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Chapter 1: Who are the hosts and guest on this episode?
All right, patriots, gay-triots, and day-triots, the donning of a beaver, the HBIC, the head beaver in charge is ill. She is in the fetal position at home and in bed. And so none other than my husband, Josh Welch, America's head metrosexual in charge.
Time to bring in the big hitter.
He has joined today so that the beaver could take a rest. You know, we started calling her the head beaver in charge. Do you ever listen to our podcast?
I do sometimes. I have to. It's the only time I see. I have to kind of see what you're wearing, see what you're saying, what you're doing.
I recently, one of my habits was hypochondriacs. And I used you as an example and shared with our listener about the earwax situation.
I recently had a brain tumor. I'm losing my hearing in my left ear. So all this happened within the past 10 days. I'm still investigating all of these things.
How many doctors have you seen regarding this?
Three or four. I had two CT scans scheduled simultaneously at the same time, one with contrast, one without, because I'd called so many doctors and they had all scheduled them. And eventually I thought I cannot go get a second CAT scan. I just had one. They said I'm normal. That would just not be smart. So I'm always chasing something down. As you get old, shit starts to break. Things fall apart.
But I mean, don't you think you're kind of a little bit of a hypochondriac?
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Chapter 2: What are some humorous personal anecdotes from Josh Welch?
All right. So let me tell you what I've had it with. I've had it with people that ask you what time it is when they're holding their own iPhone in their hand. And I'll give you an example of this. Yesterday we were in the airport, you and me and our son Roman.
That's right.
And you start shouting to me like three or four times in a row. What time is it? What time is it? What time is it? I turn around and I'm on one of those moving platforms. And I see that your cell phone isn't just in your hand, but it's like about eight inches from your face. And I decided this is a new thing that I do with you. I just don't answer. So I just, I don't answer.
You keep- You've just decided not to start answering me. I mean, it's been going on for years.
So I keep it up. And then Roman finally is like, answers what time it is. But I've decided I've had it with people asking you what time it is when they themselves have the answer right in their very hands.
Right in front of them. It seems like I was carrying several bags or one or two bags. You know how you get like a strap that's intertwined with your fingers, right? And I'm holding my iPhone. And it was such that I couldn't maneuver to where I could press the button or press the device and the time would pop up. So that's why I continued to ask.
But I did realize the absurdity of asking when, in fact, I was holding an iPhone.
The answer.
Yeah. But I just wanted to qualify it as there were some handicaps that were preventing me from completely just taking that extra step and punching the face of the iPhone just to get it to light up. Like there was something that caused me not to be able to do that.
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Chapter 3: What do listeners say about the podcast and its hosts?
I'm Josh. I'm filling in for AKA. What is it? The HBIC. The HBIC. The HBIC. The HBIC. The HBIC.
You know, you have a lot of stories that our listeners like, particularly our Gaytriots. I think your, you know, epic story about going to Best Buy for manscaping consultation. Manscaping. I think prior to that, some of the Gaytriots were kind of like, is Jennifer's husband gay? But the minute you confess that you went to Best Buy...
to receive a manscaping consultation advice from the Best Buy clerk, they were like, that's pretty straight.
It totally removed me from the gay camp. Yeah. As far as was he ever gay or not?
No self-respecting gay man would go to Best Buy for manscaping equipment. And then I think most recently, a lot of our gay triots were really tickled with, remember the shoes you got me for Valentine's Day that I returned? What was it that they had on them?
The sequin? Is it sequin?
Try again.
Sequin. It's more sequins. I can't say it. Sequin. Sequin. Sequin.
What made you think I wanted to sequence you?
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Chapter 4: How do men and women differ emotionally after breakups?
You're not even touching on all the other things either. The addiction, all the other things I am that would make me a minority.
Yeah. Yeah, you are. You are a little, this is a DEI substitution here.
Yeah.
Yeah, totally is. Okay, Kylie, who's next?
Okay, up next, we've got three stars titled Closet Magas. And they write, as has been said on the show, anyone who repeatedly bashes a particular group is definitely participating in said shenanigans. These ladies are closet magas for sure. Bring back the petty grievances and leave the politics to the other pod.
Hooky B. Here's what I have to say to Hooky B. You know, it takes a special person to think that we should personally curate the podcast for you, that you want a podcast full of petty grievances. Meanwhile, the government is weaponizing itself against black people. brown people, gay people, trans people, and women, and you think we're going to sit here and talk about filing our nails all day?
That is as insulting as it is selfish on your part. And you might as well have just given us a one star. I don't want the three. You can go fuck yourself.
Three's being generous. And she's fortunate that We're not going to have all these petty grievances about people like her who try to tell us what to do.
Yeah, and I don't mind a one-star review based on our performance, but it sounds like her three-star review is based on that she wants us to believe the way she believes, and then she would like us. And this is the inherent – and I would go out on a limb and say that's a white woman. And this is the inherent problem with white women right now. And we've talked about this on the podcast before.
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Chapter 5: What is Josh Welch’s perspective on masculinity and toughness?
And that kind of shit, I've totally had it with that kind of princess syndrome.
Well, it's also part of the just shut up and dribble LeBron stuff. It's exactly what it is. Just stay in your lane and... Here's a novel idea for that particular viewer. I guess we can call her a viewer. If you don't like the content, then maybe you don't have to fucking watch it. That's just a thought.
If it gets a little too political, maybe you just turn it off because I turn shit off all the time that I don't want to listen to.
I mean, the only thing I can say is that at least the reviewer understands that calling someone MAGA – is a critique and is a criticism. That's the only thing. There's a slight bit of unintended self-awareness in that because she's trying to insult us by calling us MAGA. So at least there is some sort of negative connotation. Yeah, probably unintended on their part.
But I have some news stories I want to share. All right, the first one is, breaking up is harder for men than women, research reveals. Research shows that men often struggle more than women after a breakup, both emotionally and psychologically.
While women are more likely to seek support and process their feelings through conversation, many men tend to internalize their pain, leading to deeper emotional distress.
I think that's 100% true. Women are just stronger. Mentally, emotionally, psychologically, they're just stronger than men. They just, when they've made a decision, there's some finality to it. It's over. You know, men just constantly are just titty babies and they're sorry. They're sorry over and over. And, you know, women are just No.
What do you think about, like you're a guy from rural America, a town of 5,000 people.
Right.
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Chapter 6: How does growing up in rural Oklahoma influence political views?
Yeah, I mean, are these guys, are you going to be able to fight your way out of that? Or are you just one of these like loud talkers? Because like, I'm kind of a tree hugger, kind of progressive. But I would love the chance to get into a fistfight with someone that I didn't like that was MAGA.
I mean, so if you've got road rage and you see me driving my overpriced Range Rover, flip me off and let's get out and let's fight. Like, that's what it means to be a tough guy. Like, can you whip someone's ass?
And do you think that maybe psychologically they know they can't kick anybody's ass? And so then and maybe then they're playing this out.
I think that's the point. It's just rhetoric. It's just talk like guys like that. Back when you're in my high school that would talk like that, you would just quickly get your ass beaten. Like you would talk shit, somebody would call you on it, you'd get into a fight, you would get your ass whipped.
You couldn't get on social media and type a bunch of shit out and put out a bunch of propaganda about how tough you were because all the kids just saw you get your ass whipped.
What do you think from your childhood growing up in a very guns and religion style culture, not your personal family, but the community in which you lived, where Obama said people cling to guns and religion? That's definitely true. We know of people in Oklahoma. What messaging would the Democratic Party have to have to ever get these people on board? Or is that over?
They take these issues like trans playing sports, which is probably less than 1% of any factor in anything, and they take that and highlight it. But to your point, we know a lot of people who have trans kids. And the way that the kids are treated, everybody universally agrees is horrific.
The way they're vilified, the way the government has turned its back on the treatment of these kids, everybody can universally get behind that. However, in rural Oklahoma, in rural parts of the country, when people don't understand an issue, their immediate go-to is to fear it. that issue and not understand it. So there's a lot of fear based around issues that they don't understand.
And so part of that is incumbent upon the Democrats to be able to present this messaging in a way that resonates. And I think sometimes we just intellectualize too much or we're not as As you pointed out, we don't take a firm enough stance and dig in on certain issues. Because with what I do for a living, I'm very unapologetic about certain things I believe in.
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Chapter 7: What challenges does Rahm Emanuel see in American education today?
Can I ask you a personal question? Yeah. How old are your kids?
So we have an 18-year-old senior in high school and then a senior at Syracuse at the Newhouse School of Journalism. They're both graduating this May.
Okay. Ever since they were in that high chair at the kitchen table, you built in expectations, right? This is my one point. Every child is homeschooled. Every child. Some better than others. At your home, like at our home, kids learn the value of an education, whether it's valued or not valued. And what happens at school is not the only place to get an education.
They get an education at home, get an education in the community, in the neighborhood, et cetera, and you invest in it. Ones at Syracuse, and I don't know, but I assume that a high schooler is off to college. But nobody from day one at that high chair at that kitchen table was high school considered the end of their education. They were inculcated with expectations. Now, I'm a mayor.
I was a mayor, rather, in the city of Chicago, where 83% of our kids are from poverty or below. That's not reinforced. Your kids are like, where am I going to be in four years? There were kids in Chicago, they wouldn't know if they were going to be alive in four weeks. And you have to stretch out their imagination and have them posit themselves where they have a tomorrow.
And your visa and your passport to the future is not going to be the high school diploma. It's going to be every one of the other pieces of that educational piece. And to me, that is the most important thing we have to give every child. And some of them will get it at home.
And some of them will get it at the school that makes up where, not that the parents don't want to get it or the mother doesn't want to do it, but they don't have the agency or the capacity. And, you know, I could get here, be philosophical. We're short plumbers and pipe fitters and steel workers and carpenters. We're short people in our armed forces.
And we're also short people that have the technical skills that community colleges give. don't have a person to waste and we got to invest in them and i don't think that's a blue state red state or anything it's just an understanding what the future will bear uh and i do think and i will say this is you know somebody in my own life who fought for marriage equality
There are others that give you an example of this, of all the challenges we have in the world. We have a war in Europe, a war in the Middle East. We have challenges with China. We have climate change. We have AI.
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Chapter 8: What are Rahm Emanuel’s thoughts on current political divisions and governing?
But it's just it's I really feel like right now, in order for us to have the conversations about helping children and about helping poverty, I feel like Democrats need to kind of be dicks. And I know my husband's from a town of 5,000 people, Hugo, Oklahoma, rural as fuck as you could possibly get.
And I think if we don't as a party come out, because we're down here, boots on the ground in MAGA America, and start fighting and calling people out, We're going to lose and we're going to lose again and we're going to lose again. Because what rural America likes about Trump is that he's a fighter.
He's deranged, no question, but he always comes out every day and he's fighting somebody, even if it's his opinion from the day before he's fighting it.
Well, it's interesting you say that. So two things I would say to you. One is I think people, we're only in, I don't know where you are, but We're a month, let's say it's April, so it's basically three and a half months. And I think people are pretty goddamn exhausted by all this. And I think if you fast forward in another 20 weeks, they're going to be, the last thing they want is more fighting.
And I'm not, I'm a middle child and I'm known as a fighter. I'm not one for unilateral disarmament. But I think to read the room, I think the American people, A, want to go south on him pretty quickly. He's at 41%, 42%. They think they got betrayed and stabbed in the back by this president, and it's only getting worse.
And I do think Democrats should stand up not only to fight for their own principles, but to also fight for democracy. the people we represent. And for too often, on a whole host of cultural issues, we were off on tangential things that didn't matter to them. Their kids' education, the price of groceries, security of their children's education, the security of their parents.
People were missing medications and doctor visits because they couldn't afford them. Things that we broke faith with them on. And so I'm not against fighting, but I want to make sure we're not just fighting for the sake of fighting, but fighting for the sake that people know and know what we care about, what's in our soul and what our North Star is. And we ended up fighting for the wrong things.
I got to be honest with you. I mean, I was sitting over in Japan for the last three years as ambassador. And I learned a lot about Japan. I learned a lot about India.
Eating sushi, having a good time, and then, you know, all this shit's going on over here.
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