If you want to celebrate who you are, go for it. It's the fact that you're going to put someone in the bar to say I'm going to segregate this yeah, I don't like determine who looks straight and who isn't.
Speaker 1:That is discrimination and I don't like it however, no, no, in another facebook post. Jesus um the face on facebook. So I'm not going to say the owner, it's just in the same bar, though?
Speaker 1:Yes, and again, this is Old State Saloon in what I say, idaho. So they made another Facebook post and they said we hear lots of people are upset about heterosexual awesomeness month. Please know one we love our LGBTQ plus patrons. Two, we will not be changing our mind and given to a group, or given to the group of those who are responding with uh vitriol v-i-t-r-i-o-l I don't know the actual definition.
Speaker 1:Let's assume it's that um three all in all caps are welcome to come celebrate heterosexuality with us this June. So, with that being said, I think it's a bit silly. I would have said you know, let's celebrate all you know. If you want to come celebrate and be gay with us, come celebrate and be gay with us. If you want to come celebrate and be straight with us, you guys get discounts.
Speaker 2:That being said, again, I don't know any gay bar to get a discount?
Speaker 1:I don't know any gay bar that's gonna give out free drinks or discounted? Drinks like right now there's a pub crawl in orlando for pride where it's 60 a person to get four free drinks per person. And I'm like four free drinks still does not equal sixty dollars, no, it's so. You're really not getting. You're not getting a discount there, um, but I want to know so, based on that, what you've heard, you know, what's your opinion on that facebook post that's? How does that make you feel that's?
Speaker 2:ridiculous as a straight woman that is ridiculous like this is not about it is my cat. This isn't about this month, isn't about me, like you know what's so screwed up, but why can it also not be about?
Speaker 1:you.
Speaker 2:Because it's not. Because it's not. It's the same reason why during African American Black History Month it's not about the white people. Like it's the same concept. It's why, during the Women's Month, it's not about you, men.
Speaker 2:Like I hate to break it to you, but you know what you, we did it as a society, we screwed up in so many aspects and we have to. We're trying somehow, some way to rewrite history or to make things better to you know, say that we're allies or to do all these things when in reality nobody wants to just sit there and go hi, we suck. Like as society, we suck, we, we. We sit here and be and we're going to behind everybody's backs go. Oh my god, I support you and I'm here for you, but like I would bet nine out of ten people would actually have no freaking clue what you guys go through.
Speaker 2:Like I'm a straight woman, the only thing I have to bring to this table is the fact that as a woman, I make less money than you. Or like I get treated semi differently than you because I'm a girl. That's it. I have no idea what it's like to have to ask permission to be married If I want to go marry Joe Schmo on the side of the road. I can do that anytime I want to. I don't have to ask permission. I don't have to like make sure the courts are cool with it to ask permission. I don't have to like make sure the courts are cool with it.
Speaker 1:I didn't have to wait patiently in the quarter until somebody said it was okay, like I think that you do have to get your husband's permission before you can have your tubes tied correct which let's that's that's listen you talk about screwed up.
Speaker 2:That's that's a whole nother conversation I just don't understand it.
Speaker 2:I I think that it's great that you want to celebrate all people, but it is in this. To me, this is a similar concept of saying, during the the all black lives matter concept, sitting there and going all lives matter. This to me it sounds like a very uneducated group of people that do not understand exactly what pride month is about or what that community goes through and goes. So we just like, want to support like the one gay person that lives in our neighborhood but we don't even know if they're gay but like we want to support them. But like everybody else, you guys can have free beer. Cool, thanks. I just ordered too much Bud Light. So to me, I love Bud Light.
Speaker 1:Okay, this is again. This is where I differ so much with my own community. Yes, much with my own community.
Speaker 2:yes, because I guess just the way that my father and grandparents raised me like gulp down this margarita.
Speaker 1:Um, I kind of don't care and I know that sounds bad and I know that there's probably people out there in my community that are going to be upset with me for my views. But again, they're my views, they're not not yours.
Speaker 2:Do you know why you don't care?
Speaker 1:Why.
Speaker 2:Because for once, the spotlight isn't on the community, the churn. For once there is a group of people that are going hi, we really don't give a fuck about you guys. We care about straight people. That's why you don't care, because it's not hurting your group.
Speaker 1:No, I don't necessarily agree with that. Your group, uh. No, I don't necessarily agree with that. It's more of a. My grandparents and my father raised me to just be me and just do my thing and live my life. Because you go out and you kill someone and you wreck your car and you steal from stuff. People are you.
Speaker 2:You're not doing it to me no I'm not a victim I mean, unless I kill you. Well, yeah.
Speaker 1:Unless you kill me or you steal from me or you do things for me. Correct. If I see you trying to kill someone, I'm going to speak up and I'm going to be like hey, don't kill that person.
Speaker 2:No, you're not Because you're going to be in.
Speaker 1:No, I'm serious, Don't put words in my mouth right now. I love you, but I and I want it to be. I want our listeners to understand exactly where I stand on this, Because there are a lot of people that are actually going to be very angry with me for saying oh yeah.
Speaker 1:You don't care because it doesn't affect you. Yeah, I don't care because it doesn't affect me, because I understand that there are people out there that are struggling and they are literally fighting for their lives as a transgender human being to have common decency and be respected. But I feel like there is a give and take in this world that people have to give, they have to take. You have to meet on a middle ground. You cannot have your cake and eat it too, and far too many people in my community have made it to a point where they want their cake and they want to eat it too. You I'm not speaking to anyone specific. I'm just saying your religion does not constitute how I live my life my life does not constitute how you live with your religion.
Speaker 1:It is give and it is take. And if these people want to have a straight pride month, that's great. If I walk into that bar and I sit down at the bar and I say, hi, I'm gay, I would like a beer. Serve me my beer. You guys have your party over there. I will sit at my chair and I will say, hell yeah, rock on, guys. Have a great night, be safe, make good choices, don't drink and drive, because it's your right as a human being, not even an American citizen. Screw the whole American citizen thing and our government and our blah, blah, blah. As a freaking human being on this planet, you have a right to celebrate who you are.
Speaker 1:And I will say I'm going to go on to talk about the end of this article in a moment and this is why I'm chill with this man doing what he is, he wants to do. He's not putting down my community. He's not telling me that I'm not welcome in his establishment. He's not telling me to get out. He's not trying to hurt me. He's not trying to hurt anyone in our community. He's saying, hey, we're going to celebrate the straight people. You fucking go, dude, you celebrate yourself, you celebrate your life and you straight people and you do whatever. I'm going to go over here with my group of people not in your establishment and we're going to go celebrate ourselves. You celebrate yourselves, we celebrate ourselves.
Speaker 1:The only thing I expect is, when those people come to pride, that we treat them with the exact same ounce of fucking respect that we expect to be treated with when we walk into that bar we expect to be treated with when we walk into that bar. That is all I want for this world and that's what I wish so many people would understand and come to terms with. You do not have to like me, you do not have to like my lifestyle, you do not have to like who I love, but unless I am doing something to physically harm you, shut the fuck up. Go about your life, go about your religion, do whatever it is that you want to do, and I'm going to go do whatever it is I want to do.
Speaker 1:This has nothing to do with the whole pedophilia and the grooming bullshit that is going back and forth. I don't care about that shit. I'm not doing that. No one I know is fucking doing that. We just want to live our fucking lives, have a couple of martinis jam out, so girls just want to have fun, or whatever fucking song. It is taylor swift, who, who, whatever. And I'll say right now I bet you didn't know this, ashley, I perform in drag. I do not do it. I do not do this normally. I don't go out to the gay bars and do it all the time it started as a character at a haunted house I do know this.
Speaker 2:I'm going to see her, and it wasn't even it wasn't even my fault that I started.
Speaker 1:I got asked to fill a role one night and then it turned into a regular thing at the haunted house because it was funny and it was hilarious. And then a Halloween and horror convention said hey, we would love for you to bring your character to our convention and host some events and do some fun stuff, because your character's just really hilarious and funny.
Speaker 1:And I said she has bigger boobs than me and then I had to call other people in the community and say, hey, I will pay you money to come do this to me, because I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know how to do this.
Speaker 3:She has more power to you, drag queens but I'm going what?
Speaker 1:what does a drag is a drag queen hurt you? Ashley, has a straight person. Has a drag queen hurt you? Ashley, as a straight person, has a drag queen ever hurt you?
Speaker 2:No, exactly, but I've also never I've interacted with one drag queen in my entire life, and that was in Vegas and I was 21. And I was like I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1:Anyhow. Sorry I got off on a tangent for a moment that was the big one, my guy so um to live a lot hang on, let's pause for a second. Okay, actually for real pre-k pause. Okay, sorry, I had a pre-k pause because I had to pee. Really bad, because this, this zarita, ran through me. What were you saying, ashley?
Speaker 2:before we continue on to this next subject, are you okay? That was a tangent, my guy, a tangent that I was not anticipating. I knew I had a feeling during this month it was going to come up, but I did not expect a 22 taylor swift episode for it to to so be projected as intensely as that was. Also, if I murder somebody, you better help me bury the body. Okay, that's all I have to say. You must not be ratting me out to orange county police department, you understand?
Speaker 1:be quiet before they start listening there's only two bodies, guys orange county you want to sponsor us?
Speaker 2:that'd be great that'd be cool, but like it was only driving in orlando, there's only two bodies?
Speaker 1:um, no, in all seriousness, no, like I am, like I'm, I'm fine, I for, like I said, for the most part I live my own life, I do my own thing, right. Um, it is what it is, yes, but um, I unfortunately have been put in a position in my life where I am put on a fence and I do. I have some fairly conservative views on a lot of things in the United States.
Speaker 2:I think that's just because of how you grew up. I wonder no.
Speaker 1:Believe it or not, I grew up in a very democratic household. That's crazy, but anywho, there are things that the LGBTQ plus community does and says that just lights a fire under me. It makes me so angry to be a part of this community. But then there's there. There's the exact opposite. They do things that I want to get out there and I want to fight and I want to support them and I I find it so hard to believe that people you know, like I can't imagine nowadays what it would have been like if my father would have just been like okay, go get out. I don't know, because like that's the last, it's the last family I got um that's terrifying to me it is.
Speaker 1:It is it. Yeah, it is absolutely terrifying. And you know my stepmom, her father um he preacher, so she grew up as a preacher's daughter. So, excuse me, rita's kicking back ham, she's kicking back. But I just we have so many problems in this country we are talking about. Oh, inflation is so high, the cost of living is so high. Then why are super centers and grocery stores reporting record profits? That's what the Democrats and Republicans should be focusing on. Oh, we're getting political. That's what Orlando Unplugged is going political.
Speaker 2:No, that's what I'm saying. That's whatans should be focusing on. Oh, we're getting political, that's what. That's what I'm plugged. It's going political, no, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:That's what everyone should be focused on, not who's marrying who and who's doing what behind closed doors. I will be the first person to walk up and say if a gay man touches an underage child, I'm right there with capital punishment.
Speaker 2:Listen, cut it off but I'm the same way when it comes to straight people. If a straight man is touching somebody that is young underage, like when we talked about the madeline soto case, we found out that her dad was, was, was but you don't see the christian church trying to crucify this man because he's a straight man correct, and and that's the thing that I'm just like again, this is where your religion does not dictate my life I
Speaker 2:just don't understand, because I grew up very catholic, very, very catholic, like sunday church was a thing. It was. I went to bible study school like I went to vacation bible school during the summertime. All my friends were going to summer camp. I was going to vacation bible school like I it was. It was very much informed and told that God, this is going to sound horrible. And listen, I have my conflicting views when it comes to the Catholic Church and those that are closest to me know this, so I have no issue.
Speaker 2:But I grew up with the concept of it was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. That was what I was raised on. There was no ifs, andss or buts about it. That's how it was. So in my high school there was three. There was three people in my high school that I knew of in my graduating class. That's all I knew, and I was not friends with them. It's not because I didn't want to like, it's not because I was like, ooh, I chose not to be friends with a gay person. No, they just did not associate themselves with us. We were not. It was just not a vibe. It was just how it was. I also grew up in a household where my dad was kind of like okay, years ago there was a statistic that came out. I'm talking like years and years ago that there was a statistic that came out, like I'm talking like years and years ago that there's a statistic that came out that said one in three siblings were gay, so we used to all joke and pick one I'm.
Speaker 2:I'm one of three. I have two younger siblings you rob, or my sister lauren or lauren like we all sat there and we're like which one one is it, which one is it? And my dad?
Speaker 1:would be like Ashley we love you, thank you.
Speaker 2:My dad would be like that's not funny, that's not something to joke about. You want to know something real funny.
Speaker 1:Tell me my sister is bisexual. Uh-huh, and I'm not 100% certain about my brother. I don't know if he's ever dated a guy, but I think he talked to one at one point in his life.
Speaker 2:I love that.
Speaker 1:So all three of us? Yep, nope, which makes sense because my mom's bipolar schizophrenic, so all of her children just come out crazy. But finish your statement because I want to plug into this here, because this is what.
Speaker 2:It was one of those like households, though, that I grew up in, that like my dad would go that's not funny, don't joke about that and that was how we left the conversation. And then your mom's over here laying on the floor, cackling, laughing at gay jokes. She didn't, though, until years after, like this sounds horrible. I love my parents. I had a pretty okay childhood, like I had a pretty. I had a normal childhood. Okay, I had a normal one. I had a normal childhood. I had a normal one. It was normal, but it was one of those situations where my mom was a lot more I don't want to say understanding, but she was. She saw things differently. My father was military. He saw things very black and white. It was the way it was because it was. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it. So when I moved to Florida and hello, every single theme park employee is a proud ally or a proud member of the LGBTQ community and I'm going. That's why you're single incorrect.
Speaker 1:I'm going.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to act. I don't know what to say. Oh my god, like. I didn't you realize they're just people like you. Yeah, they really are, and they like to do things that I like to do.
Speaker 2:Sometimes they just like to sissy that walk listen and sometimes I just sit there and I look at you and I'm just like how are we friends? But that would be said whether you're gay or straight. My guy, all right, give me the rest of this conversation all right.
Speaker 1:So in a statement to kptv, old state saloon owner Mark Fitzpatrick said it's my dream to build a community event center on some nearby land that I own to help support conservative ideas. Ideals, sorry, ideals. We've received so many truly evil comments from the extreme LGBTQ plus crowd. Some of these comments are truly horrific, but there's also been so much support. Now I want to focus on his words here.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Because, if you are a member of the LGBTQ plus community, I want you all to hear this because I do not want anyone attacking this man. Whether we agree with the straight heterosexual pride month or whatever. They have received many, so many truly evil comments from the extreme lgbtq plus crowd. In that statement I hear that he is not blaming the entire community. He is not saying that all gay people are out to attack him. He said that there has been support but extreme LGBTQ plus community. I believe in the extreme community, in the LGBTQ plus community, the same way I believe in extreme Christianity. Who were the people who burned witches?
Speaker 1:during the witch trials, Extremist Islam? Who are the people that were responsible for 9-11?
Speaker 2:the extreme white.
Speaker 1:This statement burned all the black string with the glucklux glint this statement brings to light what I think more of us should focus on. Not every community is a bad community. Obviously the nazis, that whole community, was a bad community, but not every every community in the world, not the LGBTQ plus community, not the people of color, not that this, not that that, but there are extremists in every single community out there. I think that there are extremists in religious communities, there are extremist homosexual communities, and I think that we all, as human beings, need to realize that not every single person in that community is an extremist. There are people in the LGBTQ plus community that they are going to fish, for any reason, to start a fight with a straight person so they can start a fight, so they can start a riot, so they can bring attention. You do not help your community. You do not help your community whether it be the lgbtq plus, whether it be a person of color, whether you be asian, whether you be straight, whether you be anything.
Speaker 1:You do not help your community as an extremist no there are appropriate channels to go through and to fight for your community. And yeah, stonewall was a riot. It started as a riot. They defended themselves when attacked. I will forever stand with that. They were raided by the police, they were severely beaten and they fought back.
Speaker 1:There is a difference there in fighting back and standing up for yourself and being an extremist person. And what he said here he did not. In my opinion, in my true, honest to god opinion, this man is not attacking the LGBTQ plus community. I do think it's a little silly for the heterosexual pride, because you're not prosecuted for being a straight man. You're not attacked, you're not beaten on the side of the street, you're not killed. You were never thrown in jail just for simply being a straight person. So I don't think you need a time to celebrate your pride. But, like I said, at the same time I'm going to contradict myself. Every person deserves to celebrate themselves, so if they they want to celebrate the fact that they're straight, go for it. But he's not attacking the entire lgbtq community. He's not saying that the gay people are out to attack him. He said the extremists of our community are and I hope and I pray that my community sees that and they hear that and they just just leave them alone if he wants to celebrate they're not going to.
Speaker 1:But if he wants to celebrate his straight patrons and give them free beer and lose out on money, so be it. Mr mr fitzpatrick, I wish you the best of luck. I hope everything goes well for you can I have some straight beer.
Speaker 2:Can I have some free beer because I'm a straight woman?
Speaker 1:um well, it actually. I think I must have missed it in here. Where is it? Oh, on Wednesdays, the bar will celebrate Heterosexual Couples Day, where heterosexual couples will receive 15% off their bill.
Speaker 2:I'm not one of those.
Speaker 1:Well, you're just a woman, so I guess you don't get anything there.
Speaker 2:Can I have something else to bitch and complain about, please? I don't get free beer, but all the male do. God, I have to be a freaking couple I can dress like a straight man, and we can go as long as I can pass the test, dr Greg.
Speaker 1:He's got a lot to work on this week.
Speaker 2:Ashley, my drink is low. Does this mean the episode's winding down? This is our second one this conversation I need another one requires some heavy drinking. Um, okay, I okay here's. Here's my new opinion, because I really don't like the fact, though, that you're only supporting the male population or the couple population. As somebody who has been single for a year and a half of my damn life, for my drink, why can't I be celebrated? Why do I.
Speaker 1:Maybe you should reach out to him and I am.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna be like listen, I support the fact that you want to give the the straight people free beer, but can you give the straight women free beer please? Because, like I, low-key, like a bed light on tap, thank you well, that's.
Speaker 1:Another thing that I find interesting about this article is he seems to only have an issue with gay men, not lesbians.
Speaker 2:Because, nothing, because maybe that's what I have to do then if it's hetero, male monday what about hetero male monday?
Speaker 1:that's what it's called. The bar will celebrate hetero male monday what about Hetero Female?
Speaker 2:Tuesday I had to think about the opposite of family.
Speaker 1:What about Hetero? Taco Tuesday.
Speaker 2:Because her vagina is like tacos.
Speaker 1:We're going to have to put a disclaimer on the beginning of this episode. We went south.
Speaker 2:You know what it is. It's 13.9% ABV. It's getting to us.
Speaker 1:I just want to point out that we didn't say anything about hoo-hahs until we were talking about straight people docos. I'm so sorry to any of our family that's listening to this episode.
Speaker 2:I'm not because Shan's gonna clap back and Shan's gonna be like I support all, listen, I, I am a full, I, I will, I will jokes aside, I will. You dived here you go, you ready. I may have grown up in the concept that I don't care what. If you like what you like whatever, just don't talk about it to me. I don't want to know about it, I don't care about it. If I can't see it, it doesn't exist. When I moved down to Florida, my entire, obviously my entire thought process changed because Florida is, is not, orlando is is very, very much gay. Yes, so my very good friends are, are either, are members of the LGBTQ community. So I, I will never put them on blast, I will never sit there and be like, unless it's something they're comfortable with here, let me, let me support, like, shout it from the rooftops, but you know what, like, that's how I am, that's how I feel, I, as much as we joke and say that ashley's an ally and this month is about me.
Speaker 1:Just you, honey, just you.
Speaker 2:Just out made a random one, random grocery store random because they think we're dating and they sit there and be like, oh my God, that's so great that you're buying your boyfriend's groceries. No, I'm a single girl who can afford my own damn groceries. We don't need no man, correct.
Speaker 1:God we're. I'm just watching the volume on the. It's getting so fucked.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's so. No, I, I don't. I. I'm at a point in my life where I'm almost 30 dude, I, I don't care, I don't care. If that is something that you want to do, then you know what? I will put some rainbow color pasties on my nipples and we will go to the pride parade and I will paint my ass rainbow, and that's how it will be.
Speaker 1:See, I don't agree with that.
Speaker 2:But that's fine, but like if that's what you want to do, then I will be there with you and I will hold your hand and we will go to those parades. If that's how you want to do it, that's fine. If you want to make fun of the fact that I want to buy the mickey and disney world walt, disney world rainbow pride ears, you know what I'm going to get them, because to me, that to me, is like I have done it. I have sat there and I have said I support and I love and I will take bullets and I will do all these things. You are a very prominent member of my circle.
Speaker 2:You are the person that I call when anything happens to me. This is, this is your life. This is the same reason why when I go on a date or I I'm talking to somebody, or something happens, or you know I'm just having a damn day. You will support me in whatever decision I want to make. It's the same way to me. I don't care that you are gay, I don't care that you're straight to me, I give a fuck that you are my friend and you are my best friend, which is why we just celebrated national best friend day yeah yes, we did.
Speaker 2:But like, that's how I look at it. You are my best friend, so I don't really give a shit who you decide to sleep with and who you don't. As long as you're not putting yourself in danger and you're not jumping off of roofs, I don't. I don't really give a fuck, I really don't, but I'm gonna wear their damn rainbow colored shit because I fucking can. It's the same reason that, like the, the people that that I, I know will work for, for the places that they work for, I will show up to their business and support them and do all those things and I will over tip if I need to, if they're working at restaurants or if they're they're working at theme parks, and I will see them and I will be like, oh my god, I'm so happy.
Speaker 2:It's the same damn concept yeah just be fucking nice, that's it that's it. I don't, I don't, I don't think any anymore. Anybody is allowed to sit there and say that they have an opinion on anything until we, as in a damn society, can be fucking nice. Shut up like just thank you, but just shut up like just stop talking until you can, honest to god, look at the person next to you and say one nice fucking thing about them. Shut up, that's it. That's my podcast, that's the 13.9 apv.
Speaker 1:Ashley talking now a couple of things that I want to reach out If you are a member of the LGBTQ. I've had enough to drink. If you are a member of the.
Speaker 1:LGBTQ plus community. A couple of things that I want to say out to you guys. With Pride Month, there's a lot of feelings that go around, a lot of hardships. Um, keep in mind that if you need someone, you need a dad, a mom, a stepdad, a stepmom, an aunt, an uncle, a brother, a sister, a cousin, a best friend. Um, to be in your life and to support you. Feel free to reach out to me and, ashley, I will buy a gay dad shirt and I will come to your wedding. I will be your gay dad, if you need that.
Speaker 2:Stop, I am 30.
Speaker 1:I am 30. I'm old enough to be a father to some people.
Speaker 2:Jesus Christ. That's a terrifying concept.
Speaker 1:With that being said to all of our listeners around the entire world.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Because we've been on all seven continents.
Speaker 2:Look at us go guys. Oh, I could cry with pride.
Speaker 1:It's a celebration. Oh, I could cry with pride. If you need someone, a good friend of mine, well, I guess I'm going to call you a good friend, Daniel, if you're listening. I know someone back home from East Tennessee who started something called Stand In Pride and he has been a stand in father to several people during their lives, from everything to weddings to graduation ceremonies, just to dinner. Yep, uh, he created an organization, the organization called stand in pride to create family members to stand in.
Speaker 1:If you need one and if you or someone you know needs a stand-in family member, feel free to reach out to standinprideorg. Yes, that is the organization that Daniel helped to create and they are out there. They are there for you to help you and provide you with services. If you are our listeners based out of Knoxville, tennessee I'm going off of what I know, so I'm sorry you don't want to reach out to Stand in Pride, feel free to reach out to Knox Pride or South Press Coffee with their owner, jocelyn, who was Knoxville's, from my understanding, knoxville's first openly trans woman to operate a business in Knoxville. I love it. She is a wonderful, wonderful activist for the trans community and the LGBTQ plus community as a whole. Utilize those resources. Reach out. If she or they don't know how to help you. They will get you into contact with the people you know. You guys, feel free. I hope I'm not throwing anyone under the bus. I'm using the people that I know Big Gay James at Knox Pride. He's also on the Knox Pride podcast.
Speaker 1:These are amazing people within our community that for so many years these are all people that I have never hung out with one-on-one. I've been in social gatherings that they've been present, or I've been to Establishment Smith with them, or I've been at Creepy Con, halloween and Horror Convention and they were a vendor at one and I've seen how these people interact with our communities and I see all the good that they do and they don't attack and trying to, like you know, discredit straight people. They stand up for their communities. They provide assistance where needed. Um, so if you need those things, reach out to them. And here in in the orlando area, if you're in the orlando area, I know there's orlando pride. I don't know anything about them.
Speaker 1:I've been so busy since I've moved down here that I haven't gotten to be involved with them. But you can reach out to I know right now I know I can say this you can reach out to the Rose Dynasty Foundation just southwest of Orlando. I had to think where they were located.
Speaker 2:Also reach out to Dustin and I you can, we are here we will listen to you, we will support, we will do anything you need us to. You need us to show up to Disney World wearing the rainbow ears. I can promise you I will purchase them and make sure this man next to me wears them, if that's what you need. I hate rainbow, but I'll do it for you. If that's what you need, we're here for you.
Speaker 1:You need mom or dad hugs. You've got me and Ashley here. You need us at a wedding.
Speaker 2:We will be there I might look better than you, but I will be there because I'll be squatting with this booty I am taking your microphone away from you listen.
Speaker 2:I think at the end of the day, we just be kind, be kind, that's it. We will be there, we will support, we will be kind to you, we will hold your hand and get through those moments, because people were there for us and we're. You know. They hold our hands through moments. So I think, at the end of the day, that's all that matters and that's what we need to talk. That's that's what. If you're going to pull anything away from this entire episode, that's what I hope you pull away. I hope you pull away with the fact that just be kind to somebody this next month and all the months after that. Just be kind.
Speaker 1:We want to know from you all In that description section of the episode, click that link to where you guys can text into the show for your chance to have your response read on next week's episode.
Speaker 1:We would like to know what is your opinion on the Old State Sloan's announcement for heterosexual Mondays. We are going to ask Give us your honest feedback, your honest opinion. We do ask that you, uh, keep it clean. Ashley and I are the only people allowed to use foul language on this podcast and we really try not to, because we we limit it to a certain amount. So, uh, youtube and other places, do not um knock us or knock us down in the algorithm for foul language, because you can only use so many words. So if you do foul, language.
Speaker 1:It will get edited if you use foul language. But we would like to know are you a member of the LGBTQ community, Are you a member of the heterosexual community or whatever you want to call it? On both sides, how do you identify as a human being and what are your opinions on it? Do you think like Ashley, where it's kind of silly and kind of dumb, or do you feel like it's me, where you're kind of like it's their own thing and it's for them to do? But we will definitely pick a couple to read out. If we have anyone text into the show because no one's done it yet. Please text into the show because no one's done it yet please text into the show please.
Speaker 1:We want to talk to you guys, just know that if you do text into us, we do not actually know who you are. It does not tell us your name, it only tells us the city, uh, that you are texting us from. So it'll just be a listener from orlando, or a listener from knoxville or from brighton, united Brighton, united Kingdom. Edward.
Speaker 2:Or Detroit Michigan, or Detroit Michigan. Mom no, the iconic son.
Speaker 1:But until next time, guys, stay safe, stay educated.
Speaker 2:And, of course, share our podcast with your friends, your family and, my personal favorite, your favorite bartender. You.
