MoPod Show 2.0 - Gay Comedy Podcast

There was a famous SNL video with Martin Short and Christopher Guest that poked fun of synchronized swimming. It featured two guys who didn’t really know how to swim, but had a lot of artistic vision. The sport has always been dominated by women. That isn’t to say that many of us men (whether you admit it or not) have done a bit of water ballet in our neighborhood pools growing up. I distinctly remember re-enacting a dolphin story that featured sharks and pirates…a story that perhaps foreshadowed the rise of Alexis the lesbian dolphin later in life. I never had the guts to take my aqua moves to the next level. Perhaps it was just too soon. The 80’s were a very unforgiving time.

But things might be changing for would be aqua dancers of the male persuasion. Kenyon Smith, a member of the unfortunately named “Aquamaids” of Santa Clara, California is pushing the boundries of the sport. He earned a spot on the olympic synchronized swimming team, but was denied because of his penis.

On this episode of the MoPod Show we talk about Finland’s triumphant win in the sauna championships, unfortunate tatoos, Michael Phelps’ swimsuit, and Peasha’s conversion (almost) into a musical theatre fan in Las Vegas.

We also discover that Big Mo Daddy has been ghost-writing for Ruphus. Some call it identity theft - We call it team work.  Ruphus still might persecute, prosticate, and prosecute him, just for sport.

We also have a special treat from our friends the Gay Sci Fi Nerds.  An Ode to Peasha.  Listen in… or write your own…and send it to us.

Mmmm Date Ya?
Id welcome some of your cherry
Honey because you’re a very rare fruit
I wouldn’t need a straw for yo berry
Cuz I’d lick yer Mango till ya shoot
I’ve sunk my tongue deep into Kiwi and felt the juice on my gums
But I prefer my pie full of your American plums
No mistakes baby because if I’m banging
Itl be on your cocktail that Im slammin
I spent a life time learnin whut the cook book teaches
I can show you many things especially
How to make a smothie with
My banana and yo fine fuzzy peaches
Iv no passion for fruit if it aint a Peacha
And you know what the doctors say
You need five, That’s five potions of Peacha a day

Peacha Baby your gonna be a busy busy boy

For years we’ve looked to Ernest Bornine for beauty tips - his beautiful skin, his gentle features… Well today I found a little video where he extends his reach into the health and wellness realm.  He gives the secret to staying young and vibrant.   And if he is correct, I can look forward to a very very very long life.

Olivia, the entertainment and tourism company owned by women which focuses on serving the lesbian community, is moving into the housing development business. The company is planning a new development of resort-style housing in Tuscon, Arizona.  The development looks really cool, but has an interesting aspect to it.  It seems to be laid out in the shape of a penis.  Maybe its just me.  Maybe I just see penises everywhere, but really…it kind of looks like a penis.

But don’t think about the penis (yeah right…).  Instead, go ahead and take a look at what luxurious lesbian living looks like.

Our focus on sports this week is really starting to make me feel super butch.  I may go visit a sporting goods store later today to pick up a new jock or something.  Of course, I’ll make sure that I buy a good one that really fits so that I don’t have the same problem that the University of Southern California football team is having this week.

According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, as much as 25% of the team has been affected by a run of tinea cruris, known more colloquially as “jock itch.” Head coach Pete Carroll told the Times he’d never seen anything like the current outbreak and pointed a finger at new compression shorts the team has been wearing underneath their football pants.

“We’ve had to adjust to some new equipment that we’re wearing that didn’t work out right,” Carroll said. “It’s funny how that happened.” You’ll forgive tailback Joe McKnight and wide receiver Travon Patterson if they aren’t laughing. Both were unable to practice Wednesday because of the severity of the irritation.

“It burns,” Patterson said. “Sometimes they can’t walk,” said tailback Stafon Johnson. “I don’t know what it is, but I’m staying away from it.”

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Need a reason to stay away from fast food?  Well, the next time you find yourself putting the turn signal on to pull into a Burger King, just visualize this.

Burger King Corp. said Tuesday it has parted ways with an employee who was recorded taking a soapy bath in the restaurant’s utility sink in a Xenia, Ohio Burger King. The nearly four-minute video, which was posted Thursday on MySpace.com, shows the unidentified employee taking the bath to celebrate his birthday.

The worker, who refers to himself as “Mr. Unstable,” appears to be naked.

Burger King spokeswoman Denise Wilson said two employees involved in the incident were fired and another quit. She declined to identify the employees or say whether the man who took the bath quit or was fired.

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Recently there have been a couple of interesting items in the news regarding wrestlers. Not professional wrestlers, but high school and college wrestlers. These hyper-masculine sports have been “rocked” by news that some of their own have posed for gay porn (NSFW: exhibit 1 and exhibit 2) (and by most accounts have done a particularly good job of it). And now we received news about another wrestler who allegedly exposed and placed his genitals in a pinned wrestler’s mouth.

A colleague and I were talking about the first incident involving college wrestlers posing nude and doing solo masturbation video scenes for the web. At first she seemed really surprised that these guys would do something like that. Aside from the questionable judgment, I assured her that posing nude was not even close to the gayest thing they had ever done. I reminded her that wrestlers obsess about their weight, wear ridiculously tight clothing, and explore each other’s nooks and crannies while rolling around together all hot and sweaty.

As far as the second incident goes, it sounds like someone has some psycho-sexual and emotional issues to work out. If the allegations are true, it was highly inappropriate for a high school wrestling practice. Now in a few years if he wants to re-enact that scene at say IML, I’m sure he’ll find some willing takers.

Ummm…speaking for myself, but I’m SURE I’m not alone here, I say an unequivocal NO.  If anything, Michael Phelps should be showing more skin.  His poor legs have hardly received the attention (let alone the light) that they deserve.

After all, they did play an important part in his victories.    Apparently there are some in the media and puritanical political circles that feel like the waistband on his swimming suit has crept dangerously close to his pubic region.   Are you kidding me?! If your pubic region looks like his, you have earned the right (not to mention gold medals) to show it off.

Perhaps each time he wins, the trunks will sink lower and we’ll get a little better glimpse into Michael’s southland.  And maybe his teammates will step up the man on man grabbing.  Wouldn’t it be great if/when Michael wins his 8th gold medal, he rips off his swimming trunks and does a victory lap?  They do it in soccer don’t they?  Okay, that is shirts…but he isn’t WEARING a shirt is he?   Don’t screw with my fantasy.

Spain’s Olympic basketball team posed for an advertisement prior to the Games which appears to show all its players slanting their eyes, a move that could offend its Olympic hosts in Beijing. The ads, for a Spanish courier company, appeared in the Spanish-language newspaper La Marca.

As the uproar over the picture has grown today, more information about the advertising shot has come to light. The New York Times reports that Spain’s basketball team is sponsored by Li-Ning Footwear, a Chinese company founded by Li Ning, the final torchbearer who was hoisted along the top of Beijing National Stadium during the Olympic Opening Ceremony finale. The ad reportedly references that the Li-Ning Advertising representative asked the team to slant their eyes to appear more ‘Chinese’.

It’s baffling that nobody involved in the picture production from the Chinese firm considered that this ad would be looked at negatively. The team drew the line on endorsing the caption that was to be attached to the pic.

“Ching, Ching, Chinaman, sitting on a rail. Along comes a white man and cuts off his tail.”

Interestingly, the Spanish basketball team took on China tonight, winning 85-75 in overtime.

I’ve become insanely dependent on spell check the past decade or so. I’m not a bad speller, but sometimes in the flow of things my fingers go faster than my brain and I transpose a letter here or there. Sometimes I may even exchange one homophone for another. (heh heh…homophone…heh) Most of the time it doesn’t matter. I just run spell check or in the case of most of my writing it is in informal settings where it isn’t noticed or doesn’t matter. But there are sometimes when there IS no spell check and it DOES matter. For example, if you are a tatoo artist.  I encourage you to ask your tatoo artist for a writing sample before they load up their ink.

My friend Djave pointed out a gallery of pictures to me last week that is as amazing as it is tragic. Not only are there some really unfortunate misspellings, but there are also some people who haven’t learned that photographs rarely translate into tatoos very well. The picture above, I think you will agree, is downright horrifying

See the full gallery of grammatical, spelling, and photographical horrors here.