Do Go On - We're touring Canada - On sale now!

Episode Date: March 27, 2026

If you haven't heard, we're touring Canada in September!Four shows in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto (details below).To celebrate the launch of the tour and get excited to visit a new country, Dave and Jess go through some fun facts about Canada!Patreon presale is on now, sign up at the $5 Associate Producer level or any of the tiers above to get access as well as 10% off all tickets (as well as different rewards like 300+ bonus episodes, vote for topics, shout outs, ad free listenings, video episodes etc.)patreon.com/DoGoOnPodTickets go on general sale, Tuesday March 31st: 1pm PDT, 2pm MDT and 4pm EDT from our website: https://dogoonpod.com/live-shows/ Thanks to Murray for creating us yet another incredible tour poster!SHOW DETAILSVancouverThe Rio TheatreSaturday September 12Doors 12pm, show 1-2pmCalgaryThe Laugh ShopMonday September 14Doors 6pm, show 7-8pmMontrealThe Oscar Peterson Concert Hall (Concordia University)Saturday September 19Doors 1:30pmShow 2-3pmTorontoThe Royal TheatreSunday September 20Doors 1pmShow 2-3pm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serengy Amarna 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there. Canada, we are visiting you in September this year.

If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. Hello and welcome to another launch of a do-go-on-tour. My name is Dave Warnocky and I'm here with Jess Perkins. Hello, Dave Warnocky. Hello, Jess Perkins.

My friend that I will see in Canada in September. That's right. We're here to tell you and talk a little bit about our tour to Canada in September, 2026. Honestly, big shout out to Dave for really, I mean, you are behind a lot of the touring stuff and this has been a lot of work. and a lot of research. Well, just a lot of emails. It's been a lot of emails. A lot of emails.

Yeah, we're very proud of you for that. But it's all come together. It feels a bit surreal, to be honest, because it's something we've been talking about for a long time, and we're finally making it happen. I'm so excited. We are so excited. We wanted to do this little episode that would go into your podcast feeds

because we've got to be honest, every time we go anywhere, we've posted the episode or a photo later, and people go, oh, I didn't know you were in Adelaide. Yeah. You should have announced it better or something. You should have said something. We try it so hard.

So hard to make sure that people know. But, you know, people miss things on. Maybe you're not following us on socials. Yeah. Or I don't know. You don't listen to every episode, but we're hoping by this. Just popping up in your feed. More people will see it and go, oh, they're coming to Canada.

I'd like to see them. That's right. And we thought we'll just talk a little bit about the tour. So if you haven't heard yet, we are coming to Canada in September to do four shows. We're coming to Vancouver on September the 12th. That's a Saturday afternoon. Perfect. A lovely 1 o'clock spot.

You know, time before and after to go in and out of Vancouver. Lovely. Then we are in Calgary on, so that's at the Rio Theatre, I should say. It's just a fantastic cinema slash theatre that I've been talking to. And you know what's so funny about that is, because I've been emailing the Rio, I had to search for the email chain in our inbox. I typed in Rio Theatre. And two emails came up from about 2016 and 17 from people saying we must have said, hey, where should we tour in America and Canada? And two people, God bless you.

And if I remember I'm going to try and email you back just to say, hey, we're coming. Yeah. said, hey, if you're in Canada and Vancouver come to the Rio, it's a really cool venue. Oh, that's so cool from like 10 years ago. Yeah, I just happened to find it on my research of where comedy shows go when they're touring there. Awesome. So that's Saturday, September 12. Then on Monday, September 14, we are in Calgary at the laugh shop.

Well, that feels appropriate. Yes, which is a comedy club. I need to get my laugh serviced. We take it in? Take it into the laugh shop. Look under the hood. And it's in Hotel Blackfrey. foot.

Just if people know where that is. I just googled Calgary just before we started recording this. And it looks pretty. It looks really nice. I mean, all of Canada does. I just, I didn't know what, I wasn't sure what to picture when I was picturing Calgary. Yeah.

Know what I mean? And you picture beauty. Yeah. Yeah. And then we got a few days off, which is also very exciting. People can suggest, we'd love to hear suggestions of stuff to do. Yeah. Places we've got to see.

Yes, because we're then flying to Montreal for the next weekend. for Saturday, September 19. We are doing a venue. Sounds very, very fancy. The Oscar Peterson Concert Hall. La-di-da. Ooh, we're a bit laudida, aren't we? Which is inside Concordia University.

Awesome. So that'll be very exciting. That's also a Saturday afternoon, two o'clock, so you can hang out before or after if you're from out of town. And then on Sunday, the next day, also an afternoon. So we're going to have to fly that night or something. I think I'll work that out. We're in Toronto, Sunday, September 20, at the Royal Theatre.

another very cool looking cinema slash sort of arty place that does bands and comedy and that kind of stuff. And that's, yeah, in the Avo as well. So excited. So very, very excited. And you might be wondering, why did you pick these places? Well, a part of it is looking at the podcast stats of where people download. Yep. Also, we set up a mailing list about a year ago.

And we said, where should we tour? And these were the top four places in Canada slash they're a little bit close to the US border a lot of them. That's right. We've kind of, like we sort of explained this a little bit in some previous posts, but getting to the US is... It is very difficult, very difficult. Incredibly expensive. We're talking tens of thousands of dollars.

Because we've got to get a full working visa. Yeah. It would last a couple of years to go over there. You've got to get an immigration law involved. And there's a lot of hurdles that we've always fallen at, do you honest. Unfortunately, unfortunately, do go on is just the three of us. So we don't have a whole big team behind us to be dealing with lawyers. And we don't quite have the funds to spend tens of thousands on visas alone.

That's right. And also the visas we were told many times that are not a guaranteed thing. They might look and go, no, we don't want to give it to you. And then you don't get that money back from the lawyer or the application. So we're like not quite worth the risk for us. But if we go to Canada, which much like when we go to the UK, we've got a thing where we can go and do a series of independent shows over a very limited time. and then we're allowed to do that without a special working visa.

Yeah. So we thought we're going to go along two of the places that we'd love to go to Canada anyway. And then if there's a possibility, no, it's not possible for everyone. But if you're somewhere else in North America and you can meet us there, man, that would be amazing. That's fantastic. Because let me just tell you, Jess, I've just looked up a list of facts you might not know about Canada to get excited about. Okay. Dave, let me tell you, I don't know a lot about Canada at this point in time. So I reckon all of these facts are going to be pretty new to be.

me. This is from camp canada.com. Fabulous. What are the facts? Canada is actually huge. You know what? No bullshit. I did know that one.

You know that one? I did know that one? I did know that one? Okay, but did you know the Canada-US border is the longest international border between two countries in the world? Ooh. Nearly 9,000 kilometres or 5,500 miles long. Wow.

13 US states share a border with Canada. So no pressure to these states in particular, but if you want to come up and see us, if you're in Alaska, though, that is pretty far away. Idaho. Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Creamies and Washington. Can they easily cross the border? Yes, but I do believe that you will need a passport.

Yes. But I believe you can cross it if you have your passport because a few people when we announce this on Patreon said that they will need to get their first ever passport. I guess what I mean is like, you know how we can, I mean, obviously we still need a passport as Australians to travel to New Zealand, but we can just sort of turn up there. Yeah. We just sort of turn up and we're just sort of turn up and we're just sort of turn up and we're just sort of turn up and we could stay.

We have reciprocal thing. I believe US citizens, Canadians, can come and go, but you all just need to obviously prove who you are. Cool. That's what I think. Look into it in case you are from that. Yes. Sorry for asking a confusing question.

And we should also say that we've got a Patreon pre-sell that is on right now. If you're hearing our voices speak, it is either on right now or it's already finished. Those are the two options. Depending on when you are listening to this. That's right. So we're giving people on Patreon on the $5 associate producer level or above. first access to tickets, which includes a 10% discount code. And tickets are in the vicinity of about $50 Canadian.

So 10% of that is about five. So basically you get your first month on Patreon for free. Yes. Depending on conversion of where you are on the world. Yep. But so if you want to do that, you can also, obviously, at the higher level, which is the 10-d-l-lop, get the bonus episodes. Yep.

You also get the ad-free feed, the videos, the shout-outs, all those things as well. That's right. but so just if anyone would be interested in definitely getting tickets one of those things where we're not saying we're definitely going to sell out because we have no idea how many people are going to come but if you want to make sure you can you definitely get a ticket yeah patron is your best first time we arranged a tour of the UK I think several the shows sold out in about the first four hours yeah I remember sitting I was working at the project at the time it's working a refreshing ticket sales and it was like unbelievable yes the excitement I was feeling and that's not yeah

so we're not like oh my god people are coming at the time We're not saying that's happening again, because we've never been to Canada before, we don't really have an idea. So it could sell super quickly. So if you want to guarantee yourself, we'll get the best option of getting tickets. That's probably. Yeah, Patreon is your best bet. Yeah, that's going to give you a couple of days head start. Which is very, very exciting.

And I should say the time, I also say when you hear this, the tickets have just gone on sale if you just listen to it. Because Canada has six time zones. That's another fun fact I did not know about Canada. Six. Wait, how many do we have? Anyway, go on. It's not about us. Pacific Mountain, Central, Eastern Atlantic and Newfoundland time.

Cool. Because it is the second largest country in the world after Russia. You could fit the UK into Canada over 40 times. Wow. Which is so funny. Because sometimes people in the UK when we tour are like, I can't drive that far and we're only half an hour away. I hope we don't know that same problem. It doesn't make sense.

And I know it's just like a cultural thing. But I think it's so funny that you, Matt and I live so far from each other. Yeah. And we would all just say we're from Melbourne. Yeah, I'm from Melbourne. From Melbourne. Yeah. We drive to work once a week further than those people would be willing to travel in the UK.

They're like, oh, come to my little village instead. It's like, no, babe, you come to us. Please come to us. It's so funny. We've come so far. It's so funny. So I'm assuming Canadians have a similar kind of, uh, relationship with distance as Australians do.

I think so. Of going, Ah, it's not too bad. It's only three hours there and three hours back. Beautiful. Make a weekend of it. Yeah, see you there.

Here's another fact. The country, I'm looking forward to seeing some lakes. I mean, Matt is especially been talking about seeing those blue, greeny lakes, which I think are sort of not that far from Calgary.

I've got to tell you, he won't shut off about these freaking lakes. Well, Matt, you're going to be happy because the country of Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. What? Ontario was home to more than 200. 150,000 of them.

Is there any land in this, in this country? Yeah, that's technically the biggest country, but it's all wet. It's all lake. That's unbelievable. This says Canadians love their donuts. Fact number 10 are they running out yet? It's supposed to be 40 here. Actually, no, this is a fun fact.

There are more donut shops in Canada than in any other country. Wow. And then they've written, we guess that's probably down to Timmy's. I was going to say, Tim Horton's. Tim Horton. And what are the little bits? Tim Bits. Tim's bits.

Tim's bits. Tim, keep your bits away from a donut. That's blasphemous in Canada. I'm reading this fact and I'm going, this isn't true, is it? Okay. Number 11, Winnie the Pooh is Canadian. Then they've said, well, sort of. The real life bear that inspired the beloved Disney character, Winnie the Pooh,

was indeed Winnie after the city of Winnipeg. Ah. Manitoba. There you go. Wow. God, I'm learning so much about Canada already. We are going, we've been told September, A lot of people have commented, that's the best time.

Oh, great. I love to hear that. Good weather. Do you think they'd tell us if it was the worst time? I think. Or would they just not say anything about the weather? When I was booking in the Vancouver venue, the Rio, I said like, oh, we have to get to Calgary for the Monday. And she's like, oh, yeah, this time a year should be able to travel that time.

Implying to me that in winter, it might be. You can't get to Calgary. I think you might be able to, but like you wouldn't be able to bet the plane could get there because it's so called. Because Canada and Russia is the fact to go back and forth on being the number one coldest nation in the world. Both countries are very. vast frigid regions with extreme winter temperatures, so it's never an easy debate to settle. Wow. Top two is pretty good.

Congratulations to Canada. And as someone who hates the cold, that makes me nervous. Yeah, don't worry. We're going in the good time. A beautiful warmer time. Yeah, but let's, I mean, if it's top two coldest places in the world and they're saying, oh no, that's a nice time to come. I don't think it's going to be balmy.

You know what I mean? I think we're still packing coats. Yeah, I think we're still definitely wearing long pants. Yes. The Netherlands send Canada 10,000 tulip bulbs every year as a thank you for sheltering their royal family during World War II and to represent the long-lasting friendship between Canada and the Netherlands. They even have a chulet festival to celebrate.

That's so nice. I love tulips. They'd be one of my top five favourite flowers. Probably top three. Top three. What's number one? I can't take. Please don't put that pressure on me.

Okay, sorry. Did you know that Canada, whose national animal, is the beaver. Awesome. Which I love. I just showed you a video, a TikTok of a baby beaver. So cute.

So cute. So beautiful. Making these little sounds as it was being fed with a milk syringe. Yeah. Give me more. Oh my God. So cute.

Canada is home to the world's largest beaver dam and they've said it's that big. It's visible from space. What? No, it's not. That's crazy. Some photos.

But to be honest, look like they're taken from a helicopter. Is helicopter not in space? It's in A-space. It's in A-space. It's in airspace. That counts. Canada is home to the longest street in the world.

They've called it, it's a, or they've named Yonge Street, Y-O-N-G-E. Cool. Stretches nearly 2,000 kilometres or 1,178 miles. Poor. Wow. Canada's home to 47 national parks. And we're not going to get here, but yellow knife for the northwestern territory is one of the best places to see the northern lights.

Oh. We're not going to get there, you say? No, I don't think so. No, with that attitude. Yeah, that's right. Is that because you've seen the northern lights and you're like, I'm good? I've been there, I've done that. You're like, just a Matt don't need to see that. They wouldn't like it.

Only 10% of Canada's land is actually inhabited by people. 10%? Yeah, the rest probably beavers. That I think makes sense. I'm Googling Canadian food just to see what sort of things we should be eating in Canada you can continue with your fun facts I'm going to find some food

Apparently nine out of ten Canadians live near the US Canada border the vast majority of them within 150 miles in major cities like Toronto We're going there Ottawa, sorry not going there But that's not that far from Montreal and Vancouver Oh, that's they're not close to

That's just saying that's on the list Sorry they're actually very far from Vancouver Okay. Because Canada is a very large place. But if you are from Ottawa, please come to Montreal. A beautiful French speaking place. Do you know that I'm about to hit 1,000 days on Duolingo? And do you think that's going to help you in Montreal?

Absolutely. We're there for a couple of nights and I will be meeting up with our friend, Ellis Echon, virtual. Much like when I'm in France with my wife, making him stand in front of me and talk to everyone for me. Yeah, perfect. It's a perfect way to really absorb a language is to panic and make somebody else more fluent speak for you.

They should speak. That should speak. Yeah. I do love hearing Al speak French though. He does comedy in French now. I know, it's so cool. It's great. Do you reckon between now and then if I could try and work on a three-minute French routine?

I'm not going to do that. I'm so glad I didn't have to talk you out of it. You did it yourself. I'm not going to do that. Let me ask you a quiz question. What do you think the national sports of Canada are in summer and winter? Hockey? Ice hockey, yeah.

Or is they probably just called hockey in winter? Yes. In summer. Summer, yeah. I don't think I would have got this. Here's what's come to me and I don't know why. LaCross. It's LaCross!

Are you serious? Yes. Well done. Wow. Okay. I'm officially the sporty one of the pod. That's not true. You are.

La Crosse, cool. Why did I know that? Why did I know that? That's crazy. Lacrosse. Maybe it's because it's like, to me, it's a bit like hockey. But even though there is field hockey, which is arguably more like ice hockey than lacrosse. Why don't they just do hockey?

Just do field hockey. Now here's something, a couple of people have commented that we are there in time, this potential that the preseason of the ice hockey is on. Yes. This is not quite hockey season, but they do a bit of a preseason. Yes. Which I've looked into it usually is around mid to late September when we're there. Great.

But sometimes it could be a little bit later. Sure. So if we can go, I'd love for. to go to hockey. I would love to go to hockey game. Do you know what I love so much about hockey? It's so violent. Yeah. But it's also so quick and they're so graceful on the ice. Yeah. It's so beautiful. They're very such talented skaters. Oh, incredible skaters. And then they're just huge and beating the shit out of each other. Yeah. And I'm like, yes, yes, yes. Can't wait. Yeah, I'd love to see that. And if anyone has any, yeah, top tips on if we can get to hockey.

I'd love to. Absolutely. And you know what? I'd be really open to see lacrosse as well. Fuck it. Why not? That'd be cool. I don't even know how the game works. Yeah, you throw it around and try to throw it in the goal. Sure. Love it. Do you know what the most of know about La Crosse? From American Polly. For me, I think it's the final scenes of mean girls.

Regina George really channels her raged into lacrosse. Great, got to rewatch that. Yeah. Sort of the cinema many, many years ago. And haven't seen it since? Maybe on TV a couple of times. David James. But yeah, I remember going along with a group of 14-year-olds or whatever we were and it was great.

That and School of Rock both came out that year. and we were just, huge. Mind-changing. Yep. Canadaans. Canadans? I just know what they call them.

It says here they call them Canadians. They eat more craft mac and cheese than any other nation in the world. Wow. Seven million boxes worldwide. Canadians buy 1.7 million of them. Wow. They love mac and cheese. Wow.

They also have the largest moose population globally. Imagine if we could see a moose. They've got to have one in a zoo. Because I don't think we're going to be out. Well, I don't know where Moose are. Well, I mean, this actually says, sorry, I've just scrolled past. Let me go back to it. They're 830,000 in British Columbia alone.

Okay, we're going to be there. So are they just roaming the streets? Yeah. Because people come here and they go, I would love to see a kangaroo. And I'm like, fantastic. You either need to head way out of the city. And even then, I've seen more dead kangaroo. I don't think I've seen live kangaroo just out in the wild, all that, like twice in

my life. No way, really. What do you mean? Where do you see kangaroos? Not that far from where I grew up in Eltham. Maybe go a bit full of Warren that way. There's heaps of them. Yeah, and it was never out that way. Oh, right. Yeah. My friend Jason would have them on his property. He's out sort of like a bit further than that. But yeah. Or go to Melbourne Zoo. One time actually in Eltham, which is I lived in the real suburbia part of it. These are guys like in a, in a youth like look like a real, a proper youth that's come from the countryside. I pull up and I'm walking her from school. The guy goes, excuse me, mate, you sent a kangaroo around here?

And I was like, am I in a sketch? Yeah, you're like, what is happening? No. And then they drove away and lo and behold a kangaroo just started bouncing down the road. And I'm like, is this their pet? What's happened? Do you know what? And I've just said, you never see kangaroos.

I was walking along Dites Falls, which is in Abbotsford. Oh, yeah, very close to the city. Very close to the city, very inner suburb. And on the other side of the river was a kangaroo. like seven o'clock in the morning, just bounding along. Huh. Just went and I was like, what? I didn't even have time to get my phone out to like take a video.

Because it was so absurd. I was just like, am I having a hallucination? Sorry, which way to the Abbotsford convent? Yeah, I was like, you are lost. Mate, what are you doing? You're an inner city room. So yeah, those are my... So my point is, can I see a moose?

I'd love to. If people, honestly, if you have suggestions of things that we should see, do eat pies. Putteen. Putteen. I love that, Putin pie. That's got to exist. That has to exist. In the United States,

there was often a bit of a struggle to find a non-sweet pie, but I wonder if Canada, with a bit more of the British influence. I don't know. We'll have any of that. We'll see.

So that would be cool. Let me know if you've got any hot tips on pies. Hot or cold. Cold pie? I'll take a cold pie. Okay. Sweet pie. If that's all they got.

But yeah, that's pretty much, we thought we just do a little bit of a little bit of a bonus episode. just to make sure that people know that the Canadian tour is happening. And I'll say, again, that the Patreon pre-sales on now. But if you want to wait until next week, tickets go on sale for everyone. And this will be via our website, do go on pod.com. On Tuesday, March 31st, 1pm Vancouver time, that's PDT. 2pm, Calgary, MDT.

And 4 p.m. for Toronto and Montreal, EDT. Cannot wait. I've had to do a lot of times. I can imagine. Like Vancouver, for example, when I've had to, like, call a couple of venues, then 19 hours behind. There's only a very short amount of our day where it's your day. Yeah, it's absurd. I just wanted to, I want to just think about how many time zones we have.

So like, W.A., South Australia, Northern Territory, and then Eastern, but also daylight savings time. So we only have five at most. because if Dalit savings are happening, then we lose Queensland and New South Wales at Victoria are the same. Yes. So we have five. Looking up, it says three main standard time zones.

The fuck do you mean by that? But up to nine in total including external territories and dependencies because there's a few, you know, like Norfolk Island. Oh, sure. Three main ones. This was not worth me interrupting for... No, but honestly, like it's...

I think it's a bit confusing because What's main? At different times of year. A northern territory. Oh, Northern Territory in South Australia are the same. Yeah, but there is time when... So it's sort of east, middle and west. Yeah, but then I'm showing just the map here

where there is a time when W.A. is one time. You're right. Northern Territory is another. South Australia is another. Right. Queensland's another. And Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania are another. So they're five. So that's what I said.

And I'm absolutely saying you're correct. Yes! So I got lacrosse and I got time zones right. I am on top of the world. So at the end of the country. So at the end of the country. quiz, Jess is on two out of two. Questions that she gave herself.

That's really good. A quiz where you quiz yourself is a really good idea. And then you still get stuff wrong. Damn it. What's my favourite colour? Blue. No, green. Oh, damn. But yes, Canada, we cannot wait to see you.

US citizens as well. Obviously, no pressure. Of course not. If you can make it, we would be, you are so welcome, we'd be delighted to see you. And to anybody who can't, we're so sorry that we just aren't able to make it to you just yet. But, you know, hopefully in the future. That's right. Hopefully, like a successful Canadian tour looks good on paper and then we can do the US tour as well. Who knows. Never say never, but it is just unfortunately really difficult.

This is our best shot at getting to North America. And we're very excited. We would have gone to Canada anyway. Absolutely. Now we're doing a few more cities and can't wait to get over that. Matt said to me earlier, late last year, before we even locked anything in saying, if there's any country I could go into the world right now, I think it would be Canada. That's like he wanted to go on a holiday so bad. So he is so excited.

Unfortunately, he's a bit sick in bed today. But he would be here telling you how... Sick with excitement. That's right. I think it's killed him since we've announced him. How effing excited he is. Yes, absolutely. So we can't wait to see you.

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