Episode 897 - Taz VanRassel

Hi, he's Dave Shumka.

And he's Graham Clark.

And together we host Stop Podcasting Yourself.

Woo!

Hello, everybody, and welcome to episode number 897 of Stop Podcasting Yourself.

My name is Graham Clark.

And with me, as always, is a man who, even though he's had this thing for years, his phone still gives him trouble when he tries to turn on the air conditioning.

It's Mr.

Dave Shumka.

I know.

It's these ones and zeros.

Yes.

Sometimes I close my eyes and I see them.

They're like anthropomorphizing and they're attacking me.

And it's like, why can't we just go back to the old days of having a big block of ice and a fan next to it?

I guess that would have been it back in the day.

I mean, I've seen it in cartoons before, but.

And where does the guy?

There's an ice delivery.

Yeah.

They're delivering big cubes.

And I was in just the last couple of months in Barrie, Ontario.

And that was their claim today.

Was that they had an ice

business?

In the movie Sinners, does any of that happen?

I feel like there might be a big block of ice that gets delivered.

I saw no ice in Sinners.

Well, then that issue's dead.

That voice you hear?

Regular guest here on the podcast, a returning guest, somebody we love very, very much.

You can see see him and his

cabal of friends every Sunday night at the Fox Sunday service.

It's Taz Van Rassel.

Hello, Taz.

Hello.

Hi.

Hi.

Thanks for having me.

Thanks for turning on the air conditioning for me.

We'll see.

It's on.

I can feel it.

You can feel it?

Yeah.

Oh, I got a feeling.

Nice.

Yeah.

Well, we're into late May, and well, I guess we're recording this on the 16th.

That's the second half.

Well, I guess it's a 31-day month.

Well, we're in the afternoon of it, though.

We're well past the audience.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And

you know what?

It's just going to be a scorcher

the rest of the summer.

Now, any summer plans, Tad?

Yeah.

Well, I bought an air conditioner a couple of years ago, so I'm going to hook that up again.

Me too.

Mine's very loud.

Is yours very loud?

It's pretty loud, but I'm happy with my purchase.

Is it just a drone or is it a kukunk kuk kunk?

It's more of a whirr.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Mine's a bit like raspier than that.

White noise.

Yeah.

Yours is is raspier, like what?

That kind of thing.

But it's like it's loud.

It's louder than you would.

Like, you can't watch TV when it's on.

It's absolutely worth it.

I'd buy the same thing again.

Turn the TV up.

Be that guy.

Turn the TV up.

No, no, no.

I don't want to start a war between me and the people upstairs.

The war in apartment 1812.

That's an indie music joke, you guys don't get it.

You guys will never get it.

But do you?

Let's get to know us.

Get to know us.

Okay, so I hear the sounds that drive me wild.

In a good way or bad way?

Bad way.

Oh, what makes you hot?

Oh, what makes you ick?

These sounds give me the ick.

Yeah, yeah.

I feel like it's maybe just my age and my hearing is going, but if there is, if the fan above the

stove is on,

I like, I can't watch TV.

I can't.

Because it's got got to like hiss.

It just

gets in that whatever frequency it is, interferes with my, whatever lets me listen to TV.

The older you get, the less things you should be able to hear.

Right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So put that one on the list.

But I do, but I, uh, I get the TV is the only thing I don't hear.

Have you ever like been in a really busy restaurant or bar and like think that you've been listening to the person, but then you're like, oh no, I've just been listening to everything around me, and I have to like refocus in.

I feel like that's a hearing.

Yeah, the warbl of

a party.

Sometimes I get lost in the warbler.

The walla.

Every party I'm at, I'm like, oh, everyone's just pretending they can hear each other.

Walla, walla, walla, walla, walla, wallallah.

Yeah.

Have you done a lot of walla work?

I have not, but uh, I would.

Is that where it works?

Is that where you go and you make background noise?

Yeah, you just have conversations in the background that will be turned down really low.

But this is for

like animation.

Oh, okay.

And maybe, maybe commercials and stuff.

I feel like it's probably there's just a library of them.

Yeah.

Maybe.

At this point, there's got to be a library of every possible sound unless AI can make that.

That's true.

Leave it to AI.

I know.

We don't like AI making things that are like.

Don't do my voice, but do background.

Yeah.

Voice.

Yeah.

Take their jobs.

I'm okay with AI, like, I don't know, digging a hole.

I don't want to dig a hole.

Yeah, if AI wants to do it they want to wash my car that's absolutely

i don't like ai because it keeps turning out stuff that's gross i feel like they always it's making celebrities do things that are gross i what i don't realize i i've recently come to realize is that we're in the minority people love this dumb shit art that they see on the internet do they and it's not ai doing that someone still has to tell ai to do that sure right unless you can get an ai program generating one to the other Oh, so it's coming up with it itself.

Yeah.

Okay.

I mean, that's the eventuality, right?

I assume is

what they call it, the eventuality.

The eventuality.

John Connor?

We got to kill this robot before the eventuality takes place.

Taz.

It's been a while.

Yes.

What's happening?

We saw you once during our Zoom era.

Oh, yeah, we did.

but this is our first time seeing you in six years in person.

Do the Zoom ones not count?

They don't stick to your ribs.

Yeah.

Are they on?

Oh, they're on the either.

I just don't remember anything that happened.

Yeah, I think like everybody was so stressed out that it just like because I can't remember anything that happened during the pandemic either.

Like I remember sitting around a lot.

Yeah, I just had it.

I had a great time.

Did you know this is really your gem?

I like being alone.

It was fun.

Like, do you like alone and quiet or do you like listening to the noise of the city?

I'll turn the oven fan on,

dishwasher, air conditioner, all of it.

I was chatting with Taz briefly before we got to Dave's place, and he reminded me that he goes to schools and does

improv.

I sure do.

Our listeners know this because we talk about it every

time.

It's a job I've had for quite a while.

We've talked about

you hang out in the equipment room before

in the gym,

before you get introduced to the students.

You look at all the different utility balls, the pennies, everything, the gym strip.

Are these conversations coming back to you?

No, absolutely.

Talking about the skipping rope, really.

Yeah.

Recently, it's been, I've realized that I really have to tell the vice principal, it's usually the vice principal who introduces us to get them to clap.

Because if they don't say it, don't get them to clap, the children just stare at us when we walk walk out or run out of the equipment room because they don't understand what shows are

yet.

And sometimes they don't get them to clap and we just run out and they're like

looking at us.

And then we have to go clap for us.

Where do you learn that?

From laughing?

Yeah.

That's the service we're doing.

Is that what you're clapping around?

It's teaching them how to be audience members.

Okay.

So that they can go to the opera

and not embarrass whoever they're with.

Yeah.

Exactly.

You've been to the opera.

Yeah, that's an opera.

Oh, that's it.

Yeah, that's the one.

Have you been?

No, I don't think I've ever been to an opera.

Maybe you have.

I don't believe so.

I did go to a musical last night.

Six.

Six.

And good, bad, indifferent?

I felt bad that I disliked it so much because everyone stood up.

It was like, have you ever been at something where it's a standing ovation and you're like, oh, no.

Did you get up?

I didn't.

You didn't?

I was taught you very far in the back.

Yeah, no one taught me.

Well, that's like advanced.

Yeah.

I didn't get up.

No, I don't blame you.

Yeah, and it felt, yeah, it felt like a moment where I'd gone too far sitting.

I was like, well, I'm not going to get up now.

It's hard when it's like, if you don't like the thing.

Yeah.

And they did an encore and had everyone stand.

There's an encore of a musical?

Yeah.

I don't know if you know six.

It's kind of like Hamilton meets the voice, meets girl bosses.

Did we ever find out why six is afraid of seven?

Yeah, wait, what is it?

Seven, eight, nine?

Yes, that's it.

Yes, that's it.

That was in the young court.

You hear in like con film festival that people do standing ovations for like minutes.

20 minutes or something.

That can't be

true.

Well, it's true, but it's fake.

But they have like seat fillers or whatever stand up and do it.

No, it's performative.

It's like

they kind of decided.

This was not.

Everyone really liked it.

But everyone was having a nice time except for me.

And I wasn't having a terrible time, but it was like, oh, yeah.

Just wasn't your

thing.

I got last-minute tickets for my sister.

Okay.

Someone else was meant to be there.

Sure.

She would have enjoyed that.

Oh, she had a great time.

Okay.

She was there.

Oh, she was there.

Okay.

Did she stand and just look down at you?

She couldn't quite see me, but I think she knew.

Okay.

Fair enough.

We went to

Elf the Musical a couple years ago.

That's fun.

I'm very,

I felt bad

how little we enjoyed it because it's been like you're watching it, you're like, wow, all these actors are doing great.

You know, the sets are great.

The costumes are great.

I am not connecting with this play at all.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We're leaving at intermission.

That was

left.

Well, intermission.

Intermission took forever.

It was like, oh, well,

obviously this song, after this song, it'll be intermission.

Nope, okay.

Well, obviously this song will be this is the perfect way to set up intermission.

Nope, okay.

Going to one of those things is very expensive to go to like a musical in this.

Which is also why I felt a bit bad for not liking it because I was like taking a ticket.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I like a spectacle.

Like I'll go to the Jurassic Park Live or Disney on I.

Real theater.

That's the time I don't mind.

This one wasn't, it wasn't bad enough for it to be fun.

It was like, oh, this is pretty good.

It's just not for me.

Right.

And tell me more about this dinosaur thing.

Yeah, Jurassic Park Live.

Jurassic Park Live?

You've never seen this?

Oh.

Yeah, they tour, they'll probably be back.

And they have a whole show, and it's like a theater thing.

And it's such a big, it's like at the Peony Coliseum or something.

It's so big that the actors have to lip-sync their lines.

Oh, wow.

It's not on ice.

That is not on ice.

Okay.

But it's the same place where I saw Disney Play.

But there is now, I think there's a new Cirque de Soleil on ice that is going to be here soon.

And then, don't they, in Canada, we have, what is it called?

Stars on Ice with like an Elvis Star.

Browning, Elvis Stoic, Elizabeth Manly will come through.

Those are all Canadian stars?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's, I'm sure I went to that when I was a Canadian.

And it's sponsored by like, hmm, boy.

I want to say, I was going to say McCain.

I want to say McCain, yeah.

But I also feel like it could be some big insurance company.

That was the juice one that Elvis Stoico.

Was that McCain?

That was McCain.

That was McCain, yeah he um uh still he's still got it as far as i know uh

it's just uh athlete stars it's not yeah just like canadian stars yeah it's not paul gross right

robin thick

on ice

it's not the band magic with their hit why you gotta be so rude

do you either of you guys go to like stars on ice or uh something on ice i've been to disney disney on ice yeah i did super Mario on Ice.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

As a child?

Yeah.

Or as an uncle?

No, as a child, and it was so bad.

It stunk.

I hated it.

It was based on the movie with John Legal.

Yeah, it was just lookalike of Bob Hoskins.

They couldn't bounce on a Goomba's head.

So they had to do fire extinguishers.

And I was like, this sucks.

Right.

I think I was just a little too old for it.

What do you mean by do a fire extinguisher?

What do you mean by bounce on a Goomba's head?

So, you know, in the game when he jumps on a Goomba and pushes him?

Sounds like there's some

it's a little sexy.

Oh, did I want to go out and bounce on a Goomba's head now that I'm single?

Get back out there.

And then Mario had a fire extinguisher and sprayed the goombas with it and the turtles.

That's not cannon.

No, it's not cannon.

And like I say, I think, what was it called?

Icecapades?

Ice Capades.

Icecapades.

Yes.

And there's also, of course, Cavalia.

Oh, yes, yeah.

I saw that one year.

Yeah.

You did?

Yeah.

Did you love it?

It was fascinating.

Was it the best thing you've ever seen?

No, but it was fascinating.

I want to know everything.

Because it was the best thing Larry King ever saw.

Okay.

It just seemed, it seemed scary.

Because their horses are so big.

And

if their ears are back, they're mad.

Or if their ears are forward, it's one of the two.

And I kept looking for that.

Yeah.

And I was like, are they mad?

This is going to explode at any moment.

Yeah.

I don't think it comes here anymore.

What did they do?

Like something happened.

I know it's dressage-ish and running and like

fancy like hanging off the side of the horse and like hi-vibing each other as you go around.

Like the motorcycles in the dome.

Yeah.

Yes, like yeah, what's that called?

Yeah, what is it called?

Like ball of death or something?

Balling of death.

Yeah.

There's a movie called

Beyond the Pines.

It's Beyond the Pines.

He's in one of those.

It's not a Velodrome.

No, that's where you do bike racing.

Yeah.

My keyboard's not working.

I wonder if a Velodrome bike race would be fun to watch.

It goes so fast.

Yeah.

And it's not like instantaneous.

It's not like one lap and it's over.

Yeah, I think it's like any long circuit race.

It's just

like any long circuit race.

Yeah.

As we know.

Do you, what are the other, there's a lot of spectacles now that you think about it.

Yeah, absolutely.

Monster trucks.

Oh, there was something.

something that went to monster trucks in the summer last time.

It was a bit disappointing.

They can't go as high because they're inside now.

Oh, this was outside.

Okay.

Yeah.

That's better.

I saw an ad.

I thought about banning my family tickets to like Monsters of Magic or something.

Oh, that'd be awesome.

It was coming, but I was like, hmm.

Wait, there are monsters?

Well, no, it's like the way that the wolf man.

I don't know what it was actually called.

Okay, motorcycles

in a cage.

Yeah, I think it is Ball of Death.

Something of death.

Globe of Death.

Globe of Death.

It's a circus or carnival stunt where stunt riders ride motorcycles.

Like upside down.

You can clean this sentence up.

Get in there and edit it.

It's Wikipedia.

You can.

It's Wikipedia.

Wikipedia.

And, yeah, what was the magic show that's coming to town?

The Goombas of Magic.

Champions of Magic.

Okay.

Champions.

Who are the champs?

They're no one I've heard of.

They're

four people in three people in sunglasses and one guy not in sunglasses.

I know a guy who's does it say with the names of the people?

I wonder if he's part of this.

And their graphic is like the old like JFL

graphic they were doing for everyone like 10 years ago.

Maybe the JFL is what's sponsored by an insurance company.

Oh, sure.

Yeah, yeah.

Information?

No, their names are not in here.

Inspiration.

Houdini.

These are unnamed magicians, but they got all the apparati.

Oh, do they have they have the tank from like Houdini upside down, chained up in the water tank?

Can anyone punch them in the stomach?

Anybody can.

Cool.

You're entitled to with your proof of ticket.

I know a guy that he's like a touring magician.

And it blows my mind.

And he's been on

America's Got Talent?

No.

Oh, yes, but also the Penn and Teller.

The Penn Teller one.

Oh, yeah.

He's stumped them.

So he's

Wes, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

But yeah, being a full-time.

Yeah, we know Wes.

I don't know Wes.

We should have one.

He can do a bunch of visual tricks.

Just Google Magic Wes.

So we've been through all the local spectacles.

And speaking of, you got new glasses?

Sure.

Nice.

Yes.

And the language.

See me?

These are a little

sort sort of like turtle shell, but the turtle's green.

Yeah, a Goomba?

No.

No, they're mushroom guides.

A Koopa.

A Koopa.

Yeah.

And a Koopa to you.

Yeah, I killed a Koopa Troopa.

Took his shell and made glasses.

And then bounced on a Goomba's head.

Yeah.

Did you get yours in a store or online?

I saw them online, then I went to the store.

Oh, usually the office that I see in the store go online.

Yeah, they know when I'm looking for glasses.

Yeah.

The internet.

And then they show me stuff, and then I go try it on.

Nice.

that's a good way to do it you did you buy yours on the internet or you buy yours in person these are uh internet yeah and what do they have like a thing that you can put the glasses on your face so you can see what they look like or you just like yeah i rolled the dice on these i had a similar pair though that okay like had the same size as yeah but you can you can AI put it on your face.

You can AI put it on your face.

And you can also bounce on a Goomba's head.

Yeah.

I don't know why I like it so much.

So

Sunday service, still going strong, all these years later.

20 years.

Shut up, really?

This year was 20 years.

Wow.

So the show started in Wink.

Yeah, that were

at Wink Cafe, which was a vegan, vegetarian cafe.

Yeah, that you lived on top of.

Yeah.

And then I was on

8th and 8th.

Yeah, 8th and May.

And then how many venues has it been?

Has it just been the three?

Three, yeah.

We moved to the Cosmic Zoo.

That was

in the Cosmic Zoo.

Then it became seven dining lounge.

Yeah, and now it's not any of those things.

It's another

Italian place, I think.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And they got rid of the stage.

They must have sold their performing license.

Oh, sure.

They had one.

Those are grandfathered, as we know.

Vancouver.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I know there's a Mexican restaurant not far from here that does musical performances all the time.

I like guaranteed that's not.

Oh, yeah.

They're also in the doorway.

No, but maybe that's how they get through the, like, we're not quite in the restaurant.

Is that the place on Cambi?

Yeah, yeah.

I didn't know they did musical performances.

When we were having ice cream and they had, and they were singing modern pop songs.

Yeah.

Okay, this is kind of fun.

And then we was there at the same time.

I probably didn't see you.

Yeah.

But it was fun, right?

But maybe that's how they get around it.

It's like, if you guys perform outside, technically you're not on audio.

Technically, you're busking.

Yeah.

So it throws them coins.

I feel bad for buskers now because.

No one has coins?

Nobody has coins.

Nobody has coins.

Like buskers used to make collections.

Except for collectible coins.

Oh, yeah.

Well, we all have collectible coins.

What's your favorite collectible coin?

You have the new black toonie with the

King Charles, newly minted King Charles.

Nice.

Legette Black Toonie.

I have a Terry Fox, a Terry Fox Looney from

probably 20 years ago.

Cool.

Favorite coin?

Well,

whenever I go somewhere touristy, I will crush a penny

in the machine.

So I have a lot of those collecting dust on my counter.

Well, where else is it going to exist?

Yeah.

I guess you could wear it around your neck.

Yeah, but suck on it.

Remind yourself what

when you're reading a book about, oh, you could taste metal in his mouth.

And you knew he was bleeding.

The taste of

tasted like a bag full of pennies.

That kind of stuff.

Yeah, I love those machines.

Have you ever flattened one on a train track?

Not in a long time.

I was always scared to do it when I was a kid.

No one's saying it was recent.

Yeah, not in a while.

But I was always scared that it would derail the train.

Yeah, that's right.

I don't think that it would.

I don't think so either.

Yeah.

I think very few things.

Because you see.

That was the myth that

the train could pass through.

I was not a bad kid, so I was like, I don't know.

Yeah.

Did you have like a lot of those?

I feel like my...

I've said before on the podcast that my mom told me when I was a kid that pinching causes cancer.

So we would pinch each each other.

And she's a nurse.

I believe that.

But the DREN

just like three weeks ago.

I was on the Mayo Clinic website.

Okay.

And you were there and you're like, oh,

I should stop smoking.

Yeah.

Well, why didn't my mom tell me anything about smoking?

Did you have one of those?

Where it was like, not it's not an urban legend.

Oh, but it's like a.

My wife talked about this.

Yeah.

It's it's my sister.

whenever we got

like chinese food she would eat all the baby corns and my mom said baby corns give you cancer

cancer

cancer myths for your parents yeah and of course um you know if you can fit your hand over your face you have cancer

yes yes and then this one where it's like hold your like somebody's holding your fist uh while and you see see if you can pull it towards you and they let go and then you're pretty classic they get you to go like this, and then they put a plate with flour on it,

and then a jug on either side with a string, and then they cut the string, and you go, ooh, flour in my face.

That's more modern.

Yeah.

Or either holding a bottle of water against the ceiling with a broomstick.

Oh, yes.

You have to, hey, can you hold this for me for a second?

Wait a minute.

These are pranks.

Yeah.

I mean, you guys.

And those give you a cancer?

Yeah.

Pranks?

Yeah, absolutely.

Jesus.

And putting pennies on train tracks.

Kill everybody.

Yeah.

Yeah, I've never done it.

Wait, there weren't trains.

I did in Calgary.

In kits, there was trains when I was growing up.

I guess, but I didn't.

There was a junction down there, down by Granville Island.

They would come through.

Oh, yeah.

They were still active.

Were they not

people trains, but no,

they were just moving stuff down to the water, I guess.

To the bay.

So you just do that on a truck now?

That sucks, man.

How are you going to hobo around the country?

There's a secret train tunnel.

What?

I went for a walk with Mark Chavez

recently, and he lives out kind of near the Burnaby area, near that, what's that bridge?

Second Narrows?

Second Narrows Bridge.

Underneath that, there's a secret tunnel where a train goes in, and apparently it goes under the city.

Really?

I don't know where it goes.

Probably to where all the trains go, like the train station

area there.

Sure.

But I am pretty sure there's a lot of training.

But there's trains going under the city, at least in East Band.

I mean, we also have subway.

Like we have trains going under the train.

There's also those trains.

But yeah, I'd love to.

Because isn't Seattle, isn't there a city under Seattle that's like from.

That's Paris.

Well, I know there's one under Paris, but for sure that

Paris is under Seattle.

Wow.

Holy shit.

It's way cooler.

Yeah, and then also Edinburgh has a town underneath the town.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

So some things to check.

Yeah.

Graham's stuff to look up.

Graham's plugged in with all the mole people.

Mole people.

Orcs.

Yeah.

Orcs.

That's right.

Not goblins.

Goblins are kind of more

chuds.

There's all sorts of chuds down there.

What does it stand for?

C-A-N-A-Cannibal, humanoid underground dwellers.

And Graham's also plugged in with the muscle men who are millions of unusual small creatures living everywhere.

Is that what muscle stood for?

Is that what it was?

Okay.

Those are little toys.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Muscle men, yeah.

I had a lot of muscle.

Oh, man.

When I was a kid, that was either there was gum at Canadian Tire that was shaped like a hockey buck.

That was a big one.

And then they would have stuff like that, like little tiny things in an egg.

The things that you would get for a quarter.

Yeah.

And you would crank the handle.

You couldn't believe how you had to keep cranking.

Keep cranking.

It's not going to come out yet.

Just keep cranking it.

Yeah.

We had slime when we were kids and it came out of those machines.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Slime.

Oh, yeah.

Well, we had like the sticky hand.

Sticky hand.

Yeah.

Sticky hand.

You get homies.

Homies.

Homies, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Maybe a little parachute man.

Those are all like one-time toys.

You know what I mean?

Like, and then they're destroyed.

You do that.

You're not playing with that Army Man

parachute.

The homies are collectible.

Yeah.

All my homies,

well, they all were crushed under train track.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

You were trying to flatten them out.

I was trying to flatten them out.

No coins.

No coins, yeah.

I would spend 25 cents on a homie.

Yeah.

Well, and it was like, uh,

are the homies stand for something?

Probably, but would it, is it something good or something bad?

I mean, uh, look, it's not for me to say, but, uh, like, that was all I could focus on when we went to like Canadian Tire.

I was just thinking about it the whole time, like, on the way out.

And what is your.

you're going to Canadian Tire with your siblings and your dad?

No, yeah, yeah, I've sometimes played siblings, but always with my dad where

your focus on that.

What's your dad focus on?

On us stopping going in the door section and opening up all the doors.

That was his main focus.

Oh, he's a Foley guy?

Yeah, he's cool.

He's got a box of sand and he has two shoes that he crash box.

Did you ever, in CBC, did you ever go in the Foley room?

Oh, yeah.

No.

Oh, wait.

No, I didn't.

Oh, did it have doors on the floor?

Yeah.

Yes, I did go in there.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, we did a whole sketch Sunday service in there for like for this is that.

Oh, cool.

Really?

And we got to just run around and like open all the drawers and rattle the chains.

Love it.

Yeah.

I, when I was a kid, we went to Universal Studios, and there was an attraction where you could do the Foley.

They picked somebody up from the audience.

And this one.

That was a classic improv stage.

I gave him a did it the other day

oh yeah

um but uh

it was like i can't remember the show but the one guy was just waving at his daughter the whole time and then they played it back and there were no sound effects except the wife like clanging uh the grandfather clock anyways we all lost our mind it was so bad

what was he doing to the to the grandfather clock uh the the wife was banging a pot to be to the time of grandfather clock ringing and he was just standing there waving it waving at his daughter it's just a pot yeah man yeah amazing um

yeah and then also i remember cbc getting rid of all of their like canned uh reel to reel oh yeah stuff that had all sorts of like sound recordings and stuff like that um why'd they get rid of them ai i think they digitized a lot of it but also

They did very few radio plays anymore.

Yeah, I wonder if I would have liked radio plays back in the day.

Well, I mean, there would be no option if I was back in radio play day.

Yeah.

I did.

Yeah.

When they, you know, when I wasn't allowed, like, Dave, stay in your room.

Okay, I'll listen to this.

Back in the 20s, you were listening to The Shadow.

No, they would play it on Sunday nights.

They would play it from 10 to midnight.

The Shadow?

And The Shadow was one.

There was like a bunch of knockoff shadow things.

There were like a few.

The Phantom was one, too, I think.

Yeah, sure.

And then like,

well, the shadow was Alec Baldwin.

The Phantom was Billy Zane.

Two of our most enduring heroes.

What was it about the 90s where they were like, we can't quite figure out how to make comic books into movies.

Dark men.

But

we can do old, like

TV shows.

Old, moldy old

TV shows and comic books that aren't quite part of Marvel or DC.

Yeah, and there were ones that was like the man from Uncle, and you're like, well, that doesn't mean anything to me.

That's been.

Well, they remade that in like

2012 or something.

Yeah.

Army Hammer.

Oh, Army Hammer.

Guy Richie, right?

For sure.

I think it was probably a guy Richie joined.

What a, that guy.

Army Hammer was like, can I get paid in toes?

You know, he's a cannibal guy.

I feel bad for the guy.

Do you?

just because he wants to eat a person i think he was just got out of hand with his dms i don't think he ate anyone

like yeah or maybe he's like completely asexual and he just doesn't know what to say yeah oh yeah girl i'm gonna eat your toes he panicked yeah like to put some uh barbecue sauce in between them

um yeah we wish him the best yeah yeah um god bless and then uh we're we're coming up to summer any summer plans we are coming up to summer i i have uh very few plans okay for the summer probably gonna stay out of the sun yeah

uh probably spend some alone time spend some alone time with my air conditioner sort of i i am watching how the progress of the construction across the street from me okay so and they're building a very tall building so that's that's a big they're at eye level right now so you can stare in there

all the way down what yeah i'm on the sixth level okay sixth floor of my building.

So now I can see everything they're doing.

I think it's 13 floors, or as they say, 14.

Yeah, we know.

We know.

Craig Bierco and Gretchen Moll know everything about the 13th floor.

Deep balls.

Did you see that movie?

I saw it in the theater.

Was it like a reporter going in and trying to see if it was haunted or something?

Oh, no, I think it was like,

I want to say virtual reality.

Like you get to the 13th.

That might just be the movie poster.

Right.

Yeah.

But it was.

That's just where the laundry is, usually.

Is that where it is in your building?

No.

Do you have to go all the way?

I went into like a hotel.

That's where the staff like.

Oh.

In your building, do you have a garbage chute?

No, I wish.

You have to go all the way up.

I got a lot of tickets to elevator.

Oh, man.

Those, like, staying in a place that had the garbage chute.

It's the best.

There's a guy on Instagram who just throws his garbage out the window.

Oh, yeah.

And he tries to get it in.

Tries to get it into

the garbage can.

That's so New York.

Yeah, it might be, it might be New York.

I felt like it.

I wanted to say it was Chicago, but

the garbage is on the street, so it's definitely not Vancouver.

Also, just like this zeroing in, like, that's all we do on this channel is me throwing things into a there is like I watch it.

Yeah, yeah,

there's a guy I follow who just does this, just

does clips from this one.

Did I tell you about it yesterday?

Which one?

Where you're just like these medieval guys fighting,

and you're, but it's like one-on-one kind of gladiator style.

Yeah, and people are getting disemboweled.

And the guy who's fighting is like, oh, yeah, you did, he's always kind of like surprised, like, oh, wow, I took off that guy's leg.

Yikes.

So he's just watching clips?

No, he's doing it.

Okay.

He's playing the game.

I'm watching the clips.

Oh, it's a game.

It's a game.

It's not real.

They're not really getting

this goes in an ice bath together and that's their whole feed there seem to be i get there's more than one couple that is an italian man and an american woman and they are like she oh i'm gonna break the spaghetti before i cook it why you do this to me

over and over again basically it's like oh my husband's so italian yeah if you find something that works you know like

um i haven't found anything that works personally but uh

i'm not a married to an Italian.

Well, we do

900 episodes of asking what our guest summer is going to be.

Yeah.

That's sort of the same thing over and over.

You're on Instagram now.

Yeah, we got our Instagram.

We're going to monetize it.

Right?

How?

Yeah.

Are you on TikTok too?

Not as a couple.

I tried TikTok for a couple of weeks and I was just like, I quit instantly.

I was like, I'm only getting 30 views on this thing.

I like when I like not being on everything because then someone will send me a TikTok link and I'll click on it and it doesn't work.

And I'm like, oh, well, I can't even.

Sometimes it'll be like, align these two pictures together and then you can watch this video.

That's kind of fun.

It's a game within the game.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a mental game.

Are you TikTok?

Are you on TikTok?

Never been.

Insta?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Insta till you die.

It all shows up there.

What's that?

It all shows up there.

Yeah, TikTok shows up there eventually.

And Facebook for Marketplace.

Oh, yeah.

Facebook for Marketplace.

And

looking through and seeing, like, oh, someone died or something.

Like, that's where people post

information.

Yeah.

No, no, no.

Like a human being.

But I mean, it's an estate sale because

there's other things that happen as well.

Also, that.

People pay tribute to their loved ones and stuff.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That doesn't happen as much on Instagram.

So that's where I find out information from the community, I guess.

From my older friends, my kids are like, What happens after you die?

And I'm like, Well, then there'll be an estate sale after you

get like,

Are you a surf guy?

I'm Keanu.

Keanu, what happens to us after we die?

You live on forever on your Facebook page.

Well, the people who loved us will miss us.

Remember when Keanu was wise?

That's a pretty good impression.

That's something.

Have you been working on that?

Is that just on the fly?

That's on the fly.

That's good.

Cultivate it.

Cultivate it.

I mean,

it's good it's but i'm not the first like no that's true uh he's uh he's pretty doable what about uh like uh past guest tom henry he can do an amazing johnny depp and oh yeah i think once once you hear it you're like okay that is how you do johnny depp i'd have to hear it it's really good i can't even picture his voice do you have his number uh i don't have his number but yeah call him up yeah bring up an old episode and play that on this episode he's done it on evil men and that's where

check out Evil Men with Tom Henry.

Yeah.

They did an episode, I guess, about Johnny Depp.

They did an episode about Johnny Depp.

Did they get him on because

did he was he what like

he was he was a guest?

Yeah, he was a guest.

Johnny Depp was a guest?

Yep.

No.

Cool.

And Tom Henry.

He's like, I'm evil.

I'm in.

He went on.

So did he go?

I haven't listened.

Sorry, boys.

I don't listen every week.

I've been really backed up constantly.

But

did they have him on because he does an impression of Johnny Depp?

And I think it would be fun.

Or did he discover it in the moment?

They did a live show where he played Johnny Depp.

Oh, I'm definitely not listening to a live podcast.

I just assumed he was part of that show.

No,

he's the, you know,

he's good friends with all those.

Yeah.

There's only so many seats, you know?

That's true.

Yeah.

As we can see here.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What was the guy that you discussed most recently?

Eric Clapton?

Eric Clapton.

Yeah, I don't do an impression of him.

I do have similar glasses.

You told the story that the hard rock cafe was basically started by him putting a guitar on the wall.

I forget.

But he was like, like, mark his table.

Oh,

above the table.

Nice.

And then somebody.

That's why he's evil?

Or he's evil because of I Shot the Sheriff?

Oh, he's evil because of.

I do believe.

He was

you know, not nice to his friend George Harrison.

Yeah, yeah.

He kept harassing his wife until she left him for him.

Yeah.

He did have a young woman.

He got addicted to heroin and she died and she was like his teenage lover as he was an adult.

Sure.

I believe he went on a racist tirade.

Yeah.

Pretty disgruntled about not doing shows during COVID.

Yes, he did have an anti-Vax.

Yeah, they did those anti-vax songs.

It's a shame we lost Van Morris.

When I go on that show, I give them a list of potential people.

Oh, who else did you have on the list?

I want to learn.

I want to go on and be like,

because they're doing the research.

I'm like, tell me about Al Capone.

Yeah.

Oh, Al Capone.

I don't think they've done Al Capone.

They haven't.

I know.

I've suggested it twice.

If you go to Moose Jaw Saskatchewan, they're huge about Al Capone.

They got the whole bunker.

What is it?

Well,

didn't he have like underground?

Everything's underground with you.

It's Underground City.

Al Capone City.

But it's dubious whether or not he actually ever set foot in Moose Jaw.

Oh, it's a lie.

Well, I don't know if it's a lie, but the towns really base themselves on that.

He never set foot in Moose Jaw, and he never set Jaw in Moosefoot.

I did a show.

It's my key on.

I thought that was Al Capone.

Al Capone is probably like, see?

He's probably like, oh, yeah,

let's see.

Why don't we cultivate some impressions?

Yeah, theater of the.

Who's not being done?

Oh, Donald Trump.

Donald Trump.

He would go like,

hey, hey, everybody.

He's doing the gesture.

He'll do the gesture, which is good.

I don't think I could do any impressions of anybody.

Well, you'll discover it in the moment.

I'm trying to think.

Does somebody do a Tony Danza?

Angela.

Angela.

Angela Mona!

Moner!

Comanther!

Tony Danza.

Is he okay?

Is he alive?

Yeah, I think he's okay.

Okay, cool.

He shot a reality series where he went back to being a teacher.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, I feel like he's an evil man.

Is he?

Yeah, maybe.

Tony Danza?

I don't know.

No, shitty.

He's just a shitty guy.

I think he's nice.

I think he's probably the Hollywood's nicest man.

Okay.

Don't correct me on this.

He went gray recently.

He did.

Yeah.

And it was

very hunky.

still hunky after all these years.

Oh, good.

Um, still hunky after

I do pause.

Yeah, I think he's gone far, uh, conservative right-wing, yeah, okay, I think so, but I Kevin Sorbo, oh well, he's far gone, yeah, yes.

Was it the show?

Was he was it was Hercules?

He was Hercules, yeah.

He also did

Space Swan, yeah, that's space Andromeda, Andromeda, yeah, Andromeda, yeah, yeah, see, he's got it, Tony Danza in space.

I thought that was Kevin Sorbo.

Fuck.

I can't figure these out.

The last person you talk about, that has to be the one you're doing.

But, like, you,

if you hear an impression and you're not told in advance what it is, a lot of times you're like, I don't know who this is.

I don't know who they're making.

You know, but you say, this is my impression.

Okay, here I come.

Here we go.

Here we go.

Do I have to say a line by the guy?

No, you like it.

Make it

a party.

Make it for it.

Oh, yeah.

Well, I'm not going going to say who it was, though.

I was at a party, and this famous guy was there, and he was like, Hey, Dave.

Jack!

Dustin Hoffman.

I didn't even do the hair thing.

Dave.

I thought it was Dustin Hoffman.

Okay, here comes another one.

Here we go.

I was at a party, and this gentleman came over to me and he said,

Dave.

Lucy Lawless.

Yep.

Nice.

No, you know who it was.

Dave.

Andreas Clay.

Nope.

Oh, yeah, that's what I was thinking.

Andrews Clay.

He was a little more.

Sorry, maybe I did it wrong.

Robert De Niro?

No,

let me get

at this party.

This guy came up to me.

He's like, Dave.

There it is.

Was it Woody Ellen?

No, it's Christopher Watkin, you buffoon.

See, that's what happens.

I can't get it.

I know, if I don't give you the

clues.

You got Jack, though.

Yeah, well, your Jack is legendary.

Yeah.

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

Here's, hey,

wait till you get a load of this.

Where do I get all these beautiful toys, et cetera?

Top five Jack quotes.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, where do you get those wonderful toys?

They make me want to be a better man.

What's that from?

As good as it gets.

As good as it gets.

Oh, as good as it gets.

I was going to guess the line from that is

when she asks, how do you write a woman?

How do you write such great women?

I think of a man and I remove all something.

Yeah.

Reason and accountability.

Yeah.

And he does he get this town needs an enema.

Town needs an anima.

Tell me about chicken salads.

Chicken salads.

What about you?

Witches of Eastwick.

Come on.

Oh,

I got three witches here, and they're all of Eastwitch.

Nice.

There we go.

Does he say something in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

Yeah, he's like, get this water out of here.

Right?

I ate this water fountain.

See?

Alcapo.

Here's Johnny.

That's a classic.

That's a quote.

Five Easy Pieces.

Is that the one with the tuna salad sandwich?

Yes.

And it's when he's like, hold the tuna.

Give me toast.

I keep remembering Chinatown.

Oh, yeah, because the guy says it's Chinatown.

That's not him.

Yeah, forget it.

It's Chinatown.

He gets his nose snipped by Roman Polanski, of all people.

And somebody asked him,

how's it feeling?

And he says, it only hurts when I breathe.

There.

Classic Jack Nicholson.

It only hurts when I breathe.

Votable actors.

Anyway, here's what's going on.

Yeah, thank you.

I know I was talking.

Oh, sorry.

I was talking over.

Can I have it again?

It only hurts when I breathe.

That's good.

Yeah.

You should be like a...

Nope, it's Dave.

He got there first.

I'm just doing Dave's impression.

Yeah, it's like that.

Yeah, it is like that sometimes.

James Mason.

Is that one?

That is one that I only know from impressions.

I don't know who James Mason is.

I know he's an actor, but

the impression is very funny.

He has a very funny way of speaking, but

whatever the source, you know?

So here's what's going on.

In our neighborhood, down at Douglas Park for the last couple of weeks.

Buddy, I've gone twice.

I know what you're talking about.

There's

a family of owls.

Yeah.

Owls in a tree.

Owls of the family.

Philimo its own.

And there's,

I think,

like I've seen posts online.

I've only ever seen one owl.

Yeah.

Sometimes.

I saw both.

Okay.

Now they're living in the tree or on somebody's roof?

They're living in the tree in the park, but sometimes one of the owls flies across the street.

Yes.

In front of a house.

Yeah.

It just keeps going there.

That's where I saw one of them.

Yeah, I saw one of them

in front of the house.

Yeah.

Yeah.

While everyone else was standing in the park, I was like, you guys are missing out on this tree.

This has been the news in the neighborhood.

It's for like two or three weeks now.

The tree that they are in is cordoned off.

It seems like orange fencing.

But it seems like it was done.

Is it post everybody seeing an owl?

Like, don't get through.

There's a handwritten note on it.

There's a handwritten note.

Owls live here.

The chicken wire fence

is drilled into the ground with these stakes that have pool noodles on the tips because I don't think they...

Because no one gets hurt, but I don't think the city did it or anyone.

No, it seems locally done.

And there's a, I don't know what you call many photographers.

Parliament of photographers.

Phenom of photographers, and they're all wearing camo when I went.

And they all, I'm shocked at how many people in this city have a long

camouflage lens for their camera.

Some of them are cameras.

I think maybe some of them are just.

And while that's happening, it's also at one of those exercise stations.

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah.

There will be a guy that runs by and like does pull-ups like

just in front of everyone and then runs around the families.

It's so great.

He's going

to make owls.

That's what he's doing.

And they're like, did you see any of the owlets?

I have not seen any owlets.

I think they're hiding in the knot of the tree or the like the divot.

That's where they're in the

knot.

Like it's a very fairy tale.

Have you seen the owlettes?

No.

I don't know anybody that's seen the owlettes.

Oh, yeah, I've seen them.

Oh, yeah.

Dave's the one guy, you know.

How many are there again?

Too many to count.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

I'm not a very smart man.

Four scope.

Ah.

I thought that was.

Good when the quote isn't the quote.

There we go.

Jenae.

There you go.

That was good.

Someone local was very smart and set up their garage sale near the owl tree

Saturday and like they were moving stuff.

It was great.

And they had like, did they have like an owl theme?

They should have.

It was all owl pal.

Yeah, it's a hoot.

This garage is a real hoot.

Here's my hooter t-shirt.

But it's like, there was tons of people there when both of you went there.

Yeah.

I mean, I haven't been.

I haven't seen that.

You haven't been at all?

No.

Oh, man.

I went today.

I walked the dog there quite a bit.

And

they,

yeah, like, I've gone many times and I've sometimes sometimes see the owl.

Sometimes I'm just embarrassed because I'm like, I know I'm just going to look at the owl and go, huh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, there it is.

Yeah.

Oh, that would be awesome if you had lens.

Today it was raining and there were people still there.

It's you.

It's like everybody's talking about it.

Yeah.

You don't have to look.

You can just walk by.

I looked.

They were backlit.

It was backlit.

I only saw one.

Seeing like a night vision, that's what I would like to see it like grabbing a rat or something.

Right.

That's why they're there, I guess, because there's lots of rats in the neighborhood.

I mean, there's lots of rats everywhere.

That's true.

Yeah.

You know, we're only one step ahead of the rats.

They're

raptors.

Rats?

No.

Owls.

Yeah, you're saying raptor wrong.

It's not rat, it's raptor.

Raptor.

Sorry.

Yeah.

They're,

you know, they look all wise, but they're

like eagles.

Oh, those claws.

Did you,

you saw it flying?

No.

I saw it fly from the little tree to the bigger tree.

Okay.

Nice.

And I saw two every time I was there.

I don't know how to do it.

Well, I'm not trying to get.

You're not looking.

I'm not.

Yeah, I'm not.

Like, where everyone's set up with their cameras, I feel like I could just, I could certainly nestle in between them.

That's when you meet your neighbors.

I know.

Community, talk to people.

Yeah.

I'm on a community.

Are you on any community groups on Facebook or anything?

No, I don't engage on Facebook.

I just

Yeah.

Just do a quick thing.

Who's dead?

What are they selling?

Yeah.

Who's dead?

What are they selling?

Where's the estate sale?

Who's dead lately?

Oh, yeah.

Who's dead?

No, I don't say it.

My parents used to do that every morning.

They would look at the O bits.

Yeah, man.

Oh, wow.

Mine still do.

Yeah, just read all the O bits.

But the Facebook's the new Obits, right?

Not for the people.

Yeah, not for the.

Like for people you know.

Yeah, I guess.

But I don't

on Facebook, I have unfollowed every, like I'm still friends with everyone, but I unfollowed, I just don't want to be scrolling Facebook for

at all.

Yeah.

So I, and if anyone new tries to be my friend, I

ignore that.

I do

nothing.

I'm just going to make you my friend and then put you on

silent or whatever.

Because I really just have like

eight family members that I get updates from.

Then, like, do you ever,

whenever I'm on Facebook, they tell me how many friends I have in common with somebody very famous?

And I'm always like, ad friend.

You're one click away from being friends with.

Yeah, I've done no updating.

My picture still says, I'm vaccinated.

And I'm just leaving it.

I don't care.

I am.

Yeah.

It hasn't changed.

Yeah.

Oh, that's perfect.

That would be great if that was your headshot.

This is what I got.

I voted.

Yeah,

I have a really old

picture on mine.

It says 9-11 hasn't happened yet.

You knew, though.

Yeah.

Dave saw it coming.

Didn't stop it.

He knew that it was coming.

Also, Facebook.

Good for you.

Yeah, well,

I was like, oh boy, I wish I hope they lose the the

on account of its cleaner.

Another Army Hammer movie.

And also

another Evil Man.

Yeah.

Zuckerberg.

I think they did a two-part on him.

There's a lot of evil stuff he's gotten there.

I did listen to Evil Man out while I painted my daughter's room last week.

Oh, yeah.

They painted a whole room.

Hours and hours of painting.

Yeah.

And it didn't get

any pants or anything like that.

He just had shorts.

Really?

No drips.

No drips.

Good for you.

My shorts covered in it.

Oh, you got your shorts covered in it.

Oh, so.

Yeah, yeah.

But it wasn't pants.

It wasn't pants.

What color?

What color?

Paint or pants?

Both.

White paint, black shorts.

Okay.

Well, that's your problem.

Right there.

My childhood room was periwinkle.

Was that blue?

It was like a bluey purple, I believe.

Yeah.

And I had Muppet wallpaper as well.

Nice.

That's what I'm talking about.

Yeah.

I had a friend who had one wall that was just like all the moon.

It was like if you were on the moon,

he was a cool guy.

Like the surface of the moon?

Yeah.

Oh, like moon looking back at Earth kind of thing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

I had a,

when we moved into my

house

and I was going to it.

Yeah.

It was, but I was like 11 and my parents were like, hey, my friend makes

custom blinds.

So let's find some bed sheets you like and we'll turn them into blinds.

Oh, that's fun.

And they were hockey.

Nice.

They had all 21 NHL teams.

I had Venetian blinds and they were a rainbow.

Nice.

I had the pull down and then they snap back up style.

Oh, yeah.

I believe mine were Roman shades if we're just naming all the kinds of blinds we had.

Interesting.

I just remember so vividly, because you know, when you're a kid, you have to go to bedtime whenever your parents say that you go to bed.

And sometimes in the summer, you could still hear kids having fun outside and like the sun peeking through these.

And then you just hear like nothing but joy.

Just kids love.

Yeah.

Don't be looking out the window, Graham.

Can I listen to radio plays?

Nope.

That's why the Venetian blinds are great because you hear the crinkle.

Yeah.

You could be a snoop bent metal.

Yeah.

Oh, these are forever damaged now.

I went too hard.

Do you have any

blinds or curtains in your apartment?

What do you got?

Yeah.

They hang.

Yeah.

They're like single slats that hang.

So kind of like the best of both worlds.

And then they can open up,

and I hate them.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

And they rattle around in the wind.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

We have some in the ones in my bedroom.

Anytime anyone opens a door in the house.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Rollers.

Venetian blinds all the way.

I don't like them.

They're impossible to get.

What are mine called that we have in our room?

They're like

cellular.

Oh,

I can't picture it.

Cellular.

No.

Am I getting, am I naming that?

Cellular shades.

Yep.

Honeycomb.

Oh, is it in the glass?

No.

What is it?

It's like a sort of a cellular shade thing.

Okay, so like a cellular shade.

Like that.

You can see there's little cells in the cells.

So you can just push it right up.

You push up or you can push it down from the top.

Yeah.

Oh, cool.

It's a membrane.

It's

sort of a membrane of sorts.

Yeah.

Cool.

Anyway, that's what we're rocking.

Cool.

I like shade talk.

Yeah.

Yeah.

As an adult, have you ever painted any place that you've dwelled in or are you just like, nope.

Nope.

Move in and that's what I got.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know who wears shades.

Ray Charles.

Oh, yeah.

Do you, Ray Charles?

You got the right one, baby.

Pepsi.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Diet Pepsi.

Yeah, you got the right one, baby.

That was pretty good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Thanks.

So, yeah, we're on Owl Patrol 24 hours a day.

I got to go over.

Why are you going to go?

I got to go.

Yeah.

Take a walk.

But like, take a look.

Why are they awake in the day so much?

Isn't that?

Because everyone's looking at them.

Yeah.

I don't know if they're awake.

They're not like doing stuff.

They're not sitting there.

Oh, they're free.

Oh, they're not like.

Their eyes are open.

I got some good photos.

Oh, but like, they got to get, you know, when you're looking, when you're not there, they're.

How many hours a day does an owl sleep?

I don't know how many.

That sounds like the beginning of a riddle.

It's like a writing desk.

Yeah, I guess.

I feel like the answer is who.

But the riddle of that one is the guy who plays first.

Right.

Don't worry about it.

What's going on with you, Graham?

I

had the occasion to go to Regina, Saskatchewan last weekend.

You've been?

Yep.

You've been?

No.

No.

Saskatoon only.

It's fine.

It's a government town, and the people there are.

Did you go to Moose Jaw?

No, in a previous trip, I went to Moose Jow.

I saw all the things.

You could see them.

You did the top level of Moosejaw or you go to the Underground?

Went to the Underground?

I was like, I don't think this is Al Capone did this.

This seems fresher than that.

All I know about Al Capone is

he's untouchable.

He's He's untouchable.

Isn't the untouchables the good guys?

Yeah, I believe so.

And then he's

got a scar on his face.

And that's Scarface.

And then he's also the guy responsible for milk not going bad.

That's right.

So he's sort of a nice man.

He's a nice man.

I think he killed Alcott.

And he tricked Geraldo.

That was true, famous.

He tricked him real good.

And he was sort of, they tried to make him a thing.

They were like, young Al Capone is in Boardwalk Empire.

Oh, yes, yeah.

I just remember in Vengeance Al Capone.

Yeah, I wonder, was Al Capone sexy?

I mean,

he had a mystique about him for sure.

People like Tony Soprano, yes, yeah.

Then uh, Al Capone is daddy.

I don't know, he's saying Mario,

super Mario brothers, Mario, Sopranos, the Sopranos.

I do get that Gaba gold.

I never, I'm Soprano, my Soprano, my brain is is twisted.

Yeah.

Drama, drama.

I'm going to drama class.

Yeah.

Drama class.

Sounds like I'm putting on it.

So anyways, Regina.

Yeah, Regina.

Regina.

Regina.

Yeah.

Regina.

And it's, I was there to do a show at a casino.

And this is

this.

This was last weekend.

Were you, was this part of, was this, did you fly out for the show and fly back?

Yeah, like 24 hours.

I

flew in, did the show that night, was out the next day.

And

I realized that I forgot that myself and casino crowds aren't the best match.

Was what I was reminded of.

Like, oh, yes, yes,

absolutely not.

You should

advertise your shows to the people listening to the podcast so maybe they would come.

Because I know some of them live there.

The fans might show up.

It was mostly it was this.

I don't want them to.

Yeah, exactly.

They would just watch me bomb.

Bomb in front of this casino crowd.

And it

backstage during Yumi Nagashima's set.

I dropped a glass and it chattered and it became a whole thing.

Could it be heard from the stage?

Oh, yes.

Everybody heard it.

And

the stage.

Yeah, it was that guy.

It really fucked up.

Because you're probably not even supposed to have glass back there.

Right.

Yeah.

It's like a swimming pool back there.

Similar rules.

I was trying to think of where you're not allowed to class.

But yeah, I stayed at a hotel that was blocks away from the casino.

Casino not have a hotel?

No, no, casino have no hotel.

I performed in that casino during the Canadian Comedy Awards like 12 years ago.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Hard crowd.

Yeah, it did the same thing.

Dave Foley was hosting hard crowd.

Did they like him at least?

No?

No, no.

Wait.

he didn't like them.

That's what it was.

Right.

Yeah, yeah.

The.

Isn't that, don't we put up walls as performers?

I'm not going to let you hurt me because I don't like you.

I'm going to not like you first.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Preach.

Yeah.

Isn't that what we do?

Yeah.

It might have been justified.

Well,

it would have been in this case.

They didn't like me.

But the casino is very much like.

The show's only 90 minutes.

90 minutes exactly.

Right.

Like, and we were like, okay, yeah, we'll do it.

They're like, we got got a clock on the stage.

We got the champions of magic coming in right there.

They want to just get people out of gambling as fast as possible.

And

went on stage.

Clock wasn't working.

So we were all just guessing our time.

And

we landed it.

We stuck the landing.

Just the two of you?

No, Charlie DeBares was our headliner.

The people listening to the show would have been driving from Moose and John 2.

He would have been driving from

Lloydminster.

Yeah.

It was a Vancouver Special show then.

Um, yeah, yeah,

and uh, it was presented by the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, so it was just kind of like that was the brand, it wasn't we were, I don't think, on a poster or anything like that.

But the next day, you know, it was on a poster, Al Capone wanted poster, yeah, that's true,

and didn't he like got him on like May,

yeah, tax evasion, yeah, like that.

Um,

uh,

but the hotel I was staying in, I went to the restaurant the day of the show to have some lunch, some lunch.

Just so you know, last time you were on the show, you talked about your pizza difficulty.

Yes, yes, yeah.

This falls in the same kind of category.

Okay.

Except it's a good story.

This time it's a positive spin on the classic hotel story.

But I went to their

hotel.

Also, I should mention that the hotel bar in Winnipeg is called the Velvet Glove.

So just a fun fact.

Yeah, good name, right?

Velvet Glove.

Anyways, went into the restaurant to have lunch.

Velvet Glove.

That's Meltour May's proctologist's nickname.

There it is.

Nice.

Can you do Meltour May?

No.

That's him.

Anyways, I was in there.

An old man sat down almost right next to me.

It was insane.

There was nobody else in the restaurant.

And then he just pulled out his phone and brought up the news and just sat there listening to the news like it was his breakfast day.

Oh, video news?

What's that?

He was listening to it?

He was watching it?

He was watching it, but it was like, we're the only two people.

Like, go across the room or do this in your hotel room or something.

Screen time.

Yeah, then I have to spend some time by myself.

I think there is a

generation gap of like there's the young people, the younger people, the young people together,

but also the old people.

Yeah.

Phones very loud.

Yes.

Everyone in between headphones.

And anytime that you hear a phone ring, that's an old person.

You can pick them out that quick.

Or me.

Or me, and I forgot I left the house.

Yeah.

Do you keep it on when you're in the house?

In the house, I do.

Okay.

That's probably a pretty smart thing to do.

So if somebody.

For all my important calls.

Yeah.

Actually, come to think of it.

I go through phases where I get like

scam calls 10 times a day.

Yeah.

It's been a couple of weeks since I've had any.

I've got some scam texts.

I don't hear you.

You get scam text?

I've had a couple of scam texts.

Oh, sure.

Yeah.

Your package can't be delivered.

Yeah.

Well, I'll log on.

Oh, fuck it.

I'm not expecting anything, but I gotta give my, I gotta have this thing.

I gotta send them.

Are we still on for lunch tomorrow?

Oh, we do get the

some very weird ones that are

like open-ended plans or just like a sentence that's oh, yeah, I had one that's like, can we, can we talk?

Or something like that?

Ominous.

Yeah.

It was Joan Rivers.

Can we talk?

Oh, cool.

Yeah.

Anyway, so that's, like you say, it's a generational divide.

I don't understand it.

I can see doing it at home, but that's at home, you know?

Like, outside is this is time for the New York Times puzzles and things like that.

So that's what you'd be doing outside.

Anyways,

I just saw I was looking up

Randy Vida.

Here's one I got from a number I don't recognize.

Are you resting at home after work?

That sounds like somebody trying to be a human.

Also, this one, they only sent me one text ever and it just says, I bring peace, memes, and mild chaos.

Like, send me memes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Do you send back, send me memes?

Is that a threat?

I'm shy.

Yeah.

Anyways, the same restaurant.

The next morning, I go down for breakfast.

I'm just going to order regular breakfast, I think.

I sit down.

The server comes over and says, we have the menu, but we also have the breakfast buffet today.

And then she's kind of overselling the things that you could get.

There's an omelette station.

You're going to have coffee and orange juice.

It comes with both of those things.

You have to mix them together.

Yeah.

Make a jug where you pour them in together.

Potash.

Yeah, potash.

Canola.

Yeah.

Normally in Alberta, you get shale.

You get shale, yeah.

The free shale.

And then she was kind of like, you can tell that she felt like

she didn't want to say how much it cost because, in her head, it seemed unreasonable.

$20.

Oh.

$20 for omelette station, all-you-can-eat breakfast.

Make your own omelette or someone makes it for you?

Somebody makes it for you, but you get to pick up.

That's nice.

You go back as many times as you want.

I did.

Waffle room.

I had omelette.

I had cereal.

I had oatmeal.

I had fruit.

I had yogurt.

Okay, I felt so sick after, but I was like, I'm gonna have to.

Can I have a waffle robot?

No, no waffle, and no pancake conveyor belt.

Now, you as an allergic man, this is all rolling the dice.

Like, oh, yeah, you might walk into the buffet and be like, I can have one thing.

Yeah, I can have a grape.

I can have a solitary grape.

If I have two, I'm in big trouble.

You're not allowed to look before.

Yeah, you buy it, then find out.

Yeah, we don't even know what's in there, you know?

Just going into a garbage can.

But yeah, 20 bucks.

That's like the most remarkable deal.

This is, this is,

yeah, prices are out of control, man.

Yeah, I know, right?

Although I feel like Subway's back with a $5.99 situation.

I go out so rarely

that like Abby and I will go out to a nice dinner twice a year.

Yeah.

And a cocktail will be $21.

But is a cocktail $21 only at a place where we went to a nice dinner or is a cocktail $21 everywhere?

That's a very good question.

Yeah, cocktails are always cocktails.

They're quite expensive no matter where you go.

Unless it's like a happy hour.

I went out for dinner in Kamloops recently.

Nice.

By myself, and it cost $50.

$50.

What did you get?

A meal.

A meal?

I got

sweet potato crusted haddock on

bacon-infused risotto.

Okay.

That's a thorough with roasted vegetables.

You did the little thing with your fingers when you were talking.

And that adds 10 bucks.

Yeah, it was right there.

And a fake Guinness, and that was $50.

What's a fake Guinness?

0%.

Oh, okay.

Really brown beer.

But yeah,

one time I was drinking with four people, and we all had a cocktail.

And when they brought the bill, I was like, God Zeus.

I was like, that's so fucking expensive.

We were easily in the hundreds.

So, oh, wow.

Well, I was drinking with four people, and we had one tequila, two tequila, three tequila, four.

Nice.

But yeah, why do people listen to this?

I don't know.

Or at least my party.

Part of the impressions.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

You're walking down the streets of London.

Who's that over there?

It's Pannington Bear, it is.

Hello, hello.

It's me, Pannington Bear.

Pretty good, eh?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Ooh, okay.

Elementary mode.

What?

Yeah, sure lock.

Benedict Cumberbatch.

Can you do one, Task?

You've been enjoying as a young man.

From Britain?

Sure.

Yeah, from Britain.

Oh, me umbrella.

Oh, it's the

poppin'.

Nice.

Very good.

She was cockney right now.

She's practically perfect.

Really?

Did you, like, what was the last time you guys went to a buffet?

It's, man, it's great.

So bringing it back on the ferry.

Really?

Yeah, apparently.

By popular demand, I guess.

Well, I've never been to it, it's like a seafood buffet, right?

No, it was just a buffet.

It was a place that you could get, definitely get a seat.

Nice.

So, people who are willing to shell out like 25 to get like a private area.

Yeah, yeah, I feel it.

And all-you-can-eat jell-o.

I'll pay $25 to get access to your private area.

Okay,

yes, jump on that Goomba.

Jump on me, Goomba.

That was very poppin'.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, so then

a spoonful of...

Geez, what do Goombas eat?

Yeah, what do Goombas eat?

Some sort of grass that they have in there?

A spoonful of Mario helps the Goombas go down.

They eat Mario?

Plumbers.

Don't they?

I guess they do.

They got a touch.

It's like a touch death.

Yeah.

He dies, but you got to know they're feasting on him.

Yeah.

But he falls out of screen.

He falls out of screen, but off-screen, you know more there's always more going on there yeah yeah there's upside down there's an underground world there as well probably roasting him on a fireball have you guys seen the mario brothers movie not the new one but like oh yeah with the and the lizard guys with like the trench coats yes and like the tiny heads yes it's been a long time honestly i'd watch it again just to see how because it's i remember it's like dennis offer was king koopa yeah he just had like a hairstyle yeah he just like slicked his hair and also had a trench coat like a leather trench coat yeah it feels like it's somebody that made a movie based on one picture that they saw of Mario Brothers.

I think it was based on the names of the characters.

Yeah.

And that alone.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I get it mixed up with Tank Girl in my memory.

There was the kangaroo man and then the lizard man.

Kangaroo Man, that was that was Tank Girl.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

I guess he was a kangaroo man.

I believe.

He was?

Is this in Tank Girl?

Yeah.

Huh.

Got to watch this again, too.

Good soundtrack.

Didn't it have a good soundtrack?

What was on it?

Boy.

Blur?

Sure.

I think it had.

Gorillas.

I don't know.

I think it had a lot of female artists.

I think it maybe also had Scott Wyland.

Oh, a solo project.

Well, a side project called the Magnus Ambassadors, I think it was called.

Okay.

Excellent.

Excellent work.

Well, do you guys want to move on to some overheards?

Okay.

Sorry,

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That's true, Justin.

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However, our podcast is funny and interesting and a great way to learn about the medical misdeeds of the past, as well as some current, not so legit healthcare fads.

So you're saying that by listening to our podcast, people will feel better.

Sure.

And isn't that the same reason that you go to the doctor?

Well, you could say that.

And our podcast is free?

Yes, it is free.

You heard it here first, folks.

Sawbones, Meryl Turk, Misguided Medicine right here on Maximum Fun, just as good as going to the doctor.

No, no, no.

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Overheard.

Overheards, the time and place where you hear the best of the best out there in the world.

And we like to share all that gold with you.

And we always like to start with a guest.

Taz, do you have an overheard?

Yeah, yeah.

I got one that happened during a show.

So we do

in a school.

We're in a gymnasium.

Picture this.

Yeah.

We're in a gymnasium.

Are the basketball nets up or down?

This time I got that little hook and I pushed it aside.

Oh, nice.

now you

who

i know we've talked about this before and i'll let you get to your overheard but just for a little more context yeah you you're you've been hired

to go to high schools elementary schools usually elementary schools we do middle schools and high schools as well it's by the school district the school district will hire you yeah for just to teach is there any no teaching no nothing educational about it it's just a two-person improv show yeah yeah and we go in and we get kids up for like basically every single scene

and that destroys yeah and it goes and it goes really well and then we rile them up and then we leave nice uh and it's like 45 to an hour is there a time of day that's a better show like before lunch yeah earlier is usually better uh last last uh last block before uh on a friday is the worst because everybody's they're ready to go home yeah they're riled yeah

Are the high school is that not I feel like

intimidating you just kind of do it like an adult show, but without the content of an adult show.

And they fold their arms, and then you slowly win them over, and you make fun of the bullies, and then they respect you.

And you're not, and you don't,

we're telling us off-air, you're not, you no longer allow kids to use brain rot words.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, we had suggestions.

This actually ties into

the overheard.

So we do a game where we get them to come up and be like word machines.

And so whenever we point to them, like, you fill in the blank.

And we've discovered this is the best way to ban the brain rot words.

So you get a kid up there,

usually a young boy,

and I go, there's like, yeah, don't stay out of the bathroom.

Don't say like violent things.

And, you know, kids are here, right?

And you say that.

And then, and then a boy will usually be like, oh, yes, I understand.

Okay, I'm part of the, got it.

I'm an adult now.

Yeah, I get it.

Oh, I have a job.

Okay.

And then I say, and no brain rot words or Minecraft stuff.

And then the kids kind of go, oh, and then I'm like, see, this is why.

And the kids are like, oh, yeah, I get it.

Cool.

I got a job.

Got it.

And they're always cool about it.

And we were playing this game, and the overheard

was like, we point to them, and they just fill in a blank.

And I was going into a castle.

Okay.

Something to this effect.

And then I was like, oh, boy, it smells interesting in here.

It smells kind of nice.

It smells like.

And I pointed to this little boy and he said, Ford escape.

So confident.

Just Ford Escape.

Wow.

Which is a very, it was

so specific.

So specific.

Yeah, it was great.

Usually they're looking around.

Like sometimes they say, like, basketball hoop or whatever.

But this, yeah, this kid honed in.

It was like, you've got to say not these bad words.

So, what's the first thing that comes to your mind?

Be specific.

Don't just say SUV.

Name the SUV.

Right.

Yeah.

Which led to a nice new car smell for the teachers.

For the teachers.

The kids didn't understand that.

Right.

Do you, in the elementary schools,

the school I went to didn't have this, but the one that's that I went to Cubs at had this.

It was like a thing that came out from the wall that was all like jungle gym stuff.

And it would fold against the wall.

Those are gone.

Those are gone?

Those don't exist anymore.

They're too dangerous.

They're too dangerous.

They just don't exist.

Because when they fold them back into the wall, sometimes a kid's trapped in there.

Yeah.

Like you don't see them?

Yeah.

Crunched.

Yeah, sadly, they're gone, though.

Yeah.

I don't know what this is.

It was just like during, I don't know what unit of.

It was like three

of them that would fold out and then you had a ladder, you had a rope, you had Venetian blinds, cellular

stuff like that.

Did you ever have to, when you were a youth, try to climb a rope?

Yes.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I figured it out.

You just got to put the rope above your ankle and then shimmy.

Oh.

I didn't ever.

It's not upper body strength.

It's just leverage with your feet.

I wish you'd been.

It's like a magic trick.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's like when David Blaine can levitate for a split second.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Champion of magic.

But yeah, I can see why they don't have those anymore.

Yeah, but surprisingly, they do have a lot of climbing walls,

which also seems dangerous.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then it usually says like, no climbing without supervision.

It's like, why put a climbing wall here and kids aren't allowed to use it?

Yeah, you can fold it back into the wall.

You wouldn't even know it was there.

Those climbing wall salesmen are so slick.

Yeah.

That's how we end our shows.

We sell a climbing wall day out.

All these small times.

You've actually been hired by the climbing wall company.

Yeah, all your climbing walls.

Let's say,

give me something you'd find in a school.

Yeah.

What's something that's like bouldering but bigger?

Yeah,

I heard,

anyways.

Here's some pamphlets.

You had another overheard?

Well, I had one more when I was having dinner by myself in Kamloops

because

my touring partner, Ray Carson,

was visiting a friend.

So sometimes you eat dinner on your own on tour, as you know.

I love it.

Yeah, it's nice.

And I was sitting beside a table full of

nice women who were who I figured out were part of a church group.

And they were getting very excited about gossip and like meeting men for other women, like setting up.

Oh, cool.

Setting up stuff.

And then they kind of came to the consensus.

I don't remember the exact wording, but that they were going to have a slushy machine at the next prayer circle.

And that was the big, they're like, yep, slushy machine at the next.

Pastor Dave said it was okay.

We're going to do it.

And I think that was how they were going to lure

new men or like,

get a climbing wall, a slushy machine.

Yeah, why not?

So that's what I overheard

while I was doing my crossword and eating dinner.

How do you eat?

$60 dinner.

Are they going to buy it?

Are they going to rent it?

It's unclear.

Yeah.

It sounded like a rental situation.

Is the prayer circle just going to be at a gas station that has?

It might have been

prayer gathering.

Sure.

I'm not sure.

Free slushies as many as Bible study.

Yeah, they were using names like Malachi and Oral.

Oh, Oral, yeah, right.

So, like, I don't know if that's specific to

something.

Yeah, Malachi and Oral.

I mean, honestly,

a lot of guys there with just the promise of Oral.

Yep.

There it is.

i was told there would be a slushy machine

um dave do you have it over yeah i was in a coffee shop and i overheard just this oh uh it was a woman and i i was walking past i only heard this little snippet a woman talking to another woman and uh she said for me it was impossible because I was being asked to accept the things I could change.

Yeah, because it's like, don't chase after after those well isn't it like um

grant me the oh wisdom wisdom to or the power to change the things i can and

yeah

to accept the things i can't but she's like this doesn't work i i can change it but i'm supposed to accept it yeah what the

bible

i don't know it's from i think it's maybe from a

uh sign you get winners oh yes

home sense that's a home sense yeah yeah yeah i mean they're attached aren't they they?

They are.

I think

on

98 Fiancé, every base has those live, laugh, or this is a house full of love, or that feels like that's very much.

Or maybe it's anyway.

Are they all just staying at Airbnbs?

Yeah.

We've only got one in four.

Every time,

like I go sometimes on vacation at places that my parents stay as well, and they book an Airbnb.

And I don't think my parents get that

the concept of an Airbnb to my parents is, oh, someone is giving up their home for a week so we can stay there and we're paying for it.

Not this is a purpose-built Airbnb.

It's all of the art on the walls is just what they got for cheap at

winners.

And my parents are like, oh,

what do you think they use this for?

They don't.

No one uses this.

Yeah,

I've been to ones that were so that that it wasn't even like the sheets were bad.

Like Yeah, bad.

And lack of surfaces is a big issue.

I stay in a lot of them on the road.

It's like, there's no bedside table.

Yeah.

Because you don't think about that when you're just furnishing a place you're not staying.

Yeah.

Have you ever been to one that is something that somebody lives in and like you kind of like figure out their whole life by you're like, okay, well, she's, she's a fencer.

She fences.

And this is her, this is her family over here.

Sure.

Those ones usually have locked cupboards.

Yes.

Yeah.

So like, what's in here?

Really personal stuff.

Yeah.

That's so funny.

Because, yeah, all of the Airbnbs are just Airbnbs.

They've locked up the slushy machine.

Oh, shit.

It's clearly in these pictures.

Everyone's praying around it.

Mine comes from being at a bar having a drink, and at the bar right next to me, we're a British couple.

Oh, yeah, it was very kind of

an umbrella.

Yeah.

10, it was a 10-flight, no, 10-beer flight, like a giant flight of beers.

And

they were just kind of, they were having a good time.

And then another guy came in and sat down next to them.

And he, he also just happened to be British.

And so they ended up having to talk to each other.

Well, I mean, like, he was pushing for a conversation.

At one point, he looked over at me.

I was like, no, no, I'm doing Wordle.

I'm doing Wordle.

I don't care to talk to anybody.

But they were talking all these British things.

I'm from, you you know, Scarsmouth and all that kind of stuff.

And then the guy, he was so annoying.

He kept saying things and the bartender was like, what?

Like he would say things with its thick English accent.

And then at one point, he went, I'll have a bowl of what you call fries.

And it took the bartender at least three times to be, what?

Fries?

What you would call fries?

A bowl of fries?

Anyways, he sucked.

That guy sucked.

Oh, Oh, you mean fries?

Yeah.

What you would call fries.

Oh, that's cool.

Yeah.

He was cool.

He made some friends that night.

Oh,

they're not chips because

we call them Chris.

We've got to put you in a taxi after this flight.

After a 10-drink flight?

Put you in a cab?

What do you call it?

We call a black top where I come from.

But in England, he also does it.

He's like,

what we call chips.

A 10-beer flight.

How big are the beers?

Little guys?

Little guys, but like such a wide or long wooden, what do you call it?

Like kind of a paddle or a paddle?

Yeah.

Hazer, hazing paddle.

I haven't had a flight of beers in a very long time.

I feel like that is from the micro-brewery

era.

I got a flight of pickles a couple weeks ago.

Oh, that sounds good.

I don't have a brewery because I don't drink.

And I was like, what am I going to do here?

Yeah.

The pickles.

They were good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There's a lot of like spicy ones.

Spicy ones.

Sweet.

Do you remember when people would go fill up their growlers at a micro brewery?

Oh, yes.

Is that not happening at the moment?

I mean, maybe it is,

but it was everywhere.

It was really like, oh, you got to own your own growlers.

Otherwise, you're paying growler fees.

And it was also like a surefire way to have a warm beer, like out of a growler.

It was never refrigerated.

It's like, oh, I brought a growler.

You bring that to a park and it's so warm.

Yeah.

I kept it between my legs the whole bus ride over.

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

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

And this first one comes from Brian V

and doesn't say where.

So

this is, here's an overheard courtesy of a conversation between my five-year-old daughter and my wife.

They were listening to music when Bitch Better Have My Money by Rihanna came on.

Daughter said, Is a bad word if it's in a song?

Wife, yes, it's okay in the song, but don't say that word at people.

Then I said, Then why do you always call daddy a bitch?

I'd say it is a bad word in the song.

Do you

better have my money?

Do you find

I was talking to Chris Locke about this, that all the music that teen or or like adolescent kids want to listen to have a lot of swears in them.

Yeah, I mean, like,

even the, it was,

you know, the Britney's Spearses of our generation didn't have

swear words in it, but Taylor's got some swears.

Yeah.

Olivia Rodrigo.

Liv Ross's got some swears.

Sabrina's got swears.

Yeah.

It's uh, but do they do clean radio edit anymore?

I know that Rodrigo did.

What's the one where Rodrigo?

Yeah,

don't embarrass me, motherfucker.

Oh, yeah.

In that one, they changed it to Little Sucker.

That's fun.

Something everybody can enjoy.

This next one comes from Chelsea from the Chicago suburbs.

New Pope.

New Pope, guys.

My five-year-old daughter is obsessed with jokes lately.

Oh, she should listen to our podcast.

Yeah, you're going to love it.

Is this all five-year-olds?

The last one might also be a five-year-old.

We'll see.

Five-year-old daughter is obsessed with jokes lately, but she doesn't quite grasp the format.

She has also been helping me in the garden, so her latest joke attempt involved flowers as the main characters.

Here's how it went.

What did the sunflower say to the zinnia?

I don't know what you're going to die.

That's as good as any punchline.

Yeah, I mean, they're all gonna die.

It's probably gonna block the sun.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

And then it'll die.

Logic.

Logic.

That's a good joke.

Yeah, that is a good joke.

That's a good joke is logic.

My zinnias have sprouted, but they're not growing.

No.

Oh, dear.

I don't know.

Maybe the later.

I think they're a late summer guy.

Are they tall, small?

They're tall.

They're tall.

Okay.

Your dog's pissed in the garden?

No.

Okay.

Good.

Cool.

This is the last one is from Brendan in London, UK, everybody.

I'm five years old.

Five years old?

No, not five years old.

This is something that made his family laugh.

Context.

I've been doing my best to expose my kids to more culture.

Oh, is one of their kids five?

Yeah.

Possibly.

Speaking to my Alexa, I said, play Nesim Dorma by Pavarotti.

And Alexa said, replied in her standard semi-robotic voice, Play Nesim Dorma by Timmy Trumpet.

Pretty good, right?

Yeah.

Timmy Trumpet.

Doesn't sound like Pavarati at all, but God.

I love the opera.

I didn't know Timmy Trumpet did a cover of that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Timmy Trumpet, he's got lots of swears.

You can't.

Oh, yeah.

Listen to Timmy Trumpet.

He's got going down on me in the backseat of the car.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's one of them.

Amongst other

foul things that Timmy Trumpet gets up to.

Yeah, Pavarotti does that too.

Yeah, he's.

Oh,

was he like a womanizing kind of guy, or was he just like.

Is he being an evil man?

No.

So I don't know if he's an evil man.

I think he, I think if you're Pavarotti.

Pavarati?

He's off limits.

Yeah, that's true.

Yeah.

He's off limits.

I know he was like a...

He's beloved.

He lived big.

He ate.

He drank.

He sang.

What more can you ask for?

Handkerchiefs.

Yeah, right.

But yeah, did he ever throw one out in the audience?

You know, fucking role style.

Find me.

Bring it back.

It was Pavarati Placido Domingo.

Oh, the three tennis?

Three tennis?

Jose Carreras.

All right, Jose Carreras.

Not as popular Carreras.

No, he's the third guy.

Yeah.

He's the one on Seinfeld that got Jerry.

He was the other guy.

He wiped his mouth with Jerry's pants.

That's right.

In addition to overhurds that are written, and we also accept your phone calls and your voice memos.

Send your voice memos if you want to call us and voice memo us to spy at maximumfun.org or call us at 1-844-7797631.

That's one.

Ugh.

Spypod one.

Like these people had.

Yeah, I don't even know that I could name another or kind of fake another

tenor?

Yeah.

Name another tenor.

I mean, Andrea Bocelli.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, there you go.

So different.

I only know that because you said the name before, but it is good.

It's a good impression.

He was blind, right?

He is blind.

He's alive.

Okay.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

And.

don't tell him I said that.

Well, I'm gonna hear this.

Oh, wait, no, he's not deaf,

he's got ear blindness.

Um,

the uh, uh,

can you like name how many operas could you name?

Aida,

uh, Barber Seville, yeah,

Madame Butterfly, three penny.

Does that count?

I don't think so.

Uh,

uh, Deflater Mouse.

Oh, nice, Tristan and Isolda.

Wow, Wow.

The Magic Flute?

Oh, The Magic Flute, yeah.

Saw and Lake?

More of a ballet.

Yeah.

We're doing high culture.

I only do when the VSO is playing along to a movie.

That's why it has to be like.

The VSO plays Die Hard.

Yeah.

Like that.

VSO does Splash.

Ah, that would be fun.

They do.

Home Alone every year.

Yeah.

There was one, there was a weird one that...

Labo M.

Okay.

Posca, The Marriage of Figaro, La Traviata, Don Giovanni.

Yeah, these all come up in crosswords a lot.

Yeah.

Good, yeah.

Okay.

Carmen.

Oh, Carmen.

What will you get up to next?

Is she, Carmiranda?

Does she have a big fruit hat?

I wonder if Carmiranda always had to wear the fruit hat every time she performed, or was that something that we've just isolated?

And that that was her.

Yeah, like Lucille Paul.

Always eating chocolates.

She's always eating chocolates.

Okay, here we go.

Hey, stop podcasting yourself.

This is Megan in Baltimore.

I'm behind a big truck, a big horn, and it has bumper stickers that say Trump Fants 2024.

And it says LGBT.

And L is the Statue of Liberty.

G is a gun.

B is beer.

And T is a set of titties.

So that's pretty cool.

Cool guy.

All right.

Love you.

Off I go.

To you as well.

Why did they leave off Q and what would Q be?

Q Bert.

From the old, the 80s video game.

Well, I was thinking maybe a Quiznose.

Oh, Quiznos would be good.

Oh, yeah.

What if your business just accidentally became politically affiliated outside a group of people like Quizdos is our restaurant.

We've decided we're Quizdos now.

Well, Calvin and Hobbes got taken.

Oh, that's true.

Yeah.

Or just Calvin.

Just Calvin.

Yeah, Hobbes is never safe.

He's safe.

He's safe.

Hobbs takes the shit off things.

You don't see that as often.

Yeah, what is the legal status of, like, how are they allowed to make so many Calvins?

Yeah.

I mean, John Waterson's not getting that money.

I don't have any people from making bumper sticks.

That's the thing about, like, they seems lawless.

Yeah.

There's so many internet companies that'll make a t-shirt with

whatever, like a logo or a famous person on it.

Yeah, your red bubbles.

Yeah, or like a like enamel pins that has.

you're like, well, they're selling 200 of these.

So, like, is it even worth like even worth the celebrities' time to go after them?

Do you know what?

I ordered a hat that had like a robot on it, and it got shipped in a flat thing, and so the hat was like flattened, so now it's got two giant divots in the.

It looks horrible, but it's it was such, I shouldn't have bought it.

It was like the hat is so cheap and shitty, and uh you're supporting a local artist?

No,

this is a faceless conglomerate.

In any case, buyer beware.

If you're ordering things like that, can't tell.

Just from pictures.

By local Canada made.

Yeah.

Elbows up.

Elbows up.

Hello, Dave, Graham, and possible guest.

It's Matt from Kingston calling with an overheard.

I was at Dairy Queen.

Shout out, Dave.

Eating up ice cream for my fiancé and I.

And this Dairy Queen has a walk-up window beside the drive-through.

And a mother and her young toddler were there to order ice cream.

And the toddler was fussing.

And mom said to baby, Oh, what's that, sweetheart?

Oh, you want to stick your hands down my shirt as you always do?

And

that gave me a pretty big giggle.

Well,

he's doing his own take.

Reinventing the form.

Yeah, that was pretty good.

I don't even remember what they overheard.

It was a kid sticking his hand up.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, talk about Dairy Queen.

Moms are the original Dairy Queens.

Yeah.

I had Dairy Queen like a couple weeks ago.

So delicious.

Still got it.

So freaking delicious.

You went to my high school, right?

Correct.

And there was a Dairy Queen across the street.

I went to your high school.

Yeah.

You ran that shit.

Natur Memorial.

Did you go to Dairy Queen a lot?

There was that Dairy Queen right down the street.

Yeah.

But did you go there during school hours?

I believe I went there.

I would also go to Nat's Pizza or something.

Yeah, Nats Pizza.

Shout out to Ryan Reynolds.

Yeah, Ryan Reynolds loved that place.

Yeah.

He was on the deal.

He went there.

Yeah, he went to my school too.

He also ran that place.

He went to the school.

Was it the one that had like a giant mural of New York?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think it's still there.

It's still there.

Yeah.

And I actually was like, Dairy Queen not there.

Yes, it is.

Is it?

Holy shit.

I was hankering for there's a new KFC.

The KFC that used to be there is now a garden center, but there's now a new KFC up the street.

I'm a Thomas Haas guy.

Let's go there and get some chocolate.

But they.

What the fuck is it going to say?

Oh, yeah.

I was

driving in that neighborhood the other day, and I was like, oh, I should stop and get myself a slice of pizza.

But it was a weekday at 12.50, and I'm like,

I'm not getting in line with these children.

No.

And

yeah, the places near our high school was a gas station, so we'd eat gas station food.

Oh, yeah.

We had a full, we had so many places.

Benny's bagels.

Oh, you had Benny's bagels.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

Nice.

Nice.

And here's your final phone call.

Hey, guys.

This is David in Chicago.

So I think it was on your Julie Kim episode you had some overdreamts that brought an overdreamt of my own from long ago back to mind.

This was maybe like

15 years ago,

if not more.

I had a dream

which was kind of in the format of a behind-the-music style TV documentary.

And it was all about Bruce Springsteen.

And one controversy that this particular behind the music focused on was during the filming of Dancing in the Dark when

Bruce brings Courtney Cox up on stage to dance with him.

Unbeknownst to the world at the time, he had stolen her wallet from her pocket.

And yeah, in

the kind of commentary on it, following up on the narrator's commentary, they just had a brief cut to Bruce being interviewed about it.

And his only reaction was to say, so?

All right.

Love you guys.

She doesn't deny it.

So?

Big deal.

I stole Courtney Cox to the wall.

She makes a million dollars per episode of friends.

She can afford it.

That's an alternate history.

So,

so?

there was one a couple months ago that was

some dream that listeners had where myself and you were kind of chastising her for not hearing of like something that ended up being like Tommy Trumpet or something.

Like, you don't know.

Oh, really?

Remember that?

No, I don't.

I'll have to look it up.

I know someone in our Facebook group brought up an old dream I had had about

in my dream

everyone kept asking me if I had heard

have you read Nick Nulty's poem

about bathing an infant?

Oh my God.

There's so many levels to that.

Nick Nulty's book of poems.

That's cool that your brain can make that.

It was obviously.

I think it was right when I had an infant.

Right.

Always on my mind.

Yeah.

And you wrote a book of poetry, didn't you?

And I was reading Nick Nulty's other books.

Yeah.

He's

Nick Nolte.

He was that guy that came to that comedy show once.

Oh, did he?

Yeah.

And he was...

Yeah, I told you a story where he starts cutting his nails during the show.

He came in in a trench coat.

Nulty?

Nick Nolty.

It wasn't Gary Busey?

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

No, it was Nick Dolte.

He was wearing a fedora and like a kind of trench coat.

He looked like an old detective.

And he sat at a table that maybe there were 10 people in the audience.

And in the middle of the, he brought a sandwich that he had snuck into the show.

What was the venue?

Deviate?

Yes.

Deviate.

I think that rings a bell.

Yeah.

And then during the show, he started cutting his nails.

And because the crowd was so small, you could hear it while the show's yeah, exactly.

I've heard this lore.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think Sean Devlin was there, too.

Yeah, absolutely.

It was

a famous, it's the only thing I can think of when I see Nick Nulty now is him cutting his nails at the table and sneaking in a sandwich for my own dose.

That was pretty great.

Anyways, we wish him the best.

Wait, is he still alive?

Yeah, I think so.

Okay, good.

He was up for the new Pope.

Oh, shit.

Really?

Lost out.

R.I.P.

Pope.

The Pope, yeah, absolutely.

And his potential.

Yeah.

To be the Pope.

Yeah.

In my childhood, we just had one Pope.

I feel like my kids are so lucky.

They've had three popes in their childhood.

Who's the guy,

Ratzen Dinger?

It was John Ratzenberger.

John Ratzenberger.

Oh, I wish I could do an impression impression of him as the Pope.

You're sure you can.

Hey, Norm.

Hey, Norm.

Hey, Norm.

Well, you see.

You say something Catholic.

Well, you see, there's Norm.

Hey, there, Norm.

I sentence you to 500.

Hail Mary.

We're good at this.

Well, thank you, Taz.

This is the end of the program.

Thanks, Brad.

Thank you for being a guest.

I I had a good time.

I only had to walk a couple of blocks from my house.

Hell yeah.

That's great.

You are every week at the Fox Cabaret.

Correct.

Sunday service, 20th anniversary this year.

Yeah, we have not planned anything.

Probably won't.

You should just get one of those confetti popper things.

Yeah, how about just one?

We plan your 20th anniversary.

Okay.

And you plan on episode 900.

Yeah.

Cool.

But you better get on it.

Yeah, you have three weeks.

Yeah, we only have a couple of weeks too.

You should do something.

I know I know but the the but the it sucks that you got to do an extra thing

act of planning yeah like yeah, I'm I want to celebrate myself by giving myself a bunch of work to do Yeah, and much like your show we we do a thing once a week and we we do that and we're happy.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

And also as an audience member

They the audience likes the thing you do every week.

Why would you change it up for a special episode and

like have a live episode where people are like doing Johnny Deff impressions or something?

We might have a party in a park or something.

That sounds good.

How about that?

Yeah.

Not for audience, just for friends.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, cool.

That was great.

You guys can go.

Go see the owls.

Yeah.

Ooh.

Yeah.

We'll do it there and then we'll poach the owl crap.

Have the owlets been born?

Are we sure?

I have no idea.

Or are they just sitting on them?

No one wrote that on the piece of paper on the tree.

Oh, yeah.

In case of owlets, call this number.

1-800-eat shit.

Well, thank you again for being here, Chris.

And thank you, everybody out there, for listening to the show.

If you have time coming up, I think get out of your house and go see that owl, whatever your local owl is.

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