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This is episode 149 of the Baehr and Curadh podcast.
We're going to talk about what's up.
Okay, yeah.
What's up at home.
Okay.
Well, my voice probably sounds different because I had five teeth extracted.
Four.
You had four.
Four teeth extracted for dentures.
Yes.
That's why we weren't here last week, so we apologize.
That was Thursday?
Mm-hmm.
Wednesday.
And I had already made plans to take Thursday off work, figuring I would not be able to work.
And then Friday, I had to take Friday off, too, because the...
Gave you vertigo.
The vertigo, yes.
It seems like pretty much any time I have any kind of head trauma, it loosens those calcium crystals in my inner ear, and then I have vertigo really bad for a while.
Yeah.
And this is like the second or third time in a row it's happened.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, it gets really bad, too, where you get to the point where you fall over and...
Yeah, when I fall down, it's bad.
You risk hurting yourself, well, by falling over, so...
Mm-hmm.
But you're doing much better now.
Relatively speaking, you still can't eat any hard food.
Yeah, that'll probably be a month or so.
Yeah.
I think sometime this week I'm supposed to go...
No, next week.
I'm supposed to go back, and they're going to put clay in my mouth or whatever.
Okay, like a fitting.
To make an impression.
Oh, okay.
And then that will go off to the lab.
And they'll make your fake...
Fake...
Then they'll make the denture and go from there.
Okay.
I guess.
So, there's no chewing for...
Probably a month.
Wow.
And I'm looking forward to doing the same thing in the near future, also.
Mm-hmm.
So...
Well, at least I'll know someone I can trust and tell me what happens.
Hmm.
You look at me like, you can't trust me.
Thanks for the support.
So, yeah, that's what's been going on with us, and that's what's been going on around here.
Anything else really been going on around here?
I don't know.
Not really, really.
I mean, they're pretty boring lives.
Yeah.
By choice.
I have been preparing for us to have our podcast at the Gay Pride Festival this year.
Okay.
Um, and I think we're going to try to sign people up to do paranormal investigations.
Okay.
I don't know how that will work out, but it'll be something, another thing we can do together.
Okay.
Yeah.
I don't know how I feel about that.
The whole paranormal...
Because what happens if the shit's real?
Why would it not be real?
I know, but, like, what if there's, like, poltergeists, and we get things thrown at us, and we get attacked, and that's not fun.
I don't think that happens very often.
Yeah, but what if it does?
That's scary stuff.
Okay.
We'll talk about it.
I think the fear is part of it, that I think the fear is what generates the energy.
The energy that makes it possible.
Okay.
So, if I don't believe it's not going to happen?
Yeah, then it probably won't.
Okay.
So just make sure you don't believe.
Okay.
No matter what happens around you, just don't believe it.
Yeah, when I feel like I'm getting raped.
Yeah.
Just don't believe it.
Just don't believe it?
Okay.
It's not happening.
Everything is fine.
It's just fine.
It's fine and dandy.
You're a dork.
She's been called Ice Barbie for treating her cabinet position like a TV production.
But now Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is pushing for an actual reality show
pitting immigrants against each other for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship.
Quote, unquote, yes.
This is ridiculous, but it does not...
It does not freaking surprise me with this cabinet.
I'm surprised it hasn't, yeah.
It hasn't happened yet.
Anything for a buck.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, this is the one that shot her own dog, right?
Didn't...
Isn't there a name for this?
Isn't it called the Hunger Games?
Yeah.
The Running Man, Hunger Games, yeah.
Pretty much.
It's ridiculous.
It's sickening.
It's...
Turning our lives into a soap opera.
Mm-hmm.
And she probably thinks as long as it's happening to other people, it's just fine.
Yeah.
As long as it's not happening to me.
Mm-hmm.
Exactly.
Which seems to be the swan song of the current administration.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I agree completely.
But yeah, she's a peach, isn't she?
Um...
I don't really think I can say what I really think.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
We gotta watch out.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
All right.
Food rations that could feed 3.5 million people for a month moldering in warehouses
around the world because of USAID cuts.
I didn't know that USAID really did that much, but food for 3.5 million people for
a month, that's a lot of food.
Yeah.
All going to waste.
And not because we're throwing away food, but because there's nobody...
There's nobody to administrate it.
Mm-hmm.
That's sad.
It's not only sad, but it's a genuine waste.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, it's not like, you know, we're not buying food for three...
This food already exists, and it's just...
Going to go to waste.
Yeah.
Complete waste of money, resources.
You know what I mean?
The manpower to put it together, to make it, to get it, you know what I mean?
All of that stuff's just going to go to waste.
Mm-hmm.
So, there's multiple...
On multiple levels, it's just complete loss.
Well, part of capitalist mindset, if you, I don't know, you bought something with the
intent to make a business and sell something, if you bought a bunch of stuff to sell, you
would say, well, I've done this now.
I need to see this through.
Mm-hmm.
You know, I...
But capitalists, the mindset is like, oh, well, we'll just throw that away and start
again, on something new.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
It's true.
Yeah.
If you're working at a job at a big company, you can't say, well, look, they've put so
much in this, they're going to have to finish it.
Nope.
Just start over.
They'll just write it off and fire everyone and be done with it.
It's crazy, isn't it?
It's absolutely crazy.
It proves that these rich people, they just don't think like us.
No.
They don't care.
Bottom line or nothing.
No.
Nope.
Yeah.
An appeals court has issued another legal defeat against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis'
attempt to ban drag...
Drag performances, calling the law overbroad and saying that it attempts to take a shotgun
to constitutionally protected free speech rights.
Okay.
So, he was trying to take away legal rights again?
He was trying to prevent drag.
Okay.
Saying that it was sexualizing children.
So, but it didn't...
Well, it didn't ban, so shotgun to constitution.
Okay.
Well, this is good, isn't it, then?
Yes, it's good.
Very good.
Good.
Look, screw him.
I'm so tired of his ass.
I'm so glad he...
Oh.
It could be worse.
He could have been elected instead of Trump.
Yeah, very much so.
Or he could also still...
I mean, he could have been also pushed into Trump's cabinet, so at least he could get
somewhere up there.
So, you know, listen, don't hear as much about him as much as we probably could have.
What was the name of the guy who was Attorney General in our state that Trump put on his
cabinet?
Powell.
I can't remember his name.
Was it Powell?
No, Mike Pompeo.
Mike Pompeo.
Pompeo, yes.
I was never so glad to see somebody elected to a cabinet because it got him away from
us.
Yeah.
And he's not come back.
No, I'm not telling you.
Not yet.
No political...
Thank...
Thank the God.
So, you know, maybe it would have been good to have DeSantis on Trump's cabinet that would
get him out of local government.
Yeah.
Thank God he's gone, though.
Well, out of our lives.
But you know...
You're still talking about Pompeo.
No.
Well, Pompeo, yes.
And then DeSantis, he can't do anything to bother us.
You know what I mean?
He's off to national...
Well, he's in Florida.
He's off to national...
But he was there, you know, he was looking to run for president there for a while, so
yeah, he's...
We don't have to worry about him, so...
But yeah, Pompeo's, like you said, he's gone.
I think he considered himself a little Trump.
Oh, he did.
He did.
So, and then...
But he was almost doing, like, a Nazi version of Trump.
Mm-hmm.
So, but...
But, yeah.
Politics.
Exactly.
Here's a little lighter, lighter one.
Men are trying to join a new Australian National Rugby League team named the Perth Bears,
but are mistakenly joining a gay men's club called Bears Perth.
This is great.
That's great.
That is funny.
That's cute.
It's to the point where they asked Bears Perth to put a disclaimer on their website saying,
you are downloading an application for a gay men's club, not a...
Oh, really?
Not a...
A rugby team.
A football team.
That's hilarious.
That's funny.
I bet you there's some pretty hot men, too.
Well, bears club, you know.
Yeah, yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
Very hot bears on the rugby team and in the club, so...
That's too cute, though.
That's funny.
Support for marriage equality is still strong, as 7 in 10 U.S. adults said in a recent Gallup
survey that they think same-sex marriages should remain legal and have the same rights
and responsibilities as heterosexual couples.
Yay, good, good.
I'd like to see it 10 out of 10, but...
I don't think that's going to stop politicians from trying to whittle away at it.
Oh, yeah, I think it won't, especially with this administration.
I don't think they really care what public opinion is.
They don't at all.
They have their own priorities and their own whole little set of rules about everything,
their vision for the future, everything, and we're not part of it.
We haven't been a part of it.
So, something to keep our eyes open about.
So, these are really long sentences that we're making a really short podcast out of.
We are.
We're going to cover it.
Openly gay Olympic silver medalist Gus Kenworthy has announced his return to competitive skiing,
setting his sights on the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortana.
Cool.
Where is Milano Cortana?
It's in Italy.
Okay.
I'd imagine.
It sounds like an Italian name, but I'm pretty sure it's in Italy.
And Gus Kenworthy has a dual citizenship.
Uh, Britain and United States.
Oh, does he?
Okay.
Well, he reached this for the United States, I know.
I think in the last Olympics he didn't qualify for the United States.
He didn't compete.
Okay.
So.
But, um, I say that's good.
Let him have more publicity.
Mm-hmm.
The more we see him, the better.
It's all for us.
Exactly.
And he's funny.
Mm-hmm.
And it doesn't hurt that he's incredible.
He's an incredibly hot man.
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
And his new boyfriend, whose name I can't remember, is equally as hot.
Oh, well, good.
That shows a lot of the puzzle there.
I'm sure both of their Instagram accounts are just going to go off like crazy.
Oh, yeah.
Definitely.
I guess presuming that our world survives to the 2026 Winter Olympics.
That's a lot to presume.
So, we've got a year away.
So, that's a lot to go.
Mm-hmm.
So, we barely got this far.
Mm-hmm.
So, all right, during a visit to Saudi Arabia, Trump chose Village People's iconic song,
"YMCA as his closing music after his speech."
He's been doing this a lot lately.
Did you see his new AI, someone who came up with a Journey song, the famous Journey song.
You would know it if you heard it.
They made an AI video of him dressed up singing, playing guitar.
He's dressed in an American flag outfit.
It is the most atrocious thing I've ever seen in my fricking life.
And then there's women dancing around in cowboy, in American flag cheerleader outfits, cheering.
And he's playing this guitar, and then he's playing the drums.
How did I not know about this?
He posted it to his, someone made it and posted it to his own page, and he liked it and shared
it on his own fricking page.
Way to make us look like the laughing stock of the world.
You buffoon.
You can't do any worse.
Wait till you see it.
Every time I say that, though, something else comes up.
Don't test, don't test, don't test.
Wait till you see this video.
I'm surprised you haven't seen it.
You're gonna laugh out loud.
It's atrocious.
It is despicable.
It's so bad.
Well, lots of people have been sharing this picture of him holding his hand up after being
shot.
Oh, yeah.
And I'm pretty sure.
I pointed it out to you.
I said, who is this thin person with Trump's face pasted onto it?
Because Trump has never been that small.
I don't know.
I haven't seen it.
No.
Yeah.
I haven't seen that.
I'm gonna have to look at it.
When people share that, don't they realize that that's not him?
It's just his face.
Well, apparently you can Photoshop and believe anything you want with Photoshop anymore.
And I don't even think you have to have the expense of Photoshop anymore.
You can just have an AI do it for you.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I can get a stamp and put it over it and call it.
That's real.
It's right there.
What are you talking about?
You can see it.
It's gotta be real.
But this YMCA song, he's been using it all over the place, I guess.
Because it's one of the few groups that has actually allowed him to use their music.
Yeah.
And why they are doing that, I don't know.
Maybe for the bucks.
I guess.
I have no idea; I have no idea.
The group themselves have said, "We're not a gay group.
We're not a gay music group."
No.
So, what are they thinking?
I don't know.
Of course, it's not the original ones.
It's kind of like every Christmas, no matter what city you're in, there is a-
Manheim Steamroller?
Yeah.
Or-
Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Yeah.
Band.
Well, they have something like 16 different-
Camp traveling?
Bands.
Okay.
Using that name.
And YMCA is like that.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
It's a traveling show.
Uh-huh.
It's not the four original, four or five original guys.
Hmm.
That's interesting.
Hmm.
That's cool.
I mean-
So, I guess every time Trump plays it, it's something they get another nickel in their
pocket.
Probably.
Yeah.
You can't fault them.
I mean, once you sell your soul to the devil, you know what I mean?
I think I'm going to see.
I mean, I think I'm going to see if the Village People songs no longer played at Gay Pride
anymore.
Yeah.
Probably.
Yeah.
That's what happens when you sell.
Like I said, you sold your soul to the devil.
Hmm.
So.
22 years after the US Supreme Court found a Texas law criminalizing homosexual conduct
as unconstitutional, lawmakers in the Texas House have voted to remove the ban on gay
sex from the books.
Hmm.
Can you believe that?
So.
Texas.
Well, are you surprised?
Um, you remember a couple of weeks ago, we did conspiracy theories and it said that turning
on the CERN supercollider put us in a bizarre reality.
Hmm.
Well, here's another vote for that.
Texas.
Texas has taken sodomy off the books.
Yeah.
Yep.
So, it's good.
I mean, what is this universe we're living in?
Hmm.
Something that's good is happening.
So, I mean.
One good thing.
But Texas?
Yeah.
But it just means like, it's one step forward, three steps backwards.
True.
So.
Yeah.
I'm afraid of what they're going to do next.
So, you know what I mean?
It is Texas.
Yeah.
I suppose they're going to do something awful to us.
But look, we took sodomy off the books.
Exactly.
So, yeah.
I don't know.
I mean, I'm happy about it, but I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.
The other shoe to drop.
Exactly.
Sorry to be such a bitter Betty about it, but I don't trust Texas.
So.
Don't mess with Texas.
Texas can piss off the whole state.
Yes.
I don't like the state of Texas.
Do I have to bleep that?
No.
I don't like the state of Texas.
It doesn't like me and I don't like it.
I was born in Texas.
I'm surprised we like each other.
So, well, is that it?
That's it.
Do you have a joke for us this week?
Yes.
Okay.
What is the difference between a hippie and a hipster?
One eats granola.
One doesn't.
Nope.
What?
Deodorant.
That's very true.
That's probably a very good point.
And it's very valid.
Okay.
So, what's the difference between a hippie and a hipster?
One eats granola.
One doesn't.
Nope.
What?
Deodorant.
That's very true.
That's probably a very good point.
And it's very valid.
I don't know.
That's very valid and very funny.
That's good.
Which one wears the deodorant now?
Well, yeah.
That's a good one.
I like that.
Cheers.
I thought you were going to do, like, sarcasm.
This was episode 149 of the Baehr and Curadh Podcast.
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