Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 172 - Jimmy Pardo
Episode Date: June 28, 2011Comedian and podcaster Jimmy Pardo joins us to talk about male jewellery, Canadian classic rock, and Planet of the Apes movies....
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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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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
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?
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...
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
Chicago-o.
Chicagoans?
Chicagoans.
Okay.
Go like A-N-S, right?
Sure.
Chicago-ans.
Chicago-ans.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
You ever smell one of those?
Wait, smell it?
I guess.
Yeah, I guess.
Okay.
All right.
You smell it?
Sure.
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?
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?
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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
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!
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Please excuse.
Right?
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
So you're very busy, man.
You're working on
the Conan show.
You're doing your podcast
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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Sorry for the abruptness.
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
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Can you read more about that ad on MaximumFun.org?
Oh, yeah. All the ads
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Yeah.
Oh, very peaceful.
The Cyclop.
They're very peaceful.
Yeah.
I like that a lot.
I heard that one.
Yeah.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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...
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
I did.
Loved it.
What?
Did you?
No.
Oh, Jesus.
That was going to be awkward.
Are you looking forward to the next one?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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
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.
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!
Oh-ha!
Woo! Love it!
You smoked for many years, Graham.
What?
Yeah, cigarettes.
Did you ever smoke a hookah?
Yep.
How was that?
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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?
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rick Emmett.
Of Triumph?
Mike Reno.
Nice.
Yeah.
Lover boy.
Mike Levine.
I don't know who that is.
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.
Dudley.
Demi.
Julianne.
These are all really good guesses, guys, but no.
They're all great Moores.
Gil.
Gilmore.
Gilmore.
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?
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.
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.
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