Episode 888 - Alicia Tobin

Hi, he's Dave Shumka.

And he's Graham Clark.

And together we host Stop Podcasting Yourself.

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Hello, everybody, and welcome to episode number 888 of Stop Podcasting Yourself.

My name is Graham Clark.

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our guest today, one of our all-time favorites, one of the all-time greats.

She's so funny.

So great to have her here.

It's Alicia Tobin.

Hello.

Hey, hi, bumpers.

How are you doing?

I'm great.

Never been better.

I like your scarf.

I like your old garage.

Thanks.

I've got it at a garage sale that was at my own apartment building.

Nice.

For $2.

It's very old.

It's made of...

Stop talking.

It's made of what?

Polyester.

It's got to be polyester.

Was there a garage sale?

Was it like a yard sale?

Yeah.

We did a building yard sale last summer.

It was pretty good.

It was good.

Yes.

We did a lot of good stuff.

Sally brought a lot of stuff.

She did.

Yeah, that's where I heard about it.

It was Sally.

She calls me after every episode.

Something's wrong with Graham.

Did he even mention the garage sale?

No, he did.

It's fine.

I feel like we ended up, all of us ended up with stuff from each other's house, which was very funny.

You have a stepladder from my house.

No, it's great.

Did you?

It's a great stepladder, everybody.

One of the best.

Was it three foot, six foot, ten foot?

It's one of those like cool like IKEA

six foot steps.

It's just two steps.

There, I got it.

Here we go.

The

plastic.

Plastic.

Did you get it?

It's called the Master B.

It helps you masturbate.

Oh,

Dave.

What did you say?

It's called the Master B.

Okay, well, I'm not that wrong.

You weren't at all.

I'm going to go Master B.

Sally brought sodas.

That was her idea.

Yeah, I like a garage sale or something like that.

Sodas, brownies.

Well, you guys are garage sale pros.

Yeah.

You love a garage sale.

Fiends.

Queens.

We're queens.

We're queen fiends of the garage sale scene.

How do you feel about garage sales, Dave?

I'm kind of on the fence about them.

I don't partake.

Yeah, I see them around.

A lot of people putting up signs on the boulevards saying garage sales Saturday 10 to 2.

No early birds.

No early birds.

Does Abby go to garage sales?

Nope.

Not at all, eh?

Non-garage sale house.

Well, maybe one of your daughters will get into it.

You know, just to rebel.

Oh, yeah, they'll get into it when we die.

I mean, you just sell out all our stuff.

And I'll be there to have my eye on some things.

Sure.

Should we get to know us?

Yar.

Get to know us.

Alicia.

What's that?

What do you you guys think?

I love Dave's organizing thing.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, it's cool.

Yeah.

A guy who makes coats.

This is what he makes to show all the different kinds of pockets he can do.

Oh, that's so cool.

And it's it like it looks like military style.

Is it military style or it's just the color?

It's just the color.

It's just the color.

Oh, I just love it, Dave.

Yeah.

No?

I hope that's in the gross.

When will you die?

I guess I could just snap a picture and get my own.

Yeah,

what's new?

What's happening?

Tell us all about it.

I don't have a job.

Yeah, that's right.

Oh, my God.

You got fired.

I got laid off.

You got fired for

quiet fired, I would say.

I was quiet quitting, and they beat me too by quiet firing me.

Yeah, I've been off work.

It's been great.

I can't complain.

I actually like think this is the happiest I've been in a long time.

I think so.

Yeah.

I don't think I realized how like burnt out I was from everything.

And I don't mean just everything.

I mean everything.

It was like such a slow buildup to the point where like, I don't remember like a lot of the last five years because I was just in survival mode.

So apologies to the listeners for all the kind of shitty episodes.

Yeah, we've been saying the

Sally's been calling and saying Alicia's episodes have been so shitty for the last five years because she's in survival mode.

Yeah.

Totally.

Yeah, exactly.

You took the words right out of our mouth.

Yeah.

So So I've just been sort of like a retired person for the past five months.

When you left, how much stuff was on your desk?

How much?

A big box of stuff, just a couple of little trinkets?

It took me a full morning to clear it all off and like recycle things.

And I would put like we had like nice merch that over the years I collected on my desk and would put it in the kitchen with a note that says free.

And then as soon as I walk past.

Alicia used to work for Judas Priest and they had a lot of really cool.

But you could see one would get burnt out working for Judas Breeze.

Oh, sure, yeah.

Are they the one that had Eddie?

Or is that Iron Maiden?

That's Iron Maiden.

Okay.

Yeah.

A lot of Eddie merch, though.

You know, they're

a class promotion.

No, but it's more realistic that you would work at Judas Breeze.

It just feels like Iron Maiden probably has the same crew since.

Those are two bands I can't tell apart.

I can only tell them apart because Iron Maiden was very popular with the loungers at my high school.

What are loungers?

Yeah, what are loungers?

They were, it was generational, multi-generational kids that hung out in the lounge that loved heavy metal.

And their parents went to the same high school before them.

And their parents.

And their parents loved Glenn Miller Orchestra.

And

that was the rebellious.

Yeah, I think it went back to like

the 70s.

What was this in Quebec?

It was in Quebec.

And there was a lounge for students?

It was, but no one actually used the lounge, really.

Okay.

Because the school was primarily English school.

So the

there's not an English word for lounge.

The population was shrinking, so there wasn't enough kids to fill up these free spaces.

Oh, okay.

You know what else is shrinking?

Yeah, the jokes on this podcast.

George Cassanda's wiener.

Oh,

yeah.

It's still shrinking to this very day.

Now it's just one small flesh-colored pube.

For mankind.

One great big pube for my cut.

So, yeah, we called them the loungers, and they loved heavy metal.

And that's who we bought our hash from.

Yeah, I was going to say.

Was your growing up in Quebec, were kids allowed to smoke in class?

Yeah.

You know that little part of the desk where you put your pencil?

Yeah.

It was always filled up with, well, we would get milk in the morning and a couple of smokes and a Pepsi and a May West.

Some milk and some smokes.

They don't taste that much.

Was cigarette a big diarrhea?

When you mix cigarettes with milk, it probably would be.

I mean, if you're a person who's got milky

seats,

either one,

you're in for it.

Did you, what kind of music did you listen to in high school?

Oh, I loved like the Pet Shop Boys and Sinead O'Connor and Beastie Boys.

If they were boys, you loved them.

The Smiths before, you know, what happened?

Yeah.

The Smiths,

very like, I didn't really get into them.

I don't really know much about them,

but they're emotional.

They were like the, right?

They're the first emo band.

Clever.

Graham, every band is emotional.

All music is emotional.

No, no, no.

Name one that isn't.

Yakety Sachs.

There you go.

That gives me an emotion.

The emotion is.

Is Yakity Sachs the Benny Hill?

Yep.

Yeah, okay.

Pardon me.

Dave said, go ahead to sign up for pottery.

This is what it's come to.

That's how long the podcast has been on.

I'm retired.

Dave's signing up for pottery classes.

What are you up to, Graham?

Just chilling on the corner.

Just me and the guys from the dump.

We're just hanging out.

That would be your dream.

For me, the Smiths, I didn't understand.

Like, I heard the name a bunch, but like they just weren't on the radio here.

At least when I started listening to the radio.

Yeah.

And so I didn't understand how the giant impact they had on everyone who was born within the five years.

Yeah, and it's like I knew a couple people that were die-hard fans of theirs, but it wasn't, it was the same thing.

It wasn't everywhere like,

you know, an iMother Earth or something like that.

Or an Our Lady P.

Well, I was definitely introduced to the Smiths by cute college boys.

CCBs.

Definitely wanted to hang with those boys and kiss them.

Yeah.

And did you ever get a couple?

Sure.

A couple.

You got a couple?

Oh, yeah.

Hell yeah.

You were in high school?

Yeah.

That's so cool.

That's so cool for the guys.

Nothing else happens.

You had like a really old soul.

Totally.

Man who knows a lot about my childhood.

Were these English-speaking boys or were they French?

Were they French in a couple ways?

They were English.

One of them was, I never kissed him, but gosh, I wanted to, was the son of a preacher.

Oh, wow.

That's the only one that could ever teach you.

Yeah, I so wanted that to happen.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He was gorgeous and so fucked up.

Yeah.

Yeah, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

There is something about the angsty, you know, the angst.

Yes.

I don't need God.

I need Morrissey.

And you said it the exact right way.

It was perfect.

Now I have a mini crush on Dave for a second.

It's God now.

Yeah, I got to get my sideburns going.

Yeah,

is with that guy that you wanted to kiss the one that got away?

Or was he one in a series of...

Oh, they almost all got away.

They almost all got away.

I was not.

Almost all.

Almost all.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Especially at that age.

Like, no one was that interested in me.

Aw,

yeah, that's okay.

And then you left those high school blues behind, and then you got into, you went into school after.

What are we doing?

Yeah, what's happening?

We're just mapping up.

We know her.

Yeah, for a long time.

But I never heard this thing about the loungers and the

loungers.

I think that's why it was top of mind that there was this kind of subculture

in our school of these kids that dressed like they were part of a heavy metal band, like the leather jackets with tassels, really skinny tight jeans, which were not in style otherwise.

And they all smoked.

They all looked 30 years old.

Oh, yeah.

But they were just kids.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I feel like there's still guys in L.A.

that dress that way.

They still dress like a heavy metal class.

There's a guy in the building that dresses like that.

Like,

he's trapped in time.

He's a lovely man.

It's possible he listens to this, but.

Yeah, he wears that kind of like rocker style from like the 90s.

I love that.

We had our high school head, I guess, I don't know if we called them this, but

my siblings are all much older than me.

And they had the skids

who were all the people who smoked at the smoke pit outside.

And then I just...

A lot of shirts tied around the waist kind of.

The smoke pit in Quebec is very diverse.

But they were definitely there.

Yeah.

And then ours at my high school, like, I guess the group of smokers,

when Columbine happened and they they called them the trench coat mafia I was like yes we had one of those

we definitely had trench coat yeah guys yeah there was definitely like uh it would be somebody wearing a duster yeah like that was the from the like uh army surplus yeah yeah with the flap the big flap

yeah yeah yeah there was a guy what was his name anyways i shouldn't say because maybe he did something awful it was yeah it was uh boy was it eric harris or dylan clean

um yeah we had uh i don't know that, I guess we did have, we didn't have metal guys, but we had like people who were on hash.

That seemed to be like

they were on hash.

They sold hash.

They were hash boys.

They smoked, but I feel like that was the common bond was hash.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You ever use hash?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I got in so much trouble in high school for smoking hash.

We didn't have pot.

It was very rare to see pot

at that time.

Well, it wasn't like it's grown out here, right?

So it's very common, but it's the beer.

And also this is like the late 80s, early 90s accessed.

And we were in like deep suburbs, like the north shore of Montreal, like not in the city.

So hash and alcohol were very easy to access.

But otherwise, I don't know.

What was your drink of choice?

Peach schnapps, the things that was always, the thing that was always left in the liquor cabinet at every parent's house, like whatever we could steal.

Yeah, I make cocktails here, and I have a few things that I'm like, well, this was good for one cocktail, but I don't need the rest of this bottle of Midori.

So one day my children will have, I'm sure, bright green barf.

And then they're going to sell it at the grocery sale.

You know, give this a side.

I didn't have a drink of choice.

I only drank to fit in.

Yeah.

And to like.

Did it work?

No.

Well, I mean, kind of, but I

definitely, there was a couple of times in high school where my friends ditched me because they were going to like party.

And I would have been like, I'm too scared to party.

And I got bullied by a girl because I wouldn't take acid.

And then Lori walked in.

You did be sure to have like a great trip because this person is pure free.

Yeah.

I was just really scared.

And I also like, if I got caught doing anything, I would be severely punished.

And that wasn't just like being grounded.

I would also be hit.

Like I was dealing with like

real serious consequences at home for getting caught.

And so every time I got caught doing something, I was like, I was grounded for a year because we threw a party at our house.

And I think it just never was lifted.

So

I feel like I still am grounded.

My brother and I got grounded and he just.

That's why you can't come out on Friday night.

Never.

Yeah, that's why.

Totally.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's fun.

Like I'm, I was the same way.

I mean, I wasn't hit.

Sorry.

But I, the, I was not, I did not want to go party.

I did not want, I wasn't invited for one.

No one could pressure me to do anything.

But I definitely feel like

I had a very small window in my 20s where I like wanted to go out.

Yeah.

But that

my true self is home with my,

you know, with my books.

Yeah, with

my candle.

Yeah, I'm definitely a homebody as well.

And I like think there's just that time in your teens and your 20s where that is not an option.

And then you find your people, nobody.

but yeah i really do there was just a lot of stuff that i did because i was feeling like i i really wanted to fit in yeah and drinking was definitely one of them i was never good at it i always drank too much i always barfed yeah uh it really affected my depression yeah in a good way yeah always in a good way drink more depressives uh yeah

so i look back on that time and think oh like that person could have used maybe a different different access to different social groups Yeah, yeah,

hash didn't do it for you.

Yeah,

yeah, we want to get back on this hash.

What does it look like?

It looks like poo.

It does look, it's kind of like a dark, greasy little ball of hash.

The times I've seen it, I've been like, oh, that could have easily been like something smuggled in your butt.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, or always just from your butt.

Yeah.

Did you put it in a condom first?

No.

No.

I knew I was forgetting a step.

yeah.

Hash, that was just what was available, and uh

yeah, and like my brother tattled on me.

Come on, no, I know

you should do it,

yeah.

I got it so much,

did a big hash, she did so much hash.

Um, and so fast-forwarding,

what have you been doing with your time off since you since you left this miserable job?

Well, yeah, it was miserable, uh, listeners.

Uh, if any of work there still, get

Judas Priest.

JudasPriest.com.

I go for a lot of walks.

The first couple of months was just like, because it's been almost five months, which is so strange.

It feels like it's been a month.

I go for walks.

I do grocery shopping.

I reconnect with friends.

I feel like over the past like several years, I have not really been making an effort or been able to make an effort.

One of my neighbors that I really like is also unemployed.

So we do like adventure walks to Canadian Tire or something.

sure yeah uh we went to chinatown last week that was fun um what'd you get in chinatown i think i went to sansan the uh hong kong style cafe that's down there that my friend jb opened with his family

and everything they have in there is gluten-free so

uh barbecue pork buns uh excellent and lots of vegetarian options graham if you want to go i love a vegetarian extremely strong tea like i really have learned over the past few years that i can't hang with the british tea drinkers or the Hong Kong tea drinkers.

Was that also in high school?

Is there a group of that?

Yeah, yeah.

And I, you know, I wanted in, and then I got in and realized Builder's Tea is not for me.

Strong in the sense of

caffeine?

It tastes, yeah, I think it's more caffeinated and definitely like much richer tasting.

I don't like tea.

I don't like the tea taste.

I know that you don't like tea.

I wouldn't say over here.

With a million gallons of sugar, I'll have it.

You also put a little milk in there just to make it

basically make it like a milk

ice cream.

Yeah.

That's how I grew up drinking it.

Like whenever we were sick, we would get a cup of tea, which is so strange.

And I was sick all the time as that kid.

But

I'm maybe questioning your mother's parenting.

Well, she had a lot on her hands

at different times.

And also, she's from like a like a Scottish and British and Irish background.

And so tea is like something you just drink all day.

Oh, yeah.

But yeah,

you got a cup of putting a kettle on.

So, yeah, just

you guys both own kettles?

Oh, yeah.

You're kettle people?

Yeah, that's how I make my chips.

Kettle chips.

Yeah.

We have a kettle.

It, you know, it goes weeks without use, though.

Is it electric?

Yeah, electric.

It's electric.

Yeah, we got it.

It's the only kind to get.

Mine's 20 years old and it hasn't broken yet, but it's on the verge.

So I'm in the market for a new one.

It was like 16 years old.

Maybe those college guys guys would like it.

Also, college guys in Quebec were like 17.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, they were not like 20-year-olds.

I forgot it's a province of geniuses.

That's right.

Everybody goes in a year early.

I'm just choking over here.

Oh, right.

No, we graduate from high school at 16 there and then you have to do sejep sejep what's sejep it's college it's in between like

uh high school and university where you can kind of knock out two years or so of university or you can do a trade program like uh

how ontario had grade 13 but i never knew what that was either i don't really know either yeah it's fucked up everyone get the fuck out of here man jesus christ is up everything's fucked up yeah everything is up don't you think a little bit oh absolutely.

We're through the looking.

I'm afraid to look at my phone.

I'm afraid to look at my phone for more than nine hours a day.

Once I get around that 10th hour, I'm like, this is a sickness.

Yeah.

Oh, I need a break.

Yeah, so I just hang out mostly.

I certainly am not more productive.

No, you don't need to be.

Yeah, thank you.

That sucks.

Being productive?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So like putting pressure on yourself.

You're like, well, I got to, I'm a creative person.

I have to create something something today.

Got to get on that grind.

You know what I'm wanting?

Create

a lot of mucus.

And you know what?

If you don't produce a lot, that's fine.

If that's your thing, that's great.

If you're producing mucus on the daily, if that's your grind.

Power to.

And the mucus I create is that animated mucus in the Mucine X commercial.

The little fat guy.

Oh, wow.

That's you.

Is it Mucinex?

With a little guy with a hat.

Yeah,

and a wife beater.

um yeah they had him kind of in the original commercials they had him as a bad guy and then in the follow-up commercials he was kind of like he was kind of a lovable guy okay yeah he wasn't being like stamped out he was like he was kind of like a buddy to the guys like what do you say how interesting and then uh they weren't killed by the mucina yeah they were chased chased off screen and then in the uh when they made the tv adaptation of it uh he was actually just like a uh he worked at a convenience store and who played him i forget

In real life?

Who played him on the

TV show?

Danny DeVito.

That was Danny DeVito.

Daniel DeVito.

Daniel's son DeVito.

Do you remember the?

No one remembers this.

The comic strip Monty?

No.

No.

Who are the characters?

Yeah, what was the characters?

Monty is the main guy.

But the thing is, I'm going to take you back even further.

Before it was called Monty, it was called Robot Man, and it was about a guy who had a little friend who was his robot, this Robot Man.

It was kind of a sarcastic comic.

And then they made a TV show, and Monty's not in it, and it's just Robot Man is just a robot who teaches you how to love or whatever.

He solves problems with the power of love, and he shoots love hearts out of his head.

Can I look this up just to see what this?

Yeah, look this up.

I think I know who this is.

Does he have a propeller on his head?

Um, that possible.

Um, this is Monty.

That's Monty, okay.

Okay, definitely don't definitely let that rocket eyes out.

Oh.

And then Monty's kind of bespectacled guy, flat head of hair.

And then Robot Man was this yellow robot.

Oh, it was an animated show.

It was an animated show.

And it was an animated.

Tom Madrip was just

still alive.

I think I had.

I think I had a stuffy of this.

Oh, that's so

indeed.

Oh, yeah.

And this is much more what the thing was: robot man and friends at school.

Yeah, that I had that.

I had that.

And it came with, if you pressed its stomach, it would say different phrases.

Mine was broken when I got it.

So my dad took the bass out of a coffee mug that sang my way and he put it in the doll.

So whenever you squeezed it, it would sing my way.

Wow.

Yeah.

Pretty fond memory.

I made him one that.

John is such an interesting and nice dad.

Yeah, he's a nice dad.

Yeah.

All the little things that he made you.

Yeah, a little bit.

Like that lamp.

Yeah, he carves really well.

Yeah.

I have a Mr.

Man lamp that he did.

What's a Mr.

Man?

You know, Mr.

Man like Mr.

Square?

Oh, yeah.

I think it's Mr.

Square is the guy I got.

And I got an elf.

Oh, yeah, that's really nice.

Got a couple of cub cars.

Sure, yeah.

Do embers do cub cars?

No.

I mean, not that I've noticed.

Maybe when they get to

girls, guides?

Girl guides, yeah.

Yeah.

Maybe.

But boy.

What was the boy boy one?

Wolf, Cubs, Cubs?

Cubs.

Cubs.

Beavers.

Cubs.

Beavers.

Cubs.

Scouts.

Scouts.

Rovers, I think.

I think Cub Scouts was when we did.

Because I didn't do scouts.

I just did cubs.

Yeah.

That's when we did the cub cars.

Do you still do some more still?

Cars?

Yeah.

Cards.

Cars.

Cars.

So they would have a ramp.

Oh, it was like a little competition?

Yeah.

Okay.

And once in a while, there was a kid that had no help from a parent, so it was just a block with wheels on it.

Yeah, you would get a kit that was a block of wood

for wheels.

Yeah, and the guy that did that won because the other guy's car flew off the track because it was too light.

And he came in.

I think he came in second for the wall.

He deserved to win.

My dad did a great one.

We didn't win, but

he really took the project seriously.

And he had a wood shop.

when I was a little kid.

Oh, yeah, I didn't know that.

Well, I'm

pretty private about that kind stuff.

Um, but he I remember it had there were like weight restrictions and he wanted it to be heavy.

Yeah.

And he wanted it to be a teardrop shape.

So he was, I was like, oh, is it, does it go this way?

And he's like, no, it goes this way.

The nose, it it's bigger in the nose.

Like a

raindrop goes

is naturally that shape.

Right.

And I was like, cool.

And then he, he, like, anyways, I'm going to go outside.

He put a bunch of coins inside of it to make it heavier.

Smart.

And then I, I don't know, came in 10th.

Yeah.

Well, that's a nice memory.

Yeah.

It is, yeah, you're right.

For not having anybody that could carve for you.

Like, the kids weren't taking it home and carving it.

Nobody taught us how to carve.

And no one in, like, if they did it now here,

no one I know has wood tools.

Or the space.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, I could get my hands on some, but then what?

Yeah, sure.

I could go to any pawn shop.

And then you're like, okay,

task A is taken care of now.

How do you carve?

Did you ever carve pottery, whittle, any of that?

No, always

stone.

No,

no.

But I've always like drawn.

Yeah, you're very good.

You're very good at drawing.

Drawn.

You're a very good drawer.

Drawn?

Yeah.

No.

No, I'm with her.

Drawn?

Yeah.

Isn't it?

Drawn?

No, I don't think so.

Drawn and quartered?

Drawing?

I've always drawn.

Jeez.

No, you're right.

It is drawn.

It is drawn.

It just doesn't sound right.

It sounds weird, yeah.

I've always been into drawing things and coloring and

knitting.

I've been drawn.

He's drawn.

I know.

I really admire people that can do stuff, like create a thing, like sewing.

Oh, my gosh, knitting.

I mean, if you're not creating something every day, I think you're kind of a failure.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You got to keep that fucking.

But I already say that multiple times a day.

I can't believe you still have your Wayne Gretzky up.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

After everything that he's said, I'll take him down.

He's not a good one.

No, no, it's such a lovely photo.

It is a lovely photo, but he's different time.

He's in our shit list.

I like how he doesn't understand why people are mad at him, and I think that really encompasses that sort of level of wealth and

privilege.

So for listeners who aren't from Canada,

having a moment.

We're having a moment here where we have a trade war with America.

And during the big hockey tournament, Wayne Gretzky came out and, well, first of all, he was

celebrating with Donald Trump after the election.

Wearing a hat and everything.

Wearing just a casual

crimson.

Of crimson.

So sorry.

And then he went and did

like he seemed to went during the hockey tournament, he was Canada's hockey ambassador, but he didn't even wear like a maple leaf pin.

And everyone was like, Yeah.

He didn't give the thumbs up to the American team.

and uh he everyone was mad at him and you still are and he's like what

and he's making his wife relief statements and he won't say anything um i did for the max fun drive which uh everyone guys i hope you're excited for it yeah man i did uh i guessed on uh an episode of wonderful the

show with griffin and rachel mcElroy okay and they wanted to know about hockey and they asked me a bunch of hockey questions and what one of them was this was before uh the Wayne Gretzky stuff all happened and they I

might be on the show saying Wayne Gretzky's great so

he was very good at hockey he was very good at hockey I always thought that there was a real possibility that he was very dumb sure you know there's been other examples of him lacking sort of you know political awareness and but interesting in general like he's I think a lot of these they're kids they get millions of dollars they had they don't go to college necessarily.

They leave high school at 15.

Their whole lives were just geared towards being successful at this thing that expires at a certain age.

Dumb or smart, you're probably not going to align very much with your favorite athlete if you

do some digging.

Well, just, I don't know about who you, I mean, I'm talking to everyone, so obviously some people will align with them.

Yeah.

But just like their lives are so different in every way imaginable.

Well, my life is a lot like Bo Johnson's life and that I do two sports.

Yeah, what about Bo Jackson, though?

No, Bo Johnson's a day for a guy.

He's a guy from my hometown.

There's a guy on the Canucks who lives on my street and I'm like, oh, I should befriend him.

Oh, no, I'm not going to do that.

You would not say that about anyone else that lived on the street, only as someone that plays the Canucks.

But he is like,

he's Swedish.

He's from northern Sweden.

His Instagram, he's from this tiny middle of nowhere.

His Instagram is just pictures of him fishing.

I'm like, nice.

Beyond the whole.

It sounds incredible.

I think we just want different things.

You want some friendly chatter.

He wants to fish.

Oh, yeah.

He's just thinking about fishing.

I wanted to say, like, hey, that was the game last night.

You guys lost.

Why did you lose?

Well, you suck, eh?

I saw that headline today when I was leaving the coffee shop on the way over here.

It says, Playoffs not looking good.

That was the headline.

I was like, okay.

Man, I love this team, but like, we're terrible, right?

All the time.

Like,

one day I might stop cheering.

No, I won't.

No, never.

You're not a Fairweather fan.

Yeah.

But I am friends with some people on this block.

Who else?

Not by name, but

what other characters?

I say hi to my next door neighbor.

And he's nice.

That's good.

That's nice.

It's nice to know somebody nice.

You deserve a good neighbor.

Yeah.

Especially after Firecracker Dad.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, sure.

At our old place, the guy throwing Firecracker.

And the fire next door.

And the fire next door.

Yeah, the fire next door.

I still don't know who lives in that house.

Like, the woman who was there that day,

I see her around, but she's lived here three years and there's nothing on the walls.

There's random people who seem to be like

house sitters a lot.

Do they have any pets?

No.

Yeah.

And they have an Airbnb that is just churning.

Like every day, people are coming in and out.

Yeah.

Are these

scrubs?

It's all kinds of people.

Okay.

All right.

What's a scrub again?

It's a guy who don't want to get no love for me or something like that.

A close approximation of that.

Also known as a buster.

That's Boba Johnson.

Every time I get a bunch of people.

Boba Johnson.

Your other neighbors also had an Airbnb, which I saw listed as a rental recently.

And that's one of my favorite things that has happened.

Thanks, David E.

B.,

that there's less and less Airbnbs here.

So the marketplace is just flooded with these sort of not

actually your neighbor's place was beautiful, but a lot of places are definitely decorated because of their short, they're short term.

Yeah.

And I love it.

I love to see that specific kind of cheap decor.

I love it.

Yeah, I love it.

I've stayed at a few

Airbnbs.

Aaron B's.

They just seem to be.

Aaron Gobra.

Yeah, Aaron Goby.

And they, I was thinking today about how they all have,

like we really like spared no expense on the tv it's it has six remotes yeah you can't figure them out how to turn it on that's all that's connected through the stereo you're gonna like randomly hear very loud tennis being played i know when i stayed at one airbnb the television only got cp24 which is just like the toronto news cycle And that place, when you go to an Airbnb.

But you love the news.

Oh, I love it.

You know, there's only so many stories on, and then they just keep going.

Keep going.

Yeah.

Wayne Gretzky.

But a lot of places that you go to Airbnb, the utensils, it's like, it's a toss-up.

What are you going to get?

What do they have?

Do they have a ladle?

Do they have

enough forks and spoons?

Like

a pot.

Do they have a pot that you could, and a lot of places don't.

One guy who went to, all he had was a walk.

When you first moved out on your own, what did you

where did you get like pots and

oh, that's a really good question.

I think my roommate, when I moved out, had pots and pans.

So I just kind of.

And knives and forks.

Knives and fork plates.

Sure.

Mugs.

I came here, you know, with a suitcase and 20 bucks in my pocket and a dream.

When I first moved out, we went back to college and went.

If you lived in the dorms, you got a meal plan.

But anyone could go and just buy a meal and then fill their bags with colory.

How old were you when you moved out?

That would have been year three of college.

Okay.

Year one, I was in the dorms.

Year two, I was an RA.

And then years three and four, I was out in the world.

Do you remember anything weird happening when you were an RA?

Oh, yeah, man.

What do you anything that you can share?

An RA short for Radical Awesome.

Yeah, I was a Radical Awesome dude.

I was totally in charge of being tubular.

And

what was, I don't know, kids got in trouble for smoking pot in their rooms.

Okay, nothing.

I don't know about weird.

There was probably, you know, people were having sex.

I think

some people were drinking alcohol.

Oh, yeah.

That sounds like a good thing.

That was it.

It was like every day.

Friday and Saturday night was like dealing with drunk people.

Oh, wow.

I smelled Malibu on my white sweater.

Get it out for me.

You need to go to bed now.

You need to be quiet.

Doors have to close at midnight.

Yeah.

Oh, did they?

Really?

Like, was there a lights out?

There was.

No, you could have your lights on, but you couldn't.

Like, the parties that would happen in the dorms were just like,

oh, hey, our floor is having a party.

And you would, if you wanted to be in the party, you keep your door open.

If you didn't, you close your door.

Close it up.

Okay.

And then, but all the doors have to close at midnight.

Have either of you ever gone to like a party in a hotel?

Oh.

Yeah.

It's weird because you're afraid the whole time you're disturbing people.

I think people are too timid to actually.

well you are disturbing people.

Oh, yeah, I know.

Yeah.

Sometimes I've been where it's this the suite and then they have the adjoining suite and that door open and then that becomes the whole.

Is it like a comedy party you've been at?

I've been at a couple of festivals.

Yeah, the festival parties in the hotels are kind of weird.

Yeah, they're kind of weird.

Unless they're in the like

hotel.

The bar, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm thinking specifically of like rooms and hotels where you go and

I'm too afraid of upsetting anybody, anybody else i don't want someone to have a bad time because i'm having a good time yeah i'd rather have a bad time and the other person has a good time that's what this podcast is all about

we're having a bad time here so you guys can enjoy it

um

yeah i um

uh did

you go to university for four years or no no no i went to uh cjet and then i

took a big break and then i did three years of Langara College and then I did two months of Concordia University.

This is not for me.

I ran out of money.

Yeah.

You should have had an RA.

Could I sit down and kind of worked out a budget?

That was not at all

my responsibility to worked out a budget.

Yeah, I just did not.

And I thought I'd always go back.

I was just talking with a friend who also stopped going, like didn't finish their degree.

And she just started it up again.

Yeah.

I was like, stop me up.

Alicia did the McDagger, McDagger kind of chicken wing thing.

Yeah.

I love the Rolling Stars.

Do you?

I do.

What's your favorite album?

I don't actually know the album names.

I just like their

top hits.

The only one I know is Steeler's Wheel because they made fun of it on The Simpsons game.

What I'll also say is Steeler's Wheel is a band.

Oh, yeah.

What's the one?

The Steel Wheel.

Steel Steel Wheel.

Steel Wheel.

I saw that show.

The first show that I ever went to, yeah, with my dad.

And was it amazing?

It was amazing.

But like.

That was, I remember people called it the Steel Wheelchairs story

because they were so old.

And that was then.

Yeah, and they would have been like

40s.

They would have been in their late 40s then.

Late 40s, okay.

And they did seem, I mean, my dad.

was the same age as them and I felt so uncool going it was with my dad they were the first old people like they were the first band that

ever get old on stage.

Yeah.

They stayed old.

They stayed old.

We owe them a great debt.

We do.

And, you know what?

I'll just give them some money.

Yeah.

They would appreciate.

What were we talking about before?

Before what?

Yeah.

Yeah, before what you

did.

It was the Rolling Stones.

Before that, it was college.

Oh, God.

Yeah.

Let's not go back.

Did you ever have the album, The Rolling Stones, that had the zipper on the front?

No.

Oh, that was the best.

There was a zipper you could pull down.

I have never owned a Rolling Stones album.

I just, I love their two.

It was Sticky Fingers.

Sticky Fingers is that album.

And it has the...

Andy Warhol did the cover, and it's

a guy's giant dong in trousers.

Whose dong is it?

It's unclear.

Yeah.

There's some legends about who it is, but it was someone in the Andy Warhol community.

Sure.

But I know you're like a dog with a bow and you want to gun down this this guy's.

Was it Twiggy?

Yeah, I'm like a dog with a boner.

Guys, what?

Have we talked about me enough?

Sure.

Okay.

Well, we'll move on.

But first, let's hear a little bit about this Max Fun Drive everybody's talking about.

Oh, thanks, Alicia, for giving us a bit of a break.

Yeah, we needed that break.

So much laughter.

It's nice to just sit, isn't it?

Uh-huh.

After laughing.

So, Graham and I are going to sit for, I guess, I guess, one minute of silence.

Is that okay?

And we're going to hold our breath and see how long we're going to hold.

Okay, here we go.

Oh, man, that was a mistake.

Oh, my God.

That was so long.

Was that a minute?

Yeah, it was a minute.

And thank you for your patience.

And good for you if you were able to hold your breath that long as well.

I don't believe you did, though.

Well, it's maximum fun drive time.

The most wonderful time of the year.

It's max fun drive time.

Hey, I'm going to say this off the top.

Go to maximumfun.org slash join.

Get like, get go.

I'm going to keep talking about it, but you're going to be wanting to fill in your info.

Yeah.

Go to your nearest computer or, you know, a tablet, whatever works for you.

Use your damn watch, man.

Yeah, use your fucking cool watch.

Yeah.

But this is your time of year where you can help us make the show by by joining up with Max Fun.

And

we greatly appreciate that anybody would do this.

Yeah.

What we do quite a bit, actually.

So

we don't feel too bad about it.

This is a show we make.

We've made it every week.

We miss two weeks in the first year, but we've been going for 17 years.

How do you like that?

It's kind of a big deal around our houses.

And

we don't accept any commercials for the show.

You know what?

No commercials?

No shit.

We don't take no

shit.

We don't take no for an answer.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

You listen to the show.

You're not going to hear people talk about, oh, hey, you should be gambling.

Yeah.

Hey, consolidate your money.

How do you make a website or whatnot?

Yeah.

Hey, oh, your mattress sucks shit.

So maybe buy ours.

No, you're not going to hear that on our show.

Or, you know, sometimes when I'm listening to a podcast, it's an ad in a different language.

And so that can surprise you as well.

You've got the worst VPN.

One of the worst.

You're not going to hear, oh, hey, we're going to send you a meal every day.

Yeah.

All you have to do is throw it in the fire.

This is it.

This is the time to sign up to join, to be part of the network.

Dave, tell them how it works.

Okay.

So you go to maximumfun.org and you

also go to slash join.

Those are the two places you want to go.

put them together.

That's the address to go to.

So your support keeps this show independent.

We're part of this wonderful independent network.

I want to call it Maximum Fun.

Yeah.org slash join if you're interested.

Yeah, you're going to go to maximumfun.org slash join and you are going to

click a bunch of things.

You're going to say, I want to join, and I want to support these shows at $5 a month.

Maybe $10, maybe 20.

And then you're going to click what what shows you listen to.

If you listen to two shows, the money you give to the network gets split amongst your shows.

You are,

you are directly supporting these independent shows, and we very much appreciate it, my man.

And it goes, you can get three shows, four shows, up to five shows.

Five shows away.

No, you can support as many as you want.

As many as you want.

Okay.

But

you can join, you can upgrade, or you can boost your membership.

Now, all memberships at $5 a month or more get access to the entire library of bonus content for all maximum fun shows.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

We do hear the news.

Did you hear the news?

We've been crowned.

Yeah.

The kings of bokeh.

We put out 24 episodes of bonus content every year.

They are

so choice.

They're so choice.

We're talking about,

we're talking about hot topics of the day that we do.

We did an entire podcast about Mr.

Bean.

It's what you're getting is just more of us.

Yeah.

We, in the early days of the show, the first, I don't know, 10 years,

we used to occasionally have episodes without a guest.

Yeah.

And then recently, we haven't done that so much.

But if you listen to the bonus content,

it's all me and Graham.

We're just getting our sillies out.

Kind of tickling each other.

Yeah, wiggling our waddles away.

So we've got tons of bonus content.

This year we did a,

well, the most recent one is the 10 Things We Love About Can Con.

You'll hear us probably talk about that dog that rescued all those people on that show.

What was his name again?

The Littlest Hobo.

The Littlest Hobo.

Maybe that made the list.

You know what?

Could be its own podcast itself.

That CanCon for the uninitiated is Canadian content.

You're going to learn.

A lot about it.

Yeah.

So you can join and pay every month.

You can prepay for a whole whole year if you don't want to see that on your credit card statement every month.

If your wife turns a blind eye to the credit card statement just for March.

Or you know what?

Just you got to get there first.

Get that credit card statement, light it on fire.

But, ooh, ooh, I got a whole year worth of max fun.

And can't wait to listen to them bonus episodes.

You know what?

You could go on a car trip.

We could be with you the whole time just through our boco.

Or in person.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Why not, dude?

You'll be like, hey, why is the car behind me flashing its high beams?

Oh, it's because Graham and Dave are in the backseat trying to kill me,

but they hate high beams.

So you can prepay, you can join, you can also upgrade.

If you're already a member at $5 a month, you can go to 10.

If you're at 10, 10, you can go to 20.

We're not going to stand in your way.

You can, hey, if you're at five and you want to leapfrog 10 and go right into 20.

Absolutely.

We're down with that.

And

if you're upgrading, you not only get all the bonus content, you also get a freaking pen, man.

A pin?

Yeah, pin.

Yeah.

Not a pen.

Yeah.

I almost said it like a pen, but

almost.

You definitely did.

It's like how you sometimes are referring to ELF, but you say ELF.

Elf.

Yeah,

it's a problem that I've been trying to deal with.

We're trying to get you a speech pathologist, but none will take your case.

So you go to maximumfun.org/slash join.

You can join monthly for $5 a month or more.

Just do it while it's on your mind.

And this is this is it.

This is the second week of the Max Fun Drive.

This is our last chance to get you to support the show.

So we love having you on board.

We love having this relationship with you, the listener.

Oh my God.

Is that even a question?

Were you guys questioning our love?

Of course not.

Oh, we love you.

We love each and every one of you.

And of course, if you can't afford it, we understand.

If you're already supporting the show, hey, thanks.

We appreciate that so much.

We're gonna keep giving you the shows you love, the shows you deserve.

But uh, we'll tell you about the other things you can get if you support the show at higher levels in the next break.

But right now, I want to know what's

I want to get to know me this week, yeah,

Dave.

What's going on with you, man?

Well,

uh,

not

much.

Dave's not even here.

We just pressed play,

And furthermore,

oh, so a couple weeks ago, we were talking about Bic, the Bic brand.

Oh, yeah.

And how they make razor blades, pens, and lighters.

Yeah.

And

it inspired me to write this song.

Here we go.

Oh, you wrote a song?

Very short song.

I'm a Bic, I'm a lighter.

I'm a pen for a writer.

If you need to shave your face, I am a razor blade.

Nice.

That's incredible.

Holy shit.

That's incredible.

That's great.

Yeah.

Yeah, I know.

And now I'm going to, like, when I go home, gonna blast that song so loud.

Wake up the neighbors.

Oh, no, wait, that's a different guy.

So yesterday I went to see a movie.

Oh, which is.

I was like, oh, the Oscars just finished up and they've put some of the movies back in theaters or they're like giving them more showings.

Like, Captain America Civil War.

And I was like, oh, I could go see Anora.

Oh, you saw it.

No.

And then I was like, oh, I could go see A Complete Unknown.

And then I didn't see that either.

And I was like, you know what?

I want to go see Mickey 17.

Oh, cool.

Do you know what that is?

No.

Okay.

Well, it's Robert Pattinson.

I saw it because I was playing in IMAX, and I was like, that'll be fun.

And is the guy, the director, also directed Parasite Parasite did he do

the one about the train

ice crusher snow piercer

close close enough Davey looks so embarrassed

is that who that was

Snow Piercer is is Chris Evan right it's Chris Evan yep it's Bong Joon-ho is the guy

and

he did Parasite.

He did Mickey 17.

He's one of the great Korean directors.

Yes, yeah.

And he's really

brought his style to the North American screen.

He truly has.

It's one of the great styles.

What's the basic synopsis?

Okay.

Basic synopsis is Robert Pattinson, who you know from Twilight.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was actually, I've been seeing a lot of people being like, he's actually a really good actor.

He actually makes really interesting choices.

He's not just the Twilight guy.

And what were the teams?

People were on one team or the other with the...

You were on Team Jacob or Team Edward?

Team Edward, yeah.

What team were you on?

I was on the Vancouver Canucks.

You wish.

You wish.

I mean, we're all Canucks.

But I.

But people have been saying that for a decade now.

They've been like, oh, he's actually really interesting.

Yeah.

He was in the Lighthouse.

And he was the Batman.

And he's actually in 10.

And don't uh if you're if you would don't pay too much attention he's in good time good time i love it so stressful one of the most stressful films ever uh so surpassed only by uncut gems which is i never finished uncut gems because it was too stressful too stressful right yeah my bonn even finished

books because they're too stressful i was too scared of the ending give me an excuse not to finish a book

uh yeah this is stress this is too stressful

sure she ate and she prayed what next

i chose my own adventure and I got super scared.

But I so I went to see this movie and it was okay.

Yeah.

It's sci-fi.

So yeah, the idea is.

Wait, is this a matinee?

Yeah.

Yeah, nice.

Robert Pattinson is

has given himself over to this project where he can be sort of like a guinea pig.

And so when they're on this like

global or like space expedition, they'll be like, oh, what are the effects of radiation on

people?

And they put Robertson Pattison out in space and he dies.

But he's

given his,

he has this

technology where you can, it's like a 3D printer and they print a new Robert Pattinson.

Oh, okay.

And so there have been 17 of him.

That's why he's Mickey 17.

Okay.

And then

I didn't really care for it.

How many people were in the theater?

Oh, 20.

20.

I love a matinee because just for the, being able to really stretch out.

I have, so here's what I've noticed lately: okay, is I've been falling asleep in movies a lot.

Oh, yeah, you're that age

or that tired.

But it's

a tired thing.

At matinees.

Yeah.

It's not like if I go to a 9 p.m.

movie, oh, I'm going to fall asleep for sure.

But

these are, these are noon movies.

Did you fall asleep?

Yeah.

No, I fought very hard to not fall asleep.

And I think I made it.

There was like Mickey 3, Mickey 4, and then when I woke up, it was Mickey 17.

I didn't like the movie.

It wasn't for me.

No, I really did.

I really tried to stay awake, and I think I did.

That would be, I would love to read a review by somebody who fell asleep.

So when I fell asleep, this happened, and I found a believable.

And then when I woke up, I didn't know what to believe.

I fell asleep in, I've been doing it a lot, and always matinees, because I only see matinees.

I fell asleep in the dogman movie.

Which was kind of disappointing.

Was it?

I don't really know what, like, I saw the ads for it, but I don't know what Dogman is a series of, like, kids, right?

Yeah, kids' books, kids'

graphic novels, but there's so many of them.

They churn them out, and there's usually a few good laughs on everyone.

Yeah.

It's about a dog and a cop who are partners, and then they both get in an accident and they attach the dog's head to the partner's body.

That's funny.

They're They're very funny books.

But the movie kind of disappointed.

Do the kids like it?

One of them, no, they both were like thumb middle.

Thumb middle.

And then, well, one of them fell asleep along with me.

That's very cute.

The Shemkas are tired.

Although I do feel like, oh no, I need to be on constant watch around my kids in public.

But if they're falling asleep, too.

Yeah, no one would victimize both of us.

But apparently we were fine.

And then

I didn't fall asleep during The Brutalist, which

is my one regret.

Yeah,

the only times I've ever fallen asleep during movies is all three of The Lord of the Rings.

Sure.

Any other movie, I've been able to tough it out to the end.

Although, The Hateful Eight, that didn't have an intermission.

I saw that with you and Charlie, I think.

Yeah.

Do you like The Hateful Eight?

No, I put it at the very bottom of his catalogue.

Really?

I like it a lot.

Really?

I don't like Django.

Oh, I like Django.

That's rough for me.

It is very rough.

I like the Hay Palate, too.

It's a cool vibe.

I like hanging out with

snowy guys.

And then, yeah, I also fell asleep in Megalopolis.

And that was also very slow-paced?

I don't know.

I fell asleep during a...

I just remembered a Robert Duvall and Bill Murray movie called Get Low, I think it was called.

Anyways, it was so quiet that at a different point I could like do that thing like you do on a bus or a plane where you just fall asleep.

I'm fighting it back.

Was this in the theater?

It was in the theater, yeah.

I think sometimes what happens is in the theater is it's you're just

like the nice thing about seeing a movie in the theater is you can't do anything else but see the movie.

And so my brain is like,

you could also take a nap.

Yeah, exactly.

Everything's so quiet, like you can't do the dishes.

You can't be productive.

You create a person productive.

You can bring your dishes to the theaters.

Did you see Conclave in the theater?

Yes.

That was like such a nice, quiet movie.

So quiet.

So good.

So, so good.

I saw a movie that I want to recommend to both of you called Universal Language, which is so funny.

It's mostly subtitled, but it was made in Quebec and Winnipeg.

Okay.

And it's so beautiful and it's absurdist and

heartwarming and

so fucking funny.

It's a

comedy.

Yeah.

Any actors we know?

No.

Ah, not even Sandra O?

No.

Not Sandra O, but it's very, very funny.

Very well done.

And I won an Academy Award.

It did?

I can't remember for what, though.

Okay.

Cool.

Yeah.

Set design.

Maybe set design.

You saw it in the costuming?

Yes.

And I saw it at Tinseltown.

How old is it?

Just came out.

Brand new?

Yeah, it came out at the end of last night.

You could go sleep through that.

You might, because it has kind of like a bunch of people.

I saw Conclave and Robbie Williams' monkey movie back to back and I felt I was wide awake for both.

Okay, okay.

So it's it's something's going on.

It may be,

you know.

Work a lot.

I have COVID.

Oh, no, no, no.

Don't say that to me.

Well, I did.

We all had it.

We all had it.

I had it a few times.

You did.

Yeah.

True.

And to varying degrees of intensity.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I had it once, and then I had something else.

I've had other things and I've always tested for COVID.

Yeah.

But like I told you, I always end up swallowing the tests.

So they're inconclusive.

Apparently there's a lot of just really bad flus going around right now.

And some really good fluzies.

Yeah, some good fluzies.

Oh, yeah.

Who are the top floozies?

Oh, Betty Boob.

Oh, God.

Jessica Rabbit.

Can you name a male floozy?

Boy.

Yeah, of course.

Mask.

Not the mask, you weirdo.

Okay, defined floozy.

Someone who's like a...

Sexually open, I guess.

Sexually open.

How is the mask not sexually open I have made I don't remember I didn't like it he had a green penis I mean I assume

he did put on two masks

one on his face

a little one for my say hello to my little friend does he do his hands turn green uh no just his head really and the head of his penis uh yeah that's the thing one mask two heads answered the question does his penis turn green no

who's a male floozy uh i mean i don't The Fons is kind of a fluzy.

I think that's such an antiquated term that I feel bad for bringing it up in the first place.

And my apologies to Betty Boop and the boop family.

But

yeah, is it just like

an easy glay?

Yeah, I don't really know that I know what a floozy is for sure.

Oh, well, like Dan from Nightcourt was a floozy.

Yeah.

Was Dan played by John Lariquette?

Yeah.

I feel like I'm in a real John Lariquette phase of how I look as a 50-year-old person.

Interesting.

Like, my hair is very John Larraquette some days.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, I'm looking at it now.

I'm like, yeah, I could see that in John Larraquette.

That guy is very funny.

He's very funny.

And he had a show.

Dan is definitely a floozie.

Dan.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Also, what about in Three's Company?

Was it Larry?

Larry, Larry.

Yeah, there's plenty of that horny character.

Joey Triviani is something of a fluzy.

Oh, yeah, that's okay.

The guy David Leisure played on Empty Nest.

Yeah.

Oh, Empty Nest.

Right.

Were we wrong about that?

Is he on Empty Nest or is he on Golden Curls?

He's on Empty Nest.

I think he was both.

Wasn't like a crossover.

Yeah.

Because I looked it up once, and he is on one more than the other.

And then

Estelle Getty is on like 60 episodes of Empty Nest.

She's on so much Empty Nest.

We couldn't get enough of her back in the day, Estelle Getty.

We could use a little bit of Estelle Getty now.

You're nostalgic for

Nostell Getty.

I'm there.

I'm there, guys.

Who are you?

Nostalgetti.

Nostelle.

Is that me?

You doing me?

I don't know what I'm doing.

Alicia.

She's some of your floozy.

Yeah, male fluzy.

Well, we got, I think we got to the bottom of it.

Oh, yeah, Betty Boop.

Hello, what's Betty Boop?

Well, Betty Boop is a cartoon.

Yeah.

I don't want to throw any

women under the floozy bus.

Sure.

Well, these are just characters.

Yeah.

Characters welcome.

Okay.

Well, then,

Blanche from...

Yeah, Blanche is one of your great floozies.

Yeah, she's one of the tops.

I started re-watching Golden Girls last year, and I have to get back to it because it really holds up.

Yeah.

Really surprisingly holds up.

But I'm very busy burning through the Bravo catalog of Below Deck.

Below Deck, which is...

I'm almost done.

Well, to the average person, it's just a show about

people that work on yachts yeah but for a person healing from work trauma it is very great to watch people get their come up ins

the working class people judge

like the riches of the rich right

yeah it's really interesting programming and it is are people betting down

sometimes sometimes in this last

season they are just fucking in the shower

but they're all athletic enough that that's probably not as concerning as it it is to me.

Where I'm like, oh, I used body oil yesterday.

I'm going to die in the shower.

Yeah, they're like, oh, it's the only place where there's no camera.

So you're just killing it.

And it really kills them.

You're going to put on a handrail just to help us out.

A seat.

Yeah.

A swing.

You do whatever you're going to do.

I'm just going to sit in the seat for a minute.

Take a breather.

I like to watch.

They go in the shower, and I'm already there, like ready to watch.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I haven't seen it.

I haven't seen this till I'm.

I don't know why you, what?

You love to work and watch something.

Yeah.

I watch.

Do you watch something while you're working?

Yeah, I usually just,

I, well, now I've paused so long that it feels like I'm coming up with a funny answer, but I'm really just trying to remember.

I'll usually just put on the sports channels

and have like highlights.

Sure.

Or in the late afternoon, East Coast Games.

Oh, sure, yeah.

Okay.

Not blacked out on this

side of the country.

Sure, no.

Yeah, I like a little kitchen nightmares.

I feel like that's very have it in the background.

Although I hate the challenges that they make them do.

I think the challenges are very stupid.

You're not seeing good cooking on those shows.

No, it's always the same thing.

It's just Chef Gordon Ramsey's.

one menu that he has, which has beef Wellington.

And you know what?

These guys fuck it up every time.

It is.

Have you ever made made a beef wellington before i've never eaten a beef wellington oh okay i made one once to impress a boy and it was perfect nice what is it it's beef covered in dough yeah and then there's usually like a layer of pate and herbs and then puff pastry and how do you uh cook it how do you in the oven

okay but first you do quickly um

grill the beef on all sides gotta grill the beef on all sides guys and then you grill the beef on all sides and then you put it in and then you bake it

i get i follow a lot of people online that are cookers and chefs

and cougars

and

they um

uh then i'll try some of the recipes and a lot of the ones that um look really good aren't well they they i they

stink

like there's a lot of ones about like potatoes um

like i see all these people making like a hassle back

what's that with all the different cuts in it

maybe okay

I've seen a few ones that are like you

make these kind of potato cylinders but you have to you cook them first and then you put them on the frying pan and you finish them off there by

like

yes I know exactly by spooning butter onto them.

But I find that the butter, like spooning it on, it just stinks up your house.

It all burns and then it's uh no bueno.

That's a move they do a lot if they're trying to cook something really quick, is they do the spooning of whatever the thing, yeah.

Um, and I feel like that's a technique one would learn in cooking school, yeah, because butter does burn so fucking quickly.

Um, the thing on Kitchen Nightmares, it's always raw, everybody's always

touch this, touch this, is it cooked?

Is it cooked?

But like,

some stuff's good raw.

Yeah, some.

I'm protected.

Tell me about it.

But like cooking meat, there's so many like

done-ness.

Like you need to, oh, you don't want it to be too pinky.

Do you know that like it feels like the

crook of your palm between your

thumb and forefinger?

There's different, like if it's medium rare, it's this part of your hand.

If it's rare, it's this part of your hand.

I'm so sorry, but when I do check that way, that's not.

Yeah.

I got to just time it.

I use a thermometer.

Yes.

I just got a good one and it's been very helpful.

The thing they do in that show is everybody's cooked the shit out of everything over and over again, or that it is still raw in the center.

It's raw!

Fuck off, he would say.

I always wonder if those guys are actually good cooks or they were just good

celebrity faces.

Are they?

Who?

Gordon Ramsey?

And that guy, there's a guy I used to think was so hot, the redhead.

redhead.

Apparently, Gordon Mario Battali.

Yeah, that guy.

That guy was hot.

Oh, it's Bobby Flay.

Yeah, I loved Bobby Flay in the 90s and the early 2000s.

I thought he was really cute.

I know somebody that

ate at one of Gordon Ramsey's restaurants in LA.

Yeah.

And they said it was delicious.

Okay.

I own one of his restaurants in London.

And I don't remember.

Didn't hit me, but there was a

painted portrait of of him in it in like

a robe.

Sort of like royal.

Was the robe open at the point?

It was like a red, like kind of like your kind of

royal military.

Oh, yeah, okay.

Red and black.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But a painted portrait?

A painted portrait.

Is he a knight?

I don't know.

I feel like you would know that he would hate if he'd been knighted.

Sir Gordon Ramsey.

Oh, is he?

Yeah.

I don't know.

That would make somebody a knight if they're a sir.

That would make someone a sir if they're a knight.

Yeah.

I don't know what you're doing.

And then you become a lady if you're a woman.

Is that how?

Or do you get?

You become a lady if you, you know, cross the threshold

if you get a hand marriage.

Yeah.

Dave.

So, yeah, that's it.

I'm falling asleep in movies.

And I'm loving it.

I have not fallen asleep in a movie that I was like

disappointed I I fell asleep in.

Did you see The Last Showgirl?

No.

Definitely.

You could fall asleep in that one.

Sure.

You see it?

Yeah, it's not good.

No,

yeah, like, but everybody was going nuts.

Emila Anderson, and I think the actors in it are good.

I think the screenplay and the direction and the editing left a lot to be desired.

Yeah, I don't like movies where it's just the actors are good.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, they can't carry the whole thing.

Mickey Rooney.

No, sorry.

I did it again.

It's impossible not to.

Mickey Rourke and the wrestler.

I'm like, oh, yeah, he's great in this.

I don't want to watch this.

Yeah.

Oh, I love that movie.

Loved it.

It was my Hateful Eight.

That's true.

Sure.

But yeah, I think I'm trying to think of a movie where the act is really excellent.

And it just plots.

Or what was that one where Jeff Bridges won an Academy Award for being like Crazy Heart?

Yeah.

Yeah, that was very slow.

Yeah, that had no pace to it.

Yeah, that's a good one.

I can't think of any others.

Stay tuned.

I might come off with one.

Anyway, what is everyone thinking we should say about Graham coming up?

Does he have it this week?

I got it.

This past weekend, past guest Phil Hanley.

Fanley.

Fanley came to town to do not one, but two shows at the Vogue Theater, which the Vogue is about

how many seats do you think?

Oh, it's 100.

Eight, nine.

No.

No, it's going to be in the 1000s.

A thousand, yeah.

You know what?

Is this Googleable?

This could be Google.

Googleble.

The Vogue is also haunted.

Yeah.

1280.

1280.

So he was booked to do one show, sold out so fast that he's booked to do another show.

This is our friend.

This is a guy that we, you know, I started out with this guy.

Yeah, this guy used to come on this show.

Yeah.

He used to be my friend, but I haven't heard from him in like 10 years.

No, no, no, no.

No, he's not my friend anymore.

Right, right, right, right.

But

he is

hilariously funny and is a guy who was a crowd work guy before crowd work wasn't the thing that everybody wanted.

Such a good friend.

He used to wear a cardigan all the time.

Does he have something different going on now?

Yep.

Just regular clothes now.

Yeah.

He wears a lot of

Grateful Dead.

Yeah, yeah.

He was wearing a Grateful Dead.

He knew he had a different bit going on.

So not normal clothes.

But, you know, a sweater.

And he is a huge dead head.

So he's like, he loves the Grateful Dead.

Yeah.

I thought you said dead head.

And I was like, he's a big deadhead.

He follows around people who owe him money.

Goes from city to city.

Anyways, he's very, very funny.

And the crowd absolutely loved him.

And then...

Did he crowd work a theater?

Yeah.

And you have to have the lights kind of up to be able to do it.

But he did it really well.

We're talking about the fact that he might do well to have like a camera guy in the audience and then have it projected the people that he's talking to because you don't know what they look like.

He's the only guy who knows what they look like.

You talked to him about this.

Yeah.

And you're like, you should get a camera guy.

Yeah.

I was like, what about a camera guy?

And he was like, it does seem like a good idea.

And that's where it ended.

I don't know any camera guys that travel or what song did you come out to?

No song.

Oh, did you really

think about different song options?

Did you get

you opened for him?

Did you get introduced to you, ladies and gentlemen?

Graham Clark.

Phil introduced me.

Then we had Kevin Banner was on the show.

So I introduced Kevin Banner, came out, and then introduced Phil.

It's like he's.

Kevin Banner.

Does he even know Phil?

Yeah.

What are you dubious about?

We're just jealous.

I'm not that jealous.

I think he's really close friends with Kevin Banner.

Yeah.

Really close friends with Kevin Banner?

I do not understand this intonation.

I do not not understand what's happening here, you guys.

Okay, I can tell you what's happening for me.

Go on.

I'm just jealous.

Okay.

I'm just jealous because only my friend Graham should be the one opening.

No, that's very kind.

Kevin Banner should be

six feet under.

Is that too harsh?

I think that's too harsh.

Oh, okay.

Hey, Kevin, come back on the show anytime.

Defend yourself.

But after the late show, or the second show,

a bunch of his family showed up and they were meeting him backstage.

And past guest Paul Bay was there.

Oh, yeah.

And so we were like, well, we'll go, we'll try and go somewhere and eat.

And we couldn't figure out a place, but there was a fancy place that used to be the restaurant that had all the like candle wax, like giant boils of candle wax.

What's that place called?

I don't even know what you're talking about.

Subies?

Subies.

Oh, yeah.

So it was formerly Subies.

And Paul got on the phone to get a reservation.

This is like at the last possible minute.

And he said, like, he said he was Phil's agent, and then he just finished playing the Vogue, really hungry.

And at first, the guy's like, no tables.

He's like, oh, really?

Because we just finished the Vogue and Phil Hanley, the guy he really would like to eat there.

She's like, I'll see what I can do.

And they totally had a table for us.

We got there, had a table.

Oh, man, oh, man.

It was.

And everybody in there, so, so classe, so

in nice nightwear.

Not me.

I look like a scrud, but scrud.

Yeah, scrud.

Phil was wearing a

cardigan.

Jerry Garcia

elbow pads.

How was the food?

It was delicious.

I love that.

Graham was like, they did this.

They rolled on the red carpet for us.

Food sucked.

It was horrible.

Like what they're known for is their hamburgers, which everybody else got and said that they were fantastic.

Okay.

But yeah, it was it was like a real, you know, like get up and dress nice.

I wasn't ready to be going into a place like that.

So I felt like I stuck out.

No.

Stuck out?

Yeah, I stuck out.

Yeah, you're drawn.

I'm a scrud.

Yeah, scrud is a guy who can't get no love from you.

Yeah, you ever date a scrub?

Date a scrub.

Yeah, I've dated some real losers.

I'm sitting right here.

You are one of them.

I was waiting for you.

You're so sweet.

But yeah, if you want to get into a fancy restaurant, just say that you're with somebody who closed it the folks.

That's what I took away from that.

How do you get the, when you show up, don't you have to bring them?

Yeah, I mean, but you can bring anybody, you know what I mean?

Oh, because they didn't know who Phil was.

And like, there was a guy who used to do comedy town named Todd Allen.

And his move to get to the head of a line in the nightclub was he would get his friend to go up and say to the bouncer, oh, that there's Todd Allen from Dawson's Creek.

And the guy would look at him and he was like, handsome enough to be on Dawson's Creek and like, you don't want to be the bouncer.

They turned away the guy from Dawson's Creek.

So he'd always get in.

Anybody think that's a good idea?

I might see a Joshua Jackson if ever I get a chance

by turning him away at the door.

But that really kind of counts on the fact that bouncers don't watch Dawson's Creek.

Yeah, that's true.

Yeah, that's true.

That is the flaw in the poem.

Sorry, sir.

I know everyone who's on Dawson's Creek.

Who do you think?

There's James Vanderbeek over there.

Joshua Jackson.

Joshua Jackson, like she just mentioned.

Katie Perry.

Katie Holmes.

Michelle Williams.

Michelle Williams.

Michael Pitt was on one of the last seasons.

No way.

Was What's Her Face?

Who was in the video for Had a Bad Day?

By Daniel Powder.

Talk about your deep of deep cuts.

Holy cow.

Girl

had a bad day music video.

Is that who I'm thinking of?

What is his name?

Daniel Powder?

That was Daniel Powder.

That was the song they played whenever someone got kicked off of American Idol.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

That's very, very mean.

Insult to injury, really.

Six seasons.

Six seasons.

Yeah, and it was a show that

I never got into.

Never knew what what the, I mean, I liked, I liked what I was seeing.

Sure.

It seems like something you would really like.

Yeah.

Samari Armstrong.

Samari Armstrong.

Samary?

Anyway, she was one of the people that was in the later seasons of

according to I'm wrong.

No, she wasn't.

She was on the OC.

Same, same vibe, same vibe.

I did watch some of the OC.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was good.

The California was the theme song?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I don't want to do it, you think.

Was that Leighton Meester was on that?

No, she was on.

Yes, yes, yes.

Should we do a thing where we go through the top four castmates of all these shows?

I won't know them.

I don't know.

I don't know who the...

No.

Misha Bardner was on the OC along with

Rachel Bilson.

Rachel Bilson.

Adam.

Oh, yeah.

And he was just in that, like, nobody wants this.

Yeah.

He's very good.

And the guy, the blonde guy.

Yeah.

This is Benjamin Bunton.

And then Gossip Girl.

Who are you going to call the top four of them gossip girls?

The lady from the movie,

The Bloom Lady.

The Bloomsbury.

Bloomsburg.

The

crisis management for this conversation.

Yeah, yeah, no, no.

Keep going.

Her.

It ends with us was the movie.

Which I watched.

And her name is?

Bloomsburg.

Blake Lively.

Blake Bloomsburg.

Blake Lively, yes.

What's Bloomsburg?

The crisis management?

In the movie, her name is Lily Bloom.

Oh, right.

And she has a movie.

But she never read the script or the book.

And so she just really honed in on a few details.

Like, she always wears.

It's a fantastically bad movie.

And the fallout from it is so complicated and confusing.

Was that the the one where everybody hated each other on it?

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

And the

lip reading of Lake Bloomberg and her husband,

Ryan Reynolds

tried to do a little gotcha on the other producer.

Justin Beldoni.

And now I don't know who's right here, but

if the tides keep kind of turning.

I'm confident in saying they all suck.

Yeah, it does sort of, it has gotten to that point.

There was her, and that's where your girl, Leighton Meester, was from, right?

And uh, Peyton Mystery

Mystery was on it, Leighton Meester, Peyton Mystery,

Susie Bloomberg, what's his name?

He's got cute teeth.

Yeah, who's the guy from him?

Yeah, her from her, from you, from you,

you guys are coming up.

We've all had COVID at least once.

Our brains are

just full of holes, and then there was also

the guy, the handsome, like mean boy.

But he's, have you ever seen that he's actually, have you ever seen?

He's actually British.

Boy.

His American accent is really bad.

It's very cute.

Yeah.

It's like, no.

Is it Rupert Grint?

Rupert Grint.

Now say it with British accent.

Rupert Grint.

It's frozen.

Isn't that what you said with Gordon Ramsey?

I feel like that was your best friend.

It's raw.

Raw, not it's frozen.

I was saying it with a British accent the whole time.

It's raw.

Yeah, no, that's what I mean.

It's just so good when you brought up a British accent.

I just wanted to say that.

What is the other guy's name, The Little Vampire Man?

Okay, I actually do want to know.

And there was another girl, too.

She was much younger than the other.

And wasn't one of the parents, like a really famous soap opera person?

Okay, Lake Lively, Leighton Meester, Kelly Rutherford.

Don't know about that.

Penn Badgley.

Penn Badgley.

Penn Badgley.

Oh, yeah.

Oh.

Curly mop of hair.

Chase Crawford.

I remember there was someone.

I don't know who that is.

There was, because the names Pen Badgley and Chase Crawford are such.

Just like,

just like we put, a lab, a computer came up with these names for heart throats.

I remember there was a guy on Glee named Cord Overstreet.

Yes, Cord Overstreet.

What?

Ed Westwick was Chuck Bass.

That's what we were doing.

Okay.

And Taylor.

He looks a little bit like

everyone else.

What is that guy from The Lost Boys?

He's one of the Corey Feldman.

Corey Feldman.

Corey Fengel.

He looks a little bit like Corey Feldman.

You think Ed Westbrook does?

Yeah.

Guys, if you're at home, look it up.

Do you agree?

Do you not?

Email us.

So you watched a movie?

I watched a movie and I fell asleep during Conclave.

Did you fall asleep during Conclave?

No.

No.

Ah, boy, what was Graham talking about?

Thanks for paying attention, Dan.

Oh, yeah, you went to dinner.

You got a burger.

Yeah, I didn't know you got a burger.

You guys, you suck.

No, no, we just bounced around so much.

Don't take it personally.

I do take it personally because I remember what your thing was.

Scruds.

And your thing.

It's raw.

It's raw.

But you first said it wasn't raw.

Yeah, I said it was rude.

Frozen.

So you don't really remember myself.

So when you do, but do you remember my song?

Yes.

I'm a big on the lighter.

This is fun.

This is fun.

We want to move on and talk a little bit about Max Fun Drive?

Oh, sure, but only if we do overheards after that.

You got it.

Okay, Alicia, thanks for letting us do this.

That's nice of you.

You want to sit there, but you don't want to say anything?

She's nodding.

She's nodding.

Oh, no, okay.

You can speak if you want.

No.

She's shy.

She's being shy.

She's shy.

Oh, she's

got a big sippy cup.

Alicia, we're trying to do business here.

Remember when Chris locked at all those sound effects?

Yeah.

His truck sound effect?

One of the best.

Yeah.

That was last week, folks.

But this is this week.

And right now, we are talking about Max Fun Drive.

This is going to be the last big break we take.

We are

so privileged to be able to make this show.

And the reason we can make this show is because we are supported by you.

We don't take no crap from no one.

We don't take no shit from no one.

We don't take no guff.

But we don't do any ads.

We are fully supported by our listeners.

And if you would like to be one of those listeners who supports the show, go to maximumfund.org/slash join.

You click on a bunch of things.

You say what show,

you say how much you want to give,

you say what shows you listen to, and then the money just magically comes off your credit card.

Yeah, and then you know what?

It's it's easy peasy.

You just put it in,

set it and forget, they would say on late night TV.

Now, you're probably thinking, hey, what's in it for me?

Yeah, what the hell, man?

And you know what?

There's a lot.

There's lots in it for you.

First of all, if you support the show at $5 a month, you're getting a double dose of me and Graham every month.

And by a double dose, I mean two extra episodes of us.

A month, yeah.

Not just like, we're doing it.

We're cranking out some gold, gold stuff here.

And it's just the two of us.

For most of these episodes, it's just me and Graham making each other laugh.

Just being a silly

silly buddies.

And you're going to love it.

We do, we talked about all these bonus episodes, but here's

a little refresher.

A 90s music quiz between Graham and my dear wife, Abby.

And, you know, we're talking about the Seinfeld game, where you come up with one storyline, see if you can guess the other three.

We do.

People love

singing their jingles to us.

We love hearing them.

So we've had a bunch of local jingle episodes.

We thought we would just do one, but people keep craving hearing themselves sing on our show.

And usually, the jingles, the local jingles, are for,

I mean, the there's water parks.

That's that's the big thing we didn't realize would be the main uh type of jingle: is water parks and sort of like adventure uh yeah, like uh mini golf, like fun lands.

Yeah, because it's hard to do a jingle for like a funeral company or you know, an estate lawyer, funeral Jones.

There's only one name in funerals, and it's funeral Jones.

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And you know what?

Should we get back to our friend Alicia?

Only if she's got an overheard.

Her guy.

Overheard.

Overheards.

We love them.

You love them.

If you don't know what it is by the name, I can't help you.

But we always like to start with the guest.

Alicia, do you have an overheard?

Yeah, I do.

And I'm so glad you guys had me on.

And I'm so glad I remembered to write this down.

I was walking behind a group of kind of

businessy guys, younger.

and I was like, oh, fuck, they were not walking fast enough.

I think it was just right around here.

Why aren't they walking fast enough?

Yeah, they're having a good time.

They should be grinding.

They're not grinding.

And

you on your grind, Dave?

I have to wear a mustard.

And this is all that I caught.

And they were kind of like pushing each other.

They're like

business bros.

And one guy said to his friend, you got tendies at a Michelin star restaurant?

And then his friend said, yeah, I was just craving chicken strips.

I don't know what he ordered, but it sounded like whatever on the menu was closest to a chicken strip he got.

Wow.

And that was very funny to me.

I love chicken tendies.

I don't.

I mean, I guess they're fine, but I'm not like so.

Are we talking, guys, the Adip?

Yeah.

I'm not so tendy-pilled.

I don't know.

Yeah, geez, Louise, because that was always with plum sauce, I feel like.

Oh, yeah.

Honey mustard.

Yeah.

Honey mustard, a hot mustard for me.

Yeah, when I get them, oh, the nuggets are the original, and they would come with, I would always get barbecue as a child.

And I felt like nuggets were vastly superior to any other.

Sure.

Popeyes does some

great ones.

Great nugs.

Yeah, great tendies.

But you know what?

It's all trash.

If you're going to a Michelin star restaurant, you've got to get

the tendy.

The spoonful of crab.

I'm exactly picturing.

Just the one little spoon.

$80 spoonful of crab.

Yeah, there was for sure some sort of gold on the menu at that place.

It must have been some kind of gold shaving thing.

Just like

they were just like cajoling him over still wanting to eat like a child, which I understand.

I understand too.

But I put childless things away and now I do man things and I end up big mushroom.

What are your top three man things?

Eating a big mushroom, spoonful of crab, spoonful of crab.

This is strictly the culinary man thing,

a spoonful of crab, big mushroom, and

raw onion.

Oh, wow, wow, yeah,

yeah,

the big mushroom, by the way.

Ask me what my man things are.

What's your man?

Top three man things?

Food-wise, anyway,

yeah, genital-wise.

That guy from White Lotus's dick, yum, yum.

I think my man things are: I own a lot of tools.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Don't know how to use any of them.

Also a man thing.

That's two.

Jeans.

I like a jean.

I like wearing jeans.

Those are man things, right?

Hating women.

High vibe.

No, on this show, we celebrate women.

We celebrate everyone.

We sing the body electric.

Graham, what are your man things?

I I wanted to do food man things.

You do food man things.

But I don't know because I don't, I think I have any.

I mean, food man things are like barbecue.

Barbecue, bacon, everything.

Yeah.

I mean my bacon era, I have to say.

Yeah?

Yeah.

I'm not like trying not to, but like bacon has become a thing that I crave.

Bacon is

bay.

Yeah.

Okay, your man.

My brother once gave me, this was when bacon, like, if people are, if anyone's new to the planet, bacon was huge from 2005 to 2015.

There was bacon in everything.

It was really annoying.

My brother once got me bacon shaving cream.

And?

I never used it.

It smelled revolting.

I had the bacon and eggs ice cream at Reiner Schein, just a scoop, just a taster.

And?

It was delicious, actually.

It was pretty good.

For something that is not good, it was good.

My dad loved bacon, couldn't stand the smell of it being

a crazy thing.

Oh, yeah.

My kids have discovered breakfast sausages because last year they had...

had the round ones or the links, yeah.

No, the links.

Okay, last year they had

like a year-end

breakfast, and

my daughter's more like a rearing.

My daughter gets

this is a school

my daughter didn't,

you know, get her first pick of what to bring.

She's like, we have to bring breakfast sausage, whatever that is.

And so I bought some and I made it and she loved it.

And now, and it's like it doesn't stink stink up the house like bacon.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I love breakfast links.

There was, oh, what was I watching?

Some show that was filmed in that era.

And this guy had a different bacon shirt in every interview.

I hated him.

I hate it.

It used to be enough to have a bunch of people.

What's a bacon shirt?

Like an everything centered with bacon.

Yeah, like a graphic tee.

Yeah, a graphic tea.

Not like

a shirt made out of bacon.

A shirt made out of bacon or like bacon pattern.

Like a gaga.

Yeah.

Dave, do you have an overheard yeah okay uh i was driving the other day nice and i was behind a jeep

okay and the jeep had a license plate holder

and the top said relax and the bottom said god is in charge oh that is nice that's really comforting when you're driving yeah just take your hands off the wheel

jesus take the wheel yeah

yeah is it also

is there an airplane co-pilot god is my co-pilot.

Jesus took the wheel.

God is in charge of

all of traffic.

What a world.

God's got this.

Don't, yeah, don't worry.

Don't.

Do you think God's up there?

Do you think, first of all, do you think he's an old man of long beard?

Yeah.

Mr.

Natural.

Sam.

A long beard but short mustache.

And

he's directing traffic up there.

Yeah.

He can do everything.

He can be there.

He can be here.

Choosing who wins sporting events and Academy Awards.

Yeah, and like you know everybody prays for it but only one prayed enough to get the championship whatever the oscar what do they pray enough or do they pray better yeah is it the hours or is it the quality or quantity yeah um that's true so congratulations to everyone who prayed from a nora

and none of us have seen a nora no i'd really like to i'm interested i would really like to although when given the opportunity yesterday i i went mickey 17.

yeah and would you recommend Mickey 17?

If people like that kind of thing, like sci-fi.

He slept through a bunch of I really didn't fall asleep in that one.

It was tough.

And my contact lesson.

You have been trying to convince us that you didn't fall asleep the entire time that you've told us about this movie.

Your eyes get really small, like you're trying to remember if you fell asleep or not.

Yeah,

you're falling asleep now.

Yeah, I think

I'm the audience

proxy in this case.

Yeah, I think if you like

something along the lines, you know what?

I wanted it to be more like Edge of Tomorrow.

That's what I assumed it was, but not so much.

No.

Okay.

But if you like, you know, sort of,

if you like,

it reminded me a bit of that.

It reminded me a bit of

no piercer.

No piercer.

It reminded me a bit of Pacific Rim.

Okay.

The sets are very like.

They just use the same sets.

Yeah, that kind of thing.

They found them.

But

I don't think it's as good as any of those three movies.

Yeah, well,

so not a ringing.

No.

No, sorry.

Endorsement.

Go back to making Twilight movies, sir.

That's not fair.

No, it's not fair.

He actually makes some really interesting choices.

He's so much more than Twilight Guy.

What was his name?

Edward.

His name was Edward.

Edward of Sexton.

His name was Edward of Jacob.

Edward of Jacob.

Hello.

Hello.

Also, his name's Robert Pattinson.

Hard to say.

Let's just round it off to Patterson.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Take it easy.

Is it probably because there's already a guy with the guild that has that name?

With Guilds.

Yeah, a guy with Gills.

Robert Butterfall.

It's me.

Oh, I'm team bad guy.

A new swamp monster.

She's got to choose between a werewolf, a vampire, and a thing from the black lagoon.

And then they all go to high school together, but he doesn't, he can't human up.

He's just like

500 years

old.

Remember when they have sex and it breaks the bed?

Because vampires are pretty.

Vampires are very...

And she's like, I can handle it.

Vampires have very strong pelvises.

And doesn't the...

that's what they're known for.

That's where their wings attach when they fly at night.

But if I was a vampire, I would not try to have powerful sex that broke the bed because I'd be worried about those shards of wood.

Oh, yeah.

Stakes.

Yeah.

And also.

That's a good point.

Didn't her baby almost kill her?

Yeah.

Yeah, but that

to be fair, that happens to every mother.

Oh, yeah.

Fair enough.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's, and they play baseball really loud.

Those are the three big things.

I'm going to relax.

Loud?

Yeah, they had to do it during a thunderstorm because they hit them so hard that they made like crackle.

I never put those two things together.

Yeah, it was

comedians in cars coming up.

We got to wait for a thunderstorm because I want to drive Todd Berry around in an old car.

That's actually the worst episode of that.

Have you ever seen the Todd Berry comedians in cars?

They have nothing in common.

They're quiet most of the time.

They just drive in silence.

Do you think they hate each other?

I don't know.

I'd like to think they do.

I don't know if they.

I've only seen one, and that was the Jimmy Fallon one.

Oh, he's so fucking funny.

I think what it revealed to me is that he's an incredibly anxious person.

Yeah.

You know, that is, of course, heartbreaking in and of itself.

I can't think of

ring avulsion without thinking of

him.

That's where his anxiety comes from.

He has so much ring anxiety.

Fuck.

I do too, man.

I got this ring.

It was like any day my whole finger could get skinned.

Yeah, my friend Frodo had the same thing.

He wouldn't know he fell asleep.

Lord of the Ring of Hols.

Do you haven't overheard?

I do.

Mine is courtesy of Mr.

Phil Hanley on stage at the Vogue.

There was a cameraman who was like...

Well, so he did have a cameraman.

Stilts.

And sometimes a cameraman could be very stealth, and sometimes, depending on their position, not at all.

And there was a point where he was like at the edge of the stage taking a worst angle, just the worst possible angle.

He still is a male model.

He's gorgeous.

He knows his angles.

But when it happened, and he was like noticeably interrupting the flow of the show, he said, What are you trying to find a polyp on my penis?

Which I just thought was great.

Can a penis get a polyp?

I don't know.

I know a colon can.

Yeah.

Polyps on my colon.

I guess it could be a pen.

It's pink and kind of swollen.

Keep going.

I don't think it's funny, but it's really warm and running.

The things you learn is an RN.

Yeah.

When you're sliding into the first and your fans are going to burst, there's a polyp on my colon and it's pink and kind of swollen.

Excellent.

We also have overheards sent in to us by people all over the map.

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

This first one comes from Zachary N from Denton, Texas.

Yeah, I've never heard of Denton before.

Oh, I have.

Oh, yeah.

There's a great song called The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton by the Mountain Goats.

Nice.

Okay.

Check it out.

Yeah, check it.

I like the Mountain Goats.

Do you like the Mountain Goats?

Yeah, I like that.

Yeah, that song

is good.

I was walking downtown on an unseasonably cold and rainy rainy day when I saw a mother with her kid.

Her kid was wearing shorts and shivering when the mother said, Are you cold, honey?

Do you want my jacket?

To which the kid adamantly replied in a frustrated voice, Mom, I'm not cold.

It's just that my emotions are cold.

Very teenager.

Very teenager.

I've got cold emotions.

Yeah.

It is that time of year where people do.

Oh, it's Texas.

I guess it's warm there all the time.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I don't know if they know.

They have a lot of cold.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know.

I'm so sorry.

So sorry.

Also, doesn't Texas and New Mexico get really cold at night?

Yeah, I fucked up.

I just fucked up.

Let's drop it.

I fucked it up.

I'm embarrassed.

Move on.

Did you ever

go against your parents' wishes for what to wear for warmth?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Constantly.

I'd have to fight myself daily.

I was going to wear a totally.

different outfit.

I was like, you're going to be cold.

Yeah.

You're in Quebec.

Yeah.

Did you have a like a go-to winter coat or do you were doing every when no no no no no no no no when answer the question answer the question did you have a go-to winter coat in your past yeah of course

when you're

go-to it winter winter

um but what were you fighting against if they were i was really like wanted to look cool yeah i really thought like if i found the right outfit i would have friends there was the like, I take my kids to school, and some kids, you can just tell, like, oh, my mom made me wear this.

It's not snowing, and I'm wearing snow pants.

And they are like the kind that have suspenders, and nobody likes me.

Yeah,

they're just dragging their giant winter boots.

Did you guys ever have ski tags on your winter coat?

I had skin tags on my winter coat.

Oh, shit.

Yeah.

Oh, I'm sorry.

No cure.

No cure.

It's like a polyp on your penis.

A skin tag on your weenis.

Nice.

Yeah, they do.

They don't seem to grow on my weenis.

I'm a big armpit guy.

The friction.

But apparently it's also people get them in their groin.

Oh, no.

Yeah,

I got a.

Where are we going?

I got an Instagram ad of

gross.

Or like

this thing that puts little elastics around your skin.

How little?

Tiny.

Tiny.

It's got to be.

And

it chokes it out.

Yeah, I guess so.

They didn't have any groins, though.

But I did know that.

Circle back.

Yeah.

Got some groin photos for you.

Hopefully soon it'll all get advertised the groin reducer.

This next one comes from Nate from Washington, D.C.

I was walking around downtown New York City.

Wow.

I heard two 20-something women talking to each other.

Women won, woman one.

So I'm sponsored by rum now.

Woman two.

Oh, cool.

Which rum?

Woman won.

No, just rum.

Sponsored by rum now.

The rum council.

Yeah.

I'm here on behalf of Cuba.

Yeah.

And I love rum.

I do love rum.

Yeah.

What's your favorite rum drink?

I don't know.

I don't really have one.

I just have been thinking I should get back into drinking.

Yeah.

I tried to make a Bloody Mary the other day at a friend's house.

It was my job for this dinner thing to bring Bloody Mary.

And then I got there and couldn't do the conversions for the volume and wasn't very good yeah so I think not boozy enough too boozy not

savory enough

oh okay and I because a bunch of people that were there were is this for a dinner yeah that's a breakfast drink yes you're correct but you know what I've been craving one and I'm still craving one because I did not nail it yeah sometimes I crave it and then the ice and the drink touched my teeth so I was over it oh is that bad for you I just don't like it yeah I don't think it's bad for me but I just can't enjoy it no I know it's not bad for you bad for you but like bad for you it's bad for me um what about straw would you like a straw yes i'd love straws let me get you i always drink out of straws and i throw them in the ocean sure yeah i grab the turtles i wrap them up

i'm we have we get juice boxes and it just occurred to me that they they come with paper straws that are wrapped in plastic i know it is one of those things that yes it's good to reduce plastic was this the correct battle?

I'm unsure.

I miss plastic bags in a big way.

I know.

I think I brought you over.

I had a stash of plastic bags.

It was like you got a birthday present.

Yeah.

My mom sends them to me whenever she has one.

Calgary has not banned them, right, Alberta?

I don't think so.

Well, they probably make them with all that extra oil they have.

Exactly.

Somebody's got to buy them.

Those pumps.

And when your mom gives them to you, she's like, just

here it says this is not a toy, just so you know.

Don't get too excited about this.

This is not the joke I was going to make, and it was a much better joke.

Okay.

This last one comes from Alan from Missouri.

We have a seven-year-old daughter in first grade, and there is a boy who just moved into our neighborhood who is in kindergarten.

So, I guess first grade kindergarten, younger.

My wife and I were both working from home last week, and this kid walks into our house without knocking or ringing the doorbell and starts wandering around without acknowledging my wife and I, sitting there staring at him.

My wife looked at him and said, Hi, you're probably looking for our daughter.

What's your name?

He looked at her and responded, I'm not supposed to talk to strangers.

That's so funny.

What is that little guy doing?

I don't know.

He just, I mean, you know, once you get through the door,

that's like.

I love being in other people's house.

I hate it.

You do?

Yeah.

I don't think you've ever been in my house.

Maybe.

I've been.

Yeah.

I haven't been in Graham's.

Oh, it's fun.

Sure.

You want to invite me?

Yeah.

Dave, let's drink some rum together.

Normally, people don't want to invite me because I am a vampire.

I'll invite you in.

Yeah.

Well, that's great, everyone.

And in addition,

both of us are already planning our Dave hangouts, and Dave's like, let's move on.

But we're like, no, we're going to have Dave to our houses.

The little kid going into the house is very cat behavior.

Yeah, just walking into a stranger's house.

Yeah.

I love this kid, man.

The bold.

I can't talk to you.

I would be freaked out by that but you're not allowed to talk to strangers zing i was yeah

in addition to overhurds that are written in we also accept your phone calls now the phone calls lately the quality not and this is not your fault listeners it's the person who mans who who makes the

who gives us the phone calls yeah puts it through the computer they sound like shit and so i'm encouraging you to send us a voice memo jesse thorne says we should just stick it out with the phone calls No, no, no, Jesse.

We're going voice memos.

Go to your phone, open the voice memo, record it, send it to spy at maximumfun.org, or if you want to roll the dice, one eight four four seven seven nine seven six three one.

That's one spypod one.

Like these people have.

But these ones all sound good.

Hey, Dave and Graham and

Impossible Guest.

This is Gabe from Baltimore.

I was just in the mall

picking up something for my daughter.

I walked by a, you know, the mall kiosk.

You know, it's like one of those kiosks that has, I guess,

like essential oils or some kind of smelly oil.

And they were all labeled.

And I looked down the one that was right in the middle.

The name of it was Pink Pussy.

Jesus.

Wow.

Oh, my God.

Don't get more essential than that, baby.

Am I right?

Am I right, fellas?

Yeah, I mean, like, isn't there, there was, I feel like the lid on that was blown off with Gwyneth Valtro, yeah.

Yeah.

Like in the vagina candle.

Which I don't know anybody that ever saw one or smelled one, so that could be all just.

And that was based on her own scent?

Yeah.

But it was just like, like, herbs and essential oil type smells.

It wasn't like.

Are you sure?

Yeah.

Was it shaped like herbingo?

No.

No.

It was just a candle?

Yeah.

Gwen.

Vagina.

Vagina candle.

Google says, yep, it is just a regular looking candle.

And it says, this smells like my vagina.

But I mean, it's a little more class A than pink pussy, I guess.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think that's tough for parents to walk through a mall and see something that's like that.

Yeah.

Just a little bit like, hey, you know, there's kids here.

They're not ready for this convo.

That should be behind the tail.

I got to tell you, as a parent, it's fine.

That's good.

You can walk through.

You can sell me anything.

I'm not weird about it.

So that was a voicemail.

This one's really good.

This is a phone call.

I picked this phone call.

I still listen to all the phone calls.

Some of them end up sounding good.

So here we go.

Hi, Dave Graham.

This is Dustin from Richmond, Virginia.

I was just behind a car at a stoplight, and the bumper sticker said, honk shoe, if you're asleep at the wheel.

Okay, love you.

Bye.

Love it.

Love it.

That's the kind of bumper sticker I can get behind.

Yeah, I'm going to honk.

Oh, wait, no, I didn't finish reading.

I like that honk shoe has become kind of a thing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Are you, when you snore, are you honk shoe?

Are you?

Like that's out of the side of my mouth, like a dog.

How about about you?

I'm a hee-bee-hee-bee-you?

I'm a

like that.

I'm the one where like

back in the air flies up in the air.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I have uh I'm a side sleeper, so it when I was sleeping on my back, big snores.

Yeah, but then I went side and you never looked back.

Yeah,

I guess I

if I'm gonna have a nap, I go lie on my back, but if I'm sleeping, that's gotta be a reason.

I always have to remember that.

Lie on my back.

I having a nap.

Lie on my side.

To sleep, I reside.

Just as good today as when it was written.

And finally.

Hey, Dave Graham and Possible Guest

in Chicago calling in an overheard that is from 10 years ago and just popped into my head for some reason.

I used to work for an art handling company, and we were receiving a shipment of crates from a museum.

Museum shipments often come with a courier who is there to supervise the changeover.

And our project manager, who is a real prick by the way, was really obsessed with the fact that the courier's last name was Starbright, and kept going to each of us on the crew, being like, Starbright, that's an interesting name.

Do you think that's Native American?

Don't you think that's a Native American name?

What kind of name is that?

Native American?

Anyway, when she finally arrived, I overheard him saying, Starbright, that's an interesting name.

Is that

German?

And she, in an exasperated tone, replied, no, it's a divorce name.

I gave it to myself.

Oh,

off I go.

Such a crispy, crispy message.

Yeah, it sounded really good.

That's cool.

That is cool.

I love the idea of, I used to work as an art handler.

The real, what did he call the guy?

A real prick.

Real prick.

I love that 10 years later, he still is like, that guy was a real prick.

Like, I relate to that sort of like, I'll never not think of that person that way.

Yeah.

Grudge.

You have like the worst boss?

Are they all is a blend together?

Because I can remember my worst boss.

He sucked.

Bosses that I thought were the worst that have been surpassed by corporate bosses in a way that is like meme, just memeification of my life.

Yeah.

But yeah, I had some really bad bosses.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You, Dave?

Bad boss?

Just

like, yeah, like, oh, working for very small companies, and the owner of the company is my boss, and

he cares, and I don't.

Whatever you say, man.

Yeah, sure.

I mean, I get why you're mad, but

I'm making $30,000.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

Like, I'm trying to.

Yeah, it's really like, it's rough.

Like you're on it.

You're making so much more money and you're not seeming to do anything.

Yeah.

And you own the company, so you probably have a nice fund going there for your retirement or something.

For a long time, my worst boss, who I don't think of as my worst boss at all anymore, because I do think I learned a lot working for him.

He

bought a sports car and we couldn't cash our paychecks for a couple of days.

Oh, Jesus, really?

And yeah.

And I was like, you know, like really living a hand-to-mouth existence at like $10 or $12 an hour

kind of kid.

Yeah.

And had nothing to my name and

was like, I needed that paycheck.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But we had a lovely accountant that made sure I could cash my paycheck.

Nice.

Yeah, but you know, if you ever get a sports car, that thing smells like that candle.

Yeah, yeah.

It's just dripping with essential oil.

He 100% had a model girlfriend.

He did?

Oh, yeah.

Nice.

Beautiful woman.

Which came first?

Car or action model girlfriend.

Model girlfriend.

But he had to keep her.

Yeah, exactly.

I had a model girlfriend, too.

She was just like the

perfect girlfriend, always doing her girlfriend duties.

I don't know.

She was a model student, and then she became my model girlfriend.

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

Yeah, before we say goodbye to Alicia, or after we say goodbye to Alicia,

maybe.

Oh, you want to get rid of me?

No,

I have nothing to do.

I'm retired.

That's nice.

Yeah, it is nice.

Get into it.

I mean, you got to watch your grandchildren grow up.

Yeah.

That's true.

They're so delicate at this age.

Do you have anything?

You're on Blue Sky.

I'm on Blue Sky.

You're making tweets.

Are they called Blue Sky?

I think they're Skeets.

They're still tweets.

Seats.

They're Skeets.

You're making skeets.

Nothing to plug.

Nothing to plug.

Just, you know, if you see her on the street, wave, wave and smile.

Don't.

Don't.

Don't wave over.

I don't know who you are.

I'll feel really bad about it.

Okay, don't

do that at all.

Terrible, like name,

name recall.

Yeah, me too.

We were at a restaurant last week and we were sitting beside people that I know somehow, and it took me a week to figure out who they were.

But I did.

You did figure out.

He was Chuck Bass on Godspirl.

Yeah, I did figure it out.

Yeah.

Before we go, I just want to say,

not related to anything we were talking about.

Perfect.

Off-air.

No, related to something off-air, Graham has posters of his face on

all over the city.

All over the city.

Advertising his show every Thursday night, the Laugh Gallery.

The Laugh Gallery.

But on the same poster.

poll, there have been pictures of Chewbacca and someone's having a

Chewbacca like

impression competition.

It feels like

it might be a fetish.

Oh, you think it's a fetish?

Well, there's a famous viral thing a few years ago about an Australian woman who

whose ex-boyfriend did a Chewbacca noise competition and put it in the newspaper.

and uh but gave her phone number

but these all just seem to be going to an email ad yeah this I remember that lady on the news story.

She's just like, it's in the middle of the night.

And they just kept playing them.

Some are very good.

Some are just yelling into my body.

Some are very good.

Some are very good.

So, you know, if you want to join up with the Chewbacca contest, I believe I put a picture of me pointing at it on Instagram.

And follow us on Instagram.

Podcasting yours.

Yeah, you guys are doing a great little job on HR.

We do little videos occasionally.

Yeah, you did a really good video from last week's RB or HR.

H ⁇ R Block.

Yeah.

Which, just quickly, what does that stand for?

Hamburgers and root beer.

That's the stuff.

Well, thank you so much for being our guest.

It was a pleasure.

It was so nice to see you both.

And just before we go, another word about the Max One Drive.

Yeah, this is the last time we're going to talk about it.

So head over to maximumfun.org slash join.

Everything you do supports us.

Every little bit helps.

If you like the show, it would be awfully nice if you pitched in and absolutely helped us out.

Pitch in, you bitches.

That's the slogan this year.

It took us two episodes to come up with it, but we did it.

So thank you very much.

Alicia, thank you very much for everybody out listening.

Like Dave said, if you got the scratch, why not show up and sell yourself a monster?

What?

You said pitch in, you bitches.

Oh, yeah, sorry.

As Dave said, pitch in, you bitches.

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

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