Episode 905 - Erica Sigurdson

Hi, he's Dave Shumka.

And he's Graham Clark.

And together we host Stop Podcasting Yourself.

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Hello, everybody, and welcome to episode number 905 of Stop Podcasting Yourself.

My name's Graham Clark, and with me, as always, is a man who the the rain in the summer can't keep this guy down mr dave shumka no it's nice it is kind of nice but it's a little bit too botanical for me yeah well when it started yesterday it was like a real uh aroma fest it was a real aroma fest but just soon just too botanical because of allergies no just because it's good that kind of like being in a you know, biosphere.

Oh, you mean like tropical?

Yeah, tropical.

Too tropical.

Botanical, I think, of sort of like,

was there like an herbal essences botanical shampoo?

Yeah.

Or some kind of botanical shampoo.

It gave your head orgasms.

Yeah.

I kind of get that with ASMR.

Yeah.

It kind of gives someone a head orgasm.

Like if someone scratches the microphone or if they're like, if you just,

yeah.

Or if like freaking

you watch something that's like mysteriously satisfying or whatever.

Or whatever.

Hardly satisfying.

Yeah.

Anyway, that's the show.

And we love y'all here.

Erica Erica Sigertson is our guest this week.

I was like, Erica, pay attention.

Our guest this week is one of our all-time faves, one of the funniest people in all the land.

It's Erica Sigertson.

Hello, Erica.

Hello.

Thank you for joining us.

Thank you for having me on this rainy day.

Should we get to know us?

Yeah.

Get to know us.

Now, right out of the gates,

you're a comedian.

You're somebody that's very,

you buy a lot of stuff online.

Now it turns out you're selling stuff online.

Oh, buckle up.

Here it comes.

Buckle up.

Now I thought we were going to get it to this more naturally.

Oh, really?

Oh, okay.

Let's slow down.

No, no, no.

We can buckle up now.

But she was like, well, I got nothing to plug except my Etsy shop online.

And I was like, okay, let's see if we come around to that.

We're diving right in.

We are here.

Yeah, I have recent, not recently, about a year and a half ago, I took a sewing class at VCC.

Oh, shit.

and i have become obsessed really with uh sewing and like i go to sleep at night and i'm like when can i get back to sewing really yeah so i have just been there's zippered pouches every time i i'm i didn't bring them for you guys zippered pouches like like a kind of pencil case style makeup all style don't limit me to one type of zippered pouch today oh sure um we're talking little change purses we're talking pencil cases we're talking shaving kits.

We're talking cord keepers.

Okay.

Yeah.

Are these

made to order or these are just, this is what struck me and now I'm selling them.

Well, I only recently got good enough that I was like, I could sell these.

When you did this sewing class,

how many things did you make?

Two.

And they were both zippered pouches?

No, they were not zippered pouches at all.

Okay, can I guess?

Have you ever sewed before?

Well, grade eight sewing, you know, that.

And we're talking sewing machine.

Or are we talking?

No, no, no, sewing machine.

Sewing machine.

So we're talking sew a needle-pulling thread.

Yeah.

Yeah.

A few of my favorite things.

No, that's a different song, isn't it?

Yeah, it's not far off.

Okay.

All right.

It's,

was one of the things you made a pair of pajama pants?

No.

Okay, because that's like the big thing you make in Home Ec.

I had to make a pillow and it didn't get finished and I got it incomplete.

Oh, no.

Guys, I made it and then.

Did you lose sleep over it?

Get it?

Erica's interesting.

Everybody's watching one of the

Thank you.

Good night.

I'll see myself out.

Where'd Erica go?

Well,

when you made this poet, did you use corduroy?

Yeah.

And unfortunately, it really got into the papers.

It's a bit fun.

No, it was a very stupid looking.

It was shaped like a penguin.

They gave us like three different,

what would you call them?

Designs?

Templates?

Templates?

Patterns?

Patterns.

Yeah, patterns.

There you go.

I keep calling them recipes.

This morning I said to Jay, I was like, well, the recipe said, and he looks at me, I'm like, sorry, the pattern said.

Now, is I feel like, and I could be way off on this, but sewing feels somewhat mathematical to me.

It feels like everything has to, kind of like carpentry, everything has to match up exactly right through.

Wow, those, that's, those are the oddly satisfying videos I watch.

People are doing

carpentering.

Yes.

Yeah, there's like the precision and having to slow down because I am very much like, I'll I'll do it once and then I'm like I'm pretty sure I've got a better way to do this right and I didn't at all I had a terrible way to do it

so

yeah it's made me there's a lot of life lessons here okay okay there's also a book coming I guess yeah take us through yeah oh it's my journey through the

needle yeah

through the eye of the needle it sells all this money at like recovery center

oh we thought it was a different type of needle anyways.

I came out on the other side.

Changed.

Changed purse.

All right, now we're cooking.

Yeah, let's get going.

Yeah, so anyways, yes, you do have to slow down and pay attention.

And it is very difficult.

to have this hobby in a two-bedroom apartment.

There is

scraps of material and thread sticking to almost everything.

Now, you and Jay have lived together in always in a two-bedroom or...

No, we moved to a two-bedroom during COVID because I was doing Zoom shows.

Right.

And

he was trying to sleep.

Yeah.

And

he's a hobbyist as well.

He's got all sorts of hobbies.

Is that second room just hobby room dedicated to like sort of a hobby lobby?

Hobby lobby.

No, because he has a shop.

Like he

fabricates for the film business.

So whatever he needs to do, he can do there.

And actually, there is a sewing room.

So I'm surprised he hasn't brought it up.

So our spare room is part weapons.

That's what I was wondering.

How many weapons are there?

We have

two safes.

One of them is tall.

I'm not going to say what's in there.

One.

More weapons.

We've got sewing machine, weapons, and a guest bed.

So

sleep tight.

And in case there's a break-in, here's a combination for the safe, but only the big one.

Sleep tight.

Because

Abby and I share a house.

She's my wife and her own person.

And she is a sewist.

Yes.

We don't say sewer because if you write it down, it's sewer.

Yeah, that's true.

And

our dinner table is.

never been used for dinner because she sews on it every day.

And I get a podcasting room.

Where do you keep your weapons uh i mean

it was flexes flex's bicep

so do you just have to discourage your kids to take up zero hobbies like you're like mommy and daddy have kind of cornered the market no i think hobbies are really good like i think i've heard about

uh

this new generation or at least like

gen z z

maybe the millennials um not having hobbies of just like they they meet each other and like what are you into into?

Well, I watch, I'm into the first four seasons of The Office.

And

I'm really into

the apps on my phone.

Yeah.

So I think hobbies are very good.

Yeah.

And like, did you,

did you take the sewing right away?

Or would you, because I've always been fascinated by it.

I've always thought it would be a cool thing to know how to do, but it seems insurmountable.

Yeah.

I was decent in the class.

Like, and it was a lot of students for one teacher.

And some people fell behind.

And once you fell behind, goodbye.

You get it incomplete.

Yeah, yeah.

I don't even know why you keep showing up.

You're still on your tote bag.

I'm on my skirt.

Those are the two things I made.

And

it was, yeah, but it took some time to like slow down, watch YouTube videos.

My mom is also, like, she quilts.

She made my graduate, like, she's an expert.

Oh, wow.

But she lives a couple hours away, so I'll send her messages for help.

And do you, what's she working on right now?

She makes

quilts, a lot of quilts.

So when I went over there, and so she does like quilts of valor, so they send them to veterans

and she'll make them for gifts.

And because my newest stepfather, newest, that's not right, makes my mom sound like she's Elizabeth Taylor.

My stepfather, Larry Portensky.

Just both my stepfather's names were Doug, and Doug one passed away, and we're on to to Doug two.

So

just put a bit of a nail polish on their back to tell who is who.

Yeah, yeah.

What's that from turtles?

Give them different

bandanas around.

That's also for turtles.

So he's an accountant, so he was telling her, he's like, just sell one of these and you can start writing everything off.

Because and like

quilts really, they're like a handmade quilt's really expensive, yes.

And, like, I have realized now, just buying fabric and all the thing, like, there's a reason why when you go to like, you know, one of those outdoor markets and there's handmade clothing and you're like, what the hell?

Pants for $150, everything's very expensive, and it takes a long time.

So, I'll be selling some Zippard pouches.

They're $400 a piece,

but they are collector's items.

Would you ever go be a part of one of those markets?

100%.

When we move to Quadra, like, Jay's been really getting into making bone broth and i've been making zibbard pouches i'm like we are ready to move yeah and we will be at the saturday market with our little booth

what do you he'll be selling his weapons

yeah

um abby makes uh

she's made like a million pairs of

the same pair of pants basically sure

um and but the latest thing she's been making is uh sandbags to hold open

as doorstops.

Oh, that's a very cool idea.

You know, I've stubbed my toe on a million doorstops, and she's like, what about these little soft guys?

Does she sell those?

No, she hasn't sold a thing.

She just does it.

She does it as a hobby.

Yeah.

Wow.

She pitches them out the window at people.

And I'm like,

I'm an accountant.

Just sell one and you can write it off.

Yeah.

But do you feel like every time that you have a hobby that there's a pressure to like monetize?

I feel like that's like the thing is if you're good at something.

it's just because I keep making this stuff and I got to get rid of it.

So

I could just randomly be giving.

I did have this idea to make pouches.

And if anybody in Vancouver wants to get on board with this, I thought about making pouches and

you could give them to unhoused people, especially women, and like put like feminine protection stuff.

Sure, yeah, that's a good idea.

So I might, you know, make

and I you could also give them to housed men and put a little note that says, you're next.

Don't get too comfortable.

Is it was when I was talking to you last, you were talking about Jay as now he's into bow hunting.

Is that correct?

No, bone broth.

Bone broth.

Bow hunting.

Bo Jackson.

Bo Jackson.

Bo Midley.

Bo Derrick, which I am not a big fan of.

I mean, she's like nine and a half.

Yeah, at least.

So,

yeah, I I got him for Christmas a like butchering class.

So, there's a place in Vancouver, and you can learn how to butcher a pig.

Okay.

Is it B-Y-O-P?

It's big, bring your own pig.

We've got a class pig if somebody didn't remember to bring their own pig.

Everybody, give a little bit of your pig.

Some of the students are falling behind, and these pigs are like half-dead.

They're piling up.

Oh,

um,

yeah.

So, anyways, and they do like a weekend retreat that you can go and learn bow hunting, which he did growing up and stuff, but I think it's like a man's weekend away.

Oh, sure.

Graham, would you ever bow hunt?

I mean, if the, you know, if the world all, uh, all society fell apart, sure.

Yeah,

if you were part of the most dangerous game.

Yeah, after if it was them or you.

Yeah, if you think if it was, uh,

I mean, would I be bad at it?

Oh, hell yeah.

Would I accidentally like somehow get the arrow in my eye, like pulling back,

you know, catching it on my own ear, that type of thing?

Oh, yeah.

It looks hard.

I'd be like, you guys catch it and I'll butcher it.

I didn't take that class either.

I'll sew something for you.

I'll sew it up.

Does it need a pillow?

I

am taking, or I, my kids both took, like, there's parent and child pottery classes.

And we, we did those, and I think I will now take an adult-only

after dark pottery class.

Through a beaded curtain.

Oh, yeah, that look, I

like pottery is another thing I could see.

And those people, they monetize right away.

I don't know if you've ever been to a Gulf Island, but, and even in Newfoundland, we're in this 300-person like little village.

And quilts,

need mugs, quilts.

They They are everywhere.

The thing about pottery is like an ugly mug is still pretty kind of cool.

It is pretty cool.

My favorite mug is one that's like a handmade one.

It's got a Sasquatch on it.

And it's,

I love it more than if it was just a conventional ceramic.

Yeah.

Will you were way out east in a town of 300 people?

What were you doing?

Woody Point, Newfoundland.

So it was the 10-year anniversary of their little two-day comedy festival.

And I did the first one with Steve Patterson.

The first one was Steve Patterson, Derek's Again, myself, Nikki Payne, and Trent McClellan.

Okay.

So this is a lineup.

Good luck.

But that was a whole festival of just five comedians.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was two nights.

Yeah.

Well, let's bring it down a notch.

You got to call it something.

Yeah.

Comedy night.

Yeah, comedy night.

Comedy two nights.

And then this year was Derek's again, myself, Steve Patterson, and

Deanne Smith, and also Derek Edwards.

Oh, Derek Edwards.

Yeah.

And Steve's daughter did two minutes of stand-up at the start of the show, and she's really good.

How old is she?

She's 10.

Yeah.

She showed me her notebook.

She's like, can you read over?

And I was like, this is better than

90% of this.

She's racist.

I don't understand where you would get this from.

I did have to talk to her about that.

I was like, listen, you can't get canceled right out of the gate.

Although, you know, it's a small town show.

They probably will like it.

Yeah, don't do this stuff in the city.

This doesn't go on TikTok.

Yeah.

Just have everybody put their cameras away.

Was it fun?

Is it a good.

Yes, it was very fun.

I don't know if you can see.

I was eaten alive by some bugs.

We got taken on a boat tour

on the zodiac.

First mistake.

First mistake.

Well, I got out of the boat, and I heard you're not supposed to do that.

Don't like it.

I had a bunch of cod bites on.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was wearing this perfume I bought,

just the essence of Atlantic cod.

But there was this beautiful field full of flowers.

And so Scarlett, Steve's daughter, and I went up to pick flowers and got eaten alive by bugs.

The one thing I get for some reason in my algorithm is things to avoid bug bites.

Oh, yeah.

What do you got?

One is like you drill a hole in a bar of soap and you make a necklace of it.

That's a good craft.

No need to.

Isn't that called soap on

exist.

And the other one is this like

fake dragonfly hat that you wear.

Is it worth it?

It also will keep everything else away, people.

Why was soap on a rope such a big thing in the 80s?

And never since.

What was it?

It was just soap on a rope?

Soap on a rope?

So you didn't drop the soap in the shower.

Oh, is that really what it was?

Yeah.

I think so.

Tie it around your wrist?

No, it kind of hung on the shower thing, and then you would take it off, I guess.

Yeah.

Wash yourself.

You got to affix it to something to help yourself.

If dropping it.

Oh, you mean like wrap it around the wrist or something?

Yeah,

safety first.

You do a double loop and then.

Are you good with knots?

Oh, yeah, that's a good question.

No, but Jay is.

He knows how to tie every knot.

Do you know what his favorite knot is?

I would know it by watching him do it.

I don't know what it's called.

Okay.

I just call it the...

Oh, you're doing that one again.

Yeah.

Hangman's noose is what I think.

I've made that up.

Graham, would you take a course?

I would take a course.

I'm very

GCR repair correspondence course?

I would.

Yeah, I want to do it from home.

No, I would take a course in

sewing.

But I just know I'd be bad at it.

I have no

sort of bad at all.

It's the attitude that's kept me away from it all these years.

Yeah.

then your classmate goes on a podcast and says, These people are weeks behind.

I don't know why they keep showing up.

Bunch of bums.

I'd also

take a class in magic.

I would take a class in learning magic.

Oh, sure.

Do you have?

I think you have to start with the oath.

You have to say, I will

never reveal my secrets.

And then they're like, bring forth who you're going to saw in half.

And I'm like,

I didn't.

I forgot.

Can I use the classmate?

Can I use the pig from the butchering club?

um but I watch videos of like how they do uh like a sleight of hand kind of stuff right and uh a lot of it is like what you think it might be is the trick is like the most obvious solution is what it is and uh but I mean I love it there's this this couple they're like um

somewhere in the color yeah

it's this uh a couple I think they're from Spain and they they show how the trick works uh how it's supposed to to look and then they show the reverse and show you like where everything goes a lot of fake thumbs involved yeah yeah which I think is pretty cool fake thumbs see the problem with magic versus sewing if I was going to steer you into one direction sure sure sure if you show up at any event as I just did in Woody Point zippered pouches for all is what I was just giving them out people were thrilled of course I gave one to Steve Patterson's sister-in-law Steve's just bringing the whole brood.

The whole family was there.

Everybody's just thrilled.

Oh my gosh, I didn't have anywhere to put my chapstick.

Now I have a chip.

Chapstick's all over the floor.

But if you're slipping on the floor.

Like marbles.

But if you show up and say, does anyone want to see a magic trick?

Hands down.

Yeah.

That's a pretty.

It's basically on par with having a dragonfly hat.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

People are like, I got to go tend to my zipper pouch.

I can't be here for this magic trick.

Would you ever sell zipper pouch as merch after show?

It might come to that, yeah.

Yeah, I was like, because I have that joke about the upside-down pineapple.

Um, go on, yes, is it a swinger thing?

Yeah, I didn't know that it was a thing, a swingers thing.

And the whole handing them out after showing the crux of the joke is that you should, everyone should know this because I've just been indiscriminately carrying pineapples around,

uh, I guess, being kind of a tease to my neighbors.

So yeah, I thought

they love it.

A certain section of the audience really loves it.

And then they find each other at intermission.

So I thought a fun sticker would be like a pineapple with my name either way.

So you could put it upside down the right side up.

And then, of course, I'm at Dresso and I see some pineapple fabric and my brain just starts going.

I'm like, I invest $50 in this fabric and I sell these, then I could be down $50.

What's the state of Dresso these days?

For people not from Vancouver, Dresso is a big fabric warehouse, but they announced they were going out of business.

Yeah, and they still are.

I think the company owns the building.

Yeah, and the building is for sale.

The building is for sale.

So they have signs up that says, is Dresso closing?

Question mark.

And then it says, right now it's business as usual.

When the building sells, we will update everyone on what's happening.

Sure.

And will we reopen?

Yes.

We hope to.

It looks good.

It's a big,

it's in the downtown east side, and like their windows were getting broken all the time.

So they're covered in wood now.

And they, I think they won't do Halloween stuff anymore.

Is that part of it?

Maybe.

There's still some random stuff.

Like I was in there last week because I was going to see my mom and she needed some stuff.

And they had, now this is, I've gotten gotten out of control because they had boxes of a hundred zippers for five dollars.

And I also love a sale.

And I was like, a hundred zippers, they usually go for a dollar each.

So we're talking.

Yeah, big saving.

A big saving.

So I just bought two boxes of giant zippers.

I'm now committed to pink or blue zivered pouches for a while.

You can do like gender reveals.

Oh, that's pretty good.

a thing I absolutely hate the principle of, but cannot stop watching them on TikTok.

Which one is like, what style do you think is the best?

Like a smoke or a

cake exploding?

I don't love any of the exploding ones, but I'm obsessed with watching them put like a champagne flute into cake, and I'm waiting for the time that the glass breaks and someone cuts their hand open because that, like, I have a huge scar on my hand

from a, oh my my gosh matching scars yeah right on the thumb um

and i'm nervous every single time and then i just want cake after watching it mine is from washing a glass that's what i was doing i was putting my hand in and smashed it yeah um it's uh oh we're scar buddies yeah

um my favorite are the ones the gender reveals where it's a balloon and then the balloon gets away before they can do it.

And then I'm like, they probably shouldn't have a baby.

They couldn't take care of a balloon.

I mean, babies don't float, though.

That's true.

Whoa, that's a tough lesson to learn.

I hesitated.

I wasn't going to say it.

There was one that I watched, and it was in Florida, and they had, there was a Gator, and they were trying to put a watermelon in the alligator's mouth.

It was a real gator.

A real gator.

And the guy was standing behind the watermelon or behind the.

Was the watermelon a gender reveal watermelon?

Well, because they're pink inside, like

naturally.

So I was confused as to, I was like, did they fill the watermelon with something else?

But the guy kept prying the alligator's mouth open and trying to get the watermelon in.

And then I just, I thought, 100%, these people should not have a human baby in their care.

Like, they are through.

I don't know.

They can take care of

an alligator.

Or it's like one of those things in a high school where you've got to carry around a watermelon and don't, don't drop it or anything in a way.

If you put it in an alligator's mouth, fail.

But if you can, like, once you can pry open an alligator's jaws, a diaper is no problem.

That's true.

I just feel like this is a family that would come up with a lot of bad ideas.

Like a balloon boy situation.

Oh, balloon boy.

Do you remember that?

We watched that together at City News.

We did.

As it unveiled, unfurled?

Unfolded.

Unfolded?

I think it unveiled.

It unveiled.

It was,

for anybody who doesn't remember back that far, it was a kid that it was a guy that had like a giant weather balloon.

Yeah.

And that his kid, they thought had snuck into the balloon and it took off.

And then they were waiting for it to, like, one of their jets displayed.

Oh, yeah.

It was the, and the kid.

The kid wasn't in there.

The kid wasn't in it, but then they didn't realize it till much later.

Like, yeah.

How did they...

So it landed.

they got the kid back

without anyone seeing the kid was hiding in the house and they i think it came out that the dad

the whole thing was a publicity ploy because the dad had all these crazy inventions yeah that he was doing and they

they were like this does this story is not adding up yeah i just don't know the detail like i and then they like interviewed them on tv and they asked the kid a question he was like i was here the whole time

my parents are stupid.

But I don't know how

we got from the kid is in the balloon to the kid is safe without anyone seeing the kid in the balloon.

Yeah, well, nobody knew.

Yeah, nobody, they thought maybe he was in the balloon, but there was no way to communicate with it.

So it was Airborne and they couldn't get it back.

Yeah.

And it was like a whole day.

It was like the O.J.

Simpson chase.

Except,

yeah, it was, I guess.

That was when one story could.

Yeah.

Speaking of O.J.

Simpson.

I am very excited for the new naked gut movie.

You think he'll make an appearance?

I mean, he's in the trailer, there's a throw, but just like, I was just telling my kids, like,

I want to take you to this because if it's funny, it will be the greatest experience.

If you're in a movie theater and everyone is laughing so hard that you can't catch your breath, oh, it's been so long since that's happened.

Have you seen Friendship?

Did you go see it?

I did, yeah.

I could not stop laughing.

I felt like I was on drugs.

Like, I was laughing because I generally don't like that kind of ridiculous.

It was so ridiculous.

Jay was like, are you okay?

And I was bent over like, yeah.

It's weird for me to hear you say that you don't like ridiculous because I feel like you do love ridiculous a lot.

Yeah, that's true.

Like when you were younger, what was the funniest movie that you got to see in the theater?

Okay, the memory the first time I lost it was the gods must be crazy.

Oh my god, and they are driving a like a land cruiser that has no doors and it's got no windshield in it, but it has the like the frame of the windshield.

And the guy fills up the gas and he comes out

and he comes out to wash the windshield, which of course is in there.

So he just sprays cleaner into the lady's face.

And like I fell on the floor loving so hard.

I don't like ridiculous things, she said.

Okay,

I take that back.

I do like ridiculous things.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

I remember seeing Liar Liar in the theater and everybody was losing.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Everybody's losing their, because everybody was so excited.

Like, oh, it's going to be so much fun.

And then the first, like, whatever the first gag in the movie was, everybody's like,

and it just got funnier and funnier.

It got crazier and crazier.

I think all the like Naked Gun and Hot Shots movies, I saw all of them, and like, what else?

Like, I feel like the first Austin Powers people were going crazy.

Austin Powers was really funny.

Something about Mary was that was pretty great.

I saw that three times in the theater.

Now, have your have the kids seen Naked Gun?

No, is it a pro?

I can't remember.

I watched it.

You know what?

I kind of shown them bits of it because I'm like, that first scene with O.J.

Simpson, not to lionize him too much, much, but where he gets shot by everyone on the boat.

Yeah.

And then he gets like his,

he puts his hand on a hot kettle.

He gets his foot stuck in a bear trap.

He falls on wet, or he leans on

wet paint.

He's like, oh.

And he goes, oh, no.

And then the visual gag, because he jumped or he falls overboard.

And then you see the next day, they've got the chalk outlines floating in the water.

But there's a gag, and I showed it to

somebody that had never heard, like a younger person, never heard of Naked Gun.

I showed them the scene where he's paying off the stool pigeon and they're paying each other back and forth.

She thought it was the funniest goddamn thing she'd ever seen.

Yeah, I also showed the scene where he keeps his microphone on while he goes to the bathroom.

Yeah.

So good.

And wasn't there a scene where there was the girl in the back of the plane that was sick?

She was like...

Oh, this is airplane.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, right.

Okay.

Yeah.

I'm getting them all complimented.

But go on.

The gang.

And they're come to play guitar, and he's like rocking out and knocks her IV out and she's like dying.

I also thought that was very funny as a kid.

Oh, yeah.

And then they're like a gun with the like automatic hospital bed that

folds them in half.

Oh, man.

So classic.

So the best.

Some of the best films ever made.

I really hope it's good.

I'm taking the family whether they want to or not.

I know.

Like there's certain movies when Mali comes to stay with me.

Like I'm like, we're watching this movie.

And she's like, she wants to watch something current.

And I'm like, absolutely not.

Sit down.

Oh, what if you like.

Like, Ferris Bueller, Mad's the Future, the Truman show, she wasn't that into.

Okay.

Not that I thought it was funny.

I just thought it had a real good message.

But she did like,

you know, like she, she's liked most of the ones.

Drop Dead Gorgeous, which.

Yeah, we were thinking about that one.

Okay, so I have it on DVD.

You can't find it.

Stream it anywhere.

Oh, right.

So I ordered the DVD.

Wow.

You'll have to order me a DVD player, too.

Maybe I should try to

put it on a USB.

Oh, sure.

Yeah.

Don't report.

Do you remember the fear of being a kid and watching that FBI warning come up when you watched like Stockholm 1977?

Yes.

And like kids now, like it was, even though we were renting, like there would be a moment where I'd be like,

like if you had more than one friend over, you're like, is this a public viewing?

Do I have express written consent of the Major League Baseball?

Which one of the classics did she really take to?

What's her favorite?

She did really like

Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

How old is she?

She's 12 now.

Okay.

Almost 13.

Ferris Bueller's Day.

That's important that I say that.

My kids love teen girl movies.

Oh, Mean Girls.

Mean Girls, both the musical and the regular.

Now, did I tell you?

I feel like I told you this last time.

Oh, Louis is so good.

When Mallow went to see the new Mean Girls, because she saw the classic one with Lindsay Lohan, and so I texted her.

I was like, hey, how was Mean Girls?

And she's like, not as good as the original.

They weren't that pretty.

The clothes weren't good.

And I was like, oh, you have learned nothing.

It looks so,

Yeah, it's uh oh, that must just be that's kind of an exciting thing.

Like introducing, okay, here's a cool thing that isn't Star Wars or something, you know, like this is a fun

because like even when I was a kid and watched Ferris Bueler, it was old when I was a kid because it was it

was it like the mid-80s, I think.

Yeah, so like I saw it probably when I was like 11.

I was like, this guy rules.

I want to base my whole life on this guy's blueprint.

This guy's amazing.

I wonder the friend, good boyfriend, good brother.

Everybody in the school loves him.

Good brother, I said.

Totally where my mind went.

Breakfast Club, I think maybe because Mala and her best friend will come stay with me for a few days to do fun Vancouver things.

Yeah.

And so last year we watched both of the quiet places.

Oh, cool.

We thought the third would be out, but it hasn't come out yet.

And

so I think maybe the Breakfast Club.

Yeah.

And The Shining.

She wasn't allowed to watch The Shining, but she really wants to watch it.

What about Jurassic Park?

My House, My Rules.

I think she's seen it.

I'm not sure.

My kids watched one of the Chris Pine ones this weekend, and they were like

Chris Pratt ones this weekend.

And they were watching it with like...

The way I watch a bad movie, like they were like, oh, that wouldn't happen.

Oh, yeah, like

you'd be able to run in the high heel.

Like, we were doing all this.

Like, like, oh, cool.

Yeah.

Did they see the original, though?

Yes.

Because the original is great.

Yes.

And it's still good after all these years because they used practical effects.

Okay.

Okay, Mr.

Wizard.

But have you seen a movie from that time period that uses computers?

Well, it also uses computer effects.

But not like the scorpion game.

Right.

Where it's just like, wow, this did not age well at all.

I don't even have a hard time believing in the time that it was in the theater that people like this is awesome they must have at the time still thought this is bad but jurassic park so in ferris bueller i was we watched it a little while ago and i always thought that jennifer gray his sister is his older sister but she must be younger but she has a car I mean, he makes a big deal about he has a computer and she has a car.

Right.

But I...

He's graduating.

He's graduating.

But it doesn't like for in my mind, she was always the older sister.

She looks older.

She acts like an older sister.

Like, he's a brat.

Are they possibly fraternal twins that they just decided to never bring up?

Yeah, maybe.

But why would you get one of your twins a car and the other one not?

It's just too bad that one actor ended up being an awful, awful man.

He's really the footnote of all these great 80s movies.

Yeah.

Which one?

Jeffrey Jones.

Who does he play?

He's the principal.

Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like O.J.

Simpson in Naked Gun.

Cool.

I'm glad you brought that up.

And that lady that plays the secretary.

Edie McClurg.

Thank you.

She's also in office.

No.

No, there's

a

different red-headed secretary woman.

Right.

But she does, she's looked the same in every movie.

She was on a TV show, maybe called The Hogan Family, where she was Mrs.

Poole was her name,

a funny neighbor, I think, on the Hogan family.

I just remember an episode where she's like hosting or teaching kids how to make a cake.

And at one point, she goes, isn't that yummy?

She holds it up and the cake slides off.

And I thought it was so funny.

We love gags.

We love gags.

Especially anything involving a cake, like somebody knocking over a cake.

Yes.

We've talked about your, you're.

You're selling things.

Yes, Mike's.

Is this Etsy store open yet?

No, absolutely.

Okay, this is an idea.

I have to learn how to make my own tags.

Oh, but what do you think of my brand name?

In Stitches.

That's good.

Because I'm a comedian.

Yeah.

And I leave you in Stitches.

And you're going to have a whole page that tells your story.

This is our story of the brand.

This is how we started.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We

started with one person.

Started with it.

It continues with one person, but we don't know.

Yeah.

It could be many people.

You don't know.

But you're a lifelong consumer of internet things.

Yes.

You're a big

Instagram ad.

Should I tell you what I bought recently?

Yes, please.

I should have brought it because I haven't opened it and tested it yet.

But have you seen the thing where it's like dragonfly app?

No.

Instead of brushing your teeth, you stick the whole thing in your mouth and it just brushes your teeth for you.

What is it?

is it shaped like um like a mouth card yes and it lights up and it's supposed to whiten your teeth i'm a little scared it's whitening or brushing both

because both at once i was literally thinking this last night when i was brushing my teeth like i wish i could just brush my teeth and walk around and kind of do chores oh my god i have my teeth i have the worst like

uh i'm so lazy i'm like well my toothbrush goes for two minutes.

I'll lie down.

And then

I want to be in bed forever and And I'm like lying there with mouth full of toothpaste for 10 minutes looking at my phone.

Is this

the mouth?

Like, I would buy one of these.

Have you received it?

Okay, I did.

And because here's the thing: I

know myself, so I get to the checkout window part of like I enter my PayPal address,

but then I was like, What are you doing?

Let's let's stop.

Ballpark me a number of what this costs: uh, $56.

Okay.

And I'm not sure if that's American or Canadian.

Sure.

Elbows up.

I never,

I never, it says it's from Scandinavia.

It tells us that.

Oh, you might have shiny teeth like the Travago guy.

Exactly.

I asked Paul Meyerhog because he was in Norway at the time.

I was like, hey, can you ask your doctor friend?

Because the thing was like, if you're using a toothbrush, your teeth are going to fall out, idiot.

You need this thing.

And

so he asked his doctor friend who said, No, I think that's bullshit.

Because they basically said that everybody in Scandinavia uses this thing.

They don't.

Okay.

So I'm going to start it.

Are you nervous to try it?

You haven't tried it.

I haven't tried it.

It's still in, because I didn't realize I had actually bought it.

And then it just showed up.

And I was like, what the hell?

And I guess

some websites have a thing where if you don't check out, they're just like, we'll finish the job for you, ma'am.

No way.

Yeah.

Or were you.

How many glasses of wine did you you have?

No, I quit drinking.

I haven't drank in a year and a half.

Oh my god.

Yeah.

Zero.

I feel great.

Good.

I've got new hobbies.

Yeah.

My teeth are wider.

Yeah, I guess my hobby is drinking.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I guess I take a drinking glass.

I mean, they do like wine tasting glasses.

Mixology.

It could make a

mixology.

I could sew you one of those cool aprons that the hipster

mixologist.

Yeah.

Honestly, an apron is just a tote bag with an untoted buddy.

It's kind of like the chaps of the

torso.

Oh yeah, because it's assless.

Yeah.

What if I made an apron that had a butt in it?

Like you stepped into it like it was a pair of shorts.

Butt on the back?

Yeah.

Wait a second.

This could be my million dollars.

This is my toothbrushing thing.

I have to find a pattern.

How are you going to make this pattern?

I guess I just don't get how you're supposed to whiten and like is whitening is whitening, do you use a different like paste that you put in for whitening?

I haven't even opened the box.

It's sitting at home.

But you said it also has like a UV light?

Something lights up.

Does it vibrate?

I hope so.

Yeah, if it doesn't work for one thing, it might work for the other one.

What is the point?

Oh my God.

I was telling Steve Patterson about this, and then he goes, he's like, do you have an electric toothbrush?

And I was like, yeah.

And then he's like, with the rotating heads?

And I was like, no, no, no, it just vibrates.

He's like, yeah, I bought an electric toothbrush.

And he wasn't, he must, obviously, wasn't really thinking clearly because he's like, he's like, yeah, I finally invested one.

He's like, but I got it used.

And

I was like, what?

And of course, and then I was, I looked at him, and then he's like, no, sorry.

I meant I got it on sale.

I mean, you could get an electric toothbrush used to change the head on it.

I was on,

so I'd never used Facebook Marketplace,

but I recently

did.

And

so I was like, oh, this is interesting.

There's so much stuff on there.

And you can get some stuff for super cheap.

We need some accent chairs in our living room because the ones we had, we got used and they are just like...

smashed to pieces.

So like the butts, our butts are going through them.

So now they've moved to the bedroom.

They're no longer in the living room.

And then you made your butts, but you need the chairs.

Yeah, go on.

And then I was like, oh, maybe I'll join one of these like

free groups, buy nothing groups.

Oh, yeah.

And I was, I joined it for one day and I was like,

people are posting constantly.

Oh, yeah.

And it's like, one zucchini.

Yeah, people.

Oh, you mean by nothing?

Like, people in the buy nothing group in the West End, it's like

a thing of ice cream with some scooped out and it's like, I didn't like this flavor, come pick up.

And I'm like, you have a lot of trust in your fellow human beings.

Yeah.

Because like, I get it, it's wasteful to throw it out, but I don't know if I'm going to go pick up some Rando's

Open ice cream.

And it's,

I mean, I did, but

what flavor are we talking about?

Peanut butter chocolate.

Well, that sounds good.

And like, you know, that's not a true story because there's no way somebody's giving giving away peanut butter chocolate ice cream.

It's the best.

It rolls.

Which one?

The Hagen does.

Is that your favorite?

I do like it because they have big chunks of peanut butter and you feel like it's like,

you can get,

yeah, you can get a really big vein and it just like, well, half the,

I just pulled up

half the container.

What a life we lead.

There's a very funny comedian named Megan Keister.

She, her kind of whole business is buying and selling things off of Craigslist and stuff like that.

And she has a whole series on her Instagram that's just horrors of the Craigslist free section.

One of the great things is people taking pictures, either like shooting down until their feet are in the picture, or them taking a picture of something reflective to sell the mirror in their

underwear, or they, you know, they don't realize that they're part of the shot.

Anyways, the things that people give away on there, wow.

I follow this woman who is a chef.

She just does recipes and

normally,

I don't think this has ever happened in one of her videos before, but in the video, she looks down at the counter and her feet are in the shot and she blurred her feet.

Smart.

Yeah.

You know what I want to do?

Give it away for free.

Dave, what's going on with you, my friend?

Well, speaking of zucchinis,

I've been been gardening a lot.

Well,

I've been growing things.

Things have been growing or not.

You got some Zooks on the go?

I don't have zooks.

Okay.

Last year, I did tomatoes and

kale, which I didn't like,

and cucumbers.

And I got so many cucumbers.

They all came at the end of the year, but like the plant was growing all summer long.

And peas.

I got peas all summer as well.

This year, I was like, okay, I'll just go back to what works.

I didn't really like the tomatoes.

I'll switch out the kale for a different kale.

Yeah.

And I feel like my stomach is about to growl so loud.

He's talking about kale, everybody.

And

so, and then peas again.

So this year, the peas have not grown.

The cucumbers have not grown.

The kale, I switched to lasinato kale.

Sure.

Dinosaur kale.

Black kale.

That's a big rubbery kind?

Sort of like brainy kind.

Yeah, yeah.

It's growing so much.

I've been eating kale.

I like a big wad of like

12 leaves a day.

Smoothies for everyone.

Smoothies is a good idea.

What do you do?

What's your, what's your chop them up?

Yeah.

I put them in a rice bowl.

Oh, okay.

Just raw?

You.

I raw raw.

Cause like, you raw raw.

Flesh them down the toilet.

Ha Ha ha ha.

Yeah.

Rice bowls, sometimes with chicken, sometimes with egg.

Which came first, by the way.

Oh,

well, we'll think about that for a while.

I like chopping it up, putting like a little like nutritional yeast or something on it, popping it in the oven.

Did that?

Like a chip.

Yeah.

Delicious.

Yeah,

did that exactly?

Yeah.

Did some with the nuche yeast, some with garlic powder.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

What about milk powder?

I haven't been done that with the milk powder.

I was before the show, they caught me with my milk powder.

He was doing lines of milk powder.

Evaporated milk powder.

It's an ingredient in these

cookie, this cookie recipe.

Anyway, I'm

a full-time kale guy.

Yep.

And what does...

I thought this conversation would be more of a...

Does anybody else in the family like kale?

Are you solo on this?

Oh, Poppy, my eight-year-old, loves kale.

Oh, really?

Especially this one kale salad I make.

Yeah.

It's also just chopped up with

a dressing and

cheese and croutons.

Sounds like a shredded Brussels sprouts by any chance.

There is a very good.

It's like almost like a little shredded Brussels sprouts, kale, lemon.

Some garlic and parmesan.

Anchovy?

You can put anchovies in there.

I'm not a huge fan, but the anchovies are in the you mortar and pestle those.

Slimy.

Sounds like it's pretty slimy.

And then you can hear them scream.

Yauchi!

Yauchi!

Or maybe they'd like it, like a massage, like a rough massage.

Ooh, I need this,

they would say.

I think I'd like a massage.

You know what?

You can get them.

I can't.

Can't or won't.

I can't, no.

Do you not like massages?

I've never had one.

Oh, so many men.

Like last year, we went away to Oak Bay Beach Resort.

I wanted couples massage.

Jay hated the whole thing.

Did he, he actually did it, though?

He did it, and he was just like, yeah.

He was like, that was just like somebody whispering in my ear for an hour.

Yeah.

That was like, I was being butchered.

Yeah.

He did not like it.

Sony whispering.

It's like someone whispering in their ear, or were they actually whispering?

They were because like we were in the same room, which I don't really get the point of a couple's, like there's nothing romantic.

Yeah.

You're just lying with your face in the thing.

Oh, you don't do face-to-face, somebody lying on the back.

And their masseuse

is under them trying to massage up, getting absolutely no pressure.

It's not one person massaging the both.

No.

Because then it would be like, well, we got the same massage.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm ambidextrous.

But they would just lean in and be like, okay, now I'm I'm going to get you to flip.

And it made it feel creepy.

Although there is, you can get a massage where two people are massaging you.

And

that's a couple's massage.

I know.

I know, like, I want fighting over things at home.

But, like, I just picture myself like you're lying on the table, essentially naked.

And now, like, there's two people in this room massaging your body.

And, like, are they making eyes at each other?

Like, oh, grouse.

Or like, or like, you do that part.

I don't want to do that part.

Like, and my brain.

You hear them flipping a cloth.

And then, best out of three.

What?

I should go back to school.

But I'm very curious, like,

can you tell whose hands are whose?

I think you can.

Can you?

You can probably like.

What if you're like,

they really split up north and south?

Do they?

Yeah.

Or like, can you tell?

You're looking down

through that hole, right?

Yeah.

And so you can see their feet?

I guess.

Yeah.

But how do I match the feet with the?

Oh, you can tell.

Unless, oh, the twins.

Oh, yeah.

Genie.

Oh, man.

I've had a couple of massages lately because I fucked up my back.

So I've gotten some

like physio massages, not like nice,

you know, soft massages, really like digging in, making you kind of

wince.

I have done physio where they like just like, oh, your hamstring is messed up here, let me go hard on it.

Yeah, I've had that's the only type of massage.

I haven't done soft massages.

Yeah, soft music.

Yeah.

And just like gentle.

Oh, I don't want that.

No, and I don't, even in a relaxing one, I'd like them to go pretty

is what I say.

And then you're like, please don't use those terms in here.

You can only say harder three times before they ask you to get dressed and leave.

I will sometimes ask Abby to walk on me.

Put your heels on.

It's a real doormat that day.

And it never

quite gets the job done.

It never is like, well, that's not exactly what I mostly am now feeling the pressure of the floor up at me.

yeah I uh but yeah because I've never thought about it before that a couple massage like why why yeah why is this a thing yeah what else if you get like a couple spa package what else do they do together like toes do they do toes maybe that's another thing Jay will not go I'm like I think you'd really like a like a pedicure I think men should go and he's like well and to be fair he he's like I don't need a pedicure I take excellent care of my feet and I'm like yes you do okay well yeah fair enough

send us some pictures we'll post yeah yeah yeah yeah um oh he's on there ah how do you think i'm funding my sewing habit

that's jay's hobbies feet stuff anyways yeah oh he doesn't know i just

he's not gonna listen to this right no um

yes couples massage i imagine there'd be some sort of a like a glass of champagne or something like that.

It's just basically drunk.

Yeah.

You're just in a robe and then you maybe get your toes done and then maybe a facial.

Maybe a facial.

Yeah.

I've never had that.

Have you done facials?

I've done

much of a face available.

That's true.

I only have the top.

So I'd be getting ripped off.

Getting a raccoon facial.

Yeah, yeah.

They're just really focusing on the forehead.

Yeah.

Well, and honestly, I could use some work up there.

That's, yeah.

They don't even need to worry about here down.

Do you, have you done?

I've done a facial, and I did not realize like how greasy, like they're putting oils all over your face, which is, I guess, to be expected, but then they run their fingers through your hair.

So I had made a lunch date immediately after

something about Mary kind of.

Yeah, like I just like

was so greasy.

What's wrong with Eric?

She's so greasy.

Are you sweating?

No, I'm just

growing.

I just got a facial.

And they want to like extract any, like if you have like blackheads or whatever.

You're just like, you look terrible after a facial, like because it's all red and like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, and they stick this vibrating thing in your mouth to clean your teeth,

and you're like,

What are you doing?

And they don't, they only speak Norwegian, yeah.

Um, but you know what?

I think if if it were on offer, I'd do a spa day.

Why not?

Well, you know what you got to do, go on, go to like the Scandinavian spa in Whistler.

Okay, so we went to one there's one in like blue mountain so when we were on tour um where's blue mountain it's in ontario in like near collingwood so we had four three days off so pete and dan want to stay in toronto and paul and i stayed at blue mountain and then we went to scandinave spa and like got massages and did the hot tubs and the cold clunching and um that was really nice like a massage plus

and then we did we did a little gummy so we were pretty zenned out.

It was really excellent.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, that's, I mean, that's endorsement.

That's a date.

The thing I don't like about the Scananave spawn whistler, let me spill the tea.

Take spill, queen.

I sat up straight for this.

So it's supposed to, like, it's supposed to be silent, like a silent retreat, which I get because you don't want a whole bunch of tourists in there yapping.

Yeah.

But everyone is like, so hey, how you know?

It was just a little whisper.

Right.

So I got shushed.

Fine.

Fine.

So then I was trying to communicate to my...

You got shushed by like an employee or a

21-year-old employee.

There was also a man walking around shaving his face with a razor.

I was like, how about we concentrate on that

before we come after the?

And there's also a couple making out.

Like, how is my going like...

Yeah, I know.

Look at that couple.

Yeah.

Shut up.

They're in the middle of their couple's massage experience.

This is get out of hand, guys.

Yeah.

They're doing the tonsil hockey packet.

So then I get shushed and I was like, okay.

Well, now I can't relax.

Now I can't relax.

I'm all mad.

And so then I'm trying to be like, hey, should we, do you want to get out of this pool and go to the other, like the relaxation room or whatever?

So I use my best mini sign language and I make this.

like move.

Hey, wrap it up.

Let's wrap this up and go over there.

And then when we got out to go over to the next thing, the same 21-year-old came over and was like, there's actually no signing.

And I was like, no.

Yes.

Told me you couldn't sign.

She's like, sorry, deaf people.

You're on your own.

Yeah, yeah.

We use ESP here.

Yeah.

You just have to slowly melt in this hot tub until your friends have to get the paramedics to come.

And it really, like, I was so annoyed because she's like, yeah, this is, it's a complete silence, so no gesturing.

And I was like okay why don't you off

but i was also like and she's like to put away that middle finger that's gesturing

we will ask you leave but then i then i got so indignant because i've been to iceland and like the pools this whole experience is like everyone in town basically ends their day going into the the the hot tubs and the cold lunch and that's where they talk politics and they do so i'm like this is culture appropriation of my heritage

yeah as an icelandic person and and they do talk in Iceland, so fuck you.

I saw someone on the news the other day with the last name Sigurdsson

in Winnipeg, of course.

And he's doing a like a master's in

Viking studies.

Ooh.

Sounds about right.

Yeah.

He was like, hey, there's one thing I know about Vikings.

They did not talk in a cold plunge.

But everybody's allowed to shave there.

So

it's the guy shaving that is the...

That's the real.

I think like the making of that's fine.

It's a steamy,

especially if you're silent about it.

But like they weren't.

There's a lot of that noise.

But the guy's shaving.

It's a bridge too far.

That is that's locker room material.

Yeah, yeah.

Anyway, it's uh Mikael King now.

What's going on with you?

What a journey we went on.

That's the point.

We're recording tomorrow.

I don't have too many topics.

Yeah, me neither.

So

you and I, Dave, we all have experience because we spend some time on the islands here off the coast of Yaman.

You have relatives on Gabriela Island.

You go to Quadra Island.

My in-laws live on Salt Spring Island.

So you go there.

Totally different vibe, right?

Small town.

Oh, yes.

From here.

From here, yeah.

Yeah, I think they probably have similar vibes to each other.

To each other, yeah.

But you go there and it's like, it's everything's a little bit slower, a little bit more hippy-dippy, you know, lots of crystals for sale and such.

Zippered pouches.

Yeah, people just took their first pottery class selling it all.

Oh, I got to pick up my pot.

This is pot pick up wheat.

But sometimes in these communities, one thing is the story that everybody talks about.

There's one thing going on, and that's all anybody wants to talk about.

So Salt Springs, big thing right now, they're expanding one of the roads.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, no.

Boy, has that got some people's nose bed out of shape?

Because, you know, summertime, that's the time to build a road, but also that's the only road that goes out of the ferry.

So you better believe there's a long lineup going each way.

And which ferry?

Long Harbor, Vesuvius.

Long Harbor.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

And a lot of,

like, it's one of those things where it's,

okay,

this lane is opening up.

We're going to let 30 people in, and then we're going to let 30 people the other way.

All anybody wants to talk about.

And it's my favorite thing in a small town.

Now, is this the same on Quadrant Gabriella?

Do they have a newspaper?

Yeah, the Gabriella Sounder.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's like the bird's eye.

Yeah.

It's more of a pamphlet.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it's sort of like the coffee bean that you're getting

in a coffee shop.

Yeah, they do have a horoscope section in the newspaper.

They have a little bit of like trivia for kids.

And all of the zodiac signs are just pissed off about the road.

This week, you will not accept change.

But yeah, it was very funny

getting the local newspaper, top story front page, the road.

Second page, bear.

Somebody saw a bear.

And, oh, there's that one bobcat that's been around or whatever, the cougar that's been seen on the island again and again.

But it's just, it's a different way of living, isn't it?

Yeah, here's what's probably going on on Gabriela at the moment is, well, they're going to upgrade.

They are their ferry terminal is getting upgraded as well, and it's going to be a headache because it's the only way on or off the island.

You got to do it.

Tourism.

Yeah, I have the tourists.

And then the other thing,

every summer they have a big

on the golf course, they have a big tribute show.

Like a tribute band comes and plays.

Oh, nice.

That's right.

So someone will do all of Rumors by Fleetwood Mac.

Oh, that's not bad.

I don't know what it is this year.

Yeah, we did go and see a cover band, and they it's weird when you see a cover band, you don't know any of the songs they're playing, so it's not the fun of a cover band.

You're not like, oh, I know this one.

This is just a band.

Yeah.

There's like, there's like Bonnie Rayet songs, and I don't, I don't know the catalog of Bonnie Rayett.

He's fantastic, but I don't know.

Are you saying Bonnie Rait like Bonnie Rayett?

Isn't it Bonnie Ray?

Is it Bonnie Rait or Rayett?

I say Rait, but it is spelt weird.

It's spelt Rayet, but I have always said Bonnie Rait.

But I do not claim.

I'll go along with majority.

Let's just.

I'm going to look up Bonnie Rait pronunciation.

Okay.

Are we going to play this?

We're going to play this.

I don't think it'll come through.

I don't know what is going to come through.

Listeners, stand by.

Bonnie Rate.

Bonnie Rait.

There we go.

You can slow it down as well.

Bonnie Rait.

You slowed down enough.

That's the American pronunciation, but we go on the British one.

Yeah.

And also in slow.

Bonnie Rate.

Bonnie Prince Billy.

So yeah, big news.

Big news.

And is there any big news going on in Quadra?

What's the big...

The big hullabaloo?

Yeah.

I don't know.

I mean, I'm going on Saturday, so I will find out and I will report back.

Because

it's one of the kind of nice things, it's like you could start a conversation with literally anybody.

Oh, yeah.

All you have to say is that road, eh?

Oh, conversation's off and running.

Yeah.

I'm a big conversation with Strangers guy.

You love it.

You absolutely love it.

He's working kale into any conversation.

You got to kind of massage it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Or Or cut it up really small.

That's what I do.

And you want to put it in a not for too long in the oven.

You just want to leave it.

Oh, yeah.

Those are like five minutes.

Well, three minutes, give it a little check, then another three.

They'll burn.

They'll burn if you leave it in too long.

Yeah.

Do you ever saute it with a little bit?

No, let me just finish that for you.

No.

Go on.

I want to hear the rest of this recipe.

A little bit of olive oil.

That's awesome.

And then some.

I like to throw cashews in.

Are you cutting it up small or is it your big leafs?

Well, I think I might also be thinking of chard.

But aren't these cousins?

Aren't these kisses and cousins?

They might be kissing cousins.

And I feel like whenever I see charred, I'm like, oh, hey, that's rhubarb.

It's not rhubarb.

No, it's not rhubarb, but a cherry could play rhubarb in a movie.

Yeah.

What

fools these mortals be.

So

the.

I was going to say something, but I forgot what it is.

I still forget.

So the two things that I enjoyed on this trip, one of which was going to the farmer's market and finding a stall that sold all gluten-free things.

So, I was like, I'll just have 12 of your cookies, please.

And they were fantastic.

And they don't have a storefront.

They're just

part of this market.

So, you have to, like, you're like, I have to get these now.

Yeah.

And I

have to go back now.

Yeah.

Maybe I should freeze them.

Anyways, I didn't get that far.

I ate them all before I had a chance to freeze them.

But that was fantastic.

And then I went to the like one of the thrift stores there.

And in the clothing racks, in the t-shirt racks, there was one Hey, let's stay six or twelve meters apart, and then one anti-masking t-shirt, same rack.

Nice.

And that's the thing.

The island, you know, there'd be a lot of people that'd be anti-vaxxers there because they're, you know, there's a lot of holistic

people, a lot of

masks.

What's that?

I said they're dead now.

They're dead now.

That's right.

I love that kind of stuff.

Yeah.

What kind of stuff?

Again, I had something I was about to say that I forgot.

Let's get you a little pad of paper.

You just start drawing these thoughts down as they come in.

I had a, so I'm making cookies right now.

Kids are off school.

Margo made.

Abby was home yesterday and I came upstairs and Abby was like, Margo's making cookies all by herself.

And they were, and I was was like, oh, that's great.

And then she actually cooked them and they were not great.

They were

missing a key ingredient.

And then

it

then I like, I don't, cause I didn't supervise.

I don't know what it was.

And I googled, like, there's a chart I had seen before of like what different cookies look like.

Right.

If they're too, if they're flat, they're missing this.

Yeah, yeah.

And it was clearly the

not enough flour.

Right.

Oh.

And so I, and then I looked up a different chart, and the other one was like different kinds of flour.

And the not enough flour and gluten-free flour looked exactly the same.

That makes sense.

One of the, as

much as I love a cake being dropped or somebody running into a cake, I do like this is the design of cookie I wanted to make and then it just being the

big fan of this cookie.

There's a thing,

a trend I've seen of people like making a sculpture out of the cookie, like

a cookie dough, and then they put it in the oven, it just flows away, yeah, yeah.

It was Shrek, and now it's not.

It's just a blob that's probably raw in the middle.

Oh, man!

I might make cookies when I get home.

A lot of cookie tops.

Gluten-free.

Now, can you have almond flour?

No, I'm allergic to nuts.

Well, yes, I know you're allergic to nuts.

No, no, almonds.

I didn't realize.

So you're gluten-free.

You're just almond and almond flour?

How dare you?

I think so.

That you remember to say.

Well, I jotted it down.

Oh, some people who are allergic to some.

I hold up a note that says Erica equals Doofus.

Last appearance on the spy.

Well, because there are certain things that are like

allergens for you, but in certain state, like

cook an apple, yeah.

Yeah, if you cook an apple, I'm fine.

If yeah, if it's almond flour can't have,

but a lot of times they just use

coconut.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure what the,

like, it's a combination of things.

Like, it'd be like rice flour and tapioca flour.

And a lot of times it's a blend of flowers.

Consider the coconut.

I'll have a coconut.

Sure.

You want a little sweet taste, too?

Yeah.

Do you guys want to move on to some overheards?

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It's midnight here on Host to Coast, and we've got Sarah from Michigan on line one.

Hi, I'm calling in for some help.

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Also, I do think my husband is cheating on me with Mothman.

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Overheard.

Overheards.

When you hear it, we want to hear it.

And you know what?

If you see it, we want to hear you relay it.

And if you dreamt it, all the better.

And we always like to start with the guest.

Erica, do you have an overheard?

Hey!

Okay, I have an

scene

and a mini overheard that's more like just a little cute story, but let's start with my overseen,

which

you play a role in, Graham, because

I received a text message two days ago that said, are you available Wednesday not to be a guest?

We need you to host.

Yeah.

And I was like, yeah, I was like, well, this is obviously a great opportunity or the worst insult of all time.

I send that to her every week.

Just want to see if you're free to not come on our show again.

I bet you got plenty of time for that.

But then I was like,

because he had previously asked me to be a guest on different week and I was busy.

So then I was like, oh,

like, is

Graham wanting he's like, don't get your hopes up.

This is about something else.

Like, I thought way too much much about it.

I was like, does Graham,

is Graham asking me out on a date?

What about Sally and Jay?

How are we going to tell them?

Jay's going to bow hunt me in a field.

Yeah, that was pretty good.

Pretty good typo.

Pretty good.

A lot of fun.

Pretty fun.

And then you say you haven't overheard or was this.

Well, oh, do you want back-to-back?

It's up to you.

It's up to you.

Do you want to go around?

Well, no, because then this one is just kind of a look cute.

Okay.

It's another woody point story.

So very generously, the Patterson gang and probably the money from the gig took us all out to dinner.

And

Deanne Smith's partner, Alex, who is absolutely wonderful, came to dinner.

It was showed up late, though.

And I was sitting across from Steve's youngest, Nora, who has an adorable speech.

Like I used to have, like W's and R's.

The cutest.

That was until like two years ago.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It still pops up.

And so she's telling me a story, and it's loud.

So I'm leaning in, and Alex gets there late and sits down beside me and just

looks over at Nora, like, continue.

And Nora looks, gives her the worst side eye, and then looks back at me, and then looks back at her and goes, I was talking to Ewaka.

And it was like, and then Alex was like, oh, excuse me.

And then like started talking to Steve's older daughter.

Oh, I love that.

It was quite fun.

I was talking to Abuko.

Adorable.

Adorable.

I love that.

Dave, do you have another word?

I miss that.

I miss when my kids, you know, couldn't.

Couldn't enunciate.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There was a time when Poppy, for a year, just said doot-doo.

Like, her only word she knew was doot-doo.

Do you point to something?

Doot-doo.

This was,

I don't know which way to go.

This was six months ago.

Right, yeah.

I already made that joke.

Yeah, my overheard, we were at brunch.

It's sort of this.

Okay, you guys know breakfast?

Yeah.

And you know lunch?

Yeah.

Yep.

Well, in between, there's a special

waffle-based meal.

Yeah.

Only for adults.

I feel like brunch is a good one.

No, we do.

The kids and I were out for brunch with Abby, all four of us, the whole fam.

You know, sort of like, school's over, let's have brunch.

Let's go to a restaurant and get drunk at 11 a.m.

Yeah, I guess that's the thing about brunch.

But brunch doesn't need alcohol.

No.

Brunch can stand on its own.

Sure.

It just doesn't hurt to have

it hurts if you're trying to keep the budget low.

You're like, oh, suddenly this is a $200

semi-meal.

Yeah.

So, no, it was a dry brunch.

Dry brunch.

Except for the syrup, plenty of syrup.

Yeah.

And the table behind us, I heard the waitress

talking to the guy.

They were like settling up their bill at the end.

And I just heard the waitress say, I believe staff discount only applies when staff is dining.

And the guy goes, I am staff.

Oh, shit.

And so they had to have sort of a pleased to meet you.

Oh, I only work brunch.

Oh, I work dinner.

Oh, sure.

They wouldn't never the twins film meeting ships passing in the night.

I wonder, out of the two, who gets better tips, a brunch service or a dinner service?

Well, dinner because alcohol.

Alcohol alcohol, right?

But I always

keep the brunch breakfast.

Like, If you go to kind of a

place,

like now I'm thinking about how wildly expensive our breakfasts have been recently, like $70 for two people, no alcohol.

I'm like, how the fuck did this happen?

But like, if you go to a greasy spoon and your bill is like $14,

I usually tip like way more than 20% because I'm like, you're, you're working so hard at breakfast for like practically giving it away.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And yeah, I do do steal some of the cutlery just to balance it out.

Yeah, yeah.

But they got that greasy spoon.

They got that nice heavy cutlery.

Oh, yeah.

You'd think they would have a famous, famously greasy spoon.

It does slip right out of my

talking about those stuff.

You're going to steal a greasy spoon.

I got sticky fingers, greasy spoon.

Later, how greasy is your spoon?

Oh, the greasiest.

Pulls it out of his armpit.

Where did you go for brunch?

A place called None of Your

Frickin' Business.

Hey.

No, I went to Elio Volpe,

which is a fancy restaurant in our neighborhood.

But breakfast, very reasonable.

Brunch, very reasonable prices.

Okay.

A lot of $10 items on the menu.

Perfect.

Yeah, I feel like without toast, brunch and breakfast really kind of take a hit.

Because then you're kind of left with eggs, potato, maybe

eat toast.

Yeah, like I feel like toast is already gluten-free.

Yeah, yeah.

I was like, what the hell are you talking about?

Jay doesn't eat toast.

And you know who has great?

You can get their Bennies on Jam Cafe.

They have like those hash browns, but they have one in Vancouver.

They do?

Yeah.

There's a couple.

If you like long lineups, that's great.

Yeah, yeah.

Get there first thing in the morning.

But you can get your eggs Benny made on one of their hash brown because their hash browns come in like almost like a disc.

It's so great.

And they made it because Jay doesn't eat toast.

So he will get grilled tomatoes.

Nice.

And then some potatoes.

There's your stomach going.

There's your stomach.

As soon as I heard about this potato situation.

It's because when we arrived, Dave showed us cookie dough, and all of our brains went, cookie?

And then he slammed it back in the fridge and said, no.

You

confronted me about my powdered evaporated milk.

Do you have an overheard crazy?

I have an overseen.

We're all familiar with the band Matchbox 20.

Yes.

Rob Thomas outfit.

That's right.

This is a contest you can enter, and it's one of the weirdest.

Where did you see this?

This is on

Facebook.

This is a Vegas competition you can enter, and this is the prize.

Win a Vegas trip to meet Rob Thomas at his show, plus take home his cashmere sweater.

He's going to be in Vegas.

He's going to be, this is too hot.

Yeah, that's not a prize.

You're like all night off.

Yeah, and then he he peels it off at the end of the night.

Here you go.

What a weird prize.

Yeah.

Like, it's not like he's famous for sweaters.

Does he like throw one into the audience every night?

Mops his brow with that.

Well, now that they sell cashmere at Uniqlo, it's very affordable.

It's not the same quality.

But he probably buys a pretty good cashmere.

Not if he's given one away at every concert.

That's true.

I feel like this is a big one.

This is a big, like, maybe he's had this cashmere sweater for years.

This is a favorite sweater.

Made from the finest goats.

But it's like, have you ever heard of a competition where it's just somebody giving away like a regular germit?

Yeah.

I will sometimes give away my socks just

for fun?

Just for fun.

Good creeps.

Yeah, good creeps.

Well, that's who gets them.

Nobody else is lining up.

There's a very few, like you reach in to do the draw and there's three pieces of paper in there.

And you know,

there's just one guy, greasy guy combing his hair.

I just got back from the spa.

Well, sometimes when I'm in Tokyo, I'll buy used underwear out of the vending machines.

Yeah, the vending machines.

Classic.

Oh, yeah.

That's also, if you don't like the cashmere sweater, you can have Rob Thomas' underwear.

Stage-worn underwear.

Anyways, I thought it was a good idea.

We have Rob Thomas here.

He's so smooth.

And, yeah, he's seven inches from the midday sun.

I'm too hot in that sweater, if you ask me.

Man, God, in Vegas, you're like six inches from the midday.

Now, we also have overheard sent in to us by people all over the world.

If you want to send one in, send it into SBY at maximumfund.org.

This first one comes from Matt in Winnipeg.

And it's one of these, an overheard where you know what he's saying, but he's saying the wrong thing.

My wife, who is, this is from my wife selling a car seat adapter to someone on marketplace.

The buyer, after deciding not to purchase, goes, thanks, but I think I'll just keep Jerry Maguire in our car seat situation.

We got to keep making it, you know, show us the money.

Yeah, I mean, honestly, that's probably where the Facebook marketplace thing broke down.

It was over the money.

Yeah, yeah, what's the matter?

Then what did she respond?

Help me, help you.

You complete me.

These are the lines.

These are the lines for the human head weighs 85.

I was in a car seat.

Yeah, that movie, eh?

Has it stood the test of time?

I haven't seen it in 20 years.

I haven't seen it in forever.

I've never seen it.

Let's watch it tonight.

Yeah.

What is, yeah, that's, I think, also my big Facebook marketplace thing is I would only want to sell things that you can have for free.

Yeah.

This is $20.

Could you do 10?

Hey, you show up.

You can just take it.

You know what's always on

Facebook Marketplace or especially Craigslist free section?

Trampolines.

Oh, always trying to get rid of trampolines.

They're worth nothing.

Oh, pianos as well are impossible.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I have a theory, it does not matter how nice a house is, as soon as you put a trampoline in the yard, it looks like trash.

It's true.

And no matter how nice a trampoline is, it just, it's just not a good looking.

And there's here in Vancouver,

there are a lot of people who have trampolines in the front yard.

I know.

I'm like, that kid is going to go flying into traffic.

There's one on like, I think it's like Victoria.

Like, it's a very small yard and it is wedged right against the sidewalk.

I'm like, this is not safe.

And a lot of the ones in the front yard have like kind of a netting on it so that strangers can't just

do they all?

Yeah.

Yeah.

For the best.

Yeah.

There's one on my street and my kids are like, can we get a trampoline?

And I was like, You can learn to make friends with those people.

Yeah, we, I had a friend down the street that had a trampoline for years.

Eventually, my parents bought a trampoline for my youngest brother.

But were you a trampoline household?

We weren't even a household.

We were a townhouse.

You can't have a trampoline.

Oh, I guess you have a trampoline.

Community trampoline.

The yard is everyone's.

We were a trampoline house.

Yeah.

But we had...

We would rent a trampoline from Sundance trampolines for July and August every summer.

Nice.

It's just when we have July and August.

And then our neighbors down the street were like, why don't we buy a trampoline and we keep it 10 months of the year and you keep it July and August?

And we were like, yes.

Yeah.

Weird deal that you set up, but sure.

Do you ever put a sprinkler under there?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, no, no, no.

This was a tarp.

Like, it wasn't a mesh.

Oh.

So the trampoline.

If you put a sprinkler underneath, you stay dry.

But we would pour water on top and you would cave in and like you would definitely splooosh around on that.

And no netting around it.

No netting.

And then

foot goes through the goes between the springs.

Yep.

Yeah.

We really,

really almost died as children.

A lot.

Like it was totally fine, though.

Well, I mean, I know some people who broke limbs on it for sure.

Yeah, I definitely like

did all the things wrong and I was fine.

And not, and I don't mean that in the like, these kids, they're too soft.

But the netting is a good idea because a lot of people go flying off of those.

Yeah.

This next one comes from Sam in Hertford, UK,

outside a small model railway exhibition being held in an ancient local church.

This is the only in English.

I don't think how Mr.

Bean's going to fuck that up.

There were two little boys.

about one only about three years old with their mom.

One of the boys ran off into the grass, excitedly said to the other, There's lots of good gravestones in here.

We haven't seen a decent one all day.

Oh, wait, I bet you the graveyard will have some pretty good gravestones.

Yeah, I wanted to do some

etchings, or what do you call them when you rubbings, I guess.

Rubbings, yeah, yeah.

Are they old?

I've never thought of doing that.

That's really a kid's thing.

The only rubbing I do in the graveyard is a little heavier.

It's a little triumphant.

This last one comes from Scott in Omaha.

Now, a week ago, my wife and I got back from a trip to Little Corn Island, Nicaragua.

When we first arrived, they led us to a bar.

They have a little local newspaper.

Oh, absolutely.

What's going on in Nicaragua on Little Corn Island?

Big corn harvest this year.

Yeah, as,

you know, not like our name, big corn harvest this year.

Do you think that the name of the newspaper has the word ears in it?

Ah, yes.

It must.

The Corn Island Ears.

Yeah.

When we first arrived, they led us to a bar restaurant, and playing on the speakers was a soft, soulful cover of a familiar song.

Or so I thought, upon closer listening, I heard, and this is What If God Was One of Us is the tune here.

And yeah, yeah, God looks baked.

Yeah, yeah, God smells good.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What if God smoked cannabis?

And it goes on, okay, fun, whatever y'all are having a good time.

I heard that same song six more times over the four days.

All the other songs were easy listening songs like You Can Call Me Owl or Under the Boardwalk.

Nothing else remotely transgressive.

And I never heard another song repeat it.

What are they going to write?

What's the next line?

I don't know.

What if God smoked cannabis just to slop?

I mean, it's

you know, it's make up your own lyrics, really.

But the fact that there's a parody song that they get playing at this resort.

Oh, it's by Bob Rivers.

Why do I know that name?

Noted parrotist?

I guess he's a noted parodist.

Here's the next line:

hit the bong like some of us.

That's pretty good.

Trovitai, died microbus and he subscribes to Rolling Stone.

Nice.

So dated.

Well, in addition to overheards that are written in E,

we also accept phone calls.

Phone calls.

Yeah, or voice memos.

And voice memos.

In addition to overheards that are written in, we also accept your phone calls.

If you would like to call us or send a voice memo, you can send a voice memo by email, spy at maximumfund.org or call us at 1-844-779-7631.

That's one ugh SpyPod1

like these people have.

Hey, Dave and Graham, this is Jeremy from Milwaukee.

I manage a small bakery, and this goes back to January.

We had new calendars up on the wall, and one of my clerks said to another one, hey, let's see when the first Friday the 13th is.

And she starts paging through the calendar and pauses after a few pages, quietly says to herself, huh?

It's on a Sunday this year.

Well, off I go.

That sounds like a naked gun joke.

Quick, silly little thing, you know.

What's the gag where he goes, like, what do you look like?

He's like,

six foot tall, mustache.

It's an awful big mustache.

Yeah, just like the idea of being at work and you're so bored at work that the calendar comes in and you're like, ooh, exciting.

Anyway, we love all bakeries.

Yeah.

Big and small.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The small ones, delightful, the big ones, doing it exactly like it likes.

Yeah, I guess the big ones are generally they're probably baking for, they maybe have a chain and they're, you know, the big ones.

They've sold out.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But

sell sellouts you have three locations but all the baking happens at the mothership yeah yeah joe rogan's mothership

they're definitely doing some baking over there would have god smoked cannabis

who gave

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hey dave and graham this is lee calling from vancouver with an overheard i was at the Canada post office inside of the shoppers drug market inside of the Kingsgate mall today

and there was a woman ahead of me and she had a printout.

And she went up to the guy and she was like, hey, I would like to extend the mail forwarding that I have for this address.

And he goes, okay, I just need to see an ID to match it to the address.

And she was like, well, that's not me.

I'm just getting it forwarded.

And he said, well, I need the person that's mail it is to be here with a valid ID.

You cannot get somebody else's mail forwarded.

And she goes, well, that's not possible.

And he goes, okay, well, I can't help you extend it because it's actually illegal to like interfere with somebody else's mail.

So you have to come with

the person and their valid ID.

And she goes, well, she's dead.

And the guy's face was just like...

The look of shock in his eye, all the blood, all the color just dropped from his face.

And he goes, okay, well, I can help you then.

Thank you so much.

And he does it for her.

I mean, she could have led with that.

And I feel like maybe she was just doing it for the drama because because it was quite a dramatic presentation on her part.

That's true.

Off I go.

A photo of the dead body.

Yeah, because then, like, why wouldn't she have to brew it with a desktop?

Well, where is it getting forwarded to?

Heaven.

Or hell.

When I die.

Where should we forward your mail to?

I guess, yeah.

You can just, like,

get the catalog.

Like, you can keep the catalogs.

It'll be in your will.

You'll get the leave-out.

You don't get a ton of great mail.

Yeah.

Costco Connection.

Oh,

is that the Costco newspaper?

That's, yeah, and it is, it's a magazine and it is worth every penny that I pay.

Yeah.

Which is nothing.

Oh, you pay a membership fee.

Yeah, you sure do.

You sure do.

We get to have all sorts of deals in it.

We get the little one that's like the coupons, but we don't get a, you know, we don't get a journalism.

Wow, wow, wow.

We don't get, I mean, I do all my reading on in airplane magazines, yeah, flight magazines en route.

Years and years ago, uh, there was a comedian around named Vic Lapucci, yep, and he had a spread in one of those.

That's right, it was WestJet, yeah, yeah, in their magazine, yes, and I was remember being like, I guess in Canada, that is kind of making it, yeah, you've made it into WestJet magazine, it's probably the best like press you could get in Canada, more people would see that than anything else.

And I think they would write the article in English and French.

Yeah, that's true.

But yeah, I remember him getting that and being like, that's the credit.

He got it.

How did he get WestJet?

Oh, my God.

He got it.

We've got some scouts here tonight from West Chat

whispering to the comedians backstage.

I heard there's someone in the credit from WestJet.

Is it a pilot?

It's a guy sitting there in a pilot's.

See, that's another naked gun-ass.

Well, that's Seinfeld, dude.

Oh, yeah, the pilot of the audience.

Jerry's manager.

Well, it is your final one.

Hi, Dave Graham and possible guests.

My name is Court from Maryland.

I'm calling in with an overheard.

I was just in the grocery store,

and there was a man, a very hairied man, with his two, they look like maybe nine-year-old kids.

And he leans over, they like run run ahead of him and he goes hey guys don't you think the punisher might already be autistic no freaking way

what what is what's proceeding he becomes autistic yeah like oh boy i bet the punisher that's why the punisher won't take vaccines because he doesn't want to become autistic

um yeah i mean sure the but

of all the superheroes I don't know that I've picked Punisher as the most.

Yeah, maybe let's figure that out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Let's, you know, what?

Send in your ideas of which superhero is the most autistic.

Or just send us a whole Marvel spectrum.

Yeah.

Yeah, send us a whole Marvel spectrum.

Yeah.

Well, that brings us to the end of this episode.

Erica, thank you so much for being our guest.

Thank you for having me.

I had a delightful time.

Do you think you will actually set up this Etsy store?

Will it be...

Will we be able to link to this Etsy store?

Either Etsy or maybe just on my own website, I will have a things for sale because that would surprise corporate clients they'd be like oh she has a keynote she can do comedy and wait a second we needed parting gifts for all of our yeah

you're a one-stop shop yeah yeah yeah well we're uh we're it's a corporate gig but all of our employees are swingers that's right we'll take uh 25 of those pineapple pouches please

uh well thank you again for being our guest and thank you everybody out there for listening.

You know what?

Pineapple or no, we've all got a little bit of swinger in us.

And come on back next week for another episode of Stop Podcasting Yourself.

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