Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 623 - Peter Oldring

Episode Date: February 24, 2020

Comedian Peter Oldring returns to talk stampede injuries, not understanding food, and funny art.

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 623 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who loves his gin and tonic, mixed in a can, Mr. Dave Shovka. I've talked about it before.

The girl on the train in the book. Oh yeah. And she's like an alcoholic and they portray her as being all pathetic and she's got a terrible life and she's an unreliable narrator. But she talks about that cool feeling of gin and tonic in the can, drinking it on the train. And I was like, I got to get one of these. Yeah, she may be a mess, but something about that works.

And we didn't have them in Canada forever, but now everything's in a can now. Yeah, that brexit's over we're able to access all the gin and tonic yeah uh aston martin's and um what's the third british thing tonic a british thing i i always think of it as a british thing i think of it as like a um um, uh, an African thing. I guess a British, like they, they like a colonial. Yeah. Colonial thing because they needed the,

the tonic is good for malaria. Good. Is that right? I, I, maybe it's got quinine. Okay. Which either prevents malaria or- Or causes it.

Or keeps mosquitoes away. I don't know what it, yeah. But like if you ever have tonic, people give you a little, oh yeah, no malaria for you. Oh yeah. What are you, not a malaria fan? Well, just like if you put a lime in your Corona, people are like, yeah, no scurvy. No scurvy for this guy. Our guest today, a fantastic guest who's only been on the podcast once before, and it's a real treat to have him back here.

You can hear him on the show, Dexter Guff is Smarter Than You. You can hear him on This Sounds Serious. And you can hear him right now as part of this podcast. It's Peter Oldring. Oh, my goodness. Hi, Peter. Hey, guys. It was just so hard for me to sit silently here.

Well, we never told you you had to. No, but I just wanted to give that gin and tonic can its due. It's a Gordon's. Yeah, it is a Gordon's. In the early days of this podcast, there was always nighttime recording. Yeah. And we were.

There was always a booze fest. It was not a booze fest, but there was always drinks. Well, I would show my ta-tas in exchange for beads. What do you think? That was a good old day. That was back in the early hundreds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right?

Because that was where I was. I was in the early hundreds of your show. Mid-hundreds. But it was almost 10 years. It was 2010. I remember the beads. I remember the ta-tas. And speaking of.

That was a great record. I believe. Oh, my God. We left it all in the microphones that time. I believe this episode. Holy crap. I believe this episode comes out the day before Mardi Gras. Oh, wow.

How fortuitous. I should plug. I will be at Mardi Gras showing my bodacious tatas. Yeah, and I will be flipping pancakes for all you Shrove Tuesday folks. All right. And see you next morning. Put some ash on your forehead. Put some ash on your forehead, yeah.

What a wonderful thing to listen to as you jam beignets in your mouth. Mm-hmm. Right? Wonderful. Do you want to get to know us? Oh, yeah. Get to know us? Oh, yeah. Get to know us. Now, it's been a short but eventful 10 years.

Oh, yes. Right. I thought you were going to say so far in the show. It's been a short one. And we're wrapping it up. We've learned everything we need. And not much has changed. If you want to find out, just go to, you know, in the mid-150s and you'll find my episode.

Now, when you were last on, you were probably here because you were making the hit CBC radio show, This Is That. Yes. Yes. That's probably very true. I mean, that would have been, gosh, 10 years ago, right? 2010. 2010. November of 2010.

So that was, we would have been just at that point, just a brand new fledgling show. That, yeah, I probably was talking about that with, of course, my co-host, Pat Kelly. That was the beginning of, yeah, this is that. Our satirical podcast. Well, tell me about that. Take us back. Yeah, just back 10 years. How were you?

Well, that was before earphones. So that was when you'd have to sit by a big speaker to listen to your radio. So it was just a different time. Yeah. You'd never walk and listen to it. You couldn't. You'd just cuddle up beside a big speaker and you'd just listen. Or maybe somebody would have a boom box on the bus.

Oh, sure, sure. And then you could listen to it there. Put the antenna up and out the window of the bus and raise it high. Not much has changed. People are blasting stuff out of their cell phones at all times. Absolutely. That was the big thing back then. People would take those boom boxes and they'd put on the CBC and they'd just start breakdancing.

That's right. In the parks and on, you know, get out the cardboard and just spin. Yeah, they'd put on quirks and quirks. Yeah. Just go absolutely nuts. Do the robot and draw a crowd, pass a hat. I mean, that was... Or what was the one...

Is that As It Happens? That had that great... That is a good breakdancing song. Curried Soul, is that the name of that song? By Mo Kaufman? My goodness, I did. Wow. That was a nice sound, though.

I mean, that was actually... And it had the guitar riff that was very reminiscent of satisfaction. Well, Dave's not making that sound with his mouth. So I want you to guess. And I'm talking at the same time. Oh, boy. If I had any kind of ventriloquism talent, and I'm going to drink a glass of water,

you'd never know So What Ten years ago Yeah You You were living in Los Angeles

Well ten years ago I was I was living in Los Angeles I moved down there maybe Oh boy Like maybe Fourteen years ago Or Something like that Thirteen, fourteen From Toronto I had down there maybe, oh boy, like maybe 14 years ago or something like that, 13, 14. From Toronto.

I had been there and had been in Toronto for a long time. And in the last couple of years of living in Toronto, I was back and forth to Los Angeles a little bit, working on a couple of like TV shows down there. And when I wasn't working, I would come back to Toronto because that was my home. And then on one of these shows, I met my wife. And that was. Yeah, I didn't even know we were married oh man she cornered you oh god and that's what i was like holy shit you're my wife what the hell is that uh what show was this it was on foxworthy's big night out

and so i know that you i'm not familiar I'm not familiar But I'm familiar with Foxworthy Sure, yes We're talking about Jeff Foxworthy Oh, not the poet laureate Noel Foxworthy? I think he had a guest He had a walk-on on it But no, this was mostly Jeff's show

It was a sketch comedy show That was on CMT Not typically known for their sketch comedy No Mostly music videos But they did have one It was on CMT, not typically known for their sketch comedy. No. Mostly music videos. But they did have one, you know, for one year we had this sketch comedy show that was kind of like a little bit hee-haw, like a little bit sort of down-home, pretty family-friendly sketch comedy. I mean, Jeff's a pretty clean guy.

I mean, actually, you you know he's very funny i mean was he in the sketches okay so it wasn't just like he introduced like here's my panel of wacky friends did he have a mustache did he have a mustache in every sketch he goes nowhere without it he goes nowhere without it it comes in its own case and i mean they do a masterful job of attaching it you can't pull that thing off. But on his show, he would have country music singers. So, for instance, Kenny Rogers. Oh, boy.

Oh, really? Yes. Wow. Kenny Rogers would come on and we would do like two or three sketches with Kenny. Wow. That's amazing. It was amazing. And this was right at the time when Kenny no longer looked like Kenny. Oh, you know what I mean?

Yeah. Like it was, I think there was something about that where maybe he had had some kind of plastic surgery that really, I don't know. I think it was kind of, uh, talked about a lot at the time where it really sort of just changed his whole face. lot at the time where it really sort of just changed his whole face and so really the when i saw him like i remembered him as like the big beard and and just that like almost santa claus face and and and then to see him uh you know in person i really couldn't even see the other kenny rogers like looking i was like i can't see look so different than what I remember you. I mean, you look much younger. Gorgeous bones. The bone structure.

The bones under there, yeah. I mean, my God, underneath that beard is just a gorgeously structured face. And that was, I did that show because leading up to that, I had done another sketch comedy show with Jeff Foxworthy and then two of his other. You had done another sketch comedy show with jeff foxworthy and then two of his other you had done another another sketch comedy show with the foxworth jeff and i you were like we spent so much time together um i got i auditioned in toronto years ago for a sketch comedy show on the wb network called blue collar tv i remember blue collar tv yes and so it was it was based on the comedy stylings of Jeff Oxworthy,

Bill Engvall and Larry, the cable guy. And so I really, other than I had some recollection of Jeff, obviously as a kid, when I auditioned or thinking about him sort of earlier on in the eighties or whatever, I could remember Jeff Oxworthy,

but I really wasn't familiar with Bill or Larry or Ron White was the sort of the fourth member of that, uh, group. The Ringo. Yeah. And the audience is the fifth. Exactly. Exactly. And, and New York city is the fifth member. And then you, you know, and you'd always be breaking the sixth wall and that was, that's

how they, that's how they did it. Um, that's, that's how they phrase it. So it was a steep learning curve for me to figure out what was being talked about. Um, but, um, I, uh, I auditioned and, and worked out and I flew down and, and I didn't know that much about their comedy, but man, there was like some unbelievable, uh, other folks that were, uh, on that show, a guy named Gary Anthony Williams, who was just such a funny dude. I mean, he's like just an amazing actor, amazing comedic talent. Brooke Dillman was one of the other women who was on there.

And she is like. Are you just reading the IMDb? I'm just making up names. No one's going to fact check this. There was Bob Dings. And, oh, man. Dings. Dings and his oh, man. Dings. Dings and his catchphrase, I'm on fire.

You know, it was just great. Was this a sketch in front of a live audience? Yeah, so it was kind of, they did it both ways where we would record. Are we talking about Blue Collar now? Blue Collar, yes. And actually, so then, and even Foxworthy's Big Night Out has some similarities to it. Because Blue Collar, we had for, I don't know, we did for maybe two or three years. And we would pre-tape sketches in studio in Los Angeles.

And then we would fly to Atlanta in front of a large theater audience. And they would play back some of those sketches. And then we would do some sketches live. Huh? And there, you know, it was a bit, a bit culture shock,

really. Cause as I said, I wasn't really that familiar with their celebrity and in that, like an in Georgia where Jeff is from. I mean, the reason that we did it in Georgia is because Jeff literally said, I'll do a TV show as long as I can take my daughter to school and back every day and they were like no deal what if we send a driver in a yukon okay good enough um well but i will be

flying her from la to atlanta every day he really wouldn't come and pre-tape in los angeles like he might show up for a week of it, but he was really committed to, he's a real family guy, and really, those guys do so remarkably well. Lucky there's a family guy. I mean, they don't, even television wasn't sort of like

some giant carrot for them. It's kind of like they would go out on a weekend and perform three shows in arenas for 10,000 people. And they'd sort of go like, yeah, I did like a half a million dollars in ticket sales. Why don't you do that? I'm trying. I'm trying. Do you take your daughter to school?

No. Okay. That's the opposite deal. I'll take any deal that includes me not having to drop her off at school. Any deal at all. And your arena policy? I won't do it you know why because just like rage against the machine fans uh you know they're disappointed they can't get a ticket for cheap enough so i only play small venues is that what's happening yeah because like ticket master is like six hundred dollars for a ticket

or something like that well you don't need that ticket. Yeah, but I mean, you want to get close to that machine. Yeah. I feel it. Did you see the strokes are coming? That's a funny sentence. I'm not sure if the strokes are coming. Is the order of that

wording correct? I feel like they announced it in February and the show's in March and it's in an arena. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, but they i feel like they announced it in february and the show's in march and it's in an arena yeah oh yeah yeah but they played at a bernie sanders rally the other day so that's fine they're uh strokes did yeah wow who opened for whom oh yeah that's true oh my goodness lip of a coin backstage that's right flip of a coin it's like they do as a tour they go back and forth

in different cities like the strokes in Bernie Sanders come on come on Bernie you're not really that ahead in the polls it's a coin flip

yeah yeah yeah who um who you got in the election oh you gotta go with oh man I'm an Andrew Yang guy oh Graham great am i gonna win oh no we record

these episodes like a week and a half before they come out so i'm the i think yang's gonna be back in by the time you do i don't chance can you come back in um i mean it would be a very unpopular move to drop out and be like no i, I changed my mind. I'm back. I think anything goes now. I mean, Trump's just made it that anything goes. I'm back in. Sure. Okay.

Well, okay. I don't know if it's in the rules. Don't check. He's back. Yeah. The thing that I haven't been able to figure out so far is in the debates. Why is,

cause Michael Bloomberg's running, right? But has he been in it? He's not. Why is he not in the debates? What happened? How does that work? I have heard.

Our political career? Yeah, our American, well, not American, but living in America. That's right. I have legal paperwork, so let's get that straight. Don't know who's listening. Are you a citizen? I am married to one. Ah, nice.

I am a green card holder, although I am eligible to become a citizen because I've been there for, I've had a green card for a long time. And, and I think when it renews, I would probably, you sort of go, well, I guess you just maybe become a citizen.

There's no point in kind of reapplying for that. Have you seen the movie green card? Um, yes. And that's why I got one. Yeah. I just fell in love with Gerard Depardieu's character. And I thought,

God, could you imagine? I think I maybe saw that twice in the theater. Do you remember that was such a big deal? Like that was like, wasn't that Gerard Depardieu's first introduction to an Anglophone audience? Yeah. And it was like one of the finest actors

in all of the world. And what else was he in? My Giant? My Father the Hero. Oh yeah, My Father the Hero with Katherine Heigl? Maybe yeah, the hero with Katherine Heigl? Maybe, yeah, like a young Katherine Heigl. And then he was in something called Bogus, where he was an imaginary friend. With Whoopi Goldberg?

I think he's done some fabulous MasterCard ads, too. And he peed on that plane. Yeah, he peed on a plane. Where did he go? France. Maybe he's, but I mean, we haven't really he hasn't, the old call of Hollywood hasn't beckoned again recently. No, he wants to take his daughter to school. Yeah.

So what, he doesn't even want to come and do any of the tapes in studio? Cool. I need to walk my daughter to school because I'm too drunk to drive. Gerard's big night out. I almost feel like that could be the only thing that Jeff and Gerard share in common. That might be it.

But, yeah, those, needless to say, so I had sort of swam around in this, you know, in the south a little bit. And in some of the blue collar comedy and some of those guys and their audience and the rest of it. I mean, and it's interesting. I mean, they do have huge audiences and when people would come to see the theater show, like our live comedy show, they would tailgate and they would paint their face like in Georgia sports teams.

In LA? No, no, no. This is all in Atlanta. This is all in Atlanta. Um, and,

but it's like, it's, it's quite, it's just, it's, I hadn't, hadn't really seen anything quite like that. You know, certainly in the indie comedy scene in Toronto, you wouldn't see people tailgating, uh, in front of the Rivoli.

The Skechersons don't get a lot of tailgaters. No, no, no. Uh, but it was, uh, it was really, it was quite something. And as I say, I struck up a pretty nice friendship with a couple of those guys. And, and, you know, these are dudes who started out road comedy and self found their audience and sort of self produced their records and all of their material. Like they really were sort of tenacious about kind of owning their own stuff and have done very well. Yeah. I give myself away. Just to the corporations.

Because I remember when that was like Larry the Cable Guy was like the biggest thing in comedy. Did you say make it happen? Yeah. Make it work. Make it rain. I think make it rain was his. Is that what it was? Who was make it work?

It was that guy from Tim Gun from gun who was men at work oh men at work oh that's what that's who that was all right okay which one was men at work um they are the australian band oh yeah i get them confused with men without hats oh wait a minute men without hats is canadian okay men Men Without Hats is most people. Most people. Most men. Most men. After JFK.

Oh, yeah, that's right. He killed the hat. He killed the hat. And then the hat killed him. I mean, that's the conspiracy. We don't know. Nobody knows who shot that. Could have been the hat.

Yeah. Yeah. There is a hat theory, I think. Yeah, big hat. Yeah. I think I'd like to get a bucket hat. Like a fishing kind of? Yeah, like a fishing hat. Like a fishing kind of hat? Yeah, like a fishing hat. Yeah, I could see.

I don't think it would look good. I think it'd be fun for you to wait until your daughters are just becoming teens and then wear that to pick them up at school. Yeah, I think that would be a fun... Like only wear it to pick them up at school. And have them say, that's some bad hat, Harry. Is that one of those hats from like On Golden Pond? Do you remember that?

Yes. I mean, do I remember it? It was Gerard Depardieu. I know the name and I think I could picture it. Jane Fonda and her dad, Henry Fonda. Hank Fonda. her father. Henry Fonda. Hank Fonda. Hank. Henry Hank Fonda.

And he was taking her to school. All shoot long. She would have been. That was part of his contract. It was like early 80s. That was, yeah. That was another huge film. We've talked about two huge films that we vaguely remember.

My Father the Hero and this. I don't remember it at all. It seemed like old people stuff when I was a kid. I only know it from Jim Carrey doing an impression of. Oh, yeah. Yes. And then also of, who was it again? The actress, Katharine Hepburnburn she was in there that's right

see i haven't even seen it in this impression that was her thing her phrase for him was like always like oh that was uh i can see why this movie was a hit like those are two actors yes who i've never seen a single movie of you never seen uh a breakfast at tiffany's uh that's audrey hepburn oh who is but also katherine hepburn yeah katherine hepburn but also no wow okay well they've got to be in something upcoming i mean i've seen i've seen the music video for Breakfast at Tiffany's. There you go. By Deep Blue Something. That's close enough.

Yeah, I was thinking about that. I was like, I haven't seen Casablanca. Oh, no. And I'm like, it's 2020. That movie's probably 80 years old now. I'm not going to see an 80-year-old movie. Oh. It's not 80 years old.

Well, when did it come out? It came out in the late... I guess, is it about World War II? It's about 80 years When did it come out? Came out in the late I guess Is it about World War II? It's about World War II So it came out in the Early 50s It couldn't have come out before it

That would have been pretty wild How fortuitous Kind of like The movie that predicted World War II It was kind of the movie That the Jetsons Was to television It came out in 1942

So it's 78 years old Wow Like Happy 78th birthday To Casablanca I'd love to Can anyone do an impression From that

Henry Stop playing my song Poop Yeah let's play it again, Sam. We'll always have Paris. Yep. You know all the high notes. I've seen it at like...

You've seen it in your mind. At that store that's not... Boy. I'm going to name a... Is it Blockbuster? Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Not Blockbuster, but like there's a store that's in some malls, American malls. Aldo.

And it's like three letters. It's three letters and it's like an old. Yeah, GAP? It's got three initials and it's like a movie. As seen on TV. But it's maybe that store doesn't exist anymore because I haven't been to a mall in a while. Why did I go down there?

I don't know. Get more of that tonic in you. Yeah, boy, I think the malaria is getting to me. It's gotten into your head, boy. So,

you worked with the Foxworthy crew. All of this, I mean, we really, all I wanted to do was just give a shout out to my wife.

Yeah. We got so sidetracked. Well, you went to the show you worked on her with. Yes. And then you went before that. Well, you went to the show you worked on her with. Yes. And then you went before that. Yeah, that's true.

That's right. You're swinging single then. Yes. And then you went back to when Jeff Foxworthy was born. Yeah. My God. Exactly. And then we started talking about World War II, and that was a bit of a downer.

Although it ended well. It ended well. Yeah. That worked out. Yeah. All's well that ends well. World War II And so You were already

You were already married The last time you were on the show I think Maybe Oh you maybe Actually you know what I think I maybe was not Oh really

Because don't you remember That we So I wasn't married Because remember I came with You came Oh yeah you brought that That's right Oh yeah you brought that that's right

oh yeah you brought that team I remember last time you were on you told a great story I'm not going to make you tell it again

oh fabulous because when you said oh I met my wife on a TV show I was like oh is this where you can tell me what the name you met Janet Jackson

you had a great story but was it the George Lopez show oh that's right I feel like the more I mention it the more I'm sending you up to tell the story

but I don't want you to I'd love you to just keep setting it up and then I won't tell it yeah people have heard it or go back and listen to episode 142

I remember it was it was an almost brush with me yes you had the last minute I got cancelled from that show

I got yanked you got cancelled because she didn't want to be in a sketch. Yeah. Right. It was, I would,

they were, cameras were rolling. Of course she didn't. No. She was, she didn't have to do that. If only she'd known that it was with a player who had come hot off of a live show in Atlanta, where people were painting their faces and tailgating.

So what, uh, that's the crowd at the, uh, blue collar show. Oh yeah. What's the George Lopez crowd uh blue collar show yeah what's the george lopez crowd like um well they uh they're paid to be there they were paid to be there they were paid to be there they were they were released just out of prison are there it was paid audiences

oh you know of course well i don't know about actually i'll bet there are i'll bet there are what do you consider pay like a shirt well no i i know that uh judge judy it's not really audience but she um only hires union actors to be to be in the gap to be the people who are to be who are like having the no no just the just the people sitting in the benches no yeah really because they need she needs to be able to rely on them pulling some faces yeah the camera can catch but it's not like funny it's not like it must be more than minimum wage if they're if they're like hell i you know i think for like that kind of work like a union work in a background way maybe you might might get $250. That's pretty good. Maybe.

From where I'm sitting, it's not bad. $250, and you get to see Judge Judy. Yeah, right? And you get to figure out, you know, solve the crime. Do you? There we go. I'm a light figure. Help her solve the crime.

Help Judge Judy solve the crime. Judy, I got it. He never was in her car. This is no proof. Check the crime. Judy, I got it. He never was in her car. This is no proof. Check the prints. Kids at home, can you help Judge Judy solve the crime? Judge Judy, go through his phone. Look at the pictures.

See what he's got. Judge, judge, judge. Time stamps. Tell him to not pee on your leg and tell me it's cornflakes or whatever. Oh, no. Did you ever do any extra work, anything like that background stuff no i know he's front Peter's a star well no you know the funny thing is is when i started getting into doing any kind of uh performing i honestly never thought i would i was the whole thing started out as i was improvising in Calgary and I loved improvising I was improvising in a comedy club with two other buddies six shows a

week uh while I was going to university and studying improv um I was studying sociology tell you the truth you need that and well you know why because I the drama department didn't really interest me I took the acting classes but the rest of the drama department did not seem I was like

I don't too much drama save it for your mama too many sort of you know heavily painted spider webs on faces that kind of vibe

Doc Martens that were way too tall you went to the goth drama school it was really true. I mean, you go down to the basement in UFC and it gets pretty, yeah, it's kind of gothic out there for sure.

So I ended up taking sociology, mostly because I try to take business, I try to take psychology, and I just kept on doing poorly in different statistics classes, and so I was eventually relegated to sociology, where I was like, nah, statistics are kind of like, do you know what 50- means yeah okay there you go i took one so did you ever take any sociology no i think like when i was in college i did my first year i did like a little bit of

everything i took one sociology course and uh i just remember the prof uh talking about like in the first class like what even is sociology? And she's like had a few examples of like phenomena. Like why do we on the sidewalk when you automatically, you don't even notice yourself doing it, adjust your speed so you don't walk with a stranger. Right. Or like. Well, I notice I'm doing it. Yeah.

Or everyone turns The same way In an elevator Right I just keep turning And turn I feel like If you took that Sociology course now

You could just like Oh I'll just do The opposite of What everything else does And I'll start Like a prank channel On YouTube Yes

Yeah Yeah that's That's what Phil's arena Is now Prank channel The Do you know who's coming to the arena? The Strokes.

Dude Perfect. They do all the trick shots. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Oh, my. Maybe that's the new Monster Trucks. They're playing against the Harlem Globetrotters. Now, hold on a second.

They're not going to win. They're not going to win. What stadium are they doing this in? I think the arena. Okay, the arena. The arena. I mean, some of these, you know, you got to, I mean, they must have some cameras pushing in tight on those bottles that they're flipping. Yeah.

No, they come out and they flip giant bottles in the stadium. Those hoverboards, they're just going to be like souped up. Oh, my God. just going to be like souped up. Oh my God. I mean, that's, that is kind of like, so that's basically like WrestleMania, Monster Trucks, and then Dude Perfect. Yeah.

That's the type of situation here. Maybe a large scale show. Have you done anything at a, like other than a hockey game or a concert at an arena? Have you seen anything? I mean. I went to Disney on Ice last year Oh yes Famously Yeah that's right

I went to that You know I went to Quirks and Quarks live Yeah sure Did I ever tell you I have an unusual It's not arena But a stadium type story

Let's hear it Yeah And I don't know If I ever told you about this From the Calgary Stampede The Young Canadians Did I tell you this? Before we go any about this. From the Calgary Stampede, the young Canadians. Did I tell you this? Before we go any further.

You're from Calgary. I am. We ask every Calgary guest. I don't know if this was 10 years ago if we did this. What high school did you go to? Or can we guess? Okay. I would love you to guess.

Western. No. Bishop Grandin. No. Lord Beaverbrook. No. E.P. Scarlet. No.

Can I name another? I love this. Central. Central? No. Ah, can I name another? I love this. Central. No. Central? No. Henry Wisewood. No.

Fuck. I'm running out. Yeah, you have to keep going. Temple Grandin. Yes. Was there Templeton? No, that's, maybe that's here. There is an, I think there's a part of town called Temple.

Yeah. Did you go to a private Catholic school for girls? No, but you would be... I thought you were leaning towards St. Francis High School, which I did not go to. Okay. Okay. I wonder if you were thinking about... St. Michael's.

Aberhart, which I did not go to. Oh, damn it. I wonder, could you have been thinking about... Did you know that one? Aberhart? Yeah. There's one other one that is on the tip been thinking about? Did you know that one? They were hard? Yeah. There's one other one that is on the tip of my tongue but I can't remember.

They were all, there was a lot of, you know, people who were like, you know, an alderman or something like that, like,

or some, you know, some government guy. Yes. But not like an ancient government guy, like the guy that there were photos of.

they're named after. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yes. There's, there's one sort of an F that I can't think of right now but there's also, did I go to Bown were named after. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yes. There's one other one F that I can't think of right now,

but there's also, did I go to Bowness High School? No, I did not. No. No. He knows so many more than you.

Well, I mean, these are all the ones that are immediately around me. Yeah. But there was one other one that I, Falcon, not,

what was that place? Falcon Crest. Falcon Crest High. Falcon Crest. Oh, my God. I mean, talk about a drama department wow oh my god very dramatic those productions oh and just what was happening backstage um was it i've just looked up your wikipedia was it sir winston churchill yes churchill nice go you bulldogs and i just want Was it I just looked up Your Wikipedia Was it Sir Winston Churchill Yes it was Churchill Nice Go you bulldogs I just want to see

If you're on their website Or on their Wikipedia As a notable alumni Good gosh I think Was it Cheech or Chong Was it They weren't

They weren't in ours I think they were Cheech or Chong One of them was at Maybe Western Yeah I think Chong Was it Oh you're

Yeah Peter Aldrin Nice Actor who had A role in films K-19, The Widowmaker. Oh, yes. And Lost and Delirious. Yes. Okay, well.

K-19, The Widowmaker, is that a climbing movie? That is, no, but, you know, yeah, I know that K-2. K-19, The Widowmaker is Harrison Ford with a Russian accent? Yes, it is. I almost sound like you said K-19, The Widowbaker. Yeah, The Widow Baker is Harrison Ford with a Russian accent? Yes it is I almost sound like you said K-19 the Widow Baker Yeah the Widow Baker Oh it's so sad She's trying to you know

Fill the loss with buns Can you name any other famous alumni? From Sir Winston Church Roman Danilo Yes Semi-Cellist Travesty. Travesty.

John Fawcett. John Fawcett. Yes, John Fawcett. And of course. Drawing pictures. Drawing little scary men. Scary men. Drawing scary, scary guys.

Drawing scary guys. Todd McFarlane. Todd McFarlane. Yeah. And of course Oh Somebody who would Your love

Is better than ice cream Better than The love that I've had Jan Arden Ashwin Sood Sir McLaughlin's drummer Oh gosh And ex-husband

Actually I feel like Jan Arden might have Gone to this high school Okay where did Jan Arden go To high school I feel like she was In the northwest

I never knew her Let's get her on the show Let's get her on the line You know what Let's give her a call Yeah It's got to be listed right? No she's from

Springbank, Alberta. Springbank. Oh, springies. Very familiar. Beautiful part. And what was your, before we get on to what happened at the Stampede? We may not need to get there. What is, what were your high school mascot?

Bulldog. It was the British Bulldog. Oh, beautiful. Which is also interesting because the actual wrestling duo, the British Bulldog Oh beautiful Which is also interesting Because the actual wrestling Duo the British Bulldogs Did live nearby too Because the Hart Foundation For those that That's right

Have to watch wrestling The Hart Foundation Brett Hart and his dad Stu Hart Stu Hart had a big His big house That he would often House wrestlers in

Very nearby us Yeah And so we had the Bulldog They had a big Grease v that out front. Grease everyone up. Grease them up and then they'd all

squeeze in one bed. And kids, we'd go on field trips there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your class would learn about, you know, figure four leg locks. Yeah, yeah.

General savagery. I remember though, as kids, like we would like walk by the house in the hopes that we might see like the british bulldogs or you know the dynamite kid oh yeah and he and he had a muckabole sing uh was one of the wrestlers too the toilet bowl as they called him um there was i love that was a, I believe it was a very racist character. Well, I mean,

at then, I mean, there was also the Cuban assassin and you know, he would always have like some foreign object that would come in the ring. Oh yeah. Yeah. There was also a came the African dream and he was a white guy. It was a really,

yeah. Yeah. It was a different time. I mean, it's actually probably the same time in Calgary, but it was a different time. Around the world. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Remember the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Remember the British Bulldog, like, as a, at some point he had, his hair was like in corn, like at cornrows. Now, which of the two, was it Davey Boy Smith or the Dynamite Kid who adopted the name the British Bulldog? That may be Coco Beware. That was Davey Boy Smith who became the British Bulldog. Wow. How did he get that? He was like. He was big. That was Davey Boy Smith Who became the British Bulldog Wow How did he get that? He was like

He was big He was like when Axl Rose Took the whole name of Guns N' Roses Yeah It was Everybody just wanted to avoid A big scene So they signed it over to him

Wow You'll be the British Bulldog Oh my gosh Yeah Dalhousie Dalhousie What? That was where I was

That was the neighborhood Dalhousie Dalhousie In Calgary was the neighborhood They? That was where I was. That was the neighborhood. Del Housie. Del Housie. In Calgary was the neighborhood. It could still be there. I don't know. The big house? The house probably is.

Yeah. It could be a historic site. Could you draw it from memory? Do you know it? I've seen it, but I couldn't remember. I could give you the approximate square footage. Okay. Like 9,000 square feet. Wow.

It was a big house. That's a big house. And it was kind of in a neighborhood, like a modest neighborhood really, where everyone else's, like all the other houses were kind of, you know, your sort of typical little bungalow or, you know, in this modest neighborhood in Calgary. But that house was like three times the size of anything around it. I sort of feel like maybe they bought a couple lots and just went nuts. Like he loved that neighborhood and, you know, on I sort of feel like maybe they bought a couple of lots and just went nuts. Like he loved that neighborhood.

And, you know, on this sort of quiet little street, just put up basically three houses in one. And they needed a big house for those. Those are some big, that's why you had to grease them up. Yeah.

Just fit them in, squeeze them in. A couple of them were your, were your, uh, they were substitute teachers. Yeah. Well,

the, the Hart brothers, they didn't go into the wrestling. A couple, one of them I think was a firefighter. And then a couple of them were like substitute teachers. Oh, wow. And they would come to my school and I would sass them off and they would make me do push-ups in front of the whole class. And you loved it. I loved it.

I loved it. And you still do push pushups to this day yeah I wake up in the morning I do some pushups well then that's not true grease myself up first

and then I do some pushups when's the last time you did a pushup like last week oh okay I used to do I used to do pushups every morning

yeah I think I was on a streak of doing them every morning for a while and then now I just do them on the whenever I'm bored yeah I just do them on the, whenever I'm bored.

Yeah. I just go down and do some pushups. How many pushups do you think that you could, so in the most, in one go that you've ever done, like how many pushups do you think you could do or have done in your life? Yeah. At the best that you sort of go like,

Oh, I remember one time where my, I might be able to do this many. I think when you were doing them every day what were you doing yeah i was doing them in like batches of 25 okay so yeah so i never was like stringing those together in like a 75 push-up i was taking a break i was doing i was doing 60 at a time really that's great knees knees down knees down knees down chest down everything knees down.

Chest down. Everything was down. Nothing went up. But I counted to 60. Wait a minute. Am I thinking about push-ups or am I thinking about standing up?

But then I think I could probably, like I never tried to do more than that, but I could maybe do 80 if I was like, if Ted DiBiase was standing above me

with a hundred dollar bill yeah yeah if we're talking about old wrestlers and threats of yeah being coerced into standing above

yeah dripping grease down Ted DiBiase I have a signed photo of him and he is I guess his like go-to thing is

everybody's got a price and I heard you you come cheap. Whoa! Wow. Pretty good, eh? That's too long to have to be the thing you write on every 8x10. Yeah, maybe it's a special one. Did he spell come C-U-M?

Yeah, and he did the C with a line through it so it's like a cent. It's very complex. It's like reading hieroglyphics. Okay, what happened to the cent piece? Oh my goodness. I don't know. I was just kidding. A long time ago,

me and my friend Gumper... Was this someone whose last name was Gump? No, that was his nickname. We named him that after Gump? No that was his nickname We named him That after Gump Worsley Yeah But we would call Nick

Our friend Nick Gump Let me just catch people up Gump Worsley Hall of Fame Goalie Yes That's right

First name Lorne Real name Lorne Oh mate Yeah right Right I can't remember But yeah

Yeah So you and Gump Me and Gump Not important No Well I mean You know

R.I.P. Or maybe he's not Maybe he shouldn't be resting Is he alive? I heard this crazy statistic That in the history of the NBA Kobe Kobe Bryant is the

Most recent MVP winner To pass away. But only three total have passed away since they introduced the MVP in the late 50s. Oh, wow. So it's possible that Gump is still with them. His jump shot was terrible. Yeah. Oh, my goodness.

Yeah. But an incredible five hole. Yeah. And he comes cheap um gumper and i uh one day that was the day before the opening of the stampede and for no reason we'd sort of gotten in our heads we were like let's go to the stampede grounds and just see see what's happening you see if we can go and help set up like you know it's just like something literally it was like something stupid we were kind of like yeah that'd

be kind of funny we'll see if we can get onto the grounds and help set up. Like, you know, it was just like something literally was like something stupid. We were kind of like, yeah, that'd be kind of funny. We'll see if we can get onto the grounds and help set up. And so sure enough, we go down there and it's not closed off. People are, are literally setting up rides

and we would ask like, Hey, you guys need a hand? And no joke, uh, you know, on the zipper, you know,

the little, the zipper ride. Yeah. When one guy was like, yeah, you want to grab that cable there and you want to grab that cable there and you plug that into that over there like just two like two 17 year old kids yeah who are

like nobody's and like he owned it and he was only 19 he thought we were his supervisors um but so we're wandering around and there is a huge grandstand there Like where they do the horse racing And that sort of big outdoor stadium And we went there because the young Canadians were practicing This was like the dress rehearsal for the following day Where they're going to do their big grandstand show And so imagine, we go into the Of course we go into the bleachers

There's some family members there, some invited people I mean these bleachers could probably sit 10,000 and there's like 60 people there yeah so we we go in and i just um the young canadians they saying like pop hits of the day yes in a in a glee style yes that is what the young canadians are yeah so on on the horse racing track is a large stage. And because this is an outdoor venue, like in a traditional theater, you would have a fly tower. So then maybe a backdrop would come in from above. Right. But because you're in an outdoor stadium, they don't have that. What they have is at the back of the stage, the entire length of the stage and probably about 50 feet deep is an elevator that goes all the way down like let's

say it goes down 30 feet and then you know a set piece like a rainbow is put on this and then up comes the elevator and you know and it's all of a sudden they're dancing in front of a rainbow right and so i'm watching this and you know and i'm thinking to myself there's 50 kids on stage and they're all kind of like marching around doing the box step and they've got like cut out cardboard saxophones and you know this is all really bringing me back you were probably there and so and so we're watching this and i'm looking in the elevator is down so it's just a big open pit behind them. And all of these kids begin marching backwards.

And so these kids are probably like, I don't know, 14, 13. And I'm watching them march backwards. And all I'm thinking myself is like, this is the first time they've probably been on the stage. Like they've rehearsed this in an,

in an area where they've taped out the size of the stage on a floor. Right. And so I'd be like, Oh, Steve, you're beyond the tape. You know, so they're marching. That's a pit. Yeah.

So they're marching backwards and saluting. And all of a sudden, and I'm watching it back because I'm going like, oh my God, I'm sure someone doesn't know this stupid elevator's down. And sure enough, a kid takes a full step into the elevator and disappears. Wow. Literally disappears to other kids, hobble on the edge and catch themselves. One of them looks down into the pit at clearly whoever has fallen and just

lets out like this. And there's like mayhem on the stage. The kids are kind of ushered off the stage and and nobody's really seen it like i saw it because i was like looking for this but this is like a big most people don't even know like what's happened what's going on i don't know what's going on and so all of a sudden the choreographer a couple minutes later the choreographer gets on the wireless microphone and announces into the stadium, there's been a horrible, horrible accident.

Would Mr. And Mrs. Klein, please come to the stage. And so this couple is like, Oh my God. And, and down they go.

And we are all kind of like huddled in there. Like my, my friend Gumper and I are like, we've got to go. Gumper. I forgot that Gumper was there. It's like, Gumper, Gumper. Hold the gumper was there it's like they need us they need us we need to come close and so we hear yes that's they there's an ambulance has to come and um we find out later in the newspaper the following day it's an article and

the poor uh kid that fell they listed the injuries as two broken wrists and two broken shins. Oh, wow. So we have an idea about how they landed. Oh, boy. And so broken shins. Oh, my gosh. Ow, ow, ow.

And I remember like this was immediately after this happened, immediately after this happened, that the choreographer was trying to gather all the kids together and the choreographer is like okay everybody i know this has been just a very very difficult moment but i think that derrick would want us to get back up on stage and you know because it's kind of this is like 15 minutes after this happens and and you know and so he's like and Derek's still there he's like no I don't want that

no one should do this ever again guys think of your shins my shins I got more shins than a Chinese phone book that's not doesn't work

that doesn't work there's like this this rally cry to like get these kids back up on stage and he sort of finishes his little speech and then he's like

does anyone have any questions and like one girl raises her hand and says like i never want to get on that stage again yeah it's like okay well we're gonna take five minutes yeah but it was like oh my goodness what a crazy oh boy what a crazy so that was one thing that i saw in a stadium that is great wasn't a sport i was. Wow. Do you know the Kitsilano showboat? Yes. Is that still a going concern? I mean, it's still there.

Oh, it's still there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's this outdoor amphitheater by the beach. I think they do still do stuff there. And it used to be, and it's just like, it's very small. Yeah. And there's no danger of falling into the ocean or anything. small yeah and there's no no danger of falling into the ocean or anything uh but it's uh it's just like the the like your community dance class would put on a show there and they would show it

on community or cable access tv that's the young canadians were like they would be uh they were all through the stampede they would do like several shows a day. And then during the rest of the year, they would like appear at events. Yes, exactly. Like a store opening or whatever would like feature featuring the young Canadian. And it's just like this rotating as you age out of it. Yeah, like kind of the mini pops. Yeah. Well, and actually to my memory, as I thought in this article that the person who was the stage manager or, you know, was one of the people involved in this mounting of the, of this Young Canadians production that Gumper and I saw, that they had, I think this is what it said in the article that they too, like 12 years earlier, did the same thing.

Like that the stage manager fell in the thing. Like it was something crazy like that. That's why he got into stage managing. It's like you'd sort of go like, God. Every 12 years, somebody falls in like, God damn.

I've got bad news. Doctor, will I ever dance again? No, but you can stage manage. Yeah. I mean, this has probably left a pretty good impression in your mind about what to watch for as a stage manager.

Oh, I'm never going to dance again. Broken shins have got no rhythm. Oh, boy. Oh, dear. Yeah, yeah. Oh, dear. Oh, wow. That's as good a stadium story as you're ever going to hear.

Well, and then there was the accident on the zipper that year because it wasn't put together right. Man, so, you know, Comfort and I found ourselves pretty lucky. It was accidents happening all around us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. God, poor son of a bitch on the zipper. Yeah. Pocketed a couple bolts and walked away. Should be so lucky if it was only two broken shins.

Oy, oy, oy. That day was our final destination. Guy lost half of his cheek. Oh, boy. And that was Kenny Rogers. That's why he looks like that. Oh, son of a gun. Oh, poor son of a gun.

Oh, boy. Dave, what's going on with you? Well, what's your favorite Kenny Rogers song He might be my favorite country singer Yeah I mean I love him I like the fact that he doesn't Sing country music all the time Yeah he sang the

Just dropped in to see my condition What condition my condition was in Yeah right That was him in the fifth Islands in the stream Islands in the stream Islands in the stream But that's not country either You took a

Or you picked a Good time to leave me Lucille Fine time to leave me Lucille Yeah The Gambler The Gambler Yeah The number one song

When I was born Was Lady Oh Lady Right Yeah I remember As Maybe like as a teenager

That was the exact time Like they were putting out a best of Kenny Rogers hits. And I remember a particular sequence of the songs as they played in the commercial. So it was Late Lady was followed by Islands in the Stream. Yes. And that, and like Willie Nelson. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Was another country singer who like, I only like the songs that aren't really very country.

They're just kind of like folk songs. Yeah. He kind of was maybe like, yeah, he, Willie Nelson had sort of a lot of that folk stuff. Or folky or like ballads. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I also like his like, you know, his like the songs about horses. I guess I just don't know though But Anyway

I'm also I feel like I'm the same way About The Cure Like I really like All the Cure songs That aren't gothy But like all the happy songs Are there any?

Friday I'm in love Oh of course Oh right Tell me tell me Love cats Yeah Yeah Yeah those are all

All their very famous songs Yeah that's right Actually wait a minute They were goth at all Everyone was happy Oh my god I love them But So what's going on with me

Is the other night I went to a very fancy restaurant The same restaurant you went to last night. I know what you're talking about. And I. This is one of those eat in the dark places? No. There's one.

Yeah. I'd love to go to one. Why not? Really? There's one. Has it been open for very long? I don't know. Or is it a new thing?

I don't know. It's been like. I mean, I heard about it a year ago, but it might have been there for a long time. But it's. Yeah. And the servers Are blind right Yeah Yeah And I think

And I think it's lights Out in the bathroom too Which is just a shit show Yeah yeah yeah I mean it is a mess It's a mess But it's part of the experience That's not the toilet

I'm so sorry How would you know It's dark How would you know Why is my lap Getting so wet Why is my lap getting so wet? Why's the toilet talking? Hello, someone's in here.

Yeah, I am. You're sitting on me. Oh, my God. Where's the toilet paper? That's my necktie. Sir. Wait, I'm trying to figure out who's doing what. You're in the women's.

Oh, no, that's not tapas. Oh, God. What a mess. Oh, no. But anyway, last week, Abby's parents were here. And we've never, oh, maybe once since having kids, we've hired a babysitter. Yeah. a babysitter.

Yeah. But every other time we've gone out, it's been because some, either Abby's parents or my parents or a family member has just been like,

yeah, we'll cover for you. Sure. And so Abby's parents were visiting and so we were like, let's go to this restaurant. And that day I was like,

I felt great all day and then I looked at the menu online and like, oh, they got oysters. Oh yeah. Yeah. I'll get an oyster anytime. And then I looked at the menu online. I'm like, oh, they got oysters. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

I'll get an oyster anytime. And then about four o'clock that day, I was like, I'm very nauseous. Oh. But I'm still horny for oysters. Oops. So I was like, I'm not going to have the oysters. Okay. But the restaurant is a, I'm not going to name it.

Can I? Captain Spoil. It was, it's a Italian-Japanese fusion restaurant. I believe that's correct. Yeah. And the very, I'd never sort of seen that mix of cuisine. It's very unique. And it was, you know, what do those two cultures have in common?

Noodles? Noodles, yeah. Different kinds of mushrooms. Right. Wrong side of World War II. Chopsticks? Oh, no. No, I don't think so.

Right. One of them has forks but we went there and we had a a decent dinner but i wasn't like wowed yep and i do feel like if you like do you know how like sometimes art can make you feel stupid yeah yes i don't feel that way about art like sometimes i'm like oh i guess you, you try to put yourself in the shoes of whoever made the art. And you're like, or like if there's a movie that you just, everyone says is great and you don't get it, you like feel a little bit like, huh. But you feel either I'm smarter than everyone or I'm stupider than everyone. Right.

But I've never had that experience with food. Where you're like, where everyone's talking about this place. Yeah. But I've never had that experience with food. Where you're like. Where everyone's talking about this place. Yeah. And then you went and you're like, eh. But like, not in like, I've had meh before. Right. But I haven't felt like, I just didn't even get it. Oh, right.

Like I've had like, I get it and I don't think they pulled it off. But this time I was like, I don't even get it. I think I, I think this dinner made me feel stupid oh no it was a very odd feeling yeah i hmm yeah because like there's a lot of food in general that i just don't understand that it has you know like something like cheesecake is like i'm like i don't get it yeah i'm the same like yeah but people love it yeah people go crazy for it yeah so it's like okay then i'm not right or wrong but i'm i'm definitely i feel like i'm in the minority oh and i feel better than donuts like i'm above a donut oh really yeah i feel like i get i understand donuts but this is not where i'm going to spend my calories today.

Oh. I feel like there's better ways to make myself fat. Name three. The three colors in the Neapolitan ice cream. Oh, delightful. And also when you go to a, like, I also feel that if you go to like a fancy restaurant and once they bring out the.

They shouldn't write their name on the table. I'm a Jacob. I feel like they. And I heart serving you. How are you? I don't usually drink wine in restaurants. And so like when they, I always feel like there's a little bit of attitude

when they take away the wine glasses right oh right we're just having cherry cokes oh boy deuce trials

but I also feel like when they bring out the the the dessert menu yes can I tempt anyone yeah

can I tempt anyone for a little dessert I always feel like you're like if you do even if you're like a fancy steakhouse or whatever, like what, what do you think you do? How much better than Dairy Queen do you think your dessert is? Right.

Right. So Abby and I went to dinner and then I went to, we went to Dairy Queen and she had nothing. I was like, oh, you know what? I think we'd rather have Dairy Queen. And then the. I was like, oh, you know what? I think we'd rather have Dairy Queen and then the waitress was like, I understand.

I understand who you are. I've done that a couple times too where you're at one of those really sort of fancy restaurants and it's very kind of

beautiful, artistic looking food and you don't even know what you're eating. Yeah. Oh my God, how did that smoke turn into a lamb chop?

That's crazy. Wow. I just ate it through my God. How did that smoke turn into a lamb chop? That's crazy. Wow. I just ate it through my nose. Um, but then, but then, and it's, and it would sort of be expensive and gotten to the end of it and gone like,

I'm like hungry. I'm not satisfied. I want to get a ham. Let's go and get a burger. Like, yeah, I've been, I've been to like an experimental restaurant of many types where somebody else is paying. And I'm like, okay, I'll go along and eat this weird thing.

Like you say, it's like a slime on a branch and I'll eat this, you know. So you got to suck the slime off the branch. Suck that slime off the branch. This is a sharing plate. We're into share plates, so everyone take a suck. Oh, yeah, this should be enough for three of you. It's the one branch. And you can each just kind of lick off just a little bit of the uni.

Yeah, just lick the uni off of the branch together. And then, yeah, afterwards you need to go and eat Little Caesars. You've got to go eat something equally as garbagey as fancy yes you gotta balance it out but i also that is a thing where they're like this is a new thing where you now have to consult with the waiter like is this enough food or is this too much food like yeah because what are the sizes of things oh everything is minuscule yeah except this uh portion of the menu yeah yes yeah yeah yeah whereas if you just go to like tgi fridays it's like you get that i get this sayonara no

yeah i do this thing in vancouver because as you know i come here i visit quite a bit because you know do lots of the podcast stuff here and that's why we have you on the podcast so frequently. Well, yes, exactly. Exactly. Exactly. But I, but when this is one thing that I, because the food is so amazing in this city, like I love the restaurants here and I love seafood and I love, you know, just different influences and like, it's, it's always amazing food. And so I notoriously will go, I'm usually by myself going to have dinner by myself.

I will go and have usually by myself going to have dinner by myself i will go and have a full dinner somewhere and then i will sheepishly walk out of that restaurant and kind of walk a couple doors over and go into the next restaurant and have a full dinner yeah oh i will i will double dinner and i kind of like look around to start to go to somebody like and i'm not kidding like i'm not just sort of going yeah i had like a roll and a small bowl of so it's like no i loaded up a meal and loaded up on a so it's like no i loaded up a meal and loaded up on a meal and then like oh i'm stuffed couldn't possibly well you might tempt me with dessert but then and then go you know walk down because it's like time is of the essence it's

like i want to try that place too so okay yeah but then i won't i might not eat for like the like in the breakfast off coffee maybe i want to have lunch, but then I get to dinner and it's like, yeah, I had three dinners last night. Yeah, yeah. The first was at 6.30 and then I had a reservation at 9 and then I had a late night buffet at 11. It was amazing. That's your like diet is like, I just drink coffee in the morning. I have like a salad for lunch. Do you think I could get a reservation for one person at 9 p.m.?

Yeah, I think you could. At the buffet. Honestly, I mean, in some situations where it's like a restaurant might just be a door down from the other one. So I'm kind of going out and sheepishly looking around that no one's seeing me then go into the one beside after. Yeah, sir, you still have the napkin from the last restaurant tucked into your collar. Good God, sir. I mean, you just had $211 from the last restaurant tucked into your collar. Good God, sir. I mean, you just had $211 in our restaurant for a single meal.

You had everything on the left side of the menu. Now you're going for another meal? Good heavens, sir. That's decadent. Yeah, that's decadent. Look. It's overkill. I mean, this guy.

That's Vancouver. You're like a French king or something. This guy. And you like wine. I do. I do. And when they bring you the wine, do you know how to, like, put on the show that they're looking for? You know, my dad is a real wine guy. Oh, okay.

He loves red wine. Mm-hmm. And so, really, as a measure of, you know, being around him when he'll uncork a nice bottle of red that he's had for a while or special occasions or whatever. Oh, yeah. You know, we we know the decanter and we've got the you can swirl it and sip it and bring air into it and put your nose on it. And, you know, all that stuff. Yeah, for sure. I can tell you this much.

I don't think I've ever sent back a wine. Like, you go through this whole song and dance, and I've never even said, like, after you've done this whole, yeah, song and dance, like, I don't know. There's not enough leather in this for me. Never. Because, like, what are you supposed to do? It tastes like ocean. So, if they bring you an entire bottle, and they open it up for you, are you allowed to be like, nah.

Yes. Weak. Yes. Or are you just supposed to, like, sniff the you allowed to be like, nah, weak? Or are you just supposed to sniff the cork and be like, oh, too corky. I've been with someone that did that. Too much corky, not enough juice pigs. They were like, no, this isn't very good. There's something else.

Really? Yes. I was like, oh. Do you have a fresca? That's a possibility? Are you allowed then to just back off and be like, I will have water. Yeah, I'm going to have water. I've decided I don't like wine.

I mean, there is somebody out there, somebody in the world that holds the record for in a single sitting. Oh, yeah. Someone's turned back like 14 bottles. Like, you know, someone somewhere has been like, no, oh, no. There's pictures on the wall. This is turned. You know.

And what do they do with those bottles? They sell them by the glass. Yeah. They give them to the, you know, the restaurant to eat in the dark. Because you can't tell if it's been uncorked or not. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, they just make us. I'm uncorking that for you.

There you go. This is freshly uncorked. Anyway, I ate a meal. What's up with you? I had a, had a cultural weekend. I love culture. Yeah, I love it. On the Friday, I went to go see the guy who ran Hot Art Wet City, Chris Benson.

Yeah. He puts on a couple art shows every year in a different space now. I've got to get on his mailing list. Yeah. um and uh get on his mailing list uh yeah let's see he does this one that uh it's apparently i found out as i got there tremendously popular oh it's all uh it's called boobies and wieners yeah in the show and uh it was so it's all every piece reflects the theme and there was a lineup i don't think i've ever seen a lineup for anything as long in Vancouver as this. This was like at least two city blocks long.

For boobies and wieners. For the boobies and wieners. The lineup went, usually they go around the block. Well, because where it was is in an industrial area. I love it. So it's like long blocks. I love industrial music. Yeah.

Yeah. Tool. Sure. There like long, long blocks. I love industrial music. Yeah, yeah. Tool. They're sure. Name five. Helmet. Okay. But we, like,

I thought, okay, you go in the middle of the time of the show. So you don't want to be too eager. But I don't want to not get in. I don't want to be too eager, but I don't want to not get in. No. I don't want to not see what I came to see, culturally speaking.

Thank you. Thank you. And so, showed up right in the juicy middle and, man, the longest,

stood in line for 45 minutes and moved a car length. Oh, no. Yeah, it's just because the space could only hold like 100 people at a time or whatever.

So it was like that exact number needed to leave. Yeah. And then another people could go in. Did you ever make it in? Didn't make it in. Oh. Had to go the next day. Did you ever find out?

Oh, you went there. Yeah, I went the next day where they were kind of cleaning up and got to see. Cleaning up the boobs. Yeah, yeah went there. Yeah, I went the next day where they were kind of cleaning up and got to see. Cleaning up the boobs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wieners, they were fine, but boobs were a mess. But yeah, like, I would have stayed. I would have stayed in line, but it started raining. And I was like, this is no go.

This is no go. But that was the opening of it. So then you went back the next day and it was not it was not it was just a one night only wow yeah yeah just a one night only

oh yeah so were you asking people when they came out like were you in one of those situations people are coming out like how was it

yeah yeah show me a picture you must have seen a picture when you were in there yeah were there any vulvas there were vulvas

what yeah this is false advertising that's neither boobie nor wiener What? It's open to interpretation Boobies and wieners I thought it was

Boobies and wieners I thought it was hot dogs and dolts I didn't have any idea What we're talking about Oh Yeah Yeah Vulva is kind of like

An abstract wiener Yeah Yeah exactly Oh okay Yeah When you think about it Sure So went to that on the Friday.

And then on Saturday, I went to the Vancouver Art Gallery. Vag. The Vag. Wow. I saw a woman named Cindy Sherman, who is... I've heard that name. She's fantastic. She's hilarious.

You saw her? Her exhibit. Okay. name she's fantastic she's hilarious you saw her her exhibit okay and it's she takes she does herself up in a costume yes creates kind of a character and then takes a picture of herself and that as that character and she could like i feel like her and like amy sedaris would be real chums okay like and uh it was the it's the only time i've been in a gallery where other people are walking around and like like laughing like getting what she was doing and laughing at the. What kind of characters?

Like, would she sort of be, you know, just different people that you might see in different walks of life? Or is it like she's dressed up as Easter Bunny? No, she, a bit of both. Okay. Yeah. Like she did some that was like a, you know, kind of a rich. What would a rich lady in her 60s who's had plastic surgery done and might be on a reality show kind of look? And she does herself up like that and then has a photo taken.

Okay. And it was great. But it's the first time that I've ever been like, these are funny, right? Like, this is funny. Right. Like, I'm not reading into this. Like, she's not doing something serious. And I think it's are funny right like this is funny right i'm i'm not reading into this like she's not doing something serious and i think it's funny like this is funny and then somebody else laughed and i was like oh thank god okay because because a lot of the things were very

funny yeah and sometimes you'll go in an art gallery and only one thing's funny and you're like well maybe this is this is not supposed to be here. Am I wrong? Yeah, like, is this a trick? Yeah, am I reading into something? Gotcha. Yeah. But, yeah, her stuff was great. But you could tell that she's funny. Yeah.

But you don't see that a lot. Am I wrong? Maybe at the Boobies and Wieners show you'd see a lot of that. It's hard to say. I bet there wasn't a lot of out loud laughing there. It was just kind of some quiet muffled introspection. It's hard to say. I bet there wasn't a lot of out loud laughing there. It was just kind of some quiet muffled introspection. I like art.

Yeah. Yeah. But I don't laugh. Yeah, I don't come here to laugh. That's right. You certainly don't expect it. But yeah, that's where they get you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But when you hear laughter in an art gallery, you're like, is somebody laughing at? Or is somebody laughing with? That's the whole thing.

That was why Mona Lisa was so big and that's hilarious you know what I'm saying that face is just like oh my god okay hold on zing zing zing

that's hilarious I think right do people think she's like why is that painting so famous was she like the most beautiful

woman ever well isn't it also like that the eyes of the Mona Lisa they're cut out and somebody's like aren't they meant to sort of follow you wherever you were well i mean not wherever you go but once you're in a museum you're on your own oh my god i can't get these damn eyes off me i mean i'm back here in calgary and uh sure enough, what's in the rearview mirror?

Holy shit. But like, how is that the famous? Of the millions of paintings ever, how does that stand above them? That's a good. I don't know if it still is. But like when I was growing up, like that's the most famous painting in the world. I would imagine. Gary Larson did it with a cow.

Yes. Yes. You know, isn't because it's also, and it's quite diminutive, isn't it? I've never seen it, but I've heard people say like, yeah, I went and saw it. And I mean, it's actually really quite small. I mean, it was hard to see because there's a lot of people there and, you know, it's quite, you don't want to say underwhelming, but it's for such an iconic thing. And you can't get really that close to it. You know.

It's funny, though. It's still funny. It's still funny. Kind of like seeing the Dude Brothers or whatever in the arena. Yeah. You want to see them up close. Yeah. Yeah.

But it's funny, though, when you go to, like, we went to the Art Institute in Chicago. Yep. And I went to the Art Institute in Chicago. Yep. And I went to the Tate in London. Like, there's really famous paintings that you could, like, you're not supposed to, but you can touch them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can touch them. Like, there's a super famous artist touched this. I could touch it, too.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wasn't there some performance artist who went and got in trouble for throwing up on a piece of art? Well, I can't imagine they didn't got in trouble for throwing up on a piece of art well i can't imagine they were they didn't get in trouble it was summer and then and their defense was that they looked at this piece of art and it literally made them throw up and they threw up on this artwork that that was their you did that to judge judy she would no way their other defense was that they had had three dinners that night. No, no. We just, and at every one, they were tempted by dessert.

And so, they were just so stuffed. And they saw this hilarious painting and just yacked on it. So, they weren't expecting it to be so funny. Oh, boy. Do we want to move on to overheard? Sure. Overheard. Overheard's a segment in which we hear things out there in the world and we share them here on the podcast. And we always like the guest to kind of lead us down the path.

Oh my goodness. What a delight. But this was an overheard that it was from a long time ago. Uh, and, uh, as, as where most overheards come from, I was at a Barbra Streisand concert.

Yes. Really? Yes, I was. Nice. Um, at the Hollywood bowl. Yeah.

Uh, the infamous Hollywood bowl. I have a friend of mine who lived, uh, live at the time, lived in the neighborhood of the Hollywood bowl. And when you live in the neighborhood of the Hollywood bowl, you are given two tickets to every show.

Whoa. Oh, wow. Because it is noise and the rest of that. So it's kind of this nice thing. So he has tickets to every show. Wow. And, um, and so I would quite often get to go and join him and, you know, go and see all sorts of amazing acts.

And so he had tickets to go see Barbra Streisand. And so I went and I mean, you know, it's I wouldn't say that I was like a hugely familiar or a huge fan of Barbra Streisand. But I mean, of course, she's a legend. She's a legend. And I was having a great time. And I didn't hear. So behind me, lots of, lots of chatter,

lots of excitement. Um, some people who would come like the people that were behind me on one side were like, Oh, they, I could tell that they had driven in that morning from Arizona and we're driving back that night.

Like, you know, Babs has a pole. Um, I heard one, uh, one woman say, um,

and I, cause I didn't hear who it was that spoke to her, but she said, don't shush me. I can sing if I want to. That's the reason I'm here. I don't know if it was someone that she was with. I don't think so.

I think it was somebody else who was just fed up of this woman belting out the songs, drowning out Barbara but don't shush me I can sing if I want to I'm gonna rain on your yeah

but that's the reason that she's there not to listen to Babs but just to sing yeah do you sing at concerts? to myself you know

I don't sing out loud I'm always hoping I'm constantly singing hoping that the singer will do that thing where they turn the mic to the audience. I don't want to let them down. Yeah, or the singer's like, hey, motherfucker, get laid, get fucked. My throat's starting to act up.

Somebody in the audience can take over for the rest of this song. Me! I was already singing, me! Did you watch the Taylor Swift documentary? No. Oh, you gotta. Oh, yeah? I don't think you gotta. It's a bit of a... What did you learn

that you didn't know? She's apparently still tormented by this Kanye West thing. Sure. Oh, boy. And a necrophiliac. Isn't that crazy? Mostly the Kanye thing. The Kanye thing is the surprising thing. Sure. Oh boy. And a necrophiliac. Isn't that crazy? Mostly the Kanye thing. Yeah, the Kanye thing is the surprising thing.

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Dave, do you have an overheard? Okay. Well, you know what? I might as well do this from my restaurant experience. Wow.

It's not a big one, but I also, when you go to a restaurant and the person who you order the food from isn't the one who brings you your food, I don't like it. Yeah, yeah. We're on a journey together. Yeah. Wait staff. Yeah, you abandoned me.

So, just this waiter came along and brought me my food and I said, thank you very much. And he said, you're very welcome very much. He did both varies. That's kind of fun. Yeah. Not only are you very welcome, but you're very welcome very much. Your tip just went up 5%.

Yeah. I don't know if you'll share the tip with my waitress, but I do know what you mean. I don't like when it's like multiple, when it's a whole team that's come over and helped you over. You don't know who.

Or, but like only the one server has introduced themselves. I don't remember their name because I didn't write it down. That's right. I mean, it might be. I'm wondering, would you ever go through and like, you know, one by one to every person, explain personally their cut of your tip

for the evening yeah yeah yeah you did bring me the salad course and then the fork for dessert I noticed you slipped on my plate

for me today that's two dollars and twenty cents thank you for that you uh five servers an itemized tip I'm leaving twenty percent

in the restaurant tonight but here's how I'm gonna do it oh no I go server by server five servers Five servers? An itemized tip. I'm leaving 20% in the restaurant tonight, but here's how I'm going to do it. Oh, no. I go server by server. Five servers? 5%. I'd like to call my team. I'd like to call my team together, okay?

Let's get the whole team over here. Everyone take a knee. Now, let me just break this down. Now, if I complain about my food, will I get back to the chef? I'd like to meet him just so in advance to know who I'm complaining to. Yeah, is he like a tough guy? He's going to yell at me if I complain? the chef i'd like to meet him to just so in advance to know yeah who i'm complaining yeah is he like a tough guy he's gonna yell at me that was something from like cartoons or tough chef or like a chef who like if you bad mouth the food he comes at you with a fork yeah or maybe with that

big old uh cleaver cleaver yeah have you ever asked to speak to the chef? No. Have you? Yes. Really? In a complimentary way? Or in a bad way? How else could it be? Of course. I'd like to speak to the chef's manager. I'd like to speak to the chef and tear him a new a-hole.

This is not chicken. Yeah, on a couple of occasions, moved probably by the wine. Yeah, we said, I mean, this has been exceptional. It would be my great honor to speak to the chef. If possible, you're like, you did not find the,

you did not find the bandaid in there. So that is good. Oh, it's in someone's meal. It's in somebody's meal. I thought that's why it was being called out tonight. Oh, narrowly escaped.

It is somewhere in a dumpling. What's your overword? Mine is a courtesy of, it's one of my favorite things that I get to see very rarely is where two people

are in the same job, but not working for the same company, but give each other an acknowledgement. Okay. You sometimes see it like with a UPS driver and a FedEx driver. Exactly. This is right. And so there,

I was on the bus, crazy crammed rush hour and a school bus pulled up beside the bus. And he opened the door of the school bus and like talk to the bus driver. He's like, I got them crammed in there like sardines today. And he's like, yeah, man,

you're next. They had a whole exchange, but I was like, they're not of the same. They're, they're bus guys, but they're, they have the same license.

That's true. They do have the same license, but I didn't know there was like, they're in different unions. Yeah. Oh, it was license. That's true. They do have the same license. But I didn't know there was like. They're in different unions though probably. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh. It was great. It was great.

Did I tell, I can't remember. I almost wonder if I said this one. I don't think I did the last time I was on. I don't know. But just as you say that, I was privy to a conversation between a pilot and a helicopter pilot. Yes. Did I say this? No, I don't know.

Okay. So it was a long time ago. I was on a float plane. And you know how when you get on a float plane, they have the co-pilot seat often open so that if it is a full thing, the pilot will say, anyone's welcome to hop up into that co-pilot seat. So I hopped up and it was kind of a stormy day. I'd like to speak to the pilot, please. And I put on the, you know, you get to put on the headsets. And so when you put on the headsets, you're hearing the communications between the pilot and the tower or whoever.

Well, we're waiting to take off because a helicopter is coming into land. Whirlybird. Whirlybird. And there's a conversation going on between this pilot and then the helicopter pilot. And it's something like, you know, hey, John, how you doing, man? Good. And my pilot says like, oh, man, crazy weather out there today sure glad i'm not in a helicopter and the helicopter pilot says yeah well i'm definitely glad i'm not in your plane today

especially with that wing did you get it fixed like no and there's not joking and the guy's like yeah actually we did just get it fixed and i'm glad we did because I'll need the integrity. And I was like, huh? And then. No, these guys, this is a routine they do. They're always like. Whoa. That's a bit they do.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. If they have somebody sitting in the passenger seat. I'll tell you what. These were amazing actors. Not, you know, these guys, they should be sag-carded. Most plane and helicopter guys are. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'll see a lot of them in the gallery at Judge Judy. Yeah.

That's right. Yeah, baby. Leaning in. The hearing's not great because of all the noise they experience. I got to collect my 250 and then fly that whirlybird. That's why Judge Judy is always like, judgment for the plaintiff, over. Now, in addition to our overheards,

we have overheards sent in from people all over the map. Fabulous. Yeah, if you want to send one in, you can send it in to spy at maximumfun.org. And this first one comes from Josh in Minnesota. Hi. My girlfriend and I were at a Target self-checkout. A woman and a young girl were using the adjacent scanner.

The woman was teaching the girl how to use the self-checkout. Woman, you shouldn't leave your billfold out. Someone could steal it. Girl says, like who? The woman says, like that guy right there gesturing towards me oh and the girl locked eyes with me and then looked me up and down and then we started to head out i glanced back and she was still staring at me until we were outside just because she's bad with her wallet wow also billfold yeah yeah where do you have to be in the world

that you would call it a billfold I was just thinking you've pulled out your billfold I pulled out my wallet because I was like why that's quite a smart wallet that you have it's quite a compact I was a back pocket guy

for years and then I had to. Go front. Go front. Was it hurting your alignment? I don't know if it was, but it was. I had lost a lot of wallets because they started to stink. Because they stunk. Oh.

From my sweaty ass. But I felt it felt really good downsizing. Yeah. And although this isn't this itself doesn't fold I have to fold my bills. So I guess in that regard it is a bill fold.

That's a great wallet downsize. That's a tiny house wallet. That's great. Well yeah it's a domesticated wallet. That's a Maria Kondo wallet. Yeah.

She would approve of that. Yeah. It sparks joy. Yeah, it is my J. Do you have another? You know what? I might. How about two more?

All right, two more. Here we go. This is a really quick one. I just overheard two coworkers talking about weekend plans. And one of them said to the other, well, whatever floats your goat. Whatever floats your goat. Yeah. Okay.

All right. I'll accept that. That's intriguing. That's freaky. Sure. Yeah. Whatever floats your goat. A large piece of styrofoam.

Yeah. Although the goat will probably eat it. Yeah. Count those goats will eat anything. A big chunk of balsa wood would probably be quite buoyant. I'm guessing some buoyant balsam. Is it balsam or balsa? Well, balsam is the tree.

A balsam and then the balsa wood is no, is that what it is? I don't know. I don't know where. Yeah, balsa wood is like a very light wood. Yes. But is it like processed in any way from the tree or is it? Does it just come out kind of like, you know, a very cracker. And we drop the M off of it. That's what you would use when you'd make those airplanes, you know, those little.

Yeah. As a kid, you'd sort of make the airplanes. And when you make vinegar, you make a balsamic. Oh, it's all from the same tree, baby. That's the real giving tree. Wow. Yeah. My goodness.

A tree of plenty. This last one comes from Bruce. Okay. In Rockland, Ontario. Ah, Bruce. The boss. I was on a cruise last week. On the first night, I was walking on the top deck next to the pool, past some deck chairs.

I walked by a woman who shouted at me, you're on vacation, and put her hand up for a high five. I high fived her, as you do, and walked on. Standing near to her was an older man who muttered as I passed by, she certainly is. Yeah, right? Jeez, this lady's living her best life. It's one of those open bar cruises She's like that There's a video that was put in front of me

Have you seen the show Cheer Have you seen the show Cheer With Norm and Yes yes The docu-series about a bar in Massachusetts Cheer This documentary series on HBO, I guess. Right. Um,

you heard about this or Netflix, Netflix. Yeah. Um, and, uh, there was a video of one of the guys in the show who is welcoming people to work. Like it's just a little on sort of like a promo in the show,

but he's just basically cheering people as they walk into work. Yay. Yay. Come on. Looking great. Gonna kill it today. All right. Amazing shows. All right. High work. Yay. Yay. Come on. Looking great. Going to kill it today. All right. Amazing shoes.

All right. High five. Yes. Like just cheering people on as they go to go to work. Would that be good or terrible? It was so funny. And it was so, I mean, he's incredibly charming and. Where was it?

Where were the people working? Oh, it looked like, no, it looked like they were going into some kind of like generic glass professional building you know like some kind of business park to the coal mines yay get down there don't come up until you got more coal it would be i because i work with five people yeah i feel like it would be very awkward like to have one of them cheer me but what if there was a six that was just

there to cheer would I have to learn his name you would you would just at some point you would yeah

I'd be like I'm the cheer guy and cheer guy's name is Derek yeah oh my god well this guy I mean he was

just like Derek Jeter he didn't know any of these people clearly but he was just like unabashedly just giving, bringing them joy.

Love. Bringing them love and joy. That's Jerry from Cheer. Jerry from Cheer. In addition to overhears 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. Spy pod one, Like these people have. I just went to see the movie Little Women with my partner, and the context is that our town is 95% extremely old people, and as we're leaving the theater,

these two very ancient little old ladies are talking about the movie, and one must have asked the other what she thought because she said, well, I slept through the first half but I think I got pretty into it

in the second half. Slept through the first half? Yeah. I think I got pretty into it. Once I was refreshed. Once the women were arrested. By around minute, you know,

73, I was like Sharp as a tag Once the women Got medium Yeah yeah yeah They'd grown up Spoiler Yeah

Grande They went from grande To The next one Then Vendy What's the little one Tall Tall

We should call it Tall women Yeah Next Hey Dave Graham And some fabulous guests This is Jamie from Virginia calling in with an overheard.

I was in a moderately hip bar. Not hip like they name the farms their produce comes from, but they have like a dozen taps and they're next to a public clock that makes noise. I was having a beer and a patty melt and suddenly the young ladies at the table next to me got really serious.

Like, whatever they were talking about, they were being frank and open, and they were bonding, and I was expecting a pinky promise any second, so I paused the show I was listening to because I'm a nosy jerk. All of them were looking at one woman who was holding her hands up beside her face like she was about to make a mic drop announcement. She leaned in, and she said, guys. They all leaned in. Guys,, guys, they all leaned in. Guys, one time,

I snorted emergency for $5. Anyway, off I go. That's the right price. Yeah. Five bucks. Yeah. And I think medically speaking, however it gets in you,

it's still effective. I think so too. Yeah, let it that that orange drip yeah also like you'll be if your nose is running later in the day people will be like are you getting a cold and you'll be like no i'm oh i'm getting better yeah i'm doing the opposite i'm healing myself yeah i'm actually getting a slow a slow drip of vitamin c into my mouth yeah from my nose i mean i guess i could blow it into a tissue but but i won't do you need some vitamin c because i can blow a little into a tissue yeah i'm happy to't do you need some vitamin c because i can blow a little

into a tissue yeah i'm happy to share and just squeeze it out and wring it out over here i uh bought these tissues with the five dollars i was paid anyways it's a long story yeah and here is your final phone call hi dave graham and uh possible guess this, is Annie calling live from Target. Nice. Where I just overheard some high school-aged girls chatting over the makeup session. And one said, you know, I feel like if I were, like, taller and thinner and, like, more beautiful, I could be a supermodel. And her friend said, yeah, me too.

Aww. Just missing a couple of the key ingredients. Yes. But you know what? You know what's the most attractive? Confidence. Yes. Absolutely.

And look, I mean, she may have the posing and the looks down. She's looking for the other aspects, the other qualities. Yes. Absolutely. And look, I mean, she might have the, she may have the posing and the looks down. She's just, she's looking for the other aspects, the other qualities to take her over the top. Yeah. She's got the walk. Oh, yeah. She's got the turn. She's got the look.

She's got the. I just need a blouse to hang a little longer off of me. That's all. That's all. Sheesh. She went, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, me. That's all. That's all. Sheesh. She went, na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na-na.

She's got the look. R.I.P. the lady from Roxette. Roxette. Yeah. Peter. This brings us

to the end of the episode. Oh, you guys, you know what? Leave the mics on. You guys go. I got a few more things to say. Okay.

You know what I mean? Oh, he'll do it, too. He'll do he'll do it that's love to talk about my chicken i mean we won't do that next time we'll have you on of course sooner than another decade from now i mean i don't know it's actually though you know and once a decade check-ins kind of cool thing too so i wouldn't mind being back here on episode uh 1100 and. Do you go to the doctor and get a once a decade check-in? Yeah. I mean, sometimes more. Yeah. Two decades.

Sometimes. Do you have anything outside of just the general goings-on that we mentioned off the top that you'd like to plug? No. I mean, you know, obviously would love for you to come and listen to Dexter Guff is Smarter Than You.

Yeah, give me, what is Dexter Guff is Smarter Than You? Well, you know, Dexter Guff is this alter ego character that I do that's kind of like a self-proclaimed self-help guru who is telling you how to crush it in all aspects of your life, personal finances, relationship. So he's kind of like that self help guy. Meanwhile,

his own life is a total disaster. Yeah. So it's kind of, it's kind of a little bit of a satirical poke at, at that world of self help and a thought leadership and think fluencers. And so it's kind of fun. There's lots of amazing guests that come on and play and improvise with me.

And some people are really themselves on it. And then some people come on and they'll play characters. But it's been, it's really, really fun. That's awesome. So I kind of love doing that show. And so if you have heard anything of any kind of self-help and uh uh that kind of thing i think you might get a kick out of it you'd recognize it there might be some tropes in there that you might recognize from the world of uh some self-help entrepreneurial tips yeah

very fun i like it a lot i worked on it a lot yeah yeah well let's just say i worked on it for a time doesn't mind dipping his pen In the company well You know what It didn't feel like work There you go baby And then of course Another show that we do Together Dave

This sounds serious Yes Season 3 is coming Peter is one of the creators And writers And He was the voice Of our

Our subject Of season 1 Right Right Daniel and Chuck Bronstad. And in season two, he was about

20 different people. Right. And same with the upcoming season three. He's still the same 20 people, but we just repurposed

the audio. That's true. It's, you know, it was convenient, cheap to do it that way and it works. It works. Nice.

And what about me? What am I going to plug? Oh, you know, I like, you know, give us some money to Amnesty International. That's really good. But you know what? I don't have all these selfish plugs of my own thing. Yeah, no, that's true. Now I'm going to make

a selfish plug, but do Dave's thing, Amnesty International. Or UNICEF. You know, UNICEF does good work too. On March 8th, I will be at the comedy bar in Toronto.

Oh my. Yeah. What day of the week is that? That's a Sunday. Whoa. Sunday night. Fantastic. Yeah.

It's an early show too, so you can go to church, you can go right to the show. Perfect. You waited until after football season and awards season. That's right. To do your Sunday night. I kind of love the Sunday night show.

I really do. Like that's kind of like, you know, people have sort of done whatever they've done for the weekend. An early show on a Sunday. It's just like it's the perfect way to start your week. I mean, the only Sunday night show I know about, you'll be teaching people about how to, you know, put on condoms. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a call-in show. And it's me and Sue.

It's two Jordanians. And we're going to teach you. You know what? No question off limits. No, of course. Oh, that's fun. That'll be fun. Sounds amazing.

Oh, I'll plug one more thing. Go ahead. I sort of forgot that I, the reason I want to plug it is because I've done this, I've had the chance to be on this show a couple of times, uh, called blind spots,

like a big one hour. Oh yeah. Yes. Of course with Ennis. And I just love those guys. And we're, uh, this is the final season that is coming up,

uh, about to, uh, drop. I'm not sure exactly when it is, but it's very soon. And I do get an opportunity to be in it, but a little shout out to it because just such amazing guys,

really cool show. And, uh, so they're, uh, finishing off the season in style. So, Oh,

that's the way to do it. Yeah. Yeah. You can check your local NBC affiliate. Check your local listings. Boo, boo. Right?

Really good. Yeah. Um, thanks everybody out there for listening. If you liked the show, uh, why not tell your friends and come back next week for another episode of Stop Podcasting Yourself. MaximumFun.org.

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