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I love you Curadh. I love you, Baehr. This is episode 87 of the Baehr and Curadh podcast. We're
going to talk about good news from 2023. Good. You know, because the last podcast was
all bad news about 2023. Yeah. Do you want to catch up with that? About our last podcast?
He has been off for a little while. It's been two weeks or three weeks. Two weeks. That's
happened. Come on. I cracked a tooth. I believe it was on New Year's Eve Day on some popcorn.
And it was sore. I couldn't chew on that side. But I couldn't get an appointment until the
day after New Year's. It was before New Year's Day. It was like a week before, I thought.
No, it was January 2nd when I finally got to see the dentist. Yeah, but you cracked it when
we like a week before that. Oh, two weeks before. Yeah. Okay. So, Christmas Eve you cracked it.
And then I got a cold. I don't know if I got it from the dentist or not. I think you were coming
down as a before. You went to the dentist, but it really hit you full-fledged after you were
done with the dentist. But you cracked the tooth. And she tried to remove it, but it broke.
So, then we have a maximum. There was two, down in there that she couldn't get out. So, you had
to go out of the facial. Yeah, I went to the oral surgeon and they put me out and took it out.
They wanted to do it with me awake. And I said, you're either going to sedate me or I'm going to walk out of
here. Based on the bruises and my lip was all stretched out on that side. I'd say it was a pretty
traumatic experience. I was in the room. They would allow me back there. They said they were just going
to bring you back and then all of a sudden, the next meal of the nurse came out and said that you were done.
And since then, I have this big hole that stitched up where a tooth was, I have not been able to eat.
And I still can't eat. Soup and pudding is about all that I can eat.
Pancakes. No. Yeah, things that I don't have to chew. If I have to chew, it hurts. It doesn't
matter if I chew on the other side, it still hurts. I had some soup a little while ago and it still hurts.
And then you thought this cold, this terrible cold wouldn't go away. Yeah, you probably will hear me cough
or sniffled during the podcast. But you are feeling better, right? Yes, I am. I feel
better enough where I think I could talk for an hour of podcasts up until the last couple of days.
I don't think I could have done that. Okay. And then part of the other part of the news was I got my
part, my prosthetic. I don't know if we covered that in the last episode or not, but I got my prosthetic
the Friday before Christmas. So that was good news to catch up about some of the stuff. You haven't been
using it much? No, few hours a day, slowly building up the more and more. So, I'm getting used to it,
but it's nice to be up and mobile, be able to help out a little bit. And I sure hope with that
reduction surgery that you're going to have less problems than you had before. I hope so too.
That would be really nice. Is that a go into womb care months a week? Yeah, so for so good.
So once akin to 2023, it wasn't the best. I had four surgeries during that period.
Was it that many surgeries? Yeah, my gallbladder burst. That was a year before I thought.
I thought it was sometime during the year. There was this summer beforehand, but I got my nasal surgery
which was a horrible, horrible experience. Yeah.
If I got my foot, I put the six screws in my foot and then I had this
tooth extracted. So that's definitely three. Yeah.
And then I had my revision surgery on my leg, so that was, but here's the 2024 being a bit of year.
So, you want to talk about some of the good things from last year? Yes.
All right, so it looks like the first question that we have on here. What was your favorite TPE
series in 2023? I think anybody who knows me or has heard this podcast knows that it would be
Star Trek Strange New Worlds. Strange New Worlds? Not lower decks? Lower decks is okay, but it's not
my favorite. I was in Washington, you see it in new episodes of Strange New Worlds.
It's just like the older Reginald Star Trek. It's a ported day. Every episode is a contained story.
Instead of this 20-episode saga, you could watch them pretty much out of order if you wanted to.
That's good. That's right. That's right. The original Star Trek was.
Your favorite episode was the musical. Oh, yes, definitely. Mr. Spock wondering why he's singing.
I don't think I really had a favorite TV series unless you can think of one that I've
I've been watching Game of Thrones again. Well, I've never really watched it the first time through,
but I've been watching that. Well, there's so many series that you watch every time they're on.
Yeah. Um, the, the, the cop shows, the, um, date line and 60 minutes and yeah, I watch all that stuff.
Every sporting game is ever, ever been broadcast. Pretty much anything that's on TV. Yeah,
a lot. Any kind of competition. Yeah. I'm looking forward to America's greatest video. No,
whatever. America's funny videos. No, no, no, no. The one with the four judges. Um,
America's got talent. Yeah. Yeah. You've got to see that. You watch Shark Tank because that's the
competition. Yeah, I guess you're right. Everything is a competition that I've watched. Well, I'm
looking forward to today because my 49ers get to play in the differential playoff series at this
afternoon. So not if we're still talking on this podcast. Oh, it'll be only three hours away.
That'll be over by then. It better be. So, but yeah, I mean, there's a lot of different things
that I like watching. A little disappointed in the echo, which is on Disney+. It's a Marvel show.
A little disappointed in it. You don't know much about it, but it's about, uh, kind of, she's in the
Marvel universe. She was running in the Marvel universe. She's an amputee. She's a deaf amputee.
But the TV show on Disney wasn't very good. That was a little disappointed, but yeah, she's
a bull in the amputee. So, kind of wanted to see if I can, I don't know. It was interesting to say
that, but it was a little disappointed. But I'm not telling anyone not to watch it. Go out
and watch it, if you like. Say what you think. There was a couple of Star Wars series
last year. Ah, soka. Ah, soka. I'm trying to watch that. It's not really getting my attention too much.
Mandalorian didn't I have. Mandalorian. That was pretty good. I finished
that. Came out with news that they're going to make that into a movie. Yeah.
And then there was also, um, um, starts with a name. I can't think of the name, but
you watch that one. You like it because it was your normal magic Jedi knight one.
Hmm. Can't think of the name of a train door. End or thank you. Yeah. Oh, yeah, because there was no
Jedi knight magic in it. Yeah. So, you enjoyed that one. And I understand they're going to finish that
story. They're filming it now. Yeah. So, they're going to have one more episode or one more series.
Yeah. Right now, I know that they're in the process of filming "Acolytes," which you're not going to
like because it's all about the Sith Lord. And the world of two. So, I'm looking forward to that. So
did you start a production on what the last of us, which you could care less about? Yeah, I did
watch that one episode, but that was it. Oh, you finally did. Is that episode? What did you think?
Mm-hmm. Didn't it do anything for you? Mm-hmm. It was nice, I guess.
No, I'm sorry. You never just the first I've heard about it. So, I'm happy that you've never
watched it. So, it was different to have two gay characters front and center in a in a whole episode.
Yeah. Did you enjoy it at least though? Yeah, I guess. And sad. I don't like dystopian future shows.
No, it's not your cup of tea. So, it's sad though. I thought it was really well done. I'm happy
that you've watched it. Thank you. And to the first I've heard about it, you probably watched it
months and months ago, but... Could be. What did we do last year just for fun?
We went to the zoo quite a bit. That's really what stuck out to me. To the zoo, you said? Yeah.
That's right. Yeah, that's fun. What else did we do? We went on the gay pride march
right before my surgery. Yeah, the rally. We did not get to go in the parade because
I was still recovering. You thought about it, which would have been a very bad idea.
Well, we had an electric scooter, but you were here for a sec. You couldn't put it in the trunk
of the car. Yeah. So, there's no way for me to go anywhere. Yeah. That march was nice,
something different. Yeah. It wasn't a parade. There were no floats or anything. It was just...
And there were no spectators. No, it's just everybody who was walking from one place to the other.
Yeah, and long walk, too. Especially for us. We started. We were the very first ones. We went on
the end. We were the very last ones. It's okay, though. So, everybody in the march passed us at one
point or another. Yeah. Oh, well. It was funny, though, because even after that, I ran into people
who work that recognized me, so that we were in the march with them. So, I wonder why they didn't say,
"Hello." Well, they saw me afterwards. They saw me at work after the rally. Okay. That's all. They
said they recognized me from the rally. So, I said, "Let's tell them what happened." And they're like,
"One person was like, "Hey, we started right up front with you and we finished just before you guys."
So, I didn't feel as quite as bad. But I just enjoyed a boy and liked it. So that was something we
did just for fun. Yeah. So, what new things did we learn this year? We learned not to record the
podcast at the media room in the library. Yeah. That was that was a horrible experience. Yes, it was.
They have a room set aside, but supposedly just for recording podcasts. And it had glass and tile
and hard surfaces everywhere. And it sounded like we were recording in an echo chamber. Yeah.
Yeah, I didn't ever. I don't think I've ever heard, but listen back to that episode. Was it that bad?
Yeah, I was pretty bad. By then, you know, we'd already done it. It's kind of hard to redo the episodes
once we do it. I think we learned that we're more resilient than we thought we were. Yes. And you
learned how to be a caregiver. I tried. I don't know if I failed or not. He succeeded. Oh, okay.
Well, thank you. It was a little rough at first, but you stepped up. Well, thank you. I don't think
all of it be as good as you are with it, but you have a lot more experience than I do. No, I hope I
don't get in such a state again. No, not that out of mind taking care of you. And just I don't like
seeing you like that. But what else do we learn? Life's kind of fleeting. We also are kidding. Yes,
we did do Mr. Sox. Yeah, so that was a surprise. Yeah, one of our other kiddies was
not eating and had very low energy. And we thought she was going to go and
you even had a little talk with her. And she got over it. Mr. Sox, I think when he, it was probably
the same bellgur something. Yeah, and he just got worse and worse and finally died. Yeah, it's sad.
I don't want it to all that too much because I'll get upset. Yeah, we're supposed to be thinking
happy thoughts in this podcast to make up for the last one. Yeah. So, it's another, what's a good
thing that we learned to learn? Another good thing. Back to being resilient. Well, I think
learning to be a good character for is a good thing. Oh, I agree. So yeah, I think I did a pretty good
job. I learned how to record the podcast in stereo. Still stuff I have no idea how to do.
So yeah, when I die, the podcast dies. Yeah, but you're not going to die for a whole time. So
can't believe it. Yesterday, Adam and Daniel were doing the mix, the fried 48 mix for the first time
in weeks, weeks, weeks. And Adam said that he had gotten a life advisor who really wasn't doing any
good. And one of the questions was, what do you want your life to be like in five years and 10
years and 20 years? And on the chat, I wrote, in five years, 10 years and 20 years, I still want to
be alive. And it has goals. I think that's around the goal, hopefully. All right, move along.
What was your favorite meal in the last year? I can't take it for anything that pops out.
Yeah, I figured you'd have trouble with this one because we eat out a lot. Yeah.
Probably more than we should. They all kind of run together. But I think the best meal that we had
was when a coworker and his wife invited us to their house and we had steak and potatoes.
Yes, that would agree. That was the best homemade meal that was very good. In a long time.
It was a very good company. I think that's what really made the meal, too. It was good time to
something that we normally don't tell you. What are the plans? Thank you. It's going to chime in again.
What are the plans? Okay. That was a very good time. We got to meet a lot of new people that night.
A lot of their friends that were work friends. I never had work friends before.
Just always wanted to keep my private life and my work life separate. Yeah.
Well, it was like a retirement slash. It was the head is over, but it was like a surprise retirement party, too.
Well, yeah, it was a retirement party for him and his wife and I were in cahoots because she had to
clean up the house and decorate and things like that. But she didn't want him to know that it was
a retirement party. So, the cover was that you and I are coming over for supper. She was cleaning
the house for that. That's right. And while we were there, people started arriving and he found
that it was a retirement party. Yeah. And the weather was nice. Yes. Because it was March.
Because I remember because it was a basketball TV. So, I got to watch my basketball too.
So yeah, that was the best meal of the year. That was. Thank you for reminding me of that.
Name some things we did together.
Like I said, this is going back to the doctors a lot. Yes, we did. I was trying to say that, but
yeah, mutual doctor's appointments. It's going to probably be after surgery. It turns out, you know,
we had an orthopedic doctor. We both saw. And we have an endocrinologist that we both saw.
We don't use the same primary physician, but so when we make an appointment for one,
we make an appointment for both of us and then we get it all done at once.
And because of the gentleman, the doctor that did his foot surgery, the same doctor that did mine,
my stomach revision. So, we're just kind of crazy. The small, small world.
Because if you think about it, which sells a pretty big city, in the fact that we have the same
orthopedic surgeon. And I don't think we planned that. And it was a referral from each of our
doctors, and we have different doctors. I don't know how that worked out. I guess he's known to be
pretty good at what he does. A very busy guy. We each saw him for a few minutes. And then after that,
his PA did everything else. Speaking of which we have an appointment coming up on. That's Wednesday.
Yeah. Probably you'll probably get released. I hope so. I'm like, I've kind of given up on the idea
that it's going to get better, that I'm probably just going to be living with pain the rest of my
life. Yeah. I'm sorry. They may offer to do a revision on yet somehow or take the screws out
or something, but I don't know that I might have any more done. Yeah. Because then you can have
all that recovery still. I'm sorry. But yeah, I go in and hopefully I'll be back to work sooner
than later. Because originally, I plan on going back to work like in April. Because when I first
had my leg imputed, it took about six months for me to get back to work. Was that right? And you healed
much faster this time. So hopefully I'll be back to work in February. But I'm taking it easy. I'm not
going back as many hours as I as I did when I left. So probably work a few hours here and there
during the week. But at least I'll be out and about. So, we did go to the zoo a lot last year.
We do enjoy that. We bought a membership, which is the So, Sedgwick County Zoo is, I don't know,
something like 20 acres. And if you pay admission and you want to see everything, that's a hell of a
workout. Yeah. That's a lot of walking. But with it with an annual membership, you just go,
you know, whenever you feel like it and you go, you see what you want to see and save the rest for
another visit. Yeah, because before we go, it's been all day there and it'd be pretty wooped.
And now we can pick and choose and skip things if we want to skip on.
The membership was, I think, just a little over twice what the entrance fees are. So you have to
go like three times to make your money back. It's only when we go that far more than that. Yeah,
we've earned it. We stopped going to Tanganyika. Now Tanganyika, it's, they're nice. It's good as
they are. It's still just a two hour. You can see everything in two hours. Yeah, easily. So much
from all my private zoo. And it used to be you could get a membership at Tanganyika for $5 over the
daily admission price. So we got one over here. But last year, they upped it considerably.
It was outrageous. I think you had to go four times to make up your membership. And we've been there
so many times that we said, well, we'll get a membership to the other zoo. The bigger zoo.
And there's much more things to see. The bigger zoo. And they're constantly putting in new exhibits,
it seems. So even if they don't put any new exhibit, they have events and stuff like that that we
can go see like the lights and stuff. So we always having new babies born all the time. Yeah, they're
expecting new elephants this year for new elephants. So that's what we bring the binoculars. We'll
be able to see them. No, no, no, no, they're expecting a new baby gem where they actually have a new
baby gem. I think you haven't put them out yet. So he's not ripe yet. Yeah, but, yeah.
Okie dokie, what movies did you like? I want to say Guardians of the Galaxy, but it was shit.
It was sad, I thought. It wasn't very good. It seemed like a money gripping scheme.
Yeah, well, Marvel movies are nowadays. Try to get some butts in the seats.
Yeah. Christmas movies don't do well anyway. There really was nothing that stood out last year.
Oh, movie wise. What was the name of it? Saltburn. Everybody's crazy about saltburn. I haven't turned
that on yet. I haven't watched it. I've seen some summaries of it. It doesn't make me want to watch
it. It's more. It seems like it's more of a shock value type thing. It's sort of an obsession,
Joe. Yeah, but everyone's were even about there. I guess they're just seeing on top of a cemetery
and they're just seeing where he's in the bathtub. It doesn't do anything for me. Yeah, so.
Don't know. I may skip through to the good parts, but I don't probably won't watch it.
Yeah, it looks like a snooze vest to me. It looks like something that I would turn on in fall asleep.
Fall asleep watching. So, Oppenheimer, I have not seen. No, have you seen Barbie?
I can, but I haven't. I fell asleep, don't I? So I wasn't, I don't know. There's a lot of people
raving that it's like a woman power moving movie and it just seemed like a hokey Barbie movie to me.
I kind of got the impression it was trying to sponge off of toy story because these characters
are all self-aware that they're toys. Yeah, she's aware, but it's supposed to be like, by the
end of the movie, she realizes that she's more than just a pretty face and that she matters.
So, I mean, the Billy I was strong. It's at the end of it's really good.
I mean, it's cute, but it's probably not the best movie ever.
No, I mean, you know what I mean, but... No, gone with the wind. No, I mean, it's cute, but I have a
much rather see Oppenheimer. And it probably got a lot of money in the theater because folks could bring
their kids to it. Yeah, well, it was across generational movie, you know what I mean?
It covered different generations. These little kids could go see it and get it and then kind of like
any kind of Pixar movie where adults, there's a told humor and then a child of humor and stuff like that.
And the kids don't know what the adults are laughing at. Exactly. So, but Oppenheimer, I really want to say,
I'm kind of pissed that it's going to be streaming on Peacock. It's one of the streaming services,
I don't know if I will miss it. Yeah, I don't know. The one that I did look actually see and like was
Indiana Jones in the Destiny or the Dial of Destiny. Oh, okay. But I don't think I've actually finished
watching it. I've seen it as good. I got about 30 minutes into it and turned it off. I just wasn't
in the movie to watch it. Other than that, I can't... I mean, TV shows, I really enjoy the last of us.
Back, it's kind of like movie, one of their series is like that. Also, dragons, I thought was really good
on HBO. So... Well, the other day that worked, somebody asked me if I enjoyed a TV series called Found.
I didn't even know there was a series called Found. I've watched like one or two episodes
over in Lost Interest. I told them I would not watch a show called Found because I would be afraid it
would be a sequel to Lost. It's a good point. No, it has nothing to do with each other, but it's an
interesting take on a TV show. I won't tell you about it, but you ever watch it? I don't know,
I've never heard of it before. It's something to check out. It's an interesting spin on it, so.
Other than that, I really don't think since we don't go to movies. Well, we wait 'til they come on streaming
and we watch them there. Yeah, watch our daily elves. So, I think this year I fell asleep during it.
But yeah, I've really seen it. There wasn't that much that came out. Nothing that stood out.
So., I looked up a list of the top movies of the year and I hadn't heard of most of them. Yeah.
So. All right, well, that was a pretty short episode. So, what's your favorite joke right now?
It's a short episode. We're going on 29 minutes. So, every time I cut out all the
Ems and oms and coughs and everything, it'll probably be about 20 minutes. Favorite joke. What is the one
thing that prevents more gay sex than all the Bible-thumping conservatives? I don't know what. We'll
think about that for a second. What is it that would stop gay sex more than more than preachers?
No idea. Mexican food. Oh God, that's horrible. That's gross.
You have to be really thinking about it too. Jerk. That's gross. Okay, well.
You're so proud of yourself. Every time. Every time. We hope you enjoyed episode 87
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