The Gays and Their Halloween

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Dr. Mikey here, your local, licensed, and practicing therapist for entertainment purposes only. My pronouns are he, she, all of them. So what's the T, sis? The T is Today in Gay. L.A. County Sheriff raids the Abbey in West Hollywood during drug bust. Today in Trans, Gavin Newsom authorizes study on youth sports access regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation. Today in Homophobia, overnight standoff over Houston's Rainbow Crosswalks ends with arrests.

Also in Homophobia, Trump erased trans and queer history from Stonewall. Lawmakers are fighting to get it back. Also in homophobia, FBI Director Cash Patel fired agent for displaying pride flag, according to reports. And also in homophobia, Utah lawmaker moved to rename street honoring Harvey Milk paid tribute to Charlie Turk. Also, Mike Johnson's grinder scandal and Nevada chief investigator loses job after calling police officer a homophobic slur.

Is there anything else? There's a lot of shit. any of you queens know about any of this stuff what's going on queens i've been so far removed from the news circuit because everything is just so freaking negative but i did hear about that la county sheriff raid where people was assuming at first that it was ice ice raid at the abbey oh yeah. But according to Q News, the L.A.

County Sheriff raided the Abbey in West Hollywood Saturday morning as a part of an undercover operation in response to community reports about pickpocketing, narcotic sales and other criminal activity, officials said. This operation was in response to community reports about pickpocketing, narcotic sales and other criminal activity that may be occurring at establishments or by unpermitted street vendors.

Sergeant Kevin Bowles of the West Hollywood Sheriff's Station told Q Voice News, the Sheriff's Department was the only agency on site during the operation in the Rainbow District, which is located along Santa Monica Boulevard. The operation was not ICE-related and ICE was not involved, Bowles said. The majority of the 13 arrests were related to drugs, he said.

Tensions and fears have been elevated in the Los Angeles area, including West Hollywood, since June with the arrest and kidnappings orchestrated by the Trump administration that have targeted the Latino community. The Abbey has not commented yet about the raids on his social media platform. So that is what is from Q News. But it was an uproar. And I think that everybody just assumed it was ICE, but you could tell it wasn't operated in ICE fashion.

Like all of them had their face showing like they didn't have like no covers or anything like that but the abby has been on the uprise of this happening at this video that this person posted, and i'm like they're just like arresting like gay people though so it's like what.

Why are they arresting them because of alleged illegal drug use and sales yeah so i'm just wondering like how they do you don't think gay people sell drugs no no no i do i'm just wondering like how they because like the way that it looks like on this video it was just like they're just like randomly arresting like club goers it looks like i mean the the drug dealers are gonna can't I can't eat that at the same time. It's too big.

I think club goers, the drug dealers are going to be dressed as club goers. They don't want to go in there looking like, you know. Like Scarface. Right. They're going to go in to blend in with the crowd. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I don't know. I just, I'm not saying that they're not doing anything bad. I'm just like confused because it says response to community reports about pickpocketing, narcotic sales, and other criminal activity.

Because it's like, well, why are you going in there for that when there's so many allegations of date rape and you're not going in there for those allegations? I think that is some of those allegations. The criminal activity? Yeah, the criminal activity and the drug use because the owner claimed that there's no proof that the staff is the ones roofing the joints. Yeah. Right, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. How do you know? Yeah. I mean, I think them doing it this way makes sense.

And then maybe they could find the people who are actually doing it. It's all under investigation. I mean, all undercover, right? Right. And we know how I feel about the Abbey. So I'm like, good. I don't care. I get it. Shut that place down. It's a cesspool. Especially with all allegations coming out about date rapes and sex trafficking. Like, no, like something needed to happen. And yeah.

Because when it says four former employees told that they alerted the Abbey management to possible druggings and the management's like said, oh, we have strong drinks. That makes me feel like, why wouldn't you be concerned that people are getting drugged at your place? Somebody's telling you that. Yeah, exactly. Like, despite if you have served strong drinks. And you don't, by the way.

So like right like despite even if you did serve strong drinks like you should still be worried that people are getting drugged that's a different fucking thing that somebody's telling you exactly and this person is but look here's the other crazy thing because you believe in your staff so much that you believe that they won't be the ones roofing but they are also for former employees that told you yeah that there's a concern yeah people are getting roofied at this bar

yeah and And you're just like, huh? No, we just have strong drinks. No, motherfucker. I'm making the drinks. Yeah. But I think even if it's, oh, you serve strong drinks, that's still something to be concerned about. Because you're getting these people super drunk. And that is not good. That's still not good. Because that still leads to date rape. You don't have to get roofie to get date rape. It's the reality.

So you're still setting up an environment, a dynamic in which people get taken advantage of and harm. And you do not care. and you're just profiting off of queer people and putting them in harm's way. Shut down the Abbey. Shut it down. Shut it down. We don't, our patrons are not drugged. We just serve drinks that are strong enough to make you believe they've been drugged. And we don't care if you can't take care of yourself.

Yeah, that's bad all around, guys. Fix your shit. Yeah. It's not a good look, right. I say boycott the Abbey. But they don't care, obviously. They don't care about you.

I'm laughing my ass off. Speaking of not caring, did you hear about Gavin Newsom? Well, he's authorizing something. Gavin Newsom authorizes a study on youth sports access regardless of gender identity and sexual orientation. The bill was introduced and it seeks to look at inequities based on race, income, and geography. But Republicans say the goal is to rig research for trans athletes. So now he's pro-trans. Right? Make up your mind.

He's like, damn, the anti-trans shit ain't working, y'all. the bill directs a commission to explore the need for the state to improve access to the sports of all groups regardless of race sexual sex sexual orientation gender identity disability income or geographical location replicants have already questioned whether the bill will run against an executive order signed by president donald trump that forbids trans girls and women from participating in female only sports so yeah.

Well, Gavin, you're confusing the fuck out of me because I thought you were not about that. And now you're about that? Or what's really going on? Right. Well, I think the bill in general isn't focusing on trans people. It's focusing on just access in general. But I think Republicans are angling it to focus on trans people. And they're kind of painting it as like a backdoor to allow trans people to do sports where they think they shouldn't. So I think that's the angle that they're taking.

So they're just basically like trying to fear monger. Yeah, exactly. And I think that this angling then helps Newsom with his PR. It does, doesn't it? Yeah. Because now I'm confused into thinking that he's pro-trans, even though he's not. Exactly. Hmm. The fuck? Exactly. Because we had that person on his podcast. Oh, yeah. And he was getting, was it, Medicare access to trans people. So you have kind of like two strikes against you. I was watching this thing.

I don't even remember who was talking about it. But they're basically saying how all these Democrats keep capitulating to the right and pretending to be center, being like, well, we're just going to leave trans people essentially out of the conversation. And they think that's going to help them win. It keeps proving time and time again that they keep losing. Right. So it's like, sis, figure it out. It's not the route for you to be like anti-trans, bitch. Just like, just be brave and like.

Stand on something. Stand on something. The fuck? Yeah. But I think people love to think Democrats are left or liberal, but they're really centrists. And I think Republicans are just like far right. Yeah so i i think our our perspective is very skewed it is it's very sad mandami right did you see him i saw him on his talking to what was it andrew cuomo oh my god he slayed he slayed me mandami you can get it he can get it for sure what else do we have talking about These dumb bitches.

I honestly am so like, like you guys are saying, I'm kind of just putting my head in the sand at this point. Child, for real though. I'm going to just sand it in the pillow. With all my tears. But speaking of the Republicans and far right, did y'all hear about that overnight standoff over Houston's Rainbow Crosswalk?

I heard. That ends with the rest. So apparently in the early mornings of Monday morning, police officers and work crews descend on Houston's Metro's neighborhood to remove a rainbow-painted crosswalk that had long stood a both, a symbol of queer pride and a memorial to a young man killed at the intersection. The move carried out quickly before dawn, followed an escalating standoff over the future of LGBTQ plus visibility in public spaces across Texas.

ABC affiliates KHOU reports demonstrators sat on the rainbow stripes, weighed pride flags, played guitar, and sang songs by Radiohead and R.E.M. As Houston's Metro police officers closed off the intersection. First of all, wait. The fact that this was at 2 a.m., So you already know, like, I love the dedication. Exactly. Because at 2 a.m., I'm in the bed, like, and then y'all out there motherfucking singing, having a good time. You know what? And that's what queer pride looks like.

Yeah, disrupt that shit. Pure queer joy.

The crosswalk installed in 2017 after 21-year-old Alex Hill was killed in a hit and run at the intersection had became both a neighborhood landmark and a reflection of Mantro's deep LGBTQ plus history, according to the paper pause yeah rewind it says right here the special response group had fenced in the demonstrators and issued three dispersal warnings how do you fence somebody in and then arrest them because they're not moving i thought you cornered and

you're not getting out of here yeah so what that do make sense like you fenced me in so like how can i escape i mean that's what that's their tactic right like they they kettle people when they do like live protests like if you get kettled you're going to get arrested and they so the way the police do is they essentially work on hurting the demonstrators and breaking them up in smaller groups and they herd them into a certain areas that they know that they're going to get

stuck at so there'll be police on the other side or there'll be like a wall on the other side so they're essentially finding a bunch of people into these spots where they can't escape and they're like you need to disperse but then you can't disperse because the police are in your way and then they get arrested. So it looks like they're aggressing the cops. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck news. Yeah. I mean that's a big tactic. Oh fuck yeah I didn't even know that. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Go on. Oh. See but that's there they go because they're saying it's about safety and like traffic safety and things of that nature But then in the same sense, you're also saying like.

They will lose funding for transportation if they continue pride-themed infrastructure yeah so like which one is it like y'all they backpedaling contradicting themselves in the same statement, it's also like i would hope that they would you would face some resistance because this specific rainbow crosswalk was a memorial right like you okay like you because it's you already know why exactly but it's also like oh look how much force you had to put into a racist crosswalk

how much money did it cost to get these cops here in the middle of the night.

Overtime pay these construction workers are probably standing there waiting to do whatever this is like that makes no sense you put this much effort into erasure like i can't imagine going to a construction site as a construction worker and then being met with protesters because I just had to get up at fucking 3am to do my job and to be like what the fuck is going on here and like why are these fucking queers doing what and

I gotta destroy this thing and what the fuck and it's crazy because it's your job and it's just like damn, why am I out like why am I in the middle of this shit exactly. Which is obviously well I don't know if they did it at 2am because they're trying to like avoid whatever, or because you always see construction at night with the streets. Yeah, with the streets. Usually there's not a lot of traffic. Especially like a crosswalk. That makes sense. Yeah.

So I can understand that point. I don't think they was trying to do it shamefully or like, you know what I'm saying? Like trying to be sneaky. But like, in reality, that's what time most... Road construction happened because it's least traveled. But go those protesters for getting out there. That's what everyone needs to do. We need to disrupt, we need to get in the way. Here's something from Queer News Daily that says, experts say removing rainbow crosswalks makes streets less safe.

It says, as the Trump administration targets rainbow crosswalks across the U.S., removing public displays of support for the LGBT community doesn't make anyone safer. According to experts, rainbow crosswalks are not a safety hazard. Dan Reed, a former transportation planner, tells queer gender, if anything, rainbow crosswalks might actually slow drivers down and encourage them to drive more carefully. Several states over the past several months are being assholes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Intersections and crosswalks need to be kept free from distractions, is what they're saying, right? Although governors in the majority of states have not acknowledged the letter, some have mandated strict compliance with the order while the White House claims that it's part of its broader safety roads, safe roads initiative. Greg Abbott gave Texas City's 30 days to scrub artwork conveying political messages.

And that's another thing. It says political messages. A memorial is not a political message. A rainbow flag is not a political. Yeah, it's not a political message. It's like, right, but you motherfuckers made it into one. At this point, y'all made it that way, right? Did I show you the list I got from a non-profit in terms of the language you can use in instructions? Oh, like in your grants and shit? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, so like it's everything. you can't say woman you can't say like racism you can't talk about decolonial you can't say woman? Yeah well let me pull it up keep talking woman is too controversial uh let's see. The response from Texas cities has varied widely. Fearing reprisal, Galvinson moved swiftly this week to remove a pair of rainbow crosswalks adjacent to its city hall.

Austin officials have confirmed that the city will follow Abbott's order by painting over a crosswalk at 4th and Colorado, while leaders in Dallas, which is home to at least nine rainbow crosswalks, damn Dallas, are currently weighing their options. That's so weird that they know the number of rainbow crosswalks. I mean, that's interesting. The city should know. Yeah. Isn't it just like, I don't know. Because they did it. It's just cute.

Meanwhile, San Antonio Mayor Gino Ortiz Jones, Democrat, meanwhile, confirmed that its rainbow designs are staying put at least for now. You know what? I wonder if it was like some kind of special paint where it would look like it's covered but like it would only like maybe at night. Almost like a, you know how the solar system or panels like, I don't know, like, Maybe when your headlights hit it, you can see a fence. It reflects back.

Right. You know, you can see a rainbow. But like to the naked eye, it's just a regular street. Oh, my God. That would be like funny. And that also would probably cause traffic issues. Right? What is that? What the fuck? Like what else would see? Okay. So the following words are banned, are considered forbidden or banned, and will prompt a review for like grants.

So from the National Science Foundation. So the list of banned words are like activism, advocacy, BIPOC, black, Latinx. Bet you white ain't on that list. Yeah, yeah. A female, hate speech, LGBTQ, indigenous community, marginalized stereotypes, trauma, woman. How is trauma? It's not in your repertoire. Well, you're like dealing with trauma. Yeah, yeah. So what is this? That list is for like things that people cannot put into.

You can put whatever you want into your grant. but on this is the federal on the federal level so like there are going to be grants you can get that are not funded by the federal government that you can probably still slick and slide depending on where that agency gets their funding from but if you're planning for federal funding then when you get review they're going to be looking for these buzzwords because they're not going to want to be promoting it these woke buzzwords woke buzzwords damn

and somebody is working in the government coming up with this list like you know like that's what y'all wasting y'all fucking time on bro i mean they probably just were like chat tpt what are the most woke words right woman black yeah indigenous enhancing trauma trauma yeah so fuck we're doomed y'all mm-hmm yeah oh and speaking well i can talk about it now. Speaking of doomed my job is getting targeted so you want to talk about it now or like at the end of quick tea.

I mean, I feel like it relates to all these words. Okay. So I work for like pretty prominent, big like queer oriented people, agency medical doctors therapists nurses everything they do it so we are up for review for our funding and i didn't know that until last week but i was suspecting something because two weeks ago they made us revise all of our bios and they told us we had to take certain language and wording on their website yeah on their website and like my bio is like anti-racist

anti-black decolonial like all the all the key words literally 75 of my words are on this motherfucking list, so i did it because i needed to yeah and so like my bio was like three sentences, i'm like this is what you get like i don't agree with it but then i come to find out during a staff meeting that we are up for review for federal funding and whoever's coming in to review is going to be looking for buzzwords. And can deny our funding because of it. Okay.

So it's also pretty much a temporary pause in regards of a way that you can express yourself because once you guys get to fund it, then you could...

Trickle all back in you know okay wait so to be honest what was the first thing that was doing the buzzwords because i thought that was your job you were already talking about oh another non-profit that i work with i'm gonna on board for another non-profit and we were we're just coming up and starting it so that's the one where i got this list of buzzwords and then my actual day job that pays my bills is also under attack well i had seen like this like thing that they were saying of all

these like i guess markers that like denote a new like the new terrorism and it's like everything that this podcast is about it's like right anti-capitalism talking about gender extremism talking about non-traditional families like that's everything that this podcast is so i guess that's why we don't get fun about the government yeah we're gonna stop one day at the border or something as we're coming back home to america that's what i was actually telling dr mikey i was

like girl you're probably already been marked you probably got flagged right for sure it's i'm like thank god i don't travel.

But but yeah it's wild it's wild uh hi nazi america yeah jesus christ, I don't know who Mike Johnson is, but, oh, I guess. Of course. A fresh break in the, wait, side note. Did y'all see that interview or something where Mariah Carey was, somebody asked Mariah Carey, like, who was Charlie Kirk? No. And she was like, I don't know who that is, darling. Like, you know what? Like, Mariah, Mariah just be in her own world. You, I, she knows no one. Right. When I got the text that day,

oh, my God, Charlie Kirk died. I was also Mariah. And I said, why do you think I know who that is? Who is that? Right. And then I was like, is that a comedian? Is that a sports person? Who is that? I didn't know who he was. And that's all I'm going to continue to say. That's true, because that's unfortunate, because the Utah lawmaker moves to rename street honoring Harvey Milk to pay tribute to Charlie Kirk. Why? What did he do? I guess this, hopefully this news article will explain

that. Because I have no idea. So Republican lawmaker in Utah wants to rename a street, more memorizing a slain LGBTQ plus legend to honor a more recently assassin right wing figure. Y'all doing all this just because he was killed in Utah? I'll say this. It's probably the majority of Mormon population is very anti-gay, for one. So I also don't understand why they have a Harvey Milk Street there. So, and then two, it's like, bitch, don't you have, like, you're Utah.

You have probably 50,000 streets that are, like, 1st Street, 2nd Street, 23rd Street, 39th. You could have named it any other street, Charlie Kirk fucking Boulevard, but you chose to rename the gay one. Exactly.

Fuck you. Right. That's also true. put something on the campus and name it Charlie Kirk and getting along with the food hall or the gym the west wing the computer lab the morgue the toilet and hopefully it doesn't get passed because Lee also previously filed a bill to criminalize the display of pride flags on government property including at public schools that passed the legislator and Utah Governor Spencer Cox allowed it to go into effect without his signature.

Yeah. So it looked like nine times out of ten it's gonna probably get passed. That's okay. But, child. It's too much. The vast majority of people in Utah probably don't even know Harvey Milk is gay. They don't know who he is. Right. Whenever you've seen street names you don't know where the fuck they came from. Right. Right, but they and then the only reason they know Charlie Kirk is because he was killed there. Yeah. I mean, they probably listened to him and talk to all that stuff.

Yeah, but I think there's a bit extra. I think, what is it, martyrism of racism. Racist people is what keeps racism alive and strong. I don't even think you should have a plaque or memorial or statue or anything. No, you did not contribute anything positively to this world, and you just perpetuated hate. We can forget about you. You'd be fine. Name another street.

Apple street come on they've reached that one god damn i think sunset avenue needs that name fuck off, Uh, so the streets. It is weird, though, about street names, like, because when I finally started, when I first started seeing Obama Boulevard in L.A., I was like, when the fuck did they rename that? Like, it was a while back. But I was like, everything I- Because it was Rodeo, Rodeo Boulevard. Something. And then when I see it now, I'm like, I feel happy to see his name. Right.

So I understand, like, that street names can, like, mean something. But, like, fuck you. fuck you for taking away harvey milkshake name if you do that next. So that's what I was going to say. But since I brought up Charlie Kirk and Mariah, but my original site was going to be about Mike Johnson grinder case has people screaming, release the DMs, which we know they ain't.

But way back in April, rumors of alleged Mike Johnson grinder presence hit the internet and everyone was heartbroken when the screenshot proven Johnson's spicy gay exploits turned out to be fake. But since the time one brave soul has taken the TikTok to tell his own story about the homophobic house speaker, Grindr messages.

User Razzle Dazzle Moe came online recently, permissing to leak proof of Johnson's Grindr activity if the Louisiana Republican failed to swear in the official who had become the deciding vote in the case of whether or not to release the Epstein files. I kind of didn't like this story because there's a gay guy who's trying to out another closeted gay man. And despite that he's on the side of the demons and evil, I feel like that's still, like, incorrect.

Like, you shouldn't have to out somebody just to make them bend to your political will. I feel like that's trash. I like that. That's true. I agree. Like, I get he's an evil person, but that's still going against everyone. Like, if that were to happen to our side, what the fuck would we say? Oh, my God. And let him come out. Right. Mm-hmm. Like, it would be hell. But, yeah, when they want to do that to him because he's on the Republican side, yeah, that's still shit. I mean,

yeah, you are. I mean, I don't know. I agree. I agree because I think we have to keep the we have to stick to our values which I think we shouldn't out people people should out themselves right you should be able to come out and tell who you want and regardless of whether you're a person that is causing harm or not or racist or not because I don't think outing someone is going to prove anything yeah that's true however I feel like,

This is wild. You're taking the opposite side of us. You know, I got to see both ears. Because also, I see, it's right, nobody should be outing anyone. However, if you're closeted, you should still not be, even though you're closeted and you're a demon, you should not be trying to pass shit that's, you know what I'm saying? So that's why I feel like people feel like that's the need for them to do so because you're not standing true to yourself when we see you on these Grindr apps.

Like when I was in the closet, I wasn't going around talking shit about gay people. You know what I'm saying? I was still walking and being in the world with love and understanding. So I wasn't being out here an asshole and out here being like, you know, beating down gays and shit because I knew I was closeted and I was gay. So I wouldn't want anybody to do that to me. So I was just like.

Mike Johnson, if you're doing that, if you're out here on Grindr, but you back here in these, in these, that's just, it's just crazy. So now I'm like, you know what? Well, I'm gonna put your shit out here then.

Well, it's also, I really doubt that the people in his cabinet don't know he's gay if he is secretly closeted anyways. If anything, he's probably just closeted to the public because they already have Scott Pesant who is out and proud, right? I mean, apparently it's not bothering them enough to not hire Scott percent. So if he's in if Mike Johnson is in the closet, it must be for some other personal reasons. Or he also has a wife. He has a family. Probably that.

But so if it's for the wife and kids, maybe that's why he's still in the closet. Right. But that's even if this is all alleged. Right. But at the same time, it's kind of like, yeah, I'm pretty sure everyone around knows he's a fucking fruitcake if he is.

And I don't know about his wife but but yeah I don't know I don't think you should out someone like that devil or not cause I think even if he like, comes out and he's like yeah I'm gay I don't know do you think he'll really like not be homophobic anymore like he still has to do a lot of work to get on the other side yeah it's a lot of gays who's out here homophobic now yeah, be at the bars and shit cause then that gay person who was doing this saying

like, I'm going to out you and blah, blah, blah. What you're, what that person is saying is once I do this and out you, you will now be humiliated and either de-ranked or something bad will happen to you now because of this. So that person who's outing them also has like, I guess, bad thoughts on like, what happens after you come out of the closet? I don't know. Yeah. I mean, but that's also the reality, right?

In some social environments, you do lose rank, you do lose power, you do lose privilege, you know? But I also kind of put... That's why I brought it back to Scott Besson, because I'm like, well, that bitch is already in there. So... Right. But he also not... Are you going to lose your position? But he also not... Trying to push back pride or LGBTQ rights and then like, you know, uproar.

Yeah. And then I feel like these like these articles of like, oh, Grindr blows up at every Republican convention. Like these articles keep coming up. Right. Where it's like, I guess it's supposed to be like poking fun at closet of Republicans because it's like the dynamic is, oh, you're against gays, but you're all secretly gay. Right. And then it's kind of like, well, they're all just secretly home.

They're all just secretly gay. And then it's kind of the thing where it's like, well, it pushes it back on gay people that we're blaming gay people for oppressing ourselves again. I don't know. I mean, I know. It's crazy, right? But even calling the Republicans gay, you know, like that. I know gay Republicans. Yeah, it happens. But it's like, okay, like, okay, there's a bunch of people on Grindr at this Republican convention, right? Okay, we know that.

But, like, what now? What do we do with this information? This information is not helpful towards anything. Anything is not. Because then the only next step is to say like, well, we have the people's names and now here's a big list of secretly gay people. Let's all laugh and mock them. And like, yeah, that's that's the outcome you're trying to go for. I don't know. Yeah. We grind the two shit. Fuck it. Right.

Get back. Oh, do y'all off topic. Do you hear about like how crazy like motherfuckers are doing things and shit like in New York with sniffies and like Boston, like they are doing things. for people hooking up in bathrooms. Oh, shit. Yeah. I was like, so y'all be safe out here in these streets. You know what? Isn't that an entrapment? Yeah, I thought that was illegal. I mean... I know they tried to do it here. They did it here in Long Beach. Yeah.

And eventually, I think they revoked the charges. All right. Well, if anybody in Boston who got linked up, go ahead and fight that shit. See you at the bathroom. Yeah. Any other gay shit? seen anything gay lately. I mean, I would... This was, what, last weekend? Not this weekend, but two weekends ago. Long Beach had their Be Proud weekend. Oh, yeah. Which included bike... Ride, protest type of rally type of thing on the beach path.

And then on Saturday, they had Be Proud event and bar hop in Broadway, which was pretty fun and get to see new faces and new people that you usually don't see and whatnot. Like it's, it was a good time. And then Sunday, unfortunately, I didn't make it to the beach takeover that they usually do at the Rainbow lifeguard tower but it turned out to be a good weekend for that i know you guys were busy but it was quite interesting and fun lovely very lovely very lovely lovely gowns lovely gowns.

Any other gay topics any other gay news i'm trying to see, I don't think so either. I'm trying to think what's the gayest thing. The gayest thing recently that happened was I invited my gay friends over for some gay birthday fun. And we had some gay time on the Switch, too. Playing some gay homosexual games. Gay old time. Gay old time. I once told my old straight coworker that, because he was asking me about my video games that I have. And I was like, oh, I have a Switch. And he got mad.

And it was like, fuck you. I know why you're mad. You're mad because you think Switch is a gay little pussy, little stupid games, and you want me to be playing big man games where I murder people at all minutes. Well, I'm not. I'm not playing shoot-em-up games. I'm playing Mario Kart. Shoot-em-up style. Come on, Mario Kart. Yeah.

Anyways. Anything else? Nope. All right, then. I think these queens have deserved a break. A spooky break! Woo! Hey, y'all. Christoph here. And we just wanted to say thank you for all the love and support. But don't forget to go ahead and give us a five-star review, a like, a heart, a comment. You know they all have the podcast a lot. From all of us here at the Queer LBC, we greatly appreciate you. Now back to the show.

And we're back. And today we are going to be talking, He's a ghost. He's a ghost. Yes. Here at the Quirrell BC, we love Halloween. And we know all of you do, too, because, I don't know, you're all fucking freaks. Anyways, I wanted to talk about spooky season. You guys got your pumpkin spice lattes yet? Oh, yeah. Yeah, for now. I guess I have not had one pumpkin spice latte, and it's already deep October, I guess. Wow. Who are you? You know what? Fuck. Nothing pumpkin yet?

I had... No, I did try to have a pumpkin-flavored, like, Danish called a Kringle. Have you ever heard of Kringle? No. Well, they had a pumpkin caramel Kringle they had picked up from Aldi. And it was fucking disgusting. Oh, damn. Because I was like, I was just there today. So, like, me and my man were about to, like, slice into it and be like, oh, this is a nice little warm holiday fall treat. And as soon as he bit into it, he was like, ugh. And then I was like,

what? And I tried it and I was like, ugh, this just tastes like chemicals. Aww. But yeah, I haven't been to Starbucks in a hot-ass minute either. Good. Boycott them. All your pumpkin spice won't get you. I went to Dunkin' Donuts recently and I got... Pumpkin spice, like, matcha latte. Matcha? Yeah, it wasn't matcha, but it definitely had pumpkin spice in it. Was it good? No. I heard that a lot of people say, like, the matcha pumpkin... It's not a good mix.

It's not a vibe. I couldn't imagine it. I love the color. What color is it? Well, the matcha is, like, green. Yeah, it stays green. You just have to put a spice on it, but... Oh, okay. Like the... Yeah, the seasoning. Yeah, the spice. Where are y'all getting these pumpkin spice matchas from? I think this one was at Dunkin' Donuts. Oh, yeah, you just said that. Oh, my God. Girl. Yeah. Which I don't like their donuts.

Pumpkin Donuts. I'm not a big fan of Dunkin' either. You're a Krispy Kreme motherfucker. Yeah, if I had to choose, definitely Krispy Kreme. Fresh out the oven. Yeah. And they're seasoned. They do cute little Halloween things, too, don't they, for the donuts? They do. They're much cuter. You know, when Dunkin' came over here from the East Coast and it was trying to get all hyped, I was like, no. Because I had it in the East Coast. Or not in the East Coast.

In Chicago. and I was like, this is shit. Yeah, I agree. We grew up on that. You better watch your mouth, fool. Dunkin' Donuts, in my personal opinion, is disgusting. The donuts? Well, I don't remember the donuts. I remember the coffee being shit. Oh, see, I'm not a coffee motherfucker. Oh, yeah. I didn't like their donuts. Ellie, don't run on Dunkin'. Sorry. Damn. I'm about having me a Granny's Donuts. Oh, yeah. Good old Mom and Pop Donut. A Cambodian Donut.

Anyway, we digress. That is not what spooky season is about, but have you guys done anything spooky i decorated for halloween decorated my living room all like uh spider webs and bats nice i haven't for some reason i feel like i don't know it felt like, jumped on me quick. Like, I didn't really, I got something at my desk at work, but, like, other than that, like, no. I like to celebrate Halloween, but, like, I don't decorate for Halloween.

It's something hard, like, during the fall of America to keep up with the holidays. Right? Right. You know, we find time, I guess. In post-capitalistic fascism world. I haven't decorated yet, but I'm going to this week. Yeah, you have, like, a bunch of, like, you know, those little skeletons.

Like they take like animals and it's just their skeletons we have a bunch of that and we put up an ofrenda for October and November so I'm probably gonna put that up, I always wanted to put one up, but I never actually grew up doing that. So I feel like I'm faking it. It's a good idea. It's part of you. Yeah, it's part of your culture. And you can reclaim anything at any time. I know. That's right. Say it for the time.

Say it again for the people in the bag. You can reclaim anything at any time. Amen. So now, inform me on what the hell that is. I love it. I love the support. I love the support. So Dia de los Matos is... Okay, that's the Day of the Dead, right? Day of the Dead, yeah. So it is like an indigenous, like Mexican holiday that works on honoring your ancestors, essentially. So in Mexico, people go and they'll decorate their loved ones, what do you call it, tombs and their sites.

Give them their favorite food, their favorite drinks. They'll give them tequila, they'll give them a cigar, whatever they love, they're going to get on their grave. They're going to get decorated with some simpasuchi, which is like marigold flowers.

And yeah it's just a way to honor and have like a collective grief experience okay it got popular because of coco so that i also started doing ofrenda after coco as well i mean i knew of i knew of the ofrendas but i didn't really put much emphasis in it until like after i saw that movie and it was like oh oh yeah that's cool let's do that so what is the ofrenda's part oh yeah the ofrenda part so like if you don't have if you don't decorate someone's you essentially

You actually have an altar that is for the people in your life that died. So you can't decorate their graveyard. You don't want to do that. Or you want to honor multiple people. You do that. So like we do like a two tier ofrenda and we put pictures of the loved ones, put their favorite things and decorate it with like the Dia dos Matos like skeletons, you know, the cantrinas and and all that. You like that idea, like the honoring like your deceased relatives? Yeah.

That's cute. Are you going to try to do it? I don't foresee this year happening because I don't have anything ready yet. So I don't see myself doing that. We used to, when we were little, we used to actually go not during Halloween, but during Christmas. And we used to decorate the grave at Christmas, which I don't know if that's related at all.

But it's like honoring your loved ones during a holiday. But I think that's cute to like have them like think about them during like the season, the holiday season.

That's true. Yeah. So, yeah. But you have some cool, cute decorations at your apartment. Yeah. You know, like, what is it? Purple spiderwebs and purple lights on the back of your wall. So cute. And then I have a giant plastic dog. Oh, yeah. That's like in a fake skeleton costume they got from Home Depot last year. Wait, the dog is fake? Yeah, it's supposed to be like a fake giant version of my dog, basically. Okay, how do your dog take it, though?

She just doesn't even notice it. Oh, okay. She's just like, what is that? I don't know her. But yeah, I was just like relaxing last night with my fiancee while he was playing the new Pokemon. And my dog on the couch. And I was just like, oh, nice little fall afternoon, evening. We're just, like, here. I was, like, trying to, like... Really absorbed the fallness this season. Like, I'm trying to wear, like, I wore a sweater here today, and I'm like, what the fuck? This is hot as fuck.

I'm trying to be cute, but... Just ain't working. It's like the weather is going in and out. It was cute. You, mission accomplished. My mission was accomplished, the cutest. But fuck, if, like, never have I ever worn a scarf in my life. Really? Have you? Yeah. Well, here? Oh. I mean, yeah, when I go up to the Big Bear in the snow, I wear a scarf. But I lived on the East Coast for a year, too, so you had to wear a scarf.

So, like, yeah, as a person who's, like, never really had a scarf life, like, if you, let's say when you were living back there, like, when you walked outside normally, were you like, oh, my neck is just, needs to be covered? It's more to keep the heat in because a lot of your heat escapes from, like, the back of your neck and the neap of your neck, like, around this area. Because, like, look at your clothes. It kind of, like, let's loose from there.

So a scarf will insulate you and keep you warm science smarties see where they go.

Yeah i just never like understood the whole scarf thing whenever i see a person wearing a scarf out here in la i'm like can you stop nah i love that i have a special made scarf, my husband got it for me when he had my downstairs neighbors actually knit it for me it's really cute it's this huge scarf like it would be ridiculous to wear hair I should wear it, I'll be judging are you guys doing anything this year for Halloween gonna be

I'm gonna go to San Francisco for the first time for Halloween well during Halloween weekend so that'd be interesting but like again like, Do you have like something planned? Like a party that you know you're going to? You're just going to. All the bars are going to be popping out there. Exactly. But also like time got up with me. So I'm like, I don't even know what I'm going to dress up as. So I've just thought about it this week. I think I'm going to be Winnie the Pooh. No, it's you.

And the Castro. That's smart. Advertisement. Looking for your honeypot. Right. Have a sign like looking for my honeypot. give me a nice little yellow jock strap nah I ain't gonna be like that, that's for the after yeah he actually didn't he didn't I got a no I got a nude bodysuit oh okay okay, Wait, isn't it illegal to like walk around naked in San Francisco? It's legal. So you could just wear your red shirt and be bottomless like he was. I mean, yeah.

I have, I don't have the same energy as Winnie the Pooh. I ain't got the same courage as Winnie the motherfucking Pooh. You said inspired by Winnie the Pooh? Right. Not Winnie the Pooh. Imagine. What y'all got planned for Halloween? I know our neighbor and friend, my fiancé's best friend, is I think throwing a Halloween party on Saturday, but not Halloween day. It's like this weekend, but not actual Halloween. And I think I'm going to wear my taco costume that I bought last year.

It's like a cheap-ass fucking foam. It's just a taco. And my fiancé has a burrito.

And then my dog has an avocado costume. oh okay i remember that's cute that is cute so we're just a little yummy nice what you guys, i'm going to be in new york for halloween yeah so i don't know what we're gonna do but i'm sure something's gonna be popping oh we're gonna be staying in brooklyn so we have friends out there who are like djs and all that stuff so probably follow them around to different bars yeah we went We were in New York last year for Halloween, too.

And we, I think we went to, like, an arcade bar for Halloween. Yeah, we just went, I think we just went to bars and, like, walked around. So everyone's going to be holding it down on a different city.

Yeah. You got it in New York. You got it in San Fran. We're a little triangle. Holding it down here. Ooh, a little, like, charmed. Right. Which is triangle. Triangle, right. Yeah. We need a fourth. Have y'all been watching anything Halloween-based? The Craft. I've seen, every year I watch The Craft. You know what? That is a good-ass movie. I do love The Craft. Yeah. I'll watch Elvira. Okay. And Hocus Pocus. Those are the three I always try to hit. Okay.

Unfortunately, I'm such a poser, I've never seen The Craft. Really? What? I know it's like a classic. Yeah. It's like a queer classic too, almost, right? I mean, I think all the queers. All the queers love it.

Yeah, all the queers love it. yeah death becomes her definitely a queer yes i forgot about that one i actually watched that too recently it's really good what else is a good what's a queer halloween classic i guess those we're halloween of course yeah rocky horror rocky horror oh but like i see that i wouldn't necessarily define that as halloween yeah right i think it gets it gets that because they're wearing weird Yeah, it's very transphobic, homophobic type of thing.

It's like you're dressing up rather than this is like who you are. Yeah. Hey. Right? Can we dissect Rocky Horror real quick? Right? These transphobes are monsters. That's your monster angle is that you're just trans? Mm-hmm. Right. Horrific. There's this video game that I play called Dead by Daylight, and it's basically like you can either play as a victim or a survivor or a killer from a horror franchise.

Anyways, they have their own list of monsters, and one of their monsters is this gnarled up, twisted looking person. I forgot what their character is called. But anyways, there's like discourse that this character that they made may be transphobic because like one of the version, one of the skins on it is like a woman, but it like looks like it's like a skin placed onto like a body. So they're trying to say that this is like a transphobic character because it's

like dressing up as a woman, but it's not a woman or something like that. It's like the skin. I don't know. Yeah. So that's very weird and interesting. But then the company themselves had said, like, no, that's not true. We're not transphobic. But then, because they have multiple skins for the same, like, character. But then the next, another character that they have is a skin of it being the big bad wolf in the Red Riding Hood, which is a male wolf dressed up as the grandmother.

So that's not beating their, like, transphobic allegations if that's another character, right, that is now, quote unquote, cross-dressing.

Anyways i'm just throwing that out there right gays who do play that i feel like i'm on to something yeah transphobia but i do play that game dead by daylight and i like getting stalked by the killer i'm the survivor oh and they have like characters like, What is it? The Chucky doll. Oh. Ghostface. Okay, so they have like a Halloween-based mask and stuff they can put on. Michael Myers, character from Stranger Things. But I like that game a lot. On Switch, too? It's on, I think, most platforms.

That's basically what I play during spooky season. That's cool. You don't have Netflix, do you? No, I have Disney Plus, I think. I don't have it. My fiancé. Y'all don't want it. Correction. Right. Correction, y'all are one. Right. Yours is his. There's this new show, The Ed Norum Show or something, or The Ed Something Story. But it takes... I think you'll like it because it goes on how the horror movie industry started. It was with the big, fat, old white man back in the day.

He used to do... Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock. so he started and I don't know if this is true or not but I think this is how they're playing it which is a good show so, he followed it was a serial killer and you know like it goes off like it hits most of the horror film genres movies or whatever, the one with the guy who like killed his mom and like had her in the window, back in the day it's based off of that but I'm only in the second episode but

it's kind of good and I think are you talking about Psycho? Psycho. So it's like it plays like.

Visions of that but this was a real dude the ed guy who was the serial killer and yes yes so if you i was gonna tell you to check it out if you haven't seen it but maybe i will but it's on netflix you said yeah and you know who directed it so it's the guy that did american horror stories i was just gonna say ryan murphy ryan murphy oh so it's gonna be like kind of juicy so yeah so it's like it's that type of storytelling it is kind of the monster one yeah oh yes yes okay maybe

i'll check that out so it's like because at first i was like i want to watch this i feel like it's gonna give like like a docu-series yeah but it's more like it's more like that style of american horror story where he goes into a story and then that character background story and you know move back and forth it's like a fictionalized version of of true events interesting i used to be into what is it alfred hitchcock yeah

i think it's movies i was like i would watch the birds all the time i know right verse was kind of good it was not kind of good but it was good i'm like.

I don't know the pacing was good the vibe was good it wasn't even like scary but i don't know what it was just interesting it was interesting yeah i loved the like the old universal horror monsters like i have a lot of the collections of it like the dracula and warwolf man oh yeah i i don't know i love like those old movies i love those movies too and i can't understand why they keep like making shitty remakes. Yeah. It's like I don't know what they're doing.

I mean you could do it. I don't know. Could you recreate them? Or is it just no point? They shouldn't recreate them, but however, they could just re-master it. Like, because, you know, like put it in color and now it's HD or something. Like, you know, like those old school ones that was in black and white. Now that's something people will probably want to see. You know what I'm saying? Like, because you've always seen it, but you've never seen it with color.

That's true. Because, I mean, they keep, I mean, I get it. Like, you keep making remakes because you want to retell the stories that you love, but you're still, like, bastardizing them by, like, kind of.

Shitting on their original work. like the original ones stand alone right but it's like well how do you make them relevant again in like today's tiktok society yeah like who's trying to be watching like the creature the black lagoon but i think you can you just gotta like update it right like why the black lagoon creature exists right because of like toxic waste and chemicals right you know fracking, and he's coming to get everyone who's a fracker see that's why the lagoon is black the oil.

That's how you revitalize that's funny I mean you have to do something, because they all keep coming out like how these you know like Disney always does like the classics over and over again yeah it's kind of like that vibe because then they just come out with another scream or something it's a new movie out I think, they're gonna do it as another sequel for I Know What You Did Last Summer oh is that it it's like recent right yeah it's something that's out I feel like

that's a reboot and they have the same actors probably which is still like i guess better than like just remaking the same movie again with like shillier actors. I don't know. I just don't think there's a point of like, well, I like remakes when they like add something new or new element to make it make it like current. I think that that's what people should do. But I also think people get so invested in the original and people want a carbon

copy of the original. But I'm like, you don't need one. You just enjoy the original. They just love it for what it is. And then you can also enjoy the remake or the reboot or whatever they want to call it.

Did you guys see that Nosferatu remake they did? i tried and i couldn't get through it i love the original i i watched it it was kind of like, hard to get through yeah yeah but i was like i'm already into it so shit 45 minutes no i had high hopes for her because i'd also heard like people who i with opinions i respected talk about it was really good and then i saw it and like within like the first 15 minutes i was like oh my god can we leave because it was like it's

just like the the fact of a remake is just kind of like a redundant story that we like heard a thousand times yeah and but it's just like a degraded version like i i probably would have got more like fulfillment re-watching the original nosferatu in public than than this yeah that's not really all that like they had cute art direction i'll give it that, like, everything looked pretty great, but I just felt like no. I don't know. Yeah. Depressing. Depressed. Sad. Very.

Yeah and i i really like horror movies like i grew up on them like halloween it was one of my favorites what's the latest one you've seen of like all the horror movies what's like the most newest horror movie you've seen the last release i'm trying to chill i don't know. The one that i remember watching most recently and it's not even that recent. I think it's like maybe two, three years old. And I forget what it's called. But the premise... Oh, I remember what it's called. It's La Llorona.

Oh, okay. But the twist is that. The person that is getting haunted by her genocided an indigenous culture, and he's on trial, and she's coming back for her revenge, and disguised as an indigenous woman that is a housekeeper for them. That's fun. Yeah. So it's kind of cool. See, and I like things like that, where they take a story that you know, and take the bones, and then add something fresh to it. Put some new spark into it.

I think the other, besides Nosferatu, the last one I actually saw was 28 Years Later. Oh, I want to see that one. The new recent one, right? The third one. I liked it for the most part, I think. Like, I feel like it was a little bit slow. I mean, they're slow movies. Yeah. But I felt like it was a little bit slow-ish. Oh, okay. Even for, like, a slow movie such as itself. But it was exactly the same vibe as, like, the old ones.

Like that like gritty british dark camera vibe which is very cute i liked that whole aesthetic, but they brought it back it was creepy it was definitely creepy vibes but you already know the story i want to see it i tell my eyes should watch it me too i think the last one i've seen i can't remember to tell you the truth said but i feel like the one that sticks out is barbarian i don't know if you guys ever this is probably a couple this is what last year i think it came out a year ago,

it's actually a good film who's in that it's like no major people cause it's coming out with a barbarian too, ew mm-hmm yeah that's cool let me see is that Russia though when I went to.

I never seen that person up close like that monster but yes lots of media to consume oh so basically the media that i've been consuming actually a lot lately are like youtube videos of like alleged like trail cam videos or like ring ring videos of like shit that like catches on camera i'm like obsessed with those videos now and like all over youtube you can just like put like compilation of that and like i'll like just watch it so it's like an hour long compilation basically

of like ring camera videos and i'm just like scanning through them all and then there's like another youtube channel that i that i go on called like third phase of the moon it's just like youtube or it's just like ufo videos that i'm like scanning through them all just like so i'm up to date on the latest ring camera ghosts.

They catch a lot of weird shit that it's almost like like like we were saying earlier like at this point it's like you can't believe anything because it's like right and also how easy is it for you to fake like a cheap like crappy video that's supposed to look crappy right like all that crappiness hides the fakeness like you can't see the string that you get it hanging from a tree, and looking like a ufo in the distance yeah that or just like even if you just

like make an ai video of like a like a camera like a shitty camera too that looks so real right like you wouldn't even think that it wasn't just a shitty camera that's true, Because there's this one video that I had seen of like, what was it? It's an AI video that actually fooled me. And it was a possum eating like a bowl of like Halloween candy. And it was like caught on the ring camera. But then like they have like a Halloween decoration that like turns on. It's activated by motion.

So it scares the possum eating. Oh, and he like jumped up at it. And he jumps up. But all those videos are fake. I know. That's like. And I thought it was real the first time I seen it. I was laughing my ass off because I was like, oh my God. What the fuck? And I was like, I ain't never seen a raccoon fucking jump like that. Right? So I thought it was fucking hilarious. But then, yeah, they're fake. But like I'm saying, you don't know what's real or fake.

You don't never know what's real or fake out here. Because you would be like, who the fuck would make a fake camera video of a raccoon? You know what I mean? Yeah. Take that time and effort. Exactly. So at this point, it's like everything is fake. Yeah. On TikTok, I've gotten sucked into videos about the Appalachian Mountains.

Oh, shit. Yeah. what do they call them not mimes but skinwalkers right the skinwalkers yeah i've seen those so interesting whether like it's like the rules for appalachian mountains don't go out at night don't stop if you're driving at night like don't answer the door someone's calling your name don't look at it or address it it's wild i believe it have you seen the alleged videos of the skinwalkers i have like it's like the like the white things and they shift like legs also i don't

know they're fucking weird. Do you know what that is? I've heard about it, but that was also a movie. Did you never, like, because you're from the Midwest, right? So, like, do you know of, like, weird shit that, because I feel like more recently I've been hearing about, like, shit that's in that area, like, like, Ohio has a lot of, like, like, stuff. So, did you hear about that stuff growing up? Well, no, because we grew up in the church and that's the devil. That's of the devil.

So not growing up, but like after, you know, like high school and like reading stuff for myself. But like that kind of like folklore in that area was like common. Yeah. Because I feel like more recently I've been like inundated with like stuff about like the Midwest and like Appalachia, like you're saying.

Mm-hmm and because i also seen a video where some guy was just talking like sometimes all the like he'll get silent oh yeah like when all the birds and everybody will stop i'm like damn like, damn that's crazy but that can also be ai right you're in the woods it's ai yeah like i've been watching these like trail cams and it's like these like bigfoot-esque beings caught on tape just like images of the backside and it's like what is that and

then it's like you have no way of verifying is like where did you get this alleged picture that you are saying is like a trail cam photo, yeah but I don't know and then it's like then I've seen ones where it's like, it's like either like a light or like an orb and then it turns into like an animal or like a person.

Those ones kind of tripped me out because like how do you do that right but i was i was huge into horror as a kid like i used to watch like the ghost hunting tour shows okay so i like i remember the reason why i know like so many things in ohio is because of those because ohio's haunted that's fun that's so well it's like a deep history i think, yeah i think people just got shipped to the midwest yeah like i've been hearing

a lot of i've been really interested in this like character the dog man where it's like this have you heard that no so it's basically the dog man is like one of these beasts that you find out like, People say that you can see them basically anywhere in the woods or the wild. People see them in Ohio. And it's basically like people will see a creature and it's crouching down and it looks like a dog. But then all of a sudden it stands up on its hind legs and it's like eight feet tall.

And it is like a bipedal dog monster. And they're always vicious, I guess. And the people report that they're like crazy and that they're like snarling at them and it's just like a vicious like demonic being and like so many people have reported like, this dogman creature person thing that it's like what the fuck like a dogman? Like a werewolf? Chupacabra. Is Skinwalker and like what is the other one that they have the wendigo?

Oh, I've heard of the Wendigo, yeah. That's kind of like werewolf-esque, right? Yeah.

Yeah but i've been really into that kind of stuff and i've been watching a lot of bigfoot videos and he's yeah i'm really into the night crawlers i don't know why i want the night crawlers to be real i guess i just want a large new creature to exist oh i don't know why but they usually stay hidden so you'll never know yeah i also kind of think i'm like well how many nocturnal animals exist that we don't know about and like all these caves and i was actually like googling i was like Well,

how much actually real unexplored, like we always like kind of think like every single part of America is like Google Earth and like everyone knows every little thing that's happening everywhere. But we really don't know how what's going on in like a lot of like places like the Appalachian Mountains or like the Pacific Northwest or like the deserts. Some of these old small cities and towns. We really don't have like that big of an eye on everything.

I feel like shit can still exist out there. Yeah. Like, I kind of feel like maybe, like, what if we still all just live in the village? Like, you know that movie from M.I. Chalmuan? I remember that movie, yes. But it's just like, this is the village. Oh, man. And it's like, because we really don't go outside of the cities. Right. Like, you get on a plane, and you travel the world, but you go to the cities. It's like, you're not in the jungle. In the jungle. Right, exactly.

We're not in the cave. We're not in the desert. We're not at nighttime, like, at 2 a.m., like, out there. They're in the forest. We don't know what the fuck's going on. Yeah. That's so true. I mean, and that's what the whole like.

Interest is about the appalachian mountains because it's also like an ancient land too right like i think indigenous cultures like revered it and respected it but i don't the colonizer are the colonizers are not like there's definitely there's got to be shit in there right that you never because it's also like the cities haven't been just like you said colonized so like some of those who's not to say like some of those people don't

even have like technology they have like an old photo i mean like camera or whatever that's still you know able to capture things. And they don't have technology so they don't know how to spread the word that he's like we've been all about this walk this dog man and that's the other thing is like people always say well like if these things existed why don't we hear about them and it's like well lots of people talk about these kind of things, but no one believes them.

You see, you blame it on mental health. Exactly. Yeah. I don't know. I'm open to the fact that I hope there's shit out there that we don't know about. I'm sure there is, for sure. If not on land, in the water. I just seen a post the other day where they just seen a new, rare thing in the water. They was so far deep down, but it was like a jellyfish, but it was shaped like as a... Now I don't even know if that shit was real. You know what I'm saying?

I second guess everything now that I see online. Just because it's online don't mean it's true or right or correct. I mean, there's definitely lots of, like I've seen on Instagram, definitely lots of misinformation history memes where it's just stupid shit, where it's a picture of, I don't know, the Romans. And it just says a fact that is not even true. And it's like, what is this? And putting this out there, I don't know.

That's true. I feel like I see a lot of weird shit like that. But anyways... Back to spookiness. The spook spook. Do you think that it's possible that like there's like a portion of the earth that's just like just so unreached that there could be beings that have been here that are just as smart and like as we are but just like undiscovered? Oh, yeah. I just know they are walking among us. Some of them are. I just, I cannot be living this wretched world and not believe that there's

nothing else out there. Nothing better. You know what I'm saying? Like. Not even in the, not even in the outer space. Like just on this planet alone. Just on this planet alone. Yes. Mm-hmm. We can't be, like, you know what? That's because that's crazy. Like, we, we swear we know everything.

We don't know shit in regards of just like how much is out there that is unknown, true like I kind of like sometimes try to look at it as like what if it's like you know like Lord of the Rings, and like we only like know about us race of men right and like what if there are other things like other races of things that we just aren't like our government doesn't tell us about just other type of thing yeah like what if there's a whole.

Whole colony of elves and the government actually knows and they just don't tell us. They don't tell us about aliens. They don't. Why would they tell us about the dwarves? The dwarves. I mean, the dwarves exist. But yeah, I just know. I'm still like, I think we had talked about this before. Like, I'm still, you know, I think... I don't want to be taken unless it's for fun, if that makes sense. I want you to probe me and put me to work up there. Yeah, yeah,

yeah. Let me come and go on vacation. A little space vacation. You know what I'm saying? Well, no one wants to have a bad time. Right. So I'm only asking them. If they're going to come and get me, I want to come and get me for a good time.

Well so anybody who listens to this who actually listens to this podcast knows i'm big alien freak but i just recorded a video like the other day i was walking my dog and i saw something oh yeah and then i recorded it and it just looks like a like a white line but then there's also you can also see planes in the same shot that i have it and it doesn't look like a plane or anything else So I was like, I definitely think this is a UFO.

And then I sent it to one of the UFO compilation video people that I watched. And they said they're going to post it. So they believe it might be one too. Confirmation. But then I was like, is this an alien? Is this a UFO or not? I can't tell.

Let's pause. I'm going to show you guys the video. And you can tell the people if you think it's an actual UFO or not. Okay, so I just showed everybody my video. What do you guys think? It's clearly something that's not a flying object that we're used to seeing. Oh, definitely unidentified. I don't know what it is. But it's clearly something. Now, because it can't even be a reflection, because what is it reflecting off of? Exactly.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So it's just like, what the hell could it be? Yeah. Because in the video, Nino got like a plane in it, like pretty much a line to compare. Good job, by the way. And it's very drastically different. Like the plane, you can see the parts of the plane. You know it's a plane. The other one is very blobby and orby. And even if it was like a small charter I don't know if it would like look like that. Right you should be able to still see it even when you scroll in.

I feel like there needs to be like a website or like a channel where you can just look at like shitty videos of like every, flying plane that we have so you can compare it to like what it actually looks like and like not think it's a UFO you know what I mean?

But your eyes do not deceive you i mean they do not so so you like you see shit like that like i like according to us here i have literal proof of a unidentified vehicle in the air but it's like and what and now nothing now nothing right so it's like what can we do about it nothing just wait for them right wait for them to come down which which if you've heard my podcast before they already came into my house Oh, that's true. So I don't know what to tell you guys. They've already done that.

And nobody cares still, so... They're just making sure you're still paying attention. They're still testing you. I saw a fake, an obviously fake trail cam photo of a griffin. Oh, I seen that shit the other day. I was like, okay, y'all. And then I seen somebody comment, I want it. Or I want one. And I was like, yes, I also want one. That shit was crazy. I seen that shit earlier today. So funny. I was like, that was like a, well, you never.

Look, he could have been had it in the cave all this time, for all we know. That's funny. They've been living down in the... And then that just seems something, too, which is also... This is spooky in a sense in regards of time. They found a 2,000-year-old shark that's like... Yeah, like she had like arrow or something, like... Like from like 1600s or whatever the fuck, like a spare. Lodge dinner? Lodge dinner. So alive?

And she's been living for that long. And it was just like, you could tell like how it grew, like it grew around. Like she grew up with that motherfucker because that thing is ancient. And I was like, damn, that's crazy. How have you stayed alive for 2,000 years? That's crazy. I know. I didn't think they could live that long. Are you sure it's not a shark that bumped into an ancient site? Okay, maybe it was 200 years. That's crazy. 2,000 years old shark. Even 200 years seems like a lot.

Even 200 years is old. I know it was a 200 motherfucker somewhere. She was old. She's seen life. Imagine being that old. No. That's a lot. But being youthful. That's witchcraft. But like death becomes her. I know. Did y'all see the substance? No, did you see it? Yeah, because it was just streaming now. It's interesting. Did you feel disgusted? Not really. I mean, it was disgusting, but I didn't feel disgusted.

But it was a good film because they talked more about, I looked at it in the aspect of just love the life and the body you're in and enjoy it while you can because what you really want is not what you want. Yeah, I feel like I didn't want to watch that movie for multiple reasons. I was like, I don't need to feel bad about wanting to be cute. I was like. I blame the patriarchy for that, not myself. I could see why that. And I'm also grossed out by alleged body horror, as it's called.

I'm not trying to see something gross like that. What is that? It's very gross.

Where it's like physically disgusting like mutation or like yeah distorted body or, kind of like gruesome disfigurement interesting interesting that that's that or interested that that grosses him out a little wolf like i'm shocked too like yeah because i'm also battling with the fact like well i'm like demi more didn't you just like literally take the substance like you're all of a sudden you're super hot again and relevant again and but you just did this movie basically as a critique

of your own life well i mean i guess that's my friend was saying that was the point is like she knows what it's like to have to kind of have this like weird experience of, i guess the moral dilemma of being beautiful when you're old and gross.

I don't know because i guess being beautiful is seen as vain or like wanting to be beautiful is seen as vain which is seen as like a moral failing which now you need to have like some kind of punishment, which is wild because people are telling you always need to be pretty but you can only be pretty enough not too pretty not too pretty where it's evil where you're somehow tricking this you can't trick the system into your with your

beauty because then there's a weird catch because it's a witchcraft, some glamour magic oh my god do y'all ever do glamour magic what is that or heard of glamour magic okay so I'm, When I was a kid, like in middle school and high school, I was like, I want to be witchy. So like I was just like spells into like Google hard drive because, you know, she got everything. And there's like different spells you can do. And there's like a section called like glamour magic.

Glamour magic is where you like do a spell or a ritual with the intention like changing and altering your appearance. Oh. So you supposedly can like change your eye color, change your hair color, change like how you appear to people. Really? Yeah. Which ones did you do? I only did the eye color because I wanted to see. Yeah. So is that your real eye color I'm seeing right now? I don't know. No one would choose brown eyes. You used to have blue eyes. I know, right? I want to be normal.

I know. Tired of all the attention. What a doubt. I'm choosing to doubt. Got some anti-glamour magic. That's funny. Changed my eye color. I always wanted to have like one blue eye and one green eye. Oh, yeah. I think that's so cool. Like the puppies. Yeah. So cute. I should do some spells. You should. Just get some contacts would be easier. More efficient. Not you, the modern witch, researching them online. I know, right? I mean, you got to find it somewhere.

Look. You got to find your witchy community. When we were in middle school, my sister bought witch spell books from Hot Topic. And my dad found them in her room and grounded her for like a year a year, wow witchcraft was not accepted in the house never accepted in the house not by the patriarchy of course father said no. I do feel like witches are my favorite horror spooky thing. I think so, too. It's fun. I always wanted to pretend. Or vampires. Vampires.

Those are good. I've never really been into the vampire death. Really? No. I liked Buffy, I guess. Oh, I loved Buffy. She was a vampire killer. Did you guys watch the movie, Buffy? I did. I also loved the movie because I just love campy movies. Yeah. The movie was sick. Mm-hmm. What happened to that girl? Why was she not Sarah Michelle Giller? What the fuck happened back there? Well, that was like 10 years before. Because it came out like mid-80s. True. She lost her glamour magic disappeared.

She needed the substance. I feel like Ricky Martin has taken the substance recently. Who? Ricky Martin. Ricky Martin. I was like, you weren't that smooth like a year ago. Also, was it Kris Jenner? She's a whole new person. Oh, my God. She looked like... That was kind of scary. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't like that. That kind of made me feel like, oh, you are in league with the devil. I'm like, why don't people just want to age gracefully and just like, you don't got to do all day.

You trying to look way younger than what you are. Because it's like, are you really trying to fuck like that, girl? Know your knees be hurting. Like, do you think Kris Jenner is like, I need to get fucked? Because I feel like at some point, isn't that ultimately the reason to be so hot is to maintain fuckability? And if you're not actually going around fucking everyone, what is the point of maintaining such ultra-hotness? For self-love. For self-love. We all wish.

But I think you get privileged when you are pretty. And it's research, right? There are people who are more attractive tend to have higher degrees, tend to have better-paying jobs, right? And it's not a coincidence. Those things play a role in it. I was taught in history class that the first presidential debate was Nixon versus JFK. And Nixon lost, or one of the reasons he lost was because he was all sweaty and gross on TV and people were disgusted with him.

And because he said he didn't want to wear makeup because his fags wear?

Yeah yeah i don't know if he said fags but you know it's the same he meant it that's what he meant what he meant in his heart yeah so i think like looks play a huge role in how you move around the world i remember in the movie the leprechaun there's this one do you remember that in vegas, and that lady like wants to have like i think she wanted to be pretty i don't know what she wished for from the leprechaun she wanted like big boobs and big lips and then they grew so big

they exploded and that's like another example of this like vanity is like you need to be punished for it what is that about is that one of the seven commandments no no vanity no that's not part of it i don't think so unless it's like pride or some shit pride in your looks oh that yeah that's pride if you have ego there it is pride god damn it see always back to christianity.

That's how they keep that that's how they keep their hands on your neck are there any other movies like that are they like punishing the vein probably some Final Destination I guess ultimately like Snow White was like this.

Based upon like the queen's vanity oh yeah did they come out with a oh i didn't even see it like a shitty version yeah or like a killer version like they was all like killer else or some shit oh i don't know not like the winnie the pooh thing oh yes that was fantastic what else are you guys going to any like halloween themed like events around the city have you ever done any of those kind of things? Like Haunted Hamlet? No, I haven't been to the Queen Mary and I see that's been

going off like I've seen a lot of Dark Nights or Harbor Nights. For Nights. I'm at the Queen Mary. I haven't, damn. They haven't ever fucked with that before. It feels like it seems like it's a lot of work. What, to get down there? To get down there for some ghosts that might not actually be there. For like no fright. Yeah, I feel like I'd rather go onto the ship and go ghost hunting on the ship because it's haunted. And there's actually a speakeasy in the Queen Mary where you pass the haunted

rooms and it's designated this is where it's haunted. You get to like peek inside. Like I feel like you'd be more likely to see a ghost when you're like there on a chill vibe. Yeah. Oh, yeah, probably. Then like, I'm going here for Halloween. Well, I don't know. The whole point is to what the veil is thin, you know. Maybe you're right. Do some seance in the Queen Mary. Have you seen your little spirit friend, your little shadow person man?

Oh, yeah, the one that hugged you? Oh, no. I haven't seen him in a while. Have we exercised him? I think just bringing it up brought it to... No. He was like, okay, well, my job is done. You notice me. All right, got to go. He's like, you finally acknowledged me. You've released me from the spell. Y'all just keep pretending we're not here. Right. He's like, I can finally go off to the afterlife now. Thank you. That's funny. you. I've never done the Harbor Nights, but I've done Not Scary Farm.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I've done the mazes there. I went on purpose to go see Elvira's show and get her signature on the record. Like, that was my main thing I went. That's where I went directly. I didn't even go to the mazes. I just went to go do those things. I mean, that sounds like about right. Yeah. But I've done that a few times. And they're cool, but they're also, like, the same thing every year.

And it's crowded. And you have to wait in line. and it's just, it's just a lot of work the one I would love to check out is Universal Studios because that one looks scary that one looks pretty legit yeah I went to Not Scary Farm when I was in high school and then I went to like a Six Flags one with like my first boyfriend, and I just am not into the vibe of like people like coming up in my face and being like which is like one I already know oh, you're not actually going to

interfere with me. So I'm not actually scared. I'm more kind of like awkward, feeling awkward and annoyed that I have to one, either pretend to be scared, of your like insane actions or like do something in order for you to like now finish your little show of scaring me. Like I just always feel awkward. I'm like, can you just go? Like I'm not trying to be scared by you. So you don't like jump scares? Or jump scares don't bother you? They're not scary and it's just more awkward

for me. Oh, okay. Because I just feel like, oh, now I have to acknowledge that you think you're scary. And I just feel like awkward. Can you just scare this little girl? Because I'm not scared. I love that. That's like the ultimate people pleasing.

It's like, I don't want to make you think that you're not good at your job. You really got me. It's a monster. He's going to stab me.

It's just, I don't know. And then, and then it's just like the mazes are just like, strobe light dark mazes with like another white guy who's like probably getting a boner to like scaring people you know what i mean right like this like ellen degeneres-esque like thirst for other people's fear oh to be funny and shit yeah i don't know what's funny though because i was watching this one documentary and it's like you know how they have those extreme haunted houses where like the people are

like essentially like raping you and you're paying for it and i'm just thinking like well it's one thing if you're that person who's paying for it but you're also and there's another person who's setting this up and it's like i know you're getting off to like scaring people in more of a it's funny it's like there's some weird depraved shit yeah i'm quite sure and so i feel like ellen has that vibe where she like gets off to like making people scared.

Like because she would like pull some like like funky stunts on people and i'm like yeah why are you like laughing so maniacally bitch like yeah for giving people like i never think about it like that but yeah there was a documentary where i was watching this guy anyways later he ended up getting arrested for like being a fucking psycho crazy rapist or some shit anyways but i feel like i don't know i'm going with this you know which ones are are wild

i don't understand are the haunted mazes they have. And it's just one, I think. But it's the one where you have to sign a waiver because they're going to torture you. That's the kind of shit I'm talking about. Yeah, or they're going to have real weapons chasing you. Okay. And if you actually do get hurt, it's part of the show. Yeah, you waved. Good luck. That shit is like my night. Those are wild. What's going on? Because I'll take it to that one motherfucker. Mm-hmm. I don't know.

Someone's jerking off to that. What else spooky? What else is spooky? Because I also feel like it's the weather, too, because I'm so used to having Halloween in the Midwest. So, like, the weather changes. So, like, you get more in the Halloween spirit because you got to... Autumn leaves. Right. It's just a vibe. And then now that I live in Cali, it's just a different vibe. So I don't celebrate it as much as I did, but I do love Halloween. Halloween's one of my favorite holidays.

How does it feel? It's just like extended summer. Right. It's like you think back in the day when, I mean, people wearing skimpy outfits in the Midwest, You had to like wear fucking a big jacket and coat and shit just to get ready to go. Right. Exactly. But here you like shit. You just walk on to the house like, yeah, I don't have a jacket for today. It's 80 degrees.

Because it does this weird thing where like it gives you like a fake out moment where like it actually pretends like it's going to be fall. And you're like, oh, I feel like it's getting a little nippy. And then it just like hits you with the sun again. Yeah. It's like, bitch, I'm sweating today.

This cute autumn sweater this cute autumn sweater he's coming the fuck off i need a cute autumn tank top my cute autumn short shorts and sandals oh man but it's funny because halloween is also my favorite holiday why do the queers love halloween i don't know because we get to dress up like women we can do whatever we want we can do whatever we want it's fun i don't know because there's a lot you gotta decorate there's

lots of like there's the whole thing where it's like we love decorating anyways it's the core we love like making like foods like themed foods we love parties, any excuse to get drunk any excuse to get dressed up and also an excuse to act fucking weird.

And we also seem to like weird, scary things. That is true. That's the trauma. I mean, we're pretty much obsessed with like witches already. So I guess now we can have fun with it. I don't know. Right. But I know because you have put something in earlier, but like for much of the 20th century, U.S. Cities enforced like cross-dressing bans like back in the day. So police use like a three article laws to arrest anyone not wearing at least three items of clothing tied to their assigned sex.

So Halloween costumes became more of a blurred line. So for like drag queens, butchers and gender bending could dress freely and protected by the holiday spirit of disguise. So i think that's why like uh the history comes about why gays love halloween um and then also you know it celebrates like camp uh that is true you know glamour sex appeal, right bring slutty outfits and self-expression.

Sexual expression do you think halloween was always an adult hall i feel like there's a shift it is because you know when we kids you know you just wear what your parents are like you're like oh i want to be a ghost and you know get a sheet cut some eyes out and you know boom i don't know when that shift usually happens like what probably like high school because then like you're going to high school like.

You're moving towards becoming more familiar with like just freedom and expression because you go like with your old friends to like, Hey rides or well, shit, I don't know. I mean, back in the day, we're back in, in the Midwest, you would go like on, Hey rides and like, you know, doing things that was not like trick or treating and just having your parents go through your candy. So you get the safe candy and this, that, and the other. Cause you have to outgrow.

Allegedly. you have to outgrow like dressing up in costumes going trick-or-treating because then people will get be like you're too old to be trick-or-treating right and then also it's like embarrassing if you're like in middle school already like i don't want to be dressing up like i look like a fool already i don't know dang it changed the shift vibe i definitely had a huge halloween when i was little though like we would

go trick-or-treating in redondo beach where my aunt lived and we got some good fucking candy and like everybody was like dishing it out yeah it was like the shit and i like i would have like a fat ass sack full of like real chocolate bitch godava.

Girard dally all right that shit was good then i used a trick-or-treat in in downey here in california the little mexican beverly hills and they used to give out like the big king size bars it was the best you definitely wanted to go there I never got a full bar like that oh yeah, right never our man was mini gotta know the spots, Those were the days. That was like the last time I guess it felt like Americana. Yeah. Like before we were worried about anything.

Yeah, before the world was a disaster. But maybe that's always how it is when you're young. Like maybe the kids of today, I mean, they obviously don't really know what's going on, right? I feel like it's different now because I feel like I didn't have access to technology. And I what I knew about the news was from the 10 p.m.

News or the morning news when I was getting ready for school but now the kids are on their own iPads and their own phones so who knows what they encounter and then not even what if because the information that's.

Tithered to you it's basically off your algorithm so like if they just you know what i'm saying like so they probably ain't really don't know what's going on if it's not within their mindset in the realm yeah you know what i'm saying so they don't know shit i feel like they do i feel like they probably know a lot probably a lot more traumatized oh yeah oh of course yeah i feel like in more recent years though i feel like

halloween is really like getting even more like spreading even bigger because i feel like i don't know maybe am i right or am i wrong i feel like, you see a lot of halloween displays like decorative halloween displays and the way that, christmas displays yeah i agree because i think because i think back in the day i mean halloween was frowned upon like it was you know everybody was very into christianity and like halloween was the the the devil's day so most of

the time like when i was growing up we was going to revivals on Halloween. Like, we didn't really go out and able to trick-or-treat. What are revivals? Like, just like churches going stopping at different cities and just like almost like a rave but with pastors and church. That's interesting. It's under a tent. You know, like the old school. Excuse me. So, I feel like I lost my train of thought, so...

Revivals. Revivals, yeah, so, like, we... So, I feel like people is moving away from, like, believing that this is the devil's day and just using it as, you know, fun. Because we need some kind of fun at this, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's been a rough couple of years. Yeah. I also imagine...

Movies and tv had a lot to do with that as well right i feel like when i think of horror movies especially older horror movies they're adult oriented and i don't know very many kid oriented halloween movies until what like probably like the 70s the 80s in particular for sure so i want i feel like that also played a role in kind of shaping shaping that yeah definitely like i've the more research i find like like california but specifically like la has like a lot to do with like

halloween culture and like spreading it even despite just like the movies alone but, just in general like a lot of things that they have is i don't remember at the top of my head right now but we have a lot to do with halloween culture.

Look into it's research excuse me what was y'all's halloween costumes as kids do you remember any of them i was like a a sheet ghost no not even a sheet ghost like for like from ages like three to like six i was like a white t-shirt that had ghosts on it oh that was me saying i was a ghost, and then what else was i and then from like from middle school i was the ghost face from scream okay like basically and i was basically

that till high school and then i after that i basically was just like a cheap cowboy where i just had like a flannel shirt and jeans and i'm like i'm a cowboy here's a couple and then. What else have I been oh yeah I was also a Dia de los Muertos, painted face for like the last 10 years of my life also it's an era, and then my most recent change up was at a Halloween party for my co-worker I went to I dressed up as a what do you call that plague doctor the plague doctor

with like the big mask. Oh, okay, okay. And it was pretty cute. That sounds cute. Right. It's like a little hat. And then last year, I was a taco, and I'm going to be a taco again. So I think taco is going to be in my next 10 years. Okay. I'll write that out. Taco era. And it's crazy because you're not even a street taco. You're a regular colonizer taco. I'm my name. Yeah, you're a Taco Bell taco.

I like that colonizer taco. White people taco night taco. That's what you should introduce yourself. I'm a colonizer taco. Damn. Damn. And carry a smallpox blanket. And my fiance is the colonizer burrito. And my dog is the colonizer avocado. Oh, that's organic. Organic. What are you? I used to just be like, I can't remember, to tell you the truth. Probably like a sheet, teenage turtles. I mean, yeah. Like as a kid, like those was the ones like, you know.

A sheet. Yeah. How would have you been recently? What was your recent? Oh, I'd be doing it. Oh, like last year I was Sailor Moon. Oh yeah. Oh, that was cute. Yeah. And then I think it was this year. I'm going to do, Oh, I don't know. I'm going to do Winnie the Pooh. I'm going to try to pull that off some way, somehow. And then a minion. A minion. Why a minion? Cause it was something quick and easy. Just a yellow hat.

Right. Right. Still doing simple, So, but you know, I remember, and then like once I started coming to California, well, when I was living in California, well, since I moved here, it's become like, you know, try to get some kind of like sexy Halloween, you know, like, cause one time I went out as a sexy Harry Potter, like I had like a jockstrap and a harness and a cape. Wow. You know, so it was like. Origin Harry Potter. Right. Right.

So yeah, I try to switch it up every now and again. Very cool. What about you? As a kid, the first costume I remember seeing a picture of me in was like Pinocchio. Oh. Yeah, it was actually really cute. It was like these little short shorts. And I'm like, oh, that's adorable. Y'all made me gay. Y'all did this. Y'all did this. Yeah. And then after that, I feel like the costume I remember picking out like myself was a jester costume.

Oh, okay. So it was, it was. black and purple and it had like a little thing and it had like a little skirt, you know. It was also very gay. It was a hell of a gay. You need to find a picture of it. And they played it in my face and they got me like stockings and then, yeah, I just wore my little skirt and we sewed on bells to the end of it. So anytime I walked, I jingled. Okay, nice. That was my favorite costume for sure. It was so cute.

That's definitely a unique costume idea. I always really got unique costume ideas. so there was that one and after that i was a judge i think that's the last year i dressed up a judge in fifth grade and before that the costume that will get me canceled is i dress up as a chic. She was being inclusive i was being i was guen stefan-ing this situation, And then I didn't dress up in like middle school or high school. Wait, did you have a wig as the judge? I did. I had a white wig.

I had a little briefcase that said. Kind of like a dress. Yeah. It was a vibe. It was aesthetic. Dang, not a whole wig and a dress as a man. Right? My drag. That's always on drag. Low key as fuck.

And then, yeah. And then in high school. No. I was actually in grad school probably when I was in my 20s where I started like celebrating halloween again and dressing up and i do like annual halloween pictures so i've been like we did like mario last year oh yeah the pirates the pokemon trainers you know so like i love dressing up and just having a theme for halloween that's cute yeah i always i always want to like do like how heidi klum does and just like oh she's like psycho and have

a crazy costume that go out out Oh, yeah, I would love that. I want to do one of those Rococo 17th century French outfits with a big wig and the buckle shoes and the socks. Whatever they're wearing. But I don't have the cash reserves for that crazy kind of outfit. Jonel Monet be doing good ones too. She's about Halloween. She was doing something this year. What is she doing? Wonderween? What is that? Do you know what that is? I think I've seen something about it, but I don't know what it is.

I want to go. I don't care what it is. How cool. She kind of looks like a werewolf-ish in these pics. That's cool. Yeah, and then Dracula. I was always like, give me some fangs. I'm good. Oh, that's an easy one. Throw a little smokey eye on. Well, I never did that, but I guess you could. You can. Suggestion. That was fun with the fangs. Yeah. I want to give me some custom ones. Oh, yeah. Because back at, well, I don't know how they're doing that, but you could mold

them. It was like the clay ones, right? Those wax lip things? Not the wax lips. Yeah. Just the teeth. Yeah. But I remember Halloween was really fun because we went to the store and bought our costumes. Yeah. So it would be cool just to like walk up and down and then I would have like three or four different bags because I didn't know what I wanted exactly. So I'm like, I'm going to carry these until I decide which one I want.

I'm going to say this. Spirit needs to up their pussy up. That shit makes me feel ghetto when I walk to Spirit Halloween. Is it terrible? Maybe. They always been terrible. They need to up their shit. Like y'all need to get some extra. Tarot. They can't get shit in stock no more. I'm just saying. in here. It's always a goddamn mess in there. I can imagine. It's always a mess. But it's okay.

Because, shit, I don't remember, I don't think, because remember during COVID, they didn't, you couldn't find a spirit store. I don't think they came, like, COVID fucked them up, too. Because I remember they used to be on every goddamn, every closed warehouse or storefront. Yeah. And now, like, for the last couple of years, it's very hard to find one. Well, at least in Long Beach. I seen one. I want them.

Do you do a pumpkin? No. Last year, like, a group, like, we all carved pumpkins, like, as a friend group, and, like, you know, just make it a night, have some drinks. But I'm not sure if we're going to do it this year. Mm-hmm. Because I'm going to be gone every weekend this month for the, you know. Whole month's booked. Right.

All right. Anything else spooky? I don't think so. I think we are all spooked out. I'm scared. I'm scared, too. Well, from all of us here at the Spooky LBC, I think that was a good one. Another spooky one. All right. I'd like to thank myself, Nino, Dr. Kristoff, and Dr. Kristoff. I'll take your shit. I'd like to thank myself, Nino, Dr. Mikey, and Kristoff from all of us here at the Queer LBC. You're spooky enough. You're deadly enough. and you're creepy enough and nobody likes you at all. Demon.

Be gone! Good night.