Sexy Time

On this week’s episode, we’re recapping Halloween! Colleen and Jon showed up as Tony Soprano and Paulie Walnuts and honestly… iconic. Bridget went trick or treating with the kids before heading out with her college friends, only to discover that today’s youth don’t know, "The Call" by the Backstreet Boys. Should be a crime, honestly.

Then we get into the story of the week, HELEN KELLER. Colleen, our resident denier, stands firm that there’s no way Helen accomplished everything she did, while Bridget sets the record straight. From her early years and her bond with Anne Sullivan to her decades of advocacy and achievement, Helen’s story is nothing short of incredible.

It’s chaotic, educational, and might just make a believer out of Colleen. Grab a drink and get ready for a history lesson you didn’t know you needed! Pour one out for Anne, Polly and of course, Helen.

If you'd like to donate to charities that desperately need the help while the government is shut down, here's how you can help:

•  The MSCPA helps protect animals and makes sure they get the food and care they deserve
• The Greater Boston Food Bank which helps feed families who rely on SNAP benefits 

Sources:

• The Miracle Worker - Full movie on YouTube
• Helen Keller: Journey from Darkness to Global Inspiration - Biography
• Reddit
• Wikipedia
• ChatGPT

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Transcript

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Oh, to dancer on the highway lay down and she, wow. You let me sing today? Yeah, I wanted that. I felt it. Oh wow. Am I passing the touch? No, please. No, you're better at it. You don't want a yodel for the people. Yo, yo, guess what that reminds me of. Take a while. Guess what movie? Gr No. What? When he is yodeling on the top of the mount, he steals his outfits. We can go to the party. No rv. Oh, I you, Kristen Chinwe. I hate you for that. Can they sing that song? I want you to know I hate you for that. Woo. Yeah. So good. So good. So good. Anyway. Hi everyone. Hey. Welcome to this week's edition episode edition. Have I lost the plot? You think I've ever listened when you said that? I don't know. Golly. I couldn't regurgitate it if I cried. Welcome to this week's episode of Sipping with the Shannons. We're cousins and every other week we sit down, we sip on some wine, we talk some shit, and we have a good giggle. I'm Bridget Shannon. And I'm Colleen Shannon. How we doing? I'm, I'm doing, I'm actually quite comfortable in my seat right now. Yeah. Do you wanna describe to the people what's happening? Mother has found a perch. She is in the corner and Bridget so graciously listen to me. I love someone that listens to me. Got me this thing. Do you want me to describe? Yes, please. So I have a extremely comfortable couch. I think that there are a few things in life that are worth spending money on. Your mattress and your couch are two of them. Indeed. And so I balled out from my couch, and I will never forget, and I think I've said this on this podcast, the man who's sold it to me was like, we're gonna walk around the store, Jordan's furniture. We're gonna walk around the store, okay? And when you sit down on a couch, I want you to think of something. You have a really hard day. You are at work all day. You're finally in your comfy pajamas, you're about to watch your favorite television show. Is this what you wanna be sitting on? Amen. So every time I sat down, he's like glass of wine. True crime is on what a salesman is. And I was like, I would buy anything from you. Question mark. So I bought this couch and it notoriously sinks as you sit in it. The more you sit in it, it absorbs you. I've lost as a chub. I'm sinking in and I've lost everything. I've, we've lost underwear in here. Yeah. One of my friends lost her underwear for multiple days. We couldn't find it. The remote. The remote can never be found. No. Forget about it. Never forget the, that one time was really wild. It was upsetting. It got lost while we were recording and I was like, how did this happen? So it just sucks things in. Anyway, Colleen said, I have a little table next to the couch. You sink in so much though. You literally can't reach it. No, I can't. Like behind. And I also have big pillows, so behind, she's like fighting for her life, trying to put the line down. I like climbed Mount Everest to get it. Yeah. She like ho you know, when you come out of a ball pit, she would like hoist herself up to just swing the drink over to place it on the table. And she just said to me the last episode, I would love it. There was just like a little table that came closer to me or like something to put my drink on a perch. And you really should put the table behind the couch because it's actually easier to reach. It's closer. And so I move to the table behind the couch and that's where all the electronics and the wires go.'cause it's ugly when it's out front and center. And I got her this little tray that like folds over the chase. So she's laying in the chase. She's got her comfy cozy jam jams on a big hoodie sweatshirt. She has a big fluffy blanket that's tucked in around her toes, up to her hips. She's smiling at me like a psychopath. And there's a little holder just for wine so it doesn't move and it doesn't budge. I live here now. And that's the vibe you're giving. And all the lights are on the ambiances here. Should I put the fireplace on? Should we go one step further? Yeah. I love a fireplace. Okay, I'll do that in a minute. But anyway, can we, can we talk about really quickly? Yeah, of course. Christmas. Is Christmas the day after Halloween or the day after Thanksgiving for me. It's the day after Thanksgiving. I'm sorry. W what do you mean by that? So Christmas is December 25th. So when you say Christmas, I think of the holiday. Christmas season. Got it. Decor. When does the season begin? Yes. Like, just let me have November until, until Thanksgiving. Well, you're asking obviously the wrong person. I have a year-round Christmas tree. No, I know. That's what just inspired me. And like here, I'm not here to cut down the Christmas haters. I'm no Grinch. I'm just saying let the girl have a little fall before we skip. Right to Mariah Carey. I'm a November 1st girly, but I, I do understand. I don't wanna see a snowman on the day after Halloween. I just don't, I don't have the need to watch Christmas movies. Or listen to Christmas music until Thanksgiving. But like I start Christmas shopping, I put lights up like the season begins, but all the things that come with it, don't start. So kind of both. I know that's a bullshit answer. No, the cozy season starts for me, but the Christmas does not. Cozy starts October 1st. Cool, cozy. The moment this summer falls, cozy Gore, cozy go. Girl, did you ever do that? Like that thing in your mouth? No. Or in your fist when you were a kid? No. You don't know what I'm talking about right now? No. Ugh, nineties babies. Please help me send me a voice note of you doing what? You know what I'm talking like? Nope. No idea. We used to do it when we were kids. Okay. Well anyway. You're a loser. Sorry. Gasp. Do you wanna go first or would you like me to go first? I can go first. I just have to pull it up because I didn't use my, I don't even need my iPad. Ain't that crazy. Ain't that some shit. Oh, and the little thing that goes over my couch has a slot for her iPad, so it also holds my phone, her iPad and her glass of wine. Do you want something so re tragic in reaching distance? My company did a they like updated whatever they updated. I don't fucking know. I can't get my Gmail or my Google Drive on my computer anymore and I can't access Reddit on my computer anymore, so I'm just like all on my phone. It's like very upsetting. Oh, that's actually so rude. It's very upsetting. And you know, I spilled the Diet Coke on my MacBook so like, we're just, well, you need a new computer. Times are time with what money. No, that's fair. So, but I'm just saying in general, that's where I'm at. It was Halloween, best day of the year. I have really tragic news before I get into it. Oh God. Not legit tragic, but this is a rollercoaster, but tragic to me. Okay, well to get to preset this, I had a Halloween party. We rented out a portion of my favorite dive bar, cags. You guys know we talk about the egg rolls all the fucking time. Mm-hmm. They have a back bar. I dunno if we talked about it last week. I don't remember. But or the week before, whatever we're biweekly, eh? Manic tonight, aren't we? Someone did. And take medication. I popped three last night, bitch. But they just ain't for any HG and for anxiety. Okay, that's fair. Keeping my blood pressure low. We love that. We love good blood pressure. That's important. Anyhow so I had a ball. I was in fact poly walnuts from the Sopranos and the man's was Tony Soprano. You guys, it's the best. It's so much better than you being Carmella. Like at first I was like, what are you doing? And you said, no, I could never. And then I saw your outfit. Even with you describing, you know, you I bought the chest hair. I'm like, yeah, no, for sure. The, the hair on your head. The hair on your chest. The sweatsuit. The tracksuit, the tracksuit fit like a little too well looking with, with John though, in the robe with the orange juice. No. The way that I was like, I like your costume a little too much. Were ferreal no feral. He also was walking around my apartment fixing something.'cause we actually like needed like something fixed in the top. Oh my God. You were in heat. And he had grace. He took off. He obviously wasn't walking around his boxers, but he had gray sweatpants on a wife beater and the chain. And I was like following him around. He was like, what? I was like just, I just wanna just lemme look. You like you're an sick, you're an animal. And I was like, if he came in with a tool belt, what would you do? No, no. Her jaw just dropped when I said that. You were like, he won't let me, I shouldn't say, he won't let me. I'm always like, can't you just like come home like filthy? But he's like, I'm a plumber. It's not like I'm like out in like the dirt. I'm like, you like ew Colleen. No, I love it. But he like won't, he's like, I'm like sweaty and gross. I'm like, I don't care. Like that's my, you don't wanna touch him? No, I do. That's the problem. And he won't let me. Yeah. That's disgusting. Don't care. He's covered in feces. Not always. It's not always that he does more than that. Oh, so urine, dirt, I guess. I don't know. Urine feces, fecal matter everywhere, whatever. But he's getting a chain for Christmas. That's all I'll say about that. I, you were telling us something tragic. I'm And you like, let me preset this. I'm getting, I'm getting to the tragedy. Okay. Sorry. Also, I never thought a day in my life that I would look at a man and say, can I borrow your wife beater? But that is what I had to do with him, so That's crazy. He also has a drawer of wife beaters. That's insanity. Oh man. Throw out your wife beaters. You don't need more than one. You don't need one. Anywho had a ball was the time. It was just so nice to like, I feel like I black out more when I feel physically comfortable. You have actually said this in the past I think it was right around the time you, you went out accidentally in like leggings. Oh yeah. Yeah. And, and you were like, I had so much fun because I was like finally comfortable in what I was wearing. Yeah. Like I could really like. Put my pussy on the floor. You know, you do realize that's why I don't wear heels because I have so much more fun when I'm not in pain. No, that's fair. Heels aren't the uncomfortable thing for me. It's like jeans. Yeah. Stop wearing them. That's why I wear dresses. I just want, so I don't need a button that is getting tighter and tighter around my midriff every moment I'm at a bar. That's fair. That's fair. I don't know, just, just a thought. We also, so that was fun. That was cool. I did bring a lot of decor with me and a lot of that was also from my bedroom, which like, of course my bedroom decor also fits a Halloween party, like of course, like candelabras. Yeah. So I brought all that stuff. I had this big ass bag, like wicked cute decor. A big, oh my God, I forgot about this. Now I'm getting more upset. I had like a coffin shaped letter thing. Oh, you left it? No, a coffin shaped like letter thing that I was like, oh my God, I can't wait to actually like keep this forever. This is gonna be so cute. A bunch of shit. Skelly Skelly came to the party, he sat on the bar. So about tennis shit. And so we're leaving and I vividly remember being outside and seeing man's. Tony carrying the bag and putting it in my car. And then we went home and then the next day I didn't think anything of it. And then I was in my backseat of my car and I found one of the candles and I knew every single candle was in the building because it fit in every single one. And I only had three. So I had three candles and three holders. And I was like, that's weird. Why is just one candle in the backseat? Where's the bag? So I go, I go inside. I'm like, girl is, where did we put the bag? And they're all like, I don't know. I text John and he is like, I don't remember bringing it in, but I definitely put it in the car. And I was like, yeah, I remember you put it in the car. We cannot find the bag anywhere. Skelly is gone. All my decor is gone. But I know it was in the car. It came. Did someone, I'm assuming you didn't lock her doors, did someone? There was so much other shit in the car and it was all in there. So who just takes a bag of Halloween stuff? I don't think. No. It's gotta be somewhere. We cannot find it. It is nowhere to be found. Skelly. Yeah. I'm so upset off the rip. Yeah, that's devastating. No, I'm like upset about it and I sound so ridiculous being like I missed my skeleton. Like I'm actually sad, but I just had him for so long that I'm like, thought of him in a landfill somewhere. I'm upset. No. Did you call the the bar? No, because I know it was in the car. Like I, I watched him put it in the car. We never went back in, in the trunk or the backseat? I think the backseat. There was a lot of other things going on that I was a little distracted by that, but yeah. Very upsetting. Sorry, but long lived, Kelly. Oh, I'm sorry. That's, that's actually a wicked bummer. Yeah, I know. It's okay. I'm also upset about my other decor. Like I was like, again, you know, I was ready to like start my forever, you know, collection. Yeah. And also my B Room decor. Like, what the fuck? But anyways, it's not the point. I guess worst things could happen to me. I just like need to let that out. I know, but that's frustrating. That's all. That's always really, it's just the mystery behind it. We're all like, where minute, where the fuck did it go? Alcohol man. I'll tell ya, none of us can remember. And when we got home man's ordered pizza, even though we literally had food at the place, but like, we're just fat. So we ordered pizza and I, he turned his back for three seconds and I ate all the pepperoni off the pepperoni pizza. Just the pepperoni. Dude, you're a fucking heathen. I would never speak to you again. He was so mad. I would never speak to you again. That's the best part. You're an asshole. That's what you get. This is karma. Yeah, I know. I know Dot not know it. Dot not know it, don not know it. What else did I have? Oh, honestly, nothing. Like, it was just that for Halloween ate way too much fucking candy. My candy bag didn't show up until two days after Halloween that I ordered.'cause I like don't go to the store. I literally order everything on Amazon and didn't show up until two days later. We didn't get any trick or treats. So now I just have so much fucking candy, well bring it to work. So, and now my teeth hurt and I have tonsil stones. Okay. Okay. Well that doesn't mean you eat all of the candy. No, it doesn't mentally ill. I have to have all of it. The sour ones forget about it. Nerds. Guzzling. Like I, your teeth are gonna rot outta your face guzzling. Like, I need air. You know what, Irish, we got the soft teeth. I, I volunteer at the M-S-P-C-A. Everyone there that works. There is a badie, to be honest with you, the best, the baddies volunteer if you can. I'm telling you. And also I didn't realize with the government shutdown in the SNAP benefits situation mm-hmm. That also affects. Dog food. Yeah. Everyone, it affects everyone. Puppy food. It's really shitty. I didn't think about that. Yeah. It, it has a ripple effect that people don't think about. The puffs. The puffs. So yeah, people, I was I helped, I went and helped as they were, were getting donations for from Amazon. Like, people were literally just going on Amazon and ordering it to M-S-P-C-A. So I was like, I'm loading boxes of that stuff for like a couple hours. Okay. Well we can put a link in our bio if people wanna Yeah. Donate. Yeah. They'd be doing that. They'll take anything. You literally just show up and they, they will take whatever. All right. I'll add a link. In the bio game, it's, it was either the one in I think it was in Roxbury, Jamaica Plain. There's only one, so if you'll get it up, you'll find it. Did you love it though? I did love it. There were so many cute little fluffers. Okay. So I'm biased'cause I love the little dogs, but they had so many cats and rabbits and Guinea pigs. Oh, is, she's saying that with a scowl. Respectfully. They're cute, I guess from afar. Chinchillas and like a lot of birds, whole lot of fucking birds to know from me. Wow. They were, they were skit eating away and their little Oh, scenario. But I met a dog. His name is Bosco and he had been surrendered and I was so upset. He was so cute. But he's not up for adoption yet. If you are, I'm being so serious. Like I know he's kind of senior, he's, I think he's seven or eight, but that's really not that senior. Like if you even have the capabilities, go on the A-M-S-P-C-A and adopt this man. He was a perfect behave little pup. He just had a really elderly owner that physically couldn't take care of him anymore. He is perfect. His name is Bosco. Go look him up. I'm not kidding. He's perfect. He's like a chocolate lab brown lab. He's a chocolate lab lab, but he like is almost red. Yeah. And he's, he's like a little, he's just like a chunky little. Really cute. He's really cute. He's a chunky little chill boy. Boscos gonna get scooped up though. I know you were upset. There was no way that dog stays there. I just don't wanna The thought of him. Like I know that they're like there at night and they take really good care of them, but the thought of him in the cage all by himself made me really upset. Well, one of my best friends, Brie Spencer is a big, big, big time. M-S-P-C-A. She's a volunteer. She takes in every dog under the sun. Her and my best friend Derek, they're married. They take in all the dogs. She is just like a dog lover to her core. She wants to say that. Every single dog she goes to shelters, she saves, she's just like the kindest human. And that always makes me feel better. Yeah.'cause everyone who works there to me is like Brie Spencer. So I'm just like, they're gonna be okay.'cause they're surrounded like people like this. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's fair. Yeah. There was a woman, she was a baddie. She was a foster. She had a big dog. Oh, she had a dog. Like the kind in That's what Brie does. Foster in Harry Potter. Yeah. The like serious. She had a dog like that. Oh, the groom? Yeah. The big boy. His name was Chicken. Chicken. Chicken. He was actually a mouse. I went, when I saw him, I was like scared and she was like, he's literally the friendliest thing I've ever seen. His name was chicken. And she goes, well, our last dog's name is Tuna. So, I mean. Careful, we had to have chicken spoon of the tuna and chicken. So she fosters, she has children. She works here like 90 hours a week. She's walking around, she's using the like heavy machinery and all of a sudden I like lost contact with her for a second and I look to my right and she's backing in a giant vehicle into the loading dock. And I'm like, this woman, God literally does it all. And she's like, oh, I gotta go check on chicken and I'll be right back. I gotta go take him out. Gotta go get the June things. The poor girl, she backs into somebody's car in the parking lot and shatters the back window. Oh no. She looks at me and goes, I've worked here for 15 years and I've never hid another vehicle in this van. I was like, I'm, I've cursed you and shatter. I fear I have cursed you not speaking about me, but I'm just telling you, I'm cursing you at this moment. Oh my God. What a batty though. That's all. But yeah, volunteer for sure. They'll take anybody. They're open from 12 to three every day. But Monday, if anyone was curious, get that. I love it. Get that ass down there. Anyways. What's new with you? I've had quite a eventful couple weeks. Paul and I went to the Bruins one night and there's a new bar. If you've been to the Boston Garden, which I don't go very often anymore, it's in, in Legends. Oh. Like you go upstairs. It's the, it's the level of the suites. That's not the part of it. That's not the sweets. Yeah, it's legend bar legend. So you go up there and it's in there. Got it. And it's just a really cool new bar. It's like a a, I'm like trying to describe it, but I don't really, I can't. And you can buy tickets for just that bar. Yeah. That's cool. I think you have to buy a specific ticket. But yeah, you can still get into the building and then you just go into this bar tea. It was really nice. But these two guys sit down, right? And you know, some people actually have brewing seats on top of it. So they'll go to their box and then they'll come into the bar if they want to, I guess. I don't know. Yeah. Every period we were seeing new people. So it was kind of like the perfect place to be.'cause you would just get a new group set of humans of at in between every period and just randomly through at, throughout the game. So these two guys sit down and they just start chatting us at, and Paul is just a bad bitch. And at one point they were like, oh, what do you drink?'cause I was drinking a Cosmo and they were like, oh, what do you drink? Who do you think you are? And Paul was like, you can pay for them if you want. And they were like, great. We will. I would've I the audacity. I could not, no. I was like, pop up. And they were like, yeah, well we will. So we started yapping with them, right. And. Somehow condiments came up. Listen, you guys, you know, it doesn't take me a lot. No. Of the a potato, a condiment, the two of us. At any point, condiments can come up and we could each talk your for an hour. So condiments come up and they're like, oh, what are your favorite condiments? And I was like, I've never felt better at a bar than, than someone opening this. This is like someone, someone at a bar being like, how do you feel about Broadway musicals? And me being like, it's happening. My time has come, so I'm going down the list of all my favorite condiments. And they were like, yeah, but what brand? And I'm like, what a weird follow up question. Are they trying to trick you Hidden Valley? Well, I'm like, obviously with ketchup at Hez, obviously. Yeah. That's like, that's just not even up for debate. Does Kenzie even have ketchup? I don't know. I don't think they do. I don't think anyone fucking touches ketchup outside of like, HEZ and what's that other brand? You know, I'd be using the Great Value Market Basket brand. Oh, Jesus Christ. Okay. Yeah, there's like some store-bought brands, but Heinz is number one for ketchup. Mm-hmm mm-hmm. But of course now you, you go to the other condiments and now, now we we're getting into Variety, right? And they're like, but what's the name of the other brand in your fridge? And I can, they're looking at each other. So I'm like, there's a point to this question. This is a joke. And I'm like oh my God. It's on the tip of my tongue. And one of the guys goes, Ken's. And I was like, you guys, I have seven bottles of Ken's things in my fridge. I can take a picture for the viewers if you'd like. Everything I have in my fridge is Ken. Is it Ken? And the guy goes, I am Ken. And I nearly shit my pants. I felt like I was meeting a celebrity. So it turns out he is not Ken. His grandfather is Ken. And he worked there and he got like really elusive and weird and he was like, well, I'm not allowed on the property anymore. Oh God, God. But I get 10% of all like I am heir to the Kents. I said out loud, do you know what you've done for me and my family? As if this man has a purple heart. How many times do we think he's done this bit? So that's the other thing, like take this with a grain of salt. This is a random bar at TD Garden. Like, God only knows if any of this is accurate. No, I think God put the heir of Ken in front of you for a reason. But it could have been Aris. Yeah. And then he was like, oh, do you guys wanna go to St. Thomas? We have like, we have a jet going out. I'm, oh my God, I'm getting invited on the pj. Okay. Okay. I was like, I'll see you and say Thomas. And you know, Paul is being her wonderful self and we just, we just had a time. And that is how I met the heir to the Ken's fortune. And then the next group of guys that sat down also bought us a drink and they were showing us lovely pictures of their wives and their kids. And they were like, we never get to go out. We're so excited. We're having such a good time. And I was like, this is, if you are married to someone, this is the man you wanna be married to. Yeah. That shows you off. He's like very friendly, very nice, hanging out, never crossed a boundary, never asked to. Never was inappropriate, was like, can I show you guys my kids? I was just wants to chat. Fuck yeah, you can. I would love to see a picture of your children. Genuinely. So it was just like such an interesting night. Then we went to the harp. Good lord. Which like old stomping grounds. Correct. We walk in, they redid. We are. They have redone it. Yeah. We are three sheets to the wind. Okay. Lots of cocktails were bought for us this Eve. And I am not kidding you. 100 people doing line dancing all the same time. What day of the week was this? What week was this? What day of the week? Thursday. I think they do line dancing on Thursdays. Let me tell you. They sure fucking do.'cause I stroll up being myself. Like I'm just gonna jump into the middle of this. Oh dear. Because a very weird talent that I have is I can pick up choreography very quickly. It's a stupid fucking talent I learned from cheerleading and it's completely useless in real life until this moment. It did not go well. I was getting lost. It was getting stared at. You lost a spark. I just was like, they clearly go every Thursday and have many, many dances memorized, and they are like, not fucking around. They're not down for you. And they were not open to my drunk. Being like, you know, and you sell me a fake id, I got a man in the box. Sorry. What the fuck? From Footloose when they do line dancing, I was so confused. Mr. King, you sell me a fake id. Sorry, let's hear it for the boy. Yeah. They were not fucking chills here for it. And so we, we called it quits soon after that, but I was dying laughing. I was like, I wish there was footage of 100 people doing a synchronized dance in me in the corner trying to join along while Paula peed her pants laughing at me. I can, it was, it was quite funny. But that was great. Erin and I went and saw Hamilton. Oh, you did? I didn't know that. Yeah, I bought us tickets to Hamilton. I was able to like score a really good deal and then she bought dinner and drinks and she was like, why don't I pick you up? And we go to Regina's. And I was like, I could kiss. I love you on the mouth. You should have. And so we went to Gina's. We had some cocktails, we had my favorite pizza, and then we got to Hamilton, so fucking embarrassing. I somehow got, the seats that I got were like partial obstruction, which I never care about, but some people apparently do. They're like 200 less dollars than the seats directly across the row. Like it's insane to me. People just don't do that. Yeah. It is the only seat in the entire building that is not surrounded by rug anywhere else. The underneath your feet is usually a rug of some kind. Okay. Spilled my drink everywhere. The moment we got there,$20. Oh, it spreads immediately. And the woman next to me is in a wheelchair. I was so fu and it was, I was not drunk. Like I, it was a genuine accident. Yeah. The girls are clum. I was mortified. A full glass of wine. And of course we're not above a rug. It immediately spreads. E everywhere, Colleen, everywhere I run up, I grab a bunch of napkins. Someone said, sec, security. No security. We got a drunk bitch. Security. A woman comes over with an entire roll of paper towels and was like, heard there was a spill. And I was like, oh my God, I wanna die. Luckily it was taken care of before the show started because if it was mid show, I would've ended my life perished. Hamilton was incredible. I wept, I laughed. I wept some more. Hamilton was a really good singer. Which I would die for. Lin-Manuel Miranda. I do think he has a good singing voice. A Hamilton who can like belt. I have, I'm not used to. Mm. Whoa, whoa. Eliza was amazing. Angelica was amazing. I mean, it's just, it just slaps. And I just think back, like when that musical first came out, we didn't have TikTok. We didn't have, you know how you've seen an entire Sabrina Carpenter concert without actually going, yeah, that didn't exist. It's Broadway. Got it. There was all you had was the soundtrack. And I just remember Erin and I sitting in that theater they sing helpless. Right. And then the entire scenario reverses for satisfied. And you watch the same thing again from Angelica's point of view, and then it ends in the same spot it began. And they go, it is. Out of control. Like it still slaps, it still makes me cry. It hits in different ways that it did 10 years ago. I'm obsessed. I will always love Hamilton Long Live one day I had a day where everything went wrong and I was late and I woke up late and I spilled something and I went to do my laundry and I didn't realize my new blue jeans were in there, so it dyed everything blue. And then I went to the grocery store and I got the new girl and she broke down the entire register. It needed to have, like, it was just one of those days. Those are the days you just go back to bed and restart. I literally went to bed. No. Yeah. Because to me, when I'm having a bad day, doing something productive always makes me feel better. So I'm like, at least I did my laundry. At least I went grocery shopping. I Could have breathed and everything would've shut the bed. So we just went to bed early that night. But I had one negative thing for you that, that was my one negative thing for you. I like negative. Halloween with the kids was so fun. Claire was Elsa, Danny was Minecraft, and our cousin lives around the corner, so we did like pizza and stuff before, and then we walked around the neighborhood and it was so fun and cute and Danny was so excited. Claire was side eyeing, lot of boys, lot of. Energy, a lot of volume. Okay. And so I was holding her candy bag. She wanted me to hold it. Yeah. And then they would suss out a house. And then when they would leave, then she'd be like, auntie, I'm ready. And I would give her a bag and then she would go because she needed her time. She's like, I need you guys to like, see if this house is cool. Be a fool and I don't wanna go with you. And then I'm gonna go 15, maybe 20 minutes in. She goes, my belly really hurts. And I go, oh, are you all right? And she goes, no. And she started making this weird noise. And I go, are you gonna be sick? And she goes, I think so. And so I take, I tap Erin and I'm like, do you think she's all right? And she's like, I wanna go home and sit on the couch. And I was like, I, I don't think she feels good. And Erin was like, oh, we got all these houses left. I go, I'll go with her, Go with Danny and I'll go with Claire, go in the house. She's like, can I get my PJ's? I'm like, yeah. She was, can you get in your PJ's? I go, sure. We sit on the couch, can we watch bluey? Yeah. And she goes, can I have my candy now? I go, what? Deep bamboozled. I go, are you sick? And she goes, my throat hurts. I go Your throat. She just was done. She saw her house, it was in distance and she made up a sickness. No notes. No notes. I done. She's just eating a Hershey kiss singing bluey on the couch. One of us. It was so funny, and I, I texted Erin and I was like, so we're up to four incurable diseases. However, we have gone through half the candy bags, so I do believe that they are fake. Mm-hmm. So, so good, good update here. Danny comes home, you will fucking die. Danny comes home and he, there was this one house with like jumbo candy, like jumbo Reese. They do jumbo snick, jumbo Hershey bars. And I was like, this is the fucking spot. Like this is what enough with the apples. You know what I mean? Remember those old school people would like give o toothbrushes enough? Get a grip. He comes home and he has two big Hershey bars, which I know he really loves, and I'm like, oh my God, Deni, you have two. He slides one over and he goes, I saved one for you. A thoughtful babe in my knee jerk reaction anytime.'cause I don't like chocolate and I don't like candy. I never have ever had a sweet tooth in my life. And so kids loved being around me around Halloween.'cause I would just give up my candy. I would just be like, oh no take, I don't want any of this. I'm here for the dress up and the hang. Yeah, I'm here for the vibes. I'm not here for the candy. Even as a total. So my knee jerk reaction was to be like, no, I don't like chocolate. You keep it. And I went, know what? I will only eat this for the rest of my life. I looked at Aaron and I was like, I'll kill myself. Like if you need me to, for this to be the only thing I ever eat again, I will do that. You sweet, sweet fucking angel Boy. He's just, they're just the best. They're, they're the best. My college friends went out to dinner. It was lovely. We went for a light pussy pop. The moms were like, no, we're good. So it was me and Rosie and we went to Hong Kong. Okay. And at Hong Kong did you get chicken on a stick? No. Oh, we sign up for the call by Backstreet Boys. One of the all time greatest songs ever, ever, ever, ever. No one knew it. I don't know it. We were being glared at, we were 22 year olds in this bar. I have no idea what the song is. YI mean, yes, you do. You know what the call is? The call, you don't know what the call is by Backstreet Boys? No. If you're, I don't. Maybe if I heard it a little tune, a little Beepboop. I'll be late. Don't stay up anyway. You don't know what I'm talking. No. I've never heard this song in my life. My Gen Z is showing, or whatever the fuck I am, I actually don't wanna be on this planet anymore. Why? Because, I dunno what that is. It is like, I was just in this bar and we're putting our full pussies into this performance. Embarrassing. And it's the ba Oh, I don't get embarrassed anymore. I'm too old for that. I was just kidding. But I was just like, even if you don't know the song, and I was like, I think we're in enemy territory. And we went upstairs. Everyone was 23. Yeah. Are we old English Mark? Here's the thing, you know when you have an iconic night out? So we had just like an iconic night out recently. It was a couple weeks ago, maybe a little over a month ago. And it wasn't forced. It just happened. You can't duplicate it. The stars aligned. Crazy shit was just happening. The world was falling at our feet. We were meeting people our age, like it just was all happening and we were like, oh, this is just, we just can't duplicate it. No. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Like let's have another one of those and then you go out, it like doesn't scratch the itch the same. Mm-hmm. But we are so fun, so it doesn't matter. So we came home and we, I ordered McDonald's and we watched Hairspray and sang all the songs and I was drunk and I did not realize that daylight savings had just happened. So on my phone, the time was one fifty two, Uber Eats was like, we're gonna drop off your order at 1 0 2. And I could not wrap my brain around it. I was like, what do you mean 1 0 2? It's 1 52. Is it coming tomorrow? How can it come 15 minutes, 50 minutes ago? It can't, it's because the clocks run back. Brain can't compute. I was, I was like, why does, why would this come? Yeah. So anyway, we had a, we had a really fun night. It didn't, it couldn't be replicated the last time, but it was still really fun and we had a good time and here we sit. I have a bunch of fun things coming up over the next couple weeks and I love this time of year. It's like busy people wanna be out and about who wanna celebrate, wanna go to eat, you know what I mean? Yeah. I love being out and about. The people are people until New Year's Day, the depression. I will be in January and April. Check on, check in on me mid-January and see how you bitch is doing. It's gonna be bad. Noted. She's gonna be unwell. Noted. But that's really everything I have. I didn't really watch or do anything'cause I was rewatching the Sopranos. I We must talk about Dancing with the Stars for five seconds though. Okay. So I, Erin called me earlier'cause Claire wanted to FaceTime and I asked her, what are your thoughts?'cause we're recording tonight. Would you like to know them now or after you go? After. Lemme just get some, lemme just get some things off my chest. Yeah, go for it. Whitney, I cannot look at her fucking face anymore. Get her off my screen. Mm-hmm. She is good though. I'll give her that. Alex, and honestly, I don't remember where I stand on her. I remember being mad that she's a famous for no reason because like, that is just simply true. However, I do find her authentic and I do. She's great and she is so fucking good. She's so good. And not one part of her annoys me. Not that she ever annoyed me before, but just like the idea of her being famous is annoying. Sure. So therefore she's slang, I think she'll win. She should have won the monster Mash thing last week, so annoying. Who else, who else, who else? Oh, Robert Irwin. Erwin. Love him. Angel. Angel among us. Hot Take. Dylan Efron doesn't do anything for me. He has me in heat. No. Like he does nothing for me. He has me quaking in my boots. I watched his dance on like Instagram or TikTok or whatever when he unclipped his shirt. I'm in heat. I have no other, I have no other comments to make that are appropriate. Just he doesn't scratch anything for me. Oh, I'd let him hit me with a bus. I love Elaine so near and dear. Love her. Yeah. And I adore her and applaud her for her trials and tribulations and her unwellness and still being able to be batty, but it's time to go. Love her. It's time to go. Yeah, it's time. It's time. It's her time. Um, Jordan, I was gonna say, which has happened last night, so spoiler alert in case you didn't watch. Well actually this comes out in like literally a week. A week. So, so nevermind. I was so over Topanga. Danielle Fisher. Yeah, Danielle Fisher. Sorry. Topanga. She was giving Topanga, like, she was kind of being like teacher's pet being like, I'm gonna give it my all this week. Like, I don't know. She was giving you the ick. She was giving me the ick and I just was like, okay, we're good here. Like I, you're, I know you had cancer this past year. You're putting your whole pussy into it. I'm really happy for you. I, it's time to go. The man, I, I have no, no qualms, no issue. I, I ride Andy for him at dawn. Andy, do you think though that we've kind of reached our live? He is improving. That is what the show is about. Colleen. Colleen, this is what the show's about. He is so far behind the rest of us. They told him to work on his footwork last week and he did this week and he did it and he killed it. And he did good. And he was wearing purple, lavender, satin. Let him live his fucking life. I do love Andy. I do. Flava Flav as a guest judge had me losing my fucking goddamn mind. And I'm pretty sure next week is like Tom Bergon. How did we go from Flava Flav to Tom Bergon? How, how do we do such a thing? Jordan, you haven't done Jordan yet? Who's Jordan? Jordan trials. Oh, right. She was Tina Turner. Yes. I love that song so much. That used to be my song. Yeah, she was good. She was good. She really looked like her too. She was up on the stage, like, I mean, up on the judges thing, being like, wha Does she sing Proud Mary Tina Turner? No, I don't think so. But I will say the entire time during that song, I was thinking to myself, we did it better. It, Colleen, I fucking knew you were gonna say that. And that makes me breathe the Deep Mount. I can Literally, I and Tina Turner did a famous cover of Proud Mary. Maybe that's what I'm thinking of. But yeah, all I could think about was the Glee version. All I could think about Flava Flav someone get Carrie Ann and Ava off my fucking screen. I'm so sick of her. And Derek Huff clearly hates her. It's really, oh my God, it's so obvious. It's wild. Yeah, they're not even hiding it. Yeah. No, I, that's, yeah. Next week Jen left the week before. We didn't talk about that. Next week's predictions. I think Elaine's gonna leave, or Andy, I don't know which one it'll be, but I don't want just, Andy is America's Prince also. Have you ever, ever seen a New York Minute? With the SSON twins. Yeah. I, for some reason was driving to work the other day and I could not place where Andy was scraping in my mind because you know, I'm not Well, so like I think of like five references he's, and none of them are the most relevant. Yes. He kidnaps the Olson twins in New York Minute. He's the one that is ah, searching and tracking them down the whole movie naturally. That's the one. And not that he's been a famous comedian on a famous talk show for 30 plus years. Well, sweet. That I knew, but like for some reason it was like, I can hear that voice and I'm placing it somewhere and I can't figure it out. And it's New York Minute, it's about 10 movies. Those are your options. And so that's that. That's truly all I have. So I didn't realize until Erin told me that Whitney is the girl who like danced over her son in the NICU who had RSV. Correct. I didn't know who that's who that was. And she's like, I'm living my dreams. Like, ma'am, you were TikTok. So I now also hate her and find her insufferable. Her husband's also insufferable. I love Robert Irwin. I love Jordan Giles. I love Dylan Efron. And I fucking stand for Alex Earl. I think she is the best on the show. No, she is the best on the show for sure. And so Erin said that one thing I don't love about Jordan is when they do this thing, the Glock it, whatever, it's that they do. Oh, clock Glock it Glock it. I don't know. I don't know what it's, but I hate it. I hate it. I hate everything about it. Clock it. T No. Hate it. Hate it. No, it's a drag queen thing. Oh, is it? Get on our fucking level. Oh, sorry. But I'm not in on it. I'm sorry. Well, there's clock. It is one finger into applause is another. You know what? Don't worry about it. Aaron said that. Yeah, there was a bottom three and they say it's not like the actual bottom three, but it usually is. I Whitney, I think the bottom three is America's Whitney was in the bottom three. I think it's America's right. So that's what Erin was saying. Yeah. And Erin was like, Whitney was in the bottom three. Yeah, because she is annoying. So Erin was like, that made me feel better because other people also dislike her and don't think she deserves to win. She said, I think it will come down to Whitney, Alex Earl and Robert Irwin and some people will split between Whitney and Alex and Robert will be the wild card and win because he is actually the most likable I can do that. I was like, damn, hot take no. She's like, but I think Alex Earl deserves to win. Like she, she deserved the perfect score of the season and she didn't get it or something. Yeah. Yes she did. And something happened with the numbers. Um, Yeah, Flava Flav accidentally gave her a nine instead of a 10 and he, I sent you guys that screenshot of his tweet. Yeah, I'll read it to the people at home didn't feel like they need to be informed as well. I sent this to Erin and Bridget earlier because I need some clarification. Flava Flav, which all I think about when I think about Flava Flav is his, well, one, his show obviously. And the episodes specifically where the one girl shit on the floor. Yeah. That's all I think about. Never forget. So he tweeted, which, who the fuck uses Twitter anymore? I don't even know. As a judge, I'm dancing with the Stars. You hit your score on a computer first and then hold up the sign. I accidentally hit nine for someone, a k, Alex Earl and told the crew I meant to hit 10. And they said they can't change it and there's nothing I can do. That girl deserved perfect tens. And someone replied and said, it seemed like you were struggling at first with the system, so that's a bummer, but thanks for letting us know. And he replied and said, that's why I kept looking down at the computer and got all confused. I thought I hit a 10. Oh, that's such a bummer though. Yeah. So that's that. Well, they'll make up for it. Next episode. Episode. Well, who the fuck, who in their production was like Flava Flav is the one. Respectfully. Also, they shouldn't have to enter a number. They should just hold up the n. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, what are we doing here? Carry on in the harbor, Glen, go, oh my god. Rest in peace. Glen Goodman. She just got so sad. Just saying, Bruno Oli, I will say I would wop Bruno Tli to wake me up every day. Oh my God. Love on spectrum. Love on the Spectrum. Cast was there, lost my mind over that. I'm obsessed with them. That's nice. Didn't get enough of them. What else have I, I watched the Diplomat. It's on Netflix. It's Carrie Russell, who's incredible. It's good. It's not like my favorite thing that I've ever watched, but if you like a political drama. Less steamy than scandal, but still steamy. Still lots of like, yeah. Sexy time. With twists. Interns. Literally do not say sexy time ever again. Just like, I don't know how to say it. Smut, I guess soft porn. I. I don't know, with a lot of sexy time. I'm gonna say it. Every episode from here on out. Now that's, I'm never gonna stop saying it now,'cause it, it sends you. Okay. But Carrie Russell's amazing and fucking Allison Jan can do no wrong. And the, the guy in it, the husband is Rufuss. Oh my God. What the fuck is his last name? He's the bad guy in a night's tale in the holiday. He's Kate Winslet's lover in the holiday and he gets engaged. You're looking at me blankly. Yeah. You've never seen the fucking holiday with Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz and Jude Law and Jack Black. No, I have. I just like, dunno who you're talking about. Well, everybody else who understands literally any reference I've ever made, you know what I'm talking about. He's really good. I recommend it. It's a nice break in between some of the heavier stuff that I've watched. I dunno. Diplomat sounds terrible political. Okay, well, don't, yuck by Yum. Sorry. And also now I'm back on the Railhouse wives train because I stopped at season five mm-hmm. Of Salt Lake City. I don't know why. I just like started watching other stuff. Yeah. So now I'm back. Okay. And I'm gonna catch up on five and then catch up on six. Okay. I, for the first time in a year, remember to bring your book back. Just thought. Just thought I would put that out there. Cool. That was big for me. I, I look at it proud you like every single day. And I'm like, I have to bring that book back to Bridget. And today I did. That's all very proud of you. Oh, thank you. You didn't have to say that. You also gave me an air mattress for the weekend, which is really nice.'cause this weekend I'm going to Mount Washington and staying at the Omni. I've never done that before. I've never even been up there. Like I don't even, I think we went up to North Conway when we were kids. It's just not somewhere I've been a lot. I'm so excited to have like a, a weekend away.'cause I'm going with my girlfriends one night and then my family's coming for two nights and I'm gonna do a spa. I just feel like you need a change of scenery in general, no matter where it is. Yeah. I need to not be in, in this place. Yes, I agree now and traveling is not an option. It's very cozy season up there. Yeah, some foliage. Apparently the weather's supposed to be disgusting. I literally don't care. No, that's perfect. I just wanna be in the mountains with some fresh air. I'm gonna go get a massage. I'm gonna order some room service and a big fluffy robe and drink wine with my girls. It's a wicked nice hotel. I know someone that's at a wedding there last weekend said it was crazy stunning. Oh really? Mm-hmm. Wow. I can't even imagine how expensive a wedding would be there. Indeed. It's like in the middle of the mountains. Wow. That's crazy. Very excited about that tea. Today, gang, we are finally talking about Helen Keller. It. The time has come, the time has come to prove the haters wrong and to talk about how incredible this person is, aka Colleen. So what we're gonna do is Colleen is first gonna start with the conspiracy theories about how she's apparently fake and not real. And then I'm gonna tell you the badass story of this woman's life to prove that she 100% was real, is incredible. And is that bitch. Okay, Tay go ahead. So here's my, my, my shtick, my thing I, it turns out it's actually very difficult to find. Quote unquote conspiracy theory as to, oh, you don't say, but my fellow deniers are out there. I will say, mm-hmm. Proof. Give us proof. Also, also, turns out most people find us to be hashtag ignorant, which like Fair enough, fair enough. Right? Us Did you say us? Our fellow. My fellow deniers. Oh, I thought you meant, you and I No, us our fellow deniers. Hmm. Interesting. And so most people are like, as it pops up, and most places including Reddit, it's like, oh, this Gen Z trend. Like, I guess it was like a, which is annoying because I felt this way before TikTok and like, but not felt this way. But it's not like a TikTok trend. People are like, it's a thread on TikTok that like she's not real and it was never blah, blah, blah. But it's all for, there's no like actual like factual deep dive conspiracy theory that we could spiral on. It's just like she did all of these things and that is like not within the realm of comprehension, which is why we all think it's fake. It was not real. And so. Therefore, that's how I feel. But I was on this train first and whatever. I digress. But I will say she was accused of faking it when she was 11, so we're not that crazy. Mm-hmm. In 1892, when she was only 11, this guy that was the principal of America's Asylum in Hartford, Connecticut, where she was living at the time, he wrote an article for the American Anals, I dunno, it doesn't matter. Wrote an article entitled Is Helen Keller A Fraud? And it details this whole controversy over a story that Helen had written called The Frost King. And at the time, readers had noticed that close similarities were popping up with this other story that was written called Frost Fairies. And some people suggested that Helen and her teachers knowingly misrepresented a plagiarized work as her original writing. And this man confirmed that the stories were extremely similar and they dug into the situation and he found that a woman who briefly took care of Helen because she needed assistance, had apparently read Frost Fairies to her all the time when she was eight. So she basically duped it. She also, and you're saying she could have heard her because she was faking being deaf? Yes. I don't think she was fully deaf, actually. I actually think she just was slightly deaf. I don't think she was fully like deaf. Deaf. I think she could hear in some, some capacity. Mm-hmm. She was also put on trial multiple times for plagiarism at the Perkins School. So, and also my, these are my thoughts. Okay. She can speak and read lips. How did she give lectures? She cannot speak. Yeah, she can. I just, I can't, I can't hear it. Where? Where's the video? I want it. Yeah. I've seen many videos of her speaking. And how could she read these lips without being able to see them? How could she read people's lips? And she had all these, allegedly these in-depth thoughts and statements about like, optimism and like all of these like higher level opinions, I guess you could say. How does someone who only understands. Who can only frame references to things through like touching and smelling and tasting. Have an understanding about such a thing as optimism or whatever the fuck else she talks about. Like how, how, so basically me and my fellow deniers are just asking How, why? Because it's not something that makes logical sense. That's it. And that's it. That's, there's no conspiracy. That's just the facts. That's it. Are you done? And also I do have a thought because I did see that she flew a plane in 1946. I'm sorry. She didn't fly a plane. She was in a plane. No, she flew a plane. That's what it said. No, she didn't. She flew plane 9 46. Who was on said plane? I don't believe it. And people say she was a communist. I'm sorry. How could she be a communist? Sorry. Where? What were your sources again? Wikipedia. Hmm? How could you be a communist? Actually, no, it was Wikipedia. There was something else. I'll get it for you though. You can't hear, see, speak. How are you a communist? How can you even get to the, those thoughts? Have an, okay. That's all. Those are my thoughts. This is your debate stage, so I'm not gonna debate with you. You, I'm gonna debate you. No, this isn't a debate. This is more or less, and I've never been like, you can't, well, actually that's not true. I've definitely said you can't convince me otherwise. You absolutely have. No, I know. I'm taking it back. I'm taking back my words. I'm just saying. I don't understand. How about that? Yeah, it's something you're small, tiny, little brain. Couldn't fathom. Rude, rude, rude. Any, any other, you know, things you wanna bring up? Any other, I don't know. I lost my mind when I read that she flew a plane. So, and then I said, you know what? There's no theory here. There's just, it ain't the math. Ain't math in, mm-hmm. So tell me about our darling Helen. So let's talk about the very real true story of Helen Keller. My sources, I watched the Miracle worker, the 2001, not the 1960s one. I wish I took drugs before watching this movie. It is in fact a dizzy movie. I fear it would send you into a crash show. In a way you've never, I wish I went into a K hole. I've, and watched this, I've seen that. The Miracle Worker from 2000. I have, I watched it recently. I watched it in school when maybe 2008. So if anyone would like to watch it, it is on YouTube in full, faux free. Do correct me? Is there not a scene where she like, is like doing the thing and she's like hitting herself and like being, oh, there's, well, we'll get into it. Okay, cool. I watched a YouTube video from biography called Helen Keller, journey from Darkness to Global Inspiration. There was a PBS documentary. I could not get access to it anywhere. If anyone knows where that is, tell me because I couldn't find it. And then I did some fact checking with Wikipedia and tragedy GBT for details. Helen, on June 27th. AKA The anniversary of this podcast in Paul Michael's birthday, t on June 27th, 1880. Helen Adams Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She is born to parents, Kate and Arthur Keller. They were not uber, uber rich, but they were very well off. Ah, they were upper middle class, some would say in very socially prominent, arthur Keller was. A captain for the Confederate army and Kate Keller was, her dad was also a general in for the Confederacy and she apparently was related to Robert E. Lee. Oh, piece of shit, Confederate General. Anyone ever heard of him? Kate was much younger than Arthur. She was his second wife. And no one will be surprised to know that the Keller's owned slaves before the Civil War and then after the war they had quote unquote paid servants. So we are in like the deep south. Yeah. I mean, I heard Alabama and I'm like, go get your good. Yeah. Like for real. Yeah. Helen was perfectly healthy when she was born. Perfectly healthy baby for well over a year and a half. Her mother even claims that she started to talk at 10 months old, but at 19 months old, she gets really sick and historians believe it was either meningitis or scarlet fever. Oh. But I've seen little women. I know what happens to you with Scarlet Fever, right in the fucking infancy. The mortality rate for infants at this time, I forget which one it is. I think it's meningitis. It was 97% like something crazy high. Wow. So she gets over the sickness, but she loses her hearing and her eyesight for the rest of her life. She would refer to the next few years as groping around in a phantom world. She obviously, no one could communicate with her, and she was obviously really struggling. The only person she could even semi communicate with was a girl named Martha. The family had a cook, a black woman named Belle Washington. Her daughter Martha, not Martha, Washington, the first lady, the daughter of the cook, Martha, she like had a cousin who was deaf or something, and so she could understand some signs interesting. And so they would like play dolls together. So Martha was the only one who could really interact with her at all. But by the age of seven, Helen Keller had more than 60 home signs to communicate with her family. And she could actually distinguish people by the vibration of their footsteps. Like your dad walks heavier. Oh yeah. Like the stomping versus the light walk must be mom like, you know what I mean? So in 1886, Kate Keller, her mom gets inspired after reading Charles Dickinson's book, American Notes, and is a book where Charles travels all around the US and he just tells stories about different things that he's, he sees and people he's met in just America in general. Very optimistic. Like, wow, what a country. Look at all these things. And in that book, one of the stories he talks about a woman named Laura Bridgeman and she was deaf and blind and she was able to be fully educated. And Kate Keller, who is desperate to communicate with her child and make sure that she has a normal, happy life, she reaches out to a physician who's like an ear, eye, nose, and throat specialist. Mm-hmm. And he's like, you know who you should talk to, Alexander Graham Bell. The telephone guy who invented the telephone, and he was working with deaf children at the time, apparently. And so she writes to him and he says, well, you know who you should talk to is the Perkins Institute for the Blind. That's where Laura Bridgeman was educated. You should call that. And they obviously work with a lot of disabled kids, especially blind and or deaf. So the Perkins Institute of the Blind, if you don't know, is still a thing. It's actually in Watertown now, but it used to be in Southie or people not from Boston, south of Boston. So at Perkins, when Kate Keller talks to them, the school director is mulling over who would be the best fit to help this family. And he speaks to 20-year-old Ann Sullivan. Now, I don't know how accurate this is. She seems pretty reluctant to go in the movie. She's kind of like, why are you making me do this? And he's like, you are the best person for the job. Okay. And, and the reason why is she is an alumni of Perkins herself and she is visually impaired. Oh, I was gonna say. So they're like, you're you, obviously you're the best at this. And she was a teacher, right? So Anne Sullivan's like, fine, I will go talk to Helen Keller. I will go meet with them. So Ann arrives at the Keller Home on March 5th, 1887. In Alabama. In Alabama, okay. Yep. And it's a day Helen would remember forever as her quote soul's birthday end quote. Every day, Ann is working with Helen. And a lot of people, obviously, if you're sitting at home and you're listening to this in the conspiracy of it all is like, how, how do you teach someone who is blind and deaf to communicate? Right? So say for example, Helen Keller is holding a doll. Ann would take it out of her hand. Right? So take it from her. And then she would hold out Helen's hand in using the sign language alphabet, spell doll into her hand with sign language. And the only way that Helen could get it back is if she imitated her letters in her hand. So they would fight, like they would physically fight, because Helen obviously doesn't know what the hell is going on. Yeah. She's like, give me my fucking toy back. And Anne just keeps taking it from her. And then one day she does it back and she gives it to her. And when she would do something right, Anne would take Helen's hand and put it on her face and shake her head Yes. And then when she was doing something wrong, she would put her hand on her face and shake her head no. So it's not easy. And Helen is not easy to work with. She's a wedge in the movie. So in the movie, if you guys have ever watched it and it says some of the scenes are dramatized, I have one pulled up for you to show you an example. I'm excited. There were times I was like, quaking, gasping for air. I was like, how? And what? The people are quaking Oh, I remember this. She up for a change. Helen is used to helping herself from our plates. I'm afraid I'm not used to it. No, of course not. Oh, Ivanni, please bring Ms. Another plate. There's nothing wrong with my plate captain. Only that Helen's hands don't belong in it. One plate is hardly worth sporting our breakfast over. You see, she's just gonna keep trying until she gets away. I must insist that you let the girl go. Oh. Now she's hurt herself. No, she hasn't. I know attention when I see one. She's just a brat. Bentley SPO child. Ms. Sullivan, please show some petty for this kind of behavior. Pet's. The one thing she doesn't house weights on her hand and foot. Yeah. Yeah. You stay out of this letting Helen have her own way, he hits really such a small thing. Smile. Seems you've all decided it's easier to feel sorry for Helen than to teach her how to behave. Well, I'm not saying that you've taught her anything yet. Ms. Sullivan, wait. Right, captain, well observe. Let's start right now if you're leaving me. in the movie, it's all dramatized, but basically they're wrestling. Yeah. In Helen's straight up throwing temper tantrums. And Anne is not having it. No. And something great about Anne Sullivan is she's like a tough love teacher. She's no bullshit. She's like, I'm not falling for this. No, we can't feel bad. Like we can't give you this because you can't see or hear. Yeah. And so can back real. And so at one point she like really wants cake and she's like, I'm not giving to it to you until you spell it into my hand. And they fight. Like at one point she. Tosses water all over her. She slaps her but I guess it was difficult in real life too. I mean, I can't even imagine being that young and not being able to communicate. And I guess there was one time she took a mug and she was trying to spell mug and Helen chucked it across the room. And Anne not fucking round says to the family, you're hindering her growth. You guys all keep coming to her aid. She's actually a lot smarter than you're giving her credit for. And you're enabling her and you need to leave. You're actually making it worse. And you're hurting my job. And if you, so GTFO. Yeah. If you want her to get better, you gotta get the fuck out. So famously they hatched this plan where they would essentially confuse Helen to feel like she left the property, but they were actually on a cottage at the house the whole time. But she didn't have mom and dad to fall back on. So she truly had to learn the hard way. I mean, like with every kid, you can't enable them. You gotta, yeah, you gotta be a little tough. And Anne was tough, but she's working with her every day. And then Helen starts copying the hand gestures. And Helen did not know what she was doing. She says, quote, I did not know that I was spelling a word, or even that words existed. I was simply making my fingers go in monkey like imitation. She was just like, I get this cake when you, when I do this thing with my hand, so I'm just gonna keep doing it. Right. The breakthrough moment that if you watch any documentary, if you read any book, is this moment with a water pump. And Anne is working with her. She's been there for about a month. And they go to the family home, water pump or whatever, and Anne puts Helen's hand under the water and then just keeps spelling water into the hand. And I don't know if it was the repetition, I don't know if it was because the water was hitting her at the same time. It just all clicks. And Helen realizes that Anne has been trying to help her communicate this entire time, and she loses it in the best way. Like now that I know one word, now that I know that this woman is trying to help me, I wanna know every word. She would drag Anne around the house and touch a chair and then hold out her hand. Like what? How do you spell it? What's this? It's a table. What's this? It's a dog. What's like every single thing? She wanted to know everything. It was like her first link to the world at that point. Since she was a little baby. So she quickly demands that Anne teach her everything. And in May of 1888, Helen's eight years old, and it's been a year since Anne got there. Helen and Anne go to Boston. They were gonna visit Perkins and Sue for the blind, and that's where she ends up going to school. She desperately wanted to meet other little girls like her. How do we know I'll kill you? No, I'm, I'm being like, how does she verbalize? I'll stab that. I'll stab you. How does she Yeah, she knows how to read now. Okay. I was a genuine question. She knows how to read. Okay. And she learns how to write. Oh, okay. I didn't know if she like send a smoke signal to Anne and was like, I want girly pops. I don't know. Yes. Okay. She did. So Helen. Makes new friends. She actually meets Laura Bridgeman from the Charles Dickens novel. Oh gee. That kind of inspired her mom to do all of this. She can communicate finally, and she starts doing so with confidence. And it was like once she got a taste of this whole big new world, she couldn't get enough of it. She starts reading books and braille and teaches her how to write. Helen wanted to do everything. She wanted to travel, she wanted to go everywhere. She was like ready to take on the world, and she fucking does. By the time she's 12, she has become a public figure. Her remarkable understanding of life and communication becomes world renowned. Obviously, mark Twain takes a liking to her. Oh, they exchange letters. They meet, they become fast friends. He actually changes her life because. He meets her and he calls her the eighth wonder of the world. And he said she has the mind of a philosopher. And he introduces her to a very, very, very rich friend of his who's from like old oil money. And he's like, I am so moved by your story. I'm gonna pay for your entire education, including your college tuition. Wild. And I don't know if her family could have afforded, so he literally changes her life. Mark Twain does the friend pays for everything beginning to end. Wow. Ann remains her companion the entire time for like 50 years. I, how would she let her go for like 50 years? Besties. And she says, Helen, quote, all of the best of me belongs to teacher. There's not a talent aspiration or joy in me that hasn't been awakened by her loving touch. Wild. She literally unlocks the entire world for her. She's like the vessel to communication with the outside world, to the actual world. It's crazy. Helen attends a school in New York. She attends another school called Cambridge School for young ladies. She's not done. Done though. She needs to go to college. She, she excels as a student. It's like, I know this is insane, but it's like her brain was made to absorb. So like Aaron information. Yes. Yes. And she ends up going to the Radcliffe College of Harvard University. She learned half a dozen languages, was elected by her peers to be the vice president of her class, and wrote the bestselling autobiography called The Story of My Life. She graduates cum laude in 19 19 0 4 and at 24 years old, she's the first deaf and blind person to ever receive a bachelor's degree. You do wanna make a joke? The way was a struggle for me to get a bachelor's degree. I was gonna make a joke and be like, oh, she wasn't Summa Kuala. I'll kill you. I'll kill you. Determined to communicate with others as conventionally as possible. Keller learned to speak and spent much of her life giving speeches and lectures on aspects of life. She learned to hear, quote, unquote people's speech using TOMA method, which means, and they show this because at one point they end up doing like a va, vaudeville sounds aggressive. Her and Anne would do shows to teach people how Helen learned and talk about their life in whatever. And basically, and you can watch a video of them doing this, Helen puts a finger across her lips and then one on her throat. And that's how she reads lips. And she can feel the vibration of your throat and she can read your lips. Interesting. So she learns how to like do that. So Ann Sullivan falls in love. And she gets married to a man named John Macy in 1905 in the couple with Helen, the whole gang moves to rent the mass. Oh, how those outlets, girl, I was there last weekend. You better the Gap. I literally was just there. Of course you were. I was there on Saturday. Not exaggerating. Your girl got a new Lulu jacket. 69 doll hairs. Oh my goodness. Anyways during this time, Helen continued to write books and do lectures. She publishes the world I live in in 1908 and out of the dark in 1913. Okay. She becomes an activist, not just for people with disabilities, but she's a suffragette. She sends money to the naacp. She's a pacifist. She joins a socialist party. She does speeches in lectures, and she travels all over the goddamn world. Where's the footage to tell her story? You can Google it. I will. Educate yourself, and she gives people hope and courage. She does a speech called Strike Against War at Carnegie Hall, casual. I will also say that in 1914, it is important to note that a woman named Polly Thompson comes into the picture. Lovely, lovely Scottish woman. Oh, love that. We ride a dawn for Polly and Anne. Okay. Okay. And Polly was hired as a secretary because at this point, Anne cannot be her aide and schedule all of her public appearances and all of her written correspondence, like they need a manager. Like she was like, she needs house. She needs Chris Jenner. She needs Chris Jenner. Yes. Yes. She's like the housekeeper and the manager. And so the three of them become besties for the rest of their lives. They're Charlie's angels. Okay. And then Helen falls in love. And this story it makes me want to claw my eyeballs out. It's so heartbreaking. Oh god. Anne Sullivan starts to get sick. Okay. And Helen's in her mid thirties at this point in a man named Peter Fagan. He's a young reporter and he's a former secretary. He gets hired because, you know, Anne's starting to get ill and they just need some extra help. So he's around all the time. Peter was Helen's age, or around that age. He was kind. He was deeply devoted to her. He learns how to communicate with her using the finger spelling into her hand. Oh, just as Anne did in soon, their working relationship turns romantic. Okay? They fall madly in love tea. They plan to get married. They actually become secretly engaged in 1916. They even try to elope. Peter got a marriage license and they plan to run a runaway together. Helen wrote in letters that she was happy beyond measure and felt for the first time what it truly meant to be loved as a woman. No, I can't. I can't. This makes me so sad. Helen's family finds out they strongly object, especially her mother, Kay Keller, and at the time society largely believed that people with disabilities, especially women who are deaf and blind, should not marry or have romantic relationships of any kind. Like why? How does that affect them? I think the thinking at the time was about consent, but like this is a consensually loving relationship. Like she can communicate therefore, right. She can consent. Exactly. She's literally speaking to him. It may not be the conventional way you and I are doing it, but she is in, Ugh. So under the pressure from her family and others, Peter Leaves and Helen never marries or has another romantic relationship ever again. No. I'm like, I'm so sad. I wouldn't either. And she rarely speaks about it publicly. She like does not talk about it, but later she said that losing Peter was one of the greatest sorrows of her life. Quote, love is like a beautiful flower that I may not touch. End quote. I feel like you'd be, if you really felt that strongly and it was like genuine, even if it was your first, like, I feel like to the search to find something that duplicates it and it being, and you not scratch even scratching or touching it is more upsetting than not doing, not trying ever again. Yeah. So, yeah, it's just awful. Years later when asked if she ever fell in love, she reportedly smiled and said, quote, I loved once and he was a gallant noble man. End quote. And that's it. That's, that's all the love. Now she, she does have companionship in a lot of ways. Yeah. She like, let this woman feel love. Let her feel like a grown woman. Yeah. All that she's accomplished, like she deserves this. Shut up. Kate, let her have something. Ugh. Anyway, so Peter leaves and they end up, the crew moves to, for Forest Hills in New York, this is their home base while Helen travels world and is the batty that she is. Okay, got it. Ready for this? No. In 1919, Helen was in a movie about her own life. It's called Deliverance. It's a silent movie. She saw this as another way to reach the people. She was like, this is another form of activism. This is a way to reach a larger audience and tell them my story. She didn't love it. Not the movie. She thought the movie she was, it was one of those things like a silent, I'm glad did it. I'm happy it's over. It just was tedious for her. She was super awkward and self-conscious. She was like, I'm in front of a camera. I'm miming emotions without dialogue and the director is giving me cues and I can't hear him or see him. So like imagine being like, can someone go tell Helen that she needs to move three centimeters to the left to be in front of the, like, that's so overwhelming for anyone, let alone someone who can't see or hear. Yeah. So again, she was like, I'm glad I did it, but like, no thank you. We're good here. It wasn't, you know, a big massive box office hit, but she did it. She's proud of herself. One of the greatest thrills of her life was being in an open plane ride. She did not drive the plane. She went into one, and it's one of those old school types where like the roof is open and she said it was the most satisfying and physically liberating experience of her life. Of course it was how fucking cool. That sounds terrifying to me. Oh my God. Not for her. She like wants to experience everything. That's fair. Like life is one big adventure. This is like another sensation she's never felt. I totally get that. Okay. That in 1920, she co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACL U. She's a super progressive thinker. She really has strong beliefs in free speech, in social justice and equality, not just for the disabled, but for everybody. She becomes a super prominent public figure. She writes essays. She gives speeches, and she travels and just talks about her disabilities and gives people hope. Helen believed that the poor were, quote, ground down by Industrial oppression. End quote. She wanted children born into families. To poor families to have the same opportunities and succeed that she had. She wrote, quote, I owed my success partly to the advantage of my birth and my environment. I've learned that the power to rise is not within the reach of everyone. End quote. Okay. Still slaps, still slaps Helen. This is when Anne starts to get very sick. Anne Sullivan's declining starts, what's wrong with her? Just a lot of complications. Life. Yeah. It'd be life. Polly starts to take over a majority of the responsibilities at this point. Okay. Okay. It's 1924. She, Helen joins the American Foundation for the Blind, which she'll have a relationship with them for the rest of her life. She lobbied Congress and worked with federal officials to expand the availability of braille materials specifically in the library. Duh. She believed that access to literature and education was a basic right for blind and deaf people. And everybody really, her involvement helped get funding in support for programs that made books available to blind Americans across the country. In the 1930s, the US government began supporting audio recordings for the blind. They called it the Talking Book Program, and this program was run by the Library of Motherfucking Congress. Okay, love audio books. Yep. For the blind in print, disabled NLS, which started in 1931, she is literally not done. She is onwards and upwards. However, tragedy does strike and dies and passes away. In 1936, Helen wrote, quote, I feel powerless. End quote. Yikes. She is devastated. I mean, this is her companion of nearly 50 years in not just a companion, her closest friend, her teacher, her aide, her interpreter, her legit, her other half of her brain. Helen said she was the link to the world. Like, I just can't even imagine. She's completely distraught. Polly does step in and she is very close with Polly, but this obviously it's different. I know this is the most impactful thing that's ever happened to her. One of them, she does a retreat though. She pushes on, she's like, it is Anne's legacy and I will carry it on and this will not slow me down and I will not just give into the depression. I will rally on and that she does. She goes to visit military bases, she speaks to the wounded and the disabled. She is selfless and enthusiastic and she, people are obviously so fascinated and naturally curious talking to her and she is back and there were times where on one day she would have seven to eight appearances. Oh, she's booked and busy booked and motherfucking busy for the next decade. Okay, you ready for this? We're in the 1940s now. Mm. So for the next decade, she begins a series of world tours as a Goodwill ambassador on behalf of people with disabilities to raise money and inspire many governments to establish schools for students who are blind to deaf. She visits more than three dozen countries in 11 years. She goes to Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Iceland, India. Israel. Hong Kong, Japan. Jordan, Lebanon, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and Syria in, oh, big deal In Japan. They love her in Japan. Oh, really? She got, got a dog in Japan. Big thing in Japan. Oh, big thing. She meets every US president from Glover, Cleveland to Lyndon, me Johnson. She has famous friends. Alexander Grand Bell. She's a socialite. Mark. T Mark Twain, obviously in Charlie Chaplin. Which I did not know. In 1954, while she's traveling, the documentary, Helen Keller, in her story won the Academy Award for the best documentary feature in 1957, the Play the Miracle Worker debuted on Broadway. It is later adapted into the famous 1962 film, and they portray her early life in her relationship with Anne Sullivan in 1959. In her seventies, Helen was still getting after it. You cannot stop her. You like, no one can stop this woman. She said, quote, life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing. End quote, put it on my fucking tombstone. Unfortunately, in the spring of 1960, Polly dies of a stroke. No. Yes. Are her parents dead at this point, obviously? I believe so. Yes. And they had been together for over 40 years. I know, and this, she's in her eighties now. She never recovers from this. I mean, I wouldn't either. I would die, have a broken heart, and it's her two biggest companions of her whole life are gone. And she does get a new companion. Her name is Winnie, who? Winnie takes care of her, but love her name. There's no like deep emotional connection. She's just like, she came later in life. Yeah. She's established. I don't, and she's in her eighties at this point. Like she, she was with these women for so many decades. They knew everything about her. So to get a brand new person, you're like, the fuck, I don't even know this palm. Yeah. What's happening here? Right. So in 1961, Helen starts to struggle with her own health and experience multiple strokes. She ends up retiring from public life. I mean, she deserves it. She had an entire lifetime of advocacy and giving back, and raising money and traveling and, oh my God, I just can't even get over how much she's done. In 1964, she's awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Lyndon b Johnson, the President. If you are not from the us, it is one of the highest US civilian honors you can receive. And on June 1st in 1968, Helen Keller dies peacefully in her sleep at her home. Oh, thank God, in Easton, Connecticut, just a few weeks before her 88th birthday. She's such a bad bitch. So I asked Sha GBT, like, how do you sum up her legacy at a scent or a paragraph? Like, what do you, how? How do you even encapsulate such an incredible person? Chad, TPT, our girl said, Helen Keller broke barriers. No one thought possible. She became the first deaf blind person to earn a college degree. Wrote books, traveled the world and fought tirelessly for the rights of people with disabilities, women, and the marginalized. Her life proved that courage, determination, advocacy, can change the world in her legacy still inspires us today. And that is the gorgeous and very true story of a very real person who was a certified fucking badass. Helen Keller in big shout out to specifically Anne, to which none of this is possible, but Anne to and Polly Baddies. I mean, it's cr I I was giving you a hard time earlier. I understand the, just being perplexed by the scenario and being like, there is no way. Yeah, and I mean, I, I would like toset that I well said that we. Myself and the fellow deniers, which I really don't like, stamp that on my forehead, but are ignorant. I did say that to be, to be fair. I've seen the miracle worker, I watched it as a child, but like it's never like, it's impossible to wrap your brain around. Correct. I, I haven't seen visual footage because unfortunately, like my generation is like, let me, it Yeah. They, it exists. No. Do you know what I mean? Exists not like, just'cause I haven't seen it doesn't mean it's not real. That's correct. And you do have a blind spot for that sometimes in life. Like if it's not in front of you, you're like, oh, that doesn't exist. It's just the way it like, and I'm like, no, it absolutely does though. Like it for sure does, but no, I think I didn't know all of that stuff about her. I knew she was an advocate, but the way this woman just went every, like, just never let it hold her back, she could have sat and bed a vegetable and she didn't. That's all. Yeah. She could have done absolutely nothing. Her existing and living a healthy, happy life would've been enough, and she went above and beyond. And not just for her community, but all the communities. And it's just fucking incredible. I'm so proud of her. I'm so glad I did this episode. I like, I'm so glad I know these things about her. I feel extremely well informed. And did it change your mind? It does change my mind. You don't have to lie to me. No, I, I, you know, I just say things with the drama sometimes. I have a picture for you. Oh, of her? Yeah. I've seen a picture of her. Helen Polly and Anne. Oh, I like that dog. Oh. Hi, Lynn. She's not looking at the camera. I wonder why Jesus Christ. Colleen, I'm sorry. No, she definitely did more shit than I could never imagine even doing in my lifetime. And I can see and hear, so I understand. Yes. Yeah, she's, she's pretty incredible. I mean, the fact that she was able to go, and I, I, I saw her do speeches. There are YouTube videos of it, and a lot of the times she would speak and then Anne would repeat anything that wasn't clear. And if you're wondering like, what that would sound like, and you're not trying to be insensitive about it, it does sound like a deaf person speaking, like it sounds exactly what you would think it would be. And you can actually understand what she's saying. And then Air Anne kind of comes in and clarifies, confirms it in an interpreter. But I highly recommend watching some stuff on her, the Miracle Worker from 2000. I, I almost need you guys to watch them wrestle on the ground about water. It, it's wild. It'll make you understand the depths. It felt like a fever dream. It felt like watching a fever dream. Yeah. And all I kept thinking was this actress can see an here, like this little girl pretending to be Helen Keller has, and she's like putting her hands in dinner plates has all five senses as she attacks her family's scrambled eggs. That's so true. What? Give her a Grammy. No. Oscar. Oscar. Oscar. Oscar. So close. So close. Close. But no, and I also couldn't believe it was a Disney movie. Question mark. Mm-hmm. Is it that Disney Plus? I don't know. I don't have Disney Plus anymore. Oh, nevermind. Nevermind. I do not know. But yeah, that's Alan Keller batty. I hope to go to literally one third of those countries. I've been to none of those. Not that you asked, but Yeah, no, of course. Goals. Hashtag goals anyway. Anything coming up? Anything fun? I'm gonna Nashville next weekend. Oh my God. Fee's birthday. Yeah. Oh, that's gonna be so fun. Yeah. Do you have plans? Like, do you have anything booked out? Planned out? What do you do? No, because like Nashville's just like not a place you have to book out. Like reservations fucking who hit me on Broadway. Yeah, it's, it's definitely bar scene versus like we did on Sunday. Because I was thinking to myself, I'm like, we're old, right? So we get there on Friday. Friday, a Friday night, a Saturday day, a Saturday night. I wake up Sunday morning, shoot me, I don't leave till Monday. So I'm like, no, Sunday's the best. So no. So we during the day rented just for like to change it up for a couple fucking hours. We rented a car and at first it was supposed to be a Bronco, but then the guy messaged me and was like, sorry, I can't give it to you until two. And I'm like, no, we gotta be back at Broadway by the afternoon now. So we rented a car and we're gonna go out to Franklin and Leaper's Fork. And like bop around in like the country Oh, nice. For the day and like get lunch. Like I have a couple places, like very, like if you've seen the Hannah Montana movie, like very Miley Stewart coded, like that vibe. I asked my brother, I'm like, let a girl know where she should go. Like, you know. Yeah. Your brother does know the spots. He does so we'll. She'll see just to switch it up. I'm like, we gotta leave the Broadway. Yeah. You can't just sit on Broadway and drink in a bar all day. No, you gotta, you can't, you gotta do some things. Yeah. I can only hear, say horse ride a cowboy so many times. I know. I thought you were gonna be like, we got a pedal tavern. I'm like, go. We've rented a pedal tavern. No. I'm like, so you're gonna bike around Broadway instead of physical sitting at I, I did a food tour and I loved it. Really? Yeah. One of the pod episodes is about it. I was on like a work trip and our, our annual kickoff was in Nashville and we like went to a haunted spot and we went to like this place where they have fried chicken and the recipe is famous and it turns out it was because. The husband was cheating and he made chicken. He like made this sauce. And while he was out and the wife knew he was cheating, she went in and dumped like a ton of hot sauce in it to ruin it. And that's the, that it's a hot honey chick. It's like the famous recipe. Damn. And it was like, all because she was trying to get back at him and it actually worked. And he was like, damn, this is amazing. Just kidding. But I just learned a lot about Nashville and I learned like we got to eat food and, you know, it was just lovely. Yeah. Like, I like, so definitely recommend that. I wanna go to like an look. I like, I'll go to the Grand Ole Opry. Have you never been to the Grand Ole? Oh, you have to go to the Grand Ole Opry. I know. The fuck. Have you been doing all these trips to Nashville? Literally not eating and just drinking and being disgusting. Yeah. Grand Ole Opry is fabulous. Like, everybody's like, you have some good barbecue. Did you hit Hattie Bees? I'm like, I literally didn't eat. I have, I don't, I ate a hotdog on the street at three o'clock in the morning. I can't help you. Yeah, that's, we're trying to change that this time. And also, it's a marathon, not a sprint. It's a marathon, not a sprint. You shall see. I love that for you. We'll let you know. It's also man's his first time in Nashville, so he has not been, he has no idea. Oh, over stemmed. Yeah. He freaking out here. Shouldn't say freaking out. He is with government shutdown, there's not a lot of air traffic control at the moment. Mm-hmm. So he is like, we're going down. I'm like, they wouldn't fly the plane if there was, you know what I mean? Like there're, it's it's gotta be Okay. Gonna be, it's definitely gonna be okay. It's gonna be all right. We're gonna be fine. Yeah. Well, I hope you have the best time. Thank you so much. I can't wait to recap it. I'll, I'll take notes and I'll be laying on a, hopefully in a heated pool with a glass of wine. Nobody look at me. There's no more us places to be than me at a resort in the middle of the mountain and me listening to nineties country in a disgusting coffee. Puffy popping in Nashville. Yeah, I would agree. I mean would say, I would say mine would be a beach, but second to that would be a resort. No, but like peace is what I think is, yeah. I need peace. Peace. Like full peace. That's full peace to me. With your friends. Yeah. And I'm gonna take my sweater that's now dyed navy blue from my blue jeans. My favorite fucking sweater. Was it white? There's like a white stripe on it. Oh. Also there's like a beige sweater that I wear over thing. It's, it's like a big cardigan. It like goes past my butt. Completely ruined. Like need to come throw that out. Oh, I know that sweater. Okay. Yeah. That's gonna go. It's navy blue. It looks But you like blue. It looks tat. It looks, but you know what, it's, it's closed. That's, I I, that happened to me as well. You know, there are some underwear that are different colors. There are some things that are different colors. I mean, who's looking at your underwear? But the good news is also we wears underwear. I wear a lot of black. Yeah. So a lot of that was taken care of. It's all good. Who fucking cares? Go find peace. Hallelujah. Go find peace wherever that is. In a dive bar in Nashville or in the middle of the mountains. Couch a hot tub. Or on your motherfucking couch with your new tray over your chase. Listening to you sipping the Shannon's. Hey wait. My friend Ashley messaged us and said that when we swish around the ice cubes, I have no ice cubes. It makes her happy. Alright. Just like swish it around. Okay. Just see if it, Colleen, what the, you making it with your mouth? Oh, sorry. Is not. You can't hear anything. Oh, damn. All right, Ash. We'll do it at the beginning of the next episode when we're topped up. Love you. Okay, everybody. Have a good week. Love you mean it. Love you mean it. Bye. Goodbye. Goodbye.

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