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This is episode 93 of the Bear and Curadh podcast.
We're going to talk about odd words.
What were the most ridiculous fitness gadgets you can get most?
You probably can answer this question better than me, but I do know of one.
The Shake Weight?
The Shake Weight.
And are you going to say that?
You know everything about me, so I don't need to say anything.
No, it's just obvious pick out, because that's the first one I thought, but I'm just
picturing that the whole thing is so ridiculous.
I think heterosexual men bought it simply to see the women's breasts while it was shaking
on the commercials.
Yeah.
Was it really any physical benefit to it?
No, just to fad like some of the other things, like pet rocks.
Yeah, pretty much.
That one, and I remember the one that Susan and Summers did.
The one with the, it was like a squeeze bar that put between their legs into it.
Oh, yeah.
What was that called?
It doesn't come to me, but it just, yeah, that was just as ridiculous.
There's been so many, I mean, they still have them.
There's the little exercise wheel that you put into your desk every year, people buy fitness
equipment to a Nordic track and whatever that they're used for about a month and then hang clothes on
on after that.
Yeah.
Like, well, remember with the peloton, that blew up during the pandemic, but apparently people
still use them.
My system, by the way, one of those, and they still use it apparently, well, who would
spend two, three thousand dollars on something and say, oh, no, I don't even use that anymore.
Yeah.
But you'd be surprised, you know, it'd be like buying an Apple watch and leaving it on
the charger.
Yeah.
But I mean, didn't peloton have like a big fallout after, didn't some celebrity die on one
of them or something like that, or?
No idea.
I thought they went through their stock, went through the roof and they were super popular
during the pandemic and then I think something happened with them, where they stopped plummeting
after the pandemic.
Well, it's because the pandemic goes over and people are done working out at their homes
and actually going back to the gym and working out.
But yeah, there's tons of fitness gadgets and gizmos out there and, you know, the next
biggest thing, that's why they called gadgets and gizmos, I guess.
Have you ever been shipped to product and realized you ordered it while drunk?
No.
I mean, they've never done that, and they've ever done that?
Close.
Really?
I often take ambient to sleep and if I wake up during the night and get up into something
I won't have any memory of doing it.
I know.
So, there have been times that things have come and I go, "Well, I must have taken my ambient
that night."
Yeah.
You come up and you give some crazy ideas when you take your ambient.
Like earlier this week, you came out and you didn't order anything, but you were determined
to go to a Hibachi grill and the next day I brought it up and you're like, "I have no idea
what you're talking about, but no, I've never, I've never done that, I've never, I guess,
unfortunate that way, but I've heard of people that actually take me ambient into that
and are being drunk and they're getting all this awake up in the morning and the blood
sugar is way high and you go, "Well, I don't remember eating anything last night."
Yeah.
I've seen even, well, your blood sugar drops quite a bit, it's a good thing that the alarm
goes off because I hear that quite a bit sometimes throughout the night, but you always get up
and seem to take care of it.
No, I guess, so I've been fortunate enough that I haven't done that, so I know that maybe,
I think I've ordered digital books, from digital downloads and stuff like that.
I'm going to say when I was drunk, just late at night, just a late-night purchase, tired
of the books I'm reading, so I'll download a book or something like that, so nothing, nothing
crazy.
Most of the time I just got to the digital public library, download a book, so I guess it doesn't
really suffice.
It's nothing exciting.
Hmm.
Name the parody movie that was better than the original.
Well, I have an idea of one, but I disagree that it's better.
Galaxy Quest.
Hmm.
Okay.
I forget the name of the guy who started in that.
Tim Allen.
Tim Allen, yes.
It was a pretty good parody of Star Trek, but I wouldn't say that it was better than Star
Trek.
Hmm.
I remember that movie.
It wasn't like a parody of the fans, or it wasn't an actual parody.
The whole fandom thing, it was a group of actors who had been in a science fiction series
and were making their living by going to conventions and it turns out that this series, this group
of aliens, thought that the series was true and that they were the heroes of the galaxy
when they were really just actors.
Okay.
That's right.
I remember that.
Yeah.
I can't think of any really parody movies that I've ever really seen.
I know that they made a bunch of scary movies, stuff like that in the early 2000s, but you've
never seen Airplane.
Okay.
I've seen Airplane.
Yeah.
Airplane.
I should say that, Airplane was pretty funny.
The original one, the other one's after that, I don't think I've even saw it.
But it's been so long since I've seen any of them.
It genuinely is better than the Airplane disaster movies that it's parodying.
Yeah.
But then, like I said, they had a bunch of scary movies, do you remember those?
They're making fun of anything in pop culture at the time.
The girl that was in mom was in it, don't remember, I don't care for those kinds of movies.
Yeah.
It's stupid comedy, generally, and it's not my cup of tea, so I really won't watch it.
But gosh, it's killing me with her name.
She's married to Chris Pratt for a while.
I don't know.
You would know if you saw her, but you know what I'm talking about, right?
Yeah, I can't say your name, oh well, it doesn't matter.
Okay.
But as far as horror goes, any parody movies can be better than the original, because the
originals are so bad.
They're horror movies?
And say I'm like old horror movies, huh?
So.
But that's not your cup of tea, there's too much horror violence.
Yeah.
And right now, Peacock's coming out with a prequel to Friday 13th, that I would love to see
I'm not going to sign up for Peacock, and then they, I guess this summer, they're releasing
a movie, they're rebooting Friday the 13th from the beginning.
Oh, yeah, they need to do that.
See, I'm excited.
I think it'd be awesome, because, but I grew up on those movies, I grew up on those
horror movies that were real popular when I was a kid, you know, Halloween, all that
stuff.
No, the reason I can't sleep in like, sometimes, when you come out and laugh at me.
What the fuck is that?
No idea.
Alexa stop.
Why did it do that?
Did you say something?
I don't think so.
I never said the word to cure it.
That was bizarre.
Okay, folks, our houses are presumably haunted.
Oh, we've known that for a long time.
I mean, that was really bizarre though.
That's the first time that's happened.
Huh.
Guess I'm not going to cut that from the podcast.
That was kind of cool, especially since we're talking about scary movies.
What is the thing?
What are the chances of it?
One of the ghosts decided to activate a song, but it's been a British ghost.
Yeah.
Was that what that was?
Mm-hmm.
That's what it was about to save the Queen, wouldn't it?
I wasn't.
I'm not sure.
Some of it sounds like some of the ghosts there.
I guess the actress says it's recognition or poltergeist.
What do you call a carbonated beverage?
Soda.
No.
What?
It's called pop.
It's soda.
Pop is a noise.
It's one thing about, yes, I remember coming here from New Jersey and people asking for a
pop.
I'm like, what are you talking about?
Can I get a pop?
No.
It can't give you any noise.
But yeah, that's the Kansas thing, pop.
It's just like everything's a Coke in Texas.
I don't understand.
If people call any kind of soda down in Texas Coke, can I get a Coke?
Can I?
Even if it's a Pepsi.
So, they don't have any Pepsi there?
No, they have Pepsi there, but everything they just call a Coke from what I understand.
That is bizarre.
That's right.
It's Texas.
Come on now.
It's a butthole of America.
Sorry.
Well, when you're standing at the corner of a street, a street corner, and you're looking
at the opposing street corner, what direction is that?
It's across the street.
If I'm standing on one side of the street, do you say kitty corner or do you say kitty corner?
Catty corner.
Is it kitty corner?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, it's called a catty corner.
It's kitty corner.
I'm also from New Jersey.
We do things different.
We don't say coffee.
You know, so it's not a fairy to furry that you write in a boat, so, but we're right.
You can freeze it.
I think the ones that have the conventions and dress up like they do.
I mean, yes.
No, it's not that.
No.
That's, yeah, that's, that's a weird kind of furry.
But, um, and we're right because our state's more populated than the Kansas state of Kansas,
so, I always justify it all.
We're more populated, so we're better.
Even though it's a shit all the state, you're just shaking you, everything he's just shaking
you, Zed, and discuss that me right now.
I guess I'm lucky that you love me.
Mm-hmm.
Now, um, I don't know, I guess there's a, what do you say that's different than you probably
don't have any kind of weird?
There is a word that my mother says that just, just drives me crazy.
Can you remember?
Mm-hmm.
'Cause every, I roll my eyes every time she says it.
Mm-hmm.
Worsh.
Worsh, yeah, okay.
That's worshing the clothes.
There's no art in wash.
Yeah.
Um, that's funny that there's, little side note, there's, there's a, there's a kid who's
coming out of college and his name is spelled K-N-I-G-G-A.
He's a blanket from Indiana, well, they're saying his, the way pronounce it is Kinnaja.
And we were talking about that at work yesterday and like, we don't call him Kinnais.
We call them Knives, and we don't call them Kinnais, we call them Knites.
So, this kid can tell me his name is this, but everyone else is going to pronounce it the
other way so they're, they're trying to figure out how to, to get around this poor kid's
name because apparently, he's getting a lot of division one scholarship offers for football.
So can you imagine, and he makes a spectacular look at him go, you know, I mean, it's just terrible.
So, it's everyone's wondering how they're going to get Mr. Kinnaja, the people to say his
name could prove correctly.
Well, kind of like on South Park, that day the guy was on, we were fortunate, and it was
in blank G-G-E-R. And the clue was, somebody who's very annoying you.
Some people who annoy you, he goes, I don't think I could say that.
I don't think I could say that.
He says it, and it's supposed to be Nagger.
That's one of the best episodes ever because, because of the way everyone reacts, it's
so bad, but it's so funny.
I don't really know if I can say it's appropriate, I don't know if I can say that, but we're definitely
going now.
So, we've already spilled over into the next question.
What other words do people say that sound wrong to you?
And I have written down here, "Warsh."
"Warsh, yeah, yeah, your mom, it's funny because she's a very well-spoken lady, but all
of a sudden she will go completely redneck.
Like, it's like, I think, including using the N word sometimes.
Oh, me and her got into it the one day, and it's not appropriate, I'm like, I'll sit here
and have you."
But it's like she's from the back, she was in Arkansas all of a sudden, and she's like,
take off your hood.
No, but I don't know, I know I say words wrong all the time, well I think a lot of you just
where I grew up, different slang terms and stuff like that, so, plus my accent, I mean,
like I don't say, I say water, I said water, water, W-A-D-E-R.
Water, W-A-D-D-E-R, and it's way into, you know, I know it's water, it's one thing that
tries to be crazy about people in Kansas, they don't call it a roof, they call it a rough,
up on my roof, noted.
That's a roof, your dog says rough, your dog goes rough, it's not, yeah.
But I think a lot of it's just regional too, I think, but I'm trying to think what else other
people think is, that annoys me.
The pop thing tries me crazy, people ask for a pop, I don't know, I know what I, I know
that I use weird terms, so, why don't you admit it?
Have you ever personally met someone who says the world is flat?
Never personally, no.
Now either I, even your boss?
That's just certainly not, I kind of think that saying that the world is flat is kind of
like the Church of Satan because the people who organize, you know, the Church of Satan,
they don't actually worship the devil; they pretend to make a point that people give
religion special treatment that they shouldn't.
Okay.
So, I think a lot of people who say the world is flat, you know, on TV or whatever, they're
saying it to make a point that you, like, shock value, that you can take science and twist
it in any way you want to, to, to, but science is science, I mean, it's not, I, I, I, I save
it to me.
Go on.
In these days where people flat out tell lies as though they're the truth, people who say
the world is flat is, I think they're trying to point out the obvious.
Hmm.
So, you don't think they're just being trumpers?
Well, there's got to be some, and educated people somewhere who truly believe it, but they're
not, they're not bright enough to get on TV.
Yeah.
I mean, if you truly believe, you need to have your check.
And the stretches that they make to, to justify, you know, they say that the, the South Pole
is actually the edge of the world, and it contains glaciers that are impassable that completely
surround the flat Earth.
Hmm.
That's how they justify it.
Anyway, I, I think it's to, to point out that people can, can say anything.
Yeah.
Hmm.
They're all idiots.
This, this, in my opinion, though, I see where you're going with that.
But yeah, I mean, I think a lot of it, the people do it for shock value, like you said.
Yeah.
I mean, just, just to see people roll their eyes.
Yeah.
So, kind of like how people, when they go for Trump, just kind of their eyes roll on the back
of their head and they lose consciousness for a minute.
I don't know, I mean, so many people in the, in the primaries are voting for him.
It can't just be a big joke.
Unfortunately, I know.
Um, in some ways, I think Trump is the Boaty McBoatface of politicians, you know that story,
right?
There was a, I think it was a British, in, in, in Britain, they were going to name a boat
and they asked people to submit names and there would be a popular vote to just see what
the, they would name the boat and somebody put boating at boat face.
And then everyone started voting for that.
And that's the name that won.
Wow.
It just proves that people are cheap.
Um, I don't know, they, they, they want to be in on the joke and, and I kind of hope that
Trump is the joke.
I, when it comes to voting for the real precedent, I, I hope that they don't.
Yeah.
I mean, that's carrying a joke way too far.
Yeah.
So, but, um, no, I agree with that differently.
I just, you know, I'm sorry to call a family.
I just, some of the stuff that he says and truly believes and then, I don't think he believes
in anything.
He, he just parrots the last thing that he heard.
Yeah.
He just tried to knock it down or whatever he can say to get the audience to clap.
Yeah.
That's a good point.
But the fact that people are willing to put him in office and a power, a place of power.
I mean, the guy's scary.
Yeah.
Over and over again, I say, you know, we, we have the system we deserve.
Yeah.
The problem with giving people a choice is they choose wrong.
Mm-hmm.
That's what's scary.
Yeah.
Let's not get too far off as, um, subject from that.
What other ridiculous theories have people mentioned to you?
The people, we never went to the moon.
Do you like work with people that take that?
No, no.
But do you see it like on TV and they think it's a good video personally?
No.
I've never met any of these wacko personally.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, but I mean, there's all sorts of these conspiracy theorists.
And I think a lot of them are people having fun, and how far can I push this principle before
people push back?
You would hope so.
The scary thing is, is that some of these people are serious.
They really believe what they're spouting out, you know.
Well, I do have some ideas of some things that might push the boundary of that.
Like what?
Um, people who believe in ghosts.
Okay.
I mean, I know people who believe in ghosts.
No.
Okay.
Come on.
Um, and Bigfoot.
Uh-huh.
People believe in Bigfoot, but people believe that Bigfoot is a real thing.
Mm-hmm.
Those are both pretty crazy.
Mm-hmm.
You don't believe in ghosts?
No, I don't think so.
Or maybe, you know, well, I've had an experience, um, but I enjoy watching shows about they are
paranormal.
Yeah.
Do you believe in aliens?
Um, aliens is probably the most probable of all those things.
Mm-hmm.
You don't believe in Bigfoot?
Um, if there was a big, large ape, we would have seen it by now, especially with all the
people looking for it.
Yeah.
You would think.
I mean, I think people see a Baehr stand up and this 11-foot wall of fur is staring back at
them and they, their mind goes crazy.
Well, I mean, aren't they, I mean, we're still discovering ghosts.
I mean, didn't we just discover a tribe of humans in the Amazon?
I don't know.
It wasn't me.
Yeah.
I think we just found, like, an indigenous clan in the Amazon.
So, I don't, I don't know, I mean, I don't personally believe in them, but I mean, is there a chance?
I think it's fun to, you know, to listen to the theories, whatever, anything paranormal
I'll watch.
Yeah.
Oh, I know.
You enjoy the shows quite a bit.
So, kind of like your sports to my, I suppose, you know, um, a lot of them, especially the
ghost shows, they talk about experiments.
And we're going to have an experiment at this house, but that's not the way experiments
work.
In an experiment, you control the environment, well, not that, but, um, you propose a theory
and then you try to think of ways to either prove or just prove the theory.
They're not doing any of that.
Yeah.
They're, they're basically trying to give information, right?
They're just trying to get something weird to take it put on TV.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's not really fine.
They really don't go through a scientific method.
No, not at all.
So.
See, they really shouldn't call those experiments.
Yeah.
Let's try to get ratings.
That's fine.
Yeah.
Look, as long as you don't, you know, base your life on it.
Yeah.
A lot of people made a lot of money off those shows.
Well, I don't mean that.
I mean, ordinary people who watch shouldn't, shouldn't believe that.
Yeah.
I mean, it's, it's, it's good entertainment, um, but no, I agree with you.
But there's people out there who have taken the pill, just like the politics.
So, um, but yeah, it's crazy, crazy, we're all going to do it.
Yes, it is.
And I'm sent back watching it.
If you were given a half million dollars, would you continue to work?
Yes.
What do you mean?
You didn't even think about that.
It's not, I mean, it would be nice, but it would be a little, a little, a little, a little
a little bit of the rest of our lives.
Um, any more half a million dollars, uh, and we, our life expectancy is so long.
I mean, I think that's why that value is chosen.
But it's not, it's not enough money to last you the rest of your life.
I mean, it would be nice.
It would be nice to be secure and be able to, um, um, I don't know, maybe sell the house
and get a condo where they have made it for you and everything, but you'd still have to
work, I think.
Yeah.
I mean, it'd be nice if you're not able to paycheck the paycheck, a little, little, uh, nest
egg in the back.
You know what I mean?
If you get a new car, you get the car fixed, this stuff like that, you know what I mean?
Well, you're not literally living paycheck to paycheck.
It seems like we're always just one blown engine from complete, and I, and I'd say that
it's the most of people are in the world today.
You know what I mean?
It's, uh, kind of unfortunate, but, um, I think everyone, I think the majority of the population
has paycheck to paycheck, but, um, yeah, I, yeah, we, it has to work.
Maybe you take a little bit of time off, call the vacation, enjoy it a little bit, but that
definitely works, though, when I, um, had my job interview, um, the, the woman who hired
me, she says, well, I worry that in five years, you're, you're gonna want to retire or move
on to something else.
And I said, my retirement plan is to work until I die.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
And, um, it's the way most of it's gonna have to happen for now on, it's unfortunate.
Uh, well, I don't know, we both have life insurance, you might company, so if one of us dies,
the other one's gonna be pretty well off.
Yeah.
Yeah, but still, I don't want to bank on that.
Mm-hmm.
It was anything happened to you.
So, what thoughts keep you up at night?
Well, this is all gonna be a laundry rest.
Um, mainly just, uh, planning my life, my week.
Yeah.
Um, I, I'm, shame to think of how many times work is one of those, because I, I really should
not be staying awake at night, uh, thinking of work when nobody's paying me to do it.
Um, well, that's the reason you're on ambient, isn't it?
Yes.
Yeah.
I can't shut my brain off.
Yeah.
I'm pretty, I mean, I do, sometimes I bother me, that'll keep me up at night, but I generally
why keep the TV on, and I fall asleep to the TV, is because it keeps me, uh, uh, distracted
enough, where, yeah, when I get to where I just can't shut it off, I'll put on a podcast
that I don't care much about, so that you'll occupy my mind, but I don't feel like I have to
stay awake for it.
Yeah.
And I've learned not to, like, watch violent things, or anything with a lot of gunshots, and
then before I get a bit, because if, if I do, then if I'm watching some of the violent,
or, uh, and, uh, and never fails, I'll fall asleep, and I don't, I don't know, you may
know, it's like my brain still picks up on them, the, uh, ambient noise, the background, so,
but, no, I mean, I'm not nearly as bad as you, um, it used to, there was a job that I had,
where, every Friday, the owner of the company would come by my office and propose something
new.
So, I would think about it all weekend for free, just annoyed me, telling you no, you know,
you know, dying to this place.
No.
Okay.
Yeah, um, yeah, I'm fortunate enough where it doesn't really happen to me, and my job, I can,
I leave it.
Yeah, you can, you can just walk away and, and not think of it again until you, yeah, my
job is not like that.
No, no, no, not at all, so I'm, I'm fortunate with that, so, okay, okay, well, that seems
to be a very quick episode, um, apologize for not being on the air last week, my, yeah, it
was just too sick to talk, yeah, fear was, was sick, he was late a poll weekend, but he's
doing much better, mm-hmm, had another tooth removed, yeah, or did he have any left?
Yeah, so maybe you'll be able to have some solid food this year.
And maybe if I get dentures or something, yeah, porcials, maybe, porcial, yeah, okay, so
what's your favorite joke this week?
What do you get when you mix goat DNA and human DNA?
Go boy, wasn't that a skin on time in life?
Yes.
Okay, that's my cast, go boy.
You get kicked out of the petting zoo.
That's good, I like that, that's cute.
God, it's a pretty multi-layered joke right there.
Something else it's gonna keep you up at night.
Yes, okay, you're beautiful, but I love you.
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