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Hello, cupcake, it's me. A podcast with your host, Michael Peterson. Hey, everyone. Michael here with hello, Cupcake. It's me. A podcast. This is episode 38. Today is August 19, 2022. And how are you? If you haven't done so already, please like and subscribe to this podcast and also head on over to YouTube. Comhopcake it's Me to follow along with the Vlog and give a click and a like over there and make sure that you subscribe and also give the blog some love. Hello, Cupcake, it's Me.com. Oh, man.

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So Tuesday night Trivia was pretty decent, but we lost our first place standing, and we are now currently in third place, bronze Division. And you know what? I've just come to the conclusion that I'm going to be as competitive as I have the ability to do so, because at most there's only like four or five of us who are playing. And the fact that we are maintaining such high levels is just amazing. I do kind of cheat a little bit because I have five devices that I take with me. So it looks like there's five additional people up there. But even then, there's times where I just randomly pick numbers because I don't know, and I'm bound to get one or two of them right just based on that little fact. I think that we are kicking ass and taking names. And I've just really begun enjoying it. Well, I have been enjoying it anyways and making new friends and hearing new stories and just having a good time with it all. It's really become something that I genuinely look forward to and that I just hype myself up all day long on Tuesday. Like, yeah, Trivia tonight. Trivia tonight. Trivia tonight. I wish that other people who were on our team or wanted to be on our team were more dedicated to it, but it is what it is, right? So in the last episode, I had talked about this transphobic thing that was happening here in town. And for those of you who haven't listened to the previous episode, I really ask that you do, but I will summarize it right now. So there was an incident involving an 80 year old woman and a transgendered employee at the YMCA. And this young woman was in the women's locker room doing her duties and talking with some of the children that was in there. This 80 year old woman comes running out of the shower stark ass naked, screaming, why is a man in here? Get out of here. You have no right to be in here. Blah, blah, blah, blah, and completely being confrontational and just like 1920s Karen over here going off and saying all kinds of transphobic things and just making all these horrible slurs and blah, blah, blah. At one point, she said that the young woman had touched these girls, which is just rhetoric, and she was saying and doing whatever she can and could to have justification for being transphobic. And her and her family had been going there for over 35 years during this time period, had multiple incidents at the YMCA throughout the years for just different reasons and just being a fucking Karen. So the story goes nationwide and then even internationally. Tucker Carlson gets a hold of it, spins it, and spews it out. The proud boys get hold of it, and they came to our town. So this last Monday, we had the proud boys here in our town or a faction or subdivision or whatever thereof, like protesting the YMCA and saying all this horrible homophobic transphobic rhetoric and just being the douche nuggets that they are. And we also had a huge showing from the LGBTQ community and the surrounding communities.

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Anytime that the protesters would get up there to try to start saying something or to only spin the one side of it, the LGBTQ community would start playing drums or singing or just being really loud and not really just allowing that to happen because it was 100% untrue. Yes, this young lady still has male anatomy, and yes, her voice is somewhat deep, like an adolescent teenager, but there's surgeries and there's processes that they need to go through in order to be able to be more feminine and passing as feminine. I don't care if you say that you can identify as whatever. It doesn't make you whatever.

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I am of the mindset, live and let live as long as it harms none.

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Her being a woman hurts no one. What does hurt is the allegations of sexual predication and the bullshit that this 80 year old hag brought into our community by posting this young woman's name and her address and where she works and all this other stuff. And I truthfully believe that there should be some kind of retort against the elderly lady, that she needs to serve jail time and that she needs to pay fines and that she needs to I don't know, there needs to be something done because had the allegations of sexual accreditation happened or like, molestation on the part of the young woman and the children, like, had that stuck. I'm not saying that there isn't sexual predators out there, but there needs to be some kind of something more than a slap on the wrist saying, don't do that, because that could have seriously jeopardized that young woman's entire future and living in a small town, that could have been really bad. So there needs to be some kind of not retaliation, but just like, consequences that this elderly woman faces. And I know that like, oh, what's it going to do? Put in an 80 year old woman in jail? You know, that's not going to prove anything. And you know what? Yeah, it might not prove anything, and it might make her a martyr, but at the same time,

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I don't know. I think that it would show a whole side of like, don't do that. This is serious allegations. Yeah, it might have been okay when you were a young child or whatever, and this might be how you feel, but at the end of the day, you can't just go around and sling these kinds of accusations and just be a horrible person because that's your age. That's how you are raised. Like, at what point do we take responsibility for the here and now? I was raised on racism, and I was raised on hating the gays and this and that.

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I don't think racism is a family value, and I sure as hell don't think that homophobia or transphobia should be a family value or family trait. One thing I always say to people is when they come up with that shit, like, well, my child will never be gay. You can't say that you have no control over your child.

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So what if they are? Are you going to love them any less? And sad but true. Yeah, many will. It's against the Bible and it's against this and that and blah, blah, blah. Yet the same people who are screaming that it's against the Bible are the same people who are gambling, who are eating shellfish, are menstruating around men wearing blended fabrics, like having affairs, having extramarital, just having sex before marriage and all that other stuff. It's like if you're going to follow a holy book or whatever, you don't get to cherry pick. You don't get to say, oh, I am only going to do this and this and love the sinner, not the sin, and I'll ask for forgiveness. No, that's not how that works. Like, you got to accept all aspects of it. And then people are like, well, it says, a man shall not lay with a man like he does a woman. But that wasn't even added in until, like, the 1940s or the 1950s. And even then, the words that were translated, there were no words in the English language or the Arabic or the Hebrew language to translate strictly across. So what did they do? They added it in and they just made it work with a narrative. So anyways, enough about that. But long story short on this topic is that the young woman was completely supported by most of the community. I'm sure we haven't heard the last of it, but she also has a Go Fund Me page going, and her Go Fund me is up to $15,000 now, where it was only like a couple of $100 prior to all of this happening. So one good thing that has happened is that she's gotten the money that she is asking for, and she's going to be using that money to complete her surgeries. So very proud of her, very happy for her, and I only wish her the best of luck in life and everything else that's taking place. So moving on from there, I don't know if you guys have had any chance to watch any of the new shows that is on Netflix right now. But over the last few days, I finished up the new Sandman series. I never knew anything about Sandman as a comic book character or whatever kind of wish I had. And I sort of want to go and read all the comic books now. But the storyline is beautifully strange,

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like I said, not knowing anything about Sandman or what have you, just watching the storyline and watching how it progresses and then just trying to follow along with it. I was really entertained and I really enjoyed it. And there were a couple of places in that show where I really cried because it just kind of made you think about things. And there's one episode where you see Death and how death interacts with humanity and just walks through Earth and just has to take people and how indiscriminate Death is. Like, the very first person that Death takes is this elderly man who is playing the violin up in his room. There's the whole back and forth about that. And then there's like one where there's a mother and she's playing with her baby in the crib and the mom goes walking into the other room and desk comes and takes the baby and the heartbreak and the sorrow and the absolute just, like, panic of my baby was just right here. And it was just like really moving and really amazing. And if you do watch it, stick with it because I think that it only gets better with time and with going on. The other one that I watched was Day Shift, which is a vampire movie. Yeah, it's a Netflix vampire movie and it's got Jamie Foxx and Snoop Dogg and Dave Franco and a couple of other high powered actors and actresses. And I am a huge lover of the Franco, Dave and his brother James, and I just love them. Yeah, that's really good. And it's about vampires in Los Angeles that are trying to really just kind of take over Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley and stuff and really fun, really good. Snoop Dogg's character is absolutely hilarious and I am really appreciating him as an actor. I usually have this kind of sour taste in my mouth when it comes to actors or singers. So, like, if a singer tries to become an actor or an actress, I get like or if an actor tries to become a singer, I'm just no, stay in your lane every once in a while. It works out. Like with Snoop Dogg, okay. He works out really well. Jennifer Lopez I was introduced to JLo when she did Selena, and I thought, okay, this is great. Let her stay in her lane. And then she started actually singing and became like this huge mega pop star or whatever. And I'll be honest. I really don't care for JLo. I think that she's an overrated actress and I don't care for her music. I mean, there's a couple of songs that I really like, but for the most part, I just don't really care for her. Another actor that I really don't care for is Terrence Howard. Don't like him, don't like any of the stuff that he does. I don't know what it is. I just don't care for him. But anyways, then there was also The Age of Adeline, and that has Harrison Ford in there. And it is an amazing story. This young woman, through a fluke, becomes immortal, and it's all about her living her life ten years at a time, because every ten years she changed up her identity and she had a baby before she became immortal. And it's all how it comes full circle and just a really amazing, beautiful love story is what it is. And definitely one that is worth the watch. And the last one is He Man and the Masters of the Universe. They just released season three, I believe it was yesterday. And of course, I've already binge watch the entire season three because it's only like 20 or 25 minutes long. And if you are an 80s kid and Masters of the Universe was like your jam, you may not care for this one too much, but if you watch it as a whole brand new storyline or whatever, they do take some liberties, like they made orco a robot

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heman sword is like this

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computer chip looking sword or whatever.

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There's some differences from the original concept, but the storyline is really amazing, and I would really recommend you guys taking a look at it and also let me know what you think about it. That would be awesome. There's also the talk of a possible camping trip coming up with me and my friends, and I'm a little excited about it, but at the same time, I'm very hesitant about it because they want to go like, 70 something miles from where we live, and I honestly don't want to be that far away from home. And even though it's going to only be for a night, I got to be realistic and look at the gas and the fact that I need tires and I really want to go. I don't know, I'm just apprehensive about it. I made them the promise that I am going to go on a camping trip with them. I'm just not sure to which destination we're going to go where I want to camp at. There's a couple of places around where we live that is good for camping. And there's a place town over that has a really nice running river that runs through there, and you can go way up against the mountain and camp on that river. And so I'm thinking about trying to go scout that out this weekend and see if there's just any place that we could go and actually camp and be kind of left alone for the weekend. So kind of excited and looking forward to that. But I'll be honest, I'm done with summer. Guys, I am so beyond done with summer. It's not even funny. It was so ungodly hot in my house yesterday that at midnight, it was still 78 deg in the living room. Right now. It's nice and cool or cooler, I should say. But, God, I am so done with the heat and so thankful that we're coming into our winter months. And I know that we still have the probability of at least three or four weeks of just hot, dry heat. Today we have really bad humidity, but, oh, my God, I'm so done with it.

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The next thing I want to talk to you about is what would you do situation.

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So I was asked to pick up stuff from a local food donation center because there was a bunch of people there, and the person who was asking me to pick it up needed to get home. And I was like, okay, I guess I can go and get it for you. I don't understand why you can't do it yourself, but okay. So there was a bunch of pretenses to being asked if I would do this and begrudgingly. I said, yes, I would, because I'm that type of person. I'll put myself out to help others. Well, when I get to the food donation center, I was sent a text message, I'm sorry. They called me and said, we don't use this kind of stuff. We don't eat this, we don't eat that, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Can you get this and this? I'm like, listen, I will do what I can and go from there. There's a lot of people here. So basically I told them, you get what you get, and you don't throw a fit. And I'm sorry, even if I am going out of my way to help somebody, I'm not going to be a personal shopper unless that was what was originally asked. What was originally asked was, hey, can you go by and grab some stuff for us? Sure I have no problem. Let me go ahead and do that. Then I get back to the person's house after getting what I could without being overtly greedy and taking from everyone who was there with the little bit of stuff that I was able to get for them. And when I get there, I find out that the person that I was getting the groceries for, the person they were giving the groceries too, had already gone grocery shopping and had a full pantry and everything else. So I was very upset by this. So the question that I am posing to you is, what would you do if you did something for somebody under the pretenses of being told one thing only to find out that it was something completely different? Would you continue to help that person in the future? Would you mark it up to like, oh, well, whatever, or how would you handle it? There's that. So I'm going to go ahead and hop off of here. So if you have any questions, comments, concerns, put them in the comments section down below. If you've listened this far into the podcast, I really appreciate it. Make sure you go check out the YouTube channel. Youtube.com. Hellocoupkeekitsme. Go check out the blog. Hellocupcake, it's me.com. And until next time, I will talk to you all later. Bye guys. Thank you so much for tuning in. You have been listening to Hello, Cupcake, it's Me, a podcast with your host, Michael Peterson. Please make sure to check back often as new episodes are released. Biweekly. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please feel free to send a message to Hello Cupcake, it's Me@gmail.com. Until next time, stay happy, safe, and keep doing the best you can with what you have been given. Bye.