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I love you Curadh. I love you, Baehr. This is episode 76 of the Bear and Curadh podcast
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We're going to talk about fast food horrors. What's your fast-food horror story? I don't have one. Either do I?
That's insane like we're getting off to a good start. I
Don't think I've ever found a human toe in my food or anything like that. Have you ever found a hair or anything like that?
You know I it seems like I may have once but I don't remember I have it's been it's never
I've never I've never like been to a burger or anything like that like a big long hair come out of it
But like I found hairs like in my food. I don't think anything. I've been at picket aside
It kind of grossing me up, but it's not like it ruins my meal. I don't you are such a picky eater
I would think you would throw up right then no and that would be the end
No, it's just I well first off and like is it my hair?
Is it off my beard Is it?
Mm-hmm. You know what I mean? I do remember a
fast food place that they served breakfast and they had
like a waffle machine, mm-hmm, and
Between where the batter was and where the waffle machine was Baehr all of this splattered
waffle mix waffle mix that it splattered all down the side of it and ran down onto the floor
Mm-hmm, and I turned them into the health department. Hmm. Did they shut down? Oh, yeah, they Baehr raised the building
Oh, wow, so it was really bad then. Well, I that was the only thing that I saw
But that's something they should do clean every day. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's gross
So, but no, I haven't had like any like I've never found like a Baehr nail or just somebody's fingernail in my food or
Condom and nothing bizarre. You've never gotten to see anybody for no emotional distress
Except me. Yeah, I'm just I'm just right recording all the things that you do to me
so, Condom I guess we're moving on
Well looks delicious, but tastes horrible. I can't think of anything. I thought everything looks good to me
I thought you're gonna say my penis
I'm kidding
Yeah, mushrooms just because we had mushrooms the other that's the only thing I could think of
Yeah, and you ate half of one and I ate all the rest of them. No, I ate two. I ate two I ate one
By myself and then I ate the top of the in size because there were stuff mushroom caps
I ate one by myself or two I think but yes, you did eat the rest of them
Me mean you're gonna do that anyway. I knew I was gonna be eating the mushroomed burnt ends because I need like barbecue
And I should have just gotten that because the salad was huge and I could have just eaten the mushrooms and that would have been enough for me
Yeah, did you like the salad though? Yeah, it was okay. Yeah, my salad was good
It was a little spicier than I planned it to be but it was still pretty tasty probably why they put sour cream on it
Yeah, yeah, the sour cream helped so and that was not a faster restaurant
That was a nice little bar, so yeah try what company or franchise do you wish would go out of business? Oh, there's so many
I'm kidding. I don't have any specific like fast food-wise. Is that gonna be our answer to every question? No, no
It's not I mean we're still discussing. Hey, would you like to see you out of business? Chick-fil-A
Oh, yeah, good one. I didn't even think of that. I mean not I didn't even ponder that a second
Yeah, that's answer came right out. Yeah, that's mushroomed a good one
Yeah, yeah, I would agree with you 100% of that although I suppose you know if you don't like Chick-fil-A
You should just not go there. Yeah, but
Every one of their board of directors that used to be Chick-fil-A gave money to all these anti-gay
organizations where they stopped doing that but all of their directors still do
You know, that's public information. Oh really? So, um, you know, they just switched the mushroomed source
Chick-fil-A probably gave them a bonus and told them they had to pay that bonus to all these anti-gay people
Yeah, but no, I mean yeah, that would probably be one I but like I don't I don't I mean McDonald's
I'm not big fan of their regular meals, but I love the breakfast. They're all I mean the regular meals
I don't like but they're breakfast. I like so
It's consistent. Yeah, it's that's one thing with McDonald's is consistent and their breakfast is good for what you pay for so
Burger King. We don't even go there, but don't even think of it
No, but we don't eat a lot of fast foods though. I don't I really don't think I mean we could we eat out quite a bit
But we can go to normal sit-down restaurants. Yeah, we probably shouldn't be doing that but we do yeah
I mean, well, I mean we can only find something that we both like that's why true
It is hard to find something at home that we will both eat
Yeah, and then you want to making too much and then so on most of the way because you can't make a small individual meal for yeah
so
But yeah, I'd like to get thought again sometimes soon. I know that's weird. I don't know why I want to get full so bad
I know soup isn't a summertime meal and it's not it's not winter yet. It's just chilly this morning
So, but yeah, you're right. It's not winter time yet. We'll just have to go in the morning when it's cold
All right, what's seen from a movie? Scared you for life the godfather one particular scene
um
One of the actors he's a famous actor and I can't think of his name
Marvardineira. No, no, no
He played a character named Sunny. I think that was Al Pacino's character. No, it wasn't him. Okay. No, it was actually a hot looking actor
His son is an actor now and he's just as hot
James Conn. Oh, okay
He was an actor. He had a scene where he just beat this woman
Just senseless. Yeah, just she
I'm surprised if that was a real scene in in real life. She would be dead. Really?
It just it made me physically sick to watch that wow. Yeah, I don't remember seeing that
Well, you may have seen the godfather on
broadcast TV and then probably was certainly cut that probably. Yeah, that's probably what it is
Um, if I had to pick anything
She's gonna make you laugh probably jaws
Just growing up where I did that movie scared the hell out of me as a kid, you know growing up on the beach
um, that close to the city of water
uh, made me really afraid of those sharks
Uh, I love them. They all watch it over and over and over and over again, but it's just uh
It's and you look at me like it means you've what scene wasn't it's the part where they're all singing
You know, I'm drunk and I want to go to bed
Boom Margarine. They're singing live and the boat gets bumped. Yeah, it's just
Just the eeriness of that creeps me out, but yeah jaws eeriness scarred me for life definitely
um, like I said just the proximity of where I grew up with the ocean being right there and going out and
fishing and I remember being a kid after seeing that movie and
Being in the ocean and if someone talked about it, it was the quickest way to get me out of the water because if that idea popped into my mind
I was going to be in the water. I was just nope. I'm out
So, I would immediately get on land after that, so
So, once you go out into the ocean somebody just goes
Yeah, I'm watching me freak out
So, there's a kiddie behavior in Beverly
Getting to set every time we do the podcast, like pay attention to me not the not the microphones. Yeah, socks
You get down this instant. He doesn't seem to me. He wouldn't have the nose. I'll do something. Yeah, he looks at me in my house
Okay, if you were falsely convicted of a crime, how would you adapt prison life? Terrible. I
I wouldn't have last, I guess I guess I've put all my time into trying to prove my innocence, but
I don't think I'd be able to last in prison, do you?
I'm way too pretty to go to prison. Yeah, I mean, do you think you'd be able to do prison time? No
Yeah, either do I just but I don't think I ever do anything that would put me in prison
Yeah, it's just I
Especially can you imagine me falsely convicted knowing that you didn't do anything wrong and then you're
Stuck there. That never happens
Yeah, yeah jails are just filled to the brim with innocent people. Yeah
No, I wouldn't be able to handle it into prison life would just be too much some oh, I don't know
You could probably be somebody's bitch. No, I don't want to be somebody's bitch though either
I like my liberties. I like getting up when I want to get up. I like damn the buildings of vote. You're
Like being my bitch, that's different
Um too many things that I enjoy in life that I don't want to give up being a felon
I just learned today that people who are incarcerated are not legally United States citizens really
They lose their citizenship while they're in prison. I don't know if that's necessarily true or not, but
I heard it from a post from the ACLU. So, I'm inclined to believe it
Hmm, so we'll be what it is why they can't vote
Hmm or on a firearm then I guess and that may depend on the state too
Hmm, that's interesting. Yeah, I don't know
Hmm, so do you and then I guess you have to apply for citizenship then I want you to know I think you get it back again
Once you're released. Yeah, probably finished. They have to go through probation. Yeah, yeah, how's the rest and all of that
Wow, yeah, I didn't know that I wasn't aware of that. So that's same another point why it would suck so bad and its um
hits certain communities in Deport
So, what I want to say disproportionate. Oh
There's a lot more like black and Mexican people in prison than there is in general society when you
Just report your effects on when you consider the percentages. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's too bad
What event in your life would make a good movie? I suppose my
activist days in the
AIDS pandemic
I would probably have to be oh, what's the word?
Probably embellished a little just to make people sit through a movie. Yeah
Because I think of movies like um, what's that movie about Facebook?
Yeah, social network. Yeah
It was obviously heavily embellished just to make it interesting. Yeah
Yeah, cuz it was just a bunch of nerds can't be gathered talking about starting a web page
So, I mean there was a little bit of questionable stuff that they'd go on and I think they tried to do an emphasis on that but
There were some questionable things that went on in AIDS crisis. I mean there was a lot of guys
Who said I have nothing to lose. I'm gonna die anyway
So, they felt that they could you know, they sort of had a license to misbehaved
So do you think they just went around and fucked whatever move then just no So, no So,
I'm talking about politically doing like having a die in at Wall Street
It's just shut Wall Street down
They would do the same thing in traffic and things like that thing that
You know protesters never did before really just take it to an extreme
Because it's an amount who they knew you never die. We're gonna die anyway. We're dying
So, I mean that cuz back then it was you got diagnosed
It was a certain death sentence wasn't it pretty much yeah and it also got
Patients involved in
National health care decisions hmm the So, CDC started
Inviting activists to come to their meetings and help them make decisions and that had never happened before really
That's interesting I didn't know that as the operator of a gay bulletin board system
I saw a lot of them
Mechanics going on behind the scenes. I it really was a brand-new thing politically
and I think a lot of the
Guarantees and protections that we as gay people have received
Since then, came from the each crisis
So, I suppose if there's anything good that came from it. It's that yeah gave us a stronger voice
That's good. I think the generations that have come since don't realize, you know what So, they
What they got what they inherited. Yeah, yeah, I think it was a lot of them take it for granted
Mm-hmm, you know like I still don't think of this generation really knows what it means to come out of the closet
You know for a lot of them there So, never was a closet. Yeah
So, to be openly feel via feel the threat of violence
Against you, you know what I mean like or you know just that impending threat that was around. It's not around
I don't see you know; I imagine some places and there is but most like most society
Most of society nowadays is accepting of it
So, but back then and that's just because people like us came out
Yeah, and drop and that the society has dropped this stigma of it. Yeah, that's good
All of that comes pretty much from organizing in the aids
Yeah, I So, don't have any event really that would make a good
Maybe I don't think I'm pleasing anything. Well, I haven't seen any huge dramas in your life
Are you mean we've only been together about a decade? Yeah
Well, what So, about when you were kicked out of the fraternity? Yeah, I guess I can do that
Well, that was kind of a mixed bag of meat
Leaving in also them trying to kick me out. I guess you could do I mean I guess mine better would be better off doing like a
Like a whole life story. I guess between being diagnosed with diabetes coming out and losing my leg
So, sit down at the top right. I write your autobiography. Yeah, we like it into a movie
Yeah, I'm like, I don't want to be rejected So,
Because that'll be another chapter in the book then
All right, which animal best represents your personality?
That's a good question and I have put thoughts to this
Well, what are you saying? How would you answer this question?
Would you say Baehr So, you think something yeah, bumpy Baehr? Yeah, or maybe a slob So,
Um, I can see you being a Baehr. What do you think I would be?
What's then what do you call that animal?
Be nice. Remember you're still married to me. Oh, I can see it in my head. I can't think of the word
There So, was a like a tick-tock video that you used to watch constantly about that animal. I can't
Not an otter. Well otter would be good answer. Yeah, you are very energetic
An energetic like a like an otter. Yeah. What is that? It's a two-word name honey badger honey badger
You think so kind of mean and aggressive
Well worker don't So, don't mess with me or you'll get the teeth
Now I honestly thought probably honey badger or otter before you even said that
Is that it's you know one represents me I think so I don't think I'm as mean as a honey badger
But I think I could be as mean as a honey badger
So, would you if you if you're going to be a Baehr what kind of Baehr would you be would you be a panda, Baehr?
We have some grizzly Baehr we're going to be a Baehr be a grizzly right big mean grizzly Baehr
Well, you're my Baehr
All right, what came you you're my honey badger. Thank you for me
What came to you dominate when you play it football panda,
Foo's ball football football or football every time I play it, I completely dominate
Have you ever played football in your life?
I don't know if I told the story on the podcast before in in parochial school. They would play
I'm not most anymore. They would play flag football and
Flag football you were this belt and they have little like fluorescent strips that are hanging flags in
Velcro and instead of tackling somebody you pull their flag
Well, they didn't have enough flags for everyone in the team and the parochial coach says well
She doesn't need to wear one because nobody's gonna throw you the ball anyway. Oh wow
The um that's kind of pointed point
Back when only, we would grow up. I mean, that's that would never happen nowadays. I don't oh god. No
He'd have been fired so many times over. Oh, yeah for things that he did. Yeah, that's crazy
So, what game do you dominate everyone like to do I'm kidding no probably my rowing's out of game
I was good at football baseball. I wasn't good at mask. Well, I was pretty good at
I'll bet you would have been good at volleyball. I was good at volleyball. I was very good at volleyball
I played indoor and sand volleyball. I enjoyed it a lot. I probably was better at sand volleyball than I was an indoor
But yeah, I was really good at volleyball. I'm not bragging. But yeah, I have a height in the build for him. Oh, I did
so
And now yeah, I enjoyed playing it too. It was a lot of fun
So maybe I should ask the doctor about playing volleyball. No, I think football
what
When the doctor releases me from the foot surgery, I'm gonna say well when will I be able to play football
I'm gonna probably say in a couple of years and I'll go well, that's good because I could never play football before
And you can try
What do they call it now foot volleyball actually I've never heard of that
Yeah, instead of using their hands they use their feet and then like when they spike the ball
They do kind of like a payday kick, you know what that is. Oh, yeah
Doesn't sound interesting
Now I'm just amazed watching highlights of a day in my mind because well if pickleball can be a sport then yeah
I would like to try pickleball, though. I think that's something you could actually do seems like a glorified bad match me
Yeah, but I mean it's kind of like puppet. I think it means how much running the difference between pickleball and
And tennis is the same as the difference between
I put golf in really well. Yeah, but no, I think we could try it. I think it's something we should maybe try to do
You know, we can play on against each other meaning you never get real serious
Well, I
Can't see either one of us running to hit a ball
Well, I see what you mean, but I mean this courts aren't that big and I mean we can hit it towards each other
You know, I mean, we don't have to go all out and try to aim and you know, I mean the wind
Mm-hmm smack the ball back and forth to each other. I don't know. I see you falling and hurting myself or
breaking your prosthetic
Well, I can do that any time though. Mm-hmm, so uh what movie changed the way you the world?
Mm-hmm, a lot of good questions in this one, but they're quite a few different movies that probably change the way I thought about things
Okay, I didn't think of anything on the top of my god. I'm terrible today. I have what would you put?
Harry Potter, you've never seen Harry Potter
You can't see that go ahead
I can't maybe sign that running which was out about Bruce Stern
It was about the last living
biomes of earth
We were putting domes and put on this ship and all of earth had become one big giant city
There were there was any more nature anymore and they had a desert biome and forest biome
Grasslands biome and they put all these domes on this ship into the down in the space to save it
for posterity, I guess and then in the end
the fleet of ships got taken over by some company or something and the company decided to
Chess and the domes and blow them up
Really? He played a biologist tried to save the same plan. Mm-hmm. Did he save them? Yes, okay. Mm-hmm
That's kind of scary, but we'll see the world actually coming around. Actually, it was a horrible
Yeah, the idea behind it wasn't just a thing. It wasn't a very high budget
It made me read book. The book was good. Yeah
Uh, maybe one movie that's on it with my life is about a guy who's dying of cancer and he learns
Is this your life? No, no, no, no. It's called the movie's called My Life
It's with Michael Keen and Nicole Kidman, and he's dying of cancer, but his wife's pregnant with their first baby
So, what he does is he takes records his life to be pretty much a teacher's child
All the things that he would teach him if he was alive
So very sad movie but very good movie, but it was a
Dear director. Mm-hmm. I was good. It was good movie. So the
Action-adventure movies that we watch would only then we don't remember them with dear jerky
So, this is the one? Yeah, and the month that are sad. Well, because it's the action adventure one
We're just too over the top any more nowadays. So true. What was that scene in?
Oh, what was the name of that series about the So, Avengers series?
Never said a movie. The Avengers movie. The movie he said at the very like beginning of the first episode
He says why couldn't Asgard sent the gods of cleaning up
Yeah
All right, so we often talk about how you and I are very different from each other. What things do we have in common?
We both like dick. Yeah, that's true much. I should we like each other's
Yeah, I think that needs it. I think that matters a lot
Um
What do we have in common? We really don't have that much in common. That's why we say that because we don't
I can't think it was me getting all really good though. Really well
Or maybe it's just far. You just put up with me for my dick. What would
Both if we'd met each other 40 years ago. I don't know. We didn't like each other very much
Yeah, we've gotten to the age where we know
I had to tolerate differences
Yeah, I appreciate um, you know your strength or my weak way around. Yeah, and I think we're good teammates
And I mean, it's a proper term. We communicate really well. We know not when to push the other one
But that'll be if you're yummy. Not me so well, but
Well, there have been times that you wanted to discuss the problem and I'd say I'm not going to talk about that right now
I promise I will talk about it. I'm not right now
But no, I think I think we make a good team. So, I mean I guess we enjoy we enjoy spending our time together
That's what we do
We like museums. We like your string and go learning about things. We're doing things that's something
I think you developed a few met me and I've always liked museums stuff
Probably helped me you brought in my So, view of I remember the first time we went to the museum of
Looted treasures that after about half an hour even with the sports museum there you were ready to go
Wow. Yeah, she went like it was yesterday
But no, I see that whenever we go to a museum you see people
Um, families with kids. I'm not even just with kids. Uh, people just wander through and in 20 minutes
They're gonna go and they're not that just bubbles my mind. Why would you spend the money if you're going to do that? Yeah, yeah
So, you can write you there's a Lego convention this weekend. Well, I got it good
I thought it'd be neat, but they want $14 we go to it. It's a century too, but it's I don't know
We'll talk about it and I'm for the podcast. We should bring glue. Yeah
Elmer's no, I think I mean like you have a like I said about the museums and stuff like that
One thing they I've run the light since we've been together is going for walks out like in nature and stuff like that
I haven't been able to do that and so we need to get you impact on that
And you even once the doctor clears me to walk without the brakes. I don't I don't have the stamina to hit
Yeah, we're gonna have to take a baby steps at a time, but you'll get there
So, all right, so I guess that's it for the week. What is your favorite joke right now? Did you hear about a film called Constable?
No, you sure? Yeah, it never came out
So, pushing to get it released
All right
I don't know if I like to go more on this one than any of them, I can think yeah
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