Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 339 - Ken Tremblett

Episode Date: September 15, 2014

Actor Ken Tremblett joins us to talk about playing Mr. Belding 2.0, modern art, and Nerf Wars.

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 339 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who has dumps like a truck. Truck, truck. Guys like what? What? What? Baby move your butt. Butt, butt.

I think I'll take it again. Yeah, you knew what I was doing. Yeah, that dress is so scandalous. What happened to Cisco? Is he alright? What happened to cisco is he all right he um what had happened to cisco um he had dumped like a truck no she did yeah she did what did he do he was he wanted to see her thong who who what he was what was he in jodeci uh oh i have no idea wait he was in something um drew hill drew hill yeah sorry uh he was in drew hill and then was he in he was in something. Drew Hill? Drew Hill. Yeah. Sorry. Nice. He was in Drew Hill.

And then he was on the Wild Wild West song. Yep. But I don't know if that was as a member of Drew Hill, as a representative. Yeah, he was representing entirety of Drew Hill. Anyways, we wish Cisco the best. I hope we get Cisco for the show. And our guest today, first time guest to the program, very funny man, and an actor, a proper actor, Mr. Ken Trumbullet. Wow.

After that intro, I was looking for someone else to come in the room. Before every episode where we're not sure on how to pronounce the name, Graham double checks. And then gets it wrong. And then gets it wrong, as a matter of course. Oh, well. Welcome to the show. It feels great to be here. I'm really happy to be this close to both of you at the same time.

Right? Thank you. Together in one room. And if it sounds like he's constantly eating bananas, it's because, Ken, tell us what you're doing. I'm having dinner. It's because. Ken, tell us what you're doing.

I'm having dinner. I brought five bananas, a coconut water, and a single beer. Yeah. And is this a paleo diet? Let's get to know us. Get to know us. This is just. What, what? Yeah, what is this diet?

Well, is it part of a diet or is it just, uh-oh? It's the castaway diet. Yeah, or was it like a challenge on Top Chef? The Gilligan diet. No, I, um, last year I saw myself on camera for the first time in about four or five years. Not working much? I wasn't. I was out of the business.

I guess that's another story for another time. I can't know. This is for this time, yeah. Okay. And, um, I saw myself on camera. I had to go in and do some ADR, additional dialogue recording for Supernatural And the guy said, okay, we'll just cue up the scene We'll run it once, you take a look at it He cued up the scene, I looked at the big screen

And I thought to myself, who's that old fat guy? Oh no! It broke my heart And so I immediately went out And became a vegetarian I lost 45 pounds in three months Wow And then I stopped exercising Maintained the diet

And I'm still down over 40 pounds Yeah, that's what they say The diet is way more important than exercise Yeah, and I haven't eaten all day today And I thought, you know Instead of getting a slice of pizza Or some delicious KFC Yeah

I'll grab some bananas from the market. A bunch of bananas. You've given up vegetarianism? No, I'm about a 95 percenter. Okay. You know, and you have a joke about, you know, when you're vegetarian. When you're drinking, yeah. But when, you know, what, drunk?

Drunk Graham. Drunk Graham is not a vegetarian. Yeah. It's. I've slipped off that a little bit. You know, sometimes you go out and you grab a slice or two or three. Mm-hmm.

You know. Well, it's going to happen, right? Yeah. Because I stay away from the bread too. The bread was killing me. Yeah. And no bread for me. No bread, mostly no meat.

So just like fruit and vegetables. Fruit and vegetables. You know, people always say, what do you eat? I said, there's a lot out there. There's a lot of fruits and vegetables. And rice pasta. Name them. Almond milk, what do you eat? I said, there's a lot out there. There's a lot of fruits and vegetables. And rice pasta. Name one. Almond milk.

Rice, rice pasta? Yeah. Not rice calm off pasta. Just rice pasta. Yeah. It's, it's pasta made out of rice instead of made out of durum wheat. Whatever.

Yeah. Whatever. I bought some squid ink pasta the other day. What? Dave. That's not, it's, it's made of wheat with squid ink. It's black. It's black as the ace of spades. Um, I's not, it's, it's made of wheat with squid ink. It's black.

It's black as the ace of spades. Um, I don't get it. I don't, why? I don't want to get it. I guess it's salty. Are we going down

a different road now? Well, it's, cause pasta's not known for its color. It's blackness. Yeah,

it's darkness. Well, pasta, I mean, you'll get, oh boy, the american listeners will hate this pronunciation what do they say pasta pasta right because they're so they're so i think they're so much better than us i always thought that was a like a british

i was at the country club in Iqbal also. Anyway. Yeah. And well, you can get like the red stuff that's like tomato. Sure. And the spinachy green stuff. Or I might be thinking of tortilla. Because isn't that ink supposed to be poisonous or something? Isn't that what they shoot out at you?

The squid ink? Yeah. Isn't that some kind of a dangerous thing? I haven't eaten it yet. But no. Oh. Can someone taste it for you? I just bought a package of it, and I don't know what to do with it. I bet you when you boil it, the water all turns black, and then you're like, gross.

Just throw it in the garbage. Well, because I bought this. What a money-making scam. I bought this magazine that was a bunch of Italian recipes, and I was like, oh, boy. The fall's coming. I'm going to eat a lot of pasta. You know, going to just. Carbologe, I'm going to have nothing but baked ziti. It sounds more like a Chinese recipe than an Italian.

Yeah, with the squid ink. Yeah. But then I was like, I know there was a squid ink pasta recipe in this magazine. So I went and I bought the squid ink, and when I got home, it was a recipe for squid ink pasta with like sea urchin. I gotta look at your bookshelf.

I gotta see what else you're reading. I'm never making that. Oh yeah, that's just gross. So you're off of the Where would you even buy sea urchin?

Chinatown? Yeah. I guess so. You know, Urchinville, the Urchin district. Urchin town. Urchin, yeah.

What's the difference between a sea urchin and like one of those... A street urchin? A street urchin, yeah. Is it just a sea urchin on a skateboard? Yeah, one sings and dances, asks for more supper. Yeah. And one is your supper. Yeah, that's the easy distinction for the amateur.

For the listener, Ken is moving on to banana number two. This is banana number two of five. He opens them from the bottom like an ape. Yeah, and then he has a handle to hold it by on the bottom. Yeah. It's a very elegant solution. Yeah, it was a Chinese man actually taught me that. Really?

I don't want to tell you any more about that weekend, but that's the thing I took away. I feel like this is going to be a bad confucius joke um so okay so you uh for many many years you were an actor in vancouver you're in movies and television and then one day you did a great supernatural yeah where you uh you played an old fat guy you look an old fat guy you play b an old fat guy. You played Brian Dennehy. I didn't even know that's what I was doing. And then you decided, no more. I'm not doing this anymore.

I'm out of the business. I was. I was sure that was it for me. That was 2008. And I just walked away. I couldn't do it anymore. I didn't feel connected to anything. I had some family issues. Right. I had, I couldn't do it anymore. I didn't feel connected to anything. I had some family issues.

Right. I had death in the family and I tried to hang on and be a professional as much as I could, but I wasn't working either. Right. I kept gaining weight, going into debt. And I just thought, you know what? That's not where I live. That's it.

I'm going to work. And of course, I took a job in Texas fixing hockey sticks for a year. What does that mean? I know. Look at this guy. Well, when you break a hockey stick, you don't want to just throw it away.

Okay. So you have it repaired. You know, these carbon fiber hockey sticks. Oh, because they're very expensive. Yeah. They were $300, $400 sometimes. And so you weren't just like the roadie for a hockey team.

No, but I was a roadie for a band. What? At the same time. Yeah. What band? It was called Stripper's Lie. They are now defunct. Oh, no.

I think they all got chlamydia and died or something. Do they have a Wikipedia page that they can check out? No, but they are just a touring southern U.S., southern house band, right? Okay. Yeah, and so the guy that was the bass player in that band owns Stick Fix, which is the company that fixes sticks. So is it, but these are not like professional hockey teams sending in their sticks, are they?

No, but we would get sticks from professional hockey teams and then sell them to the consumer. But they would never buy them back. They would never use them again. There were some teams that would use the broken ones for their practices. Okay. But that's all. Weird. So if a professional hockey team sends you their broken sticks, do you give them a consignment fee if you resell it?

No, they don't get anything except the $5 up front. Oh, okay. Yeah. So he is now partnered with- These billionaire athletes with their $5 hockey stick fees. So he's gotten a relationship now with Houston Arrows, the minor league team, the AHL. That's where Gordie Howe played and his sons. Really?

Yeah. On the Arrows? Yeah. Is that the name of the team down in Houston? I don't know. They were a professional team in the WHA. Now they're an AHL franchise. You know things Graham

I know Some parts of things He knows all the guys At the Dallas Stars And there's a lot of hockey In Texas And we were shipping These things around the world

Literally around the world To Russia To Sweden To Australia You know Fixing these broken sticks And then sending them out All over the world

Yeah And some of them Would just be We would get them From local teams Fix them And then sell them on eBay to people who never had a stick before, right?

They couldn't afford one of those sticks before, but then we would sell it for 80 or 100 bucks. Because when I was a kid... And they're stronger than when they're new at the break point, right? Oh, because you've forged them. Oh. Scar tissue.

Scar tissue. I learned that from that. That Anthony Kiedis book and song. Oh, really? Yeah, that's the name of his autobiography. Yeah, yeah, but it does... And he goes into a... In the song, does he explain that it's stronger

than the original tissue? Oh, maybe not. Does he explain it in the book? You can get your nursing degree by reading that book. Maybe he doesn't explain it in either of it, but I think it's implied, right? Scar tissue that I wish you saw. Yeah.

It's osmotic learning, right? It just gets in there. Yeah, that's where I got my degree. Man, those Cisco things, I don't know how you pull all that out without checking Wikipedia. How do you know I didn't before the show? Oh, you guys know a lot of things. Wikipedia wouldn't have the lyrics to Thong Song. Oh, sure it would.

If you typed in Thong Song Wiki, it's got its own wing. song wiki it's got its own its own wing um well there was someone had written uh you know the song peaches by presidents of the united states of america um but someone posted like a screen capture of the uh wikipedia for that song and it's about the plot of that song and it's like uh the farmer then realizes that the amount of peaches is finite. Fortunately, that amount is in the millions and they are free. Somebody's dissertation on peaches. Someone got their MBA through that. So you fixed hockey sticks. Yes. In Texas.

Yes. And where in Texas? In Houston. Houston. Okay. H-town. Oh man, it was hot. Beyonce's hometown.

It was hot. So hot, you know. And the first day I got there, I was 30 seconds outside the airport waiting for my friend to pick me up. Sweat is rolling down the small on my back and I just thought, I can't live here. And I knew that I was going to be there forever.

He picked me up. We went straight to a gas station because he was low on gas. Sure. He gets out. This all makes sense so far. He starts pumping the gas, but he hasn't turned the engine off, which freaked me out in 110 degree weather. Yeah.

I said, this is not safe. He goes, I do it all the time. Leave the air conditioning on. Oh, really? I went, wow, this doesn't seem right. And then he gets back in the car and we pull away. He says, well, they do it up in Edmonton all the time, in Calgary, in the cold. And you leave the heat on.

I went, oh, yeah, I guess so. But it still doesn't seem right, does it? It does. It does. It's more dangerous. But it also seems like the gas should then be free. It's like, I didn't turn my car off. It's like you're doing a dine and dash.

You know what? It's like a drive-through gas my car off. Yeah. It's like you're doing a dine and dash. You know, it's like a drive-through gas station. Yeah. Just keep going. That's what I thought he was going to say to you. Oh, I'm stealing this gas. That's why. Yeah.

Just be cool. And then my first day there, he had to go out of town. And so I went to the YMCA. I thought I'd find a place I can work out or something. And I walked to the YMCA, which was just over two miles away. Yeah. And I walked over there and I thought it was really peculiar that, you know, on a Thursday

afternoon, two o'clock, I didn't see a single person on the street. Yeah. The whole two miles over and two miles back. Nobody walks. Nobody walks. That's what he said. He said, I'm surprised they didn't call the

cops on you. It's just you walking by, you know, what is it, like cow skulls? I was a white guy walking through some black neighborhoods, too. Oh, really?

I was the dangerous minority in some places, right? But you had all those hockey sticks. That's right. I just pulled one out of my quiver

as I walked. Casey Jones. Take a slap shot and you want to get close. Is that the name of the guy? Casey Jones? Yeah.

From the Ninja Turtles? Oh, I thought it was Casey at the Bat. No. Isn't that Casey Jones too? That was Casey. Yeah, Casey. That was just Casey at the Bat. Spoiler alert.

Casey struck out. Yeah. Well, but then didn't he have- There was no joy in Mudville. Who are your famous Casey's? Sunshine Band? Yeah. At the Bat.

Kasem. Kasem. The late great. Casey Jones The railway guy Casey Jones Driving that train High on cocaine Yep

That's the nursery rhyme? No it's a Grateful Dead song Oh okay Casey Jones The Ninja Turtles character Casey Who was the other one?

Casey Oh what We were just talking about? Yeah I forget I forget too The closer for the J's Casey Jansen Okay good I'm trying to think is there like some famous lady named Casey

Casey Probably in porn Casey James How do we know that Well osmosis I don't know that we do. So how long were you down there fixing sticks? I was there one year exactly.

One year. Then I had to leave again for another family emergency. Okay. So it was all just swinging from one emergency to the next. So I returned to Canada, went to Calgary with my parents. That was the family emergency. I came back here, hung out with some friends. And then I got a phone call from my good buddy

who lived in San Jose del Cabo, just outside of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. And he said to me, while I was sleeping on my buddy's couch, what do you think of moving to Mexico? So I said, sure. So I shaved my head my buddy's couch. What do you think of moving to Mexico? So I said, sure. So I shaved my head. Wait a minute.

Wait. Did he ask you to join the game? Yeah, yeah. What was the second part of this conversation that involved you shaving your head? Oh, I tried to give myself a nice haircut before I left town. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Because I was too cheap to spend the $12. I don't need this city, and I don't need these hairs. I don't need this hair. I don't need these hairs I don't need this hair So all I need is these clippers And this chair Yeah

So I I shaved my head Because I did such a hack job On my head And I was Have you ever cut your own hair Graham? Yeah when I I had a shaved head

At one point And I would do the I don't think he's cut anything For a while No No it's been a while It at one point and I would do the clippers. I don't think he's cut anything for a while. No. No, it's been a while. It's all wild. Yeah, I remember when I first met you, you were such a nice little boy.

I was. You know? Yeah. You were about eight years old. I was a dancing baby boy. I was the only eight-year-old doing comedy. You know what else is weird? Anybody here celebrating anything?

The bastard child of Bugs Bunny guy. Elmer Fudd. Elmer Fudd. Oh, please. Go back and edit that. Make me sound like I know what I'm talking about. The bastard child of Bugs Bunny guy. You know

He was wascally Yeah He was wascally Well he wasn't wascally He was a hunter Yeah He was very very quiet He wanted to kill

The wabbit Etc Fred Flintstone Yeah Right Yeah Yosemite Sam So

You shaved your head Oh yeah So I was Also 253 pounds Which is not a good look on me. Well, you're also, for the listener, you're three foot 11. And I went to Mexico. So I showed up in Mexico and. Hot down there too.

Yeah, it was hot down there. And my job. Now I'm six two, I'm 253 pounds with a shaved head. Not a good look. I'm not in good shape. Oh, a preschool teacher. My job? Fixing baseball bats.

I'm running a gym. Oh, really? I was running a fitness center. Wow. And teaching people how to lose weight. Okay. And get healthy. And I did that for six months. I was running a fitness center Wow And teaching people How to lose weight Okay And get healthy And

I did that for six months And I also sold HGH Oh When I wasn't working there Yeah but I sold that on the phone Oh Really? Yeah

Like In Spanish? No two Americans Me llamo Ken Soy HGH Bienvenido You want to turn your fajita into a burrito? Yeah. Oh, I needed you guys down there. I sold nothing.

Six months. Oh, yeah. Graham and I are juicing hard. Yeah. I can see that. Well, we're not juicing. Oh yeah, Graham and I are juicing hard. Yeah. I can see that. Well, we're not juicing. Oh, wow! He's just showing a picture. That doesn't look like you. No, but pictures on a podcast are great for the audience.

Yeah, yeah. I can post it to the site. Yeah, it wasn't a good look for me. Yeah. You know? But it looks like a guy who maybe was that owns a gym. I could see that. I could see him being a guy, you know, come on, you, get up, you. Certainly a meathead.

Threatening people with hair hats. Oh, wow, that's you with a beard. Oh, nice. Yeah, that's when I, those are my walkabout days. Yeah, those, the wild years. He's showing us, like, selfies he took with no facial expression. Just like, I knew there was a mugshot in my future somewhere. Oh, this guy's real sad.

I had to get ready. You know, you got to get behind those things before they get out in front of you. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, so I did that for six months, and then I left and went up to Dave Nystrom's place. Mm-hmm. In L.A. Very funny comedian.

Has he been on? No. No, because he's been in L.A. the whole time that we've been doing this thing. Well, he comes up every two and a half years And gets his wife pregnant So he should be here Again next summer He's due He's due He is due

That's right Because their kid Is only like eight months old So they're So the kid is They have sex Every two and a half years That's not how it works

No that's his wife's schedule He's gotten used to it Wait does he get her Pregnant in Canada In Canada And then they have them In the states Anchor babies

I think that's what they call them, right? Wait, the baby has to be conceived in this country? Hey, it's her rules, not mine. You have to get them both on here. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. So I was there six months and I ran a rental yacht in Marina Del Rey for six months.

And I worked with an inventor. What? I know. It sounds like I'm going to say I wrote a unicorn to work. It was just ridiculous. I mean, like what separates an inventor from, say, Graham? Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

Am I not an inventor? Sure, I don't own any patents or anything. He had a backer. That's what I couldn't believe. And we would hang around his backyard and just come up with ideas. Wow. Like, what if we took, like, a plate, but, like, made it float? Floating plate.

Yeah, so that you could eat in the pool. No, he was a guy who, you know, what if we took a bunch of this pot and put it in this pipe and lit it on fire? We could create a new kind of... And then we inhaled it. Yeah. Then we would get super high. What do you think would happen? Maybe I'll invent something.

Let's try. Yeah. And then he would say, honey, can you get the kids out of here? It's a lot of that, but I got paid for it. That's awesome. Yeah. Getting laid while you're getting paid. The last bit of adventure was then I went to Calgary, and I took a job at the chocolate factory.

That's right. Now, I remember the chocolate. Yeah. This is all news to you, though, isn't it? Well, yeah. I don't know you. I just met you tonight. You seem like a fascinating fellow.

But I've seen his comedy. He's fantastic. Aren't I? Especially that lab that ate chocolate. Oh, boy. I can't remember how it went. I just met you tonight. You seem like a fascinating fellow. But I've seen his comedy. He's fantastic. Aren't I? Especially that lab that ate chocolate. Oh, boy. I can't remember how it went. Well, he ruined it. But he's named chocolate or something.

Well, you worked in a chocolate factory, I understand. Yes. Okay. Yeah, and I was offered. Is it every bit as magical as I am imagining it? No. This seems like one of those. No.

Like a talk show where the host is setting the person up for like, I hear you have an interesting story about a chocolate factory. Except it's the opposite. He set it up with, I worked at a chocolate factory. Anything interesting happen? No. Next question. No, it was interesting from an outsider's point of view for a guy that doesn't like to work.

Right. But after two weeks of working in the shipping and receiving, they offered me the opportunity to become a chocolatier. To train full-time as a chocolatier. This is an amazing life story. And I just said, no, right away. And they went, what are you talking about? It's $80,000 to start. Yeah, no one's ever turned down the job.

You couldn't believe it. It's how many thousand dollars to start? 80. Oh, a year? Really? Yeah. Canadian, strong Canadian dollars. Oh, follow-up question.

What the hell is a chocolate tier? It's a guy who invents the textures and the flavors. So they're combining Blake Bacon with dark chocolate, and they're pairing it with different beers and all this. And they do sculptures, all this stuff, right? So an artiste. And you turned that down? Yeah.

Did you have any qualifications? No, they were going to train me for a year at pay and then go forward. And they ended up hiring this great guy from Montreal. Something, something Wonka. Yeah. Willie something, something. Yeah, he was a bit off. And the kids like him

Oh wow Yeah because I thought I gotta get back In the film industry I've been out working For years You've been out In the real world

Yeah it's not good Yeah you were like Stinkeroo No craft services No I finally realized There's nothing to eat At this chocolate factory Oh you know what

That was something We could eat as much chocolate As we wanted Yeah dude You sure could Yeah they just said Don't take it home with you I've seen that episode

Of I Love Lucy I know all about it I took a bag home Every night You're not allowed For my mom Yeah I

Hey it's for mom right Yeah yeah I once heard of the story About a guy who Worked at KFC And one day Like I think it was The day he quit

He took home Two bags of their, uh, like secret recipe, uh, like powder. Yeah. The coating and,

uh, right. His car and took it home. And then, uh, the cops showed up at his house. Cause it's like his super secretly heavily guarded. Really?

Yeah. Isn't it just pepper and, uh, paprika or something? Seven? Eleven herbs and spices? Eleven herbs and spices. But I think like surely somebody's retro, you know, taking it apart in the lab.

And hasn't everyone like barfed from it? They've seen it come up as its elements. Individual elements. I barfed eleven times. Here comes the basil. Ken is on banana number three of the bunch.

I didn't even have your phone number. I've known you for 12 years. Well, and you don't have my phone number. We can rectify that. We can trade phone numbers. 5-5-5. 6-7-0-5.

Mine's 5-5-5 lime. Mine's 5-5-5 real phone numbers. 5-5-5. Mm-hmm. 6-7-0-5. Mine's 5-5-5 Lime. Mine's 5-5-5 Real Phone Number. So that's like, that's quite an odyssey that you were like, see you later, stink industry.

And then you went on this crazy, and then you came back and then you started acting again. I came back and I didn't work for a year. Oh, well that's... It was a grand welcome back.

The life of the actor for you. But I did do background work. Mm-hmm. Which was soul crushing. Really? Yeah. I mean, when you're used to talking with the director and hanging out with the camera guys.

Yeah, yeah. You know, having a nice trailer and. You're seeing them do that. And you're getting paid 10 times as much, you know. That used to be. Well, I would walk on set and I would see friends of mine. Hey man, what are you doing? You're back in 10 times as much you know that used to be well i would walk on set and i would see friends of mine hey man what are you doing you're back in town what are you doing here today i went walking behind you yeah it was almost a chocolate tear

i'll have you know but that is very much uh a symptom of the canadian film industry like erica sigurdsson uh past guest on the show has told like, she has a joke about what, like writing for whatever the genies or, or. Right. Yeah. Yeah. A award show for all of the television shows

in Canada. And then the next day showing up to work as an extra. Yeah. I just saw her doing extra work the other day and I thought she was a PA. I thought she was like an AD or a extras wrangler.

Right. Yeah. And she goes, no, no, that's, that's, I'm a PA on this show. Well, she was was a PA. I thought she was like an AD or a extras wrangler. Right? Yeah. And she goes, no, no, that's, that's, I'm a PA on this show. Well, she was playing a PA. Yeah. But she was sitting with all the extras were sitting at these tables together and she was sitting off by herself. Yeah. And I walked by and I went, hey, I didn't know you were a wrangler.

No. Background. I was like, wow, you're a great actress. She's following a real wrangler around To get notes No she's a great actress Now yes This is our first time meeting

But I got a message from past guest Sean Proudlow A couple weeks ago saying hey you know who you should have On the show He's a really funny guy And he's His most recent credit Is he was in the Saved by the Bell TV movie as the guy who plays Mr. Belding. And Mr. Belding.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. You had to play two roles. Dennis Haskins. Yeah. And then Mr. Belding. Well, may I tell you what my mother said at the end of the viewing last night? She called me.

Okay. We're recording this the day after the premiere. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. This is the day after. And she said, well, your father and I just watched the movie. I said, yeah. I said, you know, I'm not in it a lot.

It's all about the kids. She goes, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you said you were playing Mr. Belding. I said, yeah. She says, well, we looked at the credits at the end and it said that you were Dennis someone. I think they got your credit wrong. Oh, mom.

Oh, mom, you're so lame. So I said to her, I said, no, Dennis Haskins is the actor who portrayed the character, Mr. Belding. And then she goes, oh, yeah, Jim, that's the character name. He played the actor. She goes, oh, yeah, it all makes sense now. So I don't know what they're doing while they're watching the movie. That's taking down notes. Well, they're just saying that, you know, Mr. Belding would never do that.

You know what they're doing is, oh, we've got to have something to say to him when we call him after this. What did the credit say? Dennis something. All right. They weren't big fans of me leaving criminal psychology to get into acting. Parents rarely are. Okay, so when we first heard about this movie existing, well, I work at CBC and it was shot at CBC. Yeah.

And I would like stock the set and I like went into the wardrobe room and I was like looking at all the acid wash clothes. And they just took all the clothes and threw was like looking at all the acid wash clothes and they just took all the clothes and threw them in a vat of acid uh and um uh like i i looked at zach's wig and uh there were like posters for the the characters on the wall and i like i had a boner for a month um but uh we we were super excited yeah and we because we we we were we were kind of confused too right like yeah because i didn't know what what was going on i just knew like all of a sudden there was a guy that kind of looked like screech sort of walking around in screech clothes where do you see him i i sometimes work at the cbc as. Oh, okay. So how did I not see you guys there?

I was there like six days. Oh, we move like ghosts. Yeah. We didn't want to be in anyone's way. Yeah. We don't work in that department. We're kind of like extras to the extras. Yeah.

Yeah. But yeah, I saw them building the Macs and everything, and we were super excited. Well, tell us everything. Yeah, tell us everything. You guys haven't seen it. I was fine. No, I've read the book.

Oh, okay. You saw the show. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but I've, yeah,

I've seen it by the bell. Did you, have you? Yeah, I did after I got the audition. You hadn't seen it before? No, I'd seen bits and pieces over the years.

I was 25 when it premiered. Right. I was 25 when it premiered. Right. Right. I was 25 when it premiered. 24 when it premiered. So, um, I just had to go back to YouTube and look up some very specific items of, uh, Dennis Haskins or Mr. Belding. Right. Just to see what he would do.

And, um. How do you get into the mind of a Dennis Haskins? Mm-hmm. Well, I just use my own mind and I applied it thusly. Sure. I just figured what would mind And I applied it Thusly Sure I just figured What would

You know What would I do If I was in this situation Sure You know As the actor Can we speak to Dennis Wait I gotta part my hair

On the other side Yeah It was It was fun It was It was a good I mean There's no dirt to tell you

No We're not looking for dirt. These six kids became best of friends right away as well. They were hanging on each other, hanging around all the time, right? And Lifetime, it seems they were selling this as a really dirty, salacious, tell-all, who was screwing who kind of thing. Right. And that's not what the story is. It's actually the telling of how did they come

up with the idea? How did they do the casting? Why did they cast certain people? And then just the natural things that happened to a bunch of teenagers who were all. But there was some screwing. Forced together. Oh yeah.

Yeah, but remember this is Lifetime too, right? Right. Do we have Lifetime here? No, but we. Channel 103. Really? Yeah. Yeah. But remember, this is lifetime too, right? Right. Do we have lifetime here? No, but we. Channel 103. Really? Yeah. On my cable package.

Yeah. Graham's been without cable. He's like a cable vegetarian. Yeah. Like. He'll sneak some when he's drunk. Cable-tarian. Yeah, yeah.

Except at night. Yeah. Once in a while, I'll have some cable. Oh, and I overd at night. Yeah, once in a while I'll have some cable. Oh, and I overdo it. Yeah, so you watched it last night? Yeah, I watched it with Damon Schritter. And he hadn't seen the show at all. But he seemed to like it as well.

You know what? It's one of these things, like it's a cultural touchstone. Yeah. More than anything. Like it was, I remember when I was younger, there was like a tell-all TV movie about the Partridge family. And that was like a thing like, I don't know about the Partridge family, but people who watched it would be like, oh, I have to see this because it was a thing. Right. And there are people in both camps. There are people that love the TV show and love this, and people who love the TV show and absolutely hate everything about this.

Huh. Right? Right. And it's too bad because initially there were people coming out saying, you know, how dare you do this to my favorite show? That was my childhood. You're destroying it because they thought it was going to be all of this sex, drugs, and rock and roll stuff, right?

And it's just about rock and roll. It was a theme song. Yeah. Oh, the soundtrack. You're going to love the thought it was going to be all of this sex, drugs, and rock and roll stuff, right? And it's just about rock and roll. It's a theme song. Yeah. Oh, the soundtrack. You're going to love the soundtrack. Rock and roll. People are raving about the soundtrack already. Is that right?

Yeah. Oh, man. And then people are coming out saying, how dare you try to replace them? And I had to write to people on Twitter and go, you know, we're not replacing anyone. We're telling a story. Yeah. Okay? Yeah.

Well, you couldn't hire all those actors Back to play their 13 year old selves I know Somebody Somebody was Some people were saying They should have just had The real actors come out

And do it Oh boy that would have been weird Dennis Haskins is 63 That would have been great You know Lark Voorhees Has a new face Yeah

Yeah that's true And brain You know Oh did she get a new brain as well Well she's kind of She's not well She doesn't seem to be well. And I read today that she said she didn't watch it and she's not going to.

Hmm. A lark. I would. If there was a movie portrayed. About you? Yeah, I would watch it. Who will be cast in the podcast? Yeah, that's right.

Tell our story. Somebody rugged. For me. Yeah, for Dave. Someone from the Duck Dynasty? Oh, yeah, sure. Who's the old racist one? Clem or whatever his name is.

Or what's his name? One of those easy top dudes. Oh, yeah. There's not a lot of guys around with that beard anymore. No, that's true. I got, actually, the other night. This is a weird thing. And at the same time, it's weird.

It's a thing that I was like, how come more people don't do that? It was somebody driving down the street, like Fraser Street, with a bullhorn just yelling at people as they drove by. When they yelled at me, they were like, what's up, CZ Tom? Is that going to be a thing now? I don't know. It seemed like a lot of fun. A bullhorn heckle? Yeah, just driving by people

hey groceries you know and then somebody going oh they're talking to me yeah i got groceries that's me oh they got me it seems like i've ah that seems like a good bachelor party thing like rent a bullhorn get a car rent well don't buy one yeah you don't need to the police remember when you go to a video rudd maybe you could be you could be, Paul Rudd could play you. Oh, yeah. Don't flatter yourself. I think a handsome Paul Rudd. Yeah. Yeah, like a handsomer Paul Rudd.

Yeah. But do you remember when you could go to video stores and like rent a video camera or like an entire VHS tape deck? Yeah, or you could rent a Nintendo. A Nintendo for a weekend. You remember that? Yeah. Yeah. Wow. You look so young. I'm Graham's deck. Yeah, or you could rent a Nintendo. A Nintendo for a weekend. You remember that? Yeah. Yeah.

Wow. You look so young. I'm Graham's age. Yeah. I know. I'm old like Graham. We're oldsters. Yeah.

No, I think you're the first eight-year-old comedy team. You'll like the movie. Yeah. I think you'll really like it. Of course we will, yeah. I tried to watch it online today. Online? But I couldn't. Yeah, I don't have a... What, tried to watch it online today Online? What it's hacked out online already?

I don't have any cable anywhere Well it didn't occur to me I didn't know when it was premiering I just assumed You haven't been watching my twitter feed Well I can guarantee you I haven't But also You shot it like two months ago

I assumed that oh this is going oh, this is going to take years of special effects. Close for an accident. No, it's the 25-year anniversary this year. Oh, of course it is. Right? Wow. They had to get it out. Yeah.

Well, you guys call yourself fans. Oh, I do. I do call myself fans. What was AC for? In AC Slater? Albert Clifford. Okay. Oh, I do. I do call myself fans. What was AC for? In AC Slater? Albert Clifford. Okay. You are a fan.

Air conditioning. The trailer. Was there any more trivia in it? Air conditioning. Is it a trivia movie? Oh, I'd clean up in that. In the trailer for it, where shows them at like The photo shoot You have the

You have the outline Oh yeah Which is great It's alright Because you're saved by the bell They work that into every other scene I wanted to do the Hey hey hey hey hey

What is going on here? Did you never get to say that? Wasn't allowed It was intellectual property owned by NBC. Oh. No way. That's what I was told. Everyone had that T-shirt.

The Mr. Belding T-shirt. Just did a banana spit take. A banana spit. Yay. Not bad. Is it your first? Is it your first? It is our first.

It's our first guest to eat a bunch of bananas. Oh, you know what? We did have bubbles. Yeah, one of the early episodes. Oh, wow. Pretty good. Pretty good. You guys need a tree or a jungle gym in here.

Well, yeah, we need some rope. A couple more bananas, I'll be climbing. Oh, that was banana number three. That was banana number three Yeah yeah Okay alright Orange you glad I didn't say it

Dave what's going on With you man Well I recently played Mr. Feeny In the Boy Meets World Picture

What was his catchphrase Now now Corey Now now What was his catchphrase? Now, now, Corey. Now, now. Hands off, Corey. Get what you wish for, boy. Meet the world. Yep.

Oh, it's real free-form, isn't it? Yeah. I don't know. It's that kind of show. Okay. So, what's going on with me? We're recording a bunch of episodes in a short time period because Abby's having a baby. My wife is having a baby. Oh, that's what's wrong with her.

Yeah. No, she's just had too much gluten. Huge, huge belly. She looks fantastic. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you wouldn't think she was nine months pregnant. No.

She's been sparkly. I wouldn't have thought she was even married. Well, she's not. She can't fit her rings on anymore. Wow. Oh, yeah. Fantastic. So you guys got tattoos.

Yeah, we got tattoos. That's one thing they really recommend when you're pregnant. Tommy and Pam style. Fitting tattoos. Yeah. Yeah. As many as your body can handle. guys got tattoos yeah that's one thing they really recommend when you're pregnant is tommy and pam style getting tattoos yeah yeah as many as your body can handle did tommy and pam have a baby do they or did they don't they have two yeah i think they had two kids i don't know i guess so brandon was named tommy and lee tommy jr and lee jillian Brandon Aren't they? Oh yeah that's right How do I know that? Dylan and Brandon Are from 90210

They were big fans They were more than What it means But I did a commercial With Pam Anderson Really? The Labatt's Blue Like recently?

No Yeah in 1991 I think That's not recently No It's recent to me But that was before Baywatch?

Oh yeah This was her first First big thing. When she was discovered up at the, uh, the football game with the Blue Zone t-shirt. Right. And Labatt's Blue said, hey, we should do a commercial with her. So was Pam, Christina Matysik. You know, the two, the two cooking girls.

Oh yeah. Uh, she used to be on, uh, Channel 13, do the news. Right. Yeah, Christina Matysik and, um, the shopping bags. Right. Yeah. Right. Christina Matysik and the shopping bags. Right. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

So the three of us did a Labatt's Blue commercial and Pam's done well since. That like people are discovered that way. Right. Some of you. Yeah.

You just left that hanging there. Hey, I'm on the number one podcast in the nation. That's true. And the number one Saved by the Bell tribute movie. Tribute movie

Tribute movie Is that what it is Oh no I don't know what it is But interestingly enough At the end of the film It goes to black No spoilers

Mr. Belding died And then it says The end Ellipsis Ish Ah yes What do you take from that I don't know

It opens up a whole bunch of stuff I don't feel like that was They didn't like That wasn't a catchphrase from the show No No, but Maybe Is it a teaser for something else?

Oh, I don't know I haven't actually read Dustin Diamond's book Which is what it's based on, right? It's loosely based on that Because Dustin has come out just in the last week To say that that book was a series of phone conversations to a ghostwriter who then just wrote whatever he wanted. Oh. I want to be a ghostwriter.

Yeah. Well, you guys were ghosts at the CBC. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. We haunt the CBC. Anyway, here's what's going on. Go on, Dave. Yeah, back to real life. Not my job. He's having a baby. I mean, I'm having the baby too. Anyway, here's what's going on with me. Yeah, back to real life.

Not much. Abby's having a baby. I mean, I'm having the baby, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're going to be there. Oh, yeah. She's having it more than you are, but afterwards. She's pregnant-er than I am.

Yeah. But I'm there every step of the way. Except now. Well, no, yeah, I'm here. Yeah. She's with me in spirit. But we, yeah, basically not doing much. That's what's going on because, you know.

You've done the most important part already. Exactly. Yeah. But her mother is now staying with us. Her father will be joining her shortly. And. They won't need you soon. Exactly.

Slowly edging you in. That's right. That kid is here to replace you. That's fine. Dave has hammock plans. Big hammock plans. Exactly. I've got all this paternity leave and other people to do my job for me

as a father. Yeah. Well, the baby's going to need to learn. I'm going to people to do my job for me as a father yeah yeah well the baby's gonna need to learn i'm gonna have to do a lot of fathering are you going to i'm gonna immediately discipline the child are you gonna smoke a cigar after the baby no why not because i don't want to barf uh here's what i've been offered I can cut the cord Oh This is the offer That's on the table I wrote down a number

Yeah I have a number On my head Yeah Do you get to Pick your own scissors Yep Yep

They can be those Craft scissors Oh with the zig zag Yeah You can have the Coolest belly button. Make sure that's an Audi. I want people to see it.

Oh, it will be an Audi for the first couple weeks. Yeah, a real Audi, a weirdo Audi. Abby's Innie has gone to almost an Audi. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's common. Is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it just started. Okay.

When it fully is out Then you gotta rush it off Yeah Exactly You hear a pop Even if you're asleep It wakes you up In the middle of the night Oh yeah

You were saying That could happen tonight Yeah I'm drinking lemonade Yep Because I can't have any alcohol Because I might Have to drive at any point

I'm drinking for two So There'll be time For alcohol afterwards Right And cigars Oh no wait Why do. And cigars. Oh, no, wait.

Why do you want cigars? Because that's the old. That's the old. Like, I don't. It's not like some people still do it. I don't think anybody still does it. And then in the 90s, it was heroin. It was heroin. Oh, yeah.

Of course. Yeah. All those skinny babies. Yeah. And then in 2000, it was Molly. Yeah. Everybody did Molly. And then it came back to was Molly. Yeah, everybody did Molly. And then it came back to cigars.

Ironically at first, but then people got the taste for it. Like the hipsters brought it back. I feel like that would be a reasonable thing. We're making these artisanal tobaccos and we're rolling them in our bathtubs.

Gluten free. um yeah i don't the cigar is just like it's an old-timey i love the smell of a cigar i don't i love the smell of a pipe i love oh maybe you should have a pipe then yeah could that be the halfway the middle ground for you okay yeah let's have a play do i to? I just want to smoke something Yeah okay Oh gee Is that true? Like if I Pass cigars around to people

Would you As a recovering Heroin and Tobacco addict Would you Smoke a cigar? I guess I would Yeah

If it was If everybody else Was smoking the cigar I think I would But like Don't they have bubblegum cigars They hand out And they're fake cigars, chocolate cigars? Well, licorice pipes.

Yeah. I heard that we three kings of Orient are tried to light a rubber cigar. It was loaded and exploded. That doesn't sound... Then what's the last line? I know what the last line is. Something, something. Yeah.

They really went far. The U.S. drug czar are yep uh we're on to banana number four yep potassium is at an all-time high when did you discover opening them from the bottom i was in high school uh-huh and there was a chinese guy living in our basement okay a tale as old as time It's a typical story Yeah No my We had a big house

And my parents rented out The suite downstairs To these These fellas And I used to see him Eat his banana like that And I asked him Why do you do that

And he said Because then you have a handle And I thought Makes sense And you don't have to deal With the seed Yeah At the bottom

You know This is It's too It's too good It's I can't believe I've gone this far without, you know what I mean? It's a life hack. It's like when somebody showed me how to do. It's a life hack.

Avocado pit with the knife. Uh-huh. Because he saw me just struggling with this pit and he's like, oh no, this is how you do it. Chop. Yeah. Nobody, how else? And the pomegranate.

I don't know. How do you do a pomegranate? I learned how to de-seed a pomegranate I want to learn how to deseed a pomegranate You put it under water No Cut it in half You have to be in space Cut it in half

And then you have the The severed part Facing your palm Uh huh Up in your fingertips Then you take a wooden spoon And start bashing it on top All the seeds fall out

It takes It takes 30 seconds Man This has been Fruit wise this has been so It takes a lifetime To Man, this has been, fruit-wise, this has been so. It takes a lifetime to buy a pomegranate. I've never in my life.

Yeah, Charlie Demers has that bit about it's never going to make the top 10 fruits. Well, you have to Google how to open it. Oh, what are the top 10 fruits? Banana's got to be at the top. Banana's there. Yeah. For me. Yeah. Yeah. Is be at the top. Bananas there. Yeah. For me. Yeah.

Yeah. Is there anything in a banana? Potassium. Yeah. But like, do you need that? Look at my skin. Do you need five potassiums? I have beautiful skin.

You do have beautiful skin. I know. And have you ever seen a monkey with a pimple? No. See. Wait. Wait. Memory banks.

No, no. It's been great. It's good for your brain. Good for your hair. Your face. Good's been great. It's good for your brain, good for your hair, your face. Good for your head. It's good head food. Yeah. Good head food.

All right. All right. All right. All right. Yeah. I mean, nothing's really going. We went to the art gallery this past weekend. Yeah.

Abby and her mother and myself. We went to see that Douglas Copeland exhibition. Yeah. Now, you saw that. Yeah. And you said there was only one good thing in it. And I can't remember. I was going through it, and I was like, what was the one thing Graham said was good?

And it never came to me. I liked the dressers. Oh. The dressers. He had some cool furniture that I was like, yeah, I could see that actually being in my house. Oh, okay. There was a Terry Fox dresser. Oh, yeah, oh yeah with a leg yeah i thought that was pretty cool also the lego was pretty cool but then the rest of it i was like yeah yeah there was a lot of like um i guess the

thing about like modern art whatever it is like is that what they call it i guess pop art it's like it really challenges you to like find like to not make fun of it i like to yeah i would love to go on that trip with you guys because there was on other floors of the museum there was stuff by like you know the group of seven and like great painters and and yeah and then with like stuff where you don't have to there's there's no it's not completely subjective you can objectively say okay these people are good painters right even if this is the thousandth painting of workers in a field right uh and then but then the the modern stuff more like, this is a super original idea, but it's total bullshit. What, it's like they just like, it's a strip of red, a strip of black.

It would just be like one room, which is, they weren't even paintings. They were just like phrases written, like printed onto the canvas. Yeah. Yeah, didn't Yoko Ono used to do that? Yeah. Is that how John Lennon met her? Yeah. She, didn't he, he defaced a piece of her art.

And she totally destroyed his. And he like wrote up, why not? Because I said so. What about the head outside? Well, there's a weird thing that we discussed on the podcast previously that we know a guy who did that concept in Vancouver before Douglas Copeland did it. Yeah. Wow. How has this not come to light?

It has. It's in the paper. Oh. Yeah. So there. Was this when I was in Texas or Mexico or something? Okay. Yeah. So there. Was this when I was in Texas or Mexico or something? Okay. Yeah, it was a thing in the paper, and he said, oh, you know, he said something like,

oh, where do, you know, who knows where ideas come from? From your brain or from somebody else's brain. Or from that guy over there. Exactly. That's where ideas come from. Yeah. I put some gum on it. Yeah.

I did, too. It smells great when you're right next to it. But I touched another gum when I did. I didn't like that. Oh, yeah. So if the listener doesn't know, there's a, outside of the art gallery here, I don't know if it's going to be a permanent thing. No, they're taking it down.

Good. Douglas Copeland made this giant bust of his own face. Yeah. His own head. And encouraged people to put their gum on it. And it's called Gum Head. and it's covered in gum now on and the weird thing is there were like some pieces of gum that weren't like uh weren't real like they were just enormous like okay that looks like a big piece of gum or you know 10 000 pieces of gum stuck together and then stuck to his

oh so you think there was some like pre-gumming? No, I feel like some people came along and were like, I work at a gum factory. I'm a gummeteer. I walked by today. I saw those. Yeah. What are those?

It's like even, it might even be Play-Doh or something. Yeah. That's what it looks like to me. They've got a couple of those. And then at his forehead, it looks like there's some sort of floral arrangement

poked up between his eyes. Oh. Because I know it's coming down now. Yeah. It was still little bits of gum when I stuck it in his ear. Oh, you were part of the early work. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was there before. Before it got cool. Yeah, before it really caught on. No, no, no. I went and took my gum off of it. Oh, and they also took down the hobo reef there on Robson Street, right in front of the art gallery. Now, what's a hobo reef? You know, where they shut down part of Robson Street and put up all those funky wooden benches.

Oh, yeah, yeah. They shut down the traffic for three months. Every year they do like a different thing. I've never heard it called a hobo reef. Oh, that's from Damon Schritter, the mind of Damon Schritter. It's part of any valuable ecosystem to have a hobo reef

to where hobos get their sustenance but at the in the art exhibit there's so much stuff that's like plastic and colorful and like he uses

old toys to make stuff and I've never there were a lot of kids there and I've never seen security guards at an art gallery working so hard. Don't touch it, don't touch it. No, you there.

No, no, quit running. Well, and that was because there's one part of the gallery where it's all shelves and toys against kind of a wooden backdrop, and the person I went with was like like this just looks like your basement like this just looks like they just sounds like salvation army yeah that's what it was it's like a couple trips to the flea market and you know it's fun to look at but you know then you read the why it's there and then you're like maybe if this was good, I wouldn't have to do so much reading. Do you still give out those prizes?

I do. Yeah. Just this week, I gave away a T-Pain microphone that you sing into and it made you sound like T-Pain. Just the most hilarious, obscure. Yeah. That you can find. Good luck finding that on store shelves because I don't think they sell it anymore. I feel like the listener might worry that I edited it out a bunch in the middle.

But no, we really went from an art gallery to, do you still give away those prizes? Well, because the way that he had described all the stuff at the art gallery reminded me of all those things. Yeah, the weird things Graham gives away at his show. No, but it sounded like those long forgotten toys that you were giving away as gifts. Yeah. The weird things Graham gives away at his show. No, but it sounded like those long forgotten toys that you were giving away as gifts. Yeah. These people turned into high art. I know, exactly. And he's probably all the, he's probably all the

better for it. He's probably making, raking in all that Canadian art dough. Whereas you are stuck in some guy's basement. Yeah. Just collecting whatever. Yeah. Brick a brick.

What's up with you? This weekend, I went on a crazy, I flew on Sunday to Guelph, Ontario. Oh, yeah. To do, my cousin goes to the University of Guelph. On Sunday? On Sunday, yeah. Okay. I flew in on Sunday morning because they're doing like an orientation week.

And my cousin works on like the orientation board. And she said like, they were like, oh, we should hire a comedian. She's like, my cousin's a comedian. And so they all agreed, yeah, this would be great. We'll bring him in. And I was like, okay, you know, sounds good. So I had to fly in on Sunday and then fly out on Monday morning. Woof.

Were they surprised at the fact that you had to fly in from Vancouver for a 20-minute gig? Yeah. How much is this costing us? Yeah, $20,000. Graham's rate. $20,000. Graham's rate. I wanted to do it because it's kind of like an interesting thing to go play at a university.

And so I got there. Like, I have to fly there, get to the airport. Then it's an hour drive from the airport to Guelph. Were you in a hotel or a dorm? I stayed at my cousin's place. Okay. It was off campus. Off, off campus. Uh, off campus.

Cool. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And we're on to banana number five. Yeah. Banana number five is being cracked. Um,

so this is the ultimate banana. Oh yeah. We should have said the other one was the ultimate would have been good um so it's in this big hall like a 30 foot ceiling type it's like an old church that's been renovated to be like a lecture hall okay but it's basically still looks like a giant old church okay but at least it's not a cafeteria no yeah exactly because i was like i have no idea where i'm playing and uh so we get there and it's 20 minutes to when the show's supposed to start nobody there my cousin's like this is my nightmare coming to life

like she starts kind of not freaking out but she's like this is i was worried this is it on campus it's on campus but it's so you're okay you're you're you're doing comedy yeah how long is your set intended to be an hour and you are uh uh did you see any ads around the campus as you were uh no did you see any drunk people no because it was a dry campus dry orientation I know, but even if it's a dry orientation week. I'm sure there were some drunkos around, but you weren't allowed to drink. Like, they weren't allowed to sell drinks on campus. Because, you know, everybody's 18. What time of day is this?

This is 8.30, as I'm supposed to start. I was a resident advisor at the University of Victoria. Yeah. Everyone was 18. No one was allowed to drink. Everybody. Everyone. They didn't sell alcohol on campus.

Everyone. Made their own pruno. No, everyone knew how to get it. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. It's like it, you know, they had all these activities. This is why there was nobody at the show 20 minutes before the show.

Because they were like, well, it turns out that this other activity that we scheduled at the same time, we didn't think anybody would go to this other activity. But there's lineups around the block for it. Oh, God. And the other activity was something called Nerf War. And I was like, well, of course. What's the matter with you? I was like, of course Nerf War is going to be more popular than anything. What is that?

I don't even know what that is. It was, they had an entire gym and you got, you were given a Nerf gun. Well, I've never, I'm just imagining it. Yeah, you're given a Nerf gun and I think goggles and then you just go crazy. You're just shooting Nerf stuff all over the place. Yeah, it's like paintball, but with Nerf. Yeah. So the greatest possible activity in the history of activities.

We bought a bunch of trampolines and mattresses. Yeah, exactly. No one's going to want to go. We bought them as a joke. We hand out magic mushrooms at the door. So who showed up? Eventually, like made an announcement at nerf war like if you're if you're waiting in line at nerf war nerf war is going to

be on all night but there's a show happening right now so a bunch of people came over from nerf war nerds yeah who couldn't get in and uh it was good they were a good crowd and it was fun to do um where did you how much time did you spend talking about nerf war uh most of the beginning of the set it was like nerf war and then i talked about uh what rhymes with turf war something they like they sent me an email that was like if you talk if you say anything about sex you gotta counterbalance it by talking about consent or something. I was like, well, I don't have any sex material. But I did mention consent was cool after every joke. Is this at a seminary or something?

Where are you doing this show? This is universities. They're very, you know. They're very different than I was. It's only comedy. Yeah. And then, so so it was good. They were a good crowd, except the sound guy, I don't know why,

thought it would be cool to give me like an old-timey, like a Frank Sinatra era microphone that was attached to the stand. So I had to stand with the stand for the full hour, which was weird. But you like old-timey stuff, I guess. He knows that. You seem like a guy who'd croon his jokes. You're like the Michael Bublé of comedy. So, yeah, it was like,

oh, I just couldn't believe it when they were like, where is everybody? And they're like, you're not going to believe it, but Nerf War is super popular. Yeah, people wanted to go to Nerf War. So, yeah, and then I flew back. People wanted to go to nerf war so yeah and then i flew back people wanted to go on the sex slide i mean we we just we needed an activity we didn't think anyone would show up yeah and then i uh then i flew back the next morning and just i feel like i've been wonked

out ever since oh it's too much flying all back to back. It's all the waiting, too. It's the hardest part. Tom Petty taught us that. And then I got attitude from security. Well, you got attitude to spare. Yeah, absolutely. That's what I'm known as, a rude dude with bad attitude.

One of the security ladies gave me guff because you know like sometimes you're supposed to take your laptop out and put it in a separate bin uh all the time yeah she said no no you're wasting you're wasting my time she said and i was like you're you're wasting everybody's time i i'm wasting your time i had to put bottles in a plastic bag and she's like no no you don't you just keep those in the bag. And you just. That drives me up the wall is when you're following the rules. Yeah.

That are the rules everywhere. Yeah. And they're like, why would you have to take your shoes off? Because you always have to take your shoes off. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't make up this. I'm not crazy.

When I flew through Calgary, I took off my shoes and they're like, oh, you don't have to take those off. Those don't have any metal in them. Well, you're not scanning them for metal. You're scanning them for whatever explosive shoe thing. No, they've gone on to the next big thing, whatever that was, right? It was liquids. Yeah, liquids were big.

Now what's next? Because they're getting rid of those scanners because they said that health violations. And you can see, well, they said it violates every child. Oh, yeah. Nudity laws. Like child pornography laws. Of course. Right?

Because you see them naked. Right. And then they did tests and you could put a gun on your hip and walk through it. And it was never seen. Whoops. Yeah, well. Well, you know, there's going to be some design flaws. But not on a child's sexy, sexy hip.

But see, that's the thing. They never took it down because of the child pornography. They took it down because, oh, you could, there's going to be some design flaws. But not on a child's sexy, sexy hip. But see, that's the thing. They never took it down because of the child pornography. They took it down because, oh, you could get a gun through. And they were like, well, most cool guys put their guns in the front or in the back. That's right. It's just the only nerds are putting them in the side these days. And a nerd's not going to cause any problem. Yeah.

So I just bought, when they did a 911, they did the original 911. Yeah, I remember what day that was. What did they use? A box cutter. Box cutters. Yeah. And that was the first time in my life I had ever heard the term box cutters. And we've been ordering a lot of stuff online for the baby.

And we have all these boxes. And I was like, I'm going to go out and buy box cutters. And in my head, I was imagining them were like these you know special scissors that you get just like a retractable knife yeah yeah i i've been i've seen those a million times in my life i never knew they were called box cutters oh you have to work in a warehouse at some point then you get well acquainted with this cutter oh yeah first you got to cut the hockey stick to fix the hockey stick. Did they come in tubes? What?

No, they just came bulk. We would go to the rink and just buy them in a pile and just drag them home. I mean, we were living in a house that had nearly a thousand hockey sticks poked around everywhere. It was ridiculous. And he lived with a girl, right?

And she was like, Tom, we have to get these sticks out of the bedroom. It's like they're lined up against the wall. You knew what you were signing up for. That's right. It's me and my sticks, baby. Yeah, so that's what I did. I went across the country. That's almost the farthest I've gone for a one-only gig.

The farthest I've gone is London. I've gone to London. England? Yep. Done one gig. Done one only gig. The farthest I've gone is London. I've gone to London. England? Yep. Done one gig. Done one show and come back? I stayed around for a couple of days, but yeah, that was a couple of years ago. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, during the London Olympics. Yeah, and you wore that denim jumpsuit. Yeah. Yeah, it was hot. Real hot. Post that. I have to notice of it somewhere. Yeah.

Should we move on to Overheard? Okay. Bikini season. Volleyball time. Hot dogs and hamburgers. Get ready to Olympic dive. Fourth of July. Are you ready for rollerblading rain time?

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You get an inside look into the creative and technical process, and a unique view of a song by hearing just the drums or just the guitars or say just a Wurlitzer piano. If you're a fan of music, if you make music, or if you just like to learn how things are made, come check it out on MaximumFun.org. Thanks. Overheard. Overheards. A segment in which you, the listener, and us, the podcasters, go out in the world, listen to other people's goings on, and report back to you. And we always like to start with the guest.

Now, we don't necessarily have to. We can start with Dave and me and then go back to you but if you're comfortable no i'll start because i don't know what's gonna happen so oh wow let's just let's just i did actually hear this on saturday night i was waiting at a crosswalk at cardero and georgia now this checks out those street cross yeah you're allowed to cross and there were two young women in their 20s, and one girl said to the other, she said, I don't know, I think it's going to be a weird wedding because she's already slept with his brother. And then they crossed. Yeah, that is.

Does that mean like that girl's date, or does that mean the groom's brother, or is that the wife? Yeah, I think the wife is already, the bride's already slept with the groom's brother. Yeah, so there's no temptation on that final, just before you go up the aisle. You're allowed to have one last sex. Something old, something new. It's my brother, who you blew. Toastmaster, Dave Shumka.

Yeah. Start and end with a joke. Wow. Awful. Dave, do you have a... You know know i guess i do um i don't really though uh uh we're a little dry the last couple of weeks uh but what i do have is a misheard okay well i said something uh the other day uh to my wife abby uh and she thought i said something else and well uh here goes sounded something like uh we were watching tv and she wasn't paying attention to it and i was and it said um uh if you have a long-lasting erection you should seek medical help it was an ad for Viagra. I hope so.

And I said to her, hey, you're going to have to seek medical help for these long-lasting erections. And she just looked at me and was so confused by what I had just said. And she said to me, we haven't talked about this. And she, it turns out, she thought I had said a completely nonsense sentence, which was, you're gonna

have to shake your glop for these long-lasting erections. We haven't talked about this. Shake your glop? Shake what the kids are doing Your glop Shape it or shake it Shake it with a K Oh like a Polaroid picture

Oh that makes sense Yeah I can see Shake your glop Yeah Ladies For these long lasting erections Oh gross Oh that's where babies come from

Yeah Yeah Mom and dad Shook our glop Shook each other's glop Oh, that's where babies come from. Yeah. Yeah. Mom and dad shook our glock. Shook each other's glock. So, yeah, certainly not unoverheard at all. No, but, you know, fun. Under here.

Yeah. Fun miscommunication. Yeah, these are the foibles of marriage. Yeah, yeah. It could be a weekly comic strip. Why not daily? No, no, no, weekly. Yeah, yeah. It could be a weekly comic strip. Mm-hmm. Why not daily? No, no, no. Weekly.

Save it up. Like, look at what happened to Blondie. They went daily. Ran out of juice. Oh, boy. How many naps can this guy take? Yeah. Oh, it's a big sandwich.

Yeah. Those are the two gags Blondie has. Him napping and him eating a sandwich. What's Blondie do? Isn't she a stay-at-home wife? Yeah. Little mom? He works.

So do they ever have a child, Pipsqueak? He's Dagwood Bumstead. Uh-huh. And so she's Blondie Bumstead? I guess. Yeah, sure. And then they have a kid, Sweet Pea. Yeah.

Bam Bam. Bam Bam Bum Pea. Yeah. Bam Bam. Bam Bam Bumstead. Oh, Bam Bam Bumstead. That's a good wrestler name. Yeah. Pretty good. What are you over here? Oh, no.

First we have to go through all the other comic strip babies. And cartoon babies. Oh, yeah. There was Marvin. Remember Marvin? Oh, from the comic strip Marvin. Yeah, yeah. Oh was Marvin. Remember Marvin? Oh, from the comics. Marvin. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I was thinking of the Marvin Martian.

Oh, no. He made me very angry. He was a grown up. Pretty good. I guess that's it. Yeah. Pebbles. Yeah.

There's the baby from the Roger Rabbit movie. Yeah. Baby Huey. Baby Huey? Oh, Baby Huey was a, yeah, he was the big duck, Baby Huey. What? He's like a big fat duck. Yeah.

And he looked like. I only recently learned about this. Baby Herman is the. Oh, baby, that's what I was thinking of. Yeah. Anyway. That's all the babies. Yeah, we did it.

That's all the babies that have ever been drawn. Marvin was never funny. And also he was like Garfield, where it was like, can the adults hear what he's saying? Because, like, you never know if John can hear what Garfield's thinking. Because he's not speaking it, he's thinking it.

And Odie can't hear it. John can't hear him. John can't hear him. No. No one can hear Garfield but us. Good Nermal could hear him, though. I don't know. Nermal was only in the TV show, I think. He wasn't in the comic strip. What about Odie?

Odie didn't speak anything. No, but he could understand. He didn't understand anything. Yeah, he didn't do nothing for nothing. He didn't react to anything. No, he just got kicked off of the counter or whatever. He was a two-dimensional character. Yeah. He didn't react to anything. No, he just got kicked off of the counter or whatever. He was a two-dimensional character. Yeah.

Now, Graham. Yes. Do you have an overheard? I do. Now, as we're recording this, there is a province-wide teacher strike. Right. And so kids were supposed to go back to school today. Right.

We're recording this the day after Labor Day. Yeah. And so there was, and I remember because when I was a kid, the teachers went on strike in our province. And I remember being on the kid side of this argument because the dad was trying to, to first of all these kids were all skateboarding out in front of the house so they were having the greatest time this is a news story no no this is this is across the street from my house i was waiting for a cab and these kids are skateboarding out front and the dad is yelling out of the window like okay you gotta come you guys got to come in now, go to bed, because you got to get back into the cycle. And they're like, no, we're cool.

And he just kept saying like, no, but you never know when the teachers are going to go back to work. And they're like, no, it's fine, we're fine, it's fine. And they just kept saying, no, we're cool, and then doing skateboard moves. How old were they? They were like, you know, eight or nine. How many of them?

Three of them. Oh, that's too many. Yeah. The dad was way, he was outmoded and he was outlogicked because the kids knew they didn't have to go back to school. I feel like my dad didn't have to do much to get us to listen to him. Yeah. I might be just remembering this completely wrong.

Yeah, probably. But like we were, yeah. We were never that, like I had two older sisters, so I never really hung out with them either. And my brother was much older. Yeah. So it was always my dad against me. So my dad won.

Yeah. But like, I feel like three boys. Three boys, all skateboarding. They can really just form a unit and be like, nope, dad, sorry. Oh, I think the ratio for child rearing has got to be three to one adult. Three adults. Yeah, you've got to have three adults to one kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You have to outmaneuver them. Even the little ones, like two-year-olds. He couldn't get a thought in edgewise. Like they were cutting him off. No, yeah, yeah. You have to outmaneuver them. Even the little ones, like two-year-olds. He couldn't get a thought in edgewise. They were cutting him off. No, we're cool. We're cool, Dad. He's like, when have you been waking up? And they're like, we're always up at eight.

We're always up at eight, Dad. And he's like, that's not what I recall. The nice dad giving them options. Yeah, yeah, exactly. My era was like, get in the house. Yeah. Did you ever have a teacher strike when you were a youngster? I don't know, probably.

I grew up in New Brunswick. Okay. We didn't have teachers. We didn't even get days off of school when it snowed, right? It just meant that we had to get up earlier to shovel the driveway. Gross. You know? Gross hardship times.

Yeah. No thanks. In my day. I like the softer times that I grew up in. We were like, what was your dad's trump card that he could play? Mine was always, they would either pretend to phone the next door neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Kaufman. Dave, do you want to go live with Mildred Kaufman?

Okay, I'll come in the house. Or. What was so bad about Mildred Kaufman? I never saw her in my life. It was more just like... It's not home. Yeah, it was like, uh-oh, I don't want to live with this old lady. Yeah.

Probably smokes like a chimney. Because you know why? Because I could see their chimney from my bedroom. So I associated that. But also they would pretendend to call Santa Claus My dad would pick up the phone Dial six numbers And say Dave's not behaving

And then Dave won't go to bed Wow That's pretty clever Six numbers Yeah Yeah instead of seven Well I'm a dumb kid

I don't know But you knew six You were counting Well no I know I know now That he They just dialed That he wasn't calling

One of his old army buddies. Yeah, I tried that on, we had my wife's aunt was staying with us and she has two kids. And I tried that on them. Oh, yeah, I was going to cancel Disney XD. And they're like, you're not really doing it. But later they were like, did he really do it? Was that a real phone call because you could if with a cell phone it doesn't matter how many numbers you push

and also kids don't even kids don't even know what a phone call is these days what was uh brent but always talked about his mom and the like threat that he that she would make was uh don't make me come upstairs because if I'm coming up there, I'm not coming alone. I'm not coming empty-handed. I'm not coming empty-handed. Yeah. And so it was just left

to your kid's crazy imagination what she would be coming up with. Oh, that's good. That's right. I'm not coming up empty-handed. And then she comes up with like, pizza. Oh, you let your imagination

get the best of you. Now, we also have overheards that have been sent in by people all over the country, all over North America, all over the world. If you want to send one in to us, you can send it in to spy at maximumfund.org. And this first one comes from Richard M. in Williston, Vermont. in Williston, Vermont. My boss starts almost every conversation with an employee with a sarcastic, hey, loser. She says it jokingly, but it never feels very appropriate. The other day, she approached an associate

who had been out for a few days following a death in the family. She began with her typical greeting and seemed to realize this was not the right time midway through but it was too late she blurted out hey loser sorry to hear about your grandpa oh that's wonderful yeah come on here let me give you a noogie. Yeah. Oh, man. Can you imagine?

Like, because you can't say stop doing that to your boss. Like, if that's your boss. Yeah, you can. These days? Yeah. You can say it to your dad. That's true. We don't have. Yeah.

You can call your dad loser. That's true. You can call your dad loser. But yeah, I guess as far as mean terms of endearment, I don't know. Do you have any? Does anyone call you a loser? No, but I worked

on a show once and what was the guy's greeting when he came into the writer's room? It was like, Hey, fuckos, guess who hates you? Something like that. That's fun. Yeah. No, I don't.

Oh, you know what I'll do? One of my favorite old, it's an old standby, is if a group of guys are in a room, I'll walk in and call them old ladies. Oh, ladies. That kind of never gets old. It's an old standby Is if a group of guys Are in a room I'll walk in And call them old ladies Oh yeah Ladies Yeah That kind of never gets old Oh is it Uh

Uh Poindexter and Marshall What's the name of the dog Of a kid Peabody and Sherman Poindexter and Marshall That sounds like

A clothing company But it's funny. We both knew what he was talking about. Exactly what you meant. Does one of them call the other one dum-dum? Oh, no. Or is that from something else? Yeah, dum-dum.

That is from something. What is that from? Oh, we'll get to the bottom of it. Oh, dum-dum. This next one comes from Christopher, spelled very fancy with a K and two Fs, in Malmo? Oh, yeah. Oh, Sweden. The south of Sweden.

South of Sweden. It's flooding there right now. Is it really? Hey, stay dry, Christopher. Was it Christopher? That's right. This is an overseen that happened a few weeks ago. I was taking the Copenhagen Metro.

Ever taken that? It's beautiful. Yeah. No. Okay. Have you taken it? No. Okay.

But it sounds beautiful. It does. Doesn't it? Uh, taking the Copenhagen Metro to school as usual. And at the same stop as I get off is this hippie drug Haven community in Copenhagen, where a lot of out of the ordinary people hang around if you get my meaning do you get his meaning no I was watching Ken do jack off motions you said the stop that I usually get off at oh I get it you guys all right okay say that again

where was he baby start again okay he's on the Copenhagen Metro. He's getting off in a druggy neighborhood. A few stops before... Oh, Dave finished the grapefruit juice or lemonade or... What was it? Raspberry lemonade? Just tell your story. No way.

You guys keep distracting me. A fellow passenger, a few stops before this stop, a woman with a baby stroller got on, and I only caught her out of the corner of my eye. A fellow passenger started talking to her. I couldn't hear exactly what they were talking about, but since I was listening to music, I could tell they were on some standard cutesy baby talk. As I got up to get off my stop, i found myself standing right in front of this woman

with the baby stroller also getting out and there in this big stroller was not a baby looking at me but a large black cat and a very large dog just sitting in the stroller looking very ashamed that's not a thing is it strollers for dogs and cats? No. Or is it? I mean, no. But dogs, you can't keep a dog and a cat in the same stroller. You're asking for... All I ever see on the internet are pictures of dogs and cats like cuddling each other. The internet's really challenging some of my... How can you tell the ashamed look from the ordinary look from cats and dogs?

Dogs can look ashamed. Yeah. Like if you put a hat on a dog. Or if you. They're not like the kind of dog that likes wearing a hat. Or doesn't go with what. Yeah. Yeah.

It's the wrong color. He's an autumn. He's wearing a white hat after Labor Day. Grandpa, our dog, we used to take him, like he would get into the garbage while we were out of the house And then we would Bring him over to the garbage and show it to him And he would like His body would just like

Tense up and he would get so ashamed And like he couldn't physically Look up at us He's just going through for the recycling that he missed Yeah, yeah, he's conscientious A Vancouver dog I'm trying to save the environment. For our children.

And our children's children. I love the way Grandpa talks. This last one comes from Sam C. in Yonkers, New York. That's famous from something, right? Lost in Yonkers. Yeah. I was at a party, and toward the end of the night, when most people had already gone home,

there was an extremely drunk guy who was aimlessly stumbling around. His girlfriend was trying to keep him under control. The guy started wandering around the front yard, and before starting after him, the girlfriend sighed and dejectedly said to herself chase the monkey her boyfriend's the monkey i guess so yeah she's the uh man in the big yellow hat and her boyfriend is curious george any comment there five bananas I feel somewhat Deeply offended By that monkey Story I overheard

A guy Two Saturdays ago Down on Granville Street The main drag Yeah Drunk Arguing with his girlfriend As I approached

I could see them And he said If you break up with me You're nothing but A stupid whore Whoa But if you stay with me You're a princess

Yeah What That's gotta be The worst argument I've ever heard Yeah To get a if you stay with me You're a princess Yeah What That's gotta be the worst Argument I've ever heard Yeah To get a girl to stay with you Probably works Oh he seems nice

Well I don't wanna be A stupid whore Yeah You don't know The sensitive side of him When he When he says Stupid whore to me

I would never be With a stupid whore And therefore If you're not with me You are Yeah One Have a banana man Calm down Yeah with a stupid whore and therefore if you're not with me you are yeah one have a banana man

calm down yeah oh how was his skin yeah he looked a little rough patchy patchy you're right combination skin

patchy skin yeah just patches of bone and skin and muscle in different spots yeah like zombie skin

yeah real patchy hey less brains more more bananas. In addition to overheards that are written in, we also accept your phone calls. If you want to call us, our phone number is 206-339-8328, like these people have. Hi, Dave and Graham and human guest. True.

I'm drunk, but it's not a drunk dial. It's an overheard. I mean, uh, Oh yeah. I was in the bathroom of a club just now going to do bathroom meetings. As I was doing my business,

I heard these two guys talking. So the one guy was saying, yeah, man, I don't know. I always have a hard time just going to the bathroom in these kind of places. It's just, it's so public. Like I was saying, yeah, I know what you're saying, man. I just, me too. I can't do my business like this. The first guy says,

yeah, I don't know. I'm just, it's like I'm the worst beer in the world. Yeah, that's it. Worst beer in the world.

Don't be so hard on yourself, bro. Oh, yeah, I'm in Holland. That's,. Oh, I'm in Holland. That's, yeah. Oh, that was Diego in Holland. Hi. Bye.

Hi, Diego. Oh, wow. You seem fun. Yeah. Oh, wait. This will put all our context. My name's Diego in Holland. That was a lot of upfront details.

Yeah. I was in the bathroom and overheard these guys saying. Yeah. It's a better story this way. Well, the call about the cat and dog in the stroller earlier, that had a lot of detail too. Yeah.

Well, he told it three times as well. It must be Europe. Well, there's storytellers in Europe too. That's right. They're true storytellers. But also, I think when you're a drunk guy, you, you know. Yeah, you start laying on the unnecessary detail. That was a good phone in from Holland.

He's going to look at his cell phone bill the next day. $18 to Canada. Worth it. Chicago, wherever we are. Yeah, we might be in Chicago. Yeah, where are we, man? There's 206. Seattle.

Yeah, that's what I said. Yeah, you got it. Here is your next phone call. Hello, Dave and Graham. This is Joel calling from Pit Meadows for an overheard. This took place at a music festival. I was waiting in line to fill up my water bottle, and a group of, I think, four girls and two guys came walking past me. And one

of the girls points in the distance and says, we're meeting them by the mini donuts cart and uh so one of the guys with them goes mini donuts min dons and the other guy that was with them goes sick of breathe bro and then they high five

it is a sick of breathe min dons? yeah yeah mindons for mini donuts um save your time what festival do you think they were at uh i don't know was shambhala no it wasn't shambhala oh you know nope it was the gathering of the jungle i like his impression of the girl i thought that was everyone does a girl voice. Yeah, that was a good girl voice. This is my girl voice. Ah, all the guys.

Oh, yeah? Yeah. She hasn't had her milkshake yet, that girl. You're the girl from the bathroom wall. The call for a good time. Oh, Jenny. Yeah. Oh, Jenny.

867-5309. Out sitting at New York Fry's. Here's your final overheard. Bobcat Goldthwait's sister. Yeah, exactly. Charlene Cat Goldthwait. Caller number three. Here's your final call.

Hi, Dan Graham. This is Erin calling from North Carolina with an overheard. I work at a grocery store, and yesterday we had a customer walk up to the register with his arm full of things, and he sat them down at the end of the register and then turned to go back to the store and did a few more things. And as he was walking away, he turned back to the cashier and said, I'm coming back for that stuff. I'm like that guy from that movie. I'll be back. Great. Thanks, guys. Love the show. The Wizard of Oz. I'm like, I'm also movie I'll be back right thanks guys love the show the wizard of Oz

I'm like I'm also gonna need a bigger boat yeah yeah I wanna say he was played by an Australian yeah yeah

he was the Terminator getting groceries yeah um yeah that's how he said it um I'll be back just like Arnie did

exactly hasta la vista baby Yeah that's how he said it I'll be back Just like Arnie did Exactly Hasta la vista baby That was good I like that one They're making another Terminator Yeah And so now

Arnold Schwarzenegger I love your enthusiasm On that one He's 70 Ish Isn't he? 60 Late 60s

Early 70s Do you want to ask Siri? Yeah. How old is Arnold Schwarzenegger? I don't know Arnold Karan. She doesn't know how I said Schwarzenegger. How old is Arnold for today? She thought I said that.

Anyway, we'll never know um yeah but he well how did they explain away the uh the uh decaying yeah the natural aging process in their terminators of a cyborg well doesn't it's just human skin that that covers the uh robot skeleton yeah but you think they would put new human skin on it. No, it just has to be organic material to pass through the whatever time hole. So they just grab any old skin out of the bin. Well, it has to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Of course. Or is it because that skin... All the Terminators start wearing their skin baggy.

Yeah, that's the style of the time. It's just style. Style in the future. We're going to be in style in 20 years, man. Yeah. I like your answer. Just explain it away with one line. Yeah.

In the future, there's a singularity. And also, these robots think it's cool to wear their skin baggy so all the bad guys will just be old it's just gonna be the expendables yeah that's true well

that brings us to the end of this here episode what? yeah oh man that was great do you have any

upcoming projects anything that you want to plug you're on you're on twitter you're on the internet. Yes, I am. I'm on Twitter at Ken Tremblett. Two Ts.

Not Tremblay? No. You can pronounce it like that, but spell it Tremblett, E-L-E-T-T. And I do have a movie coming out called My Life as a Dead Girl with Cassandra Serbo. My Life as a Dead Girl with Cassandra Serbo. And also I'm starting a new film, a German film, next month that will air on German television only. Oh, you play Herbelde.

Called Maple Bay Lodge. And is it in German? It will be in German. They're going to dub my voice into German. So I don't even know if I have to learn the lines. That's very exciting. I can just put some peanut butter on the top of my mouth. I'm just going to flap my gums until I hear cut. Anyway.

All the great actors. Yeah. And I read for a commercial today. Oh, well. It's Vancouver film industry. Yep, fingers crossed. You're back. You're acting.

You're back on the scene. Are you afraid of being typecast as Mr. Belding? Well, interestingly enough, Damon Schroeder said, you know, Dennis Haskins was Mr. Belding. You are Mr. Belding. Yeah. He said, from here on in. Oh, wow. Yeah.

That's quite a heavy mantle. You're the man from Belding. Mm-hmm. Exciting. Do we have anything to plug? October 2nd at the Biltmore Cabaret. Mm-hmm. Exciting. Do we have anything to plug? October 2nd at the Biltmore Cabaret. Mm-hmm. If those tickets are still on sale?

No. It's got to be sold out by now. They had better be, or I'm going to lose my house. Yeah, if you like the show, head over to MaximumFun.org. Check out the blog recap, pictures and videos pertaining to this episode. Maybe a picture of that comic strip Marvin. Oh yeah. No one knew what you were talking about.

I did. You know. Yeah. It was a baby. It was in a diaper. Yeah. Did it have a safety pin in it? Yeah.

Yeah. Totally. Just one. Yeah. Just one. How many safety pins do you need to, you'll, you'll know. You'll figure it out. Yeah.

What we're doing. Old timey diapers. Some people do. Some people do cloth diapers. Yeah, but they don't have the safety pins anymore. They have little like elastic-y, like, what would you call them? Like garter belt sort of. Baby guards?

Yeah. Like this is a weird sort of snap attachment. Okay. No safety pins anymore. Maybe. I guess they're not safe enough. Yeah, that's true. They were never that safe because if they came undone.

Because half of them were pin. Yeah. Because of that second word. And if you like the show, please do tell your friends and come on back next week for another episode of Stop Podcasting Yourself. to yourself.