Episode 922 - Savannah Erasmus

Speaker 1 Hi, he's Dave Shumka, and he's Graham Clark. And together we host Stop Podcasting Yourself.
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Speaker 2 Hello, everybody, and welcome to episode number 922 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark.
With me, as always, he's a man who, well, let's see.

Speaker 2 He told me he's got nothing going on this week, but I don't believe him one bit, Mr. Dave Shumka.
Well, you know, I'm a mover and a shaker. Yes, yeah.

Speaker 2 You're a Hollywood big shot. I am a deal maker.
I've sort of,

Speaker 2 I mean, all the studios are fighting over me. Yeah, and

Speaker 2 what is the project that they're fighting over? Oh, boy.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 that's a really good one. It's sort of like a dream I had once about.

Speaker 2 it's kind of David Lynch. Yeah, I guess it's sort of Lynchian.

Speaker 2 And it's, yeah, you were like you were there, but it wasn't you. No, I know that Felic.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you were a little bit nude, but again, not you.
And only a little.

Speaker 2 Sounds like a dream. Seems like a dream come true, really.

Speaker 2 Our guest. for this podcast is a very first time guest, a comedian here in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
She runs a monthly show at the Fox Cabaret in the projector room. It's Savannah Erasmus.

Speaker 2 Hello. Hello.
Thanks for having me. Thanks for being here.
This is great. I'm a big fan.
Well, back at you. So there you go.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I understand that. Wow.

Speaker 2 So. Throwing smoke right away.
Mean.

Speaker 2 I'm trying to have energy right now at 5.30 p.m., you know? I know. This is our first time recording in the dark in, I can't remember.
Yeah. Like we always would in like, you know, around midday.

Speaker 2 Yeah. But you've got, you've got a real actual job that takes you.
It's classic. It's a nine to five.
Yeah. I'm so sorry.
Yes, I do. What's your, what's your lunch break?

Speaker 2 You have an hour, an hour? Do you have half an hour? Yeah, it's a, it's like, it's an hour. That's awesome.
But 30 minutes unpaid, but I still take the full hour. Yeah.
Hell yeah.

Speaker 2 Well, how much,

Speaker 2 would I, would I want that half hour of lunch? So 30 minutes unpaid, but you could take a full hour. Yeah.
So the

Speaker 2 what if you just took 30 minutes? but i leave early oh you they're they're getting they're taking 30 minutes of pay regardless right okay okay i was trying to figure out like how do we game the system

Speaker 2 you can't do it nope should we get to know us yep

Speaker 2 get to know us savannah savannah we we take a picture with our guests oh well we have terrible lighting right now, especially because it's after dark. Yeah.
We have no other options. Yes.

Speaker 2 You described the lighting in here as...

Speaker 2 This is straight lighting. Straight lighting.
So what makes man lighting? Straight man lighting. What characterizes straight man lighting? Okay, so I need the

Speaker 2 everyone needs to know that it is very bright overhead light. It's bright as it's a fluorescent.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's fluorescent corporate lighting. I don't know if it's fluorescent.
Well, it's reminiscent of it. It's fluorescent or reminiscent, and it's a

Speaker 2 a light picture full of dead bugs. It's just like I've never looked up before, and it does.
I've got a lot of dead bugs in in it. Yes.
And it's overhead and it's utilitarian.

Speaker 2 Like it gets the job done. This room is, we could see each other.
That's what straight guys do. Straight guys are utility.
They get the job done. But it's also like a cool, it's almost cool.

Speaker 2 It's not warm enough.

Speaker 2 Like gay lighting or like, well,

Speaker 2 I hate the big light in my own house. Okay.
It's always like lamp or like love a lamp. A warm.
I love a lamp.

Speaker 2 We need one of those in here, actually. Yeah, that would be nice, actually.
Yeah,

Speaker 2 you can turn that guy on.

Speaker 2 But is that guy? That's a lamp right there.

Speaker 2 The little gold, that gold guy. This looks like a big thimble.
It looks like a big thimble, yeah. It's my thimble lamp.
Yeah, how do you

Speaker 2 know how to turn it on? I think it's probably on the wire, the wire there. It's also very dusty.
Yeah, but I want to see. Oh, that's nice.
This is a bit warmer.

Speaker 2 This is doing

Speaker 2 that up over here.

Speaker 2 I'm going to light this lamp. Okay, thank you.
Yeah, my apartment, it's like dimmer switches, like lamp, candle. It's just a lot of like warm,

Speaker 2 cozy lighting. Yeah, I'm a big chunk of my apartment is all.
Oh, how about that?

Speaker 2 This looks like Halloween lighting. Yeah, yeah.
This is spooky lighting. Thank you so much for accommodating my needs.
I mean, the picture we took is still going to be the harsh lighting, but.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no, don't retake it. But what

Speaker 2 is this better? Yes.

Speaker 2 But I like lamps too, but I don't like the, at the end of the night, the like extra, frankly, 45 minutes of going around and turning off each individual lamp. I have a lamp that,

Speaker 2 oh, we're going to get a

Speaker 2 better lighting picture. I think this is going to, the phone's not going to like it.
No.

Speaker 2 The phone didn't like it, and you could tell because we were all silent for the three seconds it took to

Speaker 2 properly

Speaker 2 take the photo. Do you remember?

Speaker 2 Do you remember back in the day when photographs were invented yes i do and you had to like remain perfectly still for a minute and like you had to wait for a chunk of time to even see if it took yeah oh for sure like when you were people still using film cameras when you were a kid or was it all digital all the way uh no still film cameras yeah and like so you'd have one picture of your whole summer like it would be one picture that's a picture of savannah yeah at the thing do you ever get uh pictures developed I do now.

Speaker 2 Or printed, I guess. I do now.
Like I'm trying to be like more like sentimental. Oh, that's nice.

Speaker 2 And yeah, we're our project right now, it's taking six years to do it, but we're trying to do a gallery wall at our apartment.

Speaker 2 And so I've printed off so many photos and my partner, I love him so much, but he's very

Speaker 2 into straight lighting. Yeah, very into straight lighting and like very much likes to talk through his decisions.

Speaker 2 So I don't know if we're ever going to get those gallery wall done, but it was a nice exercise to go through my photos, print.

Speaker 2 But the thing about a gallery wall with photos is you can just like if you like the frame. No, I okay, so we're doing it once and I've never like I'm just committing.
Like once it's up on the wall.

Speaker 2 We are not changing the photos. But like as long as the with the gallery wall, as long as the frames fit, you're good.
Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But like I get the like and you also get used to looking at it, so then all of a sudden, if you change one out for another, then it looks odd, yeah. How many pictures are we talking?

Speaker 2 Um, I think there's like gonna be like 40, really, like 40 plus, like we'll really go in. I love that, yeah.
Do you have 40 plus frames?

Speaker 2 Yes, really, yes, so you're it's just him that's holding up the whole process.

Speaker 2 Well, no, it's like, yeah, I think it's him because you know, I've laid out the photos, I'm just waiting for him to do the thing where you're like, he cares about the measurement and the square

Speaker 2 and all of that. I do not.

Speaker 2 You just want to throw them to the wall and he wants to like cut out every shape. Yep.
Yeah. And so like, because I, my apartment, we were told in no uncertain terms, you can't use any hooks.

Speaker 2 And so we've used the like 3M strips,

Speaker 2 which you mean you can't go into the wall? Yeah. Oh, okay.
It's all like old kind of plaster and kind of like cracks up or whatever. And

Speaker 2 we use those strips.

Speaker 2 And once in a while,

Speaker 2 that thing's just going to fall off the wall like no matter what you do eventually especially in the summer they get hot and then things just start falling off the wall um well you know how like there's a thing about the way that batteries react to cool and heat and so that's why your like smoke alarm will go off your your battery like beeping warning will go off in the middle of the night oh because it like cools down

Speaker 2 I can't, I guys, I can't go into detail.

Speaker 2 But have you ever had anything crash off the wall in the middle of the night? Yep. And it was light.
And this is the thing, too. And you wake up with, like, you keep a baseball

Speaker 2 bet. This is

Speaker 2 my wife and I, in the middle of the night, say 2.30 in the morning, this thing falls off, huge crash.

Speaker 2 We both just walk out and just, we don't grab anything or anything. We just walk into the hallway.
So if there was a killer there, we just walked right into their trap. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like there was no, you know what I mean? No survival instinct. No, you didn't even close the door or anything.
It was just like, whoa, the whole thing. I I wouldn't mind being killed.
Why? How?

Speaker 2 How is the more important?

Speaker 2 How do I wouldn't mind being killed? Yeah. Oh, boy.

Speaker 2 Electric chair. Electric chair.
Someone comes and breaks into my house and

Speaker 2 well, we have one. I have to go around at night turning off all the

Speaker 2 Savannah. Same question to you.
I would hate to like choke. on like something that I'm eating because I would just be like dead and like just thinking about how like the food wronged me.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And also it's a little bit embarrassing. It is a little bit embarrassing.
Yeah. And like, you can't see you, you, you need someone's help and you don't ask for help.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Can you, would you mind unchoking me? There was, yeah, there was, I went through a time, so I have anxiety.

Speaker 2 So I went through an era of my life where I would like re-watch the same video of how to like use a chair to save yourself from choking because I like was living alone and I was like so scared that I was gonna like choke to death in my own apartment.

Speaker 2 So it's kind of my energy. I'm like, that's, I'm really scared of dying, choking to death.
I watch this video all the time of a guy who sells a blanket that puts out all sorts of fires.

Speaker 2 You just throw the blanket on it. Do you see those? I asked for that for Christmas.
Did you? Yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, that blanket, it looks the fire blanket. Yeah, the fire blanket.

Speaker 2 And like the guy in it is, he calls everybody who doesn't have one a penny pincher and, you know, shows how fast like a dog nose knocks over a barbecue and the whole pack air goes up.

Speaker 2 Well, that's got to be a big blanket to do a

Speaker 2 barbecue. Yeah, it is.
It's right. Yeah, it's like big.
It's like something you mount to the wall, right? So that you could like pull it out and

Speaker 2 keep it in the kitchen.

Speaker 2 Yeah, in the ad he does, right? Yeah, in the ad, I think it does.

Speaker 2 And then, but he, there was like, maybe it's the same guy, I don't know, but on TikTok, there was like many people would just put it like underneath their like barbecue outside. Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 I've had a few barbecue fires. You have? Well, yeah.
It's usually it's not the barbecue itself. It's like sometimes you need to use a

Speaker 2 like for certain setups you'll use a tinfoil. And if the tin foil if there's like grease on the tinfoil, that the tinfoil will catch fire.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then you just turn off the barbecue and wait for it to burn out. Yeah.
Okay, so you have a survival instinct. You're calm.
You're calm, cool, collective. Yeah, no, I, yeah.

Speaker 2 You know what to do in an emergency. I mean, it's, I, I, I, I mean, I assume that

Speaker 2 that's the right thing to do.

Speaker 2 I, uh, like years and years ago, I was in a hotel where the fire alarm went off for reals, like not as a test or whatever.

Speaker 2 And it was just awful. Like, every you had to walk downstairs and everybody's in the middle of the pajamas in the middle of the night.
And, and it also had the one for people who can't hear.

Speaker 2 So it's like the strobe light is going off. And so you feel like you're in a nightmare.
Does it go, was the strobe light in your room? Yeah, in every room.

Speaker 2 So that, like, for somebody that wouldn't be able to hear, and it would wake you up. Like there's no way you would sleep through it.

Speaker 2 But then everybody was kind of like, you could tell people brought along things.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They like brought some stuff with you.

Speaker 2 Yeah, do not stop and get your Walkman. Well, I need my Walkman.

Speaker 2 Savannah, where are you from?

Speaker 2 I'm from Alberta. I'm from Kikinométis settlement.
It's like northern. It's very rural, northeastern.
That's why I feel like. Which is the closest town?

Speaker 2 Fort McMurray. Fort McMurray, okay.
That's why I feel a deep kinship with you is because you're from Alberta. I'm from Alberta, yes.
And I played a show. Have you ever played a show in Fort McMurray?

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 2 No. They would not like me there.
Yeah, they didn't like me either. Really? Yeah, but

Speaker 2 the accent of the night was, let's get this guy drunk.

Speaker 2 To get you drunk? Yeah. Oh, okay.
There's a lot of Newfoundland guys.

Speaker 2 Yeah, there, apparently. Like, everybody's got lots of cash.
So. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 They were sending up shots and then after the show everybody wanted to drink like the show didn't go well at all but like everybody there would seem to like just having me around that's weird yeah okay that's yeah have you

Speaker 2 have you read ducks by kate beaton yes yeah uh it's a graphic novel about fort mcmurray and there's a lot of maritimers out there yeah yeah yeah and it's um so where you're from is uh it's close to fort mcmurray it's a small town it's like a hamlet it's like like a thousand people okay in the community and then like the closest town it's lac labish oh yeah which is yeah you you probably drove through it yeah um or stop for gas there and then that's like the the town of like ten thousand so you know everybody in that hamlet of yours

Speaker 2 i'd like to think so maybe not anymore i haven't lived

Speaker 2 there for gas in lac labish is there uh is there gas in your town

Speaker 2 There's a single, our general store. You can gas up there, but co-op.
But people, no, no, it's not. No, this general store, are we talking someplace that you could rent DVDs?

Speaker 2 Is this they used to do that, but then they stopped because it's like nobody would like return the DVDs.

Speaker 2 So then they were like, there was, I remember these beings, there, there was signs where they had like a board of shame of like trying to guilt the people to bring back the DVD.

Speaker 2 But the last time I visited, there was no DVD rental. Okay, that wasn't.
But like lots of canned, like food and, you know,

Speaker 2 gas. Gas, cigarettes.
cigarettes, yeah. I just love the idea of a place being like the last place you can get gas.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, like always in a horror movie, that's where the guy says, like, well, you know, the last people went up that

Speaker 2 I guess that's uh the cabin of the cabin in the woods, woods, cabin of the woods.

Speaker 2 There's it happens a lot in horror movies, and it's just like, especially ones from the 70s and 80s, there's always somebody, it's your last warning before things are about to go absolutely ape shit.

Speaker 2 Yes, um,

Speaker 2 did you uh do you like horror movies at all?

Speaker 2 I actually hate to be afraid.

Speaker 2 Be afraid.

Speaker 2 I don't like it. Yeah.
And

Speaker 2 I watched

Speaker 2 Sinners in theaters, but only weeks after it came out. And I was able to read like every single review and every plot

Speaker 2 summary. So I knew exactly what to expect.
That's what Sally does.

Speaker 2 She's like, her wife? Yeah. Yeah.
And

Speaker 2 she does the exact same thing. So

Speaker 2 I went like the first week, or like, but on a weekday. During the day.
During the day. Because I can't see a scary movie at night.
Too scary. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then I, but I, and I was kind of hoping it would be more full. I was like, this is the biggest movie.
Wait, were you alone? Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's scary.

Speaker 2 But just like, I like the sensation of being in a theater where people, like, everyone's scared at the same time. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But no, it wasn't very full and there were no jumps. Yeah.
This

Speaker 2 weekend,

Speaker 2 we sat down to watch a movie and then in like the first 20 minutes we're like this seems really familiar and then just as the plot went on and it was only at the end that we were like we've seen this we saw we've watched this is for a whole second time this is like we know how this ends and yeah um was it a horror movie it was a horror movie what percentage of the movies you watch are horror movies these days i would say somewhere in the 70 75 realm oh and then then you know sometimes we'll watch a show sometimes we'll watch uh is it like horror or is it like thriller psychological

Speaker 2 columns? Anything in that column. And then.
You ever watch the thriller music video? That's sort of a horrible. That's too scary.
Dave, you know that's too scary. This was my first, first big scare.

Speaker 2 Remember when people would do flash mobs of that? Oh, yeah. What an amazing time in our personal history.
In our collective history. Yes.
Well, I mean, was it people or was it

Speaker 2 actors? Hired actors. That came out wrong.

Speaker 2 Is it people who had free time or was it Filipino prisoners? Oh, yeah, that's true. That was the prisoners, yeah.
Which, as punishment goes,

Speaker 2 pretty lax.

Speaker 2 That was your punishment. It was to do a flash mob.

Speaker 2 Did you ever, do you know anybody that was a part of a flash mob? No, but I remember it being like people would talk about like how they wanted like flash mob like proposal.

Speaker 2 Yes. That was a scary, scary time.
Yeah. I did not like that.
What if your current partner,

Speaker 2 if that happened, would you just walk away? I would move to a different country.

Speaker 2 There's like

Speaker 2 he hates me and he wants me to have a panic attack. What song would you absolutely not want him to do? Man, that's a good question.

Speaker 2 This is a really good question. Because it's always some light.

Speaker 2 I mean, the classic one is Bruno Mars. I think I want to marry you.
Yeah, but embarrassing. Of course.
But like. I think I don't want to miss a thing.
I would be.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. Yeah.
But, like,

Speaker 2 could they do

Speaker 2 like Do Host by Ron Steve? They can do anything. It's a, what's, yeah.
Were somebody to propose to you, what song would be? A no?

Speaker 2 Well, actually, a song that would be a yes, that'd be really funny would be like Come Clean by like Hillary Duff or something. Nice.
Like if you're gonna do

Speaker 2 the culture.

Speaker 2 The theme from the OC. No, from Laguna Beach.
Yes.

Speaker 2 Yeah, is

Speaker 2 a past guest, Amanda Brooke Barron's brother proposed in a food cart flash model. I feel like it was.

Speaker 2 See, it's a horror story. See, this is a horror story.
This is none of our business.

Speaker 2 Also, the fact that we can't. We just name drop and then talk badly about how much we don't want that for everyone.

Speaker 2 He's an acapella fella. Yeah, that was something involving that.

Speaker 2 Okay, well, maybe

Speaker 2 she loved it.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, sure. If you're into it, if you're...

Speaker 2 I felt like it was just so many degrees of separation away.

Speaker 2 Anyways, I wanted to go back to the

Speaker 2 horror question. Yes, you do.
Because

Speaker 2 I recently finished The Lowdown on FX. Okay, well, remind me what that is.
It's Sterling Hard Joe. Do you know who Sterling Hard Joe is? He did Reservation Dogs on FX.

Speaker 2 So it's like his new project, and it's it's like a noir so to me it's like really scary because it's like really like graphic violence but it was an amazing show i think it's like eight episodes like an hour an episode and it's just talking about like the corruption and like crime in tulsa and how um it's like related to like the ongoing land theft from like the indigenous peoples

Speaker 2 And it was just the writing was so good. And then like even the scary parts, like I did have to like Google and like see what was going to happen in the episode.

Speaker 2 But because I was prepared, I was able to overlook all the violence. Right.
But it was still like cool. And it was like, yeah, the style of, you know, noir and like

Speaker 2 cop drama. But then it was like, oh, you don't know until the end that this is actually about like.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 It's one of those. Because it's just like a.
Is it like Black Mirror? Is it that kind of thing? No, it's like Ethan Hawk, who's like the main character. He's like a truth story.

Speaker 2 That's how I know the name. Yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 So it amazing reviews amazing show and then you don't even really know what the story is about until the very last like 30 minutes of the episode i love because you're just following like ethan hawk who's trying to like figure out he's so cool he's so cool he's so cool such a good actor and um he's just like a journalist in the small town community just trying to find the truth of like this something that happened and this is good and it's really recommend i recommend i think everybody should watch it okay because also i love story of the hard show so what and what was it called again uh the Lowdown.

Speaker 2 The Lowdown on FX, which is on Disney Plus. Yeah, let's say, you know what? We don't plug Disney enough on this show.

Speaker 2 Propose at Disneyland. I think.
Oh, my God. Propose at Disneyland.
Get Prince Eric to

Speaker 2 be your wingman.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I actually used to talk so much shit about Disneyland and like Disney adults and stuff.
And then I went to Disneyland and I met Chewie and I almost started to cry.

Speaker 2 Chewbacca? Yeah, Chewbacca. And then I almost started to cry.
And I was like, I get it now. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But Disney proposal, scary.

Speaker 2 Horror story. No, no, no, no.
But like,

Speaker 2 Star Wars Land, though, is pretty awesome. Yeah, sure.
I went and I cried when I met Peter Pan.

Speaker 2 You were really digging deep there.

Speaker 2 I could see the.

Speaker 2 Who would be a weird guy to cry at?

Speaker 2 The rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. I'll tell you like that.
It's a minor character. Late for a very important date.
To marry you.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I like.

Speaker 2 When did you go to Disneyland?

Speaker 2 Last Christmas. And

Speaker 2 were you looking forward to it?

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 2 I was kind of just... Because my partner's family, they go to Disneyland because it's a fun thing to do.
Are they all Disney adults? No. They just like.
It's like their thing they do.

Speaker 2 It's, yeah, it's kind of like. Did they have matching t-shirts? No.
Okay. No.
That's a big thing. That is a big thing.
Like, families will all like. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And everyone was wearing like the mini mouse ears. But, no, Steph, like, my sister-in-law, she just wanted to take me because she thought I'd love it.
And did you? And then I did.

Speaker 2 You buried your face in Chewbacca's chest.

Speaker 2 I was really like, I was like, wow, I am really embarrassed. Is Chewbacca like in Star Wars?

Speaker 2 We walked through Star Wars land when we went a few years ago. Okay.
But

Speaker 2 the kids didn't care, and

Speaker 2 I didn't care about any of it. Yeah.
But

Speaker 2 Abby later went back. But is Star Wars Land.
Because in all the other places, like, you know, there's Mickey walking around being jolly and like he'll hug a kid or whatever.

Speaker 2 But Star Wars Land are there like

Speaker 2 Stormtroopers. Stormtroopers, like, and they're not giving out hugs.
No. And, like, you, I've seen videos where they react to a kid using the force.
Uh-huh. And,

Speaker 2 Vader comes out sometimes. Did you see Vader while they were there? I did not.

Speaker 2 Was Chewbacca just hanging out or was

Speaker 2 it? It was 8:30 in the morning, and he was just walking through the little ice coffee. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 And then he was just walking by. And then,

Speaker 2 yeah, he was taking pictures of people. And then, oh, sorry.

Speaker 2 And yeah, he's just like, I don't know, doing that. He's taking pictures of people?

Speaker 2 Taking pictures with people. Yeah, but like posing, like, like they would, hey, Chewbacca, come here.
Yeah, oh wow, first thing in the morning. Yeah, you got it.
And I would, yeah, lovely.

Speaker 2 Did he make the noise? He did. Ah, yes.

Speaker 2 And he's like very tall. Like the actor in the costume is, yeah, that's, I don't know.
Just I went to university with a

Speaker 2 with Chewbacca?

Speaker 2 Abaca? I went with Lobaca.

Speaker 2 We were on the same intramural

Speaker 2 ultimate team.

Speaker 2 No, I went with a woman who was a like a character and she was she had worked at like Disneyland,

Speaker 2 I don't know, Tokyo, and she had been Ariel and maybe Belle. No, it couldn't be Belle.
Her eyes were so blue. Belle's a brown eye.
Yeah. I made sure contacts.

Speaker 2 No, she was another lady, one of the ladies.

Speaker 2 She came to the gang. Yeah.
And I was like, I was so surprised. Like, why did you leave there to go to college?

Speaker 2 I do like hearing about all the weird, not weird, but all the like protocols at Disneyland, like to stop if somebody's drunk, like there's an emergency kind of thing.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, we, we, there, there's like names for all the

Speaker 2 codes. Yeah, we've got a goofy on

Speaker 2 aisle three.

Speaker 2 But there's also this

Speaker 2 club that's in Disneyland that's like a bar, and you have to be a member to go there. Oh, yes.
And the line up to get a membership is three years long, three or four years long. That's not that long.

Speaker 2 That's true. Maybe I'm thinking maybe it's more than that, but it's

Speaker 2 we can never go. We can never go.
We can never. No.
No. Does that bum you out that you'll never be able to go? No, I think I'm good with my one good experience at Disneyland.
I don't need, don't know.

Speaker 2 I don't need to go back. Are you going to go back, though, because of this family pressure? I don't know.
No. I would like to go to like

Speaker 2 Universal Studios to meet like toad so it's club 33

Speaker 2 club 33 yes the members only club isn't it like really expensive to join to

Speaker 2 i'm sure that i don't know this disney park subreddit is giving me these people are all writing paragraphs they're writing novels yeah i just want uh oh the waiting

Speaker 2 for five years that's all i want oh it's like a nexus card yeah something like that um yeah you want to meet toad i do want to meet toad but not mr toad from disneyland

Speaker 2 I don't know.

Speaker 2 He's got a wild ride. Mr.
Toad's Wild Ride?

Speaker 2 Is that still around? Famous Disney

Speaker 2 ride? What? Big rides? The jumbo ride, the teacup ride to go on the teacup ride? No. Did you see the teacup ride? No? These are old.
Do they still have them? Yeah, the teacup they must have.

Speaker 2 Did you do Splash Mountain? No. Did you do Space Mountain?

Speaker 2 Is that the one you're dropped? I guess. I don't know.
They're all. Isn't that the Hell Elevator or something?

Speaker 2 They're all dropped in a lot of of them. Yeah, yeah, it's not unusual to be dropped.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. That's the last time I went I was a kid, so there's nothing that I remember there is probably still there.
There was a whole do you care about Star Wars? No. No, okay.
Okay.

Speaker 2 I was going to say, just go back to the Star Wars. But if you don't care.
No, I did when I was a kid, just like a lot of kids care about Star Wars. And then they started making other things.

Speaker 2 And I was like, well, I'm good with the original three. I really liked like

Speaker 2 I, that was because I don't do any kind of

Speaker 2 sci-fi, fandom, yeah, sci-fi stuff.

Speaker 2 Like, I, so Star Wars was the only one that I was kind of in on, and I was like, and then they kept making movies, and now I'm, I no longer have seen it all, yeah, yeah, I

Speaker 2 certainly know TV shows, no, well, it was The Mandalorian, that was the one everybody's losing their mind. I watched it, yeah.
Do you care about Pedro Pascal? Do I care about him?

Speaker 2 I mean, I don't want to watch any of his stuff, but I really care about him. Like, I want him to be happy.

Speaker 2 You're such an empathetic person. Yeah, yeah.
Do you care about Pedro Pascal?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I do deeply. I love him.
Oh, answer me this. Is he a zaddy?

Speaker 2 Yes. Only because he called it, he said it himself.
Oh, okay. Like on TV.
Okay. And he, so has your caring about him extended to watching the Fantastic Horror movie? No.
Okay.

Speaker 2 So that's, it's not that.

Speaker 2 No, I just support him from afar. I've never watched Mandalorian or any of his projects.
The one thing I did watch was,

Speaker 2 what is it called? Materialists. The Materialists.
Yeah, of course.

Speaker 2 Of of course it's a terrible movie as well so I haven't seen it but me neither no it's it's bad skip it yeah maybe I'll read the synopsis and see if I like it and then I'll go back and watch it yeah read the synopsis and see if it's too scary

Speaker 2 there is a there's a scary part there's a scary part yeah

Speaker 2 and can I spoil it for you yeah okay so the listeners fast forward we're gonna switch

Speaker 2 the scary part of the materialist starring Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pesco

Speaker 2 and Chris Evans yes Yeah.

Speaker 2 I didn't like the movie because it's like it's supposed to be like a rom-com, but there's no comedy in it.

Speaker 2 And like the jump scare of the movie is like Pedro Pascal, you learn that he did this leg lengthening surgery to give him like three inches of height so that he'd be over six feet so that women would love him.

Speaker 2 But it's like done so seriously that it's like, this is, where are we? Who wrote this movie? This could be so funny.

Speaker 2 It can't be, but it's just serious. Is the actual jump scare like something like you just see like the scars on his leg.

Speaker 2 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 I should call that movie, Scarlegs. It's just scar legs.
The

Speaker 2 procedure, the leg lengthening procedure. Yeah.
Do you guys think it's worth it?

Speaker 2 For three inches. Three inches.
Three little inches.

Speaker 2 No. Because you have to relearn how to walk.
You have to relearn how to walk. It's years of

Speaker 2 pain. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And. Oh, but the payoff.

Speaker 2 Like, that's why I'm like, was the movie like an ad for this leg lengthening surgery? And, like, the slime song is being paid by this company to, like, promote this. Like.

Speaker 2 Because it's not treated as a bad thing in the movie. No, it's just like, oh, he did it to get ahead.
And then, look, he's dating Dakota Johnson because she loved him because he's tall and rich.

Speaker 2 And she's Madam Webb. Did you see?

Speaker 2 Like, so if you get the leg lengthening surgery on paper or on the apps, you could be like, I'm six feet. Ladies, come and get me uh but but i walk really weird yeah like are you

Speaker 2 are you able to like

Speaker 2 uh play sports

Speaker 2 probably not

Speaker 2 like it feels like you would get you could probably play like a ping-pong okay like a foosball yeah something soft yeah but like if it feels like the sports where like being tall is an advantage you could then

Speaker 2 you is that what you're saying but like you can't then be mobile enough to no i think also probably the the bone that grows is probably pretty weak because like i feel like or is it stronger than ever it's like the one strong part you can kick it out everywhere but not that spot uh-huh um where do they do that because i know turkey is like that's the place for

Speaker 2 hair i actually don't know i actually would love to do uh like a travel tv show

Speaker 2 where i go from place to place getting my hair done getting my resilience

Speaker 2 yep yep

Speaker 2 what's your take on people getting men more so than women getting plugs?

Speaker 2 I love gender affirming care for all people. So if you want to get your hair plugs, do it.
Okay. Yeah.
To be happy.

Speaker 2 Do you feel like if somebody does get hair plugs, do they have an obligation to disclose that they have hair plugs? No. No.
No. Just have hair and be confident and don't be an asshole.

Speaker 2 And then I think everything is fine. Okay.
No deal. No deal.
Yeah, that's a pretty

Speaker 2 I think the real problem is like when someone loses all their hair, then they like feel badly about themselves and they project it onto other people or make other people feel bad because they themselves are sad inside.

Speaker 2 That's true. That's actually the worst outcome.
Yeah. And that's Lux Luthor.
He was bald and he was a monster. Sure.
Exactly. Daddy Warbucks.
Yeah, a monster. Do you think

Speaker 2 I was thinking about like because I watched this Instagram video about how every celebrity kind of has the same hairline now. Yes.
Okay.

Speaker 2 And because they all get the same procedure and there's like an ideal hairline, in it. But do you think Jack Nicholson's reps would have pressured him into getting...

Speaker 2 That's a really good question. And like, because what makes him

Speaker 2 not attractive, but like... Iconic? I guess, is

Speaker 2 his face and the hairline. Yeah.

Speaker 2 He's not like.

Speaker 2 He's just very like. He's got Riz, I'll say it.

Speaker 2 Wait, Graham, I think I taught you what Riz meant. Yes.
Yes. Yeah.
So that's my credit. That's my credit.
And, you know what? That's a fine guess, but that's my credit. Yeah,

Speaker 2 if you think there's other words that I should know, please do not hesitate. Is there a word I should know?

Speaker 2 That's all I got. Just like when you're on your break at work, just think of what words you could introduce to me.
Okay, great. I'll send new athletes.
I would appreciate it. I'll send Nuelith.

Speaker 2 Was the, like.

Speaker 2 But wait.

Speaker 2 Wait, it's, were older generations as interested in youth slang as they are today?

Speaker 2 Probably not. Like, I feel like it's a big thing of, like, you know, 40-somethings wanting to know

Speaker 2 what

Speaker 2 teenagers are talking about. Yeah.
Well, I didn't know about 6-7 until the dictionary word of the year thing happened.

Speaker 2 What does it mean? It doesn't mean anything. That's what I thought.
Yeah. It's just a nonsense.

Speaker 2 I got a word of the year calendar.

Speaker 2 I learned one word a year.

Speaker 2 And this was this year. This was this year, so 6'7.
So you're done. You're done.
Yeah. Yeah.
There's a hand gesture you do with it, too. Oh, yeah? Yeah.
Like a chop hand?

Speaker 2 No, it's like a scooping, some kind of scooping. You're scooping 6'7s.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So like teenagers as a

Speaker 2 species. As a species weren't really around until like the 50s.
Like nobody thought about it. Yeah, kids didn't exist until like the 50s.
And then

Speaker 2 like there was just this time like you would be a kid and then you would be a teen and that's when you would go. No, you start working at like 12.
And then you're an adult. Yeah, you're married at 14.

Speaker 2 Do you have your driver's license? I do.

Speaker 2 Did you get it very young? I know in Alberta you can get it very young. No, I didn't.
I got it when I was like 25. Okay.
Here in town? Yeah.

Speaker 2 It strikes me that this would be a difficult town to get a driver's license in, but maybe not. Maybe because it's more challenging, it's more

Speaker 2 because Alberta was so easy. Yeah, no, I wish I got it when I was younger because there was one stoplight in my town.
And then when I, in like 2019,

Speaker 2 in like 2019, it was a really big deal that we got a second stoplight. So now there's two stoplights that are down.

Speaker 2 And I'm like, why was I so anxious that I didn't get my license until I was 25 and had to do the whole thing here? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And the thing is, like, you don't actually have to know how to parallel park because everywhere in Calgary, there's parking everywhere. Yeah.
Like,

Speaker 2 except you go when you go to town, but I'm not going to take you downtown. So.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Don't have to parallel park.
You just like pull in. That's a parking job.
I can park. I can drive.
Me neither. I'm really well aware.
I cannot park.

Speaker 2 It's not me. I like, I'll use an Evo because they've got a backup camera.
Love the backup camera. Well, everyone, I mean, your car is just old enough that they're not standard.

Speaker 2 Every car now has them. I know, and I love it.
I love being able to like, you know, when it beeps, I love it. It makes me feel a little when it beeps a little bit.
Then when it beeps really like.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Push it through the yellow zone a little bit.

Speaker 2 But yeah,

Speaker 2 my car doesn't have it. So it's still old school parking for

Speaker 2 me.

Speaker 2 I don't have have a car. I just use Debo.
Yeah. What's your

Speaker 2 Sally have her license from a young age or get it? No, she got it late. She's, and she loves driving.
She absolutely loves it. So it works out well for me because then I don't have to drive.

Speaker 2 And I'm not a horrible driver, but I'm certainly not. And you're drunk a lot.
Yeah, I'm drunk most of the time.

Speaker 2 Well, in Alberta, you take the test drunk because you're going to need to know how to do that. Exactly.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So you know, I just imagine you driving and you're like doing bits to yourself and like not paying attention to the road. Like that's my impression of you.
That's what crackadoo's all about.

Speaker 2 Yeah, laughing at your own gems.

Speaker 2 All right, what's the deal with the green lights? All right.

Speaker 2 What's the deal with that guy giving me the finger?

Speaker 2 Have you ever been in an Evo that was disgusting when you got in? For the people outside of Vancouver, the Evos are a car share where you just go pick them up off the street. And people

Speaker 2 treat them like garbage cans. Yes, they do.
And the drivers are

Speaker 2 like

Speaker 2 notoriously terrible. Yeah, like really people that don't have a car and shouldn't be driving.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I drove behind one for 10 minutes the other day and it in the dark and it did not have its lights on.

Speaker 2 Wait, was that me?

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's

Speaker 2 it just they always make you rate the cleanliness and it's never. I always say bad.
Yeah. Because they always stink.

Speaker 2 they always stink and there's like some what do they stink of it's like okay right now because it's fall it's like rotting leaves but then you know how you like step in dog poop because you covered in leaves because it's the same color as the leaves yes but I've been in like so many evos lately where it smells like dog poop in the car that's one of the worst I'm like it has to be because the leaves are covering right yeah like people aren't doing this on purpose people aren't are they are they is a dog or is it human

Speaker 2 because or are we dancing If you wanted to take a dump in a car, they can't trace it back to you. You could have said, it was there when I got it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a plausible deniability.
So

Speaker 2 the message is, if you need a toilet and you can't find one, Evo is always there for you. Yeah.

Speaker 2 This is sponsored by Evo.

Speaker 2 Were you ever a member of Evo? I'm currently a member of Evo. Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 But...

Speaker 2 Your own car and an Evo. I know.
Look at me.

Speaker 2 It's good. The thing that's good about the Evo is you can park it wherever you want.
So you don't have to find a legal spot or pay for parking. You just drop it wherever you want and then pick up one,

Speaker 2 hopefully, sometime later.

Speaker 2 Well, I used to do Car to Go, which they were all smart cars. Yeah.
And

Speaker 2 there was like a mad rush at like 449 or 459 to like log in because

Speaker 2 everyone would take them on the way home. Oh, downtown would just empty out.
Yeah. Yeah, I remember.
I've never driven one of those tiny little cars. Oh, they were fun.
You ever drive one?

Speaker 2 No, but I've ridden in one. What's it feel like? Just like you're going to die immediately.
Yeah, because you're so close to the other cars. No protection at all.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no bumper to deal with. Yeah, no, it's not safe.
Do they even make smart cars? No, they actually stopped making them. There was one on my street that had been there

Speaker 2 probably since I moved in. So it's probably been,

Speaker 2 well, it was four years because somebody from the city called and bothered about it. I don't know who.
It could have been anybody, really.

Speaker 2 It wasn't you, it wasn't you.

Speaker 2 No way. It was in an Evo at the time.

Speaker 2 But it was, it had molded. Like it had just

Speaker 2 like moss had taken it over.

Speaker 2 Oh my God, that's so funny. Yeah.
And it was an art installation. It was like an art installation.
Yeah. It was like, let's just let this thing decay through the seasons.

Speaker 2 And apparently. A sculpture.
A sculpture. Yeah.
And then finally, it got the tires were flat.

Speaker 2 All the thing was so grungy. I used to work for a TV show that was about cars.
Like they would just, it was a car review TV show. Okay.
And it was. Which would now just be a YouTube channel.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And, but there was one of the segments we did was a, like, it would mostly be people would, like,

Speaker 2 car journalists would review cars. And I was an editor.

Speaker 2 And one of the segments we did was these two people were like, we're going to see if you can fit more furniture in a smart car or a Humvee or like a Hummer.

Speaker 2 And uh,

Speaker 2 and they're this is the golden age of TV. Yeah, wow, they had budget.
And they went to Ikea

Speaker 2 and they bought a bunch of flat-packed furniture and fit it in the smart car. And then they bought a bunch of like pre-assembled furniture and put it in the Hummer.

Speaker 2 And like, oh, we got more into the smart car.

Speaker 2 Well, no shit because it's not fair.

Speaker 2 And all the comments on the, like we posted it on YouTube, all the comments were like, this sucks.

Speaker 2 And this is why we only get eight episode series now. I mean, yeah.

Speaker 2 Because of your show. Because of the new driver's seat.

Speaker 2 Check it out on,

Speaker 2 boy, what even broadcast that show.

Speaker 2 There's a like Discovery Channel plus. It was on.

Speaker 2 No, it was on like the cable, like the local like community access. There's a channel.
if you're ever out in Ontario, you have to be in a hotel room or something or somebody that has cable.

Speaker 2 There's a channel called CHCH and it's like time has never existed. They're still showing shows that like they've I watched

Speaker 2 old comedy at Club 54 ad or shows. Have you ever seen that show? No.
Oh, that was the glory days of stand-up where they

Speaker 2 anybody could get on TV for a while there.

Speaker 2 Damn. But you can't, I would love to see it.
I would love to see more of that show, but can't find it anywhere. There's no, and I mean, this is like,

Speaker 2 well, people always said that it looked like it was taking place in the 90s, but actually, it was filmed in the 2000s when everybody in there, they're in Burlington. But it was Canadian TV.

Speaker 2 Canadian TV. The quality was lower.
So it looked

Speaker 2 worse. And it was like, you know, like, have you ever worked with like a crusty old comedian that's been around for 30 years? I mean,

Speaker 2 president company excluded. I don't know know what to say.

Speaker 2 But late, like these road dogs, it would be all these road dogs would get featured on that show. And there was like

Speaker 2 all of it. They're magicians.
They were impressionists. They were triloquists.
And

Speaker 2 they were showing it on the CHCH. And then it was like it had,

Speaker 2 you know, like, stay tuned for MASH or whatever. Like, it still was just like as if you had turned on.
I have watched MASH. Yeah.

Speaker 2 What's your thought? Amazing show. Really?

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 You got me.

Speaker 2 Yeah. It's a show that we've talked about this before, but it was like the, it was always on TV when we were young, and it was like just not fun.
It was like the. Wait, MASH? Or, okay.
MASH.

Speaker 2 It was like, this is when you know the fun time is over. Whatever like Save by the Bell you were watching is over and now it's a serious comedy.
Yeah. It's and it had a laugh track, right? Sometimes.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
Which is that was, I love that era where it would just be like the Flintstones with a laugh track. You're like, yep, sure, this is shown to an audience.

Speaker 2 I mean, they could. I guess they could.
But, yeah. Because, like, there's shows where, with, like, pre-taped segments that have an audience.
Yeah. Oh, you're right.
Like, during the pandemic,

Speaker 2 the debaters did.

Speaker 2 a show that like was recorded in a studio and they had a guy whose whole thing was an engineer worked like a laugh track so he had like a keyboard and they had like different different laughs and different like pitches and and he would like decide what a joke got which is kind of rude because like sometimes he wouldn't he wouldn't respond very positively but uh yeah that's that guy it was his whole gig was he was i wonder where he is now in hell

Speaker 2 absolutely he better be

Speaker 2 um

Speaker 2 Dave, what's going on with you, man? Oh, I told you not much. Oh, sure.
But I refuse to believe it. Yeah, the other day I was at the grocery store.
You've been, you've seen this place. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 You heard about these places? Yeah. Yeah.
It's they got food. You know, you couldn't shove around the perimeter for healthy stuff or go to the aisles for all the pre-packaged goodness.

Speaker 2 That's where you are? Are you in the, are you in the do-it-all? Yeah. But this one was a, this was just sort of like a quick pickup.

Speaker 2 I think I was on the way to pick up my kids from school and I was like, let's hit up the grocery store for a handful of things.

Speaker 2 And I saw the lineups to check out. There's a big lineup for the self-checkout, but the express lane had no line.
And I was like, oh, go in there. And I was looking at my basket and I thought,

Speaker 2 do I have less than 15 items? Right.

Speaker 2 If it's like stuff like fruit or vegetables, I always will try to go because I don't want to learn. I don't want to find a screen.
Oh, you don't want to screech boop boop. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I want it just to scan. They know the numbers.

Speaker 2 What do you self-checkout? No, I hate self-checkout for that reason. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Also, I like, I feel like I'm like, I'm so anxious and I'm like, oh, I gotta, gotta rush, gotta get out of here because people are waiting behind me.

Speaker 2 But if someone else is doing it, it's like I'm not responsible. It's on them for the line.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I, so I go in the self-checkout line and as I'm like, there's no, there's no one else there. There's just the cashier.

Speaker 2 And as I'm taking things out of my basket and putting them on the conveyor belt, I'm counting. Like, is this 15 items? And then I get to 15 items and I see I still have three things in my basketball.

Speaker 2 Dave,

Speaker 2 it's a lemon, a lime, and an onion. Throw them away.
It's the only way. But, like, no one's counting.
No. No.

Speaker 2 And then I

Speaker 2 the, I go stand at the other part where, you know, you know, where I'm going to have to bag the stuff up and pay. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And another guy gets in line behind me and he's looking and he goes, you know, this is the express line.

Speaker 2 See, and that's why I refuse to use self-checkout for people like that

Speaker 2 who are actually keeping track. Well, and then I said

Speaker 2 rushing you.

Speaker 2 I said to him, what an evil person. Yeah,

Speaker 2 absolutely.

Speaker 2 He said, this is the express line. And I was like, and just kind of like, not in a confrontational way, but just kind of in a funny way, like, just to see if he's joking.
Like, oh, are you counting?

Speaker 2 That's what I asked him. And he said,

Speaker 2 But it says 15 items. Like,

Speaker 2 how can he

Speaker 2 just see?

Speaker 2 Yeah. And this seems like more than 15 items.
And the cashier was like, no, I think it's less than 15. Like, he was on my side.
Oh, that's nice. He just was trying to de-escalate the situation.

Speaker 2 Do you... And that's why he's there, actually.
Not cashier, just conflict resolutionist

Speaker 2 of the grocery store.

Speaker 2 What is your go-to kind of conversation while things are being scanned in do you just say how's your day going or weather out there or do you just do not say anything

Speaker 2 no i'm my i'm air pods in i'm listening to a podcast okay you're just well i'm not rude about it like i don't say hello

Speaker 2 i uh

Speaker 2 i'm usually like bagging like i'll help out with the bagging or i'll do all of the bagging yeah i do all the bagging so i'm i'm focused on that what's uh have you guys ever like

Speaker 2 been somewhere and had to get like a paper bag for this stuff? Like that shit's crazy. Yeah, you know like the old-timey paper bag That's insane.
It's just wrong. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like can you believe people used to that used to be it?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 You would carry out two

Speaker 2 I mean, I guess only two. You couldn't do more than two.
No. No.

Speaker 2 Or if you have the shopping cart, you can load more. That's true.
But with the plastic bags, you could always have handfuls and handfuls and handfuls. I can't.

Speaker 2 I mean, look, it's good that they're being kind of banned, but also do you miss plastic bags a little bit? Absolutely.

Speaker 2 I need them. I need them too.
I miss them. And they're out there somewhere because...
Abby made a tray of brownies the other day and I was like,

Speaker 2 I want to wrap these up in something, but

Speaker 2 a plastic bag would be perfect. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I don't want to waste a Ziploc. I mean, like...

Speaker 2 I'm always just like, could we have attacked something else? Like, could we have maybe dealt with some kind of oil industry thing and left us alone with the plastic bags? I went back to Alberta

Speaker 2 last month, and then we went to a Boston Pizza for family dinner, and then this thank you. And then this server

Speaker 2 was like, oh, we have, like, would you like a straw?

Speaker 2 They're not paper. We're back to plastic.
And in my head, I was like, we're fucking doomed. Like,

Speaker 2 like, she was like, so excited about the plastic straw, which, yes, I'm happy about the plastic straw because paper straws are terrible. They are terrible.

Speaker 2 But it was just like, okay, we're just going all the way back around with the progress culturally we've made.

Speaker 2 Because it's dumb. It was dumb things to start with.
It was like, we're going to make it a personal responsibility of the small consumer and not the oil and gas companies. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And it's just like, oh man, you know, when you like, you forget to bring a tote bag sometimes. Yes.
Plastic bag fits. Everything fits in a plastic bag.
And you know what?

Speaker 2 If it needs a little security, double bag. Yeah, double bag.
That was great.

Speaker 2 Sometimes. The

Speaker 2 really the best of times.

Speaker 2 I don't know if I read a headline or overheard a little bit of a conversation, but they were talking, someone was talking about how the paper straws, they have glue in them to like keep them all, you know, of course,

Speaker 2 to hold it together while it's falling apart in your mouth. Yeah.
But it's also if you get, if you get like, so now you're sucking and I'm sucking glue,

Speaker 2 go suck glue.

Speaker 2 I feel like you get, if you go to the movie theater or whatever, you get a paper straw, but also a plastic guy on top to put the straw through. So come on.
Exactly. Give us back our straw.
My kids

Speaker 2 got to give them juice boxes. Do they have paper straw and juice box? They have paper straw, but paper straw wrapped in plastic.
Exactly.

Speaker 2 Doesn't make sense.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and there's also glue. Yeah.

Speaker 2 You'll suck glue. Yeah, you feel suck glue.

Speaker 2 So I tell them, don't use the straw. Just, I mean, just poke the hole and squeeze the juice box into your mouth.
Just out of principle. And just kind of like as a party animal.

Speaker 2 You want your kids to be cool. Yeah.

Speaker 2 What are you doing to ensure that your kids are cool? Well, I have to be cool. Or have Riz, actually.
Yeah. I think it's mostly I want the elementary school to have a frat.

Speaker 2 Or some kind of Greek system. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was in a sorority. Don't do it.
It's terrible. Tell us everything about being in a sorority.

Speaker 2 What university?

Speaker 2 Simon Fraser. Okay.
Which they're actually not allowed there,

Speaker 2 but they just did it anyway because you just say that you're like a philanthropy club. Oh, and did you live together? No.
Oh, okay. Because there's like, yeah, it's like, there's like two or three.

Speaker 2 It's a really small system, whereas, like, yeah, UBC

Speaker 2 has a huge community and they live in houses together. Yeah.
And then U of A, like University of Alberta, has a huge Greek community too, where they live together. And that sounds like hell.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, Hades, if it's a Greek system.

Speaker 2 Yes, thank you. I mean as as a young person that you've been university There's no conditions bad enough that you could not overcome them like oh my god.

Speaker 2 Yeah, living in a frat house kind of seems cool. Yeah, you like sticky floors.
I mean, but like you're gonna get sticky floors anyway. I guess like I wasn't

Speaker 2 I went to UVic and they didn't have them there and I you know, I object to

Speaker 2 the the

Speaker 2 frat lifestyle, but like the house part seems fun oh yeah the yeah the parties were fun and like you know playing beer pong stuff like that yeah the hazing oh the hazing the best part yeah oh man i just that would be the whole thing i wouldn't care if i got in or not just like just

Speaker 2 haze me get trick me prank me

Speaker 2 um anyway so uh i did get away from the express line i did manage my stuff they didn't they're never going to cut you off also like they're never going to be like well pick 15 things.

Speaker 2 You have 18 here. Yeah.
You got to kill three of your beds. Have you ever, like, I think way back in the day when I'd be shopping, when I'd be shopping? Yeah, great.
I'd be shopping.

Speaker 2 You pay in cash and then you're like, oh no, I'm like two or three items over my cash level. And so then you have to make an executive decision of like, what do I not?

Speaker 2 But now you can just go into debt. That's right.

Speaker 2 I was like,

Speaker 2 I use the self-checkout almost all the time.

Speaker 2 Because you don't have anxiety. Well, I just don't.
I'm fearful of the conversation. I should be fearful.
What am I doing? I'm doing their job.

Speaker 2 And I also feel like sometimes those cashiers just hasn't had anybody for a long time. So I go and just.
Oh, my God. Really? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like, just if I see that they're so bored, like, I'll give them a minute's worth of

Speaker 2 entertainment. I do like it when they're going going to practice my set tonight.

Speaker 2 I like it when they come out and like if you're in a really long checkout line and someone opens up a new checkout and they're like, hey, come over here.

Speaker 2 And then one person goes and the other, like two people go at the same time and then one person gives up. Oh, I'm going to be first in line.
Oh, no, I'm not.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it is a big moment when somebody opens a new till. Yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And, oh, like, here's something I find that at grocery stores, this is my cool thing I do. I memorize the name of the bulk bin things, the number.
Oh, the number. The number.

Speaker 2 And then I just rattle it off. So I just write it on the 30s.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 5316s.

Speaker 2 Whoa, you're good.

Speaker 2 You're a checkout guy. Good.
Maybe you should get on this.

Speaker 2 Is that the dream? That's the dream. Well, sometimes that's my dream.
Just being a checkout person? Just, it's so chill.

Speaker 2 So chill. It'd be really boring, though.
Absolutely. But then I'm.

Speaker 2 I'd rather that. I like when they're like, and what is this? Then you're like, cilantro.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Is this cilantro or parsley? It's come on. Leave me alone.

Speaker 2 The other day, a guy, I guess it was like a young cashier, and he was like, what kind of lettuce is this? I was like, green leaf.

Speaker 2 Oh, the fancy stuff. I mean, they're all green leaf.

Speaker 2 Yeah, exactly. Even the red leaf lettuce is pretty much green leaf lettuce.
See, this is why you'd be a good checkout person because you can make

Speaker 2 little conversations about it.

Speaker 2 Last time I went, the guy saw my name on my membership card and he said, oh, is your last name Hungarian?

Speaker 2 And I was like, no, it's Ukrainian and pretty nearby. And he says, neighbors, actually.

Speaker 2 You know, it's fun. It's a little fun back and forth.

Speaker 2 I was talking to a cashier once because she was wearing a shirt. Like it was, she had her uniform over shirt, but I could tell that it was a

Speaker 2 Black Sabbath.

Speaker 2 And so I asked her about, she likes Black Sabbath, and she said she's going to see them. She went and saw them at that last concert where Ozzie Osborne performed.
Oh, like recently? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like his farewell concert? Farewell. Oh, wow.
So she flew over there to go. And then I haven't seen her since.
So that was the last time I got no info of how it went or anything like that. Maybe

Speaker 2 she just

Speaker 2 murdered, suicided him.

Speaker 2 What a twist.

Speaker 2 But yeah, I

Speaker 2 also,

Speaker 2 how does a grocery store know that you scanned in all your things, right? Even with a camera, like, as long as you're getting a receipt. Yeah, for me, it's the, I've never stolen from a grocery store.

Speaker 2 I want to so bad. I want to so bad.
Well, there's the shopper's drug mart right in our neighborhood, and I wouldn't steal from them because

Speaker 2 if I get banned from there, I'm screwed. Yeah.
Yeah, it's too close to your house. You need to do crime like far away.
Yeah. And then a lot of them

Speaker 2 have like a

Speaker 2 like they weigh it. Or like every time every you can't just scan, scan, scan.
You have to scan and put it in the like yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, maybe that's it. And then I'll just say like,

Speaker 2 please put it in the basket. Yeah.
Weird item in area. Yeah.
Oh, shit. That's right.
Okay.

Speaker 2 But man, I want to steal. Because you know why stuff's so expensive? Oh, yeah.
I one time I was at the self

Speaker 2 and I forgot to scan one of the things. And like, the cashier hasn't been doing anything for hours, but she was like eagle-eyed.
So she went, bananas are, and she knew the number. 4011.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 And I was like, where are they? 4011? Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's the like on the shortcuts on the

Speaker 2 self-checkout. It's one of the three things that is like what else is in there?

Speaker 2 I want to say maybe lemons. Maybe it's an all-yellow checkout.
Yep. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yams, I guess. the third yellow

Speaker 2 um but uh what's going on with you um well also i really like that a cashier can afford to fly over and yeah ozzy osborne and like i can't afford to see ozzy osborne here no flying in state

Speaker 2 um so the last few weeks um there's been uh and it's resolved now but there was a giant uh strike here in bc It was a union that covered

Speaker 2 the general employees union. The BCGEU.
Is that what you're talking about? Yeah. Because wasn't there another strike happening? Yes.
There was many.

Speaker 2 Oh, and the postal workers are still on strike, but they're working. They're rotating.
They're rotating, yeah. Yeah.
And then there's, yeah, in Alberta, the teachers' strike is still going. Really?

Speaker 2 I think it's resolved. Is it? I think it's resolved.
I know that they went to arbitration and some members didn't like it, but maybe you're right. It's probably resolved.

Speaker 2 Yes, they're back at work, but I don't know if it's like they signed anything. And was it in the summer that the Air Canada flight attendants went on strike? Yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then they were forced back to work and they said no. And

Speaker 2 they were like, they,

Speaker 2 I don't know why some unions get forced back to work and they say no and then people are like, no, or like. The courts say it's an illegal strike.
Right.

Speaker 2 And then some people can just refuse to go back to work and it's not illegal. I don't know.
Yeah. I I don't know.
I've never been involved in a strike. I don't know.
No, I would love to.

Speaker 2 I'm going to be on strike for a while. I would love to stay for the rest of this episode.
And be on strike. Okay.
So. For the rest of this episode, I'm on strike.
You're on strike.

Speaker 2 Don't you get a banner going. You know what I want? Better conditions, better lighting conditions.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Third lamp has been added to the fray.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's still a lamp, so I'll allow it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So that's been one of the

Speaker 2 what do we want?

Speaker 2 better lighting. When do we want it? Soon.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 Whenever you get around to it.

Speaker 2 But one of the groups. This podcast is all about solidarity and solid hilarity.

Speaker 2 Good job. But one of the unions or the people in that union were the liquor

Speaker 2 department or whatever you would call it. The people, the liquor distribution board.

Speaker 2 Yeah. The people working at the liquor stores mostly and the warehouses.
And it got wild.

Speaker 2 For somebody who likes to go to the bar,

Speaker 2 it became

Speaker 2 like it became bizarre. It became like East Germany.
Because

Speaker 2 the way it works here is all of the liquor goes through the government. And cannabis as well.
Yeah, but like you're not going to a restaurant that has cannabis.

Speaker 2 You're not going to have a cannabis bar. But

Speaker 2 the

Speaker 2 so like

Speaker 2 if you want liquor, even though there's private stores that are open, they can't get it because it's going through the government warehouses.

Speaker 2 So it was everywhere, had the places that I knew that had like gluten-free beer, gone, completely out of stock. And then like there are some things that I just think are reliably always at a bar.

Speaker 2 And so I asked for Jameson out of Jameson. Couldn't get a Jameson anywhere in the city.
And so then you had to resort to some pretty funky alternatives. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I was at Simpson's Trivia Night and one of the women there got a whiskey and it was like apple cinnamon whiskey. Like it was the only thing that they had.

Speaker 2 And I think they must have taken it out of storage or from an aunt's house. Yeah.
There were like all the local breweries, the micro breweries, they could sell their own stuff. Yes.
Yeah. But

Speaker 2 no whiskey.

Speaker 2 You'd go into the liquor store, shelves empty, completely just like, and so I feel like it was the time to like you know learn your learn what else is out there it was funny there was some experiments yeah do some experiments the one in this neighborhood like the wine was dwindling the beer was dwindling the like vodka and gin disappeared yeah and then but there was a wall of the whiskey was all still there i think out of the places i haunt are you're are you a whiskey man i love whiskey

Speaker 2 Now that you're gluten-free? Yeah. That tracks.
Yeah. I love whiskey.

Speaker 2 But, yeah, all of a sudden, Jameson, because Jameson's the go-to.

Speaker 2 Every bar has Jameson. Is that Irish? He does.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I speak to

Speaker 2 was that Yoda? That was Yoda.

Speaker 2 I'm a little greener guy.

Speaker 2 Top of the morning tea.

Speaker 2 Yeah, well, he's a little green guy, too.

Speaker 2 Proper syntax, Yoda. But, like, one of the things I did was I went into like an independent

Speaker 2 alcohol store, liquor store, if you will.

Speaker 2 And they had a couple, like four packs of gluten-free beer. So I was like, I'll buy it.
I'll buy it all.

Speaker 2 And then I took it home and I had one, and it was the most disgusting thing I've ever tasted in my life. Oh, really? So I have like eight of these.

Speaker 2 So, listeners out there, if you want me to send you one of these disgusting cans, as long as you're within slingshots range.

Speaker 2 What

Speaker 2 is gluten-free beer?

Speaker 2 You've been gluten-free a year, two? Probably two, yeah.

Speaker 2 Is it

Speaker 2 like

Speaker 2 is it normally good? Are most of them good?

Speaker 2 There's some ones that are better than others. I feel like there's one that people stalk everywhere, and it's fine, but

Speaker 2 there's better ones, but usually you find them only at the liquor store as opposed to being a bar.

Speaker 2 I think, and probably it's illegal to do something like this, but I should go to a bar and pay like a cork corkage fee.

Speaker 2 You serve me my gluten-free beer. You should do that.
I pay for the right to do, be in your establishment drinking that beer.

Speaker 2 When you did a comedy show at the Vancouver Club,

Speaker 2 they all had like all the members have, keep their bottles of whatever. They're like wooden lockers.

Speaker 2 Have you ever heard of the Vancouver Club? I have. I've never been there.
No, it's, and you know what? I'm surprised I've been there.

Speaker 2 It's a very old man. Mahogany walls.
Mahogany walls. You got it.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And they have like, you can bring your own bottle of booze and they'll serve it to you in the bar.
And it's weird because you're like, you're limited to whatever you brought.

Speaker 2 There's no house booze. Mahogany walls.
I put mahogany walls.

Speaker 2 Two for two, Dick.

Speaker 2 That's some solid hilarity.

Speaker 2 Now that the liquor stores are open,

Speaker 2 are you getting wasted every night? I did go to one

Speaker 2 last week, and I went and they are like, as soon as they're open, they had to get all their like holiday stock out. Yes.
So there's all the like. Peppermint schnapps.

Speaker 2 Well, there was a big candy cane full of fireball. Oh,

Speaker 2 like little fireball nips. Yep.
And then there was,

Speaker 2 I still have it from last year. I got a bottle of Bacardi that had Bacardi socks, like Christmas socks, ugly Christmas Bacardi socks.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Do you drink it all? Yes. What's your go-to?

Speaker 2 I was really sad I couldn't drink espresso martini during the strike. Okay.
Because nowhere had like all the ingredients.

Speaker 2 What is an espresso martini? I know it's, is it actually espresso or is it something? Yeah, it's like a shot of espresso and then kahlua and vodka. Yikes.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Delicious. Yeah, they just, it sounds delicious.
Delicious.

Speaker 2 Does it keep you up at night? Yes, it does.

Speaker 2 But sometimes I need to stay awake. Yeah.
You need to be drunk and away. Exactly.
Or yeah, I drink a lot of wine. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Seeing that, I feel like wine drinkers, you got an opportunity to explore other countries that make wine other than your favorite.

Speaker 2 your favorite brand.

Speaker 2 I don't know what you call it. Is that what you call wine? A brand? Winery? winery yeah yeah vineyards vineyard yeah they had the also when I went to the liquor store they had their big Bordeaux sale

Speaker 2 which is like when they bring in the wine from France that they don't like that's bad is it I don't like French wine well

Speaker 2 then you

Speaker 2 you didn't miss out because but I went there and it was like you had to have the catalog that there were no price tags on any of the bottles to like this was item 75 there was one time I went to the liquor store and they had

Speaker 2 on display. It was in like a glass case that I'm sure was bulletproof because it was this giant bottle of whiskey that cost $50,000.

Speaker 2 So then you bought it. Yeah.
Yeah. Well, I scanned it through and I was like,

Speaker 2 yeah, maybe

Speaker 2 this is a small bottle.

Speaker 2 Oh, it's 10 cents extra for the bottle, for the glass.

Speaker 2 Yeah, there's a guy guarding it. I don't.
that does

Speaker 2 yeah, it's on those ludicrous bottles of not actually ludicrous. Oh, ludicrous is booze.
Yeah, I feel like he may have had one.

Speaker 2 There was a big thing. So

Speaker 2 a big thing that happened in basketball this year was LeBron James. You've heard of him?

Speaker 2 So like, I don't know, 15 years ago, he started his career in Cleveland and then he became a free agent. And there was this big thing called the decision.
Was it called the decision?

Speaker 2 Where he was going to go. He like they made a big TV special special about him deciding where he was going to play.
Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 2 And he decided, that's where he famously said, I'm taking my talents to South Beach. Nice.
And then,

Speaker 2 so this year he did, like, he's now 40. Yeah.
But he's still great. And, but

Speaker 2 his contract was in flux. I don't know.
But there was a, he said, tune in tomorrow for my, this TV special of me deciding. And it was like a big long thing.

Speaker 2 And he ended up saying, this year I'm taking my talents to Hennessy. And it was just an ad for Hennessy.

Speaker 2 I'm going to go wrecked on it.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I have a bottle of it with his face on it. Really? Yeah.
I'm from before. He's been their spokesman for years.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's so,

Speaker 2 oh, I love it.

Speaker 2 It'll led up to that.

Speaker 2 It was very...

Speaker 2 a Christmas story with the Ovalteen. Yes.
Yeah. I'm taking my talents to Ovalteen.

Speaker 2 I was just thinking about having that giant bottle in a liquor store. You know, when they have cars in a mall, yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I feel like that's like, I always, I'm sure that there's just an entryway that has enough of a capacity to let a car in, but you're always like, how'd they get it?

Speaker 2 How do they get that car in here? This is why I grew up at West Edmonton Mall. Yeah.
We were there all the time. And so when I moved here, I was like, this is what they have here.

Speaker 2 Like, I need to go back to Edmonton. Yeah.
Yeah. Our mall.
The mall is so impressive. What? Did you ever stay overnight in the Fantasy Level? I've never stayed there.
You just, this was a day trip.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
Lots of day trips. And like staying at other hotels, like nearby.
Nearby. But never the Fantasy Land hotel.
But it was like, it was a holiday to go to the mall.

Speaker 2 I feel like I did that once where it was like, that was the holiday we went on that year. Well, we would go like once a month, like just to go.

Speaker 2 Like, it's in the, you know, in the dead of winter, there's nothing to do. Yeah, that's true.
In Kikono, so we'd like go and, yeah, make a weekend of it once a month.

Speaker 2 So you're very far north. In the winter, what time does the sun go down? Like 3.30.
3.45 p.m. Damn.
Yeah, it was, it was some dark times. Literally.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Literally.

Speaker 2 Did you see northern lights up that way? Yes. Yeah.
Yeah. Do you get bored of them?

Speaker 2 Yeah, like I don't really, when people travel on these like big fancy vacations like up north to go see them, I'm like, why? Yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, somewhere hot. It's the same when people vacation to here.
I'm like, why? Why did you come here? Yeah, why did you come here? I don't really get what they are.

Speaker 2 Like, I recognize them in the sky, but I'm like, I even did a project in high school on the science of them. And unfortunately, science was in French, and I don't think I understood what I was saying.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 so, yeah, I couldn't tell you

Speaker 2 what is causing the phenomenon. I don't know either.
I couldn't tell you either. Yeah.
It's cold. Yeah.
Cold. It's cold.

Speaker 2 That's all I got for you. Yeah.
Is it from the, it's not from the temperature, it's from the northernness of it, isn't it? I don't know. I mean, I really couldn't tell you.
I know that.

Speaker 2 Let's figure it out, This is not

Speaker 2 a podcast for dummies.

Speaker 2 We got to get to the bottom of it. We got to say some smart things.
What causes the northern lights? Oh, they're caused by Aurora Borealis. Oh,

Speaker 2 I knew that. The collision of charged particles, I'm out,

Speaker 2 from the sun with gases in Earth's upper atmosphere. That's exactly what we all said.
Yeah. Because it's cold.
Because it's cold up there. It is cold.

Speaker 2 Yeah, like there's,

Speaker 2 if people don't know it, in the Yukon, it's a big business of

Speaker 2 Japanese tourists coming and having sex in like camps because it's lucky. Yeah, no, you already said yes it is.

Speaker 2 You agreed with them.

Speaker 2 I believe Pasquez David Tritter referred to them as Japanese fuck camps.

Speaker 2 You heard about this? You guys see this?

Speaker 2 In the UConn, it's a big thing. It is, yep, absolutely.

Speaker 2 I don't know. Yeah, that might be debunked as well.

Speaker 2 Well, when I was there, there was a brochure for them.

Speaker 2 And it said fuck camp on it. Well, it was like, you know,

Speaker 2 something

Speaker 2 fancier than fuck camp.

Speaker 2 You know, intercourse. It must be crazy

Speaker 2 to go. Couples retreat.
Couples retreat. There you go.
See? Well, I know that it's like.

Speaker 2 a very kind of a culture shock to go from here to uh to like tokyo tokyo the city itself has as many people as all of canada yeah and so there's like skyscrapers where like you know you go to a restaurant on the 22nd floor that's just right like you can't see it from the street but there's just like people everywhere there's people on every floor of every building and so it must be crazy to then go to the yukon where there's nobody around yeah you can have a you're gonna have a whole floor to yourself no problems well there's no floors there you have to conceive on the ground.

Speaker 2 But yeah, there's like

Speaker 2 businesses that, like, you don't just go out at night every night. There's somebody's out there and then comes and like tells, like, wakes you up and come see them.

Speaker 2 Yeah, be like, get the fuck away. I'm sleeping.

Speaker 2 Why can't we do this in the morning? We got to have sex under the thing.

Speaker 2 But yeah, it's supposed to be good luck. So anybody out there who's wanting to conceive, Yukon,

Speaker 2 make it the Yukon.

Speaker 2 Is it only in winter that we see aurora boils or is that all the time in the yukon i think or i think you see it all the time did you see it all the time no we only saw it in the winter aha okay yeah oh well i see it sometimes yeah i see it all the time just close my eyes

Speaker 2 just read a book

Speaker 2 um well guys do you want to move on to some overheards yes yar okay

Speaker 3 Hey, I'm J. Keith Van Stratton from Go Fact Yourself, and I'm here with Max Fun member of the month, Josh Mentor, who has been a Maximum Fun member since 2016.
Hello, Josh.

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Speaker 2 You'll learn about interesting people and places and have the kind of conversations you can only have on foot. We've got guests like Lauren Lapkis.
I figured something out about this map.

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I had no key. That's awesome and nuts.
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Speaker 2 Overheard.

Speaker 2 Overheards, where you out there report to us. Report in my office first thing tomorrow morning with your overheards.
And we also like to have our guests. present their overheard.

Speaker 2 Savannah, do you have an overheard? Yes, I have two. I love this, this, um, this segment because I love to overhear.
Um, okay, so what it's all about. Exactly.
Yeah. Are you a big guy?

Speaker 2 Well, like, what

Speaker 2 I'm an eavesdropper. Do you go out of the way, out of your way, too? Absolutely.

Speaker 2 I put the ear pods in just so people don't think I'm listening, but I'm hearing everything you're saying. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Okay. So, and then my first one is...
I was walking down the street and this guy was yelling into his phone really loud.

Speaker 2 She put all of our chats into Chat GPT and asked if I was gaslighting her. Can you believe it? And it was really funny.
People need.

Speaker 2 So he's leaving it up to the chat GBT to be a detective. Yeah.
People need friends just to like, hey, can you tell me if this person's gaslighting me? Yeah. Exactly.

Speaker 2 And this is the loneliness epidemic of men. Thank you.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Wait, was it a man? It was a man.

Speaker 2 He was like. Men don't get gaslit.
Men gaslight. No, exactly.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 He was saying that his girlfriend put put all their chats into chat gpt oh okay and then asked she's yeah all right if he was gaslighting her and was he

Speaker 2 probably yeah probably

Speaker 2 just trust your gut on that absolutely don't trust the chat yeah gpt that is

Speaker 2 the uh

Speaker 2 yeah i'm trying to think do i not have i ever been gaslit i don't think so but how would i know how would you know yeah you're like it seems like a trusting person yeah maybe i trust too much

Speaker 2 i don't really understand it i like i don't i wouldn't know it to see it i think it's like

Speaker 2 you say you tell the person like all the time that they're insane or their reaction to something's insane or that they lie about what they or this is what you did

Speaker 2 really happen what you you're your way you're seeing it wrong yeah yeah it's like someone who's just lying and trying to convince you of their reality so even though you lived the same thing yeah so it's hard to like you wouldn't like see it yeah unless you're in that close relationship with that person who's gaslighting you.

Speaker 2 Yes. So, Graham, you're a dumb bitch.
I don't remember hearing that before. Well, you said it to yourself last night in the mirror.

Speaker 2 That's gaslighting. Go cook me an egg.

Speaker 2 But I already cooked you an egg.

Speaker 2 You didn't cook it in the hundred ways that you need to learn in order to get a chef's hat.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Did you know that's a thing? Really? The chef hat has a hundred folds, each representing a different way to cook an egg.
No. Uh-huh.

Speaker 2 Hard-boiled. Soft-boiled.
Oveasy. You're gaslighting us for sure.

Speaker 2 That's not how I remember it.

Speaker 2 Have you ever seen that clip where Gordon Ramsey

Speaker 2 tries to make some sort of maybe Lebanese food and he fucks it up so bad and the guy that's, you know, street vendor guy is like,

Speaker 2 get away. Like, get away from my food.
You're not, you're making something that's like our culture and you're Gordon Ramseying it up. Yeah.
How many ways can I cook an egg? Poached. Poached.
Soft.

Speaker 2 Can you poach an egg? But like well, or just like, just do it. I don't know how to poach an egg.
I have no idea. Don't know what it is.
I don't know what the end result of a poached is. Really?

Speaker 2 I've never poached an egg. I've never poached one.
I've probably had them.

Speaker 2 I can poach them, but I'm not as good as a restaurant can. What are they? Are they really yolky inside?

Speaker 2 Well, I mean, it depends. Jammy? Is it jammy? No.
Oh, okay. Maybe it's yolky.
Maybe it's, maybe you overcook it. Okay.
Those are the only two options.

Speaker 2 How do you do poached? Poached is

Speaker 2 you cook it in, you crack the egg and then like cook it in boiling water. Okay.
Like the without the shell. Okay.
Oh,

Speaker 2 how do you do that?

Speaker 2 There's a bunch of techniques I've tried. The thing I like the best is you put it in it, you crack it into a strainer and you get rid of all the little little bits of extra water in it.
Oh.

Speaker 2 That's maybe not the right way to do it. Some people add, some people crack them into like a vinegar bath.
Yes. some people add vinegar to the boiling water um

Speaker 2 and then uh so but then i i put it into a little uh ramekin or a little bowl and i get that right under the well then i wait for the water to boil and then as soon as it boils i turn it off and then i put the egg in and i cover the

Speaker 2 yeah off the heat and then uh you wait for it to cloud over and then do you is this uh like with toast is this you would eat it with toast yeah you eat it with toast you can can eat it on top of

Speaker 2 old smoky all covered in sand.

Speaker 2 And it is a, you've had like Eggs Benedict. Yes.
That's what that is. Yes.
Ex Benedict. That's a, yeah, and then also

Speaker 2 she's scrambled. I can scramble.
That's it. Yeah.
That's it. What's your scramble technique? Just wait.

Speaker 2 Do you scramble? Do you scramble? Don't scramble. Do you scramble in the pan or in the

Speaker 2 yeah, I just kind of like put it in the pan and then I wait till it's basically an omelette and then I flip it once and then then that's how I eat crap.

Speaker 2 Really good technique.

Speaker 2 I saw a video of a guy making like,

Speaker 2 I don't know what this guy's problem is, but he was like, we're not calling it meal prep because there's like

Speaker 2 a lot of baggage with meal prep, apparently. But he was like, I'm making 16.

Speaker 2 breakfast burritos and so he cracks like 18 eggs. I want to do it.
But

Speaker 2 What if you overdo the eggs and you're. You're eating that for the next 20 days.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 I don't. Like, does your partner do the cooking?

Speaker 2 Or do you just neither just get old delivery all the time? No, we split it. I'm just the worst cook.
Okay. Yeah.
Can you make, like, what's your number one thing? Is it scrambled eggs?

Speaker 2 No, my number one thing is probably like salad dressing.

Speaker 2 Nice.

Speaker 2 What's your

Speaker 2 dessert chicken? What do you do in a salad dressing?

Speaker 2 Just the easy. Oil vinegar.
Oil vinegar, salt and pepper, garlic. Oh, garlic.

Speaker 2 Maybe some Dijon mustard. I do on the barbecue, I do a

Speaker 2 well, it's a beer can chicken, but I don't use a beer can. It's when you get a whole chicken and you stick a beer can up there.
Yes. But I use a different sort of

Speaker 2 I bought a special thing so you don't use it. A receptacle.
Yeah. And then you fill it with beer.
And then it's more expensive than just buying a rotisserie chicken. Every time.

Speaker 2 It's because it's with the price of a chicken and a beer.

Speaker 2 When you mentioned mustard, I was like, the other night I was having this conversation. I was like, well, Canada's the number one producer of mustard in the world.
We must.

Speaker 2 And then some sites said that it's Canada, and then some sites said it was Tibet or Nepal. Why do you...

Speaker 2 Why did that cross your mind?

Speaker 2 I think because I was eating a hamburger and I saw the mustard. And

Speaker 2 did you feel pride? Like, Canada's got to be no pride. Yeah, I was like, yeah, we rule.
And

Speaker 2 then I checked it out and it was like, yeah, it checks out. And then I checked another site and it says Nepal, maybe.
Nepal. So

Speaker 2 I don't know. Now I don't know who to believe.
I mean, maybe we just produce mustard seed. Well,

Speaker 2 Nepal, they bottle it.

Speaker 2 That's where French is coming from.

Speaker 2 Do you have

Speaker 2 another one? Oh, yeah. Do you want to to go now or do you want to go around? Okay,

Speaker 2 we can go around. All right.
Go ahead. Dave, you're on.
Mine's an oversee. And the other day I was

Speaker 2 driving down next to a school, and you were talking about people stepping in dog poo.

Speaker 2 What I saw was a woman leaning up against her car

Speaker 2 with her foot, like, you know, she was looking at her foot, and she was pouring hand sanitizer on the sole of her shoe.

Speaker 2 I mean,

Speaker 2 I guess.

Speaker 2 I feel like you're, you know, you're

Speaker 2 pouring bad money after good or less. Yeah.
What you want to do is you want to get it in Evo and really scrub them with those mats.

Speaker 2 Then you just walk through the grass a bit and then the hand sanitizer.

Speaker 2 Well, it's not going to do anything. No.
But I feel like I'm on her side because, like, what if she wasn't sure if it was dog or human?

Speaker 2 So if it's like human, you don't want the germ because it's like human, but dog, you can kind of like put in the back of your mind. Yeah, I want that dog germ.

Speaker 2 You can just ignore it. They don't have germs.
I think I'm,

Speaker 2 I mean, this wasn't.

Speaker 2 How do you know? But this didn't seem like a neighborhood with a lot of human excrements. But yeah, like you say, how do you know? Yeah.
How do you know?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 My overheard

Speaker 2 comes from.

Speaker 2 I went to Remembrance Day.

Speaker 2 What would you say? Ceremony? Ceremony.

Speaker 2 Have you gone before? Yeah, yeah, usually. At the Cenotaph? No, this is on Salt Spring Island.
Oh,

Speaker 2 at their local park. Oh.
And

Speaker 2 they had a guy on the mic introducing everybody as they came and

Speaker 2 laid wreaths. But he didn't know.
He just kept talking to the microphone when he's talking to the people right next to him. So it would be like, you know, Corporal Mitch McCain and

Speaker 2 Girl Guide. And he'd go,

Speaker 2 Who's up nice there? I don't think he's, I don't think he's here.

Speaker 2 Oh, and I took every time he goofed up, it was so-and-so and a girl guy.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he just okay, just pick another girl guide, but uh, he did it once, and like people laughed, and then he kept doing it, and people just couldn't, it just got funnier and funnier.

Speaker 2 Uh, but you're supposed to be silent, but it was like

Speaker 2 so-and-so and a girl guy. What is um

Speaker 2 like I've never gone to a Remembrance Day ceremony. We did a lot of assemblies at school.
Yep. With people playing, like.

Speaker 2 In Flanders Fields. Yeah, there would be someone would play the bugle.
Yeah. Someone would read in Flanders Fields.
There would be, like,

Speaker 2 someone would edit a video of

Speaker 2 that Metallica song about a guy who came back from war and a bunch of war footage.

Speaker 2 And also, Mother, do you think

Speaker 2 they'll drop the bomb by Pink Floyd?

Speaker 2 You told me Megadeth doesn't fit in here at all. There's no room for Megadeth.
And then,

Speaker 2 yeah, that would be it. So, at the

Speaker 2 official one at the Victory Square,

Speaker 2 they have soldiers there. Yeah.
And they lay wreaths

Speaker 2 on Salt Spring Island. Are there soldiers?

Speaker 2 Yeah, there's

Speaker 2 vets.

Speaker 2 There was one guy there that I think was like 101 or something. Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 they're, yeah, like, and they have like a local RCMP detachment, so they're kind of involved in Remembrance Day. They always show up.
You have Colonel Guides apparel.

Speaker 2 Colonel Guides are there, you know, to save the day, really, if you don't know. And it's like,

Speaker 2 they announce each wreath as they bring it up. And so it's fun, you know, it's like the fire department, Salt Spring Fire Department.
And then it'll just be like, Whiskers pet store. Oh, sure.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then there was one called, oh, I can't remember the name, but it was their local cannabis. And it was the pet store.
They were saluting vets, but the other kind of vets. Yeah.
Not the war vets.

Speaker 2 Very inclusive. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Anyways, it was a lot of fun. This guy talking to Mike.
Didn't know how to mic worked at all.

Speaker 2 Do you remember last year when the mayor showed up wearing Lend to the ceremony and he had like sneakers on? Yeah. What a cool guy.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Real frat mayor. Oh, the other thing sometimes they do is like they'll do a flyover.
Oh, yeah, assembly military planes fly over. That's fun.
You know, you see it, you're like, oh, look at that.

Speaker 2 And then it goes off. Who knows where? Drops a bomb.
I don't know. I have no idea what they do.

Speaker 2 Do you go to them ever?

Speaker 2 I have gone, but yeah, whenever I see a flyover, my brain is like, they're dead. They're crashing.

Speaker 2 They're too close to the earth. It's them or me.
They're either going to crash or bomb me. Like, I am like, I can't look at them because there's going to be a horrible accident.
I can't look at them.

Speaker 2 Understood.

Speaker 2 So I'm, yeah, I'm really fun to go to these.

Speaker 2 Well, and it's supposed to be a fun time.

Speaker 2 Boy, you're really just harshing our buzz here at the Remembrance Day ceremony.

Speaker 2 Do you have one more? Yeah, yeah. Oh, yes.
My other overheard that I thought of.

Speaker 2 So I was in Palm Springs at a Mexican restaurant. And there was like this big table of like elder gay men.

Speaker 2 And like the lead one was sitting like right behind me. The lead one.
The lead one. And I say the lead one because he was the one talking the entire time.

Speaker 2 But what I heard that made me tune in was

Speaker 2 he started saying, I worked in PR in New York City when the magazines had money.

Speaker 2 And then I just was, I was locked in.

Speaker 2 And then it was like 90 minutes of just like me and my partner not speaking, just drinking a margarita, like listening to every story he had about like the fashion parties that he went to and like the models that were there.

Speaker 2 And like, it was really cool to me because I love, first of all, I love eavesdropping, yeah, being nosy, and I love just like, yeah, fashion and PR and like New York City, obviously.

Speaker 2 You are you're excited for the Devil Wears product too? Yes,

Speaker 2 yes, I am. Thank you so much for asking.
That's my culture.

Speaker 2 Um, you, I, I feel confident in saying that you're one of the best-dressed comedians in all of the country. Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 You know, certainly it's easy to beat the male contingent because most of them are dressed like they just rolled out of bed. Yeah, well, I mean, that Canadian guy necktie.

Speaker 2 It's a pretty good.

Speaker 2 There's, yeah, there's a couple that dress well. Yeah.

Speaker 2 A handful. We know them.
But yeah, thank you. Yeah.
We put together a nice outfit. What can I say? There was this one time that a comedian, I bombed so hard at this show.

Speaker 2 And then this other comedian came up to me and was like, at least your outfit was really good.

Speaker 2 That haunts me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But your outfit was probably good. Thank you.
The last time I saw you performed, you wore very sparkly pants. I did with my new pants.
Yeah. Oh, they're new.

Speaker 2 I was really excited to wear them. Thank you.
Do you ever worry that when you get an applause at the end of your set, it's because people like your outfit?

Speaker 2 Well, she can't have it. You can't have it both ways of like, well, you bombed, but at least you had a good outfit.
Well, you had a great set, but it was because of your outfit. No, no, no.

Speaker 2 I tell everyone all the time, I'm like, I don't care if they,

Speaker 2 they'll listen to me because they like my outfit. And then that's, I just need them to lock in for for my five minutes.
Yeah

Speaker 2 now say you were gonna film a special. Yes.
Are you buying an outfit just for that special or are you going with an outfit that you know you're gonna be this is my this is the funniest outfit. Yeah.

Speaker 2 No,

Speaker 2 that's what I'm looking for. The funniest outfit.
Yeah, just a clown suit.

Speaker 2 Christy the clown. Yeah, Christy the clown.

Speaker 2 No, if I do a special, it's gonna be, I'm gonna get three quick changes in there during the special.

Speaker 2 That's my plan. So

Speaker 2 I'm writing it right now. So one day it'll be a little bit different.
Are you writing the material or just the

Speaker 2 material?

Speaker 2 The material is written in. I'm just writing

Speaker 2 the production. The material is lace, leather.

Speaker 2 Now, we also have overheard sent in to us by people all over the world. If you want to send one in, you can send it to spy at maximumfund.org.

Speaker 2 And let me tell you, I put out a call for people to send more written on ones. You guys answered to the call.
I appreciate it very much.

Speaker 2 I've been getting a lot of calls, like the called-in ones of people being like, well, Graham asked for more overheard, so I'm calling this one in. So I think the lines got crossed.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 These were written-in ones. But we love you either way, you know.

Speaker 2 So this first one comes from

Speaker 2 Hannah M., Nova Scotia.

Speaker 2 I was texting with my daughter and I didn't answer her fast enough. So I texted, patience is a virtue.

Speaker 2 the next day my other daughter and I were working on something and I said this is taking too long and she said didn't you say something about patience is a vulture

Speaker 2 cute cute that's cute oh man when you're when someone won't reply fast enough

Speaker 2 when I need it yeah or sometimes when they are responding but it's like dot dot dot vanish dot dot dot type yes yeah or when you're like I'll text uh Abby sometimes when I'm at the store I'm like hey did we need whatever eggs?

Speaker 2 And then she won't reply. And then I don't get the eggs.
And then 45 minutes later, yeah, get eggs.

Speaker 2 Okay. Here's how stores work.

Speaker 2 This is a little off the topic, but in movies, when somebody's texting, what is your favorite way that they've expressed that in movies? Like sometimes you see the bubble.

Speaker 2 Like just in space above them.

Speaker 2 Or like you see them, you see what they're texting or there's a bunch of different ways they've done it is there anybody that likes a particular way i i like seeing the actual screen

Speaker 2 i like seeing what they're actually typing in real time so close up in the yeah

Speaker 2 the the

Speaker 2 each like red yellow and

Speaker 2 red green and blue yeah thingy and like i watched a movie called drop which is a a thriller about somebody is gonna kill this

Speaker 2 amy

Speaker 2 it's not amy Adams, it's somebody.

Speaker 2 Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Somebody at a restaurant, and then they're airdropping her photos of her daughter and stuff like that. We're going to, unless you kill somebody, like, yeah, you're right.
It's not Amy Adams.

Speaker 2 But from the poster, I thought those were her eyes. Yeah.
They might have, they might have got it just for the shoot. Shoot just the eyes.

Speaker 2 Oh, you didn't tell me this started Megan Fahey and Brandon Sklaynar. Or didn't I? And you forgot.
Brandon Sklanar is Zeddy.

Speaker 2 Was that your word last year that you learned? Yeah, Zeddi was the word of the year on my calendar. One word a year calendar.

Speaker 2 This next one comes from Dean with this as an overseen, so he describes it pretty well. There's a Subaru cross-check here.
Does anybody know what a Subaru cross-check looks like?

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's like an impreza, but higher up off the ground. Yeah.
Here in Saskatoon with a big sign on the back that says, Subaru sucks. There's an envelope taped to the back window that says take one.

Speaker 2 And inside, there are photocopies of a two-page handwritten anti-Subaru manifesto. What? My favorite part is he says he's no longer welcome at the Subaru dealership and he writes, hurt my feelings.

Speaker 2 Subaru hurt my feelings.

Speaker 2 And it says, apparently all this rage is because his radio doesn't work. Oh, man.
Love

Speaker 2 when you want it. That's true.

Speaker 2 When you want to be the ninth caller.

Speaker 2 I just like,

Speaker 2 I just have never seen anything like it. Somebody that hates their car so much.
I love the free will that that person witnessed. The fact that he's going so far as to

Speaker 2 print individually this manifesto for free in this economy. Yeah.
He really hates Subaru.

Speaker 2 For free.

Speaker 2 I mean,

Speaker 2 printing's still pretty cheap.

Speaker 2 Graham, what kind of car do you have? I have a Subaru and Preza. Yeah, and I also have a Subaru.

Speaker 2 We're Subaru people. Yeah, and my radio works just fine.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like scanning, like, you know, Jack FM. They play 80s in the 90s now.

Speaker 2 Power 107. No, not Power 107.
The Fox. Yeah, 99.3, The Fox.
Oh, yeah. Take me through your.

Speaker 2 How many pre-programmed ones do you have? Six. We have two pages worth of six.
Okay, I have one on mine anyway. Straight ahead of six.
You know Jack FM's in there. 96.9.
96.9. You got Fox, 101.
No.

Speaker 2 Fox is 99.3.

Speaker 2 101.1 is

Speaker 2 Rock 101. Rock 101.
And then there's the peak.

Speaker 2 And then there's 95.3, which is

Speaker 2 the top 40. Yeah, it's your pop hits.
And then for some reason, there's

Speaker 2 CBC Radio 2 is in there.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's a lot of

Speaker 2 strings and singing

Speaker 2 choir music.

Speaker 2 But if you get there early in the morning, it's

Speaker 2 drivetime. My favorite radio station is CFWE.
It's 98.5 FM in Edmonton. Oh, yeah? In Alberta.

Speaker 2 It's country music. Oh, it's country music.
Okay. That's it.
Who is your favorite host? I don't know. Drivetime host? Yeah.
Anyone? Anybody who wants to be.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Do you like country music? No.

Speaker 2 still is your favorite story. It's just the one that I grew up with.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you ever like if you're feeling homesick, grew up with a music? I do, yeah, I do, and I listen to it.

Speaker 2 I, uh, there's 104.3 is the breeze here in Vancouver, and they are a kind of cool jazz station, except for certain hours, they're a Christian station.

Speaker 2 You never know until you land on there. But currently, they are a Christmas station.
Oh, yeah, yeah. And there was for a while in Vancouver.

Speaker 2 Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 There was was a comedy one that was like, it was just all stand-up. It was on, it was an AM station.
It was an AM station, yeah. I feel like if we all wanted to, we could just get our own AM stations.

Speaker 2 I feel like it must be easier to get. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 But there's no, they can't make money. No.

Speaker 2 You'd be volunteering for yourself. Yeah.
But at least I say, hey, I own a radio station. Yeah.

Speaker 2 There used to be like the biggest station

Speaker 2 was CKNW 98.

Speaker 2 Never mind. She's gonna read your stupid things.

Speaker 2 What the hell am I doing?

Speaker 2 How long can we talk about our favorite radio station?

Speaker 2 Like, we're giving the listeners ideas. They're like, oh, maybe I need to tune out and turn on Calgary.

Speaker 2 It was CJ92 in Calgary. That was the big rock station.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Can't remember the guy's name. It was the original

Speaker 2 drive-time host.

Speaker 2 What did I just say? Let's get off.

Speaker 2 It makes me want it more.

Speaker 2 This last one comes from

Speaker 2 Susan M in Woodstock, Ontario. Oh,

Speaker 2 I had surgery recently for kidney stones. While I was waiting in the recovery room, an older fella got wheeled in, still very much under the influence of anesthesia.

Speaker 2 Anesthesia. Yes.
It's not anesthesia.

Speaker 2 Bluth

Speaker 2 animated movie.

Speaker 2 Blue. He said very loudly, did did they give me a penis enlargement? Without skipping beat, the nurse replied, no, they made it smaller.

Speaker 2 Not the first time that nurse has been exactly. Nurses, they'll give it to you.
They will. Yeah.

Speaker 2 What surgery do you get for,

Speaker 2 was it, kidney stones?

Speaker 2 Sometimes you get like ultrasonic. Do they blast them? They blast them.
Is that surgery?

Speaker 2 I don't know. Right back.
Yeah, tell us what's the deal at your local hospital in Woodstock. And you know what?

Speaker 2 Let us know what the drive-time show was in your town growing up.

Speaker 2 I wouldn't even know what the drivetime show is. I just know.
Well, I guess the morning show is what I'm thinking of. But, like, does the show have a name or just the host? Oh, Jerry Forbes.

Speaker 2 That was the guy at CJ90. That is a great name.
Yeah. He had a powerful mullet.
Very powerful.

Speaker 2 I thought you were going to say powerful voice. No, no, his voice sucked.
What powers did it have?

Speaker 2 What powers did his voice have? Yeah, no, it was his mullet.

Speaker 2 Oh, flight okay fright and sight the big three okay oh no i wait no we're good uh in addition overs that are written in we also accept your phone calls if you want to call in or send us a voice memo here's how you do it voice memos spy you

Speaker 2 okay you

Speaker 2 get out your phone you open up the voice memo app you hit record you talk into it and then when you're done recording you can there's like a thing on the bottom that says send it and you can send it to us spy at maximumfund.org or if you want to call us call one eight four four seven seven nine seven six three one that's one uh spypod one like these people have and for people out there if you screw up just record it again you don't have to you don't have to be yeah you don't have to send one well no send us the send us the bloopers for sure of course but maybe in one email yes no it's fine i'm i mean i got the time

Speaker 2 all right here we go anyone second

Speaker 5 hey quick quick overheard at Target.

Speaker 5 Early 30s couple walking by, and I overheard Frank Sinatra. I wonder if he had Riz.

Speaker 2 What? All right.

Speaker 5 I'm off.

Speaker 2 Frank Sinatra, I wonder if he had Riz.

Speaker 2 That was his whole thing. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it was all Riz, wasn't he? It was all Riz.

Speaker 2 I mean,

Speaker 2 I'm getting angry at how you wonder that.

Speaker 2 They should have called him Frank Riznatra.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I also like that this phone call.
Well, by the way, that was a phone call. That's the difference between a voice memo.
Our phone calls are sounding worse and worse.

Speaker 2 But I do like that this one started with.

Speaker 5 21 seconds shh.

Speaker 2 21 seconds.

Speaker 2 I'm trying to call my friends.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he had Riz.

Speaker 2 Yeah, absolutely. And somehow he got me a Pharaoh.

Speaker 2 God knows. What do you mean somehow?

Speaker 2 Weren't they? They were a couple. Yeah, but what do you mean? We just said he had Riz.
Oh, yeah, but I don't believe that he has Riz. I think he has the opposite of Riz.
What's the opposite of Riz?

Speaker 2 Zer. Zerp.
He's got Zerp.

Speaker 2 I think it's lacking Aura.

Speaker 2 Aura's the new Riz.

Speaker 2 Shit. I've been two steps wide.
Oh, yeah, sorry. Hey, it's all right.

Speaker 2 He's Rizless. He's Rizless.
There we go. There we go.
And Mary Rizlis to everyone listening. You know, the 104.3, the breeze, is now a Rizlis station.
Is that true?

Speaker 2 All December?

Speaker 2 And November.

Speaker 2 And January, probably. Hello, guest, Graham and Dave.

Speaker 2 I haven't overheard of the

Speaker 2 kids

Speaker 2 variety.

Speaker 2 I was trying to get my kids to go play outside, so

Speaker 2 they had been talking about their imaginary friends, and I said, Oh, all your imaginary friends are outside.

Speaker 2 Should you go play out there?

Speaker 2 And immediately, my youngest said,

Speaker 2 No, you can't see them. You haven't done the paperwork.
If you want to see them, you have to do the paperwork first. They're on your head.

Speaker 2 Off I go.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, fuck. I don't know the rules with an imaginary friend.

Speaker 2 Are there you guys imaginary friends as a young kid? No. I don't remember.
I like

Speaker 2 the idea of them. And you hear about fictional characters having them.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 But no. No.
Certainly the John Friends

Speaker 2 from the Imagination of John Krasinski. Oh, sure.
I mean, there was that movie.

Speaker 2 If. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I.
If stands for Imaginary Friends.

Speaker 2 It's from the Imagination of John Krasinski.

Speaker 2 God, his imagination's fertile. I know.
You know, he came up with that silence movie. That's a terrible silence movie.
Yeah, and then he was in a Rodgers commercial. Yeah, then he made

Speaker 2 that COVID show about having some good news for once.

Speaker 2 And that got optioned. It's like they were like, we're going to turn this into a full-blown thing, but I think he's like, I'm Jack Reacher or whoever.
Yeah. He's not Jack Reacher.

Speaker 2 He's Jack Reacher, basically.

Speaker 2 Shadow recruit.

Speaker 2 Jack.

Speaker 2 Tom Clancy's

Speaker 2 shadow recruit is named

Speaker 2 Jack Reacher.

Speaker 2 Thanks, Chad GPT.

Speaker 2 Jack Ryan. Jack Ryan.
Nice. And there's like in those movies, it's solid.
You know what we're talking about? Nope. Okay.

Speaker 2 Jack Ryan is a character created by Tom Clancy. He's a shadow recruiter.

Speaker 2 He appears in the movies.

Speaker 2 Clear and present danger, Patriot Gabes, Red October the Hund of Four, and finally, The Sum of All Fears. And he was last year the sexiest man alive.
I know who John Krasinski is, yes.

Speaker 2 No, but I'm just trying to think what he's doing. No, Jack Ryan was.
Oh, shit. Okay.

Speaker 2 But yeah. Jack Ryan has been portrayed by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, and finally, Johnny Krasinski.
Thank you.

Speaker 2 You're welcome. You taught me about Riz.
Dave teaches you about Tom Clancy. Here's your final phone call.

Speaker 5 Hey, this is Julian from

Speaker 5 Minneapolis, Minnesota. And sorry, I'm recovering from being sick.
I was just in a

Speaker 5 doctor's office, bougie doctor's office, where they were offering

Speaker 5 beverages to the people waiting.

Speaker 5 And the guy next to me, the lady came up and said, Would you like a coffee? And he said, For what?

Speaker 5 And she said, For drinking. And he said, Oh,

Speaker 2 no, thank you.

Speaker 5 Anyways, have a good life.

Speaker 2 That is a bougie doctor's office if there's like tree surface. Yeah.
Yeah. They have flight attendants coming through.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. And like, if you ever fly on the small airline that goes to Victoria and Vancouver, they got a nice little coffee set up there, free coffee.

Speaker 2 I wonder if that doctor's office is like

Speaker 2 after 11 a.m., we can start

Speaker 2 serving booze. Or does everybody that they take their vitals like, oh, your heart's racing a little bit.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Well, that brings us to the end of the show. Savannah, where can people find you? If they want to find you online, they go to Savannah underscore Erasmus on all platforms.

Speaker 2 And you have a show every month, including this week. Yes, on the 19th at the projection room at the Fox Cabaret at 8.30.
Camp Comedy. Camp Comedy.
Camp Comedy.

Speaker 2 Well, thanks again for being on the show. Thank you for having me.
And thank you, all of you out there. If you go to the show this week, oh, the outfit is going to be.

Speaker 2 It's actually going to be really good. Yeah.
I got a new outfit. Okay.

Speaker 2 I'm really excited about it. Seriously, people, go see that outfit.
Come on back next week for another episode of Stuff Podcasting Yourself.

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