Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 636 - Rory Scovel

Episode Date: May 25, 2020

Comedian Rory Scovel joins us to talk Robbie, Youtube yoga, and writing a resume.

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 636 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who can pronounce Stop Podcasting Yourself, Mr. Dave Shumka. Yeah, I wondered if there was just a little bit of a lag in the, I guess, the matrix. No, no, it's all me. You're on your sixth beer. Yeah, that's it's all me you're you're on your sixth beer yeah that's right i uh as soon as they said

we could open up that bubble i've been going to six barbecues a night um are you all right how's your drinking uh during all this it's been great i've been in top form um i uh i think I'm Yeah I'm no more or less I don't think No steady as she goes Steady just like getting blacking out By 5pm As I always have By 5pm Our guest today

A return guest to the podcast We love having him here on the show He has a brand new show on Comedy Central called Robbie, or you can listen to him on his podcast, Pen Pals. It's Rory Scovel. Yes. Hello. Hello.

How are you? You know what? My drinking has gone up and down. I tell myself, you know what? Let's turn it around. Let's stop drinking. and then i do for like two or three days and then i'm like you know what would make me feel really good just a nice cool whiskey right now yeah the thing like i feel at like around five o'clock five o'clock or six

o'clock i'm like how do i how do i make uh the switch from day into night like i'm not gonna i'm not coming home from anything i'm not yeah yeah the sun is still up what makes this the evening is this is the question so yeah alcohol yeah i've been drinking negronis gin not that anything is necessarily good for our liver that we put in our bodies, but gin is not the right choice. Gin is the opposite of helpful.

That's vodka's slogan. Gin is not the right choice. Gin. It's not vodka. Come on. Grab a vodka. Come on. Grab a vodka if you're a health nut. Come on. When you love health stuff, grab a vodka. It's made out of you're a health nut come on when you love health stuff grab a vodka it's made out of potatoes the health not even a brand it's just the idea it's just vodka in general from the vodka council

uh do you want to say eight years ago that sounds about right you are you've you've been on the show twice and uh how has the last eight years been just catch us up briefly there have been a few olympics in there i do there has been a few o. That's so great to wonder how someone can very quickly sum it up. It's been a lot of stand up. It's been marriage. It's been having a child. It's been still living in LA. I was living here last time I same all the time. Even if I'm having more successes in my life, I think it's all still kind of the same. Like nothing has changed so dramatically that you're like, there's a before and an after. I think so. Well, I i mean outside of family stuff with my daughter for sure and getting married but in career wise i think our stand-up

brains are just always wired to i always feel like i'm just not doing enough or working hard enough and because of that i don't know that i actually relish any success i might get out of stand-up because i'm like nope on to the next thing gotta be three months ahead how long after you're the first time that you were like on conan how how long did that satisfy you for not not you i think i thought it would be this very satisfying long-lasting uh uh excitement and and whatever but i think as soon as it as soon as you watch it at 11 p.m or whatever and then it ends you i think you you go oh yeah time just keeps moving no one cares about me why did i think this was you think in your head you're like oh i this is a big deal but then

only when it airs do you go oh yeah this isn't a big deal to anyone else that's i i think my dad told me something like that when i was a kid that he's like when he was on conan when he was on conan he did just on conan yeah he does panel he doesn't do any stand-up it's well graham's dad is dr joyce brothers that's right um but yeah he said like kind of all the personal uh all the success that you get in business or whatever that eventually that doesn't matter at all yeah like they're all the other things those are the things that matter and that's why i never got into business yeah yeah it seems so fleeting i guess it's just uh i guess that we all have to find our zen buddhist sort of how do you just be you know how do you find it without needing some the success to get you there i guess i don't know

doesn't it all make it worthwhile though when uh some mc absentmindedly just rattles off a bunch of credits whether you did them or not you know i'm from college you know i'm from clubs and colleges you want to be like no one knows anyone from colleges and i haven't even been fortunate enough to play that many college i wish i wish that made sense i don't i don't think i'm even known by the people i went to I haven't even been fortunate enough to play that many college. I wish, I wish that made sense. I don't, I don't think I'm even known by the people I went to college with.

You know, the other thing about doing that stuff, that's so fleeting, the, the satisfaction on the backend being so, uh, being so fleeting, being in the moment of doing the thing is so nerve wracking.

You don't want to being in the moment of doing the thing is so nerve wracking. You don't want to exist in that moment. And being in that moment is meant to be the whole drug of the whole thing. Yeah. So in that moment, you're like, well, that was miserable. Thank God that's over.

As soon as you're off, you're like, how did it go? And then you're like, Oh, watch it later. And like, Oh,

this, this feels like too many disconnected feelings of. Yeah, I it's it's obviously like great to do and beneficial, you know, in a in a bigger picture of things. But I think I always pictured it being this other feeling. And then when you do it, you're like, oh, OK, so just normal, normal feelings. Yeah. Get me back to my coke den it's the only place i can be myself the i remember uh as like a very young comedian going to just for laughs and doing

like a big show. And then immediately the transport wasn't there to pick me up. And I was like, huh, so that's it, huh? Yeah. Like, all right. I sadly can relate to that all too well. I know exactly what that felt like yeah because it's like like you say when you walk off stage unless you have

somebody there that's with you that's like either somebody you're with or your agent or somebody that's like hey that was great you just kind of walk out into the night and you go grab a sandwich or something I think it's because it's such a solitary thing you know I think if it was

I had more fun after having a really good improv show with my improv group uh celebrating after that so much more fun and less narcissistic you can talk about the show and not be fully yourself if you if you break down a stand-up set everyone's like shut the fuck up they're like how did you get in our uber pool yeah why are you here talking about your thing you did by yourself oh man um so you've got uh now you've got your own television show is out uh and out on comedy central's youtube page is where you can see it is that correct in a few places it's on comedy central's website it's on their app it's on youtube and i believe it's it's available for like purchase on like apple tv um i don't know

maybe that's all the places, but yeah, it's out. It was meant to kind of go on Comedy Central like a normal show. When we pitched it to them, we said, this isn't really the shows that you guys usually make. And they were really excited about that. And then we turned in

the show and they were like, this isn't the show we usually make. And we were like, yeah, that's what we said, uh, all along. And we kind of thought that was the cool thing about the show. It felt like something different and that maybe it would attract a different audience to there to,

to watch comedy central. But, uh, yeah, they're, they're reshaping up their brand and also this pandemic. And there was a moment where I thought this thing that we worked on for two, two and a half years was just not going to be seen by anybody.

And it was like, hey, we're going to put one episode on TV on on, you know, for a premiere and then all of it will be on YouTube. And while that's not as glamorous as I wanted it to be, it is, I don't know, outside of the US, it's not yet, but it to be it is uh i don't know outside of the u.s it's not yet but it will be available on on youtube everywhere but it is wildly convenient i think people have a chance to enjoy it if people had to wait week to week per episode i i think people would forget and they would right you know it just there wouldn't be the same excitement i like that people can binge it now i i um because it's not available in canada i i'm gonna ask you

to just send me all the files and then we can just release the audio of them on our i like that and those are the episodes of this of our show and then i you scratch my back and you just caught a live table reading yeah it's called robby by the way i don't think we said that robby that is correct so who's robby robby is don't you hate when you see those interviews so walk me through your character so you told you pitched it to comedy central is something they don't usually do pitch it to me yeah see if i buy it um yeah it's uh it i i will say this and i think we can all relate to this because of being in the world of entertainers uh knowing that we get unwanted feedback all the time in the comment section of of all media platforms possible uh i will say i'm

i'm actually i really like the show and uh me too i've only seen a lot of stuff that i really like but at the same time i always get told i need to fuck off and and die somewhere yes i while i i will say and maybe i'm jinxing it now but it's been it's been pretty optimistic and and really overwhelmingly supportive of people writing uh what they like about it and and how they like it and it's i will say if that's all that ever comes of this show and we never make another episode it's at least cool that it was well received yeah and that you're like the first show ever to just get positive feedback on YouTube. Yeah.

There was one guy that tweeted at me four full-length tweets, which I don't know how many characters that requires. It's over a thousand. It's over a thousand. It's a full breakdown on what he did not like about the show. And I haven't responded because why would I? But I so badly want to just write okay yeah i love it thanks for letting me know i'm so jealous of people who have time to not only watch something that they don't like and keep watching it yes but then uh write four tweets yeah really break it down and it's like i don't i don't think you know that

because you tweet like this i don't know how to entertain you anyways we do have nothing in common that's right like maybe you'd be into it if it was a tweet storm is there something like that you're a lunatic i can't entertain you we're two different people um where uh where was the the show shot i'll answer this one graham go dave we shot it in atlanta uh we got a great crew of writers and some actors uh my wife. My wife plays one of the parents in there. Yep. Let's see.

We worked with DeAnt Ward. That's who did the music. Yeah, they played. Robbie, if you don't know, is a giant South African robot. People are like, well, now I do need to check out this channel. Did I get any of this right? Wait a second.

Yeah, actually, almost all that. All that was very, very spot on. Atlanta. Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta, Georgia. Yeah, we got to be there for a few months, which was awesome. I really love

atlanta and uh i really wanted to get out of la with whatever we were going to shoot which is you know not necessarily financially what a production company wants you know to to deal with but there's also tax breaks right in places like georgia so and plus you're southern and i'm southern it's meant to be a southern show it's like i want people to watch it and be like oh that really feels like the place they're saying it is yeah yeah what's the like what was your favorite place to hang out while you were at atlanta do you become a regular anywhere coke factory yeah burlington uh Yeah, Burlington. Yeah, Burlington Coke Factory. I don't know. Atlanta is going through that sort of phase that a lot of cities go through where they're just getting hipper businesses and some of these neighborhoods are coming up. And so we were kind of in a gray one.

My buddy has a restaurant called Homegrown that we are two blocks away from. And it's just great, you know, southern comfort food that's fantastic. I feel like we were there quite a few times, but I don't know. I was so exhausted. I'm literally in, I think, every single scene of the show outside of maybe three scenes. Yeah, right. And I don't recommend that. I do not recommend ever doing that at all.

And that was not something I wanted. It's just kind of something we know as we read this script. We're like, oh, you're in all of this. And I was like, oh, well, can that be adjusted? And it's like, no. Yeah, can my dad and my son go off on an adventure yeah um now you graham and i we live in canada uh the closest we get to southern comfort food is uh uh i i don't even know but eggo waffles i would say yeah yeah eggo waffles and uh

maybe kentucky fried chicken i don't think kentucky fried chicken mac and cheese any kind of a mac and cheese is such a like staple to the point where the south is certain that's a vegetable um but uh yeah fried chicken for sure what will what like i've never had a grit yeah i don't like grits honestly i'm not into grits and i'm not into sweet tea and some people would say that means i'm not a genuine southerner but i just i don't get it about those two things what is a grit i don't even know it's like it's it's it's just it's garbage is what it is it's like yeah it's like a it looks like some kind of thick grain soup yes exactly it's like a grainy porridgey thing but there are i think it's a little it's thicker than a porridge

but people really love it and then people are like just put syrup on it and i'm like see you don't like it either yeah that's syrup on anything i hate okra you covered in syrup i'm like not so bad is there anything we deal with as can like i'm from vancouver and i don't like salmon i mean i'll eat it but yeah it's not like this uh the way people salivate over it and if they're salivating over it i don't want it you're like i get it like even in the south i'm like yeah i get it grits let's move on what else no we're very prideful about biscuits i can get behind biscuits but i feel like that's most people anywhere they They're like, biscuits are great. Yeah.

You got to work with Bo Bridges. Yeah. Which is, he's like, he's been around forever, Bo Bridges. Dude, it's crazy. Legendary in every way. And when we were trying to figure out who would play the dad we we had said we were like let's try to cast like a big name for that role we were like i bet we could get a big name for that role right because we kind of already knew what we were going to do for everybody else

we were like let's let's see if we can go big and so we put together our dream the role of robbie was to be determined yeah but we still didn't know we're like i don't know anybody big and then i was like i'll do it and i was just sweeping up the hallway and i happened over here in the in the room you were doing a like some comedy formula on the blackboard yeah i was doing a joke formula like no one's ever solved no way the janitor did it no way the janitor at this laugh laugh factory knows yeah institute of comedy institute of comedy would understand i uh yeah we we put together our dream of, of who that famous person could be. And, you know, it's, it's obviously a situation where you have to, you just go straight to offer with all these people. And so we, we had offered it to him and he read it and he King and two of the producers, Owen Burke and Betsy Koch, we all got on the phone and he was just telling us how,

you know, he was a grandfather and he played basketball at UCLA for John Wooden and all of these things. And I, we put it on mute while he was talking and we all looked at each other. And we were like, is he trying to sell himself to us? Like we're already also, what and we were like, is he trying to sell himself to us? Like we're already.

Also, what are we missing while we've muted? Also, Bo Bridges played college basketball. He played college basketball at UCLA for John Wooden and like has a, had a relationship with that guy for, for a long time. Wow.

Now I'm not going to pretend. I know who John Wooden is. Oh, some kind of man made of wood. Most measured. and that is a good guess he uh legendary basketball coach one night maybe he's got the most college titles as a coach ever but yeah he's like legendary and like bo burges like yeah i played basketball we were all like, really? Holy shit. And then, yeah, we got off that call and I was like, it sounds like he wants to do it. Case closed.

Let's get him. I mean, that dude is as sweet and human and real as you want him to be. He's so great and so professional. And he can dunk. And he can dunk a basketball still, which is my favorite part about him and i don't know why we didn't write that into any of the episodes we didn't play to our strengths at all he does it in the fabulous baker boys yeah that's right the big off of the piano dump show i know nothing but we should just have him do that again.

That's crazy because like, how do you feel as an actor acting with a guy who's been acting since like probably the 70s, right? It's intimidating. I think even further back, I think even as a very young kid, he was doing stuff because his dad uh was always acting that that was one of the coolest things was just hearing him talk about his dad uh any any time that that would just come up i was just like oh yeah you're that's the to hear about his dad is awesome to me i mean watching airplane alone i'm like yeah i'm all in this guy's amazing. For the listeners, his dad is Lloyd Bridges, the John Wooden of acting. That is, I am with that. Yes. But it's, it's bizarre. I've had,

I've done enough acting with people where you're looking at them and you can't believe that's who you're in a scene with. Right. And I think, I think truly you just need to do that one or two times and then it you you no longer you're so distracted by fucking up your lines that you that almost that almost takes over your amazement of like like how you feel like you're like am i on a drug like this is crazy right that i'm doing that i had to do something with Will Ferrell in the house and they just had me keep running lines while I'm staring at him

he's off camera and I'm screwing up some of the lines because the whole time I'm like what in the fuck is real this is crazy this is so crazy am I in a wax museum right now did I die and I'm like just getting to live out stuff i kind

of was like oh it'd be fun to do that and it's like here you get to do it do you all right did you pick the wrong line of work you don't seem to be able to enjoy anything in the moment i don't i don't know that i do um i mean oh man you're on the podcast with dave and graham and you the whole time you're thinking don't fuck this up yeah god i want to get my lines right they sent me this script of how to reply these guys are the fabulous baker boys of podcasting when we were shooting the pilot i had a scene with beau bridges at the bowling alley and it was our first thing i think we were he and i were doing together and you know you just start to yeah I feel like in the world of stand-up you know when we were when

we go on stage or when we started to do stand-up you just kind of watched what other people were doing to start formulating in your mind what you think you're supposed to do or what the etiquette is or what the environment is and with acting you don't really get to there's no open mics to that you just thank god you get cast in something you're just doing it and you're trying to pretend like you understand why there's all these people around and what who am i supposed to talk to and who talks to me and you start to learn that stuff out of experience there's just you don't get a chance to really practice it. So sitting across from him and watching him,

I'm like, Oh, this is my like sitting side stage, watching another comic to see like, all right, what is it that they do and how do they do it and try to absorb any kind of information? It's,

it's amazing though, to get to work with like, it's somebody who like, yeah, he's been around forever he looks the same he's a guy who looks exactly the same from from film to film throughout time and he will continue to just be in things i'll be long dead he'll still be making things he will still be making things he's only 22 and a lot of people don't know this he's got his whole future ahead of him he's also a south african robot oh yes i get it now yeah he's he's work he was constantly working he left uh the production for robbie to go shoot like go shoot something else with his daughter in florida

and then he's on every tv show that pops up and i'll be watching a movie and he'll just somehow be just in it for like a second i'm always like does this guy ever fucking stop but i don't think he does i think he's just he loves it and he loves doing it that's amazing um now uh since this whole lockdown thing uh started what what have you been doing because you can't can't be acting at home or do you what do you do what have you been filling the hours i have been doing uh so being away from home all the time i it i do feel selfish giving this answer while i know that there's a lot of people, you know, mentally suffering, financially suffering, physically health wise suffering. I get all that.

And my heart breaks for everyone that's in that position. But as someone who's always gone from my house to do my job, to actually have to be home with my kid that I've wanted to do since she was born. I'm kind of like, oh, I can finally be here every day to hang out with my wife and kid. And we rent a house and there's kind of a massive garden here. So we've kind of just, I'm not really much for gardening, but I am kind of OCD. And as soon as I start, you know, picking up any of the weeds that are growing between the like plants or anything, I then get on this. I can't stop until I've weeded everything.

So I'm slowly weeding this entire property and we don't own it we we are not for us to do uh but i can't i can't stop doing it it just fills the day and it just feels very sad when you move out leave the weed we'll put them back no we're gonna put them back yeah do you use your hands or you use a tool so i've been i have gloves on and i've been using my hands but i gotta say i do it like that i like pinch them and i've been doing it so hard that i now don't have any feeling in my tips of my thumbs or my index fingers that I told my wife I was like I think I have to stop for like four days for my fingers to like you know kind of get back

to being normal I did that I a few years ago I was doing that for a summer and I was just I was obsessed with it as well because it's it's for like we also had morning glory which uh is it like it's a vine that wraps around things and it just kills it it kills everything

and it's and it's impossible to get rid of and the neighbors were seemingly cultivating it they were like we like we like it yeah yeah yeah've planted more, but I would eat our child, but we love it. And so I would be bad, pull that out. And then I would find all the weeds in the lawn. And it wasn't my finger so much as like my forearms. I would just get like the tendons in there.

Just get so sore. Yeah. And I would get that Tetris feeling of when, even when I closed my eyes i would see the the like structure of the weed where i like yes yeah how you have to get it here so you pull out the roots yes now when you guys were doing the sound of it too it's got some asmr to it yes it's like oh yeah when it rips from the. Were you guys wearing big floppy sun hats during this? Or what was going on head-wise?

Yeah, big floppy sun hats, but low-cut tops for my pendulous breasts. Low-cut tops, and every now and then he'd stop and drink some lemonade. And a little bit would spill on his blouse. He was wearing a man's blouse. And you noticed how freckly his breasts were. Yeah. He should mention he was shooting soft porn at the time. and you notice a man's blouse and you notice how freckly his breasts were yeah he should mention he was shooting

soft porn at the time he was weeding his yard you gotta multitask you gotta keep on top of things in this economy

you have to I wonder how the softcore porn well the softcore porn industry I don't know if it exists anymore. It's always been suffering.

It's been hurt by the internet. Day one. Is it just the hardcore porn industry, but with like, they cut out the closeups. Yeah. Soft porn, the monkeys of the Beatles of porn.

Yes. There was, oh man, there was a couple of shows that used to air on in canada a station called showcase and there was one was called the red shoe diaries yes i know this with david dicovny and that was always like that was a soft core porn yeah at our age that was like hot stuff that was the greatest yeah and then seeing him years later on the x-files i think then the x-files by proxy also made me horny so yeah i get that that and all the probes yeah red shoe i remember red shoe diaries oh god red shoe diaries that song yeah the just the how are you you're not supposed to be watching it and yet we would we would sneak and watch it there was also the uh

emmanuel do you remember the emmanuel movies i know i heard people mentioning them i never got around to those but i would watch every i was i was a very horny young man from about 11 until present day. You're safe here. You're amongst friends. And I was a big, I mean, if I could catch a Red Shoe Diaries, sure. But that would be 9 p.m. What's on at 10.30? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Can I catch some scrambled porn scramble like is it doesn't it like like there's such a joke now that that we realize now in our older age when people joke about scramble porn you're you're just like oh yeah i looked at that too yeah even still you look back and you're like there was not really anything visible no not really still still you were like god those days were good it's likely but just the audio it's like how i'm going to just play the audio of robbie yeah yeah that will be the scrambled porn of this podcast and just imagine all the characters are naked yeah with wobbly green and black bodies

yeah colors changing constantly yeah I always said like if I could teach a college course on foreign films that came out between the years like 1991 and like 1999 because I watched every single foreign film that would come out like 1991 and like 1999.

Cause I watched every single porn film that would come out in the hopes that there would be a scene where naked woman would appear. Yes. I definitely remember. Oh boy. Was it heavier? Bardem saying someone's boobs tasted like ham. That sounds like some of the high schooler would say, don't go with Becky. boobs taste like ham they do taste like ham I mean that is right that is

true boobs taste like ham and every man cataloged that sentence in their mind for the rest of their life nature is bizarre yeah um so you've been doing a lot of gardening do you uh do you keep a schedule for yourself or are you just kind of freestyling it so i think in this lockdown the not i think the freestyling hasn't been a good idea. I think we need a schedule. We haven't really been doing it. Our daughter wakes up. She immediately wants to watch Sesame Street or Magic School Bus. And sometimes we throw it on because then we can sleep a little more.

But we don't really love her watching a ton of stuff or getting too into the screens and getting addicted to it. So it's that weird balance of how much we let her watch and all this and i think because we don't have a schedule you know and we wake up some days we're like i really just want to sleep and that's why you just go turn it on but yeah then after that i'm like well i open the blinds and then i make some coffee i make her some food. And, you know, then it's like, I don't know what the fuck. What do I do now? And it's there is something that is maddening about not knowing what to do or having something to do. My line of work is, you know, 100% shut down at this point.

Yeah. you know 100 shut down at this point yeah and i there's also something so comforting knowing that there is not something to do other than be with your family and you know go paint a picture or do something you know it's it's weird have you painted a picture i yeah i've painted i i love painting are you a pain you are a painter i am a painter uh i'm not i don't do it very often and i'm very uh sub okay i think someone would go that i think my my i think if you saw my art you would go well no that's okay what's the painting behind you is the painting behind this is one me and my daughter did together a long time ago i love it so she was uh maybe two at the time and she wanted to do like an alice in wonderland thing and we just went and bought

this giant canvas and had some acrylic and so i'm over on the right side here really experimenting to see what and I I was like oh this looks cool so then I just started doing it all over and she just made this sort of you know this is the darker side this is more this is more the Louis Carroll was going for I'm over here in Disney this is Disney's version this is Louis Carroll yeah this is lewis carroll yeah this is the this is the jabberwocky yeah this is the jabberwocky darker side the uh is there uh because your your daughter is five she's five yep going on five yeah is there a television show or a YouTube channel or something that you absolutely cannot stand? Um, we don't do any of the YouTube stuff, but, uh, yeah, she's got, there's some shows

she likes. She likes this one show, Elena on Disney plus, and, uh, it's fine and it's probably good, but it's that type of, uh, blocky animation that came out I feel like in the early 2000s and I just hate that animation style. So no matter how good it maybe actually is as a show I'm just like, I can't do it.

I hate this style of animation. But I will say and Dave, I don't know if you know about this but the show Bluey Yes! Oh my my god it's so good it's so it's it's like it reminds me of the simpsons like a really clean simpsons like with if the the episodes where they like love each other yes yeah so what take me through what's a what's uh what is bluey it's this south african robot and it's a family of dogs of blue

healers the healer family and there's a mom and a dad and two daughters bluey and bingo and it's all they just play games like they come up with just games that they play around the house of just make believe and it's it's new zealand or australia which which australia is australia and so they have australian accents and the kids australian accents are just so adorable it's cute but it's like look i before i had kids when people would be like oh you know what pixar movies actually there's some jokes in there for grown-ups it's not even like that it's just like kind it's funny in a very sweet way yes and it almost it's so simple sweet that you almost wonder why you don't see that more often because it's so satisfying to watch but uh yeah it's it's it's good for kids it's entertaining

for parents the parents are all in on playing with the kids. Yeah, it makes me feel bad sometimes. Every dad I've talked to is like, am I a shitty dad? And I'm like, 100%. But also, that is the other end of the spectrum. Like, that is way too all in. No one's bringing any bread home if you are that all in playing with the kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, I'm going to check. bringing any bread home if you are that all in yeah yeah yeah um well i'm gonna check yeah i'm gonna check it out bluey slaps um dave what's been going on with you man well during this pandemic time so before uh this started i i did two things for exercise oh i did three things for exercise i played hockey hockey oh nice i played tennis with my dad yeah and i went to yoga once a week yeah and now uh no hockey no tennis no yes yoga still do yoga but the yoga the yoga place i go to is shut down uh don't do yoga with adrian don't do yoga oh yoga with adrian oh yeah that's a channel yeah yeah yeah oh and uh that's i think that is the go-to these days well i because i checked that out i was looking on youtube for yogas to do and i didn't i don't like when it's just a teacher talking to you because i feel it's too intimate yeah yeah yeah uh and so i was like i like i want to find a class like where they're showing a class of everyone doing it and uh so many of them are just like badly miked or uh too too like blurry uh and i found this one

and because i was i just searched for like 60 minute yoga or 45 minute yoga and i found this is a two-week effort just to find the right it was his own workout and you put in 60 minute yoga and it was 60 minutes there's an expose on yoga and you're like well i will watch mike wallace do his thing yeah yeah and that's when things turn sour like what this is yoga you caught yoga in a being a hypocrite yeah how can you be a cow and a cat um so i found this one uh i found a 60 minute class and it was uh it said beginner and i was like i don't really want to do beginner i'm i'm like one tiny level up from beginner i like that confidence yeah me too and i so i watched this one i did this one and it was not beginner at all it was like

it was totally like the only thing the more videos i watch from this uh it's called floating yoga school the more videos i watch from them i realize that beginner just means you do not do a headstand yeah yeah yeah yeah and then uh like later on it's feet behind your head and whatever but uh what uh what is not beginner about it all of it seems advanced to me everything it's just like i agree with that it's just that you'll yeah like you'll be spending a lot of time in a plank and then they're like oh yeah lift up your foot and now lift up another hand no no and then there's like lift up both feet you're like not even physically awesome uh and then so i so i did this class and afterwards i went and i went looking for the comments just to see am i wrong about this

was every was everyone else like this was not beginner how was this beginner and that was every comment it was this is not beginner hey this was great not beginner though in what world is this beginner and then i found one comment that uh that caught my eye and it said nice yoga session guys that girl in the front with the back knotted shirt is really hot when her shirt rides up to show her belly it gives me purpose in life her feet compliment her too wow and so was it signed by q tarantino yeah but still this is not a beginner video and i was like who was wearing a knotted shirt in that video i was like the knotted shirt was such a weird detail like i don't need anyone to tell me who's hot i know who's hot yeah yeah that's why you put out that annual list yeah who's hot and who's not. Yeah, exactly.

The maximum top, top 100. Uh, and I, but then I noticed that the person's name who wrote the comment was nodded stranger, like, like nodded,

like a nodded shirt. Sure. You might, just so you know, and I don't know if you want to publicly keep saying this but you might be unraveling like a serial killer's web here you might be well so i clicked on this person's uh uh profile to see oh see what they had on youtube they hadn't posted any videos but they had three playlists oh nice and the first playlist is called

yoga with knotted shirts nice and how many videos do you think are in this uh playlist 33 god i want it to be so high 100 194 yay god That's satisfying. And then their second playlist is called yoga with knotted shirts. Part two, the sequel, the sequel. Yeah, that one's own. That one's only 20.

Okay. But it's because they just had to tie up a couple loose ends that are left from the first one. But also the first one only allows 191 videos. And so, or whatever he says, he had to do 20 on the next one there should have never been a part two and then part three yoga with knotted shirts part three the comeback 103 videos okay so part two was just they fell out of love yeah and it's just baffling to me because none of these videos have like

knotted shirts in the title of them this person had to watch this many videos and find a knotted shirt in them what is a knotted shirt are we talking about like where you tie up in a knot yeah i don't know if they are sold that way or if you knot it yourself right something you tie up yourself or if it's just like you you buy it with a knot in it like that okay imagine having one imagine having that fetish but then two imagine having that much time to dedicate but just imagine how many videos they had to watch where they were like no knotted shirt in this one no knotted shirt in this one next do you think you have a fetish that you just don't you haven't even discovered oh yeah i'm always like what if we are into knotted shirts but how would you know do you discover it at this

point i'm worried that there is one that i haven't uh discovered and then i feel like it'll be too late by the time i discover it or the one that you haven't discovered that everyone else knows about you you're like oh yeah that's right it's like quentin tarantino's like i guess i like feet yeah like yeah everybody around you is like yeah you love people sitting in cakes you make it seem like that's an accident every time but you like it man you're like i guess i do i never really guess i never really paid attention to myself yeah like oh that is why i put birthday cake on people's chairs i get it and it's not their birthday i had no reason to ever even purchase that yeah also abby was i was telling this to abby and she was like those shirts would be terrible

for doing yoga because you you like you have to lie down in them and you have a knot poking you yeah they serve no purpose yeah that's the practical consideration in all of this how do you do yoga with a knotted shirt not a shirt yoga is that what his name is knotted stranger his or her name i'm not sure i think you got your next guest for the yeah some questions he's just like the black silhouette with the robot like yes okay so what my favorite thing about naughty shirts what um should we say then the username should i have bleeped that no he's put it out there in the public it's not it's not a private user no that's true and likely they haven't murdered someone not Not definitely they haven't, but likely that they have.

Right, the knotted shirt killer. Yeah, yes, yes. What you don't know is all of those women are dead in those videos that had knotted shirts. Start to dig a little deeper, Dave. You're going to find yourself in a new career. Oh, yeah, follow the knots. Oh, boy, the last thing i wanted um uh yeah what what is what's your fetish i don't think i have one i don't want to discover it and then be like but that's the thing would you discover it

and then be embarrassed by it because if it's a fetish don't you like you love it are are people ashamed of their fetishes yeah well i mean it depends on what it is yeah do we all have them no because it's like it's something i think you need and we were brought up on the meat and potatoes soft court porn of the red shoe diaries since our porn was so scrambled we actually don't have any imagination as to what the options are yeah yeah or my fetish is that david dicoveny has to read a letter before and after he's uh yeah my fetish is that the cable's just gone out and uh you know it's just a little snowy yeah dress up and you the the your partner has to be all kind of wobbly. Why do you want me to paint my top half in burnt orange

and then my bottom half in... Put on this Avatar costume. That kind of looks like a scrambled porn thing. Yeah. Did we lose Rory? You know what? I'll let the listener in on a on a little glitch we had we lost Rory for a while

we lost me guys and now he's back and you know what it's just part of dealing with this world we might have lost his audio so we might just have to release an episode with you will have to guess what I was saying to their response

yes so you worked with Bo Bridges and then five minutes of silence Yes, what I was saying to their responses. Yes. So you worked with Bo Bridges and then five minutes of silence. Graham, what's going on with you? This week, like, everybody's been doing Zoom meetings and Zoom communicating and Skype and whatever. Who's Zooming's zooming who who's zooming who's what i want to know like how many people is the most people you've been on a zoom with i think maybe six for me five or six what is the limit because i know it can go pretty high i think it can go to it's possible that it can go to 100 is what I've heard. Or 99.

That's crazy. But I virtually was at a child's birthday party. I was invited. This is not one of these gotcha moments. Right. gotcha moments right um and there was about 10 people on that call and it was the most chaotic thing i've ever experienced in my life oh what kids like running around yeah yeah yeah yeah it was like they were adults but almost every set of adults had a kid or two kids uh and a kid that didn't want there was one kid that was crying the whole

time and you know how like the green box kind of jumps from whoever's being the loudest yeah and so it was it was on that kid almost the whole time the kid that didn't even want to be there became the star of the show yeah and uh and it's funny it's funny to watch kids because they don't care they don't care that it's their uncle or or whatever is out there in the world they have they have no interest and they they only want to watch what they want to watch and i like it's hard to even though this kid was just getting presents and opening them, he had no concept or interest. How old was this kid? Three.

Oh, well, that sucks. Yeah. And now, yeah, also, yes, no concept of what is even happening. They're like, what? The three-year-old's like, why are we even doing this? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, it's fun.

It's fun it's fun even in in real life opening presents a three-year-old gets a little bit of uh uh they get tired of it after about two presents okay i want to play with them now yeah yeah yeah and like it's fun it is fun to watch a kid open a present and be surprised every time that it's something they want yeah that that to me never gets old is that they go through this whole rigmarole and then yeah oh my god every other day of the year their parents make them unwrap things that they hate yes yeah well you know kids that do unboxing videos that's their whole life yes thanks to the grindstone yeah the birthday is the one day a year that they don't open presents they're just given the toys unwrap um but yeah it uh it was wild

it's like it's it's wild and i don't know that i would do it again but i enjoyed it i enjoyed it quite a bit it was just uh chaos like it just you couldn't start a sentence and I was just sitting there just taking it all in. Yeah. Yeah. It's yeah. It's like Hollywood squares. If everybody was just talking simultaneously,

was there anyone else on there that didn't have a kid that you got? You guys are kind of like looking at each other. Like, look, we get it. You get it. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. There was, there was one couple that I was like, I felt like we had a connection. And then it was like, yeah, okay. So that happened. And then for the first time in quite a long time, I've been scouring the want ads, seeing what's out there job-wise. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because, you know, all the work that I was doing is all flushed down the toilet, right? So, it's, you know, I'm keeping my options open. And it's a strange blend of things that are hiring right now. Okay. Like, it's a lot. lot a lot of if you have your own car you are the prince of this town yeah if you have your own car you can pick any job out of the craigslist uh job section it is yours um and then a lot of places that are like just doing the curbside pickup so any like uh big box stores they're

all hiring but like for the first time ever like starbucks is not hiring and you know that kind of like restaurants aren't hiring but uh you know like food delivery huge huge yeah yeah but you wouldn't do that no i don't have a car and yeah but like even the big box stores you don't want to be you don't want to be around people no that's true that's the other thing is like trying to find a job where it's like all the work from home jobs you're like this is some guy in tahiti somewhere that's got like a weird landline that you have to dial into and he gets you to upload surveys or something you can't trace gambling ring no there's no pictures of him you get paid in cash just an envelope of cash comes to your door yeah it's always it's always like four dollars short like it's not enough to

like you know mention it but it irks you. Yeah, exactly. So I feel like that's another, it's like prime time for some really shady business to get a toehold. There was one business that their whole business was covering vans in a wrap of advertisements. And then you drive the van around. Yeah. That's the job. That you drive this van around that has ads that's the job ah that you drive this van around that has ads all over it that seems all right that seems like no no that does sound pretty good right but it also seemed like a fake business that they were trying to yeah yeah yeah

you might yeah that might be an abduction yeah do you have to get do you have to help them put a uh couch into the van yes yeah it said it has to be able to lift the couch. Yeah. Yeah. Just get up there. I'll, I'll push it in. Okay.

I mean, all right. This van's not even wrapped in anything. Yeah. Windows on this thing. But, you know you did say that i have to be able to lift a couch so this is me proving my yeah and what do you think uh what do i think of of that of the market it's it's there's more people hiring than i thought there would be when was the last time you applied for a job oh a long time ago.

So this is all new. I would have to, honestly, I would have to write a resume from scratch. And what to leave out. You know what I mean? When you're building a resume, what do you keep? What do you go? I don't think that matters to employers. Yeah.

That's not going to impress them. they don't care i can probably say that i like got a degree in something that they wouldn't be able to track yeah okay actually that's a good like at this time you could be like well i'm not gonna be able to get some kind of you know transcript from a university yes i'm a a doctor. You aim way too high. Yeah. I'm Grant. Also, that's not the job you want right now. Yeah, exactly.

You're Dr. Grant Clark, but you do go by Mr. in your whole life. I've gone by Mr. my whole life because I'm humble. Yeah, it's a whole weird uh it's a whole weird field that i haven't yeah i haven't like because when i moved to new york in like 2007 i was doing temp work okay so yeah probably 2007 or 2008 i was working for some offices just answering phones and telling people where the bathrooms are

a resume when you pitched comedy central i had my resume with me just to be like look i need this that was your power move is like all right we're going for the pity vote here i wonder about all this like stuff you learned in high school about you know you send a resume and then you say or you send a cover letter with a resume and then if you get the job interview you bring a copy of the resume just in case yeah and then you send a thank you afterwards yeah the thing i wonder how much of that stuff i would remember well here's a weird thing that happened this week is like i was on Twitter and I was making fun of people who won't wear masks in a grocery store.

Right. Really salty attitude about it. And I said, I would send a mask to if somebody didn't, couldn't get a mask. I'll, I have a box of them. So I'll mail you a mask.

And I literally had to look up on the internet. How do you do an envelope to mail? Like, where does the address that you're sending it from where the stamps go that's impressive that is i'm actually impressed by that i that i can do but the the all like the letter formatting of uh where you you have to like put your address and their address somewhere on the page. Yeah.

When they open the letter just so they know, wait, is this the same letter from that envelope? Yeah. I never really understood the logic of that, as opposed to email where you just write, hey, brother. Yeah. And the stamps are just a standard amount. They don't have grades of stamps anymore

it's just like this is the permanent stamp yeah but then i had to find out how much is a permanent stamp worth and how much does it cost to mail it was fucking crazy and then i had to find a post office box it's almost like it's almost like you have a TV show doing the most basic shit, like learning how to mail a letter, but it's not for kids. It's not for kids to learn. No, like that PBS show where they went and lived in a frontier house. Yes, yes. But it's just things from 1988.

Yeah. It's a how- you load a fax machine oh shit I gotta look this up I would look on google but it feels like cheating so I'm gonna find a manual yeah you know I saw a great meme just bringing up people

that were sour about the masks I saw a great meme tonight that said if you were one of the people that thought it was okay for a bakery to refuse a wet making a wedding cake for a gay couple then certainly you can understand places refusing service to you for not putting a mask on you can't get behind one and then complain about the other yeah i was like oh that's actually a really great point i had a lot of trouble the other night at red lobster uh there was a three hour wait for food and i i i couldn't take it anymore i gotta get them biscuits that's how long lobster takes it takes three hours um now graham yes sir uh do

we have time even tonight for the bradley cooper movie club look we can just we can glaze over it because we you and i just watched this movie i don't assume that rory did as well i gave i know i know the movie and i i love that you're saying we can glaze over it all feels so poetic knowing that you guys watched a cooking movie oh well guys why don't i play the theme song to the bradley cooper movie club yes please oh yeah this one was sent in from a listener it is a a remix of the uh bradley cooper movie club theme this one was done by listener franklin f here we go wow that was a real like uh quick to the point trans-siberian orchestra it was like trans-siberian orchestra you just see Christmas lights

like timed yeah it's just timed to that um this movie so I chose this movie burnt yes uh and this was a choice based off of the the cover right and it's this was like when you go to a movie a movie rental place and you're like huh we got mr t is is holding the a cab door yes this this movie looks good yeah what's he why is he doing that what's he up to who is this and why how many what number what number movie are you guys on this is five this is okay yeah and um what were the previous four if i may there was in order of how good they were and chronological order of when we did them yeah yeah star is born star is born joy uh valentine's day valentine's day all about all about steve i don't know all about steve

uh you you will never there's a reason yeah um but this i chose it because of the cover it seemed like just when you imagine a pretentious movie with a pretentious actor now i don't know bradley goober he might be a lovely person yes but it just seemed like the it seemed like a fake movie it does it looked like yeah something that they would mock up for a television show to have on a poster in the background is it meant to kind of be like anthony bourdain's kitchen confidential is that well he's supposed to be a character like anthony bourdain uh although he did he made a tv show based on kitchen confidential a sitcom oh he did called kitchen confidential in the 2000s where he played a character named jack bourdain jack bourdain character bradley cooper oh bradley really yeah yeah he really wants this fun little side note uh comedian

brendan walsh when burnt was coming out he mentioned to me several times that we should get tents and camp out at the movie theater knowing knowing that no one else gives a shit to see that movie that would be amazing people walk by me like what wait what movie is about to be like burnt we're here to see some news crew just drives by yeah you can just sleep in your own bed and just walk up here two minutes before it starts and be the only people in there um the only thing about this movie, like it was, is exactly what he thinks about a guy

who's off the rails or whatever. But all of that's in the past and everybody's talking about how he used to be so crazy. And you're like, well, why can't I see that movie? It's like they're talking about a better movie that exists than the one that you're watching.

So he's a guy, he's a chef who's gotten two Michelin stars and then he lost it to the drugs. He became a drug addict, drinker. And then it starts with him shucking oysters and he's crossing off numbers until he has shucked one million oysters. And so that's his like penance and now and then he returns to london to get his third michelin star and then you're like okay he either he does it or he does or he does or yeah i could kill it less if he does and then yeah i never realized this i thought like the michelin star thing was separate from the tire store um because like you know how like a visa and a visa are two different things yeah i thought it was

like michelin guide and michelin tires there is no overlap but it is actually the tire i thought that i i can admit that i thought that for a long time also yeah yeah it was only in this movie that i realized that i was like oh it's the also yeah it was only in this movie that i realized that i was like oh it's the tire company because you said you were like surely that makes no sense it doesn't make any sense yeah no it's an offshoot they have like a travel guide because he retires to travel there you go um yeah so that was the big reveal for me is that the Michelin also, uh, there, like he tries to get, um, uh, third Michelin star and, and, um, they say all these things that the Michelin judges do at every restaurant that they like place a fork on the floor to see

if the way they order half a bottle of wine and two glasses of water and i was just thinking about those same people like on a road trip going into a danny's and trying that shit and just being like wow they didn't notice that i put a whole plate on the floor like it just yeah and also there was already one down there when i put mine down there but i also feel like if i was a guy if like it just makes me want to do those things so that like a restaurant thinks i'm a michelin guy and they serve me really good food that's right that they steer you away from what they're just getting off of the special because it's about to rot yeah yeah um um as so this was like bradley cooper just cooping it up

leather jacket yeah i feel like he chose this role so he could like train to be a chef he just always wanted to learn knife skills and i read the imdb and that is exactly what he did he like hung out with chefs and was like crazy about getting the right technique and all this stuff and i should say the beginning of the movie it's by the weinsteins uh produced it they're great mario batali great uh was yeah the food expert so i was like this is real who's who of the me too movements yeah yeah bradley was in an awkward position when all that exploded because he worked with all of them yeah you spent time with all these monsters yeah you have to say bradley can you believe the accusations i'm getting uh yes i can i'm a chef um he's uh it's just so i don't know if you've ever seen the interview where

he did an interview once in uh france and he speaks french oh yeah and uh you're like oh bradley cooper can speak french cool and then in this movie he's like i'm gonna use all my french yeah he speaks french throughout it yeah and it was convincing i was like i think he's really saying the actual right french words oh he spoke a lot of french in the movie yeah yeah it kind of like it's in that way it's kind of like a dumb kind of movie but then there's these moments where it's in french and you're like is this good once it goes over to the french you're like maybe this is good It turns black and white when it's in front. So many jump cuts. It's just the breathless of,

um, it's got, it's just, and then it's just montages of people cooking. Yeah. That, which that to me was the most enjoyable thing. Yeah.

I kind of liked it. Yeah. You know, you got a good movie when people prefer the montage to the story yeah literally with the story it's like uh either he gets his michelin star he doesn't or like he there's this recurring thing where like he owes a debt to his old drug dealers oh yeah and it's like either he pays it off or or they kill him whatever yeah whatever yeah i got no skin in this game whatsoever i don't care at all uh but overall it wasn't i didn't i didn't feel like i was cheated out of anything by

watching it or i didn't find it like overly dreadful it was just like a movie i saw yeah i do have you seen any good food movies there's uh, uh, isn't there like, uh, shit. I can't remember what it's called, but like Big Night. Big Night. Yeah. I saw that. It's about Suge Knight. He's the biggest knight.

Yeah. Starring Tony Shalhoub as Suge Knight. But yeah, that was good. Big Night was really good. I never saw it. Um, and like there was, I think think you when you went to new york you went to the restaurant of the food stylist that was on hannibal hannibal yeah yeah in la yeah and that to me is like a big food that's a big food thing yeah yeah yeah yeah um but yeah so this was uh this was a it was burnt

yeah the cooper's got knives yeah oh i just wanted to say the the one quote i wrote down from the movie that just felt like the bradley cooperist line uh was uh we should be dealing in culinary orgasms. Yes. Yes. I want to leave them feeling longing or something, he said. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's... That's how I cook at home. Yeah.

There's a little bit of orgasm in everything. Yeah. Yeah. Heat up some Michelinas and away we go. Yeah, and I go, i hope this gets you off babe uh where do we rank this in the list i put it fairly near the top i think it's above valentine's day below joy's day yeah i, probably, uh, stars born then joy, then this, then Valentine's day,

then all about Steve. Yeah. Is that all next week? Yeah, that's all. Next week we will conclude the Bradley Cooper movie club mercifully. Yeah. With Aloha.

Aloha will be the last one we will watch. I mean, maybe I'll keep watching them just as a matter of course, but of course you will. Why not just watch all of them? Rory, we're going to watch Aloha next week. If you want to join us.

Oh, I'll be there. I'll be there in spirit. Should we move on to some overheard? Sure. All right. Hey, I'm Janet Farney, host of the JV Club podcast. Ah, high school.

Was it a time of adventure, romance, and discovery? Class of 95, we did it! Or a time of angst, disappointment, and confusion? We're all tied together by four years of trauma at this place, but enjoy adulthood, I guess. The truth is, it was both. So join me on the JV Club podcast where I invite some great friends like Kristen Bell, Angela Kinsey,

Oscar Nunez, Neil Patrick Harris, and Keegan-Michael Key to talk about high school, the good, the bad, and everything in between. My teenage mood swings are getting harder to manage. The JV Club. Find it on Maximum Fun. Judge John Hodgman won a Webby in the comedy podcast category. After 10 years of production, Judge John Hodgman has finally won. The Susan Lucci of the Webbys. What is Judge John Hodgman has finally won. The Susan Lucci of the Webbies. What is Judge John Hodgman?

Comedy writer and television personality John Hodgman settles disputes between friends, family, co-workers, partners, and more. Is Machine Gun a robot? Should a grown adult tell his parents about his tattoos? Should a family be compelled to wear matching outfits on vacation? Listen to Judge John Hodgman to find out the answers to these age-old disputes and more. If you haven't listened to Judge John Hodgman, now is a great time to start. Judge John Hodgman is available on MaximumFun.org and wherever you get your podcasts.

overheard overheard's a segment where you might hear things out there in the world even though you've been staying at home and the best place to share them is here on the podcast and we always like to start with the guest rory would you please so my overheard is adorable and cute yes uh my daughter you know uh she's got to do facetime with friends uh and so uh she has a friend down the street who is like a sister to her and so if we we feel awful that these kids can't you know be near each other and we're probably inching our way towards uh figuring out the the testing and and just getting them together for the sake of their sanity. But during a FaceTime, I heard her friend on the FaceTime say, do you know that I love you? I mean, these are four-year-olds.

Yeah. Do you know that I love you? And my daughter goes, yes, and I love you. And I overheard that. And I didn't cry because I'm such a warrior of a man that's right but i thought about crying that's adorable much yeah it yeah it crushed me i was like oh my god that's the most fucking adorable i don't even talk to my wife like that. Do you know I love you?

I get it. I think you do, I guess. Whatever. Dave, do you have an overheard? Mine is also a cute child. This is my three-year-old, Poppy. She was walking around naked. She just said,

Everybody loves my butt in my family which is like an appropriate amount of people to love your butt and you are like you're like that's true yeah kids but you just want to bite it and you're like Yeah, you're right. You can fit the whole thing in your hand. Yeah. It is adorable. Yes. Kids butts rule. There we go. Kids butts.

Little baby butts. Baby thighs. Ooh. I could bite a baby's thigh right now. Yeah, why is that? Why do we want to bite a baby's thigh? I know. And when you do, it's not, it doesn't get like scratch that itch.

No. No, and it hurts them a lot. Yeah. My overheard please courtesy of being in my apartment. And usually when it rains here in Vancouver, it's not a thunder and lightning kind of rain. It's just the rain that shows up. And a couple like last week, a couple nights ago, I was listening to the rain. It's just the rain that shows up. And a couple, like last week, a couple nights ago, I

was listening to the rain and then all of a sudden, thunder. Big thunder. And I was like, my god, thunder. And it was just a person pushing the dumpster down the alley. Boy, these overheards are suffering. My god, a tornado.

No, no. That's just Mike taking out the garbage someone vacuuming in the hall yeah now we also have overheard sent into us by listeners if you want to send one in you can send it into spy at maximum fun.org this uh first one comes from john uh this is in february i was at a grocery store in berkeley california excited woman in line to cashier oh hey my name is fish your name is cat very laid back cashier fish huh cool catfish all right oh boy it was so easy back in february yeah exactly you could just walk in and hear a couple people at the cash just yakking away yeah we were different people back then we were

yeah there's a there's a demarcation there that you know that that was from back in the day when you would ask like when you used to be able to ask a cashier like how you doing and they'd be like fine and now it feels more like no but how are you doing in all of this yeah yeah but how are you getting by um this next one comes from kelso uh this is at the park a toddler was out in the park with his father. The kid came running at us, wildly shrieking. They have dog with them. Black dog, black dog, before switching to small dog, small dog, as he ran by us. His father shrugged as he casually walked by and said, he loves freaking out.

Don't mind him. Yeah. Don't mind him yeah oh don't mind him he gets a real charge out of overreacting he loves freaking out and sharing that freak out with we're trying to nurture that in him yeah we freak out too and this last one comes from ted in texas was in my backyard with my kids, and a couple doors over, the neighbor kids were playing on their trampoline. The neighbor dad came outside and made a loud noise and played very loudly on the trampoline with his kids. My two-year-old was very startled, and he ran over to me. He said, there's an elephant over there. Despite my calming message, it was just a dad, not an animal.

He is convinced that it is an elephant now when we go outside he whispers i want to see the elephant it was a dad the kid yeah the dad the dad whispers it opening hoping it's real what did he think it we thought he saw an elephant what was it really no He thought he saw an elephant. What was it, really? No, he said he heard an elephant. Oh. It was really a dad jumping on a trampoline. Oh, okay. Guys, I'm sorry. It's fine.

It's fine. I hope that dad never finds out that that's what he sounds like on a trampoline. It would crush him. It would crush him to know that. That's right. And someone is developing a fetish of an elephant fetish based on that. In addition to overheards that are written in, we also accept your phone calls. If you want to call us, the phone number is 1-844-779-7631, like these people have. Hi, Dave and Graham. It was in like a Zoom birthday party situation where someone's kid wandered in and said,

I like to save all my best farts for the dinner table. And kind of no one reacted to it. And because of this, he then said a little bit louder, I like to fart throughout the entire day but I saved a really big good ones for dinner alright stay safe bye

this kid rules that kid has an agenda no reaction from that one? nope let me just tell you about my whole process here unless of course we're having pizza, which I quite enjoy. And then I save it for dessert. Yeah, and then I save my fart for after pizza.

A real connoisseur. Yeah. Here's your next phone call. Hi, Dave Graham and possible virtual guests. This is Sarah from Colorado calling in an overheard slash kid say the darndest from the before time. I was at a Star Wars movie recently, and there was a really cute little kid sitting in front of me. He was super excited to be at the movies. And about 20 minutes into the movie, he turns around and looks at me and goes, I'm watching this movie, too.

You know how much fun you're having? I'm having it too. Yeah, this is great. That is a fun observation of like, you know, he really wanted to be like look at us doing stuff together. That's really what he's trying to say, but he didn't know the words. Like all of us men, we don't know how to

verbalize anything. Right. Yeah. We fart at the dinner table. Yeah. Save our best ones. And here's your final over. Hey, guys.

Hey. Dave Graham, possible guest. Hey. Hey. I was just calling because I am a school teacher in California, and we have been doing Zoom classes. These are all kids? Yeah.

To talk to our students. And in one of my classes, we are working on creating our own inventions. And this week, we are focusing on inventions involving our pets and how we could get our pets to go outside with us outside of the typical dog, cat on a leash. So we had some kids who invented things to take fish in backpacks and snakes in tubes around your body. But one boy kind of missed it. And he just designed a hamster cage with a small room off to the side.

And when I asked him what the little room was, he said it was the VR room for a hamster cage with a small room off to the side. And when I asked him what the little room was, he said it was the VR room for the hamster because that way the hamster could use VR in order to go outside and he wouldn't need to take his hamster outside. Smart. And I asked him if the hamster would be able to use the VR. And in the Zoom, he looked at me rather stunned and he says hey it's a hamster who knows its life

he's right yeah yeah it is exactly right well come on teacher what are you like do i have to do all the work here yeah just imagine what a hamster's life we're on zoom all right the rules are out the window oh boy well uh this brings us to the end of the podcast rory it's been such a treat to have you thanks for having me i appreciate it um where people can see robbie either through comedy central's web page or their youtube page or possibly on apple apple uh yeah i think that's i think those are the options but uh yeah anyone in uh if any international uh well i guess for me international but anyone in canada or outside of the u.s i don't know that it's available for free on youtube yet but i'm under the impression that day is uh is coming but it's it's all new to me so i don't know how that stuff

works timing wise but and i've watched only the two first episodes but i think it's great it's so funny you're great in it thank you and i started on episode four and i agree yeah you were like let me get into it let me get into the meat of this thing yeah yeah yeah um and people can also listen to your podcast which is called pen pals yep and now the pen pals pod on uh i i guess on spotify i don't we're on starburns audio but i don't know wherever you get your your podcast you'll you'll find us. Nice. Well, thank you so much for being our guest. Thanks, Rory. All you listeners out there, thank you so much for listening. Please

stay as safe as you can. And thank you very much for listening. If you enjoy the podcast, you can recommend it to your friends. And why don't you come on back next week for another episode of Stop Podcasting Yourself.