They don’t make them like my grandpa anymore and they never will.

He was a GOOD person genuinely. He lived an AMAZING life.

He was fluent in English and German. He knew a little bit of a LOT of languages.

He was brave enough to lose family because he married a Mexican woman at a time when interracial marriage was illegal

He was generous

A devout Catholic
When we showed him the new pope he said “That’s Robert Prevost”

And just above the ambulance I could see the top of his hat

I learned today that we ALL owe him thanks because he was part of the team that discovered asbestos was harmful

He was a world traveler, but always an Iowan. He was kind. He was generous. He was brilliant

He was given the assignment to take the ambulance to the tarmac when the President’s body was returned.

“I was 10 feet from LBJ on the tarmac”. I scoured photos, zoomed in to see if I could find him.

The next time I saw him I asked where he was. He pointed to an area behind the ambulance…

He was stationed in DC during the Kennedy administration. He would take the kids to see the president leave on Air Force 1, as they did before President Kennedy left for Dallas that last time

They mentioned President Kennedy saluting him, which I never knew… but that’s not where this is impressive

Grandpa has been on my mind heavily with Artemis II launching just after he passed

He was an engineer and an Air Force officer with high security clearance

In the 60s he worked with NASA. He designed the space toilet (yes we asked about Hidden Figures)

His most jaw dropping story involves JFK

A super stylish and gorgeous young Mexican American woman is leaning against a handsome tall blonde haired man. These are my gorgeous grandparents

Elderly man in a suit and tie wearing glasses smiling

My grandpa had the COOLEST sentence I’ve ever seen in a funeral program

“He was once flown by his friend Chuck Yeager over the arctic circle and saw polar bears on the ground”

My son said “I never heard most of that stuff about great grandpa before today”

So, let me eulogize this giant of a man

I saw there have now been 6 warehouse fires across the country

I guess it’s starting to

I am the only person I know so far who got selected to get Olympic tickets

This feels like pressure

Cheryl Hines gave up her career and her friends to back this

When he’s done, she’s sold out for nothing

This song ends up stuck in my head so often

Meds helped me gain weight. Meds are helping me lose weight. How is that a cheat?

I’m mad at how gatekept and cost prohibitive GLP-1s are

I’m mad anyone thinks this weight loss is less valid than any other diet or fitness program I’ve ever done

And as always, I’m mad because thin people think we don’t know you don’t want us to really lose weight.

I’m mad because I have STRUGGLED for YEARS losing this fucking weight that medicine made fall off.

I’m mad because idiots who don’t know what it’s like to struggle with your weight think being overweight is a moral failure and not a symptom of other health issues or just part of aging

I started a GLP-1

And y’all. I’m fucking FURIOUS

I’m furious because in 2.5 months I’m down 26 pounds. My weight starts 17 now.

I’m furious because my weight has fluctuated enough in my life I know how fucked up people are to fat bodies. I know I’m treated differently based on my weight

I made some lifestyle changes to help with my overall health and only weighed myself at the doctor for a few years. I lost weight but couldn’t get under 200

I’m now 43. My labs say “pre-diabetic”. So I pull a lever on something I had been avoiding because of how bad my stomach already hurt…

But without nortriptyline I couldn’t function I was in so much pain and stuck on the toilet. I couldn’t sleep.

Without Anastazole my cancer could come back

So I spent time learning to accept my new body, complete with frankenboobs (thanks cancer)

Then I ate what I could tolerate and gained weight. Steroids made me gain weight. Lack of mobility made me gain. I ended up my highest about 236 (I remember feeling horrible because I weighed as much as Homer Simpson)

I’d wean myself off of meds I needed so I could lose weight…

I ended up on meds that made me start gaining weight, in addition to just being tired of CONSTANTLY dieting.

I got a hysterectomy. Started nortriptyline. I felt so much better physically but my weight went above 200 for the first time in my life…

I started losing weight unintentionally cuz cancer

My whole life my weight has been a struggle. I’ve gained and lost literally hundreds of pounds in my life

At 37 I was still able to lose weight with diet. But I started getting two periods a month. I had a ton of stress and my hair was falling out in handfuls. My IBS was debilitating…

But that’s EXACTLY why we love Joe Bob so much. Because he honors the work and the people who made the things we like. Without tongue in cheek.

I’m glad I’m not alone in feeling so sad today

And I think that’s what we respond to. Not just Darcy being hot and a wonderful cool human who rules at cosplay.

It’s that we know it’s okay to like this weird thing. And maybe we’re okay for being kind of weird. And maybe it’s okay if we want to be weirder.

Appointment tv is so rare anymore

And it’s because of who Joe Bob is. It’s that he honors the movies for the work that went into them and the people who made them. He might have a chuckle but he never makes fun of anything. Even if he doesn’t like it.

He treats movies and the people who make them with respect.

I hope @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social and whoever the powers that be who have this show on air understand that this is a community.

Today was hard. To learn we’re losing our weekly hangout with our friends. Everyone welcome

I really think it’s the community

We’re grieving the sudden loss of this network we’ve made gathering around the trailer park

In an age of streaming, there’s not a lot that’s like this anymore. Especially for such a niche community.

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