I've Had It - Pride and No Prejudice

Episode Date: June 2, 2026

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We will not capitulate to any right-wing framing of any of this. And to all of the right-winger's, to all of the people, specifically, I want to call out all of the people who have gay people in their lives and look at these gay people in their lives and say, I love you. You're important to me. And then you go and tremple Trump. What can they do, pumps? Fuck off!

Yep. You can't tell somebody you love them and then go vote for somebody that will hurt them. Those two things cannot exist. And we need to call it out. I completely agree. And people do it all day, every day, especially where I live. They do. And one thing they do in the Bible Belt that pisses me off is they quantify gayness. So like people will say recently I know of a person that came out and a younger person,

Oklahoma-based family and came out to a conservative family. And the dad said, well, at least he's not like super flamboyant. Somehow that was less gay. And there's always this quantifying and bargaining with it. Like, okay, you're gay, but don't go to the pride parade. Like, that'll make you a little bit less gay. That'll make your gayness a little bit more acceptable. Shut the fuck up.

Who gives a shit about how gay or how somebody presents? It's just the mind field that gay people have to go through in the coming out is ridiculous. like I didn't have to go on a ham straight tour to everyone. It's just, it's ridiculous. And then when people want to draw boundaries with other people's gayness, I think they can totally fuck off. Like don't be too femme acting or don't go to the parade and I'm not going to the parade. Fuck you.

Quit making it about you. No, I completely agree. And it's just, here's an example. So a couple years ago, a woman that I know I'm acquaintances with that our kids went to the same school. Her daughter had recently married a female. And I ran into her and I said, I heard your daughter got married. Congratulations. And she goes, you're one of a handful of people that have done that. And I said, here's the deal. Is she sweet to her and does she love her? And she said, yes. And I said, well, then who the fuck cares? I mean, that's genuinely, I want somebody to treat

my child well. I want them to love my child. And I don't give a fuck. about anything else, full stop. And I just think that's sad. No, it's really sad. I had a situation in Oklahoma City where a friend of mine that I knew was married to a man had two kids, met a woman, fell in love with the woman, they get married. And then somebody I know said, I just feel so bad for those kids. Why do you feel bad for the kids?

Well, that their mom, and I'm like, their mom's a million times better off. dad was a deadbeat, loser, pill popper, asleep at the wheel. These kids are a million times better off that their mother is who she is. And it's just always these extra hoops that the LGBTQ plus community has to go through with their families, with their peers, with judgment. And I've had it from top to bottom with that. And so pumps, what have you had it with? I've had it with so many things. But I'm going to, for today's episode, what I've had it with is QR codes. And I know we've bitched about QR code menus, but here's what I've had it with. I love a survey, like a political survey. In terms of, I want your feedback about everything. I don't want to do all that. But the

new thing that I'm finding is every fucking where I go. They hand me a receipt, which I don't want, which I hate to be Josh Welch of the deal. But I'm like, have you ever made a charge that your credit card company hasn't put on your card. No. Okay. But the QR code, not only do we want you to take this receipt, we want you to get on the QR code and post your feedback. Shut up. Shut up. I don't want to get on the QR code. I don't want to have to maneuver your receipt. Like E. Nath of the reviews. And granted, now I hate reviews because I've gotten fucked with reading reviews. but I'm just like, does anybody really care what my review of a chain restaurant is? I mean, really, do they?

I don't think they looked and they said, oh, Angie Sullivan likes chilies. So now I'll go there. Like, that just doesn't exist. So I've had it. I agree. There's too much extracting from the customer that comes from the corporations. It should just be enough that we bought your product and we paid and that's the end of it. Not these corporations.

They, if it's an online thing, you have to go through a pop-up. They want to extract personal information from you. They want you to join the club. You've got to give all the information. And then they start psycho-emeling you, invading your privacy, invading your inbox, invading your personal space, creating all this digital debris that you have to deal with. And then I agree with you, the QR codes. Like, I do not want to fill out a survey.

I'll never forget. I went to the OBGYN. And I got a pap smear, which is not an experience that you want to relive afterwards. You want to go, thank God, I don't have to have another pap smear for another year. I'll be goddamned if I didn't get an email survey regarding my visit to the OBGYN's office. And I said, this has just gone way too far. Nobody needs to sit around and fill out a survey. And this goes back to the corporate culture.

This is a bunch of people around a table. figuring out like how can we justify this meeting that could be an email and then nobody at the table says, you know what, let's just be the corporation that says, come to us, buy our products and then we leave you the fuck alone. If a corporation were to be bold enough to do that, I would buy all of their products, even if their products are shitty. I would too. just to support the freedom that they are not making me or asking me to do all that shit. All right. I've had it with Claude, my AI bot. So my dog tubby has epilepsy. And he developed it over the course of the last several months. He's an 11-year-old, very photogenic, very affable, very attractive French bulldog. easily could pass for six or seven despite being 11.

And that's not, so that's just not me saying it. Like when I'm out and about, people are like, how old is he? And I'm like, 11, they're like, no way. And I'm like, I know, no Botox, no fillers, nothing. He looks six or seven, right? So he had a breakthrough seizure, which is a seizure that happens when you're on your meds. The medication is called DeKepra.

And when this happens, of course, it's terrifying when you see your dog have a seizure. And so I always get on. Claude and I was like, hey, you know, the dog had, it was about like a minute, 20 seizure this time, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'd already put the call into the vet and I was waiting for her to call me back, but I needed, like, someone to talk to about it and some analysis about it. So basically, Claude gives me this information, breakthrough seizures, as long as it wasn't three minutes long, yak, yak, blah, blah.

And then Claude asked me, like, do you have another, is Tabby and only child? And I was like, no, he has a sister, Chachaw. And then Claude responds, make sure you give them both a squeeze for me. What? Yes. He's trying to be a person. I'm just like, no, you do not get to squeeze my dogs.

And then like, I'm going to sit down and go, oh my God, Tubby and Chau Chaw. Claude wants me to give you a squeeze. Weird. Regulate AI. Regulate it, regulate it, regulate it, regulate it. This is a complete violation. of my dog's privacy.

It felt rapy from Claude to the Frenchese. And then I see all these celebrities like Demi Moore, I believe it's Reese Witherspoon and others who are talking about, don't fight it. Don't fight AI. It's here. And it's like, no, we need to regulate it. We need to approach this with the utmost caution on the planet because it's wanting me to squeeze my dogs for it.

It's insane. It's utterly insane. I'm so mad. I haven't used Claude since then. Oh, really? Well, you know, here's the thing with this whole AI thing. You hear how harmful it is because it makes people believe they're in a relationship. And that's the kind of shit that it does.

Like if somebody's had a bad day, you know, I'm giving you a hug, whatever. Like, there are people that feel so isolated. That's important. And I'll just say this. I've been like, this AI thing is so fucking dark. you think about all of the jobs that will be lost, all of the wealth that will be concentrated with the elites, and you know what they care about the people that are displaced? Don't give a fuck. I mean, it really is terrifying to me. And I think the people that are coming out saying,

don't fight AI, embrace it. I think they should be canceled. I think it is so cultish when we have this, AI has to be operated with all of these data centers that are just already taking our climate, which is literally on its last leg. We've withdrawn from the Paris Climate Accords. We're one of the world's biggest polluters, the United States of America. And we're doing nothing to rein ours in by electing Donald Trump. And then when you get these like Mel Robbins, Demi Moore's who are like, don't fight it. Embrace AI. I'm like, are you serious? Tell your audience and tell your listeners. Be cautious. Be skeptical. If this is, sounds scary, you're valid in feeling that. Like, it's such a, everybody's just like with Donald

Trump's cult, it's just like this trickle-down cult. And I think it's for somebody who has the wealth that a Demi Moore or Mel Robbins has, to not advise other women to be cautious about AI, to be cautious if you have children in the home with their involvement with AI. It's okay to say it's here. AI is here. But how do we mitigate it and cautiously tiptoe through this so we can extract the good parts of it and reject the bad parts of it? But this all or nothing, all gas, no breaks with AI, women telling other women to do this. I think Mel Robbins told women to upload their bank account shit to AI, just like crazy shit. I mean like crazy, crazy, crazy shit. And so, and for me, I'm like, you want to squeeze my dog.

No. My dogs, no. My dogs are French. My dogs don't like all people, Claude. My dogs like other people on a case-to-case basis. This isn't a fucking retriever that'll walk up and lick anybody. My dog sit in judgment of people all the time and I adore them for that. I adore their discernment. You do not get to bypass me and go squeeze my dogs. You fucking dipship robot. I mean, that was just, I'm sorry. just a bridge too far. My dogs don't want anything to do. Tubby doesn't even like men, for God's sake. Well, I would say Tebby is all the things you described him as affable to everyone. I would probably be the only thing I would take issue with.

He is extremely discerned. He's affable. He's affable to me. He is a, he is, he is not heterosexual. He is Jennifer sexual. That's right. And that's why I am so close and protective of him. And unlike Mel Robbins and unlike to Me More, I've sat down with my dogs and told them, be cautious of AI.

Be cautious. Do not just capitulate. AI is here, but you get to have boundaries, dogs. So it's just insane to me how the tech industry, the same guys who are funding these wars, who are funding fascism, who are funding the dismantling of women's rights, who are funding a fascist regime that is taken away a woman's right to choose. are now buying up these Hollywood actresses, influencers, and podcasters, and getting them to do their dirty work. It is so inherently sexist and manipulative and crazy. And you know, you can see how well the public likes AI when you just look at these graduation commencement speeches. And the kids are a lot smarter than these women that are carrying water for the fascists. And that's what they're doing.

I mean, to have an audience and not tell people to critically think and look at stuff with discernment and skepticism is just, it's just cult shit. And I think the most disappointing thing about Trumpism has been to see how many people lack conviction. Yeah. And critical thinking and cruelty. I've been used to the lack of critical thinking and cruelty living in Oklahoma. I knew that there was an electorate of that, you know, that people love to punch down. and that people don't critically think, they think the earth is 6,000 years old,

know it, all that shit's real. But the lack of conviction from people outside of that world, like the people who actually have fuck you money in their bank accounts, who have reached success like Mel Robbins and Demi Moore, advising people to just accept AI, embrace it. It's just like, fuck off. You don't get to tell people to do that. I will say one more indictment for AI for me.

which I just, you know, it can be manipulated. And I just remember Gronk saying how handsome and tall and thin Elon Musk was. And I was just like, that is not reality. So that makes me question everything a million times more. If he's going to tell me that Elon Musk has a hot body, then I'm going to immediately know that it's bullshit. Said he was more athletic than LeBron James. Okay.

Said that Elon Musk, the guy who has, has tits. Yeah. Fat tits. Fat boobs. Like these are not pectoral muscles. These are titties. Elon Musk has tities that rival that of the husband of Christy Nome, big titty Brian, who had to put balloons in his top to have the tits. Elon, and I've seen him both shirtless and with a shirt, both times, tities. And so that's just fascinating to say that he is as athletic. as LeBron James. All right, I have had it. I have had it with people pretending America

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so much in these battles and for trans superstars and their moms. It's just, it's so important to platform these people and human beings. these people. And the struggle for people that live in these conservative Bible Belt states and you have, you know, a gay child or a trans child is the people that you think should be your supporters are your bullies. And this patronizing, I'll pray for you. I hate that shit. I hate it. I hate that shit. I think. it is so arrogant to say, oh, I am so great and I'm as tight as ticks with JC that I will put in a good word for you. It is just so unbelievable because the people who need the praying for,

and I don't even believe in all that shit, but a lot of people do, are the people who are judgmental of other people's life. And you don't have to understand trans people. You don't have to like trans people. But to think you're better than trans people proves that you are a million times worse than trans people. And there is a, there are concerted efforts in states like Oklahoma to bully, institutionally bully trans kids. And it is disgusting. It is disgusting the amount of people that go along with this that think, oh, I'm pro trans and I'm pro LGBTQ plus, but they go along with systems that marginalize, bully, and demean those communities. And that's not how allyship works. You are either 100% in the paint and you stand up to everybody that opposes it,

or you don't. You don't get to cherry pick. And that's the problem with a lot of white allies with the black community and a lot of allies with the gay community. They only do it when it's fashionable. They only do it when it fits into their life, when it's uncomfortable, when it's going to ruffle feathers, they duck away from it. And that to me is the most insidious form of allyship imaginable, that you only do it when it looks good for you and feels good for you. But when it's going to get uncomfortable, you slink away from it. I can't stand that shit. I agree. And I just, the thought of someone saying to me, like sympathy and prayers, like that would bring out homicidal rage in me that you know my head spins off and I black out.

I don't even know what. I would be so fucking mad. But I think that all goes with the elite entitlement, judgmental righteousness of evangelical Christianity. They put themselves in judgment of everybody all the time no matter what because I did it. And it's important to note that when there is a void of the evangelical Christianity moniker, which is very true in the Bible Belt, These people think they're special because they have this personal relationship with their higher power that does personal favors for them. Like changes red lights to green lights. I'm not kidding. People like, I was running late.

And then Jesus changed the light. I mean, it just came to green. It wasn't even red for very long. And I was able to get through and make it on time. Or parking spots. They think parking spots. They have this higher power that does all of these little favors. So ignores genocide, ignores child race.

in the Catholic Church, ignores child rape in the Southern Baptist Church, but changes traffic lights. But void of that, you can exchange this white evangelical stuff for white supremacy. And so there are a lot of people in the MAGA movement that might not have that evangelical indoctrination, but they have the white supremacy indoctrination, that their whiteness makes them special, that their whiteness curries favor for them. And that is ferreted out in the white experience in America. It is easier to be white in America.

It's easier to get a job. It's easier to navigate a lot of things with your complexion. And so those two things are kind of interchangeable. So for the people on the coast that, you know, know these crazy magathamperes and they're not evangelical, you can exchange that with white supremacy because the white experience has made this type of white narcissism the same way that evangelical Christianity makes this Christian narcissism. Now I want to head into some news stories. Charles Barkley, the former NBA player, and now he's a, is it TNT pumps? Well, it has been for years, but now they're on ESPN.

ESPN commentator. He has always been on the right side. And what I mean by that is the left side of everything, which the left side is the right side, the appropriate side when it comes to human rights, anti-black racism, support of LGBTQ plus. And let's pop this up. Charles Barkley calls out homophobia in sports following the death of retired NBA player Jason Collins. So Collins was the first openly gay athlete to appear in any of the four major North American professional sports leagues. He came out publicly after the 2012, 2013 season at a Sports Illustrated article. Then he signed with the Nets. He passed away after a battle with Glebo Stoma. I'm picturing that on May 12, 2026 at age 47. And so if you think about

the gay community, there are certain things that are true. Conservative people have gay kids. conservative people have trans kids. This is not some left agenda. And then when it comes to sports, any statistician would tell you if the general public is gay at a 10% rate, then you can apply that to professional athletes. So there are professional athletes in the NBA that are gay right now. And a lot of people could just slink away from this, especially, during the MAGA regime, but Charles Barkley said, no fucking way. I'm going to be an ally. I'm going to stand up for what's right. I'm going to stand up for what's good. I'm going to stand up for what's decent. I don't care what the blowback is. I don't give a fuck because I have to put my head on the pillow at night. And he goes on TV and says this.

Well, 13 years ago was a big deal. And the reason why it doesn't feel as big now at times is because of people like him. And so, you know, kudos to him. Yeah, but, but Kenny, in fairness now, if another guy did it, it would still be a big deal because we live in a homophobic society. And that's unfortunate. That's why, first of all, anybody who think we ain't got a bunch of gay players in all sports, they're just stupid. But there is such animosity toward the gay community.

And that's what's really unfortunate. But anybody think him and I know a couple other. soccer players that came out. If you think they're not more gay players in the NFL, Major League Baseball, and the NBA, you're just stupid. He's a hundred percent right. And this is where when I talked about the beginning of this episode, how gay people meet their peers, their family, their support groups. And then those people, once they come out to them, want to quantify their gayness and draw boundaries with their gayness and how gay they can be or how gay they can act or what parades they can go to and what parades they can't go to.

No other world does that exist. So it's like once somebody has the bravery and the authenticity and the courage to go tell who were their original bullies, probably their families, their church members, their friends, then they come back and they quantify their gayness to them. It's really, really gross. So kudos to Charles Barkley for that because sports is, um, an area, or I think I should say sport is the right way to say that. Sport is an area where I think that we, everybody enjoys watching basketball for the most part. We enjoy watching tennis or football, whatever your preference is. And, you know, there was this whole NAACP thing about a suggestion that athletes boycott

these schools that get state funding from racist governments. And I support it. I support those of us that believe in anti-black racism, that believe the Confederacy wasn't punished enough to organize and make a way for schools that offer the states and schools that offer full-blown equality and an agenda of anti-black racism that we figure out a system and support the NAACP

because nothing will hurt these Southerners more than any, anything, then elite black athletes saying, I'm not playing in your racist state. And that's what it's going to take. And I think the same goes for the LGBTQ plus community. We have to get in that ass, not literally, no pun intended, and call these fucking people out. Call out people that have gay friends and tell their gay friends, oh, honey, I love you. And then they pull up to the voting booth and they vote to hurt these people. It is, I just, I don't understand why everybody isn't Charles Barkley. It's hard for me to understand that, but then I have to reflect back to my experience growing up in Oklahoma and how many duplicitous hypocrites I know that enjoy black excellence, that

enjoy gay excellence. And then they go and vote against it. And then they can go and hug their gay friends, hug their friends of color, and they feel nice. nothing, like total sociopaths. They don't feel that betrayal. That has always been one of the most frustrating things for me living in a red state. It happens all the time. And what, you know, I know people that have softened, like, that have LGBTQ plus family members and their position has changed. Their voting has changed. And I appreciate that. But what I would like to see is an outspoken group of these people that have changed and why and why they feel it necessary because I do think fundamentally, and I'm probably naive, but I fundamentally think that people

love their children and want them to be happy and want what's best for them. And I think if you had a few, like in Oklahoma City or at, you know, churches that came out and said, I have a gay child and I'm not ashamed of it. I am so proud. And I think that that courage for those parents that have been so shitty that have now are trying to make amends to stand up. And I hope that would enable other people to do that because I think it starts a little bit at a time. I mean, that's how it was for me.

Start a little bit. But then you see how wrong it was and how dirty it is. And then you want to speak out against it. And so I would like to see that particularly in red states. I don't know if I ever will. I think that a really important next step would be for the Republican Christians who have given birth to gay children to step out and offer to do social media and advertisement for the Democratic Party. That I, you know, like if I had, if I was a Republican Christian and I had a gay child, I would look in the camera and say, I would took my kid to church. I sent them to Christian summer camp.

I raised them to be Republicans. And guess what happened? These two Bible thumping Republicans gave birth to a gay kid. We didn't send them to a crazy school. We made sure they went to the local Oklahoma school. They went to the local Oklahoma universities and we gave birth to a gay kid. So this bullshit that liberals that it's some gay agenda is bullshit. Because the fact of the matter is, if you live in Oklahoma and you know a gay person,

their parents are Christian Republicans. That's just how it goes. Same with Alabama, same with Kansas, same with Texas. I mean, I have a shit ton of gay friends, overwhelming majority of them from Oklahoma. Parents are Republican Christians. So the whole right-wing narrative that all of these cat ladies are doing in vitro and surrogacy, indoctrinating all of these lesbians and gay people and drag queens is a total lie because if you ever have lived in a Bible about all of your gay friends come from conservative Christian culture

Republican culture Republican and Christian culture in my opinion puts out some of the top gold star gays on the planet but I agree with your point pumps that the parents of these kids have a bigger burden to carry to say we were a part of of the problem that shackled our child. We are a part of the problem that led to the judgment of this. And if there's still a faith, I would think, well, the Lord has an interesting sense of humor that I was a hateful, judgmental, homophobic bigot my whole life. And then I gave birth to this wonderful, beautiful gay child. I had a friend in Oklahoma and she had a gay son. And it was obvious, obvious, I mean, like, from six on, right? I mean, it was just the kid was gay, 100%

everybody knew it. And she was a real big Bible thumber. And she told me once that she was telling the kid, you know, if you ever think about being gay, that's just Satan. And I was like, you can't say that to your kid. Like, that's crazy to say that. Despite her telling for years, if you ever think about being gay, which she knew he was gay, because I never said to my kids, If you ever think about being gay, that's just not something that comes out because his gayness was that obvious, even at a very young age. So, of course, ultimately he ends up coming out and all of these things. And then she has to completely rearrange her faith. And it's completely reorganized that, oh, God just made sure that he had a great spouse and blah, blah, blah, blah.

But I want to be really clear. Gay people are as entitled to toxic bad picking choices as straight people. Gay people have bad marriages. Straight people have bad marriages. There's no distinction. We all want our kids to marry somebody kind and nice to them, but everybody falls prey to divorce. Everybody falls prey to picking somebody like their most dysfunctional parent.

I mean, that's just, you know, all those same things apply. All right, moving along. Canada is now expediting, pop this up, is expediting citizenship to LGBTQ Americans, to prevent harm related to sexual orientation, gender identity, health care needs, or legal status for work or school. Imagine that, you guys. The United States of America, all of those people, all of those fine Christian people, Republican people and Bible Belt states that give birth these beautiful, wonderful, gay kids would say America is freedom. I vote for the Republican Party because I believe in freedom. Well, guess what? You're creating a state that is so homophobic and so militarized against, and I mean that metaphorically, militarized against the LGBTQ plus community, but I guess I mean it literally with the shooting of for me good, that other countries are allowing LGBTQ plus members to be refugees. And so that's why I think your point pumps about the parents of gay people.

they need to step it up. They need to be involved. They need to atone for their part in creating this closeted world that can be fatal for members of the LGBTQ plus community. And I would just say for my part, like having been part of the problem at one point because of indoctrination and religious beliefs, there is so much freedom in being who you are. and supporting, like the biggest benefit to me in this podcast personally, like soul-wise, is how we have been embraced by this community. And all we're doing is just saying what's real, what's true. And I just, I want so badly for this moment and time to be over that we don't have to

talk about allyship and acceptance anymore because it's just, I just want to fast forward through all that because it's painful and people should not suffer for what they do in their bedrooms and the choices they make that have no effect on other people. And so making amends for that every day like feeds my soul. It really does. And that sounds selfish and maybe it is. But it's just so important to me. Anything that I can personally do, having been in that whole, you know, atmosphere and environment, my whole life and coming out on the other side of it, it makes me so happy to be an ally. It really does. Yeah. And I do want to say about the part about like fast forwarding through it. The anti-black racism and the rise of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and LGBT plus issues, this is going to be a problem in the United States for a very long time. And it is a time to form alliances and buckle up buttercups because there is no fast forwarding through it.

The forces against this are serious. They are organized and they have deep, deep pockets. The rise of anti-LGBQ plus initiatives are astronomical. And so this is why I say when people don't want to talk about politics, they're just saying they don't want to talk about morals. they don't want to talk about their morals. I can't tell you how many people I know in Oklahoma, women that I would play pickleball with, with these excellent pickleball playing lesbians, wonderful people made my life better.

And I knew a couple of these straight women go and triple Trump and feast on Fox News and just feed themselves the cruelty and the hate, but then they want to feel cool, and they want to feel like they're in the in crowd and go, well, I'm not a homophobe. I play pickleball with a couple of lesbians. Well, no, you are a fucking homophobe and a weaponized homophobe

with your vote to triple Trump. I'm sorry, you're a weaponized homophob. So these allies that come, oh, I don't have a problem with the gays. Well, you actually kind of do because you don't have the courage to stand up to homophobia. You assist in the weaponization of homophobia.

to deprive people of equality. Full stop. I mean, I can't tell you, and Pumps you know this, how many people do you know in Oklahoma that will say I don't have a problem with the gays, but they would never, ever, ever, ever, ever dream of voting for human rights over a tax breaker.

Oh. In my own family, I'm in the dozens. But I'm talking about the women that are our age and younger. Absolutely. Absolutely. They go to gay hairdressers, that have a gay trainer, have a gay doctor. And then, and that may, they think, oh, me being nice to them proves that I'm not.

Right. They think that's enough. Mm-hmm. It insulates them. Well, I mean, if you're, you're hateful. You're just hateful all the time. If that's what you, if that's how you feel, it just wrought you, wrought you from the inside, I think. Okay.

In honor of pride, we want to highlight some examples of gay, excellence. This clip is from the Miss Thing podcast. Let's play the clip. Gay name or straight name. Daniel. Gay. I agree. I would trepidacious but gay. Yeah. How about Dan? Straight. Totally. This is actually something we need to talk about, which is if you're, if you are going by the longer form of your name, it's gay. It's gay. Yeah. That's queer behavior. If you're Chuck or Charlie, straight. If you're, Charles, gay.

Charles, I mean, come on. Charles, come on. Yeah. We don't, yeah, gay, obviously. Yeah. Brad. I'm going to say straight. It's straight, but a lot of gay, like, porn people will be Brad.

Totally. Gay guy wishes inherently straight. Yes, exactly. Totally. Brad's, you're in the clear. Bonk. All right. Shout out to the Miss Thing podcast.

I love that. This next clip is from TikTok creator Chris Cringe. Play the clip. Straight gay or bye, fitness equipment edition. Running on a treadmill is street. Walking on a treadmill like you think you're on America's next top model is gay. A man using an elliptical is gay. Peloton is gay.

Jumping rope is gay. Dumbbells are street. Cettlebells like to swing both ways. So bye. I mean, that looks gay to me. rowing is lesbian preacher curl benches are mostly straight but there are some that are on the deal

the sonnet is gay okay I know like all the real jack dudes use the stair master but still gay okay a woman using this machine is straight a man using this machine is gay TRX straps weight lifting straps really any straps are lesbian

into a new thing at the gym where I stretch out with straps. Sounds kind of gay. All right. Let's play our own game of gay, straight, or buy. Maga Edition. Okay, pop this up, Kylie. All right. Gay, straight, or buy.

Ladybug, Lindsay Graham. I'm going gay. 100% gay. Here's the only thing about... And I'm going bottom. Power. Power bottom. gay straight or by

Josh Holly I'm going gay I'm going versatile by no meaning top to bottom fluctuates back and forth he just there's nothing about him that I see as heterosexual

nothing all right gay straight or bye little Moses Mike grinder Johnson I am going gay I am going submissive bottom for sure

he likes to be dominated like a dominant. That's why he would be a sub. Yeah. Okay. Next up. Smokey eye sociopath, J.D. Vance. I am going by.

I am going bottom in all regards. Usha pegging him and or Peter Thiel pegging him. I think this is a person who likes to be on all fours at all times. And then afterwards he likes to raise up and look at his eyes. eye line her. All right. Gay straight or by. Benny B.J. Johnson. Benny outed himself online when he put up the Google targeted ad for the gay crews. Benny Johnson is gay. Benny Johnson wants to demonize gay people during the day and then the minute he gets off the airwaves, all he does is gay stuff. I don't even think Benny's hiding it, really.

Jesse Waters, gay, straighter by. Here's the thing. I just think he is such a despicable human. I'm going to say he doesn't know he's gay because he likes to fuck young women and have affairs and he likes to do all the straight-mail stuff. But I think, like, subconsciously, there's a part of him that gets so aroused with certain people on his show that all happen to be men. I just don't think he has realized it yet.

I'm going gay. Next one, Ben Shapiro. I'm going, this is a broken straight man. For sure. He gives straight man vibes all day. Next one. Gay, straight, or bye? Cancels McTacocco Tits, our first gay president. I really think gay. All right, listener, do you ever get sucked into these targeted ads when you're scrolling social media?

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commercial.com. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and affiliates, coverage subject to policy terms, limits, and conditions. Not yet available in California, New York, and Virginia. Next up, we have a video about lesbians. What kind of person are you looking for? A woman. Okay. I don't know if I can help you with this. What kind of woman? I love that you just said that. It doesn't matter. I have no. It doesn't matter. And nothing matters. Do you have any qualifications? Does she need to have feet?

I mean, like, does she... Do you have any? She doesn't have to have feet. See, that's a real lesbian. Lesbians don't care about that. You don't care if she has feet or not. You'll take care of her. That's a real lesbian.

Lesbians are amazing. I don't care if she has feet. I'll carry her. I'll carry her from softball game to softball game to softball game to softball game. Here's what I'm missing about being a lesbian. I am so emotionally closed off and unavailable. I don't think I could be in a relationship with a woman. I really don't.

Even if I, I mean, I can't be in relationship. You spend all your time with women. That's true. Yeah. That's true. I mean, you're very much in all of your relationships are homosocial. I mean, your friendships with your girlfriends, you spend more times with women than anybody I know than lesbians that I know.

Yeah, but in terms of like connecting, I don't think I can be. You don't connect with your friends? Yeah, I do, but I just don't, I think I have such a block. That's why I think I'm asexual because the money, the good money. I think that a lot of people that come out of the closet say asexuality is one of the stops. I think that I don't like sex enough. But here's the deal. I've had a ton of straight sex. I've never had lesbian sex. That could be the change. There you. I think, I mean, all this, it's really chic to do a mid-life switch to lesbianism.

I think it's the content that we need. Like your storyline, I was a Republican, I was a Christian, I was all of these things. We really need for you to spice it at. the next step for all of these hard hits in this addiction would be, I was straight. And now that's the next thing that the audience needs. That's what the illustriates need. Here's the deal. You know, like, I wouldn't completely rule it out if I fell head over heels with someone. Okay. I like that. I mean, so I have progressed that far. I like that, pumps. Okay, Let's close out with a voice memo. Okay, this is from Christina, and I've got a photo to follow it. Hi, Jen and Palms and Kylie.

My name is Christina. I'm from New Jersey. And what I have absolutely fucking had it with, oh, my God, is the 250th birthday of America. Like, what the actual fuck are we celebrating? You can't even go to the grocery store without seeing merch for the 250th. Like, hoodies are in my grocery store. And like, Mountain Dew is having American do. Like, what the actual fuck are we doing?

In some ways, it's a little bit of a blessing because if I see 250th decor outside of your house, I instantly know that and can tell that you're MAGA, thank you for the dead giveaway. They're making it way easier to weed them out of the crowd. But oh, my God, is it fucking annoying to see it everywhere? It's going to be torture all summer. What the fuck are we celebrating? Okay, so I have a viral piece of America's 250 from Walmart that has been going around. It says Walmart unironically capturing the national mood.

It says the United States of America 1776 to 2026, as in we died in 2026. That's accurate. That's fair. That is accurate. The things we celebrated, I feel like, are so under attack. I'm tortured by the whole thing. I don't feel patriotic. I don't.

Like, I do not. I actually thought of Josh Welch the other night at the Thunder game during the national anthem because I wanted to run away and go to the bathroom during it. I don't put my hand on my heart anymore. Fuck, no, I don't. I do not. I mean, I'm just looking at everybody like, yeah, Victor Wimbun Ramm, Yama's right. The way that we act, it's so embarrassing. And here's the thing. I'm seeing merch come across my timeline of Donald Trump on Mount Rushmore.

And it's a red maga hat with him on it somehow like one of those cheap photos that you slap on there yourself. And I want to say it was $250 in honor of America's birthday. It could have been 50, but in my mind it's 250. Of course it was. No, I think I'm going to go out of the country for Fourth of July. I haven't decided where yet. But I just, it's everything that I believe in this administration opposes. Yeah. Equal rights, decency, decorum, civil liberties, equality, free speech, free press, safety regulations on runaway corporations, livable wage, refugees, embracing them, feeding them, helping them. it's just you know lifting up the most marginalized among us telling trans people i don't care how many

fucking democrats throw you under the bus i will never fucking do that to you um so it's just in the people that are going to run around and act like rob ross isispoon bob when we're literally in the throes of a total fascist takeover with the the group of the of men and women in Congress that won't do anything about it. It's just there's no, there's nothing to celebrate right now. Nothing. No, I feel the exact same way, the exact same way. And just the rise of all of these hateful people that are now in power, it just shows you how broken America, I mean, to me, it's a mirror of how much help that we need to get through with the citizenry. Like, I think it's Norway that teaches empathy classes in all their lower schools. I think that's what we need because we're a nation

of like sociopath mean girls. It's true. I mean, there's, the leadership is, it's just horrible. And of course, the Bible Belt states are the worst. The worst. The meanest people. The Fox News viewers are the worst. I mean, just the worst. All right. This is, you know, it's a difficult time. It's a great time to celebrate Pride Month. It's a difficult time for people to be gay. And it's a time for allyship to make it fun. And despite all of the hatred that this administration is hurling at its LGBTQ plus citizens, despite Trump going, you know, the reason I did so great with the gay vote is because I played the gay national anthem, YMCA song.

It is a time for everybody, support. pride month, support, go to your local pride parade. Show up. Even if you don't have any gay people in your life, show up for these people. Show up and be there. And then be wary of corporations that just trot out their support for the month. And then just completely recede on it. And so to all of our LGBTQ plus followers, we see you and we stand in complete solidarity

with you. and I am so sorry that this government and so many people that you probably love are shitty, are shitty human beings that look you in the face and tell you they love you and they go and vote for people that will hurt you. Generational weaponize their vote against you. That is conditional love. It is bullshit. We all need to call it out.

You're either an ally or you're not. My ally award goes to Charles Barkley. I love. I love people with conviction. That is like my number one thing that I look for in people and Charles Barkley. Like, I love you for that. All right. That's all we have.

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