Episode 920 - Katie-Ellen Humphries

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

Speaker 2 Hello, everybody, and welcome to episode number 920 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark, and with me, as always, is a man who's got playoff fever, Mr.
Dave Shumka.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we're recording this

Speaker 2 a day before. Well, by the time this is out, it's over.
So

Speaker 2 it's all over. So at the Let's do two takes.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Yep. Hooray.

Speaker 2 That's one take. And the other one is, oh, boy, those guys,

Speaker 2 they have crapped their pants any worse. Then, you know, you just added in the one that you want.
Yeah, and that applies to both teams. So we're not losing any.

Speaker 2 That's our big, two big fandoms, our LA and Toronto. Yeah, and what was the other one for a long time? Dallas or something like that? Oh, our fandom? Yeah.
Oh, I don't know. By fandom by phone.

Speaker 2 Our guest today, a repeat guest here on the podcast. So funny.
You can catch her. If you're anywhere in Anaimo or Courtney

Speaker 2 this week, she will be playing in both of those places. And she's going to be in the Orlando Curated Fringe Festival.
It's Katie Anna Humphreys. Hello.
Hi.

Speaker 2 Thank you for being our guest. I'm so excited to be here.
Yeah, this is,

Speaker 2 it's been a while.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 And it's just, yeah, this is, you're one of our faves. You've been here many times.
You've been on the show many times since the beginning of the pandemic, but this is your first time in the flesh.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 it's a pretty flashy room.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like in general, just general fleshy room. I mean, I've got all these lampshades made out of the gloves made out of human hands.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 it's funny uh well let's get to know us

Speaker 2 get to know us if you look at the stuff Ed Gein made it's very poor craftsman Ed Gein is the real life Hannibal no um yeah Hannibal Elector oh no Buffalo Bill Psycho and Texas Change the Massacre wow they're all based on that guy yeah wow prolific yeah and I think for a while there was only one murderer

Speaker 2 yeah it was like I did a joke about like how Steve Jobs has two films, Ed Game's got three, and zero films about Orville Randenbacher.

Speaker 2 A true travesty. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Are you a popcorn fan? Oh, live for popcorn. Love popcorn.

Speaker 2 What's your style? You do a microwave? You're making your own on the stove?

Speaker 2 Do you get it from a store? I was for a long, long time. I was an air pop pop girly.
Yeah. What is that? Maybe that's the machine? The little machine, yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then, and just eating it straight like plain like a psycho oh really yeah not even a little uh nutritional yeast or salt or anything yeah totally it's really it's just serving the purpose of like my hands and mouth are doing something yes and uh but now i'm really i i cannot get enough of the boom chick-a-pop yeah very popular is that so that's a pre-packaged room temp I oh yeah that is the for me that's a bit of an obstacle that it's not hot which is weird because it's never h that hot.

Speaker 2 No, it's kind of the maybe the first couple movies. Like that burnt kernel that's too hot.
Yeah. Or if you get it right out of the popcorn.

Speaker 2 Or if you go to the uh machine at the movies and put your head under the

Speaker 2 popper that you're throwing in there. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like that's like somebody's make-a-wish

Speaker 2 wish is to get face first into the popcorn. So it's boom chick-a-pop.
Is that a is that many different flavors? They have many flavors.

Speaker 2 I also, the smart pop, I think, has a salt and pepper flavor that I love, but it's very elusive. Can't find it.
Yeah, few and far between.

Speaker 2 It is weird how there are like

Speaker 2 big brands will release stuff at every store. And then sometimes it's like, you got to just, there's one grocery store, you know, that sells Cavendish

Speaker 2 waffle fries.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
I,

Speaker 2 boy, I'm a fan of so many things that were slowly phased out. You know, we were talking about a type of cookie that I was like, gonzo for.
The wafers? The chocolate wafers.

Speaker 2 They like chocolate cookies with like, oh, somebody brought me some cookies to give to you. I forgot all about it.
Oh, I got them at home. Cookies in your future.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And they discontinued it without even consulting me or my family, just completely.

Speaker 2 And then the type of gum I liked, I vanished. Yeah, I had to move to a different type of gum, which is fine.
It all worked out fine. Was that all a dream you had in

Speaker 2 backwards talking Twin Peaks? The gum you like is going out of style. It was.
It was opposite. And the guy was talking forward.
Anyways.

Speaker 2 My favorite kind of chip was discontinued when I, like, maybe in my mid-teens. Oh, yeah.
And I still talk and think about it all the time. What was it? My teens were all pretty mid.

Speaker 2 Oh, it was in the Orion's Thick and Crunchy Sour Cream and Onion. Orion.
Does the company even exist anymore? No. Okay.
Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 They only made two flavors of chip. They made sour cream and onion, which was elite, and they made sour cream and bacon, which can fall into the ocean.
I don't care about that. Sure, sure.

Speaker 2 When do you remember the last time you had it? Was it unsuccessful?

Speaker 2 You never know the last time.

Speaker 2 You remember the first time, sure. You don't know when the last time you didn't know it was going to be the last time.

Speaker 2 I wish I'd taken more pictures.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I had a restaurant that I liked that went under, and I got to be there on the last day, and it was nice, but also

Speaker 2 they were like, we don't have a lot of items on the menu because we kind of slowed out all the stuff. Sure.

Speaker 2 But yeah, it's a sad day if you know it's the last day, but

Speaker 2 you can't know with chips. It's impossible.
So the movie theater in our neighborhood, the park,

Speaker 2 it was like a snap announcement that they're going out of business. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And they're like, yeah.

Speaker 2 They didn't even give people a week notice. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 so people went like the last day to see. That's what I did.
You did? Yeah.

Speaker 2 You had already seen One Battle After another. I'm like, I got to get on that last day.
There were so many comments.

Speaker 2 They've since, it was the worst kept secret that they, like as soon as it was announced it was closing, someone was like, I heard the Rio is going to take it over. Yeah.
That's what's happening.

Speaker 2 But. There were so many comments.
This movie theater that opened in 1941 is closing. And there are so many comments that were like, ah, I just saw one battle after another there.
Oh, that's too bad.

Speaker 2 I just saw one battle after another. Like, well, it's been open for 85 years.
And you win in the last three weeks.

Speaker 2 The great thing about seeing that in that theater, because they were showing it in like a big format, so it had to be film. So you could hear.
the projector when it was really quiet.

Speaker 2 Do you remember that from like when you were a kid that you just hear this like faint,

Speaker 2 yeah, yeah, yeah, good. That's better this time.
I was trying to do Chewbacca

Speaker 2 when I saw the Star Wars. He was working the projector.

Speaker 2 Yeah, just nostalgic, you know? Apparently, what I heard. So this is all.

Speaker 2 I'm knee-deep in the hoopla over this.

Speaker 2 This is the drudge report. Yeah, the movie theater.

Speaker 2 It's the only 70-millimeter

Speaker 2 projector in Western Canada. And Cineplex, who owned it,

Speaker 2 is taking that with them.

Speaker 2 And I heard they have to use a crane. They have to use a crane.
So they have to take the roof off of the building, I guess.

Speaker 2 And then take the roof off of whatever theater they're putting it in.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but they're like those kind that have a tab and you just roll back.

Speaker 2 Are you going to the theater person or do you just like watching from home?

Speaker 2 What's your sitch?

Speaker 2 I was never a big movie going person to the theater.

Speaker 2 I just wasn't a movie person really. Yeah.
But I have recently become one and now I'm like a convert to that. I understand.
I'm like, oh, yeah, I love love being in the theater.

Speaker 2 But in particular, the theater you just mentioned, the Rio,

Speaker 2 they do a lot, or I don't know if they always have, but right now it's like just peak kind of elder millennial, young Gen X nostalgia stuff.

Speaker 2 They're just releasing just a ton of 20, 25, 30-year reissues. Yes.
And I'm going to all of them. Oh, that's awesome.
Oh, it's so dope. It's so fun.

Speaker 2 The last one I went to was the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Oh, shit.
Love to see that on the big screen. Oh, yeah.
That was.

Speaker 2 So that one doesn't have vanilla eyes. No.
He was in. He was in the sequel, which came out like nine months after the original.

Speaker 2 And so his and his family even then was waiting. Yeah.
They had to get him on screen as fast as possible. I mean,

Speaker 2 is that his second most famous song? Ninja Rap? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Probably.

Speaker 2 I can't. You think it's more famous than I want a Roni? I tried to pull another one.

Speaker 2 What is it called? Have it Ronald.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I play that funky music. White boy.

Speaker 2 There was a thing that they did at the Rio, I think it's a regular thing where they show Saturday morning cartoons like

Speaker 2 Saturday morning. And then everybody gets all-you-can-eat cereal.

Speaker 2 Sounds fun. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Vanillais has a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle tattoo on his leg. That's awesome.
Which I know because he is in the kind of circuit

Speaker 2 at one time anyway, that would play stuff like tech conferences and that kind of stuff. Oh, shit, okay.

Speaker 2 And it's a lot of

Speaker 2 older hip-hop stars because they don't

Speaker 2 tour a lot, but they will obviously take a gig like that.

Speaker 2 And so my brother has seen a ton of them and vanilla ice is one of them. And he was telling me, he's like, that he came out and, of course, he plays.

Speaker 2 Go Ninja and he pulled up his pant leg to show everyone the tattoo. And he said, man, I still love them turtles.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I think about it.
Yeah, of course. They were good guys, those turtles.
They haven't really, yeah, they certainly haven't done anything to like, like, the turtles haven't been canceled. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, yeah, exactly. Splinter, on the other hand, yeah.
We know he got it. Grooming.
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 It's funny. Donatello has a vanilla ice tattoo on his leg.
Yeah. And he loves that guy.
Yeah, I still love this guy. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 For his real estate work, mostly, but. Vanilla Ice is like, he's fun.
Like, he just, he always kind of stayed fun. I think he was never super serious about himself.

Speaker 2 I could be wrong, but he doesn't seem to be now. I think he was very serious

Speaker 2 at the time when he was dangled out a window by Doug Knight. Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's very, it was a very weird time in hip-hop where it was like you had to be like tough. You had to be cool as ice.
Cool. Exactly.
But also wear.

Speaker 2 like a big spangly outfit and dance. Did you ever see Cool as Ice?

Speaker 2 I was dying for it to have come up. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I love that movie. It's great.
Incredible. This is Vanilla Ice is on a motorcycle on the poster.
And he's, you know, he's got a crush on like the wholesome small-town gal.

Speaker 2 Is she anyone?

Speaker 2 I mean, she's somebody. I'm going to look this up.

Speaker 2 It was Gina Davis.

Speaker 2 Well, there's no reason I wouldn't be.

Speaker 2 But yeah, it was like, it was another thing that must have been rushed into production to like capitalize on. Oh, I'm sure.
Yeah. Someone was like, oh, this clock.

Speaker 2 And it's like, there were songs in it. I think he probably was the whole soundtrack with him doing raps.
What's great? There was Kristen Miller. Kristen Miller from Cool as Ice and from nothing else.

Speaker 2 I mean, other things. I just don't know of them.

Speaker 2 Yeah, there's a scene in Cool as Ice where they're in a

Speaker 2 like a construction place, like a house that's got the wood frame up

Speaker 2 and they play together in this thing. And I was like, wow, they're just stretching for time.
Like, they're doing this in slow motion. It's like, because it's barely 90 minutes.

Speaker 2 What are the other ones that are like

Speaker 2 a pop singer got to do one movie and then everyone was like, no, that's enough. Well, like, when you watch it, you're like, this is a long music video.

Speaker 2 Yeah, there's from Justin Kelly. Sure.
There's the Fat Boys movie. Disorderlies? Yeah, Disorderlies.

Speaker 2 Do they rap in it? Oh, yeah, all the time. Okay.

Speaker 2 There's Mariah Carey Glitter.

Speaker 2 There's Crossroads with Britney. Britney Spears.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Do you put Purple Rain in this category? No, because he made another movie. Okay.

Speaker 2 And I don't put Eight Mile in it either because

Speaker 2 it was really good.

Speaker 2 And the kid in play, of course, is there's more than one. Oh, yeah.
House party. Yeah.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 They were somebody I became aware of just because of the movies. I didn't know they were.
100%. Yeah.
Yeah. They were also, they did a, I believe they were on an episode of Square One TV.

Speaker 2 Oh, for Nerdy Kids? Yeah, they had a rap song about estimating with your thumb.

Speaker 2 Were you...

Speaker 2 As a youth, were you a hip-hop fan? Are you a hip-hop fan now? I think you are. I am a hip-hop fan.
Yeah. I mean, I'm not, I don't have like an encyclopedic knowledge.
That's fine.

Speaker 2 Who did you like? Well, we're doing our lightning ride coming up in the category of hip-hop.

Speaker 2 Exposed as a poser.

Speaker 2 When I was like younger, it was Will Smith all the way down the line. That was, he was the guy.
He was on a show. He had a cool haircut.

Speaker 2 Will Smith was tight as hell. He was.
He was great. Yeah.

Speaker 2 He still is. I think he's great still.

Speaker 2 I want to keep his wife's name out of my mouth for sure.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I

Speaker 2 what do you what

Speaker 2 type of music was a young Katie? Well, you know, you went to a Guns N' Roses concert with her, didn't you? Oh, yeah, we did.

Speaker 2 And that was their last tour, right? Or am I wrong about that? Was that? No, they still touring. Yes.
Nice.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we went to, do you go to a lot of concerts now? I find myself going to more concerts now than I ever have. Oh, really? Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Because I didn't really, as a teenager, because they were so expensive. Yeah.
But now I got money.

Speaker 2 I got concert money to burn.

Speaker 2 Hey, Graham,

Speaker 2 I've been eating this one really big bean that I've been slicing into squeezing. He's kind of like a ghost when you shave it up.
I'll see through it. But I'm happy.
And that's a bean split four ways.

Speaker 2 Yeah. But I'm happy you've got money.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Do you need a new candle?

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, I don't want to be greedy. You know what? I'll drop off a couple tea lights.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 Sorry,

Speaker 2 I'll try not to let the microphone pick up my stomach pangs.

Speaker 2 Yeah, did you, do you, aside from the concert we went together, do you go to a lot?

Speaker 2 I don't go to a ton of concerts. No.
No, I'd like, I see the advert and I think, oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 And then I start to go down the path and then I think, and then I will be like, well, am I just going to stand around in the place?

Speaker 2 I'm like, I don't know. Because I'll look at the price.
I'm like, no, that's not the, no. Yeah.
And I'll talk myself out of it constantly. Yeah, that's fair enough.

Speaker 2 Like, standing for that long is not the best. And also, people rubbing against you.
Just like entertainment in arenas in general is just like outside of sports. I'm like, they're not.

Speaker 2 It's not great here. Yeah.
Yeah. I guess like it's, you do want to see them in a club.
Like a little nightclub. Those shows are fun or even a theater.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 what was the last arena I went to?

Speaker 2 What's the last thing I've seen in an arena that wasn't a sport or a concert?

Speaker 2 Super dogs? Super dogs or Disney on Ice? You never saw a comedian in an arena. Oh, well, I did see Charlie Sheen

Speaker 2 doing his Missiles of Mayhem tour or whatever. Incredible.
And what was the show? It was Russell Peters was somehow involved. Yep.

Speaker 2 Russell Peters was the MC, and they chatted and people yelled the whole time and laughed early.

Speaker 2 There was no show. Yeah.
He had a real wild time there, that Charlie Sheen. In the Charlie Sheen doc that just came out, they cover that part, obviously.

Speaker 2 And they have all this footage of people doing streeters

Speaker 2 outside of that concert being like, it was terrible.

Speaker 2 It wasn't good at all. What a waste.
And I'm fascinated by these people.

Speaker 2 What did you think? It was going to be

Speaker 2 I went, my brother-in-law bought like 10 tickets. Sure.
Oh, yeah. I don't judge him for going.
And then I went and I was like,

Speaker 2 can we leave yet? They're like,

Speaker 2 he bought me these tickets. Do I have to pretend I like? Then they left and I was like, okay, we can go.
Yeah. I saw

Speaker 2 like a one-weekend run of Cirque du Soleil in Rogers. Oh, okay.
And it was like half of the stadium. Yeah.
And

Speaker 2 Well, I've said it before on the podcast many times, I'm very worried about all the people in that show. Sure.

Speaker 2 I can't enjoy it because I'm like, if they break an arm, that's it. Like, they're not coming back.
They can't do it, men.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you just answer the phones. But with one arm, you can't.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 we should touch on, even though it's been decided who wins the big game, but you are probably the biggest baseball fan I know. Is that true? I think so.
I mean, that's good, probably.

Speaker 2 I think if there was someone else...

Speaker 2 No, I just mean if there was someone else more obsessed right now, I'd be worried about them because I'm right on the brink of being like, hey, you got to get a hold of yourself.

Speaker 2 And you, during the regular season, do you watch all sorts of teams or do you only watch games that involve whichever team that you root for? You root for the Blue Jays primarily?

Speaker 2 I root for these particular brand of Blue Jays.

Speaker 2 I mean, I haven't always,

Speaker 2 you know. Been on and off with the Blue Jays throughout my life, but I have been on for about five years and yeah, I love these boys so much.

Speaker 2 Are they the same basic team as they were five years ago or is it is it morphed? They were so little then. They were just the same guys, but they were little.

Speaker 2 They were pretty little.

Speaker 2 A lot of our superstars were 22 when they started and they were

Speaker 2 little and they are fueled by the power of friendship and I love them.

Speaker 2 They do have friendship. Yeah, they got friendship.
They seem to like each other. For people that don't know, there's a little ritual that I only found out by watching it in a sports bar, the jacket.

Speaker 2 Oh, the home run jacket. Have you seen the home run? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I love it. I love it as a thing that all the guys have to do.

Speaker 2 You hit a home run, and then

Speaker 2 you come back to the dugout. They put a jacket on you.
And also, just for anyone that hasn't seen it, a blazer, yeah, a sport coat. That has so much stuff.
sewn into it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it has all the players' names. It has a lot of the

Speaker 2 players' names and coaches and admin staff and stuff is on the inside. And where

Speaker 2 every player's

Speaker 2 home

Speaker 2 country

Speaker 2 oh is on that as well yeah that's what's on the back i love that and then they they put it on they walk through and they high-five everyone and then they take it off that must feel so good getting to wear a special thing we were so i was playing hockey the other night and we were talking about what is the best feeling in all of sports as an athlete and i we we think it must be hitting a home run

Speaker 2 Yeah. Like one single like rush of adrenaline from doing that.
And then getting to like walk. I was gonna say, well, I think particularly like a walk-off home run.
Well, yeah.

Speaker 2 Like, for sure, but all of them, but just like the way, if you, the way it, it, your hands, it must feel so good in your hands as you're doing it.

Speaker 2 And it's got to be a little bit of a surprise when it happens. You know, everybody's like, is it, is it, is it? Yeah.
Like a second ago, you hadn't hit a home run. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I think also jumping out the top rope in wrestling part of that's got to feel pretty good. Pretty good.
Like landing it and not killing you or the other guy. We were like, is a hole in one good?

Speaker 2 Like, does that feel better? Or is that just kind of like random luck? Yeah. Like, you don't have kind of

Speaker 2 anyone can hit one? Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, I never have, but I don't really golf. So did you play baseball at all when you were a youth or as an adult, perhaps? I played until I was maybe

Speaker 2 like

Speaker 2 right around the time I lost Orion's Thick and Crunchy.

Speaker 2 They're all turning point in my life.

Speaker 2 I'm just going to Google these chips because I don't. I totally remember.
I know the brand for sure, but I didn't know they only did like two Orion Thickers. Cut.
No, that can't be right.

Speaker 2 Black pepper flavor? No, that's wrong, right?

Speaker 2 Orion's thick and chunky. These are all some kind of HP.
Thick and crunchy. Thick and crunchy.
Orion, am I spelling that right? O-R-I-O-N?

Speaker 2 Or is it?

Speaker 2 Like, yeah, like, oh, no, like, O, I think O apostrophe, R-Y-Y-A-N. Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the, uh, now I'm fascinated by this chip.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 Something along those lines.

Speaker 2 Uh, yeah. I mean, it's not the packaging that.

Speaker 2 Is it that? Or is it.

Speaker 2 No, these are O-gradies. Never mind.

Speaker 2 None of these come into mind.

Speaker 2 When you were in baseball, home run?

Speaker 2 Oh, no, no, no. I was not a strong hitter.
Also,

Speaker 2 just way, the way that age has worked out, because I have a very early birthday.

Speaker 2 And so the way that the leagues, I don't know how, but for whatever reason, I was always playing like a level up from my people, my grade. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So all my friends would be in whatever, the like lower division. And then

Speaker 2 you're playing pro. Well, I'm up with these girls.
And this is right at the age

Speaker 2 where, where, you know, you know how sometimes kids, when you get to that, like, oh, you're like, some 13-year-old girls are like, well, you look like the parent of three.

Speaker 2 You're a full, that's a grown person. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Tell it to the judge.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I did not hear puberty till I was 18. Oh, right.
So I was a very, very tiny kid. It's like my brother.
He was the tiny guy in high school.

Speaker 2 I actually, at one point, I thought I had a pube and then I peed out of it. What? It's true.
Is that true?

Speaker 2 True story.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I thought I had a mustache and then I peed onto it. And that was odd how that happened.
Sure. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 I had that like in wrestling where I was just the exact

Speaker 2 weight to put me in the like the bottom end of the next. Oh, no.
No. So I was saying I was like competing against adults practicing.
What you would rather rather be is in the

Speaker 2 optimal weight to be in the younger kids. Yeah, and that's what I wanted.
They're all already scared of you. But I couldn't make weight.
I couldn't sweat it off as a kid.

Speaker 2 But oh man, I got thrown around like a fucking bean bag all over. Have you ever tried? Did you wear the garbage bag? Oh, yeah, to like sweat it all.
Yeah. All my water weight.

Speaker 2 I mean, if somebody had told me that was an option at the time, I probably would. Thank God they did.

Speaker 2 We want to get you started early on an eating disorder.

Speaker 2 They had, I feel like I wore a lot of garbage bags as a child, like for costumes and stuff. Yeah.
Yeah. I feel like there was a large part of my childhood was cutting a head hole out of a.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and I remember having friends, like, we didn't want to take a sled around, so we'd just take garbage bags and fly down the hill. But

Speaker 2 that's so painful. Yeah, it sucks.
Yeah. But easy.
So back on the baseball tip, were you a Blue Jay? Were you around for their old World Series? Yeah, 9293. Were you,

Speaker 2 did everyone in your school go crazy? Everyone in my school did. Oh, I have.
Now, I have zero recollections of anyone from school at that time.

Speaker 2 I remember where I was and my family and all that. Like, it was very big in my family.
I remember all that, but I have no idea what other kids were doing. Yeah.
You remember everyone from your family?

Speaker 2 Yeah, we're still pretty tight.

Speaker 2 Is Big John? Is he a baseball fan? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Big John's a big baseball guy.
How about the missus? She'll get into it. Nice.
Oh, they must be crazy right now. Yeah, yeah.
Everyone's very happy.

Speaker 2 One of my brothers lives in Australia, so he's trying to catch it at weird, like the middle of the day and stuff. And now, as someone, did you ever

Speaker 2 fall off baseball and come back? Yeah, there's been errors. Because I am.

Speaker 2 I thought you said there's been errors. And I was like, well, that's true as well.
That's a big part of baseball. Yeah, for you.
It's a one-way you can make reverse base.

Speaker 2 One thing that is happening in a lot of these games right now

Speaker 2 is that because the Blue Jays have won the World Series twice, but not since 1993, they haven't been in the World Series for 32 years. Right.

Speaker 2 The commentators keep saying, especially when they play at home, because they'll be like, they'll be like, look at this crowd, 40,000 people.

Speaker 2 And then the commentators will be like, most of these people weren't alive the last time.

Speaker 2 And you you were like, I am an older person.

Speaker 2 I'm a crone.

Speaker 2 So as someone who is also

Speaker 2 goes away from baseball and comes back, every few years there's like a new thing. And I'm like, oh, okay.
So

Speaker 2 pitchers don't hit anymore. No.
Nowhere. Except Shohei.
Except Shohei, but not as a pitcher. He's a designated hitter.
Yeah. Now the base runners all wear a little mitten.
Yeah. I do a little mitten.

Speaker 2 Now, when they win a championship or even a pennant, they wear goggles. You gotta wear goggles, Spray.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I feel like that's sports-wide as everybody's like, this could ruin your vision forever, getting champagne in the eye.

Speaker 2 And now, my

Speaker 2 the thing that's really kind of brought me back to baseball is this one Instagram account.

Speaker 2 Uh, and it's I think he does a lot more than just this, but the one thing I see on Instagram is a guy who reads baseball players' lips. John Boy.
John Boy. Oh, we love John Boy.

Speaker 2 I don't know if I like him personally. I feel like he did a lot of like,

Speaker 2 he has this kind of media empire now. And I don't want to know anything about that.
I just like the lip reading. Yeah.
Oh, it's very fun. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like, he knows he'll slow down a video and be like, now, here he's telling.

Speaker 2 Here he's telling the umpire that he's fucking wrong. Yeah, and that he's telling his life story.
And the guy next to him is like, don't need your life story.

Speaker 2 But because he has built this empire now,

Speaker 2 and Major League Baseball likes him quite a bit.

Speaker 2 His content and whatever, it's been very good for baseball. And so he also has a lot more context than he used to have now.
So he also can confirm.

Speaker 2 He can text people now and be like, hey, I think you said this. Oh, he does a little fact check.
Yeah, yeah. I love that.
Like, he also can do a back channel.

Speaker 2 Also, he's quite a bit younger than I thought he was. He's like 38 or something.
They're all so much younger than you think they're.

Speaker 2 He probably doesn't even remember the last time Blue Jays were in there.

Speaker 2 Yeah, like I look at these young players in any sport, and I think back to when I was that age, and I was like, I was the stupidest man in the world when I was that age.

Speaker 2 Like, I don't know, I got no business having millions of dollars. Nuts.
Yeah. Like.
And having a microphone in front of my face. I'm still the stupidest man in the world.

Speaker 2 I shouldn't have a microphone in front of my face.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I watched a documentary about it years and years ago about sports.

Speaker 2 Athletes that then didn't know lost all their money

Speaker 2 because they just bought a million cars and a giant mansion. Went to a million strip clubs.

Speaker 2 Do you have

Speaker 2 like aside from the thing everybody gets to wear the coat,

Speaker 2 do you have a favorite baseball tradition?

Speaker 2 Does every team have one of those things? Because I know the Mariners had like a trident that they gave to whoever hit a home run. That's fun.
A home run television?

Speaker 2 I don't think every team has one, although, but like other teams, it might be just a little more subtle because they might have a specific handshake or something.

Speaker 2 We should try to probably,

Speaker 2 if any teams need a thing, they should contact us. Yeah, we've got Milwaukee Brewers,

Speaker 2 Chug a Beer, Otter. Yeah, you have a La Shotgun.

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 2 who else? Dodgers, they throw something at you and you dodge it.

Speaker 2 But something soft, not like a baseball, like a pillow. Yeah, like the Giants.

Speaker 2 So you should stomp through the dugout and everyone pretends you're Godzilla.

Speaker 2 You should do some kind of FIFA faux fum work. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Now, you mentioned that your brother lives in Australia. Yes.
You went. You went all the way down under.
That's true. A couple of times.

Speaker 2 Tell me everything. I've never been, so I don't know

Speaker 2 what is good. What did you do while you were in Australia? What's fun? Did you see any animal that could kill you? Yeah.
Every Australian man is comfortable with their shirt off.

Speaker 2 It's wild.

Speaker 2 So what are these? We're talking guys, mowing a lawn or just walking around? Just anywhere and everywhere. From the city to the country.

Speaker 2 And my brother lives right on the coast, like right on the beach. And most people who live there is like a huge percentage of people are there.

Speaker 2 They're quite wealthy and they're super active and they all have these surf bodies but then there's also just like just random dudes well like older blokes and stuff and they'll come it doesn't matter yeah it doesn't matter what anyone's body's doing everybody just be like we're not we're we were born comfortable with being at the beach and we're wearing the smallest swimsuit possible yeah and no other clothes no shoes nothing and just coming from canada that you're saying no shirt no shoes yes serving yeah yeah they're serving

Speaker 2 but yeah Canada, we're a little bit more modest. Well, just because it's just not natural for us, we're not, most of the country isn't on the beach.
Yeah. Yeah.
I guess

Speaker 2 they'd be like, narr shoes, narr shirts. And? Yarr shoes.
Yarshir. Service.

Speaker 2 Did you go to, did you go all over? Did you just stay in the one town? I have only been to,

Speaker 2 so where my... Family lives where they're in like the suburb of Sydney.
And then we also went into into Queensland. Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 This is the weirdest like this is another thing about just being in the southern hemisphere is that where you have to go north for better weather. Right.
Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Also north, the more north you go gets more conservative. Oh, okay.
Because they're north is their south. Oh.

Speaker 2 And so like when people make fun of you like, oh, you know, northers, the way that we would, like, they talk about Queensland, the way we talk about Florida. Yeah.
And they're like,

Speaker 2 oh, Carol gets pretty conservative up there. And you're like, Queensland, man.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And that's where the, like, that's where the crocodiles and stuff are. And they're like, oh, shit.
And they're all really conservative crocodiles. They're like, don't tread on me.
I'll bite you.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Did you see a crocodile? I didn't see any crocodiles in the wild, but I did go to like a crocodile park thing.

Speaker 2 And at any beach that I went to up there, my sister-in-law had to be like, hey, for real, like, you can't go, like, don't go to the edge of the water anywhere. Oh, right.

Speaker 2 And she was like, don't, swamps, puddle, like, you just can't, don't be near the water. Yeah.
Smart. Scary.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 There's like,

Speaker 2 I don't know that this is true, but

Speaker 2 a lot of different breeds of bug all live in Australia. Like it's more concentrated than anywhere else.

Speaker 2 Number of bugs. Well, that's a good fact.
I don't know if this is true, but a lot of bugs live in Australia.

Speaker 2 Look it up. Look it up.
Prove me wrong.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 I feel like I've seen people

Speaker 2 like wrestling with gators a lot more than I would think is possible.

Speaker 2 Where? On the internet. Yeah.
Where I got that bug stat from. AI is doing crazy things.
But

Speaker 2 if you close... Do they close your mouth? They don't have up like

Speaker 2 they don't have up strength? Yeah. So if you hold them down, down, then they can't open up.
So

Speaker 2 I mean, maybe that's not true. Is it like a lobster claw if you just put an elastic around it? Exactly.
Do you think people get into alligator wrestling because they can't make weight?

Speaker 2 They're like, this is the perfect matchup. Yeah, this alligator is a grade ahead of you, though.
It's got a driver's license.

Speaker 2 But yeah, I feel like

Speaker 2 I just feel like I see a video like that at least once a month of somebody, not necessarily wrestling, but like handling a crocodile.

Speaker 2 And I mean, how do you get there?

Speaker 2 It's nuts. And even though this park I went to, of course, and they, yeah, they do those shows where they're like, you know, they bring in this gigantic crocodile to do tricks with and stuff.

Speaker 2 And they're like,

Speaker 2 they make it

Speaker 2 do just like barrel rolls and stuff.

Speaker 2 They put chicken on a stick and they poke at it. Yeah.
And to them, this must be great. You don't have to kill a tourist or whatever, go through their shirts.

Speaker 2 It's just like chicken, no, no feathers, just like a big chunk of chicken, right? Sure, yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's watching. Oh, man, I hate to be picking the feathers out of my mouth if I'm a crocodile.
Because you only got those little hands. Yeah.
You can barely get them in there.

Speaker 2 And I don't have up strength with my mouth. Exactly.

Speaker 2 If somebody's sitting on your snout,

Speaker 2 you're not flossing for weeks, bud.

Speaker 2 What's going on with you, man? well it is uh as we record this it is the 30th of October. It's the day before Halloween and I've made a vow to watch more scary movies.

Speaker 2 Are you a Halloween person or not so much? I'm not I'm not wild about Halloween because I'm a like a year-round no excuse to wear a costumer.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you know, like every day I'm like, I'm gonna put on something silly. It's true, yeah.
I mean, I and I love your style and always have. Thank you.
Thank you.

Speaker 2 But yeah, I feel like

Speaker 2 I'm more apt to be jump on board for Halloween because they just wear like a black shirt and black jeans every day. Yeah, I think it's more fun to

Speaker 2 be the AV tech for Halloween.

Speaker 2 I wear a little headset.

Speaker 2 I walk around like a grump, you know.

Speaker 2 Yeah, so Halloween, not so much. I'm always, I'm so impressed when people have a like highly specific costume.
Yes. And then like from some reference that happened in this past year,

Speaker 2 because I also have

Speaker 2 no memory. I have no memory.

Speaker 2 Like, if you told me, like, hey, pick something that happened this year, I'd be like, was it me getting up today? Because that's the last thing I've done. Was it about hearing about bugs in Australia?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 The obscure pop culture reference from 2025. Is this dress blue or white? Exactly.
I know there was, like, was it last year that were a lot of the break dancing women from the Olympics? Yeah.

Speaker 2 That was an easy one to put together. Yeah, yeah.
I feel like I'm cosplaying her every day.

Speaker 2 One thing about, though, I wanted to bring up about the baseball is at the LA games, there's celebrities. Yes.
And there's like Sidney Sweeney and someone and

Speaker 2 Justin Bieber and his wife. And

Speaker 2 Flea.

Speaker 2 Flea was with Brad Pitt. The drummer from the Red Hot Jelly Peppers was with Geddy Lee from Rush.
And then in the Toronto games, there's I've only seen two celebrities.

Speaker 2 And one is Getty Bieber from Rush and Eugene Levy. Yep, and then there's this guy who sits behind the plate who's got giant muscles, yoked, and kind of a small head

Speaker 2 compared to his body for sure. Yeah, wow, like a like are we talking a like a bodybuilder? Yes, oh wow, being a Blue Jays jersey, tight though, but there's three of them now.
Oh, really?

Speaker 2 Yeah, so it started.

Speaker 2 I think the first dude was at the first game, and because he's right behind home plate, so he gets he's on camera, and people online online were losing their mind about this like super buff Jays fan.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And then the next game, people are like, there's a bigger one.

Speaker 2 This is the guy there. Oh, he is big.
Yeah. Wow, he's like a comic book Popeye-esque creature.
Wow.

Speaker 2 Distracting from the game. I used to go to a

Speaker 2 subway location,

Speaker 2 the sandwiches, and there was a bodybuilder that worked there. And he was super friendly, but he like he made a foot lock sub look like a tiny little, he just had these like massive hands.

Speaker 2 And when he like he would just go to put it in the bag and squeeze it by accident. Oh, did it do it again?

Speaker 2 It's now tiny. It's now like a tiny compressed piece of bread.
And I would time it. I'd time it so that I got to go when that guy was working.

Speaker 2 Of course. But like seeing somebody that big in person is a real, it's a real trip.
to see like a like full-fledged bodybuilder guy.

Speaker 2 Do you remember when we were in a hotel in Saskatoon and there was bodybuilders? Oh, Edmonton, yeah. And it was a bodybuilder competition, I guess.
Yeah. And it was the

Speaker 2 idea that you imagined being in a

Speaker 2 elevator with them, and you both are sharing the same top bubble, which says, yuck.

Speaker 2 Because we're looking at each other's bodies.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you could say I remember that.

Speaker 2 So, yes,

Speaker 2 I've been getting into the scary movie thing of swing of things.

Speaker 2 I watched, I've never seen it before, Scream. Yes.
Have you seen this film? I have seen,

Speaker 2 I want to say, I think just one, maybe two. Yeah.

Speaker 2 They're in the fives or sixes at this point. Amen.

Speaker 2 Amen.

Speaker 2 Speaking of popcorn, just making popcorn in the first scene and it catches on fire. And it's like

Speaker 2 Jiffy Pop. Jiffy Pop.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 the weird thing, or no, the

Speaker 2 fun thing they did was on the poster, Drew Barrymore is featured like she's the biggest cast member. And then spoiler, she dies in the first scene.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I knew it was, I knew how it ended. I knew all the like, how it's, you know, there's a knowledge of horror movies for all the characters.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 There's one part that I did not see coming, which is when the principal of the school, Henry Winkler, he hears a sound outside of his office before he gets murdered.

Speaker 2 And he looks outside, and there's the janitor. And the janitor has a Freddy Krueger

Speaker 2 sweater and a Freddy Krueger hat.

Speaker 2 And the principal goes, oh, hey, Fred.

Speaker 2 It's like a gag that would have fit better in Scary Movie. Yeah.
I was going to ask, have you seen Scary Movie? No.

Speaker 2 It's It's funny.

Speaker 2 No, no, I'm just thinking, because

Speaker 2 I saw Space Balls, and I'd never seen Star Wars, and I didn't understand that it was a parody. I was just like, this movie rules.
It's so funny.

Speaker 2 I didn't know it was referencing anything. Well, you didn't, you wouldn't have needed to, because it's like a crazy movie.
Yeah. Yeah.
But then when I finally saw Star Wars, I was like, oh, okay.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Oh, I get it.
Yeah, yeah. That's where they got yogurt from.

Speaker 2 I feel like that when I was a teenager, I learned a lot of references from the simpsons that i didn't know oh totally and then later somebody'd like say yeah that's from apocalypse now i'd be like what wow what a what a smooth funny smart show um

Speaker 2 just the other night i went to uh simpsons trivia oh it was great oh listener christine wrote that yeah and there was a costume contest and uh

Speaker 2 the winner are you familiar with the simpsons catalog I think so. There's a scene in one episode where Mr.
Burns is talking on the phone like a teenage girl on a heart-shaped rug.

Speaker 2 Somebody came as that.

Speaker 2 I went as Jasper with my beard caught in a pencil sharpener. Oh, cool.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And it was so much fun. I'm going back again because I enjoyed it so much.
The questions are very difficult, though, aren't they? Yeah. And

Speaker 2 they're all from the golden era. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And a lot of these were from the Halloween episodes. Oh, sure.
The spookiest season of the year. Is it the spookiest season of the year? January, pretty spooky.
I'd say this is. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Because I just watched three scary movies. That was the first one.
So Scream, yes. Yes.
Now I also watched 28 years later.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, yeah. The prequel to the Alexandra Bill of Ghost Rehab.

Speaker 2 You totally see like accidentally going,

Speaker 2 buying a ticket to the hospital.

Speaker 2 I thought we were going to catch up with her.

Speaker 2 And you saw this as well, and you said you're done with zombie movies.

Speaker 2 I'm done with that breed of zombie movies where it's like an apocalypse and a town has sprung up of people who are like self-sufficient.

Speaker 2 And there's still zombies out there, but the real enemy between humans. But yeah, what if, had you considered that maybe we're the real monsters? Yeah, there's that kind of angle.

Speaker 2 And have you seen any of the 28?

Speaker 2 No, I don't, I don't, I have seen none, like no horror movies.

Speaker 2 like none yeah not really fair enough like it's like if you you like them you like them if you don't why bother yeah i don't know couldn't fathom watching why i would although i do really like hearing about them and i like reading about them yeah well there's a giant penis in this one oh go on yeah that's it it's a zombie is it a zombie yeah no the oh the zombies hung it's not a zombie penis no i mean that would have been a good yeah the little hands kind of thing

Speaker 2 yeah that would be funny if it fell off it while he he was running.

Speaker 2 The giant fetus is just like, I got a brain. Yeah.

Speaker 2 That's a term for jerking off, right? Yeah. I'm just going to check.
Picturing it like

Speaker 2 Slimy, the worm from Sesame Street.

Speaker 2 Inch jingling on its own. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And anyway, that was fine. Yeah, I didn't hate it or anything.
It was just like.

Speaker 2 I'm done with the genre because they haven't. And people are like, no, they did kind of a new thing.

Speaker 2 I'm like, yeah, but you have to sit through two hours to see, you know, a zombie having a cigarette or something like that.

Speaker 2 What a cool zombie. Yeah, that's true.
It is that I say it. It is the thing that the fact that it's 28 years later,

Speaker 2 all the zombies are completely nude now. Yeah.
So that makes sense that they would like,

Speaker 2 you know, once your clothes rot off you and you're a zombie, you're not like,

Speaker 2 I got to get a new outfit. Yeah, fresh pair of socks.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And the other one I watched was a Shyamalan movie. Yeah.
M-Night, M-Night, that is. This was not a horror movie, but it was Trap.
Yes. Trap.
Have you heard of Trap? I've not heard of Trap.

Speaker 2 Here's your chance to listen to

Speaker 2 the plot of a horror movie. Well, not really horror, it's more like a thriller.
Yeah. Fantastic.
So there's this concert. Lady Raven is having a concert.
Okay, you see.

Speaker 2 You're picking up on it. Sorry.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hardnet, right? Josh Hardnett.
Josh Hartnett is in it with his baffling hair. And the movie ends so many times where you're like, now this is the end.

Speaker 2 end. Oh, wait.
It's still going. Now this is the end.
Oh, it's still happening.

Speaker 2 And it's shot at the skydome. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 so it's got Blue Jays tie-in.

Speaker 2 There's so many extras in it. I was impressed with how many extras there are.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. And like

Speaker 2 the,

Speaker 2 I thought his, his daughter is the singer.

Speaker 2 Chamelin's. Chamelin's daughter.
Oh. And she was good.
Like she, you know, if you... And she's not just, like, on stage singing.
Like,

Speaker 2 she's an actress. She's, like, part of the plot.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And then what do they...
Somehow she gets up on stage, James or Josh Hartnett. Josh Hartnett knows the only way out of the arena

Speaker 2 is

Speaker 2 because there's cops looking for the butcher. Yeah.
That's him, the killer. He's a killer.
And

Speaker 2 this whole afternoon concert has been set up. There's no reason it has to be an afternoon concert.

Speaker 2 But at the very beginning, they're like, it's so cool that Lady Raven added a second afternoon concert.

Speaker 2 I would go to more concerts if they were in the afternoon, probably. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 It implies that she's also got a concert later that night. Sure.
Yeah, two show. Oh, boy.
A concert. Imagine doing two full concerts tonight.
Oh, man. Fucking nuts.

Speaker 2 Like doing two stand-up shows back to back.

Speaker 2 I don't know how Lady Raven does it.

Speaker 2 I was just talking about this because I was talking to a friend about

Speaker 2 doubleheaders, like when they play two baseball games in a day, because one of the games in this World Series went 18 innings. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And like, I don't know how they, 18 innings. I had no idea how they did it.

Speaker 2 And well, I don't know how Broadway shows do a matinee, like full of those musicals and then like, okay, we're going to do it again.

Speaker 2 Well, with baseball, there's quite a bit of standing around. Yeah.
Like, there's no

Speaker 2 extra nine innings. No one ran a whole base.

Speaker 2 Like they scored one run in nine innings. But it's it probably is one of those things where it's like, well, I'm not going to get to McDonald's.

Speaker 2 Like I wanted to, I was going to grab something on the way home, but

Speaker 2 I guess I'll go to 7-Eleven.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that was a problem for a lot of the players after the game. Only 7-Eleven was open.

Speaker 2 So, yeah, they go to see Lady Raven do a concert, and she has set up this concert. She's working with the police.
Yeah, this is a giant trap. The whole concert is...

Speaker 2 To trap the murderer and Josh Hardnett is spending the whole time trying to figure out a way out of this arena. Yeah.
And so he goes,

Speaker 2 he finds out that the only entrance not being guarded is

Speaker 2 the stage entrance.

Speaker 2 Why would the murderer be back then? Yeah. Back there.
So that's how he

Speaker 2 tells the tour manager, oh, my daughter's just recovering from cancer. Can she go on stage? Can she be the whatever

Speaker 2 dream girl rosy

Speaker 2 son at?

Speaker 2 And then

Speaker 2 it's all the fact that it's like a fake singer with these fake songs. It's very SVU, Law and Order SVU coded.

Speaker 2 Like there's so many like, oh, I... got my tickets through TicketCon or whatever.
Like all there's so many fake companies involved. Yeah, who opened for Lady Raven?

Speaker 2 The Archies, the Blue Notes.

Speaker 2 Anyway, it was perfectly fine. It was fine, yeah.
It was, I saw it in the theater, and behind me was a row of teenagers making fun of the movie the whole time. It was the best.
Oh, bliss.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I couldn't have asked for anything more out of a theater experience just to have teens lipping off to the movie.

Speaker 2 I went to see, when I I saw Cats, the movie that everyone hated and knew it was going to be bad from the get-go. Yeah, there was one family that was there that was not on board.
That was our family.

Speaker 2 I felt bad.

Speaker 2 Like everyone was laughing at this movie, and they were like, oh, I thought we were going to like this.

Speaker 2 Do you know that until that movie came out, until there was, I could watch, there's like trailers,

Speaker 2 I did not know

Speaker 2 that Cats

Speaker 2 was about cats

Speaker 2 Because why would it be? But you knew, you knew the musical existed, right? Yeah.

Speaker 2 We grew up, we played, my mom played like best of Andrew Lloyd Weber in the car constantly growing up. I know almost all the songs from cats.
I can sing them all.

Speaker 2 I had no idea that that show was adult humans in cat costume.

Speaker 2 What did you picture? No idea. I have no idea what I thought that show was.
So even the like shirt that everyone got at school. Yeah, yeah, I guess

Speaker 2 it's not that I didn't know it was about cats, I guess. I didn't know it was adult humans in cat costume, right? That would be ridiculous.

Speaker 2 Just like I couldn't have fathomed that that's what this was this whole time, and it's been out, you know, decades.

Speaker 2 And this show has been a pretty big part of my life in a way. And then when the movie came out, I was like, wait, what?

Speaker 2 I had a similar thing because it was, you only had certain CDs or tapes in the car. Yep.
And there was this song that was just on some compilation.

Speaker 2 And years later, I found out it was from Starlight Express. And it was a semi-truck singing.

Speaker 2 Singing the song.

Speaker 2 So I'm just like, what else could it be if it could were you

Speaker 2 literally anything? It could be anything. I'm trying to think of you.

Speaker 2 People dressed as cats. I know.

Speaker 2 I'm just trying to think of like, oh, would it be better if it was adults dressed in their street clothes singing the songs and narrating actual cats on stage, but the cats aren't hitting their marks.

Speaker 2 They're not.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. Like a stupid.

Speaker 2 Like I was picturing a Mr. Mistopheles, and I was just picturing a man.
Yeah. A human man.
Very like a top hat. Very dapper, absolutely.
Yes, for sure. Yeah, he's very clever, that magical Mr.

Speaker 2 Mistopheles. Has there ever been somebody so clever?

Speaker 2 Of course, there's that railway cat who does the dance

Speaker 2 or whatever. Yeah, who's the railway cat? I don't know.
He was. Rumble shanks? Might have been rumbleshanks.
That tracks, name-wise. That's a word I've heard.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Skimbleshanks?

Speaker 2 Maybe. Yeah, that actually sounds more like it.
Flip a da-doople. Flipopeta center cover.

Speaker 2 Yeah, my family and I went to it on Boxing Day, which is like. That's incredible.
And

Speaker 2 after that, I was no longer allowed to choose what film we went to on Boxing Day.

Speaker 2 Embargo on any Graham input whatsoever.

Speaker 2 Fair enough there hasn't really been anything that can compete though no but every movie that's out on boxing day is kind of not a not a garbage movie but kind of like we went one year and saw the accountant it's like that style of movie like not terrible but why would you see it that is ben affleck has like murder kills murder skills yeah he's a an assassin um and i think his it's his cover is that he's an accountant but he's also an accountant yeah like he's actually good at it.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And at the end of the movie, my brother is an accountant.
We all turned to him and said, so that's what your job's like. Ah, fun.
We landed on a good gag at the end.

Speaker 2 Do you remember in the movie Dave when

Speaker 2 Kevin Klein is the president and they need to balance the budget? So he calls Charles Groden his friend over?

Speaker 2 That's right. And they order Chinese food.

Speaker 2 It was just that easy. You know, you just had to sit down, burn the midnight holy a little bit.
You're actually not allowed to order

Speaker 2 takeout to the White House. Really? Yep.
Well,

Speaker 2 how did Donald Trump get all them hamburgers in there? I think that was different. That was Uber Eats.
Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Do you ever enjoy a musical? Do you go to a musical? Oh, I love a musical.
What's your favorite musical? Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 Anyway, like something in the top.

Speaker 2 I heard all the songs from Les Miserabla, but I didn't, I never pictured that they'd be old-timey French people. I certainly didn't appreciate it.

Speaker 2 I didn't picture that a bunch of them would have British accents for some reason.

Speaker 2 I love a guys and dolls.

Speaker 2 They're big on a guy. I didn't picture them as guys and dolls.
Yeah, I thought they were going to be literal dolls. I didn't understand.

Speaker 2 Very disappointing. Guys and Dolls Classic.
Yeah, I like that one a lot.

Speaker 2 I've never seen Wicked Live, so I also didn't, I watched the movie, and then I was like, I can't fan, I don't understand how there is going to be another. I don't understand how we're not done.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that was the same when I went and saw the movie in the theater. I was like, man, they're not wrapping this up at all.
It seems to be really, oh, there's a whole other movie there.

Speaker 2 Apparently, they're under like a, an open-ended contract. So they're trying to build a wicked Oz verse.
Oh. So it's like a

Speaker 2 MCU for

Speaker 2 witches.

Speaker 2 But there were a lot of, like, the guy who wrote them, he wrote a lot of different books about Oz, I think. L.
Frank Baum. Al Frank Baum.
Oh, that's where she got her name.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the

Speaker 2 I liked the first music I think I saw live was Chorus Line. And I was like, incredible.
Incredible. It is incredible.
And it's like the first one I saw.

Speaker 2 And it's kind of a little bit of inside baseball for. Sure.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 But great, great musical. I mean, Wicked is good.
Wicked's fantastic. I've never seen like a Disney one.
I've never seen like a Lion King or a

Speaker 2 yeah and you thought it was good. Did I? Yeah,

Speaker 2 I think you liked part of it. I liked the Disney songs and not the other things

Speaker 2 original. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'll still get into a musical no problems.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. I mean, I like a I like a Hamilton.

Speaker 2 I've never seen it. Is it so good? I mean, I love it.
Yeah. But I love In the Heights.
I haven't seen his, I didn't see the Cheerleader one. What's the Cheerleader one? Oh, so these are all the um

Speaker 2 who's the guy that made all those who's the guy that made all those

Speaker 2 yeah

Speaker 2 they made well miranda yeah uh

Speaker 2 in the heights was first one

Speaker 2 hamilton's third and in between he did the bring it on

Speaker 2 oh dude

Speaker 2 oh that's amazing did you see it no i've heard some i've heard the music but i haven't seen it yeah it's uh like when i heard that there was going to be a save by the bell musical i was like here we go here we go and then it didn't last very long um because it's not a great format for sure.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Well, I mean,

Speaker 2 I guess what makes the musical good? Is it just the songs? Because like the songs. The plot's kind of secondary.
It's kind of the pace, too. Like, it has to have a certain...

Speaker 2 I mean, every musical has kind of this particular song and that particular song. Because Save by the Bell doesn't have

Speaker 2 necessarily need a good plot. You just need the characters coming out and introducing themselves.
Like, I'm sort of the railway cat.

Speaker 2 I'm kind of

Speaker 2 a jellical kind of screech.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I saw the Beetlejuice musical. Oh, and it was love to.
It was great. It was great.
It was incredible.

Speaker 2 And I don't know how the guy was singing because he was like, had this raspy voice the whole time. I don't know how people can do that for an hour.
It's Buck Martinez.

Speaker 2 You should be watching these Blue Jays games. His voice is that the whole four hours.

Speaker 2 I can't do it. I I don't do impressions, but that was pretty good.
I've never heard of this guy.

Speaker 2 I was also, I saw Jagged Little Pill.

Speaker 2 How was that? The Jupok musical, the Lannis Moore set one. Very fun.
And I think that's like, it's kind of the say by the bell thing of like, what would this be about? Yeah. Like, what would you do?

Speaker 2 Is it a, like, do they have a through a lot?

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's written by the books written by Diablo Coney.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. Nice.
Yeah. Very contemporary.
It's very like, oh, you know, mom has a pill problem.

Speaker 2 Sure. Oh, sure.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Oh, that's.
Interracial adoption.

Speaker 2 Sometimes they just do. Well, like, I guess Mama Mia, they made that about

Speaker 2 three potential dads to a child. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But then sometimes a jukebox musical is just like a biography. Oh, like Rock of Ages is just like, we rock.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Wouldn't it be cool if we sang rock songs? And like, what's the one?

Speaker 2 The Jersey Boys. I feel like Jersey Boys, they had a lot of cool

Speaker 2 my high school did Leader of the Pack, which is about Ellie Greenwich, who wrote all the Phil Spector songs. Oh.
And it's just about her life. But like

Speaker 2 musical, like great songs.

Speaker 2 Yeah, oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 I'd like to see a stage show

Speaker 2 of

Speaker 2 Tommy. I've never seen Tommy, but I bet you that's a wicked, funny kind of show.

Speaker 2 You, Tommy? I haven't seen it. Okay.
All right. Just checking out.
But it does look good. It does look good.
Well, let's get it it up. Let's get it on its feet.

Speaker 2 Graham, what's going on with you?

Speaker 2 Well, we were talking a bit about concerts, and I had stated in the past weeks that I was going to see the band Guar.

Speaker 2 Incredible. Yeah, I went to see Guar last night with Pasquet Emmett Hall and was supposed to be your wonderful wife, Abby, but she did.

Speaker 2 She was not feeling Guarah. Yeah, she flagged on the play.
And

Speaker 2 It was so much fun. It was so much fun.
So this was at the Vogue Theater. It was at the Vogue Theater.
Amazing. And like, we were kind of standing at the back.
What time did you get there?

Speaker 2 How many bands did you witness?

Speaker 2 Two. Oh, okay.
So we, we... There were four total? There were, yeah, four total bands.

Speaker 2 One of which was a band that I saw when I was a teenager that had reunited for this tour, I think, called Helmet.

Speaker 2 And there was, there were other two, like, one was called the Dwarves, and one was called, like, Blood something or other.

Speaker 2 And I was like, you're on the wrong lineup, man, if you're trying to be the blood. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Had you ever seen Gore before? No, I'd never seen Gwar before. I watched a documentary and I'm fascinated by them.
Likewise. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And it's so like I was on the floor, but I quickly realized I'm like, I can't do this. Like, I've literally somehow became the highway through which everybody was going to get drinks.

Speaker 2 And I was like, I can't. I can't be rubbed against people.
And they had, uh, so there is a famously very bloody show.

Speaker 2 They spray blood on everyone. Did they take out the seats on the floor where it was standing? And did they put down any kind of tarp? They did for

Speaker 2 like stuff on the floor, but nothing on the walls. Like they didn't put up any tarps on the walls.
And these guys spray like crazy. Like

Speaker 2 one thing you also told me was that you were going to try to wear all white. I did wear all white.
And I realized upon doing that, everybody there was wearing all white.

Speaker 2 That was like, I guess, like a thing because everybody wants to. Really? Yeah.
And after the show, it was so funny seeing people who were like soaked.

Speaker 2 Like their shirt was like bright pink and just soaked. And so like these guys, that's all they want to do.
They want to be hit by this blood jet. And pretty soon.

Speaker 2 We realized after watching Helmet, we're like, we're going up to the balcony. Oh, okay.
Enough of this craziness.

Speaker 2 Because I, well, standing is one thing, but also like getting jostled around for an hour is

Speaker 2 old bones, but they, man, they didn't disappoint. Like, they came out first thing, blood everywhere.
Oh, really? They don't make you wait for it.

Speaker 2 And the guy,

Speaker 2 the lead singer, has udders, so they all spray out of his udders, and you could see because, yeah, and because we were,

Speaker 2 I would take milk, be sour, though, you know? Well, it would be, it's not real blood either.

Speaker 2 We know.

Speaker 2 I heard the lead singer has a tattoo of uh Ninja Turtle, yeah, because they work together, yeah. Um, still loves those guys,

Speaker 2 but because we were up high, we got to know who was gonna

Speaker 2 connect it to the hose. Like, from down, you wouldn't know, but from up, we were like, Oh, okay, here comes somebody with the hose.
Wait, what to explain the mechanics of this? Yeah, so there's uh,

Speaker 2 there's three kind of stage uh

Speaker 2 assistants or kind of like maybe they're roadies as well.

Speaker 2 And they would come like from side stage while somebody was playing and plug in this hose. Into their costume? Yeah, into their costume.
Or at one point there was just a gun that sprayed everywhere.

Speaker 2 But every time you saw that hose, you're like, here it comes. And they've sprayed a lot of fake blood.
So the Udders guy, it comes out of his Udders.

Speaker 2 Do the other people have it come out of like...

Speaker 2 Yep, there was people who came out of their face and like uh you know just arms like it was just it was great it was so fun comes out of their arms yeah and um i think it would be very so funny if there was one dude in the band who never got the hose i feel like there is waiting and he was like

Speaker 2 come on

Speaker 2 very funny if there was one guy in the band who just because they're all monsters yeah one guy is just a human in street clothes

Speaker 2 that's the message we're the true monsters yeah

Speaker 2 and so like, not only are they spraying blood, they're doing puppetry all over the place.

Speaker 2 They have an egg that's brought in at the beginning that's going to hatch, and it hatches into a little monster guy.

Speaker 2 And then I think the plot line was the monster guy comes back, and he's like seven feet tall. They saw him in half, and blood goes everywhere.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Did the blood ever get old? Nope. Every time they did it, I was like, this is the best.
Do they have to,

Speaker 2 like, do they make their own blood, I guess, on the road? For the, in the documentary, they have a person who's like their blood guy that travels. He's maintains the tank.

Speaker 2 And so he's, that's his whole job is being blood guy. So yeah, they bring their own blood.

Speaker 2 Maybe they maybe make it not a powder. Yeah, he's not going to like, okay, there's no grocery stores open.
I need corn syrup.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's, uh, I think like the, the, whatever it was just going to, was watery. It wasn't like

Speaker 2 sticky oily or sticky um but it was so funny after the concert seeing the people who like obviously got there at seven o'clock found their place in the line uh gawar gets on at like

Speaker 2 11 10 15.

Speaker 2 okay

Speaker 2 um but yeah i couldn't i couldn't do i couldn't do the the pit i couldn't do it have you were you ever somebody at concerts in the in the pit in the standing room jostling i would always like to be back in my in my pit days i'd like to be right up against the stage i never like to be like in the thick of the pit like i like to so you'd get bummed around and stuff and you want to be close to the stage but i was never like oh i want i hope i can like punch a dude out

Speaker 2 like that's not part of it for me

Speaker 2 yeah and there was a a group of goons in front of us that were all like bros and i was like you're this is not your thing you should be somewhere else at a monster truck rally or something this is this is for us this is for the nerds yeah this is art yeah and uh but couldn't get through.

Speaker 2 That was the other thing. Tried to move forward.
Nobody's giving me any,

Speaker 2 you know, leaning in with my shoulder. And nobody's giving up any ground.
I did, yeah. As a kid, a teenager, I would try to get in front of the pit and just get my ribs squeezed against the barricade.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And then

Speaker 2 if that was like a band I loved, I would want to be as close as possible. If I was at a concert and I'm like, ah, I don't love these bands.
Let's see what we're doing for crowdsurfing. Yeah.

Speaker 2 There was some crowdsurfing,

Speaker 2 but that was during helmet set. I think

Speaker 2 maybe it was discouraged because it would block some people's chance to get blood all over them. That's true.

Speaker 2 But yeah, the

Speaker 2 slippery. Oh, I can't.
It's just falling back into the crowd.

Speaker 2 But couldn't I can't recommend them enough? It's

Speaker 2 theater. So you got no blood on you.
No blood.

Speaker 2 Did you afterwards? Did you cut yourself?

Speaker 2 I just wanted to feel something.

Speaker 2 Did you ever get in the pentretle of someone? What? Oh,

Speaker 2 yeah,

Speaker 2 maybe. What is that?

Speaker 2 Is that from Boada Bada Da? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, I wonder what a Chris Rock, not Chris Rock, Kid Rock.

Speaker 2 Kid Rock's brother, Chris Rock.

Speaker 2 Remember when they accidentally hired Chris Rock to host the Oscars? They meant to get Kid Rock.

Speaker 2 But yeah, couldn't recommend them enough. And it's like, you can bring your kid to it.
Like, it's not gross. It's just hilarious.
It is Muppets. Yeah, it is.
It's like seeing the Muppets.

Speaker 2 And they could have gone another whole hour and I would have gotten bored of the, because there's always something coming out next. There's also, yeah.

Speaker 2 But yeah, there are other shows apparently that decapitate people and then the blood goes flying like a fountain. Did they do a Q ⁇ A afterwards? Yeah.

Speaker 2 And there was a lot of people standing up and be like, well, I've been a Guar fan for many years.

Speaker 2 I find it very interesting, the choice you made there.

Speaker 2 I remember

Speaker 2 when I was a kid, there was a puppet show that came to our school, and there was like a flash in the middle of it, of like gunpowder.

Speaker 2 And there's a Q ⁇ A afterwards, and every question was about, how did you do the thing, noise?

Speaker 2 Yeah. I feel like it would have been a lot of.

Speaker 2 How do you do the blood? Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Where does the blood come from?

Speaker 2 But yeah, there was the funny thing, too, is all the security were wearing ponchos.

Speaker 2 And, you know, I'm guessing like this is maybe a one-night gig for a lot of these guys. So when they walked in and got a poncho, they were like, all right.
Security at concerts and event, it's like

Speaker 2 almost as fascinating to watch as the show.

Speaker 2 Anybody's like, someone at a comedy show and they just stand there like not looking at the stage.

Speaker 2 Stone-faced. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But yeah, or a band, you're like, you hate this.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Or like they've, generally, it looks like

Speaker 2 they get to be closer to the artist than anyone else. Yeah.
And they've never heard of the artist. Yeah, totally.

Speaker 2 A past guest, Josh Stubbs and his wife both took gigs of security guards just to see a show. Like to be on the ground floor seeing a show.
And they did that for years.

Speaker 2 And he said, you never have to do anything he's like if things get a little too hot you're not grabbing a guy you're not getting involved in a fight yeah you're gonna you're gonna call enforcement so speaking of josh stubbs when he was here last yeah he uh

Speaker 2 left his

Speaker 2 he was wearing like this denim chambray shirt with a t-shirt underneath yeah and sunglasses and he took them both off and just so he had his t-shirt and then he after the the uh podcast he left i haven't seen him in a year and a half he left his shirt and his sunglasses here.

Speaker 2 And then a few months ago, Abby was like, Boy, I have not seen my chambray shirt in so long.

Speaker 2 And I,

Speaker 2 I, in my mind, I was like, huh, that's weird that she's missing hers and Josh left his here.

Speaker 2 I never even like pulled it up to see, oh, this would not fit Josh. I just kept it piled up in a corner next to the podcast equipment.

Speaker 2 And then Abby came in here a few weeks ago, like using to use the printer, and she was like,

Speaker 2 Dave, what the hell? I've been looking for this shirt for a year and a half.

Speaker 2 I told you about it.

Speaker 2 And I could not compute. So I don't think Josh is missing his shirt.

Speaker 2 He made me hook glasses, though.

Speaker 2 Josh, come back and get your

Speaker 2 white cloth-sponsored sunglasses. Nice, nice.

Speaker 2 Well, do you guys want to move on to some overheards? Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 1 Overheard.

Speaker 2 Overheard's a segment where, gee, you know what? It's really fun to hear things and then relay it to some other people. And we always like to start with the guest.

Speaker 2 Katie Ellen, do you have an overheard? I haven't overheard. I also have an overseen that's sort of a spooky Halloween-you know,

Speaker 2 and I was like, I was on Vancouver Island and I saw this kid maybe 12 years old or so, and he had this like metal as hell shirt.

Speaker 2 It was black, and he had the skeleton looking all hardcore to that flames.

Speaker 2 And then,

Speaker 2 in the writing on the shirt, it said, Sorry, I was late, I was cranking the hog.

Speaker 2 And it took me fully

Speaker 2 like between

Speaker 2 like five, maybe ten minutes before I was like, oh, the skeleton was riding a Harley.

Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 2 yeah.

Speaker 2 I fully was just like, that's the funniest shirt I've ever seen in my life. But it's both.
Yeah, yeah. But before the motorcycle, I truly was just like, yeah, dog.

Speaker 2 Sorry, I'm late. I was cranking the hog.

Speaker 2 I mean, I've been there, man.

Speaker 2 Oh, sure. When I was a young skeleton.

Speaker 2 That's a good gag from a scary movie where two people are being chased by a skeleton, and one of them goes, It's just a skeleton, we're skeletons.

Speaker 2 And then they take his head, put it in his belt, because he's just a skeleton.

Speaker 2 He guessed to be there.

Speaker 2 So, Craig and that hog. Yeah.
I was overseen. Do you have you haven't overheard it? Or do you want to go around and call it? Sure, yeah.
Let's go around. Dave? This isn't scary.

Speaker 2 Boy, I wish it was.

Speaker 2 I saw, so this is an overseen. I was at, I was walking past a dry cleaner.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And you know how they have, when you get something from your dry cleaner,

Speaker 2 they give it to you on a hanger that says, we hurt our customers.

Speaker 2 So you can always tell that's from the dry cleaner.

Speaker 2 And I saw this. Someone had

Speaker 2 a white shirt that I guess they could not get the stains out of because there were big yellow stains on it. And it had one of those hangers in it.
And they just hung it from the garbage can outside.

Speaker 2 Like, you're not. Yeah, yeah.
They couldn't get it out. Yeah.
So, like, that's it. I'm parting ways with this.

Speaker 2 I mean, unless you could go crazy and put a lot of colors on it and get, you know, into a fucking

Speaker 2 wear to a gauge.

Speaker 2 Absolutely. Do you pay the dry cleaner if they don't get it out? I always pay my dry cleaner up front.

Speaker 2 I would gladly pay them today, tomorrow for a dry cleaner. I've got a hamburger on it today.

Speaker 2 You pay up front of the dry cleaner. The other one I go to.
But again, that's not something I do very often. I know.
It's been a couple of years for me as well. Yeah.
I,

Speaker 2 yeah, I don't know, man. I got a lot of clothes that I never wear.
And they're all, a lot of them are vintage, so it just smells like vintage shop in my closet. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So then if you wear one, you're like, you just got that smell on you for the rest of the day. And these are unwashables?

Speaker 2 They would be dry cleanables. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But,

Speaker 2 you know, enough about me. What is that smell? Yeah, I don't know.
But it's like, maybe it's dust? Maybe it's some kind of dry cleaning thing that they spray everything down with. It could be.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's a fragrant. Yeah, it is.
And like, the two things that vintage shops always smell like is that or like some crazy perfume that you've never smelled in your life.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's what more what I'm thinking of: is like something very perfumey. I bought

Speaker 2 a poison shirt, poison the band shirt. Hell yeah, and uh, it's like that smells like crazy perfume.
Washed it, still smells like perfume.

Speaker 2 Fine, it smells like perfume. That's what this garment will be forever.
And then, if you get something from like Team You or

Speaker 2 AliExpress, it smells like gasoline,

Speaker 2 Graham, do you have an overheard, my man?

Speaker 2 This was just a little snippet, but I was like, this really triggered something in my memory.

Speaker 2 It was an older guy talking to, I think like a slightly younger guy, and

Speaker 2 he was like talking about seeing a show, a TV show, and he hated it, and he said, I couldn't click the converter fast enough.

Speaker 2 I was like, oh, wow.

Speaker 2 I haven't heard converter for so long.

Speaker 2 Was that in your house? Did you, when you grew up? Was it called the converter?

Speaker 2 The clicker? The remote? The remote? No, the converter was the thing because we had like old-timey TVs that only had 13 channels or whatever.

Speaker 2 And then the converter was the box that you got that attached the cable. Like when once we got cable, we kept the old timey TV and you had this box on top of the TV.

Speaker 2 Like a wire thing, or no? Just like

Speaker 2 coax cable goes in the back from the wall and then comes out of the converter into the TV. Yeah.
It's

Speaker 2 like, yeah, for sure. My

Speaker 2 grandfather used converter. Like, I feel that.
And maybe my mom did too. Were you a converter household? I'm having memories of just hearing the phrase, where's the converter?

Speaker 2 I wonder if it's a Canadian thing or if it's listeners right in, is converter something you're familiar with? Yeah, because converter was always in the Chesterfield.

Speaker 2 Yeah, right next to the Garburetor. Sure.

Speaker 2 What's the other one that... Oh, Parkade.
Parkade. Yeah.
Well, Katie Ellen said she read an advert, and I was like, not in this country, you didn't. When did I say that? Check the tapes.

Speaker 2 I don't remember everything that's happened. Well, look it up.
There was an advert mentioned. I was being nice back then.
I didn't bring it up. And

Speaker 2 that's American? No, that's British. That's British.
Oh.

Speaker 2 Now, you said you also have an overview. Do they say, they don't say parkade in Britain, they say car park.
Yeah, I think parkade is like exclusively Canadian for some reason.

Speaker 2 I love a parkade. Yeah, because like America, it's a parking garage.

Speaker 2 Grow up.

Speaker 2 Grow up. Did you?

Speaker 2 We say Garbureator, but we never said Chesterfield.

Speaker 2 My grandparents definitely said Chesterfield.

Speaker 2 What about,

Speaker 2 I mean, Nardoir the human serviette.

Speaker 2 Did anyone in your family, my grandmother called a napkin a serviette? Oh, yes. Yeah.
A serveette. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, another Halloween tradition I love.

Speaker 2 Nardoir posting all the pictures of people who dress up as him. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I will scroll through endless photos of people in their costumes. I don't care where they're from, if it's Comic-Con.
or

Speaker 2 absolutely. Yeah, definitely.
And like, especially at Comic-Con, there's about a thousand characters. I have no idea who they are.

Speaker 2 If something from a video game or through anime or whatever, still, still love it. I'm House from the TV show House.

Speaker 2 You have one more. I haven't overheard.

Speaker 2 I was at Sketchfest in San Francisco a while back, and I was walking through this green room, and there was a younger, I guess a younger, newer comic or something, and he was was talking about he's trying to tell people he had

Speaker 2 like auditioned that night at one of the major big comedy clubs to get quote-unquote passed to be able to work there.

Speaker 2 And he said,

Speaker 2 I didn't get passed. I have to showcase again.
They said I was too dirty, but I was only dirty at the end. I closed on a joke about my mom blowing me.

Speaker 2 But the skeleton cranking his hog? Yeah. He was so incredulous.
He was like, wasn't even dirty.

Speaker 2 You've lost.

Speaker 2 These shows are for regular human people. Yeah.

Speaker 2 He does that in a corporate. It's got to be corporate clean.
Okay. Yeah, yeah.
I would have gone in on. It is clean, but the clean leads up to this wonderful payoff

Speaker 2 that is the filthiest thing imaginable.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I love it. Oh, yeah.
Only a comedian. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I do love that, having met so many comedians who just don't get it.

Speaker 2 Well, come on, that's not that dirty. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 Because amongst comedians, it's not. I didn't get it.
True, but it's like, you have to remember. You have to have met another person.
You have to remember Hammy.

Speaker 2 Was your mom in this joke? Would she like this joke? Like, that's who's watching.

Speaker 2 It's true.

Speaker 2 I'm just talking about a heinous crime. I'm not committing it.

Speaker 2 I have a list of overheards from listeners here. If you want to send one in, send it into SBY at maximumfund.org.
And there's three overheards, and that just kind of silly.

Speaker 2 Not an overheard or overseen necessarily. I just threw it in, but I'll do the overheards first.

Speaker 2 This is Jen from Philadelphia on vacation in Vancouver. She sent this in.
Oh, my God. Overheard in the ladies.

Speaker 2 They were at Stanley Park.

Speaker 2 Overheard in the ladies' washroom in Stanley Park. It's weird having my eyebrows back.
I just woke up day and I was like, wow, they're back.

Speaker 2 Big day. Good day.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Can you pluck all the eyebrows and they'll come back?

Speaker 2 You could shave them and they'll come back. Yeah.
You could bleach them and they'll return to form. I guess.

Speaker 2 Do you have any eyebrow that you're going to be doing? It's going to vary brow to brow for sure.

Speaker 2 If you did bleach your eyebrows,

Speaker 2 they just they don't keep growing like you don't get like roots

Speaker 2 Do you? I don't know you guys are going to have ombre eyebrows. Well, yeah, like they would just fall out and new ones would grow.
I don't know. I don't know what's going on with eyebrows.

Speaker 2 I find them sometimes. No, I guess like a butterfly where it becomes a pupa and then the new eyebrow pops out.
I thought I had a pupa once, but then I peed out of it.

Speaker 2 This next one comes from Doc.

Speaker 2 from Montreal. Hey, Doc.

Speaker 2 What is up?

Speaker 2 Two young men were walking behind me having the traditional traditional young man conversation, which martial arts beat which and how would you take down a master of one style or another.

Speaker 2 They shared a lot of conventional wisdom. Kickbosser beats karate, on and on.
I picked up one tip I had heard before, I hadn't heard before, that I thought I should share.

Speaker 2 You can't underestimate the psychological advantage. So try to schedule the fight on your birthday.

Speaker 2 So kickboxer versus karate, but what day? Yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, you do feel confident on your birthday. Yeah, you're on top of the world.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I don't know if that's true. Like,

Speaker 2 some people hate it. Well, like, if you had to go to school on your birthday, I mean, which you did most of the time.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 That's how I would feel. I'd be like, oh, it's my birthday, but I still have to go to school.

Speaker 2 I still have to fight a guy. Yeah, I think it should be universal that if it's your birthday,

Speaker 2 you're allowed to have the day off. That's just the way it is.
And you got to prove that it's the day. But aside from that, you're just granted to the day.

Speaker 2 It sucks for, you know, summer birthdays because they have the day off already. They don't get an extra one.
Maybe they get to bank it.

Speaker 2 You know, they don't have to come until a day later in September or something like that. You don't want to miss that first day of school.
Everyone's got to show off your clothes.

Speaker 2 You should be able to pick a day. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Government, get back at us. We're trying to work on a thing here.

Speaker 2 This was from Liam S. from London, UK.
I overheard my mother, a native English speaker, announce without any irony that she and my father were going to see a tribute to Billy Joel.

Speaker 2 Like from Superman. Yeah.

Speaker 2 We're going to have my favorite band, Billy Joel.

Speaker 2 There's a Billy Joe covered like tribute act, but it's all like Superman theme somehow.

Speaker 2 It's him playing the piano, but he's in full Superman. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And they changed the lyrics a bit to be about kryptonite and yeah, Jimmy Olson and whatnot. Gave us the world.

Speaker 2 You're the Superman. Or whatever.
No, that's good.

Speaker 2 And this one's not really in love to Lois and Wayne.

Speaker 2 I just imagine that there was like someone really fucked up the posters. Like, yeah, Billy Joe.

Speaker 2 Oh, darn. The L's on the other line.

Speaker 2 And this last one isn't really, I wouldn't slot it in the overseen category.

Speaker 2 It's from

Speaker 2 Sharif Y.

Speaker 2 Where I lived, there are a lot of dumb tech billboards everywhere. One day, as I was driving, I saw one that read, Calm, the number one app for sleep.

Speaker 2 But at first, my dumbass thought it was Clam, the number one app for clams.

Speaker 2 Not technically an overseen, but in the family. Imagine if it was number two.

Speaker 2 Clam. Yeah.
Number one app for clams.

Speaker 2 We can't beat out that shellfish app. Yeah, it is like reviews of different clams and

Speaker 2 a message board. You can put it in the middle.
But also, I bet it would calm you down. That's true.
Get you to sleep a little bit easier. Boy, ever since I've gotten into clams,

Speaker 2 you're sleepy all the time. Sing us a song, you're a piano clam.

Speaker 2 Do you have overheards? Yeah, I do.

Speaker 2 In addition to overheards that are written, and we also accept your phone calls and voice memos, send us a voice memo at spy at maximumfund.org or call us 1-844-779-7631 like these people have.

Speaker 4 Hey, Dave, Graham, and guests. This is Gabe from Baltimore, calling in to second-hand overheard.

Speaker 4 My wife took our three-year-old son to a birthday party last weekend, and the kids were hitting a piñata.

Speaker 4 And evidently, a couple of the boys didn't seem to understand the concept of hitting a piñata. So, one of them just kind of went up and just

Speaker 4 barely tapped it with a stick. And my wife said she heard my son say under his breath, pitiful.

Speaker 2 Off I go.

Speaker 2 Great. Great commentary.

Speaker 2 If you don't know a pina how a piñata works, then then you're just like, what is this crazy thing? Sure, I hit it with a stick. There I go.
Is it like bibbity-bobbity-boo? It'll open up.

Speaker 2 Or like, you just poke it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But if you are waiting your turn and you know how it works, then yeah. Yeah.
Beautiful. Bitiful.

Speaker 2 That's like a piñata is like the the most fun, cheap thing that you can have at a like things are pretty cheap, right? Or am I right? I don't know, Mr. Moneybags.

Speaker 2 I buy at least a piñata a month.

Speaker 2 I got piñata money.

Speaker 2 All right, here's your next phone. That's the problem with millennials.
Yeah, you're buying so many piñata.

Speaker 2 And you hit them, and all this avocado toast comes out. Avocado, avocado.
I lost that. Either way.

Speaker 2 Duotang. That's another Canadian.

Speaker 2 Okay, here we go.

Speaker 5 Hi, this is Zach from Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and I have a license plate overseen for you.

Speaker 5 I was listening to an episode of the podcast as I emerged onto the Blue Route and saw the vehicle in front of me had the vanity plate, M-A-G-K space, K-U-M.

Speaker 5 Magic Cum.

Speaker 2 Magic Cum.

Speaker 5 I wonder how that got approved.

Speaker 2 It's because it was K-U-M. Yeah.
So that's how we, I feel like, slipped it. And it was magic with a K as well.

Speaker 2 Yeah, never had any, and in any of my family's cars, I've never had a vanity.

Speaker 2 I've never

Speaker 2 had magic cum states.

Speaker 2 It was like, well, we've talked about vanity plates a million times, so you must be talking about something else.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's what happens when I watch magic plate.

Speaker 2 This is such a can I tell you a cum story? Yep. Yes, please.
We've been waiting all day for one of your classic.

Speaker 2 By the way, you're never going to get past the comedy club with this kind of story.

Speaker 2 I was about, I don't know, old, like maybe just before I lost Orion's thing crunchy at this age, early adolescence. And after

Speaker 2 swim practice, we had our own lockers. We had like this private hallway by the team change rooms.
Nice. And we had our own locker so you could stiff, whatever, it doesn't matter.
Padlock stuff.

Speaker 2 So you can keep stuff there between practices where you were at school. Right.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 my friend, her locker had, like her shampoo had spilled or something. Oh, God.
And so it was like, it was dripping outside of the locker.

Speaker 2 And then this, this older boy wanted to point out, want to point out what that looked like. Right.

Speaker 2 I, at this point, did not know the word come.

Speaker 2 I understood like

Speaker 2 what he was probably getting at, but this person, this other swimmer was also deaf. So he was signing it.
Oh. And

Speaker 2 yeah, so he's like making some signs, and he was like, We don't follow, and then he's spelling it out. Yeah, but now I also like he's he was like C-U-M.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and we keep now, and we're just repeating the word. We're like, come?

Speaker 2 What are you talking about?

Speaker 2 And we're like, that's not a word.

Speaker 2 You're mad at silence.

Speaker 2 Truly.

Speaker 2 What are they teaching you? But it's, yeah, that, how did they come up with that spelling for us? I don't know. This is how you differentiate sometimes.
Sometimes, and then sometimes not.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's, I'm like, what is the first time I heard come said?

Speaker 2 I don't know, I don't know. I definitely learned like a big batch of the words all at the same time.
Yeah, yeah, from some. And like,

Speaker 2 the fact that the C word

Speaker 2 starts with the same two letters as come. Yeah.
Yeah. Well, are these things related?

Speaker 2 I mean,

Speaker 2 kind of. Like, I don't think etymologically.

Speaker 2 All right, here's your final phone call. Thanks.

Speaker 6 Hey, Dave Graham and

Speaker 6 ineffable guest. This is William from the Boston area

Speaker 5 with an overheard.

Speaker 2 I was

Speaker 6 out at my birthday back in July, and I was at a hotel bar with friends, and we were all chit-chatting, and I probably maybe was the only one who heard.

Speaker 6 But at a table nearby us, there was a couple or a small group, and they, I think, were having a fun sort of argument.

Speaker 6 Like, I didn't think it was really heated, but it was sort of like, Well, this, and then,

Speaker 2 and then.

Speaker 6 And then the lady says something like, You're being unreasonable. And he's like, I have the best horse attorney.

Speaker 2 And then it like went on from there, and my friends distracted me, but no friggin' way. Thanks, guys.

Speaker 2 Is the horse that abused you in the courtroom today?

Speaker 2 Well, there are like

Speaker 2 specific, in America anyway, specific like in a car crash, were you in an Uber crash? Like, were you in a horse crash? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Or like, I guess maybe people that own race horses, there might be legal intentions. They're definitely like horse neighborhoods.
Where was he in Massachusetts?

Speaker 2 I mean, I feel like you're missing the fact that the horse is the attorney. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I did. I just blew right past it.

Speaker 2 In the criminal justice system,

Speaker 2 horses are considered especially just on the

Speaker 2 wear.

Speaker 2 Well, that brings us to the end of this episode. Katie Ellen, tell the people where they can find you.
I would love it if you all would find me online. I do have a special coming out soon.

Speaker 2 I don't know when, because I just started editing. Do you have a name?

Speaker 2 Still. I mean, I thought I did, but now I started editing it, and then the joke maybe is not good.
I might not put the joke.

Speaker 2 So who can say? Yeah.

Speaker 2 But I would love it if anyone, if people would subscribe to my YouTube,

Speaker 2 because I have like a dozen subscribers right now, so it's not really going to pop.

Speaker 2 But a great place. If you would love to get in touch, you could follow me on Instagram.
That is at M-S-K-A-T-I-E-E-L-L-E-N, Miss Katie Ellen.

Speaker 2 And I also, I just want to say that spy listeners are genuinely some of my favorite people that I've ever met.

Speaker 2 And so if you are a spy listener and we are ever out somewhere or we're out by the same show or something and you do, you happen to, you know who I am. I would love to meet you.

Speaker 2 Come say hello because I'm a huge fan of the show and y'all are friends of the show. And then we already have a thing in common.

Speaker 2 And I really like meeting spy listeners out in the world or online. That's awesome.
Yeah, follow KDL, and you need to be in the KDL and you

Speaker 2 can. You got to go follow that YouTube.

Speaker 2 I'm very curious what's going on there. It's kind of under the radar.
Yeah. Yeah.
There could be all sorts of stuff going on there.

Speaker 2 Well, thank you so much for being our guest. Thanks for having me.
Thank you, everybody out there for listening. Even though Halloween's past, I hope you're having a real spooky November.

Speaker 2 And come on back next week for another episode of Stop Podcast Your Yourselves.

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