FOFA #729 – The Golden Standard

Ever notice how crazy people LOVE to talk about gold? Specifically the gold standard. If you’re ever at a party and someone starts ranting about how our economy is built on a house of cards because our currency isn’t based on gold anymore, put your cocktail down slowly walk away. Believing that we should revert to the gold standard is the “gold standard” or litmus test for crazy. Why are crazy people attracted to the gold? Because it’s shiny. Crazy people love to hoard shiny objects.

No country in the world uses gold as a way of determining the value of money anymore. So how does paper money get it’s value in today’s society? iPods.

But, more specifically, it’s the goods and services that the country’s economy provides that gives value to their currency.

Because we just LOVE to ponder what will be happening tomorrow on the Feast of Fools, we were wondering what will happen to our money in the future when everything is even more hi-tech and when so many of us may hopefully live in outer space.

The British National Space Centre thought about how space tourists are going to have to find a way to spend money in outer space. After all, the magnetic stripes on credit cards might get erased by solar radiation, coins may cause damage, and it would be impossible to deduct your paypal money without the internet in outer space.

What they came up is the QUID, or “Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination” which are clear teflon pebbles that you can presumably spend at any stellar tourist destination someday.

Why they don’t call the new currency “Space Money” is beyond me but I wouldn’t mind getting a blue pebble for a birthday present (hint hint April 16th). Amanda, a fan of science fiction insists that all money will simply be described as credits.

Join us today as Amanda Steinstein, Marc Felion, Alexis and Angie, the Cincinnati Lesbians and me Fausto Fernós open up a bunch of Easter baskets sent to us by our listeners with sexy results.

We just love to talk about Petra the fickle swan who is trying to get back with her monster sized boat lover. It seems that with all the baggage Petra has been carrying around, her latest beau got sick of it and left her. She’s going back to the big swan boat. When will she ever get it together?

We also talk about the FDA’s unscientific ban on gay men donating blood despite the fact there is a blood shortage going on in America, a trans man who gets pregnant and a firefighter who is fighting to get her job back after burning down her father’s house.

We love our fans, really we do. Alexis and Angie, pictured here were some of the very first listeners we ever had for our podcast way back in the spring of 2005, even before iTunes started supporting podcast subscriptions.

Before we won our first People’s Choice Podcast Award. Before we rose to the top of the iTunes popularity charts for a gay podcast. Before we knew what we were doing, they were there with us, every step of the way.

To celebrate our ten year anniversary and their five year anniversary as a couple, our lovely lesbian listeners traveled all the way from “sin-sin-ati” to hang out with us this weekend.

The podcast that is worth it’s weight in QUIDS- Feast of Fools.

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