Anaclerio Is Very Sorry

Welcome back to the podcast. This week Salem is joined by the very talented Anaclerio! They sat down to discuss work goals, living with chronic health issues, their high school experiences, puppet boot camp, learning how to read your concert start time correctly and more!

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Let me let me get the let me get the thumbnail of a No, there's the thumbnail for this.

SPEAKER_02 0:11

I was about to ask what kind of mic do you guys record on, but I don't even know if you would know.

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Uh we she had a lot of different mics, uh, depending on like different things that we did. So there's one time I recorded on a ribbon mic, which I did like, but you had to be really careful with them. Otherwise there was um Yeah, I don't fucking remember any of them. The ribbon mic was like the cool mic. She has like a room mic and a bunch of teeny tiny mics for all the drums and things like that, and like eight, eight so many microphones.

SPEAKER_02 0:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:40

And I don't know what the fuck. She'd be like, Do you have a preference on what mic we use? And I was like, girl.

SPEAKER_02 0:46

The one that'll make me sound cool.

SPEAKER_00 0:48

One that'll make me sound nice and normal.

SPEAKER_02 0:52

That's fair. I only do this shit. I only know and and hey, barely. You know what I mean? Like we're going. God damn, I forgot to start a timer again. We're going, by the way. I don't like to have, you know, I don't like to have. Yeah. I used to, I used to do the whole uh I just opened my calculator, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 1:09

The amount of times I open my calculator instead of either my calendar, the notes app, a clock app, the amount of times I open my calculator and I type in like eight to set an alarm.

SPEAKER_02 1:23

I need to know how long I'm gonna go. Let's do eight. Eight in my calculator.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

Eight in my calculator.

SPEAKER_02 1:27

Yeah. Eventually in a minute, I'll minus one and I'll be set.

SPEAKER_00 1:30

Exactly. I just have to keep track of here. And then the calculator's really sort of a mental exercise.

SPEAKER_02 1:36

Uh yeah, dude, we're going. We're here. How are you?

SPEAKER_01 1:39

Uh really tired. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:42

I heard. What? Okay. Oh, so first of all, it's my good pal, Anna Clario. How are you?

SPEAKER_01 1:47

Oh, the camera's there.

SPEAKER_02 1:48

The camera's here.

SPEAKER_01 1:49

Be looking all the way.

SPEAKER_02 1:51

We got this camera.

SPEAKER_00 1:52

We got this camera.

SPEAKER_02 1:53

That's it.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

And we got this camera. And if you want to shout anything out, there's this camera.

SPEAKER_02 1:58

This camera. You looking for a close-up? This camera. You're looking right here at this camera, camera one.

SPEAKER_00 2:02

Camera one.

SPEAKER_02 2:02

Uh, where'd you go last night?

SPEAKER_00 2:04

San Francisco to see the beautiful Miss Chrissy Chopeca. Okay. She's a beautiful pink lesbian pop diva who is um living my personal dream of fully self-funding her own tour with dancers and a guitarist and all her own props and costumes and everything, and doing the whole thing herself and like tiny gay bars and also the Crocker Art Museum. Um, and I saw that she was going on tour and I was so envious that I wanted to like throw up. I was like, I'm fuming that someone is living my dream. I have to see her. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:42

And it was great. We gotta see the vision. Now I've heard I've heard rumblings that you experienced some venue issues.

SPEAKER_01 2:57

So I may have just bought the tickets without reading the description.

SPEAKER_04 3:03

Oh no. Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 3:06

So the ticket said eight. It said 8 p.m. 30 to 2 a.m. And I was like, oh, I think the venue, it's a gay club, so the venue probably just closes at 2 a.m. Right. Like they're just open for business after this. So show starts at 8. I don't know what the 30's there for. That was weird. 8 p.m.

SPEAKER_02 3:28

30.

SPEAKER_00 3:28

Yeah, it's like 8 p.m. 30 or 8 something 30. And I remember being like, that's so strange, but it says eight, so it starts at eight. Like we should get there maybe a little bit earlier because the doors probably open sooner.

SPEAKER_03 3:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:41

So we get there. The doors aren't open at eight. And in fact, right at eight o'clock, there's cheering inside, and we're like, what the is that about? I guess they're really excited to be starting the show. Yeah. Cool. Then a bunch of people leave.

SPEAKER_02 3:54

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 3:55

And it turns out that there was a like drag cabaret right beforehand at this gay club. And then they had to set up the stage. And we were like, I look at the tick and I see like the eight something 30. And I'm like, oh, must have been 830 because the doors aren't open yet. Cool. That just means we'll be able to get really close to the front row. And then they separate a bunch of people into a different line. I'm like, what's that about? Like, oh, that's the meet and greet line. And I'm like, the what line? The line for what? There's a meet and greet. And we're like, oh, okay. The meet and greet is before the show starts. Uh and so after a lot of confusion, which the venue staff was like not communicating with each other about what was going on. So as they are to do. Stamped and we're told to go in. And then they were like, no, don't come in. We're only letting meet and greet in. We were like, okay, we go back outside. And then about five minutes later, like, no, now you can go inside. And then there's like a secondary line inside before you enter the main building of this gay club bow in San Francisco. Went there during pride. It was fine. It was fine as a gay club. Um and there's a girl there giving out wristbands. And then no one tells us what to do. And so some people are just walking past her and going in. And then some people are staying in line. So we stand in line because we're confused as to what to do. And then she starts being like, some people like go up to her and like, are we just supposed to go in now? And she's like, Oh, do you have meet and greets? And they're like, No. And she's like, Oh, no, no, no, we're not letting general admission in. They're like, but they just told us to go in from outside. And then she's like, No, no, no. Let me go talk to security. She goes to security. Security is like, because we can hear because it's so small. No, we're let they told me to start letting general admission in. Like, I don't, I don't know. And then like some other guy comes up and is like, no, no, no, we're letting GA in now. And she's like, okay, no one told me that. So we go inside and we're like, wow, this is such a small space. The stage is right here. Let's park up and just hang out. Yeah. The line for the meet and greet keeps getting like longer inside, and we're looking at it. And they they bring Miss Miss Chopeca herself on stage to say hi to people. And she's in like t-shirt, sweatpants, got a little like makeup headband on still. And I'm like, she's comfortable. And then we start thinking, hold on. There's a lot of people in this meet and greet line. There's a lot of people in this meet and greet line. And they announce, like, okay, we're gonna do one minute per person. I know you guys want to say hi, but like in order to make this efficient, we have to do one minute, and then you get a little picture, and then we in order to make this go by quickly, like, so sorry we can't give you more time with her. And we look at the line, we're like, there's at least like 50 to 60 people in this line. So if everybody gets one minute, that's an hour. And she's not like in costume yet. And so we have I've been at this point standing in my deeply uncomfortable high heels for at least an hour.

SPEAKER_02 6:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:46

And we find a place to sit because I'm tired and I'm pissed off. I'm like, dude, what is going on? Staff doesn't know what's happening. Why is there a meet and greet suddenly? I didn't know that nothing was listed. And I pulled up the listing for the ticket, and it did say at the very bottom of the description that I did not read meet and greet at 8:30, show starts at 10. I was like, Well, so pissed off and so tired because we scrambled through a dinner and barely ate anything, so we could get out as fast as possible to get there in time. I was like, we could have like done anything.

SPEAKER_02 7:21

Literally anything else.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

We could have done anything else.

SPEAKER_02 7:23

Well, was it worth the the close seats you got?

SPEAKER_00 7:27

Yeah, so that actually is because um they were actually just running a little bit behind when the show started. So they're like, okay, how the openers, uh, three different draft performers go on. And then they were like, Alright, you ready to see like Chrissy? And we're like, Yes! And we like finally stand up after that because I was sitting three openers because I was so tired. And then the announcer is like, I'm being told that we need 10 more minutes.

SPEAKER_04 7:49

Yay! Go on.

SPEAKER_00 7:52

So then uh everyone was like, Okay, let's go get drinks, let's go to the bath. And I was like, I'm going to the front, I'm going to the front, I'm locking in. Yeah, I'm locking in. Uh, and so I got to be right at the front row, and it was worth it. Let's go.

SPEAKER_02 8:02

See, it was worth it.

SPEAKER_00 8:02

It was worth it. It was just like unnecessary, but it was worth it.

SPEAKER_02 8:06

But at the end of the day, it all worked out.

SPEAKER_00 8:08

It was it did all work out, and it was my fault.

SPEAKER_02 8:10

Yeah, and I think that's the funnest thing about I've had situations like that. Maybe not that crazy, but like the funnest part is when you're live Instagramming.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

And then an hour later you can look back and be like, I'm a different person.

SPEAKER_02 8:26

I'd like to make a formal apology.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

I'd like to make a formal apology to the venue bow in San Francisco for being really pissed off, even though I didn't complain to anybody except for two people on Instagram.

SPEAKER_02 8:37

Everyone of my close friends, I've made a severe lapse in judgment.

SPEAKER_00 8:40

I've made a severe lapse in judgment. And I just really want you all to know that I've learned and I've grown since then.

SPEAKER_02 8:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:46

And I'm so sorry I said those things. And if you were her let me let me get the let me get the thumbnail of a no, there's the thumbnail for this.

SPEAKER_02 9:01

Uh yeah, we might have to break the ukulele out on that one.

SPEAKER_00 9:04

I'm gonna have to break out the ukulele.

SPEAKER_02 9:05

I'm so that's crazy though. One minute's really cool. Like, obviously, that's not a ton of time, but like do you go for a minute? Yeah, they always do. Have you ever watched Dracula?

SPEAKER_00 9:14

I watched the first season when it first came out a long time ago when it was on Netflix. Yeah. And then I have not tuned in since, which I want to, because it's like all fun. It's so cool. They ate brains in like the first season. I was like, what?

SPEAKER_02 9:33

It's so cool.

SPEAKER_00 9:34

I I don't want to do that, but this makes it look cool.

SPEAKER_02 9:37

It's awesome. They make them like jump out of airplanes and shit instead of like just like lip syncing. No, it's great, it's incredible. They're like, hey, by the way. They don't give a fuck.

SPEAKER_00 9:49

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 9:50

They'll take them on location, like you're swimming with sharks. It's like, okay, we're stabbing you with like every form of needle we can't. Like, it's really bananas. Um, me and Lee are obsessed with it.

SPEAKER_00 10:01

They do medical. Heroin?

SPEAKER_02 10:04

Heroin, perhaps. Do you want to be here? Yeah. But with they uh a lot of the cast performs at the colonial a lot. Oh yeah, and they actually had uh bunch of cast members we like and the actual boulets at the colonial earlier this year. Oh my instantgrams, yes, I did post about it on my Instagram. I did not have to make an apology for that one. You did not have to make the apology, but I will say, so we saw a couple of our favorites, including Vander Vaughn Aud, who was from the first season. Um, and like the feeling of so you go, and it's the three that we know who are like the main three headliners. And I mean, we you know, we're like first in line, so we go, we're chatting with them, we're taking pictures. It would probably have there for like two or three minutes. It's really cool. Just to the right, and by the way, you like they take professional photos, but they also you can take them on your phone for instant for the Instagrams, obviously. Um we get to the Boulet's, they're like, no fucking phones. You get this professional photo, we'll put on the website, and dude, it's literally like, and no shade to them, but like it's clearly like they've been doing this for a minute because we're like we're like keying with them, and we're like, oh my god, I love you. Like Lee gave them all like a bracelet that he made. Like it's so cute. And then we get to Boulets, and like, stand here and pose. All right, next, and it's like okay, for sure. And I don't think I said I think the closest I got to first of all, did not want to look them in the eye. Fear there was genuine. I walked over and I was like, it was it was genuine. First of all, bluest eyes I've ever seen. Unreal. Unreal people, yeah. I didn't like it. Also, I'm in love with one of them, so I gotta I have to be like, well, I need to represent.

SPEAKER_00 11:47

I need to be like the normalest person possible right now, and that does mean being dead silent.

SPEAKER_02 11:51

Exactly. Like, I can't say anything crazy. I'm shaving for the Jonas Brothers concert, right? Like, we're ready, could just in case. You know what I mean. You never know.

SPEAKER_00 12:04

You never know. You never know what's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_02 12:08

They may, and Swanthulubé might do the same for me. You never know. You never know. I've been here before.

SPEAKER_00 12:14

I bet you listen, I'm crazy nice.

SPEAKER_02 12:17

I I do have a tendency to you would figure someone who yaps as much as I do, um, both for fun and hopefully professionally one day, uh, wouldn't have social anxiety. But the amount of times I've gone up to really cool performers and immediately don't tell them any of the cool shit about me is honestly disgusting.

SPEAKER_00 12:35

That's you get beyond me, which is I don't like talk to people.

SPEAKER_02 12:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:39

I I like I'm social when I'm with like my friends and my family, and we're out and about and we're doing stuff. If I go to the grocery store alone, I'm dead silent.

SPEAKER_02 12:47

We're in and out.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

I don't look at people. I'll see like cashiers that I know at Trader Joe's, and I'll be like, I can't get in their line. I can't do it. I can't talk to them. I can't fucking do it.

SPEAKER_02 12:56

They know me.

SPEAKER_00 12:57

They I I embarrassed myself in front of this beautiful lesbian at Trader Joe's. I can't go back there.

SPEAKER_02 13:03

You know what though, they have they have a they have a powerful energy to them, the the the beautiful lesbians at Trader Joe's. So I can understand that.

SPEAKER_00 13:10

I did I did quite genuinely uh I feel humiliate myself in front of one of the cashiers, and I have had her ring me up multiple times since, and every time I wonder if she thinks about me um in a negative way.

SPEAKER_02 13:22

Oh, I thought you were gonna say like late at night.

SPEAKER_00 13:25

No, it it was getting close to Halloween. It was like the week of Halloween a few years ago, and I got off work and I had a crazy migraine. Crazy migraine. I didn't want light, I didn't want sound, I didn't want anything, but I did need to eat. So I get off work and I'm like, I have to go. I'm gonna get food, I'm gonna go home, I'm gonna lock myself in a dark room with no noise and just like sit there until the migraine goes away. And I get my item and I get in line, and this very beautiful lesbian is like who do you think I'm dressed as?

SPEAKER_03 13:59

Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 14:00

And she's wearing like a straw like hat and a floral like Hawaiian shirt and cargo shorts and like whatever clothes-toed shoes she has to have. And I am I can't think straight. When I have a migraine, I may as well be inebriated with like how like difficult it gets to like focus.

SPEAKER_04 14:21

And so I look at her and I'm like, no fucking shot.

SPEAKER_00 14:30

She goes, No, that's what I always am. She says, I'm Adam Sandler.

SPEAKER_04 14:38

Okay, first of all, no, you're not. Where'd the straw hat come into play all that way?

SPEAKER_01 14:45

I don't, I don't, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 14:48

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. And she's so nice, she's so nice. Yeah. I just every time I see her, I'm like.

SPEAKER_02 14:57

I was the one who called you a lesbian when you were Adam Sandler, did you not?

SPEAKER_00 15:03

Because I have I I don't know if you know, I have a very recognizable hair.

SPEAKER_02 15:07

Yes. You have a very recognizable everything, I think.

SPEAKER_00 15:11

I feel like everything about me um is both recognizable in a good way and a bad way, and also it does scream that in middle school I went through a fake scene kid phase.

SPEAKER_02 15:22

Yeah. I think that's I think that's appropriate.

SPEAKER_00 15:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:26

And and I don't like to look bad in those case.

SPEAKER_02 15:29

And you know what? I feel embarrassed looking bad.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

And I feel ashamed, and I want to apologize for being a fake scene kid at the age of 11. I'm sorry I said those things. I'm sorry that I said that I liked Blood on the Dance Floor.

SPEAKER_02 15:44

You know what? I feel like you should be sorry if you did or pretend to or not. I feel like just in general, if you've had any exposure to Blood on the Dance Floor, we all need to be sorry.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

I think I should be sorry, and I think everyone on Earth also should be sorry for me. And I think we should kill every member of Blood on the Dance Floor for making me live through.

SPEAKER_02 16:07

You know, it's funny, we brought it up. One of them actually went on Dracula and is now a professional drag artist. Yeah. The the hate. Don't kill that one. Hey, the the the other one. Don't kill that one. The other one did the good one. Dolly's fine. We actually we got to meet uh meet Dolly at the Colonial. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 16:24

And uh yeah, so survived that whole thing and then said, ah, music's cool for a bit. We're gonna cool out on that. We're gonna cool, we're gonna Yeah, yeah, we'll take a break from there. So you know.

SPEAKER_00 16:34

We're gonna take a break, hopefully forever.

SPEAKER_02 16:37

Yeah. And now and now uh they do drag. And they still do music, but yeah, it's not the one. No that one's gone.

SPEAKER_00 16:47

He who shall not be named.

SPEAKER_02 16:48

Yeah, he who shan't be named.

SPEAKER_00 16:50

He who shan't be named with his many crimes against humanity and children.

SPEAKER_02 16:54

And children, and specifically fake scene kids in 2008.

unknown 16:58

Oh god.

SPEAKER_02 17:00

I didn't get to have that though. I feel like I Who was it?

SPEAKER_00 17:05

Did you have a phase in middle school? Or was it just like survival?

SPEAKER_02 17:14

You know? That's a great question. I think I had the the trans woman experience of like I wasn't really and not even off anyone told me otherwise, but I think just playing the sports I did and it's listen. Oops! It happens, listen.

SPEAKER_01 17:36

I'm ruining your beautiful sentimental movement.

SPEAKER_02 17:38

No, you're totally fine. Yeah, I know. I'm mid-crying and then I listen back to the audio and it's completely gone. No, that's why oh my god, that's why I can't do handheld mics. I used to do handheld mics, and I gave one too many gay people a handheld mic. And oh my god, you would thought they were driving by on a moped the way they were fucking. So anyway, I fucking continue.

SPEAKER_01 17:59

What the fuck was I talking about? Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:02

I feel like because of the sports I played and the people I was around, I didn't even get the language to like figure out or express any queerness. Um and so I had the experience of like I just was like had no confidence and therefore didn't like present myself very well. Like I was very much like uh cargo shorts, Zelda t-shirt, backwards hat. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

Yes. Did you have um like the chunky low-hanging backpack did black? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:38

Of course, yes, everything I owned was black besides that one Zelda t-shirt that was green. Yeah, yeah. But it was a lot of graphic tees, a lot of slides, and uh yeah, it was tough, you know. I would you know what I will say, I do thank that time in my life because uh I had to learn to be funny. Because And listen, not that attractive people can't be funny, and I wouldn't argue that I'm conventionally attractive now, but I do think I am attractive now.

SPEAKER_01 19:08

Good.

SPEAKER_02 19:08

Yeah. I'm as we should. I'm sure there's gonna be some fucking freak with like a blank profile and their their username's like Tom Brady's.

SPEAKER_00 19:16

I personally think you're ugly.

SPEAKER_02 19:18

Yeah, and I'm like, well, your per your family personally doesn't like you.

SPEAKER_00 19:21

Your family personally does not like you.

SPEAKER_02 19:23

Your kids personally don't talk to you. You're a fucking loser. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:26

No. The Trader Joe's employees don't ask you if you know what their costume is.

SPEAKER_02 19:30

Yeah, when you go to Trader Joe's, Adam Sandler is not fucking with you.

SPEAKER_00 19:33

Correction. You don't even go to Trader Joe's. Yeah. You go to Save Mart and you spend too much money on an Apple.

SPEAKER_02 19:37

Yeah, you spend too much money on an Apple just so you can try and hit on the 16-year-old cashier.

SPEAKER_00 19:40

Yeah. And you know what? I hate you.

SPEAKER_02 19:42

And you know what? I hate you. And I don't want your NoTap apology.

SPEAKER_00 19:45

And I don't want it.

SPEAKER_02 19:46

I want to hear your name in the papers. Does that mean can we say that? Editor, cut that if we can't.

SPEAKER_01 19:55

Editor, you editor.

SPEAKER_02 19:57

Me later. Now that's funny. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 20:01

I do think that's like such a universal, like weird kid experience or like outlier experience. Although the older I get, the more I'm like, did anybody was anybody not a weird kid in middle school?

SPEAKER_02 20:14

Sir, I certainly think so. I think I think kids are fucking weird in general. They're weird. But I certainly think there were like weird behaviors, but it was deemed popular and socially acceptable. Like there were popular kids in high school. Is it you know what I mean? Like, and I and I think popularity too is so strange, because like I wouldn't argue that I was unpopular in high school, but I think I was adaptable because I know how to code switch, you know. Um, you'll see it on this podcast.

SPEAKER_00 20:46

I I'm gonna tune in and you're gonna be talking with some like proper English gentleman with like a little a little bit. Oh yeah, the little hat. The monocle.

SPEAKER_02 20:53

Yeah. Well, it's like when I when I get around gay people, like there's there's certain things that I would like I I had my brother on last week. There's certain things I would never say to him, you know, or even just like the way we interact with each other. It like it it switches. And that was kind of me in high school. So like I played sports and was, you know, on the football team or whatever, but then I was also friends with like all the theater kids and like the band kids, and like it was so universal. I was in dance, I was, you know, so I was like friends with a lot of girls in dance, and it was a weird by the way let me say this let me talk my shit. If there's boy, you know, I was a boy in high school. If there's boys in a dance class unless they're openly gay, which like there's a high probability. But if they're not, like I wasn't, because I'm not, or whatever. Stop asking them if they're gay for taking dance. Because here's my mentality. Because I would get made fun of a lot for taking dance, because it'd be like, that's gay, uh huh. You're taking dance. And my argument was my mornings is me throwing a bunch of girls around and hanging around with a bunch of girls in leggings and tight shirts. And yours is running around really fast with dudes kicking a ball.

SPEAKER_00 22:17

Do you know how much insane relationship hookup drama happens in one musical theater production? Do you know how many show relationships start and end between straight men and women in any musical theater production?

SPEAKER_02 22:40

We did four weeks of Annie and I saw ten relationships.

SPEAKER_00 22:43

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 22:44

We're in Annie of all places. Why are we here?

SPEAKER_00 22:48

Yeah, no. I I the whole like dances like gay is like, man. Grow up.

SPEAKER_02 22:54

For real.

SPEAKER_00 22:55

Grow up. Like. I don't even have words to express how much it pisses me off. Just because something is typically done by more women than men does not mean that that is inherently going to become gay. Associating any feminine thing with being gay is insane. Yes. To me. Well, and it's always like sorry, you're you're attracted to women. That's kind of gay. That's kind of gay. There's a lot of women involved in that. And that's kind of a gay thing.

SPEAKER_02 23:22

Is it gay to like women?

SPEAKER_00 23:23

Is it gay to like women? Sometimes it might be. They kissed other guys. You're basically kissing a guy. You gotta go kiss your guy friends to kiss all the girls that they've kissed instead.

SPEAKER_02 23:30

I think it's gayer to like women than it is to kiss your homies at night.

SPEAKER_00 23:33

Yeah. I kind of think.

SPEAKER_02 23:34

That's where we're getting. And you know what? If that's the journey you have to go on to fuck your homie, and I'm here.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

Go for it.

SPEAKER_02 23:40

I'll hold your hand while you hold his.

SPEAKER_00 23:42

Yeah, exactly. We can all hold hands together. And at the end of it, something crazy is gonna happen during this musical theater production.

SPEAKER_02 23:50

The motion you were doing was, I think, the crazy thing happening. We can all hold each other's hands during this production.

SPEAKER_00 24:03

I have to move to the Vatican right now. Immediately. Like we've completely sidetracked from your high school experience.

SPEAKER_02 24:11

Oh yeah. But I mean, hey, whatever. I so I always say I try not to have regrets. I'm in that phase of my life. No raggrets. Yeah, no raggrets. I'm trying to be more positive because it's like, you know, I look back on a lot of things and I'm like, oh, this could happen, this could happen. But then first of all, it didn't hey, first of all, didn't happen. Didn't happen. Second of all, not gonna. So it's like I'd rather think of the things that have happened or could happen. Um, but the one thing I will always say, I do think I should have done theater instead of sports. I saw you in a play once.

SPEAKER_00 24:46

Have we ever talked about that? What the fuck did you see me in?

SPEAKER_02 24:50

I saw you in uh I saw you play Lucy the slut in Avenue Q. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:55

What you saw that?

SPEAKER_02 24:56

I was there. Yeah. I uh I went with a mutual friend of ours because they were like, I want to go see this shit about puppets. And I was like, puppets, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 25:07

Puppets were crazy.

SPEAKER_02 25:08

It was really fun. That show's so fun.

SPEAKER_00 25:10

It's very fun. It does have puppets, and if you've never seen it, don't take your kids to see it, please. I showed it to my dad.

SPEAKER_02 25:19

I showed my dad, he thought it was funny.

SPEAKER_00 25:21

It is funny. That's the thing, is it is funny. Yeah. But it is um very cool to learn puppeteering. We had a two-week like puppet boot camp with a guy. Um why am I blanking on his name? Oh my god, I love him. I'm a fake, I'm a fake puppet fan. My god, a fan of anything. He's a full, full-time like puppeteer. That's his entire job. He makes six figures a year, making, selling, performing, like puppeteers, puppets, yeah, symmetry, all that. And so we had a boot camp with him where for two weeks it was just the puppeteers in the show, because there are a couple of like live human actors, and we learned how to puppeteer. And part of our audition was they gave us all little googly eye fingers that he put here and they made us do Bohemian Rhapsody, and that was how they like picked out who they thought would be good at it. Um, but it is very adult. Yes, there is puppet sex on stage. Yes, there is while singing. Uh and we had uh at least one instance, I think maybe two or three, where people just saw puppets and went, oh my god, let's take the kids. Yes, and they would leave at intermission, which is unfortunately after a lot of really inappropriate stuff has happened.

SPEAKER_02 26:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:34

Um, it's a delightful musical that is uh incredibly relevant still, other than one song that dates it crazy hard.

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Because there's everyone's a little, is it's not everyone's a little bit racist. Okay, I still think that rings true.

SPEAKER_00 26:48

Uh it does still ring true. Uh I feel uncomfortable saying that as a point person.

SPEAKER_02 26:54

It's alright, I can co-sign it.

SPEAKER_00 26:57

I need you to co-sign this. Um, but uh there is a song um in which a character is like, oh my god, this guy made me a mixtape. And when that show initially aired, it was a tape, a literal tape. When we did it, it was a CD. And I think if you tried to do it now, there would be people who were like, What is a mixtape at all? Oh. They'd have to change it to he made me a playlist.

SPEAKER_02 27:21

Yeah, he made me a Spotify rap.

SPEAKER_00 27:24

Playlist. He made a playlist.

SPEAKER_02 27:28

I don't even remember that. I feel like that show's somehow like not very long, but also seven hours long.

SPEAKER_00 27:34

It it feels like eternity, and also it goes by in three seconds when you're performing it. Yeah. Um, especially because it's a uh the cast does a lot of stuff. Like you're either on stage a lot, or if you're like a smaller character like I was, you are also doing like backup vocals or like running around doing stuff.

SPEAKER_03 27:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:53

Cleaning your puppet, cleaning your hands. Not cleaning your puppet, but cleaning your hands so you don't put dirty hands in the puppet.

SPEAKER_02 27:58

Throwing your puppet in the washer. Grabbing a spare puppet.

SPEAKER_00 28:02

Grabbing the spare puppet, washer, dryer, brush that thing out, throw it on stage real quick. No biggie. No biggie.

SPEAKER_02 28:08

We're back before the second act.

SPEAKER_00 28:10

Art. His name is Art.

SPEAKER_02 28:11

There you go.

SPEAKER_00 28:12

I feel peace in my soul. I can die now.

SPEAKER_02 28:14

Now you're a real puppet fan.

SPEAKER_00 28:15

I'm a real puppet fan again because I remember Art's name. This everyone who's ever done puppeteering knows what I'm talking about.

unknown 28:24

They have no idea what the fuck is fucking.

SPEAKER_02 28:27

It's fine. Nobody's everyone's clicked off when I started talking about high school.

SPEAKER_00 28:34

Yeah, I feel like my high school experience was my middle school and high school experiences were strange for many reasons.

SPEAKER_02 28:41

We didn't go to the same high school, right?

SPEAKER_00 28:42

No.

SPEAKER_02 28:42

I don't think so. Okay. I to be fair, there's like like 40 gay people in Sacramento, and they all are in like extended polycules of some form or the other.

SPEAKER_00 28:55

Dude.

SPEAKER_02 28:56

And like I either we either know all of them or Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:00

And it's like, how do you I'm so impressed by their scheduling skills. I'm so impressed by their scheduling skills. Genuinely phenomenal. And you should all be putting that on your resume. Yeah. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 29:12

I think I think that should be a valid uh thing you can bring up in an interview. It's like I have an extended like like five-person poly kill on your life.

SPEAKER_00 29:19

We do see each other regularly.

SPEAKER_02 29:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:21

Yeah. I can manage that schedule. Hire me right now for this job.

SPEAKER_02 29:24

They're starting you off at 25 an hour.

SPEAKER_00 29:26

They're starting you off at 25. They're starting off at 30 an hour if you're good enough about it.

SPEAKER_02 29:30

You did three dates last week.

SPEAKER_00 29:31

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 29:32

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 29:33

And you work.

SPEAKER_02 29:33

You're a project manager.

SPEAKER_00 29:34

You're a project manager. And you know what? We're paying you 85k a year to manage this project.

SPEAKER_02 29:39

If only.

SPEAKER_00 29:40

God knows. But my high school experience was strange in that I was a musical theater kid, the only one of the only out queer people at my entire entire high school. Um, which is a strange, strange experience because I went to a high school that had 800 people, which is small for the area. Most high schools have like 1500, 2,000.

SPEAKER_02 30:01

My graduating class was like almost 4,000 people.

SPEAKER_00 30:04

How the fuck did you go to high school?

SPEAKER_02 30:06

The only high school in West Sacramento.

SPEAKER_00 30:08

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 30:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:09

Yeah. It's an entire city.

SPEAKER_02 30:10

So we had one high school. One, yeah. You're all coming.

SPEAKER_00 30:15

Yeah, no, my high school is 800 people about.

SPEAKER_03 30:17

Jesus.

SPEAKER_00 30:17

Uh which does make it way more devastating when they get your you get your like report cards part way through the year to show you where you're ranking in the class, and it says like 161, and you're like, cool. There's only 200 people in the club. But I was I was in band. I was out and queer. But I also uh had like a I don't know if I'd call it really code switching, but I would just like match the personalities of the people around me because I didn't have a concept of who I really was as a person.

SPEAKER_02 30:49

That's I would agree. That's how I felt.

SPEAKER_00 30:51

I was like a little chameleon.

SPEAKER_02 30:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:53

Yeah. And then I I left high school, and then a lot of stuff happened, and now I'm here and I'm a person.

SPEAKER_02 31:00

And now we made it.

SPEAKER_00 31:02

And that's my entire life story.

SPEAKER_02 31:03

Yeah. And sometimes that's not even true.

SPEAKER_00 31:05

I came out the pussy, I went to high school, now I'm here.

SPEAKER_02 31:07

Yeah. Shot right out. Doctor said, uh, you got third period gym.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

You got third period gym.

SPEAKER_02 31:15

Graduated. Graduated. Now we came straight to this podcast.

SPEAKER_00 31:19

Yes. And I actually did no character development in that time. I just manifested a personality.

SPEAKER_02 31:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:23

Uh, but now when I look back on high school, I'm like, God, what the fuck was that?

SPEAKER_02 31:29

It really feels too the worst part about high school is it really at the time feels like it is the most important thing that's ever going to happen.

SPEAKER_00 31:35

High school does not matter at all once you get out. They're like, your grades are so important. My school was a specific college prep school. We were really heavily pushing AP classes to like get those college credits out of the way early and pass your AP tests. And like, like one of the kids at my high school got a half a million dollar scholarship to go to um like Navy college or like Marines College. Like they paid a lot of money. Was it half a million or was it 250,000? It was a lot of money. It was a huge scholarship. Um, like essentially beyond full ride to go to college for the military. There's like a specific one, I don't remember. But I wasn't good at academics. I'm not gonna say I wasn't smart because that is not true. I just wasn't good at academics.

SPEAKER_02 32:23

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 32:24

Different things. Um so like leaving high school or be being in high school and having them be like, college is so important. And if you don't get good grades in high school, you're actually gonna get mocked and made fun of and murdered as soon as you step foot on a college campus. And what's so crazy about that is that I went to city college for a semester and I was like, no one cares here.

SPEAKER_02 32:44

No.

SPEAKER_00 32:45

My high school was like really strict dress code. You would get dress coded in the hallways. Yeah, and they like they would call the one female hall monitor down to send your ass to detention. And then I get to college and like there's a girl in cookie monster pajamas, and then another girl who's wear who's got like full cleavage and booty shorts, and we're all in the same class, and no one cares. They don't care. As soon as you leave high school, if you're at any college after that, your grades from high school don't matter. What are you submitting them for? Yeah, we don't care.

SPEAKER_02 33:16

They don't care.

SPEAKER_00 33:17

What? They care about the application, we don't care about the high school grades.

SPEAKER_02 33:21

Are you gonna give us money and then be here? Or don't.

SPEAKER_00 33:24

Are you gonna give us money and leave?

SPEAKER_02 33:25

Yeah. Truly we don't care.

SPEAKER_00 33:27

Take the money.

SPEAKER_02 33:28

That first part's really what we're looking for.

SPEAKER_00 33:29

They're really just looking for money.

SPEAKER_02 33:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:31

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 33:31

My transcripts were actually just uh a bunch of scribbles and a $20 bill. Yeah, and they let me into college, dude. That's crazy. I did. I went to college for two days. I went to Art Institute. Listen, I didn't know. I didn't know yet. And they got me. They showed up. My the guy who showed me around campus looked like Littlefinger from Game of Thrones. I said, that's interesting.

SPEAKER_00 33:56

That's interesting.

SPEAKER_02 33:57

I said, that's interesting.

SPEAKER_00 33:58

I said that's interesting.

SPEAKER_02 33:59

And they showed me a bunch of cameras that I could rent and a green screen room, and I said, That's it.

SPEAKER_00 34:03

That's all I need.

SPEAKER_02 34:04

They must be from here.

SPEAKER_00 34:05

They they must be good.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

Scorsese was just here.

SPEAKER_00 34:07

He was just here.

SPEAKER_02 34:08

I don't know if you heard. He was giving a lecture down the hallway. And so I thought, this is the big break. Is this for-profit this for-profit college. For profit college that won't transfer my credits if I won't transfer your credits if you leave. And uh I went to Photoshop first day, and I found out the teacher was not a like a credentialed teacher, but just like a lady who used Photoshop. And I was like, this is kind of crazy, but I guess I learned something, which was I learned how to cut out a picture of a shark.

SPEAKER_00 34:38

That's the only skill you need in the industry, dude.

SPEAKER_02 34:40

Yeah, and I thought this is $96,000. Exactly. And you're good. Well, that was what that was what was under the $20 bill instead of the script.

SPEAKER_00 34:47

It was the picture of the shark.

SPEAKER_02 34:48

It was the picture of the shark. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:49

So that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 34:49

I did a die cut. It was crazy.

SPEAKER_01 34:51

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 34:51

Um, day one, too. Wow. Uh and then the second day I was supposed to go. Uh my 1996 Honda Civic was broken into, and I went, I can't go to college. I need a job to fix my 1996 Honda Civics window that got broken so someone could steal my JBL speaker because I didn't have speakers in my 1996 Honda Civic.

SPEAKER_00 35:09

You just had the speaker in the cup holder.

SPEAKER_02 35:11

Yeah, I did, and I left it because it was late one night and I forgot to bring it in. Um, and someone smashed the windows, and I said, Well, certainly can't go to school anymore.

SPEAKER_00 35:21

No.

SPEAKER_02 35:21

That's $96,000. Yeah. Windows gonna be at least five.

SPEAKER_01 35:25

Yeah. Window's gonna be at least five.

SPEAKER_02 35:28

Yeah, and so uh I I just didn't go and never did anything about it. Well, thank God you didn't.

SPEAKER_00 35:35

That's a s our institute's a scam. Yeah. A full scam.

SPEAKER_02 35:40

I'd say it was worth it because I got a lacy rugged out of it.

SPEAKER_00 35:45

I mean, really, all you need to know is how to die cut the shark.

SPEAKER_02 35:48

Yeah, and we did. We're here.

SPEAKER_00 35:50

That's it. We're here.

SPEAKER_02 35:51

You could I'll I I could show you right now a die cut a shark.

SPEAKER_00 35:55

Dude. Well, you didn't even need to go to school for that. You could have gone on YouTube.com.

SPEAKER_02 35:58

I could have gone on YouTube.com.

SPEAKER_00 36:00

That's the real scam. You could have gone on YouTube.com.

SPEAKER_02 36:01

And arguably you can say that about any course that they offer.

SPEAKER_00 36:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 36:06

At Art Institute. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 36:08

You can just go on YouTube.com and watch a very nice woman in her 60s show you how to paint a flower. It's great.

SPEAKER_02 36:14

I should have known Art Institute was a scam when I went into the student break room area and they had venom energy drinks for $2. Pardon?

SPEAKER_03 36:24

What?

SPEAKER_02 36:25

They used to pay me to take those. I used to show the local corner store. He said, here's 50 cents. Get these the fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_01 36:32

Please take them. Please take them.

SPEAKER_02 36:33

I want to he goes, I'll give you a dollar just to see what happens to your body when you drink this.

SPEAKER_00 36:38

You do turn into venom, to be clear. That's what happened.

SPEAKER_02 36:41

They call it venom because the sludge that he's made of is inside.

SPEAKER_00 36:44

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 36:44

This actually has the symbiote in it.

SPEAKER_00 36:46

Yeah. And you know what? Pass me a glass, brother.

SPEAKER_02 36:48

Sometimes you're ripping a black cherry venom?

SPEAKER_00 36:52

Hell no. Solely for the alien.

SPEAKER_02 36:55

Ripping a we're ripping a Nyquil flavored energy drink? Come on.

SPEAKER_00 37:00

I um I so I you know this. I work at a coffee shop.

SPEAKER_02 37:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 37:05

I can't have caffeine.

SPEAKER_02 37:07

I was gonna ask, by the way, so um almost used your shoot name on accident. It's whatever. Uh you do you have a sorry, sorry to get off track. Do you have a do you have like a shortened version of your name?

SPEAKER_00 37:20

Anna Clario?

SPEAKER_02 37:22

Yeah, or is it always?

SPEAKER_00 37:23

You just gotta commit.

SPEAKER_02 37:24

You gotta commit to the thing. And you know what that's fair.

SPEAKER_00 37:26

Don't call me Anna. No. That's weird.

SPEAKER_02 37:29

I figured that wasn't the one.

SPEAKER_00 37:30

If you call if you said like Clary, I would think you were talking about Queen Clarion from the Tinkerbell series.

SPEAKER_02 37:37

Right.

SPEAKER_00 37:37

Um, and if you said maybe Eo, I would think you were talking about potentially some kind of Pixar alien.

SPEAKER_02 37:44

Right.

SPEAKER_00 37:45

Uh but no, it's just Anna Clarion.

SPEAKER_02 37:46

And we're gonna talk about all that later off camera.

SPEAKER_00 37:48

And we won't we will be going into detail.

SPEAKER_02 37:50

And we're gonna pick we're gonna figure out sort of we're gonna figure out sort of where that came from.

SPEAKER_00 37:55

We're gonna figure out where that's all rooted in.

SPEAKER_02 37:57

But um no, yeah, you like uh to put it lightly, is keep it fun on the podcast. You like die all the time. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 38:09

I think that's the podcast.

SPEAKER_02 38:11

I think every let's take a break.

SPEAKER_01 38:14

And we're back in spot.

SPEAKER_02 38:16

Yeah, I think every time I see you, you're either like night on the town, oops, exploded.

SPEAKER_01 38:22

Blewed up. Blued up.

SPEAKER_02 38:24

Um you're in my doorway in the middle of the night going, I blew up.

SPEAKER_00 38:28

I I blew up. Uh yeah, I literally I'm in like so much pain today because I went to a concert last night.

SPEAKER_02 38:34

Yeah. Uh but in fairness, whose fault was that?

SPEAKER_00 38:37

Um not mine. It's so weird how like someone held a gun to my head and made me buy a ticket.

SPEAKER_02 38:44

Put me in there? They've made me buy a ticket and not read it.

SPEAKER_00 38:48

In my car and forced me to drive to San Francisco.

SPEAKER_02 38:52

You actually went to look at the time for the meet and greet, and they went, uh-uh.

unknown 38:56

No, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 38:57

Eyes up, eyes up here.

SPEAKER_00 38:59

One, two, three, eyes on me, please. No, I saw I uh I have a connective tissue disorder called hypermobile Ellers Danlow syndrome, uh, which is a fancy way of sending sending mail.

SPEAKER_02 39:11

Let's try it again.

SPEAKER_00 39:12

And that's it.

SPEAKER_02 39:14

It's actually uh every time I get a flare-up, I walk down to the mailbox and I look at a couple stamps, and here we are.

SPEAKER_00 39:21

And that's it. That's it. It's involuntary and I don't remember it afterwards.

SPEAKER_02 39:25

Some people have gotten shit from me, and I have no idea what's going on.

unknown 39:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:30

Um no, it's a it's a fancy way of saying that I have uh loose joints and too bendy.

SPEAKER_03 39:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:37

I am medically not supposed to stretch because I may make things that are not currently backwards go backwards. If you're listening to this, just picture my hands and all that didn't help me to crack my knuckles in the mic. Oh god. Uh just know that there my fingers are bending backwards at a 90 degree angle, and that is my normal range of motion.

SPEAKER_02 39:56

Gotcha. I don't think that is mine. It certainly isn't.

SPEAKER_00 39:59

No, and it shouldn't be.

SPEAKER_02 40:01

No.

SPEAKER_00 40:01

It shouldn't, it should not be. Um and what that entails is that your joints are too loose because your connective tissue is uh screwed up because your collagen is messed up, so your connective tissue is too loose and not strong enough to hold everything in place. Your muscles then have to overcompensate and clench like constantly to hold things in so you don't dislocate. Aoi been to the ER a few times, and every time I go, they're like, That's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 40:30

That's crazy that you didn't.

SPEAKER_00 40:32

I'm so sorry. Do you want to do Norco about it? And I say no. And they go, dude, I can't help you.

SPEAKER_02 40:37

They go, dude, why wouldn't you explain?

SPEAKER_00 40:39

I say, I drove here, and they said, What?

SPEAKER_02 40:41

I said, You don't have to.

SPEAKER_00 40:45

Um, but so part of that is that it comes with a lot of stacking problems that affect you every single day, like chronic fatigue because your body's working overtime all the time. So you have diagnosed disease if you are tired forever.

SPEAKER_03 41:01

All day.

SPEAKER_00 41:01

No matter how much you sleep, you're still tired. And also chronic pain, which for me is a lot of like inflammation of either my joints or my muscles hurt because they're working so hard all the time to hold me together.

SPEAKER_02 41:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:14

Uh which means that when I work all day at the coffee shop where I uh haul milk around and serve people beverages on my footsies and tootsies all day. I go out a lot. Big owie, big hours.

SPEAKER_02 41:29

Big hours.

SPEAKER_00 41:30

Not a fan.

SPEAKER_02 41:32

But you're still here.

SPEAKER_00 41:33

And I am still here. And I am still vertical.

SPEAKER_02 41:36

You are still vertical.

SPEAKER_00 41:37

And we're making that happen.

SPEAKER_02 41:38

We're we're being true about it. And that goes to show you how intense this podcast is.

SPEAKER_00 41:43

Yeah. We're being so real about the fact that I am not dead yet.

SPEAKER_02 41:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:47

And we're not gonna hide that from you.

SPEAKER_02 41:49

We're never gonna, and you know what? We're never gonna let that affect you.

SPEAKER_00 41:52

We're never gonna let that get in the way of our relationship with you and the kids. Uh but yeah, so I am uh I don't think I've talked to you about this. I'm gonna go back to school full time for what? In the fall, because I want to become a certified paralegal so I can sit down. Let's go. I would love to sit down more.

SPEAKER_02 42:13

Now what now, now, okay, what you just said, right? Hypothetically, explain that to me as if we're speaking purely hypothetical. I had no fucking idea what that entailed.

SPEAKER_00 42:27

Just as a hypothetical, a paralegal is somebody who uh works with parrots in a legal manner.

SPEAKER_02 42:33

I was gonna I I didn't want to interrupt you, but I was gonna say paralegal what?

SPEAKER_01 42:36

Paralegal what paralegal poly want a crack.

SPEAKER_00 42:42

Uh no, paralegals do like research and document preparation for the courts. So you work for a law firm doing research for cases of whatever variety, um, and you prepare your documents to submit to the court and you read a lot of stuff and do a lot of paperwork. And I like paperwork because I'm fucking sick and twisted.

SPEAKER_02 43:03

You wouldn't because you wouldn't understand.

SPEAKER_00 43:05

I'm a twisted fucking psychopath. Put a bicycle on me.

SPEAKER_02 43:09

What the fuck does that mean? And you know I've always said I'm so sick and twisted, put a bicycle on me.

SPEAKER_01 43:18

I'm a twisted, I'm a twisted fucking cycle path. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 43:23

I truly thought bicycle came out of nowhere. I was like, holy shit, dude. You would not in uh survive in the fucking Peloton factory and you crazed me. Holy shit. We're here. We're breathing. The flare up starting. Motherfucker's about to start sending letters like crazy.

SPEAKER_01 43:48

I can't speak if I'm giggling. If I'm goofing a gap in the wheel.

SPEAKER_02 43:53

Yeah. Oh man. Well, that's fun though.

SPEAKER_00 43:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:57

That'll be cool.

SPEAKER_00 43:57

I'm excited. My mom was a lawyer, so I have

SPEAKER_02 44:00

Ties to the industry.

SPEAKER_00 44:02

Basically already professional.

SPEAKER_02 44:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:04

I basically already know the law.

SPEAKER_02 44:05

Yeah. My mom was a lawyer once, so I basically invented the law.

SPEAKER_00 44:09

I'm oil a wedding.

SPEAKER_02 44:12

Hey, if you invented law, you're in a real bad job right now. We gotta add a thing to the docket after this.

SPEAKER_01 44:20

I need to go fix a lot of things actually really quickly.

SPEAKER_02 44:25

I feel you, I I also just somewhat um I I have a like a desk job now, kind of. It's I'm in charge of a lot. Yeah, I'm the I won't say fully what it is because I don't know what the vibes are from the I don't know what the vibes are from the the community, but uh I run a very a very largely growing uh like a s an online selling gimmick.

SPEAKER_00 44:51

I don't even want to put what field it's in because I will I don't say what field it is in for like privacy or whatever. I don't want you to say what field it's in because I'm choosing to believe you explicitly are retailing sex toys on the internet, and that's all you're doing.

SPEAKER_02 45:07

I thought we weren't saying what I did.

SPEAKER_00 45:10

I am choosing to believe that you are hawking dildos left and right on the day. Yeah, and that's my personal belief.

SPEAKER_02 45:16

And I'm hawking to a and is that still a thing? Do you guys still like that?

SPEAKER_00 45:22

I'm I don't know. I'm not a youth.

SPEAKER_02 45:25

I'm not one of them youths.

SPEAKER_00 45:27

I'm not a youth. To my 19-year-old coworker, I'm unk.

SPEAKER_02 45:33

I'm sure unknown. I'm fucking unk. Well, how do you think I feel? One of my employees is my 17-year-old brother. And the amount of times I have to give him real data on something very important, and I accidentally say the numbers six and seven in in order.

SPEAKER_01 45:48

It's yeah, it's a curse.

SPEAKER_02 45:49

I have to say six, seven, get that, and then I have to text my HR manager, go, what are the logistics of me killing an employee?

SPEAKER_00 45:55

What are the logistics of me killing an employee? I it is uh I I'm so glad that youth have their fun number to like latch on to, but also it it is a curse now. Instead of feeling cursed every time I had to read a total back to somebody at the register of $4.20. Now anytime it's like $7.67, I have to like go through the like five stages of grief really quick.

SPEAKER_04 46:18

I have to start digging out old letters.

SPEAKER_00 46:20

I have to start digging out old letters. I have to make apologies to people I haven't spoken to in 10 years, and I also still have to give the man his change back because he's like 80 years old and wants his coffee.

SPEAKER_02 46:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:30

He doesn't understand what I'm going with.

SPEAKER_02 46:31

I had to hand so I had to hand a teenage employee $67 the other day, and all of a sudden I had to touch three things to remind myself that I was here.

SPEAKER_00 46:38

I had to list five things I could see, four things I can hear, three things I can feel, three things I can smell. One thing I could taste, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 46:47

I guess.

SPEAKER_00 46:47

Just start licking, licking the never mind. No, which I was gonna say start licking the tiltes, but that's like a function.

SPEAKER_02 46:56

That is actually an action.

SPEAKER_00 46:58

I've just in this moment decided that I actually can't tell my parents I'm doing this.

SPEAKER_02 47:03

No one's allowed to know. We actually have to delete the whole episode. We're not doing that. The worst part is I know everyone I know is gonna watch this. My whole family's gonna watch this and be like, yeah, I thought it was fun. I didn't like the part where uh the other gay one was talking about looking dildos, and I'd be like, listen, that's just what it's like.

SPEAKER_00 47:23

I'd like to formally apologize.

SPEAKER_02 47:26

You know the extra funny, and it could still go this route, but the last episode, there's like 30 minutes of me and my brother being like deep introspective and being like, creating memories are the one thing that we own. So when you're around the people you love, create those memories because that's something you can never take away. And you're like, I'm sending letters and licking dildos.

SPEAKER_00 47:46

I'm actually I'm creating memories for you.

SPEAKER_02 47:50

You know what is true. Hey, but you know what? You're not wrong. This is will be uh always I'll I'll go. Hey, remember the time you you said that uh you you thought I sold dildos from a from a factory. Yeah. I'm clocked in and over at the pocket pussy factory.

SPEAKER_00 48:06

You clocked the fuck in. You're putting the change in the pocket pussy for them to retrieve at the checkout.

SPEAKER_02 48:11

Checkout.

SPEAKER_00 48:11

And guess how many 67 cents of check?

SPEAKER_02 48:13

Thank you. You got there first, you son of a bitch. All right. Anna Clario.

SPEAKER_00 48:18

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 48:19

We have I have a question for you. Okay. We were brief everyone's briefed on this. I don't like to lie on this show. Right? I don't like to some shows I feel like they do.

SPEAKER_00 48:28

I feel this says a lot about me as a person. Was that I just went through and was like, did I lie about anything today? Have I? Not because I'm a lying liar who lies, but because I I have OCD.

SPEAKER_02 48:43

I'm giving myself compulsive thoughts that I actually did lie and I don't remember.

SPEAKER_00 48:47

That's quite genuinely. That is like such a common thing with OCD. Is like, what if I actually am a bad person? I've been lying the whole time and I forgot.

SPEAKER_02 48:55

And I just forgot and I couldn't remember.

SPEAKER_00 48:56

I forgot about it. I couldn't remember. I did a job interview that I did not want the job for, just for experience for interviewing. And they're like, Oh, there will be a background check. So if there's anything you need to tell us, tell us now. And I sat there and I was like, Did I commit arson and forget?

SPEAKER_02 49:11

Like, I think I killed all those guys.

SPEAKER_00 49:15

Did I accidentally commit vehicular manslaughter and then black it out from my memory? Anyways, you were gonna ask me a question.

SPEAKER_02 49:21

I think the unfortunate truth is there was ricin in all those letters you were sending when you had your flaros. Sorry, I love a callback. Um, yes, a question for you. Yeah, speaking of not lying, I I prepped the guess on this question because I, if someone asked me this question unprompted, I think I'd throw up.

SPEAKER_00 49:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:39

And I know how all you freaks are.

SPEAKER_00 49:42

If you ask me anything unprompted, I may throw up.

SPEAKER_02 49:45

Yeah, that was a crazy get for this show then. It sort of was all unprompted except for this part. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:50

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:50

Really did a good job.

SPEAKER_00 49:51

It seemed miraculous.

SPEAKER_02 49:52

Um trying to bring a little more positivity to the pod.

SPEAKER_00 49:55

To the pod.

SPEAKER_02 49:56

And also just experience new things.

SPEAKER_00 49:58

Was my accusations of you working at a dildo factory that your family's gonna watch not positive enough for you?

SPEAKER_02 50:04

You know, it was just positive enough. And I think now everything we do is just a little extra cherry on top.

SPEAKER_00 50:10

Phenomenal.

SPEAKER_02 50:10

Yeah, no. My my grandparents are sitting at home clapping right now, and now they're waiting for the encore. Uh the dildo part was sort of the peak.

SPEAKER_01 50:18

I would like to formally apologize.

SPEAKER_02 50:21

If anything I've said about the dildo factory has affected you.

SPEAKER_01 50:25

Any grandparents watching this?

SPEAKER_00 50:28

Just know that I feel ashamed in my soul every day when I wake up.

SPEAKER_02 50:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:33

And it's all been for this.

SPEAKER_02 50:35

It's all been for this, and it'll all be immortalized forever.

SPEAKER_00 50:38

That's the reason I felt anxious my whole life is because I knew that someday I was gonna be here.

SPEAKER_02 50:42

Yeah. Does it feel like a weight came off your shoulders?

SPEAKER_00 50:44

It feels perhaps like I have become Atlas holding up the sky.

SPEAKER_02 50:49

Become Atlas holding up a dildo from the dildo factory.

SPEAKER_00 50:52

Where you where I work.

SPEAKER_02 50:55

In case, mind you.

SPEAKER_01 50:58

I need you to ask this question.

SPEAKER_02 51:01

What is something that you feel is underrated? It could be a piece of media, it could be a way of life.

SPEAKER_00 51:10

You can stop talking.

SPEAKER_02 51:11

Yeah, you have it. Yeah, you were the only person who, when I asked you that prepping for this, you went slay. I already know.

SPEAKER_00 51:18

This is welcome to my TED Talk. You're all trapped in here with me now. I'm so sorry. This is my uh demand, not a request, that you watch Welcome to Demon School Irma Coon, one of the greatest animes that is coming out at this moment. Season four, starting next month, I believe. Um, it is a super cute anime by a wonderful mangaka who also did Ichi the Witch and is doing Ichi the Witch. They're both still actively coming out as manga. It is about a little boy named Irma. He is 14 years old. He has lived his entire life not being able to say no to people and being a very helpful little guy to his parents. He does all the cleaning and all the cooking and all of the manual labor and all of the he doesn't go to school because he's too busy helping his parents. And because his parents are such wonderful people, they sell him to a demon who is uh decided that he wants a grandson. Skipped kids, he said, I want a grandson. I'm buying this boy and enlisting him in demon high school. Uh also, by the way, in the demon realm, humans are a mythical creature that doesn't actually exist, but if they did exist, demons do eat them as a delicacy.

SPEAKER_02 52:26

Right.

SPEAKER_00 52:27

Uh so he says, I've just purchased you. You are my my grandson. I'm showering you with gifts and love and affection in your big giant room, and I'm gonna cook food for you every single day, and it's gonna be great and wonderful. Go to Demon High School, where you're surrounded by literal demons. Here's some cologne that'll make you smell not like a human. Have fun.

SPEAKER_02 52:44

Have fun, bye.

SPEAKER_00 52:45

Um, and it is phenomenal. Um it has a surprising amount of like character building going on to it. I just started season three, uh, and I every every episode I watch, I like am like, God, it can't keep doing this to me. It can't keep doing this to me.

SPEAKER_04 53:02

He can't keep getting away with it.

SPEAKER_00 53:04

On on his uh first day of school, this is all within the first episode, so I'm not spoiling, I'm just trying to I'm trying to grab you. Yeah, there's a daily win. I'm trying to hook you without getting like way too excited about it and scaring you away, like I did my entire childhood to all my friends, uh, by altering my personality for them. Um the first episode he uh accidentally gets in a fight with one of the most powerful first years entering the school possible, who is from a very well-known demon family, Asmodeus, uh, who has fire magic and could burn him to a crisp. Irma has a wonderful skill where he he will involuntarily avoid any mortal damage. He he will dodge any bodily harm against his will. And as part of doing that, he accidentally bodies this man, and when he comes out of being bodied, this guy goes, You beat me in a fight. I live my life for you and you only, and you're all that matters to me now. Did someone look at you wrong? I'll kill them. Do you want that? No? Cool, okay. Just know that I will. Like he he now has essentially like a he's just earned himself like a boyfriend pretty much.

SPEAKER_02 54:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 54:19

A fire-wielding, incredibly powerful demon who uh loves him with all his heart and is willing to do anything for his best friend in the whole world. And it is so cute. If you like uh Boku no Hoku Macadamia, Bin Ha. If you like that, I think you will enjoy this, even though I have not watched Bin Ha. It just gives really similar like they're all in a high school with special abilities together vibes, so it has one thing in common, pretty much, and I'm saying it's the same thing. It's not. Um, it is a wonderful mix of like funny and that has some serious moments, but it is a a feel-good kind of watching show. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:57

Uh where you you know that things are gonna work out, but like how yeah, but like how are we gonna get there?

SPEAKER_00 55:04

I think that's like a lot of shows, but this one's different and special because I like it a lot.

SPEAKER_02 55:10

But this one's my fave, so it's like the better one.

SPEAKER_00 55:13

This one's my favorite, and I really, really enjoy it. The animation is very like just enjoyable to watch. It's not like incredibly like beautiful, stunning, cunty animation, but it just looks nice. Yeah, it's polished, it's good, it's got good budget, it's got a banger soundtrack. For no reason. The intro song is like a hit that I need them to put on at the club. I feel like I'm I sound like every I feel like I sound like someone describing literally any anime. If you've never watched an anime.

SPEAKER_02 55:40

Yeah, kind of.

SPEAKER_00 55:41

I feel like right now you could just replace Ira Makoon with Naruto.

SPEAKER_02 55:45

I was gonna say, this sounds like me describing JJK.

SPEAKER_00 55:49

I'm coming to realize there's a lot of shows about teenagers with special abilities growing as people as a class.

SPEAKER_02 55:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:56

But this one's different. But this one's different because I like it. I like it.

SPEAKER_02 56:00

And I said it's good.

SPEAKER_00 56:01

I love it so much. It brings me so much joy, and I am reaching the point of wanting to hold my friends at gunpoint to make them watch it. It's really good, and I need people to talk to me about it because I'm insane.

SPEAKER_02 56:13

I'll watch it. I that's hey, you you locked me in because now there's footage. Camera one, it's here.

SPEAKER_00 56:19

And camera one, can we also get that on camera?

SPEAKER_02 56:20

And camera one, and can we also get that on camera one?

SPEAKER_00 56:22

And can we also get that on camera one?

SPEAKER_02 56:23

Can we check that in? Close up, close up, camera one.

SPEAKER_00 56:26

Lock this in. Please go. What's the name of it again? Welcome to Demon School Era McCoon. It is on Crunchyroll.

SPEAKER_02 56:32

I do have that.

SPEAKER_00 56:33

Uh, you can watch it in subtitles or dub titles. I don't go to dub titles.

SPEAKER_02 56:41

Are you a purist?

SPEAKER_00 56:42

Uh only for uh I will watch dub, but only for specific anime, which is uh fairy tale and black butler. Yeah. I think you just have to culturally experience those in the dub. Oran High School Host Club is also acceptable to watch in the dub. Otherwise, I just like subtitles better. I watch them with both. I also I appreciate that it makes you pay attention. You can't second screen that stuff.

SPEAKER_02 57:04

No, I but I watch I watch the dub with subtitles because I just can't hear.

SPEAKER_00 57:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 57:09

So we're in it. There's they're speaking English.

SPEAKER_00 57:14

There's actually no sound coming out, by the way. You're gonna look back to the audience.

SPEAKER_02 57:16

You guys can't see down here. There's one of the things you get at the movies. Yeah, the assisted listening device, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 57:23

The assisted listening device. We love accessibility.

SPEAKER_02 57:25

Yeah, we do get those more. I think, and though people get all fucking mad, I think most theaters should have at least one or two subtitle showings, like hardlock subtitle showings per day. Or per week at least. Get them on the weekends.

SPEAKER_00 57:39

This is actually something that in my Deaf Culture class we talked about, uh, which is that uh there have been uh at least one instance where they accidentally advertised a like a big movie coming out with captions, and so many people showed up to it that they were like, oh, I guess we should just do this now. Because they only ever run them at weird times of day, and this one was at like a normal time to watch. Like who at 3 p.m. on a Tuesday who holds a job is going to see a closed caption movie?

SPEAKER_02 58:09

That'll be me seeing Spider-Man.

SPEAKER_00 58:12

It's just me alone in the theater.

SPEAKER_02 58:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:14

That's me in the corner. That's me in the cinema. Mark watching Spider-Man.

SPEAKER_02 58:24

Thank you. I'm glad I'm glad I've waited for you to land the plane on that.

unknown 58:29

Thanks.

SPEAKER_00 58:30

Uh but yeah, I like I like Welcome to Demon School Irma Coon very, very, very much.

SPEAKER_02 58:35

Yeah. Watch it.

SPEAKER_00 58:36

Watch it.

SPEAKER_02 58:37

And if you don't report back, we'll know.

SPEAKER_00 58:39

You know what? If you to the to the grandparents, if you don't report back, I'm coming to haunt your dreams with that factory that produces things I will not do anymore because I feel too bad.

SPEAKER_02 58:48

You don't want to say it now while we're pointing. When we're pointing at my grandparents through camera one.

SPEAKER_01 58:54

So grandpa I was gonna say grandma one.

SPEAKER_02 58:57

Grandma one. And can we get a close-up with grandma one?

SPEAKER_01 59:01

Can we get a close up with grandma?

SPEAKER_02 59:02

Let's get a wide shot with grandpa one. Holy shit, dude.

SPEAKER_01 59:10

I need to go anywhere.

SPEAKER_02 59:14

Well, you know what? It's a perfect time. And Clario, thank you so much for coming on the pod after uh fighting in the last couple wars, I believe. Yeah. From your experience yesterday. Yeah. From what I saw on Instagram's close friend story.

SPEAKER_00 59:29

Fighting in the war of the ability to read a ticket description on internet.

SPEAKER_02 59:32

And it's a war we all fought. Sometimes we lose.

SPEAKER_00 59:36

We all remember when the ticket towers fell.

SPEAKER_02 59:37

Yeah. God. Oh man. Okay. Oh, that almost made me say holy cow.

SPEAKER_03 59:49

Holy cow, you're rabbit!

SPEAKER_02 59:52

Holy shit. Well, I hope you guys had fun. Wait, where can people find you?

SPEAKER_00 59:58

Um I was about to be like this chair. Right here. In this chair.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:04

You can find me at the factory.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:06

You can find me at the factory. You can find me on YouTube.com making my 15th apology of the day. Um, no, I'm on Instagram currently as Prince Kate Cosplay. Someday I'll change it over.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:17

One day.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:18

You can find my one single song on Spotify under Anna Clario, which is uh Deseedent Deceased. Someday, if you're lucky, I'll put out at least one more.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:29

We'll have that up to number two.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:30

We'll have it up to two, and you'll all be so glad you were here for the start.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:35

Yeah. You also stream on Twitch.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:37

Oh my god, I forgot I do that. Yeah. I do. I stream on Twitch at Prince Cake.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:42

If you like Animal Crossing and only that.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:52

Because I get scared easy.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:54

Dude, I'll be so fun. I want to be there for that.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:56

I get scared very, very easily.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:58

Dude, we should stream together something.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:59

I got we should. I got I got my hair in my earring. I'm not gonna fix that. We're gonna live. You have to be really nice to me about it. I got uh stressed out and scared playing um.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:12

Find it. GeoGuzzer.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:19

I I wanted to say map quest so badly.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:23

The top oh wow, what a journey that was. The top 15 scariest games you'll ever play.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:31

I'm really stressed out playing GeoGuesser because it went into a timed mode that I didn't know existed. Where somebody was like, you need to place this on a map in 15 seconds.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:40

And I was like, I don't know why I don't know where maps are.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:44

I got scared. I'm really bad at geography and it scared me. So I think I should play Resident Evil 9.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:50

Yeah, hey, I played it, it's scary as fuck. So I'm sober. I'm excited to watch you play it. I should have streamed it.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:56

You should have streamed it.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:57

Yeah. But yeah, when I see you in six months, we should stream together.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:59

I know literally when we see each other in six months.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:01

Yeah. No, Resident Evil 10 will be out by then.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:03

Resident Evil 10 will be out by then. They're gonna have my old man Leon work in that thing once we're gonna go.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:08

Leon Sex Kennedy.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:09

Leon we uh we go to trivia because we're cool people. Um, and we get to choose you choose your team name, you like write your answers on the sheet. It's like very chill. Um and very rarely do we place they read out like the top three and you get like a gift card to the place that we do trivia. Um and one of the times that we placed third our team name was uh Leon S. Kennedy Tickle Biddies fan club. And the delightful woman who runs trivia had to read that out to a crowd of people because we didn't think we were going to place.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:47

What a what a what a better note that we could leave off on hot.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:51

And we have to stop right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:53

We have to stop right, dude. Thank you so much for joining the pod. This was a blast.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:57

Thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:58

Come on anytime. Uh we'll make content together again at some point in the next nine or ten years.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:04

Within at least one baby pregnancy, hopefully.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:07

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:08

Which won't be either of ours.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:09

And no, whose will it be? Who's to say?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:14

Joe Biden.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:15

Right. Thank you guys so much for watching. Make sure you subscribe, make sure you follow, follow Anna Claire on all. Make sure you stream that fucking song. It's a heater.com. I love it. I'm gonna use it in a TV show one day. Thank you guys so much for watching. Join the Leon Sex Kennedy big big titties, big yiddies, uh vibe and ass function tickle biddies fan club. And most importantly, thanks for stopping by.