Hey everybody, it's Monday, May 4th, 2026. I'm Alison Gill.

And I'm Dana Goldberg and this is Bean's Talk.

Hey, hey, hey, may the fourth be with you, my friend.

And also with you, I just want to take a moment for those of you who have been watching Beans Talk for a little

while. Absolutely. I think you just told someone to steal second base, but I don't know what you just did. Listen, I got Invisaline last week, as many of you know, I'm sure some of you have noticed you've been so kind, not say anything. I saw a video of me doing Beans Talk the other day. And as often as I can, I'm going to try not to wear them. I don't know if they're

distracting for anybody, but there'll be times where I can't avoid it. Today, I have them out. I hope I'm a little more clear in my speech and less fidgety. I'm just being honest with you. We're friends now. So anyway, just want to let you know, that's what's going on with all of this. The longer I wear them during the day, the shorter period of time I have to wear them over the years. So just bear with me, as I said, we'll get through this part. But I appreciate you. Well, you know, what if I get an invisible line? And then we'll both be... Exactly. I'll love you regardless. I'll love you through it. I'll love you through it. I think we should both get Invisaline at the same time, and they'll be like, what happened to the podcast? Hey, and you know what I noticed? Nobody caught this, and I'm so glad. But last time when we ended, I said something like, we're going to do it. It's going to be sea shells or something. And then I said,

Excalibur. And I meant to say Excelsior, because that's the actual phrase, excelsior. Oh, my God,

I have a scary story, bug story. We just get it out. So last night, I was doing the gala in

Atlanta for the human rights campaign. It was extraordinary.

I got to meet Ebony K. Williams, who if you've seen the viral clip while she's doing her show,

her court show, just talking to this. I want to talk about this actually more in a different episode,

but talking to this young boy who was caught up in conversion therapy and took himself out of it

and then got sued by his father

for the cost of conversion therapy anyway Ebony was incredible so I met her I go back to my hotel

room I will not say what hotel this is there was a fucking scorpion in my bathroom a scorpion

in Atlanta in Atlanta on the 21st floor of my hotel so needless to say I not get any sleep last night. Someone had to come and get it out and I had to move rooms. So there things happen. They happen. I'm not a bug person. I'd never seen a... I grew up in New Mexico and I've never seen a scorpion in real life until I was in a hotel in Atlanta. I grew up in Arizona. We saw a lot of them. Sometimes they'd just

run around the kitchen. I remember one time, you remember how your kid and you would like jump up and

smack the ceiling on your way down the hallway or whatever. Yeah. So I jumped up, hit the ceiling.

There's an air conditioning vent there. The vent popped off and like 20 scorpions just ran out.

No, no. I wonder, I think that's where it came from, maybe. And I was just like, oh my God, that's nightmare fuel. That's just nightmare fuel. We should have done a contact morning for that. But we should have. Sorry, everybody. Yeah, anyway. Also, happy MCA day. Yeah. Yeah. Not for my friend, MC friend mca not friend in real he doesn't have any

idea who i am yeah he's my he was my uh imaginary brother but he didn't know that so it's you know

that's a whole long thing beastie boys beastie boys all the, so good. All right.

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