Episode 873 - Gina Harms

Ho ho ho.

Jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle.

What's that sound?

I've got to throw up in the sash and see who that is out on the lawn.

Oh, it's a jolly old elf.

Look at this jolly old elf.

Oh man, so tubby.

And oh, he shakes when he laughs like a bowl full of jelly.

A bowl full of jelly.

Oh, God, I got

I gotta get this sugar plum out of my head.

I've been having visions of them, you know.

Yeah, that was the original version of American Pie.

It was American Plum.

And it's the same

thing, but different.

Oh, so he's all horned up for a big sugar plum?

Yeah, that's right.

There was one left on the counter to cool.

He got in there.

Whoever was the equivalent of Jason Biggs.

He thinks he's alone because not a creature is stirring, not even a mouse.

But then Eugene Levy comes in.

That's right.

It's still Eugene Levy, no matter when the film was made.

Well, the reason we are talking to you before the show is actually starting is because we have an announcement to make.

It's the end of the year.

And the last episode of every year, it's become a tradition.

It's the listener episode where the listeners are our guests.

You're the guest.

You're the third chair.

You're, you know, you're Pete Best, you're etc., etc.

Yeah.

Isn't he the fifth Beatles?

He's famously the third chair of the Beatles.

So

if you would like to be on our show, if you would like to have five minutes alone with us, think of what you would do.

Oh, the mind reels.

And you have a few things you can do if you're on the show.

You can, it'll be your chance to ask us a question or it would be your chance to show off a talent.

And this year we're doing something special.

We'll rate your outfit.

We'll rate your outfit.

Also, if you have any hot takes.

Oh, shit.

Yeah.

But if you do want to be on the show, we are going to record this episode on December 18th from noon to 1.30 Pacific time.

That is 3 until 4.30 Eastern time.

And what time in France?

In France?

It's 9 o'clock at night until 10.30.

So if you are free in that window of time and you want to be a guest on the show, how do you get to be a guest?

Well, we have everyone.

Let Dave tell you.

Go for it.

Everyone who wants to be a guest has to email us, spy at maximumfun.org with the subject Q and A.

We will compile all the emails we receive.

We will do a draw.

And if your name is chosen, we will contact you and we will tell you your five-minute time slot and we will send you a link.

We're using Zoom for this, so you'll have to be able to use Zoom.

So you email us,

I mean, let's say by this Friday.

Okay.

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And if you need those details again, rewind.

Yeah.

And we'll see you there.

Hi, he's Dave Shomka.

And he's Graham Clark.

And together we host Stop Podcasting Yourself.

Woo!

Hello, everybody, and welcome to episode number 873 of Stop Podcasting Yourself.

My name is Graham Clark, and with me, as always, is a man who has a brand new spanking sidewalk right in front of his house, Mr.

Dave Schumbler.

Oh, don't dox me.

There have been, like, you people know what neighborhood we live in.

Yeah, we live in

Gastown.

Yeah, but they, uh, there have been some specifics that have come up, and I've had to, like, take them out.

Um, there, like, there was one, I'm going to end up having to bleep this because it's still there.

Sure.

But one time we thought it was very funny that my neighbor had a, in their window, had a gigantic.

And it's like four years later, it's still there.

Oh, that's great.

Yeah, so I don't want people not, okay, so it's got a new sidewalk.

Unfortunately, in this neighborhood, they're pouring sidewalks left and right.

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

And you know what?

Walking over it, you wouldn't know it's new.

It's all covered in mud.

Well, yeah.

I mean, I defy anybody to forensic.

I do think.

I wonder if any of the city workers are like, I made a new sidewalk.

I don't even get to do anything on it.

Yeah, yeah.

Let's take our group photo on it and then on to the next side.

I'll bring my wife down here later.

We can make out on it.

Our guest today, a returning guest to the podcast,

first time here in person,

such a funny comedian.

She's also, we just found out, a ring announcer.

It's Gina Harms, everybody.

Hello.

Hello.

Hello, ladies and gentlemen.

There you go.

Okay.

Just a little bit of that, the energy you bring to it.

Feels weird to do in an office type space.

Well, let's get to know us.

Get to know us.

Now, you, Yizo, you're a comedian, of course.

Yes.

Everyone knows you've been on the show before episode 702 or something and somewhere around there

and you bought so you're a ring announcer for Boom Wrestling

past guest Stacey McLaughlin

her imprint.

Yeah, and it's insanely popular.

It sells out every time.

Yes.

And so ring announcing you're just at the top of the show or every match?

Every match.

Nice.

Yeah.

So I've been doing it for about a year now.

And do you bring big energy to it?

I do, yeah.

Is there a persona?

Like, are you kind of.

So I'm like, they have kind of like an MC

sort of announcer guy who kind of is in the ring the whole time.

And he will talk to the wrestlers and he introduces me.

And then I am like making their way to the ring.

Making downtown, walking fast.

Yes.

Do you?

No.

Do the make him.

Step back from the mic.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, really?

No, you know what?

It's a good warm-up exercise for us to get in the zone.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We usually bring that WWE.

And if you want to introduce us.

Oh, yeah.

I'm 6'4, 120 pounds.

Okay.

Failing from V.

Parts Unknown.

Okay.

I'm sorry, I keep laughing.

Okay, I'll start.

The following matches scheduled for one fall

making their way to the ring.

The tag team champions

from the mall of America.

Dave Shumka and Graham Clark.

This is good.

It's good.

Yeah.

Good.

Do you laugh between every line usually?

No, it's very serious.

Do you have a specific outfit that you wear?

I like to dress up for it, but I'm not in the ring.

I'm like in a corner.

Sure.

So really, I don't have to.

Does the crowd get on you if you're,

you know, if you can't

bring it?

No.

Okay.

They're pretty, they're pretty cool.

They're chill.

What's your,

because they all have ongoing storylines.

Do you have a particular favorite that's emerged over the last while?

Oh, um,

yeah, there's like, I mean, the the main guy, one of the biggest guys in Boom Pro Wrestling is Abraham Lincoln.

I love that Abraham Lincoln.

So funny.

And he wears the hat the whole time.

Yeah, yeah.

And I don't know.

He just, they just had a match with him and

this guy, Felonius Hovinius Harlequin.

Nice.

And this guy is like this weird gothic, I don't know, magic.

He has this magic trunk.

And

I love it.

And they had this match where

the magic guy put Abe's head and the ref's head in the trunk, and then they switched bodies.

And so then the ref was acting like Abraham Lincoln.

But they didn't, like, their heads didn't switch bodies.

They did.

No.

The guy who plays Abraham Lincoln plays him.

Real beard?

Real beard.

Real beard, but fake hat.

It was a real hat.

The hat.

The hat got better because I remember in the first couple, like I saw the first two times they did it, and it was not quite the right height.

Oh, okay.

Not quite the right height on the plane in Spain.

Yeah, but it's

good luck getting a ticket.

It's the Taylor Swift of Pro Wrestling.

You're not going to get in.

So don't even try.

Each month, yeah, they sell out.

It's very popular.

Taylor Swift of Pro Wrestling.

You've given me an idea.

Bracelets.

New gimmick.

Did you see that?

So Taylor Swift is, I think at the time of this episode release, I think she's gone.

When's her last show?

It's like, isn't it like next week?

Next weekend.

Yeah.

So,

yeah, it'll be over.

And it's the last tour, last show of the tour, last like three shows she's doing here.

The local police have.

Oh, God.

Do you know what I'm going to say?

Yes, yes there's no there's no end to how much i hate this i hate it so much they've made because

friendship bracelets are a big taylor swift thing yeah

um and uh so they've made giant friendship ship bracelet necklaces for their horses yeah yeah i saw that i hate it

did you see yeah go the uh the laughing men statues uh at english bay oh yeah have them around their necks too

and they've just changed the Vancouver sign in

Coal Harbor to Swift Coofer.

This is too thirsty.

We're too thirsty for this.

Well, I remember when Justin Trudeau did a speech, and I was like, so if we're, God forbid, ever in a war, this guy is the fucking guy in charge, the guy that's begging Taylor Swift to come to his country.

Draham, I know what bumper sticker you have on your Ford F-350.

No, it says, hey, give Trudeau a chance, but I'm down to my last nerve with this Trudeau guy.

Just like,

whatever he did, that was like, this is so embarrassing.

Yeah, that really.

Imagine if she didn't come, too.

Like,

that wasn't funny.

But, like, she's got to have a body double, right?

Oh, yeah.

The whole series, she's at home watching and eating popcorn.

Well, like, she hasn't missed a show in like three years of.

No, it's the same guy that does Saddam Hussein.

You've got range.

I do think that when I've gone to like arena concerts, that and I'm always in the nosebleeds, and I'm always like, this could be anybody.

That's true.

You know?

Yeah, especially like I went and saw Kiss, and I was like, yeah, this could be for

75-year-old men.

Truly.

Yeah,

did you try to snag tickets?

Were you in the lottery?

I didn't get in the lottery.

I did try.

I would go.

I'm a fan of her music for sure.

Yeah.

I don't identify as a Swifty.

Sure, that's

stand culture is toxic.

Well, sure.

I'm more of a little monster.

I'm one of Gaga's little monsters.

Pause all the way up.

Yas.

But

yeah, I thought about, I mean, I tried to get tickets.

whenever they went on sale like a year ago and then didn't and then we i took the kids to see olivia rodrico and that was quite overwhelming for them.

And I think I was like, okay, well, I'm just going to stop trying to get the Taylor Swift ones.

Yeah,

there was a kid somewhere in BC that had tickets and decided to auction them off for charity.

And how much do you think she got?

Two tickets to the Taylor Swift show in Vancouver.

Maybe prime tickets, but I think it just had two tickets.

I don't know.

$80.

$27,000.

Yeah, it was for charity.

Yeah, exactly.

$27,000.

Oh, there were people in this neighborhood on Airbnb that had their houses for sale for $5,000 a night.

Or not for sale, for rent.

Wow.

Yeah.

Smart, I guess.

Yeah, I wish I had a place that I could get away from.

Yeah.

But

there's like a pub.

If you see somebody in the building, they're going to know that you

live there.

You know, if the maintenance lady sees anybody unusual,

I have a trouble.

Or

her new replacement.

Oh, what's going going on with the new maintenance lady?

No, there's a new maintenance man.

Oh, my God.

And he's really good.

I got no complaints at this point.

How long was the old maintenance lady around?

Oh, probably before we got there, probably like 15 or 20 years.

And what kind of maintenance she do?

She, if something breaks, she calls a guy.

And listeners, this is the show.

This is the show.

That's right.

This is what we call it.

If something breaks radio, she calls a guy.

Okay.

I mean, she's not coming in there with a wrench and doing it herself.

What kind of maintenance is she doing?

Tidying?

Tidying, yeah.

She does a lobby display for every kind of holiday, and she does that less now because she's retired.

But

just

everything you need.

She's got it.

Does she live there?

She lives there, but she manages four buildings.

Oh, but if she's retired, she manages no buildings.

Oh, okay.

Now it's all the new guy.

Yeah.

Does the new guy live there?

I don't think so.

Yeah.

Maybe he lives in one of these other four buildings.

Yeah, probably one of the nice ones.

Yeah, I'm like, how do you get that gig?

Like, sometimes I think being a building manager would be nice.

I think it would be.

It's like you just work from home, but you're like, kind of, you're not at, you're not stuck in your apartment.

Do you get free rent, cheap rent?

Yeah, that's what I wonder.

Yeah, I think at the very least, cheap rent, if not.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's got to be one of the perks of the job of being a building manager.

But then you're in charge of like, you know, sex ed week and

you're in charge of like spirit week.

Stuff you don't sign up for.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Building manager, what you don't realize is you're an RA.

But seriously, we love her and

we love her, don't we, guys?

I don't.

Why not?

Is she a listener?

Honestly, I'm kind of like a little jealous that you like her so much.

Yeah, I

don't do you would you be able to Airbnb your place?

Um, probably.

like it's a big enough building that i think i could get away with it although yeah everyone does sort of know each other like i i don't know you have to yeah you tell the person you just have to act like you're my weird cousin who's going through some bad stuff that's why you have all this friendship praise list actually i just i just did an apartment swap with a comedian from toronto so he stayed in my apartment for a week and then he wouldn't do anything and i

yeah and was it a downgrade or upgrade for you uh a bit of a downgrade he had a roommate, and I live alone, so yeah,

already, and also, it was a guy's place, so I'm imagining not as nice a bed.

Surprisingly, that's what I was expecting, but um, yeah, he's like a guy who like loves to like vintage shop, and so there was like art on his walls and like things.

That's nice, yeah.

It's like most men, I just find don't have anything on their walls, yeah.

I just have a uh a target,

I know some of a lot of target

of course yeah i uh

i've never airbnb'd my place ever like in all the places that i've ever been at i don't know if i could because i'm like what are they doing in there are they you know tooling around and stuff yeah it would have to be with someone you know like that's the only reason i did this like i know this person i trust them yeah there was a does Do any of you play the New York Times game Connections?

I have played, yeah.

Is that the one with the 16 squares and

yeah everyone has a word on them and you have to like decide try to figure out which four words go together and there's four sets of four words and one of them in the past couple weeks was

oh boy uh pet

house okay um

baby and plant and they all went together because they're all things that you sit.

You babysit, you house sit, you pet sit, but you don't plant sit.

Yeah, you don't plant sit.

Nobody has you over to stay

taking care of your plants.

Plant sit.

Can you come over once a week?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

That's true.

Yeah.

It's about the same.

Have you ever been in like an Airbnb

clean up the dishes and stuff before you leave and stuff like that?

I hate it.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

Well, it's gotten like crazy in the last couple of years.

Oh, yeah.

They add a cleaning fee, plus they expect you to clean it.

Yeah, exactly.

They expect you to clean it, and then there's cleaning fee.

And there's also sometimes like, don't open this door.

Like, whatever you do.

No matter how many screams you hear coming from inside it.

You're going to open the door if it says do not open the door.

Yeah.

Curiosity is going to get.

What was the

scary Airbnb movie?

Oh,

oh, Jesus.

I don't know.

Ah, barbarian.

Barbarian, yeah.

Did you see Barbarian?

No.

Oh, it'll really, yeah, it'll scare you Airbnb-wise.

Yeah.

Did it have like a don't open this door thing?

No, it wasn't, but it was like clearly a door you shouldn't have opened.

Haunted Door.

Have you seen it?

Do you watch any horror movies?

Not so much.

I'm trying to get back into horror movies.

I stopped for a long time because I was like, no, I'm such a wimp.

But now I'm like, I'm an adult.

I should.

I should be able to watch.

I don't know.

You live alone.

I wouldn't watch

movies if I lived alone.

It's like you have to watch them with somebody.

Yes.

And then.

Watching a horror movie alone is very,

although that's the only way I watch them, but I don't live alone.

Yeah, but exactly.

So that noise, it could be your daughter just wandering around.

Just wandering around in the middle.

You know what?

I'll just watch our

night vision camera to see what's going on up there.

But yeah, there's I know I've watched a couple horror movies by myself, and there's, I like to have the, wasn't that so scary or, you know, like a little bit of commentary with my wife while I'm doing it.

But

when I went to see

the substance, oh, yeah, I saw that alone, but I saw it in a theater with other people.

But I sat in the back because I didn't want anyone to see me go,

I actually did see that, but that was like more gross than scary.

Yeah, yeah, right.

Body horror.

But I didn't know that going in.

Right, that's true.

So when I chose my seat, I might go,

there was a guy that I was friends with like ages and ages ago, and I would go to movies with him explicitly because every twist got him.

Like every time there was any kind of like, you know, boo in the score.

Yeah, even music.

Yeah, if there was a sting, he'd.

Oh, that's so funny.

They're just going to commercial.

Oh, what's your

look?

What's your guys' most hated commercial in front of movies?

Mine is the popcorn colonel guy.

Really?

Abby hates them too.

I have no feelings for them one way or the other.

I think I liked them back when they were a military unit, but now that they're just like hanging out as a group together.

And one of them is Orville Redenbacher.

Is that right?

Well, it's an old-looking one with glasses and popcorn suspenders.

You?

Favorite?

No, most hated.

Most hated.

Right now,

there's an Ozempic one.

Oh.

I just asked.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, oh, oh.

So the music is, yeah, it's so so happy.

There's so many pharmaceutical commercials before movies.

And the rules are different in Canada than they are for the states.

So

what can they say?

They can't say.

They can say the name of it, but they can't say what it does.

So it's just like, you ask your doctor for it, but you can't do it.

I'm taking it too.

Yeah, exactly.

And things are going fine.

They should do it where it's like everybody's not.

I'm saying it's very good.

They should have one where everybody's got perfect teeth, right?

And then one guy doesn't and you're like, oh, it's some sort of teeth medicine.

I get it.

Yeah.

It's actually a gum commercial.

Teeth medicine.

The one I don't like is

the commercial they do for the Robbie Williams monkey movie.

No, I maintain that's a good looking movie.

It's just so

weird because he's like, maybe in England he's kind of like a legend, but here he's kind of like, he's got a couple of good songs that we know, but he's not.

He didn't cross over in the same way.

Here, I feel like he did more in Canada than in the States, though.

Yeah.

Because we had, I mean, you're younger than us, I'm pretty sure.

But Graham and I watched Much Music of the 90s and saw the video for millennium.

I remember.

I was there.

Yeah.

I remember the Rock DJ video.

Yeah, the Rock DJ went up for it.

Yeah, that was a good one.

But like in the movie trailer, he says that like some outdoor festival for the next hour is Networth.

It's what?

It's Nebworth.

What's Nebworth?

The festival.

What is that?

I don't know.

That's the one where he performed.

I've never heard of that.

I don't know.

Like a year or two ago, I was Googling.

I like to look up.

Robbie William Facts?

Like concert footage of

and I was watching him do Let Me Entertain You.

Yeah.

Live from Nebworth.

He enters, you know, upside down

in a straight jacket.

Okay.

Never shows him getting out of it.

I don't know.

He just hangs there the hole.

Yeah.

I was actually,

I knew sort of of Robbie Williams, but I didn't realize the impact until when I was 20, I lived in Australia.

And I was, I hung out with a bunch of British people because I just hung out with other travelers.

And we did karaoke one night and someone sang angels.

And every person in the bar was singing every word except for me.

Yeah.

I was like, what?

Yeah.

Like, yeah, he's, well, he's fine.

You know, like, it's, but he's fine.

He's fine.

You see him take his skin off?

Good bones.

Now, you were, you lived in Australia for a while, and you did a one-person show about

moving to Australia.

I did.

It was really, really funny.

Thank you.

And you went.

You moved because.

I I moved because I met an Australian man.

Because I liked a boy.

Just like Sabrina Carpenter.

It ruins your life.

Yeah, I was traveling in Thailand when I was 20 with some friends.

I met an Australian man in a bar and I was like, this is the guy I'm going to marry.

And we kept in touch for like six months.

And then I moved there to be with him.

You went Thailand back to Canada, then back to Australia.

Yeah.

And did he go back to Australia in between?

So he was in Europe for like four months and then he went to Australia.

He's finding himself.

When I have been traveling and met Australians, they quite often, because Australia is so remote, they will just

like once they leave Australia, they'll just go around the world until they get back to Australia.

Yeah.

It does seem like that.

Yeah, I feel like everywhere you go, you can find an Australian.

It's kind of like a block parent.

You're like, just look for the closest Australian.

yeah.

Look for the helpers.

Um,

yeah, and uh, it's funny, yeah, you went to Thailand and then Australia.

I, I, for some reason the other night watched the movie Broke Down Palace.

Have you ever seen that?

Claire Daynes, yeah, and she's in Thailand, she meets an Australian, and he lands drugs on her.

Yeah, whoa, yeah, she gets caught being a drug mule.

Oh, yeah, I always get it mixed up with Beyond Rangoon.

What's Beyond Rangoon?

Same thing?

Well, I'm thinking of Beyond Ragoo, The Pregoes.

The Prego story.

Beyond Rangoon is

Patricia Arquette somewhere in the tropics.

Sweaty.

Yeah.

It was very sweaty.

Is it Claire Danes and another actress?

Yeah.

And she's...

It's maybe Kate Beckinsale or something like that.

Hubba?

Hubba.

Yeah.

The movie is like the most

cigarette-smelling movie.

Like, I feel like everybody in there is just covered in mud and they're all smoking cigarettes.

And Claire Dane's very ugly crier.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

Famously from

Spy Show.

Homeland.

Homeland.

Yes.

Yeah.

I never noticed it before, but she cries quite a bit in this film and I was like, huh.

She goes for it.

Yeah.

She does go for it.

Have you watched Homeland?

No.

Graham.

Me neither.

Well, you people are telling Graham he needs to watch the American.

I always hear that I'm supposed to watch The American.

But I think you've got to watch Homeland if you're going to watch a spy show.

But does she cry a lot in it?

Because I don't know if she's going to be aware of it.

Oh, yeah.

She cries and listens to jazz and goes off her meds, man.

That's the dream.

So how long did you live in Australia?

Oh, you said it correct.

It was a year, just about a year.

There's an

episode of The Facts of Life where the girls all go to Australia.

But anytime, in my family, anytime anyone mentions the country,

we quote Tootie, who gets off the plane and goes, Hello, Australia.

And you live there a year.

Yeah.

What do you miss about it?

Oh,

I

not the boy.

Yeah.

Well, yeah,

I spent like maybe less than a week with him.

Whoa.

Oh, yeah.

That's he dumped me right away.

But I still stayed.

Yeah, did you, were you like, I've already hung up my life at home, so I've just gotta.

Yeah, it was kind of like I wasn't going to college.

I had no plans to go to college.

And I told everyone that I wanted to like travel for a year, but I wanted to travel to Europe for a year.

Yeah.

But I was like, well, I got this, I got this visa, so I might as well stay.

Yeah.

And did you tool around in Australia?

Did you just stay in one one spot?

I stayed in one spot for like five months and then I went I went up and down the East Coast.

I went up to Cannes, which is Cairns.

Thank you.

As far north as I went.

And then I went down to Melbourne.

Melbourne?

Yeah.

Which is Canberra.

Yeah.

Well, so you saw this guy and you were like, I'm going to marry this guy.

And he was like, he saw you and he's like, you call that a wife?

That's not a wife nice good work Dave yeah that's good

but yeah he was it turned out he was a total jag and yeah exactly he led me on via Facebook Messenger oh they always do yeah and uh yeah but uh what do I miss most I don't know that was the first time I'd ever like lived anywhere except where I grew up so it was kind of cool just

I don't know.

It is, it's cool just to be away and you're like, I can invent my, I can be a whole new person here.

Yeah.

Got a whole new persona.

Yeah.

And then.

And remind me where you grew up.

Cam loops.

Cam loops.

The loops.

You were on during our Zoom era and a lot of that washed over.

It's a blur.

Have you done stand-up and cam loops since you've been doing?

I have.

At the bowling alley?

No.

That place is gone now.

No way.

Yeah.

I thought it was just like one of the at the heart of Cam Kamloops.

Yeah, it was.

It's devastating.

When they knocked down a bowling alley, did they attach a bowling ball to the wrecking ball?

Yeah.

And then also it's usually in the contract that you can build condos here, but the main floor still has to be bowling alley.

It's like soil remediation that you have to do after a gas station gets torn down.

But yeah, that was, I feel like that was the first time I played in Kamloops was at the bowling alley.

Yeah, the bar attached to the bowling alley.

It was called the Dirty Jersey.

dirty jersey yes it's gone i can't believe it's gone yeah i i performed at um weirdly the uh what the movie theater oh yeah the independent movie theater there now it there's like a cineplex there uh that's but then there's this kind of old rundown theater but they've actually restored it and now they do comedy there somewhere nice the the rio here is a movie theater that does comedy oh that's true and the hollywood also does shows.

Do they even do movies anymore at the Hollywood?

I don't know.

I haven't.

Before I saw Clueless.

Oh, really?

First time?

Nice.

Yes.

In a second-run theater.

It was, you know, 1996 still or whatever.

There used to be a theater called, was it The Dolphin?

Yeah.

Theater?

On commercials?

Yeah.

I'm trying to think of the...

Lulia, it might have been Broke Down Palace.

I'm trying to think of the movie, the one movie I saw.

I saw Hot Fuzz there, maybe.

Oh, Sherry.

This is interesting.

But we're talking about what used to be.

And what movies you saw there.

Well,

there's an Instagram I follow called Old Vancouver

that showed a picture of the Capital Six movie theater on

Granville.

It used to be, wasn't there the, there was a Capital Six, and then the owner was called the Granville 7.

The Granville 7 across the street.

And they posted a picture, hey, what movies do you remember seeing here?

So many people were like,

just naming movies

beyond Rangoon.

Who cares?

I'll tell you what I saw there.

I don't know, 50 movies?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's

there was like they're similar in Calgary.

There's like the old theater that if you wanted to see any kind of indie movie,

that was the theater you had to go to.

Totally.

But then it fell into like total disrepair.

And now it's been restored.

But I remember doing a comedy show there like five or six years ago, and it was awful.

The theater was had just like like it wasn't a romantic old it was just like tiles were missing.

So if you own a movie theater now I'm asking you as an expert you've been to Australia

do you

nowadays you don't need reels like if you want to show like the whatever 35 millimeter cut of a movie you do but yeah I think don't you for IMAX there's still a machine that but if you have an independent theater do they just you know text you

Text you the files?

This is actually,

I worked at movie theaters.

I worked at Cineplex for a long time, and then I worked at a movie theater in Australia.

Really?

I was.

Okay, so you are an extravagant.

Weirdly, I was a projectionist.

Were you really?

I had to do the film, and then I was...

working at Cineplex in Kamloops when they replaced all the projectors with digital.

So they'd send you it.

You download it from a little USB and yeah.

Not quite.

They would send you a password.

Stringing it it up.

Wow, that's just it's just that simple now.

It sucked.

Yeah, like when you were using the actual film, like what did you, aside from putting it in the projector, like what else do you have to stitch things together?

Yeah, so they send it to you in like these big canisters that are so heavy.

And it's one movie, a two-hour movie is like six to eight reels.

Yeah.

And then you put them all together.

Tyler Durden taught me that.

Yeah.

Yeah, but it's not, so like that was kind of in Fight Club.

It's like the old style where you have to like be watching and switch the reels quickly.

Right.

But then there was like a more modern projector where you

build the reels into one giant reel that's like, I don't know.

You can't see if you're listening.

It's like yay big.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And this, it's not.

And it's on a big platter.

Yeah, it's like

horizontal.

It's not.

Yeah, exactly.

And then you put it through the projector and it goes on to another big platter and then you just hit play.

Nice.

But it was cool.

Did it ever break did you ever have uh yeah yeah yeah once um in inception it it was and where people like this is part of the yeah people didn't know but it like stopped sometimes if you just didn't do it right or it was too tight somewhere it would just uh it would stop and like it it burned once oh wow yeah

it got stuck and then it it burned a hole and that's in that little topic i've always wanted to see that like in a movie because that's like yeah it looks like the screen is on fire yeah

that's so cool you got to be a projectionist it was so cool yeah because now it's that's the last of that era now it's all digital were people like crocodile dundee was it still running when you were there

yeah it just runs

yeah once a week we'd play crocodile dundee i remember i used to work with an australian woman and i was like

speaking of clairedanes uh we were talking about the bas luhrman uh romeo and juliet oh yeah so and i was like i don't really like bas Urman.

And she was like shocked and offended.

How did you not like Basil Uhrman?

I don't know.

It's just so

loud and cacophonous.

He is not.

You just like move on, Rouge.

I guess I did.

I didn't see it.

Well, yeah, no, I guess I did like that.

I watched a documentary about Australian cinema, and they don't mention Crocodile Dundee once in it.

For Canadian cinema, we don't really talk about Dudley Dewright.

Although, sadly, it's one of our best.

What do we talk about?

Men with brooms.

We talk about like the saddest films in the world, like the saddest music in the world.

We're after.

Oh, yeah.

You know, a lot of like indie, frozen-looking kind of films.

Like, could you name, if you had to,

could you name seven Canadian films?

Seven.

Well, I mean.

Yes.

Okay, go for it.

The sweetheart after.

Well, what makes it a Canadian film?

Is it like made in Canada?

Because

there's things that are made in Canada, but aren't Canadian.

Nothing where it's like Canada stand again for New York.

Well, but like,

would you consider Juno a Canadian movie?

Yeah.

Two Canadian stars shot in Vancouver, Canadian, son of a Canadian director.

Yeah, no, I would say that counts.

Juno counts.

Well, then, would you count

Dracula?

The Red Violin.

Yep.

Red violin counts.

Can I just name Adam Magoyan movies?

That's fair play.

Exotica.

Yeah.

What about Cronenberg movies?

How many of those count?

His early stuff was all in Canada.

I think everything from the fly on was probably not in Canada.

Crash is.

It's got

that bald guy who's Canadian.

Jean-Luc Picard.

Isn't the Dune director Canadian?

Yep.

Denise.

Denise Real Neuf, but I wouldn't count.

Maybe his first.

His French language movie.

Yeah, that would count.

Oh, for doing French language movies, I can name so many.

Bucket Poutine.

You're making this.

What does he say, Bucket Poutine?

La guerre d'étouc.

Louis d'Isneuf.

No, that might be French, France, French.

What's the one about Florida?

Is it just like La Florides?

Oh, that's about Floride.

What is your favorite Canadian film, if I put you on the spot?

Favorite Canadian film?

I can name name Frays.

Yeah.

Go ahead.

Hardcore logo.

I love Hardcore Logo.

Yeah.

It was the exact right time for that movie to come out.

It was a movie with a punk band.

Oh, okay.

And I was like 16 and loved punk music.

And I was like,

this is it.

Ginger snaps.

Ginger snaps too.

Oh, nice.

Nice.

Wolf cop, you could have said.

Bunk cop, bad cop.

Bunk up, bad cop.

Take this waltz.

Oh, sure.

Yeah, that's one of the saddest.

That's a good one.

Is Take This Waltz.

And then what was the other one that had Seth Rogan and Michelle Williams in it?

Isn't that what I was thinking about?

What's the one about

the guy who has Alzheimer's and his wife's visiting him?

It's not the sweet hereafter.

It's not Take This Waltz.

It's not Beginners.

It's not Beginners.

It's not Sarah Polly one.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was the Sarah Polly one.

And it's so sad.

Yeah.

Well, listeners out there, imagine looking up this thing and being like, yeah.

I was listening to CBC Radio the other day, and they were playing

D-Light,

Groove is in the Heart by D-Light.

And the song ended, boo!

And the announcer goes, yeah, that was Groovas in the Heart by D-Light.

It came out in 1990, the same year as

Road to Avonlea and Nelson Mandela was released from prison.

Those were the big three that year.

And what I didn't realize was

before the song, they did like a guest of the year game.

Yeah, they played Grooves in the Heart when Nelson Mandela was released.

It came out in 1990, the year the Sinbad movie Kazam came out, and

Nelson Mandela died in prison.

That's right.

Yeah, I...

It's tough.

It's tough to find a Canadian movie because we don't really let them.

We just named 20.

Well, you made up a bunch of French ones.

Bucket boutine?

Um,

yeah.

Uh, what was what was the movie that you had to watch the most as a projectionist?

Like, oh, what had the longest run?

Um, I

Avatar, I guess.

Oh, sure.

Yeah, that was in theaters for like m six months, I feel like.

And did you ever watch it with 3D glasses up in the booth?

Uh, y Yeah, I didn't get to

be up there a lot.

Oh,

yeah.

What was your favorite job there?

Like popcorn?

Popcorn as a job.

I mean, projectionist was the best because you would kind of be like, you would be upstairs in the booth a lot.

But they often would be like, hey, we know once you hit start on these movies that there's no work for you to do up there.

So come help us.

Right.

Yeah.

Is there anything like culturally different about movies down there?

Oh, yeah.

In Australia,

they don't really eat popcorn.

There was a very small popcorn popper,

but people mostly eat ice cream chalk tops.

Oh.

Oh, is that like a drumstakana?

Yeah, it was, we had to make them ourselves.

We would scoop the ice cream onto a cone and then dip it.

It's like a dipped cone.

Huh.

That just seems like, I mean, I'm the wrong person to ask because I eat my popcorn in the first five minutes, but I feel like that's something you have to eat right away.

You don't really get to enjoy it during the movie.

Yeah.

Like when I did a tour of the UK

at intermission, people would go out and everybody after the show was all like, after intermission, we're all looking at ice cream.

That was when I went to Europe in 2002, there were intermissions.

Yeah.

Everything had an intermission and it was ice cream.

Ice cream time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I love that.

It's and it's like, you know, like how popcorn is like the loudest possible snack that you could have if you listen to a whole theater people like

um that's i mean the fact that popcorn and movies go together over here i don't know why that's

yeah it's just that we're used to it but when you think about it yeah it's like it's really loud yeah and you're right like i man i burned through a a bucket of popcorn like that.

Oh yeah, same.

I like to put my M's in it.

Yeah.

Oh, that's good.

Some people put Skittles in it.

I know, right?

We're all disgusted.

Yeah.

I didn't do M ⁇ Ms till I was 30.

I only thought of it because of...

Erica Ziggerton told you?

She taught me.

That's what I was talking about.

Oh, she taught me.

The only time that it occurred to me was watching the movie Whiplash.

And'cause the Paul Reiser plays the dad and him and his son go to a movie theater and they pour a bunch of I think it was Reese's pieces, but and then they turn it upside down to make sure it was evenly distributed.

This was a big revelation.

Yeah.

It's

my kids are divided about it.

About having the MMs.

Yeah.

So they both like MMs, but only one wants them in the popcorn.

And I'm like, well,

then I guess nobody gets it.

It's fun.

It's like fun to dig around and try and grab an MM.

If the movie gets boring, you can.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Go on a hunt.

That's cool.

I always, that's one of the kind of teenage jobs I never got to do is movie theater.

Oh, yeah.

Much later in my adulthood, I got to work at a video store and I was like, Oh, that would be fun.

It was fun.

Yeah.

What are the big teenage jobs?

Lifeguard.

Lifeguard.

Oh, my God.

Well, I mean, babysitter, but I mean, jobs where you go to a workplace.

I mean, a lot of people are like.

Amusement park is a dream job.

Yeah.

Do you ever work in an amusement park?

No.

I got to the Stampede in Calgary.

Okay.

Giant amusement park.

Yeah.

And

still miss that smell.

Barbecue and popcorn everywhere you went.

Yeah, amusement park.

I mean, restaurant.

I think it would be a

buser or something like that.

I was going to say busker.

The scrub is also known as a busser.

Yeah, that's correct.

But yeah.

And

so.

You moved to Australia for a year and then do you move right to Vancouver?

Do you?

No, I moved back to Kamloops for probably four years.

Do you remember if we talked about any of this when you were on last time?

I don't think so.

I just remember I was like, oh, yeah, we could, I can ask her about this, the one-person show.

Yeah, because I hadn't done that at that point.

Like, how did you find doing a one-person?

Because it's different than stand-up.

Yeah, completely.

Because I wrote a full like narrative hour, which is way different than just doing stand-up 10 minutes at a time in a bar where no one wants to see you.

Oh, can you imagine doing a one-person show at a bar?

Turn up the TVs, guys.

Didn't you do it at the like Winnipeg Fringe, basically?

Yeah, but that's people buy tickets for the show.

No, but it's a bar.

It's a one-person show in a bar.

No, no, I was in a theater.

Oh, I thought you were at like We Johnny's or whatever.

Oh, We Johnny's, yeah, that's right.

I wasn't at We Johnny's for a couple of years.

And that was a bar, but it was dedicated.

So it wasn't like they had the baseball game on TV.

Let's split some more hairs.

Well, do you remember when we did a live podcast at a bar and we sold it out in Calgary and they wouldn't turn off the TV?

They wouldn't turn off the TVs.

Oh,

terrible.

That's a real piece of Canadian show biz right there.

Yeah.

Have you ever, after show, helped put chairs away?

Has that ever happened to you in a stand-up scenario?

Oh, yeah.

Of course.

Yeah.

Well, the show's over, everybody.

Time to clean the pen.

At the, you know,

you're ring announcing at a wrestling thing.

You have to put chairs away.

You have to get them out of the wrestlers' hands because they're just

smashing each other.

Do they do any chair stuff in the.

Sometimes.

Yeah, because I feel like it's...

They don't do anything.

They don't do any barbed wire or anything like that.

I know that it's not.

Yeah,

they've done some

hardcore stuff, but I think they want to keep it

kind of kid-friendly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, kids got to learn about hardcore.

That's true.

I watched wrestling as a kid.

I was.

It very inappropriate.

When I would like,

I would watch WWF as a kid,

the World Wildlife Fund.

But then my brother would sometimes get wrestling magazines, and they would have, like, on WWF, there was no blood, but in the magazines, there was blood, and I was disturbed by it.

Yeah, because it's weird to see,

because wrestling...

when we were young was more cartoony.

Well, and I watched the wrestling cartoon.

Oh, yeah.

Whatever.

Yeah.

The era you watched was, I'm guessing, Stone Cold Steve Austin, etc.

Attitude era.

Yeah, you shouldn't have been watching that.

He's drinking beer all over the place.

Swearing?

I just was talking about this.

One of my favorite guys when I was like 10 years old was the godfather, who his whole thing was he's a pimp.

He was a pimp.

That's right.

And he would come out

with his host.

This is like a garden hose.

And it was, they would, it was like this group of like 10 ladies who always just looked like they were having so much fun.

It was the ho train.

The hoe train.

I do remember the hoe train.

And I was like, oh, that looks, I like this guy.

He wears bright colors, and these ladies are dancing.

Yeah.

Can I be part of the hoe train?

There was such a weird, like, resurgence in pimp culture in the early 2000s.

Yeah, very popular Halloween costume.

And just to like, that's so pimp.

Yeah.

My ride.

My ride?

Yeah, we pimped rides back in the day.

Now we don't say that.

We say sex worker might ride.

Do you consider a pimp a sex worker?

I mean, it's part of the traditional

part of the industry.

He reads a different part of the newspaper.

Yeah.

Yeah, that was like, yeah, when I was a kid,

you know, there was a guy called tugboat that was a wrestler and he was just like a guy dressed like a sailor So that's how silly yeah the era but then as an adult I didn't there was some gap of time where this extreme wrestling took over and it was barbed wire and big thing is smashing fluorescent lights over each other's heads

because it does explode.

It's very satisfying, but also don't they do that in like

I don't know knocked up or the 40-year-old virgin.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

They're just like smashing them.

Yeah, oh, they're they're so fun to smash.

They make a loud sound.

Yeah, they make a big pop.

But these guys, they're like

meatloaf at the end of this thing.

They're just all cut up.

And I'm like, they probably made,

probably cleared like 50 bucks.

Meatloaf the singer?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Can you imagine?

Yeah, in fight club.

Like at the end of a concert, he does not look good, especially now.

But he leaves it all out there on stage, which is what you expect from these wrestlers.

I love Katie allen humphreys has a joke about people who can't uh figure out pronouns and she's like you all the people from your era were fine calling a guy meatloaf

um

yeah i think if i was a wrestler i would be like meatloaf yeah i would always have a hanky

yeah your whole thing is you could be sweaty then at the end of the match you just sweat on top of your body yeah i think i love the idea of coming up with wrestler um like gimmicks, but I would not want to do it.

Yeah.

Oh, especially if you were given a gimmick that sucks.

Right?

Because

I think in like

WF, you're just handed a gimmick.

Yeah, I think so.

There's writers.

Yeah, there's right.

Oh, to be a writer for wrestling?

It's usually one of those teenage jobs.

What are you doing this summer?

Well, I'm writing

an arc for the Undertaker.

For the Ho Train.

I remember watching wrestling was on TV in a laundromat, and it was that guy and the ho train.

The only people in the laundromat were me and a nun.

And we were just silently sitting there like, here comes the ho train.

I was warned about this.

That's what she's thinking.

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

Oh, well, I got a great story for you.

Oh, good.

No, not really.

But I did, it does relate to what we were just talking about.

This past weekend, I went to Gladiator 2.

Gladiator 2.

The Revenge.

Yeah.

Did you, have you both seen Gladiator 1?

Yes.

Yeah, just recently for the first time.

Oh, really?

Tell me about it.

What led to this decision?

Well,

I don't know if you know, a sequel came out.

So my friend really wanted to go, and I was like, I like all the actors in it.

Oh, was playing somewhere?

No, I just decided

what led to this decision of watching the first gladiator movie?

Yeah, sorry.

I just, I thought you meant the, the, you wanted to go to the first one.

Anyway, okay.

No, I just was like, I should watch the first one first.

Um, and then I did alone at home, and I was kind of bored throughout it.

It's epic.

It should be up on a screen instead of a small.

Yeah.

Did you, have you, you've since seen the second one?

Yes.

Okay.

I saw it as well.

I was following it up.

Oh, my.

Yeah.

This is a fun thing.

I said to Mesha G, and I was like, you haven't seen Gladiator 2, have you?

I was like, oh, you should, because then we can all talk about it on the podcast.

You said to who?

Gina.

Oh, okay.

Your guest.

I thought you said, I sent to Mesha G.

Good listener, go back.

Prove them wrong.

Okay, so,

well, then this will be great.

Because I saw Gladiator 1, I don't know, 10 times in the theater.

You love it.

Whoa, okay.

Abby loves it.

I saw it in the theater a few times.

I saw it at the Dunbar Theater first.

Did you see it at Capital VI?

I don't think I saw it at the Capital VI.

Capital VII?

I saw it.

Dolphin?

Maybe I saw it at University Heights and Cinecenta in Victoria.

No, maybe I saw it in the theater three or four times.

Yeah, I only ever saw it on the small screen.

I never went to the theater for it.

And

Abby loves it.

Like, the year it came out, her family went crazy for Gladiator.

They cut out pictures.

They got magazines that had Russell Drow's head in them, her and Sheila.

And they would just like put his head on family photos.

Yeah, I remember you

having a framed photo.

We do still have a framed photo of him and Jimon Hunso.

Nice.

And

so, yeah, so big fan of Gladiator.

I don't know that it's good.

I think it's probably...

I mean, at the time, it won Oscars and stuff like that.

It won Best Picture.

He won Best actor.

That was shocking to me.

I looked that up after I watched it, and I was like, what?

What did it be?

Oh, I didn't see.

Let's see.

Now we need to know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

2000 or 2001.

2000, yeah.

Yeah.

It was 2000.

And I was the same.

I was shocked when I found out that it was best picture.

I was like, what the?

I'm like,

it was good.

But it's also like the Oscars.

It feels like to me, it's just like a big action movie.

Yeah, it's an action movie.

Oscars usually don't give out best picture to an action movie.

They should, though.

They should at least consider it.

Honestly.

Oh, I think I want the 2001 Oscars.

Oh.

Right.

And yeah, it's Ridley Scott, who I thought was

a famous, like, great director, but everything he makes isn't very good.

Like, he made

Alien and Blade Runner and Fellman and Louis.

But everything else is like...

Why made Gladiator?

He made Gladiator, but then he's made, in the last few years, he made that

the Gucci movie.

The Gucci movie was great.

Are you not entertained?

I was entertained.

The one with

where they replaced Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer.

Oh, yeah.

All the money in the world.

All the money in the world.

And he was like, yeah, no problem.

I'll just replace him with this actor.

Like, it'll take two weeks.

Yeah.

But after they'd shot the whole movie, I was like, that's not how you make a movie.

Well, I mean, I don't think you have a choice.

Like, it just, it, the whole that one felt very much like, well, you know, we didn't build sets anyway.

Just go.

We're going to have to go hard disagree on Ridley Scott is not a good director.

I think we're all going to say, yeah, does make, I feel like making those first four that you mentioned cancels out the bad ones.

Yeah, like I think those are

extra great.

Yeah.

So it beat out Chocola.

That's crazy.

So you're a team chocolate.

Sorry.

I think that's probably the least of the.

You've got to watch it again.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Oh, yes.

Yeah.

Aaron Borcovich.

Oh, Aaron Borkovich, okay.

And Traffic.

And didn't

Julia Roberts win for Best Actress?

Yes, she did.

Okay.

And Russell Crowe beat out Heavier Bardem for Before Nightfalls.

Didn't they?

Never heard of it.

Tom Hanks in Castaway.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, Tom Hanks deserved it because he, like, he did a whole body.

That's just another thing.

Like, Russell Crowe in Gladiator, I was like, he's not doing much.

Yeah.

Well, they say he won it because he was supposed to win it for the insider.

Oh, one of those.

Yeah.

And then Ed Harris and Pollock and Jeffrey Rush in Quills.

I've seen Pollock.

I like Pollock.

I've never seen Quills.

Is that Marquis de Saud?

Yeah.

Yeah.

He played the Marquis de Saud.

Okay.

Wow.

Okay.

So Gladiator

beat out some real contenders that year.

And he...

Well, now I just want to know what other movies

release coming in.

What's he been up to?

Okay.

Napoleon.

Yeah, I've never seen it.

House of Gucci.

Have you seen it?

No,

it doesn't appeal to me.

House of Gucci is so over the top that it's really, really good.

The Martian, The Martian's Good.

Martian's Good.

Exodus, Gods and Kings.

Don't know.

Prometheus, Robin Hood.

He does love his Russell Crowe.

Yeah, that was a bad Robin Hood movie.

Body of Lies.

Is that Russell Crowe?

Yeah, it is.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

American Gangster, that's Russell Crowe.

American Gangster, that was good.

It was good.

A Good Year, that's Russell Crowe.

Wow.

Okay, so this is Johnny Depp to his.

Kingdom of Heaven, that's

Orlando Bloom as a

Crusader.

Matchstick Men, that wasn't bad.

Yeah, I like Matchstick Men.

Black Down, people love Black Hawk Down.

Black Hawk Down Josh Hurtnett.

Yeah.

Hannibal's bad.

G.I.

Jane.

Oh, G.I.

Jane.

I watched that for the first time last year.

You know what?

It's pretty good.

It's pretty good.

Yeah.

And it was like the first of a, like, where she's a superstar and she shaves her head.

Yeah.

And then, you know, 20 years later,

Chris Rock brought it up and got slapped for it.

So

you should have kept slapping Ridley Scott.

That's on you, Ridd.

1492 Conquest of Paradise.

Black Rain,

Legend.

Yeah, he's fine.

He's fine.

I was too hard on

Ridd.

But like,

if it's okay, so one of the things about the sequel is it starts out with clips from the original.

Yeah.

Which, if you're someone who hasn't seen the original, or has only seen it once and was bored by it, then maybe that's helpful.

Yeah.

I mean, like, this sequel came out, it's like 24 years.

Yeah, I guess so.

Yeah.

So,

I mean, I guess

the first one ends pretty conclusively.

Yes.

Yeah.

Spoiler.

He dies.

He dies.

Boy, he walks in that tall grass on his way to Elysium.

He dies of Lyme disease because there's a tick in the grass.

Very disappointing death overall in the movie.

Yeah, he's like, oh, just malaise.

I'm just tired all the time.

And yeah, he kills Joaquin Phoenix.

Right.

And then, but then you see, so in this new movie, I don't think we're going to spoil anything.

Well, you know what?

Fair play.

Spoilers ahead.

Spoiler alert.

Spoilers ahead.

Zip ahead, you know, 10 or 15 minutes because we're going to lay out the whole movie.

We're going for it.

As I said, I don't think we're going to spoil it.

It's got Paul Mezcal, who's

sort of like a smoky tequila.

He's from something?

Is he something?

He's somebody

who's a horny Irish TV show.

Yeah.

Oh, normal people.

Normal people.

Normal people.

Okay.

This is somebody you knew before going into the film.

I knew, but I didn't watch it.

I've actually never seen anything else he's been in.

Me neither, but I know the internet, the women of the internet are so horny for this guy.

He's an internet boyfriend.

Yeah.

And he's he's hunky.

He's a hunk.

He looks like a

Roman bust.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's got strong, strong chin, strong,

just generally strong face.

Strong body.

He's strong.

He's a strong guy.

And I guess it's like the thing is, it kind of follows the same plot as Gladiator 1.

I would say pretty much exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They kind of...

Okay, well, so I went there.

You went to the same theater I did, I assume.

Last time you went to that theater, the pop machine wasn't working yeah the freestyle machine no the the they got old school uh they have to pour and it was oh and what and what and they said you said can i bring in my own drink yeah sally said can we just go get our own drinks and he was like yeah nobody cares anymore

so awesome yeah it was pretty awesome so i go this time it's a matinee performance

and

I get there.

Popcorn machine not working.

Oh, that's huge.

Yeah, you can't go to another place and get popcorn.

Get some smart food, maybe.

And so, the boom chicka, was that like

boom chicka pop?

Yeah.

Some vegan popcorn.

And they

no, give me the meat popcorn.

Yeah, just get what you could have done.

Give me monkey brain popcorn.

Boom chicka pop, and then brought it to the theater, like, load this up with butter.

Yeah, just hope is a butter machine still working?

Well, sure, sir.

We just give you a cup of butter if you like.

So I go, I order, and I say,

oh, I'm in line and they say, oh, the popcorn machine's not working.

And there's a guy fixing it.

So there's the hope that it'll be working.

They have

a person in a polo shirt from the popcorn company.

Wow.

Like an outsider is there with his tools to fix it.

And that, like the

previews with the popcorn guys, he must like, that's his whole thing, right?

The kernels.

Oh, sure.

He did come in during the previews and I saw a bulge in it.

Yeah, yeah.

He was panting in the back of the preview.

And so

I didn't get anything because I was like, you know what?

I'm just going to keep an eye out.

They'll be ready.

They're going to be 20 minutes of credits or of previews.

When the previews are done, the popcorn machine is going to be buzzing.

I'll go, I'll get my popcorn right as the movie's starting.

So I'm watching the previews.

I'm keeping an eye eye out to see other people entering the theater.

Are they carrying popcorn?

So you're preoccupied.

I'm preoccupied.

Oh, boy, am I.

No one's bringing in popcorn.

Oh, shit.

I had like a time.

I had like a one hour from when I sit down.

If there's no, this movie's two and a half hours long, plus 20 minutes of previews.

Yeah.

If I'm an hour in,

if, if,

no matter what, I'm getting something.

Yeah.

But I keep watching.

I,

you know it's every five minutes someone is getting up and going and then returning empty-handed yeah yeah and it's it is long like it's yeah usually I don't have to go to the bathroom in a during a movie but this was

and it was during a scene that

no information had transpired it was just a lot of oh what scene did you go was it during was it um

when i when i came back it was the beginning of the where there was water in the coliseum and that was cool that was cool that was cool okay so whatever was before that I missed no I missed Pedro Pascal and his wife talking about something which I think was a pretty good time to miss yeah uh anyway so no one coming in with popcorn an hour in I go out I still know popcorn and I just get Eminem pop there you go and I but Abby's gonna see the movie at 615 and I'm gonna have to warn her we we took chefs to the movie

and popcorn for her popcorn as I was leaving the theater oh no they should have given you a free bag everybody gets a free bag of popcorn on their way.

That's what caused this problem in the first place.

Anyway, so popcorn disaster.

Yeah, good lord.

When I went, popcorn fine.

Soda, fountain, fine.

Everything was fine.

Did you go somewhere with the pick your own pop?

Yes.

I didn't actually get anything, but I saw it in IMAX.

Oh, no.

Oh, shit.

So, like, on a grand screen.

A huge, huge screen.

Yeah.

Did it feel like

it didn't feel like I think Gladiator probably if you saw it on the big screen felt like quite epic.

Yeah.

This one just felt like like an X-Men movie would have been the same.

Well, it felt like when I saw the first one, it was, you know, CGI was not good yet.

Yeah.

And so there were like little bits of like, okay, that Coliseum looks like a screensaver.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But there's like a fight with tigers and they used real tigers and they kind of like, you know, they're not really in the same place as the the tigers but they did it really well and here they had they overloaded you on fights with cgi animals the the baboons were so poorly animated that i was like is this a dream it was a topic setting the baboon scene was so scary yeah because he fights a baboon and he intimidates it by acting like a baboon and he bites the baboon he fights the baboon like takes a bite out of the baboon yeah and then everybody's making fun of him for it after they're all like

well also the baboons are killing these guys they're killing yeah this guy bites a baboon the camera pans up there's like 20 other baboons there and they've all been defeated as well like no way everyone's bit a baboon

um

and i like there was i can't remember if it's that fight or the rhino fight but he like says like okay We'll do this.

Like, you take that side.

And the guy's like, what?

I got to listen to you.

And he dies pretty quick.

Well, in the first movie, he's a general.

and so there everyone listens to him because he knows how to fight like or organize battles or whatever right okay in this one he's just a guy

yeah who got captured it makes no sense um yeah and so like and then he's so they do this big battle this big fight in the coliseum which they've filled with salt water apparently somehow and sharks sharks yeah that how do they transport the sharks there from their shark tanks

i was was watching it, like, oh, did they actually do that?

They did actually fill the Coliseum with water and did those.

But not sharks.

Not sharks.

Oh,

as far as I know.

As far as I know, how do they make it probably

right?

You're probably right.

They have like aqueducts that go into it.

Oh, they had aqueducts.

But it was.

That's one of the things they do, like recreate famous naval battles.

Yeah, me.

Pretty cool.

Getting the lint out of my navel.

That's the biggest battle I've ever shot up.

And

yeah, so they do a shark one.

Hated it.

Also, before the shark fight, like he's training.

Gladiator is training.

Oh, he's training to row.

To row.

He doesn't do any rowing in the shark battle.

Yeah, and it was like a punishment for him to just like have to row all day and all night.

Gently down the stream.

No, on land.

He was on dry land.

Oh, yeah.

No stream.

And

much like the first movie, there's a couple of there's two fancy royalty.

There was just Walking Phoenix in the first one.

This one has two

freaky emperors and just

evil for evil's sake.

Yeah, and I, after the movie, I was I was convinced that it was like Lindsay Lohan,

you know, parent-trap style.

I thought it was the same actor.

Oh, but it wasn't.

It was two different actors.

Yeah, the one who, the shorter one, I recognized from White Lotus.

Oh, sure.

Oh.

The taller ones in Stranger Things.

Okay.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

I thought they were the same guy.

And so it shows you how close I was.

And then so they're the bad guys.

And then Denzel,

Denzel, oh, he's actually the bad guy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And he has the best line of the whole movie, which I don't know if you're not.

King Kong ain't got nothing on me.

No, he goes, that's politics.

He is really good.

I laughed so hard.

And also,

when the one of the twin emperors is talking about how he remembers his brother trying to eat him in the womb

and he and Denzel goes, you remember that, do you?

I just died.

It was Denzel Washington's movie.

He is so good.

He's so good and he's so over the top.

Like it, I, I,

it, you know, it was fine.

It was, it was not, it's not going to win Best Picture.

But it should have just, the whole movie should have been about Denzel Washington's character.

He was great.

Yeah.

And

Pedro Pascal is Zaddy.

Yeah.

And

originally he's the bad guy, but then he kind of turns into a bit of a good guy.

But he's a bad guy.

Yeah.

And he

gets bow and arrow today.

But that's true.

They couldn't have Gladiator kill him because they kind of become buds at the end there.

Right.

Right.

He's not going to kill him.

And the guy, though, sorry, the woman who plays

his wife, who was the love interest of Gladiator 1

and the sister of Joaquin Phoenix.

I haven't seen her

since the first movie.

Yeah, I don't know who she is, but I was also like, when they first showed her shooing away the child or whatever,

Sally turned to me and was like, he's the guy.

He turns into the guy that's the Gladiator guy.

And it was like, we don't need it.

I don't know why that was

made no sense.

And it was like, why?

Okay, so are we spoiling it now?

Oh, we've been spoiling.

I know, but like, who the identity of this gladiator boy?

He's he's

connected to the first film, let's say.

Right.

I mean, just fast forward a minute, if you don't want us to spoil it, he's the boy from the first movie.

Yeah.

Who's the worst part of the first movie?

Are you the boy they call the Spaniard?

He is such a wimpy little boy.

And it's like, but like, we know the connection between Gladiator and this movie.

Gladiators.

Yeah.

Like, I didn't, I don't know.

And there's a lot.

There's a dream that is Rome.

And Marcus Really has had a dream.

It was Rome.

Yeah.

And there was there was enough stuff that I didn't recall from the first one that I was like, I don't know if they're doubling up on this, but.

I had just watched the first one the previous night.

So I was like, did I miss something?

something?

But because I was like, there, I didn't feel like Russell Crowe and that girl really had much together.

Also, apparently, he maybe is the father of this boy.

Yeah, and then I'm like, well, he had his own son who died.

So did he cheat on his wife?

Who he

was?

Oh, yeah.

And his wife moaned, as they say in the first movie, when the soldiers came and ransacked their house.

She moaned like a sex worker.

They say it in the movie.

That was a movie that came out in 2000, all right?

That was a long time ago.

Oh, yeah, they're calling Russell Crowe the Spaniard.

Yep.

Oh, huh.

Also, they find his old armor from Gladiator 1 with his two

lions or something.

No, they're horses.

Other horses.

Scarto and Argento.

But they don't have, like, and so Gladiator wears this famous armor, but not the famous helmet.

No, he doesn't wear the helmet.

And also,

it didn't fit him all that well.

I found it because it kind of was kind of pushing up on him.

I was like, did they use the original prop thing of this and just made him squeeze it?

Did they go to Hard Rock Cafe and take it off the wall?

But yeah, it's

once that plotline came up, I was like, What the hell?

Like, it's oh, so I do care about this.

Yeah, oh, yeah, no, yeah, I've I've got this is the emotional core of the film.

Um, and, you know, he's a good gladiator.

He's one of the best that they've ever seen.

Probably not as good as

Simmons.

Yeah.

Husband to a murdered wife, father to a murdered child, son.

And then, like, I didn't remember the whatever, Wheatfield thing.

And that's the last thing they show.

And I'm like, what?

Wasn't that a callback to another movie?

Yeah.

Well, no, that movie.

Gladiator.

Yeah, but it's like...

It's all callbacks.

It's a gladiator.

But, like, that was the last thing of the film.

I was like, oh, is that...

That wasn't part of this movie.

It was part of the other.

When you die, you go to Elysian.

You go to Wheatum and you go through the Elysian fields and you rub your hand on the wheat and

a woman sings.

Yeah, okay.

But he doesn't die at the end.

So why is he in Elysium?

Does he not?

No.

I forget how it is.

He's like, we're going to build a new room.

Oh, yeah.

There was a dream that was Rome.

Yeah.

So why did he at the end, why was he dead and going through Wheat Field?

It feels like they didn't write an ending.

They're like, let's just use the shot from the last.

As spoilery as we are, I don't know that I even know the ending of this movie I just saw.

I don't know if I am capable of spoiling the movie.

The one thing that I really glommed onto was that Denzel Washington was most definitely not riding that horse because you only saw them from far away.

And then when he's like supposed to be on the horse, he's sitting there and the horse's head comes into the frame.

But at no point do you see him sitting on a horse.

So I wonder if his contract, like, I can't ride a horse, I won't ride a horse.

But you lied on my resume.

Yeah.

Do you think like Denzel Washington or like any giant star keeps up their resume of like special skills?

I can juggle.

Yeah, I can speed, play the guitar,

speak French.

Have you ever done any acting?

Yeah, I went to acting school.

Nice.

Yes.

Did you have a resume of special skills?

Yeah,

I still sort of do.

For a while, I had all my special skills billiards.

Okay, well, okay.

Which it's not like actually, I'm not good at it, but I'm like, I can fake that.

Yeah.

Yeah, like you're confident enough to hold the thing.

I know how to hold it.

Yeah, and then cut away.

I don't need to use that little helper stick.

Yeah, the ladies' aid.

Exactly.

Man, I love that helper stick.

I'll use it for every shot of it.

That is, I mean, fuck the patriarchy for you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it's, it's, to me, it's an essential part of the whole game.

You know, like, I don't want to be leaning over all the place, you know, like it's

blue chalks in there.

Yeah, you get chalk on your shirt.

Yeah.

That is a funny one, though, to put on your shirt.

Like, not billionaires, like, not in brackets, trick shots.

Yeah, no.

But, like, I also wondered,

do you have to write every shirt?

Beginner.

Yeah, I have my

certification.

Yeah.

But do you have to write every possible thing you know how to do?

Like,

you can't hold breath.

One minute underwater.

Yeah, I think you do.

They try and say that.

Like, yeah, agents are like, you never know what will come up in a breakdown.

And it's like, okay, I guess.

Yeah.

Yeah, I had a friend who many, many years ago played a jockey on some TV show that I think.

Was it?

Was it a horse show that had Mickey Rooney on it?

Oh, yeah.

Black Beauty?

Black Beauty, maybe?

It was in the 90s.

Yeah.

He said that he could ride a horse to play this jockey and he'd never been on a horse before.

And when they put him on the horse right away, Mickey Room's like, this guy doesn't ride on a horse.

Like, I think you just assume once I'm up there, I'll be able to

be able to control this guy, no problem.

Yeah, I honestly don't know.

Like, I couldn't begin to tell you what the skill set is to ride a horse.

Like, I wouldn't know how to fake it.

Well, getting on it seems to be the big first off at school.

I think they put you on a crane and they lower you onto the horse.

But like,

yeah,

I never acted.

I never had to have any special skills.

Well, that's the thing.

Like, when I watch an actor in a movie like this or whatever, I'm like, oh, see, these actors can ride a horse.

They know how to fight.

They've been taught how to fight.

They know how to like...

be muscly.

Like, oh, actors are nothing to fuck with.

I wouldn't, you know, I wouldn't go up against a Christian Bale.

Are you kidding me?

I mean, it depends on the role.

Well, I'd be playing Batman, so he'd be playing the guy from the big shorts.

Oh, sure.

That guy's in pretty good shape.

He's in pretty good shape.

He swims.

I may go up against him on if he's the skinny guy from the skinny movie.

The mechanic.

Yeah.

I don't think it's called the mechanic.

It is.

No.

The mechanist.

The machinist.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

He lost more weight than they asked him to do.

He like went all the way down to like under 100 pounds.

Oh, God.

And then he

think he looks great.

He looks great.

And then for

Batman, he gained all this weight back, but he gained too much weight.

Like too much muscle.

He was too huge for the suit.

And they were like, oh, no, you got to.

So in the movie, he's kind of like a bear.

Like they've slimmed him down as much as they could.

He goes all over the place.

He ping pongs.

He does the...

He's Dick Cheney.

He's in the big belly.

That's right.

Yeah.

He won't wear padding.

He's all authentic all the time.

Yeah.

It's yo-yo dieting, though.

It's no good.

It's no good.

It can be good for you.

Yeah.

Pink used to do it.

She used to yo-yo diet.

I remember watching Oprah and they were talking about Pink and her yo-yo dieting.

Oprah used to do it.

Oh, yeah.

She was, yeah.

She was.

She's mad.

She's then picking

style.

That's, yeah.

SNL.

SNL with the show where Seinfeld's hosting.

I just had an out-of-body experience talking about that.

So out of

10,

what is your rating on Gladiator 2?

Oh,

Gladiator 2, I'd give it a

I'd maybe give it a seven.

I would give it, I think, a six and a half.

Yeah.

What did I give it?

It was fun to make fun of after the movie.

with Sally.

On the walk home, it was fun to like.

And then this line, remember when you said this, but politics was...

We both like burst out laughing.

Oh, yeah.

Okay, so I have already rated this in my letterbox.

Oh, okay.

Give her out of five, I give it two.

Oh, okay.

But should I raise it?

No.

I can give it two and a half.

Do what you feel.

It's

your opinion.

Yeah.

Also, like, I am.

I'm really hard on movies.

I will have to watch a movie.

If I start a movie, I do have to finish it at some point.

And I started a a movie last night, I don't want to watch the second half of it because I know it's going to happen.

Is it spooky?

No, it's uh Sidney Sweeney, uh, romantic comedy.

Oh, anyone but you, anyone but you, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Um, but like you know, where it's going, they're gonna fall in love.

But uh, yeah, but that's

that's why you're there.

That's why you knew that before you started.

No, I thought it was an action film.

Um,

but you know, uh, uh, the guy in it is uh, he's like a stereotypical movie star.

He's got a strong jaw.

Who's he?

Glenn Powell.

Is that Glenn Powell?

Yeah.

Maverick.

Yeah, yeah.

I know him.

And Twisters.

Oh, did you see Twisters?

Yeah.

Was it good?

It's a lot of fun.

Yeah.

It's like, it's bad, but I had so much fun watching it.

Yeah.

You saw it in the theater.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I saw him in Hitman, and I hated that.

What was Hitman?

I don't like Hitman.

Hitman was, he was a, it's also a romantic comedy, but it's supposed to like makes you think it's actually going to be a

like a action movie yeah fall guy or like uh miscongeniality

and he's uh tricking people into hiring hitmen oh okay or like if someone hires a hitman he he like works for the cops cops yeah oh okay he's a cop he's a cop and who does he fall in love with A woman who wants to kill her husband.

It's a very weird

Richard Link later and him wrote it.

Yeah.

Really?

Yeah.

No, I talked about this, and all the reviews were like

seven out of ten.

This movie sucked.

Like,

it would be like people would give very favorable number ratings and then be like, this makes no sense.

I'm really easy on movies.

I have Letterbox, but I can't bring myself to give star ratings.

I'm always like, I don't know.

Yeah, it was fine.

Do you?

I use the heart or no heart.

Oh, okay.

Did I like it or did I not like it?

Yeah.

And that's why I have such a sliding scale with it.

I'm like, well, I guess this was a good day.

And I, yeah.

Yeah, that's the thing.

It's like, it really depends.

Yeah, I don't do it because I think I maybe punished the movie for the lack of popcorn.

You were in a bad mood, yeah.

There should be a subcategory of like why you were in a bad mood.

Like, to be fair,

if I knew why I was in a bad mood, I would be like a completely different person.

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Sure.

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Overheard.

Overheard's a segment of the show where we dedicate ourselves 24-7 to overhearing things and then we come back here to report on what we found.

And we always like to start with the guest.

Gina, do you have an overheard?

Yes.

It's a overseen slash overheard.

So I'll allow it.

Thank you.

I was walking walking in the west end and i saw a squirrel a black squirrel and it had a white stripe down the middle of it oh

that was pretty cool and then

it's like heve lepe

yeah but then i heard um a girl say to her mom mom mom it's the squunk

oh So maybe they see it a lot.

I don't know.

They have a name for it.

It's the squunk.

Mom, mom, do the squunk.

Uh, is that a term?

No, but I had never heard it before.

Maybe they're locals and they

because my

nephew, my uh, Sally, and my nephew were looking, and she was pointing out squirrels, and he said, It's a squonk.

And she's like, No, it's a squirrel.

And he said, They're also called squonks.

And I thought that was something he had just made up.

But maybe squonks is what?

Maybe that's why would you spell it?

Because squonk,

oh, it would be two U's.

It would be a double U.

S-Q-U-U-N-K.

U-N-K.

That doesn't seem right.

Yeah.

I don't like that.

But yes, apparently squunks is out there.

I guess they're breeding out there.

A squonk.

Yeah, so I guess that's a skunk.

A skunk squirrel.

A skunk squirrel.

But

there's tons of squirrels around here,

but I don't recognize.

Like, I wouldn't know.

Oh, there's that.

There's...

Jeff again.

Like, they all look alike.

But if there was one that had a bit of white on its tail, famous.

It would be

the one.

Local.

Local.

Celebrity.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Dave, you haven't overheard?

Yeah.

This was an ad on the side of the bus.

So Vancouver has a cool jazz station.

Okay.

What is it called?

Mellow FM or something like that?

Wave 98.3.

Okay.

It sounds nice.

And this huge bus ad on the side of this bus says,

don't pay for sacks.

Wave 98.3.

Like, does that mean like they're giving away sex for free?

I mean, they're, it's a, think a play on the popular phrase, don't pay for sex.

We all say that phrase.

I say it every day to myself when I look in the mirror.

Don't, of all the sex double entendres you could have, it's pretty weak.

Yeah.

Yeah, wow.

Well,

be a sex worker, something like that.

Yeah.

Also, like, you should pay struggling musicians.

You should pay for sax.

You should pay for sacks.

Yeah, yeah.

That's a good point.

No, I get it for free on the radio.

Don't pay for sax.

No, no, no.

I uh don't get it on the radio.

I mean, don't have whatever.

Unprotected sacks.

Yes, yeah.

Like, what could they unprotected sacks would be

as decent?

Uh, get your sax education.

The classic sax and violence is uh

um

yeah, I think those are all the bigs.

Can you think of any other?

No.

I mean, if they had someone

with a

saxophone, a picture of a guy holding a saxophone up to his butt, I think it'd be the anal sax.

Anal sax.

There you go.

Like he's playing it with his.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

And it's like, butt cheeks are blowing up like he's a pig.

Like it's Louis Armstrong.

Like it's Louis Armstrong.

Famous saxophone is Louis Armstrong.

My overhead is an overseeing.

That's in the spirit of two episodes ago when we're talking to Colin Sharp.

I found an ad on Facebook Marketplace that was for a prank business for sale for $7,000.

The prank wasn't that the business for sale.

Yeah, yeah.

It was a business that makes a prank.

That makes a prank.

And the business is for sale.

So it was $7,000 for something called a pee-puck, which you put in the tank of the toilet.

And so it always looks like somebody didn't flush.

Oh.

Which isn't the greatest.

We all kind of agreed, it wasn't the greatest prank because it would be like, flush.

Oh, well, I guess the toilet's broken.

Away I go.

That's not my problem.

Yeah.

But he was selling the business.

So whatever inventory he had, he was selling.

He was selling the website and the exclusive rights to be, I guess, a P-puck

salesperson.

And

you know what?

I'm on Facebook Marketplace every day.

I want to see what's being given away, what's a steal.

I don't don't you never followed up with this with this Peepuck?

No, I never followed because I feel like he would keep harassing me like, okay, $5,000.

Just keep lowering his price.

At that time, I tried to buy AshtonKusher.com and they kept emailing me.

Oh, yeah.

This is true.

Ashton Kusher.com.

I just inquired, like, how much is it going to cost?

And they kept coming down on price years after I originally emailed them.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, because it's not, it used to be like essential to have.

Kudron call.

Yeah.

I wonder if it's just being parked on now or if there's a

if there's as he developed where we want to go.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What's going on?

Ashton K.

Ashkutch.

Because what would have been on his website back then?

Hi, Ashton.

I'd like the chance to pitch you on our new disruptive consumer startup.

Let me know if we can set up a call.

Regards, Mark.

So this isn't weird.

This is someone who wants, who's bought it to get his attention.

To get his attention.

Oh, that's what a ploy.

Yeah.

Huh.

That's actually like, I mean, it only has to work once.

Well, that was the plan I think I had.

I think it was, I was trying to come up, it was for some other project where it was like Ashton Kutcher has invested in Uber.

And he's got all these tech, he's in so much tech stuff.

But you know what he doesn't own?

AshtonKutcher.com.

Yeah, yeah.

My friend, I don't think he's ever been on the show, Josh Lowen.

Was he on a guest on the show?

Long time ago.

Yeah, he is like a web developer guy, and he bought WrestleMania.ca

because

WD doesn't own it.

So he had it, and it's now in my Twitter profile.

If you click on it, it just goes back to my Twitter profile.

So that's what if you check out WrestleMania.ca.

Goes back to your Twitter profile?

If you click on it.

And he bought it?

Yeah, he bought it.

And for cheap.

Like, he didn't have to buy it off anybody.

And he gave it.

He chose you?

Yeah.

I was the chosen one.

Yes.

But I found another business for sale.

And this one's for $2,000.

Okay.

With the side note, must-be-gone ASAP.

I think that price is coming down.

So it says

they're selling.

It's an inflatable pub.

It's an inflatable pub.

Which is good because I hurt myself at the pub a lot.

Let's see if I can find, because there's a picture of it.

Okay.

So this is what it looks like on the outside.

It says the pub, and it's like

a little human type.

Like a kid thing.

Okay.

It's not a bouncy castle.

What is it?

Is the ground bouncy?

I don't think so.

I think it's to set up at like a party.

And that you go into the...

But this isn't a business for sale.

So it's like a tent.

It is basically a tent.

But it says we're selling our pub it's inflatable and can be rented out for 700 plus so to whom

you can make up any number

to swifties on their way to rent an airbnb

selling it for such a low price because we need to have it gone as if

and there's a little bit of sun damage to the exterior of one side it's mostly to the tarp but we haven't blown it up to take a look and aren't able to do so so they they haven't even been able to check buyer beware Yeah.

First come, first serve, pick up only.

Do they have it?

And I

like, we haven't been able to blow it up.

Why not?

Yeah, exactly.

Are you selling me the inflator?

Well, you get it, it comes with the pub, a tarp, tables, a pump, and rental form/slash website domain if you'd like it.

Oh, so you know,

a business, $2,000.

I feel like you could probably sweep in there and get it for, you know, $1,200.

I think.

I could rent it for $700.

That's right.

I I only need it for the one thing.

Yeah.

I mean, I get like it's kind of a fun, kind of kitschy thing to have at a backyard party or something.

I don't know what kind of

because it's for kids, but it's not.

It's a pub.

It's a pub.

It's a pub.

Yeah.

And it's adult-sized.

It's adult-sized.

How many tables can you fit in there?

That's a very good question.

They do not give any of the dimensions.

Also,

it's like a backyard thing.

Yeah.

It feels like a summertime.

Like a summertime.

I mean.

But like, so you wouldn't want to buy it now.

But also in the summer, you know, it's nice being outside, drinking my pub beer outdoors.

But, you know, according to this, you only have to rent out three times and you've made your money back.

That's true.

Except for storage fees.

I'm paying

out the water.

You're going to need a whole basement to keep this thing in.

Oh, yeah.

And, you know, we haven't blown it up, so we don't.

We're not sure if it can or whatever.

Rats have chewed through of it.

But yeah, so that's what's happening on Facebook Marketplace.

Somebody else selling a biz.

You can get the website and the tar.

I don't know how you would transport it.

You probably need some sort of truck or something.

Honestly, I think it's better than the P-Puck biz.

I think it's a step up for sure.

Yeah.

It's interesting.

It's interesting.

Yeah.

And it's cheaper.

Yeah.

And

I can get some rental forms.

And you know what?

You could probably write it off.

It's something it would be taxable income, you could write it off.

Peepac,

you can't be writing off peep.

Yeah, sure.

You know,

I pranked a bunch of people this year.

I pranked my clients.

Spent $7,000 pranking my clients.

And now we also have overheard sent in from people.

My entire prank business I came up with is worth one quarter of a set of Taylor Swift tickets.

Two grand.

You know,

I could save up two grand.

I could scare up two grand to start a pub inflatable pub business.

All right.

And I'm looking for investors.

Dragons.

Dragons.

We'll do this every time.

And for that reason, I'm out.

Yes, exactly.

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

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

And

this one is from Karen from California.

Karen.

Oh, boy.

Here we go.

Thank you.

This is an overheard from Home Depot, and the loudspeaker came on to announce the following.

Attention to whoever drove here with three dogs in their car.

The dogs are outside of the car, and they are attacking the customers.

Oh, no.

I mean, that's an important announcement for sure.

Why do I feel like I've heard that before?

I don't know.

Maybe the song Who Let the Dogs Out or something?

Oh, yeah, I probably think of the song Who Let the Dogs Out by the Baja Men.

Baja Men.

Yeah, I feel like you get a lot of that type of announcement.

Not dogs escaping, but on the ferry.

You get a lot of

your alarms going off.

But yeah, I haven't heard dogs escaping and

attacking people.

Yeah, well, when you leave a dog in the car, you're supposed to crack a window, but maybe they cracked it too much and the dogs got out.

Yeah, or you know, the dog could figure out how to get his paw out the door and unlock it from the outside.

Yeah, that's probably the smart way to do it.

It's funny the dogs stayed and attacked instead of just running away like crazy because I feel like that's also an option for dogs.

I mean, my dogs are

they just want to kill whatever's on the other side of glass.

Attack dogs.

Yeah, so that's, I can, I, I can empathize with these dogs.

Um,

this next one comes from JP from Hamilton, Ontario.

This was from my 11-year-old.

His French tutor is going on a cruise soon.

And I asked him if he knew where she was going to.

And he said, I don't know, the ocean, I guess.

That's an answer where, like, you can tell a kid didn't look up from his Nintendo Switch.

Yeah, and it's just like.

It's just not a thing that a kid would follow up on.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I said, I'm going to crisp.

Say out of the crab for him.

Say out of Sebastian for him.

And this last one comes from Jessalyn from Santa Cruz, California.

I'm currently teaching seventh grade, and I broke my foot, so I'm on crutches.

I was sitting in front of the class.

One crutch was propped up against the wall, and one had already fallen over.

While I was teaching, the second crutch fell over and a seventh-grade boy said, And there goes the second tower.

Whoa,

a seventh grader.

I mean, they have no context.

They don't know that it was a day that will live in infamy.

That's right.

It's just a reference, just a movie reference for them.

It's like the way we made fun of

Pearl Harbor every day growing up.

Yeah, I guess like

kids have to learn about 9-11 in school.

Yeah.

No, they learn about it in memes.

Right.

Which is basically school in the streets, right?

School hard and all that.

Honestly, if only our tax dollars could go towards memes.

I'd invest.

Yeah.

I think they should raise it.

I sound a business online that I think you guys are going to like.

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

If you want to call us, our phone number is 1-844-779-7631.

That's one.

Ugh.

Spy pod.

One.

Like these people have.

Hey, this is AL from Portland.

I'm calling in with an

overheard.

I saw some teens,

and one of them said to the other teen,

oh, I just love this brand, Nirvana.

And the other one, and then the other team goes, that's not a brand.

And then the first team says, yeah, it is.

is oh this is really bad anyway

oh my god

check it out the last second did you hear what he ended with though yeah this is really bad no uh is oh this is really bad anyway

they are a brand i mean it's like a lot of kids wear nirvana see them on their on their shirts at zara yeah exactly

yeah um my favorite of that uh type of brand is a picture of Hansen, and it says Nirvana underneath.

Oh, I've seen that.

Yeah.

Because it's the fact that a kid would have to know both of those.

What is the, like, you can now get any kind of,

I guess the style would be like a

hip-hop shirt, like, that would have an artist's name and their face like three times, but now you can do that with, like,

I don't know, friggin' gladiator on it.

Yeah, on Etsy, you can get like any

person.

Like, it's a, I guess a.

I don't know.

Is it a, I don't know what I would call that style of shirt, but it's like, maybe it's even like a

gangster shirt.

Like, you would get like, you know, five faces of Tony Soprano.

Yeah.

I don't know.

That sounded weird coming out of it.

But personally, I like it when somebody draws all the different jokers hanging out together.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

That's the good stuff.

I think they'd get along.

huh?

All the different jokers?

Yeah.

I mean, you know, I'm definitely seeing Jack Nicholson hanging out with

Cesar Romero.

Yeah, Cesar Romero.

They're kind of both silly guys.

They're both silly guys.

They're all silly guys.

I don't know if anybody'd be friends with the Heath Ledger version.

Yeah, he seems like he might even scare them.

Scare the other jokers.

I don't.

I mean, the Jarrett Leto is the scariest.

Yeah, scariest and

best thought-out.

sure.

Um, and on set, he didn't even like send dead mice to people.

He sent a rat to Mario Roby, and she still has it.

It's a pet.

Oh, a live rat!

Live rat.

Oh, okay.

Whoa.

Um, yeah, it's uh, Jared Lotto's cool.

If you have never seen uh House of Gucci, he makes the most hilarious acting choice in the world.

Yeah, he says boof a lot.

Yes, he does,

but it's just like uh, it's like Super Mario accent.

It's the best.

Hey, Dave Graham and Probable Guest.

This is Cormac out of Philadelphia with an overscene.

In Philly and one of our parks, there's like the portal thing, which is basically like

a live stream to another country.

Do you remember this?

There was one lady in New York.

A lady flashed Ireland and they had to close the whole project then.

And then I think she did it in Philadelphia as well.

Really went around on a tour.

We can't let her win.

And in the other country, they also have the live stream so we can like wave and then say hello.

And it's cool.

It's like you like it's like going to different countries.

There's like

there's Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, and then space for some reason.

Space.

But we got to Poland and there was two kids sitting on a bench.

And once it came to us, they immediately got up and like went under the camera.

And like one kid raised his phone to it, but like he took it down too quickly for it to like focus.

And then the phone came back up and it was a picture of 9-11.

And then later they did it again.

And there's like this old woman that came up to them.

And like, you could tell from body language, she was like, oh, what is that?

And like, they showed her the picture of 9-11.

And instead of like scolding them, she goes, oh,

so funny.

I was like, oh,

you kids.

Oh, my God.

You got Philadelphia.

Oh, sweet.

Oh, man.

You got him so good.

I get it.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

I love that old lady.

That was

a kid's met that.

We had a couple of 9-11 kids.

We're the 9-11 kids.

Do the 9-11.

Donate today to the 9-11 kids.

Okay, and here's your final phone call.

Hi, Dave Graham and probable guest.

This is Amanda in Washington State in Vancouver.

And I haven't overheard.

I was at Costco picking up pizza for dinner yesterday.

And as I was waiting, there were two teens,

teen boys at the kiosk.

And they were putting in their order.

And I heard one go, man, I really want the the chocolate sundae.

I had that for lunch today.

And I also want the chicken bake, but I had it for breakfast.

And Teen Boy 2 goes, wait, dude, you were here for breakfast and lunch.

And the first teen boy goes, yeah, man, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

It's the only way to Costco.

Anyway, off I go.

Yeah.

Wow.

What a legend.

And like, you used to be able to eat like that, you know?

Like, you could eat two Sundays a day when you're a teen.

Oh, and that you eat.

And that wouldn't shut you down, Sure.

Like, I feel after a Sunday, like, that's the night's ruined.

Yeah, I get the Sunday scaries.

So, you have a benefit split Sunday?

It's the only way to fight it.

Yeah, that's true.

But, yeah.

The chicken bake is a thing they have at Subway that I've never heard of until these two Subway...

It's not Subway, Costco.

Costco.

The Chicken Bake is something they have at Costco that I'd never heard of until the two Costco guys, AJ and Big Justice.

Are these cousins of the Rizzler?

These, they're not related to Rizzler, but the Rizzler's in the videos.

You know the Rizzler?

Vaguely.

Yeah, little kid, chubby little kid.

Yes.

Likes eating fast food.

And there's a father and son, and the father likes the

double chunk chocolate cookie from Costco, whereas the kid likes the chicken bake.

And I cannot make out what the chicken bake is.

It's a looks like

a giant kind of McDonald's apple pie.

But

it's chicken.

I don't know where.

Is it coated in

where's the chicken?

It's a brown log that he's eating.

Chicken bake.

And everyone agrees that the cookie's better than the chicken bake.

Not the Rizzler.

Rizzler chicken bake.

Yeah, the Rizzer

gives everything five booms.

Does he?

Yeah.

I told you that the UFC Match.

He was one of the guys they cut to as like celebrities in the crowd.

Oh, my god.

Yeah.

And he was he was sitting by himself.

Like, so this wasn't a family outing.

This was just the Rizzler on his own.

I have a friend who always sends me videos of these two.

And you know, when you send someone an Instagram video, the person just hearts it or whatever.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This guy sends me these videos, writes a paragraph.

I feel so much responsibility to like be like, yeah, wow.

But I don't want, I do.

That's not the.

He doesn't realize that this is not how I'd use Instagram.

I'm not going to give you a good response.

And if you're listening, you know who you are.

Knock it on.

Well, that brings us to the end of the podcast.

Gina, thank you so much for being our guest.

Thanks for having me.

Your ring announcer for Boom Pro Wrestling happens once a month, same day every month.

Usually the last Friday or Saturday of the month.

Okay, so this is yours.

This is, yeah, I'm going there tonight.

And the recording is on Black Friday.

Check your emails for any discounts.

Yeah,

I'll tell the story another time.

But thank you so much for being our guest.

And thank you, everybody out there, for listening.

You know, if you got a little scratch in a little time, you can do a lot worse than Gladiator 2.

6.5

out of 10, not too shabby.

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