Episode 872 - D.J. Demers

Speaker 1 Hi, he's Dave Shumka. And he's Graham Clark.
And together we host Stop Podcasting Yourself. Woo!

Speaker 1 Hello, everybody, and welcome to episode number 872 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark.
And with me, as always, is a man who I haven't seen for two whole calendar weeks, Mr.

Speaker 1 Dave Schumka. Yeah, it's been two whole calendar weeks.

Speaker 1 It's, I mean, we'll get into why, but yeah, yeah, yeah. The whys and how's it good to see you, my man.
Yeah, back at you, bro. You got a haircut a week ago.
This is my first time seeing it.

Speaker 1 Looks really good. Guys, it's so good to get a haircut.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Makes you feel like a new man. This is a, we're recording in a very chaotic time in my life.

Speaker 1 Oh yeah, Dave's the whole world around Dave's house is insanity. Yeah, there's the sidewalks being dug up.
We've got workers here. We've got

Speaker 1 the city workers are digging up the sidewalk. I foolishly was like, come and use the bathroom anytime you need.

Speaker 1 Oh really? So they're doing Coke.

Speaker 1 They're clogging up the toilet. They're doing so much coke.

Speaker 1 Chunks of Coke. And they, no, that's not part of it.
And the kids informed me yesterday that they have the day off today.

Speaker 1 And I did not know this.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And then your dogs are insane.
The dogs are insane. The workman, the guy is servicing the furnace.
See, that's sometimes supposed.

Speaker 1 And he's very, very nice. And he's like.
Is he allowed to use the bathroom? Yeah. And he knows, he likes dogs.
And so I'm like, I can put the dogs away. And he's like, no, no, they're great.
But

Speaker 1 they need to be put away

Speaker 1 they're like crawling on him as he's trying to get into the get the fireplace and stuff oh man anyway we're we're getting through it this is um you know the eye of the storm here um it's a blessing to have so much chaos in one's day

Speaker 1 um our guest today returning guests to the podcast uh you can see his uh entire First season of his television show on YouTube called,

Speaker 1 I can't remember what it was called One More Time. One more time.
I was going going to say second time. That's not right.
One more time. Playing against sports.

Speaker 1 It's DJ Demerus. Hello, DJ.
I'm good. Thanks for having me, guys.
Hey, man.

Speaker 1 It's great to have you back.

Speaker 1 We had you in January of this year, so we're bookending the whole year. Oh, nice.
Yeah. Yeah.
So, like, what was happening for DJ at the beginning of the year?

Speaker 1 What is, you know, what happened in the middle? Yeah, this is going to be a real reckoning. for you personally.

Speaker 1 This is really great, too, because last year, when I was on last time, I remember it was pure excitement because I had just made a television show that was coming out, and and I was like, who knows what the future holds?

Speaker 1 And now I'm back here and the show is canceled after one season. I'm like, oh, that's what the future holds.

Speaker 1 How,

Speaker 1 boy, when you, well, let's get to know us.

Speaker 1 Get to know us.

Speaker 1 Okay, DJ, the show is called.

Speaker 1 One more time.

Speaker 1 No more time. A name that has been etched on our brain.

Speaker 1 And it was about a guy who runs a used sports store yep and you were like back then you were imagining your future you were like okay you you know how like uh

Speaker 1 um george went for the rest of his life because he played norm on cheers anytime he goes into a bar people yell norm and he gets drinks as many free beers as he wants yeah and you were like i'm gonna be that but for used sporting equipment free shin guards for the rest of my life elbow pad come on they're on the house bud your money's no good here

Speaker 1 as many as you can carry out of the store they're all free gotta pay for the jock strap though can't do it can't do it do they sell used jock straps uh i mean that was an exact joke from our uh show that oh yeah but uh i they i doubt they do um

Speaker 1 but uh you know like huge congratulations that you got a show and you got a whole season done and like that puts you in a very kind of a small echelon of people there's lots of people who work for years and years to get a show in the air, and they never do.

Speaker 1 Well, he worked for years and years as well.

Speaker 1 But then he did it, though. He made it happen.
Yeah, thank you. I mean, yeah.

Speaker 1 It was an amazing experience. I learned a lot.
I had the time of my life. Like, I just, I loved every second of it.
So, sucked that it was canceled. I was bummed out.
But,

Speaker 1 you know, to be Zen about it. I

Speaker 1 wouldn't trade it in for the world. Maybe that was too Zen.
That's too Zen. Yeah.
You know what, though? I wouldn't trade it in for the world. I'm sticking by that.
Yeah? Yeah. I mean, it was amazing.

Speaker 1 Like, obviously, the ending was disappointing, but the actual experience, I loved everybody we worked with, the writer's room, the cast, everything. So, yeah, it was pretty incredible.

Speaker 1 When you get a show, like, you always hear a show is canceled. Like, but is there like a formal

Speaker 1 phone call or letter you get?

Speaker 1 You just got a CBZ contractor. You dear showrunner, man.
I would have killed for for that. That was the disheartening part of it.
CBC had no contact at all. I found out through the

Speaker 1 production company I worked with that we weren't getting another season. But I was like,

Speaker 1 you know, a phone call would have been nice. I had the same thing working on this hour 22 minutes.
I was on it for a season as a correspondent.

Speaker 1 And then they just weren't going to tell me that they were bringing me back.

Speaker 1 It was one of the writers in the writer's room that called us and was like, they're not going to bother contacting you, but you're not coming back next year.

Speaker 1 I was like, well, why wouldn't they contact us? Were they just hoping we'd just not

Speaker 1 show up?

Speaker 1 I actually was in contact with them. They hoped you died.
Well, what? Yeah. Well, that would have been easiest for everybody, really.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't know why they don't do that because I've heard stuff like that on 22 as well.

Speaker 1 I'm not sure why.

Speaker 1 The Canadian television industry in shambles. We are naming names.

Speaker 1 Well, yeah, but it's like it is that exact same thing. Like there was a show, I think we talked about it not that long ago, a show called Sunnyside.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And it won a Canadian Screen Award, and the next day it was canceled. So it's

Speaker 1 the Canadian television industry, right?

Speaker 1 I was just at the Canadian Screen Awards this year, and a bunch of the shows that won were also canceled. And we're nominated for next year.

Speaker 1 So we might, knock on wood, not that it means anything, but we might win and we'll be another canceled show that during that long list.

Speaker 1 Over

Speaker 1 It's very interesting. Yeah, you're right.
Canadian television, obviously, American television has its own kind of issues and everything, too.

Speaker 1 But yeah, the Canadian television thing feels really interesting, too, because you're like,

Speaker 1 well, we were talking about it before we went on, but like CBC, for example,

Speaker 1 my show isn't necessarily going to hit the people that CBC has on their actual cable, like that are watching CBC on table.

Speaker 1 Son of a Critsch is going to get all the the people in Newfoundland and we were on the same night as them and they killed us in ratings, right? Wait, you were up against some of that?

Speaker 1 No, they they were they were on before us. But wouldn't that give you isn't that the T V thing, get a nice lead in? Get the son of a critsch.
Yeah, but well our numbers were halfway.

Speaker 1 The problem is people watch Son of a Critch and then they get so horny they go right to bed. They watch Son of a Crits, they watch Young Sheldon and they call it a night.

Speaker 1 Any kind of uh But then, you know, if the people that actually are like probably more of our prime, you know, our demographic are going to have to download CBC Gem, which was their app, which is not necessarily the most popular app.

Speaker 1 Well, I disagree. I think it's one of the more popular apps out there.
I think it's that.

Speaker 1 You know, an app that tells you to drink water is pretty popular.

Speaker 1 Maybe it is popular. I actually haven't looked at the numbers, so I'm kind of like, I'm not sure.
Oh, I have no idea.

Speaker 1 I have it on my Apple TV. And it is

Speaker 1 when I use it, I'm like, oh, it's great. There's so much stuff on here.
And then I don't use it for months. And then apparently, you have to sign in.
Yeah. I should sign in with my tax dollars, sir.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 That was another weird thing about being on CBC: is comments people would leave on like clips from our show would be like, this is what our tax money goes towards.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, I know nothing about any of that. I'm just, you know, I feel no political.
Yeah. Yeah.
I'm just a guy trying to make a TV show. So they're like, oh, typical Trudeau nonsense.

Speaker 1 I've had no contact with Prime Minister Trudeau. He did not have his hand in this at all.
I used to work at CBC, and when I was there, it was like

Speaker 1 basically $34 per Canadian per year funds the entire CBC. Sure.

Speaker 1 And so it's like every small-town radio station in Calawit or whatever, like every tiny radio station around the country, all the news, all the programming.

Speaker 1 is it costs everyone $34 a year, which like seems like a good deal. Yeah, it's a really good deal.
But I mean, this until I saw one more time, then I'm like, this is what I'm paying for?

Speaker 1 This is what my Trudeau bucks are going towards.

Speaker 1 There's a, what I was looking at, because I wanted to watch just like the news.

Speaker 1 And because I kind of missed just watching the news, just sitting down and watching like a 20-minute Hear the Stories of the Day. So I went to gym and I wasn't logged in.
I was like,

Speaker 1 I can't forget it. But I was looking at some of the shows.
I just won't know what's happening in the world. That's right.
I'm just going to go to bed.

Speaker 1 But there were two shows starring Joel McHale, and I was like, why are there two shows starring Joel McHale on CBC Gem? Yeah. One of the ways that the one took the

Speaker 1 animal control, which is just a comment. And then there's one called like Food Detective or something like that.
And all I know is the images of him holding

Speaker 1 like a magnifying glass that's a donut.

Speaker 1 And I was like, well, the images got me intrigued, but why is that on CBC Gem?

Speaker 1 Thanks for nothing, trudo

Speaker 1 that's why they have those bumpers there's because of joel mihale

Speaker 1 he's asked to testify in front of senate yeah

Speaker 1 um anyway so but on to baker did we even get to know us yeah oh good okay um oh i had one more thing you know how we were talking about dj getting free used to sporting goods for the rest of his life do you think brent butt because he did so many seasons of corner gas gets free gas free gas no matter where he goes yeah he goes uh

Speaker 1 as soon as they see it's him they don't even do full serve anymore, but when they see it's him they go I'll pump your gas for you.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. And Joel McHale gets free donuts.
Free donuts and free

Speaker 1 animals. Free animals.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 you

Speaker 1 are in town doing the Biltmore Cabaret

Speaker 1 this very evening. Are you traveling a lot doing stand-up this? Because you were doing show stuff before, so you probably planted a bit.
And now are you going shows all over the place doing tours?

Speaker 1 Yeah, so I was off doing the show for like seven or eight months, and then had to get back into stand-up after that, which was very interesting because I had never taken that long off since I started stand-ups.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because I kind of felt fresh and new again, and also had that kind of feeling of like, I don't know, the longest break you've ever taken, but for me, it was almost like, I don't even know if I want to do this anymore.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And I love stand-up, but I was like,

Speaker 1 and then once I got going, I was like, oh, yeah, thank God I still love it because there's no plan B. I was like, if I don't love this, I don't know.

Speaker 1 The longest break I've ever taken is like 12 years. And it's happening.
I'm in it right now. I'm sort of in the middle of it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, checking in another 12 years.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, I remember like years and years ago taking at least like 10 months off to do other stuff.
And then, yeah, it was hard to get back in because it's like.

Speaker 1 You're used to going home at the end of the day and like you got a little evening routine and you're like, now I got to all that. And then now I have to go out to do

Speaker 1 an eight-minute set somewhere and like work on stuff. Yeah, and then going on the road is different.
I got a baby boy at home, like two and a half. He's not a baby anymore.
But

Speaker 1 he has a lot of fun. Yeah, like the road doesn't feel the same as it used to.
I'm like, I'm just leaving my wife alone with some sensors.

Speaker 1 Are you constantly singing? Baby boy, stay on my mind, fulfill my fantasy. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think about you all the time.

Speaker 1 What's the next line? I see you in my dreams,

Speaker 1 as you're putting him to bed. Baby boy, now the

Speaker 1 day goes by. Is that Beyonce?

Speaker 1 I wanted to say Rihanna, but it might be Beyonce.

Speaker 1 I think it was Beyonce featuring Shauna Paul. It was definitely featuring Shauna Paul.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 1 Okay, well, let me Google it. I think.

Speaker 1 It's a Beyonce song. Was she in like a wine glass or something in the video?

Speaker 1 If you're thinking of

Speaker 1 Dinavonte's,

Speaker 1 I was going to say Kat Von D.

Speaker 1 Yes, and it does feature Sean Paul. Sean Paul off Daniel.
No, not Sean Paul. Who's Sean Paul?

Speaker 1 Sean Paul. Sean Paola.

Speaker 1 What when you are, like, are you going out on weeks at a time on the road? Are you just dipping in and out and doing? No, I just go out for a weekend and come back. Do you keep week, you know, hours?

Speaker 1 Are you up at the crack of dawn because you would be usually? Or do you like do a little sleeping in?

Speaker 1 No, my son actually sleeps pretty late, so I get up at like probably 8, which is, yeah, which isn't too bad. I'm not out partying too much.
Baby boy, you sleep until 8, then we eat some breakfast.

Speaker 1 Sounds really nice, actually.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I just finished this Vancouver show is last on a Canadian tour, and then I'm hitting up a bunch of American

Speaker 1 cities for the next three months. And then I'm off the road again in March because my wife is giving birth to our second kid.
Shut up. Yeah.
Congratulations. Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1 Do you know if it's going to be another baby boy? What's that? Is it going to be another baby boy?

Speaker 1 Another watch ID.

Speaker 1 I know the hearing aids.

Speaker 1 Bibby boy. Oh, baby boy.

Speaker 1 Sorry, it's also because you're like right in front of the mic and my lip reading is diminished, but I know you have to be because that's where the microphone is. That's where the work is.

Speaker 1 I understand.

Speaker 1 Well, I was hoping the headphones would work for me today because I was telling you guys before, but there's something called telecoil in hearing aids that I used to have to use to talk on the phone and listen to music to.

Speaker 1 And I had them reinstall it in my digital hearing aid, hoping, honestly, when I was having it done, I was like, oh, this will be great for the next time I do stop podcasting.

Speaker 1 And I tried it out and it didn't work. But anyway, to answer your question, no, baby girl.
Baby girl.

Speaker 1 Is there a song called Baby Girl?

Speaker 1 I'm sure there is.

Speaker 1 There's got to be. I mean, there's people that will say, hey, baby girl.
They say that kind of thing.

Speaker 1 And when Graham, the kind of music Graham and I listen to, there's usually a little break where a deep-voiced man says, baby girl, listen here, baby girl. Listen here, baby girl.
I got to apologize.

Speaker 1 I've been so mean to you.

Speaker 1 What the hell's wrong with me? You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 I'm such a goof. Yeah, you haven't gotten enough sleep.
Baby girl, I'm angry.

Speaker 1 Have you heard Shaggy explain how he came up with his voice for singing? No.

Speaker 1 It's not like his real voice. He like made all his

Speaker 1 the I think he was in the Marines and he he or the Army, but he made all the fellow like people in his infantry laugh when he would do this voice when he was singing.

Speaker 1 And he was like, I might be onto something here. And he like

Speaker 1 recorded, I think O'Carolina was his first one that he did with that voice, and it took off. And he was like, I guess this is how

Speaker 1 I sing. Yeah.
Yeah, I love it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I love Shaggy's singing voice. And the fact that it's a put-on title.
And it's also a fun one to do. Oh, yeah.
But yet would I do it? it people disc tisk

Speaker 1 what were his hits there's it wasn't me it wasn't me have you seen the the video of michael jackson seeing

Speaker 1 there's a video of like the american music wards and shaggy's doing it wasn't me and the camera goes to michael jackson in the crowd and he's like going i love this song

Speaker 1 what's funny about it wasn't me is that that was like my dad's favorite song when it came out really the whole song's about cheating and like my parents were like divorcing at the time.

Speaker 1 I'm like, why is this my favorite song?

Speaker 1 This is my gem.

Speaker 1 Well, that would have been a good thing. I'm going to have to get you to listen very carefully to this song.
This is going to explain. Your mom's going to say a lot of things.

Speaker 1 But that was a funny stretch for Shaggy, too, because he released It Wasn't Me and then Angel, which is like such a pretty romantic song.

Speaker 1 And it's like, is Angel directed at the same woman that you were cheating on? So prolific. True, that was a funny time in his career.
Look, Shaggy's doing really well.

Speaker 1 We hope that he has an excellent next year.

Speaker 1 Finding love or losing love.

Speaker 1 We're going to hear about it. You know, speaking of finding love,

Speaker 1 Raffi is on Instagram Threads, the

Speaker 1 children's singer.

Speaker 1 And he just popped up. I don't really like threads, actually.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're really being forced into it by Instagram. There's a lot of like, well, your Instagram will show you a thread post and you're like, oh, that does look good.
And then you click on it.

Speaker 1 I don't care. Yeah, everything's everything's like baity.
Everything's like rage bait or like horny bait or whatever. Warren baity.
Yeah. But but Raffi, you know, I'm a big Raffi fan.

Speaker 1 We play a lot of Raffy stuff for myself. Baby Balloon.
And then

Speaker 1 he had this thing on threads that was like him standing in front of like a big oak tree.

Speaker 1 And he was like, you know, some days I think I'll never find love, but I'm still looking for that special woman out there who will share her life with me.

Speaker 1 And it was like a sweet kind of earnest post by him, but I was like, I don't need to know about Raffy's love life. Like this is

Speaker 1 something about it just made me go, No, you're just, you should just exist in my mind. I said, children, you're Raffy.
You're Raffy Kavukian. Is that his last name? Kavukian.

Speaker 1 Oh, nice. But I hope he finds love, but I didn't need to know.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's

Speaker 1 he lives on Salt Spring Island. Yep.
And so, you know, we hear stories about his love life.

Speaker 1 And you know what? He's doing just fine. He's doing just fine.
He may not

Speaker 1 be love, but he may not have found found Mrs. Wright, but he's found Mrs.
Wright now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's doing just fine. Let's just say he's

Speaker 1 other than Baby Beluga.

Speaker 1 What's your favorite Raffi track? If you're listening to it a lot with your kids. Down by the Bay.
I think I love that song. I think I go Baby Beluga, though.
Baby Beluga. Another classic.

Speaker 1 He turned Disney down when they wanted to create a movie based on that song. No way.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 no way. Because he doesn't believe in their politics and the way they operate.
What has Disney ever done wrong? That's true. They've done a really good job so far.
Well, I mean, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 I did not know he stood on kind of moral ground.

Speaker 1 I don't know what specifically, to your point, I don't specifically know what I morally disagree with Disney about.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 I just love when people turn things down. I don't need to know anymore.
When somebody says, no, thank you, I go right on. Yeah.
You don't even need to explain yourself. Anybody that

Speaker 1 his reason was? Did he actually explicitly say? Yeah, he was like, I don't, this is this giant monolithic company that represents more than just Disney properties, right?

Speaker 1 And he just didn't want to be part of the machine. Got to give it to him.
You know? Oh, I would sell out in a heartbeat.

Speaker 1 Yeah, how fast, upon Disney asking you to do something, would it be like that second, or would you wait two seconds to play it cool? Like, how fast would you sell out?

Speaker 1 Yeah, they wouldn't even be able to finish their second.

Speaker 1 I'm in. We haven't even told you what we want to do yet.
Full nude, I'm in. We don't want you to do full nude.
Too late. I'm naked.

Speaker 1 Well, it is too late. That's our fault.
We baited them into it.

Speaker 1 Some people are, someone's commenting right now. You guys don't know why Disney's evil.
No, I don't care. I don't like them.
They created Krilla Deville. Say no more.

Speaker 1 They're the source of evil.

Speaker 1 Do you watch any like Disney movies with your kid? Are they watching movies at two and a half? Yeah. We watch movies.

Speaker 1 Do you know what's really interesting is like we watch like Moana and Kanto and all these new Disney movies.

Speaker 1 And then when I try to go back and show him the classics that I love, like Lion King, Aladdin's a little, he's too young for that, but like Lion King is my favorite growing up.

Speaker 1 That's like my pinnacle of Disney movies, right? Yeah. And it feels like flat to compared to these new movies now.
Just visually, the songs are still beautiful, but like these new movies are so good.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Like, I thought I would feel the opposite where I would watch these movies and be like, no, back in my day, they were better.

Speaker 1 But like, no, they're really, these new Disney movies are really good, man. Like, and Kanto is amazing.
Moana is amazing. I'm loving them.
He'll watch it. He'll want to watch like 20 times.

Speaker 1 I'm like, sure. I'll watch Moana 2020.
So it's like, it's. Because I know there's a lot of Moana being watched in this household.
There was.

Speaker 1 Oh, they passed Moana? Oh, sure. What about the live-action remake

Speaker 1 yeah they'll they definitely want that yeah they're excited about the rock they want to see Moana 2 which is coming out as well oh wow they're making two Moanas at the same time same universe yeah oh cool one is the the cartoon sequel to the first cartoon and one is the live action remake of the first cartoon right and the rock is essentially playing himself in both uh both films i suppose yeah he's uh

Speaker 1 he's man he's killing it that the rock.

Speaker 1 I don't know how I feel about The Rock. Tell us.
Tell us why. I just don't know.

Speaker 1 Like him as a person. I honestly don't know.
I don't even know how to verbalize how I feel about him. I feel no animosity towards him, but I'm never like, oh, sweet.
I got to go see the new rock man.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And I want to know who feels that way.
It's just, I feel like he's so much a part of our culture now that you can't. It doesn't matter if you hate him.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Exactly. He's going to be here regardless.

Speaker 1 Like Disney.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Raffi also will not work with The Rock.

Speaker 1 I was thinking, you know how they had that Timothy Chalamet look-alike competition?

Speaker 1 Sure, I entered and lost in the first round. Did you hear about this? No.
In New York, there was a big,

Speaker 1 they took over a park to do a Timothy Chalamet look-alike contest. And like,

Speaker 1 they had to move people out of the park. It was too many people showed up.

Speaker 1 And they

Speaker 1 and ever since there have been like two or three other look-alike competitions.

Speaker 1 And I was like, they should do a Timothy Chalamay look-unlike competition and find the person who looks the least like Timothy Chalamet. And who do you think is the least like?

Speaker 1 I think maybe The Rock would be a context. The Rock would be a contender, absolutely.

Speaker 1 John Bones-Jones from UFC. He doesn't look like him at all.
Sure.

Speaker 1 Leslie Jones.

Speaker 1 No, but I, well, actually, I do. If it's on, I'll definitely watch it.
I very much enjoy the actual event. I don't like the Fouforah around it very much.

Speaker 1 And the fact that, like, now every time you watch it, Donald Trump's going to be ringside.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that part. I'm a huge UFC fan, and that part leaves me very conflicted.
Yeah, right? Like, I don't want, yeah.

Speaker 1 I just want to watch people beat the crap out of each other without politics coming in. Yeah, exactly.
Leave politics out of my blood sports. Is there an amateur

Speaker 1 MMA like

Speaker 1 league that's not UFC? Like that you watch? Because if you're no, I don't watch. I mean, there's uh, what do you call it? The PFL, which has come up.

Speaker 1 They're not amateur, they're pro as well, and uh, I don't watch them at all, really, unless it's a huge fight. And then, like, I watch Francis Nganu because he fights over in PFL.
Right.

Speaker 1 And so I watched his latest fight. Do you watch it with your little boy? Watch what? Do you watch UFC with your kids?

Speaker 1 Oh, no, but the first time I ever watched UFC, UFC One, my dad put it on, and I think it was my sixth birthday party. Wow.

Speaker 1 Me and like six other kids watching. And UFC One was barbaric.
It was

Speaker 1 crazy. I'm looking back on it now.
I'm like, wow, that was some bad parenting. But that's what started my love affair with UFC.
It may have started the divorce papers.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Did you show him UFC One? It wasn't me.

Speaker 1 Let me put it on the software.

Speaker 1 When it was UFC One, was it still like

Speaker 1 a karate guy versus a sumo guy? It was still like that. Oh, yeah.
It was a freak show. It was a Viking versus a tiger.

Speaker 1 Guys who were just clearly like barroom brawlers who had no formal training. Yeah.
You could, you know, gouge eyes, you could kick in the head. There was a yoga guy who could blow fire.

Speaker 1 Because I remember watching a clip and it was a sumo wrestler versus like a martial artist.

Speaker 1 And the sumo wrestler lasted like all of 15 seconds because the martial artists just like kicked him in the head. And sumo like doesn't have a comeback for that really.

Speaker 1 I think it might have been Gary Goodridge, who was the martial artist, who beat up that sumo wrestler, if I'm remembering correctly. Yeah, it was brutal.

Speaker 1 I remember the first 10 seconds looked like, oh, geez, the sumo wrestler might win. And then the second the sumo wrestler went down, he couldn't get back up.
It was like a turtle on his shell.

Speaker 1 And it was like, it was bad news from then on. He was not in any way

Speaker 1 prepared to defend himself down there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, those kind of were the good old days a little bit.

Speaker 1 I'm happy with the way the UFC is at because it's sanctioned and you're actually watching skilled people, but something about that freak show aspect of just like marking a 600-pound dude versus 150-pound dude.

Speaker 1 It's like,

Speaker 1 yeah. You know, I got to see what happens here.
There was a, I was watching a wrestling

Speaker 1 documentary show, the one on Crave.

Speaker 1 And it's, there's a scene where Brad Hart's talking about there was some league that he was in as a young guy where there was a guy, the guy that had the promotion had a bear, and like somebody on a Friday night had to wrestle the bear, and it was just like eye-rolling.

Speaker 1 Like, I don't want to wrestle the bear. And, but that was like one of the things you had to do as part of your contract: wrestle a bear.

Speaker 1 Did you guys, let's have it out. Let's get it all up, guys.
Did you watch the Mike Tyson fight? I didn't because you couldn't get it. I was overseas.
You couldn't get it overseas.

Speaker 1 So I watched all the documentary stuff leading up to it, but then. Did you, DJ? Have you watched Ascent? Yeah.
Okay. Yeah, I did.
Did you? I watched some of it.

Speaker 1 So it was on.

Speaker 1 I couldn't find when it was on. I knew it started at 5.30, and I was like,

Speaker 1 I had a bunch of stuff to do that.

Speaker 1 And I was like, I'm not going to be able to watch this thing. It's a 5.30.
I didn't realize there were hours and hours of other fights before. It came on so late by the time they got on.

Speaker 1 Especially if you were out east, I'm sure. Yeah, I was.
I was in Toronto. Oh, but.
So I had a show, and then after the show, I was like, same thing. Oh, we're not going to be able to watch it.

Speaker 1 And we ended up sitting in a bar for like an hour and a half, waiting for it to come on. And I got roped in.
I knew it was going to be, it was so clearly a money grab. And they grabbed my money.

Speaker 1 I mean, I went, I watched it. My dad and his wife were like super into it.
And I bet $10 with her. She was like, Mike Tyson's going to win.
And I was like, there's just no way. I love Mike Tyson.

Speaker 1 But I'm like, I don't love Mike Tyson.

Speaker 1 I mean, obviously, he's got a checkered paste.

Speaker 1 Yeah, let's say. But I've been following Mike Tyson more the last five years than ever.
Like, he's had a podcast, and I watched that for a while. Then that went off the rails.

Speaker 1 He used to have a guy on his podcast with him named Eben, who was just like such a grounding force and was like a real hippie-dippy ex-NFL player, but like hippie, like

Speaker 1 very into

Speaker 1 meditating. And like, he just had a really grounding kind of spiritual effect on Mike.
And when Mike would go into his weird little aggro tangent, Eben would like bring him back.

Speaker 1 And then they pushed Eben out of the show. Oh, really? Yeah, and then his podcast became just a rotating,

Speaker 1 you know, cadre.

Speaker 1 Am I using cadre correctly? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Of like famous people who would come in. How do you know he's using cadre correctly? Because I studied in Spain.

Speaker 1 So, and then it went completely off the rails. You would see episodes with Mike Tyson just eating fistfuls of mushrooms on air.

Speaker 1 Like magic mushroom, just fistfuls, literal, smoking so much pot. And so I'm like telling my dad's wife, who I bet $10 on the fight with, I'm like, you haven't watched him.

Speaker 1 She still sees 21-year-old Mike Tyson just dominating this sport.

Speaker 1 I'm like, you haven't watched the amount of like hallucinogenics I've watched this man put in his body the last five years, training for three months and taking all the steroids he's taken and everything.

Speaker 1 Not enough. On top of that, he's going to throw the fight.
Yeah, of course. There's no way he's winning.
Like, he's getting a payday. He's 58 years old.

Speaker 1 And then that all came to fruition, but they still got me. I still got to watch it.
Oh, me too. You got to see his butt?

Speaker 1 Did you see his butt? No. When do we see his butt? Oh, well, there was like a pre-match interview.
Like, you know. Oh, yes.

Speaker 1 I haven't laughed that hard in something in a long time. That killed me.
Because I just saw a clip of it and someone was like, check this out.

Speaker 1 And it's like he's interviewing, he's getting interviewed by someone backstage. Oh, is it? It's his son interviewing.
Because I was like, oh, that's like, oh, the weird bit

Speaker 1 must be like, at the end of the interview, he gives them a kiss

Speaker 1 and then the and then he walks away and he's had just been wearing a jockstrap i guess because his butt's hanging out it's such a funny like juxtaposition of like right before two like it's he starts off by saying vicious he's like how are you gonna win he's like vicious not go yeah vicious and then says i love you and then bears his buttocks as he walks away it was like uh like out of the naked gun or something it was like i'm timing this person even the way the camera panned out yeah and then the cameraman panicked and like zoomed in it It was so funny.

Speaker 1 I didn't know it was his son when I first watched it, too. So the IPCC was to meet him.

Speaker 1 Because of all this,

Speaker 1 Mike Tyson coverage, there's the clip that resurfaced of him doing an interview where there was a little person there, and he didn't know that it was not his son. Hasbullah.

Speaker 1 So he's like, yeah, he picked up this guy and he was like kissing him on the neck. He's like, oh, God.

Speaker 1 Kind of jostling him around.

Speaker 1 And yeah, his name's Hasbullah. And I think.

Speaker 1 he's been around MMA for years because he, like, when Khabib was champion, he was kind of part of their circle and he was with them.

Speaker 1 But that guy has had, because he looks like a little kid, that's the first time I've seen somebody like hug and kiss him, like Mike Tyson. But he's had the opposite thing where a lot of people,

Speaker 1 a lot of fighters, allow him to punch them because he's such a little non-threatening guy. Yeah.
But he can still throw a punch. Sure.

Speaker 1 So they've just like, you've seen fighters let this guy punch him and he punches him hard in the face and then you watch him like try to assess if they can get angry with him or something like can they beat this guy up or exactly but the mike tyson one was like and then did you see the interview tyson had with this little uh i don't know how old she is yeah she's 12 about his legacy

Speaker 1 and she's like yeah about and asked him about his legacy and he goes on this long existential one-minute rant where she handled it well though yeah at the end he's like who gives a you guys wearing that yeah yeah graham does yeah who gives a fuck about legacy fuck my legacy i'm gonna be dirt i'm gonna be dead i'm gonna be gone and she's like that's very interesting.

Speaker 1 I never thought of that before. For kids' news, you can use.

Speaker 1 Well, I thought when you were talking about his hippie-dippy co-host, I thought, I was like, oh, maybe that's where he got that sort of like,

Speaker 1 you know, life is fleeting. This is meaningless.
Right. After I'm dead, I'm dead.
No, he's really an enigma. Mike Tyson is all about that kind of stuff, too.

Speaker 1 He's just, he's trying to outrun the kind of tortured, violent past that he grew up in as well. But he,

Speaker 1 you can't fully outrun it. So he's like, I honestly am very

Speaker 1 enamored with Mike Tyson. He's such a complex character with all these different things.
Yeah. But there's no way he was winning that fight.

Speaker 1 But if you look at the clips, have you seen these clips surfacing of like him pulling punches and like having a clear shot at Jake Paul's chin and not throwing it?

Speaker 1 So part of me is like, maybe if he hadn't thrown the fight, I think he actually could have won, which I did not believe.

Speaker 1 I think if he had had that kind of lucky punch,

Speaker 1 that he would have been able to knock him out. But he's old.
He's a slow-moving.

Speaker 1 He did not move.

Speaker 1 I'm not a

Speaker 1 boxing watcher, but I know footwork is a big thing, and there was none.

Speaker 1 But that's another thing. I'm wondering if that had to do with the throwing of the fight, because in round one, he did not look that bad.
But he had to go through several rounds.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he definitely looked super old, but it seemed like he got worse as the fight went on. but I guess that's also a function of the end.
Yeah, that's true. And a function of boxing in general.

Speaker 1 No one gets better as the fight goes on. Well, I mean, maybe someone does.
And some people get better.

Speaker 1 The one thing I love about when there's a big boxing match is how everyone is an expert. People who have never watched boxing are like, well, you know, the thing is, they do a lot of jump rope.

Speaker 1 It was during the Olympics, there was a guy, and he was my favorite guy. He ended up winning the gold,

Speaker 1 and he was like from Estonia or something like that. And his whole thing was he got really close.
And so a lot of the boxers only know how to do it at distance.

Speaker 1 And he would just keep running up against them and boxing them right in their face. I was like, I've never seen this before, but it rules because nobody seems to know what to do with.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 that's where my boxing expertise comes for watching every match in the Olympics. But Mike Tyson used to do that too, since he was at such a height disadvantage.

Speaker 1 He would get inside on people, just throw uppercuts, body shot. That's what made him so good.
Everyone was like six inches taller than him in the heavyweight division. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think people are still scared of him.

Speaker 1 He's a terrifying dude. When that look comes in his eyes, he's not playing around.
Like, he can access that. Well, years ago, he was on Rogan, like seven years ago.

Speaker 1 Wait, Rogan and him hang out together? I don't know about this. Well, Rogan's drug-free.
That's true.

Speaker 1 He was not training at all at that time, Mike Tyson.

Speaker 1 Rogan asked him, do you ever go in and hit the bag or anything? He was like, I will not. He's like, because the second I do that, I don't like who I become.
I will become the old Mike Tyson again.

Speaker 1 And so then now watching him train for this, and even Roy Jones a few years ago, like, he wasn't lying. You see him become old Mike Tyson again when he started to get into that mindset.
But

Speaker 1 I hope he's done. I like hippie Mike Tyson better.
Yeah, I think he is. Yeah, I think this is probably.
No, I want to see a rematch. Yeah, I want to see

Speaker 1 the next influencer. He was coming up the ranks.
Yeah. I want to see JoJo see what they come up.

Speaker 1 somebody said and i was like yeah that eventually what this is all leading to is that eventually there will be a boxing match between jake paul and logan paul and that'll be the you know billion dollar match we're all it's it's a million years in the making like jurassic park it'll happen eventually so just uh enjoy the time before that happens because everything will be different after you know what i mean guys

Speaker 1 i mean hats off to them they're brilliant marketers hats off to the paul brothers from all of us here at stop Podcasting Yourself.

Speaker 1 Only two of you guys are wearing hats. I'm not wearing that hat.
My hat is off to them.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 you watch fights.

Speaker 1 Do you watch boxing as well or just UFC? I'll watch like a big boxer like Canelo or Triple G, who's a little older now, but I don't watch that much boxing, but I watch a lot of UFC. Do you think if

Speaker 1 Jake Paul decided to fight a real boxer, that his head would actually fly off when he got killed. Well, he does fight real boxers.
They're just not world-class. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's true.

Speaker 1 He lost to Tommy Fury, who's a real boxer.

Speaker 1 But he didn't get killed. I want him to get killed.
Everybody does. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But that's kind of the thing of it, too. The allure of it is like, I want to say, yeah, like if Jake Paul fought Canelo, for example.

Speaker 1 Another thing is all his fights are exhibition, so he's rooted to the gills, Jake Paul, right? Like that guy's

Speaker 1 he must be just like neon green, you know?

Speaker 1 Well, he drinks all that prime, you know? Yeah, yeah, exactly. But you guys want any prime? I still have some prime.
I haven't tried prime, have you? Oh, it's great. Is it?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Dave gives his hats off to Prime. Hats off to Prime.

Speaker 1 It's like, it tastes like it's Gatorade, but it has that sort of chemical diet aftertaste. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Nice.

Speaker 1 Are you an energy drink guy? No, not at all. Coffee.
Coffee. Same here.
Coffee. Yeah, I can't can't do the Red Bull and everything.

Speaker 1 I just, I'm scared my heart will stop. You know? Yeah.
I don't know much about science, but I don't know. You want to do some Coke?

Speaker 1 Of course. Yeah, there's some

Speaker 1 step down.

Speaker 1 But to answer your question, yeah, I think a real boxer would destroy Jake Paul. That being said, maybe not.
And that's what the allure is.

Speaker 1 Because he does box. He trained.
He's not.

Speaker 1 He has nothing else to do.

Speaker 1 So, like I said, hats off to him.

Speaker 1 He's

Speaker 1 a deplorable guy. I don't want to listen to him talk.
I don't want to look at his face. I don't want to go for a walk in the forest with him.
Or is that his brother? That's his brother.

Speaker 1 But the guy.

Speaker 1 Can he get a brother who looks less like him? Because I don't know the difference.

Speaker 1 The brother

Speaker 1 this week was interviewed by the BBC, and he sent in a guy that looked like him, but wasn't him, to do the interview. Do you see what that guy looked like? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Did it look like him? It looked kind of like him. Not enough to fool.
Like, I would have been like, this is the beeb. Yeah.
He looked like half Logan Paul, half Tilda Swinton.

Speaker 1 Boy oyo. The guy from BBC thought he was interviewing Tilda Swinton.
And she's just, this is a new role she's doing. She's kind of pulling it up.
But it's interesting.

Speaker 1 I feel like with the Paul brothers, it's similar to Trump, actually, in that, like, if you just stay in front of people and never go away, and you're just always in the public consciousness, consciousness, it doesn't matter if people like you or hate you.

Speaker 1 They know you, and that's the most important thing. Yeah.
That's how you make money.

Speaker 1 If making money is your barometer of, like, what's important in life, that's it. It really is, right? We can all agree.
Money, money, money. I mean, shout out to Disney.
Yeah, yeah. And the rock.

Speaker 1 Disney's going to make an animated version of this podcast. Oh, shit.
Who's going to play you? I'm out. I don't know.
Some voice actor.

Speaker 1 They're going to go the old-fashioned way and just get talented voice actors and not the biggest stars. No, I'm going to get Stone Cold Steve Austin to be my voice in the animated version.

Speaker 1 Abodo, but who would we cast as DJ? Have you seen Mick Foley, by the way, lately?

Speaker 1 Yeah, we have lunch every week.

Speaker 1 But he's been speaking about politics and everything and very eloquently and like intelligently.

Speaker 1 He's written books. But like the guy had his brain smashed him for a living with chairs and fallen off 40-foot cages.
I can't believe how well he's speaking and you know the quality of his thoughts.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Just honestly, I would have, I was prepared for a sad decline in the cognition of Mick.
No, he is like, like you say, he's written books. He did the remix to cognition.

Speaker 1 What, I'm canceled for quoting R. Kelly now?

Speaker 1 Where do we draw the line? Yeah, exactly. I can't even.
I didn't even do a fun spoof.

Speaker 1 I did a corporate gig last year in Edmonton, Alberta, and that there was a DJ because the party was starting up after my show. Two DJs.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. And

Speaker 1 I asked him, this guy was a real character. I was like, do you still play R.
Kelly? And he was like, bro, of course. The people love R.
Kelly. And I was like, really?

Speaker 1 He was like, I'll play Ignition like three times in one night. I'm like, what?

Speaker 1 I'll play it at the show, then at the after party, then at the hotel lobby.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he said people had no problems with it. This was Edmonton Alberta.
Yeah, this dude.

Speaker 1 I think if you put a... If you put on that song, if you put on a lot of Chris Brown's work, Michael Jackson, these are all songs that people can get.
I don't know that

Speaker 1 being canceled transfers to the audience. Like if I,

Speaker 1 because people still listen to Michael Jackson. Yeah.
And it's like, without guilt. Yeah, I know.
Like, they're like, oh, boy, this is, I'm still doing it, but yeah, I feel bad about it.

Speaker 1 No, no one feels bad about it. But then there was like a, there's a big thing like, well, we can't play Gary Glitter's song at hockey games because he was a pedo.
And it's like, well,

Speaker 1 where do you draw the line then?

Speaker 1 Well, it depends on the quality of the music. Yeah, that's true.
It depends on the size of the catalog.

Speaker 1 If Gary Glitter had 20 songs, you'd be like, okay, well, you got to give it to him. But I also think

Speaker 1 radio stations notwithstanding, there are. You're so edgy today, by the way.
I'm proud of that. There are people who have

Speaker 1 Michael Jackson. There are people who don't want to listen to him now, I think.
Yeah. Sure.
Me. So I think it does transfer, just not to like the mass public.
But like, yeah, like

Speaker 1 I guess, like, no one's like,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 saying, like, oh, we're not talking to Graham anymore. He listened to Man in the Mirror yesterday.
Like, can you imagine being the person at the party who's like, can we not hear Ignition?

Speaker 1 Like, people would be pissed. Can we at least hear the original and not the remix?

Speaker 1 Has anybody ever heard the original? I don't know. Just like with same with Confessions Part Two by Usher.
Or Gary Glitter's Rock and Roll Part 2. Yeah.
It's,

Speaker 1 yeah, I got to see these. I guess they're pretty.
I don't know much about Gary Glitter. Is it time for me to get into Gary Glitter? Yep.
Stock's never been lower. Time to buy Gary Glitter stock.

Speaker 1 You know the one song, though, right? What song is it?

Speaker 1 They play it on hockey games all the time. No, no, no, no, no.
Oh, that's Gary Glitter? Yeah, yeah. Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 They don't play it anymore because was he like a known pedophile? Oh, yeah, he was in jail for it. He died? I think he's dead.
Yeah. I mean, I last time I saw him, he was dead.
Let me Google.

Speaker 1 And get on a damn list. I'm not looking it up for you.
Dave's doing spoofs. He's getting canceled for.
He's looking up Derry Clipper.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, but in Britain, he had like, he had tons of hits.

Speaker 1 I think the only one over in North America was that one, but over in Britain,

Speaker 1 that Richard Savile guy was the host of Top of the Pops.

Speaker 1 Jimmy Jimmy Savile. That guy was just terrible.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're all terrible.

Speaker 1 All terrible in their own way.

Speaker 1 You know, the only guy that has come out unscathed, mankind. He's...

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Is that what led us to this? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Primrose. Socco, though, he's not doing that.
No, Sako got canceled a long time ago. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And that's the weird thing. I've seen him in interviews, and he doesn't refer to himself as I used to be a mankind.
He always says, I used to be Cactus Jack, which is his earlier. Really?

Speaker 1 Yeah, so this is Mick Foley. This is Mick Foley.
This is the era of wrestling.

Speaker 1 I didn't watch wrestling between 1993 and present day.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So I missed it a little bit.

Speaker 1 He came in the aughts, right?

Speaker 1 Maybe even late 90s. He was the attitude era.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What a time. Yeah.
Looking back, it's. Someone called The Rock, Mick Foley.
Yeah, Mick Foley, lesser characters. Kane's a politician now.
What? Yeah. Is Kane different than McFoley?

Speaker 1 Kane's a big guy. McFoley's kind of a scrappy little guy.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean,

Speaker 1 Kane's like a governor or something now. Kane is? Yeah.
Governor Kane. Does he still wear that red vibe? Are you thinking of Tim Kane, Hillary Clinton's running mate?

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's the same guy.

Speaker 1 I'm going to check into the

Speaker 1 I'm going to verify this Kane as a politician. Yeah, I forget his real name, but but he's definitely a politician.
That I will look up.

Speaker 1 I'm not looking up Gary Glitter.

Speaker 1 Do we have to put a trigger warning at the start of this episode? We talk about everyone bad, everybody bad. We're not pro the bad guys, but you know, we can talk about them, right? Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Sorry. Kane wrestler.

Speaker 1 It's asking.

Speaker 1 He was Undertaker's brother. That's right.

Speaker 1 Yeah. He was born of...
He was from hell. He was born of hell.
Oh, wow. He's got a real,

Speaker 1 oh, his head shape.

Speaker 1 It's quite something. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It reminds me of there was this cartoon in the 80s called, was it a, was it just called Cops?

Speaker 1 I don't know. I mean, I remember the show from the 90s called Cops, but that wasn't for kids.
You probably watched it as a kid. You're doing

Speaker 1 cops. Oh, yeah, yeah.
At my seventh birthday party, we put that on. Yeah, it reminds me of this guy,

Speaker 1 but who's the black guy, but has the same shaped head. Yeah, I see it.
Yeah. Yeah, with the hair, the triangular hairline coming down.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Anyway, so this guy, Kane Wrestler, his name is

Speaker 1 Spanish. He was born in Spain.
He was? Spain, Kane.

Speaker 1 His name is... Oh, he's the mayor of Knox County.
Oh, he's a mayor. I thought it was higher than that.
Okay. Well, you got to start somewhere, you know? Yeah, that's true.
Now, where's Knox County?

Speaker 1 Not far from the Berry Farms, as far as I know.

Speaker 1 Knox Berry Farms. Yeah.

Speaker 1 When he first came around,

Speaker 1 he wore a scary mask, and then he took the mask off and shaved his head. And to me, much scarier.
You think? He had a really scary face. I thought he looked good with the mask, too.

Speaker 1 The mask was pretty damn scary. But his first character when he came out was a dentist called Isaac Yankum.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 1 I love watching wrestlers try to figure out which version of who they want to be. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think this dentist character was never destined to be like a kid's favorite. I do like when a dumb character does stick, though.
I'm talking about Erwin R. Scheister.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Was he an accountant or

Speaker 1 an IRS guy? Yeah. Stone Cold Steve Austin was some baby faced.
He had blonde hair. He had blonde hair.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 He was like a clean-shaven blonde hair. But you could tell that hair was going to Hulk Hogan style.
And there can only be one balding guy at a time.

Speaker 1 You either have to be fully bald or

Speaker 1 super receding.

Speaker 1 I mean, even The Rock,

Speaker 1 even had a pretty high hairline towards the end there. And

Speaker 1 anyways, we wish him the best. And The Rock, if you're listening, good luck with Moana remake.

Speaker 1 And Moana, too. And then do you think they'll make a live-action remake of Moana too?

Speaker 1 I mean, God, your lips to God's ears. And good luck with Red One, which is currently out.
Oh, what's that? Santa's been kidnapped. And Santa, played by J.K.
Simmons, has been kidnapped.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's exciting. And you're going to be rescued by

Speaker 1 Chris Evans? Chris Evans and The Rock and Lucy Lou. Oh, Lucy Lou.
Or maybe some of them are bad guys. I don't know.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Again,

Speaker 1 that's the movie I was thinking of when I was like, who's excited to watch that? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I could not get my children excited to watch that. And we haven't gone to the movie theater in months.

Speaker 1 I love a good kind of mindless action movie, but something about The Rock doesn't make me. It just won't do it.
Yeah. What about

Speaker 1 Fast and Furious? Will you get into that? No,

Speaker 1 I was never a big fan. Although I never gave it a shot after one and maybe two.
I'm sure maybe I don't know. I don't think so.
I love The Equalizer. Okay.

Speaker 1 But I think it's because Denzel's such a great actor.

Speaker 1 Is he a better actor than The Rock?

Speaker 1 It's close.

Speaker 1 But they're making an Equalizer 4 and 5, he just announced. Really? Yeah.
And I'm in. Yeah.
I'm not mad at that at all. I think the thing I've seen The Rock in the most is the TV show Ballers.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 I watched episode one of that on a plane a couple weeks ago. I watched, it's not on anymore, but I'm pretty sure I watched two full seasons.
Yeah, I think I watched. Is it good? No.
No.

Speaker 1 But it's brainless. Isn't it funny how brainless shows like that, you can just be like, I got it.
Like, I watched all of Suits back in the day. Did you ever see Suits?

Speaker 1 No, but I could see that being a show that I'm like, I'm watching suits. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you know Mikey Kohlberg? Was a comedian in Toronto? Yeah, I think a buddy of mine had a whole joke about watching suits.

Speaker 1 I forget what the joke was, but he was talking about suits for like two minutes and I spit. And then that got me into it.
I'm like, maybe I'm going to watch suits.

Speaker 1 And then I talked to him after years later, I was like, you know, I started watching suits because of your joke. And he's like, oh, that was just a joke.
I've never seen suits.

Speaker 1 I was like, what the hell?

Speaker 1 You don't realize the impact you have

Speaker 1 on the show.

Speaker 1 Words mean something. Comedians are the modern philosophers.
It's true.

Speaker 1 I just re-downloaded Apple TV last night and paying $13 a month. I didn't have it for a couple of years, but on my flight from

Speaker 1 Toronto to Vancouver yesterday, I watched Presumed Innocent with Jake Gyllenhaal on Apple TV, what was on my plane. And I can't use the headphones, and there were no subtitles.

Speaker 1 Oh, actually, this was one of the few shows that had subtitles on my flight. That's why I walked it.
So I walked it with subtitles and no audio. And episode one got me hooked.

Speaker 1 And I last night I I got Apple TV again. So presumed innocent is what got me back into my second action.

Speaker 1 I'm only one episode in, one and a half. I fell asleep watching two last night, but pretty damn good.
I uh yeah, there's what el oh yeah. Did you watch Slow Horses? No, I've heard that's great.

Speaker 1 That's my Apple TV.

Speaker 1 I'm watching. The only thing I watch on Apple TV.
And I want to watch a new Vince Vaughan movie or series, Bad Monkey.

Speaker 1 Oh, sure. I love Vince Vaughn.
I'm not going to apologize. Did you see the one, the crazy Vince Vaughan movie where he's a guy in prison and he has his head shaved and he's like a brawler in prison?

Speaker 1 Is it like from the 90s? No.

Speaker 1 You mean like Bronson? Like

Speaker 1 Tom Hardy has.

Speaker 1 Are you thinking of Bronson with Tom Hardy? No, I'm not thinking of Bronson. It's not the same guy.
It's a different brawler. I think Tom Hardy's penis in this movie?

Speaker 1 Well, I don't.

Speaker 1 Look, I haven't seen it all. I've seen Tom Hardy's penis every time I close my eyes.
Oh, yeah, there it is.

Speaker 1 To answer your question from earlier, though, to not a baby boy, we're having a baby girl.

Speaker 1 I know. We were trying to figure out a song about baby girls.

Speaker 1 It brings it back around. You got to love this guy.

Speaker 1 Dave, what's going on with you? Well, no, nothing.

Speaker 1 You were out of town for a week. For a week.
And we haven't recorded in two weeks. And that was all mid-November.

Speaker 1 And I was thinking, had a very very mid-November oh yeah November's totally mid totally mid yeah not much no going on no yes cap yes no cap no cap no cap to that um

Speaker 1 Riz yeah Riz oh that's uh

Speaker 1 there was I feel like the Rizzler he was at the UFC fight oh he might have been yeah they showed all the like people that were at the most recent championship uh Trump was there George St.

Speaker 1 Pierre was there. There's other celebrities.
And then the Rizzler was there.

Speaker 1 He's a little kid from a viral cookie eating did you see him on the tonight show the rizzler no it's the only time i've seen fallon look like exasperated with a guest where he's like i can't believe i have to talk to this kid i know what was it

Speaker 1 and then every time they said boom fallon just looked like i was like okay boom

Speaker 1 which is like so funny because

Speaker 1 I haven't really been keeping up with Fallon. I just know that he's like Mr.
Positivity all the time. That's where he draws the line.
I guess so. The Rizzler.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 that Rizzler kid, I mean, come on. He's great.

Speaker 1 I saw a video of young Rizzler when he was like a two-year-old. Was he still doing a crazy? He wasn't doing the Riz face,

Speaker 1 but he

Speaker 1 was like, he would not stop eating. It was like his mom was trying to cook and he was just trying to steal things off of the, he wanted to lick the batter.
Oh, sure.

Speaker 1 Anyway, so that's going on.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 the Rizzler's. A couple of announcements.
A couple of show announcements. This is our last episode.
Okay, yeah. So we've come this far and it's been a blast.

Speaker 1 It's not our last episode.

Speaker 1 Every year we do an episode where we,

Speaker 1 the last episode of the year,

Speaker 1 the listeners are the guests. We record it on Zoom.

Speaker 1 We put out a call for everyone to email us and tell us,

Speaker 1 you know, that they want to be on the show. And then we do a little lottery and we pick some people who can call in.

Speaker 1 I'd like to see a talent. Do you have one? I think a talent, a question,

Speaker 1 a hot take. Remember the guy who tried to slam dunk basketball, and it didn't go very well at all? Yeah, I want to say his name was

Speaker 1 some European. Yeah, Shaquille O'Neal.

Speaker 1 And so we are.

Speaker 1 We'll do that again this year. We haven't come up with a date yet.
But next week, be on the lookout

Speaker 1 for us to announce that.

Speaker 1 It only comes but once a year. The next announcement.
Announcement number two. We have a Blue Sky account now.
Oh, we do? Yeah, we're awesome. We got a Blue Sky.
Are you?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I got a Blue Sky account. Never have touched it at all, but I got them all.
I got Mastodon, I got Blue Sky, Threads, I got Twitter, I got Instagram, I got everything you want.

Speaker 1 Blue Sky is just like Twitter, except that everyone's account name is your name.bluesky.app or something. Yeah.
It's annoying. Is it a new app or is there a big company that owns it?

Speaker 1 No, it's like it's not evil yet. It'll be evil in a few months.
Countdown, countdown to being evil.

Speaker 1 So no one's,

Speaker 1 I don't even think there's ads on it yet. You know what's crazy is on all these other apps, nobody seems to like anything.
Even like a super popular post has like 24 likes.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's not the gold age of Twitter where, you know, you get 100 likes and you know that it's doing well.
It's like. You used to kill it on Twitter.
I know, not anymore.

Speaker 1 Nobody kills it on Twitter anymore. You know Musk's burning it up.
Yeah. Army Jr., he's on there.

Speaker 1 I remember you and Pat Thornton. I used to always laugh at your tweets.
You two were the when I think of the golden age of Twitter, it was Graham Clark and Pat Thornton. It was a good time.

Speaker 1 It was a good time. Twitter's really, I mean, I still look at it every day, but it's.
But like Twitter's still great if you want like, you know,

Speaker 1 severe beatings.

Speaker 1 You can see videos that you're like, I'm not following this account. Why is this being shown to me? It's crazy.
It is funny. My

Speaker 1 Twitter feed, the ones that I follow, are still really good. They're still like funny and kind of positive content.
But my for you feed,

Speaker 1 it is wild, man. Yeah.
What Twitter thinks is for possibly me. I don't even know who that man is.
But do you, are you still on Twitter?

Speaker 1 I have an account, but I deleted it years, like five years ago, and then I got the account back a couple months later just so I would still have my username. Yeah.

Speaker 1 so I'm on there, but I don't really post it. I wanted to.
It was my plan to sneak in and steal his username and then use it to

Speaker 1 promote my crypto company.

Speaker 1 What's your crypto coin called again? My crypto game? Oh, it's called

Speaker 1 Gulp Coin. Gold coin? Yeah.
How's it doing?

Speaker 1 It's up and down. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Big, big gains and then big losses.

Speaker 1 But your dividends are are NFTs, so that's cool. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 NFT. Do you think that Board Ape is going to come back as a hot commodity? You guys remember Board Ape? Of course I remember Board Ape.
Bape. Yeah, Bape.
No, no.

Speaker 1 Bape is different. What is Bape? Bape is the, like,

Speaker 1 Bored Ape is the NFT. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Bape is a clothing company. Yeah, Bape is bathing ape.
I think it stands for Board Ape. Bathing Ape? A Bathing Ape, I think.
Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, they were

Speaker 1 my fucking swimwear for someone called Bathing Ape. Because it's you got to get some babes.

Speaker 1 It's true. I've got Rizzlers, I got babes.

Speaker 1 Anyway, so that's one of the things. Those are the announcements.
We're on Blue Sky. I think I still have a MySpace account out there somewhere.
I think if you could do it.

Speaker 1 I never canceled my MySpace account, so I assume it's still active.

Speaker 1 I don't know if I ever had one. You'd never had a MySpace account? I just missed it.

Speaker 1 He's young. He watched UFC One at his

Speaker 1 sixth birthday.

Speaker 1 I went on MySpace, but I don't think I had an account. I remember I would go on MySpace and look at Tila Tequila's account.
I was a bit delayed by it. I haven't heard that name in a long time.

Speaker 1 Tila Tequila. Did she end up being a Nazi or something, or is that somebody else I figured? She wore Nazi regalia at the gathering of the Juggalos.

Speaker 1 I think so. What a sentence.

Speaker 1 Tila Tequila wore Nazi Regelia at a gathering of the Jekyllists. I may be wrong about the Nazi connection, but there was something.
There was something that somebody... Yeah, she definitely got

Speaker 1 beaten up at the gathering of the Jekyllists because there was like a wrestling event as well. And she kind of, where did we first meet her? Was it on MySpace? It was on MySpace.

Speaker 1 She just became a famous person on MySpace. She would have made a killing on OnlyFans.

Speaker 1 She came out like... Her era was wrong.
I don't know how much money she made, but she had an MTV show or something. Sure.
I'm sure she didn't get paid that much.

Speaker 1 I've heard the cast of Jersey Shore talk about how they were paid like nothing.

Speaker 1 And I'm sure she was kind of in the same boat. She was part of that same era.
So I feel like she didn't monetize her fame as much as she could have in today's presentation.

Speaker 1 But she's probably on OnlyFans now.

Speaker 1 Wait, is she dead? Is it Teela still on this? It's no longer my job to find out who's dead and who's mayor of Knox County. Well, we know she's not mayor of Knox County.
There can only be one.

Speaker 1 Do you remember in the late 90s or early 2000s, Cindy Margolis got her own TV show? I remember Cindy Margolis. What was her show? It was just a variety show where she introduced bands.
Cool.

Speaker 1 But do you know who she was, what her claim to fame was?

Speaker 1 Was it from her show? No, she got the show because she was

Speaker 1 the most downloaded woman on the internet. Oh, nice.

Speaker 1 Really? Yeah.

Speaker 1 This was Internet 1.0. I can't remember what Cindy Margolis looks like, but I remember her name.
Yeah. She was blonde lady.
Yeah. She's just a lady, right?

Speaker 1 And do you ever see the show?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, it was on all the time.

Speaker 1 Cool. Tila Tequila is still alive, by the way.
43 years old.

Speaker 1 Oh, nice.

Speaker 1 Speaking of like

Speaker 1 shows with variety acts, apparently

Speaker 1 when Tom. By the way, you have to be Tila Tequila's age to get the references on our show.
Hats off to Tila Tequila, though, if I may. Hats off to Tila Tequila.

Speaker 1 Let's all do a shot of some.

Speaker 1 See,

Speaker 1 Tom Green said in an interview, like on Total Request Live, one week he was the number one song with like his bum bum song or whatever.

Speaker 1 And then he had to retire the song because they had already pre-taped an episode where he wasn't on the list anymore. They didn't know that it would do so well.

Speaker 1 So it was number one one week, and then they're like, well, it wouldn't just vanish. So he like officially retired the song between

Speaker 1 airings of that show. Really? He's got a plaque.
They give him a plaque. Congratulations on retiring your show.
Number one.

Speaker 1 So, that was a show in America where they would just count down the most requested songs of the day. Yeah, and then they would have bands on and interviews.
And Carson Daly? Carson Daly. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I saw this clip on Instagram a couple days ago of Carson Daly interviewing Elliot Smith. Oh, yeah.
Did you see this? I posted that. You did? I mean, I reposted it.

Speaker 1 Where he asked him about the tattoo, and he's like, oh, this is Ferdinand

Speaker 1 the bull.

Speaker 1 The caption was like, me when I

Speaker 1 open up to the world about my sensitive issues or whatever. This is, yeah, this is Ferdinand the bull.
It's a children's story. He's a bull who doesn't want to go to the bullfight, but he does anyway.

Speaker 1 And Carson Daly goes, cool. Anyway.

Speaker 1 And you just see Elliot Schmidt flight. Like, just like,

Speaker 1 I'm never opening up again. Yeah.
Talk to you. I thought I could trust you, Carson Daly.

Speaker 1 And that's like Carson Daly, he had a late-night show that like slowly devolved. Bless you.

Speaker 1 It was sort of like the Cindy Margolis show.

Speaker 1 Didn't it become him just that like he'd be walking around a market somewhere where he used to be?

Speaker 1 I think it started with an audience. Yeah.
And then they had given him like a... the sweetheart contract and couldn't take him off the air.

Speaker 1 And he was like, well, no, he would just like pre-tape his show walking around. Yeah.
And just throwing music videos or bands playing. And he,

Speaker 1 like, wasn't he on after the late ⁇ like, wasn't there a late show and then a later show?

Speaker 1 He was on a 1.30, yeah. Yeah, he was on at 1.30.
Tough slot. Tough slot.
What a career. What a career.

Speaker 1 What's he doing now? Is he hosting. He's dead.

Speaker 1 He might be dead.

Speaker 1 No, he's hosting some

Speaker 1 reality show. Like the Max Singer or something.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
I feel like that's the zone for him.

Speaker 1 Boy, there's a bunch of like game shows and reality shows out there that I've never seen, and they're coming out with new ones all the time. And

Speaker 1 I was watching The Floor quite a bit. See, I don't even know what that is.
That's hosted by Rob Lowe, and it's a giant floor.

Speaker 1 And you get, and you try to, you challenge like the person next to you on the floor, and you get their square on the floor. Have you watched this? I've seen it.
I thought it was like the Floor's Lava.

Speaker 1 No, that's different. Oh, is that one called The Flourish Lava? There's one called The Floor's Lava.
That's like a whatever, double-dare-style show.

Speaker 1 But this one is,

Speaker 1 I watched it with the kids for a while, and even now it's like too stupid for them.

Speaker 1 Not that my kids are stupid. That came out wrong.
Oh my God, oh my God. Dave gets canceled again.

Speaker 1 But like, it's so,

Speaker 1 it's, it, because I was like, oh, I love game shows. This may be one to get them into because it's not too challenging.
Yeah. But it would literally be like,

Speaker 1 okay, we are going. The category is kitchen utensils.
And they show a spoon on the screen and the person goes, spoon.

Speaker 1 Spatula.

Speaker 1 Rice cooker.

Speaker 1 And that's literally the whole. It's Rob Lowe hosting? It's Rob Lowe, but it's like you're just, the clock is running.
And if you can't name the thing, you got to say pass.

Speaker 1 And that costs you three seconds. And then the next thing comes up.
What was the one Alec Baldwin was hosting? What did he host? Oh. Well, he did movies.
Shooting blanks, I think. Was shooting blanks.

Speaker 1 Was that the one?

Speaker 1 Oh, I got you. Took me a second.

Speaker 1 He did the new match game, didn't he? Oh, that's what it was. And then was he also on.
Did he do the marriage ref with no? That was Tom Papa. Tom Papa was.
Do you remember the marriage ref? No.

Speaker 1 It was ill-conceived. It was a Jerry Seinfeld game show.

Speaker 1 Say no more. Shaking his hand.

Speaker 1 Did you guys see Unfrosted? No. No.
Did you?

Speaker 1 I

Speaker 1 watched a little bit of it with Ivan Decker. We tried to watch it, and we were about like 25 minutes in, and I was like, because it was his suggestion.

Speaker 1 And I was like, can we please stop watching this?

Speaker 1 And he's like, yeah. And I asked, I saw Ivan last night, and I said, did you ever end up finishing it? He was like, no, I didn't.
I thought he would because he loves Seinfeld.

Speaker 1 It was pretty bad. What was the circumstance where you and Ivan were picking a movie to watch? I crashed at his house.
Okay. Yeah, I was sleeping on his couch.

Speaker 1 But so Ivan and i were sitting on the couch watching unfrosted and we didn't finish that and then we switched over to uh battlestar galactica is that the cult classic movie uh

Speaker 1 no no it's a it's a tv show yeah now there's a battlefield earth no i haven't seen that i'd love to it's pretty it's fun to watch yeah yeah isn't it

Speaker 1 right that was a bomb yeah yeah it's the scientology one oh yeah it's like a thinly veiled scientology or is it do they actually say scientology in it i don't think they say the word Scientology, but it's written by L.

Speaker 1 Ron Hubbard. Oh, it is written by him? Yeah.
And it's like supposed to be the, it's a sci-fi story, but it has a bunch of the roots of Scientology in it. What's the one we watched?

Speaker 1 Did you look that up?

Speaker 1 I want to remember the one I actually watched. Denise Richards is in it.
It's like a space movie, a space movie. Oh, Starship Troopers.
Starship Troopers. Yeah, yeah.
That's good.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So that was pretty good.
I'd never seen that before. Pretty funny.
It's funny. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 you get to see some butts. They shower together in the movie.
And there's a,

Speaker 1 I was just asking

Speaker 1 the circumstance because I can't remember the time like a friend, like, I've gone to movies with friends and I've watched like sporting events with friends. But the idea of like, Graham, come over.

Speaker 1 Let's pick a movie to watch. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's see if Unfrosted lives up to the hype. It was actually interesting because I haven't crashed at somebody's house like that in a while.

Speaker 1 So I was just on his couch. So yeah, I was wondering, like, what are we going to to do here? He's like, You want to watch a movie?

Speaker 1 It did feel very novel. I was like, I guess.
Yeah. And then I hadn't had the feeling in a while of not wanting to watch the movie that somebody else picked.
He's like, You want to watch Reinfrosted?

Speaker 1 And I'm like, No, not at all.

Speaker 1 Sure. I remember when Abby's brother

Speaker 1 was here, like, lived in Vancouver.

Speaker 1 She Abby and her brother lived together, my wife, and they had other roommates. And one of them was this guy from Wales.
And he always was like, Oh, guys, can we watch Shaolin soccer?

Speaker 1 I don't even know that.

Speaker 1 And it's a, it's apparently a really ton of really great stunts in this movie. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And we would always laugh and say, hmm, what should we watch? And we would like hold up two DVDs, and one would be Shaolin soccer. No, we're not going to do that tonight.

Speaker 1 And we would watch anything but Shaolin soccer. And then once he was out of town, and we were like, we should watch Shaolin Soccer without him.

Speaker 1 Oh, I don't think we ever did though um yeah i can see that being a movie you would watch with loved ones it's uh it's fine anyway so this episode is a whole lot of uh hey have you seen this yeah well have you seen this have you heard about this guy um so what's going on with you graham well i was watching shaolin soccer the other day

Speaker 1 i went uh i went on a whirlwind tour of ireland ireland and northern ireland last week and uh because this summer you went to europe yeah and you were planning to go to France, Berlin, Berlin, and Ireland.

Speaker 1 And Ireland. Just on your own?

Speaker 1 My wife and I.

Speaker 1 And no,

Speaker 1 I was like, you stay home. I'm going to go find myself.

Speaker 1 But yeah,

Speaker 1 that trip was cut short. Cut short by a

Speaker 1 visit to the hospital. Long story short, didn't make it to Ireland.

Speaker 1 And I was like, I actually bet your uh dad's wife that Graham would never make I bet her ten dollars that Graham's never gonna make it to Ireland.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and you know what you have to eat your words because I made it why'd you have to go to the hospital? Uh oh long story short,

Speaker 1 it was an accident. And anyways, I don't want to talk about it.
I'll tell you off air because they're still trying to figure out the insurance part of this whole debacle. I got you.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I went to Ireland. Have you been? Have you ever been to Ireland? No.
It's a blast. Yeah.
It's a blast. You go there for a week.
You can pack in a lot of stuff. But they're tiny places.

Speaker 1 Ireland and Northern Ireland. Ireland and Northern Ireland.
You can zip on a train.

Speaker 1 It's a blast.

Speaker 1 That's true. Oh, the Troubles.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I went on a tour, went on a walking tour of the Troubles. This is where this happened.

Speaker 1 Is that in Ireland or Northern Ireland? Northern Ireland, in Belfast, to go on a walking tour. And it was funny because the walking tour started at City Hall

Speaker 1 and that day just happened to be their date of Remembrance Day. And the guy was talking about, and this is very momentous because this person's meeting this person for the first time.

Speaker 1 And he's like, and this woman's very, oh, she's right over there. She's walking out as soon as he's saying it.

Speaker 1 So that was fun going on a walking tour. I've never gone on a walking tour ever before.
I've been on hop on, hop-off tours, but

Speaker 1 you've never done a walking tour.

Speaker 1 No. I can't think of a.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't think that's a good thing. You haven't done the damn freedom trail in Boston?

Speaker 1 Did you? Hell yeah.

Speaker 1 But yeah, it was fun. And you ever done like a ghost tour? No, I've never done it.
No, I did one on a bus. Oh, yeah.
You love bus tours.

Speaker 1 But walking tour, no.

Speaker 1 And you know what? This was long. It was over two hours and it was like, it was hot.
Did you get your steps in? Yeah, I closed the loop. Is that what it's called? When they do 10,000 steps.

Speaker 1 Did you see the influencer that was doing her steps on the plane? Everybody hated it. Anyways, just came out this morning.

Speaker 1 It'll be old news by the time this gets released. But

Speaker 1 yeah, I packed in a lot of stuff, did a walking tour, did some, I did a walk up the side of a mountain that I can't believe I did because I don't like heights whatsoever. And

Speaker 1 where was that? That was at Giants' Causeway. Went to the Giants' Causeway,

Speaker 1 which is

Speaker 1 a series of kind of cliffs and stuff that are these very like weird-shaped rock, kind of like octagon,

Speaker 1 I don't know, pole. I don't know how to say like

Speaker 1 cliffs. They're like, you can walk on them and they're kind of like steps.
They're octagons. Yeah, they're octagons.
Thank you. That's the word I was looking for.

Speaker 1 I went to a famous graveyard, and then there was a famous. Who's buried there?

Speaker 1 A bunch of Irish people I've never heard of. But I mean, if you knew knew your Irish history, boy, oh boy, was that walk to be remembered? Rob Royce? Rob Roy was there.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Bono's grave is there. It's Richie Borough.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 it wasn't part of the walkie tour, but he's somewhere in Ireland, right? Probably Dublin. Oh, yeah.
He probably has two houses, one in Dublin and one in, you know, the Moors.

Speaker 1 No way Bono still lives in Ireland, you think? Yeah. Yeah.
Where would he live? And Van Morrison, he he lives in Northern Ireland, he's flying his hat back and forth.

Speaker 1 That's Bono. I would have thought, like, Bono is in some castle in Spain or something, just with

Speaker 1 he is, but he's got a place in Ireland, a place to crash in Ireland. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And when he's in LA, he stays on Ivan Deck's couch.

Speaker 1 Ivan, I've heard really good things about unfrosted mate.

Speaker 1 Um, but uh, also is this on Netflix? Or I was on Paramount Plus and I still haven't found what I'm looking for. Ah, there it is.

Speaker 1 Where am I? The streets have no freaking name over here, babe. Oh, that was part of the walking tour.
Was that that song came from like

Speaker 1 trying to prevent an attack by taking down all the street names so nobody knew where things were taking place. And that's the basis of that song.

Speaker 1 See, this is, I took stuff away from the walking tour. Did you go to the Sunday, Bondy, Bloody, Sunday?

Speaker 1 That was part of it as well. Yeah.
Thing where the street where Sunday, Bloody Sunday happened. And

Speaker 1 the thing is,

Speaker 1 do they have an ice cream shop there?

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 1 And they have a special every,

Speaker 1 let's say, Good Friday. I don't know when that happened.
Maybe a Sunday.

Speaker 1 But the thing that I found about Irish people, I love them. They're great.

Speaker 1 It's easy to start a conversation with anybody and it doesn't have to be a long conversation but having just conversations on the go found out i love that that doesn't happen in vancouver ever

Speaker 1 are they friendly or are they like a bit mean nope very friendly and the but like they'll tell you there was one guy i had a conversation with he told me his whole sad life story inside of like two minutes and then see you later like it wasn't

Speaker 1 and like it was in the graveyard walking around and this guy just walked by walking his dog and he was like, oh, what grave are you looking for? We're like, no, we're just we're looking around.

Speaker 1 He's like, you want to see Harry Potter's grave? And I was like, yeah, sure. And there was a guy named Harry Potter that was buried there.
And then he gave us a tour. He's like, check this out.

Speaker 1 There was this big uprising here. And this guy.

Speaker 1 In the graveyard? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 And he was like, this uprising happened here. And one person got killed.
And they're right over there in this grave. And it was like fun.
And then he just walked away.

Speaker 1 It was like, took us on a MIDI tour of the graveyard.

Speaker 1 i love it i love and you were like actually we're waiting for the sun to go down so we can have some goth sex yeah yeah and it was close enough talked over that the monster match wasn't far in the rear view um did you kiss the blarney stone yep i licked it everybody else was swooching it i got in there used tongue

Speaker 1 and uh when everybody was watching i humped the blarney stone did you really yeah yeah yeah of course what is it sounding like

Speaker 1 did you what did you actually know okay

Speaker 1 i don't know. It's a big rock.
A big rock that people kiss for luck. You know, you kiss it, it gives you the gift of gab.

Speaker 1 And everybody in Ireland has kissed this stone because, man, they can gab. Yeah.
Yeah. I love it.
It's, you've been to the Maritimes, right? You've tried to Newfoundland like three weeks ago.

Speaker 1 I was going to ask you if you felt any similarity. Absolutely.
Yeah. Yeah.
Newfoundland is like, is

Speaker 1 for sure like kind of Ireland-like. Yeah.
Yeah. But like just the fact that you can just stop, have a chat.
Okay. Well, got to get going.

Speaker 1 The

Speaker 1 boy, why did I interrupt? I don't know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 There's a radio, I think she's a radio DJ, and she does a bit where she calls somebody in the Maritimes and just says, What are you having for dinner?

Speaker 1 And then the person will just chat away, and she sees how long they'll chat before they ask, Who is this?

Speaker 1 That's great. Is she in the Maritimes too?

Speaker 1 I don't know where she is. She calls, she's like got connections to the Maritimes, so she calls there and just asks, like, one question, like, whoa, quite a a storm last night.
Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 I saw this.

Speaker 1 Can you drink Guinness anymore with your?

Speaker 1 I had a sip. Uh-huh.
It's got gluten in it, but

Speaker 1 I had a sip. But there's, it's like drinking one Guinness.

Speaker 1 That's like a whole meal. That's like eating a loaf of bread.
You see people in Ireland? Six, seven glasses. I don't understand how their bodies can take it.
Oh, I heard that that's actually not true.

Speaker 1 What? That it's not like a meal. Oh, no.
I mean, just sitting-wise, like by the way it it sits in your stomach.

Speaker 1 I saw this video. This was one of my last days on Twitter.

Speaker 1 This video was posted of a bartender pouring Guinness and then using like a little piece of wood, like

Speaker 1 a stir stick to like just push the little bit of head off the top of it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And like with three or four glasses in a row. And the caption was, Lock this person up.

Speaker 1 And I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it. No, me neither.
I mean, it's there's a way to do it, but I couldn't tell you the right way to

Speaker 1 or a Guinness. No, but I love Guinness.
Do you? Oh, yeah. I've wanted to go to Ireland for years, so

Speaker 1 you're only a firm in it. Yeah, I actually did an exchange term when I was in university and I went to Australia,

Speaker 1 but it was my first choice, and my second choice was Ireland. So if I hadn't gotten Australia, I would have gone there.
My third choice was Denmark. Aarhus, Denmark.
But anyway, I've always

Speaker 1 wanted to go. Like, I just feel like, same thing you just said.
I feel like I would just fall in love with it the second. Anyone I know who's gone there

Speaker 1 in Ireland. It was amazing.
Yeah. Yeah.
I love Australia. What was your favorite part about Australia?

Speaker 1 I mean, it's beautiful. Like, the country itself is just so gorgeous.
And I was also, it was my first time leaving home. I was like 21, 20 years old.
I was away for the first time.

Speaker 1 So, and it was like before, like, I didn't have a phone while I was there, so it was before phone addiction really kicked in.

Speaker 1 So idea, like, in my mind, I was just gone from, you know, I was on the other side of the world, just

Speaker 1 doing my thing, you know? I love phone addiction. Yeah, that's one of my favorites.

Speaker 1 That's cool, man.

Speaker 1 So you had a sip of Guinness? Is it like a dietary thing where you can't? Can't handle the gluten anymore. I got it.
Yeah, that would be rough. But you still just had to have a sip.

Speaker 1 You had to, absolutely. And go to the Guinness Factory that's there? I went to the Jameson Distillery.
Ooh. That was because you got free, not free, but you got to drink during this tour.

Speaker 1 And they're like, this is take a, you know, sample of these three drinks and tell me which one you like better. And I was like, I love them all.
Keep them coming.

Speaker 1 And that was more of a stumbling tour than a walking tour.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I didn't go to the Guinness one because they make you drink a Guinness at the end of it. And I was like, I don't want to be the person who's like, I can't.
I can't have it.

Speaker 1 Drink the Guinness. Okay, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 But yeah, can't recommend recommend a trip to Ireland and Northern Ireland enough. Blast, I got to stay with my relatives, my aunt and uncle.
They live way in the north. They live on the beach.

Speaker 1 Just walk out of the door, you're on the beach into the freezing, freezing, cold Atlantic.

Speaker 1 Northern Ireland. Boy, this sounds stupid.
Attached to Ireland?

Speaker 1 It's attached to the mainland. So yeah, like they're not.

Speaker 1 I don't think they're connected, but you can take a train between one and the other.

Speaker 1 But not attached to England. No, England's its own Ireland.
Sure, sure, sure, sure.

Speaker 1 So Ireland's still part of the EU, right? No, Northern Ireland is. No, Ireland is the EU.
Ireland, yeah, Ireland is still part of the EU. Yeah, they didn't, they said no to Brexit.

Speaker 1 We're going to stay.

Speaker 1 Were they offered Brexit? Yeah, I think they probably. Do you guys want to hop on? And they said, no, you know, you've been good to us this whole time, England.

Speaker 1 But we're going to sit this one out. Yeah, yeah.
we'll just owe you.

Speaker 1 But yeah, great time. Now that you've gone there, there's a book I read last year that I really loved about the troubles in Ireland called Say Nothing.

Speaker 1 Say Nothing, yeah. Have you read that? No, but I've had it recommended.
Oh, okay. Really good.

Speaker 1 So now that you've actually been there, you might be able to piece it together with things you saw on your walk-in tour and everything.

Speaker 1 I remember nothing about it, but it was great. It's a TV show now as well.
Oh, really? Say Nothing, yeah.

Speaker 1 Is it on Jim? Can I get it on Jim? I don't know. You got to find your login.
I don't know where you're logged in. I know.
I don't have my login, but I want to see the Joe McHale food mystery show.

Speaker 1 Actually, he's the star of.

Speaker 1 That guy's everywhere.

Speaker 1 It's on.

Speaker 1 Boy, it might be on Apple TV here in Canada. Oh, baby.
Okay. All right.

Speaker 1 Well, I'll be watching that by the time this comes. Oh, I think it's on Disney Plus.
You know what? In the States, it's on Hulu and FX. In Canada, it's unclear.
Anybody's guess?

Speaker 1 Well, do you guys want to move on to some overheards? Yar. Yar.

Speaker 1 You know I do.

Speaker 1 Hello. Hey, is this Meredith? This is.
This is Alex Schmidt from Secretly Incredibly Fascinating. I'm Clone because you have been named the Maximum Fun member of the month for the month of December.

Speaker 1 Hooray!

Speaker 1 Yeah, as the member of the month, you are going to get a $25 gift card to the maximum fund store.

Speaker 1 You get a special member of the month bumper sticker, and you get to use a special parking spot at the Maximum Fund headquarters in Los Angeles, California.

Speaker 1 Definitely getting plenty of return on my investment. I have not worked through all the bonus content yet.

Speaker 1 If you're a Max Fund member, you can become the next Max Fund member of the month. Support us at maximumfund.org slash join.

Speaker 2 Hello, teachers and faculty.

Speaker 3 This is Janet Varney. I'm here to remind you that listening to my podcast, The JV Club with Janet Varney, is part of the curriculum for the school year.

Speaker 3 Learning about the teenage years of such guests as Allison Bree, Vicki Peterson, John Hodgman, and so many more is a valuable and enriching experience.

Speaker 3 One you have no choice but to embrace, because yes, listening is mandatory. The JV Club with Janet Varney is available every Thursday on Maximum Fund or wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you.

Speaker 4 And remember, no running in the halls.

Speaker 1 Overheard.

Speaker 1 Overheard's a segment of the show where if you hear it, we want to hear it too. It's only fair.
And we always like to start with the guest. DJ, do you have an overheard?

Speaker 1 Well, as you know, I've been on the show, what, 25 times? Yeah, 25 times at least. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I can't hear. I'm struggling to just hear.
Never mind. Over here.

Speaker 1 So I was thinking about what I would bring to this segment. And what came to mind was

Speaker 1 it's kind of a variation on Overheard, but a couple weeks ago I had a show in Toronto. Yeah.
And one of my openers had left their

Speaker 1 water, like glass of water on the stage. And then I had mine on it.
There were two stools on stage. And I had one on mine on the left stool.
And then this person had left theirs on the right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I didn't know.

Speaker 1 And there was somebody in the crowd, they told me after the show, who for like 10 minutes, I would like grab this glass of water and then almost take a sip and then not take a sip and put it down.

Speaker 1 But I didn't know. And they would be like, that's not your water.
They were calling out from the crowd, but I couldn't hear because I don't hear that well on stage.

Speaker 1 But for like 10 minutes, three or four times, every time I grabbed it, they yelled out, it's not your water, DJ.

Speaker 1 And then finally, after like 10 minutes, I finally took a drink of it.

Speaker 1 And then after I took a sip, I was like, I realized in that moment, I'm like, oh, that's not my water.

Speaker 1 And the whole crowd laughed so hard because they had been hearing this guy for the last 10 minutes telling me that's not your water. But I was so confused.
I'm like, why are they laughing so hard?

Speaker 1 Because I hadn't said yet, oh, I don't think that's my water. I had just had the realization in my head.

Speaker 1 And then I found out after that this guy had been yelling at me, literally, like in increasingly yelling, like he was getting louder every time.

Speaker 1 He was feeling panic on my end. Yeah.
Like he was feeling secondhand panic, like he can't drink that water. It's not his.
That's like a very high concept bit that you could have planned out.

Speaker 1 Like, oh, but I can't hear him, but he will be shouting. There are two waters.
Yeah. So, yeah, the whole crowd overheard him.
Yeah. Or heard him, and I underheard him.
But,

Speaker 1 yeah, end up. The stakes were very low.
The weather was fine. My opening comic didn't have any life-threatening illness.

Speaker 1 That's hilarious.

Speaker 1 I'm surprised you didn't get a standing ovation for that. That's quite a bit.
I ended the show early. I walked off after that.
I had another 45 minutes with David.

Speaker 1 we're done, guys. I'm walking.

Speaker 1 Dave, do you have an overheard? No.

Speaker 1 Again, it's been sort of a mid-November.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 But what I did do is I bought a...

Speaker 1 Have you ever heard of wrap snacks? Yep. The chips and whatnot.
Chips and pretzels or whatever. Little different...
salty snacks that have a different wrapper

Speaker 1 like hip-hop artist on the wrapper on the the bag and uh

Speaker 1 i uh

Speaker 1 and so i bought a bag of nicky minaj wrap snacks they have sort of a honey barbecue flavor chip nice baby they're really good um

Speaker 1 and uh

Speaker 1 what made me laugh was in canada we have everything written in english and french on every uh every package And so, like, not only is it, I don't actually remember what rap snacks were called in French, but on the back they had had some Nicki Minaj lyrics.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. And so they translated them into French.
And? Well, here's it in English. Because I'm still hood.
Hollywood couldn't change me. Shout out to my haters.
Sorry that you couldn't phase me.

Speaker 1 And in French, Je sui encour de la ru.

Speaker 1 Hollywood ne pas ne ma pas changer. Les ein

Speaker 1 je vous sali.

Speaker 1 Je sui desule de ne pas vous avoir a ma auteur. Nice.

Speaker 1 Instead of saying you couldn't phase sentiment,

Speaker 1 instead of saying my haters, sorry you couldn't phase me, she's saying, sorry that you can't rise to my level.

Speaker 1 Great song, by the way, that those lyrics are from. Yeah, yeah.
I forget what one that I just heard Drake on that one, but I listened to that song a lot. Yeah? Yeah, for real.

Speaker 1 That's such a great verse. Hollywood couldn't change.
I think it's Moment for Life, but it might be another one that they're on together, which I forget the name of.

Speaker 1 It's Moment for Life. It is?

Speaker 1 Nice, great. Nikki Minaj, really, you got to give it to her.

Speaker 1 You got to tip your hat, you got to take your hat off. You got to take your hat off to Nicki Minaj.

Speaker 1 I mean, Graham will get to you, but it just occurred to me that we haven't asked DJ what's new with John Mayer. Oh, yeah, what's new with John Mayer? Yeah,

Speaker 1 for the new listener, DJ is our

Speaker 1 John Mayer correspondent, the first person I ever met who likes John Mayer and loves John Mayer. Really, first person? I think so.

Speaker 1 Wow. And,

Speaker 1 you know, not

Speaker 1 the the

Speaker 1 finest-tuned ears.

Speaker 1 You know, I have considered that before, how my musical taste, you know, people might not give much credence to it due to my disability. Sure.
And that's wrong of them. That's very wrong.

Speaker 1 That's wrong.

Speaker 1 He's getting all the right notes. You know who

Speaker 1 couldn't hear so great? Ludwig van Beethoven.

Speaker 1 And also Jesus Christ. So think about that.
yeah you know did jesus christ have hearing issues i don't know i wasn't there

Speaker 1 they read these first-hand accounts i don't know people were hearing it can you turn this water into wine sorry one more time what do you what do you want me to do there

Speaker 1 um no i was asking you to turn this water into pine

Speaker 1 Well, John Mayer hasn't released a new album since I last spoke to you guys, but he hosts a show on Sirius XM. I don't have a a subscription, so I haven't listened to it but he has a lot of stuff.

Speaker 1 Well, you get a, it's free right now. Is it? Yeah, Sirius is free in my car.
Oh. So you want a car?

Speaker 1 Well, I didn't realize, I got a new

Speaker 1 New To Me car in May, and I didn't realize I had a free SiriusXM subscription on it until I got an email from them telling me it was over. I was like, damn, I'm not done.

Speaker 1 But you know what? I've been watching a lot lately, and I still listen to John Mayer. Do you know what's funny?

Speaker 1 I put on a best of John Mayer last Sunday while I was doing the dishes and cleaning and everything. And the best of was literally just all of his songs.
That's how good he is.

Speaker 1 It was like every album on there.

Speaker 1 I was going to say, oh, was it a, did you only have like two dishes to sing? No, no. John Mayer is the man.
But I've been watching this version of

Speaker 1 Ed Sheeran,

Speaker 1 another legend. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, what's his big song? Thinking Out Loud. Oh, sure.
And it's from like 2016 or 17. He's performing it at the Grammys, and John Mayer is doing backup guitar on it.
And

Speaker 1 he's so generous. He could be on the dead run.
He's on the center stage. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 He's willing to help, which is nice. Quest Love is on the drums, and then an absolute legend is on the piano, and I can't remember who

Speaker 1 it is. No,

Speaker 1 it's like a real, like,

Speaker 1 I forget his name. Billy Charles.
Billy Joel. I honestly, I'm going to look.
Can you look it up, Dave? Do you mind? Okay,

Speaker 1 look up Ed Sheeran and John Mayer, just because you're so quick on the

Speaker 1 at the Grammys. But what's amazing about this performance is: first of all, I love Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sharon.
But then John Mayer. Where does that one go?

Speaker 1 You actually want, you know, it and you just want to hear me sing. Is that what's happening right now?

Speaker 1 I don't. Is it? Oh.

Speaker 1 When my legs don't work like they used to before. You know that one? Nope.
No? And I can't pick you up off your feet.

Speaker 1 He got sued by the Marvin Gaye Estate for it sounding similar to

Speaker 1 Blurred Lines. Forget which time.
But he won. Did he?

Speaker 1 Oh, he won. Is it the one that goes,

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 17.

Speaker 1 That's right.

Speaker 1 And there's the two Filipino kids who have this version that went viral of them. It's like an older brother and

Speaker 1 his younger sister, brother, I think, singing it. And he's like encouraging her to really sweet video.
That's nice. But the legend who's on piano in that John Mayer song, he hits a lick.

Speaker 1 He hits his note, John Mayer does, at one point, and you see the guy on the piano behind him and go,

Speaker 1 just like so impressed

Speaker 1 with the note that uh John Mayer it's hard because apparently they've performed this many times oh yeah they uh

Speaker 1 they're buddies you sure it's at the Grammys yeah I'm gonna find it for you oh it's from

Speaker 1 yeah it's from

Speaker 1 James Corden was presenting oh wow what a powerhouse Herbie Hancock oh Herbie Hancock okay Herbie Hancock Certified Legend was impressed by John Mayer's guitar playing so you know you you can make fun of John Mayer all you want, but Herbie fucking Hancock is giving a look like that when you hit that note.

Speaker 1 That's all I knew. Okay.
You know what? I won't make fun of him ever again.

Speaker 1 Now, my Overheard, courtesy of a bunch of lads in a pub in Ireland. Oh, this must have been Overheard Central.
It was. And this was one that I just caught just a clip of.

Speaker 1 But he was responding to his friend, and he said, diarrhea, I was strapped to the toilet.

Speaker 1 You're sitting on that and then you I

Speaker 1 asked DJ for a 10-minute story about John Mayer and I'm sitting here just salivating ready to go

Speaker 1 But yeah, it was over at Central, but that was one of the greats

Speaker 1 strapped to the toilet gonna use it. Oh, yeah That's new new lingo I'm gonna be trying strap to the toilet strap to the toilet.
Yeah

Speaker 1 that feels like the the kind of session where he was like peeling off clothing during it. Oh, yeah.
And you have one of those long toilet sessions and you're naked by the end of it. Yeah, sure.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we've all been there.

Speaker 1 I definitely was on my phone a couple days ago in the bathroom, and my legs both fell asleep. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. And I was like, oh, I got to get up, but I could barely get up because of these legs.

Speaker 1 Sam, that's too intimate. What?

Speaker 1 That's why I want the listeners to feel comfortable talking about their diarrhea stories.

Speaker 1 Send us in your best diarrhea story.

Speaker 1 No, well,

Speaker 1 don't.

Speaker 1 You will give one the counterpoint.

Speaker 1 Keep that to yourself.

Speaker 1 Now, we also have overheard sent into us by people all over the world. If you want to send one in, send it into spy at maximumfund.org.

Speaker 1 This first one comes from where you're living right now, Andrea C. in Toronto.

Speaker 1 My mother and I were doing one of those online quizzes where you have to correctly identify a movie after being shown a single frame from the film.

Speaker 1 At one point, an image popped up from the Rick Moranis classic, Honey I Shrunk the Kids. My mother immediately yelled out, Oh, I know, that's from what's it called? Make the People Small.

Speaker 1 You're in the ballpark, absolutely. Yeah, make the people.
That's probably a working title at some point. Yeah,

Speaker 1 Honey I Shrunk the People's Small People

Speaker 1 feature.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Honey, I shrank the kids is a great title. Probably one of the best.
Like, you'd sell a script just on that name. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Like Snakes on a Plane.

Speaker 1 Like, it's such a good title that you're like,

Speaker 1 I'm interested. Honey is a really pleasing word, too.
Yeah. It's delicious.
You feel good when you hear honey. Yeah.
It's warm.

Speaker 1 Have you ever seen it?

Speaker 1 I have, but when I was really young, I don't remember it that well. That's when I showed to my kids that they liked.
They thought it was good? Yeah. Nice.
A lot of practical effects in that.

Speaker 1 Oh, and they noticed. Yeah.
The giant Cheerio. The giant ant.
The giant ant.

Speaker 1 The giant Lego piece that they sleep in. They hold the giant, do they hold like a piece of Oreo in front of the giant ant to make it walk?

Speaker 1 Yeah, and isn't, don't they fall into an Oreo or something or something? They eat like a bunch of Oreo filling. God damn.
It's one you could watch with your kid. Yeah, I'll put it on.

Speaker 1 I just, I totally forgot a few years ago, Rick Moranis got punched on the street randomly. That's right.
Just came in. New York, right? Yeah.
Yeah. Who punches Rick Moranis? Fucking, I don't know.

Speaker 1 Somebody who thought, hey, he's regular size. I'm going to knock him down to

Speaker 1 that honey of his. Yeah.
Because that's not good news. No.
It's like honey. Oh, okay.
Well, I'm listening. He said something nice.
I shrunk the kids. That actually outweighs the honey.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so much worse. You fucking shrunk the kids again?

Speaker 1 This next one comes from Michael from Ogden, Utah. We were walking past the Riverside Path in Austin, Texas, past a kids' baseball game, and heard an exasperated man's voice, Run, Grayson.

Speaker 1 You've got to run. No, the other Grayson.

Speaker 1 I'm ready to believe there are two Graysons in the same.

Speaker 1 Well, like, I remember when we had a Boston Terrier, people would, like, there was a group where you could have a Boston Terrier meetup, and all the everyone with similar dogs would meet up at a park.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I think they probably do Grayson meetups.
Yeah, absolutely. Bring your Grayson, B-Y-O-G.

Speaker 1 I've never met a Grayson personally, but I know it's a popular.

Speaker 1 I feel like it's a Grayson-Brayden

Speaker 1 kind of.

Speaker 1 A lot of these last names have become first names. Carter.
Carter. Oh, yeah.
Carter's a good.

Speaker 1 Yeah. My nephew's name is Grayden.

Speaker 1 Graydon? Yeah, I knew a Graydon growing up. Yeah.
I knew a Grady.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think I knew a Grady as well. Graydon Grady.

Speaker 1 I haven't since, though.

Speaker 1 I haven't met an adult named Graydon or Grady. No, they do.
They have very short lifespans.

Speaker 1 It's like a big dog. Yeah,

Speaker 1 if you see a Grady running, it means they're actually in trouble. It's not cute.
It's actually they're in distress. Yeah,

Speaker 1 it's sad, but it's the life that they have. It's a good life.
It's a good life. Yeah, while it lasts, absolutely.

Speaker 1 This last one comes from Kevin from Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.

Speaker 1 Father and son walked into a board game store I was shopping at. The dad sighed and said in an exasperated tone, You're always talking about Pokemon.
Get Pokemon out of your head.

Speaker 1 We're here for magic.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah.
This is the dad laying it down like, you're going to be a magician. No, I think it probably magic the gathering.
Oh, sure. Not just magic, magic.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think you're graduating from Pokemon to magic.

Speaker 1 It's cards, and then maybe Yu-Gi-Oh! is involved at some point. Yeah, he has to wait until he's older to get Yu-Gi-Oh! Yu-Gi-Oh! I I-Gio.
We all Gio for Yu-Gi-Oh!

Speaker 1 Pretty good.

Speaker 1 Do you ever do any card gaming?

Speaker 1 Not really, no. Me neither.
No? No, I feel like when I was younger, it wasn't Dungeons and Dragons was the thing. There was no like Magic the Gallery.

Speaker 1 Pokemon were just a little too old for Pokemon. Yeah.
Yeah, it was the in-between.

Speaker 1 But I didn't really do... I did a bit of Dungeons and Dragons when I was younger, and I loved it.

Speaker 1 I don't know why I don't do it as an adult, but I had friends who were really into the Pokemon Go stuff when it was a big craze like six or seven years ago, but sure I never got into it.

Speaker 1 Is that the one Pokemon Go is where you like? You Pokemon Go to the polls?

Speaker 1 It was you went somewhere, right? You had to go to where they were. Yeah, you would like see it on your phone right in front of you.
And you would see

Speaker 1 I was in Montreal doing the Comedy Nest one weekend and I was right by Atwater Station there, right where the club is. And I just saw like 50 people all running through the park there.

Speaker 1 And I was like, what the hell is going on? I asked somebody, and they're like, there's a Pokemon, there's a whatever, really valuable, precious Pokemon right there. So we're all running to get it.

Speaker 1 But did you follow the crowd, or you were like, nah. No, I mean, I didn't, I didn't see it.
I'm alert.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't know. You guys are crazy.
Yeah. You're chasing after this thing you can't even see.
Yeah, man. I'm going to chill.

Speaker 1 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.
Spypod 1, like these people have.

Speaker 5 Hey, Dave Graham, an assumed guest.

Speaker 1 This is Chris from Detroit. I was just out at a coffee shop where the baristas were having a confident yet ill-informed political conversation.

Speaker 1 And at one point, the one barista said to the other, Communism is Amazon, but nice.

Speaker 1 Well, off I go. Like Amazon.com? I think so.
Hmm. I wonder what that means.
I wonder what that means.

Speaker 1 Communism is Amazon but nice. But nice.
But make it nice. Be nice with it.
Yeah, but how, though? I think you're communism and then it comes to your house.

Speaker 1 I think it's nonsense. I don't think we're going to get to it.
We're not going to figure it out. No, because I honestly couldn't tell you what communism is.

Speaker 1 In terms of Amazon. Yeah, in terms of Amazon.
I don't like because in communism,

Speaker 1 famously, you'd have to line up for things, which is kind of the opposite of what Amazon does.

Speaker 1 Soviet Russia

Speaker 1 lineup stands for you.

Speaker 1 Oh, man.

Speaker 1 Does Amazon have some bad press or something? Because they've been nothing but good to me. No, they.

Speaker 1 I mean, yes, they do.

Speaker 1 They're famously terrible to work for.

Speaker 1 Maybe that's it. Maybe because it's terrible warfare.
Maybe communism is kind of the same. Maybe it's like, you know, communism's harder.
I don't

Speaker 1 know.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 1 Here's your next phone call. It's a very touchy subject.
Yeah, guys.

Speaker 1 Does communism have some bad press or something? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Wait, did I just rewind the show?

Speaker 1 Oh, wait, you said Amazon before? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Hi, DG and PG. This is Josh from Sonora, California, calling in with an overheard.

Speaker 1 So at the company I work for, we just renegotiated a new contract and there was an older guy who

Speaker 5 keeps up with all that kind of stuff. Younger guy comes up to him and says,

Speaker 5 hey, when do you think we're going to get our new boning sinus?

Speaker 1 And the old guy says, excuse me?

Speaker 5 Young guy has no idea what he said. He's doing this on accident.
He's like, our boning sinus.

Speaker 1 When do we get our boning sinus?

Speaker 5 And the old old guy says,

Speaker 1 are you messing with me?

Speaker 5 No, when do we get our boning sinus? And he's like, just repeat to yourself what you just said to me three times. And he goes, what?

Speaker 1 Anyway, that's it.

Speaker 1 Did that come through for you? Our boning sinus? Yeah, boning sinus. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You could see that, though, somebody like trying to make that into a bit. And the guy just being like, no, but come on.
You know, that it's not, we're not handing out sinuses for boning.

Speaker 1 Yeah, or sinuses for, yeah, yeah, my boning sinuses? Is that what he said? Boning sinus. Boning sinus.
He's trying to say signing bonus. Yeah.
But I can see how you would make that mistake.

Speaker 1 And then do you just, the more you repeat it, the more you're like, you don't hear that you're saying it wrong. What are you guys going to do with your

Speaker 1 boning sinus? No, I meant to say signing bonus.

Speaker 1 What are you going to do with your signing bonus? I'm going to get this Apple TV and check out these shows. The Jake Dylan Hall one and the other one that you guys said, horse.

Speaker 1 Horse losses.

Speaker 1 I'm going to get a spoiler. Huh? You're going to get a spoiler for your car? Yeah.
Nice. And it's going to tell me how all the movies end.

Speaker 1 How about you? What are you doing with your signing bonus?

Speaker 1 Do you think it would be a good bumper sticker if you had a spoiler on your car and you had a bumper that just said spoiler alert with like a sticker that said spoiler alert

Speaker 1 with a bumper? Don't just don't ruin it here. Trademark.
Trademark. Trademark.
Yeah, this is something that's going to make your big fortune.

Speaker 1 Sign with the big bumper label company.

Speaker 1 Get a big bony sign in.

Speaker 1 All right. Here's your final phone call.

Speaker 5 Hi, David Graham.

Speaker 5 I'm calling in with an overseen. I am driving right now through Chicago.

Speaker 5 I drove past a pickup truck that has on multiple places across the truck just the words, no liars, no cheats, no lazy dogs we're here to work no liars no cheats um and also he's trying to tow a second car behind him on just a loose piece of rope um and it's not going well so

Speaker 1 uh i don't i don't know is this anything

Speaker 1 it is

Speaker 1 also you want that rope to be taut you don't want a loose piece of rope

Speaker 1 i don't know how towing like how a car or truck like tow how towing works with a trailer or whatever uh oh you mean there's like not towing like uh a tow truck not a tow truck but like if you're like pulling yeah something behind it like this is this guy's using a rope yeah and it's also like does the guy in the if you're doing it with a rope does the guy behind you i mean there's no that's just a bad idea yeah oh no it's terrible it's a terrible idea but like if a trailer hits you're like they've sorted that all out i don't think i worry about it yeah yeah yeah the only thing is watching somebody back up with a trailer

Speaker 1 that is difficult stuff oh yeah yeah Especially in like big cities when you see somebody having to navigate like narrow alleyways and stuff, you're like, You couldn't pay me enough to do that. No.

Speaker 1 Because you got to, like, when you're backing up with the trailer, you got to turn the opposite way that you're going to be able to do that. Yeah,

Speaker 1 otherwise, it'll jackknife. Like, yeah.
And then once you've done that, you're in big trouble. So

Speaker 1 don't do it. If you got to avoid doing it, don't do it.
I get a lot of videos of people

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 towing a boat and then having to get it into the water

Speaker 1 and they screw up. Yeah.
So easy to screw that up, you know?

Speaker 1 This is

Speaker 1 the thing that you know makes me regret buying a boat. What? I know.
I'm a boat guy. Yeah, you're a boat guy.
It's tough. It's tough for me.

Speaker 1 You like to go out there and catch a big tuna.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I do tuna.
I do, you know, wakeboard. Yeah.
Oh, yeah, you do wakeboard. That's right.

Speaker 1 And sometimes you just like to get it out on the lake, just floor it, you know? And then

Speaker 1 it's, but it's dangerous though because Kevin O'Leary's still out there on the lakes. Kevin O'Leary is out hunting at night trying to kill people.

Speaker 1 Allegedly, allegedly. No, he's now he is doing it on purpose.
Yo, that's true. He's wonderful, that guy.

Speaker 1 Boy, I got to tell you, the two best days of owning a boat, the day you buy it, the day you sell it. You can't wait for that second day to kick in.

Speaker 1 Well, that brings us to the end of this here program. DJ, thank you very much for being our guest.
Thank you very much for having me, guys. Tell people where you'll be, what's going on.

Speaker 1 Are you touring around in December? Are you taking it easy in December? No, I'm around in December. I'm going to be in Phoenix December 5th to 7th.

Speaker 1 And I'll be in Batavia, Illinois from the 27th to the 29th, I believe. Check my website, djtomarish.com.

Speaker 1 And as Graham mentioned at the beginning of the episode, one more time, my TV show is on YouTube now for everyone to watch in America and beyond. So please watch it.

Speaker 1 We only made one season, but I'm really proud of it and I love it. And I think you will too.
Nice. Good plug.
As good as they come. My God.

Speaker 1 And as David mentioned earlier. Did you say David? No, Dave had.

Speaker 1 Okay. I heard David at first too, but then my brain said he must have said Dave had.
Yeah, Dave had. I should be a little slower and a little more forgiving of my friend Graham.

Speaker 1 Had mentioned at the beginning of the program, we're going to be doing a year-end show where you, the guest. Yeah.
And we'll give you some more details on how you can volunteer for that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we don't. This is not a paid.
By the way, this is a volunteer. This is a pro bona.
But it does count towards your volunteer hours. That's right.
And you can get a college credit. That's right.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 1 But thank you, everybody out there for listening. And you know what?

Speaker 1 We just want you to really take it easy, take it all in, enjoy the view, and come on back next week for another episode of Stop Podcasting Yourself.

Speaker 1 Maximum Fun, a worker-owned network of artist-owned shows supported directly by you.