God Awful Movies - 513: Gay Rights, Special Rights

Episode Date: July 1, 2025

This week, Uncle Mark (formerly of The How To Heretic) makes his triumphant return to the show to help us break down bigotry time-capsule Gay Rights, Special Rights. It's the story of how equality i...s a zero sum game. === If you’d like to make a per episode donation and get monthly bonus episodes, please check us out on Patreon: http://patreon.com/godawful Check out our other shows, The Scathing Atheist, The Skepticrat, Citation Needed, and D&D Minus. Our theme music is written and performed by Ryan Slotnick of Evil Giraffes on Mars. If you’d like to hear more, check out their Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/EvilGiraffesOnMars/ Report instances of harassment or abuse connected to this show to the Creator Accountability Network here: https://creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org/

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I don't think they can imagine that somebody could be in two different minority groups at the same time. They think that you would like shrivel up. I don't know. That's like DC Marvel. That's DC Marvel. They can't. Right.
Starting point is 00:00:16 It's impossible. I actually, I know a gay, deaf, Latino little person. The movie would explode like Spanish if I told her about it. They would have to look at that person's reflection in their shield. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Movie! Movie! Movie! Movie! Movie! Movie! Movie! Movie!
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Starting point is 00:01:04 Movie! Movie! Movie! Movie! Movie! Welcome back. We got a 90s political Documentary very excited. Are you as excited the word? Okay, it is not and sitting 900 miles to my northeast Is my bad friend Eli Bosnick Eli. How are you this fine afternoon, sir? Hello, no illusions. I'm so happy to be here Okay, Dennis Prager ladies and gentlemen That didn't sound nearly Jewish enough to be Dennis Prager. I appreciate the wokeness of your introduction. That is how Dennis Prager sounds to me, a non-Jew, correct? I don't hear Judaism.
Starting point is 00:01:37 I don't hear Prager you. And of course, that laugh that you heard in the background, we're excited to welcome back one of our favorite guest masochists, documentarian and former co-host of the How to Heretic back from the podcast grave, Uncle Mark. Mark, welcome back. Thanks fellas. So glad to be here. But look, Uncle Mark is my father's name. Just call me Mr. Mark. All it took was me texting you every 26 seconds for the last 11 years to get you back in. I've got to make the noise stop.
Starting point is 00:02:13 Yeah. So tell us, Heath, what did we drag Mark out of retirement, Mr. Mark out of retirement for? We watched gay rights, special rights inside the homosexual agenda. It's the story of how it's racist to be gay. Because there's like a there's a very small pile of equal rights in America, and the gay people are stealing it from all the black people. it's racist to be gay. It's like the beginning of the Hungry Games but with rights. Yes, exactly. It's so great to be able to finally admit it.
Starting point is 00:02:54 That's why you chose to do it, right? I gotta get this on my chest. And Eli, how bad was this movie? Well, if you love when an old song comes on the jukebox, but for bigotry, then you will love this movie. I mean, correct me, and I'm sure we'll talk about this throughout, but like the overwhelming thing that I experienced in this movie was like, oh They've been making that argument for 30 years. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah and and mark on that subject I'm so very sorry. I had no idea the level of No idea right because I lived through this era, but I did not remember the rancid bigotry we were about to expose you to.
Starting point is 00:03:45 So isn't it sweet? And you know, it's, it's first of all, it's good to be here to be your gay fig leaf. Yeah, I'm happy to be, I'm happy to provide. But you know, the other thing is I just happened to have been spent the last three months working on a huge documentary project about the Mormon kind of anti-queer policies of the past 70 years. So my torpedo tubes are fully loaded. This is perfect. Awesome.
Starting point is 00:04:10 Yeah. I, when we were talking about which movie uncle Mark would make his incredible re-debut from the grave for, I was like, Hey, it's about to be Mormon movie month. We could do animated book of Mormon or the world's most vicious homophobia. I chose this. Easy. Yeah. OK, this is the 90s.
Starting point is 00:04:29 It was jokes in the 90s. Vicious homophobia was just jokey jokes. In the right. Yeah, there's a lot of goofs in. Yeah, particularly. Yeah, it was it was every sitcom in the 90s for sure. Yeah. Yeah. And so for the listeners, hey, I can give you the trigger warning
Starting point is 00:04:44 that I should have given Mark. You, like me, may the listeners, hey, I can give you the trigger warning that I should have given Mark. You, like me, may have forgotten just how nakedly bigoted our culture was to gay people in the 90s. We're about to make you remember the fuck out of it, so just be ready for the on. So on that subject, is there anything you guys want to nominate this one for being the best at being the worst at? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:01 I'm going to go with a propaganda based one best-worst additional title on YouTube to get better I guess bigot SEO is what they've done Keith they literally added your extra title since I entered that movie into art like they saw a couple of views come in from me and they were like oh let's let's let's double down on this title. We're going to make this happen. Wow. Might be an algorithm thing. Yeah. So that additional big SEO title is LGBTQ rights and the gay slash transgender agenda. Full documentary film special rights in the bathroom. Yeah, Right. No, that was added like the fucking extra scenes in Star Wars, right? There's nothing in this documentary about the bath rights in the bathroom.
Starting point is 00:05:53 It's 1993. They hadn't like honed their bigotry on that yet. So exactly. Also, no, I'm sorry. I don't like to like argue back on air, but this is significantly less offensive than the extra scenes in Star Wars. I just don't want people coming than the extra scenes in Star Wars. I just don't want people coming with the wrong attitude.
Starting point is 00:06:08 You compare an entire version of people to like predators and they're going to kill your children and stuff like that. That's one thing. But come on, remember when they just had those big lizards walking around in the backyard? What's that? Come on. So, okay. So I was going to go with best worst.
Starting point is 00:06:24 Okay. Okay, so I was going to go with best worst. Okay, so throughout this movie, the bigotry is just kind of assumed in this. So they'll just keep showing gay people and playing that sound. Actually, I brought a clip. It's this sound right here. That's the sound. So the entire movie is just like a fucking leather daddy hugging a stuffed unicorn with that walking in slow motion with that sound. Or it's just like two happy people walking with a flag. Yeah. Yeah. Or yeah. Family. With a with a pop scare sting. Yeah. Is a lesbian eating a sandwich with a John Carpenter score It's a major death look I know the size of our audience
Starting point is 00:07:11 I know how many of you have gay moms this is some of your home videos with So often it's a family on a picnic for their rights, right? Some kids like I'm hot I want another popsicle And they're like, can you see the darkness? Yeah. At one point, it's just a guy like drinking a soda. And then the evil narrator is like David Attenborough being like, look at him drink the gay, probably soda. Probably. You think that's a Fanta? That's a gay one.
Starting point is 00:07:40 Right. Gay rights. The revenge of Michael Myers. Right. yes. I felt like Skeletor was waiting off screen the whole time. Do I go now? Do I go now? Do I go now? Do I go now?
Starting point is 00:07:53 Do I go now? Do I go now? Do I go now? Do I go now? Do I go now? Do I go now? Do I go now? Do I go now?
Starting point is 00:08:01 Do I go now? Do I go now? Do I go now? Do I go now? Do I go now? Do I go now? Do I go now? Do I go now? It's the OG Queen. The first representation in cinema. Cobra Commander too. So Mark, did you have a best worst for us? Well, you know what I got to say guys, this actually uncovers a really, really deep gay myth.
Starting point is 00:08:16 And that is that homosexuality equals good fashion taste. We were all victims of the 90s. Why did 1993 have to happen? There's a lot of things they want you to be ashamed about in this movie and none of them are the jackets and they all should be the jackets. Yeah, I'm very ashamed guys. Thank you. Did you own Zcavaricchi's? Be honest. Owned or owned?
Starting point is 00:08:45 It's currently wearing as I record this podcast. Asked and answered. No comment. Maybe. I can't hear you over your pleats, but I'm assuming that's a yes. And I'm going to go with best best ex-gays. So as I'm watching this movie, right?
Starting point is 00:09:02 I'm like doing my research and I'm finding out I am pleased to announce for those of you who are watching, not a single vocal ex-gay who is named in this movie is still an ex-gay. They're just gay now. Everyone went back to gay. Awesome. Good to know. All right, well, tell you what, if we're going to 90s, I need to change into some cargo pants
Starting point is 00:09:20 and a flannel. So we're going to take a quick break, but we'll be back in a minute with all the rank homophobia of gay rights, special rights. Dude, dude, that was nothing like a dance. Don't you think I know that Heathleton? Hey guys, what you doing? Yeah, did Eli bet Heath he could reenact the entirety of the Black Swan again? Okay, first of all, Marcus, we are tied on that bet.
Starting point is 00:09:46 And second of all, no, we're getting ready for our live show in Cleveland, Ohio on July 19th. What's so special about a trip to Rock City? Detroit is Rock City. Pretty sure it's Cleveland. I don't think so. I will not be gaslit about this, people. No, Noah, we'll be reviewing Leap 3.
Starting point is 00:10:03 Leap 3? Wasn't Leap 2 like, oh, 10'll be reviewing Leap 3. Leap 3? It wasn't Leap 2 like oh 10 years ago? Yes it was and I can't wait to see what a decade of planning has done to this franchise. Honestly, neither can I. Well then you better act fast. There's still just a few tickets left at Godawfulmovieslive.com. Godawfulmovieslive.com? Godawfulmovies live.com god awful movies live.com. Wow. Did you mean to land in a split just now? Do you want me to call an ambulance?
Starting point is 00:10:33 Yes, please. All right, everyone. Welcome to the first ever planning meeting for gay rights special rights. Yeah. Now, obviously here in 1993, every take we have about gay rights is going to hold up to history. This will not be wildly shameful and universally regarded to be untrue in less than two decades. No, why would it be that?
Starting point is 00:10:57 Timeless. Which is why it's important that I think we get all of our best arguments right out here at the start. So what are we thinking, folks? Oh, well, obviously, giving gay people rights makes them special. Right. And we can't do we can't do that. Absolutely. I love that. It's a great argument. Yeah. Also, gay people already have all the rights.
Starting point is 00:11:18 OK, now, Chris, do we think there's anything tricky about putting that section right after we say they don't need rights? No. No. Not a problem at all. I don't see it. Okay, good. I also didn't think that, but I just wanted to make sure. So, next question. What would be the harm in gay rights? It would destroy my family.
Starting point is 00:11:43 Sorry, did you say your family? Yeah, if guys get don't like don't get married. I mean my whole family it would just be destroyed say no more I completely understand. Oh, so church would be illegal probably Yeah, and then finally do we have some ex homosexuals who could stare with just Incredibly wide eyes into the camera while explaining how happy they are right now. Oh, I can find a couple. For sure. Oh, you do it. Yeah, I'll do it. And how wide will their eyes be?
Starting point is 00:12:10 So fucking wide. Great. They're doing awesome. Happy. I'm so good. And we're back for the breakdown. We're going to start off with a content warning because shit's about to get pretty gay up in here, right?
Starting point is 00:12:29 But first we're going to start off with Martin Luther King having a dream. This was insane as the starting point, right? These people are making their bigot documentary and they're like, all right, well, letting gay people have civil rights. That's a, that's a big problem. Let's start with MLK. Hey guys. Hey guys. Well, letting gay people have civil rights, that's a big problem. Let's start with MLK. Hey, guys.
Starting point is 00:12:47 Hey, guys. How do we do with MLK? Do we treat him real good? How's he doing? How's he doing? Yeah, right. Do we have, for instance, a long distance race to celebrate the man who killed him? Yeah. Yeah, I like it's the benchmark for when we stopped see yeah Mission accomplished. Yeah, that's where writes everyone got it then that's all we need deck in the box
Starting point is 00:13:13 Seriously, I saw this I was like, okay Are they gonna argue with MLK and then I was like, okay, it's very possible that that's what they're gonna be doing Well, right, but but what we're doing instead is they're like they're like, let me open up with a few groups that I'm not bigoted towards. Right. They're like, black people, civil rights. I'm all for that. I think they're lying about that. This is 1993. It's still with us today.
Starting point is 00:13:39 The white Christian pornography of the, you know, the color of their skin, not the content of their character. From people who have neither color content or character. Maybe they could give it a rest. Dr. King said a few other things, if you can believe it. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Translucent is a color, technically. Clear is a color.
Starting point is 00:14:04 It just doesn't say that quote on your white innocence medal from the Franklin mint. Well, yeah, let's to be super clear Martin Luther King was in favor of gay fucking rights. Like this movie is not yeah. Yeah. And his best one of his best friends Bayard Rustin was a completely out gay black man that organized the March
Starting point is 00:14:26 on Washington. Oh, wow. Yeah. For instance. Yeah. Don't introduce facts. It's going to confuse the documentary. Objection. But then the documentary starts with the narrator kicks in and he's kind of stammering through a clearly unwritten opening line of his documentary. And I'm like, Oh no. And then, okay. So, but we cut from that civil rights march. Welcome to the line. Yeah. Welcome to the line. Really?
Starting point is 00:14:54 We're going to have to change the name now. But it's okay. So, but we cut from that civil rights march to a different one in April of 1993. It was a gay civil rights march on Washington like 30 years later. We know that because it introduces Larry Kramer as Larry Kramer, homosexual, and I wrote in my notes, I wonder if he had business cards made up with him. I have it on my LinkedIn, so yeah. Well, I mean like, mine says Heathenright, podcaster, I've had sex with a woman that's on my No, it's so bad I love these homophobic chyrons right cuz every gay person it'll say that it doesn't say, you know, Dave heterosexual later
Starting point is 00:15:37 No, there's no and I'm worried that that's going to affect You know our sense of the kind of the veracity that we've come to expect from jeremiah.com films. Yeah. You know, Larry Kramer, homosexual, was a fucking hero. He and ACT UP, his organization, once covered Jesse Helms' house in a giant pink condom. Oh, was that him? Yeah, fantastic.
Starting point is 00:16:00 Yeah, that was him. Oh, okay. So, you know, keep his name at your fucking praise nozzles, you assholes. Right. Yeah. Right. And then he paraphrases Larry Kramer during the speech that they show. He paraphrases Martin Luther King and he says, you know, men and women will not be judged
Starting point is 00:16:14 by their sexual desires, but by the content of their character. And then the narrator cuts in and goes, you know, a lot of people didn't notice that that isn't actually the line. He has substituted sexual desires for color of the skin. Well, and I'm like, those are called deaf people, man. I wrote my notes. I think they did notice. I think that was the point. Right.
Starting point is 00:16:38 He also says he misquoted Dr. King and it's actually a fucking paraphrasing, which they would know if they'd gone to a school that wasn't preceded by the word home. Yes. Right. Homophobia is what MLK would have wanted. He just didn't have time in that speech, but that was what was in the drafts next.
Starting point is 00:16:58 So yeah, and so then we're introduced to my best works. We have this montage of gay people marching gaily and it slowed down to make it look ominous. And then there's the ball from top of all of it. We will see. There is so much footage by the way of this march throughout the movie. I guarantee you that oppressed gay Christian children jacked off to this movie at some point. So the cameraman Christian filmmakers.
Starting point is 00:17:31 Yeah, I don't know which bad universe Uncle Mark raised his hand a little too fast. I can push Dolly on this. I can push it. No, I don't mind. I don't buy that. You know mind. You know, I'm going to pick up some B-roll. We need about 23 and a half hours of B-rolls I think for this moment. We're just wrapping? No, I'm going to stick around. You guys go.
Starting point is 00:17:56 These fellas are giving me a ride, isn't it? So, okay. So now we're going to meet Emanuel Mclittle. Hey, hey, hey guys. Hey guys. Hey guys. Eli, be good. Can we do a timeout on how much better we've gotten? How would you describe Emanuel Mclittle?
Starting point is 00:18:20 Not Mclittle. Nope. Emanuel McBig. I thought it was Emanuel McGriddle. He, look McBig. I always thought it was Emmanuel McGrittle. He, look, here's what I'm saying. Here's what I'm saying. Please don't make it a Super Size Me joke. Here's what I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:18:37 If I looked like Emmanuel McLiddle and I were going to talk about a group of people, I would sit up all the way in my chair so that I didn't look like I had Princess Leia on a chain. Yeah, so of course like this I put in my nose, hey weird this fucking Chiron doesn't point out his sexual orientation, but he says, this is his actual line, quote, homosexuals are using not only the language, but they're beginning to insist that the statutes, the laws, all of the advantages gained by civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King
Starting point is 00:19:16 be now applied to homosexuals. And we're like, yes. Right. But the movie's like, boah. Can you believe it? Yeah, yeah. Just apply to anybody who needs them. Yes.
Starting point is 00:19:29 That's the point of equal protection under the law. They have to keep doing this. Yeah. They say like equality. And then there's a pause where there should be like a therefore or something. And then they have to be like, oh, we didn't have anything. Equality is scary. Right. So that's the thing is that for this movie,
Starting point is 00:19:47 their bigotry is self-evident. Over and over again, and then they're just like, and then gay people will be married. And we're like, yes. Wah. And we can't have gay people doing this thing that we're 40% successful at. Yes.
Starting point is 00:20:13 This is where we meet Lester James, the regional director of the Traditional Values Coalition. Which region? Yeah, right? He chimes in to say that the gay people are going to use up all the civil rights and then black people won't have any, right? This is where we introduce the idea of the pile of civil rights were all fighting over And I wouldn't really put a lot of emphasis on Lester because he's just sort of one of a legion of bigots Except the woman on Lester's right seems to have become self-aware that she's on the wrong side of history The second the word action was set right because you Cause you could see her be like, oh no, oh no.
Starting point is 00:20:46 Oh, she's, she is gently trying to scooch behind Lester and out of this film throughout the rest of the movie. Just like putting up a mustache. And then, whoo! Yes, but you're completely right in their, in their, how they surmise like the scarcity of civil rights.
Starting point is 00:21:07 It's, you know, it's like a speaking stick. There's only one civil rights to go around. Yes, right. Pass it around like a twink and a pastor's only retreat. They get to use it until they're done. The concept of harmony is a zero sum game in their head. Yes. Right. And then so just to let you know that they really mean business on this.
Starting point is 00:21:29 We're not bigots thing. We bring in Senator Trent Lott. Now, for those of you who don't recall Senator Trent, he's the guy who had to step down from Republican leadership because he praised Strom Thurman's fucking segregationist platform. He was on fucking camera talking into a microphone and he looked to Strom Thurman and he talked about him running for president on the segregationist ticket and went, well, it would have been great if he'd won that, huh? Whoops, there goes my career. Because
Starting point is 00:22:00 back then the Republicans were, you would lose your career over that. At the end of his career, they made a law that you can't become a lobbyist right away. And he retired like the day before that new law kicked in that would have been a two year window where he couldn't do that. And he literally like the next day opened a lobbying firm next to the White House, like a block from the White House. Well, you know, and can I just have a gay corner second here, fellas, as the token gay on the show?
Starting point is 00:22:29 Unless things have changed, it's been a while for me. Heath? Checking in with you, buddy. Little silence? No, you're good. You're good, Mark. Uncle Mark, it's all you. All right, so.
Starting point is 00:22:38 I will cede the floor. There are, thank you. There are going to be several examples of this throughout this piece of cinema. But Trent Lott is like so many Christian conservative white men who went into battle with the sword of faith, the shield of gospel and the helmet of hair. And speaking as a decorated homosexual, having a full head of hair and yet asking to be styled
Starting point is 00:23:02 like a 1982 J JC Penney menswear mannequin with a nylon wig is a choice I find endlessly mysterious, but I'm here for it. Yeah, the full armor of God should include Trent Lott's hair for sure. Yes. Yeah, absolutely. And the other men in this movie. Well, yeah, but Trent Lott explains that gay people don't want equal rights. They want special rights. And we all wrote such as in the movie said moving on, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:32 Over and over again, we're going to get that. So okay, so then we get our hilariously convoluted title screen, which reads I shit you not. Citizens United for the preservationervation of Civil Rights presents over gay rights speci- there was always room on one fucking screen for their entire title gay rights special rights inside the homosexual agenda. Tell me you can't find an editor without telling me you can't find an editor. Just someone popping their head into Tyler's office. Hey Tyler, is 19 words good for our title?
Starting point is 00:24:09 Oh yeah, it's great. No, it's wonderful. You should keep it. No, it's exactly, title link. Well also, look, I mean, this is also, this title screen is what happens when there are no gay people in your life. Right?
Starting point is 00:24:18 Yeah, thank you. This is the worst goddamn title screen I have ever seen. We could have done an episode on this title screen Yeah, they needed the Star Wars credits crawl, but they couldn't afford single point No, they were on print shop and they maybe tried to do that and they're like that's not gonna work But we did learn about fonts today. We will use three different ones. Oh boy. Yeah I think they went to shitsplat.com, which is the online random font generator.
Starting point is 00:24:48 So they had, for some reason, the Gunsmoke Spur Serif font for some reason, the Times New Homo Bold, and a startling cursive Comic Sans. And a clear, real narrative tension that made me feel like anything could happen in this movie. It's so... It looks like the title is having a fight with itself in the font fight. I wrote down, Saloon, Gay Varsity, My First Cursive? Interesting.
Starting point is 00:25:16 I had Western Saloon, Gay Block Letters, and Girls Trapper Keeper. It's fucking nuts. And then the narrator kicks in and he's like, Hey, gay people don't count as a protected class. And here's why there's three things that you need to count as a as a protected class. This is all complete bullshit. This is coming from his asshole, right? Because the first one is immutable characteristics. Mm-hmm. But- Yeah. But minority religions are a protected class. Now, like, I'm not saying, like, sexual orientation is an immutable characteristic, right?
Starting point is 00:25:52 But even setting that aside, that's not even a requi- Like, Jewish is not an immutable characteristic. Fucking Muslim is not an immutable characteristic, right? Like- Tell that to Dennis Prager. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny that people screaming about how I made a choice are people who've very clearly made a choice
Starting point is 00:26:10 and I used to belong to a religion that sends about 60,000 handsome young men out into the world every day to help people make a different choice. Yes. Right, exactly. So, but that's the first one. And we'll drill into how bullshit that is in a second here. But he gives all three of them. The second is financial discrimination, which again, that's why would fuck would that be a requirement?
Starting point is 00:26:34 Well, yeah. And we'll drill into why that's bullshit. Also, there is. Yes, exactly. Exactly. And the third is political. You have to have political weakness. Right. And now we're going to tackle those one at a time, right? Starting with the unchangeable characteristics, right? Again, I just age as a protected fucking class. Mark, did you have a lot of government power when you were living in Utah? It was really amazing how much subsidizing I got for my choice of bullies.
Starting point is 00:27:06 And my beautiful parents. Yeah, that was really incredible. That was all covered. That's covered under the plan. Oh wow. Yeah, pretty nice huh? Socialism. So our parade of historical evil people now will land on
Starting point is 00:27:20 former US Attorney General Edwin Meese. Fucking yikes. Yeah. This guy tried to ban porn in 1986. Sure did. He spent like two years doing a report on that. And then he's like, yep, it's evil. We should ban it. Oh, you guys want to hear a sad story? This guy's still alive. He's like 93 or whatever, and he's still alive.
Starting point is 00:27:44 Well, I think they did a good job of stacking this movie with a bunch of totally unfuckable men. So, it kind of worked as conversion therapy. Truly, yeah, no. I'd give women another shot after watching this movie. Let me take a look at PTSD Kristen Wiig. We'll get to her. Yeah, yeah. Emmanuel McLittle. We'll get to her. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:05 Emmanuel McLittle. If Emmanuel McLittle was the option, I'm gonna try it one more. All right, here we go. So okay, so but then, so Trent Lott comes in one more time here, and I just, I have to point out this line because it's so chilling, right?
Starting point is 00:28:19 He says, quote, "'Homosexuality is something that can be dealt with, "'can be controlled. Yeah. Apparently he thinks he's got his under control, I suppose. Right, right, exactly. So what he's saying is that homosexual urges are something that you can tamp down, but it also sounds like, well, you know, we could just take the motherfuckers out. You know, like there is definitely a double meaning there that is, like, that he's aware of. So, okay, so now it's time to meet Lou Lopez, Hispanic man in a suit.
Starting point is 00:28:51 Right? That's his qualification to be in this movie, apparently. Yes. And apparently he's the assistant to the regional manager of some school district, whose other underclass qualification, other than being Hispanic, is being only able to talk through his nostrils. So I thought you would understand what it is to be a hated minority. Yeah, right? But see, that's what they're trying to do at this point in the movie, right?
Starting point is 00:29:15 They're trying to show you like, hey, look, all the minorities have homophobes in it, right? Therefore, we're not racist, because this is where we meet Raymond Kwong of the Chinese Family Alliance. What's the opposite of intersectionality? The whole movie is like the argument from separationality. That's what they're doing.
Starting point is 00:29:31 They're doing a terrific job of assembling a wonderfully diverse coalition of frothing bandits. Yes. Yeah. And there's also, I believe it was McLittle at the very end, he cuts in here to go like, you know, homosexuals, despite what, you know, literally every one of them self-report, choose to be gay. Yes.
Starting point is 00:29:50 It's like, no matter what everyone that we've ever asked tells us on the subject, they're wrong. Yeah, so right, yeah, exactly. Cause I said so. Otherwise, why wouldn't they be here for a little bit of Emmanuel McLintock? They keep saying no to me proof in the pudding I'm the pudding
Starting point is 00:30:23 So, okay, so we've taken care of immutable characteristics by Sticking our fingers in her ear and yelling la la la. So we move on to made up point number two, which is that the group has to have suffered economic discrimination. And so now they're going to try to argue that gay people in the 1990s didn't suffer from economic discrimination. Right. And they open and look, hey, that seems like a hard point to prove, but don't worry. They open with, I mean, sure, you could be fired fority, and then it wasn't, wink,
Starting point is 00:31:06 and then now they do it anyway, and teachers and daycare workers are routinely persecuted for the crime of being queer. Teenagers thrown out of their houses and disinherited on the regular for the sin of wanting love and companionship, but they often don't even finish high school. Sometimes they turn to sex work.
Starting point is 00:31:24 They may never make it to college, and then they get stuck in American wage slavery. So yeah, no financial discrimination whatsoever No, no, nothing. Nothing. Keep in mind all that is right now. These guys are fighting against the before Right. So here's a disturbing statistic, right? Like so household income amongst gay couples I think is higher than amongst heterosexual couples. But congratulations, right. But that's largely because people who are in that low income bracket, if they're gay, are way more likely to die, right? Whether it's by suicide or be murdered or what have you. So like, yeah, you know, that's
Starting point is 00:32:00 one of the most terrifying of all the American statistics. And they're just like, Yeah, look, they have plenty of money, these gay people. Right. And also, queer people are sometimes high income people because we have to start supporting ourselves at fucking 14. Right. We don't think we'll ever find the stability of a partnership or a marriage, you know, in life companionship.
Starting point is 00:32:20 And we're very often due to childness childlessness by hysterical bigots Even if we want them and you know that creates a cash surplus sometimes assholes Yeah, and black people have statistically lower incomes because that's the world you fucking made Don't blame it on the queer I guys Exactly. So that's the next thing that they do right is that they start putting up statistics of gay people versus black people in America, right? Yeah, I genuinely think this movie might not know that there are gay black people. Yes, it's amazing. I don't think they can imagine that somebody could be in two different minority groups at the same time.
Starting point is 00:33:01 They think that you would like shrivel up. I don't know. That's like DC Marvel. That's DC Marvel, they can't. Right, it's impossible. I actually, I know a gay deaf Latino little person, the movie would explode like scanners. I don't know what I'm talking about.
Starting point is 00:33:18 They would have to look at that person's reflection in their shield. But yet, you don't Noah, you're totally right. The casual statistical comparison of black agonies to gay ones, they demand we all compete in the discrimination Olympics. Sure, I guess. Yeah, until you score high enough in the centuries-long American hatescape they created, white Christians just can't award you any rights. Sorry, fag. Fourth place just doesn't make sense. score high enough in the centuries long American hate scape they created, white Christians
Starting point is 00:33:45 just can't award you any rights. Sorry, fags. Fourth place just doesn't make the podium. You haven't crossed the finish line until you've been enslaved or whatever. Yeah. And of course, as they're doing that, I'm like, hey, why don't we compare gay black people to straight black people? And they're like, what? That doesn't compute. And when we move on. I didn't even understand the sentence. So, but then Jan Rice, she shows up to point out that, like, again, that, you know, we only have so many rights to go around and black people aren't done with the speaking stick yet, I guess.
Starting point is 00:34:21 Yeah. Jen makes a really important point in this film, which is that even if being gay sentenced you to hell, there are worse fates and it's being married to Jen Rice. So like, you know, it's sort of a positive side. So okay, so then we move on to point number three on their imaginary list of made up protected class requirements. And that is that the group must be, quote, politically powerless. Which, can I say, I was deeply impressed that in a movie where they just established that there were laws against these people, to say there are no laws against these people, it's bold.
Starting point is 00:34:59 It's a bold argument. Let's see how it works out for them. And I was going to say, you know, the political weakness thing. So this is 1993, right? When this movie was made, there were at least 50,000 queer people, mostly gay men from a disease epidemic. 30,000 of us were dead before their sainted Ronald Reagan
Starting point is 00:35:16 could be bothered to even mention it. We're service members were tossed out and denied pensions and VA benefits without recourse. Cops returned a handcuffed naked teenager bleeding from the ass to Jeffrey Dahmer because they didn't consider gay domestic abuse domestic abuse to be a thing. And in 1973, someone set fire to the upstairs lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans, burning 49 gay people to death and no one was convicted after a quote investigation. So yeah, maybe we just hired a shitty lobbyist you gotta put in the money
Starting point is 00:35:49 thank you gotta open yourself up to that we need a case streets for the hired Grover Norquist yeah later as a good guy yes by the movie yeah counterpoint counterpoint you were on Newsweek yes right well okay my favorite moment in this entire stupid fucking movie is when they're trying to make the argument that, well, if you think about it, gay people have plenty of political power. They say there's even a lesbian as the nation's top fair housing official. Look out. That was a, yeah, right.
Starting point is 00:36:19 Yeah, you guys have set the world on fire now. Okay. And to be clear, she was the assistant. Yes, the assistant to the top fair housing official. For the regional Clinton housing secretary for two years. It's so funny because they call this woman a militant lesbian activist and then they cut to her and she's just like, I got these little blue paper clips that I put on the web.
Starting point is 00:36:44 These people have never met a fucking militant lesbian because if they had, they would not blue paper clips that I put on the left side of my brain. These people have never met a fucking militant lesbian because if they had they would not be alive to tell about it. They would not be alive. They would not. They would be a jacket somewhere. She's awesome. Roberta Actenberg, she integrated an all white fucking KKK town in Texas, you know, kind
Starting point is 00:37:03 of like MLK might have done. Yeah. She didn't like turn Odessa into like a, like a woke lesbian condo town by force or anything. She did a bunch of good stuff. Yeah. And that would have been good too. And I love that, you know, they're super, super mad. They're like, look at these people.
Starting point is 00:37:20 They're engaging in the shitty normal political process in this country raising money and hiring lobbyists and right campaigning for sympathetic politicians It's like some kind of freemason fucking illuminati Plot that David Ike tripped over at the Celestine ruins It's like the movie goes like well, you know gay people say that they're politically powerless But they also claim to have donated $3.4 million to Bill Clinton's campaign. God, three million.
Starting point is 00:37:52 Remember when $3 million was like a big number for campaign. I don't, I actually don't. When I was a boy playing hoop and stick. Yeah. But also I was like, hey, I wonder how much like money, like all black people put together donated to the Clinton campaign. I feel like it's more than $3.4 million.
Starting point is 00:38:11 So by your own standards, right? Like no one's politically powerless in this country, I guess. Yeah, his campaign had like almost $100 million in donations by the way in 92. Yeah, so yeah, right. Oh, well, 3% is a a pretty good pretty 3.5%. That's pretty good. 7% less than our representation in the population.
Starting point is 00:38:30 Let's shake those cups a little harder. So and then like, not like that, Tyler. We got to stop bringing in places. We got to stop bringing him places. So yeah, so but then the narrator quotes from a Supreme Court, selectively quotes from a Supreme Court decision that says, well, you know, gay people don't have rights. And I'm like, hey, do we really want to use shit the Supreme Court used to think as our metric on rights? African American narrator guy?
Starting point is 00:39:01 Yeah. And the way the way that he so selectively said, there is, in constitutional terms, there is no such thing, like specifically as a right to commit acts of homosexual sodomy. Yes. Okay, but there are not specific granted rights
Starting point is 00:39:18 to like eat guacamole or love the wedding crashers, or to own a ladybug print umbrella, but people assume it's a risk they can take. So fucking dumb. All right. So then Edwin Meese cuts in to conclude that gay people should not have civil rights, actually. Sorry, lost my boner when his face came back on the screen.
Starting point is 00:39:42 I was so close. You can see why he wanted to get rid of porn, right? Like he just gets rid of it as he walks into a room. Yeah. So, oh, and this is also where we meet Ralph Reed, who looks like his dad is trying to shut down the teen center. Yeah, Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition. And he says that nobody should have special rights or privileges. And I wrote in my notes, really Christian coalition? Are you sure that's your opinion? I could smell the poppers through the years
Starting point is 00:40:14 when he appeared. And he is throwing a lot of homo hating shade for a guy who had his nose sculpted to look like queer icon, Morgan Fairchild. Exactly, yes. All right, well, there's only so much of this we can take at a time. So we're going to give ourselves a quick break. But we'll be back in a minute with even more of Gay Rights Special Rights. Dearest Martha, I write to you from the front lines of the gay civil war.
Starting point is 00:40:43 Our side has suffered heavy losses and our spirits are nearly broken, but we will remain strong. General Horenthauer managed to hold back their cavalry with matching jean outfits, but it was only a matter of time till they cut the asses out of them and turned them into chaps.
Starting point is 00:41:01 Did you know that all chaps are assless? I did not, Not until this terrible day. Dearest Isabel, another bad day here in the gay civil war. Our boys were red filth on our way up Mount Goodmire, and there's hardly a one among them without a trip to the library. Our spirits are as broken as Back Mountain, and do not know how long we shall endure. Dearest Jathunder, it is with a heavy heart that I inform you today that we offered our surrender to the homosexual army.
Starting point is 00:41:42 General Horenthaler tried to keep his head high, but when their admiralty performed that choreographed version of single ladies in celebration, I could tell he would never recover. Pray for me, pray for us all. And we're back for more of this shit, and we're gonna rejoin the action by delineating the four basic myths of the gay agenda So this stupid fucking movie has to be doing a list right at all fucking time So we just did the three whatever now we're gonna do the four myths. Am I being Gish galopped by a movie?
Starting point is 00:42:18 I'll just pause you movie. I was like, okay, I'm gonna go ahead and guarantee they get all four wrong They do I think they should just don't make lists It goes badly for you What is a hat trick plus one? Yeah We haven't even bothered to name this yet. Yeah as a new Canadian I should know a hockey term, but I don't think there is right. Yeah, he's one for that double brace All right, but these myths of course they come from the quote militant homosexual leaders. Mark, who are the who are the current militant homosexual leaders right now? Or
Starting point is 00:42:50 can you not tell us? Well, I think there's probably Andy Cohen. Okay. Pete Buttigieg feels like he's in the mix. Not militant enough. I think. No. Okay. Yeah. Too nice. No, I think it's Katy Perry wants to be, but she's not queer, so. She went to space and they took all her gay away.
Starting point is 00:43:08 Yeah, and she didn't stay. But I do love, you know, they keep throwing around this word myth, and it's like, all right, guys, if you want to have a conversation about what believing in myths in titles wants to, I'm here for it. Yep, like to be clear, all the talking heads so far are religious leaders.
Starting point is 00:43:29 So okay, so myth one is that homosexuality qualifies as a minority status. Movies already dealt with that to its own satisfaction, right? We don't spend any time on that. The movie doesn't Ibb it here for real. Yes, it does. It's established, we did that. It's crazy, we put it in our movie. We could have just not included it if for real. Yes, it does. It's established. We did that. It's crazy.
Starting point is 00:43:46 We put it in our movie. We could have just not included it if we felt like we addressed the point. But here we are. Yeah. And to be clear, myth one, gay people are a minority. And then very next thing, myth two, gay people are 10% of the population. I was like, less than 50 is a minority. What are you talking about?
Starting point is 00:44:03 That would be a fucking minority. Yeah. Yeah. But that's myth number two. And that comes from, I'm sorry. Where does that fucking come from? Well, originally I think there it was kind of based on the Kinsey, the Kinsey study, which they then go on to say that the, the, the guy who did it perfect, the guy who did it with Kinsey completely disavowed it, which he did not. No. He just admitted to all the standard difficulties
Starting point is 00:44:28 in statistical sampling, that every statistical sampling survey has. Right. That's it. But like, according to what I saw, the current huge surveys show that 9.3% of the population identifies as LGBTQ+, which is pretty fucking close, right? Cause what changed since the nins is the identifying-ness.
Starting point is 00:44:48 Right. Not the gayness. That's right. And also remember that it is often dangerous and scary to identify yourself as this thing. Right. Well, of course. Yeah. So I believe personally through just life and my experience and being around a lot of
Starting point is 00:45:02 conservative people who hit on me that the 10% is kind of an undercount. Yeah, right. Look to your left, look to your right. Both of those people are having sex with Mark right now. Yeah. So, okay. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:45:15 So, now we're going to go back to all of these myths in a second, but they delineate them all upfront, right? Myth number three is that people are born homosexual. Myth number four is that gay people cannot change their behavior, right? So So like I said, we're going to go back to all of those, but the movie drills in and myth two, right? The 10% number. And they point out, oh, well, you know, this guy who co-authored it, he disabouted it. He didn't disabout it. Like you said, he said that the number might be wrong. And I'm like, I write in my notes, Hey, what did he think the number was the movie? And they just, they say, we think it's 1%.
Starting point is 00:45:48 And that's based on like, I guess in 1993, when Pew asked only 1% of people, only 1% of men were willing to admit that they were gay. Sure. And if it's only 1%, then they're taking way less equality from the pile of equality that the last people equality. So it's less of a problem. Just relax. Yes.
Starting point is 00:46:08 And it's still three million people at the time. Right? That's a lot of people. Yeah. Yeah. And then they show us Jerry Studds. He was the first. They misspell his fucking name, by the way, but they show him.
Starting point is 00:46:18 Show us him. He was the first openly gay person in US Congress in 1993. Right? Again, they're trying to say that they're not politically powerless. Look, one person in all of history in, you know, obviously there were more gay people in Congress than just Jerry Stoves at the time, but the only openly gay person in all of the fucking history of the institution. Yes. And remember, anytime they say openly, that word is doing a fuck ton of work, man.
Starting point is 00:46:46 There have been so many queer people in the seat of power for so long. Yes. Including, you know, Ray Cohn. Even my Paul Lind wasn't open. Paul Lind! Yeah, was not openly gay. Which is crazy. Neither was Liberace, but the safest place.
Starting point is 00:47:01 Center square. The safest place in the 1970s for a gay man was in front of a fucking television camera. Yeah. Yeah. But of course they show Jerry says they do the horror movie music and make him move in slow motion again. And then we move on to myth number three that people are born, that people are born homosexual. Now I want to point out when they put these myths, their myths on the screen, it'll say myth number whatever and then it'll say the myth and then below that it'll say not true. Right? Like the question marks in Spanish. It's got to be at the beginning and the end. We do not endorse this thing in case somebody just glances
Starting point is 00:47:41 at the screen for a second, I guess. I don't know. And this is where we meet, oh God, our first former homosexual, right? This is John. His image has been blacked out to obscure his identity. He's in witness protection from the gay mafia? Being gay is so expensive he couldn't pay his power bill. That's what's up, guys. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. It gives a whole new meaning to deep throat.
Starting point is 00:48:08 So I've been doing a lot of research these days into the ex-gay world. And this is like actual fact. There are two conclusions that I've drawn from it. And conclusion the first is that it's deeply fucking sad. Like all the orphans went to the circus and the tent burned down sad. Conclusion the second, there are no ex-gays. There are gay people traumatized into lives of total desolation through the cleansing barbarity of Christ's love, or there are liars and that is it. Yes. Yep. Yeah. Right. It's not a coincidence that every single one of these people that claims to be ex-gay in
Starting point is 00:48:41 this movie, that when you drill down, down they're like and my family was really Christian and wouldn't accept me unless I did this right? Yeah. Yeah, like so this is where we meet our conversion therapist Joseph Nicolosi Yeah Nicolosi by the way is like a very very famous force He's the one who really started the practice of ECD for young gay men to convert them. And so what I'm saying is sometimes I'm sad, hell isn't real. And Nick Losey is a really good example. Like if God came down and was like, but it's just going to be Nick Losey, I'd be like,
Starting point is 00:49:16 okay, I mean, and you're saying it's not even taking any space up in this universe. Guys, let's hear him out. Okay. I feel like that guy at some point was like, okay, but I gotta watch out. If I zap a straight person with electricity, it might add to the Cape Town building. Might turn him gay.
Starting point is 00:49:34 Oh no. Yeah, he was one of the founders of NARTH, which was kind of the umbrella organization for the whole quackery of what's called conversion or reparative therapy. And it's now, in the 2010s, the whole thing imploded. You know, Journey into Manhood and all these different things completely imploded.
Starting point is 00:49:54 And if you just want to give yourself a treat, watch the Stephen Fry Out There episode where he sits and talks to Nicolosi and at the end, he's like, you seem very gay he's like You seem very gay to me Looks like he just got slimed Beautiful can I say my favorite fact about Joseph Nicolosi? Oh, please He no longer has a grave in the city that he was in in California because it has been destroyed 11 times in the city that he was in in California because it has been destroyed eleven times. Oh really?
Starting point is 00:50:27 No. Aww. They just, whoever cares about him, and it's nobody, has to go to a particular piece of grass and be like, I'd put a rock here, but Uncle Mark keeps coming. So now we all have to shit somewhere else? Yeah. I love when people got in. That's cool.
Starting point is 00:50:44 In death, he got what he could not get in life, which is active scat play. Well, okay, and I have to point this out, right? Because he comes on and he says, well, you know, there's no conclusive evidence that people are born gay. Right? That's his entire purpose at this point in the movie. And then somebody else just comes on and says, well, I'm pretty sure they, they choose to be gay. That's like, you know, that's, it feels like that's a different standard than conclusive evidence.
Starting point is 00:51:15 Right. Then some lady wandering onto camera with a fucking dole whip and being like, I think I chewed it. Also let's give it up for drunk, topless, bisexual girl who just said the words gay and choice in her sentence enough times that they were like, I think the footage of her goes different. Yes, wait, can I take a camera outside of any fucking straight bar in the world at 3 a.m. and just ask questions about hot political topics. That's called TikTok. Yeah. Well, right. And, well, and be like, and this is what the
Starting point is 00:51:53 straights think. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Right. So, okay, and now we're gonna tackle myth number four, which is that you can't un-gay people, right? And this is where we learned that, well, where I learned, I guess, that Nicolosi was a conversion therapist, I guess some of us already knew that. And he's like, oh yeah, no, I can totally torture a gay person into pretending to be straight. You want to watch? You want to see that? Oh, yeah. And this is where we're going to meet, like our parade of former homosexuals, right? Alan, who I think gayness kicked out because of the mustache,
Starting point is 00:52:27 but he says he chose to leave. Not in the 90s they didn't know. That was the uniform du jour in the 90s. That mustache. Is he the one that was standing disconcertingly close to a wall? Yes! I couldn't hear what he was saying.
Starting point is 00:52:41 He is pressed up against a wall. Like, is he trying to get out of East Berlin? What is fucking happening? Yeah, see, Alan introduces himself. He says he was a practicing homosexual for 17 years. And I wrote in my notes, OK, how good did you get at it, Alan? Yeah, you must say that pretty good. So and then Luana, she says she's been, quote, out of the gay life
Starting point is 00:53:04 and quote for about eight years. Yeah, I don't believe you and neither does your top Luanna. Yeah. Yeah. Hold me back in. Right. Yeah. Then we meet Sean, an AIDS patient and quote, former homosexual. We meet him and he goes, God has healed me. Not of the AIDS. Interestingly, you think of the who's going to heal me of something that would be the gonna think of the, who's gonna heal me of something, that would be the thing. But no, it's of knowing love before I die again. Yeah, and I was sorry to see that the captain
Starting point is 00:53:32 of the Captain and Tenille had fallen on such rough times. Such hard times, yeah. I guess love didn't keep them together. Exactly. That's it. Question, does anyone over 55 listen to this podcast? Cause that was fucking hell. Oh, I sure hope so, man.
Starting point is 00:53:46 You're probably going to listen a little later, right? I feel like I'm listening right now, but I could be wrong. Yeah, maybe. Play it at the old folks' home. Make them turn the big TV that usually has prices right on into this podcast. We listen to it right after Mr. Roosevelt stops speaking. When the president takes that blanket off his lap. Oh boy, I'll tell you.
Starting point is 00:54:12 So yeah, so but then we meet a couple more. The one guy goes, he goes, God has healed me of the need for, and he pauses for a really long time because he wants to go, dick. Come. Yeah. Come. I really felt for this kid. He's like the young, quirky St. Clair. Yes.
Starting point is 00:54:30 He's talking with such yearning about the blood of a youthful Jesus making him ex-gay. It's like, babe, the blood ain't working. Your life is on the stage. Yes. Yeah. He goes like, and I'm a heterosexual man. Now smile. I mean, I, I mean, I, I don't say the word smile. Oh, I love vaginas. I had some tacos in 1989 and there's, I was thinking about Jan again. I was thinking about Jan
Starting point is 00:55:01 like sand. Oh, she looks like the tree that's friends with Kirby All I hear when a gay ex-gay guy is talking about like loving vagina my friend Ken when he was coming out Gay is a queer at three dollar bill Kentucky boy when he was coming out of anesthesia after surgery. He looked at a nurse Never seen a woman naked in his life, looked at the nurse and said, I'll bet you have a beautiful pussy. I hear that every single time I see one of these. There you go. Me too now, apparently.
Starting point is 00:55:36 Yeah, right? And then there's also a moment where, because this movie just cannot pass up on a double entendre that it doesn't notice, right? Because Nicolosi comes in and he goes, don't get sucked into the gay agenda. Why you keep thinking about sucking, man? So, okay. And then the narrator tells us about the gay marshes attendance numbers over more ominous tones, right?
Starting point is 00:55:58 They tell us gays, lesbians, sadomasochists, and transgenders were attracted to Washington in the hundreds of thousands. There's a catch-all word for those people. They're called citizens. Yeah, right. And they even say at this point, he goes like, organizers resorted to full page advertisements and gay publication. I'm like, resorted to?
Starting point is 00:56:23 You mean advertised? Look fellas I don't want to invite everybody but I've got a credit at the Village Voice. Yeah it's like right right after the once a century meeting of the elders of Zion was over in the Prague Cemetery the gays got together and said which one of these papers y'all want to put the advertiser in? Yeah. Dennis, are you staying for our meeting too? Okay, Dennis is staying for our meeting. Now we can double up in rooms, tee-hee.
Starting point is 00:56:56 And okay, so, and because this movie, again, can only exist in numbered bullet points, they're now going to tell us about the seven demands that the gay marchers for this this march on Washington had, and they are going to lie about seven of them. Yeah, it's like they use chat GPT from 1993. It's just all made up. It's all made up. Crazy, which is all the crazier because they actually show us the document that has it
Starting point is 00:57:21 like we can read the first three that they're going to lie about. Yes, exactly. The first thing is like, they demand a removal of the age of consent laws. And I'm like, okay, hold up. Yeah. And then I was going to research it and I was like, oh, I can just pause. Right. I can just read it off your movie. They demand in their movie under that voiceover.
Starting point is 00:57:43 And there's not a single word No saying that it only says between consenting adults. Yes sure does I was like, okay Well, they're lying and then I I was like, I'm gonna I'm gonna check what this is I didn't realize it was actually on the screen. I just looked it up on my quick media But Google was like dude what yeah Wikipedia. But Google was like, dude, what? Yeah. Yeah, it's like Kevin Spacey in the first fucking scene of usual suspects being like, don't tell anybody I'm Kaiser SoC. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:14 Spoilers. But yeah, so to be clear, the first demand says they they they demand, quote, repeal of all sodomy laws and other laws that criminalize private sexual expression between consenting adults. That's in there. They specifically don't. repeal of all sodomy laws and other laws that criminalize private sexual expression between consenting adults that's in there. They specifically don't and then the lies after they say that they want to rape children, it says they also want to remove the laws on like dress codes, like all dress codes. Dress codes. Right, which A, isn't in there and B, they've just now put on par with child rape. Yeah. And C, I've never seen anyone enforce a dress code more strictly than the gay population.
Starting point is 00:58:51 Have you worn white before Labor Day in front of a gay man? Well, that only started, Eli, after this movie was released. After this, that's when it really... Oh, interesting. Okay, now I know. That's where it ramped up. But, you know, also in researching my documentary and kind of getting to understand what the specifically Mormon panic is around sexuality and gender, it is really that they believe
Starting point is 00:59:15 it is performative, that you have to perform gender and sexuality, and that we make choices, we've made this choice because deep down they think they have, right? Mm-hmm, right. So straight guys think that, sorry, I'm lumping you guys in with this, they have no clue that their Punisher T-shirts and their AR5 Hundies and their F-150s with Punisher stickers on them are as gender-affirming
Starting point is 00:59:41 as a trans girl wearing makeup. Yes! You're making your exterior present how you feel inside. It's kind of funny but it's a hundred percent true. Absolutely. Absolutely. They put testicles on their pickup trucks and don't realize it's gender-affirming. Yeah. Fucking nuts. I do feel like a testicle inside though. So but then okay so then we get demand number two, which according to the movie, quote, diverts defense budget funds to cover AIDS patients medical expenses.
Starting point is 01:00:13 Says none of that specifically just for AIDS patients. Well, and specifically from defense budget rate. So the actual demand again, quote, we demand massive increase in funding for AIDS education, research and patient care Universal access to health care including alternative therapies yikes and an end to sexism and medical research and health care That's what they demanded. Not about a fucking defense budget in there Well again, it's in the movie the demand is on screen in the movie and it doesn't say anything about that But I will defend the fucking defense department to come out there for fucking everybody dude.
Starting point is 01:00:48 That's a great place to find the money. Nice big line item. Yeah. And then also it says like the second demand would call for taxpayer funded sex change operations again know the fuck I just read the entire thing to you. It said it would call for the supply of needles to IV drug addicts. Again, nothing like these are both good ideas. Stay on task though, gays. Come on. Yeah, come on guys. Single payer, not single prayer.
Starting point is 01:01:20 So then we get demand number three, which it says would legalize same sex marriage. Again, it actually stopped short of that. Yeah. Right? The actual demand doesn't even go that far. And it's so sad. They're so mad about sharing a word and it fits with this whole movie. They think a word is like it has a small pile of meaning, like the concept of equality. Right.
Starting point is 01:01:43 Multiple people are using it. Like the gay people are stealing Units of word value from the miscegenators and now we can't have a mixed rate They're stealing mixed-race marriage so they can have same-sex marriage crazy. Just let us have the 60% you fucked up We'll just take the cast off Every time a straight couple gets divorced, there's one more wedding for a gay couple there in the pile. Yeah, it's like a table in a restaurant.
Starting point is 01:02:10 That's good. It's like an understudy. You should just have that ready. Exactly. Yeah. So me and my husband have been 27 years together, love the shit out of each other. It works beautifully despite one of the people in the marriage being me. So we didn't need a ceremony or a ring to say that we love each
Starting point is 01:02:25 other, you know, for life. But we did need the civil protection as queer people, a legal contract of marriage to make sure that you could come to my hospital if I got sick. Yes. Which lordy I did. And so that my estranged Mormon family couldn't swoop in and take what was what little we built together because America is a fucking living hell right right that's what marriage is a contract that protects people so I'm personally ambivalent about forcing churches to do it if you want your fucking snake handling double wide to be fucking tax and factory go with god you're cool with me yeah okay well I hate to disagree with you, Uncle Mark, but I absolutely want the snake handlers to be forced at gunpoint to do a game running.
Starting point is 01:03:10 And I think you're not picturing it when you say you're open to it. I think we need to increase the defense budget to make that happen. Yeah, there you go. I'm seeing it. I'm seeing it. So right now, just Bernie Sanders with the muzzle of a gun next to someone's temple while he goes, and now pronounced you sissy that walk.
Starting point is 01:03:27 I mean, there's a lot of opportunity for comedy that you're passing up here. So yeah. So but then we, okay. And then we show a person like a gay couple saying, Hey, we just want the same benefits for our marriage. And then I'm like, Hey, there's evidence of that economic discrimination you were looking for earlier, but they move on Yeah, they get the demand for the demand force the only when they get remotely, right?
Starting point is 01:03:49 Right. It says it would require inclusion of lesbian gays bisexuals and transgender people in education and childcare Which the doesn't demand childcare specifically, but that's more or less what that demand actually was Right and to be clear that was just stop firing us for being gay. It was not a mandatory hiring process. Right, yeah, yeah, exactly. There wasn't like, yeah, a certain quota of gay people in each childcare facility or whatever. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:13 And then demand five, the movie presents it as quote, requires contraceptives and abortion services be made available to all ages. And they show a bunch of seven-year-old girls playing ring around the fucking rosy as they say that. Right. And it is like gay human rights generally, but is it an odd thing to bring up in a gay, anti-gay documentary? Right. Right. Again, that's not at all what their actual demand was even. Right.
Starting point is 01:04:46 The worst, though, is demand six, right? So the movie says that demand six, quote, provides taxpayer funding for artificial insemination of lesbians and bisexuals and forbids religious based concerns regarding homosexuality from being expressed. That's an amazing one. Right? That's not what it says, but I love that. No.
Starting point is 01:05:10 Here's demand number six. This is a real fucking thing that you can look up. It was literally in its entirety, quote, we demand an end to racial and ethnic discrimination in all forms. Oh dear. End quote. That's the whole fucking thing Where are they gonna steal it from if that happens? So and then they say that demand number seven requires
Starting point is 01:05:34 Organizations such as the Boy Scouts to accept homosexual Scout Masters has nothing to fucking do with that It's just it again. Just it's insane how far apart what they're saying and what the demands actually say are. But okay, so then we meet David Mixner. He is a gay advisor, senior advisor to Bill Clinton. Is this just the guy who's, is this the guy who talks about the AIDS crisis helping galvanize the community? Yeah, I believe so. Yeah. Super articulate and just super normal guy. I'm like, yeah, villain. Yeah. Yeah. But he explains that don't worry, Bill Clinton's going to take care of all the gay rights. Then he got this shot of like some people at this march. They're chanting, we're young, we're queer, we're going to rule the world. And they're in the
Starting point is 01:06:21 movie goes like, right, rule the world like Lex Luthor. You hear that? Think of the outfits they'll make us wear everybody. Act now! We have secret footage of their meeting. We found out when they want it. It turns out it's now guys. It's now. They're coming right now.
Starting point is 01:06:38 Damn it. We get the guy, the speaker who's yelling really loud and they're like, huh? That guy's pretty yelly. Okay, that was funny. Duke Commades. So that was first of all, if you haven't looked up Duke Commades speeches, I am convinced Duke Commades is a time traveler from like 2047 who was forcibly time traveled back to bigotry times because all of his speeches are like, how do you
Starting point is 01:07:02 not see you're the bad guy? This is so obvious. Yeah. I feel like a crazy person right now! Who am I even arguing with? And the movie the movie's trying to make a pop scare out of that guy's crowd but he's a little too futurey and yelly and they're a little confused in the crowd so he screams for a while and then they show the crowd and the crowd's like ah think we're clapping I mean I agree that guy's he seems like he's from the future and he's angry about it he's I had him as gay Charlie Day it's like a petting so okay so then the narrator scare mongers about the gay and lesbian inaugural ball for Clinton right there like They're like, for the first time
Starting point is 01:07:45 there was a gay and lesbian ball for the inauguration. Gay icon William Jefferson. Yeah, that was scary to the movie. Well, and to be clear, the Clinton administration didn't put this ball. Gay people had a ball and they are allowed to theme it however they want. Yeah. And I got to tell the haters that this was not the first gay ball at an inauguration. All your fucking weddings and parties and balls so they don't suck more than they already do. Every ball ever has been a gay over. The offerings you do without our help are called church.
Starting point is 01:08:29 Yeah. And then they're like, you know, Clinton even thanked the attendees by video. He wasn't actually there. He said the McCammy. Yes, right. Right. Yeah. I think these people were worried that he was going to get HIV via VHS. And then they show this actual goddamn headline. God, what a terrifying time capsule of how bad it was three years ago. They show this headline that just says, Clinton to meet with gays.
Starting point is 01:09:00 Jesus Christ. Yeah. And then there's the girl. Yeah, right. But then the woman comes in and she says, you know, don't worry, I think Bill Clinton's going to take care of the gay rights. And I'm just like, Oh, guys, don't tell her. Don't ask and don't tell her. Okay, so now we need a new bulleted list.
Starting point is 01:09:24 So we're going to talk about the impact that gay rights would have on various institutions, right? So we start with impact on business. For some reason, all of these are in this like solid gold, like, you know, pawn your title, keep your car fonts. Yes, it's very much like a the book of Lehigh. Yeah, but hey, podcast is true. Remember that funny jape I made earlier about forcing businesses to hire a gay person?
Starting point is 01:09:51 They're actually going to make that argument. Yes. Yeah. Trent Lott of Mississippi is like, well, what would happen now if a homosexual came down the Mississippi and ship and screwed up business, we admit I'm like dude I will buy you a fancy new hair hat. tobacco lobby is gang bang. If you get yourself into war business, in the delta they got shut down for not making their wedding cakes.
Starting point is 01:10:22 Yeah, he says if a gay person wants a job and for whatever reason you don't hire that person and I wrote in my notes, nope, it's just the one reason that you don't hire him that you would get in trouble for. Right, yeah exactly, he's like well you know if it's illegal to discriminate against gays you could get in trouble for discriminating against gays and I'm like oh yes, no, that's a very good point. US Senator Trent Lott. It's a real catch 22 you see I don't understand.
Starting point is 01:10:47 Well it's a catch 11 it turns out they tell me it's a catch 11 that sounds pretty bad too though. And this is where we see fucking baby Grover Norquist. Oh unbelievable yeah he says the same thing basically. Like, it's going to be too many lawsuits if discrimination counts as discrimination. And I was like, oh, lawsuits are... Do you mean like the lawsuit about your lobbying firm defrauding Native Americans by secretly then lobbying against them to hike up your lobbying piece with Jack Abramoff?
Starting point is 01:11:22 That one? Is that what you're talking about? Why would you put Grover Norquist in your movie? He's like the most evil. to hike up your lobbying piece with Jack Abramoff. That one? Woof. Is that the one you're talking about? Why would you put Robert Norquist in your movie? He's like the most evil. It's so perfect as an evil character. It's insane. True origin story.
Starting point is 01:11:34 You guys probably know this. This is his whole thing. When he was a kid, he asked his dad for change at the ice rink to buy a candy bar. His dad gave him the money, but he said had to share it with his little sister. And on that cursed day, a pale, chubby, hand-to-face and civil liberties super villain with asthma and a skin condition was born. So, never make your preteen children share treats. Yeah, clearly. That's it. And he tells that as if like, huh?
Starting point is 01:12:03 Yeah. Yeah. Well, Republicans in the room get it. There's probably like they start to tear wells up in their eyes when they hear the word share. He had to share a nickel with his sister and then he was like, no taxes ever in any society. That's actually, wow, that's the origin. Literally true. That's what he said. Guys, his chyron lists him as former economist.
Starting point is 01:12:23 I think it's accurate They found out about the lobbying group So but and he says they bring on like this Quintessentially evil person who's a nothing but a former economist just to say well, you know The problems this would cause are just unimaginable and I'm like, well is that why you weren't able to imagine a single one? For the purposes of this fucking documentary. Guys being a bigot could get pricey. Yeah, right. Yeah. But then we're going to get the impact on education and we're going
Starting point is 01:12:52 to see like the shockingly resilient claims in the anti-gay playbook, right? Oh boy, aren't they though? Everything old is new again. Yeah. So, so yeah, to be clear, most of the the arguments here, even the anti gay people of today would kind of win sad and be like, Oh, we don't admit that we think that anymore in public. But these ones just sound exactly like you're trying to run for fucking governor of Virginia. Right? Yeah. So first they they quote a satirical fucking piece that sounds really terrifying about we want to seduce your you would sodomize your sons or whatever the hell it is. Hey, bigots, I'm sorry to ruin your little rant of terror.
Starting point is 01:13:36 They're still your sons when they're consenting adults. Yeah. You know that. Yeah. Just because you kick them out of the house doesn't mean that all sons, by definition, are children. Yeah, and the way that quote is presented, unless gay community news is an official Vatican newspaper, and that quote is already translated from Latin, I call bullshit. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:13:59 Well, right, so yeah, that's the other thing. Hey, look, hey man, a straight guy once wrote Mein Kampf. You know, well, we think. You know, look a man a straight guy once wrote mine comp, you know did well we think You know, what the fuck are you trying to even prove? And again, it was a satirical fucking piece It's a clearly satirical piece if you read the whole goddamn thing and then they talk about project 10 Which was a thing back in the 90s. I guess that was it was like an effort to bring gay inclusivity Into schools. Yeah, they're scared about like the teaching of gay sex in schools. So obviously sex ed has heterosex in it at the very least.
Starting point is 01:14:32 So like there's a group of bigots that is in a weird place. They're cool with sex ed class but they start to panic if like two penis diagrams get too close on the page. Yeah, oh man. If you do that thing where you try and cross over the projector and then it doubles the image they just, ah! And then run the screaming from the room. I gotta recuse myself from this guys.
Starting point is 01:14:56 I grew up in Utah so this whole sex ed thing I don't want to fucking talk about. One of my favorite tenants about Project 10, because I was doing some research into it, so Project 10, one of their goals wasn't actually just about teaching like inclusive sex education. It was about getting misinformation about gay sex out of sex education. Yes. And one of the pieces that I thought was so funny, and I could not find like an original source on this, but Wikipedia is pretty good about it. Said that apparently in some parts of sex education, it said that anal sex damages the anus irreparably. Yes. Yeah, I know that because I was taught that in sex ed.
Starting point is 01:15:35 Wait, what? That's how I know that too. That's what's wrong, Marty. That's what's been wrong this whole time. Hey guys, I gotta run. Do you mean run? Well not run, waddle. But right, but they show this clip of this woman who started Project 10. She goes, we demand accurate information about homosexuality in sex education.
Starting point is 01:16:00 And the movie is just like, bwaaah, right? Because obviously that has to be terrifying. And then we meet fucking foghorn leg horns sugar daddy Marlon Maddow. I had this Marlon Maddow cantaloupe hypnotist. Before we get into him, I just want to preface everything that's coming by saying that nobody thinks or talks about gay sex as much as straight people horrified by gay sex. No one other than Christians are obsessed with what children know and think about sex. So this whole thing with schools, if you hate pedophiles, stop being them.
Starting point is 01:16:44 Leave our gay asses out of it They always scream about well There's just no room for that kind of top sex and sexuality in our schools, and I'm like you motherfuckers have problems Yes, it's not just Gayness queerness is not just about sex it is it is about Attraction and companionship and fun Just like being straight in high school is right. Yes Hey quick question for you guys. Does the movie think?
Starting point is 01:17:14 Masturbation is gay because Section about that section about that. Yeah, I they have a whole it was the the playbook for kids about sex Yeah, was one of the like scary books they show us Yeah, it's gonna teach kids how to masturbate You know, but there's no pairs or more of people in it. So it was confusing, but I enjoyed this book We see a little bit of it. It's like How to masturbate on the toilet how to masturbate in a tree. It was like Susie and how to masturbate a rocking horse It was like Sucian, how to masturbate on a rocking horse. There was a suggestion you shinny up a pole or slide down a banister.
Starting point is 01:17:49 And I was like, okay, this is an amazing book. It's a good idea actually. Yeah. Right. I never used my mass trading. I could totally use that. Tell us, is it gay to slide down a guy banister, a man banister? A manister?
Starting point is 01:18:03 Is that gay? I also like, there's a guy who pops up at this point and he goes, well you know, boys are particularly susceptible to this because there's a phase of your life where you really like other boys a lot. Like a lot. I'm like, no, you're just gay, man. You're just gay. Hey, because the only thing that straight people like to talk about more than how horrified they are by gay sex is how fucking gay they are. Did you see his eyes just kind of become distant when he was talking about it? Where boys just, yeah, well, they just want to be with other boys rubbing bare shoulders
Starting point is 01:18:42 against each other. You know, we've all been through that phase. So yeah, so then Leo shows back up, the nose talker from earlier. He's worried that they're going to use taxpayer dollars to promote the homosexual agenda in the schools, right? He says they're taking authority away from the parents and that's yet another timeless homophobia classic, obviously. But hey, unpopular opinion, almost all of the parents I know should have at least
Starting point is 01:19:07 some of their authority taken away. You should entirely bypass all parents in education. All parents are idiots. There's like a couple that are teachers probably so like they can be in charge of stuff. And even then they shouldn't be in charge of their own kids. They should have to do a swap seat. Really? Yep. I would have been so much better off if I was adopted by the lunch lady. And then so we see William Bennett, former secretary of education. Oh boy.
Starting point is 01:19:36 Yeah. Hey, if I was the former education secretary, I think in the first sentence where I was describing my agenda, I would not mention that we were last at math and science God I'm awful at my job. Anyway, here's what I think about the Moe's Yeah, right right you would believe we were way up there when I took over I got us up to last place He's also doing it from like the back office of a grocery store where he works. That was weird. Yeah. He might as well have a noose with a little post-it note that says Ford later, just hanging gently back and forth. No funeral. Yeah. You know, it's not enough that he was Reagan's education secretary, which tells you what a piece of shit he is, but let's take a
Starting point is 01:20:21 real quick gander at this guy that is the author of a piece of children's Christian propaganda trash called the Book of Virtues. And while he was writing that, he was blowing through millions of dollars as a compulsive gambler. And when he got exposed, he's like, oh, I'll stop. Then he said, not really. And then he said this on his conservative radio show in 2005. If you wanted to reduce crime, you could.
Starting point is 01:20:47 If that were the sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country and the crime rate would go down. What? That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. But I'm talking about it.
Starting point is 01:21:03 I don't know, just- I'm saying it again. Ask them sentences that aren't questions. Mother, I I'm talking about it. I don't know. Just I'm saying sentences that aren't questions. Mother, I forgot to take the pill this morning. And so I'm talking about my extinguishing the blacks again. Wait a minute. Your movie started with what? Okay, let's go again. Yeah, right. Right. Hey, he had a dream not me. Yeah, right. So but then I also I love this. They show like a drag show for a second and there's a title that comes up immediately. It says, male transvestites, 1993 March on Washington, because they have to put that up so they're like, don't get turned on by this. It's, I know it's like, you're only seeing them from behind and it's super fucking hot right now, but these are guys.
Starting point is 01:21:39 Read the caption before it moves. Yeah, right. So, but then they show kids watching the drag show and they focus it. There's like one kid is crying. Oh, I love this. Right. So they focus up on like his one single tear. Right before that, they show a bunch of kids laughing and smiling and enjoying the shit out of it.
Starting point is 01:22:02 At this like burlesque ish dancing show whatever and then for one second they get one kid crying but he might have it might have been tears of laughter it wasn't clear it's a quick shot and then right back to the dancing i was just like who's shooting that video yeah you set it up to like show a kid crying with like a huge 90s camcorder right in his face and then go back. Crazy. My take on it as the gay correspondent, my take on it was that, you know, obviously he's crying. You've got a 60s Liza next to a 90s Madonna? What a trainwreck. Smart kid. Good for him. I'm afraid too. Amazing. So, okay. All right.
Starting point is 01:22:45 Well, one thing that we've learned is that those gays sure are impacting. But before we see what they're going to impact next, we need to take a quick break. So I'm going to give Act 3 the hard sell here. Did gay people's rights increase after 1993? Did black people's rights decrease after 1993? Fuck. But it was unrelated though, damn it. So stick around to see if they've broken clout their way into any other correct predictions when we return for the wince juice conclusion of gay rights special rights.
Starting point is 01:23:22 I gotta say, Mr. Miller, I really appreciate the opportunity at this job. I thought you weren't interested, honestly. Well, Johnson, if I'm being honest, I wasn't. Oh, what changed your mind? It's these darn civil rights laws. Turns out now you have to hire a gay guy. Oh, no, I don't think you like had to. No, no, don't try to comfort me
Starting point is 01:23:45 I can see the writing on the wall these new laws gave me no choice but to hire you now about your accommodations Accommodations. Yeah for your lifestyle I did a little research on the internet last night and I understand you'll need to Kiki like a smoke break every couple of hours Kiki or kai k, whatever you prefer to call it. You don't have to clock out. If you just make it around 15, that'd be... Mr. Miller, I really appreciate you getting with the times or whatever, but none of this
Starting point is 01:24:15 that you just said made sense. Oh, hey girl, you must be the new hire. Brett here is really getting on board with the new laws that make him hire us. Can you tell you about the mandatory raise for pride month we get we get a raise for that yeah please don't sue me okay I'm off from a cakey break again you just went Clyde I'm on yeah pride month you know what I think I'll stay and we're back for still more of this shit we're gonna rejoin the stay. And we're back for still more of this shit.
Starting point is 01:24:47 We're going to rejoin the scaremongering with the impact that gay rights is going to have on the church. Which is, yeah, right, right. It's the same thing though, right? Cause they just said the impact on business would be that you couldn't fire people for being gay and the impact on churches like you wouldn't be able to fire people for being gay, but it would be even worse because it would be a church. Yeah, sadly, all their scaremongering about the church is not true in the case of gay
Starting point is 01:25:16 rights. But I would like to say for the record, I wish it was. That sounds awesome. I know. I don't know who it was. Was it the, it wasn't the, wasn't the Timu Morgan Freeman narrator. It was the ... something else was saying the impact being devastating. He's like, well, what if a Sunday school teacher, youth director, acquire them? And I just automatically assumed he was going
Starting point is 01:25:38 to go to, you know, what if any of them had to pay a price for their constant sexual abuse? What then? No. That's not where they were going. Nope. There's a different concern that they're like, we'll lose our tax exemptions for refusing to do gay marriages. And I'm like, all right, well, all this footage already had me hard. Come on, you know? Yeah. As a gay person who kind of doesn't give a shit about that, it's like, you know what? I'm going to go ahead and say, this can be number 700 of the reasons you should lose your tax exempt status.
Starting point is 01:26:09 Yeah, sure. Right. Exactly. Sure. Yeah. So, okay. But apparently that's it for the church, right? Because they have two seconds on impact for the church. And then another title card ushers us into a discussion about the impact on the family. So the one guy, I could think it's me, so I can't really remember at this point, although white guys start to look alike at a certain point, but he goes, now instead of family being man, woman, children, it'll be whatever people want it to be. And we're like, yes. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:26:40 Yes. They like, is that like a self evidently bad thing to you? It's so good. And the movie didn't know what to do. And so they're like, and also I wasn't done. Wait, give me some fucking carousel. This carousel is a gay one. Probably. I don't know.
Starting point is 01:26:56 Hey, guys, a carousel. We're trying to make that section about our movie, about how scary it would be for gay families. Should we show? I'm going to say 10 straight minutes of it would be for gay families. Should we show, I'm going to say, 10 straight minutes of footage of perfectly happy queer families existing in complete bliss with each other? Is that what we should do?
Starting point is 01:27:14 Should we show two lesbians with two incredibly lucky adopted children that they very clearly love the shit out of who otherwise would not have that much love in their fucking lives. Should we show that? Yes. Loving people taking in unwanted children that straight people made. Yes. Yes. And also like any of these, like you said, these fucking white guys, I lose track of them. I have one and I've lost track of myself in this thing. But to come on like these guys talking about who should have what rights and how they are the paragons.
Starting point is 01:27:53 And it's like, I may be named after four different Confederate generals, a slave ship and a hickory tree, but I'm going to play her for me to just let anyone who wants to shack up for a while without my consent, what will become of this country, my grandpappy took up arms to destroy. Yeah, right. Yes. Yes. The one guy he goes, he comes up and he goes, well, you know, homosexuality, it's tracks at the very root of civilization. And I'm like, okay, it's weird that you keep thinking about roots every time homosexuality comes up, but what the fuck are you talking about?
Starting point is 01:28:29 Yeah, I'm not Trent Lott, but I can see your confusion. We all do look the same. We get an ominous pan over someone who has a protest sign that says we are family and I wrote in my notes. I mean, that's a song lyric. They had to know that. Yeah, it sure is. Yeah, but they explained that LGBTQ rights are quote, a total rejection of the basic building block of society and quote that building block being the families
Starting point is 01:28:56 that they want to get in on. Yeah. Right. Yeah. There's, there's also a moment where I guess Phil Donahue was at this march and they they show him they're like look at that motherfucker That's fucking Donahue gay Gay guy we saw him gay. Yeah, it's right there Is this where they is this where they start showing that like those groups of poly people kind of all arm-in-arm? Yes, uh-huh. There was one where I agree. I did get vertigo from the height disparity Sure pretty impressive and then did you notice the one on the end who knew the Unabomber was so woke in the 90s Well, so what I love about the height disparity is that two of them were topless women
Starting point is 01:29:37 So they're trying to pixelate their boobs, but they're such different heights that that's really hard to do without getting that one short ladies And she's the one talking. Yeah. One of the guys just ends up looking like the alpha zombie from 28 years later. No, that's her bo... Damn it. But yes. Okay. And this is where they're really going to lay in on us, right? Because this is where they explain that the average American hasn't learned about the dark realities entrenched in the homosexual lifestyle. Is this Marilyn?
Starting point is 01:30:08 Yes. Yeah. Okay. Look, hey, podcast listener, bring it in. Sit. Let's chat for a second. This is not a fun movie and everyone in it should be lit on fire and then trapped underground. But I would listen to Marilyn Maddox.
Starting point is 01:30:23 Marlon Matto. But I would listen to Marilyn Maddox describe gay sex as an audiobook subscription for the rest of my life. It's the best. He's like, when you think about gay men, it's two guys, you know, middle-aged, strong jawlines, two days of stubble and somebody's like, Marley! They're both sweating. Oh, yeah, yeah, right. Yeah, Bunsen Hunt-Don't had a crisp,
Starting point is 01:30:51 had a crisp, cringle twinkle in his eye. It did me. When he was talking about shit, I heard for the first time from him. Right, right, so they're explaining how gay sex works and I don't want to encourage Thomas Smith or anything but I brought a clip. The ingestion of feces. What? That he engages in such things as anal intercourse. Okay. Engages in such things that's known as fisting. What is that? In which one partner takes his fist
Starting point is 01:31:25 and it's inserted in the anus of the other person. Marlin, focus up! What were you saying about how often these people think about cases? It escalated so fast, it was like masturbation, piles of steaming shit I'm gonna describe fist and now yeah, no as I heard you don't have to yell. I got it I'm back the one guy goes, you know gay sex can range from mutual
Starting point is 01:31:56 Masturbation all the way up to shitting on each other and I'm like, that's a weird scale brother Now they call this one the Tasmanian dodecahedron. I brought a chart. You're going to need 26 able-bodied men. The famed puzzle in a thunderstorm comes back. Yeah. But yeah, so, but they explain in detail all the different gay sex. They start talking about, uh, uh, we bring in Cathy Ray, the R.A. God, Cathy's the best. Cathy rules. Some Christian lady in my notes. Yes.
Starting point is 01:32:39 Okay. Cathy. So again, for our younger listeners, this is going to be like such a foreign concept, but at some point, and I think we can all verify this at some point as a person growing up in the 90s One of your friends moms would just say some out-of-pocket Completely bizarre. Yeah untrue shit some Kathy Ray shit Kathy Ray is their queen. She is the one from whom all other suburban moms saying a crazy lie are come for. Hey, can I get you all some popcorn? Gay people lick butt holes. What?
Starting point is 01:33:14 Popcorn. And she was she took she took Mayor Mick cottage cheese's excitement talking about diaper play. And I raise you because as she's sitting like- The golden showers, there's rimming. Rimming, you probably- Oh my God, Jesus, my baby! She's clearly trying to cool off
Starting point is 01:33:40 by sitting in that floor, it's refrigerator. Yeah. Or gas him while she's talking about ribbing. I was like, oh my God, this woman is about to have like a Saint Teresa levitation moment. I don't think the movie knows about female buttholes. Does it seem like that's what's happening here? Definitely not. Yeah, because everything that they're listing is also stuff that straight people do
Starting point is 01:34:05 I don't know the Christians know that women have bubbles. Well, that's true. That's true. Not these guys fellas Is it gave my lady wife? But yeah So we then we get some clips of some gay guys talking about S&M and like one guy was like they're clearly being asked about like The most extreme stuff that they've ever seen. But mostly they're still like saying like, but you know, it's it's like respectful and it's all about drawing people together. And they're like, and then you can just hear the filmmakers go, God damn it, stop it. You know, yes. One guy has such a great take.
Starting point is 01:34:39 He's like, look, we do it in a way that's consensual and happy for everybody. And you see the camera shake with race Add the stupid You're supposed to just say chains Yeah, and I know they fucking Christians want BDSM and cake to be a sexuality, but it's just it's not Yes, and whatever their fucking dirty dish rack colors are in their flag, man. It's everybody's alone in the kitchen one time making a salad and goes, hmm. Yeah, there's one, you know, so-called ex-gay guy and he talks about nothing but colostomy
Starting point is 01:35:24 bags. He's describing like, my experience, it's just fucking colostomy bags. Thank God I got saved by Jesus. And I was like, wow. Okay. This guy's boyfriend back in the day never told him about non-shit eating versions of gay sex. And I almost feel bad for the guy, but I don't. I didn't hear anything he said after he described that spiral funnel. I was lost in the physics of that. What?
Starting point is 01:35:51 He said it's a spiral funnel. Yeah, yeah. No, it's like one of those spiral funnels. Isn't like one of those, yeah. Why spiral to like aerate it like wine? I guess. Thank you, help me understand this. Well, okay, and then fucking mad out, just like just as I'm thinking to myself, like, I feel really
Starting point is 01:36:08 bad that we asked Mark to watch this this film with us. Maddow comes up and he goes, gayness all over the country. It's also a health hazard. I'm like, oh, god damn it. And so of course, they show us an AIDS patient. Now this is Dennis, who explains that the number of men he's had sex with is uncountable. They don't make numbers that go that high. Exactly. And I, you know, I wanted to feel more for this, but I couldn't really see the
Starting point is 01:36:34 AIDS patient that they were exploiting behind the straight woman who just had sex with a hundred straight guys in one day. Sure. Yeah. Right. And then, you know, I'm sorry, Dennis is dying, but you found the fucking Usain Bolt of anal. Right, yes, clearly. It doesn't mean we all compete anywhere near that level. And, you know, show some fucking respect when you're the president of the US.
Starting point is 01:36:57 Right? He says he fucked 50 dudes in one night, and I'm like, damn, you go, Dennis. In a row? I also know you didn't, Dennis, you liar. Are the dudes all in Canada? We don't know that. Right, right, right, yeah.
Starting point is 01:37:10 They are. So, but then the movie tells us that gay people are 18 times more likely to rape children. This is as debunked as the fucking race and IQ shit. Okay, this is yeah, all the fucking way debunked. I think gay children may be 18 times more likely to be raped. Yep, that's probably true. Because they are more vulnerable. But this is not true. And again, pedophilia crosses all colors of the gay and straight rainbows. And it is a crime. Yes. What you're talking about is a crime
Starting point is 01:37:47 So make a documentary about crime if that's what you want to do. Right? Yes, exactly You're at a church right now movie. I know where you can Exactly, but I think we could find some crime Did you know this you know this movie doesn't did not have a legal department because every time they talk about pedophilia There's one moment where they cut to Slow motion footage was clearly a man walking down the street with his 12 year old son. Yes. Unblurred or anything and inferring that that man is fucking his son.
Starting point is 01:38:15 Yes. Insane. Yes. It's either that or it's a shot from the parade where someone's toddler is naked on their shoulders. Yes. Again, it's their child. Yes. It's not a fucking couple.
Starting point is 01:38:28 God. So and then, OK, now then we have to meet the proto Karen at the park who's going to explain how all this gay park sex work. Come on, this late. Come on. Think about the journey, gentlemen. Oh, are you all making a movie about the dangers of homosexuality? Let me show you my gay lookout spot. Come on up. I'm here 10, 12 hours a day.
Starting point is 01:38:55 All those men walking down that path are gay. There's one guy who has a dog, and look, I'm not saying you can't do gay hookups in the bushes with your dog. I'm saying it's infinitely more likely that guy was just walking his dog and he got home when this movie came out and he was like, God damn it's scruffy. Oh, no. And again, there's no legal department. These are just regular fucking people walking through the park.
Starting point is 01:39:18 And it's like, he's going in there to fuck the boy scout. That's right. Right. And that's like, OK, so clearly all the other thing, because it shows a bunch of people walking off at the same spot. Those guys are going to buy drugs, right? Or do drugs. It's one of those two things. It's very clearly that, but they're all wearing different colored shirts.
Starting point is 01:39:36 So she's like, well, the color of the shirt determines their perversion. I'm like, well, that seems like a system that's ripe for abuse. This was great. Yeah. So, a lady with the 12-hour lookout spot learned about hanky code, but not quite. And she was like, I think it's just shirt color. So like, there's a lot of people in just like a blue shirt. That would, that would go badly. Very possible.
Starting point is 01:40:00 Yeah. And if, if that spot is the case, how do I trick Heath into going there wearing a yellow shirt? Wait, what's yellow? Don't worry about it Woods real quick all those dice the reason that you know for Karen's standing under anti gay DMZ fucking look out all day Is because the gays have too many rights, right? No, she's ways that the local ordinances allow gay people to have sex just wherever the fuck they want.
Starting point is 01:40:29 So apparently. Okay, but like let's translate that into realism. That means this lady saw, I'm gonna say four men walk down a path, called the cops and they were like, Sheila for the last time, you can't report men for walking down a path at a park near your Do you know what yellow means I might have just been tricked there by his podcasting partner
Starting point is 01:40:56 See those tattoos on his knuckles those mean gay sex Yeah, yeah, but so eventually we leave proto Karen's gay blind to see Edwin Meese again Right. He's like, well, you know gay people shouldn't be discriminated against and they are right and I'm like Well, you guys were just yelling about how you might not be able to fire them for their gayness Just now like you do you think our memory is that bad? Is this a movie for my dad? He says, nobody bashes homosexuals. Shit, gay, that's the word. It's just a term that...
Starting point is 01:41:33 I could have used a word that doesn't immediately bring to mind the thing we do. Doesn't he at one point offer, he's like, well, we let them have the first, they can talk. We let them talk. What else do you want? Yes. Yeah, right, right. As, okay. Thank you. Great. And then the movie's like, we don't know what to do again.
Starting point is 01:41:52 Also, they have whistles sometimes and somebody at a parade with a whistle. And my favorite part, though, is right next to the whistle person. There's one very boring, cishet white guy in khakis and a polo in this hybrid. Just trying to be a good ally, but like not doing the vibes quite right. Not reading the room. Yeah. And did you guys notice for like prior to this for about 15 minutes, they forgot to do any X-Files music? Yes!
Starting point is 01:42:23 They just remembered. Yep, they did, right? Because they were like, he goes, the gay agenda is to have sex in any way you please. And then the guy goes, oh, oh, my bad. Yeah, Bigot Morgan was asleep at the switch there. Clearly, yeah, exactly. Okay, so and just when you're thinking, well surely the rhetoric can't get any more hyperbolic than this, a talking're thinking, well surely the rhetoric can't get any more hyperbolic than this, a talking head says, quote, the whole constitutional understanding in America
Starting point is 01:42:51 is based on a biblical heritage. Yeah, I was like, all right, I'm going to go take a shit like a long one. I'm going to laugh for the rest of this scene. It's actually true because I think we all know that Ezekiel's, you know, 100 heat induced, induced full visual migraine of wheels within wheels, led eventually to the Louisiana Purchase. So obviously, obviously. Yeah, obviously cited as such. They talk about John Adams and I'm like, John Adams was a Unitarian. That's 1700s for atheists. Right. And then they throw out this James Madison quote right and I looked up the fucking quote and I'm not even done googling it and Google's like the part about the Ten Commandments is bullshit right so so what
Starting point is 01:43:33 it is so James Madison are you talking to David Barton right yeah right right yeah exactly so James Madison had some quote about how like you know the whole idea of the society of the country countries based on the morality of the people, right? But then at some point, some David Barton type added the words, according to the Ten Commandments, to that existing quote. And that's just been passed around by Christians for, clearly for 32 fucking years and counting, right? But no, that's, he didn't fucking say that. So, they have two people that they cite as they're like, it was based on biblical heritage, they lie about both of them.
Starting point is 01:44:08 Yeah. Just thought that was important to add. And then right after those two lies, Trent Lott comes on and he goes, values are very important. Which is such an idiotic fucking statement. That's like saying, I agree with words, right? Look, I'm like, values are important.
Starting point is 01:44:23 Which values? Mine. Yep. I don't understand why he's out there hunting for values with all that tobacco lobbyist money that he gets. Yeah, right. Yeah, exactly. He could pay full price.
Starting point is 01:44:35 Yeah, but we learned that what's at stake here is the future of America. And then we hear from more gay people who were tortured into pretending to be straight. Yeah. Right. And what's so sad about this is that like, you know, there's no pathos here because what they think, what the movie thinks is the pathos is
Starting point is 01:44:56 the is the horrifying part. Right. Because like this one guy, he tells the story of like, you know, go into a gay bar for the first time and for the first time ever feeling like he belonged to a group or whatever. And then but the end of the story of like, you know, go into a gay bar for the first time and for the first time ever feeling like he belonged to a group or whatever. And then, but the end of the story is, and then God scared that out of me. And now I don't do that anymore because I'm afraid of burning in hell. He's so happy remembering being in a gay bar.
Starting point is 01:45:18 Like I was getting super bummed out during this section. Everyone's just glassy. I staring out, but he, I mean the lights might as well dim and disco music might as well start as he's like, there I was, I couldn't have left if I tried. Like, you're at someone's... Well, is that where, is that where under his deep sadness and yearning through his like Hanoi Hilton trauma, the footage looks that they chose is like a slow-mo of the Windows 95 launch with a strobe. It's so awkward and weird to have a siren.
Starting point is 01:45:56 Well, so what this footage is, I guarantee you, right? What this footage is was that none of them was willing to walk into a gay bar and film. Yeah. Right, so they're like, what's the gayest looking thing? Put up put a strobe up at the Christmas party and yeah But we yeah, we see that footage we hear from him and he explains to us, you know, he wasn't Christian, right? So when he went into the gay bar, he wasn't familiar with this Rigid and were wrong that these Christians know about Right. He didn't have the footpath of debauchery or whatever the fuck that armor.
Starting point is 01:46:29 Yeah. And then we hear from a former quote unquote lesbian as well who decided that she didn't want to burn in hell. Hey, she's dressed as an American girl doll now. That's how you know she's straight. Yeah, right. Okay, look, I don't want to paint all my lesbians with one brush, but if I asked all my lesbian female friends to dress like a straight woman, this is the dress they would call she is.
Starting point is 01:46:57 They'd be like, lace, doily, I don't fucking know. Yeah, I had her as PTSD, Kristen Wiig. Yeah. And while the other victim story, this poor guy, and I can go back to him too, but her story had some fucking drama. Yeah. Like, it was an irreversible arc. And I don't know if you've guys seen the 1960s educational film,
Starting point is 01:47:25 The Long Road Home, that inspired Amy Sedaris to make Strangers with Candy. I know. That's how you know I'm a homosexual. But do yourself a favor and watch it. It's this in a Laura Ingalls fit. Okay. All right. So yeah. I also watched Strangers with Candy for the radio show. Love that show. So, but yeah, before we move on to her, we should point out that like the former gay
Starting point is 01:47:50 guy that we see at the beginning, he has this one point where he's like, you know, I got so into it that I became a drag queen and they show a picture of him and he was such a cute drag queen. Oh my God, he was great. Yeah, it was really, really fucking sad. I'm like, oh dude, like you missed your calling there, I think so Yeah, and technical game out here drag is not a degree of homosexuality like a karate It's not necessary to pass through that Diana Ross. I thought that was like a belt system. Yeah, exactly You well, you have to roll with a drag queen and then you get to be a
Starting point is 01:48:21 This is where I that's why I'm here and then you get to be a track queen. That's right. See, this is where I, that's why I'm here, Heath. So, you don't have to pass through the Diana Ross Crucible to become the ultimate gay form, which as we mentioned before is either the center square or the senior senator from South Carolina. I am all the way gay, and yet I never did have to get the merit badges for Brittany impersonation or brunch fisting. Oh, okay. Interesting. But this is not a choice. Drag is.
Starting point is 01:48:47 There you go. All right. It's a confusing system, but I'm learning. I'm learning. Okay. So then we learned the tragic story of this lesbian woman. She joined the military and she found out that there are a lot of other lesbians in the military, as it turns out.
Starting point is 01:49:02 And she, one of, like her lover, like somebody found her diary where she had talked about being a lesbian and the military kicked her out. And like you said, with no benefits or recourse or anything, right? Yeah. And so her lover who was still in the military burned down a fucking building with a Molotov cocktail.
Starting point is 01:49:25 Fuck yeah you did, girl! And she's so bad at hiding how cool that was. She's like, I made the terrible mistake of fucking that shit right up. I took them straight to Heat Street. I sure did. Oh boy. The smell of the flesh was not delightful. I'm saying it wasn't. You fucking haters like you should sleep well at night knowing there are
Starting point is 01:49:50 lesbians watching the wall man. Yeah right so yeah but but she's like you know so I burned down that building that Navy building and I went to prison for seven years and I'm like okay well this is not like part of the typical gay experience. I don't think, I don't believe. That's not atypical. She says she found Jesus and gave up all her dreams. I wrote woof, baby. If she had said that when she got down her knees in prison and pray and gave her heart and said it was to Allah, peace be upon him.
Starting point is 01:50:27 Found me dead in my apartment the next morning. So also just note to a to a documentarian that's on the show. So you're not just the token, Gaga, you're also the token documentary. Dr. Yeah, there you go. So while she's saying this part about finding Jesus, there is a phone ringing in the background of the goddamn shot. So important. So important to cut that.
Starting point is 01:50:47 It's her sexuality calling. And then she concludes her little interview here by going, and I'd love to get married if that's in God's plan someday. To a man. To a penis man. With a penis. Yummers. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum.
Starting point is 01:51:06 It's like a big old snake. This is what she said, about two years ago, the lesbian identity totally left me. One Mississippi, two Mississippi. I still have struggles. Yes, yes, right, right. I still want to. Oh, there it is. There it is.
Starting point is 01:51:20 She's just slowly picking up a molotov. So and the guy cuts back in and he goes like, you know, I always thought that I was born gay because well, you know, because I've been gay my entire life. And I'm like, well, that's pretty strong evidence. Yes. He goes, but I never looked into it. You know, yeah, I always felt that way. I that I was different. Yeah. That's what being born away is. Yes, yes, exactly.
Starting point is 01:51:48 I love the notion this movie puts forth that gay guys haven't just gone ahead and jumped in the pool of being straight. I guess. Right, well, and you know, he goes like, I was looking for Mr. Right to sweep me off my feet when it turned out that, well, that Jesus Christ was Mr. Right to sweep me off my feet, well it turned out that, well that Jesus Christ
Starting point is 01:52:05 was Mr. Right the whole time. Yeah, you have a ghost boyfriend. Right, yeah. There you go. It's not a religion, it's a gay relationship. There you go, yeah. Real ones are better, babe. It's like whoopie needs to run in and tell you that you in danger, girl.
Starting point is 01:52:28 So, and then we get John 3 16. Because it's the end of a Christian thing. Whoo. Well, it's not the very end. Oh, appropriately. The last literal word on screen in this magnum opus about hot men on man sex is, and I quote, release. Yeah, seriously? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:52:49 Nice. Amazing. Well, good. I didn't want the movie to get all this way and not actually come. So I guess we do have some good news today. We have a happy ending. I wasn't expecting that. So Mark, thank you so much for jumping back in with us. We have a happy ending. I wasn't expecting that. So, Mark, thank you so much for jumping back in with us. We're so excited to have you back. It was an absolute blast to, I mean, watching the movie wasn't fun at all, but talking with you about it sure as hell was. Pulling you back into the world of podcasting was fun.
Starting point is 01:53:18 This is the funniest homophobic movie since any Jim Carrey movie. It is. And well, that's going to do it for our review of Gay Rights Special Rights. That's not going movie since any Jim Carrey movie. And while that's going to do it for a review of gay rights, special rights, that's not going to do it for the episode just yet because we still need to curse ourselves with a follow up. So Eli, tell us what's on deck. Well, Noah, next week is July and you know what that means. It's Mormon movie month.
Starting point is 01:53:40 Oh, damn it. Yeah. We'll be starting out with episodes three and four of the animated Book of Mormon, and I can't wait. All right then. And Mark's going to be on for the whole month of more movies. I'm so glad I did this one. All right, so with that to look forward to, we're going to bring episode 513 to a merciful close.
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Starting point is 01:54:27 used with permission thanks again for giving us a chunk of your life this week for Heathen right knee libosnik I'm an only since promised to work harder earn on the trick next week until then we'll leave you with the American graffiti clothes Grover Norquist went to Burning Man in 2014 as a 57 year old champion of the Republican Party. What? He said quote, there's no government that organizes this. That's what happens when nobody tells you what to do.
Starting point is 01:54:54 You just figure it out. Burning Man is a refutation of the argument that the state has a place in nature. And then then he got beat up by dusty gay hippies all fuck yeah fuck yeah gay hippies almost every talking head in this movie went on to masturbate to gay porn once they discovered the internet as this film depicts America was once a wash in acid wash dabbled Robin's egg blue flexly pleated jeans that were so high-waisted they acted as corsets people stopped washing their angular chest pedestals in acid was devastated cheaper regular watches pop pop denim
Starting point is 01:55:39 acidists out of business burns half as long burns twice as bright. Merry Christmas, everyone. Do gay shit. If you think I'm going to try and follow that, you're fucking crazy. No, I never thought for a second. I was like, I would have cut it anyway. Yeah, I was going to say, I appreciate you leaving the airtime, but if that's not the end of our...
Starting point is 01:56:03 That should be the end of the podcast. We should retire. We did it. That's it. It's the clip. That's a wrap. Amazing. Amazing.
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