Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 567 - Ember Konopaki

Episode Date: January 29, 2019

Improviser Ember Konopaki returns to talk Bhutan, Star Wars hockey, and Ric Flair.

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 567 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who, when I approached the house today, was pushing his little daughter on the swing and it was so adorable, Mr. Dave Shumka. Yeah, I'm a cute dad.

You are, you're a cute dad. I'm a cute dad, I do cute dad things. You should have seen, like, because you went to a coffee shop before. Sure. And we saw you walking to the coffee shop i had one daughter on my shoulders the other in my arms and we were crossing the street yelling at you boy oh boy that's uh that is uh that's triple cute yeah but you were uh graham's wearing air air pods he's one of these air pods yeah yeah uh i like i just like the way they stick out of your ears like little tiny

straws i think they're cute yeah you're you don't they're not hooked up to anything no no no i can't i mean i can't afford to come up to anything these things are 130 dollars i only bought the pods not the charger the charger i'm saving up for but i'm excited i'm excited to buy one uh our guest today uh comedian improviser member of of Little Mountain Improv. Hell yeah. That will have a show. Yes. February 19th.

Yes. In JFL Northwest. Yes. It's Amber Konopaki. Hello. Hello. Hi, thanks for having me. Thanks for coming on the show again.

Oh, yeah. I'm thrilled to be here. Yeah, this is a new studio, new experience. Looks great. Love it. I checked, you were last here, well, not here, but you were last on the show in 2013. Oh, wow. That's so long ago.

That's great. That's pre-Trump. Pre-Trudeau. Pre-Trudeau mania here in Canada. Oh, wow. I was crazy about Pierre Trudeau. Yeah, he worked in. And Carnation.

Yeah, man. And he carnation. Yeah, man. And he was, he got elected as a single guy. And then he, yeah. And he banged around. He dated

Barbra Streisand. And he banged around. That was his platform that he got voted into. Yeah, we fucks. I'll be the prime minister that really gets it done. Yeah.

Sex wise. You know what I'm saying? Just want to get it wet. And keep the country together. Oh boy. Should we get to know us? Yeah. Get to know us.

Amber. Amber. Hi. Did you just recently, did you do some traveling? Oh man, I went to Bhutan. Bhutan. Do you know where that is?

Lots of people. Graham knows where that is. Yeah. Yeah, it's one of the, in the song, Key Largo. Bhutan.

Montana. Montana. Is that Kokomo? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, if we had to guess where Bhutan was.

Yeah, why don't you guess? Indian Ocean. I don't know where the Indian Ocean is. South. Okay. If we had to guess where Bhutan was. Yeah. Why don't you guess? Indian Ocean. I don't know where the Indian Ocean is. South Pacific Ocean. Nope. That's probably not. Somewhere.

Is it an island? No. It's landlocked. East of India. West of India. No. Is it? North of India.

Oh. Oh. So is it an emirate? okay it's uh i'll just tell you yeah um it's north of india and south of china it's like um right now pass right by nepal yeah it's like a super super tiny smallest country in Asia country. And it's the one most people know it for having gross national happiness. Oh, like whenever there's a news story about the happiest country in the world. It's Bhutan. We shouldn't measure success by money. We should measure by happiness.

Look at these people. And then are they all just smiling at the camera? What makes them so happy? I mean, it is an amazing country. And they had this monarchy for a long time. And then the monarchy was like, no, we need to bring about democracy because I'm a good king. But there might be more kings that are bad. And they had to convince the country that

they wanted democracy and then like taught them and they are like we have to educate our people and um like everything has to be sustainable in our country they're basically just what we should all be doing but then you know they've got a they're very like um they're trying very hard to preserve their unique culture that's one of the pillars of gross national happiness and so uh it is amazing it's such an interesting place it's so cool but like no one knows where it is no i know but i was thinking about that the other day i was like i don't know and like if you named if you gave me a map of africa oh boy and had me plot out which countries go where I could do like five of them. I know. But also.

Cities in southern Ontario I couldn't tell you which is which. No that's true. There's like a website where you can enter country names and

it'll populate it and you can do it by continent and I was really bad at many of them. I was like oh I'll do North America. Like how hard can that

be? Thinking like this will be a win. And then it was all like the Caribbean and I was like oh so what uh why did you just yeah why why there well first of all oh god this could just become a Bhutan learning about why not it's so hard to get there because they want to preserve their culture and they don't want like a bunch of backpackers to come and spend like $10 a day.

Australia. So it's really hard. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't want to say it. No, no. But we all thought it.

I get it. So it's really hard to get there in peak season. The visa is 250 US a day. Oh. Whoa. Yeah. So I went with my work and I like did a teacher exchange there. So I didn't have to pay

for that. So we were not on a tourist visa and also not peak season. Did you do a direct, like was it a direct teacher exchange? Did the teacher go to your school? So four of us were there for two weeks and then next week, four of them are coming to our school for two weeks.

So it's like a cultural exchange. It's really amazing. The Bhutanese are hilarious because they're so isolated. Like, they're so isolated there. And they don't travel that often. And they're all about happiness. And so one thing that's really I've been enjoying since I came back is I have a bunch of them on Facebook. I've been enjoying since I came back is I have a bunch of them on Facebook

and the things that they post compared to what North Americans post could not be more different. This one woman put up the dankest meme of flowers waving in the wind and then it just said whoever is reading this, I hope something

wonderful happens to you today. And then I scroll and then it's like, are you sick of walking upstairs? Just kill yourself. It's like, okay, good Dan. Are you sick of walking upstairs?

Just kill yourself. That is a Dan. That is the dangest North American meme. Yeah. So yeah, it's just like such an interesting, it's the most different. Do they,

but like, is this happiness thing a put on like are they like really leaning into it oh they're leaning into it before they did these studies on the happiest countries but did they know they were happy i don't even think it's the happiest country actually i think they just like measure their success by that because they are very happy like the mentality is just different it's what we all say we should do where it's like um like will you just be happy with what you have and they all seem to be happy with what they have and they just don't talk about negative things like

they just don't dwell on it like we do like dank memes what's wrong with us why do we do this wrong with us it was really striking coming back just like reading signs and it's like why was it phrased so passive aggressively and like talk about glorify all these like gritty news stories and Bhutan's just really peaceful Yesterday we're recording

this on what is it the 15th or something and yesterday President Trump served some college football players a bunch of fast food. Oh, I saw this picture. Yeah. And everyone was like, oh, can you believe it? But no one was really mad about it.

I think people were trying to make themselves mad about it, but it's just fun. I think it was the one instance where it's like,'s a thing that's just hilarious yeah yeah yeah that picture is amazing with him and like all the burgers on the table like spread in front of him yeah this is the most presidential he's ever yeah if it was like if it was someone you like finally became president if it was someone you liked you'd be like yeah good for him but him. But since it's someone... Oh, wow. Really? A Big Mac? Oh.

Yeah. Oh, look how many Filet-O-Fishes. There were a lot of Filet-O-Fishes. Yeah, that is something... That is kind of weird. Where he probably values them with the same as all the other burgers. I like Filet-O-Fish. Really?

Well, I don't... I've never had. I'm allergic to the seafood. I've never had it because it weird to the seafood. I've never had it because it weirds me out. Yeah. I feel like I should

try it though. You know what, McDonald's has been struggling to earn my trust. You're finally ready Because it violated your trust.

It did violate at one point. It cheated on me with the Dairy Queen. Yeah, or Wendy's. You know, it could have gone either way, but you'd be fine if McDonald's or Wendy's you know could have gone either way

but you'd be fine if McDonald's or Wendy's it was really you were blindsided by it yeah and like

but he was just so he's like a cartoon kid like it's like Richie Rich would do yeah yeah yeah why

why did it happen I didn't get that far in my scrolling because there's no catering because the government shut down. Don't worry, kids. I got this. Your mother left you with me for the weekend.

I'm just going to get a bunch of takeout. But I like that he didn't think like, well, I'll get a private catering company. His next step is like, no catering. I guess hamburgers. And we'll just sit them out for an hour on platters while we wait for people to show up. I'll make up some macaroni and hot dogs in case. And I don't want to talk about this too much because it's a story that will be ancient history by the time this episode comes out. What if it isn't?

What if this story just keeps perpetuating itself? Yeah. But I, there was like, I just Googled the words, if Obama, yesterday, or just tweet, like search Twitter for them. Yeah. And it was a lot of people saying, if Obama had done this, people would be freaking out. Yeah. People were freaking out. but like different ways yeah well probably somewhat similar ways uh but yeah but one of the people uh responding that was in support of this was like laying it on a

little too thick or like how great a thing it is that he was doing. Was he wearing a little robber's mask and a hat and saying rubble rubble a lot? Because they showed his little speech and he said, we've got, you know, 300 hamburgers and this and this and many, many fries. And the person wrote, many, many fries. My mouth is watering.

What a suck up. So many fries my mouth is watering what a suck up so many fries this is my president oh boy I wanted to know have you guys heard about this egg yes I love this egg

have you heard about this egg this will be ancient history by the time the most viewed picture on Instagram or most liked

yeah what was the impetus for this egg? They wanted to beat the most liked photo on the internet. Which was at Jenner? Kylie Jenner or one of the Jenners. And then they're like, I like this picture of the egg. And one of the hashtags is egg gang. I'm all about this egg.

I'm all in. Egg gang. That's three G's in a row. Egg gang. Yeah. I just love that it's like, you know, in these troubling times, can't 40 million people get behind an egg on Instagram? I like it.

It really, I looked through who had liked it. Everyone I knew. Just, it really unified. I haven't liked it. What happens if I like it? Just, it brings you closer to happiness. Yeah. Okay. Your happiness index.

You're finally part of a community. Egg gang. No thanks. So did you, when you were in Bhutan, did you feel happier? Do we have to talk about Bhutan some more? I want to talk about food. Eggs. No.

No. You didn't feel happier being surrounded by people that were no the like cynical ember is so deeply ingrained but it was like just lovely like everyone was so nice and we got taken out for dinner so much they fed us so much food and it was just like everyone was so happy we were there and everyone's like i'm gonna come to canada and everyone was so it was just it was a really nice time and uh yeah i'm trying to think what else is funny i went like so what is it club oh yeah oh boy it's so wholesome even the club was was it mostly people drinking milk or what drinking but it was just like everyone everyone was dressed appropriately and really respectful and just there for a fun time. And they're playing pop hits from, I don't know, probably two years ago.

And it was just like, ah, this is nice. Yeah. Oh, we can't wait till we get Despacito. We've heard good things. We've heard it's going to be bigger than that egg we've also heard about yeah uh but it's such a small place like there's only one club really well there's probably a how so how like how big a place like a country is i think the population of the country is like a million like it's super small and it's mostly rural and just yeah there's like two cities is it

mountainous yes very mountainous we went on like a weekend trip and we were just driving up and down and up and down like the himalayan mountains and uh winding roads and you know washed out roads and so yeah and like in the course of a drive it would take so long to drive like 40 kilometers because you were just winding winding and then uh yeah avoiding the washed out parts of the road and the temperature we'd be like sweating and like peeling off layers and then like oh it's freezing and like piling layers back on it's it's right up there that's why it was never invaded very mountainous oh that's probably why they're so happy yeah they're so happy but you i it's terrible what's going on out there they're just building nightclubs and well then what i guess tibet lost out oh yeah yeah not quite mountainous

enough yes like it's it's weird because you hear about like uh so you know socialism uh experiments and they work in small yeah communities communism works in a small town or something like that and so maybe happiness is like once you get past a million people it's like that's off the board um they like love their king so much like the I should say like the monarch so much multiple different kings that they

are obsessed obsessed with putting pictures of the royals they put pictures of them on money it's crazy they had like

a framed picture as you would like a family member just like on their desks in the staff room or like they wear pins of their faces

and just outside just like we love you happy birthday and I was like when's the king's birthday they're like oh November in the staff room or like they wear pins of their faces and just outside just like, we love you. Happy birthday. And I was like, when's the king's birthday? They're like,

oh, no. Every day. Every day. But the king is no longer the king? Well, there is a king,

but I think now it's like a constitutional monarch. So I think he's just kind of like a high five, kiss the babies, walk around. Yeah.

Wear a cape. Yeah. best kind of monarch right yeah he seems symbolic if I'm being honest his dad seemed a bit better but sure

that's probably why his dad was like no more kings hey listen I've met the prince my son's a bit of a dud let's wrap up this monarchy thing

honestly that might be it. He's ordering nonstop hamburgers and filet-o-fish to the castle. They don't have fast food. Well, they have Bhutanese fast food. And I saw on the ground some litter, and it was a red fry container that could contain many fries. With one golden arch, and i think it was called like the good i want to say the good place but it wasn't the good place this whole country sounds like the good place it was like fake happy yeah yeah and then there was one other uh like fake kfc

place but instead of like kentucky it was named after this like they I'm not going to try and say it, but like this very long, like, Zonka word, which is their language. And it was like multiple syllable long fried chicken. It's like, it's like Chang Gang, blah, blah, blah, blah, fried chicken. And you're like, oh, that doesn't have a ring to it like Kentucky Fried Chicken. But does Kentucky Fried Chicken have a ring to it? Yeah, you're right. fried chicken but does kentucky fried chicken have a ring to it yeah you're right like if you never heard of kentucky fried chicken you'd be like that sounds pretty weird i don't know man kentucky fried chicken sounds sounds normal like there are definitely places that you're like oh

yeah that place would have good fried chicken and kent Kentucky seems like a place that would. Maybe I've been brainwashed by the colonel. Yeah, by Big Bucket. Now, what did you say their language was? Zonka. It uses Tibetan characters, but that's the extent of my knowledge. All right.

It seems cool. Like Larry Zonka? Sure. Now, do you have to show around these teachers? Yes. I'm a little concerned only because i'm like oh god what do we do now we're in this like show them how miserable we are exactly well that's the other thing like they were so nice to us they were constantly showing us things taking us out for every meal and we're for sure just gonna be like okay we'll um see you in the morning. Like, we got lives to live. Take them to KFC.

Honestly, I should take them to KFC. They'll go nuts. They'll go nuts. I should probably just do a fast food tour and they'll all get

stomach aches. You just start a chain reaction that just... One, another... That's why we call it a chain restaurant.

All their food is also very spicy. Like, a thing like they just eat spice and their national national dish is called emidazi and it translates to two of my favorite things chilies and cheese and it's just like chilies and cheese on vegetables or meat and you know it's good for like the first 14 days and then you're like five to eat amatazi one more time i swear to god i was gonna ask what the cuisine is but it's yeah i think it's oh good lord it's so spicy um i think it's like cheesy too yes i'm so i'm lactose intolerant and i don't usually deal with it here because I'm not that lactose intolerant. But I was always quietly just like shaking out lactate pills into my hand and like eating a handful. My coworkers would look at me. They're like, are you eating lactate again?

I'd be like, yes. It's like milk and everything, cheese and everything. I've heard lactate also works for the chilies. Really? Like it works for all acids. Oh. It was helpful. Yeah, it was helpful like the lactate. Because it'd be like drinking butter tea, salted butter tea.

This is just like a Mad Lib. And they had, you know, wood table. Damn it. I'm looking at a wood table. Damn it. I'm looking at a wood table. It's such a strange land. So unlike us. Yeah, and light switch. What's a butter tea?

Is it really tea with butter in it? It's almost like chai, except it's salty and buttery it's like it's called suja i think it's i think there's like similar ones in like india or tibet or nepal i don't know um but yeah it's just salt it's like drinking salted butter sounds great yeah it is great until you've had like again it's great for 14 days and then you're like oh suja hey have you hey. Have you had the butter coffee? No. Oh, are you talking about bulletproof coffee? Is that what I'm talking about?

I don't know. I've had bulletproof coffee that has butter in it. Okay. And MCT oil, which is like medium chain triglycerides or something. But it's like coconut oil, like refined. Is this coffee that's trying to be good for you is this paleo coffee it's it is keto or kato or whatever my friend got me onto it because what attracted me to it is uh it makes you like it's more caffeine like it's it'll get you hyped oh and so i was like i love coffee i'll love this and then i had to

stop drinking it because when i would drink it i'd like tweak out like i'd be like okay everybody like so caffeinated how many times did you do it well you have to build up your tolerance what i'm not i'm not gonna i probably did it for like a month coffee program yeah how many a day oh one you could not i don't know yeah i know i did it in the summer ultimate oh boy do you love coffee i like coffee i've been jacked up on a cat i do like getting jacked up on things yeah yeah yeah uh like the roof well it's like i had never drank like an energy drink before uh maybe like two summers ago. And I had one and I was like, this doesn't work. And then an hour later, like I was just like sweating.

Like I was just sweating. I should go for a run. I was just like, just so aware of everything. But I didn't, in my head, I was like, oh, energy drink. Yeah. It's kind of amazing if you do it once in a while. Yeah. No, I want to try this bulletproof stuff.

Well, first you have to build up your tolerance. Like how? By a little sip? I think you do like teaspoons and build up to like a tablespoon so that you don't poop yourself. That's the ultimate though. That's what you want. That's why I've been searching for that brand for so long. Do you think Kato Kaelin has ever been approached by one of these ketogenic diets?

Yeah, I do. You bring it up. But he probably said, no, I'm busy. He's on Big Brother this season. Oh, I saw Omarosa is. Oh, I mean, all the greats. Omarosa, some lady wrestler. It must cost money not to make Big Brother at this point.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's celebrity Big Brother at this point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's Celebrity Big Brother? Yes. Oh, boy. I've never seen Big Brother, so I don't really... Yeah, that's why I've switched past it or the channel's been left on in the middle of it. And I do not... I don't know anyone who watches it.

I don't know how they could be doing the 40th season of it. Do they still... Neither of you will probably know. When it first came out, you could look into the house at any point in time if you go to CBS.com. That's weird. That's my homepage.

I open up the computer. What's Big Brother House doing today? I feel like it's probably just not the bathroom. How come? It's 2019. Well, that's where you need just not the bathroom yeah well how come it's 2019 well that's where you need a little safe haven where you can cry reject bulletproof coffee into your between your toes yeah but like i want to know what amoros is up to at all times. Yeah, every hour. Do you know who she was engaged to? Or married? No, engaged.

A dead actor. That's very spooky. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, boy. Andy Griffith. Opposites attract. Did you know she was engaged to Michael Clark Duncan? No. What? I don't know to Michael Clark Duncan? No.

What? I don't know. Is that true? Yeah. Oh, wow. She was going to be Omarosa Clark Duncan. What's her last name? Isn't Omarosa the last name?

I think it's Omarosa Benefollers. No, that's a dog food. What's her... Oh, boy. I really just... What is she about? Other than... She was on... The Apprentice. what's wrong oh boy I really just I what what is she about other than

she was on The Apprentice The Apprentice and then she was in The White House she was on The Apprentice and on The Apprentice she was on season one maybe

and everyone hated her yeah like she was uh she had her own talk show for like a second so she's like a business Manigault

not Beneful yeah Omarosa Manigault and she's like a business managult not beneficial yeah omarasa manabolt and she's um yeah she was a talk show host then she served some position in trump's white house and now now she's written a book and now she's written several books she's probably on dancing with the stars at some point she wrote the bitch bitch switch. Oh, really? Is that about like two ladies that look alike that switch places?

Two bitches. Yeah, like a Prince and Pop. Nobody knows this. According to well, I don't understand. Google says she's written unhinged last year.

The bitch switch. Knowing how to turn it on and off. Took a second. Knowing how to turn it on and off. Took a second for the page to load. And this is a weird one because her name is wrong on it? Oh yeah, so it's probably reliable. Omarosa Beneful wrote that one.

She's the other bitch. Art. Art, My Way. Omarosa's Guide to Living a Vibrant, Energetic Life. But written by her and someone else with the same last name. Anyway, we could go. Could be her mom, maybe, Mama Rosa. Mama Rosa.

Yeah. This is, you know, I don't know. I'm guessing. Well, you know what? Save it for next week when we have our Omarosa expert you're rebranding the podcast yeah yeah into mama rosa the uh um yeah the big brother whenever i turn it on it's always just people sitting around on a couch yeah that's how i feel like what it is when i mean they've got to discuss strategy. I guess. Is it that type of reality show? Yeah.

Where they have to do games? But it's not like Survivor where there's strategy to, like, Survivor, the thing I always liked about it was everyone was so miserable. Yeah. But they wanted to stay. Well, they wanted that big paycheck. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I loved seeing them go from, like, dirty to clean in the reunion show. That, they wanted that big paycheck. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I loved seeing them go from dirty to clean in the reunion show.

That was the best part. I liked it when they would be starving for four weeks, and then they win a challenge, and they get to eat a bunch, and then they're like, my stomach was not ready for that. I am sick now. Don't know how long that KFC's been just sitting out.

Chili's and cheese, eh? Survivor Bhutan. Ooh. Because that's a great idea, except they would all have to pay $250 a day. Got so much money. Lose money. Yeah. Yeah, I don't watch any of the competition shows, but I saw that The Rock has one now.

Yeah. And he's on, and I'm like, isn't The Rock bigger than reality television? And that HBO show that he's on? Oh, well, Ballers is great. Ballers just gives him a chance to just hang out and have fun. There's a certain point that these things must take an afternoon for him. Yeah, that's true. He just has to show up and

like everybody else in the cast is doing the heavy lifting and then he shows up for his scenes and then just... So he's the host of the reality TV show? Yeah, it looks like it. It looks like it's American Gladiators. Fun! That kind of makes sense that he would host that.

He's the last strong Fun. That kind of makes sense that he would have that. The last strong man. That's true. I guess we should get rid of strong man after he's gone. Honestly, I feel like I'm in a bit of a cloud. Like I was looking up Omarosa stuff and now

how much time went by while I was doing that? Several years. It's rock and uh and he's got time to host a show yeah yeah yeah well we think we that he's above host i don't know a reality show seems like it just seems like an easy paycheck but does he need easy paycheck yeah you're right he's the He's the Rock. He's the Rock. He's set for life. You got to assume. Unless he just made terrible, terrible investments.

But still, he's a former wrestler. It's easy to be set for life. They die at 47. Not the Rock, man. He's with us for the long haul. You'll see. I've recently watched some wrestling. Royal Rumble. Am I pronouncing royal rumble am i pronouncing that am i pretty royal rumble um it's weird yeah but also kind of entertaining

yeah i know you like wrestling i do are you a fan uh i i i'm not a fan i'm not i don't it's not for me like i don't i don't have a problem with it, but yeah. Yeah. What did you, I, why did you watch wrestling? Uh, my friend invited me over to like a Royal Rumbau,

uh, party. And it is fun. Like betting on certain people. I love that the stories continue weekly. Yeah. And then people tune in for like big ones. Yeah, yeah.

I think that's. Was this a pay-per-view situation? Yeah, I think so. It's like a soap opera if every couple of months a soap opera would have like a crazy live. That you had to pay for. Yeah. Of all the wrestlers, I like John Cena best. Yeah.

Is he still wrestling? I love his jorts. He still wears jorts is he he's back i thought he was a movie star now he's the voice of dominic the donkey ferdinand the bull is that right yeah ferdinand the bull um he's he's trying to go the rock route i think so yeah but he if he hosted a reality show I'd be like that's that's yeah if it was John Cena's dance moves

or whatever I'd be like mhm yep how old is he? uh do you think he's younger than us? I think he's in his 40s

40s yeah I just again just like the jorts when did he make that choice? is there no other choice? how does he feel? have you ever worn a pair of jorts, Ember?

No. Once you do, it's hard to go back. It's hard to go back to full pant or shorts. Once you jort, you can't stort. He is 41 years old. Looking great. Looking great. Yeah, of course he is.

He exercises all the time. But you know how some people that exercise all the time, they're just like a big ball of veins? Yeah. He's not like that. No. He's got smooth muscles.

Yeah, that's why I don't work out. That's why I don't work out. I'm worried about the vein. I don't want to be a sinewy vein. Yeah, well, I have my main vein and I don't want any other veins competing. Speaking of which, gotta drain it. Oh, no.

Dave, what's going on with you, man? Oh, guys. This past week went to a hockey game. Vancouver Canucks game. Yeah. It was Star Wars night Oh

There were So I did not know what Star Wars night Was going to be at the Vancouver Canucks They let nerds on the ice Yeah they have a nerd A royal rumble Of nerds. Oh, it would be the best.

That would be the best. Just out there with... On ice. Yeah, with no skates, just slipping with their lightsabers. Oh, I'm just picturing it and I love it. Yeah. Is that phasers? That's the wrong thing.

Being willfully obtuse. I had no idea what would be in store for Star Wars night. No. The team didn't wear Jedi themed uniforms. Darth Vader masks. Nope.

There was nothing during the gameplay that changed anything. And I respect that. Would have been cool, though. Yeah, like, you know. Well, what could you have changed, though? You could have made the

blue lines that could have been giant lightsabers. See, I'm picturing Darth Vader masks, Darth Vader capes, and their hockey sticks are lightsabers. So you're going all the way. Both teams are screwed for the finals. They're like, playoff.

And they have to wear those things to keep this uniform. As long as Star Wars is a viable commodity. There wasn't even a Star Wars this year. Why was it Star Wars night? There wasn't even a Star Wars this year. Yeah, why was it Star Wars night? There wasn't even a Star Wars this year. You're so spoiled.

It's only January and there was a Star Wars last year. Was there? In the summer. There was a Han Solo. All right, all right, all right. I think it's cool when Star Wars stops by for the summer. What? Why was it Star Wars night? for the summer. What? What?

Why was it Star Wars night? Did they explain at any point? No. Because it's not May the 4th. That would make sense. But they didn't need to explain. People were on board. Just like, arbitrarily, this is Star Wars night. Yeah.

We were just, because I went, at the beginning of the game, there was like a brass band playing the Imperial March, like when the, when the referees came out. Oh, that's right. Did they dress, did they have capes?

No, there has, there really should have been a cape. Yeah. No, no professional hockey team, no professional sports team, I think, has ever implemented a cape. Was Evel Knievel part of a team?

Yeah, he was part of the U.S. bus jumping team. Yeah. Soon an Olympic sport. But yeah, there was, so we were trying to figure out, I went past guest aaron salazar oh yeah and we were trying to figure out oh well what else is going to be star wars you like yeah wasn't immediately evident there were some people in costumes around the stadium uh as we were singing the national anthem we were like is there gonna be to be the Star Wars Spangle Band? Yeah.

Are they going to throw in some and the Rockets, Red Claire, and like, pew pew. Or like, maybe the color commentary was all Yoda-esque.

Maybe it was all that. The hashtag is usually we are all Canucks. This time it was all Canucks we are. I saw that on Twitter and I was like, what the hell is this? Like so annoying. Now you know it.

Could it get stupider? But now you know and it's cool. And I'm wrong. It was cool. Yeah. And when it was like, make some noise, it was Chewbacca on the jump watch run. Because like make some noise it was chewbacca on the because he makes some noise is he now was it a guy was it a guy there live dressed like chewbacca doing everybody hey cheer it was a green screen so it was pre-recorded pre-recorded okay it was a pre-taped tube

cool and so this is not a uh this is not a clip from the movie that they just looped? No. No. Okay. They put something into it. Okay, good. All right. Did you get anything when you walked in the door?

Like a little something? I mean, the force was with you. It was with you as soon as you entered. We were trying to figure, like the coolest thing I saw, and I didn't see anyone buying it, The coolest thing I saw, and I didn't see anyone buying it, but I saw at the snack stand, they had churros, long churros that were red or green. Leftover from Christmas. This is why they did start, I guess. To move those churros.

We got these red and green churros. Let's work backwards. Okay. And the little sleeve, the little paper sleeve that they came in was a lightsaber handle. Oh, that's... There we go.

Now we're getting into the... It was pretty cool. Yeah. I saw a photo online of a mother and son wearing Chewbacca masks

at the game, but just paper ones. So I was wondering if they handed those out to everybody. If they did... You know what? Pascal Cazaire and Salazar was a little late in getting there.

Not to throw them under the Millennium Fall game. But you might have missed that on YouTube. We might have missed that on our swag. Chewbacca swag. That's good swag. You could be the new Chewbacca mom. I could have been the new Chewbacca swag. That's good swag. You could be the new Chewbacca mom. I could have been the new Chewbacca mom.

She tried to release a single of her singing We Are The World. Or Heal The World. Chewbacca mom. That's what I know about Chewbacca mom. I know Tan Mom released a single too. Hot, hot, hot.

My name is Tan Mom. It single too. Hot, hot, hot? My name is Tan Mom. It was good. Yeah? Was it a rap? I forget what the Tan Mom song was all about. Do you remember Tan Mom? Oh, that she was so tanned that she was tanning her kids as well? Yeah, that might have been her thing.

Yeah. Tsk, tsk. Yeah, Chewbacca Mom was just like, she just wore a Chewbacca mask. She just loved that she was wearing a Chewbacca mask. Yeah, that might have been her thing. Tsk, tsk. Yeah, like Chewbacca mom was just like, she just wore a Chewbacca mask. She just loved that she was wearing a Chewbacca mask in her car alone. Yeah, and then she got to throw out a pitch at a baseball game. And that was enough.

Yeah. She probably went on Ellen. I would put money. Oh, of course. Everyone goes on Ellen eventually. That's what Andy Warhol said. That egg is going to be on Ellen. Oh, wow. My celebrity crush. That's my celebrity lookalike.

You know, if you do that thing. Me and that egg. Oh, boy. This has been a big week for memes. If you spend enough time online, every week's a good week for memes. I feel like this week, especially, for the listener, a couple weeks ago was really good for memes. It was the, what did you look like 10 years ago meme?

Oh, yeah. I mean, they don't have to be complicated. No, no, no. They just have to be something that you can easily get into. Yeah. It doesn't take a, like, I don't know how everybody was doing it. Was there an app or something to do this?

No, I think you had to like look it up, compose it yourself. Yeah. Ooh. Yeah. I looked, I was like, what did I look like 10 years ago? And I was like,

oh, well, pretty much the same. Well, that's good. That's good. No need to post. Yeah. I was the same, but I had bangs.

Yeah, I was the same, but I had bangs. I used a meme in my class, and it's like my claim to fame. Because I often, that's a lie, I often use memes in my class, and they... What do you teach? Social studies. So I totally know where the Indian Ocean is. That was a fun gag earlier. So I often show memes, and they never like them. They're never spicy enough, as they say.

And then we were studying the French Revolution and I showed my class a meme and it went over so well. And it was, do you know those who would win memes where it's like, who would win a glowing ball in the sky? And it's like the sun. And then it's like, or some fluffy boys. And it's like clouds. And who would win? So it was like the sun and then it's like or some fluffy boys and it's like clouds and yeah who would win so it was like i don't know okay well this joke's gonna go really well um it was like who would win an oppressive ruling class did i say we're studying revolutions yeah yeah and i was like or a few slicey boys and it was like a guillotine slicey boys is great. Love it.

Well done. Yeah, I know. And now I'm like, oh, God, I hope that meme still stands next September. Study memes again. I hope nothing has changed in the French Revolution. But that's great. You're so relatable. Communicating through memes.

I know. I can't imagine. All the teachers at my school are so old. None of them would have done memes if they had been available at the time. They barely even

did videotapes and those were readily available. I don't know if it's like good pedagogy but hey. It was relevant. It's fine pedagogy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. As pedagogy goes it's top. It's not dodgy pedagogy. I've been pronouncing it pedagogy. Pedagogy yeah yeah yeah as pedagogy goes it's top it's not dodgy pedagogy yeah i've been pronouncing it pedagogy pedagogy yeah yeah i will i've just been reading it yeah um who won at star wars night the the sith i was gonna say the fans the coyotes oh yeah like couldn't we have been playing against this a star team the stars the dollar stars uh yeah because i saw i saw a post on instagram but i couldn't figure

out why it was star wars night but i guess it's just star wars and we were trying to think of which players had the most star warsy names i guess guess Emperor Kanapaki is a pretty good Star Wars-y name. Is it? Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like if I heard it, that there was like Emperor Kanapaki. Emperor's like a pretty good Star Wars-y.

Is it Emperor? I've been saying Emperor. Only my parents call me that. And we decided it was both Bo Horvat. Yeah, that's a good one. Thatcher Demko. Man, those are good. Thatcher Demko.

I hardly know her. That's an intense name. Graham, what's going on with you? Speaking of pro wrestling, I went and I was given tickets for Christmas time for Ric Flair. I saw this was happening and I thought, someone else will get Graham tickets for this. Yep. And they did. And I went.

And if you don't know who Ric Flair is. Yeah, go ahead. A wrestler that was very big in the 80s and the 90s. His name was? His nickname? The Nature Boy. 90s. His name was? His nickname? The Nature Boy. And his catchphrase was? Woo!

Woo! I know that one. Yeah. And he kind of like whereas like Hulk Hogan was popular with kids

Ric Flair was more for your adult tastes. Hey! Because he was like always bragging about having a Rolex and stuff that kids don't care about. Hey. Because he was like always bragging about having a Rolex and stuff that kids don't care about.

And Hulk Hogan was always talking about vitamins, which kids love. Love eating vitamins. I thought you meant a Rolodex. I was like, that is a very adult thing

to brag about. I got a whole Rolodex. He probably did have a Rolodex. Now that I think of it, it would have been the right era. He probably did have a Rolodex. It would have been the right era. That's where he keeps his contacts. So you went to see him. It was like a kind of Q&A.

Okay. And it was at a theater. At a theater. And man, oh man. I did not. Because it was at the the queen elizabeth theater so uh it's like where you would go see what else would you see there maybe not the symphony but the pavement reunion yeah the pavement reunion um it's not plays not plays but like, but like a touring musical might go there. Yeah, or lots of like speakers.

Yeah, it's where I saw Peppa Pig live. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Her picture's still up on the wall. Yeah. And so it was the lobby is like a very classic kind of theater lobby. And it was filled with, I mean, I would say, my guess is it was probably one woman to every 200 guys. Right. So, and.

Because Ric Flair was, he claimed to be popular with women, but the evidence now shows. Yeah, it was. Yeah, that's right. And it was all different ages, all different ethnicities. From 35 to 45. But there were people there that had their kids there. I don't know why they thought their kid would be into this, but maybe they were like, this is what we're doing. Such a good role model.

Yeah. He was being interviewed by a wrestling manager named Jimmyimmy the mouth of the south heart he was the guy asking the questions and it very much was uh let's listen to grandpa tell tell stories but not finish any story oh okay just kind of start a story and then got get hung up on what year the story happened. Oh, by the details. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Manuel Noriega was still in power.

Let's see. Earlier than social class, thanks to these awesome memes. Yeah. What? Was it full? Yeah, it was pretty full. did you see the documentary about him yeah yeah yeah and so like a lot of the things that the jimmy would ask him he would just refer to the documentary like you gotta check out this document yeah how many beers did you drink every

day wasn't there some like obscene amount of beer he drank every day? He was a guy who like put his, like a Hunter S. Thompson or something. Like he just drank and did drugs and was able to somehow survive. In the ring. In spite of himself. Yeah. And was a guy who like, the one big, like he got a huge laugh off of it that he like, he only won 16 times in his whole. Oh, really? Yeah, because he was always a bad guy, right? got a huge laugh off of it that he like he only won 16 times in his whole oh really yeah because he was always a bad guy right and uh so he said like uh they showed matches before and it was

several matches where he lost and he's like i won six you could have shown one of the 16 times um but the crowd uh or certain kind of factions in the crowd were so terrible. Yeah. They wouldn't. But like you understand for the first five, ten minutes people are wooing or whatever. But then it's like, okay, we don't need to be yelling things out constantly. But like, was there any structure to the show? Like, was there anything that was more entertaining than just yelling?

To these guys, no. Well, because you said it was a Q than just yelling? Do these guys know? Well, because you said it was a Q&A. Was the audience asking questions? I didn't stay till the very end, but that was what was... Seems like a good night. That's what was promised was that there was going to be audience questions, but I was like, I don't like this audience. Maybe if they had said, like, you know, save it for the end.

At the end, you'll be able to ask questions or yell something. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, if you want to yell out. Or, like, there would just be certain words that would be said, and the crowd would go crazy. Like, you'd just have to say the word Undertaker, and people would just applaud. Oh, sure.

Or 69. People go crazy for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a funny number uh 420 uh 1862

uh huh there's really only the two funny numbers that's true there really are only two funny numbers although if you turn your calculator

upside down boobs I got news for ya um but it was fun it was fun to see him on on stage but it's also like he's just a guy that like didn't didn't save a lot of money that was kind of the through line of the night was i'm doing this because i need i didn't save any money yeah or that he was in the room when two people

made a contract that was worth like a billion dollars but he didn't get in on it there was a lot of stories that ended like that like he was like i was out in the car while they were signing this crazy deal yeah well just because two people are signing a contract and you're in the room you don't none of it rubs off on you well apparently that's a lot of my loss for me, but he was, uh, he was the, he was the Hulk Hogan of his wrestling, uh,

league that he was in. And then, uh, uh, but like Hulk Hogan, I guess got a lot of money and, and Rick Flair, like they were like,

they asked him about, he was part of a team at one point and he was like, ah, we didn't even think about merchandising. Like everybody who's showing up with homemade homemade merchandise we could have sold the merchandise yeah but he would have spent it anyway yeah oh that's so sad yeah but he's not he's not like sad about it he's just like one of these guys like he's like ah well you know he's also the kind of guy that like i don't know it's the kind of cliche where, like,

he doesn't ever have to buy his own dinner. Right. He can show up in any bar and someone would buy him drinks. Yeah, yeah. And if they have appetizers, he could get dinner as well. If the kitchen's still open, he could probably get someone to buy him dinner. Do you think he can get the kitchen to open for him, please?

I mean, like, how old is the cook? Yeah. Young cook, lots of tats. Oh, yeah, yeah. The cook probably would like. I would, it would be an honor, Ric Flair. Yeah, I'll warm up some sliders for you or something. Yeah.

Yeah, so I went and saw the Ric Flair, but I had to get out before the audience was let out. Yeah. Because I felt like this is an audience that will just have a fist fight for. Just to say they did it. On that night. Yeah. Hoping Ric Flair would like break it up. He would too.

Would he? To this day, would he be like. Yeah. He was adamant that no one fight around him. Yeah. I'm the one who fights. He entered every ring being like break it everybody come on why can't we be friends that would be if i had a wrestling character would just be like i don't like this fighting and then just like i'm here to stop it and then the peacekeeper punched in the yeah in the interview you guys are driving me

crazy i just wanted to have one nice night alone. Just the 80 of us. Sometimes I'd come out with like appies and I'd be like, hello. Just get hit in my face for sure. I like the royal part. Why do we have to rumble? Why can't we all watch the royal wedding? Westminster dog show.

Do we want to move on to a bit of business? Oh, yeah! Oh, that sound means it's time for the old business. And isn't that right, Graham? Graham, where are you? Dave! What? Dave, I'm trapped.

I leaned too far back in my chair and I'm trapped in the nether zone. Oh, no. Graham, I need you here. I'm here with you in spirit. I can sense you. I just can't see or touch you. Okay.

Well, you can hear me too, right? Yes, I can also hear you. But no seeing. It's basically like being there. Okay. Well, what's the nether regions like? Oh, boy. I mean, everything that you're used to, we don't have it.

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starting January 28th. So please listen and subscribe at MaximumFun.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Overheard! Overheard! It's a segment where if you're lucky enough to hear a little tidbit, a little nugget out there, don't just throw it away.

Store it. Then bring it here to the podcast and share it. We always like to start with the guest. Okay. Well, I have two. Neither of them are very good. But if you put them together. They're one mediocre overheard.

So, yeah. Oh, God. put them together they come they're one mediocre overheard um so yeah oh god uh one i heard was uh i was at school and i heard a kid go dun dun dun dun and then his friend go yeah me too what could that mean um i don't know maybe kids... That noise doesn't carry like an emotion or a story. Dread? Yeah. Isn't it? Is it dread or is it... Yeah, that's like we just discovered a thing. Okay, that's not dread.

Dread is more of like, yeah. Dread is like the Emperor's March. Yeah. That's, uh-oh. Okay. I don't know. Anyways, I was just like, that carries emotion for some people. Maybe that's slang.

Maybe. Yeah. Could be. Oh, boy. I can't keep up yeah soundtrack as you watch the egg video how do you look that up on urban dictionary oh my god noises that you can't look up on urban dictionary that's that would be the perfect and then the other thing it was an oversaw uh there's a van in my neighborhood it's like a minivan and on the side of it on both sides is um they've made and put on a deckle type deal on the sliding doors the american listener decal decal and it says

the movie earthlings changed my life i've seen yeah yeah wow they felt passionate about that scene uh between maine and like on all the way down terminal where the sky train runs someone written that on every single uh sky train pillar yeah i think it's the same person what is the movie earthlings earth Earthlings, I looked it up. It makes sense. It would change someone's life. I think it's about factory farming. Yeah.

Or maybe it's like how Earthlings have ruined everything. It's one of the two. But it's very rare that a movie where you're like, I got to write this down. Yeah. You know? I got to make a decal too. Put them on my minivan. If it was you, what movie has changed your life?

Wow. Because people say something was life changing. That's not always a good thing. No, that's true. Like I was fine until I saw Step Up 2 and then everything just fell off the goddamn rail. Wow. Good question. Movie that changed my life?

Because people automatically say, oh, my favorite movie is, I didn't ask that. No, no, no. Yeah, you're right. Like life changing movie is different. Like. A life changing movie. The thing that jumped to my head after going to my favorite movies would probably be something like Gigli, which I've seen twice.

So it really changed my life changed i just like within the last year saw it changed the director's life yeah he never worked again yeah did he not yeah oh i think something like that where i'm just like there's way too much money in hollywood and this why was this made yeah that changed your life it changed my life your life is nothing matters screw it all i like for me i'm thinking of like the candy man because there's a scene where he came out of the toilet i'm like that that is said dave hasn't used the toilet that affected me for a while yeah i'm trying to think of a toilet it a big part of my life yeah yeah not to brag i guess it is a humble brag yeah you own one i mean i use i know how yeah i'm trained i received training on this

were you ever trained on this piece of equipment? Yeah, there's a little diploma next to it. Your whole family has little diplomas beside the toilet. Cute. Yeah, that is. It would be cute for little kids. Yeah, except you would sometimes have to be like, we're going to have to revoke the diploma.

Yeah, we don't grant degrees here. This is only diplomas. We're a community college. Oh, boy. I'm trying to think of a movie that changed. Shallow Howl? Yeah, Shallow Howl. That's true.

Because I always found a guanapultro repulsive before that movie and then it changed my perspective yeah there probably is a movie but yeah i mean there's definitely like movies where you like maybe you never thought about a thing before and then you watched a whole movie about it and you were like, oh, yeah. Past guest, Andy Kallstrom. Yeah. He owns a lot of like Indiana Jones clothes.

He wants to be Indiana Jones. I feel like that's the one for him. Yeah. But like, was there ever something that made you go out and buy a coat?

I mean, when that, when Drive came out, I was like, what a cool coat. But I know that people are going to buy this coat are the worst. You just bought driving gloves. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Carried around a hammer. Yeah. Cool. Wear them on the bus. Ding, ding. Dave, do you have an overheard? Okay, I was telling you guys in the break. This overheard isn't funny.

This was a life-changing overheard. Okay, I was telling you guys in the break. This overheard isn't funny. This was a life-changing overheard. It's an overseen, and it was just the most unexpected thing you would ever expect to see. So I'm driving down the street yesterday. I'm a block from my house. I'm waiting at the corner to turn left.

And passing me by on the right, I hear, Someone's got a muscle car. car oh it's a red car with uh it's a convertible it's too cold for a convertible oh it's uh it's a it's a little ss on the back so it's a camaro and the license plate california flvr twn it's flavor town it's California. F-L-V-R-T-W-N. It's Flavortown. It's Guy Fieri's car. He's in town! He's in town! Whoa! I don't think it was him.

It was probably a PA. Oh, yeah. But that was... Whoa! How often do you see Flavortown in your town? When in your neighborhood. Yeah. When you were spelling it out, I was like, Flavor Flav!

As you were spelling it out, I was like, I'm not good when people spell out letters and i'm supposed to follow along i hope he says who it was i'd be like f flavor tony yeah the flavorful tony tony danza's flavorful pasta sauce that he made that means he drove up here uh it means someone brings the car to the town i love that somebody brings the car to the town that they don't just rent a similar car it seems extravagant but like i feel like it's such a nice car in such good condition

they must even like not drive transport it yeah they yeah or ship it up

or tow it and that's when I realized Hollywood has too much money Guy Fieri Hollywood yeah he was at the Red Wagon Red Wagon yeah I listened to that on the radio on my way what at the Red Wagon. Yeah, I listened to that on the radio on my way.

What is the Red Wagon? They're by like Hastings. I think it's a brunch place. I think they're known for their like pulled pork. Benny, probably. That's right. Can you drive in? No, you can bring your wagon in.

Is it a dive? It's a bit of a dive. It's a diner? It's not a diner. Okay, so it could be two of them. It's under his jurisdiction. Yeah, sure. bring your wagon. Is it a dive? It's a bit of a dive. It's a diner? It's not a diner. Okay, so it could be two of the... It's under his jurisdiction. Yeah, sure. Okay.

Yeah. There's drive-in that's really tacked on there, isn't it? How many of these places end up being drive-ins? You're right. Yeah, very few. And he never goes to drive-throughs, which would make... On the show anyway here I am at the local McDonald's

what do we got here what day of the week is it what's the discount Fridays that's Filet-O-Fish for all you Catholics he's got like a whole team it's not just but probably at the beginning of the show, it was just him and a camera guy. Zooming around to different restaurants.

And now they probably go and they try out the food before it gets there. He won a contest. He won the next. To host it? Yeah. Yeah, he was the next Food Network star. And it was like the only reality show that came true. He's like, I got to get noticed.

Bleach my hair yeah sunglasses i don't think it came well i don't think it was effort for him i think he he's at as advertised yeah and like they didn't know what to do with them because he won the show and they were like oh we don't we didn't think the next part we didn't think of what the show would be and he's like what if i dives yeah what if I cruise around to just like eat at these places? And they were like, fine. Then it became the whole reason for the food network. It's the whole reason for living. Yeah, that's true.

Honestly, this has blown my mind a little bit. Because I'm just thinking about this car getting here. How long he's in town for. How? This neighborhood. Because they've done vancouver before yeah and if you because i was looking to see if he was in town and the only restaurant that comes up or the main restaurant that comes up is peaceful yeah restaurant they only play on loop that episode yeah in the restaurant but he must have i know he went to meat and bread while he was here as well. I think he's Don Jethro's.

Oh. I think. I thought he had done Jappadog maybe. Could be. They've got their little panel of all the celebrities who have ever eaten their hot dogs. I remember seeing his face next to Ice Cube.

And Flavor Flav. Do you know why they did a Japanese hot dog cart? I think I do. Do you know why? I think they used to only. Well, I'll go around and guess. Okay. I think they only would let hot dog vendors run.

That is correct. And then this Japanese person or somebody wanted to open a Japanese place is like, okay. The city would only let? I see. Oh. Oh. or somebody wanted to open a Japanese place, it's like, okay.

The city would only let? I see. Oh. Yeah, that was the only kind of food truck or cart or whatever that you could have in the city, and that's why this. And Dave, your guess? I didn't really know what the question was. It was, do you know why they have Japanese hot dogs?

Yeah. But it's not like the guy was like, I'm a Japanese hot dog guy he's just a japanese chef that he was like i guess i'll make hot dogs i was underwhelmed when i had japa dog oh really was that really hyped up to you well i just thought it was going to be something more than a hot dog you know like it just mostly tastes like hot dog yeah i was like okay yeah i had never i think this would be more i never heard of it outside of just seeing the dog yeah i was like okay yeah i had never i think this would be more i never heard of it outside of just seeing the sign and i was like yeah okay i'll have this

and i thought it was great i mean yeah it hadn't been hyped up at all to me so seaweed on it oh yeah kind of waves as it dries or like it's dry yeah there's one that like it kind of dances it must not be seaweed oh it must be mushrooms that you're tripping on oh right yeah you're allowed to have a uh graham yeah yeah do you have an over i do i was uh on the weekend i was waiting at a bus stop and a kid uh was like trying to get his mom to let him have some kind of item uh wherever they were going and i couldn't figure out what the kid was asking but he was like i won't this time i promise i won't and then uh his mom had just had enough and said, look, every time we go to IHOP, you get whipped cream and you vomit. So it really paid off that I stuck with that one because this kid was really needling his mom.

And I guess maybe he did. Maybe he tried it again. Very funny for the kid to be like, it won't happen this time. I promise. My stomach, it's matured. I love whipped cream so much. Like, I don't want pancakes. I never want pancakes.

But that whipped cream, like, I would just take that off the top of the pancakes. Again, send these back. Yeah, or just get a side of whipped cream, like I would just take that off the top of the pancakes. Again, send these back. Yeah, or just get a side of whipped cream. Just get whatever you're going to eat and then just some whipped cream for the table. Or do like how like, you know, a guy in a movie will say to the bartender, like, give me a glass and just leave the bottle. It gives them like some amount. Yeah, it just brings out the whipped cream.

Do you have whipped cream in the house? No. Special occasion? I mean, I like it. I don't really like it. No, I like the can that you shake up. But

what do you put that on? Especially if you don't like pancakes. Coco, I guess. I don't think it would be good on pancakes. Because it would melt. IHOP disagrees. Yeah, well,

IHOP and I don't see eye to eye on a lot. Well, they put it on pancakes, waffles. Yeah. What are your other whipped cream foods?

Ice cream. Sundaes. Yeah. Boy. Cocoa. Yeah, hot chocolate. You know, yeah what are your other whipped cream foods ice cream sundaes yeah boy a cocoa um yeah you know like a like a decadent brownie i feel like they'll top that off with some i think moxie's used to have a brownie oh i love moxie's oh boy i miss moxie's is that is is it not around anymore i don't know where's probably i think there's probably in like cologne oh there's one in every suburb yeah but like did it used to be a diners driving and dives kind of place he used to have like not in for mcmurray fancy it was the fans there was a uh thread on twitter where people someone asked what was a food that was or what something

you thought was fancy when you were a kid and now that you're a grown-up you realize isn't right and it was like after eight mints oh i still think think if I see those somewhere pot of gold chocolates that like ice cream that comes in a I think it's called vieta and it's like

layers of ice cream and you slice it yeah yeah oh that's fancy that is fancy getting a slice of ice cream

still think it's fancy yeah yeah like maybe on a special occasion yeah i mean it's my birthday i'll have a slice of ice cream and that was a meme that was one of the memes this week but we can memes now we also have uh overheard sent in from

people around the world. If you want to send one in to us, it's spy at maximumfun.org. This first one comes from Nikita in D.C. I was getting lunch at a local deli, and as I waited in line to pay, a group of

three guys, mid-twenties, dressed in suits, walked by me to leave. As they passed, I heard one guy say to the other two, compared to ballers, I always know what's happening on ballers. Whoa. Yeah. Could they come on our podcast and please tell us? Now, I watched the entire first season of Ballers. I did also.

And now I'm thinking back, season of Ballers I did also and now I'm thinking back that was four years ago like it's been on yeah it's been a while yeah I don't know what Ballers Ballers is

the HBO show starring Dwayne Johnson okay yeah I knew it was the second time it had come up it was it's Entourage but sports

okay he's the sports agent that's cool it is cool it's's the sports agent. That's cool. It is cool. It's as cool as you imagine. It's cool and great. Yeah. Yeah.

Cool and great and fun. And it's the, I think it won a bunch of Golden Globes this year. Shows how. Did it really? Up to date eyes? I don't know. Like didn't something that people were mad about win a Golden Globe? Wasn't there like the Bohemian Rhapsody or something?

One like best. I think we talked about that last week. Yeah. That was a meme last week. This next one comes from Brandon P in Topeka, Kansas. A couple of months ago, I was in Iowa sitting in the local McDonald's around 10 in the morning. So you went from Kansas to Iowa. Yeah.

Is this tourism? Yeah, this is tourism. And he went straight to the McDonald's. What's it like in Iowa? It's the same. There's a table of six or seven elderly men sitting near me when I hear one of the men emphatically saying

well you see you got bluegrass that's one type of grass then you've got marijuana oh two types of grass also lawn just lawn

grass crab astroturf astroturf oh boy how many grasses can we name? Oh boy, hay. That one's for horses. You know, Hawaiian skirt grass.

Oh sure. That little fake grass you get with sushi. Oh, I know. One of my favorite grass. Degrassi. Degrassi. Neil Degrass Tyson. Oh man. Degrassi. Yeah. Neil Degrass Tyson. Oh, man.

I like that. Someone mentioned grass and I was like, what kind of grass? Two kinds. Blue. That's your one with banjos. And marijuana. That's your one where it's like a sitar or something like that. It's not really banjo music, is it?

It could be. If I'm ever in charge of doing promotions for a professional hockey team, I will have a Star Wars night, but I'll bring Neil deGrasse Tyson to refute everything on the Jumbo time. And everybody gets a colorful vest. Yeah. The team will wear a colorful vest. Because capes cannot.

He's anti-cape. But it wouldn't surprise me to see him walk out on stage somewhere wearing a cape. No. Yeah, I can see that. Like if he was like, now this is new. The new me. Big shiny. I'd be like, you do you.

You can do whatever you want. Yeah. We respect you. Mr. Spaceman. Yeah, sure. This last two weeks. whatever you want we respect you Mr. Spaceman yeah sure this last two weeks let's just say I'm more on board

with Guy Fieri than Neil deGrasse Tyson yeah I can see that because what has Guy done he hasn't done anything bad

he hasn't done anything bad no nothing I mean did he make people a little heavier? Sure. Yeah.

Sure. If he has a crime, it's bringing us to Flavortown. Yeah. Without the proper visas. Yeah, sure. Struggling us into Flavortown. I'm doing a teacher exchange with some teachers in Flavortown. It's legit. It's's legit don't look into it

donkey sauce again that's their national meal this last one comes from Tyler F from Boise, Idaho I work in an elementary school and came across this is a new years resolution from one of the kids my new years resolution is to eat a

whole cake no matter how big or small without my mom taking a bite you go i mean that's no matter how big or small that's like a cupcake even if i have a cupcake my mom is going to take a bite yeah i thought it was going to finish like without my mom taking it away. And the kids are frantically eating. But eating a whole cake, even as an adult, would be really daunting. A small one. I mean, how long do I have? Can I put it in the fridge and then eat it late at night?

What does your doctor say? How long do I have? If you keep eating whole cakes. Put them in your cake hole. So the theme of this week's Overheard has been parents kind of taking away your sweets. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Man.

It really makes you think. It's been a while since I've even had a piece of cake, let alone a whole piece. I'm not a cake person. No? No. But if I'm offered a slice of cake, I will always take it. Like, I will take it and I will eat it and I will enjoy it. There's a lot of bad cakes out there. Someone brought cookies into the office the other day and I was mad.

I'm like, well, then this is my thing for the day. I didn't want cookies. Right. But now I'm going to eat them and then later on you'll be like, well, then this is my thing for the day. I didn't want cookies. Right. But now I'm going to eat them. And then later on, you were like, oh, no, I had cookies earlier. Now that you've mentioned cookies, I would really like a cookie. Is a cookie a small cake? Could you call that?

No. No. Too flat? Yeah, they're not the same. No. I take it back. I regret it. I'm embarrassed.

But donuts like a little cake. Yeah, is donut a cake? Yeah, I think donut's a cake. Donut's a cake. No. I take it back. I regret it. I'm embarrassed. Donut's like a little cake. Yeah. Is donut a cake? Yeah. I think donut's a cake. Donut's a cake. Yeah. Muffin's a cake.

Oh. Big time. Banana bread? Not a bread. That's a cake. It is a cake. Yeah. Carrot cake.

Damn it. Ice cream cake. Not a cake. No? Just ice cream? Just ice cream. Like a slice of ice cream. Oh. A slice of ice cream cake not a cake no just ice cream just ice cream like a slice of ice cream in addition to overheards that are written in we also accept your phone calls if you want to call us our phone number is 1-844-779-7631 that's one sorry i was just clearing my throat that's one spy pod one like these people have hi dave

graham an esteemed guest so this is elizabeth from seattle calling you with an overheard i was just coming back into my apartment building when i noticed a woman in bare feet taking a dog out by the time i got in the elevator she had made it back with the dog. Obviously, I wasn't too reluctant. And I got on and I pressed my four and then she said, just all confused, I don't know, I'm guessing four before pressing the button. I guess I'll never know if she found out where she and the dog belonged because she got off the elevator first. But I thought it was funny that she felt the need to let me know that she didn't know where she was going.

She's the shoeless dog walker. It's luck. It's good luck. She instilled a lot of good feelings towards the security of that building. No weirdos getting in here. I think I found this dog on the fourth floor. It needed to go out and I'm just gonna let it is that woman a shoeless visitor of a dog owner i guess so i think she's i think she's a ghost because you know they don't they

don't bury in your shoes or whatever that thing was that they said about paul mccartney oh sure she was asking the dog like i don't know what do you think for sure yeah um in my household the dog doesn't wear shoes so i don't wear shoes it's uh very holistic i would be naked right now except there's an ordinance against it but i do wear a little collar next phone call hey this is Matt from Chicago probably I was overheard I was walking down the street the other day and I heard

these two people talking and one of them said yeah he plays the most pretentious instrument the French horn is I guess, is it? I mean,

no. No. What's the most? There's gotta be something more. I don't even know what a French horn is. Piccolo? Is that a, is that pretentious?

The like tiny flute? I find like, like pretentious is like, I mean, is there one more than the French horn? Hear me out. Okay.

Singing saw. With the bow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think you're right. Yeah, I think you nailed it. Yeah. The French horn is more, to me, it's very classy. If someone said they play the French horn, I'd be like, ooh.

Classy and pretentious. Yeah, you're right. What about a harp? Yeah, it's pretty pret French run of it classy and pretentious yeah you're right what about a harp yeah it's pretty pretentious that's pretty pretentious yeah but also lovely

you know it's not about none of them they don't have to not be lovely I think the singing saw is not lovely I think that's very weird

the singing saw is both pretentious and like down home dirt band yeah like if a kid in the city is playing a singing saw you're like get over get out of here no absolutely not um i'm uh what about the way they do all the glasses oh yeah so here we go some singing saw oh this is beautiful oh that's not bad kind of won me over with that high note

is this somebody's funeral? yeah oh yeah but it's alright it's kind of beautiful yeah it's kind of beautiful little pretentious yeah

I played trumpet for like a minute oh yeah and then I quit band because I had a 40%. I was like a 90 student, but I just never practiced. Yeah. They graded you? Yeah, we'd always have tests, and that was me.

Trumpet's hard. Not very pretentious, but. No, it's like a blue collar. What if you play the bugle Maybe that's what I'm thinking The blue collar is the bugle Yeah that's more for waking people up And signaling death

In the military Do you guys want to hear this tan mom song Yes This is good I want to get, get my tan on. This is good. I'm sexier than the teen mom. I am cool. I'm the cool one.

I'm hotter than Octomom. This sounds like they just threw her in the studio. Sing a song! Sing a song! Alright. What? So so wait a second I'll be in the tanning booth yeah she's tan mom

shouldn't she love all tanning no she's booth only so shouldn't she be called tan booth mom she's tan mom how tan we talking like uh

oh like um weight bodybuilders so tan yeah yeah she was like that she was like like if you melted a bunch of raisinets oh no yeah yeah no oh well this is ridiculous this must have been doctored because that's that's unacceptable. Anyway, one more phone call.

What's there? Hi, I have a kid say the darndest. I work with children, and one child gave me a piece of paper. And I said, oh, well, you can put that in your cubby, or you can throw that away. And she said, no, I made it for your daughter. And I said, I don't have a daughter. And she rolls her eyes in the back of her head

so far that I thought they weren't going to come back. And she said, well, I made it for your son then. And I said, I don't have any children. And she goes, that is why you are so lonely that's why you are the way you are

yikes you know who's not lonely tan mom unless you invite her to go tanning outside and then she'll go it alone in the tent she's definitely not filling a hole in her life with all that tanning although maybe she likes to be alone there's only

one person tan booths i assume yeah it seems like something like if you go to vegas there's probably one where you can oh yeah i'm just picturing like a pool party, but they have tan lights everywhere. So everyone's just in. Oh yeah. Arena. Yeah. Or those two people still use those things. Do people still,

did anyone ever, I've only those like mirror. Yeah. To like get the underside of your, yeah. I've only ever seen those in TV shows. It literally only occurred to me as you said it that that was for the underside of your i'd never i just thought it was just more

on your face but it that's what it would be tanning yeah i guess which is you wouldn't want some under chin tan lines that would be? Like a pale neck beard. If you're going to have like, if you're going to over tan anywhere, make it the underside of where people can't see. You really have to stick your neck out. Cause, cause you know,

that's a very, uh, foldy over part of the body. Yeah. One of the foldiest. Truly. Um, uh, well that brings us to the end of this yeariest. Truly. Well, that brings us to the end of this here podcast.

Amber, you every, each and every week here in Vancouver. Each and every week, I have a show. Yeah. It's every Tuesday at 8.30 at Little Mountain Gallery. It's very fun. It's an improv show. There's like seven of us in the group. I had to think about that. And we just do fun improv and I promise

if the listener comes, they'll have fun. Not you two. I don't promise that. Why? I'm kidding. I promise you'll have fun. I promise. Everyone will have fun. Every Tuesday, Will Mountain. That's... I can't make it. And you have a JFL Northwest show as well. Yes, we have a JFL Northwest show as well.

Yes, we have a JFL Northwest show. It's February 19th. It's a Tuesday. You can buy tickets for that on JFL Northwest's website in advance. But yeah, just come any and every Tuesday. Fun. Yeah. It is really fun.

It's great. Low Mountain's so cool. I know. And you get to do a weekly show. Yeah, it's so fun. Yeah, it's just always a good time yeah yeah um and we're doing a show in jfl northwest tuesday two days before that on the 17th uh february it's michael jordan's birthday wow so uh buy some big jeans we're gonna buy some big

jeans don't know where to get them uh value village okay yeah yeah yeah I'll look for a pair for you while I'm next there something with a real you know some bedazzling I'm a 26 waist look at you no

slim fast mom for the listener who's never seen Dave he's a 26 he's got a hourglass figure but hey we'll check out

these gazongas but yes so tickets for that are available on the internet go to maximumfun.org click on this episode

there'll be a link to there just it's clicking on links to get to other links easy easy that's what kids

are doing these days that's what I'm doing most days yeah clicking on links. Thanks so much for being our guest. Thank you for having me. It was a delight.

It was a delight. Yeah, thank you. It was. Yeah. And if you guys out there listening enjoy the show, why don't you tell some of the friends and come on back next week for another episode of Stop Podcasting yourself.