Morbid Mondays - BS Pre Show Anti-gay laws

Join us for another BS pre-show where we get our wiggles out before talking about something deeply unpleasant.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:01

Alright, now um the record button has been pressed.

SPEAKER_01 0:05

Welcome to the pre-show. I'm snacking.

SPEAKER_00 0:08

You describe your uh um lime green rug.

SPEAKER_01 0:13

Faux rabbit faux rabbit fur, lime green rug. Gigantic.

SPEAKER_00 0:20

Like I believe if you buy one of those, it ought to come with one pair of Christina Aguilera's pants.

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Because I'm a genie in a bottle, bitch.

SPEAKER_00 0:31

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 0:32

That is such has she worn them or are they just her brand?

SPEAKER_00 0:35

No, it's just her her style. Damn it. The uh not quite sure if they're painted on.

SPEAKER_01 0:42

I was so in love with her. I was so in love with her.

SPEAKER_00 0:45

Her her body was impossible.

SPEAKER_01 0:47

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 0:48

Like I like I remember looking at her and going, like, you look like if a brat's doll was like a random person, you know, like and had proportional, like you like had a proportional face.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

Did you see Bertlesque? No, it's so good. It's got her and Cher in it, and like I you know me, I'm a sucker for a musical.

SPEAKER_00 1:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:07

And I'm a sucker for Christina Aguilera, and I'm a sucker for Cher. So put all three of those things in one movie.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:14

My bisexual ass was in heaven in that theater, and then it was a good movie on top of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:21

Like the costume, the music, the makeup, the hair, the wigs. Oh my god, the wigs.

SPEAKER_00 1:27

See, straight up of all the like the blonde singers of her generation, because you know, like it started like with it really started before Britney Spears, but like Britney Spears became like the main line, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:39

Yeah, Britney was the poster child for it.

SPEAKER_00 1:41

And then like the every record company in the world had to have like a teen dream person.

SPEAKER_01 1:47

Well, yeah, because we got Britney Christina in pink, like bam, bam, bam, bam.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

And um Mandy Moore Simpson and Mandy Moore, and yeah, and then just to throw some a little bit of like different in there.

SPEAKER_01 1:58

Jessica Simpson, not Ashley. Ashley came later.

SPEAKER_00 2:00

That's that's the sister, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

Uh Ashley came later and then got a nose job for no reason. For no reason. You were perfect.

SPEAKER_00 2:07

Yeah. I did I never understood that.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

Like you're like, she's and she was beautiful afterwards, too. But did you mix it a little strong?

SPEAKER_00 2:17

Oh no, it's not mixed.

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Oh, oh, it's straight? You're drinking woof.

SPEAKER_00 2:22

That's from Viking. That's uh that's that was moonshine. That was uh that was great moonshine. Grape? It's very good, but I forget. I mean, there's a reason they call that white lightning. Wow! Yikes.

SPEAKER_01 2:36

Uh dude, we've got some blackberry cobbler moonshine in the uh No, that's what it is.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

Oh it's just separated. It's uh it's syrupy. Yeah. It's blackberry. Now it's hitting my taste buds. I can taste something other than pure electricity. No, it's very good. It's just it's been in the fridge for forever. Oh man. Anyways, um, people. Which one do you remember though that just to bring in there was that and it kind of came along with the same because the general vibe was like um sweet innocent girl next door, and they're singing songs about love and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 3:17

And then there was Pink who was like, fuck you. Yeah, her whole I just punched the whole mic stand.

SPEAKER_00 3:23

Yeah, are you okay? Yeah, like it it resisted, and I was like, ow, that looked painful.

SPEAKER_01 3:29

Yeah, I just need to learn not to gesticulate while we're recording, or if I'm going to like keep it low.

SPEAKER_00 3:35

I remember uh uh the one that I remember was Stacy Orico.

SPEAKER_01 3:40

I only vaguely remember her.

SPEAKER_00 3:42

She had like one hit, but she was a Christian singer. That was her like. That's probably why. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:47

She did a lot of like the only Christian singer that I ever kept up with was Jackie Velasquez.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

Hello. I don't know what happened there. The recording just abruptly stopped.

SPEAKER_01 3:56

That's weird.

SPEAKER_00 3:57

Yeah. Three minutes in. So just a jarring uh quick catch-up. Uh Stacey Urico and then a bunch was a Christian singer. There's a bunch of stuff that's also Christian bands that people didn't realize were Christian bands. Kitty Otep. Kitty was not a Christian band. No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 4:13

No, this we, we this this was the segue into like female like rock and scream, and then we started talking about the Vampire listat and the fact that it came out on Sunday, and I watched it, and I was delighted the whole time. Like, I'm not gonna give you any spoilers or anything, just in case anybody else is planning on watching it or hasn't watched it yet, but it is so good. So I went and checked out the album because they dropped an album for it.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

Oh shit, okay.

SPEAKER_01 4:39

And it is all Sam Reed singing as Lestat.

SPEAKER_00 4:44

That's new.

SPEAKER_01 4:45

So, first of all, thank God Sam Reed is a famous actor because like if he hadn't been, he missed his fucking calling in music.

SPEAKER_00 4:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:53

Because Jesus H Christ.

SPEAKER_00 4:55

Well, was he a Broadway person?

SPEAKER_01 4:57

I have no idea. I know nothing about this man other than like he's Australian and like Kenop is is apparently currently possessed by the spirit of Lestat.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

That's amazing. I like it.

SPEAKER_01 5:09

It's so good. Um I listened to the music, and it's definitely getting giving like 80s, 90s rock vibes, but not in a bad way. In the most delicious, delightful, grungy fuck you kind of way.

SPEAKER_00 5:24

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 5:25

I loved it. And like there's there's two or three songs that I can actually pick out as like, I know exactly what this song is about. I read that book. I know. You bitch. I love you. Uh so yeah, I'm I'm super thrilled with that. And like I cannot recommend both the album and and the show. Like, we're only one episode in, and I'm like, yes, you got it. Anne Rice would be just thrilled. Now that said, Anne Rice is also the reason that all of us fanfic writers are traumatized permanently and putting disclaimers at the beginning of every single fic. I own absolutely nothing. This is just my daydreaming drivel.

SPEAKER_00 6:10

Jesus Christ. Yeah, famously litigious. Yeah. You know what though, there's a thing I learned very recently about Anne Rice that is not true. What? So there's a big thing about, because so many of her books are in and around New Orleans that the Anne Rice thing is what caused the like sudden upsurge of like underground vampire culture, which is a thing if y'all didn't know that. Uh if you ever listened to this, there's a thing. There's a subgroup of party culture, which is based around like Victorian uh goth and vampire stuff. And I was listening to a whole nother thing that had nothing to do with vampires, and it had to do with early colonization of like Louisiana and how they had to import the Coffin Girls. Yeah, the Coven Girls. And I was like, oh shit, it goes way back.

SPEAKER_01 6:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:58

Dude, that's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 6:59

So, fun fact about me my uh my extended family and I, my my godmother and godsister and various other used to go to New Orleans every spring break, like just to have a little vacation. My my my godmother, my mother was a teacher, and I worked retail, obviously. So we would take these vacations, and when I tell you, I'm one of the most fun people to go on a vampire tour with.

SPEAKER_00 7:27

Oh, I bet. I bet.

SPEAKER_01 7:29

Not only as a as a geeky vampire enthusiast.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

Would you would you pull just a little away from yourself? Away. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:37

Perfect. Okay. Thank you. Um, so not only as like a geeky vampire enthusiast, but also as an author myself. I'm very, very, very familiar with the vampire lore.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:48

And they made the mistake of one of my first trips going of taking me on a vampire tour because everybody knows that Katie's a little vampire nerd.

SPEAKER_00 7:59

That means she uh sucks the cool out of people. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 8:04

Honestly, I you know what? I wouldn't be surprised to find out if I was an energy vampire. I can suck run out of fun out of any room.

SPEAKER_00 8:10

Michelle Ballanger was just sitting on a coffin somewhere.

SPEAKER_01 8:15

Uh and so they took me on this tour for the very first time, and the tour guide was was one of those like interactive ones, like the ones that liked their audience to like, you know, chat with them and like would ask them questions, pop quiz. And when I tell you by the middle of that tour, he would he would ask a question and then just straight look at me.

SPEAKER_00 8:35

It became part of the bit, right?

SPEAKER_01 8:37

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 8:38

I I like tour guides that though.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

It was excellent. We tipped him tremendously at the end of it because I I had a lot of fun. And he was we got to one of the stops, it was the oldest bar in New Orleans, and he's like, All right, cool. So she's just gonna take over from here. I'm gonna go get a drink. And I was like, bet.

SPEAKER_00 8:57

You're like the guy in Eurotrip where he just starts working for fromers.

SPEAKER_01 9:01

Yes, pretty much. I did a pretty good job, too. I'm not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_00 9:07

It's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 9:08

It was great. It's it's one of my favorite little like uh cool things I've done. There are so few.

SPEAKER_00 9:14

I've I've she says, as I like randomly learn things about you all the time.

SPEAKER_01 9:20

And I'm just like I worked in a at a dungeon in Chicago.

SPEAKER_00 9:27

Yeah, yeah. I was just like, you can't do me. And the only thing I knew about that prior is that you were in a band at the time. Yeah, and that y'all had that's how you made your way kind of in the area. And I was like, that's what?

SPEAKER_01 9:42

Listen, listen, even if you are a like a grungy rock band, it pays to have a bubbly busty blonde.

SPEAKER_00 9:50

Yes. Yep. Halo effect. This is a diet, this is a studied thing, yeah. Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 9:58

I was cute and could scream like a demon. Also, great tits. All of 17 years old.

SPEAKER_00 10:07

My tongue is numb from that.

SPEAKER_01 10:09

Bro, I don't know how you're drinking that. Like, it is an electric shade of like vermilion.

SPEAKER_00 10:16

It's I think it's it's just like blackberry concentrate. And I think like I I mean I think it's real blackberry because the aftertaste tastes like actual blackberry.

SPEAKER_01 10:26

In nature, that color means danger. As you take the tiniest sip.

unknown 10:32

Wow. Whoa.

SPEAKER_00 10:35

Bam!

SPEAKER_01 10:36

He's drinking, I'm eating Ares's, let's fucking go.

SPEAKER_00 10:40

Oh my god. Well, so I have an idea around uh these like pre-shows, maybe keeping them to about 15 minutes.

SPEAKER_01 10:46

Perfect.

SPEAKER_00 10:47

That way we don't even have to edit the things, slap them up somewhere. And uh Jesus Christ. I have no sinuses now. I'm good. I'm awake.

SPEAKER_01 10:57

I would imagine that you have just been like alcohol hoovered. Yeah, I think steam cleaned, as it were. The vapors.

SPEAKER_00 11:07

Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 11:09

I got the vapors. Uh oh no.

SPEAKER_00 11:14

I'm gonna drown a bunch of people in Boston.

SPEAKER_01 11:19

Why is it always Boston? I don't know. Why is it always Boston?

SPEAKER_00 11:23

You know what though? I think honestly, I think it's because um, I think it's because it's one of our oldest cities. Like whenever we hear like weird history things, so much of it happens there. Because it's one of our oldest cities, and because also of like where it's situated and who lived there, not saying like bad things about who lived there, but saying that in the time period where like you were an Irish worker, they didn't really give two shits about you. You get like paid less and people didn't want to be around you. Boston was aggressively Irish, right, for a long time.

SPEAKER_01 11:55

I think Boston might still be aggressively Irish.

SPEAKER_00 11:57

Very much so. And then even before that, of course, it's like during the revolution, one of the first one of our first cities, side of the massacre, right? Like side of the early protest. Because uh there were many, many things. A, it's a port city, so they were getting taxed to shit, but also the British would come in and like take people's timbers. What? For shipmass. Yeah, like if they would go to your lumber yards and they would look at like good, sturdy streets. And they would just take them? Yeah, they would just appropriate them for the navy.

SPEAKER_01 12:26

No, motherfucker, you're gonna pay for that.

SPEAKER_00 12:28

Well, even if they did, though, it's like if you have to sell it to them first, why would they pay full price? It's like that's what basically caused the potato famine as well, is that like you know, like that they basically stole all the beef out of the side, there was nothing else to eat. Yeah, like crazy shit. Fuck the British. Anyway. Wait. How did why did I start talking about this? Boston. Yeah, Jesus Christ. Uh, yeah, moonshine.

SPEAKER_01 12:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:57

What which we will I will explain why I'm drinking moonshine in a moment.

SPEAKER_01 13:04

To uh to quote our intro. Let's get into it.

SPEAKER_00 13:07

Yeah. Um, our today's episode is going to be uh because we're coming up on 15 minutes, so perfect. Drop what it's about, and then we'll do this again here in a couple of minutes.

SPEAKER_01 13:18

Oh yeah. Dude, I don't I don't have yes, I do have my notebook with me. Um I'm partially prepared. Ooh, Cheetos.

SPEAKER_00 13:29

Surprise, Chester.

SPEAKER_01 13:31

No, no. The ADHD is strong with me today.

SPEAKER_00 13:35

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 13:36

So so so what's our what's our topic today?

SPEAKER_00 13:38

We are uh it is June. It is Pride Month.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

I thought you said Dune, and I was like, let's go.

SPEAKER_00 13:42

Yes, it is Dune. Well, kinda. We're gonna we're gonna Wait, what? We will be uh at some point discussing the Middle East and uh and ancient customs and laws in which uh so that today What the fuck is our topic today? Our topic is how and where uh being gay became a crime.

SPEAKER_01 14:06

Oh shit. Well, no wonder you're drinking.

SPEAKER_00 14:09

Yeah, yeah. I needed something stiff for this.

SPEAKER_01 14:12

As a gay, I'm scared.

SPEAKER_00 14:14

It's but it it's Pride Month, and uh also I just spent like a month learning about all kinds of history so that I could hand out stuff at a Pride event where we were doing mutual aid.

SPEAKER_01 14:24

That was on Saturday.

SPEAKER_00 14:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:26

I was there briefly. I got so sunburnt.

SPEAKER_00 14:30

Burnt.

SPEAKER_01 14:30

I didn't.

SPEAKER_00 14:31

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 14:34

Well, true, true, true. I was I was only out there for like an hour and a half, but still, like my my fish belly ass. Yeah, like I am pale, pale.

SPEAKER_00 14:43

A lot of people were walking around with umbrellas, and I was like, I I guess that's a good idea.

SPEAKER_01 14:48

Yeah, I was looking for my parasol, but apparently it was in uh someone's car, and someone was in Dallas.

SPEAKER_00 14:57

Oh. No use up there.

SPEAKER_01 14:59

No. Mad.

SPEAKER_00 15:02

Okay, are you ready for this?

SPEAKER_01 15:04

Let's fucking go.

SPEAKER_00 15:05

All right, we will uh you will hear us in a moment as I shut this down and then start up a new thing. Bye.