Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 584 - K.C. Novak

Episode Date: May 27, 2019

Comedian K.C. Novak joins us to talk Ohio, TV commercials, and dumping trash.

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 584 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who, you know, we're both wearing nice socks. Blue, we match. But he's, I'd say of the two of us, he's wearing the nicer shirt. Mr. Dave Shumka. I have to go to work later.

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. So you're, this is, this is work day i'm working i'm working from home right now so yeah i do like a uh kind of a skype in dickie oh i wish that there should just be a filter where you just sit there and then it just puts one on like a snapchat filter yeah yeah yeah where you're a business i'm a business person um but yeah so this is that explains my collar on my shirt yeah uh graham is of course wearing a tank top that says rad well a tank top has two uh oh that's right. You're right. This is a singlet I'm wearing. Yeah, a one-shoulder tank top. An Andre the Giant tank top.

And our guest today, first-time guest on the podcast, a very funny comedian, a member of the Gentleman Hecklers, which is every month at the Rio Theater, it's Casey Novak. I'm wearing a blazer. You are. That's very business. And it's my weekend, so I only wear blazer. You are. Just so everyone. Yeah, that's very business. And it's my weekend. So I only wear blazers on my weekend.

Oh. So you have to wear a full tuxedo during the week? You got it. Yeah. So we're recording this on a Wednesday. Oh, boy. That's mean. How many days a week do you work?

Five. Okay. Four and a half. Okay. Four and a half. Okay. So your weekend is either Wednesday. Soft five.

Wednesday, Thursday, or Tuesday, Wednesday. Mm-hmm. Wednesday, Thursday. Okay. I'm going to say is either Wednesday, Thursday, or Tuesday, Wednesday. Wednesday, Thursday. Okay, I'm going to say it's Wednesday, Thursday. So your Monday is Friday. You got it. And then Thursday, you go to church on Thursday. Exactly. I got it.

The Easter Bunny comes on Easter Thursday. I never know what day it is. And then I'm always angry when people are like, happy Friday. I'm like, not in my world. Yeah. It's my Monday. In'm like, not in my world. It's my Monday. In your world, Garfield hates Fridays. That's correct.

And your favorite restaurant is TGI Tuesdays? Okay, let's get to know us. KC. Yes. Thank you for joining us. Thanks for having me. Tell us a bit about yourself. Your first time here on the podcast. Fill us in some details.

Look, we do the Larry King style interview where we do no research. Yeah. And then later we'll get people calling in from Sheboygan to ask you questions or just to yell at you. I appreciate yelling because I'm American. That's part of my background there. Yeah. I'm mainly from Ohio. Cincinnati?

Yeah. Really? That area. Yeah. Okay. All right. Cool. Is it?

It's a cool area. Yeah. I mean. People normally just drive through there. That's all I ever hear about Ohio. They're like, oh, I drove through there once. Where is everyone going? To somewhere better.

Oh. Well, what about Cleveland? Isn't Cleveland cool? It's up there. It's in the area, all right. About 2% of every sitcom ever created was set in Cleveland. Yeah. Hot in Cleveland.

Drew Carey Show. Sure. And there you go. There have only been 100 hundred sitcoms, so. Have you ever been to Cleveland? Actually, that's the one place in Ohio I have not been. What? Yeah.

Have you ever watched Hot in Cleveland? No. Me neither. No, me neither. Nothing against Cleveland, but yeah. Yeah. It's got everybody I like. Wendy Malek. Yeah. Wendy Malek. Isn't Betty White still? but it's got everybody i like wendy malik yeah wendy malik uh isn't betty white still i was

gonna say betty ross that's wrong this is on the air anymore no um uh are we naming the rest of the cast jane leaves yeah and uh i don't know perry gilpin i think it just had the hotties from frazier oh and uh valerie bertinelli right oh yeah and now she's cooking shows she judges uh cupcake competitions uh that's what i want to do but there can only be one at a time and yeah yeah uh lucky her uh what do you judge in judging yeah in a cupcake competition i guess just yum or decorating yeah decorating well there's always a theme right so it's adherence to the theme i used to only get the food network in my basement what a weird it was guy fieri all the time how did that work uh what was it what was your go-to show on the Food Network?

There is no go-to. They make you watch Guy Fieri without pause. Yeah, that's true. Because he's got more than, he's got like a multi. He's the Oprah of shitty food shows. Yes, he is. Yes. Yeah, absolutely.

It's like Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. He had actually like an American Idol style um like the net food network star or the next guy where he came from that's right and he ran his own competition yeah oh and just to see him in like a coach position like like with a whistle like kind of to just be like oh man you just you gotta give it more pizzazz like yeah yeah look god love him he uh he's nothing if not pizzazzful yeah yeah and he like uh when he won that competition they were like we don't know what to do with this guy and then he's like how about you just follow me around to restaurants because that wasn't a format at the time no now it seems like it's been with us forever but

and right and not to critique just to like uplift like oh yeah yeah yeah this is what i'm talking about no matter what it is what do you do with this how do you make this food yeah i'm excited by this yeah they don't do that on like do they do it on other formats like on a house and garden tv do they go like just someone goes to nice houses i'm like window cool yeah who's the guy the area that was a garden network i feel like they didn't uh yeah they just stumbled they stumbled on guy fairy they couldn't they couldn't have manufactured him no No, not at all. Although, he kind of seemed... He's got a bit of a Poochie the Rockin' Dog vibe to him where he does seem manufactured.

Yeah, yeah, but like... He was just not the vibe that they were used to. Yeah, yeah, exactly. The Rockabilly shirts and whatnot. So good. Fun callback. He was born in Ohio. Yeah, there you go.

Is that celebrated? Is there now, is the hospital named after him? Yeah. The guy with the hairy cardiac wing. The meat lovers. Intensive care unit. It's just sponsored by the idea of meat lovers the donkey sauce nick you

um and when uh when did you leave ohio and come to? How did you come to Canada from Ohio? Metaphysically, I still haven't left Ohio. Yeah. It really, you get stuck. Around about three, over three years ago, I came here. Okay. For grad school. And how did that go?

I dropped out. Okay. All right. What fields were you in? Creative writing. So it's really, it's been a detriment to my career not to have a formal degree in blogging. Yeah. Yeah.

So this was going to be a master's? Yeah. Oh, cool. But you can do creative writing anywhere. You don't need to go to some fancy school. That's right. You just need to sneak into Canada somehow. Yeah, but I'm a dual citizen.

So, yeah, I'm pretty lucky. How, what side of the family hails from this side of the border? Yeah, my dad is from Montreal. Yeah, Canada, we make dads. Actually, I've understood my dad so much more since moving to canada i'm like oh that's your humor i guess oh really yeah and it's just sensibility yeah the whole country just does dad jokes i mean it kind of does yeah we're like uh we don't shy away from like the most famous like Canadian comedies within the country are like very are appreciated by dads. That's true.

Yeah. We definitely have like a very strong leaning that way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dad centric. Yeah, absolutely. Does he still live in Ohio?

Yeah. They're both in Cincinnati oh cool WKRP oh yeah that's not in Cleveland I was trying to think you'd add to the

list of Cleveland shows oh boy was the Cleveland show did it say was it said in Cleveland and are you gonna you gonna stay up here in canada or

uh enjoy it until the dollar gets stronger yeah yeah yeah yeah absolutely uh no i do uh vancouver is beautiful as we all remember when it's like this um uh but yeah it's just it's it's such a better country but it's bizarre because when you're American, the branding is so strong about being American. Oh, yeah. So I miss like being American. But it's such a better country here. But it's odd that you get Stockholm Syndrome for America. Yeah.

America does have a very strong brand. Very strong. Nothing to support it. Like no health care. I mean, there's health care. Yeah. They have some kind of yeah yeah not this i mean like i spent i had to get admitted to a vgh a couple years ago and it was just free yeah like i was there overnight i had a private room i got a massage are you sure this was v? Guy Fieri rubbed some kind of ranch into my hair. He does like a shampoo with ranch.

That's how he gets his hair so erect. Yeah. Yeah. He does have erect hair. He's also like, he travels around. He's got like a guy who's just his hair guy. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, they got in that travels around. He's got like a guy who's just his hair guy. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, they got in that big fight. That's right. Yeah, they had a big falling out and it was like. How do you both know that? I don't. This is what the show is about. Okay. We're glad you brought him up, but we were going to anyway.

Okay. All right. But yeah, his hairdresser had a falling out. At an airport? Yeah, and somebody videotaped it and uploaded it to YouTube. Or Worldstar. Might have been Worldstar. That's amazing.

I just saw, for some reason, because it's a hairdresser, him throwing off a toupee at some point. Yeah. It's a showdown. And it just looks like a hedgehog on the ground. Do we know, does he ever reconcile with that haird hairdresser or is it a different hairdresser now? I feel like it might be a different hairdresser now. Does his hair look any different or are they still using the same Elmer's glue? Is Elmer's glue, is that an American?

Yeah. Okay. We have that. You got that popular glue down there? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We have that.

You got that popular glue down there? Yeah. I just never know. Did you, because you work with kids. Let's not discuss it. No, absolutely. But there's, is there glue involved at all? No, actually. Okay.

It's a very unsticky. What's the opposite of sticky? Unsticky. Unsticky profession that I'm in yeah but i would just was wondering if they still because there was like a kind of glue that came in a bottle with a rubber top uh yeah and then you would have to like cut uh slip into the rubber top like from the 30s it very much seemed and the glue was like brown it looked like bourbon oh yeah i don't know this glue see that maybe that's what

i'm thinking is like maybe that's a canadian glue that like came in came in that wasn't in my welcome brochure canadian it's in most swag bags if you go to festivals you get some canadian glue did you ever in america growing up in america did you ever do that thing where you you put glue all over your hand and you wait for it to dry and you peel it off yeah the the boys on my bus did that and i witnessed it you also participated you could make you can make yourself look like an old person if you put it on your face like glue would wrinkle up you can make anybody look old that's so intense um yeah it was like uh what what part of my body can i put glue on today yeah yeah it's

kind of crazy that there was just a time when you were a kid and they also just gave you glue to just do whatever you wanted with that's true it's pretty harmless yeah i mean until you know even if it gets in your hair it washes out it's school glue yeah brown school glue um is there anything from america that you miss being up here in canada uh rage yeah yeah just there's not enough rage up here well no just no, just like, I guess culturally a bit. Like, yeah, Americans are a little more emotional, I would say, like extroverted. Yes. In an extroverted sense.

Like in person to person or just as a group? Person to person, you know, you'll say hi to each other on the street kind of thing. But when I moved here, I thought everyone was just mad at me. Oh, really? In Vancouver, yeah. No, me oh really yeah no we i mean we were yeah there was we sent out an email yeah we're like my intuition wasn't off yeah we're like this girl's only half canadian yeah that's right really give her the stink yeah she didn't just know about our glue yeah but to really answer your question cheeseburgers she what we don't have we don't we don't got cheeseburgers good enough for you you don't have the guy theory

thunder that i'm looking for like something about cheeseburgers in the states you know in the american portions you know like where they give you the whole cow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but, you know, why marry a slutty woman if you can get... Wait. How does it go? Why marry a slutty woman if you get the cheeseburgers for free? They give you a whole cow at a restaurant. Isn't the Elmer's Glue logo a cow i think it is okay good yeah it should be a

horse should be a horse yeah yeah yeah that's misleading there's all like uh i mean i i'm guessing your love of cheeseburgers means you're not a vegan no and i'm not a vegan. No. And I'm not a vegan and Graham's not a vegan, but I know. This is our meeting. Graham's as close as you get. Yeah. Without going full veg. Yeah. But you,

there's like an extra layer of veganism of like, not just food you eat, but like, oh, I can't have animal products in anything. Right. So I got to get a special like, Oh, I can't have animal products in anything. Right. I got to get a special glue. Oh, that's right.

And Hathaway went to that level. Yeah. I got it. She had to have like vegan boots. Oh, really? To pretend to be a French prostitute. Well,

why buy the French prostitute for free? When you can have the vegan boots on sale. Um, uh, yeah, it seems like it's something and Hathaway would do make, for free. Then you can have the vegan boots on sale. Yeah, it seems like something Anne Hathaway would do. Make things, make life harder

on the costume department. Hey, she's just trying to make life easier for the cow stew department. You make so much fun of it.

Dad jokes. We're giving to them. I never saw the movie Les lame is you saw it no did you oh you didn't oh i liked some of the songs but i don't want to sit through the whole thing no did you see the movie yeah what do you think uh i enjoyed it i think i was a theater nerd in high school so it's like kind of, were you in plays? Yeah. Musicals started. No,

no, but I did actually, I was in Les Mis for a moment. I can't sing, but I was one of the revolutionaries and I just, they put a mutton chop on the left side of my face. Cause that was the only audience facing side. And he said,

look this way do not move your head we bought one mutton chop yeah and then immediately when you're off stage hand it over to Becky because she's going to be coming in for the other side and that was my nickname for the rest of the show I played mutton chop

that's right but I came out and I shot someone and then they shot me and then I died. Okay. Ah, right in the mutton chop. They shot off my other chop. We need to explain this to the audience. They're going to. What was your biggest role in the high school theater world?

What an oxymoron um uh helena probably in midsummer night stream yeah yeah okay helena is the tall one the tall yeah yeah a little typecasting with the one mutton chop yeah that's right um uh what is what is helena's deal she's in. What is Helena's deal? She's in love with someone. She's in love with Demetrius, but Demetrius is in love with Hermia. And then the fairy in the forest does a little loop-de-doo with the love potion.

So then the boys fall in love with her and she's like, this is bullshit. And she gets upset at them. Ah, okay. Yeah. I get it. She has real low self-esteem again did you read that in school

no we did what did we read we read um the amazing spider-man uh i think we read uh macbeth was one one of them don't say that in here this is the podcasting theater Othello what if someone's in a theater listening to this and a chandelier falls on their head I guess they're doing Phantom of the Opera

you only drop the chandelier when I say was it hard to read when all the pages were covered in glue yeah yeah but that was my own doing look at my old hands um no i remember we read like yeah we read othello and we read romeo and juliet we never read any of the like i I never did Hamlet. We had to do. Which is the most famous one. Yeah.

The most Canadian. Is it? Because of ham. Boy. You're coming along. We did. But we did Midsummer Night's Dream like two or three times. Maybe twice in two different English classes in different years

and once in drama class. Oh, really? And I don't know what it's about. It's like a bunch of people falling in and out of love with each other because of fairies. There's a play within a play. That's right. It's the most accessible for the littles.

Okay. Yeah, because it's all relationships and comedy and yeah it's hilarious i see that we didn't do any of the silly shakespeare stuff it was all heavy the tragedy stuff okay but i remember there was like a group that came through uh by the way the comedies he does comedies and tragedies the comedies are just the ones where no one dies. Yeah, that's the definition. There's a wedding.

They're not like Apatow where it's like, just do some dialogue and then we'll just get together. Leslie Mann gets mad. It's weird. Why did Shakespeare put Judd Apatow's daughters in this move, in this play? Um, yeah, I,

there was like during junior high, there was, uh, a group that came through and everybody in the school had to be involved in a production of, I think Hamlet. And like some kids were just helped to do the set and other kids were just had a line like mutton chop yeah yeah and uh and then other like a couple kids got like kind of starring role like i don't know

how they decided that but there was a couple kids that got starring roles talent no i mean look maybe maybe it was what kid could actually memorize the dialogue because it is very uh what what am i saying here kind of thing it's just the worst somebody said that shakespeare uh like this was like a teacher in the States, it should never be taught like as a thing that you read. It should only be taught as like a play. I don't even know why we teach it, honestly, and I teach it. You teach it?

Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. Is it like hard? It seems like it's very hard to teach. Yeah, I think the biggest value is just it's a word puzzle, right? So learning the language. Yeah, all right. And that's why I do comedy.

No, I like word puzzles. Yeah, sure. It's like a crossword. It's like a Sudoku. But with letters. Oh, boy. Is that how you introduce it to the kids? I'm just low-key trying to rationalize my life for myself.

To get through my weekend work week. To rationalize it to the kids. Just like sit on your chair backwards. You know, they say Shakespeare was the original Sudoku. And then there we go, is that like Fortnite? Because that's all. That's all kids know. That's all they know.

Yeah. You teach, you teach kids. I do. Did you ever. Really, they teach me. Oh, boy. Oh, that's. About Shakespeare.

I didn't see. I did not see that coming. They teach you about Shakespeare? Let me tell you. Because there's like... Did you ever think that you would be a teacher? No, no one does. Really?

I think there's some kids that they see a teacher and they're like, it seems I could do that. Yeah. Kids are very arrogant that way. I can do your job but also like if you can think that far ahead why not think one step beyond and be like oh i could just you know work in the field that you're teaching yeah yeah what i'm learning about but like do you think that that's true? That nobody actually, there must be something. Well, I'm in an odd, I am not certified to do any of the things that I'm doing. Well, there's also like, I feel like a kid who wants to be a teacher is also like a kid who wants to marry his own mom.

It's the Oedipus complex that they don't talk about. It's like, you want to marry your mother and you want to teach I know two women in my life my mom and my teacher I want her job and I want to marry her the world is small yeah yeah yeah

is it fun to teach? yeah because you have to be positive to work with kids. And that's a good self-practice. What happens if you're negative? Do they pick up on it? Yeah. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Did I, when I was a kid, did I pick up on? Yeah, you would have like a teacher who was in a mood. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. A teacher would come in with a hangover and make us watch some episode of something just an episode yeah that's all you

could fit in the class hour you know not like an educational video no no like veronica's closet or here i taped this last night people need to talk about that show more bronca's closet did you watch it yeah christy alley christy alley yeah and who else was there some or was she it was she no there was one kathy and jimmy yeah right oh yeah right the gym uh was i never saw i don't think i ever saw any of it i feel like it was the same set as spin city they just put in um why don't they do that they reuse sets from old that'd be nice i feel like they reuse they reuse outdoor sets a lot yeah you recognize like okay the the whatever the the town square from gilmore girls is the town square from a million other shows yeah yeah yeah yeah and also like that

one street of new york that is must be used by every production in la right um but it would be great if there was a new a new sitcom that takes place on the old cheers yeah yeah why not yeah what um i think they should just do abby's on the cheer set, but take the roof off. Is what's Abbey's? It's a new show about an outdoor bar. Oh, nice. And they shoot it in front of a live studio audience outside. Really? Yeah.

Which is the best place to do comedy. You ever done stand-up outside? No, I've seen it. Yeah. Like a beer festival. Whoa. Yeah. How'd that go? Did you get real get real drunk yeah the beer was great um let's get back to veronica's closet so i never watched it

i assumed it was about victoria's secret it was like a takeoff on that yeah but i didn't really know what that was honestly all i remember is christie ellie coming in in like knee-length coats and trench coats and just like just flying into the room yeah that was that was enough for me she was very robed very robe like wardrobe yeah they put the robe in wardrobe yeah yeah but not that that shows blending with uh suddenly Susan, because I feel like that was the same. Or was it called that? Yeah, Suddenly Susan. Was that Brooke Shields? Yes.

That was Brooke Shields. And I'm forgetting her name. Kathy Najimy? No, but Kathy Griffin. Kathy Griffin. Oh, Kathy Griffin. Yeah. So you got your Kathy.

You got your Kathy sidekick and a robe wardrobe. And Suddenly Susan was also an office place. I think it was a magazine, I want to say. Are you thinking of Just Shoot Me? Am I? Is this the Mandela effect? We're just collectively. Yeah, we're just getting our female-led 90s sitcoms confused.

Because I know Talione was in The in the awful truth which was at a tabloid yeah and caroline in the city was a cartoonist she was a cartoon there's a lot of women working in publishing whether it's lingerie catalogs that's right yeah i already said just shoot me um the uh victoria Secret, that was always a punchline in sitcoms and the, the Victoria's Secrets catalog. Mm-hmm. But I don't think we, it didn't, I don't think it was in Canada when I was younger. Well, I think if you bought something from, and I did, but they never sent me the, because I remember I once bought Abby like a, a hoodie. Mm-hmm.

Uh, and I started getting a catalog and i was like well hello oh it's not just all hoodies is what you said this isn't just a hoodie store no what's with a hoodie catalog if you buy a hoodie they only send you pictures but beautiful women in hoodies do you get any catalogs still uh yeah i'll like if i leave alley no but like sometimes if i buy something online yeah they'll just add me to their paper mailing list in addition to emailing me every day yeah you catalogs yeah i miss catalogs i was talking about this the other day what was your favorite what was your favorite go-to? There was an art one called Flax. What?

Yeah. An art catalog. Well, it was like sharper image, but with like artsy-fartsy useless things. Like sharper, well, I don't know how useful sharper image things are. Yeah. Oh, I don't know. I still have that pin, that thing made of a bunch of pins that I get the shape of my hand. Wasn't that a thrill?

It was a thrill, yeah. Put your a thrill yeah yeah we need to own this it's not fun enough to do it for five seconds in the store so flax was like high like higher end to sharp or was it sharper image that was like a picasso yeah exactly like a witty little mouse pad. But for moms as well. So mom humor, mom jokes. So like, the gas makes Devan go on a mug. Oh, I see. And it would be, oh, okay. The gas makes Devan go.

That is good. I've carried that one with me for two decades now. I feel like the, I don't know if that, does that still exist? That is good. I've carried that one with me for two decades now. I feel like the, I don't know if that, does that still exist? The Flax catalog? Where do catalogs go? Well, does the store still exist? Was it a store?

I think it was just a catalog. Oh. Well, now it could just be a website. It could. Yeah. But it's still, coming through a catalog was its own activity. It was an event. Yeah. It was a Sunday.

I don't know if there's still the mom-themed stuff that's like cute artsy things or if it's all just like wine jokes. Yeah. Yeah, wine jokes have really bullied, taken over the whole mom market. Yeah. I used to work for a printed t-shirt company and that's 100 of every shirt yeah what was it wine o'clock wine o'clock yeah was there like a favorite like a personal favorite oh shirt yeah i got friends in merlot places that's pretty good that's a good one. No, you know what?

I was surprised. Like, the bestsellers are just lists of things. It's in a random list. So, it's like wine, boys, media, yoga, shopping, good vibes. Those are my favorite things. Honestly, media is at the top of my list yeah wine and yoga can kind of take a hike but i don't consume wine boys or yoga or good vibes um yeah there's like uh well you know that with that one format that you see a lot on tote bags that's just like i don't know where it started but it's like four or five names with ampersands oh right yeah yeah yeah like what was the one

direction yeah yeah i don't know what the original one i think it was a swedish design company that did like and it's just been it's the most copied yeah there's no way to like it's helvetica and there's no way to like copyright it yeah it's like the the um supreme logo that everybody wears like that was an artist actually they came up with that in the 80s and then supreme just stole it from them cool and there's kind of nothing that she can't really fight it because it's just because she didn't like trademark it or whatever. So they just stole her style. That happens with all the big brands, though. Like Urban Outfitters.

Oh, yeah. Takes from anyone online. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Right. Their prints or jewelry or. Yeah. Urban Outfitters is a store, right?

It's not just a catalog website. Yeah. Yeah. Do you want to go with me? Yeah. Yeah. Let's go to Urban Outfitters is a store, right? It's not just a catalog or a website? Yeah Do you want to go with me? Yeah, yeah, let's go to Urban Outfitters It's cool to go there in your 30s Oh, that's the drop off I used to go actually in my 20s to feel like an adult But like the day I turned 30

I went in and I was like, this is sad I'm going to free people Everyone is so young there and they and i'm just like i just i know you have vans i just want to buy a pair of vans i don't i'm not like i'm not trying to hit on you yeah i'm not i'm not a narc i mean if you guys want to smoke your weed or whatever just go ahead you don't go there to buy your vinyl? Well, maybe a vinyl couch. What would you buy? To clothes?

Clothes. Yeah, but now everything is a crop top. Oh, sure. That's the only thing you can buy. You know what? Guys, how come guys in the 80s, guys wore crop tops? Yep. And not anymore.

They did kickboxing. Yeah, they would do some kickboxing. You put on a crop top, do some kickboxing, maybe learn some karate. Sweat a little. Yeah, sweat a little, watch their car. That's right. Hang out at the YMCA. Yeah, yeah.

Go into the danger zone. Yeah, kick it. What I miss from the 80s is like a crop sweatshirt. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What I miss from the 80s is like a crop sweatshirt. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, not even, it's like, it's cold enough that I need to keep my shoulders warm, but I need people to see. What's going on down here. Down here. But I'll, you know, cut off my sleeves too. It's really just. Yeah, that was a real, I feel like that was a real Theo Huxtable look. Oh, yeah. I'm thinking of Steve Guttenberg for some reason. Yeah.

Maybe in Can't Stop the Music music was that the village people movie uh the gentleman heckler should do that movie is that a real movie yeah yeah i thought you just invented that no it's a delight it was i don't i don't think i ever saw the whole thing no but i remember was there a plot or it was. I don't think I ever saw the whole thing. No, but I remember. Was there a plot? Or it was just them at their own jobs? Yeah. One guy had to get off work at the biker museum.

They all work at a tent. What? Oh, no. I think because the village people are still around in some form. Like they, whenever one of them dies, a new one comes in. But I think they may have gotten, I think the First Nations character is no longer part of the roster. Right. I could be wrong about that, but I think they may have been like, oh, times they are changing, I think. You just blew my mind.

I didn't know village people was something that we needed to replenish i don't know if they're generation yeah i'm gonna look them up i think like if i think there's a good chance that what do you think because when you look up a band on wikipedia it'll be like the it'll there'll be a little box where they'll tell you all the members and then they'll have a list of past members. Oh, yeah. How many past members do you think there will be? Oh, that's a good question. The way I'm picturing the Village People is it's like a franchise, and it just keeps going forever. So I think altogether in the band, there's been 14 members.

Okay, there are currently six members. Okay. But why, why MCA only has four letters? How did that work? Oh yeah, that's a good question. No,

it's not a good question. It is a great question. And there are 18 former members. Wow. I was going to guess 20. 18 former members. And so, and what are the current,

does it say what the current characters are? Oh boy, that is tough to find. Is there a blogger? Have they added a new one for this generation? Amazing. Yeah, I'm an influencer. Well, for 2008, they received their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

This is a picture I'm seeing of them. There seems to be the police police officer yeah biker right cowboy yeah construction worker uh your uh first nations oh yeah costume and army man oh army man or navy man oh i don't know No, he seems to be in the Marines. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Those were, and I think at the time it was like, here are the jobs you could have as an adult.

And also. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. There's only three pictures in the Wikipedia. And the third is of Star Wars characters doing the YMCA. So there's Chewbacca.

The Stormtrooper seems to be a biker. Oh, okay. Chewbacca's wearing a navy hat. They look so joyful. They're in the Y position. Yeah. And then a couple others. But there is a headdress where it shouldn't be.

Yeah. Huh. So how did the village people just get like a pass? Do you ever feel... I don't think they did. Do you ever look at your phone and feel like, oh, did I just take up 45 minutes of the podcast looking at my phone? It was important, though. It was something we were pondering on.

That's right. Did you know this about the village people? What are you asking? Did you know of the village people? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Because you didn't know Can't Stop the Music.

Well, that's not a famous thing. Can't Stop the Music. It's a movie about the village people or featuring them. Featuring them, I thought. It wasn't the music of... a movie about the village people or featuring them featuring them i thought it was like wasn't the music of i don't know i feel like i got ymca early because it's one of those songs where kids can listen to it yeah and like act it out yeah yeah yeah and they play it at school dances yeah and weddings school weddings and then actually most school productions of Les Mis. They all have one mutton chop.

Everybody comes out for what was in the production as the YMCA. Yeah, but they do it in French. Y-M-C-A. Dave, what's going on with you, man? Well, what is going on with me? Here's what's going on with me, guys. I've been seeing this tv commercial okay do you know what your credit score is i don't yes yeah yeah i get denied a lot is it uh four figures

what's it out of a thousand i don't know that's a good no because i've just gone on one of the sites and it just said that you know fair oh okay you know um but wasn't there a thing there was like if you look up your credit score then that will make your credit score oh it's like yeah every time they run a report it dings you a couple points. Weird. But then you get them back after a certain amount of time. It's like if you're. Really?

Really. So it keeps you from applying for too many credit products. Oh, I see. So if you go to buy a car, they're going to run a credit check. Right. But you shouldn't do that like 20 times in a week. But like. Is credit check and credit score same thing?

Yeah. You do a check to get the score. Okay. Right? Yeah. Well, there's this, I guess it's an app called Credit Karma. Yes. I'm on their email.

But on their commercial. So here's the commercial. It's this guy. This commercial bothers me very much. I've been watching, seeing it a lot. I guess they play it during sports, which I watch because I'm a jock and cool. Yeah. And there's this guy in a parking lot looking at this like old beater of a car and he looks at his credit score on his

phone and swipes right and his credit score improves and the car gets better. The car like transforms into a better car and he swipes it again. His credit score goes a better car and he swipes it again his credit score goes up even more and he gets a uh the car turns into a like a cool convertible yeah with a uh like a car seat a baby car seat in the back okay and then so he had good enough credit to buy a baby and then he looks at that a little sideways swipes again his credit score improves the car seat disappears and a mountain bike gets attached to the back of the car his baby turned into a mountain because he got a slightly better credit yeah i don't know what

bothers you about it tracks for me it makes sense i mean what's the point of having good credit if you can't buy a cool mountain bike right i want good credit but like not not just good credit where i have to have a baby i was gonna say that seemed like a punishment well and also like it's a it's the idea of having a baby in a convertible seems odd to me. Well, he's a single dad. I guess so. He has to pick up ladies with a baby in the back. It's hard. It is hard. This guy's worked hard for his credit score to get to that point that he can have it all.

A convertible and a baby. I don't think I've seen this commercial. Oh, well, you should watch sports they send the most insane emails credit karma why they're like whoa catherine you won't believe your score or um they're just clickbaity they're like you won't want to live tomorrow if you don't check out your score right now. Yeah, they're pretty intense. But then if you check out your score, does it ding you a couple points? No, no, no. So this is a different, I don't know what the overlords do with our money, but this one is free.

Oh, okay. It's free of dinging. Yeah. It's ding free. I think so. Huh. Yeah, because there's one, there's definitely a commercial where it's two gals having a brunch. They're talking about some apartment that she's looking at, and then they check her credit score.

And then she gets the apartment, I guess. Are landlords running credit checks? The real ones are. Yeah. Yeah. Huh. When I used to be a landlord. Yeah.

People would apply with their credit checks. Like, this is my credit score. Oh, wow. With their, like, application. Cool. Because it's supposed to show that you're a good payer. Yeah. Like, if you're responsible, you'll make your payments.

Right. That's what the score represents. So, if you, like, default on loans and stuff yeah bad credit yeah huh okay i haven't checked my credit score but i default on every loan yeah yeah and i don't pay off my credit card at all no they give me the minimum and i scoff at it yeah they're garnishing my wages but jokes on them i don't make anything. So, garnish away, suckers. There's, there's like,

I'm trying to think of an ad where the lot, like the internal logic of the ad loses me. I have a few. Please. Painful. Well,

there's a lot of Febreze commercials where the mom walks in and goes, Kevin, your room stinks. And he's like, oh, mom, in and goes, Kevin, your room stinks. And he's like, oh, mom,

I'm having friends over soon. Clean it. And then she cleans the whole room and she's so happy about it. Yeah. And she sprays it in the bubbles. The bubbles suck up

a sock-shaped smell. Yeah. But they're always terrorizing moms with smells. There's another one where it's like... When in fact, in real life, moms love smells. That's right. But they're always terrorizing moms with smells. There's another one where it's like. When in fact, in real life, moms love smells. That's right.

But there's one where she's in her kitchen and the commercialist, like the narrator goes, Karen thinks her kitchen smells like this, but to her guests, it smells like this. And it turns into a garbage dump. Yeah. It's like gaslighting moms about their sense of smell that logic does hold up those those commercials are right they're worried that you've gone nose blind right the nose blind yeah but i like i like the gaslighting gaslighting it's more of that it's always a mom that's to febreze everything or, is like, not at all worried that their kid just dropped

like a whole thing of jam on the floor. Right. They're like, oh, I'll just, I'll just use my, whatever.

The best one, sorry, I've been like collecting these. The best one was a toilet paper commercial and her son was at Little League and he went to the bathroom and they didn't have the toilet paper that he wanted.

So he cell phones home. From the toilet. And his mom drives all the way to the park to deliver the toilet paper that he... To my little prince. And she's smiling the whole time. Exactly. That is weird.

Also, she's free enough that she can just drive over, but not so free that she wants to watch the baseball game. Okay, we have different takes on this, but different points of view. But it's like, oh, I know he'll be calling any minute now. But, like, what blackmail does that kid have on her? Where she's like, oh, I gotta that kid have on her? Which is like, oh, yeah,

I gotta bring your mommy kissing Santa Claus. She was like, keep this under your hat. Um, yeah, like the, the number of

the beast. Is that where you're going? Yeah. Okay. Um, the, uh,

uh, there's also like a lot of car commercials, especially the ones that play before movies that show, they're like, you want to be a rugged individualist, right? It's kind of the banner of the ad. And then it's just like a Nissan. And you're like, I don't get it. Like I thought the whole lead up to this was be an individual

and then it's like, buy this car that is everything. And then Nissan or Nissan or whatever. There was a little debate and I forget what side I ended up. There are commercials, they now incorporate Star Wars. Oh yeah, that's right.

Because Disney owns the cars. No, I think it's because they make a Nissan Rogue. Right. And there was a Rogue movie about a Star War. And it's someone driving on Hoth. And there's some Imperial walkers almost going to step on them. Their tauntauns are leaping over these vehicles. Yeah.

And so it just makes me like, if I see someone driving one on the road, I'm like, did you buy this? Cause the star Wars. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like you should,

your insurance should be higher. There's also something in those commercials where it's called like something assist and they show the person just driving in traffic and then they like turn on assist and it makes it so that you don't drive into another car but isn't that what you were there for the whole time like uh driverless car technology yeah it's just to keep you in your lane. Yeah, there's like. Which I didn't know was. Stay in your lane.

Stay in your lane. Please, people. In Ontario, we rented a car that had that feature that was, it would like, I didn't drive the car, but Pat Kelly, who I was with, was driving it. And he said that it really like, you couldn't turn it off. Yeah. But in the city, it didn't do anything. You couldn't turn it off. Yeah.

But in the city, it didn't do anything. But when you were on the highway, it would take control of your shopping cart. Well, you know how they say that if you take it outside of the grocery store, it locks down? Yeah. It's like, we don't trust you. Yeah, I think that's true. I've never tested it. I've never tested it. No, neither have I.

I feel like it's a lie. Because I do see a lot of shopping carts being pushed around on the streets and they didn't lock. It's weird, though, that some places are like, okay, what's our shopping cart security? How about a quarter? Yeah, a quarter. Or, you know, in some stores they have a long pole so you can't move it outside the door. Yeah, right. But then the other, yeah, just that we've installed this invisible fence.

Yeah. Someone must have tested it. It must work. Well, I feel if you need a shopping cart, take it. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, I agree. For whatever purpose.

If you need to, yeah. like even if it's just to get your stuff from point a to point b yeah i'm a communist for shopping carts have you ever seen someone pushing two shopping carts no like one in front of the other well i mean it's a it's a whole ordeal yeah no one's no one's over stealing. Is this a Costco situation? No, I'm talking about like a street person. Someone who's got everything they own in a shopping cart. Or two. Yeah, it became the de facto way to move stuff around. There was no other cart. Shopping cart

was it. Wheelbarrow never took off. Yeah. Wheelbarrow or just like those flatbed, you know, ones that you get at a, like a home and garden center. Yeah. Right.

It's, it's always been shopping cart. It's just pallet Jack. Um, but you know, like, uh, the shopping cart wheels aren't good on the smoothest, nicest surfaces around.

And yet they're just, like, pushed all over the city. Well, you know, it just goes to show you. I want to get back to the topic at hand. Febreze. Who does anyone think they're fooling? I've, yeah, it's just an air freshener like any other yeah but it was supposed to get to the root of the thing and get the smell out but no you you need to find that wash you need to find where that smell is coming from yeah but they are right they are right about one thing it's

like how do you wash a couch what are you what is he like right you know like well how do you wash why does the couch smell because people are farting on it all it's all it's just it's just got butts on it it's just got butts on it sometimes there's probably a dog on it yeah dogs going butt first too uh you know yeah spilled spilled snacks and whatnot like uh it's like one it's a fabric thing a lot of the time that we never wash, but they were just like, that's fine. Yeah. And often like we turn, like we'll, we'll put our butts in it and then later we're putting

our faces in it and weeping. Don't you guys go home every day and sob into your couch cushions? I have one designated cushion that's the sob cushion And it's gushier than the others. Oh, that's sweet. Is it a gushy-gushy? My dad will put a little travel bottle of Febreze in my Christmas stocking every year. Oh, that's good. And he's Canadian, so there you go.

Practical items. Do you ever use it? Yeah. Yeah? Why not? Why not? Why not? The, um,

yeah, I remember when Febreze came out, it had a rival product called oust. That's right. And it, I know I haven't seen oust in a long time. What's Febreze doing, right?

I bet you, if you went to moms, that's true. Yeah. What's up with you? Um, uh, so in uh so in my neighborhood there's a couple houses that are just like they're not abandoned but they're uh they're like hot spots for people to dump mattresses and uh largely industrial garbage it feels like like either mattresses are not abandoned well there's

there's a place on the corner that is it's supposed to be uh like a bank owns it oh and it's got like a development thing on it but it's it's been there since i moved there because you a few weeks ago you talked about uh the house next to your house getting knocked over and everyone throwing their junk. Yeah. Everybody threw their junk on top of the, the destruction pile. Yeah.

Which I think is fair. Like that's like, it's like you should get a day. Yeah. What a funeral should be. Just get everyone. Everyone gets to throw whatever they want in the hole. Just people with drywall just dropping it in paint cans.

But yeah, like that's this, especially this one that's owned by the bank. It's just like people are constantly dumping. Exactly. Like paint cans cans like things that aren't uh easy to get rid of yeah but like mattresses galore mattresses and box springs galore because it costs money to dump those if you take them properly and you have to yeah you have to transfer you have to go down to the like the dump and pay extra and all this stuff yeah and so it's just like i'm usually going down to the dump just i extra and all this stuff. Yeah. And so it's just like, I'm usually going down to the dump.

Just, I just want the industry rates and they're charging me extra. I've got a membership though. Check my credit score. Um, and, uh, so,

uh, the city has like an app that you can, you can report oh stuff like that oh a snitch app it's a snitch app oh okay and you can report like so many

different things it's fantastic can't say enough good things about this app yeah this app is so great van connect

yeah and there's also van collect which tells you when they're getting your garbage it gives you a reminder saying

hey put your garbage out tonight yeah that's my landlord's job so you know getting your garbage it gives you a reminder saying hey put your garbage out tonight yeah uh that's my landlord's job so you know but um yeah so like i did for the first time like i i download the app like found the address on their map system you can take a picture of it yeah and then you can search for other it's so much fun you can see like all like it's like here are the current uh all the things that have been reported so in your area yeah or all over vancouver yeah yeah you could pick an area you could lose a

weekend just looking at them all yeah you're going and walking to it are there any like bizarre categories that you wouldn't uh mattress is its own category there's garbage dumped there's you know there's things like found a needle there's uh and then there's just like domestic stuff like neighbors being loud okay uh construction when it shouldn't be uh they should be using febreze yeah yeah yeah smell, yeah. Smelly worksite. Smelly couch. Yeah. Smelly teenagers. Oh, that would be the best if you could just report teenagers.

And then here are some teenagers that have been reported in your area. This is getting, this is maybe bad news. I would do that non-stop on the bus. Yeah. There's some teens using some slang I don't understand. I don't like it it's 10 in the morning these kids shouldn't be hanging out at a bagel shop it's a school day wearing

their backpacks i can't get through um teen watch but yeah it's uh uh the system works so great it's i've used it before because we used to live on a corner. And there were like five people living in the house, one car. Like I had the only car in the house. But on the corner, so there would be like 15 potential parking spots and they were all full. And like if a car didn't move for a week, I would report it. Nice. Oh. Yeah. The old abandoned. And I knew a car didn't move for a week, I would report it. Nice. Oh. Yeah.

The old abandoned. Yeah. And I knew it wasn't abandoned, but I knew it was just someone who was just like not driving their car for a week. But move it. So you went straight, because I've seen so many notes on cars here in Vancouver. Oh, really? Yeah. And they're like vaguely threatening.

One recently I saw a yellow highlighter. They're like, it is rude to park this way and that was just the statement yeah yeah you don't if someone if they think like if you report an abandoned car they don't get towed or ticketed right away they get a little notice on their window saying hey move it in the next couple days yeah and like i saw one with a ticket on it uh and it obviously like it had been several seasons it had been there. Yeah. Because it had like...

Seasons of cars. Rent. Yes. Good work, you guys. Boy, I'm tempted to open up his app right now and just... Report us? Well, no. Just look at what's going on in the neighborhood. Yeah. Did they follow up on anything?

Yeah. Yeah. They came and they removed the mattress. Oh, wow. And like you can report a street lights out and yeah, it's great. You know, so, you know, maybe, maybe in your own. Sometimes the street lights on and it just flickers and goes a little dim for a while. And then you report it and they come and check on it.

And it's bright when they're checking on it. And you're like, oh, you should have been here when it was not so bright. You're the hipster. Oh, dude, you should have got here yesterday. You should have seen it. But yeah, it's like, if every city... I assume every city has something like this no i don't assume that no no no you know what does it over cleveland oh damn it they've got a

lot of sitcoms but no apps and rocks yeah yeah yeah they got the uh rock and roll hall of fame but also the the lake that was on fire yeah Yeah. That's a point of pride. They actually have a craft beer brand called Burning River. Oh, wow. Yeah. So what was, it was so polluted it was on fire? Yes. Wow.

Yeah. Cool. You're welcome. Come to Ohio. Come for the rock and roll. Stay for the burning water. Does Cincinnati have any Hall of Fame museums? They have a sign museum.

They have a museum for signs. Oh, okay. Like neon signs. Oh, that's funky. Yeah. There are some good museums, Cincinnati. See, like Cincinnati is like, I would like to go to a place like Cincinnati where there's no. No one goes there.

Yeah. Like there's no discernible thing for a tourist to do. Yeah. Yeah. I was about to defend it, but yeah. No, I'm not saying it in a bad way. I would literally like to go to a place like that. You love the Rust Belt.

Love the Rust Belt. You want to go to Buffalo? Absolutely. You want to go to Detroit? Oh, that's Rust Belt. Yeah. Yeah. I definitely want to go to buffalo absolutely you want to go to detroit yeah yeah well i definitely want to go to detroit see all those uh you know grand old abandoned buildings and stuff you know i lived in buffalo for a second oh really yeah my bike got stolen and someone spit in my friend's eye is that why you live there because you couldn't bike away you got it somebody spit in your friend's eye yeah there was a there was a gang of teenagers

report them on the app i know this is pre-app life bad on by teen and they just it was a drive by spitting oh really i've heard of a run by fruiting but for sure that was one of the highlights of that teen's life. Like, remember that time we spat? We spat on that lady's friend. They identified the person. Oh, boy. It looked like she would look better on a bike.

Sadly, no. You like the rust belt sorry of course what's not to like steel towns and sure pittsburgh i love pittsburgh it's a beautiful city yeah what's uh well if i ever go to pittsburgh what should i do uh the andy warhol museum just. Yeah. Nice. It's a little freaky, but it's good. Cool. Just try not to die because the highways are so impossible. You don't. Especially in winter. You don't try hard enough not to die. That's true.

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Every Friday here on Maximum Fun. Overheard. Overheard's a segment where, you know, if you hear something funny out there in the world, don't keep it to yourself. Share it here on the podcast. We always like to start with the guest. Oh, thank you. Casey, would you lead the way? Sure. I actually picked one up last night.

Nice. Yeah. Where and when? I was at a No Frills. Okay. Grocery store. Yes. Yeah. Where and when? I was at a no frills. Okay. Grocery store. Yes. Yes.

And there was a couple, it was the boy girl couple and they passed by me. And then, uh, she said to him, you should ask your landlord that. And then he said, no,

that would be too weird. But he was barefoot. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You should ask your landlord if you're. If there's some kind of no shirt, no shoes policy for the building. That was the frill.

The shoes were the frill. Right. Yeah. Wow. But the fact that a barefooted adult male would say something was too weird. Yeah. Yeah. And also, you know, like, this is not Flintstone times.

This is not, you know, where, uh, where at the very least a flip flop. Yes. And at the very most, uh, a giant boot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Some people are wearing too, too big a boot.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but you know why people do it? The barefoot thing. Uh, the earthers. Not flat. Gross.

Yes. know why people do it the barefoot thing uh the earthers not flat gross yes but it's with the idea that you you build up more immunity if you're exposed to the environmental elements but i don't think that includes no frills whatever's on the floor i know why the runners do it because that like oh right for the ergonomic yeah the fact that before we had running shoes, the body was different. Before running shoes came along, we ran a different way. Sure. And that's the natural way. Well, we always, you know, we were being chased by saber-toothed tigers and such.

Now I feel like we're being chased by saber-toothed taxi cabs. Yeah, and our credit scores. we're hunting for a perfect credit score um yeah i uh i the only like the one or two times where i've like run through something like a sprinkler or something with uh without shoes on yeah i feel like i hurt my back like even as a kid i was like, ouch, shoes, man, shoes save the day.

Do you guys have an opinion about whether it's better to be barefoot or those, the toe shoes? Do we have an opinion? Yeah. Yeah. I think it's better to be barefoot. Okay. And then where, then where the toe shoe,

what do you feel? Yeah, I think barefoot. Can you wear flip flops with the toe shoes? That's a little excessive. Yeah, but why not? It would work. Yeah.

And yeah, I say yes. I say if you're going to go on a hike and you want an extra layer of padding, put on a pair of toe shoes and a pair of flip-flops. What about those socks that have a little rut notch in between the between the big toe and the yeah i don't know what's going on oh like a ninja sock yeah can you are those good with flip-flops sure you're okay seeing those around town this thing i imagine yeah i'm all right with seeing i feel like that's that's uh part of the original design was like a ninja foot in a flip-flop yeah yeah and ninjas need to you know have laundry day too uh dave do you have an overheard i do yesterday i was listening to the radio driving in my car and they were giving away tickets to i don't even know what it is. Some dinosaur thing. Dinosaur Jr.

It was not Dinosaur Jr. But it was like some dinosaur exhibit or show or something. I got to the dinosaur show. Yeah, and now I want to win tickets. Now that I've heard it. It's like the boat show. I feel like I know what this is.

Like the robot dinosaurs? I don't know my dad would take me to those what's it called like dinosaur show there's not a

Jurassic Park movie out this year is there no okay because it was called Jurassic something yeah so I don't know

boy the fact that Jurassic Park couldn't trademark the name Jurassic and people could just put it on anything it's really cheapening the brand anyway so they were giving away tickets on the radio and the the guy like the you could tell

this wasn't like we're not giving away millions of dollars here anyone can win this we just want you to get this question right right so i kept giving kept giving him clues. All right, I'm going to ask you some questions. Okay. This is known as King of... Oh, and they were all dinosaur themed. Yeah. This is known as King of the Monsters. It's reptilian. And the guy wasn't answering at all.

It breathes fire. It's 12 stories tall. It knocks over buildings. And the guy goes, King Kong? He says, no rept reptilian and his friend in the room you could hear on the phone was like godzilla so he said godzilla and then the next question what next the next dinosaur themed question was dinosaur believe it or not is a song by this country and western singer known as the man in black very tall and the guy goes

will smith uh close enough yeah yeah okay you're in tickets to dino town well he wasn't he was a man in black you got a can of dino getty i don't think it was oh he was a man in black you got a can of dino getty I don't think of Will Smith oh he was a man in black he was a man in black and then

he had songs it's true oh you know what I thought it was just a racist guy no no when I imagine Will Smith

in clothes it's the bright colors of the Fresh Prince theme song yeah yeah the other night past guest Phil Hanley was on The Tonight Show. Also, Will Smith was on the same episode.

And Will Smith, I guess in the new Aladdin movie, he raps instead of sings. Anyways, that's his twist on it. Okay. Yeah. I'm fine with that. Yeah. I'm also fine with it. Have you seen the picture

yeah yeah scary sure i mean yeah yeah you know why why they feel like he's not always blue though no sometimes blue yeah he's sometimes blue but i feel like wasn't also the genie sometimes couldn't he go into disguise mode and like be some other. I don't know. Is it. When does it come out? Soon. Okay. Yeah.

Like, I think by the time this is out, it will be. It will be on DVD. And then they put it in that Disney vault. Oh, I'd have the keys to that Disney vault. Don't tempt me. With all the Nissan rogues. Yeah. And, you know, a copy of the Shaggy Detective

Something they refused to release Yeah Song of the South Oh I just wish I could be in this vault The Song of the South What's up with you? I mean overheard wise I was sitting on the bus and uh there was two people behind me reminiscing about i guess a place that used to be where this now empty lot is

they were talking about their childhood and then where was it um because i had a childhood too yeah uh a place that used to be my playground yes it was on where was it 25th anyways uh the one guy said you remember that guy used to come around spit all the time we call them spit machine no i don't do the guy remember and yeah he was like yeah but he didn't remember them calling him spit machine. Oh, I love that. Pretty great name. Yeah. Pretty great.

That's totally like, that's the limits of a kid's imagination. He spits a lot, eh, spit machine. I do love that thing of like, in your mind, maybe you just called him spit machine, but 20 years have passed and you're asking your friend, hey, yeah, remember Spit Machine? I have no idea who you're talking about. Oh, I thought we all called him that. Maybe when I think about him every day.

I'm the only one. Now we also have overheard sent in from people all over the map. If you want to send one in, you can send it in to spy at maximumFun.org. And this first one comes from Ian in Issaquah. Don't know where Issaquah is.

Is that Washington? Okay. Sure. Six-year-old girl getting picked up after ballet practice. Daddy, you got a haircut. That's so great. Does that mean your hair's not greasy anymore? Oh.

What a roast. know it was uh they put ranch in it they gave me the fieri treatment um yeah i mean does your hair become more or less greasy if you get a cut i mean maybe the appearance of you know do boys get a little a bath for your hair what is called a wash yeah yeah okay boys do i mean little boys don't i never did until i was went to the growing up yeah i think i think when i was a boy they would just get a spritz bottle out kind of wet wet your head down but now you sometimes you get a vibrating hand on your head pardon no really no you don't get your haircut just a singular hand yeah yeah yeah the guy puts on a little vibrating glove

oh yeah and rubs it through your hair are you getting your haircut a sharper image but yeah that's absolutely a thing you guys need to experience it go to i don't know that my hairdresser doesn't do it. I'm going to go into a barber shop in demand. Vibrate my head. I want the vibrating hand. Good vibrations, hair cutters, how can I help you? You know what?

This next one comes from Darcy D. in Michigan. Russ Bell. I love it. Overheard at a retail clothing store. You ever been to Michigan? Yeah. Good. I'm supposed to say I don't like it, but it's better.

Oh. The football wars. Oh, right. The football wars. I'm surprised you survived through the football wars. Yeah. I'm glad, though. Here to tell the tale.

Thank you. This is a man overheard at a retail clothing store I work at. A man saying, yeah, but if you buy clothes in a store, there's a chance someone farted in it and then returned it after. Always a chance. Yeah. That's why I only buy online. Yeah. Because who's got the time at Amazon to run around farting in clothes?

Well, they're all sealed in a bag. Yeah. But I really go sealed in a bag. Yeah. But that really holds in a fart. Yeah, right. Prime opportunity. When they unfabrize commercials and there's like a green sting coming out of it, it's a fart, right? That's a fart? That's an animated fart that they're doing?

It's an animated fart. You know, I worked on the animation for the fart commercial. I was. My first job at an animation school. Had Benedict Cumberbatch in a motion capture suit. Farting in a motion capture suit. Wait, is he acting out the fart? Yeah, he's acting out the fart.

The Andy Serkis of farts. Is he playing the fart or the guy who farted? He's playing the fart. Waving his hands. He does it brilliantly. This final one comes from Joe in Pacifica, California. I was recently at a local cafe when I overheard this from a group of teenage girls eating lunch and staring at their phones. One of the girls looked up from her phone and said, our parents have known us since we were born.

They know everything about our lives, but we don't know anything about theirs. And where do they go at night after bedtime bedtime what's all that laughing i hear uh it's impossible knowledge you can't know you can't know anything about your parents yeah whatever they're watching on tv i look at it and i see a blank screen oh man they're having so much fun down there but yeah i mean there were definitely adult things that when i was a kid i was like what is the appeal of the newspaper yeah why are you so obsessed with the newspaper or wine yeah or maybe that was my house no i think that i think wine was like a thing that you would you would sneak a sip of as a kid to see like what the big deal was. And you'd be like,

Oh, that is a disgusting. Yeah. Also like taxes. Yeah. Why do we have taxes? I won't shut up. Yeah.

The, uh, sometimes would you would your parents ever have like a party and make you have to stay upstairs then you'd hear a bunch of adults laughing the scariest sound in the world no my the scariest thing for me was they would want you to come down and say hello no i thank you very much i I'll be upstairs. I would automatically fall asleep for any adult party that was happening.

It was like a very specific narcolepsy. At adult parties. Adult parties was just that. With her in the corner. Still to this day?

Yeah. Yeah. Love those kids parties though. That's why they call me a narc. Oh great. The narc's here. 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. Ugh. SpyPod 1. Like these people have. Hi, Dave, Graham, and possible guests. This is Julie M. from Southern Indiana calling in with an overseen.

We get a lot of vehicles from Kentucky up here across the river. And I just saw one that had a decal in the back window and it said, if you don't limp, you ain't shit. Well, off I go. Wow, if you don't limp? you ain't shit. Well, off I go. Wow. If you don't limp?

I think so. You ain't shit. What? A vehicle from Kentucky. What kind of vehicle did she say? Oh, probably a forklift. If you don't limp? If you don't limp, you ain't shit.

Okay, this is my territory, the tri-state area, and I have no idea. What are the three states of the tri-state area? Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky. We're in Torn we're in tornado alley share terror and natural disasters but there's not like a whole limp limping scene yeah what's the limping scene like i'm trying to figure that out you know limp you and shit maybe it's just somebody who has a limp and they're just like owning it yeah yeah and maybe you should all do it too in fact i In fact, I'm going to kick you in the shin. Yeah. Do you think they pop one tire?

Oh, sure. Yeah. So their car limps? Yeah. That's a good idea. Yeah. Well, I always say, if you don't limp, you ain't shit. Here's your next phone call.

Hi, Dave and Graham, Impossible Guest. This is Claire calling from Toronto with an overheard. I just overheard a dude say, so right after Hell Week, everyone was like, what is this, Hell Month? What is Hell Week? I don't know. Is that a university thing?

It might be like a rush. Yeah, where you're pledging. Oh, because I thought it was connecting it to Halloween in my head because maybe there's something, hell something, hell night. I mean, yeah, there is. Halloween is definitely hell week. Yeah, like it's definitely where hell gets its chance to strut its stuff. People are like hells here. Yeah. But a whole month of it? gets its chance to strut its stuff. People are like, hell's here.

Yeah. But a whole month of it? I don't think I could handle it. Yeah. No, I mean, I say I can, but I don't think I can either. Yeah, do you love hell? I love it. I don't think you, I don't believe you.

I love the highway to it. I love the bells. I mostly love the catalog of ACDC. So far. I mean, I love the devil that Mostly love the catalog of ACDC. So far. I mean, I love the devil that went down to Georgia. Yeah, you like Hellman's mayonnaise. Hellman's mayonnaise.

I like Little Devil, Little Devil Eggs with Hellman's mayonnaise. Hand baskets. Oh, hand baskets. I love hand baskets. In one, yes. In one, absolutely. The hounds. Yeah. Friends of Hell,ounds yeah Helen Hunt she did her best work in hell

anyways let's hear it for hell final phone call hello hell hi guys it's Heather from Vancouver with an oversaw I was driving behind a car the other day that had a license plate, specialized holder, that said, if you think I'm a bitch, you should meet my sister.

Whoa! Whoa! Wow! Really throwing your sister under the bus there. Also, I didn't think you were a bitch until now. Yeah, that's right. You think I'm a bitch? Wow.

I'm comparatively not much of a bitch. Oh, man. Maybe her sister is just a female dog. Yeah, yeah. That's true. Oh, it could be. My dad's a dog and my mother's a woman. That's true.

They're twins. And, you know, yeah, maybe they sell those at the Westminster Dog Show or something like that. Yeah. Also, it would be like a fun present from your sister. Yeah. Like, hey, I'm the real bitch here. Also, I think you're a bitch. Anyways, happy Halloween.

Yeah. If you think I'm a bitch then you should limp or whatever yeah yeah limp bitch limp bitch oh yeah

yeah alright um Casey that brings us to the end of the podcast aww uh thank you so much

for being our guest it was my pleasure so much fun uh any things you'd like to plug? You've got the gentlemen hecklers once a month. That's right. Um,

what is that? Uh, we riff on bad movies at the Rio. So it's like a live mystery science theater, 3000 on a real movie screen with real, with real audience members and everything. Our real voices. Real voices.

Yeah. And actually, uh, the two, uh, founders of the show they sold a script actually to the original mystery science theater oh cool when they did the reboot on netflix cool yeah nice so professional riffing professional riffing that's fantastic yeah um what else where can people find you online if they're so inclined? I'm on. Okay. Cupid. Okay.

Okay. Cupid. Sure. Uh, I actually have a website, which I shouldn't, but I have one. Well,

why, why shouldn't you? Is it under construction? No. Oh, we only accept, uh, comedians on here who say, oh yeah,

I need to update my website. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. I just updated it. Well,

uh, what is, what is the website? KCnovac.com. Okay. Yeah. And you go there, you can check your credit score. You can check, yeah, all of it.

You can see. If you know where my bike is in Buffalo, please reach out. Contact me. Was this a two-wheeler? Yeah. It wasn't a uni. Or a penny farthing. Um,

well, thank you so much for being here. Yeah. Absolutely. Um, thanks so much for having me. Uh, all you listeners out there. Yeah.

Also, uh, my other show, this sounds serious. At the time of recording, I believe, uh, the believe it will premiere tomorrow.

It'll be out on the 28th of May, episode one, but we're still waiting on hearing back the final word on that, but that's what we're shooting. Okay, alright. Well, fingers crossed. And if not, let me record an alt. Hey, keep your eyes out for

season two of this sounds serious it's a podcast that you should do yeah was that a good alt that was great okay um and uh thank you all you listeners out there for listening if you like the show uh please tell your friends to come on back next week for another episode of stop podcasting yourself maximum fun.org comedy and culture artist owned audience supported