Hello from Bear & Curadh, a podcast from the Land of Awes Information Services.
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I love you, Bear.
This is episode 92 of the Bear & Curadh podcast.
We're going to talk about opinions.
Sorry, this first question is going to make me laugh, but I have to ask it anyway.
Well, before we do the questions, I'd like to put out an appeal to anybody who might be
listening to refer a lawyer.
Those who listen regularly know that last year I had a burst gallbladder, and I have found
out sense that Awesempic might be the reason for that.
And I looked up, well, the reason I found out is because there was a news story about
a woman who is suing Awesempic for losing some teeth.
And it mentioned in the article that Awesempic is also known for gallbladder problems.
And so, I looked up the attorneys that are representing her.
And they interviewed me, well, I don't say they interviewed.
It sounded like some kind of a flow chart thing.
They asked a bunch of prescribed questions, and they said, based on my answers, they didn't
want to represent me in the case.
When you look on Google, there are like a million different law firms who want to do Awesempic
cases.
And I have no idea which one to go to.
So, if anybody has any suggestions, please email us.
It's podcast@olars.com.
Of AWS.
Okay.
Now, on with the show.
Okay.
Like I said, this question is going to make me laugh.
Are you a sports fan?
No, I am not.
Not even the time he's fed.
No.
Any sports whatsoever.
I suppose if they had naked hockey, I would watch that.
I knew you were going to say that.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Whereas I am a complete sports fan, and it drives you crazy.
If there's a ball of any sort, if there is a competition of any sort, no, I watch it.
Yeah.
I even watch the college bowl.
I mean, I watch all of it.
The college bowl.
What do you mean?
Like the trivia show?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Of course, it's trivia.
With sports and answers.
Mm-hmm.
You people, everybody, everyone should see the other discuss and look at my husband's face.
It's rather priceless.
He just doesn't.
You're gay.
You can't be a sports fan.
No.
I can be a sports fan.
It's just, but there is some, it's not very common.
We're kind of like an albatross, but no, yeah.
More like unicorn.
Yeah.
I do enjoy sports.
You never know what's going to happen.
I don't know.
And it's pretty much entertainment, pretty much.
If you think you never know what's going to happen, you haven't watched professional wrestling.
That's not a sport.
That's a drama.
That's an entertainment.
I don't think ballet is choreographed as much as professional wrestling.
Yeah.
So now I do enjoy watching sports, and I watch them all.
Are you a wide receiver or a tight end?
No, no, you come in.
You can't be both.
No.
One or the other.
So, come on, you don't want to hit something.
I say both.
You're both.
Okay.
I guess I'm both them.
That's fine.
Me neither.
Which of our podcasts were the best and the worst?
I think, can I say one episode?
I think it was the best and the worst that we did.
I think it was a COVID one.
Okay.
Well, I think the best one we've had was, is it a Star Wars planet or a prescription drug?
That was pretty good.
Yeah, I think we got most of those wrong.
Most of them yes.
Yeah.
Some were more easy, some were more difficult to get though.
As far as the worst, probably the one where we took the field recorder and recorded our
little march, our day-pride march.
And I recorded something like two hours' worth, and after cutting out all the garbage I
had like maybe 15 minutes.
Maybe that piece out of the library trip?
No.
One was also pretty bad, that was just audio wise, I'm thinking of the podcast itself.
How content?
Yeah.
It was amazing that two-hour recording was filtered down to 15 minutes.
Yeah.
Well, neither one of the very, you're not very talkative at all.
I seem to talk quite a bit, but I don't know, I guess I get around a microphone and I kind
of shut up.
Especially when we're doing something like that.
But yeah, you're not talkative very much at all.
I mean, you pretty much have to script your conversations with me, even after being together
for almost 12 years or 10 years.
I think you've discovered, like when we go out to dinner, I mentally make a list of things
to talk about so that all have things to talk about.
Yeah, you told me you've done that in the past.
And I'm like, and you still do it, so.
Mm-hmm.
Otherwise, I would just silently sit there and drive you crazy.
So is it just that you don't enjoy talking or you just don't feel that it's the urge to
talk about non-sensical things?
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
So, everything should have a meaning behind it.
Mm-hmm.
I'm not one.
I'm this way was writing, too.
I'm not one to write 100 words when only 10 would do.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
So, it does have you crazy that I talk that much?
No.
Somebody has to.
Someone has to talk that much.
Somebody has to make up for me.
So, I can shift blame from you.
Mm-hmm.
There you go.
Okay.
With YouTube channels, do you watch?
Easy.
None.
You know what I say?
You don't watch, I don't look at YouTube.
I think the last time I did was to get hints on operating a field recorder, which didn't
really help very much, but like on the TV, I've deleted the YouTube app that was just taking
up space, not interested in it at all.
Yeah, I'm the opposite of watching videos, music videos, just with just different songs.
I woke up, I watched sports on YouTube, I listened to it.
Can you believe that?
Like there's none in the sports on the radio TV, but I listened to new lights, which was
YouTube, with the Kelsey Brothers.
And then I generally, since I don't have ESPN, I've listened to some of the, you know,
the talk shows.
I think I've tried to get you to listen to podcasts, and you just won't.
I listen to them, but, you know, you listen to fall asleep, I can't fall asleep, listen to them,
they just intrigue me.
And I might have stayed, staying up and watching, listening to them.
I can't fall asleep.
I think that's because you have Joe Rogan on your list and that just damage you.
Don't have Joe Rogan on me, let's just stop listening to music, because of that fact,
even if he is.
But, no, I just find him interesting, and I can't sleep.
So, the best thing I do is just find something completely boring on TV, and it falls like
to that.
It looks sports.
No, not that night, it's not that sports that are on, or not on a night, but I'll find something
on Netflix, or who, or Max, and then just watch that, to have no, no, no plans of actually
watching it.
But if I stay up and keep me awake, I'll watch it, but with the time the stuff puts me
asleep, and then I wake up an hour after it's over, and so, that's how I sleep at night.
Maybe that's why we get a notice that our internet quota is going over.
I thought we were just shy when it was three months.
True.
Yeah, pretty much.
So, a while as long as we don't go over.
Okay.
So, yeah, I guess we know the thing that we're completely different, and I do watch YouTube,
but I'm not some of these people that's all they do is just find YouTube channels and watch
them constantly.
Yeah, I think I don't have, I've never seen TikTok, but I would bet it's a lot like that.
You just go down to rabbit hole, and one leads to another, leads to another, leads to
another.
I've found on YouTube's rabbit holes before, so, and I take everything as I say on YouTube,
and it's a green assault, because most of its bullshit.
I'm sorry.
It's all written by politicians, apparently.
Yeah, well, a lot of it's scrap, so that's why I just stick to the crap sports stuff.
So, that's, yeah.
Have you ever sent a text to the wrong person?
I'm sure I have.
I'm sure I have, have you?
But, like your mother or your boss, or?
I think I sent messages to you that I wasn't supposed to, I know I've done it to my mom.
Nothing bad though.
I sent text messages to you that apparently got read by your boss, that weren't appropriate.
That was embarrassing.
I don't remember that.
Yeah, I sent something to you at work, and she was standing over your shoulder apparently
when you were...
Oh, and the notification popped up on the computer.
Yeah.
Yeah, stop it.
Oh, Kitty.
Stop.
Kitty, stop.
You're not going to get fed.
That's what she wants.
Well, I do this all the time.
Oh, OK.
Kitty, stop.
I do it all the time.
At work, we use teams, and it has a chat function, and it's good for when you need to ask
somebody quickly and you don't want to send an email, but each person is in a different
window, and you have to go to that window and type it in, or sometimes I have a special
keyboard that has copy and paste buttons, and I'll hit one of those, and Paste's got only
knows what in the chat window.
And a few times people have said, "What the hell is that?"
Yeah, that's a used to it now, so they don't even call me anymore.
No, they still do, but it's just the nature of the beast, I guess.
So, what other people do to you also?
Oh, yes.
Oh, OK.
Constantly.
That would be great.
It's kind of hard to keep track of which window is which, when you've got several conversations
going on at the same time.
Yeah.
Yeah, that would show me crazy.
I don't know why I could avoid it.
And I think I have sent you some texts that you said you don't want me to send when you're
at work.
Yeah.
Say things about portion to be your anatomy and things like that, and you're afraid somebody
might look over your shoulder.
Yeah, that was a long time ago.
Those aren't really mistakes, though.
No, no.
So, what is the difference between a good haircut and a bad haircut?
Two weeks.
That's true.
Yeah.
If you have a bad haircut, give it two weeks.
I'm looking.
Mm-hmm.
That's true.
Yeah.
The best thing to describe that as, because, you know, I don't think I've had a bad haircut.
Well, my haircuts are easy.
Well, I'm complaining about your haircuts all the time, so you must be getting bad haircuts.
No.
I can complain that I need a haircut.
I wonder.
What are the plans?
Well, I never have a bad haircut, because I do it myself.
Yeah.
I need to trim my Baehrd by the way.
But yeah, it's, well, yeah, I mean, you do your own hair, I get my go-go-go and get a cut.
Really all I have to do is set the guard, the right guard on there, and just run it over
my head until there couldn't possibly be any left.
It doesn't make any more cutting noises.
Sometimes you mess up, not messed up, but you mess the spot, you know, I have to go over and
make sure.
I'm sure.
It's better than getting here.
I hate.
Yeah.
I remember the last time we got one wasn't something.
That's the way our wedding day is.
Our wedding for day before.
A wedding and you about to get one glued.
Yes.
It's something about somebody being that close to me, especially being behind me where I can't
see what's happening, just oof.
It just gives you a chill.
Yeah.
I find them relaxing.
Um, once I get to talk to a stranger.
But you can't get any stranger than a hair stylist.
No.
The moment that I used to go to, she would do like the whole, uh, towel treatment and stuff
like that.
But it just got too expensive.
Um, can justify dropping 50 or 60 bucks on a haircut that I can go and get one for 10 or
50.
Um, yeah, because my hair, it's pretty easy.
It's like a three on the sides and then trim up the top.
So that's why we went a few weeks back and you're like, you're done already?
I was like, yeah.
So.
But.
Yeah.
I just, the hair's a top truth thing to do.
Uh, any clippers are just, uh, little bits of interaction up there.
Um, but it's, I don't know.
I do enjoy getting to get a haircut.
What was the most cringeworthy reality TV moment?
Reality TV.
All of it.
Just reality TV.
Yeah.
I mean, it's all cringeworthy.
It's showing people with the worst moments.
I mean, it's done on purpose.
Um, I think, I mean, I've watched some of it.
I know there's worse parts than others, but these people, I don't know, they think it's a way
to being famous.
And it's basically become fodder for the public to destroy.
I think anyone.
So, they put it on themselves?
Yeah.
The moment they act in front of a camera, you know, that's what do you expect?
What do you think?
It seems appropriate that Trump had a reality TV show.
Yeah.
Or a non-reality TV show.
I would guess.
I don't watch any of them.
Yeah.
I see them over the couch sometimes when you go up or watch them.
I'm like, I'm like terrible.
I watch Big Brother, which is probably the worst one on all of them to watch.
But it's just the garbage that I do enjoy watching it.
But in Survivor, I think I watch Survivor, but I try to watch the Bachelor.
I kind of get into that.
Just the idea of these people falling in love.
I mean...
Well, seeing Colton Haynes nearly naked is a plus there.
Colton Haynes.
Yeah.
Or as a Hayes.
The one who came out.
Yeah.
When he was telling the show, supposedly straight to the next guy.
I've seen a documentary, I think, or at least part one about some of the tricks that the reality TV producers do.
And among them is keeping the contestants up awake so that they lose all their defenses.
They lose their inhibitions and start saying what's really on their minds.
For like a sleep.
Yeah.
They're not allowed to liquor them up anymore.
No.
I mean, I think...
I mean, Big Brother, you'll see that they'll have a good drink or two after they win a reward or something like that.
You'll see them have...
They'll get like a six-pack of beer that they share amongst the rest of the house guests.
But back in the day...
I mean, I think they stopped doing that because one of the...
One of the shows they used to get them all liquored up and then the one girl tried to say that she was raped one night by two of the guys.
And I was on MTV show.
And that's when they stopped boozing them all up.
But now, when they used to booze them up, that's when you see them getting physical altercations.
They used to get into a lot of physical altercations.
And...
But yeah, I don't think...
I mean, they're supposedly no drugs allowed but then they come up with these tell-all books about how they were sneaking drugs on the set.
But I mean, all of the stuff is...
It might not be written out, but the producers...
Well, to...
To give you an idea of how real it is...
I believe it's the Emmys have a category for reality TV show writer.
Oh, really?
Now, if it's supposed to be all authentic, why would they need any writers?
I've heard it's for you.
Yeah, they can make anyone they want to look good or bad.
I mean, you get that much footage of them.
Yeah, yeah.
I've always said...
Depending on the editing, you could make Mary Poppins look like the exorcist.
Yeah, so... I don't know. It's another...
Maybe that's another reason why I don't watch those...
And I don't watch those competition shows because I know they're manipulating the audience.
And I just won't fall for it.
Yeah, you don't watch really anything where you feel like you're being manipulated.
No.
But it's all manipulation.
Everything on TV's manipulation.
Well, and I listen to you.
I mean, manipulate you?
Yeah.
No, I'm such a manipulator.
I'm a puppet.
You know, right?
But I mean, every... I mean, from commercials on up, it's all manipulation.
It's to get you work on your emotions and your feelings.
And I don't like watching commercials either.
I'll pay the couple of books extra to not have to watch commercials.
Except on Amazon Prime. I just don't...
Just don't principle. I'm not giving them any more money.
Not much commercials.
Yeah.
They promised me that and now they took it away.
Yeah. That's too bad.
So, would you ever get me to Prime then?
Well, I like the shipping.
That's fine. I was going to say both.
I was going to copy as if you said yes.
Because we ordered too much wrong.
If something is made, you can buy it from somebody on Amazon.
Yeah.
I hate going to ten different stores trying to find just the right jacket or whatever.
I could just look on Amazon and find it.
Yeah. You don't like shopping at all.
It saves lots of time. Sometimes money.
You don't like shopping at all.
No, not going to a place in shopping, no.
Yeah, it doesn't bother me. I enjoy shopping for clothes.
I will go to the mall or stores or whatever just to look at things just the past time.
But I hardly ever want to buy something.
Yeah.
Okay. Tell us about the worst restaurant experience you've ever had.
That would have to be one of the several visits we made to cafe in Delano up near downtown.
Yeah.
And it's embarrassing how much we eat out.
It is.
So, we know what a good dining experience is.
And even that place, the food isn't bad.
It's just the service that you have.
They should pick a couple of books more and get some better people, I think.
Yeah, because it is bad.
I mean, there's some restaurants that we go take just because the service is good though.
Yeah, and I tend to tip really well.
And I haven't seen it so much in the last few years.
But it used to be when we'd become in a place, the service would fight over if you go to.
It's still happened at some restaurants, but we've parted in our horizons quite a bit.
We don't get all the same restaurants we used to.
But yeah, I would agree with you about the same place.
I don't want to put them on plastic.
I don't want to say the name.
Yeah, but no, I agree with you.
We would order food specifically not to put something on it, and then we get our food, and there was like extra of that on it.
And I don't think it was the cook's fault.
I think they just didn't place the order right.
Yeah, yeah.
Because it was in just one time.
It was every single time we went in there, they messed up our orders somehow.
It was a completely wrong plate sometimes, just as we told not to do this, and they would do it.
So, alright.
What things do each of your relatives collect?
There's a better question for you.
I don't think my parents...
I know that your mother collects ocean stuff.
This is decorated with sea shells and mermaids.
Yeah, I can see it.
Well, where she lives is a trait by the ocean.
So, I mean, yeah, she decorates more of like an ocean type of thing by my sister.
Maybe kids?
She has three of them.
And I'm kidding.
But no, I don't think my sister collects anything.
I know your mom collects a lot of stuff.
Your sister collects a lot of stuff.
My sister...
Um...
Got anything she can get a good deal on?
Yes, stuff she could resale.
Yeah.
She has a business, her and my mother, but mainly her.
And all summer long, she goes to garage sales and finds Christmas decorations that people don't want anymore.
And often, often get them for nothing, just to cart them away.
And then in the fall, she makes reeds out of this stuff.
And she takes them to shows Christmas markets and sells them and makes a ton of money.
Yeah.
And she does pretty well for herself.
I wouldn't call that collecting, that's sort of a money-making hobby.
Yeah.
She does collect some glassware.
I think it's a big cabinet full of stuff like that.
And glassware.
Yes, glass.
And even your mom collects.
My mother collects bells.
She hasn't lately, but she's such a tingling, that's it.
Well, any kind of holiday, she collects stuff for it.
Yes, those holiday houses.
The little tiny villages.
Yeah, she's Christmas trees.
She has three or four Christmas trees.
Halloween, she goes crazy.
There's Halloween.
Yeah, she loves decorating up the house.
Yeah.
What's the Halloween throw up?
And then Christmas falls thereafter.
So, but my father collected cars.
What did your father collect?
Beer cans.
Seriously.
When I visited your house, I never saw any beer cans.
Did your mother throw them all away?
Well, he was collecting them to sell them.
Oh.
No, I'm thinking of hobbies.
No, I know that's why I was laughing at you.
I completely went over your head.
No, he never really collected anything.
He was a junker.
He would find things that he would keep.
Like, he had his workman that was just full of junk.
He was like a pack rat.
So, like, when he passed, my mom got rid of everything.
Like, everything.
I mean, the house looked completely different.
I mean, it wasn't like, he was a hoarder.
But there was just stuff that.
She was like, "We don't need it anymore.
We don't need this.
We never did need this."
And he could tell it.
When he passed, it was like, throw everything away.
Just, you know, because she had a dust at all.
She's very anal about dusting and vacuuming.
Everything.
I don't know if you noticed when we were there visiting years ago.
She vacuumed about twice a day.
And she would dust everything about once a twice a day.
You didn't notice?
Yeah.
So, you certainly don't do that.
No, well, I got tired of watching and doing it myself as a kid.
I don't want to do it as a doll.
Fucking, that's a non-stop.
You know, she would start dusting and, "Oh, my God.
Well, why don't you tell me to dust it up to that?"
Now, what you're doing is pushing it into the air
so, it can settle down and dust everything again.
So, but I think my sister's picked up on that now.
But no, my dad really didn't collect much.
Except I really mean it, beer cans.
So, but...
Of course, he had the empty so, first.
Yeah, of course.
All right.
What is the weirdest name you've come across?
There have to be a lot.
Being in...
Being a computer programmer,
I have to deal with people in India a lot.
And there are some names that...
Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
I'm not even going to try.
Yeah.
But I think in this question,
what they're saying is a lot of...
Let's say minorities like to name their children,
bizarre names,
often for things that they're never going to have, like, uh...
Tiffany Mercedes.
Yeah.
Yeah, I would agree with that.
I wanted to do this quite a bit.
And funny is this one they'll call, people call.
They give me their name.
And then you spell like you think you're spelling it correctly
in your way off.
You're like completely off.
You're getting dignified.
Very, very dignified.
And they're like, "How dare you?"
No, your parent doesn't know how to freaking spell.
So, yeah, but it's, um...
I run into quite a bit of weird names.
And it's mostly minorities that they love.
The strange names.
There's no such thing as Tom anymore.
You know, it's T-O-T-H-O-M-M.
Something or other.
No, Tom is T-O-M.
You know, so...
But, yeah.
Well, you can't talk Curadh.
Nobody knows how to pronounce Curadh.
No, well, you came up with that.
You named me that, so...
That's your nickname for me, so...
But it's funny 'cause my...
My gamer died.
It was Curadh.
But it's...
There's something else added on to it.
It's funny here.
My friend tried to pronounce it.
'Cause there's digits at the end of it.
Like, it's just...it's amusing.
So...
But, um...
Yeah, I guess Curadh is kind of...
But you don't...
You meet lots of people who work.
You don't recall a particularly bizarre...
Well, back in the day, there was...
There were some people...
One of them was named Mamonzolo.
And Aronzolo.
You know what that really means?
But it is lemon Jello and orange Jello.
You've never told me that before?
No, yeah.
Mamonzolo and Aronzolo.
I've never told you that before.
No.
Yeah, or in lemon Jello and orange Jello.
And that's the way it's spelled.
Yeah.
But...
Okay, we'll get indignant if you didn't call 'em.
'Cause I was like lemon.
No, it's lemon.
And I'm like orange.
Well, I hope that's not our house that's on fire.
No, it's gone by.
And all the neighbor dogs are going to hell now.
Yeah.
I thought I told you that, didn't I?
No, I...
That's...
You're completely tickled right now.
Yeah, Mamonzolo and Aronzolo.
Lemon Jello and orange Jello.
Well, they're not going by very fast.
Well, I guess we should do the joke of the week.
Okay.
Yeah, they're going by our house.
Okay, so it's on our house.
So fun.
There's been a lot of murders lately.
Yes, there has been.
That one, the parade in Kansas City for the Chiefs.
I mean, I think that's impacted people more than most.
Yeah.
I think a lot of people are thinking I could have been there.
Mm-hmm.
Well, there was 50, they think there was over 300,000 people there in attendance.
Mm-hmm.
And I mean, that's the size of which dog.
And you think about it.
The entire population of Kansas City.
The entire population of Kansas City was there.
And then the thing is, too, is, well, there was 800 officers there.
And anyone sit there and goes, well, if there's good guys with guns, they can save you.
Well, there was 800 good guys with guns, and people still got shot.
Mm-hmm.
So that argument completely got pulling out of the water.
I don't want to hear it all.
Well, if you, good guys get guns here, guns, too, they can save the bad.
They save the good people.
Shoot the bad guy.
No.
There's professionally trained good guys there.
They still can't stop them from laboring.
Mm-hmm.
So, they need to get better gun control.
So, I mean, that's a whole other episode we can get into.
But, yeah, which fish are safe from shark attacks?
Which fish are safe from shark attacks?
I have no idea.
Clown fish, because they taste funny.
That's a good one.
Okay.
That's a good one.
I at least I got one snort out of that one.
Yeah.
That was a good one.
That was clever.
So.
He's still making me laugh.
He's just a frown of them.
Shush.
Today's the show of noises.
Hey, Shush.
Kitty.
You want to tell it?
Come here.
And now she won't come.
I'm going to get fed in a second.
Stop it.
Come.
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