Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 219 - Cameron Reed

Episode Date: May 29, 2012

Musician Cameron Reed joins us to talk bleeps vs. bloops, video arcades, parades, and themed bars.

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 219 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who's feeling a little bit cardigony, Mr. Dave Shubka. You know what it is? I changed clothes when I got home and I did the Mr. Rogers. You really did. Minus the canvas. What did he wear? Vans? Keds?

He wore like a Vans vault What did he wear? Vans? Keds? Yeah. He wore like a Vans vault. Yeah, sure. One of those classic Vans. Absolutely. Did the Vans ever come out with a limited edition Mr. Rogers model? A Mr. Rogers plimsoll? I'm not entirely certain, but I think they did.

Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Believed in, you know, neighbors. Sure. Actually, you know what? What? Do you believe in neighbors? Not really.

Oh, I do. I've never really enjoyed the neighbors. Yeah. But you've been enjoying your neighborhood. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And you have a rich fantasy life. Yes.

Yeah. I didn't enjoy Mr. Rogers' rich fantasy life either. Oh, really? Yeah, those puppets, like. The King of Cartoons, Heckle and Jekyll. Sure. I don't know. I didn't make it that far.

The Pirate, Captain and Tennille. You know what? I was super facial. They were ugly puppets. Yeah, sure, absolutely. But that was a life lesson, is that a lot of things and people are ugly. Yeah, so change the channel. You've got to be nice to them anyways.

That's what Mr. Rogers taught us. Be nice to everyone, ugly or otherwise. Beautiful people are easy to be friends with. Oh, doy. Yeah. And our guest today, returning guest, a multifaceted man, a man of many talents. He fronts Babe Rainbow. He is Babe Rainbow.

Let's not kid ourselves. What's the backup band for Babe Rainbow? Zero, right? Just you. That's all me. are there what's the backup band for babe rama zero right just me um also a blogger for vice uh co-creator of uh shit harper did and uh um there's something else i'm missing one yep come on dave i don't remember what it is help me out neighbor it's internet based uh and we just it's all internetbased. I barely exist in real life.

That's not... Come on now. All right, tell us what the thing is we forgot. It could be where I work. Sure. I work at an ad agency that deals in social change sort of issues called Truthful. Truthful. And his name is Cam Reed.

Hi. Cam Reed. Hi. How are you? I'm great. Welcome back. Thank his name is Cam Reed. Hi. Reed D. Cam Reed Reed. Hi. How are you? I'm great. Thank you so much for having me back. Oh, thank you for coming back. I really like this room. Well, we like you in it. This is your first time. You weren't in this room before. You were in the old place, right?

I think he was probably here recently enough. No kidding. Yeah. Oh, let's get to know us. Yeah. Stop it, you guys. Get to know us. You're doing a lot of of things we were just talking about you're gonna go on extensive tour in the fall you're gonna go be uh international um music star i'm yeah i just joined a band that is not my own i've put kind of put my own music on the side for a bit to work to be the touring band for How to Dress Well. Nice.

We make sort of experimental pop, I suppose you could call it. A lot of beakers, a lot of equations. That kind of experiment. Bunsen's burning. Alchemy, the alchemy of pop. Oh, really? That kind of experiment. Yeah, so we've been rehearsing for the last month and a half.

What position do you play? I am playing piano, synth, drum machine. And right wing. And sampler. And in your own band music, you make electronical music. I make electronical music. But not with turntabling.

No, there's very little turntabling. I suppose my question is this. What are more important, bleeps or

bloops? I've been a fan of the bloop. I think there's more range to the bloop. Bleeps are

just too high. It feels like bleeps were very 90s. Am I right? Yeah. Bloops are the way of the next century.

Well, Graham and I, a few weeks ago, we were speaking about... No, don't apologize. Maybe you can explain what that is. I just made it up. I'm going to go home and write a record. Because we... I think we've heard the word dubstep many times. And we know it goes wubba wubba.

It's the downtown Julie Brown of music. And bloopstep goes blubba blubba. Everybody knows that. But is that it? Is that all? Just wubba wubba? Yeah. Yeah.

If I were to sum it up, yeah, it's just that. Someone takes a microphone, does that, adds a few bloops. They actually do it with their mouth. Wubba, wubba, wubba. See? We're almost. We're close to bloop step. Alright, thanks for coming. This is what I was saying. We could do one of my tracks if you guys just do the drums and I can just

wubba, wubba. Okay, drum, drum, drum. Drum, drum, drum. Drum, drum, drum. Drum, drum, drum. Drum, drum, drum. That was great. That was great. That was good. Yeah.

Oh, did anybody drop the beat? Oh, let's do the chopped and screwed version. Tap. Oh, I don't know what that means. I think it's that very slow. Yeah, it's a thing. Slow it down. Ah, there's a lot of things.

Chopped and screwed classical gas. Mm-hmm. Oh, That was all off air. No, it was not. Oh, the classical gas part. I thought you meant what he just said. Oh, no. That one phrase you said was off air. That was off air. Whatever you just said.

That's happening. So now, musician, which is enough, right? That would be enough if that's all you did. That would be enough. I suppose. I mean, based on... Just life.

I think if you were like, I'm a musician, full stop. People would be like, that's enough. That's enough. Cut it out. Stop. I don't want to hear anything more. But you also, would it be fair to say you're like a politically minded activist type sorry i think i think i think i just i i'm just loud more than anything like sure you know

you care i care but i mean like it's uh the yeah i mean a lot of the things a lot of the things with truthful the the agency you know it's the the whole idea with that is like trying to try to use comedy as sort of a conversation starter to get people who would otherwise not be interested in politics or lame issues yeah lame i gotcha they to you know try to engage them because otherwise you know they're probably not reading the news anyways i don't give people much credit i don't i'm just kind of like no you don't you're an idiot you need us to make a joke out of it for you to you know but it's I don't know it's like the daily show model

like people watch the daily show be funny yeah that's where they get their information and their critical lens of reading the news I guess yeah but yeah so with that it's good but like the vice the stuff that I've been doing for vice about Canadian politics is a lot more sort of ranty, I suppose.

But yeah, still fun, I guess. Yes, I'm a politically minded person. You wrote a thing in Vice about how to... Maybe it was on Twitter and it led into a Vice thing about how cynicism... It's hard not to be cynical but also you should do something about it anyways type of thing was that just on twitter or was that a vice thing i feel like i'm saying i'm just yelling that constantly in general yeah in general i don't know yeah how do you wear like how because cynicism is great it's easy it feels

like oh i'm the most cynical person in the world i just how do you fight against how do you wear, like, because cynicism is great. It's easy. It feels like a nice warm bath. Oh, I'm the most cynical person in the world. Yeah. How do you fight against it? How do you, because I, you know, Dave, I know you and I, we enjoy a nice cynical time. Yeah, sure. What? I'm trying to get to the root of something. I think that he says it's very important.

I think it's like. I'll be over here. No, I think it's very important i think i'll be over here i think no i think it's i think it's arrogance that's how you beat down cynicism you're like like oh i don't need to care about that you know it's just like but then if you're like oh i care about that you're kind the fly i'm just fascinated by the whole thing because everybody most of the people i know uh is cynical but without there's no uh respite from it there's a it's only cynicism and because it's really, it comes naturally, I think, to myself and my peers. And the other, not so much. The doing something about it.

Well, I mean, you know, I like what we do, but also at the same time, it's writing articles on Vice online. You write the do's and don'ts, is what I'm saying. I hope that people read it and then like think about it or something but i'm certainly not i mean with the vice stuff i'm certainly not being like you know now go to the streets and take action you know it's more of just like the politician should do this more you know yeah mushrooms yeah mushrooms steven if you're reading this vice article like i'm sure you are um but uh but yeah with the with the agency stuff

we do more you know organizing and and uh and more you know i guess activisty sort of so there's like there's a degree of satisfaction in the work that you do yes sure oh imagine hey yeah oh brother Oh, brother. It's waking up. Oh, got to do this again. Yeah. You wake up like wanting to leave the house and stuff. Oh, that sounds really good. Well, I mean, you know, it sounds good from here. Grass is always greener, right? And Europe tour, you're going all over Europe and then into Asia.

Wait, you're going to? You're going? He's doing America, then Europe, then into Asia. Wait, you're going to, you're going, so you're. He's doing America, then Europe, then Asia. Yeah, you switched gears very quickly. That's how I do. I don't know exactly. I don't know the whole schedule yet, but I. Oh no, he's writing articles for Vice.

See, you thought I switched too fast. He's going to be a correspondent for Vice. Yeah, okay. Yalls and Nines. That's the German version. Anyways, where are you going? I'm just going to be going on a big long tour with How to Dress Well in the fall. Where are you most excited to go?

Japan, if we go there. I don't know exactly if we're going there, but I would love to go there. I've never been. Dave? Japan? No. I would love to go there also. Bring me. When you find out if you go, bring me.

Sneak me in. Tell them I'm the bassoonist. This is my partner in my bloop step project. Yeah, Japan. Japan. this is my partner in my bloop step project uh yeah japan i uh uh like what now you're saying this is experimental pop music that's touring uh what is that like what do you mean experimental like how experimental like one note for an hour like how crazy is it i mean like it's uh you know i think i think it's it's very it's it's very textured sonically the you know there's there's a lot there's a lot going on wall of sound yeah but it's also not you know we're not using normal drum patterns and and uh and it's

kind of unconventional sounds and structures, I would say, for the music. But then at the heart of it is just really good melodies and sort of pop sensibility as far as the hooks go. So you'll be listening to the song and it'll get in your ear and you'll totally be able to sing along and remember it. But everything else that's going on with the music is kind of a little more unconventional, I would say.

Like a loop of somebody sneezing.ing yeah just samples of people sneezing like weird breathing into microphones yeah on a lot of looping just loops lupus loops bloops i'm just well that's the thing working with this i'm happy to be doing i'm happy to be doing less bleeps and bloops with this. It's actually nice, rather than my normal button pushing and blooping. Less bloops, more loops. Yeah, you agree that bloops are more important than bloops. I do think that bloops are much more

important. A few weeks ago, Graham and I were talking about a reality show, like a competition Top Chef-style reality show for DJs, was it? Yeah. America's Next Top Chef, hosted by Armin van Buuren. Armin van Buuren. Who hosts the Trance podcast.

Yeah. And his catchphrase when you were voted off was, was it? Something about dropping the beat. Yeah. Dropping you like the beat. Yeah. The beat has been dropped or something like that. I can't remember what it was now.

It was very important. Yeah. But you brought it up for a reason. Or just to bring it up. Just because of like... Just a celebration of bloops. Well, keeping in mind that this is all being cut out. Yeah.

That's getting cut. That's all off air. Would you like to be involved in that? Would you like to be one of our judges? I'd like to compete. Oh, really? Yeah. Do you do the record scratching DJ stuff?

I also do turntabling. That's, you know, the way he says it's so much more compact than what I was saying. Turntableism? Turntabling. I've heard turntableism. Turntable-ism? Turntabling. I've heard turntable-ism. Turntable-ism I think is more like scratching. Oh. That's not what we're talking about.

What's turntabling? Turntable, well... What are we talking about? What are we talking about? Is this still about cynicism? Because that was boring. Hey, you know what? I felt like we got to the core of something.

Well, at least scratch the surface. Like so many records. Turntabling, go. Tur go turn to what do you mean you do it oh like playing a record yeah but then you just have two of them okay yeah uh do you blend them together occasionally yeah yeah yeah that to me that's the the essence if there's not blending together then it's just why don't you just show up with a playlist on an ipod right that's the thing or do people do that with people also do do that oh man uh do you inside of dj circles do people hate people that do that because that seems like a real cop-out compared to having a record there yeah i mean there's total there's there are people that there are people that complain about you know using uh cds as you know cdjs which are just

dj things where you're using cds are they called cdjs it's called cdjs well what are ipod djs called they just go back to dj or do they have a like a name i dj oh i lowercase i it's that uh isaac asimov welcome to earth is that what will will smith says in that movie uh independence day yeah yeah yeah i i dependency i independence day oh we're the greatest um what okay. So we've covered a lot of ground here so far. Bloops. Bloops. Bloopstick. Wubba.

Wubba. Bloops versus loops. Yeah. I am getting up in the morning and going to rehearsal and then coming home and watching Battlestar Galactica and drinking a liter and a half of wine. Uh, Dave, have you ever watched Battlestar Galactica? I have not. Really?

No. I mean, really, yes. Yes, really, I haven't. It seems like something that would have drifted into this household at some point. Oh, it's come into the household, but I have no interest in it. I don't know who brought it here. Yeah. People tell me that

even if you don't like science fiction, you would like Battlestar Galactica, and I feel like that's a lie, because it seems like you'd really have to like science fiction to like that show. Yeah, that's one of those things that's like when they tell you a cartoon is good for grownups as well. Oh, yeah. Like, have you ever seen a cartoon where you're like, I felt good about watching that? I mean, like, I like watching cartoons that are meant for kids.

That's fun. But then if there's an adult based cartoon, like where somebody draws an erection. I was going to say like those Fritz the Cat things. And I was like, that just the cat things and i was like that just i don't know like a horny cat that really makes me uncomfortable like i don't want to watch that when i was like 11 and or 12 and i heard that those existed that was all i wanted to find like i never i didn't end up seeing them until i was older and i was like this is gross wait you wanted to see them because a cat was going to have sex with a crow. You're like, I'm allowed

to watch this. Or just because it was like it was boobs. It was a different way of boobs. It's true. Or did you ever see that or hear that game Leisure Suit Larry? Yeah. And also that

I remember playing that at a friend's house and I was kind of like, oh they the girl made a um a banana sundae to look like a dick and i was like it's like totally in a like an erotic adult game like that's who's watching this cartoon man get stoked on i don't know a lot of kids i never played it but i i that was fascinated by it well that was something i also wanted like that was up there with Fritz the Cat with my to-do list. You were a titillated child, weren't you? I remember when I was a kid.

That was your to-do list. Get Boner looking at these things. I'm sure what happens next will come naturally. I assumed, because they had video arcades that were 18 and over. Like you had to be a grown-up to go into these video arcades on Granville Street. Oh.

And I assumed that they just had Leisure Suit Larry in there. I just assumed it was the games that were adult and not the beverages. Oh, so there were arcades that served alcohol? I think so, yeah. Why isn't that still a thing? Because that seems like the perfect thing. Because there are no arcades that served alcohol? I think so, yeah. Why isn't that still a thing? Because that seems like the perfect thing. There are no arcades at all anymore. Isn't there still one on Granville?

That one that, like, I mean, it's mostly for drug dealings and probably prostitution of some sort. Sure. Which I assume always there was a bit of that going on at every arcade. Wasn't that like kind of a, like it was like a great place for, great place for pimps. Yeah, there's every, every place has drugs and prostitution. Not just arcades. Bowling alleys. The YMCA?

Yeah. The Wave Pool? Mm-hmm. What? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, wow. My eyes have really been closed this whole time time uh but at arcades it was dark at the very least it had that advantage yeah um well no i mean like it's easier right when was

the last prostitute in the dark and in a way i'm sure and it's easier to do uh do the other side of the process, to John in the dark. I imagine. Sure. I suppose my question is this. When was the last time either of you were in an actual video arcade? Does the one on the ferry. I was just going to say. The only time.

That was my thought. I haven't... I can't remember even going to an arcade as a kid Oh really? I mean I grew up with Nintendo So I mean why am I Going and paying a quarter For every time I want to be terrible at a video game

Yeah that's true But weren't the graphics Like way higher on arcade Than on the Nintendo Yeah and you could like sit in the the chair of the whatever also it's a truly immersive experience there was also like a lot of more prostitution also at the arcade than at my uh you got you got to figure out like how to put a turn a bill into many coins oh that's my favorite That was my favorite game. I broke even every time. Did I talk about how on the ferry there was, for a while,

a game that used to have guns, like, you know, in the holster, and you would shoot the screen, and they obviously removed because of complaints. They took the guns out, and it was just a block attached to a wire. It was a metal block, and you pointed that at the screen. It had a button on it, and you just pressed the button. Boo. Yeah, boo is right but also i played it like for you know most of the ferry ride because i thought it was very funny it was harder to hold than a gun too because it was like a huge garage

door opener yeah like it just had one button on it but it was the size of one of those plastic guns it was like a brick yeah it was like brick fighters i feel like that's somebody who really committed to a cause that had a kid like i don't want a pink it was pink and blue gun right because the very few guns that you would buy on the black market would be uh boy and girl colored and um anyways so that's the last time I was in an arcade I remember being If you ever stayed in a hotel Sometimes the hotel would have shops And they would call the level with the shops

The arcade And I would get so excited And then get so disappointed Another sunglasses hunt What would you think? So you never played in arcades? I mean, not as a destination, like going out of my way to go to an arcade. What did you do as a kid?

My goodness, it seems like that was the only thing I did. I played video games at home. Oh, yeah. Also did not leave the house. Yeah, the arcade I went to was right next to a pet store as well. So that was a real night out on the town. Yeah. You'd go to the arcade and then when you're done with that,

you go look at the pets. They had a pond full of turtles and you could go look at fish. Is that illegal now? Is that illegal to have live pets in a store? It probably depends on the municipality. But yeah, they generally come from like dogs will come from a puppy mill. But the, there's a bird store near where I live and, uh, it's always humid when you walk

past, like, uh, it's always like wet on the inside, even if it's totally dry. They're cooking pasta. The birds? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. They're enormous. Ambulatory birds. The past is for the birds.

I know you're not allowed to sell turtles. I think that's a thing. Yeah. Even when they had them at this pet shop, I don't think you could buy them. But people threw pennies at them. I don't know. It was all a very... Terrible thing.

Yeah, I guess it was pretty terrible. If there's a body of water inside of a mall people will throw uh coins and garbage in it yeah maybe that's how the turtles got there they weren't selling them people were just throwing their turtles in the fountain was this like a fountain in the middle of the mall yeah oh that's not a pet store no no it was connected to a pet store there was also a fountain that shot um had like a you know a noon show and a 1 p.m show that shot water and turtles in the air i don't think malls have as many uh water displays as maybe they once did

i feel like malls really used to jazz it up yeah now it's all yeah it's just about the commerce it's disgusting yeah teens these days yeah yeah disgusting. In teens these days, they can't be around a fountain. They don't know how to hang out in a mall food court like we used to. True. You know, KFC and New York fries. Yeah. Buy the large drink that gets

free refills and then all your friends can drink all night. Everybody pees in it and then you throw it at the turtles. Free refill this. I missed the point. People like you, that's why I wasn't going to the arcades. Oh yeah, because of my pee on everything policy. Yeah.

Dave, what's going on with you? Arcade wise. Oh, well, I'm opening a new arcade. It's called Wizard's Palace. Now seems like the time. Here's what's going on with me. Not very much. We last recorded three days ago.

Okay. And on Monday, it was a holiday. It was Queen Victoria's birthday. Ugh. I've had enough. I was watching the news, and there was a parade happening and uh it was pouring with rain where was it happening i don't know like maybe in victoria or england yeah no no it was just like a local one it was just and it was pouring with rain and people

people were wearing like a marching van was wearing rain ponchos and then there were people that were dressed in like it was supposed to be um uh like traditional dress but they were all wearing coats over top to cover it up uh and i guess i my question is 2012 do we we need parades? Uh, yes. Now more than ever. Um, but also,

uh, I got in an argument with somebody about this very thing about, like, I I'm tired of being, uh, tied to the, uh, monarchy in any way, shape or form.

You were, I saw you cringing. I just like, I'm like, I would give up that, uh, civic holiday if it meant that we never had to pay attention ever again. Now Prince Charles came to town. The opening of every newscast was that Prince Charles was here. And I was like, that shouldn't mean anything to us.

Because he's a do-nothing, know-nothing from the other side of the world. And I've had it and i'm done with them being on our money and taking they take a cut they must take a cut because we're a colony of theirs still and they don't think they take a cut i think they do and licensing fee yeah exactly that shit ain't free you you know how much money they make in tea towels uh i but i i'm done with it towels? But I'm done with it. I feel like I'm done with it. I never cared before every newscast this week started with Prince Charles being in the country.

I'm like, enough! I've had it. I think it's pretty easy to ignore. I don't think they really interfere with my life. Cam? I would say, as long as there weren't parades, and I am totally on board with your get off. Alright, well he's agreeing with both of us. Well, I am agreeing with both of you.

It's totally irrelevant. Don't ever notice it until it's on the front page or there's a parade. But you're crazy to want to give up a holiday. But you know what? I don't have a job, so those holidays just end up feeling like Twilight Zone episodes where the bakery around the corner from me is closed for no reason.

That's a really good Twilight Zone episode. The twist is that I really wanted a cookie. But, you know, it just makes me angry that we're still... Um, but I, you know, it just makes me angry that we're still like, because we don't even get to have a palace or no, we can't become knights. So we're like still part of the thing, but we're not like part in any of the fun ways. Do you know, like you and I, we can't become dukes no matter how hard we try. But unless we have some cool band. Yeah.

Or we move to Hazard and get into all sorts of trouble those guys weren't real dukes okay well what if what if all of a sudden they did open it up to yeah i'm listening all right sure i mean but also like you're you know you're part of a group of people that are musicians are getting knighted and you're kind of like, well, it's not really that cool. Uh, have any dubstep musicians been knighted? Sir Skrillex. Oh, if they,

like if they put the sword on one side, they'd probably have to wipe it down. Cause he's got like really greasy hair, but just on the one side. And then he'd be like, Oh, you did it too short on the other side. Dumb haircut.

Um, anyways, I just, I just want them out. Out! Unless they're going to open up the full... Like, if I'm allowed to do all the things that British people are allowed to do. Okay. Cuss. Riot. Enjoy soccer.

Enjoy soccer. Ruin my own teeth all the time. All the time. Ruin your own teeth instead of other people's teeth. No, but I also want the ability to ruin other people's teeth via riot. Via hooliganism.

But these are things we're not allowed to have in Canada. We're supposed to be civil. This is why we can't have British things. Give them all of our pelts, right? Yep, that's the rule. Like how many pelts do you have in the house i don't have any more pelts exactly yeah who has them the queen the queen's uh she's using them for a big blanket for snot racks she doesn't call them that what does she call them? Boogie tissues.

That's some good nonsense. So, yeah, that's me. I didn't like a parade, and then you made it about you. But wait, are you anti-parade across the board? Yes. What about a carnival? Was that a nighttime parade? No, I mean it's... Oh, is that like a Leisure Suit Larry style parade?

Yeah, yeah. Then I'm on board, yeah. Parade of Dead Lost Souls. Not Dead Souls. Lost Souls. I guess I'm... Yeah, no, I'm done with parades. Pride parade?

Here's what a parade is. St. Patrick's Day parade. I'm not done with pride parades. But, you know, that's because... I don't want to come off like that guy who's anti-private i don't want that to be the pull quote um but uh yeah like is it who goes and watches people just people walk down the street i've never been to a parade really yeah cam well i think that's i think that's the thing the idea that you know the old- timey parades where someone's sitting on the back of a car and waving a hero or you know children surrounding them that's i don't believe that anyone is really

that important so i wouldn't want to go out of my way to stand on the street to wave at someone in a in a car what if theoretically robert de niro was just going to be sitting in the back of a convertible waving at people would you go stand in the back of a convertible, waving at people. Would you go stand in the street to just go check it out? Would there be other... There might be other looky-loos. No, but would there be other things in the procession, or is it just one dude? There would definitely be an opening act. Yet to be determined.

Could be the comedy of David Spade. I would not go. Just based on the opening act. I would go if Robert De Niro is driving in a car down the street. If it's, you know. Well, he's not driving. No, he's in the back waving. Oh, no, he's going to get shot.

He's going to get assassinated. Well, hey, during the torch uh the torch run outside of the the office that i was in we could see down on the street just loads and loads of people watching grexie um wayne grexie yeah running with the flame and it was pouring it was pouring rain that day and i think the flame went out at one point or um good detail but uh i didn't see a point of even that of people watching him carry the flame yeah standing in the rain to watch a guy run by with a thing on fire what if okay what if somebody famous was running down the street with a thing on fire and you were playing the theme for Benny Hill. Wackety Sax. Yackety Sax.

Oh, uh, yeah, okay. God damn, I hate the breaders so much. No, I don't. I love them. It's the monarchy I want gone. Um, yeah, sure, whatever. I wasn't paying attention. I'm just saying that a parade could just happen by accident because something was going down the middle of the street that was awesome.

Because someone's watching something happen. Yeah, that's all a parade is. No, it's not. It's people waiting around for some dumb marching band. For something to go by. Yeah. And usually, I think, is there one thing, like, oh, you got to wait. You got to see this big finish.

Yeah. Usually, it's Santa Claus, right? Yeah, and then what do you wait for? What else do you see in the Santa Claus parade? Oh, I'm saying Santa Claus ends all the parades. He's at the end of the Pride parade and St. Patrick's Day parade. He's getting drunk. That's how you know

the parade's over. Oh, Santa Claus is coming. Go home, everyone. Yeah, no. Anti-parade. Never been to a parade. Never, like, even as a kid. I don't think kids, do kids want to go to parades? Or is it just parents who are like, we've got one more goddamn day to film. I used to go to the Stampede Parade when I was a kid.

And that was a big thing. The whole city went to a parade. And? You know, it was great. What is it? What did it consist of? You know, Robert De Niro. Got murdered. Yeah. parade and you know what is it what did it consist of uh you know robert got murdered yeah

that was a big deal i don't know there was probably uh ribs yeah there was well there's definitely ribs tony roma himself would come and throw ribs at the crowd. Would throw delicious ribs at an eager crowd. Okay, I am on board with a parade where food gets thrown out, but only if it lands in my mouth. Yeah. I'm not grabbing anything. No, sure, absolutely. So something like a meatball. Yeah, a meatball parade, yeah.

Oh, lordy. So that's it. So no parades for you ever? What if you have kids someday and they want to go to a parade they won't want to go to a parade unless they're rebelling yeah in their teen years and they they demand to sit on your shoulders i hate you dad i want to go to a parade no i imagine it like if if you're just yeah if you have young kids and you're like you have to

fill every day you gotta have something to do every day then yeah probably that's the only reason parades probably exist uh yeah i mean well probably also um to show off how uh even the streets are in your town that a whole procession could happen without falling into a ditch. Zero floats destroyed. No cars went missing. That would be great. A parade near a swamp. Like the swamp is somewhere on the route.

And then it's just the best. The most floatable float takes the prize. There's prizes at Braid, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Best float. Best float. Straightest driving.

Best wave. You know, fattest tuba player. Best guy banging those two cymbals. Yeah. Fattest tuba player. Same guy every year. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Graham. Yeah. What's too fair. Same guy every year. Yeah. Hey, Graham.

What's up with you? Guys, I was at a place called the Rumpus Room on Saturday. Cam Reed apparently saw me through his window and took a photo. I have yet to see any evidence of this. I might have deleted it out of embarrassment. What? I don't know. We'll see. You took it out of shame,

deleted it out of embarrassment. You live't know we'll see you took it out of shame deleted it out of embarrassment you live close enough that you could take a photo i'm literally overlooking that bar so you also could have assassinated me and chose not to was that really all that happened to you this week nope i got a whole thing but yes the answer the the answer is twofold yes that's all that's happened to me this week and no no. The other thing I wanted to mention was have you guys both been to the Rumpus Room? You have. I have. I go all the time. Dave, he's taking photos

from his place. I've never been. Do you only have Rumpus Room themed things? Okay. Yeah. We only recorded something on Sunday. And I spent, I think, Monday and Tuesday watching Quantum Leaf on Netflix. I feel like, and I also finally watched a couple episodes of Girls.

That's a fun show. Yeah. Yeah, I can see why people enjoy it. And then I went to the Rumpus Room. And here's the thing, and maybe it happens in other cities. We've said the Rumpus Room. Have we said that it's a bar? Yes, it's a bar.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. What if it was just somebody's rumpus room then it'd be super creepy that he was able to look into it uh it's a bar designed like a rumpus room it's got a 70s basement yeah fake wood paneling trophies and uh people play uh board games in there. And this is not the first bar that I've been to in Vancouver where board games are part of the... And I don't get it. I realized while it was happening around me, I don't understand going out to a bar and then play...

Board games to me is like a thing that you do where there's no other things to do. Right, like a parade. Yeah, or a bar. Like if there's a bar to go to, then you just go to the bar and how great is that you don't need to right you just get drunk and then talk well i think that's heat in vancouver where there aren't really bars that seem like the sort of thing where you're

just like can it just be a bar yeah but can't it just be a bar i believe it should just be a bar i'm this is what i'm saying and there were a lot of people playing jenga around me and one table playing candy it was a harshing your buzz well there was this was the weirdest part is that there was a couple there with their kid who was like say nine years old okay and uh it was adorable for an hour and then by the time that it was like 11 30 i was like why is the kid why is the family still here with the kid? And the kid had long since lost her zest for board games and her parents were drunk. And I was like, they could have just done this at home. The whole thing could have happened at home.

Board game, drinking, just ignoring your child. Seemed like a home activity, right? Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But board games to me seem like something you do at a at a house am i way out of line i i've played enormous jenga at a uh a bar yeah and i enjoyed that like a jenga to your chin sure a life-size jenga as they call it for some reason yeah even though it's much larger than life-size Jenga.

Regular Jenga is life-size Jenga. Yeah, exactly. It's a one-to-one scale of Jenga. I was there early when it opened up and they may have since gotten rid of it, but having a group of people play Hungry Hungry Hippos while you're at the bar is the most bizarre experience.

Yeah, right? That seems... I mean, just the... Hitting... Like, the game is literally just hitting the table. Yeah. Yeah, it seems overly aggressive. And...

Yeah, and... But I feel like it's one or the other. Like, hey, we're going out. Or, hey, we're staying home and doing board games. What is... Well, like, every bar has a thing. Like, there's no bars that... I guess there are... Yeah, no, there's bars. It's a bar. You just go and you just drink.

Yeah, but, you know, a pub's thing is like, you gotta have some fries. Have some of those potato wedges. Yeah, sure. But, like, you know, you're either... It's either karaoke or a mechanical bull. Have you ever been on a mechanical bull bar?

Yes. Uh, I've been on a mechanical bull. Anybody else? Nope. I bet I'd fare really well though. I've got a very strong core. Yeah, that's true. And, uh, I'm very good at being knocked in the genitals.

And you bring your own sparkly cowboy hat. Yeah. Oh no, I would not have any of that sort of like western zest i don't know uh zester i would be the i'd be like the bad guy like erwin archer you want to shut down the uh bucking bronco yeah uh build a parking lot build an arcade um have you ever done it i've not i what what have you guys been doing no parades no bucking we didn't live in a uh you know horse economy like you grow up a horse-drawn economy yeah um yeah i always found i always found people that went to the country bars and

even people that were really into the country music and the merit mountain music festival i was just like it's west coast like we are so i feel like we're so distant from that you're like it's too far west once you get like out of city limits it is uh a country mindset. Yeah, that's true. It's like we're not that far from, yeah, let's say good old boys territory. Even just like... Hazard County. Yeah. Even just like in their minds.

I've known people from the suburbs of Vancouver who, when we've gone anywhere where there was like country music playing have been like, I know every dance step to the line dancing. But you used to run around with the members of Rascal Flats. They're local. They're from just outside

the city limits. Rascal BC. It's the sort of thing that you'd never hear that argument. People would be like, oh, listening to hip-hop, that's urban, or that's part of the streets, or

whatever, and it's a weird disconnect of some white kids listening to it, which I don't agree with, but people always make that argument. But no one's ever saying, you grew up in the city, what are you listening to country music for? Well, that's true i mean although probably secretly that's what people are thinking that is what i think yeah i'm making my own argument i'm just stating that that's what i believe well we have a country station here in the city right yeah and i always have uh because

there were two in calgary growing up but that's it i'm surprised it wasn't like oh there's probably more now country yeah look when i grew up there there were exactly three things in town wizards arcade a constant parade route did i mention that the parade happened every day at noon like disneyland robert de niro had to move there. He signed an extended contract to be the marshal of every parade. He thought he was signing on for the Godfather 4. Where they'd somehow go back to Doug

Corleone's story again. We gotta go back. Christopher Lloyd. Yeah, Doc. We have to go back. We gotta go back and make the Godfather 3 not have happened oh I hope

friends for Coppola he's a big fan yeah um I forget what the third thing that Calgary had

oh mechanical balls a radio station yeah two cowboy country radio country 105 and country

K something K country Kkk country yeah um and what's the one out here jrfm jrfm junior um i can't i couldn't name oh uh do you know that that show came back or is coming back dallas yeah it seems like that's probably done right yeah i didn't need to come back did Did they need to make Dark Shadows? These are questions that I would like to ask. I had no familiarity with the source material. Me neither, until somebody

told me it was a soap opera for the 60s. Did you know that? I don't know it. Dark Shadows was a soap opera, and its breakout thing was that they had a vampire as a character. He was the first openly vampire character on television.

So brave. He was on the cover of Life magazine. Yep, I'm vampire. Good stuff. Do you want to move on from here? Yeah, why don't we take a quick break and we'll come back with some overheards. Hey Graham, this week's episode is sponsored by IFC.

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as parts of the whole of our life right and uh we always like to start with the guest before we start with the guest it's time for my favorite segment on show, a segment that is called Celebrity Birthdays. What's that about? Well, this is a segment where we celebrate all the best in celebrities who are having birthdays today. We are recording this on May 23rd. Dave, shut up. I've got a segment that I would like to do, and it's called Hulk Hogan News. Oh, what's that thing?

It's a segment that involves a wrestler named Hulk Hogan. Oh, like a legitimate wrestler. Yeah, yeah. Not a professional wrestler. No, no, no, a professional. Oh, okay. But like one of the greatest of the professional wrestlers. And things that are going on in his everyday life.

Oh, like new things. Shorten it to news. Okay, good., like new things. Shorten it to news. Okay, good. Yeah, new things. Take the thing right out. News. Okay. Now, recently, you and I both know that Hulk Hogan is heading up TNA Wrestling.

Yeah, as much as I try to forget. No, no. You try. You cannot. Recently, there's a... Do either gonna do you know either of you guys know mma mixed martial arts i know of it i have heard of it okay there's a guy i guess he's uh in mma parlance hot to trot stock of the walk uh a guy a guy named king mo uh uh he is He sounds like a bad guy from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out.

Yeah, yeah. He is going to be doing MMA, and he's going to be a pro wrestler at the same time. Okay. Never been done before. He is joining TNA Wrestling, headed by Hulk Hogan. And recently, just as a transitional move, he out to uh Hulk Hogan and Sting of the police um Sting pro wrestler of uh WCW fame of Tantrix X fame uh he was asking for advice on his TNA wrestling debut and uh Hulk Hogan told him, just learn and have fun. Right? I mean, that's a

lesson we all could learn, just about life in general, but specifically about pro wrestling. Hey Hulk, can we get a quote for this week's news story? Yep, just learn and have fun. Brother. Yeah, he didn't even say brother at the end. I'm not sure if that was attributed to him or Stig. Oh, no, wait. Stig said you don't have to leave your red light on. I don't know, some quote from the end. I'm not sure if that was attributed to him or Sting. Oh, no, wait. Sting said you don't have to leave your red light on. I don't know. Some quote from the police. I won't. Is he...

Was his goal to be a wrestler the whole time, and this was sort of like when Robert De Niro took a job as an actual taxi driver in order to act as a taxi driver. Was he a,

is he a method wrestler? Oh, you mean like he went in the MMA to learn how to wrestle? Yeah. Um, you know what? That's a question that's best left to you and your upcoming interview with King Mo on Dave's wrestling MMA recapcap. Every Friday on...

In Vice. TNT. So that's Hulk Hogan news. That's some great Hulk Hogan news. Now it is time for Celebrity Birthdays. This week sponsored by Crest White Strips. Happy Celebrity Birthday. It's May 23rd.

Happy Celebrity Birthday to singer-songwriter Jewel. It's 38 today she's uh she is um uh moving back into that winnebago in alaska i heard i heard that that's her new thing that she's gonna do oh well you mean a van in san diego i stand by what i said winnebago in alaska I think she's from Alaska. And then when she was trying to be a struggling singer, songwriter, she lived in a van elsewhere. Wait, no. Wait, didn't she go into the Alaskan wilderness and die in a van? Oh, yeah.

That's her, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. She went into the wild. Into the jewel. Happy celebrity birthday. Not very many good celebrities this week well you already you i think you let off with uh with a bang happy birthday to singer maxwell i don't know what that is i don't know i know i would know his face i couldn't sing you a song would uh he's 39 if you recorded a house album anyways okay maxwell house yeah um uh happy birthday to uh comedian

actor and game show host drew carrie oh why was i gonna say alex trebek he's only one of those three things comedian i would love to see alex trebek stand-up. Do you think he would do a ventriloquist? I think it would be very smarmy and Noah-tall-ish. Did you guys know about that? Oh, he should do a ventriloquist act with his mustache as the puppet. I would like it noted that Dave signed a ventriloquist before he said it with a puppet hand.

Yeah, doi. Doi. Oh, Drew Carey is 54 now I told you there weren't very many good birthdays today happy celebrity birthday to Jim Dial from Murphy Brown Charles Kimbrough is 76 today

was he the elder guy on the show? He's only 76? Yeah. Wow. Congratulations. And a happy... That's true, Karen.

And a happy celebrity birthday. To this week's... The answer to this week's celebrity birthday trivia question. This woman is famous and has always been famous as far as I can remember. I'm not sure if she's an actress or a writer. And I don't remember which one she is.

The answer is either Joan or Judy Collins. She's 78 today. Is it Judy Collins or Joan Collins? Yep. june collins she's 78 today well is it judy collins or joan collins yep oh wow happy birthday all i i wrote down joan collins but i have a feeling i got it wrong well who's oh never mind yeah um mostly though what how old was jewel was turning 76? Yeah. Wow. 38. Half of 76. She's halfway. She's half of a Kimbra. Still

of the last say 25 years best-selling poet of the past 25 years. Oh yeah. It's true. By leaps and bounds. Yeah. Knight in Armor by Jewel. Is knight spelled N or K? Oh I think you know. I don't.

It was around the time when a knight's tale was popular so everything was filled with a k brian knight mac brian mcknight uh no there's jordan knight who is maxwell maxwell i don't know i was the only other celebrity that i could have chosen but i try to i try to keep keep some racial diversity. The only other one was the guy who directed Run Lola Run. Oh. Brett Ratner.

Tom Tickver. Oh, lordy. Overheard. Okay. Things overheard. Or overseen. We always like to lead off with the guest.

Cam, if you would. Okay. Today, I walked into a room to hear someone say uh which i did follow up on follow up with them on oh you mean teen wolf penis oh that's a condition jason bateman added at least two recorded cases yeah. Oh, there was a TV show about Teen Wolf Penis, too. Oh, right. What is Teen Wolf Penis? You followed up, I understand. I did, and it was, they were

talking about a scene in Teen Wolf where they go into the bleachers, they pan the bleachers, and you can see a guy has his pants down. And, I mean, I think it was like an extra screw it about but it's definitely there

I saw it recently on cable television and it's not like a thing like oh it's only on this one DVD like it's in the final cut that still is aired on television and it's a guy that's very clear like once you know where it is it's a freeze frame shot

Dean Wolf has just scored the last basket or whatever and then Very clear. Like, once you know where it is, it's a freeze frame shot. Teen Wolf has just scored the last basket or whatever. And then in the crowd, there's a guy whose penis is out of his pants. Is it like that thing in Three Men and a Baby where you can see Steve Guttenberg's penis? What was the thing on Three Men and a Baby? There's like a ghost girl. Oh, right. Do you know about this? No.

That apparently there's like in a scene where Oh, right. Do you know about this? No. That apparently there's like in a scene where you can see... What is it? Through a window or like behind some drapes or something. This girl who wasn't there. Yeah. But only for like a couple of frames or something, right? Or is it in the whole scene? I don't know.

I literally don't know. I don't believe in ghosts. I think that's well established. I do believe in penises. But there's another one from Wizard of Oz where apparently there's a scene where you... The legend was you could see one of the people who played the munchkins hang themselves. Yeah. From one of the...

And do you know what that really is? It was just like... It was a bird. It's like an ostrich. Like what they think is the rope is just the neck of the bird. Yeah, yeah. Because there were originally birds in one of the scenes and that scene was cut out. But they all killed themselves. It's really easy for an ostrich.

They just wrap their own head around. They just wrap their own head around it. There's a lot of stories about in Disney movies, there being the word sex written in smoke or something. And then there was another one in Lion King. It was a penis. Oh, was it? In the bleachers.

Yeah. There was a scene where Simba's 69 69 with that meerkat. Hakuna Matata. Atreyu, I think was his name. I don't know who that is. Never ending story. Hey Dave, what's your overheard? Dave, what's your overheard?

I was going to say it. Yeah, I know, but there was enough you were going to take a sip. Do you know that they call a 69 a Hakuna Matata? There was enough. You were going to take a sip. Do you know that they call a 69 an Hakuna Matata? What's a motto with you?

Yesterday, my overheard is from television. I'm not sure that counts. Oh, it counts. I was watching my big fat American gypsy wedding. Wait a minute. There's not a real show uh it's on the learning channel for learnings but it's not there aren't there aren't like gypsies they're in the europe they're not in america they're big fat ones oh i see no well my big fat gypsy wedding is a british show yeah uh my big fat american gypsy wedding has a lot of qualifiers and it is uh apparently there are these uh gypsies in america uh of romany descent okay uh

and they get married very young sure and they for they, for their parties and their weddings and stuff, they, they go all out. And there was a, I think 14 year old girl putting on a bunch of makeup. And she, she was talking about how she knows how to put on makeup and like how to highlight that.

It's very important to highlight the eyes. Highlight your poverty. uh in highlighting the eyes she said someone once told me the eyes are the nipples of the face so that's why i wear these eyebrows she puts on sunglasses. Deal with it. Yeah, so that's the whole thing. Well, I mean, aren't they called carnies if they're in America? Isn't that what, isn't a carny the version of gypsies? Oh, because they travel. Yeah, travel, have their own laws, town to town. We couldn't put a curse on you.

Yeah, yeah. These are all qualifiers of a gypsy wedding. Instead of giving money, you curse a couple. Everybody lines up to curse the bride. Yeah. Sorry, your grandfather couldn't make it, but there's a curse in this envelope. I apologize for our gypsy listeners. Yeah, absolutely. And the Garn listeners. Yeah, absolutely.

And the Garnies. Yeah, on your stolen iPods. Why am I? Is that racist? Are gypsies enough of a racial group? If they are allowed to call a show my big fat gypsy America wedding, then it's like we don't shy away from saying Greek, right? Yeah. Because it was also in a similar title. But we

wouldn't also... We wouldn't be like, oh yeah, Greeks steal stuff. No, but they do smash plates. See? Oh, wow. I would... I would apply the proper stereotype. Fair enough. Yeah. I'm not just a... I'm not a crazy bigot.

Right. You're just a regular bigot. Exactly. I'm a big fat American married bigot. Oh, what about a bigot wedding? What's in those envelopes? I don't know. Oh, stop.

Hey, Graham. Yeah. Over. Heard. Speaking of carnies Carnies and Barkers You know what a barker is versus a carny A carnival barker

And a carnival e A barker is somebody Like hey step right up Step right up over here It's a bunch of Italians. What's the matter? And a carny is? Somebody runs the routes.

It's Brian Wilson's daughter. Yes, exactly. So there was a gentleman. I was waiting for the bus on the corner of Main and Hastings. Very busy. Hustle and bustle. It's Christmas 365 down there. Yeah, it feels like Christmas.

Yeah, exactly. Silver bells everywhere you turn. And there was a gentleman selling single cigarettes, and he was doing like somebody selling peanuts at a baseball game. He had a chant that he was saying up and down the street. It says, selling singles, get them while they're hot, get them while they're cold. Hey, get them before the police get them.

Ha, ha, ha. With the ha, ha, ha every time? He laughed every time. He was like, I just came up with this new twist. Watch how many cigarettes I sell. Ha, ha, ha. Anyways, so I hope I wish him well. Yeah.

If I smoked, I would have bought one from him. Just one? I don't know. Well, they sell a single, so why not? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It's so novel. You chew gum. What if he was selling single pieces of gum?

Here's the question about that. Follow-up question? ABC, gum. Always be chewing? Already been chewed. Already been chewed. Always be chewing already been chewed already been chewed always be chewing this gum is for closers

if I'm buying an individual gum are we talking about a trident in the paper wrap yeah yeah oh okay so we're not talking about somebody popping out of a blister pack because the answer is yes to the former no to the former no to the latter single tic tac uh single tic tac are they laid out on a blanket or are they it's just a bunch of different colors or do you hold out your hand and he shakes it and and maybe

you get two uh i feel like tic tacs always always in two. Tic Tacs and Chiclets, always in two. Something, something, something in the goo. Yeah. I'm the same way with anything that's like M&M's or Smarties or Skittles. I always need two in my mouth. Really? Or testicles. Yeah, I need one on each side

for symmetry but with skittles like there are different flavors whereas i try to match up the flavor oh okay so you wouldn't take a red and a yellow yeah a chiclet is a gum i we're not talking about gum no well yeah but you just brought it into the realm of Skittles or M&M's. Yeah, but not gum. Do you remember that? I went to a movie and got Skittles, and I wanted to really make them last, so I tried to just suck on a Skittle. That's not what they're for. But I'm just going like it's popcorn, just nonstop. That sounds like a good all-time insult.

Go suck on a skittle i was watching uh um i do that too with with twizzlers i will finish a whole thing of twizzlers before um twizzlers the small ones or no twizzlers are the actual yeah the nibs are the small yeah well nibs are also available in long oh yeah um they're called long nibs are also available in long. Oh, yeah. They're called long nibs. Yeah. Learn your history. And I saw an ad today for the new Spider-Man movie, and it was a webman and a Twizzlers, and it was like, with great flavor comes great entertainment. Spider-Man and Twizzlers together at last.

I've never seen Twizzlers like... Good for Twizzlers, getting in on a movie or something. Getting in on a movie like seven years late. That's not the slogan of the new movie. What's the slogan? Well, no, that's from the first Spider-Man, isn't it? It's from all Spider-Men. I don't know.

I'm going to contest. They're rebooting it for the slogan. For the slogan generation. Also at the movie there was an ad for some oil company or something like that but the first line in this ad was Canada isn't spelt with a can't.

That's true. Yeah. I don't... Those advertising guys. Madison F. Canada isn't spelled with a can. And your point? Let's take the rest of the day off.

We did it, you guys. It's also in the Anti-Magicians Council. Canada isn't spelled with a ta-da. Top drawer. I should work in advertising. In addition to overheards that we have, we also accept overheards from our listeners. If you want to write us,

our email address is stoppodcastingyourselfatgmail.com And I'm talking, these are coming from around the world. Around the world. This first one is from Matt in South Korea. What? Absolutely.

Soko. I just had a great student overheard. Let us be the judge of that, Matt. Don't race into anything that your ass can't cash. Is that how it goes? Yep. Don't race into anything your ass can't cash. Matthew from South Korea.

One student to another trying to explain the movie Thor. It's got that guy from Avengers in it. What's his name? Chris Ham Sauce? I just like Chris Ham Sauce. It sounds a little Mad Magazine. Like that would be his... Yeah. Oh, what would be

the name of the Avengers in Mad Magazine? Blech Avengers? The Blech Avengers. The incredible Blech Avengers. The Blech Avengers. The incredible Blech. Iron Blech. Reading those Mad Magazine parodies, it was

always really hard to, just the fact that they had to stick with those character names through the entire six pages of this parody. Like, oh, you're still talking about the incredible bluff i forgot that he was called that what um uh it's confusing all the characters are named bluff and it's a parody of the blech men x-menMen. Blechmen. That's pretty good. That isn't bad. That seems like it's right up their alley, right?

This next one comes from Rich. Rich in Vancouver. Must be nice, right? Rich in Vancouver. This is on the Skytrain, last one of the night. The train stopped at one of the stations for about 10 minutes. Sometimes it does that, right? The doors are just open and you're just sitting there

waiting for the train to go. They seemed to anger a drunk guy wearing Ray-Bans, so he shouted, I thought this was the Sky Train, not a Go Nowhere Train. Classic. When this didn't seem to achieve anything, he took matters into his own hands and decided to push the train.

So he stood on the platform, braced his shoulder against the train's open doorframe and started pushing. Obviously, this was getting him nowhere. So he gave it one last heave, but he lost his balance and fell onto the platform. This happened to be the exact moment the doors closed. So he's left sitting on his ass on the platform watching as the last train of the night pulled away. Oh, it was the last train of the night, too. Yeah, last train of the night. Well, of course it's not gonna go.

It's waiting for... It's not gonna go until the very last second, you weirdo. But he was trying to help everybody out by giving the train a push, which is common in this city. It needs a running start. It has worked in the past. Yeah, right? We all know that it's... It needs a little nudge.

Yeah, yeah. You pitch in in this city. Yeah. You know what? Canada isn't spelled with a won't. Yeah. And finally, this is from Steve in Nashville, Tennessee. Hi, Steve.

So these are truly international. Absolutely. I overheard my daughter, who is seven and in first grade of grammar school, we would call it elementary school or kid prison. I heard my first grader saying this to my wife. Mommy, I'm making you something at school for Mother's Day, but if I had enough money, I would buy you a Tower of Terror. I don't have quite enough money, though. Yeah.

To have that thing that doesn't exist. But, Mom, when I get older, that tower I buy you will be terrifying. I curse you. Now, in addition to written-in overheards, we also have overheards that have been phoned in. If you would like to be one of these people, one of these people, you can call us at 206-339-8328. Now, usually, when we get the phone calls, I listen to them all in one big batch, and I'll sort of put them in a maybe pile,

and then I will, the maybes, I will listen to all of those again and come up with the three that I will play, and we only just recorded a couple days ago, so there's not very many this week, so I went back through old maybe piles. Ooh, wow. And I hope none of these actually ended up making original shows.

So let me know if you've heard these before. Absolutely. Hey, Dave and Graham and probable guests. It's one of your Tempe listeners. And I was at a bar called The Vine, and I overheard a girl say, I'm nervous to get a new phone, because every time I get a new phone,

a celebrity dies the second phone i got was he ledger and the third one was michael jackson oh well then you know stop buying phones if you're that concerned about yeah i mean yes so how many phones are you buying yeah i never i've never understood the people who like just leave their phone in a cab or something like that. And just don't go back for it. Or just, or just how does that happen? Hold on your damn phone.

What are you doing? One time I dropped a phone in a cab and I called it and the cab driver answered and said, you have to pay me $35 in order for me to give you your phone back. I was like, this guy's really, he's playing all the cards. Like what am I supposed to bluff?

I don't care about that phone. Click. Could you check my messages? Call back two seconds later. Give me back my son! Do you know people who have lost their phone and not gone back for it? Oh, or just don't know where it went?

Leaving it in a bar or something? I don't know how that happens. Oh, I... Oh. Like, all the time, it's... I'll just see a Facebook message that's... Lost my phone. Yeah, hey, send me your number.

Nope. Hey, how about I'm good with us never talking on the phone? You're out forever. You had one shot. This was your last connection to me. And now you're off my facebook friends too this is my chance i'm making a break for it uh yeah i don't uh because don't usually like on the way home from somewhere you're usually

checking your phone like who goes all the way home and like wakes up the next morning uh time to check the phone i bet it's really built up a lot of charge overnight it's gonna be so much fun to see whoa whoa whoa where is it uh no i can see it being i can see it being like that split second where uh you know you're what happens with me on the bus all the time is like i have i don't listen to um uh the ipod on my phone i have a separate ipod because i don't want to drain the battery on my phone and so i've got like and i've got a bus ticket in another hand so i've got like three things going at once and then i'll step off the bus and have a moment of panic like what where did i put

everything in the right pockets yeah and uh and you're holding hands with a hobo. You're like, oh, no. Oh, no. Meanwhile, there's an iPod selling cigarettes on the street. So, yeah, I can see that. But I've never been, it's never happened to me that I've lost my phone. But I do have that moment of panic. Yeah. It slipped out of my pocket in a cab.

And I noticed it immediately. but that cab was long gone. Ah, good on the cabbie for making some extra money off of my misfortune. Well, did he have to come to you to get it back? I said I would go to him, but he said, oh, no. Like, he made it clear you were never getting this phone back unless there was an agreed upon drop zone. Yeah, exactly. Splash zone. Next call. Hey, Graham, Dave, and guests. ever getting this phone back unless there was an agreed upon uh drop zone yeah exactly splash zone next call hey graham dave and guests isaac from ohio right now it's 11 30 at night i just rode my bike to the gas station there is a lady probably about 20. She was buying lottery tickets.

And as she was talking to cashier, she said, I think I'm all set. I didn't drink water all today, and I'm wearing my lucky panties. Great overheard. Also, feel free to just have a cool down. Don't need to be out of breath while you call us.

Oh, man. Although it was great to hear him say, I just wrote my break here. Oh, man. Yeah, that one was from June of last year. Oh, wow. And I think the earlier one was from March of last year. So, you know, some blasts from the past. Absolutely. I wonder if that woman won the lottery.

Yeah, call back if you know. Call back if you recognized her panties on the news. Yeah, or she seems dehydrated. Oh wait, no, that's her good luck thing. What? To be dehydrated and wearing her lucky panties. Yeah, to not drink water. So if you know a skeleton lady

who's waving around her golden panties. Yeah, to not drink water. So if you know a skeleton lady who's waving around her golden panties. Yeah, I've got a system. And the final overheard. This one is from July of 2010. What? Hi, Graham and Dave and guests. This is Sally calling from Vancouver with an overheard. I work at a toy store.

Yesterday, it was a little girl who's still wrapping her head around the concept of money. She's probably about five years old. She had a $10 bill and was buying something that cost about $3. And she said to her mom, so how many pieces of money do I have? And her mom said, that's 10 pieces of money. And she said, well, so how many is this? Well, that's going to cost you about $3.

And so she looked at me. She looked at the $10 bill and she went so do i do i just rip it in half then that's like uh that's like the scene out of um one flew over the cuckoo's nest where uh crazy danny devito bets half a cigarette and uh jack nicholson demonstrates that's not a bet and rips a dollar in half it's a see now it's not a bet history yeah i thought everybody would jump in on that reference but no no too obscure don't remember it don't remember it really when's the last time you guys saw that movie never uh i don't know that's uh 10 years ago uh grade 10 oh did you have to watch it in school that would be a weird i think we were watching yeah i think we had to read it and we got to watch i worked at a video store i worked at a video store for a few years and i was always amazed at

how many movies were made about novels that i mean you know there's the ones that everyone knows yeah but um people being students being outright saying, I got to write a paper on this. Do you have this movie? And I can't remember exactly which one it was, but I knew that there was, I knew that there was just a clear difference between the movie and the book.

Right. And for about a month, rented it out to so many people, never said a word to them. Yeah, yep, totally available. Go for it. Oh, man, now I'm very curious to know. Because what movies have really, like, diverted?

Well, on Seinfeld, there was the Breakfast at Tiffany's thing. Oh, yeah. Where George Pappard isn't gay in the movie. Right. Is it George Pappard? I don't know. I haven't read the movie.'t gay in the movie. Right. Is it George Pappard? I don't know. I haven't read the movie or seen the book. That wasn't required viewing or reading. No.

Well, he was in a book club. It wasn't for... I don't think any schools read Breakfast at Tiffany's. Do people still do book clubs? What about Breakfast at Tiffany's? I remember we liked the film. Those are the lyrics. We both kind of liked it.

Isn't that the lyrics? Yeah. Yeah. Something, something film. Before we wrap up the show, let's take another quick break. Hey, Graham. We all know that IFC's comedy Bang Bang has huge guest stars like Amy Poehler, Zach Galifianakis, and Seth Rogen. But does it have anything afterwards?

It sure does, Dave. It's a show called Bunk. It's a comedy game show featuring improvisers competing for inane prizes and uncharitable causes. And that starts on June 8th at 1030 on IFC. Now, we got a lot of calls and emails. We get a lot of flack. From people in the States, right? And my question to you, Cam, is do you have a tour schedule?

Is it all hammered out? Do you know when you're going to the Americas? We will be playing New York on June 9th. Oh. We got New York on June 9th. Oh. We got New York listeners. Babe Rainbow and How to Dress Well. And then we will be playing Portland, San Francisco, and L.A. on the 14th, 15th, and 16th of June. Now, for locations and tickets, people who should go, where there a, where, where's your website presence?

Where can they go? They can go to howtodresswell.com, I think. Sure. Yeah. Uh, I'm not going to dispute it, whether it's a.net or.com. That's a real, that is a real website. Sure. As far as I know, you're telling the truth.

Yeah. So we're wrapping up the show. Anything else do you want to let people know about? Um, uh, I just thank you so much for having me what yeah yeah yeah well thanks for being our guest i really like spending time with you guys i wish we could do it more often there's no reason you know where to photography me from uh no uh no nothing nothing else. Uh, just, uh, just, uh, how to dress well and babe rainbow. And I am, I'm comfortable with just being a musician, but also on Twitter. If people want to, uh, ever, uh, follow you and, uh, see the, the writings and vice or,

uh, things of that ilk. What are you on Twitter? Cameron Reed dot what? That's not how it works. Nope, not at all. At Cameronreid. Dot slash. Dot Twitter.

Dave, do you have anything coming up? DaveShomka. Dot Twitter. You're hosting still on CBC Radio. I'm hosting still on CBC Radio 3. Afternoons, one to five. At CBCMusic.ca inBC Radio 3, afternoons, 1 to 5, at cbcmusic.ca, in the Radio 3 feed. And, yeah, that's Pacific time, weekdays.

I'll be jump. I'll be on the station a lot this summer, you know, playing some Canadian hits. Yeah, and you do fun things in between, right? I try. Yeah, you have a lot of fun. It's a four-hour show, you know. I run out of steam. If someone would like to, you know what I could use is a pick-me-up in the middle.

Like a granola bar. Oh, okay. Do you want me to stop by sometime next week with a granola bar? Yeah. What type? Are you opposed to a s'mores- granola bar could we eliminate the granola completely would you like me to stop by with some s'mores an open flame uh well i'll pre uh s'more them i'll bring them in individually wrapped plastic uh situations uh They'll look like the situation. Gross.

Who would eat a situation cookie? Snooki. So that's that. And you, Graham, what's going on with you? Well, as of today, I checked the Bring Spy Down to Chai Town group. We're at like

almost at the number where I'm actually going to have to book a venue and we're going to have to fly down there and do a show. Hey, Chicago really called their bluff, Dave. Yeah. Complicated. Yeah. It's going to get complicated.

So check that out on Facebook. Oh, yeah. And before you wrap up, we're going to go out on a Babe Rainbow song. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. And where can people pick up this Babe Rainbow song? The Babe Rainbow song. I mean, Google Babe Rainbow. Okay.

And also, finally, finally, but not quite finally, I will be playing at the Pile of Funny Bones Festival in Regina, Saskatchewan. Boy, did we get chastised

for our misnaming of Saskatchewan towns this week. Moose Jaw was a little Chicago. Saskatoon is the Paris of the Prairies. Yeah, and Regina... Is something you hate because... It's where the magic happens. Sure.

Right? I don't know. Regina doesn't... It's the biggest little city in the, none of it is anything. Um, so, and also check out,

uh, maximum fun.org for a blog that will contain all sorts of, uh, images and or moving pictures to do with today's podcast. I hope, hopefully we can get a screen cap of that, uh, teen wolf.

Easy peasy. It's out there on the internet. And yeah, check out our sister and brother podcasts at MaximumFun.org. And if you like the show, tell your friends. And come on back next week for another penis-revealing episode of Stop Podcasting Yourself. so Thank you. Thank you.