Dose of Delusion
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Dose of Delusion
Day Drinks, Delusions, and DJs
Jay and AJ regroup after a missed week and unleash a full catch-up: AJ leans into day drinking, plays promoter at Sundown Social, and covers over local DJs, while Jay survives a cursed travel run from SLC to LaGuardia that includes surprise TSA at the gate, a touch-and-go landing, and a neighbor who kept farting until Google Translate saved the cabin. The boys revisit Crumbl’s hard-launch boyfriend news, give a bartender update that sparks a fresh lavender marriage debate, and swap Housewives takes as Bronwyn swings hard and Lisa’s edit looks rough. Life updates land too: Jay is moving across the river to Arlington and is officially a poodle granddad. They close with a Dear Daddy note on vintage thirst, online boundaries, and why not every keyboard needs to be a catcall.
Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to Dose of Delusion. It is me, yours truly, your host, Jay, and I am blessed with the presence of the gorgeous you know him, you love him, AJ the Silver Fox. AJ, how are you? Tell us everything.
SPEAKER_02:Um hi, uh, how are you? I'm doing amazing. I am I'm doing like I'm trying to think. When was the last time we chit-chatted? Did we talk last week or the week before?
SPEAKER_01:We didn't talk last week because somebody won't say any names. Okay. Fell asleep and missed our recording session. I'm so sorry. I was so tough.
SPEAKER_02:You know, it's okay because I ended up just going out and having drinks instead. So it kind of worked out. Um, I had a pretty long week with um work and everything. And um, you know, it's it's very funny. Like with what I do, it's kind of like the beginning and the end of the month are always super busy for me for what I have to do in regards to just getting stuff done. You know what I mean? So um, so so like reporting for end of month and then like, anyways, snoozeville, right? Um, but and so like the middle of the month is where I'm kind of like I'm like more like laissez-faire and like, you know what I mean? I'm still doing stuff, but like I'm not as stressed to say where I'm like, I need a fucking drink. And so last week, end of month, um, I needed a fucking drink. And then this week, beginning of month, I'm I'm ready looking. I will be having a drink after this um session of recording. Um, but but you know, it was just work, work, work. You know what I mean? With um with that. I'm trying to think what else I did. Did I do anything fun these past two? I mean, I've I've been doing um, I had mentioned the uh Sunday fun days that I'm really enjoying. Um I had a um uh I think did I tell you about the birthday party? Yes, I did. Um, I think last weekend was pretty chill, actually, now that I think about it, because um I had I went out Thursday when we were supposed to record, and then um so Friday I um didn't go out and uh Saturday morning I had a work event um benefiting um like uh a pet adoption. So um it's it's uh local in Alamo Heights, it's called Snipsa. Um so um it was a 5k that um um you know the locals go to. Wait, we had I didn't do the running. No, absolutely not. No, I did not do the 5K myself. I had a table with like um swag that I was giving away for our property, um getting our name, like marketing really is what it was. So I got there around like 6 45 in the morning. Oof, I know, I know, which is why I didn't go out Friday night, right?
SPEAKER_01:And then we know we're not 25 anymore, right?
SPEAKER_02:Well, I mean, I'm like a year off, so definitely one year off. Um, but so and then it was it lasted until like around 10:30. So it was it was really cool. Saw a lot of really cute pups and um a lot of like hot daddies, and um like I know, and uh like you know, it was just like a really, really fun event. So by I guess the day was so like since I started so early, I went home, tidied up a bit, and then like was like, man, what time is this? Like 2 p.m. It was barely like noon. Okay. So I was like, I still have a full day. So I ended up um messaging one of my neighbors and I was like, hey, I remember you said you were gonna be off when I saw you on Thursday. Um, let's go day drinking. So we started having drinks at 2, called it a night by like 7 or 8. I felt like it was 10 p.m. So I was already like getting cozy and going to bed. Um, but I ended like so it was an early night, so I didn't go on Saturday either. So I like this day drinking day, it was really fun. Like start early, end early.
SPEAKER_01:We can't let the people know that we prefer day drinking. We can't let them know. Because we I think we I think we both know why we prefer day drinking.
SPEAKER_02:Um, I mean for me, I mean, more people more people should go out. I think it'd be a little bit more fun, but I'm just saying the fact that I was able to start early to end early and then like wake up after a full night's rest of sleep, and then like be productive Sunday. Like Sunday, I I, you know, did some laundry and stuff like that, and then I went to uh my friend's uh Sundown Social event, um, which was second.
SPEAKER_01:We're gonna get to that in a minute. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:We'll we'll talk about that, but it was amazing. But but so that was my this past weekend. Um, what about you? What did you end up doing?
SPEAKER_01:You know, uh to touch base on your on your day drinking, I wish I had a little bit more discipline and willpower because I'll be like, you know what? Let's go out day drinking and we'll start like at noon or maybe a little bit early with a little brunch, day drinking, maybe drink until six or seven and then call it a day, right? But the issue is once that sun starts setting, my day drinking turns into evening drinking, which then turns into going out. And now instead of only going out for four or five hours at night, I've been out for 12 hours. It is ridiculous.
SPEAKER_02:Don't get me wrong, because you know, occasionally that happens. I get it. You know, I like it that happens to all of us and the best of us, you know what I mean? But you know, I if we are able to be responsible enough or, you know, like I I okay, so what happened was um the friend I had my neighbor that I had gone out with, maybe no, anyway. So my my neighbor that I had gone out with, like um, we were just like, it was just the two of us, you know, other people were working or like just not wanting to start until later because it wasn't Sunday funding, it was Saturday funding. And so, like, we're out and about, and like we're going to these bars, and I'm like, why are we here with these patrons? But you know, and I was like, this isn't really for us. So, like, we would mingle to the next one, and then he was like, you know what? My co-workers are off of work now. Um, so I'm gonna invite them. So he invited a group of people, one of them I absolutely adore. So I was like, Oh my god, so good to see you! And like, whatever, whatever, right? Um, but then like those started leaving, and then there was just like one left who's like snooze villain boring. So, and I'm not gonna say names, and I don't think he'll know I'm talking about him, but he was so like, I don't know, I guess you know how you click with people and then others you just don't.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, yeah, I get that instant connection.
SPEAKER_02:Like, and I'm very complimentary, like, I don't know you that well. I don't need you thinking I'm a bitch because everyone else does. So I was just kind of like, you know, I I think I'd met him once before, and I'm like, oh, I love your outfit, or oh, da-da-da, chit-cha, whatever, whatever. And then, like, like I wasn't even trying this last time when he was on his phone, and like my friend went to go walk his boss out, which was the the the chick I love with the amazing hair. Um, she he was like, Oh, I'm gonna go walk her to her car. And I was like, Okay, cool. And so, like, it was just us two, and like he was taking forever, and I was like, I could only go to the bathroom like some like amount of times in like a five minute span, so or like 10 minute span. So I was just like, he's not answering, and I have something to do. And he was like, Oh, you could go, and I was like, Okay, bye. And like I left him there by himself, like he was just so boring.
SPEAKER_01:Oh no. Well, my my last my last weekend was very uneventful, but like on purpose. I uh I don't think I did, I didn't go anywhere to do anything. I did not. Um, I I finally finished up an entire spring and summer of of all of my work trips and whatnot. So yeah, I I got back. I mean, I went someplace that was nowhere fun. We'll get to that in a minute, but it has been a mess. But I think last time we talked, I was still in Salt Lake City, right?
SPEAKER_02:Yes. You had gotten you upgraded to a suite, I believe, if I recall correctly. I did.
SPEAKER_01:My upgrades came to an end. I'll get to that in a minute. I tried, I tried to upgrade to first class on one of my flights and it did not work. Um, I mean, it would have worked, but it was there was like one seat left in first class, and he wanted like$1,700 for it. So I was like, no, thank you. But, anyways, no, I was in Salt Lake City, um, which by the way, we did talk about what's his name? Um, Sawyer Sawyer Hemsley from Crumble.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
SPEAKER_01:Did you did you see where he um he hard launched his boyfriend?
SPEAKER_02:Oh, I thought I saw something about that. I remember saw someone posted about it, but yeah, I didn't click.
SPEAKER_01:Is he cute? But yeah, so it's one, it was apparently exactly so this was very strategically planned, apparently. So when he came out, and then exactly one month later, he did the whole Instagram post where he like posted a picture of him and then said, you know, I'm happier now than I've ever been in my life, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm a little jealous of it, but whatever. Um, Antonio, something or other, I can't remember the last. Antonio Bruno, I believe. He um he's very handsome. Okay, very handsome. But now that he announced it, people are going back and looking at all of his other stuff. Apparently, the speculation has probably been with this guy for a while. I mean, even up to a year ago, he was like the plus one for wedding dates and whatnot. So um, I guess in light of the lavender. I know. Good in that in light of that lavender marriage talk we had, good for him. And I'm glad he's living his best life and living his truth, but that did remind me of bartender. Let me give you an update on this bartender class. Okay, so on the tail end of my trip, AJ, we did get to, we went out, and I had already been hanging out with him throughout the previous, you know, week and a half or so. So we had all these plans to go out with him and his friends, and I met his girlfriend. First of all, she's gorgeous, but one thing I did notice is his behaviors, mannerisms were definitely toned down a bit. Now, I don't believe that they were toned down like when he was around his girlfriend. What I realized that I think he's doing is I think he tones up his mannerisms, his feminine manner mannerisms when he's working by Navarre, regardless of who his patrons are, right? Which is what it is. I don't understand it. I don't try to I don't question it. I didn't definitely didn't question him directly, but it was a little bit of a different different persona when he was around a different group of friends, especially his girlfriend, and it seemed a lot more natural. But his girlfriend was gorgeous and whatnot. And um, I still speculate and wonder and think about some things. I don't know. Um, I don't want to speculate too much because here really soon, I don't know if I mentioned it last time we talked. He bright turned as a brother who lives here in DC and coincidentally lives about five blocks from me. Oh wow. And we um we started interacting via social media. Uh the brother is a member of the tribe. He is gay, uh out and proud and whatnot. And um, I think we're gonna link up and just get to know each other. And obviously, I'm gonna talk a lot about his brother whom I met back in Salt Lake City.
SPEAKER_02:Um, he referenced his brother, or he was like, Hey, you should follow my brother, you should hang out with him. Or how did that come?
SPEAKER_01:So he well, as a bar guest at his bar and just through general conversation and hey, who are you, where you're from, blah, blah, blah. He's like, Oh, my brother lives in DC. We talked about that more often. Um, when I had, what do you call it? If you know, I don't know if you recall, when I had realized he was straight and had that chakra of a moment, um, he had mentioned, you know, a lot of people think I am gay, but no, my brother's actually gay. And I was like, Oh, the one who lives in DC. He's like, Yes. So then a couple days later, he had like, well, his brother followed me on Instagram and I followed him back. So I'm obviously assuming that came at the direction of bartender. Um, and I have yet to reach out to him. I've just been a little busy and whatnot. But I will eventually and say, hey, let's hang out, because he literally literally lives about three blocks from me.
SPEAKER_02:That's so awesome. Which a weird small world. Yeah, that well, that that's what I mean. Like it's just such a small world and you know, five degrees of separation or whatever.
SPEAKER_01:That's something like that. Kevin Bacon, seven degrees. I don't know. But um, no, anyway, so then I uh that was the end of my trip there in Salt Lake City. I took off. I tried to sweet talk myself into an upgrade at the counter, but it was a full flight. I couldn't do it. I somehow was a four and a half hour flight from Salt Lake City to my stop, my first stop was in LaGuardia, and I somehow got stuck in a middle seat, even though that's not what I booked. So I was able to sweet talk my way into an aisle seat, thank goodness. Uh in an Economy Plus, right? The way I live my lifestyle. And so I'm sitting on his flight, AJ. A woman is in the in the window. I prefer IELTS. I'm in an aisle, there's space in between us, and sure enough, the last person on the flight does sit in between us. And the moment he sat down, he reeked.
SPEAKER_02:Oh no.
SPEAKER_01:Now, this, oh, I hope this has not come off as insensitive or whatnot. Um not of necessarily body odor, but he was from like a different culture, right? He was clearly foreign, a different culture. So they had a a different odor to him. Also, the type of body oils he was using, it was just a little off-putting. But I was like, fine, you know what? I can I can deal with it, no big deal. Anyways, well, it was a huge deal to me about acting like it wasn't a big deal. So we take off, guys fought flipping through all these phones, like he has like three phones, I don't know what he's doing, and uh he finally decides to like relax and like put his head down, and then I smell the most vile thing, and I was like, I think this guy just farted, and I'm like, Okay, fine, fine, whatever, we're on a plane. On a plane, I'm like, I'll ignore it, it's it's whatever. And then a few minutes later, another one, and then it got it got to the point to where he would actually like lean over like and lift, and then there were audible, and I was like, oh my god, like they are the worst thing ever. This went on for about an hour. Now, if it was a shorter flight, I would have just dealt with it, but I was I was thinking, I have three and a half hours to go. So I did not pay for Wi-Fi on this flight. I had already pre-downloaded all my movies and TV shows. I was also gonna sleep because I was out really late the night before. Um but I got on Wi-Fi, I paid for the internet, I opened up Google Translate, I showed him my phone, I tapped the screen right where it says pick language. He scrolled and he scrolled and he scrolled and he picked um H A U S A, like Hausa or Hausa, I still don't know what language it is. I took the phone back and I typed, please stop farting. It's rude in such a small place. He read it, he smiled, he nodded, and he stopped.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, you know, different cultures is like that. That could be acceptable, I guess. But yeah. And he stopped. And I was thinking, okay, well, good. Well, also, he probably, after an hour, he probably let it all out and didn't have any more, to be quite honest.
SPEAKER_01:Also true. But I wanted to tell everybody like, you're welcome for my service, all the other passengers around us, but yeah, I could not deal with it.
SPEAKER_02:I but also let that be a learning lesson. Like, you know, people like don't be scared to pull up Google Translate and politely, you know, tell uh someone something. I didn't say or help someone or yeah, you know, whatever. Like you see someone lost and looking for direction instead of saying, Oh, I don't speak, whatever, why don't you pull out your phone and help someone? I think that's a learning lesson for all of us.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Um, thank you for that. No, so then the flight finishes. Now here's where things are a little weird. Oh no, I forgot to tell you. So this whole flight actually was was really, was really, really off. So even like boarding the flight, there were a lot of like security concerns and questions. Oh, we had this thing. AJ, you fly occasionally or enough, right? Yeah, yeah. Okay, so we all know everyone, we all know how TSA works. All right, right. So now I'm in the Salt Lake City airport all the way through TSA. I'm at the gate, and the the gate agents are being incredibly like calm and collected. All right, they're literally like, hello everyone, welcome to Gate C7, where our flight is taking off from Salt Lake City to LaGuardia, New York. Uh, in a moment, please. I'm like, why are they talking so calmly? Like, we know how they yell at us, right? They always do. And they're like, Well, we're gonna have uh TSA right here at the gate. They will be checking IDs and verifying passports for every individual boarding the flight. And I'm like, why do we have extra TSA? I've never I fly hundreds of times. You know how much I travel.
SPEAKER_02:Right.
SPEAKER_01:And I've never had TSA at the actual gate. So I'm already like a little on edge. And then the funny thing is, I started thinking about any crime that I've committed. And then I was like, why am I worried about a crime? Like, I haven't committed a crime. I was literally like panicking. So dumb. So dumb. So then I'm like, all right, cool. So we board the flight. I thought it was a little weird having extra TSA on the flight. Then we were apparently hitting a lot of like turbulence and whatnot. But what really made me nervous was is the pilot comes on, and you always hear the time they like buzz in, and hi, you know, we're gonna experience some turbulence. Go ahead and take your C Spring suit back on.
SPEAKER_02:Normal. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:We hit turbulence, and this pilot came on the flight, and he sounded scared. Like, absolutely scared, voice trembling. And I was thinking, what the F is happening? That combined with the TSA at the gate.
SPEAKER_02:Right.
SPEAKER_01:I was like, what is on this plane? What is happening? You know, what action movie did I somehow end up in? I'm like, I'm sorry, I am not gonna be a let's roll hero. I just need to know what is going on. Um, so needless to say, between that, the fake turbulence, the farting man, I got zero sleep on this flight.
SPEAKER_02:The fake turbulence?
SPEAKER_01:I was assuming it's a fake turbulence just because the way the pilot was actually audibly scared. And I feel like they know when turbulence is gonna come. I'm not a pilot. I don't know. I think we have one pilot that listened to us. Maybe he can chime in.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, isn't there like like wind gusts that suddenly happen? I mean, they're not Doppler. No, I know, neither am I, but anyways, mine. Oh okay. Well, that's right.
SPEAKER_01:I'm sorry you experienced a farting man. Thank you. No, okay, that's not the end of the flight. So that flight got even weirder. Okay, this is just all one flight. So now we're landing in LaGuardia, and same normal landing stuff, hit the ground. So what happens everywhere?
SPEAKER_02:I'm so sorry. You think I heard you say twice? Is it LaGuardia or LaGuardia? What are you saying? Well, now I don't want to say it.
SPEAKER_01:Well, is it like a tomato tomato? Like if we're from there, it might be LaGuardia.
SPEAKER_02:I've always heard LaGuardia. LaGuardia?
SPEAKER_01:Is it LaGuardia like I'm from like Long Island? Or is it LaGuardia like I'm just saying it phonetically?
SPEAKER_02:I don't LaGuardia?
SPEAKER_01:Liguardia.
SPEAKER_02:Now I don't even know how to say it now that you're saying it like that.
SPEAKER_01:I think so. LaGuardia. Maybe top dead center. Anyways.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, so tomato tomato, you're right. Okay, never mind.
SPEAKER_01:Oh goodness. Okay, wow. Um, I'm sorry about that. Uh so okay, so we're going to land. We're landing. Normal landing procedures, wheels touch down, little shake, shake, and then you usually breaks hit, everyone leans forward, right? Right. Okay. Normal landing procedures, wheels touch down, then all of a sudden, G forces push me back. And I'm like, huh. That's not that's not a landing. I'm a little, I'm a little concerned. And I'm looking around, and everyone's looking around. We're all peering left and right. So finally, I lean over and I peek out the window. We're in the air again. We did a we did a little touch and go.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:All right. So now I'm thinking, what has happened with this flight?
unknown:Right?
SPEAKER_02:New pilot, maybe? I don't. You know what?
SPEAKER_01:Now that I think about it, maybe that's why he's visit visibly, he was audibly scared. Anyway, so we finally land. He can know about 10 minutes goes by and he was like, uh, it's gonna be an update on what happened. We uh we had to go ahead, we were approaching, we had to go ahead and resync our blah blah blah. And I'm like, what do you mean approaching? We touched ground, right? Obviously, we touched ground. I start Googling it, and apparently it was nothing came out of the internet. It was it was wild, it was annoying, I hate it. Also, fuck an airport that doesn't have a tramway, fuck an airport that I had to exit the airport, get on a bus, drive across the tarmac to get to the other, the other thing. And that was pretty much the end of my journey. Got on one small plane 45 minutes later, was back in DC. Thank God.
SPEAKER_02:So you're back home.
unknown:I'm back home.
SPEAKER_02:So how have um things been going back in DC? Are you um are you gonna move? Where is that what we had talked about last? Or are you gonna be doing the hotel jumping for a while? Or okay.
SPEAKER_01:Hey, thanks for remembering. Good update on that. Um, so I have since realized that I am a delusional bitch for thinking I could live in hotels for six months. Absolutely delusional. Right. Um, but no, I did decide I am going to move. I did find a super cute building right across the river in Arlington. Guys, gays, guys, guys, and gays. I had my DC fun, got my zip code a few blocks from the White House. I loved it. It was so much fun. I'm gonna go across the river now. I'm gonna go into Arlington and um enjoy a whole little little little change of lifestyle. I'm I'm super excited. Yeah, I'm super excited. Good for you. Okay, much bigger place.
SPEAKER_02:You'll have found something or I already found the building.
SPEAKER_01:I haven't found a unit in the building. Okay, cool. Perfect. But it'd be a much bigger place. You'll have to come visit. You have a lot more space to stay.
SPEAKER_02:Cool. That sounds fun. That's super exciting. And when was your lease up, or when was it gonna happen again?
SPEAKER_01:It's up whenever I want it to be up. You know, I have I have the privilege of uh a month, especially in a month-to-month right now. Oh, okay, gotcha. Yeah, so that is that'd be good. And other than that, I'm just back in DC doing things, going around. I am AJ. Tell me I'm gonna be a grandfather.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, wait, mom. Oh, wait, what? No. Are you talking about that one night stand that one time that you I don't get it?
SPEAKER_01:Fitzgerald. Right. My little baby boy, my prefreshest baby boy, who I was certain was gay, and I was embarrassed to always say that he only humps male dogs. I thought he was fixed. He's not because I wanted to make puppies one time, and it was so hard because he would only hump male dogs. I'm like, I didn't make him this way, he was born this way. Don't blame me. Um, a colleague of mine has another toy poodle. We've been chatting. She's a female, she's in her ovulation. What did they call it for her female dogs? Right. And um she picked Fitzgerald up uh just yesterday, and then today they they tied the knot. Literally, because I know how to work. Literally because of how dogs work. Yeah, so I'm gonna be a grandfather in about eight weeks. Cool. I'm pretty excited about it. Um, yeah. And how fun. I know I can't wait. I can't wait. That's been the highlight of my life if that gives you an idea of what's happening lately.
SPEAKER_02:So that's super cute.
SPEAKER_01:Well, congratulations. Thank you. I'm probably gonna have a baby shower too, so I'll keep you updated.
SPEAKER_02:What uh color is the bitch?
SPEAKER_01:We don't see color. Oh my god. Um, she's black. Okay. Okay. Like black for her black hair.
SPEAKER_02:Right, obviously.
SPEAKER_01:Not African American. She's just black by colored. Cancelled. Canceled. I know all those terrible. Um, but other than that, I caught up on housewives. Um, did you did you catch up on any of that?
SPEAKER_02:So I um I finally saw the first episode. Um, I know I'm so behind. So what? That means I need to see two?
SPEAKER_01:Is that you need to see two more, but tell me your thoughts on that first episode.
SPEAKER_02:So it was okay. Like Bronwyn's going too hard. Um she's like right out the gate, and clearly she had some festering things going on. Um that you so much has happened from the close of the reunion to the beginning of the filming because they were all harboring certain types of feelings. Um, Brittany needs to shut up and go far, far away.
SPEAKER_01:Um I've never agreed with you more.
SPEAKER_02:I hate. Shut up, shut up. Like, she just can't, she does not know, like, she's just you could see she's planning the conversation, not listening to what anyone's saying. It's always about her for no reason. She's not that pretty, she's stupid, she has nothing, like, like she has nothing to give to a conversation. Um I I did, you know, I think that she was just like, okay, I'm I'm going to protect um Lisa Barlow because it'll give me an in to say something, and then I'll have something, you know, and I'm gonna and I'm gonna stick with it. And then like it was just like utter nonsense. And then when they were at the campfire, and um uh she's like, Meredith, like we're friends, and how dare you? And Meredith's like, how many times have you spoken on the phone?
SPEAKER_01:And she's like, twice, once, like And the way the way Britney always interjects somebody else's random conversation with a point or a topic that had nothing to do with that conversation.
SPEAKER_02:No, but it's about her, it's about her, so stupid. Hate her with a passion, at least do it, you know, strategically to where all of a sudden it's spun to be about you, not oh we're what what are we having for dinner? You know, I can't believe that you called me a whore the other day for sucking dinner, or whatever the hell she was saying. Yeah, God.
SPEAKER_01:I absolutely can't stand it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. So so that's my my like and Heather's already, like, I don't know. Like, I don't go, don't go in on Heather. I'm not feeling her just yet. Um, I think like when she was like, you know, there was just so much denial or lying, like she didn't want any part because she's scared of Lisa Barlow or whatever, that she didn't want anything to do with the conversation. Um, instead of just being like Meredith, where she was like, guys, enough. Let's let's have this conversation when Lisa's pregnant. I mean, present when Lisa's present um or pregnant, whatever. So you know what I mean? Like, I mean, her husband is kind of hot. No, I know, but she's like, she'll she'll break, she's too old. Um, I don't know, but like there's there's ways she could have like handled it or done it if that's really how she was feeling, you know what I mean? But um I just I I'm just I need to see the next one. I've already seen the previews for it where they're like at a fight and Lisa's like starting with her fingers and throwing them. So yeah, I can tell you right now, I know things are coming.
SPEAKER_01:I'm three episodes in, I'm caught up, and I've been watching all of the Watch What Happens Live post episode. Um, I don't know what's happening this season. I don't know what Andy's doing. I mean, I trust Andy, he hasn't let us down except for those weird few seasons of Miami the first time he tried. Uh that he made up for it. But um he, as of these first three episodes, Lisa's not getting a good edit. I don't know what's going on. Oh, oh, so Lisa wasn't present episode one, right? She wasn't, right. Okay. You don't know the real reason yet, do you? You probably haven't realized that yet.
SPEAKER_02:That she was at a movie premiere or something. False. Oh.
SPEAKER_01:The actual reason is she was still negotiating your contract because she's holding up for more money before they started while they uh when they started filming.
SPEAKER_02:But you find this out, you find this out like from watching other things or all the other things, all the other Bravo historians and all those things.
SPEAKER_01:So that's that's the actual reason why. But she's not getting a good edit. Um, I think the star of the season yet again is gonna be Angie Kay. And I am so sad that I saw that video that you sent me where Andy essentially shut down, ever bringing Jen Shaw back. I still have hope. I still have hope. But we'll see.
SPEAKER_02:I okay, so you know, with with with touching base on that or whatever, there was something that I did see um um reality gossip, or not even necessarily gossip, just kind of like you know, tying in different things. What they're apparently starting to do this season with Lisa Barlow has been what they did to Nini, what they did to um um Brit um not Bethany from New York. What um so like these bit like these the main characters, if you will, the whole cast starts getting against them for whatever reason, or producers are making it feel that way because and then what's gonna end up happening is she's gonna end up leaving the show, and then the show's gonna be like like not so good.
SPEAKER_01:Just like Kyle Richards.
SPEAKER_02:No, I mean she's still in it, and the show's terrible. I love her though.
SPEAKER_01:Stop.
SPEAKER_02:No, but it's terrible.
SPEAKER_01:Um, I don't but I see I don't I don't I don't think I've ever really liked Lisa that much, and so to me, I'm the I don't wish her harm, but I'm kind of happy this, and I think you said Bronwyn came out the gate too hard. Watch all three episodes, you're gonna see that it's clearly um Lisa is like retaliating against against Bronwyn.
SPEAKER_02:Um you should or maybe the other way around, I forget, but you should you should definitely, I think I will be caught up by by the next week before we record, I'll be sure to be fully caught up and and uh watch all the current episodes at that point. So we'll have a big powwow at that point, but this will be after Sunday, I imagine.
SPEAKER_01:Right, okay, because Mr. Right popular. No, yeah, you're so popular. Uh insert pantomime here. Um, no, so hey, Mr. You're friends with everybody. Uh I have been so blown away by first of all, I I do miss the scene. I miss going out. Obviously, I don't have that same circle of friends out here, but I'm still living vicariously through you, Mr. I'm friends with the DJ. So please tell me about this. I I want to hear all about it. And I think you had a fantastic idea, AJ, we should do this all the time, right?
SPEAKER_02:Right. I think I think so, especially with like the constants that I've been going because I know we had discussed um, you know, my delusional I'm friends with the DJ before. Um when we were hanging out with some of our other DJ friends that we've our um that you know um we've we've met just through like the scene and stuff like that. Um, however, it was those events that we would go to were like one uh one a month, maybe, or like one every other month or something like that. Um so I I um to to be able to talk about it regularly would be um a little too few and far between, um, since we weren't going to those events constantly. But um as uh we I had mentioned last time, my friends uh Roger and Isaac um started Sundown Social, which is um every Sunday they have different uh DJs come and um do a Sunday fun day at River North Ice House, right? Um so this past Sunday, um it was wild. Okay, so okay, so two Sundays ago, um, because we missed that recording, um, I was gonna mention it, but we had um, they had I don't we like I'm part of it. Um they had um a group of three DJs from Montre come into town. Well, Roger and Isaac had um tickets to a really awesome festival, uh John Summit um in New York. So we love John Summit. Right. So they were up there for that event, right? And he was like, Hey Jay, um, can you please do me a favor? Uh you've already met one of the DJs, um, DJ Turco. Uh um, oh my god, I hope that was um, but um, you know, they're they're gonna be in town. We're not gonna be there, would you please? And I was like, well, I was gonna be there anyway, why not? Right. So um a couple of um his other friends that we know, um, they uh their DJs, they ended up also helping out, making sure the equipment was set up. I went to make sure the lighting was set up right and um just to make sure everything was good. And then um what I was doing that other Sunday was just kind of being a little bit of a liaison between um bar staff, bar management, um, and the uh DJs artists or whatever that were there making sure that they were good, all taken care of. Um, so I was kind of like a promoter. So I think I'm gonna put that on my bio now. Like friends with the DJslash promoters you're delusional.
SPEAKER_01:You're absolutely delusional. Fucking delusional.
SPEAKER_02:Um I know, but it's fun. So, so anywho, I um so this past Sunday though, after that first one running around as a promoter or whatever, um, that was great. The the videoing came out great, the videography or whatever. Um, and it was just you're such a promoter. I'm such a promoter. Um, so that was really fun, right? And then so post that they come back and they're like, hey, thank you so much. It was a really, you know, great show. And and um, thank you so much for helping, right? And I was like, no, of course, like you're my friends, I'm gonna do what I need to do to help you guys. Um, well, um, this past Sunday that just happened, um it was the energy was so high. I don't know if the temperature was a little bit lower, so the the there was more there was a bit more crowded. The the DJs that were playing, there was four this time, they brought their crew. So it was just like people were outside dancing and having fun, and it was really, really cool. Like, um, I I you you have to check them out. Like, um, they are they're all on Instagram, they have some sound clouds and stuff like that, but um, it opened up with uh DJ Astro and DJ Astro? DJ Astro. His Instagram is uh DJ Astro TX. So um, so you need to check him out. He opened it, so you know, whenever you open a show, you just have to kind of like start with the energy to bring it, right? So he definitely did that. Um, and then following him was um uh uh my friend uh Shelby. He goes by um uh DJ Brian uh Kadir. Um I hope I pronounced that right. I don't know. I should have asked him first, but I started plugging him. Um, but he's so fun. He uh typically DJs at some of the local bars like Pink Shark, um, and on the North side, there's some other ones which I will never go to the north side, but um he's just he's he likes to work out, he's like super adorable and fun, and just like he's like when he's up there DJing, like you feel it, like with the music, he's up there dancing with it and everything like that. Like, so he definitely like inspires a lot of the energy as well. Um, and then um the other two, because they play like an hour and a half each set, right?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, that's a good time, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:It is, it's like you get a feel for them um and everything. And um, the next one was DJ Manny. Um, he did a lot of like vocal uh mixes in his house music, so that was fun to like it was like, oh my god, hey, oh my god, I love that. Like, you know what I mean? So it was really, really cool. Like, I recognized a lot of like pop divas and stuff like that. Um, and he actually I reached out to him and he's like, Oh, I actually played um put uh put my podcast, they call them podcast, like the set on his SoundCloud. So I'm gonna send you that link so you can check it out. It was so fun. You could like close your eyes and pretend like you were there this past Sunday. And then the closer was um, I've seen him a couple times. Um, he goes by Tico, um, and uh it's spelled T Y C H O. And um his Instagram is uh T Y C H O dot W D O T S. Um, so he's super fun. He also does like some hard house like um techno in there um that I checked out on his SoundCloud, and like I used it to work out one day, and I was like, like it was on fire. Like it was so good. Like he like so fun, and these guys are just so fun and nice and so down to earth. Like I really, really enjoyed my time there with them, and I mean I stayed like until like until the closing, like when it ended at 10. Like I was there for hours, just like dancing away and just enjoying the time. And um, when are you gonna be here on a Sunday?
SPEAKER_01:You know what? I'm so glad you asked that. Um officially, I don't know. I do think my earliest trip was is probably gonna be November, but I don't know how late into the season they're gonna keep doing these uh sundown socials.
SPEAKER_02:It's every it's every fucking Sunday.
SPEAKER_01:So But how late into the season are they gonna be doing it?
SPEAKER_02:No, this is this is year-round thing. They were doing it in the summer. The weather's only getting better, so it might be a little chilly out there, but just bring a fur or I'll loan you one.
SPEAKER_01:Of course you would. No, then I'll be there in a month. I'm going there for a month. I have a friend who's having a really fantastic promotion, uh, promotion into regular life. She's retiring, I should say. Retiring really young, actually. Good for her, good for that queen. Uh love her to death. I used to work for her, so I'm gonna fight down and I'm gonna do a nice long extended weekend um on that November 7th-ish. I don't know what day of the week that is. So that's when I'll be there for show.
SPEAKER_02:That'll be fun. I'm excited. And then we could do a live recording finally.
SPEAKER_01:We haven't done that in so long. Well, I'm so excited for you, and I love that you're friends with all the DJs, Mr.
SPEAKER_02:I'm from the D Friends with the DJ, and yeah, so I think, you know, I I absolutely. So as the each Sunday is coming along and I'm getting to know them, some of them have come back, and you know, some I've only seen once. Um, but um, you know, they're they're they're all really cool guys. I am getting to know them. I'm following them all on their social media, um, and actually started following them from our Dose of Delusion account as well. So you'd be able to see like all these that I had added. Um, so it's it's they're and then checking out their music is just so different and fun because they're all so different and unique. You need to check it out.
SPEAKER_01:No, yes, I do, but I was gonna say something. So you know our you know our friend, a friend of a friend of you, friend of the show, DJ Mark Oz? Yeah, okay. So for some reason, I must have got confused because we, you know, we both managed our our really low Instagram, but it's a work in progress. But we both manage our Instagram on our phone. So at some point in time, I saw Mark Oz's story and I assumed that I that it was my personal account this whole time. So I thought I had been following Mark Oz. Well, here recently, I was looking at the Dosa Delusion Instagram and I saw that he had uh a close friend. And then I went to my Instagram and I searched for him and I didn't see a close friend, and I got so offended. I got so offended, I was like, why the fuck does he not have me and his close friends? So then I went and back to double check, then I realized, oh, I'm personally not actually even following him. It's only those of those, and then I felt really silly. So then, of course, I followed him, but I'll only be like, Mark, it's me. Add me to your close friends.
SPEAKER_02:Oh my god. He would do that, he's another city pie as well. Like, I know I've met him. He's so sick, he looks so nice. So good. He's like, he did this like massive detox and like just trying to like better himself, and like his body is like snatched, and oh my god, he looks so fantastic. I'm so proud of him. Um definitely DJ Marcos.
SPEAKER_01:If you see a follow request from uh BJ all day, go ahead and click add and also click add to close friends, anyways. Um I am DJ, I mean AJ, AJ, DJ, DJ, DJ, AJ. Oh, start your new career.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I mean, I can't do all of it, so you know, I have to leave some for other people.
SPEAKER_01:Oh my god. Okay. Um, AJ, that was amazing. I can't wait. Go next Sunday, get more information, meet more people, that way we can talk about them next week on uh our our little section of uh I'm friends with the DJ. Um but before we go, should we hit some advice? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you have one? I don't have anything pulled up. I do have one, and I kind of like it. And I have not read ahead, so I'm not cheating. I swear I'm not cheating. Okay, so here we go. This one says, This is from Dear Daddy, which is so funny. I realize I do Dear Daddy and you do um Hey Poppy. Hey Poppy. That's on brand, it works. Quite literally. Uh Dear Daddy, maybe you'll think I'm making a big deal out of nothing, but I just don't get gay men sometimes. I'm on a site that posts vintage photos of men. Some of them are gay, some of them are not. Some are old pics of relatives or royals or soldiers dating back to the Civil War. So many of them are inspiring, and not just because they're men, but um not just because the men are more often not handsome. I kind of find it refreshing that we consider what we consider handsome today was just as good looking more than 100 years back. Now, as beautiful as these guys are, the comments really turn me off. It's like that old image of construction workers whistling and catcalling and being creepy when pretty girls walk by. They post things like, that one's mine, or I'd put my legs in the air for that, and I find it seriously pervy. I swear I've never said that before. I mean, not on a public forum. Exactly. Anyway, so this guy says, and I find that those comments seriously pervy. It's the same kind of thing that Donald Trump calls locker room talk, I guess. But if we condemn him and Kevin Spacey for taking advantage of people, then why should it be okay for us to do something the same uh in the same ballpark, which is funny because I'm currently re-watching House of Cards with Kevin Spacey. I had no idea there were so many gay things in House of Cards the first time I watched it around.
SPEAKER_02:What's a cover name?
SPEAKER_01:I know. Anyways, so I just wondered what your take on this is. Now, this is funny because the author of this question is signed Joe in San Antonio. Anyways, Joe, so if you're listening, here's for you. Oh, I can't read. John. John in San Antonio. Oh, John. So John, John, sorry, John, if you're listening, Joe, no one cares. John, if you're listening, here's for you. It says, no sleeves, please. Dear John, well, let's parse this out. As anyone who's gay already knows, you can't control what attracts you. So let's not shame people for that. But there are different kinds of attraction, and I forgot, AJ, what are your thoughts on this question?
SPEAKER_02:Thank you so much. I was like, so we're just blowing right over. Sage advice with the silver fox. That's fine. Um, so okay. So I mean, I I didn't really know where he was going, but like a common's a common, and you know, if people are gonna try and be funny or say something over the internet, which everyone is always a lot braver to do, let them just fucking say something over the fucking internet. What's the problem? So, and again, it's vintage old photos, so these people may still not even be around, or they're gonna be 80, 90, 70 years old or something. So they may be like, Oh, I still got it. You know what I mean? Like, so they're gonna take it as a compliment. If he's so bent up about it, no one's saying it about him, chill the fuck out, John from San Antonio.
SPEAKER_01:You know, I I think I'm gonna agree with you on this one. Uh, we know both, especially with not just today's political environment, but for years, people we have keyboard keyboard warriors. People get online and say whatever they want to say no matter what. And if it doesn't affect you, let it go. Or even if it does affect you, it's some stranger behind the keyboard who gives two shits about it. Move on and let go, which is actually really funny because two words actually stood out to me here. So um, I don't know, a couple of months ago, maybe there's this TikTok creator. He, I'm actually really embarrassed to say this, but there's this TikTok creator. Um, he is I don't know if it was an amputee by an accident injury or by birth, but he's missing one arm with both his legs and like almost all of his fingers on the other arm. So he literally just has like out of all four appendages, he just has one arm with like a little bit on the end of it, like nothing. Okay. He is so handsome. He has a gorgeous face, he's tatted, he's ripped, he's funny, he's hilarious, and it's so weird. And I follow him and I'm like, I I like the stuff, whatever. But the other day or a couple of months ago, he had posted this video of him like running on the beach. That was horrible, but you'll see what I mean, anyways. And you can see like all of his stuff like jiggling around in his the appendage that really matters.
SPEAKER_02:Oh my god, maybe it is a don't no candles. Yes, it is. I'm as red as the back of the backdrop. Oh that's blush, remember? Blush.
SPEAKER_01:But, anyways, so I had commented on it and I did a thing where I thought I was being a little keyboard warrior. Like, this guy's famous, super popular. Like, no one's gonna see this comment. And I commented, I can't be the only one, right? And I put the little devil emoji. That's all I wrote. Tell me why that comment went viral, viral-ish. 6,400 likes, a couple hundred replies, and everything. And I'm just thinking, that's so embarrassing. Like, no one was supposed to see that. He's famous, he has thousands of thousands of comments. Why did that comment get picked up? But I let it go. No one's noticed it. One of my friends, actually, our friend Ryan in California. Ryan, uh, our friend Ryan who moved to California, he recently came across it and he sent me a screenshot, and I was like, I'm so embarrassed. No one was supposed to ever see that. Anyways, people are gonna be stupid online, it's dumb. Um, well, what is daddy has to say. He says, No sleaze, please. He goes, Well, let's just parse this. As anyone who's gay already knows you can't control what attracts you, so let's not shame people for that. But there are different kinds of attraction. You might look at these photos and see only handsome men, but it's hard to believe that gay men like you might not also find some of them desirable, and that's fine. Now you already have something in common with the guys whose comments annoy you. And maybe even if it's just the public nature of their cat calling you dislike, perhaps it's the people in the photos that can't defend themselves that bothers you. Maybe you put yourself under place and you wouldn't like those lewd comments being directed at you or someone that means something to you. But what they're doing is simply living out a fleeting fantasy or what it might be like or maybe have been like to get with a guy for his look. So pick your battles, let it go. This is just gutter talk and it shouldn't demean you or anybody else. It is only a form of objectifying if you let it be.
SPEAKER_02:And they're not photos about him, so he needs a choice.
SPEAKER_01:Exactly.
SPEAKER_02:Exactly. Or like, don't pay, yeah. Anyways, so well, sorry, John from San Antonio, but you're not the vibe.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, dumb. I said it. I've had so much fun. Yeah, no, AJ, I've had so much fun. I loved this catch-up. I cannot wait to hear more about Sundown Social and the DJ C me next week. Um I did not talk to you about my St. Louis trip to St. Louis, Missouri. Oh, yeah, because there was nothing to talk about. Talk about the most no salt, no pepper, the most bland city I've ever been to. Disgusting, gross, gray, hated it. If there was no arch there, it would be nothing. Anyways.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I think there was a strong like migration from there that that left.
SPEAKER_01:Post they call they call it the gateway to the west, is what it is what the city is labeled as.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, well, but also what happens at the gateway? You just walk through it and you go to the other side. So no one's staying at the gateway.
SPEAKER_01:This door frame to my studio is also a gateway. You don't see me glamorizing it.
SPEAKER_02:No, but you don't you don't stay hanging out in the doorway, you pass through. So that's why no one's there, and it's so black. Anyway, oh my god, why am I this going off and crazy?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I hate it. I hate it so much. Personally offended by St. Louis, Missouri, no offense. Okay, John from San Antonio. Touche. Touche. Anyways, AJ, um, thank you so much. I love you.
SPEAKER_02:Love you too. I'm gonna go have a drink. It's calling me. I see you right there.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, listeners, we love you. We can't wait to see you guys back here again next week. Uh, please reach out to us. Um, I am BJ all day on Instagram. This is AJ the Silver Fox. Thank you. On Instagram. Follow us at Dose of Delusion, and um, we will see you guys next week. Bye bye now.
SPEAKER_02:Bye.
