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25th May 2024

Ep 1 - Recapping the Hot Gay Summer Hoedown LIVE

Episode 1: Recapping the Hoedown - Live

Livestream Date: May 19, 2024

In this very first episode of The Heathencast, we meet a handful of the cast of Heathen’s who will be appearing on the show. We gab about the Hoedown party we threw the night before recording this episode. We shout out all of our favorite hoedown moments and get excited about upcoming projects.

Find out more about our next big event, Queer & Strange.

Here’s how to find everyone featured in the ep on IG:

The Heathencast

Heathen Haus

Able / Inked by Able

Hannah / Mocktail magician

Karolina / Tattoos

Lydia / Luna Craft

Maria Elena / Persephonic

Rose / Tarot by Rose

Torrie / Monsoon Mystics

Wolfe / The Heathenry

We also mention Darby Hunter Art, Planet Gabu, Gogo Von Strange, Foxxy Alabaster, and Rare Gift Curio Co in this episode.


Produced by: Persephonic Media

Audio engineering by: DJ BonBon

Transcript
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And we're live now with the first

episode of the heathen cast.

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Are we excited?

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Oh my gosh.

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All right.

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What is the heathen cast?

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No one knows yet because it hasn't come

into existence until this very moment.

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a legend is born Someone

check the time 604.

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We're going to check that birth

chart later, 604, 604 mark it.

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All right.

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Well, the heathen cast, what, what are we?

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Well, the Heathencast is the first

podcast being created under the Heathen

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House umbrella and by Persephonic media.

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We're very excited to bring

our first one forward.

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There will be more, so stay tuned.

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Heathen House is a group of artists,

it's a group of makers, it's a couple

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businesses, many businesses all

coming together to make magic together

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in a warehouse in Tucson, Arizona.

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It's hot here right now.

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It's very hot.

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It's getting hotter.

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It's a bit warm.

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It's getting hotter.

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It's extra hot right now.

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Yesterday was like the

hottest day of the year.

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And it feels appropriate that yesterday

was also the hot gay summer hoedown.

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It was really hot.

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She doesn't get that on camera.

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The hoedown was hot.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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It was a hot hoedown.

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So, what did we do last night, friends?

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Oh man, so many things.

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What didn't we do?

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What didn't we do is a better question.

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We were roping, we were dancing.

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We were dancing, we were boot

scooting, hoe down throw down, hoe

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down throw down the hoe down throw down

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did not play at any point, which,

which is good 'cause I don't

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think I could have done it.

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We did.

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Did your bootstrap Austin truck

bring down Austin by Dasha?

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We did.

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We did line dance to that.

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So we throw a lot of fun parties.

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We throw a lot of fun parties.

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That was the second party we've

thrown here in this space.

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We threw the masquerade in March and

we're here to just chat about what that

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experience was like and and how much

fun we had and this is the first bit

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of the heathen cast I like the name

heathen cast because it's like a podcast

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obviously, but there's such a huge cast

of characters we have within heathen house

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and It's time to introduce our podcast

listeners to some of these characters.

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More people will always be

coming in and Popping in and out.

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This is a fraction.

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A fraction of the team.

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A small fraction of the team.

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I'm super excited about this because

I feel like all of us get the

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question, like, what is the Heathenry?

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And that's such an expansive answer.

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There are so many answers to that

question, depending on who you ask.

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Well, what is everyone's answer?

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What's your answer?

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We're a bunch of fucking heathens.

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It's, it's pretty, it's pretty

straightforward in my opinion.

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What is a heathen to you?

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This is the interview

questions I've been asking.

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Everyone.

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Okay.

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So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

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Who are you?

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Who are you?

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Who is she?

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My name's Rose, TarotByRose333.

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I'm a Reiki Master, Practitioner,

Teacher, and Tarot Reader local to Tucson.

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What are your pronouns?

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She, her.

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And I host the Sound Baths here

at Monsoon Mystics in Heathen

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House and at the Heathenry.

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To me, what it means to be a heathen

is To liberate yourself, to liberate

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yourself from, you know, the relational

and social standards of the patriarchy

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and of, you know, the culture of

living in a post colonial society.

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It's to free yourself completely

from that, leave your ego at the

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door, and to be fully immersed in a

relationship with what it means to

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be free in your sense of expression

and to, to delve deeper into love.

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So it's a cult.

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Sounds like a cult.

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We need a ticker.

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Don't take my word for it.

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Ooh, that sounds fun.

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So we've had two so far.

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On the screen, it'll start popping up.

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That's awesome.

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That's awesome.

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And Rose, you couldn't make

it to the hoedown last night.

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Couldn't make it to

the hoedown last night.

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You are a busy mama, business

owner, like incredibly

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accomplished and talented person.

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From what you witnessed from the Outside.

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Oh my God.

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How was the FOMO?

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How bad was the FOMO?

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What are three words you would

use to describe what went on?

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Okay.

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So I loved it.

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It was really giving like MTV's golden

age of reality TV, but incredibly

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queer, which obviously we love, we need.

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And I loved that aspect of like

the, the getting the bits and pieces

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of everybody's like perspective.

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And so I think that HeathenCast

is going to be incredible for, you

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know, maybe, maybe you're antisocial.

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Maybe you're like, you know, somebody

who enjoys media, like I love media.

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I love watching media.

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And so it was really fun to

witness and watch and see, you

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know, what was going down and how

much fun everybody was having.

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It looked like y'all were

having the time of your lives.

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And I was so happy for all of you.

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I was just like rooting you

on my couch, in my pajamas.

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Thank you, Rose.

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So, yeah, it was fun.

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It was fun.

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We want to pass over to head heathen Wolf.

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Introductions.

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Who are you?

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What do you do here?

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What's your favorite part of the hotel?

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All right.

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I'm Wolf.

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I'm the head heathen at the Heathenry.

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I'm the guy that gives you

unsolicited nature facts when you

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come in to buy a gift for somebody.

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The one telling you all about the bones,

giving you the bones, the bone daddy.

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What's the Heathenry?

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The Heathenry is a curiosity shop.

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It's a natural history space.

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It's really focused on a love

and a passion for nature,

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both living and deceased.

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That's what I would say the Heathenry is.

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But the Heathenry has expanded.

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Exponentially.

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And it has taken on a new life.

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It has many pieces, as well.

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Rose was kind of implying that

depending on who you ask, it's

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a lot of different things.

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The Heathenry was the, the like,

birth giver of Heathen House.

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And Heathen House flagship almost.

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It's like the flagship store.

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For sure.

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It was the flagship store of Heathen

House and then, you know, partnered

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with Monsoon Mystics to make Heathen

House really what it is, but Heathen

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House is the collective unit.

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Yeah.

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Of all of the makers and, and people

who, who put on the actual events

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here and the stuff that happens on

all of the workshops and things.

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And yeah, I'm Wolf,

what are your pronouns?

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He, they.

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He, they.

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What a he, they -n it's a pun!

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And what was your favorite part

about the hoedown last night?

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Oh god, so many parts.

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So many parts.

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When that woman handed me a horse.

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A what?

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If you weren't here, you missed it.

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I, I was there and I think I missed that.

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When one of the burlesque

dancers handed me her horse.

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I missed it.

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Gave me her, gave me her speed.

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Oh, was that Foxxy?

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Foxxy Alabaster?

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Foxxy Alabaster?

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Oh God, we need to shout out.

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I've got it.

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I've got it.

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I know I've got it in here.

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So, so Foxy hands you a horse.

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Foxy Alabaster.

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Two Xs on, on Instagram.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Hand me a horse.

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. Yee-haw.

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Yee.

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Foxy was a handful.

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. The performances were amazing.

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Everyone knows I'm a sucker

for the performances.

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The dancing, watching everyone

line dance was a hoot.

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Watching you teach line

dancing was a hoot.

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I've never taught line dancing in my life.

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. Well, the roping.

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Roping cattle everybody was

out roping cows last night.

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Just real good cowpoke stuff, you know?

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I really wanted there

to be a mechanical bull.

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This time we didn't make it happen.

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Who can say for the future?

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Don't tease us like that.

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Still in the works.

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Wolf always threatening

us with a good time.

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Wolf's threatening but

raucous and jovial aura.

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You can't always count on

me to take the fun too far.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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This is why we love you.

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Amen.

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So sounds like there were

performers last night.

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Yeah.

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There was a whole burlesque

show, a whole burlesque show.

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How many performers did we have in total?

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We had four performers in total

and the fabulous kitten Ellie Fury.

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Yeah.

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So put on by a Gogo Von Strange.

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A burlesque icon themselves.

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There's a lot of burlesque in,

there's a lot of burlesque in Tucson

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we're blessed.

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That was bad.

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I am jumping so many questions ahead

and we'll circle back to this, but

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I would love to get some of our

burlesque girlies and burlesque

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other folks on here to chat with us.

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If you want to be on here,

and you're a burlesque folks.

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Call us.

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Call us.

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DM us.

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Drop in those DMs.

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Wolf was making a little,

a little phone call sound.

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Do you remember?

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Does anyone remember those phones?

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When phones used to look like this?

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Gesture.

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For the listeners.

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How old are you, Wolf?

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So old.

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Thoughts?

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I still do the phone call like this.

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Apparently a Gen Z does it.

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Like this, flat hand against the

ear, because it's your iPhone.

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As the Gen Z representative

here, Is it Gen A instead?

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Gen A?

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I think so.

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Gen Alpha?

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I don't, I don't resonate with,

I've never seen that in the wild.

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It doesn't resonate, I am also a Gen Z er.

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Hello, I am answering my

phone with my hand flat.

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This does feel like

something a high school

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student would do right now though.

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Yes.

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So I think, I think Gen A is the

way to Yeah, that makes sense.

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I'm sure they're doing that.

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Okay.

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As the resident Gen Z folk here.

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Mm-Hmm?

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. Whoooo are you?

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It does.

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It's us.

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So, hi, my name is able I am one of the.

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Currently two tattoo artists here

at the Heathenry and the extension

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of the Heathenry, the parlor,

which is part of the space that we

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host these marvelous parties in.

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Where we're sitting right now.

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We're in the parlor.

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Right now.

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It's like The most like, I don't know,

it's like one of the best like mood

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vibe places you can go in Tucson,

honestly, at least that I've found.

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Vibey as heck.

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Vibey as heck.

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The vibes are here and it's

like mellow, but it's also like

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mystical and like kind of intense

because we do have a lot of like,

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I forget taxidermy and like dead things

around, but it's like in such like cool

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and nature loving and respectful way.

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So I feel like there's really

there's a lot that's brought

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to the table in these spaces.

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My pronouns are he, him.

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I'm just a little guy running around and

I am running around most of the time.

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True.

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It's the Gemini placements.

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It's the Gemini placements.

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What can we say?

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They got us going.

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What was your favorite part

about the hoedown last night?

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I gotta say, your outfit.

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Was one of my favorite parts.

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Incredible.

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Did you win best dressed?

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I did not participate in best

dress because I had to give the

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people an opportunity to win.

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No, no, it wouldn't have been.

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I think you may have won most chess.

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Oh yeah.

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Iconic.

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We're gonna have to post some

fit pics on the Heathencast

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Instagram, at the Heathencast.

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The fit pics will be

coming, that is for sure.

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Fit pics.

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Fit pics.

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Fit pics, you freaks.

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They are fit for consumption,

not for all ages though.

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What was your favorite part?

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Yeah, my favorite part was,

I honestly like the outfits.

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Was a huge Was being the

hottest person there.

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And you didn't hear it from him.

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That was a stiff competition though.

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For being the hottest person there.

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There was really, really

stiff competition.

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Oh, there I wouldn't say that myself

because there were so many wonderfully

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accoutremented people at the event.

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It was a universal tie.

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Yeah, just like really universal tie.

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I'm biased.

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And, but I would say outside of

the outfits I always love a good

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opportunity to dance and have a really

good fun time with other people.

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queer people, whether that's

led by a really fun instructor

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or just like freestyling it.

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So I think that was

probably my favorite part.

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One of my favorite things

about Abel is that Abel will

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dance at karaoke night with me.

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When Rose is here, Rose will dance too.

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The three of us will cut a rug

in the back at karaoke night.

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It gets We'll get to karaoke in a second.

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We'll get to karaoke in a second because

we have one more heathen sitting here

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who has not introduced themselves.

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Hi, I'm Hannah.

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I'm the bartender.

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Last night I was the tavern wench.

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That would be like the loon girl vibe.

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Yeah, which I love.

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Yeah, I work for minibar at the MSA Annex.

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I've helped curate several cocktail pop

ups here in town, and now working here

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at the Heathenry to do mocktail bars.

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So, I also have a background in

metaphysical arts and astrology,

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so combining all of those things to

make really tasty, unique drinks.

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I call Hannah the Mocktail Magician.

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That's pretty cool.

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Because we like, truthfully,

pre experiencing the mocktails,

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There was a lot of hesitation.

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There was a lot of hesitation on

like, are people going to want these?

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Is it going to be good?

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It doesn't have alcohol.

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Everyone loves alcohol.

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And then it has so far, all of your drinks

have so far exceeded my expectations and

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they all have such incredible flavors.

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I'm never going to get over the

Palo Santo in Mystic Circles ever.

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And before we get to Hannah's

favorite part about the night.

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We have to introduce

another heathen joining us.

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We've been saving you a seat, my friend.

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It's Tori.

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All right, Tori, we will get to you.

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Introductions in a moment.

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Hannah, what was your favorite

part about the hoedown?

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I really loved the pink boots

for the collector's zippers.

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Yeah, those brought me a lot of joy.

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And the outfits were

immaculate, I have to say.

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Yeah.

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People show up and show out.

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to these events.

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It's kind of insane.

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Like it's like queer

fashion week of Tucson.

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It's like they're yearning for, we're all

yearning for an opportunity to just put

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on our like queerest, themedest, most like

fun, exciting, sexy, or silly, or goofy,

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or wacky, queer and strange outfits.

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You have to come with your

strength in terms of outfit.

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All right, Tori.

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Hello.

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Tori, who are you?

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I would like your name,

which I've already given.

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Oh, well, you know, I'm just Tori,

the mystic from Monson Mystics.

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Just Tori.

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Just a little Tori over here.

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What are your pronouns?

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She.

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They, she, they, she, they,

whatever, she, they, whatever.

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And what, what, what

does Just Tori do here?

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Well, Just Tori is, I guess, the, Pull out

the scroll and it just drops to the floor.

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Yeah, there's like a whole laundry list.

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How would you like me to begin?

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House mom.

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Just Tori is, It's not just Tori.

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I'm Tori.

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I'm the owner of Monson Mystics, the

magical metaphysical shop next door

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to the Heathenry and the Parlor, and

one of the heads of house of Heathen

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House, and just crazy overall den

mom of this collective of queers

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and fun creatives and magic makers.

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You had a very, that's

definitely who you are.

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You had a very particular role to

play last night at the hoedown.

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I did.

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Can you tell us about that?

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I run the Back Alley Snack Shack,

Back Ally, Back Alley Snack Shack,

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which is our little renegade food cart

out of the back of Monson Mystics.

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We served the classic traditional

country specialty walking tacos.

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And if you don't know what a walking

taco is, for anybody who doesn't

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know, it is a bag of Fritos loaded

with nacho toppings that you eat

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with a fork while walking around.

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So good.

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Yes.

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My mouth is watering.

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Yes.

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So good.

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The way that idea was like

formed and manifested and then

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like created and enacted within

like That was Tori's 48 hours.

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That was my stomach.

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We were just sitting around

and the idea was like, walking

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tacos would be delicious.

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And then I said, as I

usually do, I can do that.

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I can do that.

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I can make that happen.

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You'll hear Tori say, I can do that.

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Or I have done that.

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It's like, I can fix that.

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I can fix that.

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It's a very much hold my crystals.

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Hold my crystal infused

water while I do this.

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Hold my brew.

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Hold my brew.

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Hold my brew.

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Hold my chamomile.

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Scales a ladder, 10 feet in the air.

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I'm going to ask.

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I'm going to make a request to reshuffle.

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I'm going to ask Abel to snuggle up

next to Tori on the couch because

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I've heard that we are going to have

at least one more person pop in.

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I have one more thing

that I want to just say.

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No,

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absolutely not.

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Dad, what do you have to say?

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Thank you.

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There was one more piece of last night

that I think was just pivotal would not

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have, the night would not have been as,

Gay as it was, if it weren't for that

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piece, and it was the screen printed

Hankies and Bandanas by Planet Gabu that

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you see me and Maria Elena sporting.

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I'm literally using mine like

I have consumption over here.

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Like, the in house hanky coat.

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Feral.

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Feral.

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We got real feral.

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I got real feral at the

Heathenry's Hot Gay Summer Hoedown.

437

:

There's such a Such an amazing thing.

438

:

We had an in house Hanky Code.

439

:

If you don't know about the Hanky Code.

440

:

Live screen printing.

441

:

Not only were these live screen

printed by Planet Gaboo, but all of

442

:

the Hankys and Kerchiefs were hand

dyed by Planet Gaboo earlier that day.

443

:

So the colors were like actually beautiful

and aesthetic and you wanted them.

444

:

Like I wasn't convinced I was

gonna get one and then I did.

445

:

Yeah, of course you did.

446

:

Yeah.

447

:

Wolf, do you want to explain Hanky Code?

448

:

A little bit?

449

:

Or did you guys already explain it?

450

:

I was gonna say, if you don't

know what Hanky Code is, and

451

:

flagging, one, go on our Instagram,

theheathenry, at theheathenry on

452

:

Instagram, and two, a quick Google.

453

:

A quick Google.

454

:

A quick Google.

455

:

If you are a queer and you don't know

Hanky Code, just learn your history, babe.

456

:

And if you're not queer,

learn some queer history.

457

:

Learn yourselves, school

yourselves, edumacate yourselves.

458

:

Alright, let's introduce our

next heathen, and have you

459

:

said your favorite things yet?

460

:

Your favorite thing of last night?

461

:

My favorite thing of last night, besides

like, selling out of waffling tacos, which

462

:

is really fun, I feel like everybody's

wardrobes were, like, kicked up a notch.

463

:

And I'm just really upset at myself for

not putting, like, I didn't give enough.

464

:

I've gotta really step up my wardrobe

game for these, because, I was not

465

:

serving enough country, but everybody

else, you looked incredible last

466

:

night, by the way, if I didn't

tell you, I was talking to Abel.

467

:

Thank you, Tori.

468

:

I know for anyone, for anyone

who's listening, not on YouTube.

469

:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

470

:

Abel looked incredible.

471

:

Abel's fit killed it.

472

:

Yes.

473

:

All right.

474

:

We're going to have a brief

appearance by another heathen

475

:

before we loop back around.

476

:

I still haven't introduced

myself, but we'll get to that.

477

:

We'll get to that.

478

:

Save the best for last.

479

:

Alright, so, what our other heathen

like to pop in and say hello?

480

:

I'd love to hear, oh my gosh, and

then we may have another one soon.

481

:

Like I said, there's so many heathens.

482

:

This is going to be a

revolving cast, my friends.

483

:

There really is a whole cast of

characters between these buildings.

484

:

Yeah, we cannot do any of

these things by ourselves.

485

:

The heathen cast is a whole crew.

486

:

We don't.

487

:

I don't know if we could.

488

:

No, we couldn't.

489

:

No, it's a team.

490

:

It's a network.

491

:

It's a community.

492

:

This is a community establishment.

493

:

All right.

494

:

It's like alternative full house.

495

:

Alternative full house.

496

:

All right, Lydia.

497

:

Can I get, I just spoiled it, but

can I get a name, pronouns, and then

498

:

your favorite part of last night?

499

:

Oh, okay.

500

:

So my name is Lydia.

501

:

And what you do here?

502

:

Well, who are you here?

503

:

Who am I?

504

:

That's such a broad question.

505

:

Okay.

506

:

Oh, that's what I said.

507

:

I'm Lydia.

508

:

Lydia?

509

:

I own Luna Craft.

510

:

I am in the loft inside Monson Mystics.

511

:

I'm here, I'm queer, and

I'm got wood for you.

512

:

I do woodburning, pyrography.

513

:

Pronouns are she, they, and I You

play a very special role, like

514

:

the night before our big parties.

515

:

If you have never come to our karaoke

nights, you have to again, check out

516

:

the Instagram because there are stories.

517

:

It's not often you can go to a karaoke

night and see your karaoke jockey.

518

:

Ride around on a stick horse on a saddle

stool whipping around a microphone.

519

:

It did happen.

520

:

I don't know who let that

happen, but it happened.

521

:

I did.

522

:

I did.

523

:

I think that was during

Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy.

524

:

Actually, it was during High Horse.

525

:

Oh, High Horse.

526

:

Oh, yes.

527

:

Yeah, the horse song.

528

:

It was during High Horse.

529

:

Gayyy Yes, yes.

530

:

Cause then I took the horse and

I made the horse a high horse.

531

:

If you're like cheesy.

532

:

And you're afraid of doing

karaoke in other places.

533

:

This is the place to mess around with

whatever, try out whatever, like nobody

534

:

here is going to make fun of you.

535

:

This is a safe space.

536

:

We love making just a fun time to

just get to sing and mess around

537

:

with whatever songs we've got.

538

:

It's like karaoke in your best

friend's cool living room.

539

:

Yeah.

540

:

It's in a living room.

541

:

Yeah.

542

:

It feels comfortable.

543

:

Yeah.

544

:

Amazing.

545

:

That's me.

546

:

All right.

547

:

We're gonna reshuffle once again.

548

:

Well, just before we take off from

karaoke real quick, I do just want to

549

:

acknowledge there's one more pivotal

piece of both karaoke and our parties in

550

:

general, and that's behind the scenes.

551

:

That's behind the scenes

right now of the podcast.

552

:

And that's our good ol pal, DJ Bon Bon.

553

:

Yeah, and then, you know, DJ Bon Bon would

not be complete without Darby Hunter Art.

554

:

Darby Hunter Art.

555

:

@DarbyHunterArt on Instagram.

556

:

stickers.

557

:

You love DJ Bon Bon's music.

558

:

So, they're, they're behind the scenes

right now making this possible, but that's

559

:

the other piece of all that music stuff.

560

:

We would not sound as great

as we do without DJ Bon Bon.

561

:

DJ Bon Bon.

562

:

And I sound messed up.

563

:

Try to brush over your

favorite part of the hoedown.

564

:

Oh.

565

:

Darn, you caught that.

566

:

I don't want to choose.

567

:

Don't say outfits.

568

:

Everyone said outfit.

569

:

Okay, but those were phenomenal.

570

:

Valid.

571

:

The cocktails were really good, too.

572

:

I mean, there's a whole bunch of

other, the mocktails were great, too.

573

:

Okay, I'm pretty picjy when

it comes to drinks above.

574

:

They were phenomenal.

575

:

They sold out.

576

:

They sold out.

577

:

And as soon as my spouse bought a

drink and Hannah was like, you better

578

:

buy one now or it's going to be gone.

579

:

And I was like, Oh, I'll be

back as soon as it might.

580

:

Nope.

581

:

Nope.

582

:

I missed out.

583

:

So I'm glad that I stole a sip.

584

:

No, honestly, I think my

favorite part, and I wasn't

585

:

even unfortunately here for it.

586

:

Cause I was next door resetting,

but was just the energy.

587

:

Secondhand I got to watch Maria Elena

took some videos and I literally started

588

:

crying just watching all of the queer

couples getting to slow dance in a

589

:

western bar That is not like a bar bar,

but like in this in this space where

590

:

they are safe to just be who they are

and Enjoy the energy in the space as a

591

:

collective and it was just I literally

just tears started I'm like, I'm like

592

:

full on crying as I was showing, I

understand why you're crying right now.

593

:

Amazing.

594

:

It's absolutely beautiful.

595

:

I think that's probably

one of my favorite.

596

:

Another favorite was probably the roping.

597

:

That was, that was really cool.

598

:

Such a nice touch.

599

:

Also provided by DJ Bon

Bon and Darby Hunter Art.

600

:

Yes.

601

:

All right.

602

:

Okay.

603

:

We're going to reshuffle.

604

:

Is anyone wanting to dip out?

605

:

Not wanting to hang out for the next 15?

606

:

Okay.

607

:

Yeah.

608

:

I'm going to hop out too.

609

:

Thank you so much for popping in.

610

:

Don't forget these faces.

611

:

Don't worry.

612

:

We will be back for more.

613

:

We will be on many more podcasts.

614

:

All right.

615

:

Well now we have a very Very,

very special heathen popping in.

616

:

Extremely.

617

:

To just say howdy.

618

:

We do.

619

:

To do introductions.

620

:

You can stay on the couch,

Abel, because Tori's getting up.

621

:

Yeah, I was going to pass the microphone.

622

:

It is you.

623

:

It is you.

624

:

It's ye.

625

:

We love Tori.

626

:

And if, if with this new edition, you

will officially be seeing the entire

627

:

staff at the Heathenry, the parlor.

628

:

It's the parlor staff right here.

629

:

We're missing a few other additions

to the full Heathenry shop team, but

630

:

right now you have the parlor folks.

631

:

So, so for anyone not watching

on YouTube and listening, that

632

:

is me, your little emcee here

who I have not introduced myself.

633

:

It's Wolf.

634

:

We'll get back around.

635

:

It's Wolf.

636

:

It's Karolina who's going to introduce

themselves in a moment and it's Abel.

637

:

So Karolina, can I get.

638

:

Your name, your pronouns

and what you do here.

639

:

My name is Karolina.

640

:

I use she, they pronouns and

I am the tattoo artist and

641

:

co owner of the Heathenry.

642

:

Damn right.

643

:

Damn right.

644

:

Karolina is booked and busy always

because her tattoos are so incredible.

645

:

And just like.

646

:

Beautiful and delicate and done in

a queer friendly, femme friendly,

647

:

gorgeous, gorgeous space that has

been so curated by Karolina as well.

648

:

And that's why you're, you're popping in.

649

:

A teensy bit, a teensy bit after

the fact, because you're in demand,

650

:

my friend, your work is in demand.

651

:

Thanks, Maria.

652

:

Thanks, bud.

653

:

Thanks, I'm trying, I'm doing the thing.

654

:

And also because I had to

reschedule this last minute.

655

:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

656

:

That's on me.

657

:

That was actually, yeah, yeah, yeah.

658

:

That was fully on me.

659

:

It's fine.

660

:

It's fine.

661

:

It's fine.

662

:

It's fine.

663

:

It's fine.

664

:

It's fine.

665

:

It's fine.

666

:

Karolina's art is a big part of

the reason that I'm here too.

667

:

So absolutely just.

668

:

Karolina's art is a big part

of the reason we're all here.

669

:

Thanks.

670

:

Don't make me blush.

671

:

Oh, blush, blush.

672

:

So what was your favorite

part of last night, Karolina?

673

:

Oh man, okay.

674

:

I mean, I loved all the people

doing their fake tattoos in the

675

:

shitty bathroom in the hallway.

676

:

Oh, fake tattoos in the shitty

bathroom in the hallway.

677

:

If you've been here before, we have a

really, I mean, I like to tell people

678

:

the joke if you've seen the meme of like

the, every private tattoo studio has one.

679

:

A murderer, like, Alley,

a murder or whatever.

680

:

I'm like, we have a murder bathroom.

681

:

I mean, our bathroom is nice.

682

:

Crystal shout out crystal best,

best assistant in the world that

683

:

makes our bathroom beautiful,

but the property bathroom, scary.

684

:

And that's where the tattoos were.

685

:

It was kind of funny because every time I

walked past, it was just a bunch of you.

686

:

Just like, Fucking pressing

them on each other.

687

:

Like, you know and then slow

dancing with you, obviously.

688

:

Oh, I forgot about that.

689

:

That was a moment.

690

:

I'm sorry.

691

:

I mean, I can't, I can't admit that

I was thinking about that all night.

692

:

The tattoos are really fun.

693

:

The little tattoo table.

694

:

I think it's, it's, we have maybe left out

the fact that we are in fully a warehouse.

695

:

Heathen house exists in a warehouse.

696

:

It might look real vibey and comfy

in this little YouTube frame.

697

:

It and it is vibey, vibey as hell.

698

:

But yeah, we we are in a cool warehouse.

699

:

There's like a very tall

ghost cat, ghost cat.

700

:

I haven't seen the ghost more.

701

:

Ghost mice.

702

:

Activity on all fronts and

in all dimensions has been

703

:

picking up here lately.

704

:

Truth.

705

:

Do do do do.

706

:

Truth.

707

:

Oh my gosh.

708

:

Okay, so any other like hot

takes about the hoedown?

709

:

What else did we love?

710

:

Hoedown hot takes?

711

:

It was, it was hot.

712

:

It was hot.

713

:

Like, aesthetically.

714

:

I demand more hotness next time, I guess.

715

:

Get hoey er.

716

:

Yeah, I cannot be the only

shirtless one next time.

717

:

Able was the only shirtless person.

718

:

Take your shirts off.

719

:

You heard it here.

720

:

I only had like half a shirt,

like a quarter of a shirt on.

721

:

Pasties only next time.

722

:

Yeah, they were having a pasties

only party for my birthday.

723

:

Pasties only party.

724

:

It's decided right now.

725

:

We'll have a, we'll have

a What do they call those?

726

:

What am I thinking of right now?

727

:

Oh my god, what is wrong with me?

728

:

The pants with the straps?

729

:

Boots with the spurs.

730

:

Goddamn overalls!

731

:

Suspenders!

732

:

Overalls party!

733

:

Like a real, nothing under your

overalls, over under party.

734

:

How do we make that?

735

:

Make it under your overalls.

736

:

We got to name everything.

737

:

Overalls under, overalls over nothing.

738

:

I don't know.

739

:

I don't know.

740

:

We'll think about it.

741

:

We'll workshop that.

742

:

We'll workshop that.

743

:

We'll workshop that.

744

:

Speaking of things that we're workshopping

and thinking looking towards the

745

:

future, what are we most excited for

that's coming up on the calendar?

746

:

Whether it's confirmed or it's a little

dream or hope you have in your heart.

747

:

Or something you as an

individual business is doing.

748

:

You have a cool flash event

coming up, Karolina, don't you?

749

:

You're, you're on Saturday Adrian

from Out West is going to be

750

:

here tattooing with me all day.

751

:

We're doing some springtime Spring flash,

even though it hit a hundred degrees,

752

:

there's going to be flowers for you.

753

:

Flower bitches.

754

:

What's the date on the summer, Arizona?

755

:

The date is May 25th.

756

:

We're starting at 11 a.

757

:

m.

758

:

We're going to have

some signup sheets here.

759

:

We're going to post about

it hopefully by Wednesday.

760

:

Adrian, if you see this

Wednesday, man, Wednesday.

761

:

And yeah, that's on Saturday.

762

:

Karolina, what's your Instagram handle?

763

:

Oh, @Karolina.Olivia, like

the state, but with a K.

764

:

At the end of that day, too, if

you come here, you get some flash

765

:

tattoos and you're not done.

766

:

We have a we have a mini market.

767

:

We have our little first microburst

market is happening this Saturday,

768

:

5/25 so that'll be in Heathen House.

769

:

You'll be able to pop out

there and do some shopping.

770

:

Some local makers, right?

771

:

Yeah, that's happening.

772

:

That's right.

773

:

10 local makers.

774

:

10 local makers.

775

:

Wow.

776

:

Yeah.

777

:

And we're going to have a series of

these microburst markets and they're

778

:

going to be different vendors and

different things to see, something

779

:

to keep you busy in the summer.

780

:

Right.

781

:

When it's hot, that's right.

782

:

We got to find ways to cool down

and get hot here in the desert.

783

:

We had a lot of fun with our

Western party last night.

784

:

Do you want to have more Western parties?

785

:

Yes.

786

:

If you want to have more Western

parties, let us know, please shout

787

:

out in the comments or if that's

a thing like right now, tell us

788

:

that you want to get hoed down.

789

:

Send me a carrier pigeon.

790

:

Yeah.

791

:

I only accepted requests

by carrier pigeon.

792

:

This is me telling you.

793

:

Friends, I haven't introduced myself.

794

:

Oh my freaking God.

795

:

Heeey.

796

:

Who are you?

797

:

Who are you?

798

:

Who am I?

799

:

Good question.

800

:

Where did you come from?

801

:

Who am I?

802

:

I'll let you tell me.

803

:

No, I'm just kidding.

804

:

I knew I was going to see

the panic in your eyes.

805

:

How could we describe you?

806

:

How indescribable.

807

:

I am indescribable.

808

:

My name is Maria Elena on the internet.

809

:

I am Persephonic777.

810

:

I am Persephonic777.

811

:

I use she, her pronouns.

812

:

I am the producer of this podcast

and the ones that are yet to come.

813

:

I am a tarot reader and teacher.

814

:

I have a studio space

here that I work out of.

815

:

I'm also a licensed massage therapist.

816

:

I specialize in craniosacral therapy.

817

:

So I do a lot of work with.

818

:

With the trauma healing and helping

people feel calm because, wow, is

819

:

that hard to do in this day and age?

820

:

Oh my gosh.

821

:

It's almost like we're all

collectively traumatized.

822

:

Almost, it's almost like that.

823

:

Late stage capitalism.

824

:

Weird, but gosh, has it been so personally

healing to get together with folks

825

:

who have similar values and visions

and just bring some frickin joy.

826

:

And I just noticed the

cowboy hat on scrungle.

827

:

There's cowboy hats on every

little cowboy hats everywhere.

828

:

Shout out to Adrian of rare gift curio co.

829

:

All right.

830

:

Who you will be meeting soon.

831

:

Yes.

832

:

Me and my buddy, Adrian, we're going

to be telling you all about all

833

:

the weirdest shit you ever thought

you didn't know you wanted to know.

834

:

But last night.

835

:

I gave Adrian a bowl full of miniature

cowboy hats and said, go free.

836

:

And so if you put hats on here, yee haw,

yee haw, hi ho silver is what I said.

837

:

And they went.

838

:

They went feral.

839

:

So if you come in anytime soon,

you'll see little hats on things.

840

:

It's real cute.

841

:

Skrunkles has got a hat.

842

:

Yeah.

843

:

The bison's got a hat on each horn.

844

:

I think that's one of the things

that I'm most excited about.

845

:

Upcoming is just getting more of these

really cool podcasts out because we

846

:

have so many funky niche interests.

847

:

I'm excited for, for you

and Adrian's for sure.

848

:

That one's going to be a lot of fun.

849

:

What are you excited about upcoming?

850

:

Well we have the next big thing I

really want to let everybody know is

851

:

this thing we call queer and strange.

852

:

Can you read it on my shirt?

853

:

All right.

854

:

Ah, I'm sorry.

855

:

What does that say for

the viewers at home?

856

:

Queer and strange.

857

:

That's me.

858

:

That's what we are.

859

:

I thought we already introduced you, Wolf.

860

:

Oh, fuck.

861

:

I mean, beep.

862

:

I think you can swear on this.

863

:

That's fine.

864

:

Good.

865

:

Okay.

866

:

Anyways.

867

:

Queer and strange.

868

:

That's what we all are.

869

:

Queer and strange was the very first

event that we put on at Heathen House.

870

:

It was our very first market.

871

:

It was our very first, like, Let's

throw a party and see if people come.

872

:

And you came.

873

:

It was like my second market ever.

874

:

We all came.

875

:

It was so fun.

876

:

Like what a thousand other people.

877

:

Like a thousand people came.

878

:

The gays show up.

879

:

And we love you for that.

880

:

So we're doing it again.

881

:

One year later, queer and strange is back.

882

:

It's going to be a market for local

queer oddities and other, you know,

883

:

off the normal beaten path makers.

884

:

It's also going to have probably food

trucks and music and dancing and.

885

:

Mocktails and a drag show.

886

:

And it's all going to raise money for

a great nonprofit as yet to announce.

887

:

Happy pride month.

888

:

Yeah.

889

:

This is our pride.

890

:

Market, our pride event.

891

:

I'm excited for that.

892

:

It's coming up.

893

:

Yeah.

894

:

. Queer and Strange, our Gemini season.

895

:

We will also be celebrating

somebody's birthday.

896

:

Somebody's birthday.

897

:

We got a couple more birthdays coming up.

898

:

All of y'all are kind of falling in line.

899

:

There'll be this birthday's coming up.

900

:

Abel's birthday's coming up.

901

:

We got a lot of birthdays in the house.

902

:

Rose's birthday is coming up.

903

:

Gemini's in the house.

904

:

We do right here have a Taurus, a

Cancer, and a Gemini in this order.

905

:

I don't know, maybe we're just

filling out the whole Zodiac.

906

:

Yeah, that's fun.

907

:

That'd be fun.

908

:

Sequentially.

909

:

One of each.

910

:

We'll collect them all.

911

:

And then the Antichrist what?

912

:

And then the Antichrist will be born?

913

:

All right.

914

:

You heard it here first, folks.

915

:

The prophecy has been uttered.

916

:

Karolina, did you, you already

say what you're excited for?

917

:

I mean, I talked about Adrian's event.

918

:

What else is happening?

919

:

Your birthday is coming up.

920

:

I guess, yeah.

921

:

I mean, is it exciting after your 30th?

922

:

What's up?

923

:

What's up?

924

:

Are you serious?

925

:

You're still wallowing in your early 30s?

926

:

30's great.

927

:

I mean, we got to get away from it, girl.

928

:

I don't know what the party's going to be.

929

:

Maybe there's, there's going to be a pool.

930

:

There's going to be a pool.

931

:

It's going to be a pool.

932

:

We're going to celebrate you

regardless of whatever is going on.

933

:

It's going to be a hot, wet,

Karolina summer, according to Tori.

934

:

I'll be pushing for, nevermind.

935

:

That was good.

936

:

I, I am pushing for a wet t shirt contest.

937

:

So actually don't come shirtless.

938

:

For that one, wear a white t shirt.

939

:

Don't worry, we'll post about it.

940

:

Not an opaque t shirt.

941

:

A white t shirt.

942

:

Abel, what are you most excited about?

943

:

Outside of the wet t shirt contest?

944

:

Well, outside of the wet t shirt

contest I actually am, like, really

945

:

excited about For Karolina's party and

that's going to be on the 22nd of June.

946

:

Details to be confirmed.

947

:

Details to be confirmed.

948

:

Everything to be most likely.

949

:

Flying by the seat of my pants.

950

:

We're not plugging anything.

951

:

I am really excited to look like

a lifeguard during that party.

952

:

I may or may not wear a white shirt.

953

:

Again, it might not be

fair for me to compete.

954

:

So we will, we'll, we'll see, we'll see.

955

:

Outside of that I am really excited

for queer and strange especially

956

:

because of the fundraiser that

Maria Elena and Wolf are doing.

957

:

mentioned.

958

:

The reason that it's not decided yet

is because we are about to start in

959

:

taking interest from local drag queens.

960

:

A lot of whom run in personal circles of

mine have been great friends of mine and

961

:

co artists and people who have really

inspired me a lot in my time in Tucson

962

:

that we're going to invite to come into

the space and we're letting them input

963

:

some of the LGBTQ plus charities that

they would like to see profits go to.

964

:

And so collectively we're going

to take in all of their entries.

965

:

We're going to kind of talk about some of

our own, but The reason that that's not

966

:

decided is because we want to make sure

that the people who are helping raise

967

:

those funds are also the people who get

to decide where that money is going to go.

968

:

So I'm really excited about that,

and we're celebrating my birthday

969

:

during that, so that's really cool.

970

:

Yeehaw!

971

:

Woo!

972

:

Yes.

973

:

Well, this has been incredible, friends.

974

:

Do any of the heathens in the room have

any, any last notes they'd like to share?

975

:

To send us off with any

last things you wanna say.

976

:

I'm just so happy.

977

:

I love all y'all so much.

978

:

This is, is so good.

979

:

Don't, don't forget about us this summer.

980

:

It's about to be hot as no, not listen.

981

:

It's hot.

982

:

We're not gonna let you

forget about us this summer.

983

:

It's hot.

984

:

If you're bored and you're hot,

just come be bored and hot here.

985

:

You'll be less bored.

986

:

There's so many couches,

you'll be just as hot.

987

:

Probably hotter but less, less bored.

988

:

All right.

989

:

We, everything we do is flying

by the seat of our pants.

990

:

So I don't know when the next episode

is going to be, but it'll be coming up.

991

:

So keep an eye out for that.

992

:

Make sure to subscribe.

993

:

Subscribe to our YouTube, we are

going to put video episodes up on our

994

:

YouTube, youtube.com/@theheathencast,

follow us on Instagram @theheathencast.

995

:

And you should be able to find us

anywhere you listen to podcast at this

996

:

point, we're on Spotify or on Amazon.

997

:

You can find us anywhere

you listen to podcast.

998

:

Wow.

999

:

Remember when it like a couple

of years ago, we just rented a

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couple of rooms in a warehouse.

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00:41:03,322 --> 00:41:03,812

I know.

:

00:41:03,822 --> 00:41:04,452

I know.

:

00:41:04,462 --> 00:41:06,052

We've come so far.

:

00:41:06,072 --> 00:41:07,072

Look what we did.

:

00:41:07,072 --> 00:41:08,291

We've come so far.

:

00:41:08,291 --> 00:41:08,901

Mic drop.

:

00:41:08,901 --> 00:41:09,511

Just kidding.

:

00:41:09,511 --> 00:41:10,730

I won't drop it.

:

00:41:10,730 --> 00:41:11,949

It doesn't even matter.

:

00:41:11,949 --> 00:41:13,169

Cut us off, Albert.

:

00:41:13,169 --> 00:41:14,083

Cut us off.

:

00:41:14,083 --> 00:41:14,693

All right.

:

00:41:14,693 --> 00:41:15,302

Bye, friends.

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We'll see you later.

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Connect with the artists, mystics, makers, and movers at Heathen Haus in Tucson, AZ
Hidden within a warehouse in Tucson, AZ is a queer collective of artists, makers, and dreamers called Heathen Haus. Keep up with this unique group of desert dwellers in this casual conversational podcast.