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Hey and welcome to the short stuff.

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and there's Jerry and this is short stuff.

The slang edition.

That's right.

And while we are not friends of Dorothy, we are friends of friends of Dorothy.

Yeah, well put.

I wanted to say hey, we're friends of Dorothy because it seems like it could mean that you're

just endorsed the LGBTQ community.

But that's not what it means.

No, it doesn't.

It means you're straight up member of the LGBTQ community.

That's right.

And it's slang, like I said, it doesn't have any direct meaning or does it?

We're going to find out.

But the whole reason that you would have slang kind of a coded phrase for being gay is just

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