Nanaimo Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

Sweeping in next. Yeah, I love it. Yes! Okay, can we get some noise? I said one, you say joy. One, joy. One, joy. I say always, you say joy. Always, joy. Always, joy. I didn't know they had a jet here. What?

Oh, with the bike? Yeah.

I want to— Happy birthday! What is this? I love it. Oh, so you want to spin? I like to see your video on Instagram. Oh yeah, I have a video. Follow me here. Oh yeah. I know. The lady support you need where The hair up in a bun.

Oh yeah, totally.

I know, right? So fun. Oh my God, so when I went to the gag party too, she gave me, uh, like a mini thing of burnt honey ice cream as like a party gift, and I was like, it's so good. The world is a much A better place with you in it. Happy Father's Day! Oh my God, that's so brave to like have the roller skates on downhill.

Yeah, I was just thinking that. Yeah, no, not— no, he's so amazing.

And we watched from the other side, we going uphill, and he's equally as amazing. That's wild. Yeah. As a nurse, it makes me really nervous. I was yelling at my friend Tanya who was on the school district, uh, group, and she didn't hear me. I was like, I saw the face of like just trying to keep like straight and like, yeah, no doubt. There's always really big gaps.

Yeah.

I don't know why. Do they hold them back at an intersection?

Oh yeah, I think there's an intersection that they go.

They have to let them go.

They do that for the, uh, night market.

Yeah. All the teddy bears. Oh, where's the— oh, puppy! Give me a napkin. Sorry, everyone could have a dog. Seriously, Phoenix and I like walk her dogs. Oh no! Oh my God! Oh, there we go. She's used to it. Yeah, look at those skin. Oh, I think I Woo! He's learning. I know someone who was in the— this roller derby. Maybe the glasses are too thick. Yeah, yeah, right. They're all undercover. Do you see them? Yeah. Work it, work it!

Oh, I love it!

Happy Pride! Yes, that'd be a fun game. You each have a couple of the flag stickers and And then you go like find a group. Yeah, like, yes. Thank you. Woo! Happy time! Happy time! Oh, I like mini karabiners. Thank you. Aloha, welcome to Vietnam. Platform high heels down a hill, that is next level. That is next level. I could do it. What are you saying? I don't walk in heels anyway. I know. I don't even walk in heels.

Yeah, we come here at this spot every time. It's one of the only shaded areas.

I love those. Jingle Wrangle. Happy bride! Thank you. Merry wives. Oh, that— I like that.

Hey, hey Josh, how are you? How are you doing?

Good, how are you? Hi.

Hi.

Awesome, nice to see you.

Yeah, it's good here in the shade.

Yeah, at least there's a breeze, right? When shade, there's a breeze.

Yeah, yeah, this is the best place.

Just like, that's enough for me. Okay, it's Lisa Marie Baron, right? Yeah, yeah. Not walking in the air condition. Yeah, totally. Oh yeah, I like this battle. I'm sure these are part of public. I used to have one in the giant Hello! Like walking down the hill in the dinosaur suit. Yeah, it's also really hot inside, they say.

Oh, I can imagine.

Yeah, it has some kind of fan and if you go inside it, it's like it's hot. It's like it's not, it's a little cooler. It's not. I love the Pride bus. They need some dancing again. I've seen people do them like— what do we call pole dancing? Asian people do it. Yeah, right? So I'm trying to get in your way.

You're not. Oh yeah, keep going, it's fine. No, do what you want. No, no, no, you're not in my way at all.

Oh, look at the giant chipmunks!

Oh my God!

Oh my God, these are so bad! I love it. Oh, I love, I love. I mean, that is a dentist book. That is, that's, that is a lot of— I love it. Got music too. I love that. What the hell is that? It's amazing.

That is so disturbing.

Bones, I guess. Skeleton. Such amazing— that's a little terrifying, I say. Wow, I love the Yeah, yeah. Hi, how are you?

Nice to see you here.

Yeah. Hi, I'm happy you tried. Oh, cool.

Thank you. God, why would they wear black? A whole team of black wearing in the sun.

Oh, also these guys, what I mean, I can't read that.

Yeah, that's what I mean.

I was thinking of the Clippers down there. No, no. Oh, Max, that's their signature, I think. Yeah, that's my jam. That is my jam. Back in the day. Oh my God, I love them. I'm so happy we have a souvenir now. I love that chocolate bar. That looks like fun. I know, right? This might be the end. Yeah. They need more like music flow.

Yeah, and like proper flow. With big bass, big sound system.

This one's very family-oriented. You have like, under the tree, people like walk off and their kids go bye. You're like on the way to the cake shop, the candy trees are there to the right. I know where to eat that. Sasha's doing really well. Thank you so much.

Look at that. Y'all did something great today.

Woo! Okay, we're gonna go.

Okay, join the crowd.

Yeah, let's do it. Some of the like stores. Yeah, like Target. No, you're I'm gonna do this. Yeah, so beyond the hill. Yeah, so we have a big spot on the hill.

On the hill.

Yeah, you're welcome to consider it your home base. Love that. If you would, we have a bunch of blinds to spread my shit out everywhere.

Fucking pros, man. Like, I admire.

I've been here since 8 AM, okay? I love that.

Pros.

It's like if you're going towards the playground on the cement path, and then there's just like trees and a hill to the right just before you get to the playground. That's where we are. Absolutely. Oh, of course. Okay.

Yeah.

Well, listen, this isn't our first rodeo. We've been to LA Prides now. Sorry, I used to go to San Francisco Pride. Okay. This is so wild. This is nothing. Absolutely. Can you pass me that? We're gonna go get in line for food trucks.

Crazy line.

But, uh, yeah. Yeah. And— Thank you.

Are you confident you know where the directions are to the home base?

No, but we'll figure it out.

Okay. All right. Okay.

I don't know where I'm going most of the time. I like, even in the hospital, I know how to get from the parking lot to my unit. Do not ask me anything else. I've never been to the tower yet. Yeah, exactly. I have to, I have to ask for directions.

Coming through.

No. Hi. All right. Hi, Wes. That's it.

That's our anti-party.

Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. Yeah. I'm Chaos Pixie on the Discord. Oh, are you in our Discord too? Yeah. Great. Okay. I joined the Discord. You in the, the Nanaimo infusion or the healthcare infusion? I'm in the Tod's.

Tod Maffin. Mine.

Mine.

Mine.

There's like 5 of them.

They're one of mine. Yeah. Tag me so I know you're in there. Yeah, yeah. All right, nice to meet you.

I just don't want to leave a big mess of food, so I can't get this one in here properly and it's bothering me.

Oh, now, of course, you just have to yell at it. You have to yell at it and then it'll work. Get in there, you piece of shit.

Okay, that'll do.

I get sent things all the time.

Sent things all the time.

And it's lovely, but I don't know what to do with them.

The snack thing was something we can do. Right. But it's still— it's overwhelming. Yeah. Um, okay, I'm gonna— yeah, thank you so much. I just don't want to leave the food here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I think I got it.

You got it?

Yeah, let's roll. Thank you. It's a— I didn't leave anything. Nervous for you, girl. I've been doing this 79 years. Just a nervous Nelly. I'm sorry, I can't remember my phone at all. Uh, but I can do— I can balance onto you.

I love it.

You know our friend Kelly from Vancouver who's a nurse? Yeah, yeah. So, um, comes over and we go in the hot tub. Every time I get into the hot tub, she's like, really uncomfortable. Like, you are a fall risk all over. I'm like, yeah, yeah. Oh my God, I was born that way, baby. I also feel like really nervous when kids are playing on like playground equipment and they're like climbing.

I get Oh yeah, yeah, because you've seen— because you've seen the trauma cases.

Exactly. Yeah, you're the one that looks like— yeah, I'm not prepared to do any of that.

I'm not on ship for the next 3 hours.

Yeah, I have none of my toys. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah, and to pull to the side, grab her like, oh my, I need to build a— jump in, like, that's the nurse I want to be. I need to build a trauma bag. I also need to go, like— she does event nursing too. Yeah, I think that's like— I actually just applied to do like part-time for— oh, yeah, see, I don't know. That's a— that's like sexual assault. Yeah, it's like, you know, like, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Oh yeah. Couldn't have got a better day for it.

Yeah, people keep telling me it's gonna be hot, and I'm like, I don't know, it's gonna be—

oh right, not compared to your hot.

Yeah, and I'm like, it's gonna stay that way for the next 4 to 6 months.

Wait, let's— can we do, can we do the market?

Yeah. Uh, Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, okay, go put our stuff down.

Okay, but are you sure you know where this—

okay, okay, because saying it's right by the playground, there's really only one hill with trees that that could be, and we're heading straight for it. Love it. Oh, the furries are here! Nice! Hi!

Hi! Happy Pride!

Yeah, no, it was like right Stop. I love it. Are we, are we waiting?

Yeah, I don't mind waiting.

That's my girl. That's so Obviously I'm there too often. The MAC store. And I'm also kind of a small— it is, it is. Hi, you guys out? Hello.

Hello.

Usually there's a—

this is Jesse. He's the head of the community radio station. Oh, it's kind of all over the place. It's— I think it's grown. I think this is bigger than the previous years. Amazing.

Great turnout.

Yeah, totally.

I walked past you, I waved at you, you didn't see me. Remember we were in the parade? Oh, here. Yeah. You got my kids before? Hi, this is Kai and this is Jocelyn. Way back when. Yeah, this guy's a little famous in town right now, helping us get—

Not true. This is our friend Kelly.

Hi Kelly, nice to meet you. Kelly's a new nurse. Yeah, of course. And now Laura's the second director, a director, primary care now. Yeah, the docs and nurse practitioners. Amazing. And thank you for— yeah, my gosh, ages ago. And then she moved like a block away from me. Oh, it's like two blocks, baby. Small town. Very small town. That's why I'm so glad to be back. Yeah, we're just looking for a friend, so Oh, okay.

Thanks for watching, folks. I'm going to turn off the live. Thanks for, uh, hanging out, and happy Pride. I need to get in shade so I can see the buttons on the screen to know, to be able to turn it off. I can't see it. Okay. Thanks all. Happy Pride. Bye.