Guys: With Bryan Quinby - Guys: Episode 150 - Canada Guys with John Cullen

Episode Date: December 16, 2025

We have been doing a lot of CanCon behind the paywall so I thought it would be fun to do it on the free feed. We had our friend John Cullen from Blocked Party ,my cohost on The PODKast and author of the book Curling Rocks on the show to talk about all things Canada. It was a real Gong Show. We talked CFL, BNL, and A&W. There is more Chris at https://www.patreon.com/notevenashow And for more Guys content, streams and SHOCKTOBER: a deep dive into shock jocks you can click patreon.com/guyspodcast, Join us on the Sunday Night Stream every Sunday night at 8:00 EST at twitch.tv/notevenashowand I am on https://bsky.app/profile/murderxbryan.bsky.social  Guys is on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/guys.pod Guys has a Post Office Box now! PO Box 10769 Columbus Ohio 43201

Welcome to Guys, a podcast about guys. What's going to say, hey, welcome to Bud's, a podcast about Buds. Because that's what I think is all Canadians, just say, hey, bud. Actually, it's because I hang out with Chris. How come he didn't say it, though? I don't know. Because you did end up saying it. I did.

So you could have just done that. I didn't want to confuse people. Some guy turns on and he's like, I'm trying to listen to the guy's podcast. This is called Buds? What's that, bud? But I only say that as a Canadian. I don't know if Bud is such a super. Canadian thing, but Chris says it a lot. So I am not sure. It's tough to say. A lot of the things I

say are some of them are Vancouver things as well, right? There's obviously regional things like John Colin. That's our guest today. Hey, John. How's it going? Hello. Hey, guys. Thanks for having me back. No problem, man. No problem. And see, John's like, he's from Ontario. He's spent time on the West Coast. He lived here a long time, but he's from Ontario as well. So he's almost got, like, he talks different than I do and has some different sayings than I do as well. Honestly, Chris, I'm going to tell you something. And John said this to me in kind of confidence the other day. But he said, Chris is the least Canadian guy in the world.

John, you said I'm, did you say that? I didn't say the least Canadian guy in the world. There's no way that I said. What I said was, I don't take offense to it just to be clear. I don't, I don't identify as a super Canadian guy. No, exactly. I was saying more like I think, and you would, I think you would agree with this too. You've toured all over for stand up.

I think when when Americans or other people think of the stereotypical Canadian, there aren't many of those in Vancouver or even the surrounding area. No, it's true. What you think of as like a stereotypical hoser Canadian is like either a small town prairies person or a small town Ontario person. Yeah, or even an East Coast if you want to like, yeah, like a really far East Coast. I talk about that all the time, like a lot of the sort of the accents and stuff that you're thinking about. They don't exist. people in Vancouver do have a Canadian tinge to the way they talk. People can hear it.

Like I say, sorry, obviously. Yes. You know, like out and about. Oh, yeah, and things like that. But I talk a lot like a person who lives in Seattle as well. Yeah. Well, yeah, you're pretty close. So I have a lot of stuff here.

We're just going to, it's a laid back Canada guys episode. It's CanCon. They told us that CRTC told me that if I don't do any Canadian content, Chris isn't allowed to be on the show anymore. Well, now that you guys have done this. episode are you going to try to get some grants we no we're trying to get some gourds actually that's uh that's actually what they call them up in Canada no I I we've been doing more can con God though John on like we have this this guy he smokes weed and oh nice okay Brian Brian did introduce me to this guy on POTCACs okay so he's how Canadian he looks he's one of

our favorite Canadian guys and he sort of brought out the can con like we really get into the Canadian stuff when he because he's he's so super Canadian that it brings it out in me. Hockey jersey. Chris, like what would you say is your most like cancon thing that you sort of identify with? I mean, I guess, uh, like my, I probably, I love, I've got a lot of tooks at home. Yeah, fair.

I got a lot of toks. I've, I've, I honestly, this is, this is no lie. And you guys know them as beanies in America, but I call them toboggins in Columbus. Oh, really? Yep. You call the hats toboggins? Because toboggins for us is something that you, uh, sled. We don't sled here.

Okay, fair. So you don't even need it. We do sled here, but we sled in tubes. Hmm. And honestly, there's only like three hills in Ohio. And I feel like that was like someone in Ohio made a mistake. They, they were thinking of toque. And they said toboggan.

And then, and then they just went with it. And now it just kind of stuck. I've told you guys that like I live in a kind of Canadian district of downtown because they put the blue jackets there. And then they put a Boston's pizza for some reason. Boston pizza. No other Boston pizza in Ohio. But I think in America actually, Chris, it is called Boston's. I think Brian is actually right.

Oh, really? Oh, it's very Ohio. In Canada, it's called Boston pizza. One of our, John, did you know, this is, I love talking Canada stuff. Did you ever, did you go to Boston BP, we call it? Well, so Chris, this is, I'm about to blow your mind with this extremely Canadian story, but the, so one year, my curling team was sponsored by Boston Pizza. Oh, nice. Because I, the reason we got that connection is because I coached the CFO of Boston Pizza's son in hockey.

Oh. So then I made a connection with him and he was like, hey, if you ever need help with your curling, team like let me know. So I took a sponsorship meeting with him the next season and they gave us 10 grand in sponsorship, which for curling is quite a lot. And but it was 8,000 cash, 2,000 Boston pizza gift cards. And they gave the $2,000 to us in $50 increments. So I had like rubber like thick rubber band stacks of $50 Boston pizza gift cards. and my curling team basically ate every meal at Boston Pizza for a season. And if you don't know Boston Pizza, it is some of the worst food you can get.

And we used to go there all the time because they would have really cheap drink specials for Canucks Games. And we would go watch Canucks games on the big TV. And they had all these appetizers. That's their whole, they all these different. No pizza is not their thing. I think it's pizza here too. I think people go there for pizza. But they do have pizza, but it's not their thing.

It's like a restaurant. You know what I'm saying? Like their pizza is not. nobody gets their pizza really. And they have all these appetizers that you get. But those are also kind of bad, but they're like, you can actually eat them or whatever. And I spent a lot of time at B&B. Boston pizza for Americans, it's like, it's like what if TGI Fridays cost a lot of money?

Yeah. Because like Boston pizza's not even cheap either. I did read that. It's bad and not cheap. I did read a review and I don't have the review. I'm sorry, everybody. I didn't think it was that great. But there was a little line in it.

it was like, you know, this place is no, this place is no Boston pizza, like, as in like good. Oh. Like they were saying Boston pizza is good and good for the money or whatever or no. That might have been a joke. I don't know that anyone in Canada has ever said that for real. I'll say this too, though, in my neighborhood. Also on the arena, there's a Timmy's. There's Timmy's.

Mm-hmm. Tim Hortons on the, and like, so it's weird. And I think there were some other sort of Canadian businesses there, You think maybe a Canadian guy kind of like a Canadian businessman might have like, you know, bought up some land or something and he had he had a bunch of leases in that area? What are you trying to say here? I honestly think that our proximity to Canada has led a lot of, and we've talked about my dad a million times, but it's led a lot of guys in Ohio to identify as. Canadian in a way. They would never say I'm a Canadian person, but everything, all of their stuff is Canadian.

They still talk like us or whatever, but like they, they, you know, I like ketchup chips. I like, you know what I mean? They just, my dad bragged so much, dude. When I was growing up, my dad would constantly brag that he spells gray, G-R-E-Y instead of G-R-A-Y. Who would he brag about that? Me. my family all the time it's like a conversation i had a million times how would the conversation go well i'd be like i'd say something i don't know like it would be a spelling thing and he was like

well in america they spell gray wrong because i just so we'd have a chance to say it you know yeah yeah no i know he i just feel like he must have been really kind of jackknifing it into things because it's like how often does the spelling of gray come up I watched Gray's Anatomy the other night. And how do they spell that? Yeah, Grazenatomy. I was kind of confused by it, though, honestly. Even though they do spell it G-R-E-Y.

Oh, they do. They do. They do it. Because it's a character's last name, though. It's not the color. Okay. And they wanted to fight. He wanted to fight about it.

You know what I mean? Like, that was his thing. He was like, oh, because I've told you guys this before. He said, I moved to America. First of all, he was born here. So I don't know why he thinks. like, but he lived in Canada until he was nine. He said, I moved here when I was nine and I was three grades ahead of everybody in school, like intelligence wise. So he brags about that and then

we'd get into the spelling stuff. And then, you know, always got to talk about, you know, whatever the food, a maple syrup. Motherfucker, you couldn't have pancakes without him bringing up the Canadian maple syrup. And it's like, and then he brought it home. He went got it one time. We had it. And I was like, this shit sucks. Well, that's, well, that's, well, that's ridiculous. That's probably because you had some bad shit or because they had to get shipped over there. You know, I mean, some nice maple, some nice fresh maple syrup on your, on your flapjacks. I mean, when you grow up with the bad stuff, though, you know what I mean? Like, when you're used to the wrong thing. Yeah. Sure. Then you like the wrong thing more. I totally understand.

It's just like, you can get the same quality of maple syrup in Vermont. Like, it's not, exclusive to Canada. Quebec and Vermont share kind of the same, the same deal as far as maple syrup goes. So that is, that's very funny. The first thing I did is go to Quora and see, I just type Canadian.

And to see what the first question. This is the first question. It's a modern question. It's from recently, I promise. This is from November 13th. How can Canadians and Europeans boycott the U.S.? if almost all the fast food chains are

American. What do they do? Do they stop eating? We have them in Canada. Oh, interesting. Oh, you mean like, how do we boycott like everything? No, they say we have all the fast food. How do you, how do you stop eating up there? Yeah, well, I've been, yeah, I mean, people have been fasting because yeah, I mean, I don't know what the alternative would be. It's like, obviously, at breakfast, I have my five guys breakfast. Lunch, I've got a subway sandwich to keep it healthy. and for dinner I'm going to Burger King or McDonald's obviously for a King's meal. You can't have A&W. No, A&W is the best.

A&W is Canadian as well. You're not to have it though. No, but we can. It's Canadian. And the American one is not, it's not affiliated with it. So that's one of the ones that we can have. And then so that's what I would say to that person if I was actually having the

argument is we could just eat A&W, which is actually the only fast food that I really get if I do get fast food. Yeah, well, a guy answers from Australia for some reason. I don't know why he would. Like, he's one of those guys that's just like, I just answer questions. Yeah, yeah.

He goes, well, let's see. I live in Australia. I don't visit fast food restaurants very often at all. But I know that Australian McDonald's uses only Australian angus beef in their burgers. And Australian grown pickles and tomatoes and lettuce. And Australian wheat and their buns. So he's saying everything's Australia.

Wait, they grow pickles in Australia. That's an interesting way to say pickles. I agree with you, John. That's kind of crazy. We're going to have a pickle problem on. on a white spot review. The workers are paid in Australian.

So he's saying everything's Australian. And in the end, a guy replies and goes, the same goes in Canada. McDonald's advertises 100% Canadian beef. And A&W in Canada is completely separate Canadian company, for example. So you guys do have fast food up there. I didn't know. I thought you guys didn't even have fast food up there yet.

Yeah, they have, yeah, we got it all. You've been here and you've eaten it. I've never had it. I've actually had, oh, I love some. saying this. It makes me the happiest person in the world. I've had A&W twice and I hated it both times. Yeah, whatever. It doesn't make you, that doesn't make you like better. It was unfair. It doesn't make you better or anything like that. Like it's, it's an established fact that A&W, Canadian A&W is good fast food. That's like, that's well known. So for you to just be like, oh, I actually

hated it. It's like, okay. Well, I had bad experiences both times. And I'm kind of like, and then I started reading, I started reading reviews. And there were all these. And there were all these. guys that were like yeah they had the same bad experience i did what was the bad experience well first time i ordered on uber eats and that's not fair because oh come on yeah give me a fucking break man honestly fast food uber eats is like i remember i i did that one time i had a and w and ordered it for a delivery never again in my entire life because it is just so horrible you have to eat it right away yeah i can't eat it right away though you know what i mean the other time i got it and i ate it like when I got, I sat down at a mall and I must have just got a bad burger or something like that

because I went to some mall they had an A&W. I got it and I was like, yeah, I mean again, you went to a mall and W. A and W. Like what, Brian, I'm, I'm like extremely upset about the way you ate when you're in Vancouver. I'm not going to lie. I loved eating it. I thought the Vancouver food was one of the best pizzas I've ever had in my life in Vancouver. But the The first time I went, not the second time. But what you did? What about the white spot? What was your white spot situation?

Well, you guys are mad at me because I don't want any sauce on my burger. Thank you. Come on. It's good. The burger was fine. It's not bad. Well, yes, it is. A dry, plain ass fucking white spot burger is bad.

The whole thing is the sauce. I get dry plain burgers everywhere. I don't get burgers with sauce. I ate sauce. Yeah. So that's what that's what upset me with it. We went all the way. went we came downtown to meet him and his wife to go for a great white spot dinner with our families

and this guy where there's no sauce and you should have seen the server was kind of like looked at all of us almost like yeah are you got are we sure like is he do you guys want to step in here do you want to say something like and we're like honestly Chris if you got up and left the table that would have been well within your rights I honestly thought about my wife and child were there embarrassed you guys are embarrassed of me I was a course I was a course I I mean, that is fucking embarrassing. You go into the home of AAA sauce and you're like, excuse me, actually, I don't want that.

I don't want any of the best saw, the best burger sauce that's ever been made. I don't give, I don't eat special sauce. No, anywhere. I understand that, but it's like,

what they would say to you is like, then don't come. Don't come in here. Go somewhere else, please. Well, I went to ask a Canadian and they said, those who hate the tragically hip or rush,

why? This guy goes, their fans can be in. sufferable. Both bands have some great tracks. I met Getty Lee at a Bjork concert. Oh, here we go. Yep. I was a wasted. Canada knows everyone, which I assume is going to be a common theme of this episode. John, you will not believe how many people when they talk about famous Canadians are like, I live down the street from this guy. You know, like all like so many of these guys are going to say, oh, it's this guy. He goes, I was a wasted idiot and he was completely gentleman. that's how it's spelled. I'm sorry. I felt bad the next day. Sorry, Getty. I lived on the same street as Gord Downey in Toronto. Oh, of course. Mm-hmm. You what, Gordney Boulevard? Yeah, we all, we all lived on

one time or another on Gord Downey Boulevard with Gord. Yeah. It's a single part. That's a Canadian joke. Young Street is the longest singular street in North America. So yeah. Oh, yeah. So that's, yeah, we both lived on Young Street. Well, it's like, that could literally be two hours apart from each other. John, I really want to apologize to you because I was like saying another stupid thing. I kind of stepped on your Canadian joke. And but that's like, I never want to step on a Canadian joke. Like whatever. Step on American joke, whatever, but stepping out a Canadian joke that is like straight up for Canadians because Americans, well, honestly, it's kind of just for Toronto people. I don't really mind. I've seen Young Street. But you know what, Chris?

Sorry. Sorry that you did that to me. You know my favorite street is? No problem, John. I appreciate it, but. My favorite Canadian street is Homer Street. Do it's in. It's in Vancouver. He was, he came to do the live show, John, and I mentioned it on the live show. He, every single time, and he was like, we were downtown a lot. And every time we went to Homer Street, he was like, dope. It's a joke. I lived on the same, this is such a weird paragraph, guys. Get ready.

I lived on the same street as Gord Downey in Toronto. It's a single block street. Four men who lived on the south side of the street got brain tumors. I was the only one who survived. Gord was diagnosed after me. I had some survivors guilt. The tumors don't appear to be related. Just an awful coincidence.

So they shared a tumor with Gord Downey. So they were tumor, but yeah, that was a famous thing about him. He did die from a brain tumor. And he, so he's kind of saying that now if four people on the same side of his I agree. Got brain tumor. I would think that you would want to maybe look at the soil or something, but I guess maybe they did an investigation.

Well, this, yeah, this guy goes for me, the tragically hip are just so incredibly average musically. I think the main draw is Canadian on. Wait, is that the same guy who's like I was brain.

No, no. Next guy. Imagine being like, I was brain tumor buddies with Gord. But also, I didn't really. I didn't care for their music.

Yeah. I would like when he would, he'd be playing. I'd be like, oh yeah, no, I was listening your new. I was listening to your new album.

It was great. You know, I'd say that to him, but it was like, I was never really good to it. Because I have none of the nostalgia so find them really hard to like. I don't hate them.

I just don't understand the appeal. To me, they're boring. I assume this is also why they gain zero traction outside of Canada. I never even heard of them prior to moving here, and I'm a big music guy. No,

the reason they didn't want to gain traction outside of Canada. They had no interest in it. That's the reason why. Right. We would never believe that. That's not something we believe over here. They just loved Canada. They did play Woodstock 99.

They played Woodstock 99. I saw them at Woodstock 99. I was like in the audience at the time that they were playing. It was psycho because they were a bunch of guys waving Canadian flags, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they were getting booed and people were trying to grab it and throw it down. And then a tragically hip did some Canadian thing on stage. Maybe the Canadian national anthem, but Johnson told me.

The tragically hip did something Canadian on stage. Like what? Play one of their song. show their birth certificate. Yeah, I mean, just walk out there. I mean, I just remember the audience being mean, but I think that the reason was because of their placement on the concert. No, but they weren't, they definitely weren't famous in America.

That's like a sort of a known thing, right? But they were on before Kid Rock. Yeah, yeah, yeah. People wanted to see Bow to Bow to Bow, About a bag, to Bay. People were waiting for Kid Rock to walk out in a fur coat. and started saying ba'a with the bar. And then he's like bowed, 100th meridian.

What the hell are you talking about? I want to hear the hundredth bowed at a bow. I want to hear bow with the bar a hundred times. That's right. And not necessarily, he goes, I don't entirely disagree. I'm not a fan of either, really. But global music industry marketability is a whole other issue.

Every country will have things that are popular within it only and not necessarily outside. with the hip, I don't think it's Canadian nostalgia per se, but the Canadian in general, and obvious doesn't sell well to those outside of Canada are newcomers here. So this guy goes, I don't think you're wrong.

I wouldn't expect a newcomer to understand the importance of Tom Thompson in the group of seven. You guys? The group of seven? Tom Thompson and the group of seven. I mean, that's, I don't. The group of seven is a group of artists. From where?

Like painters. I don't know any. Are you kidding me? I don't know anything about paint. Do you know about the events in Salt St. Marie that are talking about a born and water? Salt, St. Marie.

I'm so glad I can get back on the side of making fun of someone for not knowing something. Salt. Salt. Salte Marie. It's Sue St. Marie. Holy fuck. Salt Ste Marie.

No, Sue St. St. St. Marie. That's how it's spelled. Yeah, but it's Sue St. Yeah, Sue St. Saint Marie.

Saint Marie. St.M. St.m. S.T. is short for, it's like S.T. is short for St.S.T.E. is also short for St. St. St. Marie. It's a female saint. Sue St. Marie. Yeah. This guy goes, I don't hate Rush, but you'll never see. Ryan, just completely glossing over the fact that he's called Salt St. Marie. Well, St. was, I know it meant saint. But then you didn't. The hip is extremely overrated, and Gord's voice makes me cringe. Sorry, Gord. I love what you and the band have done for the country. Don't get me wrong, but I can't stomach their music. And this guy goes, I once left a pool party early because of the 100% tragically hit playlist being played. Oh, wow. This guy's not Canadian at all. Yeah, I mean, I mean, I guess like tragically hip maybe isn't the best pool party music. I will say that. It's not like necessarily, I don't know. It depends on what kind of pool party it is, I guess. To me, it seems like maybe for an older pool party. And the song, too.

Like, I feel like Bob Cajun you could get away with playing at a pool party. Yeah, I feel like, you're probably not playing New Orleans as sinking. Yeah, yeah. Or poets or something like that. There's, there's, I just don't think that if it's all tragically hip, I don't know that they have enough sort of.

No, that's true for sure. Yeah, to like keep a pool party going. So I can almost kind of understand that, even as a fan of a tragically hip that I kind of say, Hey, man, you know what? Yeah. I'm just kind of feeling a little somber now and I'm going to head on hold. But, but.

Here's a question on Ask a Canadian. Do people actually put ketchup on everything? It's a sketch of one guy here. Confused why one of the stereotypes about us and Canadian as a whole are from ketchup. Is this something Eastern Canadian? Maybe just from ketchup chips? Is it like a confusion from ketchup chips? Well, I'm about to read a very.

Because I think Americans, I would think of Americans way more like that. What about this? On everything. They put ketchup on steak. Yeah. I used to do that, but I don't do that anymore. Oh, and that's not shocking at all. That's not shocking.

Based on your other food takes so far this episode. I grew up eating ham sandwiches with ketchup. That's a little ketchup on the ham. Now I don't eat ham at all. I hate ham. That's so disgusting to me. A ham sandwich with ketchup on it is like, that sounds so disgusting. And you know what?

Honestly, I'm sort of figuring out why you don't like sauce. I feel like we're starting to draw connections here. I ate only the most dog. dirt fake maple syrup from the store I put ketchup on my ham sandwiches yeah man I'm a ketchup guy why you don't like sauce I love the taste of ketchup uh this guy goes

I just think it's ketchup that you would love triple O's sauce you fucking moron it doesn't taste like ketchup and you know it it's got mayonnaise he hates mayo he hates mayo it's mayonnaise he hates mayo John that's the mayonnaise if it was like a barbecue sauce situation I would like it I would have hate barbecue

sauce on a burger I hate it's the best it's an Alberta thing now that I live here everywhere you go. If they have a special sauce, it's barbecue. It's not like, oh, I'm going to Alberta. Oh, but you would like it here, Brian. This would be much more similar to what you're used to. That's, but halfway through the episode, let's take a break. John and you and I can just talk a little about what's going on sports wise in Canada. Oh, we're going to talk a little bit about what's going sports wise in Canada. Okay. This guy goes, I just think the ketchup chips and catch up on KD throw people. Oh, yeah. Okay. That's the, that's, those are the two things I think. And that is I put, I put, I do

put ketchup on KD. I don't eat KD, but when I did, when I was younger, I would put ketchup on KD. I did not like that. I was never a ketchup on KD person, but my mom was growing up. I had to look up KD because I didn't know what it was. It's Kraft dinner. We call it Maca Cheese.

Yeah, it's Mac and Cheez. I mean, it is that too. Yeah. Oh, Charlie Yellen. This guy goes, wait, other countries don't do ketchup on KD? And this this guy's really weird. These Australians love Canada. They pop in and every conversation. I'm in Australia right now and any kind of mac and cheese isn't super popular,

much less KD. Like you can buy mac and cheese, but you won't see whole shelves dedicated to it the way you do in Canada. Yeah, it's pretty popular, I guess, but I don't know. I think it's, that popularity is waning a little bit. I don't really think it's as popular anymore. This weird guy goes, I've never seen a shelf dedicated to mac and cheese in Canada. That's the same amount of space as everything else. Yeah, no, I agree. I've never seen a whole shelf dedicated to it. There's like a couple different kinds now maybe, but it's not like, I again, that would be a thing that I would associate with America having a bunch of different kinds of something. You have a Nick, I know, that's the best thing about this country. It's the only good thing

about America is we have a bunch of different kinds of everything. And clearly, I just mean, when I say that, I mean food. Yeah. And like candies mostly are chips. Yeah. Candies and pops. What's the deal with this Australian guy? Like, you're on Ask a Canadian. And then this Australian, Australian guy goes, yeah, it's different in Australia. But they don't love. Okay, we didn't ask. They love Canada, though. You know, Australians, obviously. Oh, for sure. It's like they do. They're always coming here. And coming to, famously, we have a place called Whistler around Vancouver, which is like a ski hill.

Whistler. Whistler, which is a famous ski hill. It was like, you know, they use it in the Olympics and stuff. And it's famous for having just so many Australians. Obviously, it's common well. So it's very easy to, uh, to like, immigrate or like travel. between the two countries. So I think that's a big reason. But yeah, they seem to really love skiing and snowboarding, snowboarding, I should say.

And yeah, there's just like it. So they kind of make their way to Vancouver too. So there's actually quite a few Australians around in this area as well. Here's a guy I think as being very disrespectful. He goes, KD is gross. It's something in the Trump powder. Oh, it's orange. Oh, Jesus.

Holy shit, dude. Now, do we think this guy liked KD until, he associated it with the color of Trump's skin. And then he was like, I got to get a stuff. Or he's just a hater of KD. and he's just like, holy shit,

I got a new insane angle to go at them. He does, though. I've never heard that is a very specific orange thing. I've never heard. I know. I don't ever heard that. And it is orange. Yeah.

The powder is orange. It's not like a yellowish. Like it is a, it is a bright orange. Yeah. I've never, I've never seen. I'm going to start saying it.

I'm going to be like, Trump looks like KD. And if you will be like, what are you talking about, Katie Lang? No, no, our famous craft dinner powder president. Yeah,

the craft dinner powder president. It would be funny if that started to become a thing up in Canada. Like, they're just like the sleigh is like, oh, he's like KD instead of a Cheeto. Like you guys don't say Cheetos. You say Katie.

This guy goes, I think ketchup on anything is gross. But I think mayo and jar mustard are gross too. I buy the KD sauce at Bulk Barn and put it on as much. as I want. So that guy actually... I just thought of something funny. The Hawkins' Cheesies and Chief. That's what we would say in Canada.

That's a good one. Yeah. First of all, bulk barn sounds like a good place. I didn't realize that at bulk barn you could buy craft dinner powder. That's crazy. I didn't know that you can get that at bulk barn. You can do that here. Yeah, but you got bulk barn, Brian?

You got bulk barn? No, no, no. But I used to hang out with this guy back in the day. Bulk Barn is fucking goaded. It's great, yeah. What's Bulk barn? Bunk barn is a fucking thing you're talking about. No, it's like everything's in bulk, right?

So it's like all, you know, you, no, no, no, but not in that way. It's like stuff you can lose stuff that you fill up and weigh. Oh, I think I know what you're talking. Like a bulk section at a supermarket, but it's like the whole store is just that. So you have, you'll have aisles of like spices and cooking stuff, which I guess is where the craft dinner powder would be. there, Brian. You'll be going to the candy. They have...

They actually divide it chocolate and candy. So you'll have an entire aisle that's bulk chocolate stuff, then probably two aisles of bulk candy. And then they'll have an aisle of like lentils, rice, beans, like whatever. Yeah, no, he's, Brian's stopped listening to what aisles there are after the two candy aisles. This guy goes, uh, PC white mac and cheese is the goat. A bit pricier, but I also enjoy Annie's white cheese and shells. You guys know PC?

I know people. It's just president's choice. That's president's choice. It's like a store brand kind of. That's a store brand one. It's a lawblas in-house brand. Yeah, it's a lawblas in-house brand. And then the other one is Annie's,

which you guys probably have as well. Yeah, and he's is American. Yeah. And he's as American. I went crazy on a lob-laws toilet in Toronto. Just fucking nuts. Respect, man. We hate lawblas.

We hate the, what's the name of the family? Galen Weston. The Weston family. Yeah, we hate to Weston. Here is a big news story that I found. The CFL, Canadian Football League, is doing some rule changes. Shout out to BC Lions. Shout out of the BC Lions came within, you know, one second, basically, of going to the Great Cup this year.

Well, they got some rule changes coming up. Yep. Yeah. People are very unhappy about this. Yeah, they should. Like as unhappy as you could ever be about anything. The gold posts are at the back of the end zones. now, which makes sense, perfect sense to me.

But sure, whatever. Get mad about that. I don't get it. 15 yard end zones and 100 yards fields. You don't get why people are mad about that. I'll tell you why people are mad about it. It's because it's like, we're trying to do it a little different in the CFL. And now they're just kind of like, well, no, we're just going to do it exactly the same as the NFL now, basically.

He says the modified rogue, which I think is something. Rogue, it's a rouge. It's spelled rogue. No, it's not. It's spelled Ruge. It's spelled R-O-U-G-E. Yeah, Rogue. No, Rogue is R-U-G-U-E.

R-O-G-E. That is the most G-U-E. Wrong play to spell. What, you just spelled rogue, the wrongest way I've ever heard anybody's broke. I just said the U by R-O-G-U-E. That's wrong. Oh, you're right. Well, hey, look.

Well, hey, look, you know. Of course we're right. Yeah. I had to Google it. You know what a Rouge is, man. We grew up speaking French. Ruge is like one of the first words you, Brian,

what do you think Ruge means in English? Like, what do you think is the direct translation of Ruge? I don't know, like fake field goal. No, no, no, no. Don't think about the rule. Think about just the word.

Brian, it's red. It's just red. It's just red. Because I was trying to think Moulon Rouge. Yeah, exactly. The red windmill, Moulon Rouge.

Oh, I thought I meant bar. When you're in Canada. Canada, you have to learn French in school. That's actual real thing. And so no matter where you are in Canada, so we learn French up until like grade 10. So we all know basic French. But then we also know what a rouge is because it's like a crazy rule in sports.

So if you grew up playing sports or interested in it, then you knew what that was as well. Whatever it is, it's they kick a ball and they get a point as far as I can tell. That's, yeah. One point. On a basic level, that's what it is. So these are the new rules, the ones that make more sense to me as a person because this guy goes,

we don't need to change the rules, at least not for the reasons given. The owners do have a real reason why. However, we should ask ourselves what it could be that they need to lie to us. Okay, that's, I see. So he's kind of saying that there's a reason that they're not telling us the real reason why they have to do it. Here's a theory. Well, I think everyone knows the reason. It's because they want the CFL to be like a farm league for the NFL.

Well, this guy says smaller field fits into more American. stadiums another attempt at U.S. expansion is the only credible explanation. Wrong. That would be funny though. American expansion? Yeah. But that happened already. But that happened.

Yeah, that happened already. Did you know that, Brian? No. The CFL took on American teams. That was a real thing that happened. And we killed them, right? No. Well, Baltimore one a couple times.

On American. I thought you were like they played the Brown. No, no, no. They started. They would get killed. They would get killed by, even by the Browns. Even by the Browns. But yeah, they, no, they had teams.

They had the famously the Baltimore CFLers because they had to change their name from the Baltimore Colts because it was the same name as Indianapolis Colts and they sued them. And then they had to change it to the Baltimore CFLers and they won the Great Cup as the Baltimore CFLers. But they had the Shreveport Pirates. There was a bunch of, it was. Las Vegas Posse. Yeah, I don't, I don't remember how long it lasted. Memphis Mad Dogs. Sacramento.

gold miners. But yeah, it didn't, it only lasted maybe six, maybe four years. Last, yeah, I think, I think three or four maybe. It gave us the moment of, uh, the, the best national anthem. Oh, yeah. In Las Vegas before a posse game, a guy by the name of Greg Bartholome, you absolutely tanked the Canadian national anthem. Oh, he go look that up. Yeah, go check that out. He didn't know the, he didn't know the melody of it at all. No. No, he, or the words. He was adding words. It's led to day. Halfway through, he turns it into Oh, Christmas tree. That's kind of what it sounds like to us over here.

But it doesn't sound like that at all, though. So I also went to pre-ply, which I don't know what this page is. I think it's a language thing. And they said, impress the locals with these popular Canadian sayings. So you got some Canadian, it's more vocabulary. I couldn't find a list of Canadian expressions anywhere. I looked all over the place. And it was all just like these were pop.

you guys want a two four that's 24 beers yeah hold on I'm gonna find a good one for oh oh how about jam buster you guys know what a jam buster is I don't no it's a big jam filled donut duh no one no no one says jam buster that's not no maybe that was a thing in like the 1960s yeah that might be like a one that was like an old one or so you guys know what a Caesar is yeah definitely

what it's like a tomato it's like a tomato it's like a drink it with clamato it's very similar to a bloody Mary but it has Clamato instead of tomato juice okay here's one here's one let me find a good one I'm sorry Depp

Depp Spell it DEP I don't know that no It's like a bodega It's what Go for it It's a convenient store Sarah ran to the debt to get some gayer

It's short for Deppner which is in Quebec that's what they call a bodega basically. I got you. Okay. No, yeah, that's a French one. That's Quebec. That's not Canada. Here's a good one. Uh, California. That's Halifax. Halifax. It's a lot like California there. Yeah. Also, we also famously have Colonna Fornia. Colonna for yeah. Which is a great rap song by Dalla D if you ever want to check out an extremely funny song and music video. Yeah, that's like, that's close to here that close to Vancouver. Colonna is. But yeah, that Halifax, John and I have both

been there because they do the Halifax Comedy Festival. there and it's really beautiful but it's not really in the same way as california it's not like california at all we did it the same year right yeah we don't think we did yeah we were i want to go there weren't you get me on there uh it's yeah i mean listen i want to go to hallifax is beautiful it is it is really nice halifax is really beautiful and nice yeah uh out for a rip yeah driving around just go out going out for a rip last night hey yeah or drink or is that drinking or driving. No, it's dry. Well, it could be drinking and driving, but it's cool. It's definitely driving and probably means like in theory, like driving either drunk or dangerously in a truck

in a small town or like snowmobiling or skiing or just like out doing, oh, taking the fucking skidoo out for a rip. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What about gong show? Do you guys say gong show is a big time. Yeah, like someone who's just like insane. Like this guy's wild. This guy's a gong show. That all staff meeting was a total gong show. I were like teenagers. Yeah, gong show is huge. Like you're saying it like, yeah, that was a gong show. But we would actually say it to attribute it to someone like that guy is a gong show as well.

Or an event was a gong show. Oh, I did a show last night. It was a fucking absolute gong show. It was an absolute gong show. I want to use that. I like that. When I was when I was younger, that was like really in the vernacular. Hugely in the vernacular.

I'm trying to think of what era. It could be like, it could be, yeah, like, oh my God. I went out with Chris last night. He had like 14 beers, absolute fucking gong show. He was a fucking gong show, dude. Like, honestly, I had to leave. I don't even want it. Yeah.

You know what Chris is like. He can handle 10 when he gets to 14. It's a gong show. It's a fucking gong show. Oh, thanks for reminding me. I like gong show, too. That was a fun one for sure. That's a good one.

This guy, uh, in regards to the CFL goes, make a video game. Like, let's have CFL. That'll solve everything. Well, he's got. He's, believe me, we're going to get way into this guys need to have a video game. I promise. He goes, let's have like a CFL blitz. Get it on game pass and on Steam and PS5.

The market's hungry for it. Get some good announcers that are funny for it. Call the game CFL Rouge. CFL rogue. We'll call it CFL rogue. And it's like, you know, it's like the CFL thing, but they're like on some mission. It's like actually a first person shooter, but at the backdrop is the CFL. man I I see if it does feel like this is something that could have been more likely now in the sense that like it's easier to I feel like a smaller company could make a gamer you know like put like he's saying just have get it up on steam or something and use like an engine that already exists and then just like sort of yeah like and there would be some people that would play it I just don't know how many I don't know how many of the CFL fans are gamers or

I don't know if you look over there. It's an older crowd, definitely. Well, you're going to be. And it's also like it feels like when they make like a rugby game or a cricket game, you know, or whatever, it's like they're not going to get the dedicated team that should be making it. You know, so it's always going to be like just a little bit janky. And you're not, they might not like, you have to like know the game really well. And you have to know how to make video games really well.

It just feels like, but this guy goes, the gaming market's hungry for a blitz game. There hasn't been a new one since 2012. There's currently nothing available to fill that hole except mutant football league. The NFL has made it clear they do not want the hard hitting style associated with them. So they'll never be another one. Eat their lunch. Think of the game as marketing it. So wait a second.

So what he's saying is like, so the NFL due to the obviously all the concussions stuff. and everybody shooting themselves in the chest and showing up at the hospital and things like that. They're like, we're not, we don't want to do a game, which I loved. Blitz was the best fucking game. I played hits. I played hits. It was called hits, I think. Or maybe that was the NHL. NHL was HTS.

The NHL was hits. NFL was always Blitz. Yeah, I played both of them with my friends. And it was really fun and really good like arcade style game. But yeah, you can understand from optic standpoint why the NFL would not want to have that. And so he's just basically saying like, well, hey, CFL. Why don't you step in and become the pro concussion league? Hey, that's a market.

There's a space in the market. Huge place in the market for somebody, a football league that's willing to come out and embrace concussion. Think of the game as marketing and advertising. That's why you put it on Game Pass. So lots of people can play it day one. Blitz is awesome. An update is a way overdue. Give away copies of games too.

Hell, if you really want to eat their lunch, include a three. M4 down version. And then invent a phrase. This guy loves eating their lunch. He loves the phrase eat their lunch.

He says it a lot. This guy's a real gong show. Yeah, this guy's a fucking gong show. Honestly. He does seem like a bit of a gong show. This guy seems like he's been fucking ripping around. This fucking guy's always talking about

eating my lunch. Like, fuck off, but that's my lunch, man. Get your own fucking lunch, buddy. It's like I got my fucking KD pre-catchuped. You know, my wife, my wife pre-catchups my KD for me in my lunchbox.

Other guy on the worksite's like, you fucking brought KD, that's the fucking, that's the Trump. That's the Trump macaroni and cheese, man. Can't believe you're eating that, man, fuck. Yeah, the fucking, I'm the liberal hoser, eh? Yeah, exactly. I'm the liberal guy on the work site. The liberal house. I stopped eating KD once I sort of realized the cheese powder kind of looks like the fucking

Hawkins Cheezys president down there. Oh, yeah, the Hawkins cheesy. Yeah, I'm the fucking liberal hoser, bud. Yeah, fucking Cheeto, the cheesy Hawkins and chief and fucking powdered KD president, eh? You guys ever heard of a champagne birthday? Guy on the website just being like, you guys seeing this new legislation?

Like they're trying to get fucking, trying to get trans fucking people out of playing sports, man. I don't have fucking agree with that. Just at the works. site. Yeah. But yeah, champagne birthday. How about that? You guys have grabbed. Oh, you don't know what champagne birthday is, Brian? Nobody knows that's not an American thing. It's not. Champaign birthday is when you turn the same age as the day of your birthday. Yep. So like if you're turning, if your birthdays, like I didn't get, I got my champagne birthday at the absolute latest you could have it because

my birthday is on the 31st. So I had to wait 31 years from my champagne. I was six. I was six when I had mine but i didn't know about it either i don't think that was like i mean i've heard of the term but it wasn't like a thing that ever came up in my life this next paragraph from this guy is so good hell if you really want to eat their lunch include a three and four down version and then invent a mythical four down league as well with teams and all the cool cities the NFL is snubbed you got the game so now now now honestly now it's like you might be eating their dinner at this point holy fuck save a little bit of something for those sustenance for them. Good Lord. He's saying like, oh, because now you're going to get the markets for all the,

those like cities where it's just like, fuck, man, they might not have a, you know, I might not have a team in my city now, but I can play this fucking game and stick it to the NFL. I don't have a team in Austin, Texas. The Austin motherships aren't, uh, there. Oh, man. You want to eat the NFL's lunch? Put a team in Austin that doesn't give a fuck.

Oh, buddy. We don't answer to the rules. We take fines. Our players get suspended, man. We don't give a shit. Honestly, they could fill a goddamn stadium. We just go get a couple of buses. Get over outside of the old Kill Tony show.

Grab some of those fucking open micers, you know? I mean, there is literally, last I saw you go, have you seen it? It's like, it looks like, it looks like a footage of some sort of parade or something. I mean, there's literally millions of open mic comedians swarming the comedy mothership. Like you get overhead shots of it. It's fucking intense, man. That is scary to think of while he goes. And I love the idea of like, let's make up and let's also do an NFL version of this game that we're doing a CFL game of to battle the NFL games.

But also let's pick some cities that are cool that they don't even have a team. And those teams will just be like, yeah, this is fucking great. I can now be on an NFL team and maybe even you could have your fake NFL team go against the Argonauts or whatever. It'll be great. He goes, there's already a functional engine, really. We're just talking about the re-skin and mutant football league. It's built on the Unity engine. I'd probably make CFL the base game and then add a DLC for four down football and make it all the way to like all the way, all two way, like leatherheads.

But I can imagine a four-player arcade version of CFL Blitz being very popular. in a bunch of different bars and locations. And of course, at every game day, imagine pop two of them in a trailer that's got a bar and a big screen show in the CFL. I think it's parking in the locations and let people try it out. This guy has got some insane ideas.

He's talking about a traveling bar now that shows up on game days. With a video game. With these video games for people to play for free, like at tailgates, I guess, is what he's thinking. I'm, yeah, it seems like, listen, man, it seems like this guy's got a lot of ideas that he will not do anything to bring to fruition at all. Because this idea is worth way more than the typical marketing, the CFL does it.

And it'll reach non-traditional fans. And there's so many tweaks you could do. Like, for example, each game could also work as a player that shows the Eastern and Western Final plus the Grey Cup. But that's stretch goals. I agree that if you are asking for a CFL game. per se but they're definitely one a new blitz game and it ain't coming unless the cfl makes it why is that why why why does the cfle have to make it what about like it's on the cfl's shoulders here is vince mcman still alive brian question that question for you is vince mcgman still alive yeah

so we ask vince mcman to do it you know what i'm saying like he's the kind of guy who would do some shit like that like an xfl version of it or whatever like i or just why do they have to be real players. Well, you guys connect with that developer, ride that wave. Make a CFL variant with them, release roster updates for free, not a new game. Do seasons like Fortnite. It doesn't have to make money. No, no, no, it does. I think for the investors and the people, the company, it does. I don't know. That's usually how it goes anyway. I mean, I'm not. I love this guy who's just like, listen, man, you can take a bit of a hit on this one. It is. There's more important. things at play here.

It's worth it for the exposure for the CFL. They don't have to make money. You've got to be thinking long term on this type of thing. And they are. They have stretch goals. Yeah, they do. They have a few stretch goals.

It doesn't have to make money, but it could be a sleeper hit. Get the right Canadian talent as announcers and it could be legendary. There's tons of cameo potential and it would be a wonderful time capsule. They could like get Ryan Reynolds to pop in. They could get Reynolds to do it. Who else would be a great commentator, a Canadian,

a classic Canadian, commentator. Ben Marrooney. Ben Marrini's become Concherry. Yeah, he's turning into a campus conservative even though he's 50. Yeah, Ben Marrooney is a 50-year-old campus conservative. His dad was a prime minister.

Don Cherry, now he's a young buck that I might. Don Jerry would be the guy. Don Jerry would have to get for CFL Blitz. You'd have to get CFL Blitz. Honestly, Don Jerry would honestly be the guy. He would be the guy. He would be the guy for. the fucking game, the concussion game, no doubt about it. No problem. Yeah, you could get like,

you could probably get like Rod Black to do the play by play and then Don Cherry just shows up with like Don Jerry. He does his big lines like, give it to the little sucker there, you know, like. Well, I got a guy. I got a guy. Ed the sock. Oh, no, he's the, he's the interviewer. He's the sideline. He's the sideline reporter. I had a couple unfortunate interactions with Ed the sock that I do not want to talk about. He's really, he's, uh, he's becoming

he became kind of a strange guy. I don't know how I ended up arguing with the song, but I was, he was in my DM sending me all these crazy DMs, you know, one time and I kept saying to him like, man, you're a sock dude, you know? Like that was, I kept sort of trying to explain to him like,

I can't be doing this. You're a friggin' sock man i'm a grown ass man you know and he's like um i'm steve actually yeah he was trying to say all that stuff and i was like buddy nice try i've seen you on tv sock you know i'm not gonna argue with a sock i'm coming off like a real gong show here arguing with a sock

honestly can i be honest with you the conversation i had with ed the sock was a fucking gong show i don't remember the context of it either but i just remember him like sending me really unhinged, long, unhinged messages on Twitter. Well, finally, this guy goes, imagine you launch the game on Canada Day for $18.67, both Canadian and USDA.

Oh, because that's the year of Canadian Confederation. Holy shit, man, that would excite my fucking great aunt. She's the biggest gamer I know. Yeah, we should release a game about the Vietnam War and charge 1776 for it. Yeah, I mean, it's just, so like that type of thing doesn't people don't feel that way there isn't even really that many people who are like 18 you know my my i'm gonna use the phone number 1876 because that's you know

there's not that doesn't really exist well i like also that he said it needs to be Canadian and USD the price is the same in the United States too yeah I mean they would it gets Canadians would appreciate that yeah he goes uh plus game pass and then just let the 67 memes do their works. I'm not sure what the 67 memes are. The 6-7 means. Ah, okay. So he's saying that 18, oh my God, this guy is tapped the fuck

in. This guy is saying like, buddy, just lay it down 1867 and then I don't know if you've seen the stuff 6-7 on the internet, but just let it do its work. This guy's a marketing. Well, a guy replies and goes, cool, where's the money coming for from

for development? That's the CFL. Good answer here. Well, CFL marketing, the government. Government. Maybe. The government of Canada. That's why we're charging 1867.

It's part of a, it's a partnership with the Canadian government. Why is the government, the government's not associated with the CFL. No. I think that might be, that's maybe a, you know, a common misconception, but from Americans. Well, they have the health care. So they could also make a CFL video game. That is actually why you could make CFL. Blitz because when the players get concussed, you know at least they're going to see a doctor.

Oh, that's true. Yes. That's the difference between us is we're just like, you know, go do whatever you're going to fucking do with the rest of your life. But in all seriousness, it's a, you know, it's a pretty wild sport that we still got going on. You're CFL marketing, the government, maybe a Kickstarter. This would be a tiny fraction of operating expenses.

Oh, I could see this on. I could see this on my friends Jesse and Mike fucking giving this the business. CFL Blitz. Oh, yeah, I could see this finance way into a six-pack, maybe. Oh, definitely. I just imagining the CFL Blitz page on Kickstarter where the guy's also talking about his traveling bar idea. Oh, and I mentioned Jesse, Jesse's doing a fucking very, very disrespectful Canadian accent. He's saying warm.

He keeps saying warm. Yeah, he's being really disrespectful in this episode I'm imagining. Well, that's the, I'm the guy who says warm. I know you say warm, but I would never make funny. for Sam Warren. Well, that's fine. Jesse and Cady a lot. Why. And finally, here's the guys that's blaming woke for this.

He goes, there's nothing wrong with the game. The problem is a lack of Canadian support. Of course, National Pride didn't used to be colonialist or racist or whatever. So, actually CFO isn't that popular because of woke has decided.

Wait, can you read that? Read that again. There's nothing wrong with the game. The problem is a lack of Canadian support. Of course, National Pride didn't used to be colonialist or racist or whatever. So he's saying You're just talking about how, because there's like Indigenous People's Day. But he's saying

Yeah. That people can't be proud of their teams because being proud of things is colonialist. He wouldn't get support from Canadians because we're not proud to be Canadian anymore. That's fair. Okay. Hey, I thought he was blaming woke. That's good. No, he is, I think. He's definitely

blaming woke. But yeah, I think that he's because I don't know but I think Canadians are getting more Brian noticed this that Canadians are getting are. It's too much up there. He noticed it. Oh yeah for sure. Yeah. Canadians are and I I don't necessarily share in it but I notice it too. I do not. I love it. Let's read some ticket master reviews of Canada. Bare naked ladies. I got a ticket to Canada. Bear naked ladies. That's good. That's good. And because famously also like everyone in Canada loves them. I'm sure. I'm sure. Four star. Guared toward elderly. Missed some old songs like falling for the first time and get in line.

Why have Summer of 69 for the encore? The majority audience were toddlers are not even born in 1969. This conf-pochette. Wait, the source was a song in 1969. I assume the- Sunmer of 69 is Brian Adam's song written in the 80s. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. You can't. Brian Adams is by the Canadian legend. By the Canadian legend. Canadian legend, Brian Adams. I hear that song and I'm like, I can't even identify with any of this. I wasn't alive in 1969. That's a good one.

This guy is good. But that's the, I mean, okay. Well, you know, that's like being like, I, you know, I can't watch Downton Abbey. I wasn't alive during. Down Abbey. It's for the elderly. You have to be the same age as the people on it. He goes, this concert was for the 70 plus crowd.

Sugar Ray brought it. He was fun. I'm sorry, Sugar Ray. No disrespect to Mark and the boys, but that one made me laugh. Sugar Ray brought it. Sugar Ray brought it. He was funny, energetic, played all his hits and more. He sounded great now.

Oh, no, they think Mark McGrath and Sugar Ray. They think Sugar A is one guy. I love what you guys think that. Oh, that's really good. I didn't like that Sugar Ray guy. He didn't really do it for me. I wonder, Brian, do you think Sugar A when they opened for bare naked ladies are playing any other old new metal hits i don't know what they would play

well they'd play obviously fly someday every morning yeah they would they probably wouldn't play that many songs right because they're all in the opening so they don't have to have a huge set list so they're probably playing maybe a couple ones for them you know but most of the i don't think they're playing any of the metal because they made metal oh no no definitely not so it looks like i'm trying to find uh when when was this show bry this show it was in cleveland actually. Yeah, but when? 8, 925.

8, 9. Okay, so August 9th, 25K. I can find that set list right now. Yeah. Okay. They play, oh, that's trucky music fest. It says they were playing. So it must have been the other way around, September 8th.

No, they didn't play that day. Yeah, it says the 8, 925 at Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, which I've been to a few times. The setlist FM says they were at Truckee Music Fest. August 1st is where they play. played the Blossom Music Center. But yeah, they play six songs opening for Bear Naked Ladies. Someday every morning, answer the phone when it's over, falls apart and fly.

Yeah, that makes sense. That's a good set list for Sugar Ray to tell you the truth. Honestly, I'd watch that. I'd watch those six songs. It sounds great to me. I might go grab something to heat. You're waiting for Bear Naked Ladies. I'm waiting for the ladies.

Listen, I don't like it. I feel like their music. is kind of like childish music, right? So it's that kind of same sort of music where I liked it when I was a little kid. I was like a big fan of it because it almost seems like children's music. But yeah, I don't know.

I think it's probably been 15 years since I've 20 years, maybe since I've even heard a song. It's funny. Are they still, I mean, they must be still making new albums, right? I'm sure. They're probably called B&L now, though. Like they're not one of those guys.

They're not allowed to. If it was actually early on, that was like, that was part of their whole who made them famous was because people wouldn't let them perform because of their name. So I remember being...

Their last album came out in 2023. Oh, I don't want to hear that, but I might listen to it more. Guys, I'm going to tell you, you're not going to like, you're not going to like this album title from 2017. What is it?

Fake nudes. That's fine. Jesus Christ, these guys. I remember the first time I ever heard bare naked ladies. in my life. I was like 15. Uh-huh.

And I had it on the box, which was a channel where you could call 900. Basically, the box was a channel where you go over to somebody you don't like house and you call one 900 number and you can have them play videos for you. You know what I mean? Like they'll play them. They have to. It's a jukebox. And I saw some bare naked lady song about an apartment. Yep.

Oh, I was physically shaking by the time it was done. I hated it so much. I was actually kind of mad at it. And then I heard, apartment is the song you're, yes, I just, I was like, what in the fuck is this shit?

Yeah, that's wild. Because most of the time they played rap on the box. It was mostly rap. Like almost all the time. And I was just like, play more rap. What is this music?

This isn't even real music. And, you know, but you listen. And this is, and this is coming from someone who, I don't, I don't think this is crazy to say. You listen to some really bad music.

I don't, listen to any bad music. We went to the corn show John. It was good. You know corn, the band Corn with the Mikey? I'm familiar, yeah. We saw these guys. I went to the corn show a couple days before you guys. So you saw, did they, did they do this on where they're like ringing around the rosy

pocket full of posy? I was appalled. And that's what I'm saying. It's like, Brian's like, oh, this is so stupid. And he's like jamming two fucking shoots and ladders or whatever. And so for you to think that it's like, hey, this is too silly and too stupid or whatever, that's saying something.

I wasn't even trying to be insulting. It's funny because in shoots and ladders is like a dark song. They're explaining that they bring around the road. He's written about the plague, right? Yeah, no, I know. That's pretty fucking heavy, dude. The plague was some heavy times when I look back on it. You know, the handling of the weather, three stars.

While I understand the weather is uncontrollable, the situation could have been handled better. Bear Naked Ladies could have cut down on their stand-up comedy act to allow for the other two bands to sing more than one song. We paid for three bands. We got one band, one song from the second band, one song from the third band. It was a good show, but for the cost, eh. Okay, so they were doing too much of their stand-up routine. Now, they do, I will say this. You know, I'm a huge fan of Bar-Naked Ladies.

I'm their number one defender on this podcast for sure, but they do fancy themselves a little funny. Oh, yeah. Big time banter boys. Big time banter boys definitely like very funny music videos, very silly, zany kind of stuff. It's honestly probably gotten worse since Stephen Page got kicked out of the band too. Because Ed Robertson feels like the joky guy. I bet Stephen Page was tamping that down for years. And now that he's gone, I think Ed is just cooking up there.

I can't imagine when they're doing titles like fake nudes in 2017 or whatever kind of, you know, they're older guys now. and with that sort of sensibility. Yeah, I can't imagine, I don't know, maybe it would be fucking awesome to go watch one of their live shows now, seeing them do like 20 minutes of them just like doing some of the worst stand-up that you've ever heard from some like old boomer-brained guy who's on Facebook all day looking at Trump memes.

I don't know, maybe it'd be good. Let's check in with a Canadian guy that we love. Oh, this guy. He's hooting. Get ready to hoot. Chris, are you ready? 13 views.

How did you find this guy who's got 13 views? What I did was I searched energy drink. Oh, no, no, no, Beaver Buzz review. Right, okay. Because he reviewed Beaver Buzz,

but sure. Okay. Which is an energy drink up there. You guys, I can't get it down here. It's all up there. This guy likes to go. Okay.

So let me explain this. to the people who haven't met him because we do it a lot on the stream and stuff. This guy goes to a place called the Smoke Hut, and he buys snacks, and he reviews them. And he always is, he's most of the time wearing a Canadian themed shirt. This time he's Blue Jays. I almost said Blue Jackets. That would have been tough. Oh, no.

Hey, Blue Jays, hey, John. You guys like the Blue Jays? Yeah. You like that team? Yep. Good cloud, good cloud. John, he takes the biggest hits of weed you've ever. Yeah, you showed him to me.

I've seen the guy. Yeah. He smokes so much. It's crazy. It does sound like he's not coming through the mic he has plugged in. Of course he's not. He's high. Yeah, no, this is coming through the laptop mic.

And welcome to another entertainment on highs about the munchies. There's a, because he just got closer to the mic. Didn't get any louder. No. Oh, this is the first time he went to the smoke hut. Wow. Oh, wow.

He said there's a new head shop. I found here in my hometown of Prince Albert, it's called the Smoke Hut. That's the most Canadian. It's called the Smolkut. It's the place in my old town of Prince Albert. It's called the Small Cut. Yeah, that is definitely a prairie. He's got a prairie accent.

Yeah. Yeah. I went there once with my sister about two months ago, and I decided to go back and double check their stock. They have a wide selection of papers, pipes, bongs, all kinds of really cool shit like that. And they also have kind of oddly as well as a huge selection of American and other foreign pops, drinks and munchies, like not just chocolates and candies, but chips, energy drinks, pop there's a whole bunch of shit

I said pop like three times they got fucking pop chips chocolate pop he's this is kind of cool to see if you are a viewer of the stream or the bonus episodes where we've watched him before because you can sort of see how excited he is at this new he's like it's kind

of oddly they have this like they have all these snacks now it's like it's his whole life he's like I went to the smoke guy yesterday and I got some lays chips yeah especially if you're from prince Albert, right? Because this is a normal thing in like major Canadian cities. Vancouver has like, yeah, Vancouver has like three or four of these places.

Calgary has a couple as well. Toronto has a bunch. This is not abnormal. But in Prince Albert, that would almost be like front page news. He would be in the newspaper probably or something. No, like it's just like not even joking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a kind of a smaller place that wouldn't. Yeah, we talked about that how this is like a big, he's, he's having snacks that he has never even. been fucking dreamed of before. Yeah. A hundred percent. I want to do this.

I want to lace this in for the rest of the show, too. I went to Business Insider and, uh, they did the 26 best Canadians of all time ranked. Okay. Neither one of you guys made it. I apologize for doing it. I thought John might. Yeah.

Well, he did a curl. He's got, he's got actual things. They like normal people, you know, like there's a curling book and stuff and the curling podcast and people actually normal people. They don't like him. They actually like him. They know him and like them. They bugged me so much when I went looking and I found out everybody loves John.

26. Avril Levine. There are people who definitely don't like me. Oh, but in like the curling world. No, in the curling world, there's people who don't like me.

Yeah, but you are pretty loved. You're pretty loved. I looked. That's nice. Number 26, Avro Levine, singer.

Yeah, that's definitely. I'd have her higher. I'd have her a bit higher, but 26 is. Because I know who's coming below, like there. I know for sure there's going to be people.

I don't agree. I never. I'd ever maybe 15 is the greatest of all time. Agreed. 25. Shaniah Twain. That's way too low for Shania. Way too low for Shania.

She needs to be maybe number two, three of all times. Top five for sure. 24. Jim Carrey has got to be first, second, third. He's got to be top three. That's insane.

I'm really going to hate. I'm going to hate what's coming on this list. If that's the bottom three here. 23 Ryan Reynolds Oh get him out of there Get him off the list Wouldn't even be on the list

Shouldn't be on the list We ate him here No 20 ahead of Shania Twain ahead of Shania Twain is One of the most disrespectful things I've heard in my life

I had to Jim Carrey Yeah Jim Carrey Think about what he's brought Is Jim Carrey I know 22 William Shatner William Shatner So we don't want him on the list

Either He's not on the list either 21 Arcade Fire Oh my Oh, my God. Arcade fire ahead of Avril and Chenaya? When was this list? What? The guy's like, uh, the lead singer is fully canceled.

I had no idea. Well, I don't know when this list is from. And maybe they don't care that he's canceled. Maybe this is a scientific thing. Maybe they're saying they would have been higher if he wasn't or something. Is this from business insider? Business insider. Okay.

That's surprising. People don't talk about Arcade Fire a lot anymore. I did listen to them a lot when I was younger. Sure. You still do. Number 20. James Cameron Yeah, I mean, listen, James Cameron did

But he's not thought of as Canadian Like we don't really I had no idea He's thought of his American He spent most of his life in America I searched Fleet Foxes Canadian too Unfortunately they're not I know.

They're from Seattle so they're from very close to here Kind of Canadian Chris's favorite band 19 morally safer Oh That's going way back That's crazy talk Morley safer ahead of

almost anyone so far. I don't like, I don't like, I don't want more. You guys are about to hit two that are going to drive you nuts. Yeah. 18. Gordy how. Well,

Gordy how is a legend. He's not going to drive us nuts at all. He's a legend. But he's 18. Yeah, but he's considered one of the great. He's before Wayne Gretzky, the great one,

Gordy how was considered the greatest hockey player to ever play the game. I mean, he let he had the record, the goal record, like he was considered one of the greats. And his name's Gord. And that gets you a lot of that helps a big time. 17,

Tim Horton. Yeah. But that's too. He shouldn't be on the list. He shouldn't be on the list. He died drunk driving. He was a drunk driving. He just,

yeah, he just restaurants suck. 16, I think you guys are going to love. These guys, they're really popular. Jason Jones and Samantha B. Comedians.

No, come on. 16. That is accurate. They're higher than Gordon. Gary. Listen, I've been joking a lot in this list so far with my reactions.

but that is actually fucking maddening to even have them on the list like some daily show correspondence no is the private school thing they had that whole thing that is horrible Mike Myers 15 okay Mike Myers is respect Mike Myers he was when I did the just for last festival he was there you know he was just hanging around being all Canadian wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey he really is like he really thinks of himself as a Canadian and like is proud to be a Canadian. And like, listen, you got to admit, Brian, he's done some funny stuff. Austin Powers. That's it though. But yeah. And the picture that they have a piece of shit. Wayne's World. Wayne's World. You piece of shit. So I married an Axelworld like a couple years ago with

Glenn and I hated it. Fucking Wayne's World. You fucker. So I married when I was 11, though. I did love it when I was 11. So Brian, you don't like that new Netflix show that he made where he played all the character. Yeah. Yeah. I thought about doing a mini. series about that it's so bad you know what i mean like i was gonna watch it all he's made some of the he's made some great stuff come on but in the picture he's holding a toronto maple leaves jersey that says love guru on the back yeah classic another one is classics 14 Neil young yep 13 Seth rogan which seems yeah he's he is a little bit like he's he is Canadian and he's from here Vancouver obviously but he's i just think maybe later on in his life he'll be on

list possibly but yeah i wouldn't have him ahead of jim carey or mike myers not yet no 12 drake oh fuck 11 dan acroyd yeah an acroyd i mean listen i i do he is good and he's like a legendary comedian and stuff like that and he's got that fantastic vodka that i love katy loves that vodka oh really it's like it's become like quite a popular vodka right i think it's good for vodka Is it a crystal skull? Vodka? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the cup, the bottle's neat.

Hey, listen, I like the bottle. Yeah. I'm not going to shit on the bottle. So, Dan Aykroyd, that does seem a little bit high for him to me. He's a Chicago guy to me. No, he's Canadian. He's Chicago. We claim him.

Ten, Margaret Atwood. Yeah, okay. That's fine. Nine, Martin Short. Yeah, we love Martin Short. Of course. How could you not? We love him.

Eight. Justin Trudeau. Oh, no. Gee, what? Seven. I think that's a goof. That's a good. He's very much hated by people here.

Yeah. And the only politician on the list I'm going to get. Actually, no. Number seven. Tommy Douglas is up. That's fine. Probably his dad is on there.

And Pierre Trudeau, number seven. Yeah. See? That's why they wanted to do a little father, son, cute thing on the list. So they're like, oh, we'll do that. Justin Trudeau is like, he had to like just step down as a leader of the party.

Six. Chris Hadfield. I mean, he's not, is that the guy, is that the space guy. Space guy. He's a fucking, he's a space guy. He's fucking annoying, though. He's annoying. He's always doing all these fucking things, ads.

You know what I mean? He thinks he's funny. He's fucking annoying. He's going to Reynolds. Him and Reynolds can go fucking yuck it up with each other. You don't need to be on my list. Chris and I are sounding like two Canadian guys around a fire right now. Yeah, yeah.

That fucking space guy, man, he's one of the greatest fucking Canadians. Like, oh, fuck. I could go to fucking space. man. Anybody can nowadays, like nowadays everybody can

fuck anybody can go to space. Then you want to come back here and do some like fucking commercials and shit and you think

you're one of the best fucking Canadians get off my fucking TV man. He's very, he's very annoying to me. He's got the very annoying. He's got the thing to me

that I hate that he's on this list. He's nowhere near a top Canadians list for me. Not even close. Top 10 like over Shaniaa

Twain. Come on dog. Five. Lauren Michaels. Oh. Yeah, great. She's not. She's not.

No way she deserves to be on the list. I, no, I honestly think that's, I hate that too because he left so early. Yeah. And he spent so much of his time in New York that he's such a New York guy now. Right. Like he's like such a part of like New York. And it makes Canada look a little desperate in a way. Yeah.

We don't need him. You don't need him. You got Terry Fox. We got Terry Fox. Yeah. Number four. Only number four. That's interesting.

The top three better be unbelievable. Terry Fox is like really. Then of course, the Terry Fox story, though, is a little more complicated than, you know, he was like a very inspirational figure who ran,

but he also had those, what's the name of the guy who did it with him? There's a guy who did it with him. Yeah, I can't remember his name. Oh, yeah, that's right.

I think that's his name. And he like never got any credit for it and became like this like, like troubles with the law. And it was like this real. But anyways, yeah, The Terry Fox thing is a big, like the statues outside of BC place where I'll be going to watch LAFC versus the white caps. Well, I just kind of ruined, dated this one.

But yeah, they have statues of him, a bunch of statues of him outside. That's where I used to go meet people. Like we'd say meet at the Terry Fox statues. I used to curl against his family. Wow. Three, Alexander Graham Bell. Yeah, he's. I mean, but again, he's like Scottish, basically.

But he's Celine Dion. Celine Dionne number two? Yep. Who she... I do love Celine, but I'm not putting her number two, and I'm definitely not putting her ahead of Terry Fox. And this list is old. The reason I can tell is because number one is Wayne Gretzky,

who is now a hated Canadian. Yeah, he's not even, we don't even want him anymore. I think he's hated now. He's hated because he likes Donald Trump. Oh, yeah, he's trying to, he's doing a lot of damage control now, trying to be like, no, no, I am Canadian. he was hanging out with the Canadian soccer team this week and stuff. But he's not.

He said, I can't even vote down there. I can't even vote down there. Honestly, he was never. He sucks, man. He was never that popular post,

uh, playing career because he's not a, he has like a horrible personality. Yeah. So like, I don't know if you saw him on SNL or whatever at that time. It's one of the craziest hosting things ever because he's just so, he has no charisma at all.

So he's like so bad. And I was always, he's also like he's always been. kind of dumb. Yeah. Yeah. And he's like really showing that now. Yeah.

But like, yeah, as Chris said, zero charisma, but also I think kind of stupid. We need Mario Lemieux on there, even though he, you know, he claims American to. And I met him one time at the, yeah, he seems like a complete dick. At the Michael Jordan celebrity golf tournament, I met Mario Lemieux and Michael Jordan and a bunch of other people. But Mario Lemieux, it struck me how much he sounded like an American guy when he talked. Because he just spent his whole. And he's from Quibbeth. He's from small town.

But he just spent his whole life in America. But like to get rid of the small town Quebec accent, you got to do a lot of work. You got to do a lot of work. But I was always a Lemieux over Gretzky guy when I was younger, always. I love Gretzky because he loves my country. I mean, he said he can't vote down. I read an article where he's like, I can't vote down there. And I can't vote in Canada either.

If you can't vote, then why the fuck are you showing up? Trump shit. That's like the worst possible thing to show up at. It's the stupidest. And the dumbest thing you could say, oh, don't be mad at me for hanging out with Trump. I don't even vote. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So you stand for literally

nothing. Yeah, he's not popular. Donald Trump is not popular here in Canada. I don't know the Americans have been gotten that notice yet, but like, yeah, if you are to come out and say, hey, I like Donald Trump, most of the people in Canada will then not like you. Just ask Pierre Pollyev. That's something I

been saying a lot about he looks like KD, the cheese from KD. Oh, fuck, he looks like the fucking powder cheese. Oh, shit. The powdered cheese, because it is sort of more orange than yellow. America down there, you got to do the America is a gong show. We're a real gong show down here.

It's true, man. Yeah. I've been, like, reading the news lately and like, I don't know if you guys have seen this, but America's kind of like a fucking gong show. I guarantee that shit's being said a lot. Oh, yeah, there's definitely small town, Prairie people are for sure still saying gong show down there.

Buddy, I don't even read the news anymore. I just know it's a fucking gong show. You can't even read the news anymore. Do you pick up the newspaper? It's like, holy moly, man. I can't even read the news anymore. You know what with me not being all the read and all? It makes me want a deke.

You guys ever heard of these these podcasts? You guys heard of that? Like, I'm starting to listen to those now. and it's like they're pretty cool. Are you, are you asking us, Brian, you know,

Deke? Yeah, Deke is a hockey term. That's a, no, it's not. Yes, it is.

It's a decoy. Thomas deeked out of meeting so many times that he was at risk of being fired. No, he deeked out like would just be like, deke is, it comes from hockey to like stick handle around someone. SkyV-C-C-V-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-1.

C-I-I-V-E-E-E-E-E-1. C-I-V-E-Y? Wait, spell it again? S-C-I-V-E-Y. No, I don't know that term. No, me neither. It's another way to say greasy, and greasy

and greasy means an untrustworthy person. Skee-S-E-E-E-E-Y. Skee-E-E-E-W-E-E-Y. I don't know how you'd spell it like that. Skee-E-V-Y. Yeah, skee-E-V-Y. Yeah, skeevee-E-E-E-E-V-Y. Of course we wouldn't spell it here.

You know what I mean? Yes, you get skeved out by someone. That's, I feel like that's not Canadian. I got a nut. Well, here, hold on. We're going to hit play on this. And then I got a few, just like two more things I want to do, and we're done. I was there. Of course I did. And I'm going to try them with Daryl today and share this with you. And hopefully you can find them in your neck of the woods. The first thing we're going to start with is a bag of Cheetos. Oh, you know, you know what I think about Cheetos.

That was a really good pronunciation of Cheetos. You know what I think about Cheetos when I open it. I have the first thought that comes in my mind is Trump. Yep. Take off my glasses. Sorry about that. It's hard for me to see a pose with them on. No problem, but this is all in Spanish.

I don't speak or understand Spanish. So if I'm saying... Now, here's the funny part about this is he would have definitely learned French in school. And French and Spanish are very similar to the point where like, I could probably read a Spanish label on the bag. Or like enough to know. He just is saying,

he doesn't know the accents though I think is what he's saying so he's going to read them so what he's saying is he's going to sound a little bit I thought he was saying you didn't understand it yeah I think well he also I'm sure he's not able to maybe draw necessarily the correlations that you are in language and all of that but he I think it's going to be with his accent saying these words that he's not familiar with at all I'm really excited I can't wait to hear this no sue me but it's cheat a sue me okay I assume me if I fuck this up, hey. It was bolitas. Huh.

Yeah, excesso, low in calories and low in sodium. So maybe low salt. Sodium. That was a real good. Oh, it's low in sodium. This is low in sodium.

He said low. Yeah, that was a real good one. Like, are these special? They're just from Mexico? I think he accidentally just bought Mexican cheese. But so they're not, they're not like a different flavor. I don't think so.

I think you just accidentally bought Cheetos. And they're probably the same in Mexico, essentially, right? Same in Canada, too. It's the regular Cheetos. Right. I wonder, but like some products, they're different in different places, right? Not the, I think this is just regular Cheetos. They, uh, they look like they're red and maybe, maybe hot.

I don't know. Masqueso. Masqueso. Maskedso. Mask. They look like the red, maybe hot. He's holding up the bag.

He hasn't opened the bag, just to be clear, everyone. He's showing us the bag, the outside of it. Masked Kessel? Who fucking knows? That's fine nose.

Who fucking knows? This guy, I love it when he curses so much. Yeah, yeah. Who fucking knows? So I don't know who fucking knows. and there's a whole bunch of other stuff there so as long as these oh balls and a few of bowlitas bolitas they're balls so these aren't normal these are just these are little bolita these

are little i mean little chito balls yeah we they have them everywhere though shoots we don't have you don't cheeto balls we don't have chito balls i've never seen chito balls before you know who has chito balls oh hell yeah i yeah prominent last leftist over here. Yep. Thank you. All right, let's, before we have them taste this, I looked at a review of White Spot for you,

like two of them. White Spot on Drake Street in Vancouver. I think it's the one I ate at. This is the one downtown, right downtown off of Gramble Street. I don't think this is, no, this is not the one that we ate at. We added it the one on Dunsmere. Okay, so this guy gave it three stars. And this review was insanely weird.

and that's why I needed to get it on the show because I think you guys are going to hear this and be like this is one of the weirdest reviews I've heard. Okay. The portions are not fair to say less. Also, they could count how many people are seated and offer more. Let's talk about the portion for coconut prawns. The portion was served with only seven prawns

and charged $15, but we were in two. Why an odd number? Why don't serve six or eight? I think pay attention to details make all the difference. Yeah, because what are you going to split? Like, no, he's right. Because what are you going to split of a prawn? You know what I'm saying?

It's like, how do you cut? You're going to cut a prawn in half? And it's like, they have the big thick, the fat side of the prawn and the skinny side. So it's kind of hard to know where to cut it exactly in half. And so it's like, yeah, just give us six or give us eight. Give me six. Give me one less. I'd be happy with one less.

Why? Because then it's even. We each get three. I mean, pay attention to the two. table is all he's say. We just did that the other night. We went to a place and we got onion rings. And there were like nine onion rings.

We just cut one. Yeah, I know. I mean, listen, this is obviously. Nine onion rings for three people. I mean, obviously it sounds like this person might not go to restaurants very often or something because I think that the restaurant has a, for the most part, it's going to be predetermined to how many of each of the things are on each dish.

Sometimes it'll be weight-based, I think maybe, so there might be a little discrepancy. There might be like one extra sometimes, but I think most of the time in this instance, you're always going to get seven no matter what. Here's a one-star review, the absolute worst white spot location of all time. Everything changed around 2018, which seems to line up with the current ownership slash management taking over. I love when people talk about stuff like that. Like, I couldn't tell you anything about the corporate structure of a business.

Or even like- And how it relates to quality of stuff. Right. Or even if it's like they know that the place was under new management in 2018, like this specific white, because they're talking about one specific place, right? Yeah, I know the location. I've been here many times.

I've eaten there many times. Chris, is it the one that's like- It's in a hotel. It's right on Granville Street downtown, right on Drake. Like right when you come off the Grammel Street Bridge into that. one. I was thinking of the one, you know, the other one that's like by the old post office. Yeah, that's the one Brian and I ate out on Dunsmere. That's the one on Dunsmear that is the other one downtown. So this one is like, that's like Dunsmear and Camby. And that one is quite nice. The one,

it has a standard white spot. It's like that's a solid one. We went there. Like Brian, it was pretty clean and nice, right? Like that actual. That's where we took Libby and Lewis as well for the first when they came to do BP live. Yeah. It's a nice, did you come to that too? Nice location. Yeah, it's a nice location. Yeah, I think I think I. I think I might have yeah it's a nice location down there this one that they are referring to it is not as nice it's in a hotel and it's not what you're talking about it's not as nice the service is so bad you'll think you're being pranked if you die he think just looking around for cameras because you food's taking so long hey this stuff's gross man if you dine in expect your server to stand at

the bar and text if you get takeout expect missing items i've been eating at various white spots for over 30 years. I love guys that's very normal though around here. I got to say that's true. But if you live in the area. I know, yeah, Chris and I have both also.

I could say the exact thing. I could say the exact same thing. I know what I mean? I wouldn't. No, I wouldn't. You're right. I wouldn't use it at a post.

I wouldn't use it as like a brag or anything. Right. There's places I've been eating at for 30 years too. And I'm not going to be like I'm a veteran. Which ones have you? I'm a veteran at Donato's. You know what I mean? Sure.

I've been eating Donados for 35 years. And it's just like, it was better. But if they gave you a bad meal, you wouldn't be like, I've been eating here for 35 years. I would never do that. Yeah, like it would, there's a place that I go to all the time. Charlie really likes this pasta dish that they have there. I said it like you guys, by the way, because I would say pasta. But, you know what?

It's a Canadian episode. Mario. I'm going to say pasta. So, thank God. I didn't know what you were talking about. The guy I watched the camper, the Steve Wallace guy watched, says pasta and then corrects himself and says pasta all the time. Yeah. And then he gets mad like Chris and goes, I mean pasta.

Yeah. I mean, it's true. I sometimes correct myself and say it the American way. I'm like, why am I doing that? They understand what I mean. But yeah, sometimes it's happened before where it's just like something is wrong with it. You know what I mean? And the reason I know that is because I eat it so regularly.

but even in that instance, I would never be like, so I eat this like a lot. So I've been having this for like a year and a half. So that's why I can tell you that there's something a little bit wrong with this. Yeah. Like it's also just there's so many like when if you if you if it's like a one off place, then I can sort of get the complaint maybe. But like if it's a white spot or a Boston pizza or like an apple bees or something like that, it's like you're going to have a bad meal at some point.

Exactly. You know, like it's just, it's just part of the experience. You're never, not everyone is never going to be 100% hit rate all the time. So just say, oh,

I've been coming here for 30 years and then shockingly I had a bad meal today. It's like, yeah, it's all teenagers that work there. You've had a couple bad meals. Yeah. There's, we go to one,

there's one that's like, it's, in another little hotel close to where Ariel does her, her pottery. and it's like right on like 70th in Granville, John, you know, like, and this is just like, it's in like a century plaza and it's just like this really, Oh, I know the exact one you're talking about. It's right by the airport.

There's never any enough people working there. It takes so long. The food's all fucked up. There's like, sometimes there's like taste bad. There's like the lettuce is like shitty in it. Like it just does happen sometimes, unfortunately at White's life. Is it still Hudson's? No, no.

It's different now, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I forget what. it is. Because it used to be called Hudson's there. Because we would go there sometimes because it's close to the Marpole Curling Club. Oh yeah. That's the place. Yeah. No, I know exactly the one you're talking about. It's in the, is it a coast hotel? Yeah, it's

Coast Hotel. That's right. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a really nasty location and it's like, yeah, you just, no, but then every now and then, I still, I'll go there. They'll have a nice fucking burger, you know? Yeah. That's what I'm saying about like Donato's is a place that I've been eating at since I was like six years old. It's a pizza shop here. And it is, I won't even say I think it used to be better because nostalgia stuff doesn't, it probably didn't used to be better. You know what I mean? It probably used to be the same as it is now. I just had a different idea of it. Anyway, this guy goes, I can't stress enough how bad this

specific location is. I've had to tell my family that for Christmas, do not get me a white spot gift card anymore, as this is the only one in my area. And every time I try to order food from this white spot, it's a complete disaster. from staff. Again, there's pretty close to the one on Dunsmear, brother. And say, pretty close to the one on Dunsmear. So,

oh, yeah, it's a walk. It's just a walk. It's all downtown. They're both downtown. They're both walkable for wherever you are. And I'd love for some reason in the review,

he's like, I asked my family not to get me white spot gift cards for Christmas. By the way, not a good present. Bad present. Like from the whole family. For Christmas. I don't know.

Just get me a white spot gift card again. I mean, that's a stalking stuff or something. Maybe that's what he means. From staff refusing capital letters to check the remaining balance on a gift card. The content, that's the idea that they just will not do it. Fuck you. What would be the reason why they,

you must have done something to upset them if they're unwilling to check the balance. He does quote them. Okay. He says, staff quote, well, why didn't you write down the remaining balance? So they asked them why you didn't write it down. this is another weird sentence to staff making angry noises as I double check the

takeout order after being handed it them finding there's no extra triple O Sosh which I paid for Okay so I see what's happening here I'm getting a clearer picture now This guy is what's known as a nuisance Yeah And he you know what I mean

It's just like they're making angry noises Where they're like oh god like somebody sighed When he was just like Could we just double check here please because I have had some issues in the past with this. And I just wanted to see and make sure. Can we look in there? Yeah, I guess so.

Like, that's what I'm sort of seeing. Or like a situation because White Spot is not, if you're getting takeout from a proper White Spot restaurant, that's going to be in a stapled paper bag. That's going to be like the burger. It's not like a McDonald's or whatever where you can kind of quickly glance in the bag. You go, yep, everything's in there. You close it.

You drive off. So I'm picturing he's un-stapeling the bag. he's pulling the stuff out on the like small host stand and there's people behind a big production waiting to be sat and he's like no no i got to and they're just yeah i think you're probably right john i think either way he's he's known as a nuisance to that business and they don't like him there's some really good he goes then i have the fun of their eye rolls as they get me my triple o sauce oh get this the last double double i got had one pickle and one one cucumber. Never seen that before. Even in this horrible location. Maybe you're asking,

why do you keep going back here? I am. Yeah. I love that he's mad. One pickle and one cucumber. What the shit? That's not a pickle. That thing hasn't pickled at all. That's a pre-pickle. Well, between 2012 to 2019, I would order two burger meals every single week from this location. then after these new issues became a trend again lining up with this owner slash management team in 2018, 2019, I would only use the Christmas gift cards my family would buy me every year. As I stated before, I've had to tell everyone to stop giving me those.

Okay. Bottom line, White Spot is incredible. It's a British Columbia cultural institution. Amen. But this location, but this location, the one on Granville and Drake,

stay away. Trust me. someone who unfortunately lives in this area who has had this location to choose from who has this one location to choose from in dozens of more stories so yeah i do know that i spent enough time in vancouver to be on one walk and see two white spots so i do think this guy's full of shit he could he could he can make the walk to the other one that we mentioned definitely and it it's yeah it seems like it's probably closer to him and it's like he's late you know it's right downstairs kind of a thing so he's able to easily go to it yeah and he gets really hungry

and he's like well i love white spot and he's just like every single time it happens to him again where he's like well maybe they're gonna be using the same sauce the same burger i mean i wish we would have called it at gong show i'm gonna pause one more time and we're done here here we go um i'll be going back to the smoke hut and definitely buy more we know we know we know we know that in the future you go to the smoke hud a lot Yeah, I don't want to, hey, I'm here from the future. Yeah, it's basically the main place you go now. It's on every video.

Oh, I like that he's got an earring. I didn't notice that before. I didn't notice that. Holy shit. That's a good look. Oh. Got the single earring. That's fucking, I'm going to get, well, is it on the right ear, though, you know?

Yeah, it's on the right one. I want to see if he has the other earring. Wait, Brian, did you just, Brian, did you just do the thing like from the 1990s about where you're allowed to wear your, uh, and not be gay? Yep. Yeah. That's what he did. You could be mirrored.

The image could be mirrored as well. He's probably got it in a gay ear. Him and Daryl sucking fuck on each other. I mean, that could be the case. That could actually be the case. I think that could be the case. It could be. He might be gay.

Could be. It's looking like left ear at the moment, but. Turn your head. I don't think that's a thing anymore, though. I will say, guys. I don't want to. But I think having one earring is an thing. you a little bit here. I don't think that

people who wear earrings on their right ear are considered gay anymore. I don't think people wear one earring anymore is what I'm saying. Sometimes they do, I think. That's insane. They're just the size of a regular cheese bowl that you've probably seen a hundred or a thousand times before.

I haven't actually. It smells very cheesy. So maybe they're not hot at all. I don't know. But here we go. We're going to try a few of them. So some chitos bolitas. guys. It's like a nacho nacho flavored cheese ball.

Oh, this is really good. Oh, buddy. Buddy, you should have seen his eyes. He's just learning what Moss Caso means. Yeah, he's... This tastes like it's got more cheese on it than a normal Dorito. Yeah, the, the look on his in his eyes when he took that first bite and it sort of first sort of hit his taste buds, his eyes like really like bugged out. like he got they got big for a second like he was like holy shit man there goes

fluffy Gabriel glacius well seasoned oh I could see myself eating an entire bag of these oh boy one sitting oh yeah oh my god are these good oh my god are these good so I'm surprised that he's that that would be like something we wouldn't

already assume the bag wasn't that big Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I can see myself eating the whole bag of these. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. The fact, the only other thing, his house is in such disrepair. It's mind boggling to me that even to this day, the kitchen has this situation. The doors off the thing.

He's got a portable air conditioner behind him. Don't hassle him, bro. Hey, don't hassle him, man. Hey, but just let him just, you know, he's gumming her and giving her. Gummer and giving her. John, I keep telling Chris. You said April day in June, but I can't remember what it means. So I just say it sometimes.

I said that. You said something like, oh, it's like an April day in June. I said that. Yep. Okay. So, yeah, I tried to tell Brian that's not really like a Canadian. It is a Canadian saying. No, and I don't remember saying it.

All right. Well, John. Thank you for doing this. We love you. Hey, thank you so much for having me, guys. And plug your stuff. pleasure to be back. Yeah. Well, I do have a book out now. If you live in Canada, it's called Curling Rocks. It's about curling, but it's an essay collection. It's funny. It's accessible

for non-curlers. I've already had quite a few non-curlers message me and say that they really liked it. It's out in Canada now. You can pre-order it in the States. It comes out just before the Olympics. Who cares about that? February. It's for us, you know. You get it up here. You can buy it up here and don't, if you're American. And if you're American, fuck you. John just like messages me after. Like, um, I'm not really sure I want to take that angle for market. I kind of want people to buy it in America.

If, if they want it. But also, fuck you, man. I specifically told my publisher, charge those American pigs more money for my book. Charge them more money. Charge them Canadian. It's going to cost the same. Well, you're charging 1867 for it, right? that's exactly right John's going to be back in February to yeah we'll talk curling before the Olympics

that'll be a blast but yeah you can check that out and then of course Brian and I have a podcast together the POD cast Wow what's hosted by POD actually Yeah classic new metal album every month It's a ton of fun and I have a Jeopardy podcast as well It's called What Is a Jeopardy podcast?

It's a comedy recap podcast of Jeopardy with myself and Emily Heller and it's a ton of fun. You don't have Ken Jennings? You should get Ken Jennings as it goes. We're working on it. We're trying to talk to Ken's people. Get Ken Jenning. Wow, that's Emily Heller very funny. Yeah.

Jeopardy. Jeopardy. Ken Jennings is he, is he canceled? No, he's not canceled. Okay. Thank God. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks, everyone. Bye. Bye, everybody.

Bye.