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This is episode 157 of the Baehr and Curadh podcast.
We're going to talk about truthiness.
Truthiness, okay.
All right, you want me to start?
Mm-hmm.
Okay, Miller.
Immigrants didn't build the Empire State Building.
Donald Trump's senior White House aide, Stephen Miller,
pushed a bunker's racist claim after he suggested that he could spot
anyone's immigration status just by looking at a picture of him.
And then he said,
if you look at photos of the Empire State Building being constructed,
you know what you don't see there?
Any illegal aliens.
It's more the right.
It's just par for the course now.
I mean, it's...
It's...
They're just not hiding it anymore.
Don't blame everything on the other.
It's just...
Well, they're just not hiding their hate anymore.
They're...
They're becoming...
That's very true.
They're...
They're bold.
They're...
They're brave right now.
They don't care.
It's...
We're following in line to Nazi Germany.
I mean, we're not there yet, but it's...
It's...
It's following a line,
like a perfect trail that Hitler made,
and we're walking...
We're walking right down that line.
So, I hate saying that because I love this country, but...
I suppose if it wasn't for immigrants and transgenders,
it would be gay people.
Oh, yeah.
And they'll come for us next.
We're on the list.
It's just...
You got to start small,
and then you get bigger and bigger and bigger,
but we're definitely on the list.
The best is when it's going to be the people who voted for him
when they start going after them again,
because they will go after the maggot people sooner or later.
Well, the...
The...
The lower income maggot people.
The ones who put them in office.
The workers.
The ones who put them in office.
The ones that, you know, you're going to do...
You're the one who saved me in overtime, you know, all that stuff.
They'll be there.
They'll pay the price, too.
They'll be there in the end, but, you know, it's on the way.
This story reminds me of a famous picture.
Workers on the Empire State Building
when they're sitting...
Lined up with their lunch buckets.
Lined up with their lunch, yeah.
If you could say that you could tell somebody
who was an immigrant by their picture,
I would say those would be the ones.
And they definitely built the Empire State Building.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
That job's crazy.
Can you imagine?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
There's no way.
Those pictures give me the willies thinking about it.
I'm not even standing...
And they just walked across those...
That's nuts.
There's...
I guess you'd have to if you're going to do that work.
I...
I'd find a lower-paying job.
I don't...
What's the crossover between bravery and stupidity?
Yeah, exactly.
Okay, if you were gay and you leave the country,
you could have trouble coming home again.
The superintendent of a Vermont school district
says that he was detained by U.S. Customs
and Border Protection agents
while re-entering the country
with his husband,
an experience he described as
the definition of psychological terror.
That's exactly what I just said.
That's part of what's going to start happening.
Plus, he's gay.
Well, yeah, of course.
But it just falls in line
with what we were just talking about.
I keep hearing stories about
like U.S. citizens
who are like Hispanic
and rounded up by ICE agents.
And told they have no rights,
that they have to turn over their phone,
that they can't speak to a lawyer.
They have no due process whatsoever.
Yeah, just pretty much thrown in jail.
And we're not supposed to treat people like that.
No, it's kind of against
what our Constitution stands for.
They don't really even treat criminals like that.
No.
They at least give them their Miranda rights
and tell them, you know, but...
It's sad.
And I heard that there's like a bounty
of $3,000 for each one that they get.
I wouldn't be surprised.
I haven't heard of that,
but I wouldn't be surprised.
So, yeah, it's pretty sad, isn't it?
It's sad when you think
any group,
they could put that group in there next.
They could be the next ones
to get rounded up.
Mm-hmm.
You're right.
Gay is to be the age-old question
of who should pay on the first date.
Despite the sensibility of an even split,
respondents who advocate
for a strict egalitarian approach
are in the minority.
There are many nuances at play,
including common courtesy.
If one person orders an expensive steak
and the other one nibbles on appetizers,
splitting the chick doesn't seem so fair.
Yeah.
I don't recall what we did when...
When we dated...
Did we really go to many restaurants?
We ate lunch together a lot.
We ate lunch together.
Which is like fast food.
Yeah, and then we packed lunch a lot.
We went out to eat quite a bit, I thought.
I mean, a few times.
We're not...
We don't anymore,
because I can't eat.
You don't eat anymore, yeah.
But I think you...
You've always been the breadwinner
of the two of us,
so, I think you covered most of the dates.
But I would buy...
You know, I would buy...
Dinner sometimes, too.
It really depended.
You know, if it was a birthday, I'd buy.
You know what I mean?
Stuff like that.
But I don't know.
That's an age-old question
among straight couples, too,
who pays and who doesn't.
Oh, well, I think the guy who wants to have sex
has to pay for the girl who doesn't.
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
But...
Just like us.
Listen to you.
You're a mess.
But, yeah, it's...
It's an age-old question, like it says.
Probably just complicated by the fact
that everyone wants to know
who's the girl and who's the boy.
Yeah, probably.
You're right.
Hmm.
Former My Faith Vote CEO Jason Yates,
a prominent...
conservative Christian activist,
has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography
months after his arrest.
Yates pleaded guilty to two of the eight felony counts
of possession of child pornography
that he had been charged with last year
in return for the dismissal of the other six counts.
Each charge carries a punishment
with as much as ten years in prison.
Good.
Lock his ass, wife.
Every accusation,
is an admission.
Hmm.
The more they call us
deviants and perverts,
the perverted they are.
Yeah, exactly.
It's...
I think it's just hilarious.
It's not hilarious.
It's sad.
It's disgusting.
But it's always the evangelical Christians.
The ones that blame, you know,
damn us to hell and, you know,
we're the deviants, like you said,
and all that stuff.
But they're the ones that are kitty-touchers.
Mm-hmm.
You know what I mean?
So, it's just...
The only good thing is
that most child predators,
because that's what they are,
don't fare very well in prison.
So, prison seems to handle their own kind of...
They don't have a very nice stay in prison.
So, let's say...
They get theirs when they're there, so...
I...
One of my news feeds is a blog,
called Joe My God.
Okay.
Who covers a lot of queer news.
Mm-hmm.
And every time there is a Christian minister
who has pornography charges,
he posts about it.
And it happens
at least a couple of times every week.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
It happens all the time.
It's sad.
It's sick, actually.
There are people who are in a position
of power over...
younger people...
Mm-hmm.
...who are taking advantage of it.
Mm-hmm.
Which is exactly what they're accusing us of
all the time.
Yeah, of course.
They say we recruit children
because we can't have our own,
but ministers recruit children as their job.
All the time.
That's how they build their flock.
Mm-hmm.
So, you're right.
It's, yeah...
Every accusation is an admission.
Admission.
Okay.
Here we go.
When MAGA mentions Epstein,
Trump brings up Obama.
Because he knows his followers are racists.
Yep.
Distract and deflect.
Yep.
That's...
And if people don't see it,
then they're idiots.
It's just...
Well, that's how he got in the office
in the first place.
Sure, Trump has paid back for Obama.
Mm-hmm.
And I have...
I firmly believe that.
Both terms.
Mm-hmm.
It got white America mad.
Yeah, I saw evidence of that
at the place I worked at the time.
Yeah.
So, it got white America mad,
so, this is the way that white America
is paying back the country.
Or racist white America.
Mm-hmm.
So...
Well, one thing that kind of worries me
is really the front-runner
of the next presidential election
is Pete Buttigieg.
Yeah.
And is America ready for a gay president?
He's the best out there.
I wish we were, but...
I don't think we...
I hope we are,
but I think he's the best out there.
And I...
They...
Democrats probably lost
because their candidate was a black woman.
I hate to say this.
Two strikes against her from the start.
Yeah.
And she barely lost.
Mm-hmm.
So...
No, the Pete Buttigieg...
Pete Buttigieg...
If people can...
I wish it wasn't an issue
because he's hands down
the best candidate out there.
He is, yes.
He's...
He...
He knows what he's talking about.
He's fair.
He's imbalanced.
He's honest.
And he's smart as fuck.
Mm-hmm.
He's smart.
His husband is, too.
Oh, they're both very intelligent.
And they're not...
He's not...
He's...
He's not a pussyfooter, either.
He won't back down.
He, like...
He'll...
He'll call anybody out.
He doesn't...
Well, his job as mayor, he...
That was probably a survival tactic.
Yeah.
He...
I mean, he doesn't give a...
Give a f...
He really doesn't.
And I can see people saying
he doesn't have the experience
because he didn't, you know,
become a school board member
and a state legislator
and a...
Yeah.
A...
City councilman
and move its way up.
Yeah.
Like a state senator.
Yeah, he's kind of going,
right, the president.
Yeah, but...
I mean, Obama...
Obama kind of
flew up the...
the ladder, too.
True.
Yeah.
You know, he came out of nowhere.
I mean, I just remember
watching him speak at, uh...
the Democratic National Committee
or...
the Democratic National Conference
or whatever.
It was before...
It was the second time
Bush won.
It was before Obama won.
He was just a senator from Chicago.
And...
he lit up the whole...
like, the whole conference.
I mean, the whole conference
went crazy after he spoke.
And ever since then,
he was just...
he was the next...
it.
He was...
and look what he did.
Well, I remember the poster
for the campaign
that said hope.
Yeah.
And he did...
he brought hope.
He did bring hope to the country.
You know what I mean?
So, it was a very proud moment,
I thought,
when he won.
I thought for the country, so...
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
That's the look we're at.
Mm-hmm.
So, it's scary.
Tick-tock.
The metronome.
Exactly.
All right.
Here we go.
Let's keep talking
about our favorite person.
Trump is working
on an Epstein escape plan.
This is a quote from Trump.
The whole thing is a hoax.
If they had something,
they would have released.
Now, they can easily
put something in the files
that's phony.
Like, for example,
Christopher Steele
wrote a dossier.
We call it the fake dossier.
And the whole thing was fake.
They put...
They put things in the file
that are fake.
Yeah.
He sent it up.
He's taken a lesson
from the tobacco industry.
Mm-hmm.
Deny, deny, deny.
Or divert, divert, divert.
Yeah.
See...
So, doubt.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
It's...
We'll never find out
what happened.
I've seen.
Oh, we probably have.
You think so?
Yeah.
But didn't they release
most of that anyway?
It was all redacted, though.
Oh.
Yeah, that happens
all the time.
There's...
You couldn't get anything
out of it.
And the rules for redacting
are sometimes ridiculous.
Really?
I worked in a classified program
for many years.
And the difference
between a document
that was classified
and one that wasn't
was the one that was classified
had a date on it.
Mm.
Okay.
There's just weird
arbitrary rules.
Okay.
They can find
all kinds of reasons
to redact something.
And it really
has nothing to do
with cover-ups.
It's just a technicality.
Yeah.
Um...
You still want to talk
about that, or...?
I guess we can move on.
It's just...
It wears on you
after a while.
Mm-hmm.
So...
You know what I mean?
That's all.
I hope
Republicans in general
wear on people.
Yeah.
So do I,
so, we can vote
their asses out
of the office.
We really need
like five parties
instead of just two.
Yeah, but that's...
Look what I...
That's how Germany
became Nazi Germany.
Mm.
True.
You know,
you get so many parties.
It's bespelled...
Like the British elections.
They have like 17 parties.
Yeah.
That's...
But look how crazy
they are over there.
Sorry.
All right.
I just felt like
I needed to tell you
I'm sorry
I was a damn jerk
back in school.
I saw this.
This was really cool.
I saw this on TikTok.
This is a quote.
The reason I wanted
to tell you all this
is that
I've got a son now.
He's 15
and he told me
he's gay.
Man,
all I thought about
when he told me that
was I hope people
are nicer to him
than I was to you.
It makes me feel proud
to be his dad.
And hopefully
this man
makes up for something.
Yeah.
It's...
He's an influencer
on TikTok.
His name's Misha.
He's a very feminine...
A very feminine man.
But he's got
a lot of viewers.
And it's...
Basically,
it's just
if his show is
Lessons in Crossing
a Gay Man.
Like he's got
a very sharp tongue
and like if
he'll see people
at a line,
he'll call them out on it.
Like,
just like straight men
that do things wrong.
They treat their women
like crap.
He's very,
very pro-woman.
I think he's a lot
like Tyler Oakley.
Could be.
Yeah.
But he,
yeah,
he got this
on his show
that it was a,
it was a bully of his
when he was growing up.
Wrote on that
and said,
you know,
that his son
is gay
and that he was being bullied
and that,
you know,
he is basically
what you just read.
I remember,
when I worked
in the family business,
it was a patio grill
and stove
type business.
The majority
of the business
was selling parts
for barbecue grills.
Yeah.
And this guy
came in
and I recognized him.
He was the guy
who bullied me
in school.
And he brought
his old party in
and set it down
and said,
I need
a new one of these.
And I said,
you don't remember me,
do you?
And he said,
no.
I said,
well,
you used to terrorize me
in school
and we have no parts
for you.
Good for you.
And you could look
behind me
was a whole wall
of parts.
Yeah.
But we had no parts
for him that day.
I don't know
that was the only place
in town
where you could buy
those parts.
I don't know
what he did,
but.
Did he say anything?
I don't think he left.
He laughed.
I think it was
an embarrassed laugh.
Probably.
But most bullies
are proud.
I don't think
they're proud
of what they've done
when they've grown up.
I don't know.
I was fortunate
and I never.
So, you were the bully.
You weren't the bully.
No, I wasn't a bully.
No, I wasn't a bully
because I never.
I ran around
a bunch of groups
of different people.
I, you know,
I didn't have
just one group of people.
I ran around
with a lot of people
and no,
I wasn't a bully.
I was.
I was a stupid job.
I was by road.
That's, you know,
I mean,
I sat in a boat
and, you know,
I mean,
you know,
but yeah,
so, it's sad
that when I hear
hear about things
like that,
though,
but I mean,
this is a good story.
I mean,
if dad learned
his lesson,
you know what I mean?
He made up
kind of made up
to the guy.
I think he made up
to the guy.
You know what I mean?
He accepted
the apology.
He goes,
good.
He goes,
I'm glad that your son
has a father like you
or something like that.
So, it was good.
So here we go.
This is right up
Marjorie Taylor Green's
idea.
Pentagon to disable
hurricane satellites.
The U.S.
Navy will permanently
cut its stream of data
from three weather
satellites essential
to hurricane forecasters
with the peak
of the Atlantic
hurricane season
just weeks away.
So, this probably
is part of those
Doge cuts.
Probably.
Somebody saw
a big chunk of money
and said,
cross that off.
Yeah.
It's the reason
we have those
is to be safe.
So, let's just put
millions of people
in danger,
more people in danger.
It's look what happened.
Remember what it was like
before they could
forecast hurricanes?
Oh, it's horrible.
Yeah.
It's horrible.
But just let Texas
happen again.
Look, you know,
what happened in Texas
with the flooding down there.
It's all the same thing.
It's more and more
that's going to happen
because it's not real.
We don't have to worry
about it.
If it doesn't benefit
their business,
it's communist.
That's their philosophy.
Yeah.
So, yeah,
it's ridiculous.
And it's
more people are going
to die.
That's basically
more people are going
to die.
So,
I picked these
news stories
not necessarily
because they're
negative or
I just think
some of these
are ironic.
Yeah.
They are.
And that's
definitely one.
Yeah.
This one's good.
Kids don't need
college.
They have YouTube.
This one's kind of
long.
It's a quote
from Charlie Kirk.
You can
also get
the same wisdom
and the same
teaching free
and accessible
online listening
to podcasts,
listening to long
YouTube forum
videos.
In fact,
I believe if you
listen to Joe Rogan's
podcast with some
of the historians,
if you listen to
some of the deep
dives that these
top thinkers do,
you're going to
actually, learn a lot
more about the
Roman history.
If you're going
to learn a lot
more about
Western civilization
otherwise than
if you're stuck
in some sort
of sociology class.
You can learn
on YouTube.
You can.
You can learn a lot.
Yeah.
You can learn
fun facts,
but you're not
going to.
You can also go
pick up a People
magazine and find
out what's the
latest in fashion.
It doesn't mean
that it's good
knowledge.
You know what I
mean?
But it's
Charlie Kirk.
He's a moron.
So, he loves
saying stupid
shit.
You know who
he is.
Every time
he opens his
mouth, he wants
15 more minutes
of fame.
Oh, exactly.
He just needs
to go away.
But he's
making money.
So, you know,
it's just.
Yeah, we talked
about that last
week.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
But yeah, can
you imagine just
knowing everything
you know from
watching YouTube?
Be like the
German.
A lot of the
anti-vax people
are that way.
That's true.
That's pretty sad,
but it's true.
A lot of his
followers are.
And if you, if
you, if you live
in a room full
of mirrors and
you only see
reflections of
what you believe.
How are you
wrong?
You're never
going to learn
anything new.
Actually, you're
just going to
keep rehashing
the same.
And how are
you wrong?
You know what
I mean?
You're never
going to see
the, you know.
And YouTube
feeds you exactly
what you want to
hear.
Yeah.
You're right.
Trump claims
he'll personally
pay for $200
million ballroom.
President Trump
says he would
be willing to
cut the check
to pay for a
new White House
ballroom.
If he sticks
with his usual
routine, he will
pay for it
by hiring the
work done and
then stiffing
the contractors
on the bill.
Yeah.
He is notorious
for not paying
people.
Look at the
casinos in
Atlantic City.
Hmm.
Taj Mahal
got, it's
you know, it's
supposed to be
the eighth
wonder of the
world, blah,
blah, blah.
This casino
with the most
slots ever, blah,
blah, blah.
It's an empty
field now.
Got demolished
and everything.
But yeah, he,
that's why people
hate him where
I grew up,
where I grew
up.
He, contractors,
you know,
laborers,
everything, he
screwed everybody.
So, he'll do
it again.
If you have
enough money,
you can throw
money at the
problem and
hire some
lawyers, delay,
delay,
delay, until
the people go
bankrupt and
they can't afford
to press charges
any longer.
Yeah, exactly.
He's a piece
of crap.
So that's
the thing, really.
He is.
So.
The best
president money
can buy.
Yeah, pretty
much.
Is there
anything else?
Nope.
You have a
joke this week?
Yes, it's
kind of a long
one.
Okay.
There are four
nuns in line
for confession.
Yeah.
The first nun
goes in, she
comes out, and
they say, how
did it go?
And she says, I
told him I put
my finger on a
man's penis, and
he told me to dip
my finger in holy
water and say
three Hail Marys
and I'd be
forgiven.
So, the second
nun, she goes
in, she comes
back out, and
they said, how
did it go?
And she says, I
told him I put
my hand on a
man's penis, and
he told me I
should dip my
hand in holy
water and say
three Hail Marys
and I'll be
forgiven.
So then
the third nun
looks at the
fourth nun and
says, you
better go first
because you
want to gargle
before I
douche.
That's so
bad.
All right.
That's horrible.
That's so
gross.
All right.
You're so
proud of
yourself.
This is
episode 157
of the Baehr
and Curadh
podcast.
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