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27 Did You Fin-Ish? (Blix Unami)
In this episode of 'How Come,' host explores the enchanting world of mermaids with Blix Unami, a prominent figure from Netflix's 'Merpeople.' They delve into themes of identit...
27 Did You Fin-Ish? (Blix Unami)
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Hello everybody, welcome back to how come this episode is all about mermaids with a mermaid you may
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know from Netflix's Mermaid People, the blix tsunami. I just recently met blix on the show Slipery
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when Wet, which is if you remember my friend Betsy Carroll, we run a mermaid themed variety show once
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a month. It's a thesis all about what mermaids mean to Betsy. There's comedy, there's music, and
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there's great guests, and blix was one of those guests. So after hearing blix's story on the show,
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I was like, we need to talk on the pod because blix is just so unapologetically themselves.
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A trigger warning we are talking about HIV because blix is extremely good at being positive
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despite being HIV positive and actually sees it as a blessing. So stay tuned for how that could be
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and how to be as positive as blix. How come how come how come I can't achieve I'm rolling up my sleeve
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I'm rolling up my sleeves oh maybe I believe these guests can help because I can't do it by myself
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I want to kiss. Welcome blix. Thank you. Thank you for being here. I appreciate it. We met the other
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night at slippery when wet, which if you guys haven't heard of slippery when wet, it is a mermaid themed
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variety show that I've been producing with our friend Betsy Carroll. And it's basically about what
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mermaids mean to her like about the human experience. And you are a professional mermaid very well
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known mermaid you are on Netflix's Merpeople. What do what do mermaids mean to you? To me mermaids
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ultimately mean freedom and like the desire to just live life however you want to and literally
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go with the flow because even being a merm living in the ocean the ocean isn't always calm.
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So with those rough thieves and those storms happen you got to learn how to go with the flow and
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keep swimming literally with the ripped tides. Yeah exactly. So yeah that's what it means to me
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just being free and being yourself authentically to the fullest. And you have always been able to
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be authentically yourself like you knew you were gay from like a very young age right like about
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five. Yeah. Yeah. Yes very much a very young age I already knew that I was different. I knew I was
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very much different than the other boys and my other male cousin. I was always around the girls
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and I liked mermaids and Barbie dolls and pink and you know like I like the girly stuff I like
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playing with the dress up stuff. Which is now being like more accepted by if you're a straight little
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boy you're allowed to like all of those things. Which I do love but you were also like yeah I've
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got crushes on boys. Yeah. Yeah especially back in the early 90s late 90s early 2000s that
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era so yeah well the tough time I don't regret nothing though like I think it was honestly good.
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I really think it was it wasn't that bad. I mean of course though no you can't have that happen
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and yeah whatever but ultimately yeah I'm glad I got to experience the childhood I had.
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Do you remember your early 90s crushes? Oh early 90s crushes. I don't think 90s per say. Oh I
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guess well when the power is just come out I guess when never power is first came out the Black
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Ranger. Yeah. Had a crush on him but definitely in the early 2000s when George and a jungle came out.
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Yeah. Yeah that was like one of the ones. Yeah I feel like a lot of people have been talking
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about George at the jungle recently and there's like one scene where he is slippery one wet. He's
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sweaty as fuck. Yeah everyone's like let me slide on it. Let me balance on it. I think you just
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got to New York and he took a shower for the first time. Yeah. But so what's interesting about
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that character too is in slippery one wet Betsy talks about how mermaids are always portrayed as
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these like sexy born yesterday characters that they're incredibly hot but also not good at the
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everyday things to do like they have like they're like neurodivergent coated in that they're really
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good at very like sophisticated things like learns how to speak English in like a day but then also
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like would use a fork for a hairbrush like those type of weird things and I feel like
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George or the jungle is also very sexy born yesterday like he was just like discovered and then
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they were like okay well it's hot guy let's just let's just hang out with him. Yes I definitely agree
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I definitely agree but then also too if you expand it more that's just one type of mermaid mindset
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like with siren I don't know if you remember the show siren that came out it was on freeform
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the more if a more adult themed mermaid show and the mermaid she has that sexy born yesterday but
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then she's really like beastly so she like knows when a guy isn't supposed to be touching her and
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she kicks his ass like yeah and I think she it took her a few days to learn English that was the
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nice part I didn't realize for her but she very much understands consent right right yeah
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takes a lot of us a little more time to learn just given the the water that we're steeped in
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right um that's interesting I want to watch that show do they have
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no mermaids are way more ennullistic yes I was gonna tell you I was gonna mention that in two
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then two they they end up some mermaids and they're coming on and then the whole like
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the whole thing on that show so crazy because they don't have mermaids per se because apparently
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the mermaid goes to us like sacred pool and become mermaids to have offspring oh so they're like
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certain types of fish yeah yeah you know how certain types of fish that like they'll change their
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gender in order to reproduce yeah yeah yeah it has something like that going on it's really nice
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and they have like different tribes of mermaids and like if a mermaid leaves her tribe her tail or
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morph to every new tribe she gets to like it's really good it's so good I'm gonna tell you now it
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ends on a cliffhanger and you're gonna be mad okay I was just prepared you now that just don't
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finish it it's like I used to only watch remember how Titanic came in a box set of like two different
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VHS's like I would only ever watch the first one and then it'd be like what a lovely romantic comedy
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yeah we'll do that and then just stop in the middle of season two just stop it yeah okay um wait
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so we were talking about how these sirens will change gender and your bio it says that your pronouns
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are they them yes okay so when did you know that about yourself um when I was working at TJ Max
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and the longer my hair got and the more I started playing with makeup it was a lot of oh you're
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pretty you're pretty boy or the little kids are you a boy or a girl so when that started half
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when that started happening I was like oh okay really good question right it's like you'd
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something I haven't considered yeah right and then two a lot of times from the back I would be like
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people say ma'am can you help me and I would turn around and they'll be like oh I'm sorry sorry
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and so then with the mermaid thing too when I started really coming up with my brand I started
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playing with like the colors of eyeshadow and stuff because it like it started with like
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eyebrows and then mascara then I used my way into the foundation and I used my way a little bit
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more into adding like a little color here on the side and then now with the whole blitz
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tsunami thing actually in my adult version of the stories I'm doing I have both parts so the
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blitz tsunami is essentially uh from after night great but there's a lot of like off mermaid comics
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of them having both parts mm-hmm they could be male a female at the top but then usually at the
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end of the day it's interesting because there's like a lot of performers that I've noticed on
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drag race recently that they start in drag as like cis men and then through the art of drag they
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realize that they're actually trans women or whatever so that feels like your journey as well
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that you were like well like mermaiding feels very true to me but then also like these other
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issues surrounding gender come up and like now I know myself a little bit better yeah because
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in the beginning two like in the early maybe like 2010s 2014-15s a lot of the mermaids
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they were really held bent on being called mermaids like that whole one thing to because they
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were like oh don't call me a mermaid I'm a mermaid right it was always I don't care what you
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call mermaid mermaids like I didn't care yeah you're like no I like mermaids it's yeah yeah
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yeah it's generalizing sometimes like I just thought of a gender fluid one is a merson yes
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merson merson merson murf folk merm yeah I think mermi mm-hmm yeah it's kind of like choose your
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own adventure because it's a fantasy to begin with exactly so like make it what feels the best to
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you exactly exactly okay and so when you do professional mermaiding are you doing like the swimming
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the tricks the whatever or like is it mostly like your comedy and your music it depends on the gig
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okay so if there's a stage I'm usually just performing my song the one the
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two women went that was my first time like doing comedy and like talking to the crowd like that
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fun we pop your little tail cherry yes yes y'all did but yeah that was my first time so usually
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if there's a stage involved I'm performing my song oh there's a pool or there's water I'm in my
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tail splashing around if there's a tank then that's like posing for photos and doing tricks and stuff
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so it all depends on what the gig requires me to do and do you prefer doing like
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gigs that are for children or like adult okay adults I'm only down one kid party and I was the
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part I ever did in 2017 or 2016 and I was like never again I got paid very well yeah there was also
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that a lot of other party that that wasn't trying to pay me that same amount of that first one so I
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was like yeah not so what was so bad about it though are like what was off putting the off putting
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was like just being around kids and how they can get disrespectful with what they say so you like
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slick on the side or like you give the birthday girl a back swim on 19 of her friends went a back
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swim too and those are different sizes so like no like yeah like you're 14 I can't do this
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right I don't think you go my back yeah um but yeah just that that whole entertaining kids thing I
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know it's just I gotta get paid a lot I gotta a lot to do a kids party I'm sorry like the kids
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that's a lot of energy to keep them like entertain and then like in the fantasy too because they got
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tablets the kids are born with tablets now so they know what everything is so well it's a lot
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we Betsy and I were at a pool recently and there was only like two kids there but I was like
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Betsy like go put your tail on like this will be fun yeah and the little girl just kept going
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I want to meet Ariel and I was like well there's another mermaid here like you're being disrespectful
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yeah so I can imagine with like multiple kids and also just kids like they do say whatever is on
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their fucking mind yeah and sometimes you just don't want to deal with that yes it's basically what
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it's a bunch of them for two hours yeah um but you you shared a lot with us at Slipper I'm so excited
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that that was the first time you were talking because it seemed so easy for you and yeah you're
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very open about not just your merge journey but like your life journey which we mentioned rip tides
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like you have been homeless living in a shelter before uh left in a car couch shopping yeah verbal
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abuse for my parents as a kid like being becoming getting in the relationship my longest one and then
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finding out I'm HIV positive after like is that it was from your longest relationship
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oh and were you guys monogamous yes but then and fidelity did end up happening but shut up
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but I found out he was already far gone with the ship before you guys were even dating yeah so wow
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it was just he lied about his status the whole way through and so after we broke up and I was
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oh I'm so sorry yeah it sucks but it's like and then after I found out that that's actually a lot of
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people's story that I've met in the community it's like damn that's crazy like somebody who say
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they love you would really fuck your life up like that and not like have the remorse and just
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be there with you every day saying they love you within their poison in you the whole time like
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that's it is crazy that's crazy it definitely um strengthen me to like be up more of my health
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and like what I'm eating and stuff and like even sexual because I am a sexual person you know
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mermaid you know adult books got mermaid seduced to people and have a sex and stuff like that so
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you don't have to get wet if you stay wet exactly but they're also I like being up on my health
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like I get tested every month I take my necessary meds like all that shit so that comes with it
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I literally was just talking about this I was hired by a woman to break up with her boyfriend
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for her recently on cameo because he cheated on her and gave her an STI and oh damn she was just
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like I don't want to like see this person and like whenever somebody is cheating that is so
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disrespectful but then to do it in an unsafe way and like what happened to you of it wasn't even
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oh I fucked up one time right maybe let me see if I go get tested so I can like tell this
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person that I'm in a very committed relationship with what the fuck is up right so how did you find
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out like did they eventually tell you or like were you already broken up he told me the day we split
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we broke up on Halloween shut up yeah like we broke up on Halloween and then we were living in Atlanta
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at the time and we went back to South Carolina because we met in South Carolina with dating move to Atlanta
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I was just getting into the mermaid shit you know with my merma and you know living out there trying to
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like get into the mermaid shit and then we broke up Halloween and a week later we drove back to
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South Carolina to have our separate ways and when we were when I left out his car he said
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make sure you take care of yourself and stay healthy have a nice life and he left and I was like
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that was really specific yeah because you were just saying but also not to specific at all yeah and then
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well made a really hit is when I ran the doorbell to my mom's house the first thing she said was oh
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hey Eric you look sick and I was like what she was like yeah you need to eat or something like
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she was like you don't look like yourself and I was like well shit I did just go through a lot
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relationship in the past two years yeah then I called my best friend because she was like no you
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look like physically ill yeah yeah yeah so I at this point my mind is racing I call my best friend
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I'm like hey girl we got to go to the doctor tomorrow because I need to do fuck going on and yeah
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the next day that's when I found out and um that you're HIV positive mm-hmm and it was saying I had
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it for like at least a year already and I was with old boy yeah so that that was the thing but
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hey once I found out I got on my shit and I just kept living like yeah I cried the day of but then
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I was like wait this ain't the end of it this ain't the 80s no more like I'm gonna be fine so I got
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on that that real quick of I'm gonna be fine like yeah no that's amazing but I'm also just thinking
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back to like do you think your relationship for that last year was bad and that's why you didn't
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notice that you were feeling sick like you were just feeling like oh I'm in a bad relationship
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of course I'm going to like feel a little physically ill or did you not feel it at all I didn't feel
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it at all because the relationship was a roller coaster like so that was like spiking your hormones
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all the time and like yeah like it was good dysregulating your sister it was really good and it was
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really bad like first Beyonce concert first time going to Disney World with somebody holding hands
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and first time being in a car accident because of him like first time going to jail together like
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that's it was crazy that that relationship was crazy but then looking back at it now and see where
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I'm at today I don't regret nothing that happened because it made me who I am today
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yeah of course no and like you're literally just Betsy was saying this over and over like one
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of the most positive people and like it's it's very inspiring but just to clear up for anybody
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who's listening so it was you got diagnosed as HIV positive which doesn't mean that you have
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AIDS no yeah mermaids mermaids yeah yeah if you if I if it was that situation I would have been
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I would have probably been damn their dead like getting bones and it'll take months to get
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undetectable because that's what I am now because I take my meds and I was able to
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it before it became full blown because if you don't get on medicine to regulate all of that
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sitting your blood and all of that then that's when the whole AIDS can take over and literally kill
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you getting them all really start yeah depleting their body mm-hmm okay wait so you're saying if
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you take your medicine you have become undetectable is that like with herpes that sometimes like
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you cannot transmit it to other people if you're taking your meds yes yeah uh-huh I don't even know that
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mm-hmm that's so cool and so how do you know in the moments like when you are undetectable
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I go when I go to get my blood drawn every four months okay got it because they keep account
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of all the bloodstales the different cell numbers it's a whole like technical thing
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but I find out every four months you know they check and they check everything too and that's what I
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think the sky because I got insurance now and you know I made it live out here and I got
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even teeth for the first time in life because if they look at it as a disability I've never
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oh wow you know I've always the work jobs all my life so now to be out here and actually do this
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shit what I'll have in a worry about a legit nine to five all the time is like it's pretty like
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I was a fucking blessed enough though while like even being in that shelter you do not let your ex
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hear this but okay I don't give a I don't care you already know I don't talk to the about him
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multiple times already but I mean this would be something different because now this is my first time
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like publicly talking about it like yeah like my Instagram they know I you know people know I'm
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positive but they're not everybody knows so it's like I don't care though at this point um but yeah
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I'm gonna give it the fuck my ex fine now okay no I just don't want him to think he's a blessing
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because he's not oh no he's not he's not but even still he kind of is because of the shit we
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went through like I can't knock it like we went to my first Beyonce concert I love Beyonce so
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that you know to have gone to my first one with my boy my Zen boyfriend and you know my Zen
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boyfriend we got the whole hands and Disney world and take pictures with the Disney princesses
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and stuff like I was living like he would buy me mermaid dolls like it was that relationship it
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was like the good was really good and the bad was really bad like yeah I relate so much to like
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the holding hands at Disney thing because I remember with my first boyfriend like I had it I was
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21 when we started dating but I took him to one of my high school reunions and all I never
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wanted to do in high school was like kiss a boy in the library never done that and then like we
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went like check yeah literally just yes it there be like out a gay and black and doing it like that
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that's just gave me so much life I was thankful for shit like that but yeah I can't I can't
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you know talk to my shit it's still like fuck him a little key but it's like okay thank you for
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the good time I did it for those experiences yeah yeah yeah I also love I did not know that your
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birth name is Eric yeah like you're meant to be I'm right or with them yeah yeah I tell people all
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the time once I like break down the mermaid thing if I meet somebody for the first time and I'll be
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like this and my name is Eric and my wife name is Ariel and they're like oh your married your
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your wife name is Ariel and I'm like no no so I'm actually the husband and the wife right I am the man
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and the mirror yeah yeah yeah that is so funny but yeah I can tell people like it's so ironic how
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the universe worked out for me and then like my family having on my dad's either mermaid lore from
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my great granddad like everything just what do you mean yeah so apparently my great great granddad
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caught a mermaid on Edestone Beach in South Carolina where I'm from and yeah yeah that's
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the story that my dad told me since I'm in a kid and I held on to that shit to this day they even
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did a dramatization of it on the Netflix show like I did a whole voiceover explaining it and everything
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see I watched it but it was years ago so I don't know I didn't remember that part I think it's
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all right but so do they genuinely think it was a mermaid like I don't know if yeah that's
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what my dad nothing he said it was the mermaid he caught her and had her in the bathtub and was
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nursing her and all yeah that that was it and then there's some and then I actually like a year or
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two ago found out there's some more mermaid lore from Chelsea were I'm from so I even get
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with a mermaid ride in like 1840 something in like downtown area this it was crazy so I was like oh
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okay yeah have you ever seen I'm gonna just look up Irish mermaid movie Irish mermaid movie yeah
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the mermaid's chair is it the mermaid's here I think that was oh the secret of Rowan Inish
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ah okay it is one of my comfort movies really my my boyfriend showed it to me a few years ago
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and it's about the like Irish version of mermaids which are called silkies yeah the silkies the
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seal mermaid the seal mermaids oh my god you would love it it's so I might have seen it I'm
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my because I've seen a few silky mermaid is it like one of those late 90s early 2000s movie
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well no it's it's earlier I think it's like 93 okay if I see the cover of it I might know but it's
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very whimsical and like yeah there's like a bunch of mermaid lore in this family and like yeah okay
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I'm about to look that look into that and double check we're quite the scientific podcast so I will
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not say that there has been evidence of real mermaids but yeah very very into them just as like a
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a concept and yeah like the freedom that you were talking about and just like learning to
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be yourself and like and then the other thing that makes me believe in it is the whole the whole
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thing of like before technology and all that how all these other countries had their own depiction
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of the same thing without you having acknowledged in each other but they all saw it so I feel like
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that that helps me and I'm like wait a minute yeah I'll see it and they're all in different places
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so yeah right and I think most of the explanation is like people were like out at sea for a long
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time and they saw a manatee and they were like yeah I want to talk about the woman
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I'm gonna look at the fever right to get care of the fever yeah at this time they didn't have
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flesh lights like they probably didn't jack off in groups so they were all so really pent up and like
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hallucinating very much but I would love if they were real yeah I'm here for it I'm here for
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have you ever seen the 13th year obviously yes oh my god that was like the first
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merman movie that was like oh yay we could do this too like it's for boys too like that was the
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one I told people it's for boys too look got a whole movie about it so yeah that movie helped a lot
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and it was literally like puberty yeah it was like at puberty you become a mermaid which like I
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feel like there's so many magical movies where it's like at a certain age you like find out your
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powers or whatever and like like Sabrina like Sabrina like getting a letter from Hogwarts when you're
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living you know it's like yeah there's stuff changing in your body but like with mermaids it's
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like inherently like sexual yeah you get the urge it's like you have the urge you're hot now like
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you can you can hear things and feel things like more sensitively than before yep
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um in your human puberty or rather do you do you remember when you first were feeling like
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sexual feelings or when you had your first orgasm hmm I want to say I know I was young
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um hmm maybe like middle school era okay I remember watching spicy tv on HBO later like for sure
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real sex is fine now yep real sex take whatever number they would do yeah I learned a lot
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from real sex so I was watching that and finding out about like what ejaculation was and orgasms
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and sex and general strippers all that shit I learned from watching real sex because my parents
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were like no no you're like a little bit of that stuff yeah like why would y'all see me now
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I'm a learn from HBO shit I'm like realizing so many people have had the same exact experience
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and I'm like does HBO know like the profound impact they had on like young people when they were
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trying to make this show for like adults like it's just like a docu series but it ended up being like
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our doctor Ruth basically was like Atlantic City hookers that like take their teeth out to give
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the best blowjob ever I was like I'll never forget that yep yep I don't think they realize it
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either because they were thinking they were making it for the adults but the adults were already
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sleeping literally they're so tired and all their kids are just like okay well I guess I'm going
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to learn about come now yeah yeah that's the balance a lot forget orgasms and all of that jack
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and off all that stuff came from you watching real sex was your first boyfriend the first like
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sexual experiences you had with another person no but my first boyfriend and because I well
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I think I really count those boyfriends yeah yeah my first boyfriend I had an eighth grade oh no I
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but your first serious boyfriend was the other guy yeah so like first first like first puppy
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love puppy love the eighth grade yeah I'm where you guys like making out or just like
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making out give each other head we did have sex um one time and yeah after that I was like okay
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cuz we broke up after oh my gosh we ended up going I told every year ended up moving or I didn't
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want to talk to him or something I don't know I was okay I was 15 and I finally got my
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rock song and I was just ready to just go I was like I want to be tied down before
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you're a little fuckfish mm-hmm it's definitely giving that
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have you ever um hooked up in like mured out no but I've said I'm saving that for my husband
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okay my whoever took the ring on my finger he getting all that okay he's getting the full fantasy
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yes cuz especially after that one girl year ago that got a silicone tail with a working vagina
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on it I was like what yeah mm-hmm was this in the dark no okay but but my Taylor the guy who made
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the money he's the one who made it yeah him and his ex they made that tail so wait she has a tail
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that has a vagina built into it nah so somebody could fuck the tail but is she getting
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sensation from that yep what yeah cuz they molded it onto her so both holes would be exposed
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the right way even when she bends over and all that shit yeah that's so sick I don't think nobody
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but I don't think nobody ever like posted the video like there's pictures of the tail
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and her swimming in it but nobody's ever seen or posted the clip that I know of well that would be
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porn yeah so I don't even know if I was ever like actually seen it um I didn't even think to look
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forward I've been meaning to but I've I've seen some wacky mermaid porn oh so I didn't think to
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look into that one see I can picture it being like physically possible from behind
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because that's where it's mainly at yes in the back yeah okay cool would you ever want to do
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something like that I would I would have definitely been the mermaid doing porn if I started out
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with that at first I'm not even saying porn I'm just saying to fuck it in a tail oh yeah yeah I
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would have been certain or made doing porn doing this it for real okay okay definitely did that
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I mean it's still on the table especially because you're mostly doing adult entertainment stuff
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like yeah but then I know but then it could go the real sex yeah thing and then a bunch of kids are
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like I learned how to fuck from a mermaid I'm a mermaid yeah I'm cool I'll say PT 13
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like all because that one of my performances are me swimming in a tank yeah so my ball and
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juicy shows because the fabric till I have is really thin so somebody commented it was like oh nice
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but don't make it sexual there's kids there and I'm like bitch what are you serious right now ladies
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that's that's the comments you want to put because you're looking at that because you're a little guilty
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mind is looking at my damn crotch area and you like as a visible from the front or the back from the
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front so it's like lady come on now I'm a mermaid at the end of the day what the fucking
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D there like they're eggs I remember this by my son actually my egg pouch lady yeah it's my
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that's it that's my sack my egg sack my mind it works both ways
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saying that literally would you have you ever met another mer person that you have hooked up with
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no every mermaid that I meet yeah I wouldn't even mind dating another mermaid but everyone
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I think is always automatic oh that's merbrow or that's those licks your dog yeah so baby yeah
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they think you're like so famous yeah or they just automatically they're they're merr's marrised yeah
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and I automatically get the bro card so it's like I'm bound to date a pirate or something or a two
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lega a two lega man sure I'm so surprised that they like bro zone you so quickly but then there's
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other merman who's like to me like sex like I know I'm not an option but to me yeah I don't know
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I don't know what it is maybe to get intimidated or something because I know other merman who
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dating tether in her like in relationships and shit and I'll be like how the fuck what how do you
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yeah maybe yeah maybe it's the intimidation factor yeah I think so I think they're just like well
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it's easier to be friends because I don't know if I could per for me yeah you catch an
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on real fast oh I am so happy to have something else to make puns out of because yeah for the last
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seven years I've just been doing like come puns no yeah the mermaid was the one I said the other day
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oh because you said you were gonna get really fishy yeah as katie murry says fish fish yeah
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it was a joy I get the mercabulary gets real deep like like I say with anchovy that's the haters
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that's the haters yeah throwing urchins that throwing shade or you know being rude to somebody
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um what else see weed fire coral I told you what that that's marijuana yeah marijuana
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our merge of one is some people say merge of one merge of one uh but I like see weed and fire
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coral better that's all I mean you I started my little crabs that you guys I play a crab
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I started with my set being like sorry I was outside smoking seaweed and I was like yeah
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yeah and your tail has a weed leaf at the bot like or is weed leaf shaped yep that was my
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little secret little way of adding weed into my mercona mm-hmm like if anybody wants to smoke
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me out after my perfmmerformance right I will be in the tub yeah with the bubbles in my two friends
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bin and jerry with fish food oh wait but speaking of of being in water have you ever had sex in water
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yes with my last boyfriend nine years ago we had sex in a pool how do you find it how do I find
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like do you like water sex oh it was interesting I wouldn't do it again though because it was
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spontaneous you know it was that night at his apartment complex it was easy to like get in there
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and just do it but then after while I was like hmm I'd rather be in a bed I'd rather be in a bed I feel
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like water is like really fun for like four play but every time I've had sex in a body of water it's like
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first of all I can feel it like wishing in me yeah which I'm like this just feels like
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kind of gross it whether it's like sea water or like chlorine like you just don't want to getting
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in your holes yeah so like it's hard to move like like you want to be going fast and then suddenly
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there's like a fucking blick tsunami being created in between your faces and your water
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boarding yourself and the other person right exactly it's the one and then shower sex like always
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one person is cold like water is such a good yeah it's like such a fun idea but then I'm like maybe
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just for like four play and then like dry off and get in bed yes I feel it get on the floor whatever
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I feel it yeah the pool yeah get all I have get dry yeah yeah yeah I don't care for it though either
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it's not are you a top or a bottom or a verse or a side or whatever I am a full blown
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verse yeah I had a feeling mm-hmm that's the life she's everything he's everything they're like what are
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you I'm everything yeah and guys be like always want you like more both yeah all of it yeah I like
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very like I want to experience everything individual mm-hmm just life like this you know like we're
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only here for literally a blink of a second you really think about it I know it's how quick this
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should can be over so it's like hey do it supposed to see we do there's this um
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philosopher I learned about in high school called Shopenhauer and his whole thing is like
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imagine like a massive fountain and then like the bubbles in that fountain like come in and out
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so so quickly he's like you are one of those bubbles in all of human history like you are just a bubble
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oh right a little bit depressing because you're like I'm nothing but then it's also so freeing
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because you're like I'm nothing mm-hmm let's just like
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live for this this blip yeah exactly goes on pop with yeah without trying to like hurt any of the other
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bubbles right but like maybe a half of your bubble yeah exactly another bubble you guys
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last a little longer just because the bubbles a little bigger right exactly that's community yep
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no for real I like that though that's that's actually pretty dope I don't really look at yeah people
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think it's like very dark and I'm like no I love it it's such a relief to me yeah and then it's so
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mermaid because it's bubble because yeah it's the bubble I know the first text you sent me was with
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bubbles and I was like you were so branded yeah I it's there I can't help it I love it though
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like every time I get somebody's number they get mine I always take that wave on those bubbles and they
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and in the beginning we were talking about well you mentioned to me off mic that you're hanging out
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with your family this week and like you guys are all having like a really nice time but I think
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you mentioned that there was some like verbal abuse in the beginning was that surrounding your
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sexuality or like mm-hmm the mostly being gay and then liking mermaid it was very much oh this
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happened to you because you gay you said the be gay how it happened to you are oh you know you're
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gonna go to hell if you keep living like that and oh I'll take these dolls out these for girls
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why you want that those a lot of that but then it was a lot of me in return saying I'm still doing
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I'm still being regardless like no matter how much we fight and argue you try to take my dolls and
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throw them away my mom's throwing away my dolls before like I just kept going I got more dolls
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as you can see yeah yeah my prize possessions over there so yeah yeah it come and go how did I
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mean so your mom was raised in the south as well I assume uh-huh uh-huh yeah so that was just kind of
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like she thought she was being a good parent protecting me and trying to protect you yeah and then I
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learned yeah that she was the black sheep too so I was thinking she was putting somebody out on me
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because I was the black sheep out of my siblings so how did she the black sheep out of hers I don't
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know exactly how I can't remember but I just like she had that feeling yeah yeah she was also
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by a little bit I think of because she like had a child first or something I don't I can't remember oh see
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there's always it's interesting it's like the what used to be considered like that you don't do that
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like it it changes every generation and I'm sure like her parents eventually accepted her and
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were like oh thanks for giving us a grandchild yeah everybody okay kids still so yeah but when
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did like the tide change yeah they really started respecting me more in the whole mermaid thing
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once I got isn't that the way I know right I got possible and after that came out on tv and
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they were like oh shit but they still kind of like whatever you still working your little job though
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like you know it's something that's constant and then once I got flowing out to Italy there were like
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all way to many you're this is actually let me do it I'm tree yeah once they did that happen
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they were like oh okay yeah it's interesting when it takes them seeing other people respecting you
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for them to finally get it and like sometimes I just want to be like like I mean even with me like
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I have certain family members and like friends who were like don't start this podcast it's TMI like
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yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and then the second it's on Netflix or whatever it's like
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oh like we've always believed in you and like you want to be like shot up and like
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you were wrong for a while but then it's like yeah I also kind of understand it like you don't
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want us doing something that is going to have us be ostracized by other people like they genuinely
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do think they're protecting you initially uh huh yeah and now they're like okay you're safe like yeah
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because they're fair they don't they always fear to do something and being ostracized for it so
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that's low key what they roll up in the ball if they like no I'm protecting you like no I'm actually
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letting my balls drop and I'm gonna go out here and do it I was just like I live other people too
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like my my egg sack I'm gonna let my egg sack fly you're right you're not
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so if I said no and okay I'll be a normal boy I would have never found a mermaid community and
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you know mermaid conventions and tail makers and oh that's it so yeah do you have any
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there's two part questions mermaid aspirations like in the future I'm sure but like do you want to
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let me name some of them and maybe uh mermaid fest I remember festin since April 12 1992 but I came out
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of my mom but yeah yeah literally swim out for real um basically just keep building the brand
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the blitzion army and the blitzion army adventures I got like my doll that y'all saw thank you
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so this guy got him doing his thing you know people steady you know putting a little uh their
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pre-orders in for him and so I'm building off of that which he'll come with a comic book which
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I want to turn that into a tv series or mini movie a Broadway show I don't worry
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wait the doll is you though but he is a he yeah um he's a he's she days then whatever
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okay all pronouns apply to the doll okay applies to me and doll okay great great great great
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I try to keep right you are you are all yeah I'm gonna tell people like just say blicks like it's
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just the blicks where where did blicks come from blicks came from out of the air when I was in the
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process of getting my first tail back in 2012 I was drawing like a little sketch of me in the tail
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that the person was making and I'm like I need a name I don't want to be merman eric that's so
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boring I don't know I was just sitting chilling drawing in blicks just came out of nowhere and I wrote
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B L I X and I was like oh I like how that looks and so I was merman blicks for a while and then
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when I got hired to do tiby islands mermaid festival I was like oh this is a chance for me to
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become a brand because this is my first gig that I'll be doing yearly so I want to talk you know
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half up until remember me and recognize me so then I came up with this whole look with the makeup
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the color purple so I used to have like a green tail and all these different crowns I had a bunch
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of different tails bunch of different jewelry but I used to always get confused for other black
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merman with either locks or braids sure not me so yeah so with that to be in the back of my head
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I'm like okay let me build this brand and then I was like I want to look like an anime character
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like I want to do real life right I want to be a real life cartoon character from an anime in
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Japan and so I was drawing you know the new look that I wanted and then I drew myself on a wave
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and then I was looking and I saw like a tsunami on the news or something I was like the blix
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tsunami blix oh no blix you now all these cuz I called ways I love that it's so good from yeah
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and then I want to take the merman part out that's why I called myself the blix you know me because
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of the days them I want everybody on the merman but you know me know it's the the the blix tsunami
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yes okay amazing and so we just we want the brand to grow and then do you have any like sexual
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and or relationship goals going into this next year um definitely what I want personally is to
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find or have my partner here locked in before this shit like it's bigger and bigger
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that's what I want um I feel like I'm getting there I am you know dating right now so we'll see
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wheel well see well see have you ever are you on the app so yes but still dumb because I am trying to
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talk to this one person so I check my messages but yeah okay I'm just wondering because I'm like
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you could always just like be on the apps as Eric and then like make sure they like you for you
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you know what I mean oh yeah yeah yeah I've even had guys be like aren't you that merman and I was like
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shit so I went to my first sex party last year at December I was here and I was in the line to the
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bathroom and I got tapped on my fucking shoulder I was probably really at the party for like two
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hours already at this point um I'm in the line in the bathroom I can tap on my shoulder and the
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guys like hey aren't you that merman and I was like I'm not going to the parties no more that was
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the first time I went and I never went to one again but I thought that was weird I'm like damn I'm
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in New York I just moved to my apartment just found out there's a sex party down the street like
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yeah I'm single whatever and that happened I was like okay it wasn't really my scene though anyway
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like I did it to you know do it to do it yeah to say I did yeah so that I rather a one-on-one to be
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on I think the comedian Joel Kembouster had a similar experience where like yeah he was at a
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sex party and somebody tapped him on the shoulder while he was like fucking oh and it's like weren't
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you in that movie fire island he said oh shit
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Jonas which like flattering but also like really takes you out of the moment and like out of the
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anonymity of that kind of experience so I'm sorry that happened but also it's pretty cool
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yeah no it's pretty funny yeah yeah she go to one of those ones where it's like
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everyone's masked up all the messed up ones right the mastery party that'll be interesting
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but yeah so I love that goal for you just to have somebody locked in who like you know is
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there for like the right reasons and like right right the right reason you're just be your
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merengaler but mostly definitely that somebody that's already locked in and knowing me for me
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yeah not somebody that's seeing me on TV and then want to be obsessed and try to get me and
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put a wrong reason yeah and the right intentions to be there totally do you have any things you
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want to accomplish sexually or like you feel like you do the mermaid thing doing it with the mermaid
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thing you know getting a mermaid tail made yeah yeah so that's like the last thing that would be a
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mate emerging you know mereng yes mermazing mermazing yeah there you go Barbie mermedia
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yep I love that movie I just watch that movie like two nights ago um well you're great I'm so happy
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we got to do this I'm so happy we're going to meet at slippery wet so far it was so far so fun
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y'all see so hilarious oh thanks um can you tell everybody where they can follow you online and where
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they can pre-order the dolly yes so you can follow me on all my socials the blix tsunami
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well my Facebook is blix tsunami the guichi murm that's the only one everything else is the
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blix tsunami and then my doll pre-order link is at the top of my bio on my Instagram this is on a
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website called free funder for even if you go to free funder it's high fin to blix tsunami it'll pop up
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but yeah that's all my socials and my YouTube is the session of blix tsunami I just got back on my
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tic-toc so I just uploaded there so yeah everything is the blix tsunami perfect and yeah you can
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or sorry perfect three of my music my music yes um no that was the most fun part of the show when
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you were singing and you were like wave and everybody was literally like doing little hand waves
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instead of like a wave I just started doing that too to get my performances more crowd involved
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yeah it was so fun you like they're in the performance with me so every time I do that song I always
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thought out that it would do the wave wave yeah and we were doing so and when they don't I'd be like you
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better start waving for I'm gonna show you yeah yeah but no yeah no no um you guys if you want to follow
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this podcast if this is your first time here welcome uh you can follow the podcast or how come
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podcast you can follow me at remi kassamer if you want to watch this whole episode with video and
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see how beautiful blix looks patreon.com slash how come uh and blix I have to ask you one more
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question before we go which I have to ask everybody after a sexual experience and this has been
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sexual um you're right the blix tsunami did you finish yeah thank you so much for coming thank you
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you guys it was so fun I came to or I finished to whatever I fishnished to thank you so much for
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listening and we'll see you guys next time on how come bye see you later see ya
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hello I'm sick of this and I have got to know how come how come how come I can't achieve I'm rolling up my
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sleeve I'm rolling up my sleeves oh maybe I believe these guests can help because I can do it by myself
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I want to kiss hello marvel section so if you've made it this far you might have already done
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this googling but as I was talking to blix I was like what how does hiv become AIDS like what
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how did blix have hiv for a year undetected and it did not turn into AIDS so google a quick
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google from the NIH says without treatment hiv can gradually destroy the immune system causing
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health decline and the onset of AIDS people receive an AIDS diagnosis when their cd4 cell count drops
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below 200 cells per milliliter of blood or they develop certain illnesses so basically hiv
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damages the immune system so that the body is less able to fight infection and disease if hiv
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isn't treated it can take years before we can do immune system enough to become AIDS so I think
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it seems like most people do not get AIDS anymore if they are getting tested regularly and treating hiv
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which is really good to know and yeah spread that information around but also still get tested and
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all that good stuff and if you're wondering the first sign of hiv infection is typically a flu
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like illness that occurs within the two to four weeks after exposure to the virus this illness may
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include fever chills night sweats fatigue muscle aches sore throat swollen lymph nodes and a rash
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if you are a hypochondriac don't listen to that like I feel like I get that sickness every day
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but also it's always okay to get checked okay love you bye