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Sexy is what we go for.

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We don't go for slaggy.

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- Slutty sailor.
- Slutty sailor!

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Welcome to The Outlifting Lounge, the weekly show serving queer conversation,

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news, and no-nonsense fitness for gay, bi, and trans guys.

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I'm Alan.

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And I'm his husband, Derec.

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Coming up today, we discuss how our dog forced us to

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take an unplanned break from the show and a big gay

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music festival we're going to in Madrid next month.

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Let's start the show.

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Welcome back to the show.

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It's been a couple of months.

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We took a wee bit of an unplanned break.

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It's been a crazy couple of months.

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I can't believe actually the last time we put

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a podcast out was the 31st of May.

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And it's now the 2nd of August.

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So sorry, we will explain why.

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But just before we do, actually, I think it's really important

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for us to briefly talk about what happened in Berlin recently.

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Yeah, we are both still very shocked by the

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terror attack on a pride gathering in the city.

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Yeah, when the news broke last week, it was such a shock.

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We couldn't believe it.

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It's just a reminder that we aren't safe and of

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the hatred that still exists towards the LGBTQ community.

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And do you know what?

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I think it's natural for people to maybe feel scared, but

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I think it's also a reminder of why pride is needed

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and that we can't hide in the shadows through fear.
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Because that's what our community had to do for so long.

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Whenever anybody asks why do we still march for pride, this is why.

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And also, a lot of the comments online that I've

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seen really demonstrate why we need to be very careful

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and not allow this attack to be used by racists.

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Because those people who are trying to make

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something of this politically hate us anyway.

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They don't really care about us.

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They're just trying to manipulate the situation.

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Yeah, it boils my piss.

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It boils my piss as well.

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All the comments that I've seen over the week from, you know,

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far-right people, right-wing people saying, you know, why are you supporting Muslims?

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Because obviously they are attacking your community

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and they've just totally lost the point.

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So, yeah, they can all get in the bin.

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I've seen quite a lot.

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Robert Jenrick, who was a Tory minister and is now in

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Reform, he was saying something recently about 'name the threat'.

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I think that's what he was saying.

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He's basically saying, if prides are under threat, name the threat.

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And, you know what?

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In our living memory, think of things like the Admiral Duncan.

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That was a white, so-called Christian, neo-Nazi terrorist.

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So, yeah, we're not being divided.

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We're not falling into the trap of blaming people

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with different colour skin because, you know what?

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There are threats from everywhere towards the LGBT community.

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Absolutely.

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Well, we'll get off our soapbox and start the show.

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No, because that's our favourite thing to do.

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So, this week's show is going to be shorter than normal, but we

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do plan to get back to our normal format from next week.

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So, if you do follow us on social media, you probably

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already know why we have gone quiet and why we haven't

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put out a podcast for the last couple of months.

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Our poor little baby, our dog Haggis, has been quite ill.

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Like I've been saying, it's been a couple

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of months since we've put a podcast out.

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And can I just say, I feel like I've

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aged about 20 years in the past few months.

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And I certainly look at it as well.

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You don't look 20 years older, but I think we do

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both look a bit tired at the minute because we have

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not really been sleeping very well for the last few months.

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So, just to get into it, our dog Haggis had his leg chopped off.

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He had his leg chopped off.

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So one of his front legs amputated and we're going to explain why.

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So the start of May, we noticed that he had a lump at the top of his leg.

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So we had taken him to the vets.

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They were doing lots of tests on him.

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biopsy and then realized that he had a tumour at the top of his leg.

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Now, thankfully, it was benign and they removed the tumour.

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He's on the road to getting back to himself again.

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But unfortunately, the tumour grew back very quickly and very aggressively.

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we were referred to a specialist oncologist vet.

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They were doing so many tests and we were awaiting a CT

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scan because they didn't know whether it would be operable or not

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to remove it because it was in such a tricky area.

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it was operable or whether the leg had to be amputated.

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a weekend, the tumour just grew rapidly and it became apparent to the vets

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and to us that amputation was the only option that was left.

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weekend and it was absolutely breaking our hearts.

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the decision was made on the Monday to have his leg amputated

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on the Tuesday, which was such a hard, hard decision to make.

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So he had totally lost his spark.

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He was not the same dog.

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He was in so much pain and discomfort.

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There was no joy in life.

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Everything was a struggle for him.

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And the immediate recovery from the surgery was

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really difficult, especially those first 24 hours.

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I mean, the dog was just traumatized.

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He had phantom limb syndrome.

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He didn't know what was happening.

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He couldn't really walk properly.

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We are a month down the line after surgery and we're

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very happy to report that Haggis totally has his spark back.

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Like each day we're seeing little glimpses of his old self, you know,

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he's playing with his toys, just the way that he interacts with us.

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It's incredible to see how resilient and how quickly he has bounced back.

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Dogs are just amazing.

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They're absolutely amazing.

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the Tuesday, and then my dad arrived for a week.

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He arrived on the Saturday.

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And if anybody listens to the podcast, you've heard us mention this before,

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but my dad is basically Haggis' favourite person in the whole world.

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So that for his recovery was just amazing to spend

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some time with his Papa G for a week.

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been missing for so long and he started getting on quite puppy-ish again.

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to him, a rough collie came over and was sniffing around

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and he started playing with it and chasing it.

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would have done when he had four legs.

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And I think we were really taken aback by that.

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It was nice to see, but then I had him out last night

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and he started playing with two other dogs and I think he forgot

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that he's only got three legs, that he's now a tripod dog.

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And he took a wee tumble and I absolutely shat myself.

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And I think he got a wee fright as well, but he's doing great.

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He's amazing.

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He's been through so much in his 10 years.

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He's had so many health issues, but we're very happy that he's still here.

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And I keep saying this over and over because it's

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so true, but he is my hero right now.

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What he has gone through and how he has dealt with it.

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We've been the wrecks.

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Just to put into perspective what we've been going

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through, you know, it's constant trips to the vets.

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It's taken two of us most times just to get him out

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to the toilet because one of us has to carry him.

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And because it's so hot here at the minute, we've had to, on

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all of the toilet breaks, we've had to take him out in the

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car to a shaded area so that he can do that.

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There's been a lot of work for us.

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place where we put down, we went out and bought lots

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of rugs so that he wouldn't slip on the tiles.

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So we're not really getting great sleep or anything.

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It's been tough.

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You'd do anything for your children, right?

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I think we've done our fair share, to be fair.

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a bit of a break from the podcast.

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really we've had to bring our focus to Haggis but also

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running the business, Outlifting, and just servicing our current clients.

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So it's been full steam ahead.

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But we're glad to say that we're getting back to a normal service.

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So although the podcast and social media took a bit

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of a hit, our actual business, Outlifting, did not.

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Clients still got 100% service.

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So hopefully you understand why we have been a bit quieter.

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And yeah, welcome back to the show, basically.

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Before we move on, though, we do have something else to say about Haggis.

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So, Derec and I like to approach things with humour because I

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think that's really the best way to get through situations like this.

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Yeah. And also, if you listen to the podcast, you'll know

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that we love to come up with drag names.

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So we came up with a drag name for Haggis and his drag name is...

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Summer Sales.

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Because he's now 25% off.

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I think it's quite a good one.

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So yeah, Summer Sales, if you're ever over visiting Playa del Inglés, Maspalomas

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area in Gran Canaria and you see us about, Haggis hopping along,

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make sure you come over and say hello to Miss Summer Sales.

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Yes, I think actually he's the only three-legged dog in

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the area because I haven't seen any others. Have you?

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He's going to get so much attention, isn't he?
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this section, we've ordered him a massive, big...

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like, dog stroller/pram so that we can take him out.

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So, if you do see us, you won't miss us because we're

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walking around with this big pram with a three-legged dog in it.

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But of course, we live on Gran Canaria and it's

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taken forever to get here, so it's still not arrived.

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The joys of living on a little island off the coast of the Sahara.

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So, now that the Haggis is much better, we have now

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been able to get on with life and we are planning

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a very short little break because I think we need it.

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So, my dad is coming back over in September for a month, which is great.

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So, lots of time for him to spend with Haggis.

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Luckily, he's not staying with us because he stayed for

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a week last time and that was a lot.

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But he's got his own wee apartment and Haggis is going

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to be staying there so that we can go to Brava Madrid,

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which is basically like a Spanish version of Mighty Hoopla.

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Two of the corporate sponsors for this event are Grindr and Red Bull.

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I didn't realise that.

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Very gay.

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Very Mighty Hoopla-ish, like from the videos

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and the photos that we've seen.

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We like the look of it.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's going to be a great wee weekend.

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So, that's the weekend of the 18th, 19th of September.

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So, tell us who's going to be headlining, Derec.

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So, it is very much aimed at our generation.

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They have some...

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Old?

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Old.

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Yeah, pretty much.

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So, they've got some headliners that everybody will know.

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They've got Sugababes.

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God knows which iteration of the Sugababes will be showing up.

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That's going to be good because they've got

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great songs, which is going to be brilliant.

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It's just going to be three random women on stage, really.

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- It could be anybody.
- But so long as they're singing the Sugababes

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hits that we know, we don't care.
- No.

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Natalie Imbruglia.

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So, she's going to be singing that one-time hit, Torn.

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Do you think...

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Do you remember the video, the hot guy?

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I wonder if she'll bring him out.

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Yeah. Although that was probably 30 years ago and he's probably...

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Oh, he'll be in his very daddy era now.

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He's also old.

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And also, the other big headliner that people might know, and this

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is somebody that we saw in November here and it was amazing.

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For anybody that didn't get that tune and there may

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be many of you, that was the Vengaboys, apparently.

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The Vengaboys. They were so good last time.

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So obviously they do their five hits that they've got, I'm

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saying, but then they did quite a few covers as well.

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They kept going for quite a while at that pool party.

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They were amazing.

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Half an hour or something.

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Yeah. It was good.

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So they're headlining at this also.

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There are other artists as well that people might not be so familiar with.

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We've got Spanish artists like Leire Martínez, Soraya, and Mayo.

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But the one that I am absolutely head over heels about, and part of

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the reason, I think most of the reason, why we found this festival in

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the first place and decided to go, is my favourite Spanish band, Fangoria.

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Yes.

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You have been dying to see them for years and years and years.

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You've never seen them.

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So, we went a bit bougie and we bought the VIP

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tickets so that you could get, like, front stage access.

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Because a few years ago, we went to see Adele in

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Vegas and basically the front row was, like, £5,000 each.

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So, we didn't get to do that, but we're going to do it here instead.

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Yeah. Not quite the same, but it's going to make you

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very, very, a little Irish gay boy, very, very happy.

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Yeah. But also, for the others, for, like, Sugababes and Vengaboys

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and stuff, it'll be cool to be up the front too.

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Aye. So, I'm really looking forward to Fangoria.

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If people don't know who Fangoria are,

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they're just, like, a Spanish institution.

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They've been going since, well, maybe, like, the 1980s,

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but before that, they were in another band.

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So, really, from, like, the late 1970s.

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So many hits.

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Massive gay icons as well.

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Like, they've got songs like...

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Espectacular.

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Yes.

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And also, iconic gay anthem before Fangoria that they had was A Quien Le Importa,

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which is just such a big queer anthem in Spain.

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And it has been for decades.

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And if anyone watches Drag Race España, the

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host Supremme De Luxe at the end of it...

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You know how Ru's got her...

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What's it she does again?

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If you can't love yourself...

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How in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

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There we go. So, it's a line from that song that Derec was talking about

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that the host says at the end of Drag Race España.

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Yes. It's the chorus basically.

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- They recite it and they all say it together.
- Go on then.

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¿A quién le importa lo que yo haga?

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¿A quién le importa lo que yo diga?

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Yo soy así, y así seguiré, nunca cambiaré.

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Basically means, who cares who I am, I

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am like this and I'll continue like this.

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I'll never change.

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Never change.

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That was a butchered translation off the top of my head very quickly.

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But yeah, speaking of Drag Race España, at Brava

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Madrid we've also got like a massive bingo party.

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A bit like, what do you call that one in the UK?

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Bongo's Bingo.

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They're saying that fast three times.

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Bongo's Bingo, Bongo's Bingo, Bongo's Bingo.

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Well done.

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Yeah, it's a bit like that, but it's like the drag version.

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And they've got three queens from Drag Race España.

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They've got Vania Vainilla, Krystal Forever, and La Niña Delantro.

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Yeah, I'm looking forward to that.

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So it's on the Friday and the Saturday.

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We arrive Friday afternoon and then we'll head there.

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The Friday's, it's okay

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the artists that are on.

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But then the Saturday is the big day and that's when the bingo's on.

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I can't wait to do the Drag Race Bingo.

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We need to brush up on our numbers in Spanish.

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Uno.

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Uno, dos, tres.

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That's my sound check.

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Uno, dos, dos.

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So, oh, the other thing as well, and this is where we need people's help.

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So, if you're listening, we need your help right now because there

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are themed days and, you know, we like to dress up.

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Any excuse for me to get the sewing machine out and buy some fabric.

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And do you know what sewing machine is in Spanish? Taka taka taka taka taka.

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It's not.

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That's a very accurate representation of how a Spanish person would, if

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you said to them, make a sound like a sewing machine.

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Taka taka taka taka.

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Taka taka taka.

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It's actually a Drag Race España

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reference, we're not being racist.

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No.

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Want to say Pupi Poisson?

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It was Pupi Poisson.

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There we go.

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Classic Drag Race España.

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So yeah, they've got themed days.

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So the first theme for the Friday is pink.

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So you're meant to just wear head to toe pink.

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Not as in like...

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No, not as in the non-lesbian lesbian singer.

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I was trying to think of one of her songs there.

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The lesbian icon.

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What's the one that we used to do in Bodypump?

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I am here.

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Yeah.

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Not that P!nk.

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So that's Friday's theme, pink.

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And then the Saturday theme is navy, but not

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as in the colour, but as in, hello sailor.

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In the navy.

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Yeah.

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Ooh sailor!

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So think like Jean-Paul Gaultier kind of.

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Sexy model, crop top, stripey, wee jaunty sailor hat.

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Slaggy.

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Sexy is what we go for.

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We don't go for slaggy.

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Slutty sailor.

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Sexy sailor.

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Maybe a little bit higher fashion because it is Madrid after all.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. We don't want to look like the guiris from

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the UK coming over to spoil their festival.

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Yeah. We'll walk in like Linda La Hughes.

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I'm gorgeous.

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Look at me in me sailor outfit.

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I'm gorgeous.

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Are you Catherine Zeta Jones?

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People say you look like me.

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Oh God.

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We digress.

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Yeah, we do digress.

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Hopefully people get the Gimme Gimme Gimme reference.

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The reason we're telling you this is because

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we want some ideas for our costumes.

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Yeah.

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So we need a pink theme and a navy theme.

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Not as in the colour.

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So the best that we've got so far, so we've started thinking about the

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pink theme and we were going to do like the pink Care Bears.

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Obviously like sexy Care Bears.

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With little rainbows painted on our chest and maybe like a little crop

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hoodie that I can make with little ears on it and stuff.

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And little, cute little booty shorts.

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But yeah, if anybody has a better idea, please let us know.

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