MoPod Show 2.0 - Gay Comedy Podcast

You walk into a bar and there they are, big burly masculine men. Arms and buns of steel.  You get a  sense that they are able to communicate in grunts and sniffs and people seem to tread lightly around them.  And then it happens… the music starts to play.  Suddenly he-man becomes a twisting, twirling, dancing machine!  He transcends gender and gravity to become:  Boba-Flashdance!

When Willow Cathiter and I go to the gym we sometimes pop into the sauna to 1: relax potentially sore muscles 2: mentally will fat deposits to melt  and 3: to ogle at the occassional hottie.  If we were super heros in a sauna comic our nemisis would be “Yellow Crocs” a particularly gross troll who stalks and preys on innocent international students who don’t have a great command of the culture or the language.  He’s pretty icky AND wears yellow crocs, which we think might be some kind of fetish reference, but we’ll have to defer that question to any experts out there.    What is interesting about Yellow Crocs is that his workout last all of 3 minutes and his sauna experience lasts for an hour.  We always assumed he was just in cruise mode, but perhaps there is another explanation.

Maybe he was preparing for the International Sauna Championships?

Finland held onto its reign in 2008 Sauna World Championships by sitting in a piping hot sauna for longer than competitors from Belarus and Belgium.  Bjarne Hermansson who won the male championship stayed in a sauna heated to 110 decrees Celsius (230 Fahrenheit) for 18 minutes and 15 seconds.

“It feels wonderful, it is a dream come true,” said Hermansson, his red hot skin covered with sweat.

Hermansson, who has attended the competition every year, said he had trained for it by going to a really hot sauna for more than 30 years.  But he admitted reaching his dream had not been easy. “It was slightly more pain than pleasure,” he said.

This video is a part of a pretty substantial set of youtube videos featuring the animatronic robots formerly of “ShowBiz Pizza” restaurants.I totally remember going to these restaurants as a kid and LOVING the robot animal music shows.  I believe their band was called “Rock a Fire Explosion”.  Their rock show was pretty tame, but now things have changed as people are buying them up and reprogramming them with modern and racy hits such as this.  I also recommend  “4 Minutes” and” Pop Drop and Lock It”.  Its as if these trapped animals have suddenly rebelled and found their rock and roll voices.

I remembered a word used on a game show and decided I would check it out on Google because my Microsoft spell checker was unable to get its tits around the word ‘pabble’ properly. The word IS ‘pabble’, it’s a real word and I remembered it. At least that’s what I believed until several of the worlds most frequently used spell checkers started fucking with my brain and telling me they had never heard of it.

Of all the dictionaries, of all the languages in the world that I frequently rely on, are the dictionaries supplied by Google and Microsoft.  I bet you do too, huh? You get stuck for how to spell a word and you type in to MS Word and “Hey Presto!” MS Word just pumps out your correctly spelled word after you spell check it.

Well not always.  Was I frustrated when even Google couldn’t find the word ‘pabble’?  Yes I was. If Microsoft fails you think, well that’s par for the course. When Google fails, you think OK, there is no commercial reason to put a page ranking on the word ‘pabble’, so it is not going to show up. What do you do when Google fails? When all else fails, go to Wikipedia!

Wiki is like an internet commando on a search and rescue mission! If your information has been hijacked and kept captive some where, Wiki sharpens its bayonet, scouts the territory out and skewers it for you! Wiki is to words what a big game hunter is frightened starving carnivorous tigers, or so I thought.

The trouble was even Wikipedia had no reference to ‘pabble’.

What was I going to do? My dear word pabble needed rescuing; I was the man that was going to do it!

Stephen Fry, being the self acclaimed, publicly proclaimed queer beacon of intellectuality and hilarity immediately came to mind. The very brainy and very gay Stephen Fry hosts a fun reverse brainy game show called ‘Qi’ on the BBC. Qi stands for Quite Interesting and the web site is www.qi.com.  I posed the question on a forum on Qi, and eventually some one on there had access to the Oxford English Dictionary online (usually costs about 10 dollars per month to use) and they found a reliable reference for me to use in Wikipedia!

I promptly marched right back to www.Wikipedia.org, joined the site as a registered contributor and put pabble in to the pages of web history at last!

Well, not quite.

They said that pabble was not “quite interesting” enough to keep in the encyclopaedia BUT (Hurrah!) they said it would be given a nice home at the next door neighbour’s house, otherwise known as Wiktionary!

Pabble actually means the noise that boiling liquids make, say like porridge bubbling on the stove!

Listen to Stephen Fry’s podgram’s on iTunes under comedy. If you can download Qi from on the BBC iPlayer, its worth it because it’s great. Mr Fry may be nerdy and funny but not as nerdy as Skip and Drew on www.gayscifinerds.co.uk.  Skip and Drew Love the Mopodshow, we stay moist between episodes!

This is the “not so shorty” show.  With the intent of a short show, we still managed to ramble on forever.  This week we discuss Gina’s furniture needs, Gina’s move, Ruphus’s first crush, and whether or not Peasha may have gotten syphilis from Ruphus’s sofa.  Also, we pose the question:  Is Ruphus’s house powered by wind power or is there a retarded person on his roof spinning their arms?  You decide.  Either way, somehow that means our server is green.  Maybe Ruphus has the energy plan that the nation has been hoping to find!

Mr. Scary-As-Fuck-Rogers

Remember the story of the princess and the pea? To test the “princessness” of his daughter, the king sets up a stack of mattresses on which she is to sleep. However, there is a twist - he places a pea between two of the mattresses. If she is a TRUE princess, she’ll notice the pea and won’t be able to sleep.

I’m sure some of YOU princesses princes out there can relate in a way. Maybe you had something hidden between your mattresses as you grew up. Although for most, there were some differences between our experience and the princess. She didn’t know it was there. We did. The object PREVENTED her from sleeping. The object HELPED us to sleep and dream. I speak, of course, of dirty magazines. Where I lived the only thing you could get your hands on (and it was no small feat!) was Playgirl Magazine. Page upon page of beautifully airbrushed stallions fueling fantasies and developing twisted notions of what real men look like.

Now, that is all ending. Playgirl magazine, in a move that signals another shift to digital, is shutting down print production and moving their whole operation online.

The revamped Playgirl.com website will feature more videos and pictorials and less editorial content, according to Nicole Caldwell, the magazine’s editor-in-chief.

“Playgirl is going all-Web,” Caldwell said in an email to MediaBistro.com. “The last print issue will be the Jan/Feb 2009 magazine, which comes out Nov. 18.” Playgirl Magazine debuted as the women’s alternative to soft-porn men’s magazines in 1973. Although originally designed with the feminist in mind, the magazine quickly grew a gay male fan base as well.

Just remember. Shoving a laptop between two mattresses could damage it.

     

Has anyone else been watching Generation Boner, oops I mean
Generation Kill on HBO?

I think this week’s episode is number four and hottie SGT Brad “ICEMAN” Colbert was nice enough to take his shirt off.

grrrrrr.

Check them out on HBO’s website / GenerationKill.

XXOO, Ruphus 

Bread.  The carb mafia have scared us away from it for years, but the truth is that, especially in whole grain forms, bread can be really good for you.  I recommend finding a good local bakery that skip the preservatives, keeps things whole grain, and has an circa 1986 dancing muscle man making the bread.

I think its great when people want to turn around their lives. You make a mistake and then try to turn in a different direction to set things right. You get a speeding ticket, so you make an effort to slow down. You hurt someone’s feelings, so you go out and do something more thoughtful for them. You steal, so you give back. You murder a friend over a soccer game, so you go play guitar hero in Walmart… wait….what?!

Police say Raymundo Castaneda fatally stabbed his friend during an argument over a soccer game just before Christmas. They’ve been looking for him ever since. A tip came in to Crime Stoppers on Wednesday, and Charlotte’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Team tracked him to Jacksonville, Fla. That’s where U.S. Marshals arrested him, playing “Guitar Hero” in a Wal-Mart.

“I think he was probably relaxed and thought maybe we’d stopped looking for him or didn’t think we’d ever look for him down there,” said VCAT Officer Tim Slater. Charlotte homicide detectives are in Florida interviewing Castaneda. He’ll go before a judge Friday morning and then likely be extradited back here in the next few days.