Episode 921 - Mark Chavez

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 921 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark.

Speaker 1 And with me, as always, is a man who, even though it's, you know, Halloween's a distant memory, he still got some of that candy, Mr. Dave Shumka.
So much of it. It's disgusting.
The way.

Speaker 1 Well, first of all, I'd like to point out that

Speaker 1 I don't know if Mark and I made eyes at each other because we noticed you said weckled. You said welcome.
Really, really good. Welcome.
Wecklum to the show. Welcome.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 but we did have a Halloween. We had a happy Halloween, but it's what bugs me is that there's like 10 potential candy like chocolate bars and you just get them over and over.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What's with the collect selection? I don't know, but there's like you can get

Speaker 1 when I was at the drugstore, Shopper's Drug Mark, Canada's Drugstore, I think. Everything you want in a drugstore.
Absolutely. Canada's Walgreens.
Yes.

Speaker 1 There was weird. There were like off-brand like suckers or lollipops.

Speaker 1 What is the main brand of sucker or lollipops? I mean, I would say Tootsie would be the, you know,

Speaker 1 my go-to sucker. What's your,

Speaker 1 boy, if especially especially if you're reading like a screenplay book, Tootsie is all over it. If you're like,

Speaker 1 how to write a comedy in 1982.

Speaker 1 But yeah, they had those, and then they had the Halloween kisses, they call them, the little molasses guys. I've been, every kid who came to the door, I was like, can't I give you a Halloween kiss?

Speaker 1 And that's why Dave just got bailed out of prison.

Speaker 1 But we also, so we handed out those standards.

Speaker 1 The big four, the box that is the most common is coffee crisp coffee crisp karaoke arrow and smarties yeah we handed out uh uh snickers twix

Speaker 1 to others yeah uh we avoid the snickers because it's a nut

Speaker 1 so you don't give it you don't give it out i don't give it out because you know we don't want to be

Speaker 1 i had to do when i was a kid we'd have to do like a swap and plus like the day after halloween everyone starts no nut november

Speaker 1 and then but we gave away

Speaker 1 those standards, but then we also got little ring pops. Oh, nice.

Speaker 1 And then weird sort of like, they looked like hamburgers made of gummy. Oh, yeah.
Like the bunch of components.

Speaker 1 Those were popular. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, that person you were talking earlier, that's our guest for the show this evening.

Speaker 1 He's a very funny man. I do listen in the evening.

Speaker 1 He's co-host of The Town Show. He is part of the Sunday service that just celebrated its 20th year here on Earth.
Wow. Mark Chavez.
Thank you for having me. 20 years.
20 years. Damn it.

Speaker 1 20 years of an improv show. I have not been involved for 20 years.
No. No, no, not me.

Speaker 1 Most of the members haven't. Yeah, I mean, it was started by Ryan and Taz.

Speaker 1 Was it Ryan Taz and then Kevin Lee? Was the next? He was the next. But I think it was Alistair Ryan.

Speaker 1 Oh, yes, Aleister. And then I think even Sean Devlin was there.
Sean Devlin was there. There were a couple of members

Speaker 1 briefly. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
But that was back in its early, early days when it was figuring itself out. Yeah.
And now it's a Cosmic Zoo. Well, no, it was at Wink.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's when I first guested with the Sunday service. At Wink? Yeah.
Wow. Yeah.
So I've been around. Because Wink didn't last long, a year, maybe.
Maybe, yeah. Because Wink's the one on 8th.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that owns their own building. Yeah.
Did we get to know us? No, we didn't, but let's get into it.

Speaker 1 Get to know us. So how many years do you think you've been with it? 15? No.
No. Last 10? 10? Probably officially, but guesting since, as I said, since the beginning.

Speaker 1 What brought you to Vancouver that you were guesting? What was going on? Back when I toured with Shanoa Allen in The Pajama Men. We just were in town and then

Speaker 1 we came and did

Speaker 1 the Canadian Fringe Festival circuit. Oh, and so my first time in Vancouver was 2001.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 that's when I maybe met them the next year or the following year.

Speaker 1 But you were part of a duo called The Pajama Man. And do you remember playing in, were you in the basement of a church at some point?

Speaker 1 In Victoria, we were. I'm sure he played many bass festivals.
Yeah, many churches.

Speaker 1 No, I mean here in Vancouver Festival.

Speaker 1 Here in Vancouver, I don't think we ever did a, we mostly performed on Granville Island.

Speaker 1 That's where the fringe was. And then there was a fringe was on Commercial Drive at one point, but I don't think we did a show there.
I don't know. Do you still wear pajamas?

Speaker 1 I still have a lot of pajamas. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Are they in your costume trunk?

Speaker 1 They're my tickle trunk. Do you sleep in? What do you sleep in?

Speaker 1 Jay sleeps in full pajamas. So this is not.
Oh, no, no, no. Not matching full pajamas.
Like, I wear long pajama pants. Yeah.
But you're top and bottom. No, no.
Just top? The top, no.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I just wear pajama tops. My tingling.

Speaker 1 No, I wear, no, I wear a t-shirt,

Speaker 1 but not a matching set.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's what I do. I usually wear a t-shirt and maybe a little pair of shorts, a little pair of light sleep shorts.
Last night I wore a little pair of shorts and a matching top robe thing that

Speaker 1 my partner got.

Speaker 1 If this was a

Speaker 1 magazine article,

Speaker 1 How the Pajama Man Sleeps. Yeah.
Oh, boy.

Speaker 1 That's like... That was our big question.
That's not the idea.

Speaker 1 That's sort of in the subtitle. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Did you... Why did you guys start wearing the pajamas? I'm sure you told me, but I cannot remember why.
We were doing it.

Speaker 1 It was

Speaker 1 Shinoa's idea, I believe.

Speaker 1 He wanted to do, we wanted to have a base costume. And the first thing he pitched, I remember, was

Speaker 1 like skin-tight clothes. Okay.
It's good that that was probably rejected. The skin-tight man? I was just way too self-conscious to do that.
Like, there's no way I would have done that.

Speaker 1 So looking at your penis the whole show? Oh, and just like, just body shame, just my own body shame. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, I just did not want to do that. So pajamas, Smart,

Speaker 1 like, like, privately off-mic, you got a slamming bod. Absolutely.
I was just going to say it's straight rocket.

Speaker 1 It's pretty slamming. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. I mean, I want to touch your abs, but that's rude, but if you're looking for them.
If you can find them, you can touch them.

Speaker 1 You're more than welcome.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So, yeah, and

Speaker 1 it just persisted. We weren't called the pajama man hilariously.
We were called sabotage. And then, like, we rebranded based on the pajamas.

Speaker 1 That's pretty good. Yeah, we toured for like 20 years.
That's a smart thing. Yeah, like, you know,

Speaker 1 we should have rebranded.

Speaker 1 Yeah, let's call ourselves the jeans guys. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But you don't always wear jeans. You wear always wear jeans.
Do you only wear jeans? Pretty much, yeah.

Speaker 1 I wear jeans mostly. Yeah.
Yeah. I don't, like, unless I have, I have two pairs of pants that go with a suit.
Yeah. Wow.
And then that's it. The rest is jeans.
Yeah. Jeans and cutoff jeans.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's my Dave. You've got many pants.
You're a man. Guys, let's not go into it.

Speaker 1 You've got a lot of jeans. Got a lot of khakis.
Some corduroy. Oh, boy, yeah.

Speaker 1 I love corduroy. Fabric.
Oh, fabric of the king, really.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so

Speaker 1 that's what I did. Now, now I just go to

Speaker 1 now. I just raise my son.

Speaker 1 Just raise your son. It's really the most important job there is.
It's the most important job, and I'm a perfect father. Good for you.
Yeah, I did it. So I went to see Frozen last night.

Speaker 1 At like Alive, Frozen. Alive, Frozen at the Arts Club.

Speaker 1 It wasn't like the play Alive, but Frozen.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 That'd be great. Frozen, Alive.
A lot of those guys did end up frozen in the movie Alive. They did.
Yeah. Because they ate the frozen bodies.
Yeah, they ate their butts.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they ate their frozen butts. Did they not eat

Speaker 1 if someone died and they were still warm, they didn't eat them? No, they waited. They were too good.
Yeah. Too tasty.

Speaker 1 And like, they did things with the bones when they were eating that were funny, you know, like picking a jaw and going like,

Speaker 1 yeah, and they did that thing like where

Speaker 1 Charlie Chaplin does with the forks and the rolls, except they did it with the actual legs doing the dance. Yeah, with the legs and the uneaten feet.
Yeah, they had to give themselves entertainment.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's not much to do out there.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 the cold and the plane crash would have killed them, but really, the border. It was the Bornen that got him in the end.
There was, oh, I was watching this movie.

Speaker 1 It was about Werner Herzog bringing a boat over over a mountain. And at one point, the only soccer ball they had deflated, and it became like

Speaker 1 the last straw. Everybody lost their mind after, because that was like the one thing they did.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 She's just like lost control of everybody. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Is this a regional production or is this a full disclosure? The production we went to was the opening night. The opening night.
This guy gets all the tickets. The Arts Club, which is

Speaker 1 the biggest, I think, theater here in Vancouver. They produce the most

Speaker 1 production of Disney's Frozen. Okay.
And Cosmo, my son, I took, we took it in the Stanley? It was. It was on the one on

Speaker 1 the one nearby.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 we,

Speaker 1 so he's just barely old enough to kind of sit through and like enjoy

Speaker 1 one of these things. Yeah.

Speaker 1 When will I be that age? It was, yeah,

Speaker 1 it was pretty great. I mean, there was like really nice.
Like, it was very fun to watch. But he just talked to me the whole time.
He'd tell me what was going on.

Speaker 1 And it was usually something like, that thing is being lifted with the wires. Like, I know.

Speaker 1 Just enjoy the magic, Cosmos. It was also like, we're sitting in a seat where you could see the wires.

Speaker 1 Does he know Frozen the movie? He saw it once, yeah. But he's not a big frozen head.
Like,

Speaker 1 there's some frozen head. What would he die for if it was a live show?

Speaker 1 Recently, Ghostbusters,

Speaker 1 anything Lego.

Speaker 1 How come there hasn't been a Ghostbusters musical?

Speaker 1 There might have been. There might have been.
Yeah, there totally might have been. There's a lot of Ghostbusters.

Speaker 1 I feel like if they did it, it would be something like kind of winking, like for nostalgia freaks, not for kids. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It'd be too bad. We got to get kids into Ghostbusters.

Speaker 1 We watch it on Halloween. We got to get boys into Ghostbusters.
That's right.

Speaker 1 Thank you. You need some childhoods to repair.

Speaker 1 We've already ruined a bunch. We need to fix some new ones.

Speaker 1 And he saw

Speaker 1 the original, not like a cartoon. He saw like the original Ghostbusters.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, the goat, very, the one that, you know, the one we saw with the gorilla and the.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 The original one. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He loved it. And there's some very boring parts of that movie.
Very. If you're four.
And a lot of it is about,

Speaker 1 you know, Peter Vankman's seduction of.

Speaker 1 There's some questionable moments that I was like, I don't remember this. There Dan Ackler does get a blowy.

Speaker 1 There's a succubist that comes in and sucks his mist.

Speaker 1 And so your son was like, is it true that man has no dick?

Speaker 1 Dad, go back. What was that thing about a guy not having a dick? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, forward, forward.
We'll continue to launch forward. Don't say anything.
Don't ask any questions.

Speaker 1 They're lucky when they were like, put all the thoughts out of your brain that nobody started to think of something dirty. Yeah.
You know? Oh, I know. Yeah.
They were lucky it was stay puffed.

Speaker 1 There's no lucky it was the stay puffed. Yeah.
Yeah. Which I relearned, which I continued to that it's there's a T at the end of that.
I always think it's stay puff. Stay puffed fine.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Either way, it's a good like fake branding of a fake thing. Like, yeah, I guess, but like, do marshmallows deflate? Like, why is that there, bro? That it will stay puffed.
Yeah, I guess if you're

Speaker 1 the bottom of

Speaker 1 the grocery bag. But even then, I think you give them a little time.
They bring them. Yeah,

Speaker 1 most marshmallows do. I don't like marshmallows, so when we buy them, we don't go through them very

Speaker 1 quickly, and then we end up with stale ones.

Speaker 1 Oh, stale marshmallows. That's like cereal marshmallows.
Stale puffed marshmallows. Speaking of cereal marshmallows,

Speaker 1 last month they

Speaker 1 Count Chocolate is only back for one month a year now. What, is when been cancelled? You can't do Count Chocolate anymore? Count Chocula was cancelled, yeah.

Speaker 1 He did something to Frankenberry, I want to say.

Speaker 1 Let's just say he turned someone's milk brown. Not the way you're thinking.

Speaker 1 The

Speaker 1 yeah, so I bought some for my kids and they loved it.

Speaker 1 And it's not as good as it used to be. Yeah.
It's different. Well, it is, you know.

Speaker 1 But then they, I bought a second box after they devoured the first one and they were like, well, you don't like it that much. Yeah, I oh, so you have some left, you're saying.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, you want to take it home? I would love to try some.

Speaker 1 But then this month I bought, I saw at the store, they had Stranger Things Demogorgon Crunch. Oh, my gosh.
I like that you're a fun cereal household, of course. It's the way to be.
And the

Speaker 1 corn flakes. Only one kid was willing to try it.
It's got

Speaker 1 well, what is your knowledge of Stranger Things? Did you ever watch it? Yeah, they're in the upside down. There's the B-Man.
The Demogorgon is the D ⁇ D monster. There's a Demogorgon.

Speaker 1 What do you think the

Speaker 1 theme of the cereal is?

Speaker 1 11. Well, let's see.
I saw

Speaker 1 you eat. I saw a stranger saying things.

Speaker 1 Echos. It's a waffle-themed cereal.
Oh, it's a really name, okay. I guess it must be made by Kellogg's as well.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 they're a little waffle-shaped.

Speaker 1 It's so confusing. Oh, yeah.
It's so confusing. And they are.

Speaker 1 Maple-flavored. Okay.
Which tastes okay, but stinks. Like you open the bag and the room reeks.
Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 Seems like an oversight. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then they have Demogorgon marshmallows. Oh, fun.
Oh, they're shaped like a Demogorgon. I guess.
So it's just like an unplaceable blob. I don't remember.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't remember much. Just they had strange flower-like faces, the Demogorgons, if I recall correctly.
Oh, yeah. What did you guys have when you were young? Because I had favorites.

Speaker 1 Favorites? Golden Grahams. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Golden Grahams. Absolutely.
Cinnamon Toast Crime. I had Golden Daves.

Speaker 1 Did those come with the Marshallist? Golden Daves.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they came with the Marshallists.

Speaker 1 I mean, I would eat anything, really, but those are like

Speaker 1 Golden Grahams and Cinnamon Toast Crime. Cinnamon Toast Crime.

Speaker 1 And then, like, yeah, if I was lucky, like Pac-Man's. If you were lucky,

Speaker 1 if you got Cinnamon Toast Crimes, you were lucky. No, no, no, that was all lucky.
And it was never supposed to be for breakfast.

Speaker 1 What is it supposed to be? It was like an afternoon snack. It was after school.

Speaker 1 It was like not for breakfast. I'm hitting that cereal first thing in the morning, I got to admit.
Now it's cornflakes, so it's barely even a fun cereal.

Speaker 1 Still crunchy, which is,

Speaker 1 yeah, we would get...

Speaker 1 I'm the youngest of four, and so they often talk about how my parents gave up parenting by the time I came along. And then

Speaker 1 so they would like,

Speaker 1 when I was very young, I would get. Rice krispies and it would shake a little bit of sugar.
Shake out of the sugar. Remember that? Remember putting sugar on cereal? That's wild.

Speaker 1 And then now I would do every like golden grams. No, no, not golden grams, sugar crisp.
Sugar crisp.

Speaker 1 Can you get enough of that sugar? Yeah, you never get enough.

Speaker 1 You go tricks. You get tricks.
Tricks were a little intense, even for me.

Speaker 1 Fruit loops were

Speaker 1 if you wanted some fruity.

Speaker 1 Fruit loops was the

Speaker 1 ball. It was fruit loops.
Too

Speaker 1 soft. You probably didn't like fruity, probably, did you? No.
I don't think I ever had fruity pebbles, to be honest. They're like fruity rice krispies, I think.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think so. My favorite now are the cocoa krispies, but we can't get them in Canada.

Speaker 1 Oh. So I used to go down to Target and get them, but

Speaker 1 I don't go down there anymore.

Speaker 1 Still, I think the reigning champ of the sweet cereals is Frosted Flakes. I feel like that's...
Pretty good, but I don't know. I mean, just the crunchiness, it stays crunchy the whole time.
Does it?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, it's not. Yeah, it's felt like a varnish on it.

Speaker 1 It turns to mush. You just, you're eating it too slow.
Yeah. No, no.

Speaker 1 You're reading too much in the newspaper. I was a parent who picks up my kids' bowl after they.
Do you guys have Frosties? Sometimes. All right.
Right now? Frosties?

Speaker 1 Right now.

Speaker 1 They have Coco, Crispberg, Count Chocolate right now.

Speaker 1 Well, no, we don't have. We have Demogorgon Crunch and only one of them liked it.
What did they have this morning?

Speaker 1 Margo had eggs and Poppy had

Speaker 1 a very adult thing to have. Do you want eggs or Demogorgon Crunch?

Speaker 1 What did Poppy have?

Speaker 1 Well, what I've been having is honey bunches of oats. Nothing else has that taste, and nothing else has that crunch.

Speaker 1 Is that the commercial?

Speaker 1 That's really good.

Speaker 1 Nothing else. Do you remember the commercials for nutting honey? Yeah.
What do you bring for breakfast? Nothing, honey. But tell me.
Shut your mouth.

Speaker 1 And there's shut your mouth, honey.

Speaker 1 It was weird that they got

Speaker 1 um having a costello to do those commercials they reanimated them like uh the um

Speaker 1 uh i was gonna say

Speaker 1 um i forgot what it was shreddy's chit shreddies oh the shreddies oh yeah i haven't had shreddies i do combo i usually like i have granola and then i'll put cereal in it nice and i'll do a little combo platter i gotta go pick up some more fun cereal this cornflakes is not kind of best we would do uh my brother and i after school we would pour you know, when you go to like 7-Eleven and you get a commemorative cup that's like a giant plastic thing?

Speaker 1 We would pour the cereal into there and the milk and eat it up. Oh, shit.
Wow.

Speaker 1 And then my brother, I never did this, but my brother, like, oh, if we were, you know, oh, there's only like a little bit of

Speaker 1 fruit loops left, then grab the next cereal, cinnamon toast crunch, and put it on top and mix. I couldn't get on board with that.
It's so sugary. That's a lot.

Speaker 1 It's just, it's no more sugary than

Speaker 1 just. I know, but it's all the all the sugars from all of them, you know? It's all mingles.

Speaker 1 Oh, God, that sounds disgusting. The milk solidifies, turns into a cheese.
Yeah. Yeah.
You sell it. Then you sell it.
You become rich. Yes.
Yeah. Have you ever had that in New York? There's a

Speaker 1 milk bar, is it called? And they make ice cream out of the out of cereal milk?

Speaker 1 Oh. Like

Speaker 1 milk. They'll flavor the ice cream with cereal.

Speaker 1 They'll make their kids' milk from their fruity pebbles. They'll put it into a big shared fat.
They'll make ice cream out of it, and they'll call it fruity pebble cereal milk.

Speaker 1 Yeah, something like that. Ice cream.
I had it once, and it was disappointing.

Speaker 1 As often these things are when you're like, oh, you gotta try. Well, some people are really into drinking the milk afterwards.
It's always kind of gross to me. You were? No,

Speaker 1 that's the big finale. Yeah, you drink the sugar milk,

Speaker 1 cereal milk. And then you think, boy, I could use another bowl.
Yeah. One bowl.
Never enough. Never enough.

Speaker 1 My tongue i can my tongue doesn't hurt enough i need i need more um so mark yeah graham how are you i'm well um i got to see you uh briefly this weekend at what auction roll show

Speaker 1 at guar uh no i went and saw an old necronado

Speaker 1 emmett hall front man of necronado uh a speed metal Thrash metal? Kind of like a thrash metal. Thrash metal band? Yeah.

Speaker 1 What's faster? speed or thrash?

Speaker 1 Well, got to go with speed.

Speaker 1 I'm going to get speed. I'm locked in my answer.
Speed.

Speaker 1 Be faster. Yeah, you were the first one there.
Yep.

Speaker 1 And I was the last one.

Speaker 1 And I was the last one there.

Speaker 1 Where was it? A bar? Yeah. A bar.
Atlanta Lou. Atlanta Luz on Hastings.
Like a real rock-roll bar. Yeah.
You can picture the bathroom. What does the bathroom look like at a rock and roll? Pristine.

Speaker 1 Sort of like, have you seen the shining?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's the wall, floor to ceiling, stickers.

Speaker 1 Did it used to be called something else? Possibly.

Speaker 1 Maybe.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 It looked like they were like, just put the tables and chairs anywhere. We're going to do something.
Yes. Eventually.

Speaker 1 It's called it. It was like a restaurant.
When I looked it up on Google Maps, it was like restaurant.

Speaker 1 And I have a certain idea when something says restaurant and I got it and it's like, no, this is like a spaghetti factory.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. No, it's to call it a restaurant is not fair.
Yeah. Yeah.
Lana Luz. Lana Luz.
Lana Luz.

Speaker 1 It was part of a small festival. I had just come from,

Speaker 1 I'd watch two other performances that night. We were just coming from a play about these neurodiverse people in French.
It was a very different show. It was in French?

Speaker 1 Was that frozen? No, no. Something else.
And so we watched that and then booked it over to see Emmett's band. Oh, it's been Lana Luz since Google Street View has been around.
I mean, that sign.

Speaker 1 Oh, wait, no, no, it used to be

Speaker 1 the Oko Japanese house. Yeah, is that Oko or Yoko? Well, it could be Oko.

Speaker 1 The tree's in the way. There's no way to know.
No. Oh, no.
It moved.

Speaker 1 But yeah, it was like it was an honest to goodness rock and roll bar set up around a stage. I was like, we got to get there early.
Because there's like five bands on the road.

Speaker 1 So I'm like, if each band has 10 people, then it's going to be packed. It's going to be full.
So I was like, we got to get there first. So we showed up before the door person even showed showed up.

Speaker 1 And I tried two more times to go to the door person to give the money. They were not there until.
Did they, did you pay? Oh, yeah. I paid $40 and sweet cash.
I never

Speaker 1 got a chance to. I guess I could have on the way out the door.
Why was it $40?

Speaker 1 Was it 2028? It was 2020. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And he was the first. Their band was the first one up.
Yeah. And man, oh, man.
I just remember from like. Did each band have 10 guys in the audience? Nope.
No.

Speaker 1 I think, I honestly think that I keep peeking a bit, sorry, i'm kind of loud i honestly think necronado i think that had brought in the most people because it kind of dwindled after that i so we parked and i was looking for the venue we're like it's around here somewhere and then i just hear

Speaker 1 and it was like wasn't wearing his leather jacket he was wearing a leather jacket

Speaker 1 and uh and he had a skull that his

Speaker 1 skull no he had an extra skull uh spare that his dad had a bunch of them from a play, and so he had this skull of neurodiverse French blood. No, it wasn't that one.
They used the same skull.

Speaker 1 Mark had to bring it over from one venue to the other. That's why I was in a rush.
But

Speaker 1 apparently, there are guys that

Speaker 1 the dudes that are at every show. There's like five or ten guys that go to every single metal show in the city.
Yeah. And I was like, hmm, maybe I'll be one of those guys.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I should join up with those guys. I think I'm more French.

Speaker 1 I think you're more French. Ju jui autistique.

Speaker 1 Bam.

Speaker 1 I immediately put wet toilet paper in my ears when I got there. I had earplugs.
You should have just. Oh, you had spares? Yes.
They were also wet, though. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I couldn't barely, I couldn't even tug them. I had to put them on the inside of my mouth like tobacco.

Speaker 1 The irony, or maybe this isn't ironic, but the like the need to get your attention to ask for earplugs and how loud that environment was. It was so.
It would have been impossible.

Speaker 1 Be like, I mean, earplugs. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 I wish I thought that you had them so i didn't guitar based drums uh guitar based drums um and i forgot from early days of playing gigs so much setup so many cables oh my gosh so much so much testing this and out testing that and and the state oh yeah because you were there for the whole thing yeah the stage didn't fit the entire band so the bassist and the guitar player were off the stage yeah this is a small stage for a four-piece band very small stage good thing not everyone brought 10 people yeah well then i witnessed the next drummer rehearsing while the band that is called while Necro Nado was playing the drummer that was going to go on next, he was like practicing on a with earphones and like a drum, like a little pad.

Speaker 1 He was like looking at stuff going,

Speaker 1 like, and like, but there was a different beat going on that was very loud. Do you know many drummers?

Speaker 1 My brother was a drummer. Guy that I worked with at CBC was a drummer.
You played the drums. I played the drums poorly.
Yeah. Do you

Speaker 1 find that when you're hanging out with them, they're constantly tapping on stuff? Yeah. Yeah.
It's part of who they are. I do that anyway, and I was never a drummer.

Speaker 1 That's how I was playing along with the music. I was doing a lot of drumming.
Because

Speaker 1 I didn't want to stand. I had a seat.
Tap it, tap it, tap it. Yeah.
Paradiddle, paradiddle. Paradidle, paradiddle.
I did some of those.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 is that your first time seeing Emmett? Yeah, I didn't see them. There were two other opportunities that I missed.
And so I was like, I cannot miss this chance. And Emmett was just on

Speaker 1 The Town Show. Oh, yeah.
And he plugged the show. And I was like, I'm going.

Speaker 1 I think you're right. I think he brought in the most people.

Speaker 1 But whenever you see a poster, you're like, okay, so these are the opener openers.

Speaker 1 And then this is the headline, and this is who's bringing it to the middle. It's a real metal show.
The names are inscrutable. They're just ink blocks.
Oh, yeah. Just

Speaker 1 look like they're like, yeah. And I had a Necronato shirt.
Can't find it. But I could have been wearing the shirt for the band that I know.
Oh. I know.
Mark, tell you. So you mentioned the town show.

Speaker 1 Yeah. What is that? Yeah, what is it? Oh, let me tell you.

Speaker 1 It's a show where Ryan Beale and I

Speaker 1 interview

Speaker 1 Canadian, too. Usually we have a guest on and we a comedian style person.
We interview them about where they're from or a town they lived in.

Speaker 1 And we talk about a little bit of that, like what stood out about their town. And then for the second half of the show, we do improvised scenes in our town that we are building

Speaker 1 bit by bit, piece by piece. So we'll add a new piece of building or a character.
And then we improvise in and around that. And it's a hoot.
Dave's been on it. I've been on it.

Speaker 1 And so you're building this town in your mind. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You're about a year in.

Speaker 1 Yeah, recently.

Speaker 1 And you have like,

Speaker 1 so someone will come on and be like, this place needs a skate park. Yes.
And then we'll do scenes around a skate park. We've had, we don't have a skate park yet.
What did you bring?

Speaker 1 I brought a 50-style dining.

Speaker 1 Oh, like a Johnny Rocket kind of

Speaker 1 thing. The place I grew up near was called Sodas.
Nice.

Speaker 1 And then I think we also came up with like a CanCon-style way of having music in the town. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So do you have this? Has anybody mapped this town yet? Yes.

Speaker 1 An artist just

Speaker 1 got in touch with us and was like, here, I've drawn your town. Wow.
Everything up to that point was represented. Wow.
And we're working on.

Speaker 1 And you were like, I think there's a French play you might have.

Speaker 1 You should be in.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 The community is really great.

Speaker 1 People have made a, we've did a call out for a flag or town meeter if they had a lot of submissions, and we now have a new town flag. What is the flag?

Speaker 1 um it's so uh the first episode had uh peter oldring was our was our first guest and um

Speaker 1 and peter said we need a town we need a fountain sure center of the town so we have this fountain with these two legs that are sticking out and the town motto is written on the fountain and the motto is never shall we know where the legs do meet because the two legs meet under the water

Speaker 1 and that and that saying in the lore of our town just means uh uh god only knows or you know you know well we should we should never understand this is not for us to know Yeah, not for us to know.

Speaker 1 And so it's a picture. It's a kind of a version of that fountain with the motto under it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That's very nice.
Did you grow up playing SimCity? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. We've actually talked about SimCity and Sim Ant.

Speaker 1 Very recently, we had Ellie Antwistle on, and she brought up how she played

Speaker 1 either Roller Coaster Tycoon. Oh, yeah.
She was like, yesterday I paid seven hours of this roller coaster game. And so we're like, oh, we love talking about those things.
And so, yeah, we Sims.

Speaker 1 I would always, I'd make it work and then just leave off the last part. Yeah.
Everybody would die. I've never played it.
I really want. It's Sims-esque.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think I played something similar where it was like

Speaker 1 a theme park tycoon or something. It might have been that.
And then you could get on it. You could ride the rides that you.
Yeah. Yeah.
You, yeah, and you, yeah, you manage the. Anyway, yes.
And we,

Speaker 1 there is a connection there. I also played The Sims a lot.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know.

Speaker 1 Keeping these characters alive in these games was not my forte. Oh, really? Yeah.
Like by accident, or were you

Speaker 1 took the ladder out of the swimming pool kind of guy? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, he's got a

Speaker 1 closet full of soaked Tamagotchis. Yeah,

Speaker 1 exactly. And that's when the cops find me, that'll be evident.
So that I'll be wearing a Tamagotchi on my face that I carved off.

Speaker 1 You're a sick man. Yeah.
He's been kind of going through an Ed Geid phase.

Speaker 1 Every 45-year-old does.

Speaker 1 What do you made those gloves out of? Never mind. Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 And, like,

Speaker 1 when you started, what was the thing from your town that

Speaker 1 you added to the town? Was your initial contribution? Or do you get to do that as the host? We don't really get, like, we did, we did do an episode where

Speaker 1 we've done an episode where I introduced, where I interviewed Ryan and Ryan interviewed me. And I think, I don't remember what I added.
There's so many things. What would you add?

Speaker 1 What would I add right now? Well, a skate park. Nice.
Nice. Very cool.

Speaker 1 I would add

Speaker 1 a weird tunnel.

Speaker 1 We already had a tunnel.

Speaker 1 A fat camp.

Speaker 1 A weird tunnel? You mean like

Speaker 1 a drainage tunnel or something? Yeah, where can we hang out? A weird, like dangerous tunnel. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 We've had similar stuff already, though. We had so many things.

Speaker 1 I would add a craft store. oh nice like a michael's yeah yeah you know i went to michaels this week did you

Speaker 1 um popsicle sticks um no margo needed a certain shade of brown paint she's making a miniature bed for her calico critters there you go oh oh i saw that on your counter next to the free-for-all halloween candy yeah yeah

Speaker 1 um i'm feeling great after eating that candy i know later i'm really not gonna feel great but right now Top of the world.

Speaker 1 You had like three pieces? Yeah. Is that enough to make you feel bad?

Speaker 1 We'll see. They're fun size.
I know.

Speaker 1 It's true. And maybe I'm having fun because they're fun size.
Maybe one.

Speaker 1 I had a caramel. Caramilk? Yeah.
Is that a Canada-only?

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 I did say it like I didn't understand it, but I just couldn't remember. The big thing, do you remember their advertising slogans? It was how to get the caramel in the caramel bar.

Speaker 1 This might be Canadian-only thing.

Speaker 1 Maybe it is, yeah. Because that was their big.
And it was like, who cares, man? Just keep making that. It's too much caramel.

Speaker 1 So the night that

Speaker 1 I saw Emmett's band and that I saw this other play that Dave keeps bringing up. Well,

Speaker 1 it sounds like my kind of play. I saw a third performance and it was this person doing a

Speaker 1 just like a kind of a free performance and it was like this

Speaker 1 kind of

Speaker 1 comedy mixed with like just weirdo art stuff, which is, it was great. But she started by just playing this song that was like so deep from my childhood.
And it was an ad for Nestle's

Speaker 1 white chocolate bar.

Speaker 1 And the song goes,

Speaker 1 Annie, how does it go?

Speaker 1 They just spell Nestle's. Any S T L E S.
You guys didn't have that, though, did you? Did you ever have

Speaker 1 Nestle's White Chocolate? No, but it was singing Hot to Goat. You might be singing Hot to Goat.
Oh, no, no, no. It was,

Speaker 1 I did do it to the Hot to Goat. It's hard to get that out of your brain.
I know. Now it's just in my brain.

Speaker 1 We have to look it up. I'll have to look it up.

Speaker 1 So this is a.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we had. Because white chocolate.
We had Hershey's white chocolate. White chocolate became like such a thing in the 80s.
Very 90s.

Speaker 1 Was it early 90s, maybe? Yeah. Was it the Nestle

Speaker 1 Alpine White Sweet Dreams commercial 1986?

Speaker 1 Oh, that sounds about right. Sweet dreams are made of these.
That looks like the guy.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 That was Marilyn Manson saying. This is a.

Speaker 1 We're getting the bars in tone. Why is it doing the bars? Five seconds left.
No, this is

Speaker 1 a sweet dream. No, it's not sweet.
This is it. He dreams he can't resist.

Speaker 1 Any S.

Speaker 1 Oh. A dream is sweet.
A guy in a white turtle neck. The guy looks so good.

Speaker 1 This does look pretty good.

Speaker 1 There's one figure skating. She's turning it to cream.

Speaker 1 She's got a hood on.

Speaker 1 This is pretty sexy as that's good.

Speaker 1 This isn't for kids.

Speaker 1 No, it's an adult chocolate bar for sure. Oh, wow.
He's going to counter. Holy cow.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 i couldn't resist it

Speaker 1 why would you with the sexy promise now it's suggesting my mix that's counting crows yeah well let's listen

Speaker 1 no it's a commercial no it's angels of the silences is for the second album um

Speaker 1 i like that that's part of your feed i have so many commercials in my brain from like Like

Speaker 1 too many.

Speaker 1 I got sparkles in my toothpaste. Sparkle, sparkle in a starry shape.
Starry, starry.

Speaker 1 Like, why do I have that in my... Like, I could do.
Yeah, I'm trying to think of one that's one for Christmas. I'm the master repper, and I'm here to say I love fruity pebbles in a major way.

Speaker 1 So we do these bonus episodes on the show where we get people to call in with their local jingles from

Speaker 1 where they're from. A lot of water parks.
Lot of, like everywhere has, every local water park has a jingle. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Was there one in Albuquerque? Or what is this the jingle park? There

Speaker 1 There was the beach water park, but I can't remember what the jingle is. What was the jingle from your, like, from your town? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, that's such a good question.

Speaker 1 One of mine was 2737373Pizza 73.

Speaker 1 I only can think of, there was a guy, there was the guy.

Speaker 1 We carry contracts. We carry contracts.
It was Mr. Credit and Mini Credit, but that's not a jingle.
That's pretty good. It's pretty good, though.
Hi, I'm Mr.

Speaker 1 Credit, and this is Mini Credit, and we carry our own contracts. And I still don't know what that is.
Like, what is carrying their own contracts made for? I don't know.

Speaker 1 Who is Mini Credit? He was the other guy. Was he small? Yeah, was he like a Benny Me? He's just a little bit smaller.
Yeah, he was maybe a bit shorter than Mr. Credit.

Speaker 1 No, there's... Let me, I don't know.
No, it's fine. You're on the spot.
No, but no.

Speaker 1 Like, I'll go to a town and I'll see their local, you know, like, if you watch the local channel, you'll get to see their local courses. They suck.

Speaker 1 Exactly. They got nothing on my town.
Yeah. But there's a guy in Toronto that buys gold.

Speaker 1 He has like, he's kind of like the character from Gold Member. Like, he's like, I love gold.
I buy gold. Yeah.
And he's this weird old looking guy and gold's going by in the background.

Speaker 1 I do love the idea of like, yeah, I've always wanted to run my own business, but mostly I've always wanted to be in my own commercials.

Speaker 1 The ones I'm remembering are just, they're so

Speaker 1 very like the one was a

Speaker 1 mobile home selling place. Yeah.
And they just did this the most uncreative.

Speaker 1 It was called A1 Homes. A1

Speaker 1 is number

Speaker 1 one.

Speaker 1 Like, that's as far as they got. That's all you, that's as far as you need to go.
That's great. There was a great billboard that I remember that's still around that just says, hurt, call Bert.

Speaker 1 There's a picture of Bert.

Speaker 1 There's one in Washington State called Olympic Boat Center. Do you remember the theme? No.
Olympic Boat Center will make a boat nut out of you.

Speaker 1 And then I think it

Speaker 1 came later that they changed their, the

Speaker 1 jingle got so popular that they changed their phone number to 1-800 Boat Nut.

Speaker 1 We got to buy it off a porn company.

Speaker 1 I'm kidding.

Speaker 1 Boat nut.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there was a guy growing up this way. Are you guys doing Boat Nut November?

Speaker 1 Doing it now. Doing it right now.

Speaker 1 There was a guy in Seattle. Where was he? This is Vernon.
Be sure to honk when you drive by Vern Fonk.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's great. Yeah.
That's really great. And you know what? Drove past it, honked.
It was the best. Can I get your opinions on a thing?

Speaker 1 It recently came to my desk, my mind's desk. Came across my desk that those stickers that says, This topic is, I knew you were were going to say this.

Speaker 1 This topic isn't really the honk if you're horny, honk if whatever.

Speaker 1 I always thought when you read that, you would just like honk happily, like honk if you like whatever stuff.

Speaker 1 And you honk. But somebody explained it somewhere that it's like, no, if someone's mad at you and they're honking at you because it doesn't matter, that's what you're honking at you.

Speaker 1 And then you're retaliating that they're honking because of their horny.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you can just tell yourself. Is that what it's what it is?

Speaker 1 I don't know. I don't know.
Like, I want it personally, I want to know who's horny.

Speaker 1 This whole, well, actually, the chicken is crossing to the other side, trying to get to the other side, and the other side is death. Like, that doesn't.
Yeah. I don't get anything out of that.

Speaker 1 I don't need these things to have multiple levels. Okay, here's another one.
Godfather's Pizza. Do it.
Do it.

Speaker 1 That was national. Yeah, he had a big white hat.
What, did he? Yeah. Yeah, he looked like a gangster.
He looked like Cal Cabone. Do it.
Do it.

Speaker 1 We had Blake's Lauderburger. They just said, everything just stayed.
sang their own places. Yeah.
Yeah, that's what you got to do, man.

Speaker 1 My mind is reeling. I'm trying to remember the one for Chicken on the Way.
I remember that just being a funny name of a place. Chicken on the Way.

Speaker 1 Blake's Lauderberger in our town was one of the, you know, how Vern and Ernest.

Speaker 1 You know, Ernest's. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah. That was our vertical.
That was what he did for our. Oh, really? Yeah, it was Blake's Lauderburger.
Wow. That was the most confusing ad thing to me.

Speaker 1 So for people unaware, Ernest from the Ernest movies, Jim Varney,

Speaker 1 yeah, started, the character started as doing local advertisements, but not local to one place.

Speaker 1 He sold national local commercials. And so he would, they would, I think how it worked is they would set up the day

Speaker 1 and he would, they would set up the shot and then he would do all the different

Speaker 1 ads for the one for the one setup and then do it, and then he would, they would sell it to different regions all over the country.

Speaker 1 And he became so famous by doing that, that's why they gave him a movie. Yeah.
Well, not just one. That's That's true.

Speaker 1 Dynasty Rebellion.

Speaker 1 And he was a good actor. Oh, he's great.
Yeah. He always did different characters in his movies, right?

Speaker 1 I mean, he mostly did Ernest, but he did. I mean, he was in Beverly Hill.
He was

Speaker 1 an Ernest adjacent character. And he was Slinky Dog in Toy Story, I think.

Speaker 1 Oh, was he? Yeah. He was replaced by a guy named Blake something that had a similar kind of Blake Slauterberger.
That's him. Yeah.

Speaker 1 A couple of weeks ago, it might have even been last week, we were talking about a commercial for a submarine sandwich place in Chicago that, well, I mean, we should probably show Mark so he can enjoy it.

Speaker 1 Okay, please. Yeah.

Speaker 1 This is

Speaker 1 the 90s when the Bulls were like this might have even been the late 80s. No, it's 1989.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 this is a young

Speaker 1 Scott Pippin.

Speaker 1 And this is a real ad.

Speaker 1 Chicago's a real submarine, Mr. Submarine.

Speaker 2 Okay, I'm one six-foot. I can't hound a one-on-one.
Ladies, let's have a party.

Speaker 1 Choose from Mr. Submarine's great lineup of your favorite subs, Mr.
Submarine's king-size sub, a regular sub piled high with your favorite meats and cheeses. For the best-tasting meal around, Mr.

Speaker 1 Submarine is the real sub.

Speaker 1 Mr. Submarine.

Speaker 1 Oh my god, there's so many things in it. It looked like they were green screened onto a basketball court at one point.
Like they were.

Speaker 1 They didn't have the sub sandwich sandwich high enough to

Speaker 1 Photoshop in a giant sub. Oh, my God.
So now my

Speaker 1 YouTube has suggested I watch a

Speaker 1 fake fireplace. A two-hour fake fireplace of just a pumpkin scene.
Yeah. What happens an hour into this thing? Somebody's speaking out.
Oh, the kettle moves. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That looks like AI.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I think it's AI.
I've already been.

Speaker 1 I've been duped by a couple of cute animal videos.

Speaker 1 Oh, really? no, it begins. This is the slippery slope.
My algorithm wants me to watch AI people stealing packages and then it exploding into confetti. That's fun.
Yeah. At least your AI is having fun.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm just raccoons in a vending machine. And I was like, this is, there's like one that got in and was dropping down chips and stuff.

Speaker 1 We're helpless if it's something awesome.

Speaker 1 You kind of have to watch it.

Speaker 1 Oh my God, I'm so in the, my brain is just doing a Rolodex of all the

Speaker 1 shadows.

Speaker 1 No, no, I

Speaker 1 just want to. Chicago's original summary.

Speaker 1 What do you say? This six-foot's too much for me to have. There's one six-footer I can't handle on my own.
Ladies and gentlemen have a party.

Speaker 1 They say cross-legged on the court. Does he normally handle six-footers? Well, six-foot's pretty small, actually, for the NBA.
For the NBA, it seems like not

Speaker 1 Bugsy Mogs. Six-eighter, yeah, or Bugsy Mogues, maybe.
Welcome to the show, Bugsy Mogs.

Speaker 1 And the cheerleaders are called. Do you remember what they were called? The Bulls cheerleaders? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Bullets. What were they? Bulletts.

Speaker 1 Lovables. The Lovables.

Speaker 1 With your favorite meats and cheeses.

Speaker 1 Can you throw on my favorite meats and cheeses?

Speaker 1 They have so much shredded lettuce in the sandwich.

Speaker 1 I remember the BC Lions cheerleaders, the Canadian Football League team, their cheerleaders were called the Feel Lions. Oh, that's funny.
Which is, I guess, like female lions, but also

Speaker 1 cats. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's like they're good lionesses. So good.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Feel lions. Yeah.
Geez, now I'm trying to think of what the Stampede. It's probably just Stampede or girls, but

Speaker 1 Cowboy Chicks. Yeah.
We had a

Speaker 1 Dixie Chicks. There was a hockey team, weirdly, in Albuquerque.
A very small promotion. I think they were like the quad A kind of deal.
They played four other five other teams regionally, and

Speaker 1 the Scorpions, their cheerleaders were called the Stingers. That's good.

Speaker 1 That's good.

Speaker 1 People came

Speaker 1 for the Stingers. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Was it Paula Abdul who's and then Jennifer Lopez also? Jennifer Lopez was a fly girl. She was a flyer girl.
That's right. Fly girls were the cheerleaders for Living Company College.
Living Color.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Man, when they got it right on that show, they got it right.

Speaker 1 They figured, what do people want right off the bat? Cute dancing. Remember when In Living Color did a Super Bowl halftime show? Very much.

Speaker 1 I don't remember that. Yeah.
They did it so you could tune in to In Living Color's a live broadcast. Right as the

Speaker 1 real.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow, really? Is this for real? Yeah. You changed the channel to watch

Speaker 1 In Living Color. It was a really smart move.
I've done that where I changed it to the Puppy Bowl. And I watched the Puppy Bowl at

Speaker 1 noon.

Speaker 1 High noon. How do you watch the Puppy Ball? What's the Puppy Bowl? It was like it was on another ball of puppies.
They would throw a ball and they'd just kind of run around this like a fake stadium.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. Graham.
That was AI. Oh, shit.
No, no, it wasn't. No.
No, they were running on a treadmill. They were

Speaker 1 human hands.

Speaker 1 They were saluting a soldier,

Speaker 1 a veteran.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 because like... Prior to 1990, that Super Bowl halftime show was like Hands Across America or whatever, like up with with people.

Speaker 1 There was the one, I think we talked about it ages ago, the Indiana Jones, like salute to Indiana Jones. Oh, God.
And it was just a weird kind of like stunt stage show. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And who was it that broke the

Speaker 1 rule of it and became like a celebrity? Maybe Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson.
Yeah. New kids on the blog.
You guys are excited about that new Michael Biopic? Biopic?

Speaker 1 I knew Michael Jackson biopic? Yeah,

Speaker 1 and there's a scene in it where. Who's playing Michael Jackson? I don't know.

Speaker 1 I honestly don't know. I saw a picture of him.

Speaker 1 I don't know who he is, but the movie is called Michael. It comes out in 2026.
What if they got John Travolta to the place?

Speaker 1 What's the take?

Speaker 1 It's Jafar Jackson as Michael Jackson. And he's Michael Jackson.
He's unstoppable, and nothing bad ever happens. The end.
No. I bet you.
Miles Teller is John Branca. Branca.
Who plays Quincy Jones?

Speaker 1 What era of his life is that? Kendrick Sampson is Quincy Jones. In the trailer, he says, Michael, just don't do that dancing in here.
That was the kind of like. Coleman Domingo is Joe Jackson.

Speaker 1 Oh, do you think they covered the Jackson five years? That'll be a high.

Speaker 1 Guess they might. Well, also, there's a young Michael Jackson.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I could see it. There's a Diana Ross.
There's a

Speaker 1 Barry Gordy. Bubbles of the Chimp.
Latoya as her sister. Who's Bubbles the Chimp? I want to see who's playing Bubbles.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's

Speaker 1 looks to be a Dick Clark involved. I don't know where, like, because it's always a span of time in their lives.
So I wonder if it stops short of. It's not always a span of time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it sounds like origin story all the way to.

Speaker 1 This looks nostalgic more than

Speaker 1 that. Yeah, it doesn't look like it's going to do anything.

Speaker 1 The Bob Dylan one was a short span of time. Yeah.
And apparently the Bruce Springsteen one is a short span of time. But

Speaker 1 it was Christ. That was a short period of time.

Speaker 1 That's a biopic. Is it considered a biopic? I guess.
It was, it was sort of, yeah, it was like one crazy night

Speaker 1 that Jesus had.

Speaker 1 What was the Elton John one? Was that a short span of time? I don't know. No, because he starts as a child, and then they start, it's a musical.

Speaker 1 And then I, I, yeah, I saw what else is playing on this plane.

Speaker 1 Oh, and Freddy, the Fred of the

Speaker 1 Bohemian Rhapsody was years. Yeah.
And years. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Even years after Freddie Mercury passed away. Oh, the movie continued.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's still going on. Yeah.
It's happening right now. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Dave, what's going on? Nothing, man. Come on.
Shut up, Dave. Give it to me.

Speaker 1 We had Halloween. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Fun?

Speaker 1 Yeah. It was pouring rain until Tricker's Reading started, but all day long it seemed like this is going to be a washout.
Yeah, this is going to suck.

Speaker 1 It did. Then it's 6 p.m.
Yeah. 6 p.m.
You could go.

Speaker 1 But my kids trigger-treated in other neighborhoods. Yeah.
So I was like, mostly. And at different times, like one kid wanted to be dropped off at 7 or at 6.30.
One wanted to be dropped off at 6.

Speaker 1 So I'm like... I spent the whole night driving, which I hate doing on Halloween night.
Oh, the scary.

Speaker 1 And I stayed only on the main street and like parked a couple blocks from our house

Speaker 1 because I didn't want to drive into the neighborhood.

Speaker 1 We drove, I want to say, 15 kilometers an hour down the streets to make sure that it was.

Speaker 1 Those kids, they're dressed dark, first of all. Oh, my gosh.
It's not like E.T. where they're trick-or-treating in the daylight.
Yeah, yeah. Remember in E.T.? That always blew my mind.

Speaker 1 It's like, why are you always wanting the light? Your parents aren't even home from work yet. They end up handy.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's,

Speaker 1 yeah, it would be kind of fun to trick-or-treat in the daytime. My wife was spooky.
When we went trick-or-treating, my wife and

Speaker 1 she implemented a zigzagging technique across the street, which I never did growing up.

Speaker 1 Well, she would be like, well, let's go, we'd take him across the street to the house, and we'd go back across the street to the next house.

Speaker 1 Instead of doing a street.

Speaker 1 I think it was because our neighborhood was probably like 50% lights off. Sure.
50% jack-o'-lanterns out front. Yeah.
You know.

Speaker 1 Also, we have this doorbell. that

Speaker 1 always does like you can program in

Speaker 1 we have an app for it and you can program in like sounds. So in Christmas time, it'll play jingle bells or whatever.
At Halloween, it'll do like a witch laugh when you ring the doorbell. Oh, nice.
And

Speaker 1 it was the company is called Nest. They were purchased by Google a couple of years ago.
I was told I needed to change my app.

Speaker 1 The doorbell now is a brick.

Speaker 1 So as of October 31st, the one night we wasn't working. The doorbell is not working.
Oh,

Speaker 1 disappointing. If you get a car share in Vancouver, Evo, the welcome message was done in Vampire Voice.
Actually, I wouldn't say it scared me, but I did have a bit of a jump. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Where does the welcome message come from? Your phone or the car?

Speaker 1 It comes from inside the car. It goes, Welcome to Evo.

Speaker 1 It was pretty good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I wonder.

Speaker 1 I hope fingers crossed they keep that all year. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It was got a really great response. People love it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't see why we can't continue this.

Speaker 1 He could have got a one-time fee. It doesn't get resolved.
Absolutely. And guarantee we know that person.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Don't know who it is, but whoever happened to be in the office that day.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, that was one thing.

Speaker 1 One thing that's a funny thing that happened is my kids' school, they have these playgrounds and they have wood chips on the ground. And then...

Speaker 1 For some reason, they waited till the school year started before they did repairs on the playgrounds. So like first week of school, playgrounds closed.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the worst. That's the one thing you look forward to.
Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 but it wasn't like it was just, they didn't need to do major upgrades or anything. They just wanted to replace the sort of like

Speaker 1 wood around the edges.

Speaker 1 And then they added a bunch of fresh wood chips, and it was very cool the morning they were doing it. The guy had like a hose.
He was shooting wood chips on. Oh, shit.
Are you serious? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's so cool. How'd I get one of those? Wood chips, hose.

Speaker 1 But the thing is, they put in way too many wood chips so it kept flying out pretty pretty fast and furious or it got clogged can you imagine a fireman mistaking

Speaker 1 oh god you're making it worse

Speaker 1 that's the wood chips hose yeah oh you attached it to the wood chip hydrant yeah oh dang it i'm fired aren't i

Speaker 1 uh but they uh they put in just too many like it was it looked great but then as soon as the kids got on there the chips just piled up like there were these huge ruts under the swings from when the kids were like,

Speaker 1 and then

Speaker 1 like wood chips got piled up and kids were building like trenches.

Speaker 1 There was like a maze happening.

Speaker 1 They were really like using the wood chips. Yeah.
I love that. And then the principal told them to knock it off.
Knock it off. Yeah.
Get out of eight. Stop playing around.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 This is the morning's announcement. Stop it.
Knock it off. But that first day with all the fresh wood chips.
Ooh. Yeah.
Oh, I love a fresh wood chip. The smell.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's better than that Demogorgon crunch. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Way safer than when we were little. Yeah.
I had gravel. Yeah.
Do you have gravel? Yeah, or dirt. Yeah.
A lot of our playgrounds were just like on.

Speaker 1 They were really, they tried to keep us from having gravel fights, but you know what? Yeah. Take away the gravel then.
Yeah. Yeah.
We had wood chips.

Speaker 1 I remember like falling off the swings and getting splinters in my hands.

Speaker 1 But then now I see a lot of them have like squishy

Speaker 1 rubber. Yeah.
Those are like wetsuit material. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
There was, uh,

Speaker 1 when I was walking to go to Sally's sister's place to hand out candy, there was a like a Halloween display, but we were like, what is it on? And it was a sunken trampoline.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, which I'd never thought about. Oh, that was great.
Yeah. I thought that was so cool.

Speaker 1 Was it like a full size? Full size. I don't think they're that cool.
No?

Speaker 1 Because I see them in my neighborhood and they don't like, I think like people put them in their yards because they don't want the eyesore of a

Speaker 1 big trampoline. But then you don't get up as high.
But they're safer, damn it. They're safer, but also I don't see kids.
The kids don't seem to use them. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, I should be allowed to use them if I go by and there's no kid on it. Yeah.
I should be able to do some fun bounces. Yeah.
Crack the egg. Do a flip.
Yeah. Do a bunch of fish.

Speaker 1 Did you ever trampoline as a child? No, we didn't. Our family didn't have one, but I did a lot of trampoline.
I must have had a friend. I loved it.
I had a couple friends. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We got one eventually, but I was too old for a trampoline at that point.

Speaker 1 We had one that we would rent it in the summer, and then

Speaker 1 eventually our neighbor was like, well, why don't we buy one with you? And then we take it in the 10 months of the year it's not summer and you take it in the two months it's summer. Pretty good deal.

Speaker 1 And we were like, yeah, sure. Yeah.
Nice.

Speaker 1 Did you guys, like, did you do wrestling? We did wrestling. Yeah.
We did. We did crack the egg.
Yeah. We did.
Double bouncing.

Speaker 1 We did a bum war. We did a double war.

Speaker 1 What is bum war? It's like you just see,

Speaker 1 you saw who could do the most bum drops in a row.

Speaker 1 Which is kind of like you would just like one, two, three, four. I declare a bum war, and then you kick your legs out from a bunch of them.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 then you land on your feet. You land on your butt, land on your feet.
Oh, and you're trying to keep the rhythm up. Oh, that's great.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We'll go to the place I saw. We'll go.

Speaker 1 We'll do a bum war. Yeah.
And then there is a bum fights came out of that, and that was way more different. Very different.

Speaker 1 This was before they had the fences around them, the net around them. Yes.
And ours was square. And

Speaker 1 we would do a thing where people would, you would get your stuffed animals and you'd try to throw them at the, it was basically a dodgeball, but you're on a trampoline. That's fun.

Speaker 1 And you'd throw stuffed animals at the person in the middle. We put sometimes a sprinkler under the trampoline in the summer.
That was fun. Fun.

Speaker 1 So dangerous, but we all survived. I think there was a couple of slides because of slipping.
Oh, because you didn't have the netting around, of course. No, no, no.

Speaker 1 We lived at a time where it was just, you just jumped out. I think my friends didn't even have pads on theirs.
It was just straight up springs.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Now, we sometimes take our kids to the trampoline park out in the suburbs, and that isn't.
Is it indoor or outside? It's indoor. Right.
And

Speaker 1 it's everything you want in a drugstore. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That wasn't around, at least not in Calgary when I was a kid. We didn't have one growing up.

Speaker 1 But did you, did you, do you just like take them and they go into the air and then you sit and have like a coffee and wrap?

Speaker 1 A lot of parents do. Yeah.
Or do you go and... My kids are a little clingy, so we would come in with them as a family.
And now I think I could take them and leave them.

Speaker 1 Yeah, not leave them, but like observe.

Speaker 1 Go have a coffee. Whether you go in, they make you buy special socks.

Speaker 1 You have to buy socks. Yeah.
That's how they get you. Yeah.
It's always the socks. Exactly.
And then there's like really long, like trampolines that are like

Speaker 1 a long strip that you can run down.

Speaker 1 There's some the walls.

Speaker 1 There's some that jump into like a foam pit. Run.

Speaker 1 How big is the liability waiver that you have to sign?

Speaker 1 You do have to. Yeah, it's so dangerous.
You have to sign a waiver. Yeah.

Speaker 1 God, yeah. I mean, we had laser tag.
That was the, which laser tag is still on offer now. Yeah, you can still do laser tag.
Laser tag was like the, that was the fun indoor.

Speaker 1 The place I go is right next. They have a laser tag on site, but we've never gone.
You should leave your kids' trampoline. I'll be right back.
I'm going to do a little bit of

Speaker 1 laser tag.

Speaker 1 Any sort of laser tag, like you, you wear a little receiver thing, and then it'll like buzz if you get hit. Yeah.
Yeah. And then you say, no, I didn't.
Yeah. I just got it.
Got you.

Speaker 1 And also it would have blacklight. And also, as a kid, it would play Mortal Kombat theme song.

Speaker 1 The best theme song in the world.

Speaker 1 The trampoline plates also does like suddenly. turn out the lights and then it's blacklight

Speaker 1 unannounced and then like how long is this gonna last 45 minutes later oh my gosh but also you don't want to be you don't want to have the black light just sprung on you because god knows when the last time you cleaned your jeans were you know what i mean oh

Speaker 1 we went to uh did you guys have you heard there was a pumpkin festival here oh no uh and they i didn't get an invite it's this it you just it's a it's in a park And you just walk around and they have a whole bunch of sculptures all made.

Speaker 1 Everything's made out of pumpkin. Okay.
Just full pumpkin. I didn't know what it was in for.
So we like, when we bought the tickets online, it was like, do you want tickets for the maze?

Speaker 1 I was like, yeah, take the maze. Yeah.
So we did the whole pumpkin watch, which was like enough. And this is like, we went with a little friend of mine.

Speaker 1 It's in Burnaby. Okay.

Speaker 1 Okay. Out in the burbs.
Out in the burbs.

Speaker 1 Not deep Burnaby, but like, anyway, it doesn't matter. Beautiful, fun time.
But then we get to this maze part, and it's black lit. And the maze is like, it's

Speaker 1 chrono vision 3D. So you wear these like glasses that like make the light just a bit weird and give you a headache immediately.

Speaker 1 But we got in and the guy that we're with, the dad of the little boy that came with my son, Cosmo,

Speaker 1 the dad looked at Anita. He's like, what? You guys have green on your lips.

Speaker 1 And we were both like, what?

Speaker 1 It looked like we like, it looked so like.

Speaker 1 Did he? No.

Speaker 1 Did anyone else? No, we both just had this like green around our mouth from that the mac light shot up. We were like frantically wiping it off.
I didn't know what I still don't know what it was.

Speaker 1 Like, it might have been a lip balm or something. Oh, yeah.
And

Speaker 1 you were doing a lot of kissing in the car.

Speaker 1 Yeah, look at we like got caught. Like, I just imagine if it was like me and like someone that I should have been kissing or something.
Like, it was.

Speaker 1 I feel like it would be so much fun to go like an art exhibit where they hand out some kind of fun glasses at the beginning. Like, this is going to be great.
Yeah. Well, it's.

Speaker 1 I love that pumpkin place because they have this great jingle. And it's like,

Speaker 1 it's

Speaker 1 Burnaby pumpkin yard

Speaker 1 Burnaby pumpkin yard yeah where everything is made out of pumpkin don't go in the maze with the woman that you're cheating with it'll be apparent

Speaker 1 don't go in the maze with the woman you're cheating with

Speaker 1 the yeah what uh have you taken cosmo to the uh burnaby um uh the train

Speaker 1 We did the train kind of rule in Confederation Park.

Speaker 1 I think so. Yes.
How many trains trains are there? There's one big train that goes around a little. Oh, how many? Yes.
That one. Yes.
Yeah. We did it for a birthday party and it was so fun.

Speaker 1 It is a like. It's better than it should be.
The train ride. Yeah, it's very cheap, and then the train ride goes for a while.
Like you get on this train and you pass other trains.

Speaker 1 You're like, well, where did they come from? And then you find out because later on, you're on that same track. Yeah.
And it's like half an hour, 20 minutes. It's pretty good.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And it's the best. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go. I recommend.
Yeah. I think it's probably closed for the year.
I don't know. It opens 360.

Speaker 1 Well, and then there's, of course, there's the Stanley Park train, which is harder to deal with. It's not doing, they're not doing it this year.
They replaced it with a

Speaker 1 Harry Potter thing. That's right.
For a tribute to J.K. Rowley.
Just, yeah, just her.

Speaker 1 Yeah, God,

Speaker 1 that was...

Speaker 1 poorly received, wasn't it? Yeah, well, you know, you got to put it out. You won't know until you put it up.
Yeah, you got to try. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's the lesson of Harry Potter. It's like, try.

Speaker 1 Just be yourself. There's no bad ideas.

Speaker 1 Graham, what's going on with you?

Speaker 1 Just to recap, what's going on with me? My kids had some extra wood chips at their school. Nice.
Nice.

Speaker 1 Good.

Speaker 1 Well, so last week I was talking about how I went and saw Gwar.

Speaker 1 Oh. Then this past week we saw Emmett's band.
There was the third band in there that I went to see called The Beaches. Oh, the gorgeous ladies of Rock.
Yeah, Glore. Glory.
What? Who are the beaches?

Speaker 1 The Beaches is a band from Toronto, named after the Toronto neighborhood, The Beaches.

Speaker 1 And did you attend their tiny desk concert? Yep.

Speaker 1 I was just trying to work.

Speaker 1 We worked. Get off my tiny desk.

Speaker 1 Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. A band is coming in.
I got a deadline.

Speaker 1 I cleaned up my mess. Yeah, I didn't want them to think I'm cool.

Speaker 1 But they're like a fun rock kind of pop group and a lot of lot of lyrics about going out and partying and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 Where was this the Commodore? No, this was at out at the university. Oh Doug Mitchell.
Yes, Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Stadium. Oh

Speaker 1 indoor indoors. Yeah

Speaker 1 I don't think I've ever been there, but I've heard of it

Speaker 1 not the stadium. No, no, but although when we got there, we were walking towards the stadium before we checked out what the name of the place was then.

Speaker 1 But it was

Speaker 1 there's so much fun. All their songs, it's kind of a genre.
They're all kind of the same.

Speaker 1 It's kind of like seeing like the remote play. Like they, you know, it's going to be about partying.
You know it's going to be a bit more.

Speaker 1 Like this show is like, yeah, every episode's different, but it's kind of the same. Kind of the same.
You know, it's going to be about old commercials.

Speaker 1 But it was, it was fantastic. And

Speaker 1 when I showed up and we were walking around, whole different, huge span of ages. I would have thought it would have been like teen girls, maybe.
That's sort of why you went. That's why I was there.

Speaker 1 It was a trap. It was from the movie Trap.

Speaker 1 I'm going to try to trap this pervert.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that is weird. In the movie Trap, it has nothing to do with the reason for the concert isn't because he's.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Have you seen Trap? Yeah, yeah. Fantastic.
I thought for the first 10 minutes it was filmed here, but it wasn't. No, I thought so too.
Yeah, it's in Toronto.

Speaker 1 Normally, Shyamalan will do Philadelphia. Oh, yeah.
Maybe it was.

Speaker 1 He was sort of the Bruce Springs.

Speaker 1 I watched Trapped with

Speaker 1 Taz, but we watched it just texting each other at the same time. I love it.
Like, we both turned it on at the same time and just made jokes.

Speaker 1 If, spoiler alert, that movie ends so many times, and each ending gets crazier and crazier.

Speaker 1 They're like, okay, well, that's the end.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It keeps going. Anyway, sorry.
Yeah. So,

Speaker 1 like, old 50-year-old people, old 50 year old people little kids uh with their their parent that was you know maybe their first rock show oh there was a kid oh now that i think about it there was a kid at the guaracos uh concert up on his dad's shoulders and he wasn't wearing ear protection so i think that's that's not right no it's not right it's too loud it's too loud and but when i was a kid i i don't i put didn't put it oh either plug in until i was in my mid-20s no i didn't do it until my ears started hurting when i would hear things and i had the ability to plug my ears i would just stick my head in the speaker yeah yeah that's why a lot of kids did that.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I was reminiscing about when I got my vaccine shot when we got into high school, everybody would get in the arm and then guys would just keep punching each other. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you see, do you go to music as often as you went this past week? No, but I feel like more, more and more, I'm going out and seeing, going to go see a live show. Yeah, I enjoy it a lot.

Speaker 1 I got to do it. I got to do it.
Just go to the rickshaw. We'll just pick a night.
Do it. We'll just see whatever bands are.

Speaker 1 When I was in high school, we all got our HPV vaccines and then we would punch each other

Speaker 1 in the cervix.

Speaker 1 Do you ever get any injection into your cervical? No, we got it in the arm.

Speaker 1 He showed his arm. We knew that.

Speaker 1 We knew who it was going to.

Speaker 1 I mean, ultimately, that's what it's for.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm seeing, I see too much theater. I got to go see more music.
You got to go see some rock and roll. There's room for both.
The way you should start doing is TV. That's what I've been watching.

Speaker 1 I heard about that. And honestly, if you got a TV, you got to check out Trap.
So great. I know.

Speaker 1 I do mostly watch movies. I've been trying.
I have a list of TV shows, and I

Speaker 1 can't. I can't dedicate that much time to a show.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's hard.
I was like,

Speaker 1 I made it 11 minutes into that show, The Pit. Oh, yeah.
And then I realized, oh, this is just going to be gore. Yes.

Speaker 1 Just people's injuries and stuff. Oh, gross.
Yeah. We're watching a Task, which is the funniest.
Oh, yeah. Is that the funniest name? Is that Ruffalo? Yeah, yeah.
I love Mark Ruffalo. Yeah, me too.

Speaker 1 You could play a young Mark Ruffalo. Yeah, or

Speaker 1 his age, Mark Ruffalo. We're looking for a Mark Ruffalo type.
We couldn't get him for his bio. But we need a guy to do like a Mark Ruffalo.
Welcome to your Evo.

Speaker 1 Welcome to your Evo.

Speaker 1 That's the secret. I'm always interested.
I'm always.

Speaker 1 All right, guys.

Speaker 1 Oh, who does that actually sound like? All right, guys. That's a good way to do impressions.
Just do a voice. What

Speaker 1 Who is this?

Speaker 1 Hey, who's this?

Speaker 1 Hey. Yeah.
Exactly. You can go sign it, then I can do the impression.

Speaker 1 My problem is I have a bunch of TV shows that I've already watched, like, the first three seasons of, and I just

Speaker 1 so much effort to do season four. But if I watch like two episodes of something back-to-back, I'm like, I could have just watched a movie.
Like,

Speaker 1 I'm not deeper into this series than I would be doing. No, and I feel like there's so many good movies that I've haven't seen yet that I would rather just like.

Speaker 1 And they're like, apparently what's going on in Hollywood these days is if someone has an idea for a movie, the executives will be like, I see this as an eight-episode series about Penguin.

Speaker 1 About everything. It's the one guy.

Speaker 1 Is there a way you can work Penguin into it?

Speaker 1 And even the movies

Speaker 1 are...

Speaker 1 They're like, oh, this should have been like, this movie actually should have been a series. Yeah.

Speaker 1 They say the, what's the one that just came out? The Gien one. The Ed Ed Gien one was like a very small story, stretched over five episodes.
Like skin stretched over a lampshade. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then there's like the different storylines, and there's always like, and often, not always, there's like a, the teen storyline and then the adult storyline. And then I just, I fall off.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Um, but yeah, I went and saw this young band of rock and rollers. I'd seen them before.
I saw them at the Commodore. And they

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 was seated and then like a couple of kids stood up. I was like, oh, no.
But luckily, there was no kids in front of us, got to sit the whole time. Oh, nice.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 just like Mecronado. Yeah.
And Guara. I also started.
Where was Guar? At the

Speaker 1 Voog. Yeah.
And I'm sure you already talked about it, but they hold up. They're doing this.
This is my first time even seeing them. Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 So, and it was great. I'd go again the next night.
It was so much fun.

Speaker 1 It's like a puppetry, it's like a performance art. Wow.
Yeah. It does feel like in Canadian music, there's only ever one band at a time that is like the band that can play arenas.
Yes.

Speaker 1 And is it still Russell Peters' art? No, it's currently the beaches.

Speaker 1 The beaches can do it. Prior to that, it was the Yarkells.
I believe it was Metric for a time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's just, it's like when I was growing up, it's like there can be one comedian celebrity. For a long time, it was Rick Bercer.
Some

Speaker 1 part of Dan Canada. Yeah, there was Sean Cullen for a while.
certainly russell peters uh stayed overstayed as well oh come on he's a friend he is a friend russell if you're out there hey

Speaker 1 hey

Speaker 1 call me

Speaker 1 um well you guys you want to move on to some overheards oh sure oh yeah yeah

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Speaker 1 Overheard.

Speaker 1 Overheards, where we hear on the show, we like to hear things too. Why not? Why can't we hear things? And if you want to send one into us, you can send it into spo at maximumfund.org.

Speaker 1 We always like to start with the guests. Yeah.
Do you have an overheard? I do. I have one.

Speaker 1 I have an overheard, and then I want to share with you an over, a quick oversaw that I saw.

Speaker 1 But my overheard, there was this couple. I wrote it down.

Speaker 1 It was like first time, it was like, because it was a while ago. And I was like, I'm going to remember this.
It was this young, probably looked like a little young couple walking by and

Speaker 1 a guy and a girl. And the guy was like,

Speaker 1 the woman was like,

Speaker 1 this was the diagnosis. And he said, they can diagnose acne?

Speaker 1 Wow. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Simple blood test. Yeah.
Pimple blood test.

Speaker 1 He was like a bit, yeah, he seemed like a little bit shocked. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, what else would it be? I don't know.

Speaker 1 Mosquito bites. Yeah.
Yeah. Did you guys, either you guys have acne when you were in the goose? Oh, yeah.
I went to, I went, I would, I had it on my forehead. Me too.
My forehead was the hot zone.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I had it all over my face, but I didn't, I never got a doctor involved.
No. Oh, I did.
Yeah? Yeah, and they just made it, we just made it worse.

Speaker 1 Did he just use like some kind of acid or something like that? There was this thing called Retin-A that was big. Yeah.
And all my, like. Is that the one that makes you go psychotic?

Speaker 1 Maybe.

Speaker 1 It was at a time that it might have been like, yeah, they would like, like, put this on, and the dermatologist would always say, like, no, it'll get worse.

Speaker 1 Like, why would I want to do this? It'll get worse. And then it'll stay worse.

Speaker 1 That's what happened.

Speaker 1 So I, yeah, I just, but it was like, you just grow out of it.

Speaker 1 Some people do. Most people.
But like when I was a teenager, there was something called Oxy, which was pads. Oh, yeah, yeah.
That was the over-the-counter stuff. Pads oil peroxide.
But it would just

Speaker 1 burn, but I couldn't get enough. My mother would never let me get that.
Like, I would never buy that because I was like too young to just go to the store and spend my allowance on Oxy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there was Oxy and then there was

Speaker 1 Oxy's benzoyl peroxide. And then,

Speaker 1 boy, another one was like salicylic acid. Yeah.
Yeah. And that is a different brand, but I forget what.
I just remember Oxy being like a black container that looked like it was for the boy.

Speaker 1 I remember one of my mom's friends told me, you can just put toothpaste on it. And that made me think, oh, I must have really bad acne

Speaker 1 if a woman unprompted is giving me that advice. Oh, man.

Speaker 1 Never popped them. No, me.
My siblings wanted to so bad.

Speaker 1 But what if they were like so pop, like these screaming whiteheads? Yeah. Oh, yeah, I guess that.
But even then, I wouldn't. You would just let them naturally pop? Yeah.
Or like dry out.

Speaker 1 Unfortunately, once you pop, you can't stop.

Speaker 1 Did you guys ever do this is acne related, but the nose strips? Oh, yeah. Which apparently you're not supposed to do.
When they first came out, I did them just to see. Yeah, me too.

Speaker 1 But like, my nose pores filled up right away, anyway. Because they're supposed to.

Speaker 1 They're supposed to be full of whatever that is. Man, I like the amount.
You can spend an infinite amount of money on goose and pastes and

Speaker 1 I remember my sisters would say, oh, can we pop your zits? And then my brother would come to my defense and say, no, you don't want to end up with acne scars like Brian Adams.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, because he popped his zits. There's a song about it.
Shade, big shade. He did it in sort of like the spring of 1968.
Yeah, yeah. He did a duet with Sporty Spice about it

Speaker 1 about popping zits. Now, you had another one? Do you want to?

Speaker 1 I just wanted to share this with you. I was at

Speaker 1 an awards show, a local award show here in Vancouver called the Jesse's for local theater.

Speaker 1 And there was a woman sitting next to us, and I looked over, and she had

Speaker 1 very huge text

Speaker 1 size.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 it was, believe me, like I didn't have to look yeah like it was it was like a billboard and the pre the text that on her phone on her phone the text that she had received said is it at least entertaining and she was writing slightly

Speaker 1 and then I then I averted my eyes because it just I didn't want to do you uh

Speaker 1 how are your eyes my eyes yeah well do you need a big text

Speaker 1 no I but I have terrible vision uh but I recently I think I talked about it on the show I had a laser surgery. Yeah, I had a retina detach after right after getting a

Speaker 1 cataract surgery my retina detach so I had early early cataract where they were like this is too they would they do they didn't diagnose it for a long time because it was too early.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and then they finally did got this surgery and then my retina detached and then I had to have this like crazy operation to make that better.

Speaker 1 So now I have one eye that that's like all fixed and one eye that's my old vision and

Speaker 1 and one's way more, the new one way more clear,

Speaker 1 and the old one's sepia.

Speaker 1 No, yeah, really, if it would happen to you, too, like if

Speaker 1 because I can compare it, because one's like the fluid has been completely changed, right? Oh, changed my eye fluid, yeah, they changed my eye fluid.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and do you ever do you notice that you have like green around your lips? Because we can see it right now, yeah. Did you see the green? Yeah, what was it? It's sepia actually.

Speaker 1 Because the reason I ask is like I have older siblings and they have now like gotten to the

Speaker 1 age where like

Speaker 1 they hold their phone close like they can't they have to find the right distance from their face. And now I'm starting to get that way with like fine print on a pill bottle or whatever.
And

Speaker 1 there's no right way for the fine print. That's just gone.
And then I was also like I had a

Speaker 1 splinter in my thumb the other day. From playing on the playground? Do you want cedar?

Speaker 1 From getting squirt with a wood chip hose. Do me.

Speaker 1 And I had it in my thumb, and it was like 9 o'clock at night. And I was like,

Speaker 1 I got to wait till the morning.

Speaker 1 I'm going to need a full sunlight to do this. Oh, no, it's awful.
And I, yeah, I have to, like, I carry glasses.

Speaker 1 I wear one contact, but if I put the other one in, then my reading vision's completely gone.

Speaker 1 So I just have like uneven vision usually. So do you have glasses one eye different prescription than the other?

Speaker 1 If I take out my one contact lens at night, I just have a full blurry eye and then like a very clear eye.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So if with the sepia eye, do things that are like if you watch

Speaker 1 like a Buster Keaton movie or something? Yeah, or that what's his name? Ken, who's the duck? Ken Burns baseballs.

Speaker 1 Does it look extra sepia or does it cancel it out? It cancels it out. Oh, good.
Yeah. Then it becomes colorful.
It It looks full color.

Speaker 1 Boy, Mordecai three-figure Brown is looking

Speaker 1 stacked.

Speaker 1 Dave, do you have an overheard?

Speaker 1 Here's my overhead. Scene.
This is a piece of graffiti. Ooh, fun.
I was walking by a box,

Speaker 1 like a utility box, where the

Speaker 1 electric company keeps all their...

Speaker 1 All their power? All their springs and dongles.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 1 They keep all the electricity in there. I love it.
And there was some graffiti on there.

Speaker 1 I just,

Speaker 1 pardon me, I can't find it. That's okay.

Speaker 1 He's holding the phone very far away from the screen.

Speaker 1 He just keeps moving it.

Speaker 1 And it was covered in like so many people's tags. And

Speaker 1 it was all inscrutable. I couldn't see what anyone had written, except one person had written, public castration now.
No,

Speaker 1 not now, not ever. I think I've seen one of those.

Speaker 1 Like you've attended attended it. Yeah, public castration now.
I saw it now. You saw it with the little guillotine? Yeah.
That was a wonderful show. Yeah, I guess it's mostly done in private.

Speaker 1 But yeah, we should be able to.

Speaker 1 Well, it could mean a number of things. It could mean like a public execution,

Speaker 1 or it could mean castration available to put people. You're getting out.
Yeah, it's public. It's castration, and it's, you know, it's part of your medical.
Not under the health care. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 We need public castration. Yeah, yes.
That's right.

Speaker 1 I'm tired of paying out of pocket to be castrated. That's right.

Speaker 1 Every time I get castrated.

Speaker 1 Or it could be mandatory.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 that's how I read it. It was a mandatory.
It's like we read to all.

Speaker 1 To all the good nights. Every member of the public.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You're going to get it.

Speaker 1 I watched a video about a guy who makes

Speaker 1 like he makes spaces to sleep in that look like things that just would be regularly out on the street.

Speaker 1 So he made a dumpster that has like a bed and TV and all this stuff in it, but he had to graffiti it. He had to like put posters on and rip them off.
Oh, nice.

Speaker 1 Like put a bunch of different stickers on it and graffiti it. And it was amazing how fast it looked like a real dumpster.
Wow. And then you open it up and it's like a super cozy bed.
Yeah. Wow.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So he could just like sleep in the city. And I mean, I don't know if he does or not.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. But the graffiti.
Wow. Oh, also this week.
Oh, maybe this is my get to know us. Guys, go back.

Speaker 1 So we bought these pumpkins and we carved pumpkins. Did you carve pumpkins this year? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 We bought ours two weeks before Halloween, thinking that would be enough time that they wouldn't go bad if we were wrong. And they were as soft as, well, a pumpkin pie by the end.

Speaker 1 And so the day after Halloween,

Speaker 1 so my, we,

Speaker 1 uh, our house has a green bin. The city gives you a green bin, which is like a compost thing where you put all your yard trimmings and food scraps in there.
And once a week,

Speaker 1 a truck comes and takes them away. Well, the truck had damaged our green bin.
Oh, nice. And so there's like a hole in the lid.
And we thought, oh, it's fine. We can keep using it.

Speaker 1 And so on November 1st morning, I brought the green bin out. I got a shovel and took our two pumpkins and threw them in.
There were rats living in the green. Of course.

Speaker 1 Oh, of course.

Speaker 1 I didn't put that together. It was a rat paradise.
And they were, oh, my God. So I guess they just spent the weekend humping in the pumpkins.
You know what? I've gotten so big. It was AI.
It was AI.

Speaker 1 Oh, good. AI can be in an actual place? Yep.
Wow. It's definitely right here.

Speaker 1 Dave's sleeping upstairs.

Speaker 1 Did you have a jump scare from the rats? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So you're going to get a new thing or is it just a matter of time? Yeah, I've reported it to the city and our...

Speaker 1 We haven't put any stuff out this week. We put it all in the freezer.
Are you going to put it on the day before? Do you get the yellow bag for your paper?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we have the big plastic yellow bag to put our paper recycling.
And so ours got like stolen, I think.

Speaker 1 And we didn't get a new one. We just started throwing paper into like a blue box.
And

Speaker 1 they take it. Sure.
Yeah. They'll take anything.
Yeah, I didn't realize that. I thought they were going to be very low.
They'll take anything.

Speaker 1 No, the recycling people, so all the other stuff, the garbage and green bin get taken away by trucks that like automatically pick up. Yeah, by boxes.

Speaker 1 But the recycling is picked up by people who throw the stuff in the thing. And then they chuck our bit.

Speaker 1 I feel like they get a little thrill out of how badly they can smash it.

Speaker 1 It looks hilarious. The street looks hilarious.
No, it's just like the little bucket or thing with wheels on it.

Speaker 1 The recycling?

Speaker 1 The recycling is the blue bin. Oh, because we've got

Speaker 1 big bins for everything. Oh, no, this is like

Speaker 1 a is what Yaybig? Yay big? I gotcha.

Speaker 1 About this? About that side? Yeah. Anyway, that's what's going on with me, Rat Factory.
What's going on with you?

Speaker 1 You haven't overheard, surely?

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was public castration now. That's right.
Public castration. Now.
Now. Now.

Speaker 1 Mine is courtesy of enough small talk. We've been talking about

Speaker 1 public castration.

Speaker 1 Do it now.

Speaker 1 Now.

Speaker 1 It was two guys walking past me, and I just, the only part that I heard was, there's a Will Smith and a Willow Smith. Come on.

Speaker 1 Nice.

Speaker 1 Come on.

Speaker 1 You're pulling my leg. It's too many Smiths.

Speaker 1 Willow Smith whipped her hair back and forth. Yeah.
Then cut her hair. And now

Speaker 1 she's maybe a singer. She's got some songs.
Okay. Yeah.
Willow Smith. I think she just goes by Willow.
Willow and

Speaker 1 Will Smith, you can see some stuff. He's been doing some recent raps.

Speaker 1 He's dying his beard so that he looks weird.

Speaker 1 Want to look weird? Yeah. Dye your beard.

Speaker 1 Now. And then then he had AI.
Well, he was famously AI of spaghetti.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I don't think he made that.
I think someone else. But his latest music video has like him eating spaghetti.
No, it's the audience is all AI, and it's like

Speaker 1 he's flipping these.

Speaker 1 There was a time when we talked a lot about AI on the show, and then I think we got

Speaker 1 bummed out and sick of it. Yeah, well, it's passe, no one uses it anymore,

Speaker 1 right? Right?

Speaker 1 Right? But it's, well, it's crept back into the show. And well, like, I know that I get ads for AI that say, like, over 40, you can still learn about AI.
And I'm like, come on, come on, man.

Speaker 1 No, I can't. Yeah.
Come on.

Speaker 1 There's no way.

Speaker 1 The guy's so incredulous. Not me.
Are you serious? I'm a one-trick pony.

Speaker 1 I own.

Speaker 1 I just want to learn about Hoop and Stick.

Speaker 1 Love that game.

Speaker 1 No, we also have Overheard Overheard sent into us by people all over the world. If you want to send one in, set it into SBY at maximumfund.org.

Speaker 1 Now, these are two back-to-back, somebody mumbling something to themselves overheard. Nice.

Speaker 1 Good theme. And you can do accents.
So I might get you to, I'll do the read and then you can see if you can. It's a French accent is what I'm saying.
Okay, I'll try. Yeah.
Okay, this is from Mickey C.

Speaker 1 from Kalamazoo, Michigan. I'm a librarian at a university library.
I was walking through the library one day and saw a man looking around who seemed lost.

Speaker 1 I asked him if he needed help finding something, and he explained in a heavy accent that he was there with his wife, a scholar visiting for France, and he was waiting on her while she browsed.

Speaker 1 As I walked away, I heard him mutter sadly to himself, I'm not lost, just French.

Speaker 1 I know. I'm not lost.

Speaker 1 He was like, I am a scholar living here with my wife.

Speaker 1 Why do you ask?

Speaker 1 Oh, silly woman. My wife is.
I am not lost. I am just French.

Speaker 1 That's what he said.

Speaker 1 Here Here I am in Kalamazoo.

Speaker 1 I love being in Kalamazoo. I know.

Speaker 1 How do you say Kalamazoo?

Speaker 1 This next one comes from Dave C.

Speaker 1 This is from Pennsylvania, Hershey Park. Get your accent ready.
Here we go. Hershey Park.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 we made fun of Hershey Park on here, and so he calls me out on it saying that it rules.

Speaker 1 You remind me what highway it's on? Yeah. And why does it rule?

Speaker 1 This is from Dave C. I had this one for years.
I was outside Hershey Park, and that's where he says it's cool.

Speaker 1 And a little boy, about five to six, was with his mom. She clearly ran into somebody she knows and stopped to talk to him for a minute.
Oh, the worst.

Speaker 1 Oh, and you're waiting and your mom's like chatting.

Speaker 1 Do you do that? Do you do that with Cosmo or you guys do that with your kids or anything? It hasn't started anywhere. It's like really annoying yet, but

Speaker 1 it's going to happen soon. Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1 Sometimes, oh, my mom would come to pick us up, and they would just chat, and I'd be on the car. Come on.
Oh, I last, okay, I'll tell you about the frozen thing again, but finish your.

Speaker 1 So, so we, so we were at again frozen, and like, there was a notion there's gonna be a party, and like, we're all in the lobby and, like, just talking to people.

Speaker 1 People just chat, blah, blah, blah, blah. And Cosmo is like, I want to go to the party.

Speaker 1 We're like, this is the party. He was like, I want to go home.

Speaker 1 this sorry kid this is the party yeah i mean fair enough right yeah did everyone have like uh what like yeah as a kid you're like what makes this a party yes yeah he was like he really

Speaker 1 no not yet there was going to be but it anyway what makes an adult theater party is little plastic cups of wine yes yeah and um so this is uh she ran into somebody she knows and stopped to talk for a minute the little boy was just mumbling to himself he could hear the people in the park having fun and screaming on the roller coasters.

Speaker 1 All I heard him say in a low mumble was kind of through his teeth, Your screams only make me stronger.

Speaker 1 Your screams only make me stronger.

Speaker 1 He was a small little, small, little tough French boy.

Speaker 1 Now that, like, I've heard that at Hershey Park, there's like a sign that says this rides guaranteed to give you the Hershey squirts.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and there's also, you can only get on if you're feeling this heavy.

Speaker 1 You can only ride those if your pants are full of foam. There you go.
Okay.

Speaker 1 There's a baking show that I watched one year around Halloween or Christmas, and they brought them to Hershey Park, the theme park. Right.

Speaker 1 And it was just, they were jazzing out, like, we're going to Hershey Park. And you could kind of like, yay, okay.

Speaker 1 And the mascots are a chocolate bar and a Hershey's kiss. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But apparently, according to Mickey C from Kalamazoo, Michigan. No, that's wrong.
It's David C. that was sticking it tonight.

Speaker 1 Right, right.

Speaker 1 All the C families with us today.

Speaker 1 This is

Speaker 1 the C from the Space Girls.

Speaker 1 Is there any other famous C's? Poppin' Zits.

Speaker 1 Is there any other last name C's that we're missing

Speaker 1 right into us? Let's please.

Speaker 1 This last one comes from Laura in Vancouver. I was waiting on the bus, and I heard a group of teens who were very excited.
One said, okay, so it's Othello, but Othello is a podcaster.

Speaker 1 Then later on the the bus, I heard, and the internet is Yago because cancel culture. Oh, wow.
Okay. Okay.
Well, it was whispering in the podcasters. And it's a wrap.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 But that is like an assignment you would get. Like, go home and make modern Othello.
Yeah, Du, what would you do with Othello? Yeah. Yeah, see if I care.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That would be a funny thing to sign off of a teacher like, make it. And you know what? See if I care.
I think we did. I did Othello once or in English class.
You performed as Othello once? Yep.

Speaker 1 I did the whole thing myself.

Speaker 1 Friends, Romans, countrymen. Oops, that's Julius Caesar.

Speaker 1 We did, but I never did Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet in English class or drama, drama.

Speaker 1 But three times I did A Midsummer Night's Dream. Oh, really? I don't know why that was so bad.
I don't think we ever, we did Romeo and Juliet. We did Othello and we we did Macbeth.

Speaker 1 Those were the only ones. I'll say that in here.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 In high school, we read Julius Caesar. We read

Speaker 1 McMackers. Mackers.

Speaker 1 Romeo and Juliet.

Speaker 1 Julietters.

Speaker 1 Did they show you the crazy, sexy Italian Romeo and Juliet? Yeah, we watched that.

Speaker 1 It was a big day. Yeah.
It was a big day.

Speaker 1 They could have edited it, but they didn't. Was it nude? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Are they

Speaker 1 of age? Fuck. I was a child, so.
Yeah, so it doesn't really matter.

Speaker 1 Is that the one where they've come back later, years later, and we're like, hey, this wasn't cool. Yeah, no, probably.
Give me my money back. We read Frozen.

Speaker 1 There was this thing.

Speaker 1 I moved chairs watching. Sorry, I'm just thinking about Frozen.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 so when I was sitting with Cosmo, we were like, we had really good seats.

Speaker 1 But we had to trade seats. So

Speaker 1 Anita was sitting far away. Yeah.
And so I was like, you should sit with Cosmo because it's really fun. So she came and sat in a good seat.
And I went and sat with her friend.

Speaker 1 And then like really, really close to the stage, but all the way on stage right or audience right. Like, so just like at the corner.

Speaker 1 And the funniest thing is like you get this really funny view down the down the theater, but when all of the characters like come up to the front to sing and there's like 12 or 15 people on stage like all belting it out, you can like, you get a real up close personal with a guy that's very close to you and they're just doing like punctuated like like bits.

Speaker 1 and so it's just this guy like going like revenge

Speaker 1 yo

Speaker 1 and we shall

Speaker 1 it's so close like this is not uh that's the way to see theater man oh it's so as close to the stage as possible and as a person who like is a practitioner of theater it's the stupidest thing in the world and you were so sad because you had auditioned for that part oh i just wanted to say revenge

Speaker 1 how's olaf is he funny uh olaf yeah olaf is funny

Speaker 1 Theater they call him droll. So

Speaker 1 with a thing like a Disney product like this,

Speaker 1 clearly there's a big man, like they get assigned, like you have to do it a certain way. Yeah.
You know, if you like, go and do a Neil Simon play, you can do it however you want.

Speaker 1 But if it's Disney's Frozen, like you're going to get, you have to get approval for everything.

Speaker 1 If it's Disney's the Odd Couple. Yeah, if it's Disney Odds Couple,

Speaker 1 you'd have to do approval.

Speaker 1 Olaf is like this puppet where the actor is very visible puppeting this little snowman in front of him. So he's both puppeting, but he's also acting.

Speaker 1 So if you choose to watch him, you can watch him act or you can watch the puppet act. I can never.
If there's somebody doing a puppet. I want to look at that puppet.
Well, I'm going to do both.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go twice. Yeah.
Exactly. One time.
Yeah, one time you'll watch that. Yeah.
And then Sven?

Speaker 1 Sven is the ringer. Yeah.
It is one person in what should be a two-person costume with hand stilts and foot stilts.

Speaker 1 And it's just lumbering around. And Spen doesn't talk, so it's just like.
Julie Tamor's frozen. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Hand stilts.
Did you do three?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yep.
You sure? Yep. Yeah, we did.

Speaker 1 A couple muttering to themselves in Kalamazoo. Yeah.
Two of them French. Oh, I didn't do the third one in French.
I don't remember what it was. That's okay.

Speaker 1 Oh, it was Othello.

Speaker 1 The internet is Iago.

Speaker 1 I remember in French, people are very protective of their language and they don't want too much English invading it.

Speaker 1 And I remember like we had to like do a thing in high school French and I was talking about the internet and my teacher was like, no, that's an English word.

Speaker 1 We're going to have to come up with a French equivalent.

Speaker 1 Did she?

Speaker 1 He. Sorry.
I shouldn't guess. He said, all French teachers are.

Speaker 1 I thought they were. I thought that was a rule.

Speaker 1 He was, he said,

Speaker 1 like, lenter rezo. Yeah, that's pretty good.
What does that translate to? I don't know what radio internet. It's like, no,

Speaker 1 like reservoir. Like,

Speaker 1 give me Google Translate.

Speaker 1 Okay, it's defaults to Serbian.

Speaker 1 What's the Serbian one?

Speaker 1 We're not doing that now. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Intelnet.

Speaker 1 Network.

Speaker 1 Just network? Yeah. Internetwork.
Oh, inter-network. Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 We just have to make it their own.

Speaker 1 Okay, in addition to overheards that are written in, we also accept your phone calls. If you want to call us, our phone number is 1-844-7797631.

Speaker 1 That's one

Speaker 1 SpyPod 1. We also accept voice memos and send those to spy at maximumfund.org.
Damn right. Like these people have.

Speaker 1 Sweet dreams you can't resist. Anyway.

Speaker 5 Hi, Dave, Graham, and guest. It's Heather from Vancouver calling in with an overheard.

Speaker 5 I was sitting at the picnic table outside of Main Street Brewing, and a dad came out with a stroller and a single beer, canned beer, cracked it, and said, now it's a walk.

Speaker 1 That's my overheard. Thanks.
Bye.

Speaker 1 Make it a walk. Yeah.
It's not a walk until you have a little road pop. That sounds great.

Speaker 1 I feel like breweries are really a place that are. it's a place you can bring kids.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we go to one. Yeah.
Yeah. Seems like it's like a big enough area to have your strollers and get a, you know, buy a big breadstick.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. They're kind of perfect, yeah.

Speaker 1 And they, and they know it. There's always like games and kid-friendly.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 My friends own one,

Speaker 1 a brewery, a micro brewery. And I ran into them and they said that last year was the best year they've ever had.
And I was surprised because I think of like 2011 as like, yeah, sure. Yes.

Speaker 1 Microbeer in a jug.

Speaker 1 Yeah, refill my growler.

Speaker 1 And have they had this brewery since around 2011 or earlier? I think so. Yeah.
Right. Wow.
Here's your next phone call.

Speaker 6 Hey guys, this is Colin from San Diego, California.

Speaker 1 What is going on?

Speaker 6 Right now, and my coworker just overheard the craziest thing ever. She was walking by, and someone sitting at the bar said, if you learn how to play a saxophone, I will get pregnant.

Speaker 1 Thanks a lot, guys. No fucking way.

Speaker 1 I've been staying away from you for this very reason.

Speaker 1 Can I get a little more bass in the monitor, please?

Speaker 1 I would like to rehear it so I'm not focusing on him talking. I just can focus on what the music in the background is.

Speaker 6 Hey guys, this is Colin from San Diego, California. I'm at work right now, and my coworker just overheard the craziest thing ever.

Speaker 6 She was walking by, and someone sitting at the bar said, If you learn how to play a saxophone, I will get pregnant. Thanks a lot, guys.
No freaking way.

Speaker 1 Nice. That's a live band person.
That's a live. Yeah, he called us from Mosh Pit.
Yeah. Wow.
Yeah, some horns in there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 They had actually that night they had all you can mosh. All you can mosh? Yeah.
Like it was, you pay one price and you can mosh. You can mosh all you want? Yeah.
Not all you can nosh. Yeah.

Speaker 1 They got that too. Yeah.
Nice. Nosh and mosh night.
Atlanta Lewis. Yeah.
Surf and turf or mosh and notch? Mosh and Nosh is like little, like, sort of, you know, hors d'oeuvres.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you have a little snacking, a little moshing.

Speaker 1 You guys ever mosh when you were young? Did you mosh? Yeah, it comes up a lot. Yeah.
Does it?

Speaker 1 My moshing years are behind me, I figured. I'm not sure.
Mine are in front of me.

Speaker 1 I'm going to guarantee. I couldn't fight my way into that.
I have yet to finally mosh. No, no, it's too late.
I'm going to get into it. Live through Cosmo.
Let him mosh. He'll mosh.
I'll let him mosh.

Speaker 1 There's been a lot of moshing since we had this

Speaker 1 Canada's embrace this elbows up philosophy.

Speaker 1 We've taken that to the dance floor.

Speaker 1 It doesn't matter the type of music either. You can just start throwing elbows, you know,

Speaker 1 whether it's a Tate McRae concert or

Speaker 1 Brunson Doyle all the way from Nashville. This guy loves music.
I love music.

Speaker 1 Are you naming famous moshers? Yep. Brunson Doyle, one of the best.

Speaker 1 Best of the game. And here's your final phone call.

Speaker 7 Hi, David Graham and beautiful guests. This is Christina calling from Vermont.

Speaker 7 My two-year-old son recently had a minor surgery on his testicle.

Speaker 7 And his father, I heard some from the other room, was asking him

Speaker 1 how it felt.

Speaker 7 Is your testicle feeling sore?

Speaker 7 And Desmond, with no hesitation, says, like an eagle.

Speaker 1 Thanks for watching. Says what? So off I go.
He said, like an eagle. Like an eagle.

Speaker 1 Is it sore? Like an eagle. Like an eagle.

Speaker 1 Oh, I hope he's okay. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Testicle surgery. It's funny if it's an adult, but for a kid.
I know. But you got to get it early.
Yeah. Poor little guy.

Speaker 1 You got to get in.

Speaker 1 And now it's done.

Speaker 1 You know, like an eagle. I'm going to start saying that.
Yeah. Oh, I'm sore like an eagle.
I worked out yesterday, so I'm pretty sore. Oh, like an eagle.
That's good. That's good.
They'll get laughs.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Where does, where do you, where do they get these? Where do they get it? From the mouth of apes.

Speaker 1 Well, that brings us to the end of this here episode. Mark, tell us all the places people can find you online and otherwise.
Hey, everyone. My name's Mark.

Speaker 1 You can come check me out here in Vancouver every Sunday night at the Sunday Service Improv Show at the Fox Cabaret. Doors at 7.
Show is at 8. Sure.
There's one hour before the show starts.

Speaker 1 You can do whatever you want. You want to mosh? It's all you can mosh.
It's mostly all you can mosh. You can find me online uh at the town show

Speaker 1 uh wherever you get podcasts that's the town show we've had dave on we're trying to get graham very busy uh and uh we'll we'll nail him down soon but that's uh and we're over a year in and

Speaker 1 brother it's been a it's been good have you uh i i've started playing this game called cities skyline oh and it's sort of a new uh sim city it's like sim city i've heard of city skyline yeah and is it good yeah yeah it's the same same like yeah Same deal.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's different. Obviously, it's different, but it scratches that itch.
Good. Because you wait till you find out what I bring to the town.
Oh, I can't wait.

Speaker 1 This is the meanest face I've ever seen you do. Wait.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, thank you, everybody, for listening. Is that everything? Was it just

Speaker 1 for now? Yeah. Two things? I think so.
And check out Markin Frozen. He is the understudy for Olaf.

Speaker 1 I wish. Yeah, and he's going to learn those hand stilts, and he's going to get into that right.

Speaker 1 He's the understudy for Olaf and the overstudy for Unlof.

Speaker 1 Who's the overstudy for Unlof? Tonight's display will be played by the Overstudy.

Speaker 1 I did too much work on this.

Speaker 1 I'm well too prepared.

Speaker 1 Well, thank you everybody out there for listening. And, you know,

Speaker 1 head out to your local music venue, see what the Mosh and Nash situation is, and come on back next week for another episode of Stop Podcasting Yourself.

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