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Jay's Birthday, Theater shows, weekend trips: A weekend recap
In this vibrant recount, AJ and Jay explore the lively Dallas nightlife, delving into experiences such as DJ Nina Flowers at the Dallas Eagle and celebrating; we discuss celebrating Jay's birthday with slapstick ballet at the Tobin Center. The narrative takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of nights filled with revelry, unexpected connections, and the sensation of feeling regal among ballet enthusiasts. The recap includes highlights from 'Thursgays' at Brass Monkey, a tribute to Tina Turner at the Majestic, reflections on the film "Salt Burn," and insights into the playful hierarchy within the gay community, shared with authenticity and humor.
Hello, hello, hello and welcome back to your dose of delusion. It is me, yours truly, your host, Jay, and I'm sitting right in front of the impeccably dressed, beautifully lighted, smoldering quintessential AJ, AJ, how are you Tell me everything, Hi?
Speaker 2:I Hi, how are you?
Speaker 1:I'm doing amazing.
Speaker 2:I am impeccably dressed, much like I don't normally. There is a no, I'm always dressed fabulously actually. So I have a little industry thing that I might be attending shortly after our little hoopla recording, so I am dressed a little bit more profesh than usual.
Speaker 2:We love a profesh queen, so I'm cash but still profesh because I love doing that, but I'm doing really well. I actually just got back, well, not just because it's ready so far, like very far into the week, but when we last hung out it was right before your birthday. We hung out on Thursday, which was your actual birthday, which we'll touch on in Europe then. But after that I went to Dallas. I saw DJ Nina Flowers, who she always brings in, and it was everything.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, it was everything.
Speaker 2:I did not stop dancing and the birthday boy who went, jesse Rudy's husband, was having the time of his life. It was super fun, super amazing. She works a crowd and she's there in full face and she's like, yes, she loves it when you scream and you clack your fans. And there's one queen from Houston, dennis. He's a precious, he has a little whistle and so he's known for whenever he's there he's like whatever. It was so funny. So it was really, really cool. And this was at the Dallas Eagle, which just reopened, and I haven't been to the one in New York, which I hear is like the one to go to, and I went to the one in Austin for Halloween, if you recall.
Speaker 1:I do recall that, yes.
Speaker 2:It was very that vibe. It's just like when you hear the eagle. That's synonymous with leather and men and gear, and that's just what it's known for.
Speaker 1:Those are a few of my favorite things, exactly.
Speaker 2:And so, but the Austin and Dallas vibes they're just like a club bar, you know. But I had so much fun. It was really, really great. I'm seeing Nina. I do like to. She's based out of Dallas because there's so many great airlines and direct flights for her to go ahead and travel to and get all the things done that she needs to.
Speaker 2:I saw her husband, who's a sweetheart, and said hello to them. I'm hashtag friends with the DJ and so so had a really really good time with them. Rudy was dancing his little heart out, which he's always so very like. I mean, he's behind the DJ.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so he's used to being behind the scenes. Now he got to be in the scene.
Speaker 2:In the scene, yes, he was dancing and living it up because she was giving her beads and get like she was serving and we definitely did and a little insider. So when Rudy was just starting, he met DJ Nina Flowers and she took him under his wing and that's like you know how like. You know how like in the drag world they have like daughters and all of that, yes. Rudy is Nina's son oh her DJ son.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, so you know, and that's where they play very similar but very, very different because they're each so unique, but it was so fun and amazing. I think the last time I saw Nina was back in like 2019 or 2021. I can't recall which year it was but she, she gives it and it was amazing. So that was my Dallas little track one Saturday that I went, and then we decided to come back home and make some pit stops at some Bucky's, of course.
Speaker 1:Obviously, which was perfect.
Speaker 2:And then, like, just go into the swing of things, of just like work. So it's been a little bit of an exhausting weekend, but it was fucking worth it. So I do have some questions for you, though.
Speaker 1:Okay, talk to me.
Speaker 2:So let's start with Thursday which was your birthday.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:We went to watch that ballet at the Tobin Center we did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I still can't pronounce it, though you know it's not worth it though, but you okay. All right, wow, okay, so no, we went to go to the ballet at the Tobin Center and I was very fortunate enough to get a great ticket we had. We had really good seats, didn't we? They were fantastic.
Speaker 2:So I the Tobin's beautiful. Yes, it really is, and it's. You know, the majestic is a beautiful, antique, ornate theater, but the Tobin is just, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1:It really is. No, it definitely is, and I think we, because we had got some VIP access like a VIP lounge, which is nice. We're a second floor. Third floor, we had a big glass awning where we could look over on the. What did you call that? I may have referred to them as the peasants but I did feel like I was in twilight, looking down upon the people.
Speaker 2:We were the Volturi, for sure, for sure it was amazing.
Speaker 1:No, that was great. So the VIP lounge was awesome. They had some small bites to eat, great drinks. It was awesome. We got to chat with a few people, More people, you know. That was great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you know, I mean it was so the show was. Basically it was an all men's ballet and I'm terrible for not knowing the name and it's also hard to pronounce.
Speaker 1:It's not your fault.
Speaker 2:But it was Italian men who created the show. That was kind of like slapstick comedy and but ballet, so it had different kinds of music and everything, just to kind of like give it a little tidbit and everything and. I don't know about you, but I thought it was quaint.
Speaker 1:You know, I actually kind of enjoyed it a little bit, all right.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, I'm going to be a bit more honest, All right.
Speaker 1:So it was a ballet, and the way I write about it and the way it was explained to me was it was going to be again an all male ballet and it was going to be comedic. I'm thinking, all right, I'm going to be rolling on the floor and laughter, right, so we couldn't be more wrong.
Speaker 2:It was quaint, like how much Okay.
Speaker 1:So here's the sitch. Here's the sitch, if you guys ever see the show and again, I don't even know if it's worth doing a dose of delusion to get the right name, because it's probably not but the because it is a ballet and it's all musical and dance. There's no spoken word and so there's only so much comedy you can do. That comes with physical gestures, right, and after they do two or three, four of these gestures, how many more times can you do that and expect the crowd to find the comedic Right? And that is what I found.
Speaker 2:They were very talented individuals.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely they're toe points.
Speaker 2:There's plies, they're twist and turns that they would do. We're phenomenal.
Speaker 1:Definitely tell they're talented dancers.
Speaker 2:Absolutely However exactly. And I start with slapstick comedy. No, thank you. You know, I thought you know it was kind of like what was that old show from England that it was a bunch of guys and it was kind of like Saturday Night Live, but like they had it, does this ring a bell?
Speaker 1:It does not ring a bell, I'll have a dose of reality for the next one to tell you.
Speaker 2:But they used to do like, like. If they were supposed to be knights of the round table and on riding horses what they would do for their, for that they would be clacking coconuts halves together like like to make the horse? Yes, I was trying to read the words the feet sound.
Speaker 1:That's another sound.
Speaker 2:Right, exactly.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I know.
Speaker 2:That's not what it was me needing to do, so you know, and so it was very that, and that was never my humor that I enjoyed, but it was. It was a fun, it was, it was a beautiful idea and I'm sure a lot of people enjoyed it. It was not my same.
Speaker 1:Here. I feel that if it wasn't comedic I would have enjoyed it more, because it yeah, the dance there were very, very talented dancers. You can't take that away, but the comedic point of view just really kind of pushed me over the edge of now and we did give it. We. There was three acts. Yes, we. I think we talked after the first act and we're like you know what, let's, let's give this a good solid college, try. Yeah, and we did.
Speaker 2:And the beginning of that second act, I was like one fuck, are we watching? It was it was no longer classical, it was now went to interpretive dance music and, like it was, it was something. Listen, I'm not putting it down. Take, do not like, go form your own opinion and go enjoy it, go watch it and then DM me and let me you know what it was.
Speaker 1:Let me ask you this since ballet is an art, let me ask you this have you ever seen and hopefully you agree with me if not, I'm just a delusional bitch, dumb bitch, certifiable dumb bitch. You ever see some of these arts that people are somehow getting into exhibits and museums and they're like filling a bucket with sand, poking a hole, letting it fall over and people are losing their minds. And you're like what am I not seeing here? Like why is this considered an art? That is kind of how I felt with the comedic ballet. I'm like why add the comedy to it? Why ruins I shouldn't say ruined, but why?
Speaker 2:Because it's already all been done. So I get what they're trying to do. They're trying to bring a different group and a different aspect on it and it was very the humor was very mine.
Speaker 1:Thank you, that is the word I've been trying to say for the last week. It is mine. I thought of it right now.
Speaker 2:It's mine humor that they were doing and, like I said, for one, two acts, sure, but after that second intermission and right before the third started, I was like I have to go to the restroom and I mean I have to go get wine, which means I'm not returning and I was like I'm following you for that glass of wine. Right, and then Wine is also spelled.
Speaker 1:L Y F T. It's a lifter way out of there.
Speaker 2:We had to get the hell out and listen. It had nothing to do with the venue.
Speaker 1:I love the Tobin, oh, absolutely.
Speaker 2:It was a beautiful venue. I found out something actually talking with I think it was like a VP of marketing I don't recall of what she was or like member services. If I recall correctly, she said that all the chairs and the floors flip and become like a, like a. What was the word that she used? So I think she like gala floor. Yes.
Speaker 1:So the whole main theater, well, a big section of it, all the chairs she said 28 minutes. It takes 28 minutes to flip all those chairs over the whole floor becomes level and, instead of being a theater, now does one big, huge flat stage where they host galas and events, which is, I mean, if you guys have, if you guys have not gone to see the Tobin theater in San Antonio, texas, go see a show there, go to a gala there. Apparently it's phenomenal, it's gorgeous, beautiful, beautiful. Yeah, not as much history such as the majestic per se, because it's a bit newer, but it's still absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 2:It was and you know, and they actually wanted bit of history that I ended up finding out from that lovely woman and I'm terrible with names. She was like oh, we actually stayed. We were one of the few and only theaters the state open during COVID because they were able to flip certain rows and chairs so that way you could social distance appropriately, and they were able to get that done. I thought that was amazing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what did she say? I think she said something like they were the only theater project in Texas that didn't close. Right, they were able to apply for the grants, get the grants, but that chair flipping if you had signed up for a show, so like, let's say, I had eight people in my party and you had four people in yours, they would keep eight chairs filled up for me in my party, six feet away, would have only four people for yours. So you were able to sit in an actual chair, not have yellow tape and red tape and codec, but you were six feet away from everybody else who was there.
Speaker 1:And so the way they accommodate the public, the special needs as well, every show you go to at that theater will tell you, hey, and this act and this mark, there's going to be bright strobe flashing lights. So if you have you know if you're a, what a near row divergent is that how you say it, mm-hmm no-transcript. Expecting that so great theater.
Speaker 2:I just remembered.
Speaker 1:Tell me.
Speaker 2:OK, so this is about Friday, but let's go.
Speaker 1:OK, let's get to Thursday. So the show was done.
Speaker 2:We left the show, so we dipped out right, and then we went out for a smidge and I had, I mean, hello Perfash, so I have to work the next day. So you dragged me out to three legged monkey, or what is that bar called, I can't remember.
Speaker 1:Um oh, it's like for children. What?
Speaker 2:is it Brass?
Speaker 1:Brass monkey.
Speaker 2:Yes, I, you know, listen, I've reached a certain point in my gay life that I'm just like brass isn't for me. But good, good you know, have fun there, enjoy. I stand outside, I have my drinks, I know a couple of the bartenders so I go support, but the patrons are far too young. It is and it was your birthday, you were turning older and you still insisted on going to this venue.
Speaker 1:I did, and I'll tell you what I do enjoy it because I also know a couple of the bartenders there and I haven't gone as frequently in the last eight months I used to, probably because I've realized the crowd is very young, very young. But so the thing was like my primary birthday celebration wasn't going to happen until Friday, right. But I was like, you know, let me go out for a little bit on Thursday. They do celebrate what they call the brass monkey, because it is, I guess, what you would say a regular bar, straight bar. But they have a Thursday's Gays night, right. And I was like, let's go out there for Thursdays. And you had a very good point Like anywhere we go is going to be a gay night, it's going to be gay.
Speaker 2:Thursdays Gays, frights Gays.
Speaker 1:Like Tuesdays Gays all of them and you were absolutely correct in that, but I was like you know, let me just go and experience a little bit on their gay night, which we did, and I thank you so much for coming.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was my pleasure, yeah.
Speaker 1:We. It was for a small time when we set out for the patio for a while, I think. I mean I had a good time. Yeah, I also had to leave early.
Speaker 2:OK, yeah, no, we have shit to do. I know we had to work on it today.
Speaker 1:Professional professionals.
Speaker 2:So so that. So that ends Thursday.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Right, so I actually went to another show on. Friday I went to the majestic Love that, and I saw the Tina Turner musical. That's right, it is, oh my God.
Speaker 1:Tell me it was amazing it was.
Speaker 2:The performances were amazing. The I've never heard about it, I've never seen it. I actually had befriended the actor who played, ike Turner, who is a phenomenal actor. He is, he's quite the dancer. He has impeccable vocals. He's, he's good, he's very, very good.
Speaker 1:Oh, tell me more about him.
Speaker 2:So he I mean about the show. So Tina was amazing. So actually they started with like a little bit of her history and the little girl who played young Tina, those vocals on her, I was so impressed.
Speaker 2:I was so impressed it was. It was a beautiful show. When you said the strobe lighting thing, they had that in their show and so they did mention that. So that's what prompted to remind me that I actually went to go see. It was amazing. And I know if they're traveling around, I think they're in Dallas next. They're going to be in Texas for a little bit, for a couple of weeks, and then on to the next and, if it's ever in town again, I highly recommend it. It was the music, the voices, like they're like they're singing, they're all singing. It was so amazing and it was, you know, rolling down the road. It was so good. It was so good. There were so many good songs and, and, like I said, I was very impressed by my new friend, ike, that I had met His name's Dion. He's a fabulous actor. He actually played with that show when it was on Broadway.
Speaker 1:Oh, he lives in New.
Speaker 2:York, like he's. He's the like, I mean he's a principal like for the show. You know what I mean. But he had actually been a part of the show as like the ensemble and like played several different characters and now, with the traveling troupe, he's Ike Turner Worked his way up.
Speaker 1:Moving on up.
Speaker 2:Very, very good and very and quite the dancer.
Speaker 1:That is beyond. I can't wait. I need to find that show when they're traveling. And so doesn't love Tina Turner.
Speaker 2:Exactly, but it was the. The clothes were phenomenal, the acting was great, the dancing was amazing, the singing was great and the way they just like played it out was just so cool. I don't want to give anything away. So that was my Friday and I after the show I didn't too much because I was leaving very early Saturday with my friends to go to Dallas to go watch. Nina. So, but what was? What did you end up doing Friday? Because I missed that.
Speaker 1:So Friday night was because it's the week and I kind of decided to celebrate my birthday Friday night. I had a small little get together on my apartment. We had some food and lots of drinks. We did a little ugly photo contest. I got one of those like stepbrothers Olin Mills style backdrops, so we did a lot of awkward photos. It was a really fun to look at.
Speaker 2:We need to take a little photo and then post it on our Instagram.
Speaker 1:It's still up in my apartment. Thanks for sharing that. No, I kind of want to keep a little simple. Last year I did quite the extravagant all day and all night birthday event. If you remember, aj was not fun.
Speaker 2:The scavenger, he did it.
Speaker 1:So this year there are so many birthdays amongst me and my friend group in the month of January, so let me keep mine a little bit more low key.
Speaker 2:You know, and I find that very strange because typically, like your 40s should be huge, so the fact that you did something so low key my 40th birthday. I applaud you for that.
Speaker 1:Good for you, dear you, not my 40th, for the record, anyways, no. So we celebrated here. It was a great time. I made everybody go around my kitchen island and said, with the love about me which I love, oh, I know Right.
Speaker 1:Love feeding my own ego at, you know, forcing my friends to do so and we went out to some bars. We had a great time. I you know what was weird about this, aj, and it almost felt like it was a holiday weekend because we're at the bars and there were popping. There were a lot of people there, but I remember looking at my friend and saying I recognize no one, and these are the bars we regularly attend.
Speaker 1:So I felt like I, just I met a lot of people. It was great. I did see some friendly faces, which was nice, but I also got to meet a lot of people who I hadn't really seen, so I'm not sure where they came from, what they were doing in my city, but it was a really good time.
Speaker 2:Maybe it was some of the ensemble on the cast.
Speaker 1:It very well could All from the ballet from the Tina show. Honestly, it very well could have been, but no, we had a great time. I went out the whole night, went from one bar to the next bar, went to a little after bar. I made a little friend that night. It was a great time. This time he did not stay with me all day Saturday and Sunday oh my God, that was what it was no.
Speaker 1:So I had a great Friday night and then the next day, on Saturday, when I thought I was done, I was like okay, I celebrated my birthday, it was fun. Two of my three of my friends were like no, wake up, we're not done celebrating, it is your birthday weekend and I was like oh we're doing this again. We're on Sunday by this point. No, this is still Saturday. They woke me up Saturday.
Speaker 2:Oh, that was Friday night, that's right, okay, yes, yes, yes and so.
Speaker 1:Saturday they wake me up to like get up, it's still your birthday weekend, we're not done celebrating. And it was so nice. They took me out all day long for brunch and drinks and lunch and more drinks, and then said go home, take a 30 minute nap, change and we're going back out again to still celebrate your birthday weekend, which I didn't realize. I still did that after the age of what? How old am I now? 40? Sure, but we did, and I went out again and celebrated Saturday night and it was so much fun. But while I was here, locally in San Antonio on Saturday, you were elsewhere.
Speaker 2:I was so and I already, like, had chit-chatted about it, but Dallas. So I was in Dallas, we drove there pretty early in the morning and got there in the afternoon and kind of just settled into our Airbnb and then just kind of like you know, just, I think we had lunch or something, did we? I don't actually remember.
Speaker 1:Who eats these days Exactly?
Speaker 2:But and then went out and it was an amazing time. It was amazing. There was a bunch of like gays from Houston that I know from going to all these little dance parties. There was, you know, a couple of like faces from Dallas that I do recognize and said hello. But it was a good experience. It was really, really fun. I'm glad I went. It was a long, it was a four hour fucking drive.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. And so that was Saturday leading into Sunday, cause we of course danced all night Saturday and went to a cute little afters and you know, just kind of like dance the night away. Oh, one of my little favorite DJs from Houston.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Well, two of them actually, I think actually okay, vicky, who goes to like she's a very good DJ, she's like all about like the circuit and house and like like, like what a child Like she's really really good with like the pots and pans types of music, and so she actually was opening the after, which started at three, since the other bar closed, so it closed like a two was like done.
Speaker 2:And so Nina was like see you at the after. And of course she doesn't go, but of course that, listen, when you're that big you do not. She's tired, she was, you know. So go to the afters and Vicky's there. But then also surprise, surprise, I had no idea and I was texting. I was like are you coming to Dallas? Are you gonna be there? Dj Giovanni from Houston, that I told you about and I posted a little bit of things about him, he's my favorite, he's Pratchas and he keeps it going and he sure fucking did and like gave me fucking live. So the Houston boys are always a blast, so when I run into them wherever I know, it's gonna be fucking fun. So that was like a Saturday to Sunday and then like rested and nabbed, checked out of the Airbnb and just like came back to town and just you know, oh, I did see a movie, but let's hear, I'll tell you about that after.
Speaker 1:So your Saturday night was like my Saturday night was just same old. Same old weekend fun, Nothing extravagant.
Speaker 2:Because you took your 30 minute nap and then we went out.
Speaker 1:And then we left a bar in an appropriate hour. We didn't go to any afters, which was nice. I got to come home and rest and definitely plan for my Sunday of rest from the weekend because I'm not 25 anymore.
Speaker 2:So you did, so you did rest. You didn't do anything Sunday. No, I didn't.
Speaker 1:Nothing.
Speaker 2:Sunday oh good, good, good, good Question. So when I got back into town I decided like okay, chill movie, whatever I have to work tomorrow. Have you seen, is it?
Speaker 1:salt burn? Oh my goodness, yes. That movie AJ. I need to know your thoughts on it. I need to know your thoughts on it.
Speaker 2:If you could I mean listener if you could only see my face and the way my eyes are yelling. If you haven't seen it, go watch it. It is, it gets in your head. It makes it so thought provoking. It's like, well, what is going on and what is this and what? That actor is an actor? Which one?
Speaker 1:that absolutely main character.
Speaker 2:The main character he's a short little cutie.
Speaker 1:I mean first of all. I mean the other one we all love Jacob Elordi.
Speaker 2:I mean, he was a tall one. Ooh, so cute, so cute.
Speaker 1:Although have you seen him lately?
Speaker 2:Still cute.
Speaker 1:I think he's preparing for a role because he I think someone said he might be preparing for a prisoner of war role, because he is looking. I saw him on SNL this past Saturday, oh yes, and he's looking so skinny, like creepy thin man, skinny butt.
Speaker 2:And he's like, he's English, right, he's English.
Speaker 1:He is like six four. He is gorgeous and I would salt burn that bathtub right next to the other guy.
Speaker 2:And he had seen it. We're not gonna go into details.
Speaker 1:Yes, I mean, I just listener has been out for a month, almost a month and a half.
Speaker 2:So you need to watch it.
Speaker 1:It does not matter If you haven't watched it. When you think it ends, it didn't end, and when you think it ends, again it didn't end. So when you think you've got it figured it out, you don't.
Speaker 2:You have no fucking clue.
Speaker 1:So please go and watch it. It is an amazing art piece. Yes, great story. Yes, I was blown away by how well that movie was done.
Speaker 2:Blown away. It was phenomenal.
Speaker 1:I mean, I know Greta got snubbed from an Oscar nomination, but whoever directed salt burn deserves that Oscar nomination as well. Greta, who are we talking about? Greta Thornberg, is that how you say it? No, greta Thornberg, who's okay? Not the bitch she was about, like save the earth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's okay, but not her.
Speaker 1:Greta. I can't think of her last name, but she's a director of Barbie.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah. Okay, so you didn't hear about this yet. Yeah, she, yeah. They didn't I mean Margo Bobby?
Speaker 1:did not Greta Nor Margo got a nomination for the Oscar, only Ryan did.
Speaker 2:As a supporting like best of me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but not Greta. And then Ryan did put out a statement and he said Ken, there is no Ken without Barbie and there is no, there is no Barbie without Greta. So I mean he can't he can't, you know, withdraw from the nomination, but he got the nomination.
Speaker 2:I feel like something with Barbie was nominated for something, but like as a movie, I don't know. Yeah, I don't. I feel like it might have been best screenplay. I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't know, but I know the mark going right over. We'll have a couple of doses of reality, right. Speak I do have a dose of reality. Yes, please.
Speaker 2:Okay, so a couple of episodes ago for our astrology sash, I do feel like we need to clarify what a diamond platinum gate is. Okay. Or a platinum gate, because I thought I knew.
Speaker 1:No. No, no, we do know, we know. I've actually never heard of diamond. I've only heard of platinum gold, silver.
Speaker 2:But it's mean.
Speaker 1:You're a diamond in my eyes.
Speaker 2:It is a diamond, platinum, okay, so listeners. So a couple of people were like what do you mean by that? So, and as shame on us for like assuming that, like everyone knows that lingo, but a gold star gate, okay.
Speaker 1:Let's start right. Let's start at silver.
Speaker 2:Oh, there's silver. There's silver, will you show?
Speaker 1:me that what is on it? Okay, well, a silver card carrying gay is a gay who has had sex with a woman before Barf. Okay. But then the gold is a gay who has not had sex with a woman.
Speaker 2:But Well, hold on. So I mean, why are they even silver if they've already done it? And why does that count as Because they're still a gay.
Speaker 1:So they'll still get a car, but still almost have the cards, but then a gold, that's like one of those like trophies that you get for, like a participation participation award Period.
Speaker 2:I said what I said and continue.
Speaker 1:A gold card carrying. Gay is a gay who has been gay his whole life, never has sex with a woman, but he still touched a vagina because he was born vaginally.
Speaker 2:Correct.
Speaker 1:And then there is you, yes, a diamond, platinum card, carrying gay Exactly.
Speaker 2:So I mean, I guess it's just platinum card carrying.
Speaker 1:Right or platinum?
Speaker 2:star or whatever, but I love to say diamond because it's me and that's my birthstone, so it's a platinum card carrying gay, who has never touched a vagina because they were born via cesarean. Correct, I did come out of my mother's stomach, c-section, so that is a platinum card carrying gay. However, then there's me, the diamond platinum gay which, like my dear, sweet, precious Mason, mentioned.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:I came up from out of the ocean Like a siren, like a spire. A spire Like, oh my God, like a sprite or mermaid, and that, my dear, is a dose of reality. And just to just scold you a little bit on that lingo that sometimes we do, so if you are ever confused by anything we say, please let us know and ask, so that way we could we will clarify, have a dose of reality and clarify that, because we are so delusional that we assume that everyone already knows what we're referring to and what we talk about. Hence, dose of delusion.
Speaker 1:And we're here to educate right.
Speaker 2:We are here. We're here to touch all of those that don't quite understand or get it and just kind of like, are intrigued or wanting to know. I did hear a little something that I do feel we do need to share, jay. Okay, I heard through the grapevine that our studio, that we work so hard on may not quite be a studio any longer. Can you enlighten us and maybe All right.
Speaker 1:Well, let me give you some more details that this might come as a little bit of a shocker to you, aj or to anybody. I have the professional that I am. I have had an opportunity come my way Okay, I'm a little bit of a promotion opportunity that I was kind of confident and maybe achieving. Didn't think it was gonna happen so quickly but it did Okay. And I had a nice little interview via Zoom or Teams, doesn't matter, and I was offered a position in which I accepted Okay, wait a minute.
Speaker 2:Tell me no, you tell me, wait Okay. So when they jokingly said something about the studio. I thought you were just like downsizing to a studio or a one bedroom.
Speaker 1:I'm sizing to something, AJ. Okay, listen, hold on to your socks. Okay, I accepted position in Washington DC.
Speaker 2:Shan, the fuck up. I know You're breaking up with me.
Speaker 1:It's not you, it's me. I don't even want to laugh right now.
Speaker 2:Don't make me laugh.
Speaker 1:And that's not the worst of it Okay. It's a lot sooner than I expected. Wait a minute, aj. Okay, I will be moving to Washington DC to start my new position on March 1st. Can we stop this?
Speaker 2:podcast right now. I can't even I want to pause it. I can't even I want to pause it. I will never pause it. Okay, okay, wait, okay. So you mean to tell me I'm trying to hold back tears? I know. Okay, so you're leaving San Antonio, not temporarily, you're being moved out of the state to the top eastern. I mean, I know you're terrible with maps, so I don't even know why I'm telling you this. I know where DC is, but so are we. What does this mean for those?
Speaker 1:I don't know. I don't know yet. We have a lot of talks to talk about, maybe off pod.
Speaker 2:But I'm kind of shook it that you told me on the pod instead of off.
Speaker 1:I don't even know how you heard. I was trying to wait until I had a better moment, maybe over dinner, Pucaneros or something.
Speaker 2:So they told me that your lease was coming up and you were not wanting to. You're considering a renewal, but you might go to a different location. That was only a one bedroom. That's what I heard.
Speaker 1:Well, I have to find out who the fuck the mole is, because I wanted to tell you over dinner. But yeah, aj, I got a big promotion.
Speaker 2:Selfishly claw your eyes out. But that's honest. Listen, that's amazing, that really is amazing. Congratulations, that's terrific news. Next time off pod is better. That's surprising me like that. With this kind of music, with this kind of music, it's not. This is not music to my ears.
Speaker 1:This is actually terrible.
Speaker 2:This is, but it's great news and that's listen, what do we? First and foremost, professional. And I told you, 2024 has things laid out that the universe has lining up for a lot of the energy that's exuding in 2024. For a lot of us, and I know a lot of you don't really believe in that kind of stuff, but I've, I've, I've felt it, I've, I've been privy to it and I told you several weeks ago, 2024 is going to be amazing and it's it's. There's going to be some roller coaster rides, but it's all heading up in the right direction and congratulations and good for you and you deserve nothing but the best. And and that is like kudos and that's awesome for you. But fuck off, because what about me? What am I supposed to?
Speaker 2:do what are? What are our listeners supposed to do? What about dose of delusion?
Speaker 1:All this means I got to fly you on my PJ private jet. I got to fly my PJ up to DC so we can record up there. Okay, well, let's see.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no. Seriously, listen, we're going to figure this out. I'll just have a long, long time. I don't know what's going on, but I just don't know. I don't have any thoughts on this topic. I don't have any thoughts on this topic. I actually have an off the pod conversation, so I won't I won't take up too much more of this topic, but I just thought that you were downsizing apartments is what I really thought. I'm downsizing or upsizing or upgrading.
Speaker 1:I don't know what's happening, but it's a. It's a lot of change. I am a. I'm super excited about it. It's happening really quick with the motion and I was like, what about my friends? And I thought you know?
Speaker 2:fuck us. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:That's not what I mean, no, what I'm saying is those people who are truly my friends. They're gonna remain my friends. I mean, look at you, aj. You travel to support the people you care about. Of course I'm gonna do the same. I would assume you would do the same. Now I have somewhere to stay in Washington DC, always, always literally always, and so I thought you know the people who love me and the people that I love. That's not gonna change.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:And I love your support, of course, and I can't wait to see what the near future holds for myself and for you and for anything.
Speaker 2:Listen 2024 has a lot of and everyone listening, also for you too 2024, the energies that are being exuded right now by the universe. You just have to be perceptive and listen to what it's saying and see those signals and act on those signals. Do not deny, do not waver, do not. 2024 is everything's lining up for change and growth and I am so proud of you, I'm so happy for you, and I thought it was in regards to dose of delusion but, it's not, but that's amazing.
Speaker 2:Listen, we'll figure things out. When we were traveling and doing shit separately, we still fucking did it, because that's what we do, and I do plan on still continuing this thing that we have going, and I have a little something up my sleeve that I have been working on. So everyone you know- there's more to come.
Speaker 1:There's way more to come with us and separately. We have us in the last of us and we're still here for another month.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, we're gonna record the fuck out of like, not just because we're gonna we need to bank all this shit. We're gonna get some shit done and get some stuff done. So, with that being said, I want everyone listening. If there's topics and points that we have not discussed yet, let us know. Hit us up on Spotify, put those messages out there. What you want us to discuss, we will still be recording separately. We just need to get a little bit more equipment and figure that out. But that's nonsense.
Speaker 1:That's not not for you guys, for us to figure out.
Speaker 2:But again, I digress 2024 is gonna be amazing. Listen to those signs, see those signs and act on it. And 2024 is gonna be amazing and great for all of us, and not only for myself and for Jay, because I've already seen things coming, but for you too. Do not waver, do not hide, do not be scared. Change is amazing and just act on it and don't be scared. Do it and you will be successful. You will be successful, jay.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much, AJ.
Speaker 2:Congratulations. I love you so much. I'm excited to see where things go. Listener, you could follow him at 100 Shades of Cray on Instagram. You could follow me at AJTheSilverFox and, of course, you could follow our Instagram podcast on at doseofdelusion. But we'll see you next time, guys. Bye-bye now, bye, I'll see you next time.
