Episode 899 - Darcy Michael

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 899 of Stop Podcasting Yourself.

My name is Graham Clark.

With me as always,

for the first time this year, wearing shorts, Mr.

Dave Shumka.

Oh, it's toasty.

It is toasty.

It's going to be a high of 26 today.

And you know what I do at the end of every spring?

Cut all of the legs off of my pants and make them all shorts.

And I staple them together in the fall.

But like, that's funny and everything.

But don't you?

I got a couple pairs of shorts.

Are your shorts?

The shorts you own, are they shorts or are they cutoffs?

Mostly cutoffs.

Because that's what the boys in the the yard like.

They like seeing me wash my car.

Okay.

You do that sexy car wash.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And they're like, the rivets on your gene cutoffs are just scratching up my finish.

Our guest today, also a boy of summer,

he is a world traveler,

a comedian, and right now, just announced he's on tour in 2026.

It's Darcy Michael.

Hi, Darcy.

Hi, everybody.

Thanks for coming back on the podcast.

I was going to say, it's been a minute.

I think the last time, well, yeah, you said

I love this part.

I think it was COVID,

and I was probably living a happy COVID.

Yeah, it was 2021, I think.

What year are we now?

2025?

2025.

Four years.

Darcy Michael, October of 2021.

Prior to that, April of 2018.

And then, oh my God, you did 2015.

And then five years before that, you were on 2010.

You're not like a,

you take years off.

I'm pretty consistent in trying to avoid doing this.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

I've been chasing you down, and then like, I knew you were in Vancouver, and I was like, just box them in.

No, it was great.

I actually had it in my calendar for yesterday to reach out to you to book it, and you had already booked me.

So it was, we were both trying to make it work.

You were trying to get on, you were trying trying to get on episode 900.

I was trying to get on episode 900, but yeah, you know, I've been a little busy.

Sure.

Do we get to know us?

Yeah.

Get to know us.

Let's see.

Spin us a yarn.

It's been a huge, crazy, wild, horrible year.

It's been a fucking shit year.

Oh, can I swear on this?

This isn't the radio?

This is how long it's been, guys.

Well, we're on the radio now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just a second.

We're going to get back to you.

We just got to hear Pink Pony Club.

Yeah.

And there's trouble on the Cassiar connector today, so you want to avoid...

You want to go on the Second Arrows brief?

Yeah, Madman is loose on the Cassiar connector.

There's a gentleman out there with no shirt and a katana.

Oh, what do we do in this section?

What do I talk about?

We're just talking about your life.

Hey, man.

It's been, I don't know, man.

My life is a bit of a country song right now.

But

right down to the fact that the mechanic just called yesterday to say my truck needs new tires.

Uh, you got a truck, yeah.

I've had a truck for a while.

I'm an islander, I need a truck, yeah, it's it's kind of like Staten Island, right?

That's where you're that's been Staten Island, you and Pete Davidson.

Uh, that's why you had all your tattoos removed.

I, uh, I wish I could afford it now.

Uh,

wow, that I think a mechanic that like well, it's day one of mechanic school.

It's like,

get them on the tires, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Get them on the tires it worked it worked i uh

uh my name is darcy michael yeah i i am one half of for now darcy and jer uh

is your husband jer is my husband they

people probably know us from social media what's your biggest social media tick tock are you tick tock i don't even know

i yeah tick tock i think is the number one but i stopped looking to be honest i don't it stresses me out we have a video that wouldn't like i think it's someone told me this morning it's at like 50 or 60 million views from like three days ago.

And it's same here, same here.

Isn't that crazy?

Same day, same day.

I probably watch 50 million TikToks in a day.

I'm addicted to the app.

Do you even have the app?

No.

I see all my TikToks on Instagram six months later.

Like, I'm a grown-up.

But I think, unless I'm wrong, since the last time you were here, you became mega famous.

Yeah, I guess.

I don't know.

Yeah, October 2021,

we would have just been like kind of

hitting our stride with like a couple million, but I think we're close to 10 million now across

followers?

Yeah, across platforms.

It's pretty stupid.

But you're biggest on X now because you're trying to get faster.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

X is gone.

It's all my

right-wing thoughts and feelings.

You're on Truth Social.

oh man, huge hit on True Social.

We actually do have a handle on True Social.

Do you really?

Just so someone else couldn't take it.

But I didn't bother with X.

I was like, I don't.

I'm like, ugh.

I deleted that like five years ago and it felt great.

Well, it's probably impact.

You probably would have 51 million.

Yeah, I brought it.

I could have.

I think after 15 years on Twitter at the time, I had like 3,000 followers.

So it was just never the thing for me, anyways.

What

I loved it when there was a trending topic, and it was like

marshmallow celebrity soups.

And you're like, okay,

let's see.

Frickin' I believe that's called the P.

Diddy trial.

I bet I'm not keeping up enough to get that joke.

Is there a soup involved?

There's a lot of grease.

A lot of greasy,

greasy celebrities.

I was going to be like a cream of

Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

Cream of Will Wheaton is what I was saying.

Oh, yeah.

Well done.

Well done.

So last time you were on, I don't think you had started traveling the globe as a comedy duo.

No, no, we definitely, that started in, I think Jared quit his job in 2021, December.

Okay.

And then the following year, like 2023 is when we started touring.

It just started with one show in Vancouver for the JFL Vancouver Festival.

Is it still going?

May it rest in peace?

Okay, it's still going good for them.

May it rest in peace and welcome back from the desert.

And then it just kind of exploded into, you know, like, let's take this show on the road.

And so we toured for two solid years.

We did,

I think, 75 shows around the world.

Wow.

Yeah, it was nuts.

Like the fact that Jer, like my corporate,

like he says all the time, comedy is super easy once you're famous.

Oh, yeah.

He's never done a PowerPoint presentation for more than 10 people.

And his first time on stage was at the Vogue for a thousand people doing a 90-minute show of untested material.

And he just like

went out and crushed it.

And I was like, are you kidding?

Was he like, why doesn't everybody do that?

Yeah, he was like, this is what you've you've been complaining about for 20 years.

Like,

you would like come home at two in the morning from doing five sets for five people, yeah, and you thought it was bad?

Like, this is pretty easy, and then he went on the road and was like, Oh, some of these shows suck.

I'm like, Yeah, oh, do they?

Yeah, oh, for sure.

There's definitely like our version of suck now is different.

Uh, go ahead with it, whatever you want to do with that software.

Please,

I refuse, but there's definitely some nights where you're like, wow, all right, this wasn't our night.

You know, like, okay.

Jare, I think my favorite, my favorite thing with Jer is after our 10th show, he was in the dressing room, like getting changed, and he was like, they were really slow to stand up tonight.

I looked at him and I was like, Jer, you've done 10 shows and gotten 10 standing ovations.

I've done this for 20 years and I've gotten 10 standing ovations.

You spoiled little bitch.

Yeah, and I remember seeing a TikTok or an Instagram post where somebody was like, oh, great, another

social media guy trying to do stand-up comedy.

And you just roasted that whole career of play.

Literally, I was like, because that's the thing.

Like, I get it.

Like, a lot of people didn't know I was a comedian or an actor or writer before we blew up as a couple.

But I was like, how dare you not not think I know what I'm doing?

So, yeah, I just rolled the tape and it was like, here's Norm McDonald and Nick Offerman and all these other celebrities introducing me for my, you know, like, I think 15 years of just for laughs and three stand-up specials.

Like, fuck you for not, you know, for coming for me.

But that was also just a really nice ego boost for me to be reminded: like, oh, I did have a career before this,

no one knew about.

Yeah.

When you go on tour, is it only English-speaking countries?

Are you playing expats?

No, we're just doing that.

We just did

like last year, I think it was

the UK and Ireland, and then North America.

And then this year, we were supposed to do Australia, New Zealand, and North America again with our new show, which you kindly came to our writer's room.

Yeah.

It was you, Ivan Decker, Erica Sigurdson, and the four of us just sat in a room for two days and just talked.

Yeah.

Like it was literally a lot of reminiscing.

It was a lot of reminiscing and very little writing.

And I got home and Jerry's like, let's see the script.

And I said, there's no script.

I just had two great days with some friends.

Because I was like, when's the last time the four of us could just sit in a room for six or seven hours and

just gossip?

It was great.

Graham does that literally every day.

he meets up with ivan and erica and they gossip about you yeah yeah yeah probably

probably

i would

um yeah that was a blast it was super fun uh and then have you done any dates of that show or no jer and i were leaving it's a weird story but jer and i were

because the last tour was a lot of fly-in fly-out it was a lot of time away from the dog and it was hard mentally like on my health so we decided this new tour was going to be a bus tour so the dog could come with us.

But it started in Halifax.

So we had to get our 100-pound golden retriever, Yuma, from Vancouver Island to Halifax.

And we won't put her on an airplane in the luggage thing because she's just a princess.

And Jare, being the corporate stooge that he is, was like, we're going to do a partnership with an RV company and we're going to drive.

from Vancouver Island in an RV, just the two of us and the dog, and film it for content to Halifax in January.

Nice.

I was like, well, this is awful.

Neither one of us had ever driven an RV before.

And we get to the RV company.

It's 32 feet.

We load up the RV.

The first corner we take, all the dishes fly out of the cupboard and crash onto the dog.

So now the dog is terrified of this RV.

And we get to see, it was awful.

We get to Seattle.

We settle in for the night in a hotel.

And was anyone like, you're going the wrong way?

Halifax, we were literally like, we're going through the States because we're like, we're not dealing with Canadian highways in the winter.

But then the next day, Yuma wouldn't get in the RV because she was terrified of the flying dishes.

We got her in.

And we're driving to Spokane, and we're in the mountains.

There's a blizzard and we're on the side of the highway watching YouTube videos on how to put chains on tires.

Oh, my God.

And I just looked at Jared and I was like, we have worked so hard, and now we're going to die on the side of a mountain in Spokane.

Like, no fucking way.

So I was like, we're turning around.

We're going home.

We're rethinking how we're going to get there.

Like, whether we're going to call every rich friend we know and be like, you got a jet we can borrow, or we're just going to hire a driver and they're going to do it.

You know, any friends that might have jets?

Well, no, but they can borrow.

I know friends who have friends.

That's the thing.

We were like, we've got a network.

Let's see what we can figure out.

But really, we were like, we're going to cancel the RV and just get a tour bus and hire a driver to get us there.

And so Jerry was like, wow, you're so like dead set on getting home.

And I was like, just book us a hotel in Vancouver for three days.

And we're driving literally down Camby Street.

And I was like, we're back.

We dropped the RV off.

We picked up my truck.

We're driving down Camby Street.

And I was like, I'm going to call my parents because I know they're beside themselves, worried about this blizzard.

And I call them, and my dad answers my mom's phone.

And I was like, my dad does not know how to answer an iPhone.

So this already.

I'm like, what is going on?

And long story short, my mom, in the 48 hours that we were gone, my mom had been admitted into VGH.

And I was like, we're literally, dad tells me this as we're driving down.

And so I just turn on 12th and drive right to VGH.

And,

you know, long story short, my mom had breast cancer five years ago.

It then turned into leukemia

while we were, she got the diagnosis and they were like, it's severe enough.

You have to be in the hospital for treatment.

And I was just like, okay, well, like, we're not going on tour.

That's that.

Like, I'm, if there's one thing we've worked hard enough for, it's to be like, yep, I, we can afford to be home for a few weeks and help out.

And so We, you know, like obviously have to announce the whole tour postponement, but we were only postponing for like two months at the time.

We're like, we're just going to move it to the summer.

Everyone, let me have some time with mom.

That was on the Friday.

And then, you know, like, obviously we're digesting all this stuff with mom.

Like the prognosis isn't great.

And then on Saturday, Jare gets sick.

And I was like, oh, like he, he starts having these weird symptoms.

And I was like, well, we're home.

Just, let's just go and see our doctor.

She works on Saturdays.

so we were lucky enough to call in and get an appointment.

And

Saturday, they order these tests.

Monday, he goes for the tests.

On the Friday, Jare's diagnosed with cancer.

And we're just like, what?

Like,

okay, like, what's that going to look like?

Now, your dad's answering Jer's phone.

It's true.

And the whole time this is happening, dad also has cancer.

So we're like, I'm just like, you know how they say when everyone has cancer.

well, yes, you know how they say, you know, like, if everyone in the room is, you think everyone in the room is an asshole, you're the asshole.

Am I the cancer?

Like, am I the

problem?

I know I'm a lot to deal with, but I didn't know I was tumor growing a lot.

Uh, but uh, oh, that's one of the reviews I read of yours.

I think the quote was, I'd rather grow.

Oh, that's right, that's right.

Uh, but it's this weird thing because it's like

we always we say like if we if it wasn't for the tour, we wouldn't have publicly announced anything.

But because of the tour and now because of the unknown, we have to postpone the tour for a full year.

And so we're like, we don't want to be those guys that are just like due to unforeseen circumstances because like we have to be real.

We've put our life on the internet for five years.

We've got, we have to respect the fact that our fans have changed our lives for the better.

And there's that parasocial.

We got to get some fans, we change it for the better.

Friends with friends, the friends have a jet.

That's true.

So, we, you know, but we also have decided not to talk about what Cancer Jare has because the comment section is so insane.

Like, the cures for cancer that people send us every day.

And I was like, I don't want to deal with that toxicity.

Best one.

The apple cider vinegar.

Have you tried it?

I douche with it.

Do you?

What is that time of year?

Well, just added a new kink to my list.

So you've had to be in Vancouver for months.

Yeah, we got to go home.

Jer had two surgeries

and then we got to go home for three weeks.

And it was...

It was just heaven.

Because like home is very private and like we don't see people and it was just us and the dog and paradise.

Uh, and then we just ripped the band-aid last week and had to come back for six weeks.

But we've been living in hotels from January until now, uh,

other than the three weeks we had at home.

Yeah, it's been a lot.

You like uh hotel stay?

No, like we've got a little apartment.

Are you like Eloise?

Yeah,

I don't care.

I don't know either.

I don't, I don't know if that references.

Eloise living a hotel.

Sorry.

The dog loves it.

She's a big star in the city because

she's just a giant dog, and everybody loves a golden retriever in the lobby.

Everybody's trying to golden retriever.

Yeah, I miss the privacy.

Big star in the city.

You just reminded me of something.

I saw a poster on the

post today.

that said that there's a pizza p a pizza pig out happening tonight.

Oh, hell yeah.

We got a time on that?

Yeah, it's a pizza pig out.

It's happening at the Yale.

They got a gluten-free crust cooking.

It's in support of kids' sport, but I was looking at it, and it's for $50.

$50.

$50.

You got all-you-can-eat pizza, one drink ticket, and an entry for door prizes.

But...

I could eat $50 worth of gluten-free pizza.

Easy.

Easy.

I do every time I order it.

Yeah, yeah.

$50.

Yeah, one pizza with the gluten-free crust.

And then for the VIP experience, early access, 30 minutes before.

Yeah, that's what you want.

That's what you want.

You want that fresh pizza.

Two drink tickets.

Exclusive opportunity to mingle with VIP guests.

I'm guessing the other people who paid for the VIP experience.

Also, Darcy's Doggo Vita.

Local personalities and event sponsors.

So I can mingle with, I'm guessing

city TV hosts.

Yeah.

Graham Clark.

I'm going to be at the pizza.

How are we not the local personalities?

I know.

We've been on a record as loving pizza and loving to mingle.

When I think of Dave Schumke, I think that's a guy that loves to mingle.

He's pretty good.

You're pretty good at mingling.

That's not true.

I've seen you mingle.

You're good.

When we do live podcasts, you can mingle.

Oh, a live podcast where I'm a celebrity?

Yeah, I I was going to say.

If you go to like a cocktail party, are you mingling?

Or are you like...

No.

I'm the guy in the corner being Sattler with someone being my Waldorf.

You know what I mean?

Like, I can't.

You people watching.

Yeah.

I'm not going to go and talk to people.

I'll try to get a lot of people.

I'll find the person I know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's kind of the same.

If they're talking to someone new, hey.

Well, I guess I'm not going to talk to them.

Yeah.

Good luck.

Enjoy that.

I'm really good at hanging out in bathrooms at parties.

That's my favorite.

My favorite thing at a party.

I hang out near the all-you-can-eat pizza.

Right.

With your one drink.

I like to make up a whole career that I don't have.

And

I did that.

I went to.

I mean, in our lives, it's sort of making up a career we don't have.

I went to, this is like 2010.

Me and my best friend Maureen went to Mexico for a week at a resort.

And the only rule was it had to be a new life every time we met people.

So like new job, new relationship, like we were brother and sister to somebody, husband and wife to other people.

And fast forward,

it's like 2016.

I think it's the, what's the name of the club in Calgary?

Laugh Shop?

Laugh Shop.

I finish a show at the laugh shop and this couple walks up to me and I instantly remember them from Mexico and they're like, you told us you were a dental eye dentist.

Sure, during the day.

It came back to bite me.

Yeah.

I've had it happen where, because I would always tell people I'm a technical writer, which means that I write instructions

for industrial applications.

And I went and got like a physio massage.

And then like six months later, I went back to the same woman.

She's like, how's everything in the technical writing business?

And I'm like,

so it's an hour of training.

Like, ah, man, I work on it.

Sony came out with a new alarm clock and I just can't crack it.

I can tell there's knots in your back.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I was stressed out over the whole thing.

As long as nobody asks three follow-up questions, I'm fine.

But anything else?

Third follow-up?

Yeah.

But I'm like, okay, not really losing control of this.

I think instructions have gotten so much better.

Yeah.

Because they either, the thing comes with like a two-page pamphlet that's got nice diagrams, or it just sends you to a website.

But gone are the days of like, like, oh, I'm reading the German instructions.

Yeah.

Remember, you would get like a small something with an alarm clock.

You get a small little book and it would fold out like a map.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Nobody does instructions better than Lego.

They now have the Lego Builder app, and it's all 3D, so you can spin the piece to make sure you're putting it in the right spot.

It is the most satisfying instruction.

You told us off air,

you've gotten into Lego as a

cancer chronicle.

It's a hotel activity.

It started innocently enough when mum was a VGH

on the leukemia ward.

You can't take flowers.

You can't have any plants.

And my mom is like me.

She's a big gardener.

And Jerus suggested, he was like, why don't you just pick up a box of Lego flowers?

And that wait, she's got something.

And I was like, oh, that's great.

So I picked up a box and mom and I sat in her room and did them.

And I was like, I don't know, maybe it's a little bit of my tissue, but there was something so satisfying about the click.

and like the build I love building IKEA furniture and this was like the closest feeling to it so then I was the next day I went and bought another another plant and then by time you know a week had gone through i'd built every lego flower that existed and was like well maybe i'll just get like something cute to build and fast forward uh i just looked on the app this morning because it counts your pieces for you and i'm at 65 000 pieces oh wow since february wow yeah and for a guy with no income for the year this is a problem it's insanely expensive yeah

like it's 500 for a box of like i just bought the hotel uh at the one I'm staying in.

Nothing to do with Lego.

I just thought, you know what?

Why am I paying them?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They can build equity.

Instead, I spent what it cost me per night to stay at this hotel on a tiny miniature hotel.

Yeah, I'm a Lego purchaser as well.

Are you actually?

Well, I have children.

Oh, you have children.

Okay.

I have children too.

She's 26, but I'll blame it on her if I need to.

But we also inherited a bunch from my

nieces and nephews, nieces, mostly.

And so we have a bunch that are like sets that you build.

Do you ever do the like when I was a kid?

Did you do free build?

Yeah.

Yeah.

My parents still have all of my childhood Legos, so I've been like slowly bringing it over to the house because we've had to turn our like ping-pong table into a small village of my collection.

And I was like, oh, we have all the old pieces.

I can actually build like a little village.

So I've slowly started it, but have you seen the app that if you just take a picture of your pile of Lego, it'll tell you the things you can build?

No.

You just blew his mind.

What are you talking about?

It's just called like bricked or oh, yeah, okay.

I got a, just one.

I don't have it, so I

will be writing down a little note.

Darcy's taking out a bag of Lego.

What's going on?

For the longest time, I thought being bricked up meant something else, but now I'm bricked up.

Do you ever,

I sometimes encounter people who refer to it as Legos, like each piece is a Lego, but I believe that all of it is Lego.

Lego.

Lego.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm a Lego.

Yeah.

But I'm corrected on the internet all the time about pop culture things.

I grew up, and maybe I know I'm wrong because it's Wario Mario.

Yeah.

But I grew up calling it Mario.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

We've just had this conversation a while.

Did you guys actually?

Okay.

I get so confused.

I then applied it to like Tony Soprano.

Wait, Soprano?

Which is it?

It's Soprano, isn't it?

It's Soprano.

Yeah.

Soprano.

Yeah.

But just Mario.

Literally, before I say Mario, I have to go Wario Mario.

Wario Mario.

That's how I heard it.

I think it's funny that you...

Don't call it Legos because so many people call you Darcy Michaels.

That's right.

Now, a lot of the time, people don't even know my last name.

It's great.

I'm just Darcy.

That's right, because you're Darcy and Jerry, for now.

Yeah, for now, right?

Dot, dot, dot, for now.

Is that funny to Jerry?

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's the one.

He did this video the other day.

It's so stupid, but during his, because he had a couple surgeries and we just started his treatment last week and we're doing treatment.

We, I say, I'm just sitting.

You're just doing Legos.

No, I'm scrolling on TikTok probably.

And it goes, knock, knock.

And I'm like, like, who's there?

Tomorrow, tumor who, two more months to live.

And I was just like, it was pretty good, but then I got mad because I was like, bitch, I only booked the hotel for six weeks.

Like, I need to know if I have to extend in summer.

Like, they're probably sold out.

Yeah.

Are you dragging this out by an extra two weeks?

Jer has gotten so funny that it actually bothers me during this because he's

some sort of superpower.

He's just no fucks given anymore.

And you've gotten so corporate.

I literally, we have, have, we've had,

as I'm in pajamas.

You're calling the RV company?

Yeah.

I've had to take over, like, because Jare is fully stepped back from everything.

So I am the one doing all the corporate side of things.

And it's awful.

I fucking hate it.

I'm not very good at.

being PC in meetings.

Like, not PC, but like, just not being blunt.

Like, I would, I always had Jare to filter, you know, like when he's dealing with brands and stuff and they give notes on like an ad.

And I just tell him, no fucking way am I doing that.

And then Jare would be like, Darcy would prefer if we went this way, you know, like that kind of thing.

Whereas now I'm the one being like, what are you fucking talking about?

Why would I say it like this?

And they're just like, oh,

mad.

Could you put Jer on the phone?

Yeah.

Sure.

So

when you guys

like, because you're on TikTok, you're on Instagram.

How many times do you have to post a day?

Just once a day?

No, we don't even do that anymore.

We're maybe once or twice a week.

Oh, really?

Yeah, other than like stories or stuff.

Like, we don't really we've never t treated it with a during the height, for sure, like when we were really like like growing and stuff.

But especially this year, I don't care about entertaining people.

Like if something's funny to Jare and I and it's we just film it for fun and put it out, but like we we posted on what Saturday I don't have any intention to post anything for the rest of the week right because but it was we were daily me neither me yeah we were daily for like three years and then I was like we can't keep this up like it's just burnout uh so then I was like let's try three days a week uh and then we during this like whole thing because our entire business model blew up like uh with the with not being able to tour we had invested all of our money in the tour and the merch.

And so, like, we definitely had to pivot pretty quick.

So, we started a Patreon page where I just do like a weekly podcast

on there.

Uh, I think I'm on episode nine, so I'm pretty close to you guys.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You're gonna get into the double digits pretty quick, but it's been that's been our saving grace.

Like, I say, so Patreon, I'm definitely more active on.

People love

like the group chat is just like an ADHD nightmare in there with you know a couple thousand other neuro neuro fabulous people

there's a lot of plant talk a lot of weed talk

and then I try to post like some photos and stuff but I'm like there's this thing called we call it grief tourism

because we've been had to be a little public with it we're trying to limit

you know like I don't want to profit off of Jared's illness or anything like that but it is crazy how

by the way

I would profit off Graham's illness in a heartbeat.

We've signed a pact.

For the record, you've been profiting off of Graham's illness for 899 episodes.

He was out there with the katana on the Cancy R connector.

Down in quarter late.

Like, we announced that Jare was sick and we jumped 200,000 followers.

And I was just like, well, that's bizarre to me.

You know, like, I was worried we were going to announce that the tour was postponed by a year and we were going to have like just a tank because people would be mad at us or something.

You invested a bunch in merch.

What was the best piece of merch?

That's what I was just going to say, what's your merch?

Well, the merch was for the tour.

Yeah, but so it's sitting in a warehouse because we're still going to use it.

But it's just shirts and tote bags?

Anything else?

Yeah.

Oh, the thing I was most excited about is we have clacker fans,

you know, like the drag queen fans.

Oh, yeah.

Because it's great for people that can't clap after jokes.

They can just clack it.

It says the tour is called average at best

because we want to set expectations

for the second tour.

10 clacking ovations.

So, yeah, we've just got a bunch of merch and a warehouse that hopefully doesn't get destroyed by some hurricane before

because the worst thing about it is like you get tour insurance, right?

You get insurance when you're going on these tours.

You have to for Live Nation.

But because we were doing

the road trip before we went on the tour and because Jare and I were driving,

we couldn't do tour insurance until the drive stopped,

unless we were going to have someone else drive us.

And so because Jer and my mom both got sick in the window before the tour started, none of our tour insurance covered any of the cancellations or postponements.

So we've just been sitting on this merch going, hey, want to buy some merch next year?

Because with the tariffs, there's no point in even trying to sell it online.

Right.

Because we'd just get it, we'd lose any profit.

Gosh.

These are all things I have learned very quickly.

We're a problem.

Yeah.

You also said, I didn't know you were into gardening.

What?

Oh, I'm quite famous for my plants.

Let's see.

You haven't been here very long.

But you also, I know you.

What I know most about you is that you're a huge pot smoker.

Yeah.

Do you grow pot?

No, I don't.

I used to, but I'm at.

You used to before it was legal?

Before it was legal, I would grow it.

And then

we

just need to.

I have to call the fucking police right now.

You've been retroactively.

I don't know how to say this without sounding super privileged, but I haven't bought weed in four or five years.

Like, we just get sent so much weed.

So much weed.

Even with these tariffs?

Even with the tariffs.

Every, like, pretty much every weed company that makes it in Canada sends us.

We just got like 48 cans by Sweet Justice, my favorite

little weed company.

48 cans.

I don't know what a can.

How much weeds is it?

I'm like 48 cans of weed pop.

I'm imagining

Popeye squeezing a can of spinach into his pipe.

Does Jer smoke as well?

He doesn't smoke, but he does edibles.

I just think of him as the straight and narrow.

I don't know.

We just do dirigibles.

I fill a blimp with weed smoke and I.

Did you just follow it around?

No, I go in it.

Oh, you go in the

Jare loves a good little night out.

We, uh, just last week before we left the house, we before he was starting treatment.

We were like, let's just take a fuck ton of mushrooms and lay in the yard and blast music.

And so we just took the speakers outside and got high for six hours and listened to our favorite songs and scream cried at the sky.

It was great.

I'm so mad at the sky.

Yeah.

It's been a pretty angry year, guys.

Yeah, I'm not going to lie.

It's been a lot to process.

But you are here for another two, two weeks.

No, we've got five weeks to go.

We've got

five weeks to go.

And then Jersey treatment plan's three years long.

So it's not great.

Always coming back here?

Yeah, we come back every three months for

three to six weeks, depending on the cycle.

And then the nice thing is, I say the nice thing,

there's a six-month break, and it happens to be exactly when we go on tour.

Oh, nice rest.

There you go.

Yeah, he gets a six-month break and

think of this standing ovation.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, my God, they're going to be so quick.

We just put out a video where he's literally dressed like weekend at Bernie's because I just want people to be like, set your expectations low for one day.

Oh, that would be a great start of the thing that you're caring about.

Absolutely.

That's the point.

He's just going to sit in a chair.

There's a writer.

It's either that or is that.

Is this something you came up with in that writer's room?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Do you have to redo it and get me?

You got to come back and do all that.

We got to rewrite the whole show and things have changed.

Are you?

You probably are, right?

We do.

We got to burn at least half of it.

And then

I'm starting to write it now just to get ahead of it.

But I don't want to overcommit in case he gets really sick and I'm like, there's another half of a show gone.

Yeah.

But we're writing this one, the new version, in a way that Jare cannot have to be on stage the whole time.

So it's going to be a lot more solo

and Jerry will come kind of in and out.

Yeah.

That's sort of what you always wanted.

You know what?

I thought so.

Being on stage with Jer

was a dream come true because it just gave me that one, like it just, it made it, I talked about him on stage for 20 years, but then now it was just like, here, fucking.

We thought you made him up.

Yeah.

A lot of people did think I was punching above my weight.

He, yeah, I love it.

I think it's so funny to have

a straight-ish man beside you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I didn't know if I'd like it, but

he's surprisingly good.

He's really good at it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He

picked it up.

I think, you know, he's had a crash course.

He's sat backstage at shows for 20 years.

He's He's very good at the eye roll.

He's very good at the eye roll.

That's the thing, too, is it's become like, there's like the

did I do that kind of curse of our thing where it's like, you got to do the eye roll.

You got to say Darcy.

We filmed something with during the Junos.

Michael Booblay was hosting and we filmed it backstage and then we didn't end up putting it out, but it was Michael trying to audition to be new Jare.

And I thought it was very funny, but it was too soon for us to be that dark.

But it was him following me around being like, but look, look, and then rolling his eyes.

Imagine being so successful.

You're like, I don't want to post this Michael Bluvlay video.

It was just okay.

It just wasn't punchy enough.

You know, I had notes.

Yeah, well, that's

like amazing and then horrible and scary.

The prognosis is good.

That's what I keep, you know, like we've got a bumpy road at, but he's, you know, like they're, they're confident that we, we caught it early.

And that's the thing, man, if you have symptoms that are weird, go to a fucking doctor if you can.

I get that that's privileged to say to people outside of Canada.

Yeah.

But we are lucky enough to live in Canada.

And,

you know, like from the day of his first symptom, he was in surgery within three weeks.

Oh, wow.

And then he had a second surgery four weeks after that.

And seven weeks, two surgeries in seven weeks.

Yeah, definitely.

I promise.

That's good.

Well, I'm super glad that you were able to squeeze us in while all these shenanigans are going on.

Yeah, thanks, guys.

Thanks for the excuse to get out of the hotel room.

Truthfully, it's like a prison.

We're in the same room we were in the last time

we stayed.

And at first, we were like, Oh, this is great for the dogs because we also have my mom's golden retriever as well.

And we're like, Oh, this is great because they're used to the routine, they know what to expect.

And then we walked in and we're like, Oh,

we got a lot of

undealt with trauma from the last time we stayed in this room.

Yeah, of course.

Because Jared had a lot of medical equipment after his surgeries and stuff, and we're like, It looks bigger.

And we're like, Oh, right.

Like, none of the medical equipment's here yet.

But it's been great.

The hotel eventually, for security, we can't talk about where we're staying, but I have to say,

we have people who support the show, and

they'll tell you in the private feed.

Yeah.

And it's not a single tree, but.

Listen, I say we're broke.

We're not that broke.

Come on now.

They've been great.

Good.

Yeah.

Good.

People at Double Tree are great.

Is Double Tree the one that gives you the soft cooking?

The soft cookie.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah, I never know.

I wouldn't know.

I'm Celia.

Yeah, I know.

The last time I was there, it was just like, oh, it smelled so good.

And you're, you are.

I'm a smelliak, actually.

That's very true.

I am a smelly act.

You brought me warm, gluten-free sesame bagels from lemonade.

Oh, yeah.

And the guy behind me was thinking about it.

Yeah.

Oh, and they're good.

They're good when they're warm.

Oh, boy.

Even when they're not, like, those ones, I literally just, when I buy them, I end up eating at least a whole bagel on the drive home just as is absolutely delicious um yeah and you're uh you're you're actually celiac you're not uh just i'm not doing it because it's trendy we were talking upstairs you were the first celiac

comedian who wear celiac that was patient zero 2008 was when i got diagnosed uh yeah and i had to drive there was one bakery in North Van.

We lived in Ladner, so it was like an hour drive.

And you would go and get a like a literal brick.

Like it weighed so much, this loaf of bread that you had to toast like six times just to make it edible.

Yeah, there was my celiac, celiac, celiac.

Celiac bread.

I swear to God, the reason I only come back every four years is because I feel like I bring nothing to the conversation and I just laugh at you two the entire podcast.

You're very very good.

Thank you.

You're very good as well.

It's so great to have you back as a new one.

If you haven't listened to my solo podcast on Patreon, available at darcyandchair.com.

Yeah.

What's it called?

The Patreon.

No, the podcast.

Oh, SideQuest.

Side quest.

And it's just me talking.

It's a very lo-fi podcast.

I use a lavalier mic and I just talk to the camera about whatever I want.

Do you have one of those little

square fuzzy

road mic?

Yeah, and I just.

No, I don't have the road mic.

I have the Amazon rip-off.

Right.

And I just hold it, even though it's a lavalier mic, because I know it drives people nuts that I hold the mic.

But people, that's the number one

microphone of walking up to some stranger on the street.

What's your body count?

What's your body count?

It's Charles Bronson.

You don't want to know.

There's a guy that does it on New York subway.

Yeah.

And he's got it behind like a transit.

And then I saw somebody else doing it not on transit.

I was like, the whole gag is that he's on transit.

I like that one.

I'm not a big fan of the streeters because I'm like, you're just using other people for content.

When I worked in broadcasting, like that was the lowest of the low.

It's like, oh, we have no angle on the story.

Well, just talk to people as they leave the subway.

Yeah.

Oh, it's gross.

But they're all eating sandwiches.

The only ones that are.

So, are you eating fresh?

Yes, or no?

Do you know there's one about, I can't remember what it's called, but they just go up to couples in New York and ask them, like, are you a couple?

What's your story?

And that one I like because it's usually like, how'd you meet?

And you would be on there making up a little fake light.

I would absolutely.

I'm a dental hygienist married to a tech writer.

Hey, you want to see how to put in a dental dam?

That's our jam.

He wrote it.

I slam it in him.

But yeah,

the ones where they're like, can I see your apartment?

I'm like, this must have been pre.

Oh, yeah.

Those ones are those ones are fully staged.

Yeah.

They'd have to be.

I like the ones that are like, here's a bunch of geography questions or something.

Yeah.

I like the ones where they're like, do you hawk to a spit on that thing?

Is this a multiple choice question?

Dave, what's going on with you, man?

Well, things aren't as bad over here.

Sure.

You don't say.

Well, one thing I like about doing this podcast year after year is

it sort of like sets markers in time where I'm like, oh, was it this time last year that, oh, yes, it was.

It's right now, it's the time of year that comes around

every year where

I look out my front window and I see crows dive bombing pedestrians.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I got dive bombed the other day.

Did you?

This happens here?

It happens for about two days, two or three days, that there's

oh, is it like mating season?

Or like the babies

are born, yeah.

And there's just like

all day long, they're cawing and cawing, and people walk down and they hear the cawing, but that's what crows do.

Crows caw.

Yeah, they're chatty.

And then they go right by your ear.

Yeah, this one flew like right over my head.

It wasn't as scary as I thought because I was just like, Well, that's what they're this is their time of year to be doing that.

Let them, let them swoop.

They're smart and they swoop.

Well, the adults are, but but I think that

some of the young birds have the reason they're freaking out is because like the young birds are going out and doing stuff and they're stupid and they just like get stuck behind a flower pot in my backyard.

Did that happen?

Oh no.

Oh no.

Poor little guy.

Yeah, and then,

but they he he figured it out nice uh we left him alone for a while i was like do we help him yeah yeah let's see what he's got to learn this life lesson and but like all day long it's just you see a pedestrian or a cyclist going down or a jogger and you're you see two people coming at different times and you're like which ones are the crows gonna get

when i walk the dogs i bring my uh umbrella oh sure do you actually yeah that's wild oh i'm glad i know this before i leave have you ever had things happen?

No, I got dive bombed by an owl once.

Oh,

and it was my friend Diana and I were walking, and the owl tried to steal her hair barrette.

Like it was just like obviously something.

She had the mouth-shaped hair.

And it got her.

And I just felt like this thing, but she looked traumatized.

It is freaky.

Yeah, I mean, and owls are huge.

Yeah, yeah.

No, it like it grabbed her head and her hair got all teased.

And she, uh, she, the rest of the night, some of the people pay a lot of money to have that.

She spent the rest of the night being like, I can still feel it touching me.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

I think crows would scare me because I wouldn't want to piss them off.

Yeah.

Because they're such, they have such memory.

Yeah.

Like, we had a crow that thought he was a woodpecker at my parents' house, and he would peck at my dad's windowsill in the mornings.

And so one day my dad just put his gun, he was a cop,

on the windowsill and the crow never came back.

Like, that's when I knew.

That's when I knew crows, they know shit.

And they were like, that guy is not fucking around anymore.

Like, this will just have a little neighborhood.

There's a website called Crow Tracks

where you can report where the crows attack you.

And some of them, like you, you fill in like the number one to five, how aggressive they were.

And then you write a little thing about what happened.

And

I was going through a bunch of posts, like seeing what was around.

And so many people are like,

I guess they expect the crows to be much more aggressive because they're like, ah, the crow scratched my head and attacked me.

Two out of five.

Two out of five do not recommend.

Yeah.

What's the point of a website like that other than giving someone a space to just tell somebody?

I think that's

or like you know where to avoid if you want.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's a guy in the West End I see.

I've seen like at least once a week that walks with a group of crows.

Have you ever seen this phenomenon where they like have like 20 of them and they just follow him as he walks through?

Like he feeds them every now and then and stuff, but like he'll be down at Sunset Beach in the mornings sitting on a log and there will be like 20 or 30 of the crows just hanging out.

And they must be bringing them the shiniest objects they find.

Our neighbor feeds the crows on the island and we every now and and then get little trinkets at our front door from the crows because they like pay it for a gun.

Hey, I found this gun.

What I will say about that is, don't feed the crows.

The crows are doing fine.

They're thriving.

They're thriving.

Yeah.

So that was one thing.

The other thing that happened this week is I went to see Lilo and Stitch.

Live action.

The live action.

I mean, Lilo's live action.

Okay.

All right.

Who plays Lilo?

I know, no one, well, Lilo.

Isn't Lilo?

That's who plays it.

He's Lilo, Lilo.

Wait, themselves?

Wario, Wario, Lilo.

Am I doing this right?

Was it good?

What are you asking me?

No, it wasn't good.

Was it tolerable?

It was fine.

Did the kids like it?

Did you go with the kids?

I went with the kids.

You guys just got to have some me time.

It was better than like the Snow White.

Sure.

We see all the remotes.

I haven't seen the originals of a lot of these.

Yeah.

Have I seen Lee Lowe?

I haven't seen Lulow and State.

Yeah, I don't know.

Zach Galifanakis is in it.

No way.

He's a bad guy.

Like as in

animated guy who is.

He's an animated guy who gets

like when he comes to Earth, he becomes a human being and switches bodies with the comedian Zach Galfanesh.

Oh, yeah, sure.

Zach.

Yeah.

I love what he's done with himself.

Just like totally separated, moved out, given Hollywood the finger, and then just pops up in Lilo and Stitch.

Oh, sure, I'll be the heavy in Lilo and Stitch.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Every actor wants to do that.

That in Shakespeare, you want to be a guy in an animated film.

My favorite thing that happened during Lilo and Stitch was I went to go to the bathroom and there was a dad and a son and the son was like six and he was wearing you know those Spider-Man like the all the superhero costumes have super big muscles.

Although Spider-Man, I don't consider a very muscular guy.

He's a nice guy.

But he had the muscular Spider-Man thing and we were in the bathroom and so he had to take it off.

And he takes it off and underneath he has another one.

Nice.

And then he has to take that off.

So I'm like washing my hands and I look in the mirror and I see this little kid with four sleeves hanging, four muscly sleeves hanging down.

He looked like a spider.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's so funny.

I figured he probably

like his parents were like, oh, okay, you've outgrown your size five.

We'll get you a size six.

And the kid's like, no, I keep both.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm going to put one under the other.

And it's like a jumpsuit?

Is that why I had to?

Okay.

Yeah.

That's so funny.

That's so cute.

I mean it's exactly how Spider-Man himself goes to the bathroom yeah he's got to take the whole thing off well he probably just pisses her on the Empire State building

pisses his pisses his pants

yeah pisses his pants moves on are they like

it's not like a vinyl like fetish suit that like where not a bubble of air can escape uh Spider-Man yeah I would

assume it's pretty formed it's pretty formed but what if he pisses does it get soaked or does the piss stay inside?

Like just like

a bubble starts.

No, I didn't.

It's just like a balloon, a water balloon between his legs.

Get me pictures of Spider-Man.

Not now.

I guess he's the photographer himself.

That's right.

He's good friends with Spider-Man.

I just figured it out, yeah.

Anyway, I check out Lilo and Stick.

People are poking big holes in

some of the logic of the movie.

Like what?

There's a big Medicaid issue.

Really?

Yeah, Lilo's older sister, their parents are dead.

Okay.

And Lilo

has to make a good impression to the social worker played by

Jane Lynch.

And Allison Janney.

No, a Hawaiian celebrity.

This takes place on Hawaii.

The Rock?

The Rock.

Two-time winner of the Grammy Award for Hawaiian Album of the Year.

Donna.

Elvis Preston.

Tia Carrera.

Tia Carrera.

I have no idea who that is.

You know, the gal from Wayne's World.

Oh, okay, yeah.

Yeah, fair.

And she's the social worker, and she's like, I'm going to take away Lilo if Lilo's older sister doesn't take care of her.

And then they end up in the hospital

because of a surfing accident.

And

it's a heavy movie.

And she's like, well, you know what?

If you give her over to the state, then Medicaid can pay her her

bill.

And I don't, I mean, I'm Canadian.

I don't really know the internet.

They go like a whole scene where, like, now you co-pay.

All you have to pay is the deductible if your employee is going to match a quarter of it.

Now, if they're not, you can apply to the company.

But what about, ah, look, I hate Obamacare, but I love the Affordable Care Act.

Well, I got news for you.

I shouldn't know any of this.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

And So people are like, well, actually, they would both be covered by Medicaid because of their income levels.

Like, there's a big spoiler insurance hole in the plot.

Somebody who was really bored with the film and like, yeah, what more importantly, how did you discover these holes in the plot or the conversation about the holes in the plot?

Oh, I mean, I'm on a different internet than you, man.

David likes to research the movie as soon as it's done, got all the ins and outs.

Lilo doesn't speak, right?

Or speak Lilo is a human girl.

Oh, sitch.

Sitch in the movie picks up.

I don't know about the original.

In this one, he picks up a bit of English by the end.

So it's very sad.

He, because he causes all this chaos and he says something about, like, I'm bad.

You just do bad things.

That's the line.

Yeah.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

So check it out.

Lilo and Sitch from Disney.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The upstart.

Yeah.

They're the A24 of giant movie companies.

I wonder if their past catalog, have they mined it for all its?

I heard one of the reasons they remake these things is so they can renew their trademark on

yeah so they look at the the Mickey Mouse yeah so like Snow White and and the Seven Dwarfs.

Well, we just remained Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and they all have the names that we came up with.

Right, okay.

Oh, I didn't realize that's it.

Except for they also had Horny.

Horny, yeah,

that was the one they really wanted to protect.

Yeah, what does Horny do in the movie again?

Oh, he's

the one that doesn't want her to wake up.

Let's just say he whistles while he works.

What's going on with you, Graham?

I know what's going on with you.

You had a big weekend.

Had a big weekend.

This weekend, I performed 24 hours straight of stand-up comedy.

Thank you.

Standing ovation.

Thank you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It took a while to get there.

Clacker, clacker.

In 24 hours, did people stand up at the end?

At the very end, yes.

Yeah.

People stood up and clapped them.

And walked out.

Yeah, that was it.

We're done.

Where did I leave my keys?

That was, I watched online.

You were very funny.

Thank you.

It was great.

I watched online and in person.

You were there.

You were a joke writer.

I was a joke writer.

Well, I was mostly reminiscing.

But it was, yeah, it was a lot of fun.

And then, oh, the shenanigans that go on and a 24-hour show.

Two babies during the shoot.

That's it.

Yeah, I thought there would be more, but one.

Because I was there for at least one.

You saw the baby that stayed the longest.

The other baby, I think the parents sat down and started crying.

They just walked out immediately.

This is fine.

You know, it was worth a shot.

And they were up at six or something, six or seven in the morning.

So it was probably like, yeah, we're already up.

Let's go check this out.

I was fine with the baby crying.

That's that's fine.

At one point, the fire alarm went off and it was for a good like eight or nine minutes.

And everybody just stayed.

Yeah, I mean, because it was, yeah, we stayed, but it was like, it was a false alarm.

Okay.

Yeah.

How does it, can I ask, like, for the 24 hours, do you allow yourself bathroom breaks?

Yes.

Okay.

How often?

It just.

Every hour for about 59 minutes.

Usually because I have a table of writers.

When the writers shift over, then you take it.

Yeah, just because there's like a natural

break or whatever.

So

when the writers come in, was it two hours?

Yeah.

And my shift started right on time.

And then the next shift started quite late.

And I was like, Graham's having bathroom trouble.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hear him splashing around in there like, oh, don't worry, I got this fern out.

And yeah, so there was two babies, a dog.

Somebody brought a surface dog.

Two.

Because there's

during the show, I throw all the jokes in a pile.

This giant kind of like leaf pile of jokes.

And people are right, like you got teams of writers just cranking out things.

Cranking out jokes.

They go in a bucket.

You finish, you tell a joke, you throw it in a pile.

Yeah, and it becomes this giant pile on stage.

And this dog came in, and we're like, how do we get this dog in the pile?

Do Do you want this dog in the pile?

There was a lot of

writers would write the word treat into their joke.

At first, I didn't understand it.

I was like, I know what you're doing here.

But so the owner threw a bunch of snacks in the pile, and we just stood there and watched him nose around and stick his little face in there.

What time of day was that?

That was probably.

I got to say, that's got to be like

Saturday morning.

Yeah, it was in the morning.

Because I was there at noon, and it had happened.

It had happened.

The moment it was gone, yeah.

And the time was the hour in 24 hours.

Do you think you're the funniest?

Oh, that's a good question.

Probably in the first stretch and then the very last stretch.

Yeah.

I was there at noon, and I think that's when you're the meanest.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was there.

I was the queen of me.

And don't come for my act.

Yeah.

It's so much fun to write jokes and

do it for two hours.

I don't know why you do it for 24 hours.

It is fun most of the time.

The only time it wasn't fun was

I heard there was an unpleasant person.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, what happened?

There was somebody on the writer's table that brought somebody with them, which is not.

Okay.

And the guy that was with him was pretty

manosphere, let's say, kind of hating woke things that I'm like, why are you here?

You don't have to also like heckling?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But was he writing jokes?

I don't know.

I don't know what he was doing there.

But you weren't getting jokes that are like, oh, this is too unwoke.

Yeah, I was.

I was like, I'm not going to say that because this is being live streamed, right?

So it'd be one thing, I guess, if it's just like the 10 of us in a room.

Sure, why not?

And then

it's like the whole point of view is being woke woke for 24 hours.

Yeah, you're fighting off the urge to sleep.

And yeah, so that was weird.

And then there were reoccurring people kind of popped up that came back after a search at home.

And there was a guy.

At first, when he came in, I was like, God damn, this guy's going to be so much trouble.

His name was Big A Al.

And he was in there in a cowboy hat.

And I was like, oh, fuck me.

Like, how are we going to deal with this fucking guy?

If there's time.

But then he ended up being

lovely.

He's a real hippie, and he grows his own hops to make beer.

I feel like that happened last year as well, where there was someone who was

so drunk and out of control, and then they slept it off, came back later, and brought you a gift.

Yeah, they brought me an onion

because the because the woman was, when she was there late at night, just reeked of onions.

Like, she must have just had like a, you know, like schwarma or something like that.

And so, everybody, every joke was about how this woman smelled like onions

it does it's so fun how the jokes will just like you'll get in a pattern oh god the same jokes and like the same topics and sometimes you're doing a callback from six hours early yeah well do were you there with any country jokes yeah i was there in the heat of country

and diarrhea uh well we all know who started that yeah that would be alicia that would be diarrhea factory diarrhea factory and she also uh wrote about big naturals yes big naturals of course.

And then, so every combination of those three things.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Was there something there was those ladies who left for brunch after two minutes of seeing the show?

Oh, they were amazing.

This like squad of what do you say?

Like in their 50s?

No, yeah, easily 50s.

But they were, I thought they were just like here off a cruise ship.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And they all had like beautiful gray hair.

And just at one point, they were like, off to brunch.

And like, they just walked out.

They had sat there for less than 10 minutes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's amazing.

They went out to brunch.

There was one guy.

There was two people who were there the whole time.

Really?

Yeah.

There was a woman named Natasha and a guy named Michael.

And they were there from the very beginning to the very end.

Wow.

And there was another guy

to donate their time.

At the price of a ticket.

And the woman, Natasha, she is a nanny, so she's quite good at like reading bad handwriting.

So I had had to hand anything off to her that I couldn't read.

And that's how she became the nanny.

Who would have guessed that the girl described was just exactly what the self described?

She's a lady in red when everybody else is wearing tan.

Oh, man.

Do you ever see the nanny, Darcy?

No.

The flushing girl from Flushing?

I know it, but I did not know that that's what you guys were singing.

I've never seen an an episode.

Oh,

it was a bit behind my time.

Right.

You're our age.

Am I?

Are we?

Are we the same age?

I think so.

We are, yeah, because

you went to school with my friend Bill.

Yes.

You were roommates.

No, we were in the same dorm, but yeah.

Oh, okay.

We were down the hall from each other.

Fair.

Dorm mate.

Dorm mate.

Oh, man, I would have killed myself if I was Bill's roommate.

I understand.

That weird nooofi pouring sugar on pizza.

Really?

Yeah,

I love that you remember that from 20 years ago.

I remember one thing about everyone I've ever met.

Sugar on pizza.

Sugar on pizza.

Wow.

Yeah.

That is like a Newfoundland?

I don't know.

That's just two things about them, actually.

I don't know if they're connected.

I don't know if they're connected, but it is surprisingly good.

Well, of course it is.

It's

sweet and salty.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I wonder if they'll have it at the pig out tonight.

Bring your own sugar.

If they have a gluten-free.

I got the night open.

I could easily go down.

That's the trick with pizza.

You can only eat so many slices.

Yeah.

I mean, it's a fun razor.

I've yet to reach my limit of slices.

When you were younger, did you go to the Pizza Hut?

I worked at Pizza Hut Buffet in North Fan.

Oh, fan.

I was young.

Yeah, the one by Cap Mall.

I worked there and then on 16th and Launcelay.

I worked for Pizza.

That was the longest job I've ever had had in my life.

Really?

I guess there are only so many jobs in a pizza hut.

Were you

serving the pizza pie?

Did you make it?

I worked in the kitchen most of the time.

That was my first time.

Was there a buffet?

There was a buffet

at the Marine Drive one day.

Did you refill the croutons?

Oh, I refilled the croutons.

Then there was that big, like, giant ladle that you could get at the salad dresser.

And that was when I used to, pizza at the birthplace, I think, of dipping sauce for pizza.

Yeah, sure.

Because long before we, it was a thing that you would buy, we would always crack open a little ranch thing and dip in.

I'm not a huge fan of dipping pizza.

If the crust is bad, I'm yeah, that's where I

like a marinara sauce with a, with a pizza to dip in, but I like it saucy.

Where's your favorite gluten-free pizza?

Have we had this conversation?

Uh, here in town, yeah.

Uh, a place called Parlor.

I was going to say, we had that together at the writer's room.

Yeah, I like parlor.

I'm a big fan of dominoes, gluten-free.

Yeah, it'll do.

It'll do in a crunch.

Yeah.

And

they only sell a certain size.

Smalls.

So you got to get like eight of them.

You got to get eight small.

It's a real fancy.

H10 business lice.

It's a real pizza pickup.

But yeah.

Oh, that's amazing.

You worked at Pizza Hot.

I was a pizza boy.

Do you think you were celiac back then?

Oh, absolutely.

You should never argue with a celiac.

Nice.

Nice.

I wasn't sure where it was going, but I like where it ended up.

When I got my job at Pizza Hut, the training video was

Siskel and Ebert.

Oh.

Remember the two thumbs up, guys?

Yeah, yeah.

They were in the training video?

They were the training video for Pizza Hut.

And

Bill, your dorm mate, and I,

would always, anytime we'd make a pizza, we'd look at each other and give each other a thumbs up.

Like, hey, we did it.

I bet that's on YouTube.

I bet you it probably is

somewhere.

There's Wendy's training videos.

Yeah.

There's the training video you see in the guy at the carving station.

The training video where they're

fake conversation.

Did you see the game last night?

Yeah.

They're ruining our country.

Those people.

We once had to paint the bathroom at the pizza after hours.

And Bill

spilt a bunch of paint in the bathroom, and we both stood nipping, like, what the fuck?

And then Bill walked from the bathroom in paint-covered shoes across the restaurant to get a mop and bucket.

So, Bill.

And then we were both just like, What do we do?

So, we gently mopped it and left for the night, and came back, and we had done a terrible job mopping, and the entire floor was just like streaks of white paint.

It was great.

Let's leave.

They'll never know.

They'll never know.

Yeah.

It could have been anyone.

We were pretty stoned in the 90s.

Wow.

Yeah.

The,

was it,

is it like just a pre-made crust that you throw in, or do you actually have to like roll out?

Oh, no, you may, like, I'd go in in the morning.

I loved it.

I genuinely, I think it's like the Lego thing where it was just like you go in the morning, you make the dough, you spread, like, you roll out the pizzas, you put them into

the warmer.

So you'd make like, i don't know 200 large pizzas and fill the once you would see how much oil was in those pans

for like one piece i think one medium pizza was like three or four tablespoons of oil in the bottom and then the pan and then the the dough i make pizza at home i cannot make the dough a circle oh yeah no it's because

yeah it's impossible yeah you gotta go with the rustic look yeah we have a pizza oven at the new house and i love it like it's is it an uni I don't know.

I have one friend with an uni.

I have two friends with an uni and a friend with a whatever the Swedish version of an uni is.

Do they, is there a specific look to an uni where you're like, that's a good one?

It's the one with the dome.

I don't know.

Ours is a black stone or whatever it is.

Oh, sure.

We have a,

we just have a barbecue with a pizza stone on top.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I have to, I had to get some like fireproof bricks to elevate it so it doesn't burn the bottom.

Have you done it?

Yeah, yeah.

And results?

Good, it's fine.

Yeah.

Not as good as an uni.

You're not using wood, are you?

No, it's it's ours is attached, like it's its own thing, but it's attached to the propane of the barbecue.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

It's like a ceramic thing.

Oh, sure.

That is just like, I don't know.

You just turn it on and throw pizza in.

Sounds good.

It's fun.

It's my.

anytime we're having more than Jareknife for dinner, we just make fun of it.

Are you, is a homemade gluten-free crust good?

No, oh, no, it's horrible.

We get these.

Uh, Char is the brand.

Uh, you know, use code Darcy Jar15 to save.

No, that will not work.

Darcy said this would work.

What the hell?

I've ordered 20 of these things.

But they make a great crust.

The problem with making pizza at home is like getting the cheese and sauce combined.

It's hard to get that like commercial taste.

You've had the Costco one, right?

Yeah, the Costco one's great.

That one's a, we actually have them in the hotel right now.

I think that's the plan tonight.

Nice.

A couple baked pizzas.

Did you bring your pizza with you to the hotel?

With the amount I packed,

we probably should have.

We brought our air fryer, our ice maker.

This time around, I was not fucking.

Did you really?

Yeah, I was like, I want all the things I can bring.

Like, if we're going to...

There's an ice maker that we got forever ago.

It's the little tiny cube.

The pellets?

The pellets.

It's from Costco.

It's the best thing in the world.

I drink so much water because of it.

I feel like that was a pizza hut thing as well, the little pellets of the music.

Maybe it was.

Wow.

We're really connecting the dots.

Because I remember you made those brown tumbler glasses.

Yeah, brown glasses.

And I feel like there would be those circulars.

I just had a light fixture.

Oh, the light fixtures.

Oh, my God.

The booths.

I mean,

the building for the original Pizza Hut is still there, and it's now an insurance place,

and it looks ridiculous.

It's like, what's with the hut?

Speaking of back in the day, there's something we've been asking a lot of our guests is, when you were a kid in school, what movies did they show, like either to kill time in class, or this is connected to chemistry because it's weird science or whatever.

Weird science.

Oh, how did they make her own weird science?

Was it chemistry or was it computer science?

Yeah, it was probably computer science.

Yeah.

What was the one

like with the it's not Lost Boys, but it was

yeah, yeah, that one.

And the one with Jerry O'Connell.

Stand by Me?

Stand by Me.

Oh, yeah.

Stand by Me was that could stretch into two or three class

viewings, right?

Yeah.

What's his name from Taskmaster?

Greg Davies just talked about that

when he was a teacher, it was every Friday afternoon he would put a movie on for kids because he'd gotten drunk at lunch.

Yeah.

And so then it makes you go back and go, yeah, it always was Fridays.

Yeah.

Were they all just drunk?

Or like the entire month of June, pretty much.

Just like, well, we're close enough to the end of the year.

Here, let's get with it.

What did you guys watch?

Oh, boy.

I feel like we watched Time Bandits at one point.

Time Bandits.

Breakfast Club.

Breakfast Club, yeah.

Which is funny.

like i don't know if you could play that one today probably not yeah yeah

um i remember that being robin hood prince of thieves oh yeah whatever we're reading yeah don't i think we we didn't get as many as you yeah i really like sorry

yeah

uh there was like

I feel like the things we it would be for a special occasion like hey it's the last day of school before Christmas let's watch the Grinch

or or you're like, you're, or this year we're doing a French film class for your elected

French connection.

Yeah.

Beauty and the Beast because her name's Belle.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

Like, fuck.

They were in France, the whole thing.

Yeah.

Gaston is

certainly French.

I feel like we may have watched a Disney movie as well.

Like, we definitely never got Disney movies.

I don't know if our school had the budget for it.

I think you're right, though.

I think my drama teacher was somebody somebody who was always kind of hungover.

Yeah.

Would show us a movie.

They would show us this like

Pizza Hut training video with Cisco Annie Burr.

That sounds pretty good.

Thumbs up.

Thumbs up.

I bet you that paid so much money.

Oh, I bet you.

Good for them.

Yeah.

Get it while it's hot.

Hell yeah.

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Overheard.

Overheard's a segment of the show where if you got them, we want them.

And we're talking things you've overheard or overseen or on occasion overdreamt.

And we always like to start with a guest.

Darcy, do you have an overheard?

I have an overheard, and I also have an overread.

Perfect.

But they're both dark.

So the overread's quite simple.

Someone left a comment on a video of a dark joke we made, and they said, My dad's urn says, Get well soon.

That's pretty good.

Pretty good.

This one I overheard.

I've changed the name, but

the way the husband emphasized her name just made it so much funnier to me.

So I've changed the name for their privacy, but it was a couple arguing next to

my mom's room at the cancer clinic because this woman was complaining that she was out run.

She was running out of time to get errands done.

And he goes, must be nice.

I'm not running for anything because I don't have legs legs anymore, Sharon.

And it was just like, Sharon, you got to stop using running terminology to your husband who just lost his fucking legs.

Sorry, I'm trying to get a leg up at work.

He's got legs.

He knows how to use them.

The important thing is I got four new pairs of shoes that day.

This dark comedy's working for you.

This is good.

I didn't even have to to wait for them to wash ashore in Vancouver.

Wow, there it is.

For people who don't know, here in Vancouver, pretty consistently,

feet will wash up on shore in shoes.

In shoes, yeah.

Yeah, and nobody's quite sure what it is, but any which way it's a I did.

I used to do a joke about it because it happened

like 200 feet from our front door in Ladner, and I only know that because I use the foot to measure.

Man, Man, you gotta just, you gotta get it.

You've gotta be the dark and stormy guy.

This is uh

TikTok loves this guy.

Dave, do you have an overheard?

Yeah, these are.

I just took a bunch of pictures of the website, Crow Tracks.

I was gonna say, if it's Crow related, I'm in.

Crow dived on me, tried to grab my hair.

One aggressiveness.

Crow seemed chill at first,

sitting by the bench, but then it landed on my head.

Wasn't too bad.

They flew away.

It did not come back to reland.

Aggressiveness one.

One.

Okay, that's not bad.

This is aggressiveness five.

And there's a typo, which

I enjoyed.

Attached and scratched my head.

Drew blood.

Really?

What was the rating on that one?

Five.

Five.

Okay.

Yeah.

I think they meant attacked and scratched my head.

Yeah, not attacked.

Yeah.

Emotionally.

But imagine.

Oh, my God.

But here's one that is

just a van I saw in the neighborhood today.

The name of a tradesman on the side of his van, it says

Young Boy Drywall.

No, no.

Old man Drywall.

So about this young boy you're sending over.

Yeah, maybe it means something in a different.

Well, yeah, I don't know.

Yeah.

Abby grew up in Bern, Switzerland, and the local soccer team there is called the Bern Young Boys.

Oh, wow.

And I think even in German, they call them the Young Boys,

like the English words.

So maybe it is.

Maybe it's a German.

I don't know.

Also,

the stadium they play at, the Young Boys?

Wankdorf Stadium.

No, really?

Yes.

The jokes write themselves.

I mean, even if they don't, it's fun to say.

Yeah.

Anyway, check it out.

What is it called again?

Young Boy Try Wall.

Oh, the Crow website.

Oh, Crow Tracks.

That's tracks with an X.

Oh, is it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Hell yeah.

That's trendy.

My do you haven't overheard?

I do.

You must have overheard something in those 24 hours.

I did.

So, on the way to Little Mountain, I passed by a pizza slice place that was called 9-1-1 Pizza.

Yeah, and it's a police-themed pizza place.

We've talked about it.

Yeah.

And it's so I was talking about it.

It made me laugh, and we were all laughing.

And then

it became 9-11 Pizza.

That became its own stream.

And then these two kids came in.

This guy brought us two kids.

And when I was asking him how old they are,

9-11.

Everybody lost their minds.

Are you kidding?

He did that as tribute to those who fell.

That's right.

Yeah, but it's just like, couldn't have been more perfect.

Were they

so you had babies, and then you had a nine-year-old and an 11-year-old.

Anyone in between?

Anyone else bring their kids?

No, that was the kids.

And these kids had been the year before, and they also wrote jokes and put them in the box.

Did they actually?

Yeah.

Oh, that's cute.

You know, one of the

knock-knock.

Who's there?

9-11.

9-11-who?

And you said never forget.

Yes.

My kids are going to be 9-11 next year.

And we know what their Halloween costume is.

They're not exactly twins.

But yeah, anyways, that was a nice moment.

Oh, okay, but we talked about the 24-hour thing.

How was the success?

Because it's a fundraiser.

Yeah, it was good.

It was good?

Yeah, I can't remember.

I don't remember.

I don't know what the final tally is.

Did you break three figures?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

We got up into the we were in the forest.

We were definitely in the forest.

Because it's a fundraiser for Little Mountain Gallery, right?

It was some of it went to Little Mountain because it's a not-for-profit.

But the rest went to Filipino BC.

Oh, amazing.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, that's great.

And they had, like, they sent somebody down and they took all sorts of pictures.

You were on the news.

I was on the news.

Yeah, I was on radio news and television news.

Oh, also, there was.

The next day, what seemed like a really popular fundraiser for the Filipino community,

a local restaurant had the Soup Nazi.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

No, really?

The Soup Nazi was there.

I saw somebody post it, but I was like, oh, maybe that's just.

And it was raising money for Filipino

for the Lapu Lapo.

And is it the guy who played or the actual...

The guy who, the

actor?

Okay, fun.

Fun.

That's cute.

Because I did know he does that for charity, and it becomes like a

fun, silly, you know, attraction.

I mean, people were lined up.

Yeah.

I would be yelled at.

Yeah.

I would go.

I don't even like soup.

No?

No.

Hate soup.

Really?

Just across the board.

Just don't give me soup.

It's so labor-intensive.

What about stew?

What to eat?

Yeah.

It's exhausting.

Tiny little spoon.

no, I don't like it.

Stew.

What about hashtag celebrity soup?

Are we talking orgy?

Are we talking orgy?

I don't have the energy for that either.

Right.

All right.

After you're 40.

It's orgy time.

Bye-bye.

Have you heard of nachos?

That is a satisfying thing.

Oh, man.

I made nachos the other night.

I'm going to show you a picture because they actually, for hotel room nachos, they like, look at that.

Oh, man.

Yeah, that's a great thing.

Is that the air fryer?

No, I used the oven for that one.

Nice.

Yeah.

Hope not the same oven they use for those

cookies.

The Double Tree cookies.

It's just me in the lobby of the Double Tree.

I got to borrow this first.

I'm checking in again.

Sorry, my cancer patient

has a craving.

Yeah.

Jare was literally like, you made nachos?

Those nachos look good.

They were good.

Did you do layers of, or was that just one big layer of cheese on top?

No, no, it was a double layer.

I wasn't fucking around.

I had a lot of weed pop sent to me.

So I was.

Yeah, you got to get through that weed.

Meanwhile, Jare was like,

oh, yeah, I guess you're not going to be able to do it.

We don't like soup as a double.

No, I should probably make you something too, eh?

You want like tortilla soup?

I got a bunch of stuff lying around.

Yeah, I could spit on the nachos.

That's tortilla soup for you.

You water down the Guago.

Yeah, you're taking some pain medicine.

Go to sleep.

Now, we also have overheard sent in to us by

all over the map.

If you want to send one, you can send it into spy at maximumfun.org.

And this first one comes from Julian and Edmonton.

Tarzi just pointed at the

spy pod one.

That's great.

I'm going to start calling in and leaving voicemails.

Please.

Yeah, just catch up times.

Yeah.

If you see anything funny, or even if you just want to catch up.

I just want to talk.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Who has to listen to these?

Me.

Dave.

Really?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

We got a 22-minute call.

We should get an intern.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We might be like

Sprat Shaw and see if anyone wants to intern for the summer.

How long has Sprat Shaw Community College been around?

It's funny because it's almost been, well, it's 1903.

I can't do the math, but.

Okay, sorry.

Do you remember?

This comes from Julian from Edmonton.

I was sitting on a brew pub patio,

and there was a group of about six women in their early 20s sitting nearby.

They were, yeah, good luck, buddy.

They were servers at a nearby restaurant, excitedly chatting away.

At one point, the topic turned to how they resembled.

how they resemble their parents.

And one of them said in a completely sincere way, I look so much like my mom and dad.

It's like if they had a kid together, it would look exactly like me.

Past guest Amber Harper Young,

she does a joke because a lot of comedians would back in the day, especially.

I know what you're thinking.

It's so-and-so-and-so-and-so had a kid together.

And she does like Stephen Harper and Mary Young.

Oh, yeah.

Someone else does that joke as well.

It's a pretty, it's a solid joke.

Yeah.

Oh, there was a very good comedian I saw do that, the hackiest version of that joke.

I used to have one about Dom DeLouise and Rosie O'Donnell.

That's pretty good.

It's pretty accurate.

It's actually getting better with age.

I got to bring him back.

Thanks, guys.

Yeah.

When would the, because that's the thing, right?

Like, reference-wise, what's the cutoff of people who know Dom DeLouise?

Right?

Like, do you remember, what was the club that was started in Vancouver at the casino?

What was that one called?

I forget, but oh,

like the

when they branched off from Yacht.

Jokers or something?

Yeah, like, and they brought in, um, oh my god, I'm blanking on his name.

He was the parrot.

Yeah, yeah, Gilbert Godfrey.

Gilbert Godfrey.

I hosted for that.

You hosted that show.

And remember that show, all of his references were just so old.

Like

no one knew what he was referencing.

Yeah.

And

that's where I'm at right now with like comedy.

I'm like, do people know Dom De Louise?

Like, am I, are we at the age now where we have to like start referencing down?

You like trying to get a younger and younger.

Yeah.

Because Dom De Louise, I feel like, was an older reference even when I was.

Oh, for sure.

Yeah.

Because what was your experience of like, how did you know who Dom De Louise was?

Because I was a fat kid that everyone told me I looked like Dom De Louise.

in grade six

she was my best friend

because i remember when i was a kid his thing that i knew him from was he was like a chef guy yeah i knew that paul prudhome

i don't remember who's paul prudhome chef paul prudhome who looks like does he look like him yeah yeah i knew him from commercials like just from selling things oh what yeah yeah look like him that does look like him yeah Is that me?

That's you.

Pretty gluten-free.

Oh, I never heard of a turkey there on the

big turkey.

Now we also have an overheard sent in by Daniel C.

from Davis, California.

I was in line for a Jack White show at a fairly new venue in Sacramento.

I heard this exchange.

Security guard, who's been here before?

No one?

A bunch of virgins?

I like it.

Child behind me.

No one in Linus had sex before?

Parent.

No, that's not.

Well,

child.

Then why did he say that?

Have you had sex?

Parent.

Oh, man.

They're at a Jack White show.

Those parents, fuck.

Yeah.

But just like accidentally having to,

does that happen to you at all?

Where you've had to like explain like,

what was was that guy referencing?

No, I'm we're pretty uh

the meat and potatoes about it.

Is that the expression?

Yeah, sure.

We don't hide things like that, okay.

But also, it's like it embarrasses them if we of course, yeah,

we like that.

Yeah, one of our friends has their daughter's like four or five, and they're very scientific about like body parts and stuff.

And she hit the corner of the couch and went, Oh, my fault

You explained to me what a Vulva was.

They had a

Swedish station wagon?

You don't want to, you'll be paying out the wazoo.

Oh, what's the wazoo?

Well,

parents love each other very much.

They have wazoo.

Our last one comes from Tyra in Indianapolis, Indiana.

I am at the airport waiting for my flight home from the Indy 500 weekend when I overhear on the Intergovernment now boarding Group C, that's C for Civil War.

I've spent a lot, I usually go to Indy 500, and that is how you go.

Oh, you go every year.

Yeah, we didn't go this year.

Yeah, you really do?

Yeah, one of our best friends is a racer.

And that Civil War is definitely know your audience.

What is it now, NASCAR?

No, it's still Indy.

Indy.

Yeah, Indy 500.

It's the largest gathering of sports.

Of juggalos?

Of juggalos.

They're all there.

They've got a side stage.

For sure.

It's three or four hundred thousand.

One in every 1,000 Americans are at the Indy 500.

It's

very impressive.

So look to your left and look to your right.

Yeah.

And then you're just going to die at the Indy 500.

It's a wild experience.

Yeah.

Just to get to,

do they call it an arena?

What do they call it?

They call it

the track, the brickyard.

We had to do,

with the drivers, they do a police escort just because there's so much traffic.

So they close the highway and we just whip by everybody and then get into the brickyard.

Yeah,

I didn't miss it this year for sure.

I was like, okay.

Yeah.

You know, you've seen it a couple of times.

You're like, this is great.

Very happy for my friends.

Yeah.

And is it?

Darcy's good friends with Al Unser Jr.

Yeah, I was trying to think of friends with Bobby Rayhall,

Darcy's good friends with Ari Lyondike Sr.

and Jr.

Wow, good polls.

Well, in addition to overheards that are written, and we also accept your phone calls if you want to call us, our phone number is 1-844-779-7631.

That's one ug spy pod one, or send us a voice memo.

Those usually sound better these days, to spy at maximum fun.org.

Hi, Dave and Graham, and super cool guest.

This is Neil from Edinburgh phoning in with an Oberheard, inspired by Arthur Simeon speaking about how he used to watch No Retreat, No Surrender 3.

And it reminded me that at university, my friend Paddy had a copy of No Retreat, No Surrender 2, and it had some classic like movie bad lines in it that have stuck in my memory

and like the hero goes to I think it's Bangkok to look for his girlfriend and meets up with his buddy Mac Jarvis

and in one scene Mac Jarvis reveals that he's actually been making money through arms dealing and the hero says huh

And all this time I thought you were a brain surgeon.

And Mac Jarvis says, Kid, anyone with brains enough to need surgery would have been out of here by now.

Okay.

Nice, nice.

Wow.

Every part of that is a great, a great voice memo.

Oh, yeah.

Maddie, probably for my

Jarvis.

Love Mac Jarvis.

Gosh, I can't believe that.

That made me miss Edinburgh.

Did you

You tour there?

Yeah.

We've just vacationed there.

Yeah, we did.

Where else in Scotland?

We did the show in Scotland, but not Edinburgh.

What's the other city?

Glasgow?

That's the one.

But one of our best friends lives in Edinburgh, so we always just went to the car.

He's an indie car driver.

He's

Daniel Sloss.

Oh, yeah.

He has a stand-up comic.

Yeah.

Who also drives cars independently.

That's why they're called indie cars.

Yeah, it is.

Independently.

driven.

Nothing to do with the city they were built in.

No, it's all about jangly guitars and

college rock.

All right, next phone call.

Hey, Dave Graham, possible guest.

This is Dan in Kansas City with an overheard.

We were recently on a family vacation in California and had stopped to use a public restroom in a park.

And there was a bunch of people there, so there was a line to use the facility.

And there was a group of three young men, probably in their mid to late 20s, waiting next to us outside this restroom.

One of them had taken his shoes off and was sitting on this big boulder that was a part of the landscaping for the park.

And

he was in a meditative pose with his

legs crisscrossed and his palms resting on his knees facing upward and his eyes closed.

And my seven-year-old daughter took off her sparkly pink cowboy boots, climbed up on the rock opposite this guy,

mimicked his pose, and started saying, Namaste over and over again.

And my older children, who are teenagers, started laughing.

And this guy's two buddies also started laughing.

And he immediately stopped doing this pose and they left.

No freaking way.

Being harassed.

Yeah, just a seven-year-old, mid-year-old.

Just doing a little

bitch.

While we wait for the bathroom.

But he said barefoot.

I was like, you better not be watching in the bathroom with them.

Which sometimes happens at the beach when you're a kid, you know?

For sure.

Little barefoot actions.

Yeah.

Young boy drywall.

All right, final phone call.

Hey, Dave and Graham.

This is Rob from Jenkin Town

in Pennsylvania.

I am driving on the highway right now, and a Toyota Corolla just drove past me with a vanity license plate.

The vanity license plate read H L K Space A G R Y.

So I don't know where he's going, but Hulk Agri.

Yeah, Hulk Agri.

No, Hulk Agri.

Oh, Hulk Agri.

Hulk Agriculture.

Yes.

Oh, man.

I had a toy with Corolla.

Pretty good.

Oh, boy.

Reliable.

Reliable as shit.

That's what our daughter drives.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a safe vehicle.

It's a safe, reliable car.

Exactly.

An import.

Yeah, that's true.

Yeah.

Why don't we make cars in Canada anymore?

Yeah, why don't we make the Bricklin anymore?

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

Darcy, you're going to be on tour in the new year.

Yeah.

Tickets are available, and you can save some of that money for the merch.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Make sure to bring all your, you know, your saved-up money, your swear jar money or whatever.

Get ready to clack.

Clack those fans.

Clack those fans.

Thank you so much for being a guest.

Nice, guys.

It's been nice.

I can't wait to do it again in four to six years.

Four to six years?

We guarantee it.

We absolutely guarantee it.

And thank you, everybody out there, for listening.

If you want, boy, if you want a delicious cookbook, either you're going to go with Paul, what was his name?

Prudhome Prudhome, or Paul

Please,

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