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If you could rename the street you grew up on, what would you rename it?
There. Okay. Actually, my name, the way I spell it, B-A-E-E-H-R, is the name of the street that I grew up on.
Yeah, that's true. I forgot about that. It's still around, isn't it?
Of course I know. I haven't visited that neighborhood in a long, long, long time.
It's been quite a while. It was a dirt road, wasn't it?
Yeah, it probably still is a dirt road.
Hmm. So, what would you name the street you grew up on?
I don't think probably my middle name. We should be sure I go, just because it's different.
It's a county in Kansas, named Trio County. I don't know. It's a kid I hated to name.
It's a family name. I don't know exactly where it came from.
My grandfather's name, Trago, and then I'm a junior.
Like I said, it's family name. But like I said, my mom was very fond of it.
She thought it sounded like a horse's name, not a horse's name, but a horse's name.
I didn't look he gave me. So probably that. I don't know. I mean, it's weird.
I would probably keep it the same though. I was like, Surrey Avenue was just fitting, I guess.
I guess I just, that's the name of the street that I grew up on. So, I'll probably keep it the same to be ours with you.
See, I would think you'd call it Bayside or something like that.
Yeah, there's a lot of the Bay Street right next to the Bay, so I kind of missed that place a little bit.
What was the last thing you created?
The last podcasts, last week's podcasts.
Well, that's not fair.
Why?
I don't know. I just sounded easy to say.
I've created all kinds of software and things since, but the last artistic, I guess, is a podcast artistic.
Yeah, there's a lot of design. You have to make the webpages and we make a little document that we read off of.
No, we don't do anything. You do it all.
Yes, I do.
So then after it's recorded, I edit all of our mistakes out.
Basically, you edit me. Make the sound So, better.
You edit me out?
Yeah, because I know I'm the one who messes up the most.
The last thing I created, I really can't talk about talking about podcasts.
Kind of make you make a mess.
Not chasing.
No, I didn't do that.
Just probably some artwork, really.
Probably some sketches that I've drawn, but nothing really fantastic.
I haven't been really created recently. I don't know why.
I need to get back to the swing and things start drawing and sketching more often.
I think the problem is that I haven't been doing it a lot, so I'm not very happy with the work that I've been doing.
But practice makes perfect, and I just kind of fall out of practice with doing it.
You need to make me a temporary tattoo.
Yeah, yeah, I need to get my coworker's tattoo design too.
She wants that done in within the month.
I better jump on that, because she waited all summer for it.
She didn't want to get a twin in summer, because when you get a tattoo, you're really not allowed to go swimming in the pool and
being out of the sun and can ruin the damage to tattoo.
Well, I will not have to worry about that, because you're just going to draw it on me.
Yeah, and you're not kind of real one.
I bought you those special tattoo markers that are, I guess, they're supposed to be safe to use on your skin.
Well, you put one on yourself, can you?
Well, I use this stencil.
It's probably two, six different colors.
Did you put them on correctly in the right order?
Yeah, yes, I definitely know the right order for the color.
Okay, I'm just asking.
Some people don't.
I guess that's what we both created.
If you put out a magazine, what would you name it and what would be in it?
I've already done this. The electronic gay community magazine started in, I think, 1988.
Okay.
That was actually before the internet.
It was a magazine that you, that was on Discord, which you stick in your computer and you view.
Okay.
Did you have a lot of subscribers?
Um, a couple hundred, maybe considering that it had to be mailed to you and everything.
It was, I guess that was quite a few people.
It gets to be expensive.
Did people pay for it or?
Yeah.
How much did it cost?
I think it was $10 a year.
Oh, that's not bad.
So, every month that we get a disc in the, like a floppy in the mail or something?
Yeah.
Yeah. After a few years of doing that, I opened the cable and board system and people who had
a modem and the right software could view the magazine on their computer.
Oh, well.
Over the, it was called GayCom, over that network.
And then when it went to, when the internet became more popular, I made a version right on
the internet for a very long time.
What made you stop doing it?
Um, I don't really know.
I, I, I just ran out of ambition, I guess.
Hmm.
The URL is still there.
You can go there, but it hasn't been up to you in long, long, long time.
Oh, wow.
That's interesting.
I never knew that.
I learned something new about you every day.
Hmm.
If I created a magazine, it, I don't know what I would call it.
It would just be a hot pod to probably my thoughts and just different things than I'm interested
in.
Sounds like this podcast.
Exactly.
I mean, it would run the game from artwork to sports to probably political commentary.
And when would you find time to make it?
That's the thing.
Yeah.
I have to sleep a lot.
Haha.
To look this good.
Haha.
I'm kidding.
Haha.
No, I mean it would.
I think it'd be interesting, but I, I, I, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it,
just be a hot pod of different things and I think they call that a blog.
Yeah.
That's what it would be.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Where's the kitty?
Try to get into a box.
So, what are some of the songs you know by heart?
I know one song by heart.
What is it?
Is I wouldn't want to be like you by the Alan Parsons project.
Okay.
Do something with that cat.
Hey.
Come on.
He's in the box.
Pick up the box and put it on the table so you can't mess with it.
I don't know what it is about cats and boxes.
No, you're going to cry.
No, well, folks, that's our kitty cat.
So, do you know the words to any songs?
Come on.
I have too many to count.
I mean, how many times have we turned on the radio and I'm singing along to all the songs?
Or we're at McDonald's and they play something over there to intercom or whatever they call
that.
Yeah.
They're satellite or whatever.
I have a weird ability to pick up on songs and somehow, they stick in my head and you
know this as well as probably all my coworkers would have ever worked with me.
I can't sing with a lick, but I will sit there and sing like I have the best voice in the
world and I don't care.
We should take this field record around with you everywhere you go so you can record
your singing.
No, I don't want any ammo to be tortured within the future.
No, I'm going to deal with that.
No, I find it music to be soothing and I enjoy it.
I listen to everything really, just all sorts of different music and it's relaxing to
me and I enjoy it and I've always been a very big fan of music.
But do you know all the words of every song?
No.
Of course not, that would be impossible.
If I did, I'd learn how to monetize that.
Well, I know a few words, a few songs, but I wouldn't want to be like you as the only one
that I know all the words too.
Yeah.
I mean, like pretty much any clink on 82 songs out there, I know all the lyrics too.
A lot of tape-based band, voice travelers, Jimmy Buffett, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen,
a lot of different music.
I think I've heard of some of those.
Yeah.
Well, I would hope so.
You'd have to live under a rock for quite a long time as you have it.
All right.
This is a good one.
What behaviors make you think a person is creepy?
If they don't blink, how long can you hold that stare?
I can't.
If they don't blink, they creep you out.
Yeah.
Really?
It's like looking at a mannequin.
Then why aren't you blinking right now?
Also, CGI has gotten really good and motion capture in movies has gotten really good.
But sometimes, especially when it's a human, they're generated.
They don't.
They look really good, but there's something just not quite right and it makes them very
creepy.
They're just not quite human.
I think they call that the uncanny valley, I don't know where that term came from.
Interesting.
Things that look human, but aren't quite human are quite creepy.
Oh, that's weird.
I think that maybe that's why dolls are so creepy too, because they just stare with a blank
expression all the time.
Dolls are very creepy.
They're all with clowns.
We should get you some clown dolls.
No, no.
I wanted you to make an image of that because it just really just go for the gusto and really
creep me out.
So, there you go, folks.
That's what I'm really afraid of.
I don't think there's any specific trait that people have that creep me out.
Some people just give off a creepy vibe.
And I just think that's intuition that you know that person isn't up to any good.
They just, and I run into those people quite a bit, but I do run into them in my place
of work quite a bit.
There was one time, very, very long time ago.
I was at a bar, and this guy was giving me the look, I don't know what it how it's to describe
it.
He was apparently interested in me.
He sat down and we talked, and he didn't know anything about current events or anything.
And I don't know, I just got a weird feeling about him.
And I excused myself.
I went over to the bartender and I said, have you ever seen this guy?
Do you know this guy?
He says I've never seen him before an hour ago.
And I don't know.
I just felt something was wrong.
And I excused myself and left, and I probably still have my head attached to my body for
that reason.
Sometimes that feeling can save you a lot of my head.
I might have missed the greatest sex I've ever had in my life, and then died from it.
I'll never know.
Be like a black widow?
Yeah.
But people, I think there's people who out there that have bad intentions, do give that
vibe off too much, enough TV shows, and you see where I was killing and stuff like that.
I don't know, that guy just seemed like he was too interested in going home with me.
I think he were some sort of prey, or wanted to, to case my house out for things he could
steal or, I don't know, just got a bad vibe.
A month you give it his house?
Flip the script.
Oh, I don't know.
I'm teasing.
I've never got that far.
Yeah.
Well, isn't that how we met?
I didn't creep you out, apparently, because here I am still.
Now, I remember when he took your shirt off, I said, "This guy's interesting."
Uh-huh.
Now we are.
Here we are.
What?
10 years later?
10 years later, something like that.
Yes, we are.
What's the perfect temperature to set the house at?
I happen to know exactly, it's 74 degrees, because we have a smart home system, and we can,
in any room, we can look over at the speaker and say, "Set the thermostat to 74."
And that's what it'll do.
75 is too hot, and 73 is too cold.
Yeah.
I was going to say, like, 68, but I'd freeze the desert with 68.
Well, people in the wintertime come over to the house and they go, "Oh, it's so nice and
warm in here."
And I go, "Well, come back in the summer, and I'll be just as warm."
Because that's where we set the air conditioner to.
Yeah, all year round.
Yeah, I would agree with that.
It makes a more comfortable environment to live in.
And I'm sure our kiddies appreciate it.
Although I understand that cats would prefer a temperature about 15 degrees higher than what
humans do.
So, they would want the air conditioner to be like 90?
Yeah.
So good luck, cats, and apparently living with us cats are cold all the time.
Hmm.
The good things they're covered in fur, is that why they cuddle so much?
I guess.
Wow.
Sorry, folks.
That's my insulin pump.
Very interesting, insulin starts, but you're setting to get low.
What's the funniest or most amazing cell phone cover you have seen?
I won't say amazing, but I think the funniest I ever saw was a guy who posted like a selfie
or somebody re-shared his selfie or something.
This guy doing muscle shines in the mirror and holding this phone up while he did muscle
signs taking a picture of himself, like seeing his muscles.
And he had a hello kitty cover on his self, though.
Oh, that's hilarious.
That's funny.
I don't know, if you've ever had anything on your cover, it's just the plain cover So,
I don't see the point in getting to accessorize yourself on, it's a tool.
It's a tool that you use.
It's like when people accessorize their cars, so they fancy them up and all that.
It's a foreign transportation.
It gets you from point A to point P. I don't see the point in that either.
Every time I've ever personalized the car or something happened to it soon after that.
Yeah.
So, I don't see the need or the one to do it, so I've never done it.
I have the Star Trek chevron emblem on the back of my phone, but that was mainly because
I have a transparent case and I had this sticker that fit perfectly on my phone and I could
put the case over it and so.
Can I buy you that sticker?
No, I bought a t-shirt and that sticker came with the t-shirt.
No, good.
It fits perfectly on my phone.
I've never noticed it before.
Anybody, like the last time I went to the Renaissance festival, I was taking picture of the
Doctor Who phone booth that they had there.
And this guy who was, apparently was his, came up and asked me what my favorite episode
of Star Trek was and I said, "How did you even know I'm a Star Trek fan?"
He says, "Because you've got the emblem right there on your phone."
Yeah.
Well, I mean, the only thing I changed the wallpaper on myself quite a bit, that depends
on what sports season it is.
Like I just switched it over to the 49ers in a day.
That's about the only thing I'll do, but like during the baseball season it's the Red Sox.
So on and so forth.
I used to have all kinds of fancy animated wallpapers and I found that it just changed your battery.
Yeah, like wallpapers.
Yeah, you used to have like an aquarium team when you're, I knew that.
Yeah.
But yeah, they drained your battery quite a bit.
So, which musical artist is greatly overrated?
Madonna.
You think so?
Don't you?
Yeah.
I mean.
Maybe Lady Gaga is a close second?
Yeah.
I mean, I like Lady Gaga better than Madonna though.
Oh.
Yeah, me too.
They're all manufactured.
I mean, they're So, they're So, not a person, they're a persona.
Yeah.
It's a pop machine.
You know what I mean?
Everything's calculated.
Everything's done for a reason.
It's all calculated.
I don't know.
I have a T-swift.
Don't know what that is.
Taylor Swift.
Okay.
I don't think she's overrated.
I don't think she's overrated because she's the one that did the episode of black mirror.
I think so.
You know who Taylor Swift is.
I think so.
Yeah.
She's I mean, she's just on tour.
I mean, she's got millions of followers and people.
I like her because she writes most of her music.
Lady Gaga probably writes a lot of her own music too.
So, I'm surprised she didn't say something like the Beatles or something like that before
my time.
Yeah.
But you like making fun of them?
I do.
Yeah, you, you, you, you ripped me a few times about them saying they were boy band and stuff
like that.
They're not really a boy band, but a monkey would be a boy band.
The only thing I really remember about the Beatles was there was a documentary about them
many years ago.
And in that documentary, they found this guy who was camping outside of their house.
It was Abby Road.
Yeah, it was the recording stadium.
And they invited him in.
I don't know what they would have done that if the cameras weren't rolling or not.
But anyway, this, this guy said that they were basically prophets that all of their songs
came true.
And they're just going, well, it was just a bunch of words that rhymed with.
Yeah.
There's no.
We were high.
Yeah.
We just felt a bunch of things.
Yeah.
And I suspected a lot of music is that way of people put all kinds of meaning in it.
And its really just words that rhymed.
Yeah.
I imagine some musicians, there's, there's reasons behind the songs and the story behind
it.
But I imagine a lot of other stuff.
It's just garbage that it sounds good and they know that it'll be a puppet and can
you get an earworm and it's stuck in your head and makes it popular.
But I believe there's like a science to pop of how many beats per minute and what notes
to repeating lyrics over and over again.
I imagine.
I mean, that's the big fuss right now with all the AI that's out there that people are
just plugging in themes and the AI is coming up with songs that are catchy.
Like you can get like one of the AI chatbots or whatever and say, give me a pop song of
this.
They all spit out lyrics in less than 10 seconds and you have a pop song and it'll give you
a beat in the lyrics and everything like that.
But people are getting it.
So pop is going to be replaced by AI like everything else.
Pretty much.
Everyone thinks AI is going to take over the world, so but I don't know.
I'm not that big of a conspiracy theorist.
Supports.
So, going on to that, what is a conspiracy that you actually do believe in?
People say that the UFOs that are visiting Earth are aliens from some other planet.
And they are not revealing themselves to us because we're not ready for it.
We're too immature of a species.
Yeah.
That is something that I believe.
I believe that too.
And see, because back to the analogy of like how we walk by anils and we don't stop the
day of them any mind because it's not worth our time or effort.
And that's how aliens feel about us.
Actually, the theory that I believe in is like, I'm peeled off the horse and be because
of this.
I think the Earth's flat.
No, no.
If the Earth was flat, the cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
No, I don't believe the Earth is flat anybody that's a joke.
And now that is one conspiracy that I believe I really do think that as a species we are
very immature and cosmic scheme of things.
Or like you said to them where ants and they just don't give us any thought at all.
Yeah, I mean, look what we're doing to our planet.
And then the leader of our free world was Trump for a while.
Imagine that.
People with a great representative, maybe he's an alien.
He's a reptilian.
I'm reptilian.
You know, like V.
I remember that show.
That was a good show.
All right.
Well, I guess that's it for the week.
So, what is your favorite joke right now?
I'm planning on ordering both a chicken and an egg from Amazon.
Which one's going to come first?
Yep.
That's what we'll find out.
Okay.
Is that the answer?
All right.
Well, that was a good one.
That was cute.
I like that.
All right.
Okay.
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