Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 172 - Jimmy Pardo

Episode Date: June 28, 2011

Comedian and podcaster Jimmy Pardo joins us to talk about male jewellery, Canadian classic rock, and Planet of the Apes movies....

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi, he's Dave Shumka. And he's Graham Clark. And together we host Stop Podcasting Yourself. Woo! Hello everybody and welcome to episode number 172 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who's seen two more celebrities than I've seen on this trip to Los Angeles, Mr. Dave Shumka. Yeah, I think we went through them yesterday. No need to rehash.
Starting point is 00:00:41 Don't you want to a little bit though? Mario Lopez. Yeah, at the Grove. He lives there, apparently. I was excited, but everyone tells me, oh yeah, he's there every day. Yeah. He was there today. I saw it on Extra. Okay. This is day three of our
Starting point is 00:00:56 Los Angeles... Who's the other one I saw but you didn't see? Well, you said the guy was Death Cab for Cutie and I didn't know who he was. So it was like I didn't see him. And our guest for day three of our california odyssey uh a legend of podcasting no fair to say okay very fair um he is a gentleman who is he warms up he's the opening act for the conan o'brien show uh now airing on tbs the turner broadcasting system service uh and uh he's just a very funny funny comedian Conan O'Brien show, now airing on TBS, the Turner Broadcasting System. Service. And he's just a
Starting point is 00:01:28 very funny, funny comedian. An all-around funny guy, Mr. Jimmy Pardo. Thank you. I'm going to assume I'm celebrity number three on this trip. I might even be bigger than that Death Cab for Cutie fella. And because Lopez is at the Grove every day, I think that takes
Starting point is 00:01:44 a little bit of the gloss off that, too. I also want to be very clear how funny I was before we started. Yeah. I was fun, right? I'm a nice guy. I come in. I'm having a good time. I hope I can continue that fun because I fear that, like, an action.
Starting point is 00:02:01 Oh, now I'm on, and I'm going to suck. Let's not. Come on. Let's pretend we're not even, right, right. Now I'm on, and I'm going to suck. Let's not. Come on. He did. Let's not. Let's pretend we're not even doing this, guys. Right before the podcast, right before we started, Jimmy slipped off his wedding ring, put it on the table, and said, let's fuck. Right.
Starting point is 00:02:12 That was great. That was a great. But I slipped it off. See, here's the improvisational mind. I slipped it off because I had a little water underneath it. Sure. Because, you know, I've lost 30 pounds in the last three months. You look dynamite.
Starting point is 00:02:23 I am aged. And thank you for that compliment. You look sickly. And so I had a little water because my ring is looser than it was. So I took off the ring to wipe that water off. Saw it down. My mind went, hey, there's
Starting point is 00:02:38 a little something starting to turn. What can I find? Ring is off. What do we got? Go to the obvious. Let's fuck, gentlemen. Rules are rules. What? Well, you can't have sex with your ring on. Oh, I see where you went. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:51 Okay. That's the only thing. Is that why people take off their ring? I'm getting married in August. Of this year? Of 2011? Yeah. We play a little theme song now.
Starting point is 00:03:00 Let's play the theme song. Get to know us. Get to know us. Get to know us. Get to know us. Dave has a lovely fiancee named Abby. Yeah, and I'm going to wear a wedding ring, and I've never worn jewelry before. Did you wear jewelry before you got married? I was in my cock ring, but other than that, dirty blue.
Starting point is 00:03:22 What about during the 80s? That was a high jewelry time. You know what? During the 80s, I'm probably guilty of wearing a gold herringbone. Okay. Is that popular? I thought you were going to say a puka shell. No, never a puka shell. No, then and now.
Starting point is 00:03:35 Awful. Save that for your costume to go to see Jimmy Buffett. But I probably wore one of those. Sure. A gold herringbone. And then, you know what? I talked about this on my podcast. I was going to be a ring guy for a while.
Starting point is 00:03:50 And Pat Francis and I went to see a Van Halen cover band. And outside there was a woman selling pewter jewelry. And I went, come on, Pat, let's be ring guys. Let's get some rings. This isn't us. Let's buy a couple of rings. So I did buy the ring. And I wore it for like a day and a half and went, oh, this't us. Let's buy a couple rings. So I did buy the ring and I wore it for like a day and a half and went,
Starting point is 00:04:08 this is awful. I'm not a ring guy. But I do like wearing a wedding ring. And a wedding ring is left hand always, right? Because I wore... Unless in England it's right hand. Is it right? No. They drive on another side of the road.
Starting point is 00:04:23 Because I had a ring. I wore a ring for years, but on the right hand, and people always assumed I was married, because people don't know they're left from their right. Were they always looking at you in a mirror? Maybe that's what happened. The first couple years of my stand-up, I went in a mirror routine.
Starting point is 00:04:40 Sure, why not? It's really strange, though, because nothing else about your appearance suggests marriage. Yeah, exactly, that a woman would... Commitment. Yeah. I mean, although the letting myself go part, like, we've made an agreement, me and my significant other, we're just gonna let ourselves go, because we've
Starting point is 00:04:56 made a bond, or a pledge. In front of our friends and family. That's what it's called when you get married, you make a pledge, right? It's nothing like a frat or a sorority. I'm gonna pledge, right? It's nothing like a frat or a sorority. You've got a pledge. Yeah, okay. So what's been going on with Jimmy Pardo? What's new?
Starting point is 00:05:11 What's exciting? You're very busy. You squeezed us in this week. You guys are lucky I'm even here. I want to do address... I do want to address one thing. As you look at me, I do have a lot of wrist garments on. And so I didn't want to say...
Starting point is 00:05:23 Well, you're living strong. I do not believe in that gentleman, that guy. I wanted to post this on Facebook, by the way, but Lance Armstrong is either a cheater or is the biggest asshole in the history of cycling because everybody wants to out him for using drugs.
Starting point is 00:05:37 And he keeps denying it. So he either did it or everybody just, they hate him so much, want to say nah let's take down our strong right they just don't want to accept the guy who survived cancer they're still like this cocksucker he better come clean yeah you know what i mean like they can't they won't let this guy slide so again he's either truly a cheater yeah or just an asshole that everybody hates is he dating anyone anymore he was dating cheryl crowe was he married to cheryl crowe i
Starting point is 00:06:04 think he was just dating. I don't know the answer to that. Or maybe he was a cheater. They didn't make a pledge to each other. This guy's a cheat. Maybe he's a cheater. Didn't he know he cheated on his wife with Sheryl Crow? I don't want to be speaking out of school here.
Starting point is 00:06:14 Allegedly. Allegedly. And also, I have no idea. And allegedly, Sheryl Crow's good. Now, that's not the point of this conversation. I do have a copper bracelet on this wrist, left wrist. For your kind of self-help.
Starting point is 00:06:24 Which is healing purposes? Yeah, it's supposed to be for carpal tunnel and such. Sure. I do have a copper bracelet on this wrist, left wrist. For your healing purposes? Yeah, it's supposed to be for carpal tunnel and such. I don't know if it works. I started wearing it in the late 80s. Saw an ad by the... After the ring phase? No, no, no. The ring phase, sadly, was 1996.
Starting point is 00:06:39 Let's be ringed. I saw the late, great golfer Seve Ballesteros did an advertisement for this Sabona of London wrist bracelet to, says it loosened up your wrist and you feel good. And I felt some wrist pain from driving as much as I did as a comedian. I don't know if it works or not, but I've been wearing it for 20-something years. I want everybody out there in podcast land to know that when Jimmy said driving, he mimed driving. Sure. Sure.
Starting point is 00:07:05 Yeah. Let everybody know. I even did a stick shift. This is a new watch I got from tweakedaudio.com. Okay. For free? For free. And I love it.
Starting point is 00:07:15 It looks kind of like it's something that's like a piece of a heart rate monitor or something. Yeah. Or like one of those new things for your balance. Yeah. You know, one of those pieces of rubber you put on and hey look you could push me down now you can't um uh so but but i love it it's a watch i don't even know i have it on because it's so light so you're always asking people what time it is sure i forget what's that around your wrist oh that's so yes that lets me know that i should buy a new watch uh so and on your wrist. Oh, that's so, yes. That lets me know that I should buy a new watch. And on your other wrist? That is the Warner organization.
Starting point is 00:07:48 Oh, okay. And I donated money to the Warner organization about, boy, oh boy, it's got to be eight years ago. No, five? What? When did I get married? I got married in 2004, 2005. Six years ago. I donated money to them and I was supposed to get
Starting point is 00:08:04 one bracelet and one shirt. Sure. For the one organization. Right. The one shirt arrived, as did a truckload of bracelets. Oh, wow. I must have gotten 100 bracelets. It was supposed to be one. And 100 came. They put the decimal
Starting point is 00:08:20 in the wrong place. That's all that is. Or I'm a poor reader. Yeah. So I haven't... I've been wearing that one ever since. Have you gone through a lot of them? Because they get dingy because it's white. So it gets a little dingy.
Starting point is 00:08:32 Maybe that was their idea the whole time. So you would be wearing it five years later. Maybe. Or maybe nobody else was nornating. And they went, we've got to get rid of these things. Hey! Somebody finally gave! Give them a hundred! Really? It's really eating into our profit margin, giving away all these presents. Give it home!
Starting point is 00:08:51 We've got to pay for this warehouse to store them all. Yeah, exactly. What is the one organization? You want my joke? You want my lame joke about it? No, please. The one organization is to raise awareness for poverty and AIDS. But I think if you look, this doesn't fit me very well because you know I'm pro-poor and anti-faggot. Hollywood.
Starting point is 00:09:21 Welcome to it, gentlemen. But the weird thing is that all of your wrist garments They sort of Make you seem unhealthy Like one is a heart monitor One's for carpal tunnel One's for And then the white one does look a little medicinal
Starting point is 00:09:36 Doesn't it? It does look like you're right out of the hospital And it's hanging loose on you, too Again, I've lost that weight My mother once bought She got me when the White Sox won the World Series, she got me a White Sox one that looked like it was a hula hoop around a drumstick. It was so loose around my, it was awful.
Starting point is 00:09:55 And I wanted to wear it because I was, you know, I was high on the White Sox winning the World Series. And I've got to, I'm going to show my fandom. But your average Chicago weight is 300 pounds. That's not, listen, that's your, those are your words. Certainly not mine that I would going to show my fandom. But your average Chicagoite is 300 pounds? That's not... Listen, those are your words. Certainly not mine that I would agree to. Is it Chicagoite? No.
Starting point is 00:10:12 Chicago-o. Chicagoans? Chicagoans. Okay. Go like A-N-S, right? Sure. Chicago-ans. Chicago-ans.
Starting point is 00:10:21 Chicago-ans. Gowans. Gowans. Larry Gowans. Larry Gowans, the singer for Styx?ans. Chicago. Chicago. Gowan. Gowan. Larry Gowan. Larry Gowan, the singer for Styx? Yeah. Yeah. He was a solo artist, Strange Animal.
Starting point is 00:10:31 Yeah, in Canada. He was a big Canadian. That was a huge hit in Canada, your Strange Animal. You want to play games with me? You want to bring up a Larry Gowan? I'm not going to sit here like some guy that doesn't get it because I only listen to the Strokes. I know your Canadian musicians.
Starting point is 00:10:43 Sure. As long as they're the lead singer of Styx. Or really any crap sort of classic rock. And I say crap in quotes. Those are other people's opinions that I just can't admit to. Do you recall a Canadian band called Helix? That was a classic. Sure.
Starting point is 00:10:59 Helix, they had that terrific album cover. They just got reissued. That's what I know them as. The one with the awesome album cover. Rock Candy Records just reissued all the Helix records. Really that terrific album cover. They just got reissued. That's what I know them as. The one with the awesome album cover. Rock Candy Records just reissued all the Helix records. Really? Yeah. Wow.
Starting point is 00:11:09 Duh. Oh, yeah. We could play this game all day. I will know every Canadian, every bad rock and roll Canadian band you mention. Rock and roll. Of course, you know Anvil, probably. Sure, yeah. The most overrated, underrated band in history.
Starting point is 00:11:24 Hey, you know why they didn't make it? Because they stunk. They just played in Vancouver. Dave saw their tour bus. Yeah, went through my neighborhood, and all of their gear was in a trailer, and on the trailer it said, Anvil, sponsored by Converse. Yeah, Anvil wears Converse. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:40 Well, they like to be comfortable. They like to wear a flat shoe with no supports. Yeah, I guess they get their age a little support, a little ankle support. Some sort of orthotic company should be behind Anvil. My friend Pat Francis and I have talked about Anvil in that we think that the drummer has such loyalty for that other guy, Lips, that it hurt his career. Because he may be the most underrated drummer. Nobody ever talks about that guy. So if he walked away from Lips, he may have been in an awesome band.
Starting point is 00:12:07 Yeah, like if some other band would have said, we need a drummer. Hey, let's get that guy. And if he would have said, yeah, instead of going, no, we made a commitment to each other at 12 years old. He would have made it because he's a great drummer. Lips is a, he's all right. Yeah, he's okay. Those are not good lyrics. No.
Starting point is 00:12:21 No. Well, that's the funny thing. Because I just recently watched that Anvil documentary and Some Kind of Monster, the Metallica. Uh-huh. And listening to these adult men writing those lyrics is one of the funniest. By committing. It is one of the funniest things.
Starting point is 00:12:37 By committing. Yeah. Where he says, my lifestyle is my death style, and everybody in the room goes, that's great. You got it. You got it. You got it. Nailed it. Did you guys see the Rush documentary? I saw a little bit of it.
Starting point is 00:12:50 That one's good. My parents saw it and they're not even Rush fans and they said it was one of their favorite documentaries. Like they said, they fell in love with the guys from the band
Starting point is 00:12:58 just watching it. Yeah. I mean, it's really well done and it's neat to see these guys just kind of like they make fun of it. Like,
Starting point is 00:13:04 yeah, that was our robe phase. That was our kabuki phase. And then they told some story about they went to their high school, and they went, you know, we were troublemakers. And then they told the story, and it was so obviously nothing. And they went, yeah, that was us getting in trouble. Like they realized that we're like, oh, that's a suck story. I liked it. It made me really like those guys
Starting point is 00:13:27 even more than I did. Oh, there you go. Isn't Neil Peart, isn't he still in his little hat phase? Yeah. Yeah. Maybe that's not a phase
Starting point is 00:13:35 if he's still in it. Maybe it's a mistake. It seems like the kind of thing that would be a phase, though. It does, right? Yeah. Let's be little hat guys.
Starting point is 00:13:45 Matt, they're selling little hats. Let's be little hat guys. Matt, they're selling little hats. Let's be little hat guys. Come on. You and I don't do stuff like this. Let's be little hat guys. I remember when I was 12 years old, both of my sisters, maybe I was 10 years old. Both of my sisters had boyfriends, and they were older, and they would beat me up so bad. I was such an annoying little kid.
Starting point is 00:14:04 But one of them I liked a lot more than the other one, and he was kind of like a badass guy, and he had these rings that were like a skull or like a gargoyle or something. And I was like, we went on vacation to Mexico, and I was like, oh, it's perfect. I'll buy some big scary rings. And I just kept, that was the term I used. Big scary rings. But I had tiny little kid fingers.
Starting point is 00:14:28 There were many. Did they turn your finger green? Did you buy any? No, I didn't buy any, but they were everywhere. I don't know why I thought Mexico would be the place, and I was right. Ah, yeah. Well, they're garish folk. I don't know what that means.
Starting point is 00:14:41 I don't know what garish means. They're folk. Really? You're not going to? You were thinking of the word garnish. That's it, right? Oh, yeah. I could go for some cilantro.
Starting point is 00:14:50 Yeah, right? Oh, I don't like cilantro. No. It's a chemical thing in your brain. Is it? Well, there is like a cilantro debate. Because some people love it. In Canada, it's the only debate.
Starting point is 00:15:00 Every time you turn on the television, it's cilantro. We talk about health care, you guys talk cilantro. Yeah, that's right. It's apparently a big issue in the food thing because people who don't like it are born that way. Like Lady Gaga. That's what that song's about.
Starting point is 00:15:14 Oh, it's right. I'm going to re-listen to that. They all have the same reaction to it about how... What does it taste like to you? Some people liken it to a dishrag that's been sitting out too long. Well, now, how would you know? Right?
Starting point is 00:15:30 You ever smell one of those? Wait, smell it? I guess. Yeah, I guess. Okay. All right. You smell it? Sure.
Starting point is 00:15:35 I don't know if I dislike cilantro. I just always say no cilantro. Because I think one time I had it, and I may have had an upset stomach afterward, and I blamed it on the cilantro. Oh, the most mild portion of a Mexican meal. Right? I mean, right? Was it something that you bought out of a food truck or something like that, or was it just a sit-down meal?
Starting point is 00:15:54 No, a sit-down. I can't even tell you where it was. But cilantro really has stuck out. I think I just remember my stomach being upset, probably because I had a burrito the size of a Nerf football. Yeah, exactly. And I went, oh, I got a little stomach. And somebody probably said, oh, did you have cilantro with that?
Starting point is 00:16:08 I go, yeah. Yeah, cilantro upsets my stomach. Ding, ding. That's all I needed to hear. I'm now obsessed with hating cilantro. You know what? I'm going to revisit it. I recommend it.
Starting point is 00:16:17 It's one of my favorite herbs. What's the worst that happens? I got an upset stomach for a day. What's the worst I'm going to get anyway from that? And it confirms your cilantro then, right? Now you're solid in your campaign. Right. You can get a band. What do you want to get anyway? And it confirms your cilantro. Now you're solid in your campaign. Right. You can get a band. No cilantro. You can donate to the
Starting point is 00:16:30 No Cilantro campaign. I'm on board. This sounds great. Who was I talking to? We were talking to a friend of mine. We were talking about a food that your body rejects it completely. You can't even put it in your
Starting point is 00:16:45 mouth. It's just... An allergy? No, just like liver. Like, growing up, I couldn't eat. I couldn't even entertain the idea of eating a piece of liver. Oysters? Oysters? I've never had... I'm allergic to seafood, so I've never had an oyster. But it also looks like a food
Starting point is 00:17:01 that I would... I had it one time. I had an oyster once. Yeah? The premise was this young lady was seducing me, and she said, hey, I got oysters, and I played along with it. And went, you know, this is gonna get me laid. I'll go along with it. These are an aphrodisiac. I'll play your game, sister.
Starting point is 00:17:18 Whatever you need to do to have sex with me. We'll do that. You know what I mean? I think she was trying to get her head out. Hey, I got oysters. Let's do that. You know what I mean? Like, I think she was, like, trying to, like, in her head, I got oysters, let's do this. Great. Whatever you need, I'll play. And I was probably also hammered
Starting point is 00:17:31 so I could take those, I could eat them easily. I don't think I could do it today. No, it's, well, I mean, to me, the process of eating an oyster is disturbing, right? But, like, a liver is just like eating any other, like, a steak or whatever.
Starting point is 00:17:44 Let me ask you about liver. Let me ask you a question. Yeah. If somebody put down, because I feel the exact same way you do. Yeah, I feel like it's the worst food. There's a plate here. It's got mashed potatoes, green beans, and a piece of liver. And the other one has mashed potatoes, green beans, and a Salisbury steak.
Starting point is 00:17:59 And they just went, close your eyes. And then, yeah, would I be able to tell? I don't think you could so why do we why do we hate liver so much i think it's this for real i think it's the smell and taste like i really do think you're gonna go with the uh right with the specific yeah oh well also uh like when because the salisbury steak when you cook it does it it kind of still looks like a steak but liver can take on kind of a gray-ish appearance. It's really just gross.
Starting point is 00:18:27 I've never had liver. No. And one thing, brisket is something that I've always just assumed was like entrails, and now I'm realizing, oh, it's just a different part of the cow, and it's actually good. Delicious. Yeah. And so I don't know why I've been avoiding brisket for so long. I don't know why.
Starting point is 00:18:47 Years ago when I was still eating meat, somebody, I thought the word tripe sounded appetizing and so I had it at a Chinese restaurant. Woo! Wrong. Woo! Ha! I don't even know what it is. What is that?
Starting point is 00:19:00 Organs. It's organ. I know that you do. Stomach. Nope. I'll pass. Yeah, tripe is, and it's, in the non-food context, it's organ uh stomach nope kind of yeah tripe is and it's it's uh in the non-food context it's like just garbage yeah it's just the oh yeah that's tripe yeah i understand
Starting point is 00:19:11 they're right that makes sense yeah exactly that's uh that's the root of that oh well this is just yeah nobody finishes a meal goes hmm that was right yeah or you see a movie that you really liked right that was really but there are people see a movie that you really liked. That was really trite. But there are people that love liver. My former stepfather used to, we'd go to the restaurant, he would go, I'm going to get the liver and onions. Really? My dad would eat it all the time, and that's why it was always
Starting point is 00:19:36 in our house. Maybe that's it. No, that's him. Don't give me the credit. Don't give me the credit. Is it a depression thing? Like Great Depression? I know it makes me sad when I see people eating it. Hey!
Starting point is 00:19:51 Or like a war rations thing? You can only have these parts of the animal. You're probably right. Chicken feet. I also think it might be a cultural thing. Don't a lot of old school Jewish delis have a lot of liver things on them? probably right chicken feet and uh i also think it might be a cultural thing because don't like a
Starting point is 00:20:05 lot of like old school jewish delis have like a lot of liver things they do you're right you're right uh guys we could sit here this is the liver part of the show did we tell you that before you came you guys told me to prepare two things liver talk be prepared we're gonna talk liver at some point yeah be ready and then of course uh the two celebrity sightings. I was informed to be ready for those. Now, how long have you lived in Los Angeles? I've lived here since January of 95. 95? So almost 17 years.
Starting point is 00:20:34 Do you ever get starstruck, or is that completely, is that over? Well, you know, I work over at Conan, so I see celebrities all the time. Sure. And then before that, I worked at The Tonight Show. I also saw celebrities. I'm also a celebrity, so I hang out with celebrities. Of course, I belong to club celebrities, so we go there from time to time. I see my gaggle of friends.
Starting point is 00:20:57 You know what? I will admit that if I'm at the movie theater and I look over and I'm like, well, there's Martin Sheen. You know what I'm going to go, hey, Martin Sheen and I are... That's so much anymore, but when I first moved here, I would then spend the whole movie looking at Martin Sheen's reaction. Is he enjoying this?
Starting point is 00:21:15 If he's enjoying it, I'm probably going to enjoy it too. Oh, Martin Sheen's in this movie. Of course he's enjoying it. Of course he is. Even he can recognize that. So yes, I still do kind of a little bit. Yeah? Admittedly, yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:28 Because I don't think I would ever get over the fact that there are just celebrities just walking around. They're just like us. Well, that's right. Us Magazine tells us that in the pictorial. One thing I've noticed is, well, in Vancouver, people don't look each other in the face. We don't. Why? I found Vancouver to be very friendly. No? Polite,
Starting point is 00:21:49 but not friendly. I see. Yeah, yeah. It would be considered very weird if you were walking down the street and you made eye contact with somebody, or if you said hello. He would be... Really? Yeah, you'd be thought of. Maybe it's because I look like a weirdo.
Starting point is 00:22:04 Is that possible? Maybe some you'd be thought of. Maybe it's because I look like a weirdo. Is that possible? Maybe a razor could solve that problem. Maybe some shears and a razor. But here, I look everyone in the face to see if they're famous, and then when they're not, I look away. Sure. Well, they're looking at you, too. I know.
Starting point is 00:22:18 I realize that. And they look away in disgust. Oh, no, that's not Wolf Blitzer. That's what they... That's not a young Wolf Blitzer. That's not a young Wolf Blitzer, that's not Wolf Blitzer. That's what they... That's not a young Wolf Blitzer. That's not a young Wolf Blitzer. That's not Wolf Blitzer from a time machine. You know, I don't want to say starstruck.
Starting point is 00:22:33 Now I'm going to backfill a little bit. I find it neat is the word I want to use. Yeah, it's neat. Neat. I can totally... That seems like... That seems totally appropriate. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:42 Yeah, like it's kind of, of hey i'm eating at the same restaurant as somebody who played one of my favorite movie characters or something like that and then you know and then the other thing i do and i admit to this is if it's somebody like um you know the one i'll go to is don rickles when i saw him on an airplane yeah i'm coming from chicago to la which is a four and a half hour flight pardon me i spent four and a half hours thinking what am i going to say to him? Yeah. Well, I've got to say something to him.
Starting point is 00:23:07 He's one of my idols. I've got to say. So whenever I see somebody of that caliber, it's like, I've got to say something to him. Oh, there's Peter Cetera. I have to say something. But why do you feel that you have to say something? Because I'm an asshole. Nine times out of ten, I say nothing, by the way.
Starting point is 00:23:23 I realize that comes in. Why do I need to say something? You don't. Leave the man alone. And I move on. But Don Rickles, I felt like I had to. There's maybe five people in my life where I felt like I need to say something to that guy. I'm not going to go up to the guy.
Starting point is 00:23:35 I'm not going to bother Tony Shalhoub. You know what I mean? Hey, I'm a big fan of Monk. I was on an episode. You know that, right, sir? But, you know, Rickles, Saterra, there's a handful of... And you're the only person in the world who would start a list with
Starting point is 00:23:49 Rickles and Saterra. Yeah, well, those are the two that I can think of that I've met. You know, when Steve Martin came on The Tonight Show, or came on The Conan, I didn't say anything to him. And that's a guy that I probably would have wanted to say hi to. The only person that I've ever really gone out of my way to meet was Bob Newhart.
Starting point is 00:24:08 I felt like I really, like, if I don't shake this man's hand, I'm going to regret this. Yeah, I hear you. Yeah, and it was the greatest. He was the nicest man, wasn't he? Yeah, because I said, I'm a comedian, and he started asking me questions, and I was like, it's too much. It's too much. It's Bob Newhart asking me questions. I just wanted to shake hand.
Starting point is 00:24:23 Please excuse. Right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So you're very busy, man. You're working on the Conan show. You're doing your podcast
Starting point is 00:24:34 every week. I do the award-winning podcast, Never Not Funny. I also work over at Conan, award-winning. And you're also doing stand-up. My stand-up
Starting point is 00:24:40 has yet to receive any sort of accolades. What podcast awards? What? What are these podcast awards? The Casties. What? The iTunes Best of the Year.
Starting point is 00:24:51 Listen, you spin things the way you want. We won the Rooftop Comedy Podcast of the Year. So we actually do have a trophy. Okay. That's fantastic. I was legitimately curious. I'm not taking the air out of your thing. There's also that other thing that I think I always see you guys are one of the five listed.
Starting point is 00:25:09 And then what are those called? Is it the weird, the podcast awards? Those ones? It's the awards. The ceremony ends up being the guy talking into his computer screen going, and best automotive. And then people are all in the chat line, who's it going to be? And it's just a guy reading it. Oh, it's Car Talk the podcast. Yeah, click and cl automotive. And people are all in the chat line, who's it going to be?
Starting point is 00:25:26 And it's just a guy reading it. Oh, it's Car Talk the Podcast. Yeah, click and clack. Good luck. I forget what those things are called, but we're always up for those two, and it's always the same one that wins. You know, it's a popularity contest.
Starting point is 00:25:42 Yes. Yeah, we lose a popularity contest. I know you guys do. You were very early. We're not even nominated. That's not true. On this thing, it's always you and us. I think he thinks he's at a different show. Oh, well, I'll roll with that.
Starting point is 00:25:56 Which one of you guys is Corolla? He's Adam and I'm Corolla. I thought you guys were in disguise. To make you feel more comfortable. We get nominated for Canadian things. Yep. Junos. I'm telling you guys, you're nominated for this one thing.
Starting point is 00:26:13 Oh, that's great. This crazy podcast thing that I've never pulled the name of. But we never, you know. Well, it's an honor. Ha! Oh, man, yeah. There really should be a video component of the show, because Jimmy Vardo, not just quick with the mouth,
Starting point is 00:26:31 but also with the mime action. More than happy to do it. More than happy to do some slapstick. And you're working on something. You've been working on something all this week. You've been taping video segments or something for a project. I'm doing Saturday. I'm guessing that the episode of your program.
Starting point is 00:26:47 This will be a few weeks away. Yeah. So it went great. Well done. But this Saturday, I'm hosting here at the Acme Comedy Theater. They do a Saturday Night Live sort of show. Right. Where they, you know, it's an hour and a half sketch show live.
Starting point is 00:27:00 And they have quote unquote celebrity. Are you hosting? I'm hosting. Oh, wow. I'm a celebrity host. So all this week, they treat it like SNL, where you have a table read on Monday, and they present all the scripts to you,
Starting point is 00:27:15 and then you decide which sketches you want to do. Really? And then they present you with video segment ideas, and you decide which one you want to do, and then you shoot that, and they edit it throughout the week, and then you rehearse, and you pick your scripts, and you get which one you want to do and then you shoot that and they edit it throughout the week. You rehearse and you pick your scripts and you get the rewrites.
Starting point is 00:27:30 It's really kind of neat. And they do this every week? They do it every week. Wow. They seem like a really talented group of people and I'm looking forward to doing the show Saturday. But you rehearse all day Saturday and do the show live Saturday night.
Starting point is 00:27:46 I've done sketch. Yeah. A little bit in my life. Well, with those hand actions. Oh, you saw, you saw how I picked up that phone. I know what to do when a phone rings. Yeah. You're not going to freak out if they have you do that in a sketch. I might.
Starting point is 00:27:58 I'm still, that's my point. I'm still, I'm still a little nervous. I think it's, you know, this isn't standup. This isn't a podcast. No, that's true. This isn't what I've been doing for the last, you know, 20 years. Yeah. You know, I'm going to be walking out, and you know, please welcome
Starting point is 00:28:10 Jimmy Pardo, and the monologue's going to probably go great. Sure. And then, um, you're stepping out of your comfort zone. Yes. I usually fall asleep after the monologue anyway. Uh, well, this comes out a little earlier. This will be on at 8 p.m. your time. You guys will be up at a festival, but. That's right. All right. You know, enjoying, at a festival. That's right.
Starting point is 00:28:26 Enjoying the great outdoors. But this just sounds fantastic. It does sound fun, doesn't it? It really does. And I'm looking forward to it. Because, yeah, sketch has always been a thing where I'm the same way. I don't really do it. I've done it a couple of times, but I don't do accents or characters or anything.
Starting point is 00:28:48 Every sketch I chose is pretty much Jimmy Pardo as a detective. Jimmy Pardo as a Bed Bath & Beyond employee. You know what I mean? Whatever it is, it's going to be me in that polo shirt. That's pretty outstanding. The detectives wear and wear polo shirts. Well, listen, you've seen the YVD Blue. The younger fellas wear that.
Starting point is 00:29:06 They try to blend in. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's not all sipowitzes. Right? It's not all guys in short-sleeve shirts. Button-ups. When you were describing that, I was like, oh, that sounds so great. Why isn't there something like that in Vancouver?
Starting point is 00:29:20 Oh, because there's no celebrities. That's true. Well, you know what? But I don't think the celebrity component is even that necessary. I think up in Vancouver, you know, like, it could be radio DJs. It could be news people. It could be any sort of. That's about anything. Like, every city has those.
Starting point is 00:29:37 Yeah, but that's okay. Bring those guys on. And when you do see someone like that in the wild in Vancouver, it's like, oh, hey, check it out. There's another guy. Yeah. By the way, let's remember, I'm doing it this Saturday. Jimmy, you're huge. I don't know what's, you know, I mean, they do get mostly actors, a lot of soap actors and
Starting point is 00:29:56 actresses, and they get, you know, some Billy Crystal, Richard Mulligan. They've had these people, yeah. I knew I had to pull someone else other than Billy Crystal. Go with Jimmy Bale. Oh, wow. No, I refuse to.
Starting point is 00:30:14 Is that Scott's brother? Scott's cousin, I think. Okay. Jimmy had a leg up getting into the business, I guess. I think they were on at the same time. They might have come out. Jimmy was also with the Bad News Bears
Starting point is 00:30:26 and Breaking Training. Oh, right. Did he have a reality show? Jimmy or Scott? Scott definitely did. Scott's 45 and single. And then 46 and pregnant. And then 47 and...
Starting point is 00:30:39 And canceled. I wonder what Jimmy Bio's doing now. One has to wonder what... Well, he's hosting next week at the Acme show. That's unfair to those people. They're a talented group. Now, is there a musical guest? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:54 Really? It is Saturday Night Live. Who's this week's musical guest? The young lady's name is Katie something. Katie... Lange? That sounds familiar. Yep, yep.
Starting point is 00:31:02 Big Canadian act. Katie Perry? Might be. Is that so right? Yeah, that sounds like somebody. I forget her name. A local.... Big Canadian act. Katy Perry? That might be. Is that so right? Yeah, that sounds like somebody. I forget her name. A local, obviously a local lady. Sure.
Starting point is 00:31:09 And are you going to get to do the Saturday Night Live thing where you come out and introduce the musical act? I think so. How much fun is that going to be? All right, please welcome. Katy. Katy. Once again.
Starting point is 00:31:20 And I'm going to do it just like this. Just like I've seen for 20 years on this in a 30 year. Once again. Katy Blah. Katy Blah. It's going to do it just like this, just like I've seen for 20 years on SNL, 30 years. Once again, Katie Blum. Katie Blum. It's going to be fun. And if the show is a little light, you might have her do a third song. I don't think the show is going to be light.
Starting point is 00:31:34 I know, I know. But occasionally that does happen on Saturday night. You know what happened to my friend John Hamm? When John did his first SNL, I think Coldplay was a musical guest, and Amy Poehler gave birth that night. Oh, good. And so they had to cut two or three sketches, and so they had Coldplay do a third song. So you're telling me they couldn't get the writers around to write a delivery sketch?
Starting point is 00:31:56 Work with it? Yeah. Incorporate what you've already got? That's right. I kind of felt the same way. We're like, fellas, don't we? We've got John Hamm here. He's ready to go.
Starting point is 00:32:04 We've got a whole team of people. Right. Oh, man. I like Coldplay. Play another one. I was thinking about Saturday Night Live. I've seen, I'm guessing, every episode ever. Sure.
Starting point is 00:32:14 Is that true? Do you think you really have seen every episode? Yeah, maybe not so much the Tim Kazerinsky years. I feel like I've seen all of those, the Tim Kazerinsky years. Are those also the Charles Rocket years? They might be, yeah. Charles Rocket was, I think, just before. Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Starting point is 00:32:28 Yeah, it would have been the same era anyways. Yeah, the Julia Louis-Dreyfus. But I was thinking, because I was having this conversation with someone, and we said, hey, I don't think I could hum the Saturday Night Live theme song. Oh, Jesus. Like, has it been the same theme song or do they just improvise it every week? I think you're right.
Starting point is 00:32:48 It's the same one, but... It's Saturday Night Live! You're right! You couldn't! For a million dollars. Could you do a Letterman's theme right now, though? In fairness? Oh, wait.
Starting point is 00:33:06 That's a night place. But it's in there, right? That's the Letterman, roughly. I don't know what the Tonight Show theme song is. Yeah. I hear it every day, and now I'm a big mouth. I couldn't pull it right now. But it's got a nice groove to it.
Starting point is 00:33:20 Yeah, I don't... I can't pull it. I'm sorry. Yeah, Letterman, I could... Yeah, you're right. Well, I always just thought Saturday Night Live's theme song was like a lot of kind of really crazy saxophone That's what I'm wondering, are they jamming every week
Starting point is 00:33:32 or is it a set piece of music I'm going to say a set piece of music You said piss Well listen, I was hoping that was slot and we were going to nitpick People make mistakes That's real life. If you guys brought me on your program and assaulted me, then mission accomplished.
Starting point is 00:33:51 Because it finally happened. Dave, what's going on with you? I know what's been going on with you. Yeah, we've been hanging out in Los Angeles. Yesterday we went and watched a heartbreaking hockey game with comedian John Doerr. Who'd you see? It was Vancouver versus Boston. In the Stanley Cup Finals.
Starting point is 00:34:10 We went and watched it via television. Yes, in a sports bar. Because we don't get the channel in the hotel. But, speaking of celebrity sightings, here's some big news. Do you have, in your places of homes... In my home? Do you have a computer network, and when your iTunes comes up, you see the iTunes of everyone else in the home? I have that at my house.
Starting point is 00:34:35 What do you mean, like the... No, what? Oh, on the left bar on my screen, in my house, my fiancée Abby and I, we'll see in our left bar, I'll see Abby's computer as listed as one of the, and I can listen to her iTunes. What? Oh, that must be on, you must be on some home sharing. Yeah, but in this hotel. Situation.
Starting point is 00:34:57 I've had a few, like I see other guests' computers. Who are you listening to, Luke Wilson? Well, I saw one that was Adam Duritz's library. So you're saying Duritz is right here in the... Duritz. I think it's Duritz. I don't think there's a W. What did I say?
Starting point is 00:35:13 Duritz? Yeah. Duritz. Duritz. I'm just going to throw this in here. Who's Adam Duritz? Lead singer of The Counting Crows. Oh, right.
Starting point is 00:35:20 Yeah, right. That's not them. Yeah, it is them. So I'm looking forward to seeing him around the hotel, maybe the pool area. Yeah, he seems like he's got to be hanging out at the pool with his crazy beard. Oh, maybe we could bond over that. I don't think he's been near water. I think you're pretty safe going down by that pool and not seeing him.
Starting point is 00:35:43 He's primarily a land animal. There's a risk of that hair getting some cleansing. I don't see that happening. I heard there were clip-ons. What? What, his face? His beard? His dreadlocks.
Starting point is 00:35:53 Oh, no, that can't be true. Yeah, well, I heard that in 1996. Right when this conversation was relevant. Well, no one had computer networks back then. That's true. I mean, I understand how you got into it fluidly. What if that's how you worked it? I've got to get to my Duritz piece.
Starting point is 00:36:09 I've got to get to my Duritz 5. Everybody else got that iTunes thing? That's what happened with me. No one can relate to this thing. I know what you're speaking of, and it scared me one time with the iTunes when it said, allow sharing. And I went, yeah. And all of a sudden it said danielle's i was like you don't know i
Starting point is 00:36:27 don't that seemed like i was invading somebody's privacy even if it was my wife's who was sitting three feet from me yeah and she had enabled sharing right oh yeah i don't think she knows that she has that i think women right yeah the girls don't understand technology man i agree with you uh so that's what's been going on with me. Well, something that happened when we went out for breakfast. Yesterday, Mr. Paul F. Tompkins was here. We were talking about movies that he's seen recently. He saw the X-Men movie.
Starting point is 00:36:58 He talked about how much he hated it and how dummy he thought it was. And then we mentioned Bridesmaids, how fun it was. What a great, great, fun, romantic. He concurred? He concurred, absolutely. Your friend John Hamm, perfectly. Have you seen it? I think it is the funniest movie in the last five years.
Starting point is 00:37:16 Yeah, he plays a kind of greasy, you know, womanizing dude. Perfectly. He did a great job. But anyways, there was a guy at breakfast this morning, one table over, asks the waiter, what did he think of Bridesmaids? Doesn't really care what the guy's going to say. Because he's got his thing
Starting point is 00:37:34 ramped up. Gotcha. Exactly. The guy says, yeah, I don't know. I kind of liked it. He goes, I just didn't, you know, I just thought I didn't like it. I just, you know. And the more he says it, the more the waiter's like, yeah, I can see. Oh, no, I was talking him into it. Yeah, well, because the waiter kind of wants a tip, right?
Starting point is 00:37:50 Right. So the waiter's like, yeah, I guess. You know, I kind of still liked it. It was better than The Hangover. Yeah, yeah. And then this guy says, you know, but I did see the X-Men movie. Super good. Super great. Guy that hated Bridesmaids, loved X-Men. Loved the X-Men movie. Well, he said X-Men movie. Super good. Super great.
Starting point is 00:38:05 Guy that hated Bridesmaids, loved X-Men. Loved the X-Men movie. Well, he said X-Men movie. Good. So good. Really, really, really good. Yeah, I just kept saying... It's a great movie.
Starting point is 00:38:15 Good. Good. Everything was either good or great. Great, yeah. Different degrees of it. Boy, oh boy, was that guy loud. You could hear... Almost a block away, you, was that guy loud. You could hear him almost a block away.
Starting point is 00:38:26 You could hear this guy talk. Well, and he, after the guy, he complained about bridesmaids. He said, I don't like all that chick humor, but I'm glad you agree with me. I just wanted to get another straight guy's perspective on it. Oh, Jesus. No, because he was, because the guy talking was gay. No, no. The waiter? No, no. The guy that was going on and on Oh, Jesus. No, because he was because the guy talking was gay. No, no. The waiter? No, no. The guy that was going on and
Starting point is 00:38:48 on with his reviews. He was gay because he said he and his boyfriend went to see Bridesmaids and so he was asking for a straight person's opinion. That guy was gay? Yeah, I know. That really shocked me because he looked like an MMA fighter type. Yeah. Sure, they like to grapple.
Starting point is 00:39:03 Sure. No one's made that connection before. So we got to meet that guy. I didn't meet him. I didn't know he was gay. I didn't meet him. I will say this, by the way, just so that I can get this out of my system. I don't think it is a chick joke movie. No, no. That's what I've heard. It's a funny movie. And any comparison to Hangover is inaccurate. And any comparison to a chick flick is inaccurate. It's a funny movie that the five leads happen to be women.
Starting point is 00:39:32 Yeah. And the lady, and I don't know the actress's name, but she's also on Mike and Molly. Melissa McCarthy. Yeah. She, I had never seen her before. Saw her in the movie. She plays one type of character in the movie and then on that mike and molly show which i just saw yesterday completely different
Starting point is 00:39:49 like if you didn't know it was the same person you wouldn't know makes you want to watch mike and molly she was so good right that's how i sat there and watched half an hour mike molly yeah cured it um and then what else that's uh no. I'm still nursing this bashed knee that... Bashed it on the... On the corner of the bed. Hidden corner on the bed there. Yeah. And so that's...
Starting point is 00:40:13 Yeah, that's not great. Yeah. Not hospital bad, but like a step down from hospital bad. And what was the... Urgent care? Nope. Just lots of icing. So three steps down from hospital, then.
Starting point is 00:40:26 Oh, I guess. Well, you know, like... I mean, you went hospital. I mean, then after that, I think you got, you know, med clinic, certainly. Oh, like a clinic. Okay, sure. Okay, I got you. Hospice.
Starting point is 00:40:35 I think hospice is after hospital. I think hospice is after, yeah. Midwife. No, you may not know medicine. Okay. Medicine. Oh, can't speak. Right? Medicine. Oh, can't speak. Don't speak.
Starting point is 00:40:51 Really great. And good. Yeah, X-Men. Also, the guy, that was the thing at the watching the hockey game last night. There was a Boston guy there who was wearing a Boston Red Sox jersey, and he was watching the Boston Red Sox game and cheering for that. And then he was watching both games at the same time. He was just cheering for everything Boston. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:15 And apparently their city chant is, Yankees suck. So even if their hockey team does well, they start shouting, Yankees suck. Yeah. He was the worst. He was the worst guy currently. I don't get it. Right? Who cares who you hate?
Starting point is 00:41:33 I grew up in the south side of Chicago, so I'm a White Sox fan. And so many White Sox fans, you'll go, how you doing today? It's a great day. Cubs lost. Okay. I don't... Really? Really? That made you have a better day? Because some other baseball team lost? I don't get it.
Starting point is 00:41:49 Well, who knows what a bad day is like for that guy. That's a true statement. Are you kidding me? That's a true statement. I think a bad day would be a Cub loss and a White Sox win. That'd be a bad day for that guy's empty life. Bad day. White Sox started wearing shorts again. Oh, that's a good day.
Starting point is 00:42:05 Those were nice years. Yeah. I think they wore them six games. Oh, really? Yeah, the shorts. Years. Yeah. 76 was it when they wore the shorts?
Starting point is 00:42:14 That seems like it would be very... I don't know exactly. That would impede sliding. Yeah, right? It was an error. It was an error. Yeah. E-G-M. That's in your scorecard right there. That's how you score that one. Yeah. That's how you score an E-G-M. That's in your scorecard right there.
Starting point is 00:42:25 That's how I scored that one. Yeah, that's how I scored E-G-M. General manager for you non-sports people out there. My pleasure. Glad I could bring it to you. First we have to do an advertisement. Life can be fun. Don't get carried away.
Starting point is 00:42:41 You gotta do the things you don't want to do to get through the day. You gotta shine your shoes. You gotta sweep the floor. You gotta do the things you don't want to do to get through the day. You gotta shine your shoes. You gotta sweep the floor. You gotta clean your house. You gotta do some more. Take care of beers in the house. Sorry for the abruptness.
Starting point is 00:42:54 Yeah, that was, I apologize for that. Anyway, we are here back in Vancouver. Yeah. I'm Dave Schumacher. Do we need to reintroduce ourselves? Well, I'm still Graham Clark. You may recall us from the first part of the episode you are listening to right
Starting point is 00:43:08 now. And we need to stop, take care of some business. Yeah. Pay some bills. So sit back, relax, and let us just take care of you. Yeah. Let it just wash over you. We have three sponsors this week. Three sponsors?
Starting point is 00:43:24 I know, that's an all-time record. I think so, yeah. Up from one. The first one is from a listener named Henry. Hi, Henry. How's it going? Wink. Did you say how's it going?
Starting point is 00:43:37 Were you pretending to be him, or were we going to have a conversation? Oh, yeah, well, I don't know. Hi, Henry. Hello. My friend Amber and Cords are getting married. See? I sound just like Henry. Henry's friends, Amber and Cords, are getting married this Friday, July 1st.
Starting point is 00:43:53 Amber is getting married to a pair of Cords. She's very eccentric. Yeah. They all live in Pasco, Washington, which is home of... I don't know. I don't know what I was going to say there. Yeah, when you said it was home of something, I made a face. Yeah, you did.
Starting point is 00:44:13 And then I freaked out. It's home of Amber and Kord. Yeah, sure. Also, El Pasco. That's what I was going for. Some kind of hot sauce reference. Kord has asked Henry to be the official of the wedding. Officiant.
Starting point is 00:44:30 Yeah, officiant. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, an official would be a referee, right? He's going to referee the wedding. And so he's been ordained on the internet. They used to play Dungeons and Dragons together, this whole gang. Oh, yeah. That's all going to end now?
Starting point is 00:44:44 That's over yeah you're gonna be a lonely nymph whatever you were um and uh both uh amber and cords are teachers which is great yeah they're leading the future yeah into the future yeah children are the future um i heard coal was the future clean coal oh okay yeah i heard it was uh uh fast rail high speed rail magnet rail yeah um anyway they do that uh cord uh chords uh is a musician um he's made a bunch of songs about monsters godzilla uh monsters i guess your mothras your rodans your bonsai king kong your king kongs your feng shui what else are they mecha godzilla okay um did godzilla beat all of them yeah yeah he never uh he never went down for anybody uh. He would never throw in the towel, his gigantic towel.
Starting point is 00:45:45 You expect me to take a dive? I'm God fucking Zilla here. This is my home turf. Yeah. That I couldn't crush into the ground. And yeah, they are getting married this Friday. It is a delight. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:00 Friday, our Canada Day, your wedding day. Yeah, it's a celebration and congratulations across the nation to you, Amber and Cords. Yeah, and when you say kiss the bride, you guys should both turn around and kiss Henry. That would be funny. Everybody would enjoy that. Henry's officiating, and then he goes, now you can kiss the bride, and they both turn around and kiss him. That'd be funny.
Starting point is 00:46:21 Would it? Wouldn't it? No? I don't know. How many weddings have there been in the history of mankind uh over a million okay and how many people have done that uh none that i know of and i think there's a reason why why it's not that funny it's kind it's because everything else is kind of slow and boring unless they're dressing like dungeons and dragon characters
Starting point is 00:46:42 they almost certainly are or Or like foam rubber monsters. Oh, he's Godzilla and she's an archer of some sort. Yeah. I gotcha. Yeah, she's got a high charisma rating. Okay. No, that was our first ad. Yep.
Starting point is 00:46:59 Painless. Yeah. Happy wedding. Happy wedding to you. Now, the second one comes from listener Samuel Hansen, who we both had a chance to meet at MaxFunCon. Always in sports coats. He's a very tall man. When I met him, I said, I think I remembered him from being a guy who lost a lot of weight.
Starting point is 00:47:18 But then he said that he had not lost a lot of weight. So I made up a whole narrative about him that didn't exist. Right. That's weird. Yeah, it's weird. I must have been thinking about somebody else. Did you, were you like, hey, you look great? No, as soon as I met him, I was like, I said, he said, I'm Sam, and I said, I know who you are, you're Samuel Hansen, you're the guy that lost a bunch of weight.
Starting point is 00:47:41 And he was like, what are you talking about? And I was like, oh, i don't uh i don't know i think i thought you were that anyways he's a mathematician yeah um and he is going he's a huge podcasting supporter i've met her met her and him a couple times he's got an invisible girlfriend yeah uh she lost a bunch of weight she's very thin it's kind of that's what i meant when i said you lost a bunch of weight when they when they thin. It's kind of... That's what I meant when I said you lost a bunch of weight when they broke up. Right. I was like, no, you lost about 135 pounds.
Starting point is 00:48:12 Samuel's going to start... He's got a... What's it called? A Kickstarter. Yeah. He's got something up on Kickstarter to do an eight podcast series about the world of mathematics. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:23 To tell the stories behind mathematics. Who was Pythagoras? What do we know about this guy of mathematics. Yeah, to tell the stories behind mathematics. Who was Pythagoras? What do we know about this guy? Yeah, yeah. Why was six afraid of seven? I have my theories. Why the long face division, etc. Sure, yeah. What's Fibonacci
Starting point is 00:48:40 up to? And it says that he's got a lot of experience with podcasts with AcmeScience.com. And so he's going to turn out a good product. I think he hosts like three math podcasts already. But this one, he's got lofty aspirations for this one. And he's going to need some support. He went to a math conference and people recognized him from his math podcasts.
Starting point is 00:49:06 Wow. So he's in the world of math podcasts. We're talking a heavy hitter here. He's trying to get a new... He's not as heavy as he used to be. That's right. He lost a lot of weight from what I gather. And the project is called Relatively Prime and it can be found online at http://bit.ly.
Starting point is 00:49:28 It's one of those shortened ones. Oh, it's one of those shortened ones. Yeah, bit.ly slash relprime. Relprime. R-E-L-P-R-I-M-E. And you can get all the information about the podcast and about the Kickstarter project he's working on. Yeah.
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Starting point is 00:51:31 want to move on to overheards okay overheard overheard is a segment in which uh if you happen to be sitting at a table and the guy behind you is giving his extended review of movies. We really blew it. Yeah, this would be a perfect time to use such a bit of a conversation that you've heard. And we like to start always with the guest. But we can start ourselves and then come back to you if that makes you more comfortable. You seem really uncomfortable. Yeah, you seem a little scared.
Starting point is 00:52:03 Wait a minute, where are my notes? Now here's what I got. Alright, this is what I talked about on my... I've got four of them here. Oh my! Wait, do I? One, two, three... Four, yeah. I talked about this one on my very podcast, Never Not Funny. Oh, I've heard of it.
Starting point is 00:52:25 This was a musclehead, jarhead, roided-up guy walking into the gym on the cell phone. All I'm saying is a Cyclops wins that fight. Yeah, like an eye-poking battle. Cyclops is going to win nine times out of ten. You know what? I'm not going to... Is he? No, he loses that.
Starting point is 00:52:46 Really? Because... Well, I guess. Yeah. Well, Cyclops can't put the hand down the middle of the face to block the eye-poking. Yeah, he can't do the mof to the curly. Yeah. Oh, that's true.
Starting point is 00:52:56 I guess you're right. So I'm thinking of a... Well, what contest is a Cyclops going to win every time? Staring contest? Cyclops, I should tell you this, are not in a lot of fights. It's not real. And they're peaceful people. The Cycl contest? Cyclops, I should tell you this, are not in a lot of fights. It's not real. And they're peaceful people. The Cyclop?
Starting point is 00:53:08 Yeah. Oh, very peaceful. The Cyclop. They're very peaceful. Yeah. I like that a lot. I heard that one. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:17 That's what I heard. Yeah. Now, do we want to go to you and then me and then back to Jimmy? How about that? We only have one apiece. So if you want to... You know what?
Starting point is 00:53:25 I'll double dip it and then we'll go around. I love it. Two of these I heard from others. This was one of my buddy works at a... My buddy is a car dealer. Wrong. Car salesman sells cars. Sure.
Starting point is 00:53:41 What's the difference between a car dealer and a car? I think the car dealer owns it. Okay. This guy just works at... He sells cars. Sure. What's the difference between a car dealer and a car dealer? I think the car dealer owns it. Okay. This guy just works, sells automobiles. And he heard two other car salesmen having this conversation. Hey, nothing wrong with gay people. It keeps the population down. Whoa.
Starting point is 00:53:55 Yeah, until they make ass babies. Fair enough. All right. You didn't think about that science. He overheard that, my buddy on the south side of Chicago. You didn't think about that science. He overheard that, my buddy on the south side of Chicago. So these are both people who live in weird worlds where, A, Cyclopses are participating in fights and existing.
Starting point is 00:54:13 Yeah. And ass babies are existing. All I'm saying is the Cyclops wins that fight. Again, right up muscle head guy walking into the gymnasium. The Cyclops wins the fight for custody of the ass baby. Oh, you're combining the two. I'm not going to fight you on that. You're of the Cyclops. I'm a peaceful man. I'm a Cyclops.
Starting point is 00:54:33 You're a Cyclops. Dave? This is a couple sitting on a bus. Sure. The woman in the couple, her roommate is moving out. The guy's like, oh, why is she moving out? And she says, oh, she was really sick all winter long.
Starting point is 00:54:51 She thinks it's because she was living in the attic. But she also parties really hard. That's probably why she was getting so sick. I guess it depends what kind of sick you would be getting. Yeah, that's true. Barfing, alcohol poisoning. That'd be from partying. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:08 The attic's not going to give you that, right? No, it might give you dust. Oh, I couldn't imagine living in an attic. That's not a good... Living in an attic? There's a famous woman that lived in an attic, and that did not end well. Right? I've never thought of her as a woman.
Starting point is 00:55:23 A child. Child, yeah. Small child. Yeah. Well, she certainly blossomed She certainly blossomed During her time We're talking about Mayim Bialik right Don't know about the future Is that the right theme song
Starting point is 00:55:38 That's the SNL theme song I did a pilot called Extra Sauce for the UPN network. Is that right? Yeah. Okay. And Mike Stojevic, the guy that was the older brother on Blossom. Anthony Russo was the character.
Starting point is 00:55:57 Yeah. No. Was it? Did he parted his hair down the middle? Substance abuse problem. That's our guy? Yeah. Uh, he, um, uh, he was one of the cast members on this thing.
Starting point is 00:56:10 And, uh, you want to talk about, like, Starstruck? Yeah. All I did for five days on this set was ask him Blossom stories. What was it like working with Enola Hughes? Hey, what about this? Hey, leave me the fuck alone! Let me, like, that was 10 years ago, you asshole. Extra.
Starting point is 00:56:26 Fanola Hughes. Remember Fanola Hughes? No. I know the name. Oh, she's the beautiful woman that played Anna Devane on General Hospital. Oh. And then she became the father on Blossom's, I want to say, live-in, or at least love interest. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:56:39 And she's gorgeous. Now, Blossom, that was, her friend was six. Six. Yeah. Yeah. Jenna Von Hoy. And her older brother was Joey friend was six Yeah, Jenna Von Hoy And her older brother was Joey Whoa
Starting point is 00:56:48 Come on, the gesture was needed for that Or else it just sounds like I'm an idiot And her grandfather was Buzz Oh right I remember a lot about Blossom People liked that program Yeah, I chose not to do homework in high school Yeah, sure
Starting point is 00:57:03 You learned everything you needed to know from Blossom. Yeah. Every episode was a very special episode of Blossom. Something's going down. Now, Graham. Yes? You have overheard. I do.
Starting point is 00:57:15 I was trying to think of... We've been doing... We did three episodes in three days. We're scraping the bottom of the barrel. But thank you. We are kind of thin. Thanks. We lost 30 pounds each.
Starting point is 00:57:27 What? Great. You've seen me before. Quite dumb. We made a pact. I could imagine. I saw a guy and a girl walking along the seawall in Vancouver. And the guy, I think, was...
Starting point is 00:57:44 I can only assume just from the sentence that I heard, but I think he was trying to up his, the fancy words he was using to impress this lady. Right? And he was talking about his brother who, quote, has almost finished his completion of that course he's taking. Oh, he's close to completion, huh? Almost finished it. At the University of Phoenix.
Starting point is 00:58:09 At Barbizon. She was nice enough to not, you know. Punch him in the face. Yeah, exactly. Jump her to the water. Just start slowly. I'm good! I'm moving to Australia.
Starting point is 00:58:26 I'm moving to Australia.'m moving to Australia That's a good breakup line I wonder when she's going to finish the completion of that swim Now did you have another one? I do and I'm going off page for one of these This was a famous Jimmy Pardo one This is a famous Jimmy Pardo
Starting point is 00:58:44 I overheard this at the mall. Going past the LensCrafters. And it says, the sign says, the optometrist is in. And a little boy says, Mommy, what does that sign say? And she says, optimist. And I went in, and guess what, guys? The glasses were half full. Nice.
Starting point is 00:59:08 Come on. Woo! Yes! I did my own punchline. Woo-hoo! But that actually did happen. I did hear that conversation. The punchline was all me.
Starting point is 00:59:18 But you know what? Great all around. Yeah. Great all around. Nailed it. But here's the actual, here's one that I overheard at a diner. Let's call it six months ago My back is to this booth My back is to the booth
Starting point is 00:59:31 I don't know who's behind me And all I hear is You want some of this? What? I'm asking Do you want some of this? And I turn around And there's an old man asking his wife if she wants a little bit of a sandwich.
Starting point is 00:59:49 In my head, I was like, oh, they're going. This is go time. She's got a bit of a hearing problem. You want some of this? I'm telling you, I love you. I think someone in the next hotel room is going to have an overheard. Y'all ready for this? That's something missing, aren't it?
Starting point is 01:00:09 That's how it goes, right? Are you all ready for this? Too Unlimited? Is that who that did? That's right. They weren't too unlimited. Well, no, no. There's no limits.
Starting point is 01:00:19 I'm putting my notes away. I don't need them anymore. Well, we also have overheard sent in from our listeners. If you want to do the same, you can send them to stoppodcastingyourself at gmail.com. And the first one comes from Zach D. from North Carolina. Living in the South, I see a lot of great church signs. Today, I passed one that said, if God doesn't light your fire, your wood is wet.
Starting point is 01:00:47 What does that mean? Interpretations. Anybody. Your wood is wet. The indication is that, uh... You have a sloppy boner. I mean, that's... Sure! That's what he was going for, right?
Starting point is 01:01:03 I don't understand it. I don't... like, personally, I don't understand it Like personally I don't understand What that means A fire can't get lit with wet wood I understand that much I think it's a metaphor What's the metaphor If God doesn't get you
Starting point is 01:01:18 You're something wrong with you You're a soggy twig You're a wet blanket You ever try lighting a wet blanket on fire? Yeah, sure. Who hasn't? We were all kids once. We've all wet a few blankets in our time.
Starting point is 01:01:36 This next one comes from Megan C. She's from Brooklyn. I always like to guess people's last names. Oh, you'll never guess this. But maybe it's a celebrity. There's no real famous Megans, though, are there? Megan Cox. Oh, sure, yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:53 Well done. I have no idea who that is. Megan Fox with a C is all I know. That's all I was doing. I apologize. Well done. Of course, the terrific actress Meg Kryan. I think she's great.
Starting point is 01:02:05 So I passed by a girl on her cell phone yesterday, and she was ranting about her boyfriend. All I caught was, I was like, you don't even know what eggs were when I met you. He, like, thought that brown eggs were unbleached eggs. So, she was dating a real.
Starting point is 01:02:22 Maybe it's the same guy I saw on the C1. I'm not entirely sure why some eggs are brown and some eggs are white. I don't see color. That's the win. Close off the show. Wrap it on that. We'll see you next time. I don't see color.
Starting point is 01:02:38 By the way, eggs are the thing, going back to our food situation. You can't even imagine eating eggs. Is that right? In any over-easy... In a scramble. Scramble. No. What if an egg is an ingredient in, like, a cake?
Starting point is 01:02:51 Like a cake or a cupcake? Yeah. Or a pie? Good to go, unless it's too eggy. Right. Like, even my French toast, you kind of have to make it so that the egg disappears. That's a...
Starting point is 01:03:02 Yeah, I think an egg... That seems like a fairly common one that I've heard that people just can't egg disappears. Yeah, I think that seems like a fairly common one that I've heard that people just can't. Yeah, egg cannot do it. I have to because I can't. I don't eat meat, so it's not egg. My old lady, same way, man. She's a hippie like you.
Starting point is 01:03:18 Yeah, I know. Her and I should go to Burning Man together. I don't want you two hanging out. Okay. I hear what your idea was. Oh, anything goes I should go to Burning Man together. I don't want you two hanging out. Okay. I hear what your idea was. Oh, anything goes at Burning Man. And this last one comes from Phil W. from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Phil Wanahoo?
Starting point is 01:03:33 Yeah, Phil Wanahoo. Great talk show host, Phil Wanahoo. Here's a conversation between my six-year-old daughter and myself. My daughter, do boys make the babies or do girls make the babies? I say, boys make part of the baby. Then she asks, do boys make the head or the butt? Well done, kid. Well, it depends if it's
Starting point is 01:03:54 an ass baby. Ah, right. Good call. Boys make the butt. Boys make the butt. Boys make the butt. Boys make the butt. So that guy overheard his own conversation? Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 01:04:07 Just wanted to make sure. Fun, right? Concept of the show. Sometimes our listeners scrape the bottom of the barrel, too. In addition to overheards that have been written in, we also get calls. Yeah, that's right. And if you would like to call us, our phone number is 206-339-8328. Hey, Dave and Graham.
Starting point is 01:04:23 This is Mark from Cincinnati, and I have an overheard that comes from a co-worker. She heard her niece, her five-year-old niece, say the following when she saw Dolly Parton on a morning talk show. She said, Mommy, what happened to Lady Gaga? Oh, I think that's my new favorite kid's darndest entry. Yeah, I could see that. Sure. Lady Gaga. Maybe Dolly Parton looks like a burned Lady Gaga.
Starting point is 01:04:58 Oh, hey, come on now. I haven't seen her in a while. She looks great. She does look good. She looks like Dolly Parton. Yeah, I think she's one of the ones who looks great, who's had good plastic surgery. She looks good from 9 to 5. Watch out after 5.
Starting point is 01:05:10 Nighttime. Look out. Next up. Hi, Graham, Dave, and guest. This is Isaac from Ohio with an overheard. This was about the middle of the year at school. I was in the library. There was a girl.
Starting point is 01:05:26 She said to another girl, hey, what are you doing your research project on? She's like, and she said, animal rights. So first girl said, animals should have rights. But when they're letting monkeys vote, I think that's crossed the line. That just made me crack up.
Starting point is 01:05:44 So thanks for listening. Bye. vote, I think that's crossed the line. That just made me crack up. So, uh, thanks for listening. Bye. I don't know why that doesn't ever come up in the conversation about animal rights. Sure, yeah. Once we let monkeys vote, that's when I'm going to back off of this animal rights thing. Animals really, if you consider it, animals have
Starting point is 01:06:01 no rights at all. We put collars around their necks. We lead them around. We make them go to the bathroom in a box. But Dave, slippery slope. All of a sudden they're voting against us, am I right? Sure, yeah. Well, they outnumber us.
Starting point is 01:06:15 Yeah. Oh, God, they're everywhere. Did you not see Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, sir? I didn't. They turn on us. Oh, really? Is that the prequel? No, that's the fourth of five.
Starting point is 01:06:26 Yeah. Which one was the one where they went? They seem to have turned on us in the first one as well. Well, it turns out. Oh, yeah. That's true. But then they come back to modern day, and we are treating them like slaves, and they revolt.
Starting point is 01:06:40 Oh, apes. That's right. They're revolting. Is that the one with the, it's in the 70s and there's a roller disco scene? Is that Conquest of the Planet of the Apes? It's gotta be. What? Is that the bad one?
Starting point is 01:06:49 I don't remember that scene. Because they're beneath the Planet of the Apes. Beneath is number two, and that's the one where the apes are really not in it because it's beneath. It's beneath them. And then three is Return of the Planet of the Apes. That's when they, Zira and Cornelius come back to. Right. Come to now.
Starting point is 01:07:04 And then. And the third one, that's the one that has a guy that looks exactly like Charlton Heston, but is not Charlton Heston. That's number two. Oh, that's number two. I think it's James Franciscus. Right. And then number four is this conquest that we speak of. Right.
Starting point is 01:07:16 Right. It's Cornelius's kid. It's actually Galen. Oh, yeah. Number five is Battle for the Planet of the Apes. And I forget the premise of that. I haven't seen that one in a while. Did you see the remake?
Starting point is 01:07:27 I did. Loved it. What? Did you? No. Oh, Jesus. That was going to be awkward. Are you looking forward to the next one?
Starting point is 01:07:35 Are you anticipating it? You may not be looking forward to it. Rise of the Planet of the Apes? Is that what it's called? I find it interesting. You know, the premise behind it is they made this movie, and then they said, let's call it a Planet of the Apes movie because that will get more attention. Oh, was it not a Planet of the Apes movie, because that will get more attention.
Starting point is 01:07:46 Oh, was it not a Planet of the Apes? No. Really? From what I understand. And I may be 100% wrong. Huh. Because they filmed part of it in your neighborhood. They did, yeah.
Starting point is 01:07:54 You live in a zoo. That was my dumb guy. You live in a zoo? And if I do? I think that's terrific. Yeah, right? It's a lot of fun. But you knew it was an ape movie at the time.
Starting point is 01:08:08 Yes. On account of all the apes. Yeah, all the apes sitting around smoking cigarettes in their acting chairs. No, there was none of that. Because there's old stills of that from the original Planet of the Apes of the guys. Wearing sunglasses. Sunglasses. They're great.
Starting point is 01:08:20 Sun hats. There's a... Taishikis. They're great. Sun hats. There's a... Daishikis. I was looking at a page of behind-the-scenes photos from Star Wars, and the C-3PO character, when he's half in costume, half out of costume, probably one of my favorite looks I've ever seen.
Starting point is 01:08:34 Because he's wearing yellow sunglasses to make his eyes that tint, because he would wear the mask, and then those sunglasses... Yeah, so he's wearing the sunglasses and this black hood, but no of the top part, but all bottom with shiny robot legs. It was great. Yeah, fantastic. And finally. Oh, one more call. One final call.
Starting point is 01:08:53 Here we go. Everybody, y'all ready for this? Hi, Dave and Graham and possible guests. This is Corin from Tampa, Florida, calling in with yet another overheard. Last night I was out to dinner with a bunch of people at a restaurant which also offers hookahs on your table. So we were all sitting outside at a table, and we had a hookah there, and we were having our appetizers. and we were having our appetizers. And we were sitting there,
Starting point is 01:09:29 and an older gentleman, probably in his 40s, with two younger girls, walked by and remarked to the two girls, hey, look, at that restaurant, you can have a bong at your table. And then one of the two girls said, nice, Dad, thanks. You're embarrassing everybody, Dad. The way he said hookah it sounded like
Starting point is 01:09:47 he was uh it was gonna end up with prostitution yeah that's what i thought that's where i thought the whole because he kept saying hookah like that was going to be part of that hookah hookah i heard hookah sure i heard hookah hookah as well i still was thinking it would end up somewhere else, you know, somewhere in the area of interesting. What a snooze call. Graham, you've... I'm being... No, you've just been zinged by the great humor. For humor. I say it for humor.
Starting point is 01:10:13 I want this new young man to... Yeah, he's a very new young man. ...be very upset with me. Corin? Corin, sure. It's Corin, right? Yeah, it's like the Indians call it maize. Oh!
Starting point is 01:10:23 Oh-ha! Woo! Love it! You smoked for many years, Graham. What? Yeah, cigarettes. Did you ever smoke a hookah? Yep. How was that?
Starting point is 01:10:36 It's like the tobacco that they use in hookahs is very, it's more like pipe tobacco, so it smells wonderful. Like it's not like pipe tobacco, so it smells wonderful. It's not like cigarette tobacco. And it's a lot lighter because it's through a water filter. I don't get the science of it. People who have never smoked couldn't smoke it and not cough. It's not like if you don't ever smoke marijuana
Starting point is 01:11:00 and then you cough a lot. And why would you want... Listen, I've never done anything like this. Sure. Why would one, like, let's say Jimmy Pardo shows up, and they say, hey, let's enjoy a hookah. Sure. Would I get lightheaded?
Starting point is 01:11:12 Why would I want to? What's the positive? Oh, yeah, I guess you would. Like, if you never, because at the time I was a smoker, so I didn't notice. But, yeah, it was smoking tobacco, so you would get a little bit lightheaded. Okay. You'd have a bit of the. you just noticed that you didn't smell as bad yeah and it's it's a like in the culture's way they do it it's a hugely social thing like it's having like having coffee after but i never said those people what is it relaxing i don't know i i would assume i always found smoking to be very real i imagine I imagine it's like the opposite of an oxygen bar.
Starting point is 01:11:47 Which is... Was that a thing that ever existed? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Graham Baldwin and I did it in Vegas. Did you really? Let's be oxygen bar people. We don't do anything. Let's do this.
Starting point is 01:11:58 That's for the O2 people. Do you get flavored oxygen? I think it's scented, yeah. Wow. I think it's scented, yeah. Wow. I think it's scented oxygen. That's a whole... Well, yeah, I guess it's like the... Yeah, it is the opposite of that.
Starting point is 01:12:11 It's an oxygen deprivation system that you're using. But yeah, no, I thought it was great. I don't know if I would do it now. I feel like anything that I smoke now would be the slippery slope back to smoking cigarettes again. I've spent so many years not smoking cigarettes that i don't i wanted for you it's filth right i don't now that i look back on it i can't believe i did it for so long uh but i can't but yeah i can't believe anyone does it like well i can't it's great when you see like a sexy lady do it like a dirty girl yeah yeah it's sure it's you know it's great when you see a sexy lady do it, like a dirty girl. Yeah. Yeah, sure.
Starting point is 01:12:46 It's great in a movie. Jimmy's nodding. Well, listen, you know that your dirtier girls smoke. Yeah, right? That's what you're getting at, right? Sure. You got a chance with them. Next thing you know, you're eating oysters. Have you ever walked past...
Starting point is 01:13:01 I've never seen a person smoking from a hookah, and I thought to myself, I want to hang out with that guy. Right? It's never somebody that I go, that guy looks like a good guy. It's somebody that I go, look at this asshole. Nine out of nine times that's what I'm going to say. I want to share a mouthpiece with this guy.
Starting point is 01:13:19 Everybody's got their own mouthpiece. You don't pass around. That would be the worst. It's embarrassing your lack of knowledge on the hook. So now, this is...
Starting point is 01:13:30 Well, let's wrap it up. Yeah. You've got places to go. Right, how are we doing on time? How are we doing on time? We're five minutes from the deadline. Sure, okay.
Starting point is 01:13:37 We got to seven. What is coming up? Now, this is going to come out in the three... The 27th, maybe? Yeah. Of June? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:13:44 So what's going on for you in July? What's coming up in July? We're going to be doing a live Never Not Funny July 16 at the theater in Denver. Really? I can't pull the name of it. The Mile High Theater. Oh, no, that's not it. Glen Campbell Memorial Theater.
Starting point is 01:14:02 That's it. Bronco Town. He's not dead. Oh, the... Glen Campbell Memorial Theater. That's it. Bronco Town. He's not dead. Oh, the Or... Bob Denver's Theater. Or. Give me an Or. Give me an Or name.
Starting point is 01:14:11 Orphium. Is it Orphium? There's one in Vancouver called the Orphium. God, that's what I'm thinking. Some theater in Denver. This is awful advertising. Just type Denver space OR and it'll fill in. What if it's not OR?
Starting point is 01:14:24 Yeah, what if it sends you to the Denver operating room? Why don't you just check out podcast.com? You'll probably have information there. That's not helpful either. I'm a failure. But you're doing a... What's the date? Do you know the date of it?
Starting point is 01:14:35 July 16th. July 16th. It's a Saturday night. It's going to be the only live podcast happening in Denver. I'm going to say that. I'm going to say that without even knowing any facts about it. And they do live rock and roll shows there. Sure.
Starting point is 01:14:47 Oh, at this venue. At this venue, yes. I thought you just meant Denver in general. I heard they're letting rock and roll go to Denver now. It's dancing and still banned. Yeah. Sorry, of course it is. Are you guys hearing that up in Canada too about Denver?
Starting point is 01:15:01 They're allowing the music in? Yeah. It's dangerous. Yeah, then it's finally gotten there, but you know, hey. Who are we to keep it out, right? Listen, music takes time to get a mile high. That's not going to commit it. That's not sea level. So,
Starting point is 01:15:15 July 16th, live Never Not Funny, Denver, Colorado. It's Colorado, right? What? What's up? It's not a different Denver. No! It's right there. You know what? I apologize. It's at Bob right? What? What's up? It's not a different Denver. No, it's right there. You know what? I apologize.
Starting point is 01:15:28 It's at Bob Denver's house. That's why I couldn't think of the theater. It's right at his home. We're going to go there. That's a guy that likes his marijuana. It's called Little Buddies. Is he alive? It's called Little Buddies.
Starting point is 01:15:36 Oh, damn it. He is dead. He's no longer with us. We lost him recently, right? It wasn't that long ago. He's up there with John Denver. I like John Denver. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:15:44 I always have him. They're having an omelette in the sky Wow, that's a lot of Denver's So anything else in July? Jimmy Parder related Or Never Not Funny related Or anything like that? You know what, the summer is I'm going to be in Mason City, Illinois
Starting point is 01:16:00 On July 8-9 And that's you doing stand-up? That's me doing stand-up comedy, yes. Which, if you haven't seen Jimmy Pardo do stand-up comedy, fantastic. Listen, I appreciate you saying that, and I'm going to quote club owners' top five shows. I'm in the top five of all time at every club I've gone to recently. That's pretty great. So, again, I'm quoting them.
Starting point is 01:16:24 That's not me bragging. That's me quoting what I've been told. Top five. Quoting at every club I've gone to recently. It's pretty great. So again, I'm quoting them. That's not me bragging. That's me quoting what I've been told. Top five. Quoting unnamed club owners. Listen, at various clubs. Every one of them. Every one of them. Every one of them. Some say best. I'm not going to tell you that. Yeah, sure. I'm just saying top five. Some say top four. Some say top five.
Starting point is 01:16:39 One woman said top three, but listen, we're not going to... One guy said top five, so that's all inclusive. Sure. I remember the first time that I saw you doing... It was at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, and you were on the Alternative show. Okay. Hosted by Andy Kindler. Yes. And you came out and did a set.
Starting point is 01:16:57 This was before I think the Alternative show really was... Like, now you can't even get into it. It's so popular. But it was... Like, now you can't even get into it. It's so popular. But it was... The first time I saw it, it was, you know, only really big comedy fans were at this late night show. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:17:10 And you were doing a thing where you kept saying that there was a mouse that was going to come out and do a show on a shoe. That might have been the second time the mouse story was ever told.
Starting point is 01:17:19 It was so funny. Thank you. Because we didn't... Because you kept saying this line, tolerate my bullshit, people, and you'll get to see this mouth. Sit through me. Stick around for this mouth. I could not stop laughing. Thank you.
Starting point is 01:17:31 The rest of the week, that was the catchphrase. Tolerate my bullshit, and then we'll get to get to this thing. That was at a venue where I believe the stage was, if I'm not wrong, 75 feet high. Yes! And the audience was 75 feet below your feet. And there weren't many of us, but it was all huge comedy.
Starting point is 01:17:50 It was a great show. It was me, Bill Dwyer, Andy Kindler, Flight of the Conchords. Yeah. Doing a couple of old men character. There was, what's his name? Mitch Hedberg? No, not Mitch Hedberg. Mitch Hedberg wasn't at, not that night, but there was a guy, I want to say Dan... Mintz?
Starting point is 01:18:06 Dan Mintz. Dan Mintz! Yes. You know what? I want to say Mitch was there. He was hanging out backstage. He was at the festival. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:18:11 Absolutely, he was at the festival. Yeah, I remember. Are you sure he wasn't on that show? He may have been. I think he was. Yeah. I think Mitch was on that show. But I remember just being blown away.
Starting point is 01:18:19 And I was blown away that it wasn't sold out. Like, we were sitting in the fourth row, and we showed up, you know, ten minutes before the show was starting. But now, I was there last year, you can't even get in the door. Here's why. Here's the difference. The show you saw had the two words Jimmy Pardo attached. And if there's ever a way to keep people away, that's the way to do it.
Starting point is 01:18:38 Now, too, top five. That's what I heard. Well, that's recent. Hey, it might be top five. It doesn't mean anybody's showing up to see it. I'm just telling you you the staff enjoys it. They like to see me flop around on stage in front of an empty room. They're just worried about the check drop.
Starting point is 01:18:55 Nothing worse than a check drop. Every comedy club, if you're listening to this right now, lose it. Lose the check drop. Not one comic thinks it's okay. We will have workouts. No, you won't. Yes, every now and then you will. But it's better than ruining the show.
Starting point is 01:19:09 I love how you flip-flopped on that. No, you won't. Well, yeah, you will. Yeah, you will. You know, I still stand by you won't. I think people are better than that. Yeah, generally people are better than that. Right?
Starting point is 01:19:18 Especially people who go to a comedy club. Yeah. There are some people who go to comedy clubs that are worse than that. But, you know, good with the bad, right? Right. Open a door, close with the bad, right? Right. Open a door, close a window, or however that goes. Open or close a window. Nope, I think that's it.
Starting point is 01:19:30 Yeah. You're not going to be able to burn it if it's wet wood. You know what I'm talking about? Well, thank you so much for being a guest. No, I thank you. I know. Okay. I do.
Starting point is 01:19:40 This was great fun. We accept. What a joy. What a joy, indeed. Long time in the making, but it happened. And everybody out there listening, if you do want to send an overheard or if you want to call us with a
Starting point is 01:19:52 drunk dial, we will accept your drunk dial so that your poor friends, when you're drunk, don't have to. We will take on that. Put the number on the phone right now, 206-339-8328. Jimmy's putting it in his phone. And if you want to contact us by email stoppodcastyourself
Starting point is 01:20:07 at gmail.com and go to maximumfun.org to see the blog recaps that Dave does for each and every show that have pictures and videos relating to things that we talked about. Maybe a picture of Fanola Hughes. Yes! Good one Oh perfect. She's very pretty
Starting point is 01:20:23 It's not going to be hard to find a good picture of her. Am I right? Never Not Funny is my podcast. Never Not Funny. And that is a weekly podcast. And you're in season... Niner. Just started season nine. Season nine. Outstanding.
Starting point is 01:20:40 Uh-huh. And also you can go online and see Jimmy Pardo doing behind-the-scenes stuff at the Conan Show. I am. It's called the Pardo Patrol. Which is so funny. Thank you. Thank you for bringing it up.
Starting point is 01:20:52 Yeah, we just started doing them. We've only done two. And the response has been amazingly great. Really, really funny. Thank you so much. It's one of those things I was nervous about it. And then when I saw it, I was like, hey, these are funny. I hope people like them and it turns out they do.
Starting point is 01:21:08 So I'm very lucky. So there you go. There's so much Pardo out there. Get into it. Get it up all over you. It's like baseball fever. Catch it. Dave, anything else? Well, congratulations to us on our many podcast nominations. Yes, congratulations.
Starting point is 01:21:25 And thank you for voting. That clap was louder than I thought it would be. I'm really sorry. And check me out on CBC Radio 3, wherever. Please check him out. And every Friday or every Saturday, the R330 podcast comes out. Check that out as well. Okay.
Starting point is 01:21:40 If you like Canadian independent music. And why wouldn't you? Jimmy's making a face. What do you guys play? Brian Adams? No, independent. Anne Murray. Yes.
Starting point is 01:21:48 Rick Emmett. Of Triumph? Mike Reno. Nice. Yeah. Lover boy. Mike Levine. I don't know who that is.
Starting point is 01:21:57 Also of Triumph. Lesser members of Triumph. They're the bassist. Triumph is nothing without a bass. What's the drummer? Moore. Something Moore. Jay Moore.
Starting point is 01:22:07 Dudley. Demi. Julianne. These are all really good guesses, guys, but no. They're all great Moores. Gil. Gilmore. Gilmore.
Starting point is 01:22:15 Gilmore. Of the Gilmore Girls. Yeah. That's it. That's our guy. Rory. So check that out. Do you have anything you need to prom-bombed?
Starting point is 01:22:23 I'm still painting with my beard. Selling those online for the benefit of my friend buying a new wheelchair. Hopefully by this point, the end of June, we will have purchased that new wheelchair. Jimmy's face worth a billion dollars when I talked about that.
Starting point is 01:22:38 I had seven emotions go off. I was like, oh, make fun of that. Oh, don't, don't. Oh, good for him. That's great. That's what my face did within seconds. Twitch, twitch. Oh, Mo, go as flat as you can.
Starting point is 01:22:51 Go as flat as you can. No emotion. Thank you again for being our guest. Guys, listen, it was a pleasure. And, yeah, if you enjoyed the show, tell your friends and come on back next week for another wonderful episode of stop podcasting yourself

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