Guys: Episode 150 - Canada Guys with John Cullen

Speaker 1 Welcome to guys, a podcast about guys. Was going to say, hey, welcome to Buds, a podcast about buds.

Speaker 1 Because that's what I think as all Canadians just say, hey, but actually, it's because I hang out with Chris. How come he didn't say it, though? I don't know.

Speaker 1 Because you did end up saying it. So he could have just done that.
I didn't want to confuse people. Some guy turns on.
He's like, I'm trying to listen to the guy's podcast. This is called Buds.

Speaker 1 What's that, bud? But I only say that as a Canadian. I don't know if Bud is such a super Canadian thing, but Chris says it a lot.
So

Speaker 1 I'm not sure. It's tough to say.
A lot of the things I say are, some of them are Vancouver things as well, right? There's obviously regional things like John Cullen. That's our guest today.

Speaker 1 Hey, John, how's it going? Oh, hey, guys. Thanks for having me back.

Speaker 1 No problem, man. No problem.
And see, John's like, he's from Ontario. He spent time on the West Coast.
He lived here a long time, but he's from Ontario as well.

Speaker 1 So he's almost got, like, he talks different than I do and has some different sayings than I do as well. Honestly, Chris, I'm going to tell you something.

Speaker 1 And John said this to me in kind of confidence the other day, but he said, Chris is the least Canadian guy in the world. John, you said I'm, you did you say that?

Speaker 1 I didn't say the least Canadian guy in the world.

Speaker 1 There's no way that I said that.

Speaker 1 What I said was. I don't take offense to it, just to be clear.
I don't identify as a super Canadian guy. No, exactly.

Speaker 1 I was saying more like, I think, and you would, I think you would agree with this too. You've toured all over for stand-up.

Speaker 1 I think when Americans or other people think of the stereotypical Canadian, there aren't many of those in Vancouver or even the surrounding area. Like

Speaker 1 what you think of as a stereotypical hoser Canadian is like either a small-town prairies person or a small-town Ontario person.

Speaker 1 Yeah, or even an East Coast if you want to, like, yeah, like a really far East Coast. I talk about that all the time.

Speaker 1 Like, a lot of the sort of the accents and stuff that you're thinking about, they don't exist. People in Vancouver do have a Canadian tinge to the way they talk.
People can hear it.

Speaker 1 Like, I say sorry, obviously, and you know, like out and about,

Speaker 1 yeah, and things like that. But I talk a lot like a person who lives in Seattle as well.
Yeah. Yeah.
Well, yeah, you're pretty close. So I have a lot of stuff here.

Speaker 1 We're just going to, it's a laid-back Canada guys episode. It's CanCon.
They told us that CRTC told me that if I don't do any Canadian content, Chris isn't allowed to be on the show anymore.

Speaker 1 Well, now that you guys have done this episode, are you going to try to get some grants?

Speaker 1 No, we're trying to get some gourds, actually.

Speaker 1 That's actually what they call them up in Canada. No,

Speaker 1 we've been doing more CanCon, though, John.

Speaker 1 We have this guy. He smokes weed.

Speaker 1 Oh, nice. Okay, Brian.
Uh, Brian did introduce me to this guy on POT. Okay, so he's just how Canadian he looks.
He's one of our favorite Canadian guys, and he sort of brought out the CanCon.

Speaker 1 Like, we really get into the Canadian stuff when he, because

Speaker 1 he's so super Canadian that it brings it out in me.

Speaker 1 Like, what would you say is your most

Speaker 1 like CanCon thing that you sort of identify with?

Speaker 1 I mean, I guess

Speaker 1 like my, I probably, I love, I've got a lot of toques at home. Yeah, fair.
I got a lot of toques. I've, I've, I honestly, this is, this is no lie, and you guys know them as beanies in America.

Speaker 1 Well, I call them toboggans in Columbus. Oh, really? Yep.
You call the hats toboggins? Because toboggins for us is something that you

Speaker 1 don't sled here. Okay, fair.
So you don't even need to. We do sled here, but we sled in tubes.

Speaker 1 And honestly, there's only like three hills in Ohio. And

Speaker 1 I feel like someone in Ohio made a mistake. They were thinking of toque and they said to Boggan

Speaker 1 and then they just went with it. And now it just kind of stuck.
I've told you guys that like I live in a kind of Canadian district of downtown because they put the blue jackets there.

Speaker 1 And then they put a Boston's pizza for some reason. Boston pizza.

Speaker 1 No other Boston pizza in Ohio. No, but I think in America, actually, Chris, it is called Boston's.
I think

Speaker 1 Brian is actually right. Oh, really? Oh, it's very Ohio to be able to.
In Canada, it's called Boston Pizza. One of our, John, did you know? This is, I love talking Canada stuff.

Speaker 1 Did you ever, did you go to Boston? BP, we called it.

Speaker 1 So, Chris,

Speaker 1 this is, I'm about to blow your mind with this extremely Canadian story, but

Speaker 1 the so one year, my curling team was sponsored by Boston Pizza

Speaker 1 because I,

Speaker 1 the reason we got that connection is because I coached the CFO of Boston Pizza's son in hockey.

Speaker 1 So then I made a connection with him, and he was like, Hey, if you ever need help with your curling team, like let me know.

Speaker 1 So I took a sponsorship meeting with him the next season, and they gave us 10 grand in sponsorship, which for curling is quite a lot.

Speaker 1 And, but it was 8,000 cash, 2,000 Boston Pizza gift cards. And they gave the $2,000 to us in

Speaker 1 $50 increments. So I had like rubber, like thick rubber band stacks of $50 Boston Pizza gift cards.
And my curling team basically ate every meal at Boston Pizza for a year.

Speaker 1 And if you don't know Boston Pizza, it is some of the worst food you can get.

Speaker 1 And it is, we used to go there all the time because they would have really cheap drink specials for Canucks games, and we would go watch Canucks games on the big TV. And they had all these appetizers.

Speaker 1 That's their whole thing. They all these different apps.
No, pizza's not their thing. I think it's pizza here, too.
I think

Speaker 1 they do have pizza, but it's not their thing. It's like a restaurant.
You know what I'm saying? Like, their pizza is not, nobody gets their pizza, really.

Speaker 1 And they have all these appetizers that you get, but those are also kind of bad, but they're like, you can actually eat them or whatever. And I spent a lot of time at BP.

Speaker 1 Boston Pizza for Americans, it's like, it's like, what if TGI Fridays cost a lot of money? Yeah. Because, like, Boston Pizza is not even cheap either.
I did read that.

Speaker 1 Not cheap.

Speaker 1 I did read a review, and I don't have the review. I'm sorry, everybody.
I didn't think it was that great, but there was a little line in it that was like,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 this place is no Boston pizza. Like, as in, like, good.
Oh. Like, they were saying Boston pizza is good and good for the money or whatever.
Or Timmy's even.

Speaker 1 I don't know that anyone in Canada has ever said that for real. I'll say this too though in my neighborhood also on the arena there's a Tim Horton a Timmy's there is a Timmy's Tim Hortons on the

Speaker 1 and like so it's weird and I think there were some other sort of Canadian businesses there too you think maybe a Canadian guy kind of like a Canadian businessman

Speaker 1 might have like, you know, bought up some land or something and he had, he had a bunch of leases in that area?

Speaker 1 Like, what are you trying to say here? I honestly think that our proximity to Canada has led a lot of, and we've talked about my dad a million times, but it's led a lot of guys

Speaker 1 in Ohio

Speaker 1 to identify as Canadian in a way. They would never say, I'm a Canadian person, but everything.

Speaker 1 All of their stuff is Canadian. They still talk like us or whatever, but like, they, they,

Speaker 1 I like ketchup chips.

Speaker 1 I like, you know what i mean they they just my dad bragged so much dude when i was growing up my dad would constantly brag that he spells gray g-r-e-y instead of g-r-a-y who would he brag about that me

Speaker 1 my family

Speaker 1 all the time

Speaker 1 it's like a conversation i had a million times

Speaker 1 how would the conversation go well i'd be like i'd say something i don't know like it would be a spelling thing and he was like well in america they spell gray wrong. Because I'd like to know.

Speaker 1 Like, just so we'd have a chance to say it, you know? Yeah, yeah. No, I know.

Speaker 1 I just feel like he must have been really kind of jackknifing it into things because it's like, how often does the spelling of gray come up? I know. I know.
I watched Gray's Anatomy the other night.

Speaker 1 And how do they spell that anatomy? Yeah, Gray's Anatomy. I was kind of confused by it, though, honestly.

Speaker 1 Even though they do spell it G-R-E. Oh, they do.
They do it.

Speaker 1 Because it's a character's last name, though. It's not the color.

Speaker 1 And they wanted to fight. He wanted to fight about it.
You know what I mean? Like, that was his thing. He was like, oh, because I've told you guys this before.
He said, I moved to America.

Speaker 1 First of all, he was born here. So I don't know why he thinks like, but he lived in Canada till he was nine.
He said, I moved here when I was nine and I was three grades ahead of everybody.

Speaker 1 In school, like intelligence-wise. So he brags about that.
And then we get into the spelling stuff. And then, you know, oh, he's got to talk about, you know, whatever, the food, a maple syrup.

Speaker 1 Motherfucker, you couldn't have pancakes without him bringing up the Canadian maple syrup. And it's like, and then he brought it home.
He went and got it one time and we had it.

Speaker 1 And I was like, this shit sucks. Well, that's

Speaker 1 ridiculous. Well, that's ridiculous.
That's probably because you had some bad shit or because you had to get shipped over there.

Speaker 1 You know, I mean, some nice maple, some nice fresh maple syrup on your, on your flapjacks. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 1 When you grow up with the bad stuff, though. You know what I mean? Like when you grow up with the wrong thing,

Speaker 1 then you like the wrong thing more. But also, it's just like, you can get the same quality of maple syrup in Vermont.
Like, it's not exclusive to Canada.

Speaker 1 But Quebec and Vermont share kind of the same, the same deal as far as maple syrup goes. So that is

Speaker 1 very funny. The first thing I did is go to Quora and see, just, I just type Canadian

Speaker 1 to to see what the first question this is the first question

Speaker 1 is a modern question it's from recently i promise

Speaker 1 this from november 13th how can canadians and europeans boycott the u.s if almost all the fast food chains are american what do they do do they stop eating we have them in canada oh interesting

Speaker 1 like how do we boycott like everything no

Speaker 1 they say we have all the fast food how do you how do you stop eating up there yeah well i've been yeah i mean people have been fasting because, yeah, I mean, I don't know what the alternative would be.

Speaker 1 It's like, obviously, I have breakfast, I have my five guys' breakfast.

Speaker 1 Lunch, I've got a Subway sandwich to keep it healthy. And then for dinner, I'm going to Burger King or McDonald's, obviously, for a king's meal.
You cannot have A ⁇ W. No, A ⁇ W is awesome.

Speaker 1 A ⁇ W is Canadian. It's not Canadian.

Speaker 1 No, but we can. It's Canadian, and the American one is not a society.
It's not affiliated with it. It's a cyclist.
So that's one of the ones that we can have.

Speaker 1 And then, so that's what I would say to that person if I was actually having the argument is we could just eat A ⁇ W, which is actually the only fast food that I really get if I do get fast food.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, the guy answers from Australia for some reason. I don't know why.

Speaker 1 Like it's one of those guys that's just like, I just dropped right away in Australia.

Speaker 1 He goes, well, let's see. I live in Australia.

Speaker 1 I don't visit fast food restaurants very often at all, but I know that Australian McDonald uses only Australian Angus beef in their burgers and Australian grown pickles and tomatoes and lettuce and Australian wheat in their buns.

Speaker 1 So he's saying everything's Australian. Wait, they grow pickles in Australia? That's an interesting way to say pickles.

Speaker 1 I agree with you, John. Later on, we're going to have a pickle problem on a white spot review.

Speaker 1 The workers are paid in Australian. So he's saying everything's Australian.

Speaker 1 And the end of guy replies and goes, same goes in Canada. McDonald's advertises 100% Canadian beef.
And AMW in Canada is a completely separate Canadian company, for example.

Speaker 1 So you guys do have fast food up there. I didn't know.
I thought you guys didn't even have fast food up there yet. Yeah, they have.
Yeah, we got it all. You've been here and you've eaten it.

Speaker 1 I've never had it. I've actually had, oh, I love saying this.
It makes me the happiest person in the world. I've had A ⁇ W twice and I hated it both times.

Speaker 1 Yeah, whatever. It doesn't make you, that doesn't make you like.
It was unfair. It doesn't make you better or anything like that.
Like, it's an established fact that

Speaker 1 Canadian A ⁇ W is good fast food.

Speaker 1 That's like, that's well known. So, for you to just be like, oh, I actually hated it, it's like, okay.
Well, I had bad experiences both times, and I'm kind of like, well, that's not really good.

Speaker 1 And then I started reading,

Speaker 1 I started reading reviews, and there were all these guys that were like, yeah, they had the same bad experience I did. What was a bad experience?

Speaker 1 Well, first time I ordered on Uber Eats, and that's not fair because

Speaker 1 it was a guy who had a fucking break, man. Honestly, fast food Uber Eats is like, I remember I did that one time.
I had AW and ordered it for a delivery.

Speaker 1 Never again in my entire life because it is is just so horrible. You have to eat it right away.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I can't eat it right away, though. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 The other time I got it and I ate it like when I got, I sat down at a mall and I must have just got a bad burger or something like that because I went to some mall. They had an ANW.
I got it.

Speaker 1 And I was like,

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, again, you went to a mall

Speaker 1 food court.

Speaker 1 Food court ANW.

Speaker 1 Brian, I'm like extremely upset about the way you ate when you were in Vancouver. I'm not going to lie.
I loved eating it. I thought the Vancouver food was

Speaker 1 one of the best pizzas I've ever had in my life in Vancouver. But the first time I was the first time I went, not the second time.
But what you did, what about the white spot?

Speaker 1 What was your white spot situation?

Speaker 1 Well, you guys are mad at me because I don't want any sauce on my burger. Thank you.
Come on. It's good.
The burger was fine. It's not bad.
Well, yes, it is.

Speaker 1 A dry, plain-ass fucking white spot burger is bad.

Speaker 1 I get dry, plain burgers everywhere. I don't get burgers with sauce.
I ate sauce. Yeah, so that's what, that's what upset me.
Don't fuck me.

Speaker 1 We went all the way.

Speaker 1 We came downtown to meet him and his wife to go for a great white spot dinner with our families. And this guy orders no sauce.

Speaker 1 And you should have seen the server was kind of like, looked at all of us almost like,

Speaker 1 are you, are we sure? Like, is he, do you guys want to step in here?

Speaker 1 Do you want to say something? Like, and we're like, no, no, sleep, Chris, if you got up and left the table, that would have been well within your right.

Speaker 1 I honestly thought about it when my wife and child were there. You're embarrassed.
You guys are embarrassed of me. I was embarrassed.

Speaker 1 That is fucking embarrassing. That's you go into the home of triple-O sauce and you're like, excuse me, actually.
I don't want that.

Speaker 1 I don't want any of the best saw, the best burger sauce that's ever been made.

Speaker 1 I don't give, I don't eat special sauce

Speaker 1 anywhere. I understand that, but you never do that.
What they would say to you is like, then don't come. Don't come in here.
Go somewhere else, please.

Speaker 1 Well, I went to ask a canadian and they said those who hate the tragically hip or rush why

Speaker 1 this guy goes their fans can be insufferable both bands have some great tracks i met getty lee at a bjork concert oh

Speaker 1 here we go

Speaker 1 yep uh-huh i was afraid everyone in canada knows everyone which i assume is going to be a common theme of this episode john you will not believe how many people when they talk about famous canadians are like i live down the street street from this guy, you know, like all like so many of these guys are going to say, oh, it's this guy.

Speaker 1 He goes, I was a wasted idiot, and he was completely gentleman. That's how it's spelled.
Sorry. I felt bad the next day.
Sorry, Getty. I lived on the same street as Gord Downey in Toronto.

Speaker 1 Oh, of course.

Speaker 1 You want to see? Gordon Downey Boulevard? Yeah,

Speaker 1 we all lived at one time or another on Gordon Downey Boulevard with Gord. Yeah.
It's a single boulevard. Sorry, that was the Canadian joke.

Speaker 1 Young Street is the longest singular street in North America. So that's cool.
yeah so that yeah we both lived on young street well it's like you that could literally be two hours apart from each other

Speaker 1 john i really want to apologize to you because i was like saying another stupid thing i kind of stepped on your canadian joke and but that's like i never want to step on a canadian joke like whatever step on an american joke whatever but stepping on a canadian joke that is like straight up for canadians because americans well honestly it's kind of just for toronto people besides

Speaker 1 i don't really want seen young street but you know what chris sorry sorry that you did that to to me. You know what my favorite street is? No problem, John.
I appreciate it, bud.

Speaker 1 My favorite Canadian street is Homer Street. Dope.

Speaker 1 It's in Vancouver. He came to do the live show, John.
And I mention it on the live show.

Speaker 1 Every single time, and he was like, we were downtown a lot. And every time we went past Homer Street, he was like, dope.

Speaker 1 It's a good joke. I lived on the same.
This is such a weird paragraph, guys. Get ready.
I lived on the same street as Gord Downey in Toronto. It was a single block street.

Speaker 1 Four men who lived on the south side of the street got brain tumors. I was the only one who survived.
Gord was diagnosed after me. I had some survivor's guilt.

Speaker 1 The tumors don't appear to be related, just an awful coincidence. So,

Speaker 1 because she had a tumor with Gord Downey, that's they were tumor buds. Yeah, that was a famous thing about him.
He did die from a brain tumor.

Speaker 1 And he, so he's kind of saying that now, if four people on the same side of a street got brain tumor, I would think that you would want to maybe look at the soil or something, but I guess maybe they did an investigation.

Speaker 1 Well, this, yeah, this guy goes, for me, the tragically hip are just so incredibly average musically. I think the main draw is Canadian on this.

Speaker 1 Wait, is that the same guy who's like, I was brain tumor? Oh, no. Next guy.
Imagine being like, I was brain tumor buddies with Gord, but also, I didn't like it. I'm not a big fan of his music.

Speaker 1 I would like when

Speaker 1 he'd be playing, I'd be like, oh, yeah, no, I saw your new, I was listening to your new album. It was great.
You know, I'd say that to him, but it was like, I was never really into it.

Speaker 1 He goes, I have none of the nostalgia, so find them really hard to like i don't hate them i just don't understand the appeal to me they're boring i assume this is also why they gained zero traction outside of canada i never even heard of them prior to moving here and i'm a big music guy no they recently

Speaker 1 listened the reason they didn't want to gain traction outside of canada they had no interest in it that's the reason why right we would never believe that that's not something we believe over here They just legit play Woodstock 99.

Speaker 1 They played Woodstock 99. I saw them at Woodstock 99.
I was like in the audience at the time that they were playing. It was psycho because they were a bunch of guys waving Canadian flags, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they were getting booed and people were trying to grab it and throw it down.
And then a Tragically Hip did some Canadian thing on stage.

Speaker 1 Maybe the Canadian national anthem, but Johnson. Or

Speaker 1 the Tragically Hip did something Canadian on stage. Like, what? Play one of their songs?

Speaker 1 Show their birth certificate. Yeah, I mean, just walk out there.
I mean, just fuck.

Speaker 1 I mean, I just remember the audience being mean, but I think that the reason was because of their placement on the concert. No, but they definitely weren't famous in America.

Speaker 1 That's like a sort of a known thing, right? That they weren't. They were on before Kid Rock.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. People wanted to see bow to the bow to bow.

Speaker 1 People were waiting for Kid Rock to walk out in a fur coat.

Speaker 1 And he started singing Bao with the Ba. And then he's like, bow to the,

Speaker 1 100th Meridian. What the hell are you talking about? I want to hear the 100th Bow bow to the bow.

Speaker 1 I want to hear bow with the bow a hundred times.

Speaker 1 That's right. And not necessarily, he goes,

Speaker 1 I don't entirely disagree. I'm not a fan of either, really.
But global music industry marketability is a whole other issue. Every country will have things that are popular within it only and not.

Speaker 1 necessarily outside. With the hip, I don't think it's Canadian nostalgia per se, but the Canadiana in general and obvious doesn't sell well to those outside of Canada newcomers here.

Speaker 1 So this guy goes, I don't think you're wrong. I wouldn't expect a newcomer to understand the importance of Tom Thompson and the group of seven.

Speaker 1 You guys know those guys? The group of seven? Tom Thompson and the group of seven? I mean,

Speaker 1 I don't.

Speaker 1 The group of seven is a group of artists.

Speaker 1 From

Speaker 1 where? Like painters.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 Are you kidding me? I don't know anything. Well, paint.
Do you know about the events in Salt St. Marie that are talking about a border?

Speaker 1 Salt St. Marie.

Speaker 1 I'm so glad I can get back on the side of making fun of someone for not knowing something.

Speaker 1 Is it Salt Stein-Marie? Salt St. St.
Marie? It's Sault Ste. Marie.
Holy fuck. Salt-Stee-Marie.
No, Sault Ste. Marie.
Salt-St. Marie.
That's how it's spelled. Yeah, but it's Saux Ste.
Yeah. Sault Ste.

Speaker 1 St. Marie.
St. Marie.
St. Marie is like Marie.
S-T-E- is short for, it's like S-T- is short for saint. S-T-E is also short for saint.
It's a female saint. Sault Ste.
Marie. Yeah.

Speaker 1 This guy goes, I don't hate Rush, but you'll never see Rush Marie. Ryan is completely glossing over the fact that he's called the Spanish.
It's called Salt St. Marie.
St. Marie.
Well, Steve was.

Speaker 1 I know it meant saint.

Speaker 1 But then you didn't.

Speaker 1 The hip is extremely overrated, and Gord's voice makes me cringe. Sorry, Gord.
I love what you and the band have done for the country. Don't get me wrong, but I can't stomach their music.

Speaker 1 And this guy goes, I once left a pool party early because of the 100% tragically hip playlist being played. Oh, wow.
This guy's not Canadian at all.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, I mean, I guess, like, tragically hip maybe isn't the best pool party music. I will say that.
It's not, like, necessarily.

Speaker 1 I don't know. It depends on what kind of pool party it is, I guess.
To me, it seems like maybe for an older pool party.

Speaker 1 And the song, too. Like, I feel like Bob Cajun, you could get away with playing at a pool party.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But, like, you're probably not playing New Orleans is sinking or poets or something like like that.

Speaker 1 I just don't think that if it's all Tragically Hip, I don't know that they have enough.

Speaker 1 That's true for sure. Yeah, to like keep a pool party going.
So I can almost kind of understand that, even as a fan of

Speaker 1 Tragically Hip, that I kind of say, hey, man, you know what?

Speaker 1 I'm just kind of feeling a little somber now, and I'm going to head on home.

Speaker 1 Here's a question on Ask a Canadian. Do people actually put ketchup on everything? Saskatchewan guy here confused why one of the stereotypes about us and Canadian as a whole are from ketchup.

Speaker 1 Is this something Eastern Canadian? Maybe just from ketchup chips?

Speaker 1 Is it like a confusion from ketchup chips?

Speaker 1 I'm about to read a very. Because I think Americans, I would think of Americans way more like that.
What about the ketchup on everything? They put ketchup on steak. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I used to do that, but I don't do that anymore.

Speaker 1 And that's not what I'm talking about. I've heard like people put ketchup on chicken.

Speaker 1 It's shocking.

Speaker 1 Based on your other food takes so far.

Speaker 1 I grew up eating ham sandwiches with ketchup.

Speaker 1 Ketchup on the ham. Now I don't eat ham at all.
I hate ham. I think it's so disgusting to me.
A ham sandwich with ketchup on it is disgusting. That sounds so disgusting.
So much disgusting.

Speaker 1 And you know what? Honestly, I'm sort of figuring out why you don't like sauce. I feel like we're starting to drive.
I love ketchups here.

Speaker 1 I ate only the most dog-dirt fake maple syrup from the store. I put ketchup on my ham sandwiches.
Yeah, man. I'm starting to realize why you don't like sauce.
I love the taste of ketchup.

Speaker 1 This guy goes, I just think it's ketchup. Then you would love Triple O's o's sauce you mortgage it tastes like ketchup and you know it's gonna be

Speaker 1 mayo sweet

Speaker 1 he hates mayo mayonnaise he hates mayo john that's

Speaker 1 mayonnaise if it was like a barbecue sauce situation i would like it i would have i hate barbecue sauce on a burger i hate it it's the best it's an alberta thing now that i live here everywhere you go they have a special sauce it's barbecue it's not like oh i'm going to alberta oh but you would like it here brian this this would be much more similar to what you're used to that's hey about halfway through the episode.

Speaker 1 Let's take a break, John, and you and I can just talk a little bit about what's going on sports-wise in Canada.

Speaker 1 Oh, we're going to talk a little bit about what's going sports-wise in Canada. Okay.
This guy goes, I just think the ketchup chips and ketchup on KD throw people. Oh, yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Those are the two things I think. And that is, I do put ketchup on KD.
I don't eat KD, but when I did, when I was younger, I would put ketchup on ketchup. I did not like that.

Speaker 1 I was never a ketchup on KD person, but my mom was.

Speaker 1 I had to look up KD because I didn't know what it was. Oh, craft dinner.
It's dinner. We call it mac and cheese.
Yeah, it's mac and cheese. I mean, it is that too.

Speaker 1 Ooh, Charlie yelling. This guy goes, wait, other countries don't do ketchup on KD?

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 this guy's really weird. These Australians love Canada.
They pop in on every conversation.

Speaker 1 I'm in Australia right now, and any kind of mac and cheese isn't super popular, much less KD.

Speaker 1 Like, you can buy mac and cheese, but you won't see whole shelves dedicated to it the way you do in Canada. Yeah, it's it's pretty popular, I guess, but I don't know.

Speaker 1 I think that popularity is waning a little bit. And I don't really think it's as popular as it is.
This weird guy goes, I've never seen a shelf dedicated to mac and cheese in Canada.

Speaker 1 That's the same amount of space as everything else. Yeah, no, I agree.
I've never seen a whole shelf dedicated to it.

Speaker 1 There's like a couple different kinds now, maybe, but it's not like, again, that would be a thing that I would associate with America

Speaker 1 having a bunch of different kinds of something. Even Nick, I know that's the best thing about this country.
It's the only good thing about America

Speaker 1 We have a bunch of different kinds of everything. And clearly, I just mean when I say that, I mean food.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And like candies mostly or chips. Yeah.
Candies and pots. What's the deal with this Australian guy?

Speaker 1 Like, you're on Ask a Canadian, and then this Australian guy goes, yeah, it's different in Australia. But they go, oh, yeah, okay, we didn't ask.
They love Canada, though.

Speaker 1 You know, Australians obviously. But surely they do.
They're always coming here.

Speaker 1 And coming to famously, we have a place called Whistler around Vancouver, which which is like a ski hill whistler whistler which is a famous ski hill it was like you know they use it in the olympics and stuff and

Speaker 1 the it's famous for having just so many australians obviously it's commonwealth so it's very easy to uh to like immigrate or like travel between the two countries so i think that's a big reason but yeah they seem to really love skiing and snowboarding snowboarding i should say and yeah there's just like a so they kind of make their way to vancouver too so there's actually quite a few australians around in this area as well here here's a a guy I think is being very disrespectful.

Speaker 1 He goes, KD is gross. It's something in the Trump powder.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's orange.

Speaker 1 Oh, Jesus.

Speaker 1 Holy shit, dude. Now, do we think this guy liked KD until he associated it with the color of Trump's skin? And then he was like, dah, I got it.
I got a skin.

Speaker 1 Or he's just a hater of KD and he's just like, holy shit, I got a new insane angle to go at.

Speaker 1 He does, though. I've never heard that is a very specific orange thing.
I've never heard. I know I've never heard that.
And it is orange. Like the powder is orange.

Speaker 1 It's not like a yellowish, like it is a, it is a bright orange. Yeah.
I've never, I've never seen some. I'm going to start saying it.
I'm going to be like, Trump looks like KD.

Speaker 1 And then people are like, what are you talking about? KD Lang? No, no, our famous Kraft Dinner Powder President.

Speaker 1 Start calling him? Yeah, the Kraft Dinner Powder President. It would be funny if that started to become a thing up in Canada.
Like

Speaker 1 they're just like the slay, it's like, oh, he's like KD instead of a Cheeto. Like, you guys don't say Cheetos.
You say KD.

Speaker 1 This guy goes, I think ketchup on anything is gross, but I think Mayo and jar mustard are gross too. I buy the KD sauce at Balk Barn and put it on as much as I want.
So that guy actually,

Speaker 1 I just thought it's something funny.

Speaker 1 The Hawkins cheesies and cheap.

Speaker 1 That's what we would say in Canada. That's a good one.

Speaker 1 First of all, Bulk Barn sounds like a good place.

Speaker 1 I didn't realize that at Bulk Barn you could buy craft dinner powder.

Speaker 1 I didn't know that you could do that at Bulk Barn. You could do that here.
Yeah, but you got Bulk Barn, Brian? You got Bulk Barn? No, no, no, no. But I used to hang out with this guy back in the day.

Speaker 1 Bulk Barn is fucking goaded. It's great.
Yeah. What's Bulk Barn? Bulk Barn.
That's the fucking cock you're talking about. No, it's like, no, no.
It's like everything's in bulk, right?

Speaker 1 So it's like, that's cost.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, but not in that way. It's like stuff you can lose stuff that that you fill up and weigh.
You know, I think I know what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 Like a bulk section at a supermarket, but it's like the whole store is just that. So you have you'll have aisles of like spices and cooking stuff, which I guess is where the

Speaker 1 Brian. You'll be going to the candy.

Speaker 1 They actually divide it chocolate and candy. So you'll have an entire aisle that's bulk chocolate stuff, then probably two aisles of bulk candy.
I got it.

Speaker 1 And then they'll have an aisle of like lentils, rice, beans, like that. Yeah, yeah.
No, he's, Brian's stopped listening to what aisles there are after the two candy aisles.

Speaker 1 This guy goes, PC white mac and cheese is the goat. A bit pricier, but I also enjoy Annie's white cheese and shelves.
Did you guys know PC? I know people just President's Choice.

Speaker 1 That's President's Choice.

Speaker 1 It's like a store brand, kind of.

Speaker 1 That's a Loblaws in-house brand. Yeah, it's a Loblaw's in-house brand.
And then the other one is Annie's, which you guys probably have as well.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah annie's is american yeah annie's is american i went crazy on a loblaws toilet in toronto

Speaker 1 just

Speaker 1 nuts respect man we hate law blaws we hate the we hate the uh what's the name of the family

Speaker 1 galen weston the west or the weston family yeah we hate the weston here is a big news story that i found uh the cfl Canadian Football League is doing

Speaker 1 shout out to the BC Lions came within you know one one uh second basically of going going to the Great Cup this year. Well, they got some rule changes coming up.
Yep. Yeah.

Speaker 1 People are very unhappy about this. Yeah, they should be.
Like as unhappy as you could ever be about anything.

Speaker 1 The goal posts are at the back of the end zones now, which makes sense, perfect sense to me, but sure, whatever.

Speaker 1 Get mad about that. I don't get it.
15-yard end zones and 100 yard end zone. I don't get why people are mad about it.

Speaker 1 I'll tell you why people are mad about it. It's because it's like, we're trying to do it a little different in the CFL.

Speaker 1 And now they're just kind of like, well, no, we're just going to do it exactly the same as the NFL now, basically. He says the modified rogue,

Speaker 1 which I think is something

Speaker 1 rogue. It's a rouge.
It's spelled rogue. It's a rouge.
No, it's not. It's spelled rouge.
It's spelled rouge. It's spelled R-O-U-G-E.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Rogue. No, Rogue is R-U-G-U-E.

Speaker 1 R-O-G-E-E-E. That is the most wrong play to spell.
You just spelled rogue the wrongest way I've ever heard of it.

Speaker 1 I just said the U by R-O-G-U-E. That's R-O-G-U-O.
You're right. Well, hey, look.
Well, yeah, of course we're right, Brian.

Speaker 1 I had to Google it. You know what a rouge is.
We were like speaking French. Yeah.
That was like one of the first words you.

Speaker 1 Okay, Brian, what do you think rouge means in English? Like, what do you think is the direct translation? of rouge

Speaker 1 i know i don't know like fake field goal is no no no no don't think about the the rule. Think about the rest.
It's just the bar. Brian, it's red.

Speaker 1 It's just red. It's red.

Speaker 1 Because I was trying to think, Moulin Rouge. Yeah, exactly.
Like the red windmill. Moulin Rouge.

Speaker 1 Oh, I thought I mean.

Speaker 1 When you're in Canada, you have to learn French in school. That's an actual real thing.
And so no matter where you are in Canada, so we learned French up until like grade 10.

Speaker 1 So we all know basic French, but then we all also know what a rouge is because it's like a crazy rule in sports.

Speaker 1 So if you grew up playing sports or interested in it, then you knew what that was as well. Whatever it is, it's they kick a ball and they get a point as far as I can tell.
That's

Speaker 1 one point. On a basic level, that's what it is.
So

Speaker 1 these are the new rules, the ones that make more sense to me as a person, because this guy goes, we don't need to change the rules, at least not for the reasons given.

Speaker 1 The owners do have a real reason why. However, we should ask ourselves what it could be that they need to lie to us.

Speaker 1 Okay, that's...

Speaker 1 I see. So he's kind of saying that there's a reason they're not telling us the real reason why they have to do it.
Here's a theory. Well, I think everyone knows the reason.

Speaker 1 It's because they want the CFL to be like a farm league for the NFL. Well, this guy says smaller field fits into more American stadiums.
Another attempt at U.S.

Speaker 1 expansion is the only credible explanation. Wrong.
That would be

Speaker 1 funny, though. American expansion would be funny.
Yeah. But that happened already.
But that happened. Yeah, that happened already.
Did you know that, Brian?

Speaker 1 The CFL

Speaker 1 took on American teams. That was a real thing that happened.
And we killed them, right?

Speaker 1 No, well,

Speaker 1 you said you took on American teams. I thought you were like, they played the Browns.
No, no, no, no. They started

Speaker 1 killing. Yeah, they would get killed.
They would get killed, even by the Browns. Even by the Browns.
But yeah,

Speaker 1 they had teams. They had famously the Baltimore CFLers because they had to change their name from the Baltimore Colts because it was the same name as the Indianapolis Colts and they sued them.

Speaker 1 And then they had to change it to the Baltimore CFLers and they won the Great Cup as the Baltimore CFLers. But they had the Shreveport

Speaker 1 Pirates. There was a bunch of Las Vegas posse.
Yeah, I don't remember how long it lasted. Memphis Mad Dogs.
Oh, that's Sacramento Gold Miners. But yeah, it only lasted maybe six, maybe four years.

Speaker 1 Last. Yeah, I think three or four, maybe.
It gave us the moment of

Speaker 1 the best national anthem of all time in Las Vegas before a posse game. A guy by the name of Greg Bartholomew absolutely tanked the Canadian national anthem.
Oh, go look that up.

Speaker 1 Yeah, go check that out he didn't know the good is it he didn't know the melody of it at all

Speaker 1 no he or the words he was adding words it's like halfway through he turns it into oh christmas tree yeah yeah it's black that's kind of what it sounds like to us over now

Speaker 1 but it doesn't sound like that at all though in another so uh i also went to pre-ply which i don't know what this page is i think it's a uh it's a language thing and they said impress the locals with these popular canadian sayings so we got some some canadian it's more vocabulary.

Speaker 1 I couldn't find a list of Canadian expressions anywhere. I looked all over the place and it was all just like these word pop.

Speaker 1 You guys want a 2-4?

Speaker 1 That's a 24 beers.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Hold on. I'm going to find a good one.
Oh, how about Jam Buster? Do you guys know what a Jam Buster is? I don't. Nope.

Speaker 1 It's a big jam-filled donut. Duh.
No one ever

Speaker 1 jam buster. That's.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Maybe that was a thing in like the 1960s. Yeah, that might be like

Speaker 1 one that was like an old one or something. You guys know what a Caesar is.
Yeah, definitely. What?

Speaker 1 It's like a tomato bloody mary. Yeah, it's like a drink with clemato.
It's very similar to a Bloody Mary, but it has clemato instead of tomato juice. Okay, here's one.
Here's one.

Speaker 1 Let me find a good one. I'm sorry.
Depp.

Speaker 1 Dep?

Speaker 1 Dep. Spelled P.
D-E-P.

Speaker 1 I don't know that. No.
It's like a bowdegger.

Speaker 1 It's what?

Speaker 1 Go for it. It's a convenience store.
Sarah Rand to the deck. Short for some gayer.
Short for Dépener, which is in Quebec. That's what they call a bodega, basically.
I got you.

Speaker 1 Okay, no, yeah, that's a French one.

Speaker 1 That's Quebec. That's not Canada.
Here's a good one.

Speaker 1 Halifornia. That's Halifax.
Halifax. It's a lot like California there.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 We also famously have Colona Fornia. Colonifornia, which is a great rap song by Dolla Dee.
If you ever want to check out an extremely funny song and music video.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's close to here, like close to Vancouver Cologne. But yeah, Halifax, John and I have both been there because they do the Halifax Comedy Festival there.

Speaker 1 And it's really beautiful, but it's not really in the same way as California. It's not like California.
Yeah, I wouldn't think of Halifax as California at all. We did it the same year, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, we were in the same galaxy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we were. I want to go there.
Why don't you get me on there?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, listen, we have to

Speaker 1 be beautiful.

Speaker 1 It is really nice. Halifax is really beautiful and nice.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Out for a rip.

Speaker 1 Yeah, driving around. Just going around.
Dr. Dead going out for a rip last night, eh? Yeah, or drink, or is that drinking or driving? No, it's dry.

Speaker 1 Well, it could be drinking and driving, but it's cool.

Speaker 1 It's definitely driving and probably means, like, in theory, like driving either drunk or dangerously in a truck in a small town or like snowmobiling or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, taking the fucking skidoo out for a rip.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 What about gong show? Do you guys say that? Yeah, gong show is a big time one. Yeah, like somebody who's just like insane.
Like, this guy's wild. This guy's a gong show.
That all the gong show is big.

Speaker 1 Chris and I were like teenagers. Yeah, gong show is huge.

Speaker 1 Like, you're saying it, like, yeah, that was a gong show, but we would actually say it to attribute it to someone, like, that guy is a gong show as well.

Speaker 1 Or an event was a gong. An event was a gong show.
Oh, I did a show last night. It was a fucking absolute gong show.
It was an absolute gong show. I want to use that eye like that.

Speaker 1 When I was younger, that was like really in the vernacular, hugely in the vernacular. I'm trying to think of what era is.

Speaker 1 It could be like, it could be, yeah, like, oh my god, I went out with Chris last night, he had like 14 beers, absolute fucking gong shows. He was a fucking gong show, dude.

Speaker 1 Like, honestly, I had to leave. I didn't even want it.
Yeah, like,

Speaker 1 you know what Chris is like. He can handle 10 when he gets to 4.
It's a gong show. Gong show.
It's a fucking gong show.

Speaker 1 Thanks for reminding me. Yeah, I like gong show too.
That was a good one for sure. That's a good one.
This guy,

Speaker 1 in regards to the CFL, goes, make a video game. Like, let's have CFL.
That'll solve everything.

Speaker 1 Well, he's got, he's, believe me, we're going to get way into this guy's need to have a video game, I promise. He goes, let's have like a CFL Blitz.
Get it on Game Pass and on Steam and PS5.

Speaker 1 The market's hungry for it. Get some good announcers that are funny for it.
Call the game CFL Rouge.

Speaker 1 CFL Rogue. We'll call it CFL Rogue.
CFL Rogue. And it's like, you know, it's like the CFL thing, but but they're like on some mission.

Speaker 1 It's like actually a first-person shooter, but at the backdrop, it's the CFL.

Speaker 1 Man, I

Speaker 1 like it.

Speaker 1 It does feel like this is something that could happen more likely now in the sense that it's easier to, I feel like a smaller company could make a game or, you know, like put like he's saying, just have it, get it up on Steam or something and use like an engine that already exists and then just like sort of, yeah, like, and there would be some people that would play it.

Speaker 1 I just don't know how many.

Speaker 1 I don't know how many of the CFL fans are gamers. I don't know if you look there.
It's an older crowd, definitely.

Speaker 1 Well, you're gonna, and it's also like it feels like when they make like a rugby game or a cricket game, you know, or whatever, it's like they're not gonna get the dedicated team that should be making it, you know.

Speaker 1 So, it's always gonna be like just a little bit janky. And you're not, they they might not like you have to like know the game really well, and you have to know how to make video games really well.

Speaker 1 It just feels like,

Speaker 1 but this guy goes, the gaming market's hungry for a Blitz game. There hasn't been a new one since 2012.
There's currently nothing available to fill that hole except Mutant Football League.

Speaker 1 The NFL has made it clear they do not want the hard-hitting style associated with them. So there'll never be another one.
Eat their. lunch.
Think of the game as marketing it out for. So wait a second.

Speaker 1 So what they're, what he's saying is like, so the NFL, due to the, obviously, all the concussion stuff and everybody shooting themselves in the chest and showing up at the hospital and things like that.

Speaker 1 They're like, we don't want to do a game, which I loved.

Speaker 1 NFL hits. I played hits.

Speaker 1 I played hits. It was called hits, I think.
Or maybe that was.

Speaker 1 NHL. NHL was hits.
NFL was always Blitz. Yeah, I played both of them with my friends and it was really fun and really good arcade-style game.
But yeah, you can understand

Speaker 1 from an optic standpoint why the NFL would not want to have that associated with it. He's just basically saying, like, well, hey, CFL, why don't you step in and become the

Speaker 1 pro-Concussion league. Hey, that's a market.
There's a space in the market.

Speaker 1 Huge place in the market for somebody, a football league that's willing to come out and like embrace concussion.

Speaker 1 Think of the game as marketing and advertising. That's why you put it on Game Pass so lots of people can play it day one.
Blitz is awesome. An update is a way overdue.

Speaker 1 Give away copies of games games too. Hell, if you really want to eat their lunch, include a three and four down version.
And then inventory.

Speaker 1 This guy loves eating their lunch. He loves the phrase eat their lunch.
He says it a lot. This guy's a real gong show.
Yeah, this guy's a fucking gong show, honestly.

Speaker 1 He does seem like a bit of a gong show.

Speaker 1 This guy seems like he's been fucking ripping around, bud.

Speaker 1 This fucking guy's always talking about eating my lunch. Like, fuck off, bud.
That's my lunch, man.

Speaker 1 Get your own fucking lunch, buddy it's like i got my fucking kd pre-ketchupped you know

Speaker 1 guys out there my wife my wife pre-ketchups my kd for me in my lunchbox other guy on the work site's like you fucking brought kd duh that's the fucking that's the trump that's the trump macaroni and cheese man can't believe you're eating that man fuck yeah the fucking i'm the liberal hoser eh yeah exactly i'm the liberal guy on the work site

Speaker 1 i stopped eating kd once I sort of realized the cheese powder kind of looks like the fucking Hawkins cheesies president down there. Oh, yeah, the Hawkins body.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm the fucking liberal hoser, bud. Yeah, fucking Cheeto, the cheesy Hawkins in chief and fucking powdered KD president, eh?

Speaker 1 You guys ever heard of a champagne? The guy on the work site just being like, you guys seeing this new legislation?

Speaker 1 Like, they're trying to get fucking trying to get trans fucking people out of playing sports, man. I don't fucking agree with that.

Speaker 1 Just at the work site. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But yeah, champagne birthday. How about that? You guys ever have a.
Oh, you don't know what champagne birthday is, Brian? Nobody knows. That's not an American thing.

Speaker 1 Champagne birthday is when you turn the same age as the day of your birthday. Yep.

Speaker 1 So like if you're turning, if your birthday's like I didn't get, I got my champagne birthday at the absolute latest you could have it because my birthday is on the 31st.

Speaker 1 So I had to wait 31 years for my

Speaker 1 six. I was six when I had mine, but I didn't know about it either.
I don't think that was like, I mean, I've heard of the term, but it wasn't like a thing that ever came up in my life.

Speaker 1 This next paragraph from this guy is so good.

Speaker 1 Hell, if you really want to eat their lunch, include a three and four down version and then invent a mythical four-down league as well with teams in all the cool cities the NFL has snubbed.

Speaker 1 If you got the game, so now he's saying

Speaker 1 now, honestly, now it's like, you might be eating their dinner at this point. Holy fuck, let's save a little bit of something for a little sustenance for them.
Good lord.

Speaker 1 He's saying, like, oh, because now you're going to get the markets for all the

Speaker 1 cities where it's just like,

Speaker 1 fuck, man, they might not have a, you know, I might not have a team in my city now, but I can play this fucking game and stick it to the NFL.

Speaker 1 I don't have a team in Austin, Texas. The Austin motherships aren't

Speaker 1 there.

Speaker 1 You want to eat the NFL's lunch? Put a team in Austin that doesn't give a fuck. Oh, buddy.
We don't answer to the rules. We take fines.
We all players get suspended, man. We don't give a shit.

Speaker 1 Honestly, they could fill a goddamn stadium. We just go get a couple of buses,

Speaker 1 get over outside of the old Kill Tony show, grab some of those fucking open micers. You know, I mean, there is literally, last I saw, you go, have you seen it?

Speaker 1 It's like, it looks like, it looks like footage of some sort of parade or something. I mean, there's literally millions of open-mic comedians swarming the comedy mothership.

Speaker 1 Like, you get overhead shots of it. It's fucking intense, man.
That is scary to think of.

Speaker 1 And I love the idea of like, let's make up, let's also do an NFL version of this game that we're doing a CFL game of to.

Speaker 1 battle the NFL games, but also let's pick some cities that are cool that they don't even have a team.

Speaker 1 And those teams will just be like, yeah, this is great uh i'm can now be on an nfl team and maybe even you could have your your fake nfl team go against the argonauts or whatever it'll be great he goes there's already a functional engine really we're just talking about the reskin of mutant football league it's built on a unity engine i'd probably make cfl the base game and then add a dlc for four down football and make it all the way to like all the way all two-way like leatherheads but i can imagine a four-player arcade version of cfl blitz being very popular in a bunch of different bars and locations and of course at every game day imagine pop two of them in a trailer that's got a bar and a big screen showing the cfl and you just park it into locations to let people try it out

Speaker 1 this guy has got some insane ideas he's talking about a traveling bar now that shows up on game days like with a video game With these video games for people to play for free, like at Tailgates, I guess, is what he's thinking i'm yeah it seems like listen man it seems like this guy's got a lot of ideas that he will not do anything to bring to fruition at all like this idea is worth way more than the typical marketing the cfl does it and it'll reach non-traditional fans and there's so many tweaks you could do like for example each game could also work as a player that shows the eastern and western final plus the gray cup but that's stretch goals i agree that few are asking for a cfl game per se,

Speaker 1 but they definitely want a new Blitz game, and it ain't coming unless the CFL makes it.

Speaker 1 Why?

Speaker 1 Now, why does the CFL have to make it? What about like...

Speaker 1 It's on the CFL's shoulders here. Is Vince McMahon still alive? Brian, that question's for you.
Is Vince McMahon still alive? Yeah, so ask Vince McMahon to do it. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 Like, he's the kind of guy who would do some shit like that, like an XFL version of it or whatever.

Speaker 1 Or just why do they have to be real players?

Speaker 1 Well, you guys connect with that developer, ride that wave, make a CFL variant with them, release roster updates for free, not a new game, do seasons like Fortnite.

Speaker 1 It doesn't have to make money, but it could be. No, no, no.
It does.

Speaker 1 I think for the investors and the people, the company, it does. I don't know.
That's usually how it goes anyway. I mean, this guy is.

Speaker 1 I love this guy who's just like, listen, man, you can take a bit of a hit on this one.

Speaker 1 It is. There's more important things at play here.

Speaker 1 It's worth it for the exposure for the CFL.

Speaker 1 You've got to be thinking long-term on this type of thing. And they are.
They have stretch goals. Yeah, they do.
They have a few stretch goals.

Speaker 1 It doesn't have to make money, but it could be a sleeper hit. Get the right Canadian talent as announcers, and it could be legendary.

Speaker 1 There's tons of cameo potential, and it would be a wonderful time capsule. They could get Ryan Reynolds to pop in.
They could get Reynolds to do it.

Speaker 1 Who else would be a great commentator, a Canadian, a classic Canadian commentator?

Speaker 1 Ben Malroney.

Speaker 1 Oh, might he.

Speaker 1 Ben Malroney's become commentary. Don Cherry? Yeah, he's turning into a campus conservative, even though he's 50.
Yeah, Ben Malroney is a 50-year-old campus conservative. His dad was a prime minister.

Speaker 1 Don Cherry, now he's a young buck that I might watch. Don Cherry would be the guy

Speaker 1 to get for CFL Blitz. You'd have to get CFL Blitz.
Honestly, Don Cherry would honestly be the guy.

Speaker 1 He would be the the guy for the fucking game, the concussion game. No doubt about it.

Speaker 1 No problem. Yeah, you could get like, you could probably get like Rod Black to do the play-by-play, and then Don Cherry just shows up with like a

Speaker 1 damn thing. Whamo.
He does his big lines, like, give it to socket to the little sucker there. You know, like, so.
Well, I got a guy. I got a guy.
Ed the Sock.

Speaker 1 Oh, no, he's the, he's the interviewer. He's the sideline.
He's the sideline reporter. I had a couple unfortunate interactions with Ed the Sock that I do not want to talk about.

Speaker 1 He became kind of a strange guy. I don't know how I ended up arguing with the sock,

Speaker 1 but he was in my DMs sending me all these crazy DMs one time. And I kept saying to him,

Speaker 1 Man, you're a sock, dude. You know, like that was, I kept sort of trying to explain to him, like, I can't be doing this.
You're a freaking sock.

Speaker 1 I'm a grown-ass man, you know?

Speaker 1 And he's like, I'm Steve, actually. Yeah, he was trying to say all that stuff.
And I was like, buddy, nice try. I've seen you on TV, sock.
You know, I'm not going to argue with a sock.

Speaker 1 I'm coming off like a real gong show here, arguing with a sock. Honestly, can I be honest with you? The conversation I had with Ed the Sock was a fucking gong show.

Speaker 1 I don't remember the context of it either, but I just remember him like sending me really unhinged,

Speaker 1 long, unhinged messages on Twitter. Well, finally, this guy goes, imagine you launched the game on Canada Day for $18.67, both Canadian and USD.
Oh, because that's the year of Canadian Confederation.

Speaker 1 Holy shit, man, that would excite my fucking great aunt.

Speaker 1 She's the biggest gamer I know. Yeah, we should release a game about the Vietnam War and charge $17.76 for it.
Yeah, I mean, it's just so like that type of thing doesn't, people don't feel that way.

Speaker 1 There isn't even really that many people who are like 18, you know, my,

Speaker 1 I'm going to use the phone number 1876 because that's, you know, there's not, that doesn't really exist. Well, I like also that he said it needs to be Canadian and USD.

Speaker 1 The price is the same in the United States, too. Yeah, well, I mean, they would, I guess, Canadians would appreciate that.
Yeah, he goes, plus Game Pass, and then just let the 67 memes do their work.

Speaker 1 So I'm not sure what the 67 meme is. 67 memes.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. So he's saying that 18.

Speaker 1 Oh my God. This guy is top

Speaker 1 in. This guy is saying like, buddy, just lay it down 1867.
And then I don't know if you've seen the stuff 6'7 on the internet, but just let it do its work.

Speaker 1 This guy's a marketing genius. Well, a guy replies and goes, cool, where's the money coming for from for development? That's a CFL.
Good answer here. Well, CFL marketing, the government.
Government.

Speaker 1 Maybe.

Speaker 1 The government of Canada.

Speaker 1 That's why we're charging $18.67. It's part of a partnership with the Canadian government.
Why is the government's not associated with the CFL?

Speaker 1 I think that might be, that's maybe a common misconception from Americans.

Speaker 1 Well, they have the health care, so they could also make a CFL video game.

Speaker 1 That is actually why you could make CFL Blitz, because when the players get concussed, you know at least they're going to see a doctor.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes. that's the difference between us is we're just like, you know, go do whatever you're going to fucking do with the rest of your life.

Speaker 1 But in all seriousness, it's, you know, it's a pretty wild sport that we still got going on.

Speaker 1 CFL marketing, the government, maybe a Kickstarter. This would be a tiny fraction of operating expenses.
Oh, I could see this on Twitter.

Speaker 1 I could see this on my friends Jesse and Mike fucking giving this the biz. CFL Blitz.
Oh, yeah, I could see this finding its way into a six-pack, maybe.

Speaker 1 Oh, definitely. Just imagining the CFL Blitz page on Kickstarter where the guy's also talking about his traveling bar idea.
Oh, and you betcha. I bet you Jesse's doing a fucking very, very

Speaker 1 disrespectful Canadian accent. He's saying warm.
He's saying warm. Yeah, he's being really disrespectful in this episode, I'm imagining.
Well, that's the I'm the guy who says

Speaker 1 warm. I know you say warm, but I would never make fun of you for saying warm.
Well, that's fine. Jesse's family.
I say it to Katie a lot. Watch it.
Okay.

Speaker 1 And finally, here's the guy that's blaming Woke Woke for this. Oh, okay.
CFL. He goes, there's nothing wrong with the game.
The problem is a lack of Canadian support.

Speaker 1 Of course, National Pride didn't used to be colonialist or racist or whatever. So

Speaker 1 actually, CFL

Speaker 1 isn't that popular because of Woke has decided.

Speaker 1 Wait, can you read that?

Speaker 1 There's nothing wrong with the game. The problem is a lack of Canadian support.
Of course, National Pride didn't used to be colonialist or racist or whatever. So he's saying...

Speaker 1 He's just talking talking about how, because there's like Indigenous Peoples Day.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 And he's saying

Speaker 1 that people can't be proud of their teams because being proud of things. No, I think he's just saying he wouldn't get support from Canadians because we're not proud to be Canadian anymore.

Speaker 1 That's fair. Okay, hey, I thought he was blaming Woke.
That's good. No, he is, I think.
He's definitely blaming Woke.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I think that he's because I don't know, but I think Canadians are getting more. Brian noticed this, that Canadians are getting more patriotic.

Speaker 1 He noticed more than up here. Oh, yeah, for sure.
Yeah, Canadians are. And I don't necessarily share in it, but I notice it.

Speaker 1 I do not. I love it.
I feel. Let's read some Ticketmaster reviews of Canada.
Bare-Naked Ladies. I got a ticket to Canada.
Bare-Naked Ladies. Bare Naked Ladies.
That's good.

Speaker 1 And because famously, also, like, everyone in Canada loves them. I'm sure.
I'm sure. Four stars.

Speaker 1 Geared toward elderly.

Speaker 1 Miss some old songs like Falling for the First Time and Get in Line. Well, I have Summer of 69 for the Encore.
The majority of the audience were toddlers or not even born in 1969. This conf poke.

Speaker 1 Wait, the song of the song was 1969. I assume that's the same thing.
Summer of 69 is a Brian Adams song written in the 80s. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. You can't.
Brian Adams.

Speaker 1 I hear that song and I'm like, by the way, absolute Canadian legend, Brian Adams. I hear that song and I'm like, I can't even identify with any of this.
I wasn't alive in 1969. That's a good one.

Speaker 1 This guy has got it. But that's the, I mean, okay.
Well, you know, that's like being like, you know, I can't watch Downton Abbey. I wasn't alive during

Speaker 1 Downton Abbey. It's for the elderly.
You have to be the same age as the people.

Speaker 1 He goes, this concert was for the 70-plus crowd. Sugar Ray brought it.
He was funny.

Speaker 1 I'm sorry, Sugar Ray. No disrespect to Mark and the boys, but that one made me laugh.
Sugar A brought it. Sugar A brought it.
He was funny, energetic, played all his hits and more.

Speaker 1 He sounded great now. Oh, no, they think Mark McGrath is Sugar A.
They think Sugar A is one guy. I love what you guys think that.
Oh, that's really good. Oh, look at this.

Speaker 1 I didn't like that Sugar A guy.

Speaker 1 He didn't really do it for me. I wonder, Brian, do you think Sugar A, when they open for Bare Naked Ladies, are playing any other old new metal hits?

Speaker 1 I don't know what they would play. Well, they'd play, obviously fly someday every morning.
Yeah, they would they probably wouldn't play that many songs, right?

Speaker 1 Because they're only opening, so they don't have to have a huge set list. So they're probably playing maybe a couple ones for them, you know.
But most of them.

Speaker 1 I don't think they're playing any of the metal because they made metal.

Speaker 1 Oh, no, definitely not. So it looks like I'm trying to find.

Speaker 1 When was this show, Brian? This show, it was in Cleveland, actually.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but when?

Speaker 1 8-9-25.

Speaker 1 8-9. Okay, so August 9th, 25.
Okay, I can find that set list right now. Yeah.
Okay. They play, oh, that's Truckee Music Fest, it says they were playing.
So it must have been

Speaker 1 the other way around, September 8th. No, they didn't play that day.
Yeah, it says the 8, 9, 25 at Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, which I don't know. Oh, yeah.
Because then

Speaker 1 the set list FM says they were at Truck E Music Fest. August 1st is where they played the Blossom Music Center.
But yeah, they play six songs opening for bare naked ladies

Speaker 1 someday every morning, answer the phone, when it's over, falls apart, and fly. Yeah, that makes sense.
That's a good set list for Sugar A. To tell you the truth.
Honestly, I'd watch that.

Speaker 1 I'd watch those six songs. It sounds great to me.

Speaker 1 I might go grab something to eat.

Speaker 1 You're waiting for bare-naked ladies. I'm waiting for the ladies.

Speaker 1 Listen, I don't like it. I feel like their music is kind of like

Speaker 1 childish music. Right.
So it's that kind of same sort of music where I liked it when I was a little kid. I was like a big fan of it because it almost seems like children's music.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I'm not, I don't know. I think it's probably been 15 years since I've, 20 years maybe since I've even heard a song.
It's funny because.

Speaker 1 Are they still, I mean, they must be still making new albums, right? I'm sure. They're probably called BNL now, though.
Like, they're other styles that are still on the bottom.

Speaker 1 It was actually early on that was like, that was part of their whole,

Speaker 1 what made them famous was because people wouldn't let them perform because of their name. So I remember being.
your last album came out in 2023. Oh I don't want to hear that, but I might listen to it.

Speaker 1 I don't, guys, I'm going to tell you, you're not going to like, you're not going to like this album title from 2017.

Speaker 1 What is it?

Speaker 1 Fake nudes.

Speaker 1 That's funny.

Speaker 1 Jesus Christ, these guys. I remember the first time I ever heard bare-naked ladies in my life.
I was like 15.

Speaker 1 And I had it on the box, which was a channel where you could call 900.

Speaker 1 Basically, the box was a channel where you go over to somebody you don't like's house and you call one 900 number and you can have them play videos for you. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Like, they'll play them. They have to.
It's a jukebox. And I saw some bare-naked lady song about an apartment.
Yep. Oh, I was.
physically shaking by the time it was done. I hated it so much.

Speaker 1 I was actually kind of mad at it.

Speaker 1 And apartment is the song you're using. Yes.
I just, I was like, what in the is this shit

Speaker 1 most of the time they played rap on the box it was mostly rap like almost all the time and i was just like play more rap what is this music this isn't even real music and you know but you listen and this is and this is coming from someone who i don't i don't think this is

Speaker 1 crazy to say you listen to some really bad music i don't listen to any bad music we went to the corn show john was good yeah you know corn the band corn with the monkey i'm familiar yeah We we saw it.

Speaker 1 I went to the corn show a couple days before you got it. He did.
So you saw, did they, did they do the song where they're like, ring around the rosie pocket full of posy? I was appalled.

Speaker 1 And then that's, that's what I'm saying. It's like Brian's like, oh, this is so stupid.
And he's like jamming to fucking shoots and ladders or whatever.

Speaker 1 And so for you to think that it's like, hey, this is too silly and too stupid or whatever, that's saying something. I wasn't even trying to be insulting.

Speaker 1 It's funny because in shoots and ladders is like a dark song. They're They're explaining.
Okay, Brian.

Speaker 1 Bring around the rosy's written about the plague, right? Yeah, no, I know. It's pretty fucking heavy, dude.

Speaker 1 The plague was some heavy times when I look back on it.

Speaker 1 You know, the handling of the weather, three stars, while I understand the weather is uncontrollable, the situation could have been handled better.

Speaker 1 Bare Naked Ladies could have cut down on their stand-up comedy act to allow for the other two bands to sing more than one song. We paid for three bands.

Speaker 1 We got one band, one song from the second band, one song from the third band. It was a good show, but for the cost, eh.

Speaker 1 Okay. So they were doing too much of their stand-up routine.
Now, they do fancy, I will say this.

Speaker 1 You know, I'm a huge fan of Bare Naked Ladies. I'm their number one defender on this podcast for sure, but they do fancy themselves a little funny.
Oh, yeah. Big-time banter boys.

Speaker 1 Big time banter boys definitely like very funny music videos, very silly zaney kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 It's honestly probably gotten worse since Steven Page got kicked out of the band, too, because Ed Robertson feels like the jokey guy. I bet Steven Page was tamping that down for years.

Speaker 1 And now that he's gone, I think Ed is just cooking up.

Speaker 1 I can't imagine them when they're doing titles like Fake Nudes in 2017 or whatever kind of, you know, they're older guys now and with that sort of sensibility. Yeah, I can't imagine.

Speaker 1 I don't know. Maybe it would be fucking awesome to go watch one of their live shows now.
Seeing them do like 20 minutes of them just like

Speaker 1 doing some of the worst stand-up that you've ever heard from some like old boomer-brained guy who's on Facebook all day looking at Trump memes. I don't know.
Maybe it'd be good.

Speaker 1 Let's check in with a Canadian guy that we love.

Speaker 1 Oh, this guy. He's hooting.
Get ready to hoot. Chris, are you ready? 13 views.
How did you find this guy? He's got 13 views.

Speaker 1 What I did was I searched energy drink. Oh, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 Beaver Buzz Review. Right, okay.
Because he reviewed Beaver Buzz,

Speaker 1 which is an energy drink up there. You guys, I can't get it down here.
It's all up there. This guy likes to go.
Okay, so let me explain this to the people who haven't met him because

Speaker 1 we do it a lot on the stream and stuff. This guy goes to a place called the Smoke Hut.

Speaker 1 And he buys snacks and he reviews them. And he always is, he's most of the time wearing a Canadian-themed shirt.
This time he's Blue Jays. I almost said Blue Jackets.
That would have been tough.

Speaker 1 Oh, no.

Speaker 1 Hey, Blue Jays. Hey,

Speaker 1 John.

Speaker 1 You guys like the Blue Jays? Yeah. You like our team? Yep.

Speaker 1 Good cloud, good cloud. John, he takes the biggest hits of weed you've ever seen.
Yeah, you showed him to me. I've seen the guy.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 He smokes so much. So it's crazy.

Speaker 1 Does sound like he's not coming through the mic he has plugged in. Of course, he's not.
He's high. Yeah.
No, he's this is this is coming through the laptop mic.

Speaker 2 And welcome to another Entertainment on Highs about the Munchies.

Speaker 1 There's a head sculpt. He just got closer to the mic.
Didn't get any louder. No.

Speaker 1 Oh, this is the first time he went to the Smoke Hut. Wow.
Oh, wow. He said there's a new head shop

Speaker 2 that I found here in my hometown of Prince Albert. It's called the Smoke Cut.

Speaker 1 That's the most Canadian.

Speaker 1 It's called the Smoke Cut.

Speaker 1 It's called the Smole Cut.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that is definitely a prairie. He's got a prairie accent.

Speaker 2 I went there once with my sister about two months ago, and I decided to go back and double-check their stock.

Speaker 2 They have a wide selection of papers, pipes, bongs, all kinds of really cool shit like that. And they also have,

Speaker 2 kind of oddly, as well as a huge selection of American and other foreign

Speaker 2 pops, drinks, and munchies, like not just chocolates and candies, but chips, energy drinks, pop. There's a whole bunch of shit.

Speaker 1 I said pop like three times. Oh, they got fucking pops.

Speaker 1 Pop.

Speaker 1 This is kind of cool to see, if you are a viewer of the stream or the bonus episodes where we've watched him before, because you can sort of see how excited he is at this new.

Speaker 1 He's like, it's kind of oddly they have this, like, they have all these snacks. Now it's like, it's his whole life.
He's like, I went to the smoke gut yesterday and I got some lazy chips. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Especially if you're from Prince Albert, right? Because this is a normal thing in like major Canadian. Yeah, we talked about it.

Speaker 1 Vancouver has like, yeah, Vancouver has like three or four of these places. Calgary has a couple as well.
Toronto has a bunch.

Speaker 1 This is not abnormal, but in Prince Albert, that would almost be like front page. It would be in the newspaper, probably, or something.
No, like it's just not even joking. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 It's kind of a smaller place. It wouldn't.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 we talked about that. How this is like a big deal.
He's having snacks that he has never even fucking dreamed of before. Yeah, 100%.

Speaker 1 I want to do this. I want to lace this in for the rest of the show, too.
I went to Business Insider, and they did the 26 best Canadians of all time ranked.

Speaker 1 Neither one of you guys made it. I apologize for doing it.
I thought John might.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, he did a curling.

Speaker 1 He's got actual things that like normal people, you know, like does a curling book and stuff and the curling podcast. And people actually, normal people know them.
They like him.

Speaker 1 They actually like him. They know they like him.
It bugged me so much when I went looking and I found out everybody loves John. 26

Speaker 1 average. There are people who definitely don't like me.
Oh, but

Speaker 1 in like the curling world. No, in the curling world, there's people who don't like me.
Yeah, but you are pretty loved. You're loved.
I looked. That's nice.
Number 26, Avril Levine, singer.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's definitely. I'd have her higher.
I'd have her a bit higher, but 26 is. Because I know who's coming below.

Speaker 1 I know for sure there's going to be people I don't agree with.

Speaker 1 I'd have to say maybe 15 is the greatest of all time. Agreed.
25. Shania Twain.
See, that's way too low for Shania. Way too low for Shania.
She needs to be maybe number two, three of all time.

Speaker 1 Top five for sure. 24.

Speaker 1 Jim Carrey. Well, Jim Carrey's got to be first, second, third.
He's got to be top three. That's this.

Speaker 1 I am really going to hate.

Speaker 1 I'm going to hate what's coming on this list if that's the bottom three here.

Speaker 1 23,

Speaker 1 Ryan Reynolds. Oh, get him out of there.
Get him off the winter. He shouldn't even be on the list.
Shouldn't be on the list. We ate him here.
No.

Speaker 1 Ahead of Shania Twain. Ahead of Shania Twain is one of the most disrespectful things I've heard in my life.
Ahead of Jim Carrey.

Speaker 1 Jim

Speaker 1 Yeah, Jim Carrey. Think about what he's brought.

Speaker 1 Jim Carrey. I know.
22, William Shatner. William Shatner.
So we don't want him on the list either.

Speaker 1 He's not on the list either. 21, Arcade Fire.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 God.

Speaker 1 Arcade Fire ahead of Avril and Shinsuke.

Speaker 1 When was this list?

Speaker 1 The guy's like the kinger is fully canceled. I had no idea.
Well, I don't know when this list is from, and maybe they don't care that he's canceled. Maybe this is a scientific thing.

Speaker 1 Maybe they're saying they would have been higher if he wasn't or something.

Speaker 1 He's a business insider? Business Insider. Okay, that's surprising.

Speaker 1 People don't talk about Arcade Fire a lot anymore. I did listen to them a lot when I was younger.
I like them. You still do.
You love them. Number 20, James Cameron.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, listen, James Cameron did Avatar, but he's not thought of as Canadian. Like, we don't really.

Speaker 1 I had no idea. He's thought of as American.
He spent most of his life in America. I searched Fleet Fox's Canadian, too.
Unfortunately, they're not. I know.
They're from Seattle.

Speaker 1 But they're from Seattle, so they're from very

Speaker 1 Chris's favorite band. 19, Morley Safer.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 that's going way back. That's crazy talk.
Morley Safer ahead of almost anyone so far in the world.

Speaker 1 I want Morley Sauce. You guys are about to hit two that are going to drive you nuts.
Yeah. 18,

Speaker 1 Gordy Howe.

Speaker 1 Well, Gordy Howe is a legend. He's not going to drive us nuts at all.
He's a legend. But he's 18.
Yeah, but

Speaker 1 he's considered one of the great.

Speaker 1 Before Wayne Gretzky, the great one, Gordy Howe was considered the greatest hockey player to ever play the game. I mean,

Speaker 1 he had a record, the goal.

Speaker 1 He was considered one of the greats. And his name's Gord, and that gets you a lot of cow shape.
That's a big time. 17, Tim Horton.
Yeah, that's too. He shouldn't be on the list.

Speaker 1 He shouldn't be on the list. Why is he a drunk drive? He was a drunk drive.
He just, yeah, he just. These restaurants suck.

Speaker 1 16, I think you guys are going going to love. These guys, they're really popular.
Jason Jones and Samantha B, comedians. No, come on.
16. That is accurate.
They're higher than Gordon Harry.

Speaker 1 Listen, I've been joking a lot in this list so far with my reactions, but that is actually fucking maddening to even have them on the list. Like some daily show correspondence.
No.

Speaker 1 The private school thing, they had that whole thing. That is horrible.
Mike Myers. 15.

Speaker 1 Okay. Mike Myers is respect Mike Myers.
He was when I did the Just for Last festival, he was there. You know, he was just hanging around, being all Canadian, wearing a Toronto Maple Leaves jersey.

Speaker 1 He really is. Like, he really thinks of himself as a Canadian and like is proud to be a Canadian.
And like, listen, you got to admit, Brian, he's done some funny stuff. Austin Powers.

Speaker 1 That's it, though. But yeah, and the picture of the music.
Wayne's World GP's shit. Wayne's World? You peas of shit.
So I married an actress.

Speaker 1 I watched Wayne's World like a couple years ago with Wayne. Fucking hated it.
Fucking Wayne's World, you fucker. So I married Winnie.
I love it when I was 11, though. I did love it when I was 11.

Speaker 1 Oh, so Brian, you don't like that new Netflix show that he made where he played all the characters? Yeah, yeah. I thought about doing a mini-series about that.
It's so bad. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 I was going to watch it all.

Speaker 1 He's made some great stuff. Come on.
But in the picture, he's holding a Toronto Maple Leaves jersey that says Love Guru on the back. Yeah.
Classic. Another one of his classics.
14, Neil Young. Yep.

Speaker 1 13, Seth Rogen, which seems terrible. Seth Rogan is a little bit like,

Speaker 1 he is Canadian, and he's from here, Vancouver, obviously. But I just think maybe later on in his life, he'll be on this list, possibly.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I wouldn't have him ahead of Jim Carrey or Mike Myers. Not yet.

Speaker 1 12, Drake. Oh, fuck.

Speaker 1 11, Dan Aykroyd. Dan Aykroyd.
I mean, listen,

Speaker 1 he is good, and he's like a legendary comedian and stuff like that. And he's got that fantastic vodka that I love.
Katie loves that vodka. Oh, she does, for real.

Speaker 1 It's become like quite a popular vodka, right? I think it's good for vodka.

Speaker 1 It's all vodka. Yeah, yeah.
And the cup, the bottle's neat. Listen, I like the bottle.
I'm not going to shit on the bottle. So

Speaker 1 Dan Aykroyd, though, that does seem a little bit high for him to me. He's a Chicago guy to me.
No, he's Canadian. He's Chicago.
We claim him. 10, Margaret Atwood.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's fine.

Speaker 1 Nine, Martin Short. Yeah, we love Martin Short around here.
How could you not? We love him. Eight,

Speaker 1 Justin Trudeau. Oh, no.
Gee, what?

Speaker 1 Seven. I think that's a goof.
That's a goofy.

Speaker 1 He's very much hated by people here. Yeah, and the only politician on the list I'm going to get.
And he's like, actually, no.

Speaker 1 Number seven. Dad Douglas is up.
That's right. Probably his dad is on there.
And Pierre Trudeau, number seven. Yeah, see?

Speaker 1 That's why they wanted to do a little father-son cute thing on the list. So they're like, oh, we'll do that.
Justin Trudeau is like, he had to just step down as the leader. I know.

Speaker 1 Six. Chris Hadfield.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 is that the

Speaker 1 space guy?

Speaker 1 He's a space guy. He's fucking annoying, though.
He's annoying. He's always doing all these fucking things, ads.
You know what I mean? He thinks he's funny. He's fucking annoying.
He's Reynolds.

Speaker 1 Him and Reynolds can go fucking yuck it up with each other. You don't need to be on my list.
Chris and I are sounding like two Canadian guys around a fire right now. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 That fucking space guy, man.

Speaker 1 He's one of the greatest fucking Canadians. Like, oh, fuck.
I could go to fucking space, man. Anybody can go to space.

Speaker 1 Like, nowadays, anybody can fuck. Anybody can go to space.

Speaker 1 Then you want to come back here and do some like fucking commercials and shit, and you think you're one of the best fucking Canadians to get on. He's legitimate.
He's very. He's very annoying to me.

Speaker 1 He's got the very

Speaker 1 annoying list. He's got the thing to me that I hate that he's on this list.

Speaker 1 He's nowhere near a top Canadian's list. Unfortunately, not even close.
Top 10, like over Shania Twain.

Speaker 1 Come on, dog. Five, Lauren Michaels.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 yeah, great. She's not, she's not.
No way she deserves to be on the list.

Speaker 1 No, I honestly think that's, I hate that too, because he left so early and has spent so much of his time in New York that he's such a New York guy now, right?

Speaker 1 Like, he is like such a part of like New York. And it makes Canada look a little desperate in a way.
It's like, we don't need him. Yeah, you don't need him.
You got Terry Fox.

Speaker 1 We got Terry Fox. Yeah.
Number four.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 number four. That's interesting.
The top three better be Terry Fox is Terry Fox is like really.

Speaker 1 Then, of course, the Terry Fox story, though, is a little more complicated than, you know, he was like a very inspirational figure who ran, but he also had those, what's the name of the guy who did it with him?

Speaker 1 There's a guy who did it with him. Yeah.
I can't remember. Steve Fawno, maybe.
Oh, yeah, that's right. I think that's his name.

Speaker 1 And he, like, never got any credit for it and became like this, like, guy, like, troubles with the law. And, and it was, like, this real.

Speaker 1 But, anyways, yeah, the Terry Fox thing is a big, like, the statues outside of BC Place where I'll be going to watch LAFC versus the white caps. Well, I just kind of ruined, uh, dated this one.

Speaker 1 Um, but yeah, that there, they have statues of him, a bunch of statues of him outside. That's where I used to go meet people.
Like, we'd say meet at the Terry Fox statue.

Speaker 1 I used to curl against his family. Wow.
Uh, three, Alexander Graham Bell. Yeah, he's, I mean, but again, he's like Scottish, basically.
But he's Celine Dion as Celine Dion, number two? Yep.

Speaker 1 I do love Celine, but I'm not putting her number two, and I'm definitely not putting her ahead of Terry Fox. And this list is old.
The reason I can tell is because number one.

Speaker 1 is Wayne Gretzky, who is now a hated Canadian. Yeah, he's not even,

Speaker 1 we don't even want him anymore. I mean, he's hated now.
He's hated because he likes Donald Trump. Oh, Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 He's trying, and he's trying to, he's, he's doing a lot of damage control now, trying to be like, no, no, I am Canadian. He was hanging out with the Canadian soccer team this week and stuff.

Speaker 1 But he's not.

Speaker 1 He said, I can't even vote down there. I can't even vote down there.

Speaker 1 Honestly, he was never.

Speaker 1 He was never that popular post-playing career because he's not a, he has like a horrible personality.

Speaker 1 So like, I don't know if you saw him on SNL or whatever at that time. It's one of the craziest hosting things ever because he's just so, he has no charisma at all.
So he's like so bad.

Speaker 1 And I was always.

Speaker 1 He's also like, he's always been kind of dumb. Yeah.
Yeah. And he's and he's like really showing that now.
Yeah. But like, yeah, as Chris said, zero charisma, but also, I think, kind of stupid.

Speaker 1 We need Mario Lemieux on there, even though he, you know, he claims American too. And I met him one time at the

Speaker 1 at the Michael Jordan Celebrity Golf Tournament. I met Mario Lemieux and Michael Jordan and a a bunch of other people.

Speaker 1 But Mario Lemieux, it struck me how much he sounded like an American guy when he talked. Because he just spent his whole life.
And he's from Quebec. He's from small town Quebec.

Speaker 1 But he just spent his whole life in America.

Speaker 1 But like to get rid of the small town Quebec accent, you got to do a lot of work.

Speaker 1 You got to do a lot of work. But I was always a Lemieux over Gretzky guy when I was younger.
Always. I love Gretzky because he loves my country.

Speaker 2 I mean, he

Speaker 1 said he can't vote down. I read an article where he's like, I can't vote down there, and I can't vote in Canada either.
If you can't vote, then why the fuck are you showing up at Trump shit?

Speaker 1 That's like the worst possible thing to show up at. Stupidest and the dumbest thing you could say.
Oh, don't be mad at me for hanging out with Trump. I don't even vote.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. Okay, so you stand for literally nothing.
Yeah, he's not popular. Donald Trump is not popular here in Canada.

Speaker 1 I don't know if the Americans have been gotten that notice yet, but like, yeah, if you are to come out and say, hey, I like Donald Trump, most of the people in Canada will then not like you.

Speaker 1 Just ask Pierre Polyev. That's something I've been saying a lot about.
He looks like KD, the cheese from KD. Oh, fuck, he looks like a fucking powdered cheese.
Oh, shit.

Speaker 1 The powdered cheese, because it is sort of more orange than yellow. America down air.

Speaker 1 You got to do the America is a gong show. We're a real gong show down here.
It's true, man. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I've been reading the news lately. And like, I don't know if you guys have seen this, but America is kind of like a fucking gong.
I guarantee that shit's being said a lot.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, there's definitely small town prairie people are for sure still thinking about it. It's a fucking gong show down there, buddy.
I don't even read the news anymore.

Speaker 1 I just know it's a fucking gong show.

Speaker 1 You can't even read the news anymore. You pick up the newspaper, it's like, holy moly, man.

Speaker 1 I can't even read the news anymore, you know. What with me not being able to read and all

Speaker 1 it makes me want to deke. You guys ever heard

Speaker 1 these podcasts? You guys heard of that? Like, I'm starting to listen to those now, and it's like, they're pretty cool.

Speaker 1 Are you asking us, Brian? You know, Deke? Yeah, Deke is a deke. A deke is a hockey term.
That's a

Speaker 1 dekey teacher. Yes, it is.
It's a decoy. Thomas dekek out of meeting so many times that he was at risk of being fired.
No, he dekeyed. No, that's not.

Speaker 1 No, deke doubt would just be like deke is, it comes from hockey to like stick him around someone. Uh, Skyvy? Skyvy? Do you guys do Skyvy? See? S-C-I-V-E-Y?

Speaker 1 Wait, spell it again? S-C-I-V-E-Y.

Speaker 1 No, I don't know that term. No.

Speaker 1 It's another way to say greasy, and greasy means an untrusted person. Skeevy person.
Skevy. Skeevy.
Skeevy would spell it like that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't know why you would spell it like that, but Skevy is S-K-E-E-V-Y. Yeah, Skeevy.
Skeevy, I've definitely heard of the term skeevy for sure. Of course, we use it here.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Yes. you get skeeved out by someone.
That's, I feel like that's not Canadian. All right, I got another.
Well, here, hold on. We're going to hit play on this.

Speaker 1 And then I got a few, just like two more things I want to do, and we're done.

Speaker 2 I was there. Of course, I did.

Speaker 2 And I'm going to try them with Daryl today and share them with you. And hopefully, you can find them in your neck of the woods.
The first thing we're going to start with is a bag of Cheetos.

Speaker 1 Oh, you know, you know what I think about

Speaker 1 the pronunciation of Cheetos. Cheetos.

Speaker 1 You know what I think about Cheetos when I open it. I have the first thought that comes to my mind is

Speaker 1 Trump.

Speaker 2 Yep. Let me take off my glasses.
Sorry about that. It's hard for me to see up close with them on.

Speaker 1 No problem, bud.

Speaker 2 This is all in Spanish. I don't speak or

Speaker 2 understand Spanish. So if I'm saying that.

Speaker 1 No, here's the funny part about this is he would have definitely learned French in school. And French and Spanish are very similar to the point where like I could probably read a Spanish label on

Speaker 1 it. He just is saying he doesn't know the accents, though, I think, is what he's saying.
So, he's going to read them. So, what he's saying is

Speaker 1 I thought he was saying you didn't understand it. Yeah, I think, well, he also, and I'm sure he's not able to maybe draw necessarily the correlations that you are in language and all of that.

Speaker 1 But I think it's going to be with his accent saying these words that he's not familiar with at all. I'm really excited for that.
I can't wait to hear this.

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 2 Sue me.

Speaker 1 But it's Cheetos. Hey, Sumi, okay.
Hey, sue me if I fuck this up.

Speaker 2 Was Bolitas?

Speaker 1 Huh?

Speaker 2 Yeah, excesso, low in calories and low in sodium. So maybe low salt.

Speaker 1 Sodium. That was a real good.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's low in sodium.

Speaker 1 This is low in sodium. He said low.
Yeah, that's that was that was a real good thing. Like, are these special? They're just from Mexico?

Speaker 1 just bought Mexican Cheetos but so they're not they're not like a different flavor anything I don't think so I think he just accidentally bought Cheetos and they're probably the same in Mexico essentially right same in Canada too it's the regular Cheetos

Speaker 1 right I wonder but like some products they're different in different places right but not that I think this is just regular Cheetos

Speaker 1 they uh

Speaker 2 they look like they're red and maybe maybe hot I don't know mass queso.

Speaker 1 Mass queso.

Speaker 1 They look like they're red, maybe hot.

Speaker 1 He's holding up the bag. He hasn't opened the bag, just to be clear, everyone.
He's showing us the bag, the outside of it. Mass queso.

Speaker 2 Who fucking knows? Let's find out.

Speaker 1 Who fucking knows?

Speaker 1 This guy, I love it when he curses so much. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Mass Keso. I don't know.
Who fucking knows that?

Speaker 2 And there's a whole bunch of other stuff there. So as long as these

Speaker 2 and a few other short shots.

Speaker 1 Bolitas. They're balls.
So these aren't normal. These are just, these are little bolitas.
These are little

Speaker 1 Cheeto balls. Yeah.
They have them everywhere, though. Shoots.
We don't have them.

Speaker 1 You don't have Cheeto balls? We don't have Cheeto balls. I've never seen Cheeto balls before.
You know who has Cheeto balls.

Speaker 1 Oh, hell yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Prominent leftist over here.
Yep. Thank you.
All right. Let's,

Speaker 1 before we have him taste this, I looked at a review of White Spot for you, like two of them. White Spot on Drake Street

Speaker 1 in Vancouver. I think it's the one I ate at.
This is one downtown, right downtown off of Gramville Street. I don't think this is, no, this is not the one that we ate at.
We ate at the one on Dunsmere.

Speaker 1 Okay, so this guy gave it three stars. And this, this review is insanely weird.

Speaker 1 And that's why I needed to get it on the show because I think you guys are going to hear this and be like, this is one of the weirdest reviews I've heard. Okay.
The portions are not fair to say less.

Speaker 1 Also, they could count how many people are seated and offer more. Let's talk about the portion for coconut prawns.
The portion was served with only seven prawns and charged $15,

Speaker 1 but we were in two. Why an odd number? Why don't serve six or eight? I think pay attention to details make all the difference.
Yeah, because what are you going to split it? Like, no, he's right.

Speaker 1 Because what are you going to split a prawn? You know what I'm saying? It's like, how do you cut? You're going to cut a prawn in half.

Speaker 1 And it's like, then they have the big, thick, the fat side of the prawn and the skinny side. So it's kind of hard to know

Speaker 1 where to cut it exactly in half. And so it's like, yeah, just give us six or give us eight.
Give me six. Give me one less.
I'd be happy with one less and then we each get three.

Speaker 1 Well, because then it's even and we each get three. We could be paying attention to the table is all you say.
We just did that the other night. We went to a place and we got onion rings

Speaker 1 and there were like nine onion rings.

Speaker 1 We just cut one. Yeah, I know.
I mean, listen, this is all. It's nine onion rings for three people.
I mean, obviously

Speaker 1 this person might not go to restaurants very often or something because I think that the restaurant has a, for the most part, it's going to be predetermined how many of each of the things are on each dish.

Speaker 1 Sometimes it'll be weight-based, I think, maybe. So there might be a little discrepancy.

Speaker 1 There might be like one extra sometimes, but I think most of the time in this instance, you're always going to get seven no matter what. Here's a one-star review.

Speaker 1 The absolute worst white spot location of all time.

Speaker 1 Everything changed around 2018, which seems to line up with the current ownership slash management taking over.

Speaker 1 I love when people talk about stuff like that. Like, I couldn't tell you anything about the corporate structure of a business or even like how it relates to quality of stuff.
Right.

Speaker 1 Or even if it's like

Speaker 1 they know that the place was under new management in 2018, like this specific whites, because they're talking about one specific place, right? Yeah, I know the location. I've been here many times.

Speaker 1 I've eaten these. Is it the Chris? Is it the one that's like in a hotel? It's in a hotel.

Speaker 1 It's right on Granville Street downtown, right on Drake, like right when you come off the Granville Street bridge. Oh, that one.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was thinking of the one, you know, the other one that's like by the old post office. Yeah, that's the one Brian and I ate at on Dunsmere.

Speaker 1 That's the one on Dunsmere that is the other one downtown. So this one is like that's like Dunsmere in camp.
And that one is quite nice. The one Brian and I it has a standard white spot.

Speaker 1 It's like that's what yeah, it's a solid one. We went there.
Like Brian, it was pretty clean and nice, right? Like that actually.

Speaker 1 That's where we took Libby and Lewis as well for the first when they came to do BP Live. Yeah.
It's a nice.

Speaker 1 Nice location. Yeah.
It's a nice location. Yeah, I think I might have.
Yeah, it's a nice location down there. This one that they referring to, it is not as nice.
It's in a hotel and it's

Speaker 1 a hotel. And it's not as nice.
The service is so bad, you'll think you're being pranked. If you die,

Speaker 1 you think they're looking around for cameras because your food's taking so long? Hey, this stuff's gross, man. If you dine in, expect your server to stand at the bar and text.

Speaker 1 If you get takeout, expect missing items. I've been eating at various white spots for over 30 years.

Speaker 1 I love guys. say that's very normal, though, around here.
I gotta say,

Speaker 1 but it's normal. We live in the area, I know.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Chris and I have both. I'll say the exact same thing.
I could say the exact same thing. I know, but you wouldn't.
You know what I mean? I wouldn't. No, I wouldn't.
You're not.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't use it at a post. I wouldn't use it as like a brag or anything.
Right.

Speaker 1 There's places I've been eating at for 30 years, too. And I'm not going to be like, I'm a veteran.
Which ones have you eaten? I'm a veteran at Donato's. You know what I mean? Sure.

Speaker 1 I've been eating Donato's for

Speaker 1 years.

Speaker 1 And it's just like it wasn't. But if they gave you a bad meal, you wouldn't be like, I've been eating here for 35 years.
I would never, I would never do that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like it would, there's a place that I go to all the time. Charlie really likes this pasta dish that they have there.
I said it like you guys, by the way, because I would say pasta.

Speaker 1 But no, you know what? It's a Canadian

Speaker 1 area. I'm going to say pasta.
So pasta. Thank God.
Cause I didn't know what you were talking about.

Speaker 1 The guy I watched, the camper, the Steve Wallace guy watched, says pasta and then corrects himself and says pasta all the time. Yeah.
And then he gets mad like Chris and goes, I mean pasta.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, it's true. I sometimes correct myself and say it the American way.
I'm like, why am I doing that? They understand what I mean. But yeah,

Speaker 1 sometimes it's happened before where it's just like something is wrong with it. You know what I mean? And the reason I know that is because I eat it so regularly.

Speaker 1 But even in that instance, I would never be like.

Speaker 1 so I eat this like a lot. So I've been having this for like a year and a half.
So that's why I can tell you that there's something a little bit wrong with this, you know? Yeah. Like it's.

Speaker 1 It's also just there's so many, like when, if you were, if you, if it's like a one-off place,

Speaker 1 then I can sort of get the complaint, maybe. But like, if it's a white spot or a Boston pizza or like an Applebee's or something like that.

Speaker 1 It's like you're going to have a bad meal at some point. Exactly.
You know, like it just, it's just part of the experience. You're never

Speaker 1 spot is never going to be 100% hit rate all the time. So to say, oh, I've been coming here for 30 years and then shockingly I had a bad meal today.

Speaker 1 It's like, yeah, you've had a couple majors that work there. You've had a couple bad meals.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 We go to one. There's one that's like in another little hotel close to where Arielle does her pottery.
And it's like right on like 70th and Granville, John.

Speaker 1 You know, like, and this is just like, it's in like a century plaza, and it's just like this really. Oh, I know the exact one.

Speaker 1 It's right by the airport. There's never any enough people working there.
It takes so long. The food's always fucked up.
There's like, it's, sometimes it's like, tastes bad.

Speaker 1 There's like the lettuce is like shitty in it. Like, it just does happen sometimes, unfortunately.

Speaker 1 Is it still Hudson's?

Speaker 1 No, no. It's different now, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I forget what it is. Because it used to be called Hudson's there.

Speaker 1 Because we would go there sometimes because it's close to the Marpole Curling Club. Oh, yeah, that's the place.
Yeah, all Marple. Yeah, no, I know exactly the one you're talking about.

Speaker 1 It's in the is it the is it a coast hotel? Yeah, it's coast hotel. That's right, that's right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 It's a really nasty location, and it's like, yeah, you just, yeah, no, but then every now and then, I still, I'll go there, I'll have a nice fucking burger, you know. Yeah,

Speaker 1 that's what I'm saying about like Donato's is a place that I've been eating at since I was like six years old. It's a pizza shop here, and it is.

Speaker 1 I won't even say I think it used to be better because

Speaker 1 nostalgia stuff doesn't it it probably didn't used to be better you know what I mean it probably used to be the same as it is now I just had a different idea of it anyway this guy goes I can't stress enough how bad this specific location is I've had to tell my family that for Christmas do not get me a white spot gift card anymore as this is the only one in my area and every time I try to order food from this white spot it's a complete disaster from stanza.

Speaker 1 Stanley's pretty close to the one on Dunsmere, brother.

Speaker 1 And pretty close to the one on Dunsmere.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's a walk. It's just a walk.
It's all downtown. They're both downtown.
They're both walkable from wherever you are. Yeah.
And I'd love for some reason in the review.

Speaker 1 He's like, I asked my family not to get me white spot gift cards for Christmas anymore. By the way, not a good present.

Speaker 1 Like from the whole thing. What do you want to give me for Christmas? I don't know.
Just get me a white spot gift card again. I mean, that's a stocking stuffer or something.

Speaker 1 I guess maybe that's what he means. From staff refusing capital letters to check the remaining balance on a gift card.

Speaker 1 The content, that's so the idea that they just will not do it.

Speaker 1 Fuck you. Well, that would be the reason why they must have done something to upset them if they're unwilling to check the balance.
Well, he does quote them. Okay.

Speaker 1 He says, staff, quote, well, why didn't you write down the remaining balance?

Speaker 1 So they asked him why he didn't write it down.

Speaker 1 This is another weird sentence. To staff making angry noises as I double-check the takeout order after being handed it? Then finding there's no extra triple O sauce, which I paid for.

Speaker 1 Okay, so I see what's happening here. I'm getting a clearer picture now.
This guy is what's known as a nuisance. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And he, you know what I mean? He's just like, they're making angry noises where they're like, oh, God. Like, somebody sighed when he was just like,

Speaker 1 could we just double-check here, please? Because I have had some issues in the past with this. And I just wanted to see and make sure.
Can we look in there?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I guess so. Like, that's what I'm sort of seeing.

Speaker 1 Or, like, a situation, because White Spot is not, if you're getting takeout from a proper White Spot restaurant, that's going to be in a stapled paper bag. That's going to be like the burger.

Speaker 1 It's not like a McDonald's or whatever where you can kind of quickly glance in the bag. You go, yep, everything's in there.
You close it. You drive off.
So I'm picturing he's unstapling the bag.

Speaker 1 He's pulling the stuff out on the like small host stand. And there's people behind that are like waiting to be sacked.
Yeah, there's like, big one on

Speaker 1 and they're just, yeah, I think you're probably right, John. I think either way, he's he's known as a nuisance to that business, and they don't like him there.

Speaker 1 There's some really good, he goes, Then I have the fun of their eye rolls as they get me my triple O sauce. Oh, get this.
The last double double I got had one pickle and one cucumber.

Speaker 1 Never seen that before,

Speaker 1 even in this horrible location.

Speaker 1 Maybe you're asking, why do you keep going back here? I am.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I love that he's mad.
One pickle and one cucumber. What the shit? That's not a pickle.

Speaker 1 That thing hasn't pickled at all. That's a pre-pickle.
Well, between 2012 to 2019, I would order two burger meals every single week from this location.

Speaker 1 Then after these new issues became a trend, again, lining up with this owner-slash-management team in 2018-2019, I would only use the Christmas gift cards my family would buy me every year.

Speaker 1 As I stated before, I've had to tell everyone to stop giving me those. Okay.
Bottom line, White Spot is incredible. It's a British Columbia cultural institution.

Speaker 1 But this location, the one on Granville and Drake, stay away. Trust me.

Speaker 1 Someone who unfortunately lives in this area, who has had this location to choose from, who has this one location to choose from, and dozens of more stories.

Speaker 1 So yeah, I do know that I spent enough time

Speaker 1 in Vancouver to be on one walk and see two white spots. So I do think this guy's full of shit.

Speaker 1 He could make the walk to the other one that we mentioned, definitely. And it's, yeah, it seems like it's probably closer to him.

Speaker 1 And it's like he's late, you know, it's right downstairs kind of a thing. So he's able to easily go to it.

Speaker 1 And he gets really hungry. And he's like, well, I love white spot.

Speaker 1 And he just like, every single time it happens to him again, where he's like, well, you know, maybe they could they're gonna be using the same sauce, the same burger. I mean,

Speaker 1 at least you would have called it a gong show. I'm gonna hit unpause one more time, and we're done here.
Here we go.

Speaker 2 Um, I'll be going back to the smoke hut and definitely buying more.

Speaker 1 We know you will. We know, we know that in the future, you go to the smoke hut a lot.
Yeah, I don't want to, hey, I'm here from the future. Yeah, it's basically the main place you go now.

Speaker 1 It's on every video. I like that he's got an earring.
I didn't notice that before. That's I didn't notice that.
Holy shit! That's a good look. Oh.
Got the single earring.

Speaker 1 I'm going to get well. Is it on the right ear, though? Yeah, it's on the right one.

Speaker 1 I'm going to see if he has the other earring.

Speaker 1 Wait, Brian, did you just, Brian, did you just do the thing from the 1990s about where you're allowed to wear your

Speaker 1 and not be gay? Yep. Yep.
Oh, that's what you did.

Speaker 1 It could be mirrored. The image could be mirrored as well.
He's probably got it in a gay ear.

Speaker 1 Him and Daryl sucking fuck on each other. I mean, that could be the case.

Speaker 1 That could actually be the case. I think that could be the case.
It could be.

Speaker 1 He might be gay.

Speaker 1 Could be. It's looking like left ear at the moment, but

Speaker 1 turn your head. I don't think that's a thing anymore, though.
I will say, guys, I don't want to.

Speaker 1 But I think Brian, I just want to orchestrate

Speaker 1 you a little bit here. I don't think that people who wear earrings on their right ear are considered gay anymore.
I don't think people wear one earring anymore, is what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 Sometimes they do, I think. That's insane.

Speaker 2 So they're just the size of a regular cheese ball that you've probably seen a hundred or a thousand times before.

Speaker 1 I haven't, actually.

Speaker 2 It smells very cheesy. So maybe they're not hot at all.

Speaker 1 I don't know. But here we go.

Speaker 2 We're going to try a few of them. So, some chichos

Speaker 2 bolitas.

Speaker 2 It's like a nacho, nacho-flavored cheese ball.

Speaker 1 Oh, this is really good.

Speaker 2 Oh, buddy.

Speaker 1 Buddy, you should have just learning what moss queso eats. Yeah, he's this tastes like it's got more cheese on it

Speaker 1 than a normal Dorito. Yeah,

Speaker 1 the look in his eyes when he took that first bite and it sort of first sort of hit his taste, buds, his eyes like really like bugged out. Like he got, they got big for a second.

Speaker 1 Like he was like, holy shit, man.

Speaker 1 Here he goes.

Speaker 1 Fluffy.

Speaker 1 Gabriel Glacius. Well seasoned.

Speaker 2 Oh, I could see myself eating an entire bag of these.

Speaker 1 Oh, boy. One sitting.
Oh, yeah. Oh, my God.
Are these good? Oh, my God. Are these good? So I'm surprised that

Speaker 1 that would be like something we wouldn't already assume. The bag wasn't that big.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I could see myself eating the whole bag of these.
Yeah, well, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 The fact, the only other thing, his house is in such disrepair it's mind-boggling to me that even to this day the kitchen has this situation the uh doors off the thing he's got a portable air conditioner behind don't hassle him bro hey don't hassle him man hey but just let him just you know

Speaker 1 he's gumming her and giving her guminer and giving her

Speaker 1 John, I keep telling Chris, you said an April day in June, but I can't remember what it means. So I just say it sometimes.

Speaker 1 I said that? You said something like, Oh, it's like an April day in June. I said that? Yep.

Speaker 1 Okay. So, yeah, I tried to tell Brian that's not really like a Canadian saying, it is a Canadian saying,

Speaker 1 no, and I don't remember saying it. So,

Speaker 1 all right. Well, John,

Speaker 1 thank you for doing this. We love you.
Hey, thank you so much for having me, guys.

Speaker 1 Plug your stuff. It's a pleasure to be back.
Yeah. Well, I do have a book out now if you live in Canada.
It's called Curling Rocks. It's about curling, but it's an essay collection.
It's funny.

Speaker 1 It's accessible for non-curlers. I've already had quite a few non-curlers message me and say that they really liked it.

Speaker 1 It's out in Canada now. You can pre-order it in the States.
It comes out just before the Olympics in the States.

Speaker 1 It's just for us, you know. Okay.
You get it up here. You can buy it up here.
And don't, if you're American. And if you're American, fuck you.
Fuck you.

Speaker 1 John just like messages me after. Like, I'm not really sure I want to take that angle for marketing.
I would kind of want people to buy it in America

Speaker 1 if they wanted to.

Speaker 1 But also, fuck you, man. I specifically told my publisher, charge those American pigs more.
Yeah, charge them more money, charge them Canadian.

Speaker 1 It's going to cost the same.

Speaker 1 Well, you're charging 1867 for it, right?

Speaker 1 That's exactly right. John will be back.

Speaker 1 John's going to be back in February to talk about it. Yeah, we'll talk curling before the Olympics.
That'll be a blast. But yeah, you can check that out.

Speaker 1 And then, of course, Brian and I have a podcast together, the POD cast. Wow, where we review my POD, actually.
Yeah, classic New Metal album every month. It's a ton of fun.

Speaker 1 And I have a Jeopardy podcast as well. It's called What is a Jeopardy podcast? It's a comedy recap podcast of Jeopardy with myself and Emily Heller.

Speaker 1 It's a ton of fun. And you don't have Ken Jennings?

Speaker 1 You usually get Ken Jennings as a ghost. We're working on it.
We're trying to talk to Ken.

Speaker 1 Ken Jennings. Wow, that's Emily and Heller, very funny.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Jeopardy. That's excellent.
Jeopardy.

Speaker 1 Ken Jennings.

Speaker 1 Is he canceled?

Speaker 1 No, he's not canceled. Okay.
Thank God. Thanks.
Thanks, everyone.

Speaker 1 Bye, everybody.

Speaker 1 Bye.