Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 809 - Aparna Nancherla

Episode Date: September 19, 2023

Comedian Aparna Nancherla joins us to talk about her new book Unreliable Narrator, Tamagotchis, and taco trucks.

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 809 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who I imagine, and I don't know for a fact, likes to get comfy in a little cuckoo of blankets when he sleeps at night, Mr. Dave Shumka. What do you mean? Well, some people like it just, you know, half on, half off. I picture you completely.

Oh, no, I have to have my foot out. Oh, you have to have your foot out. Nice. For security and for coolness, yes? Yeah, yeah. Why is this security? Because in case a robber comes in, he's like, ooh, gross feet. Yeah, yeah.

Or just, you know, somebody doesn't think it's a pile of clothes and jumps on it or something like that. Oh, sure, yeah. You know, somebody doesn't think it's a pile of clothes and jumps on it or something like that. Oh, sure. Yeah. I also do it because I'm cutting school and I want my parents to know that I'm really sick. So I have a real human foot I stick out. Our guest today, first time guest to the podcast.

She's a comedian. She's a writer. She has been on radio, stage, television, all the big things. She's here today with us. It's Aparna Nanshula, everybody. Hello. Thank you for having me. Thanks for coming on the show. This is such a treat.

Yeah, first time. Wow. And you guys were telling me you've had the podcast for 15 years. Where have I been? Clearly. Yeah, well, you know what? We tried to go through your agent and we got

back a gif that was just them laughing at us. My agent. Yeah, we've had the show 15 years, but we inherited it. Oh. Yeah, it was haunted. Oh, a legacy podcast. Yeah, we

inherited it from a spooky man who died. Was it as well? It's sort of like, I guess, a curse. They're like, if you can make it through 80 years of this podcast, you inherit. I imagine like one of those meetings you see in movies where the whole family is there and they all find out what they inherited. And then you guys throw a huge fit because nobody wants the podcast that's right yeah um i wonder what happens are those real meetings do you meet with like the executor and you know yeah i like the idea that they have baked in some sort of

prank or something into their yes well some sort of challenge that people have baked in some sort of prank or something into their will. Some sort of challenge that people have to face in order to get their hands on the money. Oh, like you must do this to access your money. Yeah. Your the money's just in the in like a blow up pool of baked beans. If you can find it. Yeah. First one to find it. Yeah, first one who finds it wins it. It's a physical challenge.

Do we want to get to know us? Yes. Get to know us. Amparna, this is your first time on the show. We're super glad to have you. You're dialed in from Los Angeles, California. Correct, correct. Is this home?

Are you still a New Yorker? Angeles, California. Correct. Correct. Is this, is this home? Are you still a New Yorker? No, I'm a recent, I guess Angelino is the term Angelina. I, yeah, I just moved here in February. So what is it? September? Yeah. Eight months.

Okay. You just showed up just on time to go on strike yeah yeah i showed up with my dream of not having to work uh do you like it down there or is it uh is it too much of a culture shock or it's it's this i mean there couldn't be two more different places oh sure sure and no one has ever compared them before. No, but I'm keen to, and then we'll talk about relationships if we can just squeeze in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, I actually lived in Los Angeles first.

I started comedy in DC and then I moved to Los Angeles in 2010, I want to say. So I'm not completely unfamiliar. But yeah, I've been in New York for the past uh 10 years or so and so i think i was ready for i was ready for an easier lifestyle oh yes like uh less uh less i'm walking here and more i'm driving here this kind of thing right would that be a good name for

a memoir i'm just, I'm driving here. Yeah, New Yorker reflects on life in LA. Oh, that's pretty good. I feel like that would be Jay Leno's memoir. Yeah. Yeah. Jay Leno. I think he had a memoir, right?

At some point. Probably. Leading with his chin. Leading with my chin. Leading with his chin. Yes. Leading with his chin. Lean chin. with my chin his chin yes leading with his chin lean chin that was the original title but it just didn't do well with focus yeah they had to flesh it out a bit yeah yeah um and uh in la are you

in a walkable area some places are walkable neighborhoods there and then some places are you there's nothing you just have to go get in the car and drive yeah yeah it's a lot of strip malls but no i'm in a pretty residential neighborhood so uh yeah you may hear lawnmowers i love it is that like something that you're so not used to is is new york so much louder than just a yeah i mean now now i feel like i am sensitive to like bird song like now i'm like oh birds are so loud today yeah yeah i uh i have a neighbor across the alley that's big into the leaf blower so his season is really he's coming up he did it a couple times in the summer, but this is his time to shine. I don't know when leaf blowers hit

the market, but for some reason I don't remember growing up with that sound. I remember everyone raking and then it feels like leaf blowers really came in and, pardon the pun, blew away the competition. That is very good. That's a very good slogan for any leaf blower. We're mostly trying to go with titles and slogans today i think um yeah i agree with that there used to be adjusted out raking and uh maybe some sweeping on the sidewalk i wonder like i bet i'm sure someone has done a history of leaf removal. There's probably a podcast about it.

Sure, yeah. But what was there before the rake? You just left them. You just left them to mulch, I guess, right? Maybe you wore them? Yeah, maybe you made a ghillie suit thing. What? In Vancouver, a lot of people just leave the leaves to just compost.

A lot of people just, there's always leaves on the ground here and they get real squishy and gross. Yeah, because the idea of cleaning them up is also because they, anything under them sort of dies, right? Because it's just covered up. Well, not anything. Grass. Grass dies under them. No, like if I were under them, I would die. Oh, I guess you would. Yeah.

Leave her. It's too late for her. She's underneath the leaves. When you were a kid, did you ever like get the massive pile of leaves and then do the dive into them? Yes. That was, I mean, I grew up before, you know, YouTube and TikTok. So that was kind of the big thing, jumping into leaves.

Yeah. That's how I found out I was allergic to everything, diving into that leaf pile and then all of a sudden wheezing. Oh, yeah. And sometimes there were weird things in there. Like you hope it's all leaves, but sometimes, you know, other things get in there. Yeah. Yeah you hope it's all leaves, but sometimes, you know, other things get in there. Yeah.

Yeah. Slugs. Um, yeah. Bugs. Lots of bugs. Grubs. Yeah.

Bug slugs and grubs. Hey, that's a pretty good title maybe for like a kid's book on gross things. Yeah. Oh, that's really, that's the sweet spot right there. Um i have two daughters and and uh one of them has a birthday coming up and she wants a frog and it's not happening um because she's got two dogs

already yeah well she i we we have two dogs but um we we have a limit to how many heartbeats we'll allow in the house but then my other daughter was like, oh, she gets a frog. I want an, what's it called? An axolotl. Oh, yes. It's like a kind of a weird lizardy thing. Yeah. And it eats, what is it?

It eats like night crawlers. Oh, I didn't know that. And I was like, I looked at a picture of them. And I'm like, no, we're not buying weird bugs to feed a thing. I'm turning into everything I hate. Yeah, I feel like if it's a pet where you have to feed it live things, that's sort of deal breaker for me. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. And my brother growing up, he had a series of lizards and they all ate crickets. Right. And crickets get out of the container the first time you try to take one out. They all jump out and then end up in the light fixtures. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

It was terrifying. There's probably still some up there. I don't think any of us were brave enough to get up there and sweep them out. I do think though as a comedian it's probably fitting to have an animal that eats crickets who'd be like, yes. Yes. Revenge. It's so weird that so many

comedy clubs keep crickets. Just so you know when the audience isn't laughing. It's so mean. And there's a guy who lifts the lid off of it every time you bomb. They're getting everywhere. All right, don't let them out during the setup, but if this punchline doesn't get laughs. So you, Aparna, you've written a book,

which is, to me, one of the coolest things that a person can do. Uh, scariest thing also. And, uh, thing that I don't understand how it gets done. I understand that somebody writes it. Don't know how that happens. Don't know. Don't know anything. I just think it's very cool.

I feel that way with a lot of stuff I've created. with a lot of stuff I've created and essentially the book is probably the my yeah the the culminating work of uh me just not knowing how I actually get anything done because I if I try to think back on writing it it's a lot of just blackout periods of procrastination followed by just gaps yeah oh man like i what's your go-to pro procrastination tool what are you are you a nap person are you oh yes i'm a big napper i yeah my it's like my body overrides my brain and it's just like it's time to shut it down yeah yeah yeah what do you do do you have a nap regimen because i've i gotta keep it a certain amount of time or else i'm just into sleep and he graham you strike me as the kind of guy who likes to be cuddled in a big pile of blankets dave you couldn't be more right i love it um but i

won't when i'm napping see this is step one because if you put blankets on that's it i'm going to bed forever i'm not i'm not you're just on top of's it. I'm going to bed forever. I'm not getting up. So you're just on top of the blankets? Yeah. Or on the couch. The couch is a pretty hot spot for naps. But then not covered at all? No.

Just like you're dressed, right? Yes. Yeah. No, I got to be uncovered completely. Okay. I put a few leaves in some strategic places. Oh, sure. Yeah.

And then I set a time. There can only be a small amount of time that it can happen because otherwise it'll be hours and hours. What about you? What's your routine? That's the thing. I set my alarm for like, I think 15 to 30 minutes is apparently the golden desired amount of time. But then I always break it. I get, I see the clock go off and then I say, you know what? Seems like I need more. Yeah. Yeah. It's true. And then sometimes I'll wake up two, three hours later and part of

me will be mad at myself, but then another part of me will be like did i really miss anything no that's true you know you're not falling asleep during the oscars or anything i would never i would never um maybe you're not a napper you don't know but i am a procrastinator i find it strange that you're like that is your go-to procrastination thing which i don't think of it as procrastination. I think of that as just like, well, my body is telling me I need to nap.

Yeah. But it's winning out over that. I have to do stuff. The body. Yeah. And I think my sleep mechanism is directly tied to my, yeah. It's like avoiding something else.

It'll be like, I'm just going to kick in. Yeah. Like how many months, if you added it all up, how many months of avoidance did you manage to create in the process? Well, I think the book was due in 2020,

maybe end of 2020. And of course, you know, some things happened that year, but I, but they weren't things that would prevent you from writing a book exactly mask up and start writing um no i uh yeah i didn't turn it in until december 2022 so i believe that's about uh 24 months of procrastination. Do you just keep, like, do you just say, give me a couple months extension and then just ask for an extension on that extension and just keep going? Yeah.

You can't ask for the whole two years all at once. No, no, no. You have to get it in installment. How do you feel about asking for an extension on something? Do you get a knot in your stomach? Yeah, it feels horrible and yet i knew i think i knew when i signed the contract that it would i would not be able to meet the deadline i knew immediately but they know what they're dealing with they're used to these writer types no i think it's i think everyone is like yeah no no one meets their

original deadline but then i think it is after, it's sort of different tiers of how late you are. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it's I remember actually I'm working on something right now that I should have had done, let's say, three weeks ago. It's not done. Let's just say it should. If it's not in at the end of the week i'm in big big trouble

but even then i think i'm gonna slack off until the very end of the week frame do you want me to do you want to plagiarize it do you want me to write it and you plagiarize oh that would be amazing i would love that i think the problem too with being like a lifelong procrastinator is now like part of my process is to feel that like urgency of having either being late or or having the deadline be so soon that that's like kind of the only thing that gets me to focus yeah so it's like if i have three weeks it's like i i'm not my head's not in the game even i haven't even bought the tickets to the game yet yeah it's uh um well it's good that they're patient on the other end because uh have you ever had a deadline that you totally missed and then the person was like not giving you a deadline or an

extension or anything like that have you ever missed a deadline i think yeah i think in high school i i remember it was like the first it was like some project that we had like two months to work on and i didn't work on it at all and then i realized the night before that like my strategy of doing everything the night before was not going to work this time and i actually made my sibling come with me to my teacher's uh room to talk to because i knew that she my teacher had also taught my sibling and i knew they had a good relationship so i was like maybe if i bring her them as my liaison that is so smart i don't know who's smart i certainly wasn't thinking

clearly but uh yes i believe I got an extension. Yeah. I never, like, professionally I get extensions. Sure. Or like my favorite is like, oh, I'm not, like I reschedule a meeting. And I'm like, I don't quite have all the materials ready for the meeting. And then they're like, okay, well, then I'm booked up for tomorrow. And then you can

kick that down the road as long as you want that's true but in school in school i never had a teacher nice enough to give me an extension i feel like in school you were never that was it was never on the table that yeah there was wiggle room of any kind yeah the teacher was never like okay this project is due march 1st unless you kind of like aren't feeling it unless something comes up yeah unless it's oh is it a leap year oh boy it's it's not it's gonna be hard for you you were expecting february 29th aparna the book is called Unreliable Narrator. Yes. And the subtitle is Bugs, Grubs, and Slugs. Yes. Tell us about it. Tell us about the book.

The book is about, it's a series of essays, and the overarching theme is just my struggles with self-doubt and imposter syndrome and just kind of feeling like I don't deserve things that i've been given right wow that's not relatable yeah i mean uh i think it would be funny if we were like it's not relatable no one's ever had that you're you made that up but yeah i think uh if you haven't had that at least once in your life, you might be a psychopath. Yeah.

Yeah. I think that's the thing I learned while reading about imposter syndrome is just that the people who are actually imposters never actually feel like imposters. So the fact that you feel like one means you are probably not one. And like, is this something that over, over time, like over your whole career or has it just been as an adult or like how long did you feel like I'm not I shouldn't be doing these things? I've lucked out here.

Yeah, I think I've always had a lot of self-doubt, but then it wasn't until maybe, you know, my career started moving along. I started getting more opportunities that I was like, OK, now's clear there has been some sort of error yeah some sort of glitch because it's like before you could kind of be like well yeah nobody believes in me because who am I what have I done but then it's like once you get a few things maybe opportunities or jobs then you're like okay well something well, something now seems off. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Did you feel that like the whole time you've done standup? Do you feel like, because again, I think there's the people who stick around the longest tend to be people who shouldn't. Yeah. I think, I mean, I feel like even my friends who are comedians we all sort of operate from a place of uh kind of like why why why do we do this yeah like there's a lot of yeah ambivalence sometimes and also you talk to enough comedians uh a lot of them are like i just don't

know what else to do i would get out of this if I could, but I don't know. I can only nap for so long. Yeah, that's true. It is a good napping profession because it's like. It is. You only work maximum an hour a day. Yeah. Yeah.

And then, you know, yeah, I like to think when I'm lying there with my eyes shut, like I'm thinking. Here I am thinking. Instantly. I don't know if you read about like sleep research. They are like you actually do a lot of processing and like thinking when you're asleep. And we just we I think we are in a culture that values, you know, doing as as an active sort of awake thing. But sleep is actually just as important on the other side of that. I always heard that, like, you should study for a test days in advance because, like, you remember stuff.

Dreaming is like you're formulating memories. But I'm not having any dreams about, you know, the quadratic formula. And also doing something weeks in advance. We've all said here that we can't possibly do anything like that um and you started stand-up in dc washington dc yes washington dc which uh the old stomping grounds of dave chappelle if i'm not mistaken Yeah. He's from that area. I think. Patton Oswalt might. Yeah. And the guy who played the piano song,

political piano songs. We don't know who that is. Oh my God. You've never seen this, this guy. Oh man. I assumed he was like a local celebrity. Oh no.

I feel bad. I don't know. A hometown hero. He does, like, ragtime songs about... I love ragtime. Well, you might love this guy. His name's Scott Joplin. He sings about the politics of the day, and he talks about whatever election that's going on, or those crazy Republicans, and he does it as a...

But all music. Yeah, all music. Okay. Yeah. All music. And he wears a stars and stripes outfit glittery, if I'm not mistaken, but yeah, Mark, is it Mark Russell?

Is that his name? I don't know. It sounds so familiar, but all, all I'm, my brain is pulling up is some sort of furniture commercial. Okay. Can we hear the jingle?

I can't think of the jingle i just imagine this man in stars and stripes suits like oh yeah that is a real like uh come down to crazy larry's furniture depot yeah um was there must go growing up in uh was D.C., is there a big like stars and stripes everything? Like is every store like, you know, I'm just a bill furniture store or whatever? No, I think everyone kind of assumes that. And then it's actually I feel like politics is if you if you grow up there, it's not as much in your face. Maybe the same way if you live in some town, you just kind of, you know, tune it out maybe. Right. Because it's so, yeah, tied to the identity of a place.

But I don't remember it being, I do remember visiting the White House with my kindergarten class, but, and waving at Reagan. You waved at Reaganagan you got within waving distance of reagan yeah we waved at him and his wife before they um i think took off in a helicopter cool nice that's not bad that's not bad at all did you ever go to that uh easter egg roll no and i think i was uh i felt snubbed i was like how do i get a ticket oh yeah i gotta assume this is uh they've got a hand pick the uh to avoid scandal they don't want you know serial killer's kid to be on the water sure sure yeah yeah you don't want yeah you gotta vet your well that's not the kid's fault i know but you just don't want us you know

you don't want that headline right you don't want a little timmy domerick but you know a serial killer kid maybe maybe the kid is a problem but sometimes the kid themselves could have those tendencies you know and don't, their parents are not that way. Yeah. Like, yeah. Kind of like a Damien Omen situation. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that would be cool. Like meeting the president with a weird freaky kid with his powers.

Yeah. I think cause Ottawa is our capital and it's, you know, people that are from there just say it's like the driest, most boring. Everything's done by 10 o'clock. Downtown's filled with NBC's and that's it. You know, that that's that's kind of their whole identity there. Yeah. It was probably similar in D.C. or maybe not as much. uh yeah it was probably similar in dc or maybe not as much i mean similar in that i think it is like if you go to a lot of parts of the city after a certain hour everything is closed it's very much

like that sort of white collar lawyers lobbyists yeah uh yeah kind of nine to five schedule but then i feel like there is a pretty active art scene like the comedy scene was certainly um you could get stage time most nights and yeah i think it's just not known for that so people don't don't think of dc as like an artsy place but there i think there's a lot of music and there's actually stuff going i guess that's true about ottawa as well there's a lot of cultural funding and so that yeah yeah like there's this guy who plays piano and he sings what is he singing about again kind of thing um you know just day-to-day things news and things the guy from the infomercial that wears all the like question marks all over his suit is he from there oh yeah he is from there? Oh, yeah. He is from there. Yes.

What is his name? The Riddler? The Riddler. I wouldn't remember his name. He's covered in question marks. And DC had a good comedy scene? Like, lots of funny people or just lots of stage time? Yeah, I would say both.

And, you know, it's not New yeah, it's not New York or LA. So it's like kind of a good place to get your start. You can kind of grow without feeling like you're under a microscope right away. Yeah, right. Yeah. And then there's some cities I feel like the scene is really tough and then they go to a bigger city and it's, the audiences are just better. There's better in a bigger city. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. I mean, people I I heard even comedians who would come through D.C. that would always be like, oh, yeah, I love D.C. Like the crowds are smart. You know, they like they like understand things. You know, they understand, you know, the judicial, the legislative, the executive. They understand my jokes about torts. I only just learned what a tort was in the last, like.

I honestly just said it and I don't know what it is still. Isn't it just a lawsuit? I don't know that I could describe it. It's something about a lawsuit. Basically, I heard about it in the coffee, McDonald's coffee. There was a documentary about that. Oh, yeah. The hot coffee.

And a tort is something I'm totally getting this wrong, but it's something that the government sets up in response to something like that. You know, this is the new wrinkle or whatever and but they used her burning herself to sneak stuff in to uh to this guy so it was it was nefarious but like i said i don't think i have a very good explanation i'm supposed to have a book report done about it two years ago three weeks ago and you gotta push it um a partner do you like coffee i do like coffee but i wouldn't say i'm a coffee connoisseur i i have sort of um i would say like plebeian taste in coffee like i like it milky i like it a little sweet i'm not yeah i'm not detecting the differences between the beans i suggest the mcdonald's coffee is probably pretty good.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I think I wouldn't not turn down a McDonald's coffee. That's smart. Because then you could start a torte of some sort. Your own torte. Be your own torte.

Is a torte also a little cake? Yes. Yeah. I think so. All right. Yum. Okay. All right.

Now I'm interested. Okay. Well, all right. Now I'm just picturing a movie about a guy who got into law school and was like, oh, no. I thought it was. Look, I mean, I hate to say it, but he's like the fat guy in law school. Yeah. Yeah.

He wanted it. He was hoping there would be cake. Yeah. This is pretty good. This is. They call it tort reform. Yeah. yeah this is pretty good this is a they call it tort tort reform yeah um and then when you left dc did you go right to la or do you go to new york and then la or

and how are new york and la different yeah if you could tell us some of the differences between the two what well they it's tough because they're really very similar they're both two words for the name. That's good, yeah. And so people have trouble telling them apart. Yeah. But I would say, you know, the rats in L.A., they're more likely to take a meeting with you. But the rats in New York, they want to see you first.

They want to see how you do on the street before. This is good. This is good stuff. This is very good stuff. Are we jotting this down? Are we just... I don't know if you... Did you watch the HBO series and Just Like That at all?

Oh, my gosh. I've watched every episode and I feel like I should join a group because not everyone is watching it and I feel like there's only so many of us that can discuss it with each other. I don't know how you guys...

In that show, Che, she was in New York. She went to LA to do the sitcom and she's at the Comedy Factory. Well, they. They. Sorry. Apologize.

That's a big plot point. That is a big plot point. They go to L.A. My pronouns are not a plot point. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. That's true.

But they are at the Comedy Factory, I think. And their joke about being in L. in la is everybody drives here all the time i had to take an uber from the kitchen to my living room and that's her closer and then she walks off stage i just i love that the writers never bothered to go to a comedy show to do anything they never do seem to in anything ever about comedy. No. That's true. Yeah.

Have you ever seen the movie Punchline? Yes. They have a locker room. Comic Club has a locker room. But surely that's reasonable. That's where comedians do their locker room talk. That's right. Yeah, that's true.

You do have to do it in a locker room by law. But yeah, what would you say is your favorite Che moment? If you had to pick one. That's my favorite is where they tell the joke about the L.A. driving. That, to me, was the top. The creme de la creme that is really good i there's so many to me honestly i uh i feel like maybe it's hard to pick a favorite but like my babies all these jay moments i think maybe the um dinner Tony Danza. Yes.

When they're talking about the show. And I can't remember if that's where Tony Danza, I hope I'm not ruining this for any of the listeners, but I. If they haven't seen it by now, they don't want it. You know what I mean? Nobody's just discovering it through this. I can't remember if it's when Tony Danza is like, be more yourself or be

more like what that they are telling you to be in the notes i really can't remember but either way it's good advice either way really stuck with me yeah and seeing him on a show i was like he should be on another show again yeah we've been without Danza this long. We deserve a break. Right? Don't we deserve another Danza vehicle? Did he have like a talk show? Like a daytime talk show? Hmm.

I don't remember that, but I could definitely picture that. He did a reality show where he became a teacher in Detroit? Oh. And then followed his exploits as a teacher. So, I don't know.

He's multifaceted, this Tony Danza. You know what's sad? That Kim Cattrall didn't return to it in Just Like That. Because to have Tony Danza on in Just Like That and not have the opportunity to say, Samantha feels wrong i didn't say it right but didn't he say it a very specific way well i know he did need angela angela samantha samantha jonathan you would say i liked on uh who's the boss when he would uh just find a reason to like tap dance oh yeah he did dance a lot he he had it all as far as i'm saying you know what

he still got it he's still as charming as he ever was yeah um wasn't was chase pilot called che pasa that i don't even remember but that sounds right i think that it's called che pasa and there's a scene where tony dans is telling che that they should be italian instead of uh spanish or latino or uh and then nobody made the joke che pasta right nobody nobody made that joke but if pasta, right? Nobody. Nobody made that joke. Nobody made it. But if Samantha was there, guaranteed we would have got that joke. I, so I told you there's a frog on a birthday list. There's also a Tamagotchi, which I think is a good practice frog. Yeah, that's true.

Well, I didn't know Tamagotchis were back in. They're back, baby. Wow. And I've just been going around the house. You know how like on the Sopranos, they'll shorten spaghetti to spaghet or, you know, you got a man to cut. And so I've just been saying, Tamagotch. You may get your Tamagotch. Did you ever, did either of you ever have one?

No, I never had one. I think I had one fairly recently, like in the past two years, maybe. Sort of while you were putting off writing your book? I got to feed the old gachi. I'm a working parent now. Barely have time to write. Sorry, I got to pick up my kid. Yeah, I think, yeah, my fiancé got me,

I don't know if you know the character Gudetama. He's like this egg. He's like this Japanese cartoon egg. The very like lazy egg. Yes, yes. Like his whole kind of MO is like, what's the point why do we do anything it's a pretty existential for a children's character but but yeah he got me a tamagotchi of gutatama oh fun i know fun but also like like do i really have to feed this egg like he barely wants to show up doesn't even want to be

here yeah yeah and eggs are like kind of self-sustaining like what are they yeah eggs are still one of the weirdest foods and i feel like we we never fully wrestle with the fact that we eat them they're still one of the weirdest ones they haven't gotten any less weird what's your what's your um because i love eggs i love eggs yeah like it's a hurdle every time to to process what i'm eating yes it's the same for me and yogurt whenever somebody said that's full of bacteria i'm like that's disgusting i love it but ew what is what is your um do you can you take us through your personal struggle with eggs well i am i have been a vegetarian for a very long time i think since i was a kid i saw like a read a book on factory farms or something so i i was sort of

like this is horrible but then i couldn't stop with the dairy. Me and dairy, I think we just go way back. And I grew up during like the Got Milk campaign. I think that brainwashed me pretty hard. So yeah, dairy I've clung to over the years. And eggs, I think because they're really my sole source of protein. I just can't kick them. No, I'm the same. I'm vegetarian. Love eggs.

I've turned that I have to love beans because of the protein and your kales and whatnot. Oh, yeah. We've turned into a big bean household. Yeah. Well, what's your favorite type of bean? I just always have to ask so i know for christmas my my fiancee's in a bean club okay we know about this okay because we have a listener who signed

us up for a bean club and there was some mail mailing uh mishaps but i believe we finally got the beans is that right great we do yes i have the beans. Okay, great. And I was just saying, I don't remember. It should be a box full of them. Yeah. And so what do you do? Are you soaking your own beans? Are you? Yeah. I mean, I don't handle a lot of the bean preparation in our house, but yes, the beans are being soaked.

I think one of my favorite kinds is they're called like caviar lentils or something. They're like a very delicate, tiny lentil. That sounds amazing. You know, sort of a rich man's lentil, it sounds like. What is the name of this bean club? Rancho Gordo. Yeah, I think that's the one. Is that the one?

Yeah, I'm going to look up what we were sent. Do you get beans every month or do they just send you one package and that's all the beans you ordered? I think it's actually every few months you get. Okay. Yeah, you get like six or seven different, like a variety pack. I love it. Yeah. I love it.

So Graham and I do a bonus series on the show where we watched every episode of Mr. Bean and reacted. And we love him. We love him. Yeah. He's, what's not to love? Yeah. Exactly. He's the total package.

But I think we'll do a bonus episode where we try all these other beans. We've got a King City Pink Bean. Ooh. A Mayo Coba Bean. Oh, those are good. Okay. Yeah. What is the deal with those?

I just remember they have a particularly rich flavor. Okay. I like things that have rich flavor. Chiapas Black Bean. Mm-hmm. And a Christmas lima bean. So we'll probably wait for maybe make a little advent calendar full of beans. That's what I'm going to do for Christmas this year.

I'm just going to eat those beans. Just leave Santa a little bowl of beans. Yeah. Yeah. It's sad. Oh, yeah. It's sad. If you picture it.

Woof. But he needs the beans. He's eating cookies all night i know he needs the fiber he needs it um uh so what was i gonna ask something about beans flew out of my head i apologize um but you you agree with us that mr bean has it all right mr b yes i was gonna ask if you guys have been following his work and watched the netflix series about the b i haven't yet okay we're very yeah we're a little um that was something that came out while we were doing the show and we looked into it and we i don't think we ever

followed through with it but there was a there is a mr bean episode where he kind of has a little showdown with a bean or a bee oh my gosh bean versus bean uh when he's having a picnic yes yes that's right yeah he does like a little sword fight with a butter knife if i'm not yeah that's right you think an executive was like i think this could be its own show yeah they. They did a backdoor pilot. I'm just going to look it up right now on Netflix because I wonder how many episodes this thing is and how long the episodes are. Yeah. I'm also like, am I allowed to talk about Mr. Bean right now? Oh, sure.

While you're on strike. He would never cross a line, Mr. Bean. I mean, he's British, so I don't know if he's SAG, but... That's true. Yeah. What are they over there called? Uh, maybe. They don't have a catchy one like SAG. Oh, they have some episodes that are about, like, uh,

10 minutes long, 12 minutes long. Yeah, they're all super short. So it's not like, yeah, okay, yeah, maybe I can knock this out in a day. Did you see it? I saw, I think, one or two. And it was just not natural? Well, I said, okay, I got the gist here.

Yeah. Yeah, fair enough. If you had to, and I know I've made you choose your favorite of something else, but do you have a favorite Mr. Bean situation that he gets into? Yes. Immediately comes to mind when he's taking the exam. I don't even know what they never even say. That's episode one.

Oh yeah. Yeah. I think, yeah, right out of the gate. I don't, they never really even say what he's taking tests for, but I guess it doesn't matter,

but just him in that sort of like pen competition. Yes, the pen competition. I love it. It's a kind of math test because he and his neighbor are, his neighbor is like, oh, I focused on trigonometry. And he's like, oh, they did trigonometry last year.

Yes, yes, that's right. That's right. But I don't know why he's at a college. Yeah. And this college is full of people who are 40 and wearing sport coats. Maybe it's like, yeah. It's kind of funny to think of Mr. Bean trying to better himself. Yes.

Like, you know, I'm going to go back and get my degree or Samantha is going to be so proud of me. Do they ever establish his job? No. No. Yeah. I don't think so. They don't establish his job. His apartment is different in every episode.

Is it really? Yeah. Yeah. And he has very briefly, he has a girlfriend. Yes. I do remember when they exchanged gifts. Yes, and to me, that's the best Mr. Bean moment, when she opens up the card that's behind the ring.

And that's the last you ever see of her. That's right. At the Christmas episode, she never comes back after that. She had to put up with a lot, is the thing. I don't blame her. Yeah. of her uh that's right god at the christmas episode she never comes back after that she had to put up with a lot is the thing i don't blame her yeah yeah but also she didn't test well with audiences right yeah they were doing that back then lose erma gob they say no i now i have a theory that i brought up on the show which was that that mr bean was created by co-created by richard curtis who did four weddings in a funeral love actually he's a big romantic comedy guy and he stopped

writing episodes after episode seven which was the final episode with mr bean's girlfriend irma gobb and so my theory is that once the mr. Romantic comedy left, there was no, no one had another romantic thought for old Mr. Bean. Yeah. I mean, there is, you could say there is somewhat, not a romance, but a real love connection between Mr. Bean and Teddy. Yeah. That's true. That's true. Very paternal.

Mr. Bean and Teddy. Yeah, that's true. Very paternal. And yeah, it is kind of the one, you know, person thing that he shows any mercy for. Yeah. Not love, just mercy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Good pick. Good pick with the test. That's a pen competition alone. Yeah, I didn't realize that was episode one. Yeah. Yeah. Dave, what's going on with you, my friend? Okay, here's what's going on with me right now, and it is earth-shaking.

Go on. So I use this weather app on my phone from the weather network from canada's weather network and um for the last two days it hasn't been working and uh so i was like oh that's weird like it'll tell you what temperature it is and then i'll be like it gives you no other idea right it'll say 17 feels like 17 this is celsius and um it'll uh but it won't be like it can't tell you if it's gonna rain later and so i was like okay i'm gonna look look up the weather network on twitter and see what they're up to and i was like oh god i feel like such a nerd because I'm like, I need my weather so badly

that I look up the Weather Network's Twitter account. And so I did see that they had... It's so dorky. But I looked up and they said that there was like, you know, a cyber security uh incident has impacted a third-party software provider and one of the one of the replies to the weather network was have sign-in passwords been compromised and i was like oh i'm not a big nerd this person who has like, who signs into the weather network is a big nerd. Yeah, it's the thing about Canada is weather.

I know it's the same in the States, but really weather does dominate most conversations. I mean, honestly, I find that really relatable because I have taken a big, I mean, started when I was writing writing the book but I stopped checking a lot of social media and um yes I am glad I did it but it in no way has decreased my phone time I've just had to replace checking those apps with other apps so I feel like I'm on the weather app all the time um when you took a break from social media was it the best time of your life did you just did everything taste better and things sounded sweeter i i i tell friends because they're always like is it better do are you happier and it it's not like i'm like a different person but it just i think frees up space in your brain that maybe you you didn't realize you valued so much yeah that's that's kind of the um the thing like if there's ever an outage on twitter

or whatever i do i'll literally the first thing i'll do is i'll pick up a book and start reading oh my problem is i will be like oh i'm spending too much time on instagram close it and my thumb immediately is like well let's open instagram oh like without even thinking yeah i haven't seen instagram in a while oh wait this is exactly the picture i was looking at 10 seconds ago see now i'll do other things but the same way i checked social media just like I'll do other things, but the same way I check social media, just like I'll do the crossword, but sort of in this like dead eyed mindless way. Yeah. What is your of the social medias? What is your favorite word in the crossword?

What is it? Is it for me? It's pay pay. Are you an Instagrammer? Are you a TikToker? I have, I've never even started Tik Tok account. So Instagram,

I would say on Twitter were the ones I was most active on at any given time. Does as an outsider, because I'm also very much an outsider on Tik Tok. Does it seem insane to you yes yes because the only way i engage with it is when people send me ones to watch right and it's like even if you watch one it already has like five more queued up that immediately start playing and i i get so overwhelmed i feel so old yeah i say stuff my phone is haunted and i throw it away oh that is very old that's very old there's a thing to do to think that something's haunted like you're maybe from a different century um so yes i've been uh uh obsessed with my weather app yeah and what are you looking for

are you looking for oh long range or you're just doing the the hours of the day both because i'm like when do we get to wear corduroy when when when is it finally uh when can i jump in these leaves but then my kids are like when i school just started back up and they're like well i need a jacket for lunch hour and i go i go hour by hour and i'll be like no you're good for lunch hour wow yeah that's very that's very regimented yeah yeah well that's i run a very strict house yeah very tight no frogs but you but here's what the weather's gonna do hour by hour but the other thing that's going on with me, and this will probably lead into what you're going to talk about, Graham,

is this past weekend I went to Graham's party that he threw for Graham's wedding, I guess. Yeah. Marriage. I eloped in Las Vegas and then as a kind of. Thank you. Um, and then just as a kind of like consideration to friends and family, we'll have a party,

everybody come open bar, you know, fun times. What, uh, how long, when were you, when did you elope?

In May. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. And so we were like, we had to get it in under the wire. Right. Because winter sets in and I didn't want people like visiting and just having like rain the

whole time they were here. So. Yes. Yeah. And it was just like, it was pretty fun. Yeah. It was like, normally I don't like going to parties because i have to like i usually find one person i know and i stick to them the whole time but i know all

graham's friends yeah so uh it was this i was looking forward to it and it didn't disappoint i'm glad to hear that yeah because like i i don't throw parties. I'm very rarely the host of anything. And so this was kind of a new. It was fun. It was a fun experience. We got a taco truck. Had this nice hall rented out. We decorated ourselves.

Yeah. Like, you know, you hear all these nightmare things about wedding planners and, you know, huge weddings. Yeah, Zillas and whatnot. wedding planners and you know huge weddings and yeah zillas and whatnot um but yeah it's uh if you keep it simple enough it's it's pretty good like it's a pretty fun thing to do but um uh parna did i hear you say the word fiance yes yes i was just gonna say we are very much in the same no big wedding boat. We also want to do a small. Vegas is a consideration on our list. But yeah, Vegas or City Hall and then just a party.

This is my pitch for Vegas. Yeah. Is it's the most fun. It's everybody involved. It's the people at the chapels. They're having the time of their life. When you go to the clerk county's office to get your wedding certificate, everybody's having a good time because that's all they do is hand these out.

Yeah, yeah. And then you don't have to do the part where you talk to your partner about how much you love each other in front of all these people you know. Because to me that sounds like the most horrifying thing to have to do it just feels so performative yeah yeah do you do by graham have you talked about talk to your partner privately about how much you love each other um that's none of your business okay um i only have one true love and it's my tamagotchi so were you ever engaged graham or did you just no get married okay i just got married yeah um it was we're gonna go to las

vegas anyways so it just kind of it just made sense it all gelled and uh it's like it's a place i went to when i was a kid so i didn't't really get the full Vegas experience until I went this time. And man, oh, man, what a place. I enjoyed the hell out of it. It's a surreal place. It feels like, first of all, like Nevada or like just being in the desert, it kind of feels like you're on Mars or something. Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. And then the heat where you can't really go you know very far with feeling like you're gonna melt so yeah but then it's it takes so much electricity and you're like there's no where are they getting this where are they getting the water you know when you see misters uh you know misting over like a little hedge where's that in the desert have you been to vegas i have yes i think uh three times i've been three times once with friends and then two times for comedy things wow you love going i love you're a regular you're like kind of like m. Vegas. I'm Mrs. Vegas. That'll be once you get married, that will be your barn of Vegas.

Are you taking his last name? Actually, I'm taking last name Vegas. What else? So like the party, we brought the kids. There were other kids there. Uh, there was like, uh, there were no speeches. Nope. No meal.

Well, there was a taco truck. Taco truck, which is fun. No sit down meal, you know, no schedule, no schedule, no, no hour by hour weather. You know, well, I mean, I was like, okay, well, seven o'clock is when the taco No hour-by-hour weather. We had to work in the weather app. I was like, okay, well, 7 o'clock is when the taco truck arrives, but 8 o'clock is taco weather. Yeah, and like, oh, by 9 o'clock, I'll probably want a Coca-Cola because I'll just be sleepy. Oh, yeah, we didn't even have uh dj we just oh the playlist that we

really liked and that was just kind of the was there anything like were there any um memorable event memorable things that happened like was there did it because we left at like 9 30 was there like you know did someone uh barf no nobody barfed and that not to my knowledge nobody brought it up at any point that somebody barfed i don't think there was any there was see i think like if you just invite a bunch of people and uh that all kind of are good people it's very rare that a fight will no but was there ever like did did uh you know did the dance floor was there a circle and someone did a bunch of break dancing in the middle emmet hall the past guest on the show emmet hall did an interpretive dance to uh i i want to love

somebody by um witty houston i want to dance i want to dance with somebody yes and uh he did an interpretive dance to that and it was beautiful it was beautiful and elegant and uh that to me is that's what will be burned in my memory is him doing this this very beautiful dance was it planned or no it was no this was oh i mean maybe he planned it... We should have done a big choreographed lip dub. Yeah. You know, we'll throw a wedding reunion party in a year from now. Yeah, yeah. We can put it on TikTok or...

Oh, yes. I love it. Where do people put those things before TikTok? YouTube? Wasn't there a big flash mob craze but where where did that take off yeah maybe youtube youtube yeah and dave and i know somebody who whose brother proposed to his fiance lip dub or what was it called what were they called this it wasn't lip dub it was it is the are we talking about the Acapella Fellas?

Yes, the Acapella Fellas. I don't remember enough details of this. Flash Mob. Yes, yes, yes. Are we talking about Amanda's Brothers? Yes. Yeah. Okay.

And was it in a food court as well? I feel like it was in a food court, but like, again, I was about to say, I don't know, don't remember enough details that I would commit to it being in a food court but like again i was about to say i don't know don't remember enough details that i would commit to it being in a food court yeah just a recipe card of let's do acapella group flash mob in a food court he's begging the fiancee to say no yeah there are if you go on youtube there are some pretty good uh food court um proposal rejections wow i didn't even think of the fact there would be multiple proposals in a food court

it's it's everybody's you know it's everybody's favorite place they're eating yeah what's your favorite food court restaurant oh i think growing up we used to go to uh when we went to the mall we would always stop by cinnabon oh yeah but this was like when it first hit the scene and i feel like now it's kind of you know it's past two corporate it used to be really indie. Yeah. Doing something different. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, Cinnabon was a big one. In Canada we have something called New York Fries

which are which, you know, as you sure know from living in New York, New York very famous for their fries. Yes. Yes. The listeners will be upset if we don't play the New York Fries commercial for their hot dogs.

Oh, they're known for their hot dogs, not their fries. They're not known. They're known for their fries. Oh, okay. But they've moved into the hot dog market. Oh, I space. Okay. Yeah, and so I guess I have to just find it on my laptop here and we'll listen to the New York fries hot dog theme. It's been a few weeks.

Where do you think? Where do I think I left these? Can I ask a partner where you were? Was there a proposal? Did you? Yes, we did a beach proposal. Oh, yeah. It was like a sun.

We were on a trip in Northern California, and we took a walk to this beach near where we were staying, and it was overcast, and I think we were hoping to see the sunset. Oh, nice. We didn't see a darn thing. Did you say we did a beach proposal? Did you know the proposal was coming? I think I knew it was nigh, know the proposal was coming i think i knew it

was nigh and the trip was drawing to a close right and we had a big fight that day so i was like this feels right yeah this feels good and then did he get on one knee and say these immortal words i want a hot dog a juicy quarter pound hot dog. Topped with loaded toppings. Like chili, cheese, and bacon. Fully loaded with delicious toppings. Give your taste buds something to sing about at New York Fries. Wow.

They have sort of a 90s Blink-182 feel. Yes. They go hard, for sure. Yeah. You know, and everything's back from the 90s Blink-182 I feel. They go hard for sure. Yeah. You know, and everything's back from the 90s. So why not bring in a new generation to New York for us? Yeah, Blink-182

went on tour, I think, again this year. They did. Yeah. The original lineup, so they gave the guy who had filled in all these years the boot he was he's at the door now yeah no yeah kind of that's you know it was a golden gig for that guy for a while but because the guy who left because the guy left yeah these aren't are they connected the guy left and he believes that aliens are real yeah or did he leave because he believed he left to commit himself fully to the ufo thing and it turns out he was vindicated because

the american government was like yeah right there are ufos we don't know what they are um short of saying they're alien but this guy maybe that's why he joined the band he's like done and done the official press statement was like he's leaving to pursue other opportunities and then in parentheses aliens alien stuff alien stuff uh well and do you have do you have a date that you're getting married or is this still? No, because we got engaged last summer and then I think we're like, let's get through this move because we moved in February and then we'll try to think about wedding stuff. And then we still haven't even talked about it. Okay.

And here comes a procrastinator again. Every time we want to talk about it, I'm like, I should take a nap. Yeah, we get so sleepy. But we should, we should, we should get married because it's like, you don't want to

tamagotch growing up in a broken home. That's true. Yeah, that's right. You've got to think about now that you're a family.

It's not a broken home if you're still together but not married. Oh, that's true. It's not a broken home if you're still together but not married. Oh, that's true. That's true. Well, do you guys want to maybe move on to some overheards? Let's do it. Sure.

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And we always like to start with the guest Aparna. Can you give us an overheard? Sure. So this is when I was flying back into Los Angeles and I landed at the airport. I think I was walking to baggage claim and I just heard a guy say to his friend or whoever he was walking next to. uh say to his friend or whoever he was walking next to he he this is all i heard of the conversation he just said their chemistry is going to take them farther than their individual talents oh nice yeah it's hard to find like good chemistry you know yeah yeah but it felt like the most la thing to hear. What do you think he was talking about? I immediately pictured a boy band but then I was like, maybe think outside the box more. Maybe he's talking about

his friend's relationship. Right, yeah. Maybe he's talking about the Avengers. Oh, those dastardly Avengers. That one's fantastic you you came in swinging i appreciate it um dave do you have an overheard yeah yeah i suppose i do um this doesn't really count because it was said to me but it was just darling um so i was watching uh we we uh put youtube on the big screen because my children don't want to

watch anything other than youtube um so we just watch it on tv and that way i can monitor it nice it sucks it sucks oh all these videos suck i don't know who's funding these videos these people have like warehouses to do like I am always surprised that there's like a production value in YouTube because it was kind of not good for a long time. And then you go on TikTok and there's like huge videos that are just a person like doing a skit where one of like it's the same person back and forth. Yes, yes, yes. They have a bad wig. Yeah. one of like it's the same person back and forth yes yes yes they have a bad wig yeah it sort of to me feels like the um genre is like norbit where you play all the characters

i literally never thought of it that way until right now we're very much in the norbit songs yeah what. What kind of stuff you do? Well, you know, Norbit style. Um, but I was watching a, uh, video with my daughter and like two minutes into the video, there was an ad like,

and it just went to, you know, one of these auto playing YouTube ads. And I was like, that was so weird. And it was an ad for, um, like cascade dish detergent. I was like that was so weird and it was an ad for um like cascade dish detergent

i was like that's so weird that they have an ad like in the middle of a video instead of at the beginning and my daughter just went well she's just flexing because she doesn't need to rewash dishes i was like oh i don't think that's not why the ad is weird it's weird because it's okay she's just flexing because she doesn't need to rewash dishes i mean it's we trust cascade here because it gets the job done it's true i'm a don household because they're the ones that help oily ducks and so do you have this campaign in the state? Yes. Yes, we do. Yes.

I actually like my ducks a little oily. Oh, okay. So they're naturally pretty oily, but yeah, I thought naturally they're full of oil. Yeah. But you like it even more. Yeah. So then maybe they shouldn't complain when they get stuck in an oil spill. Maybe they should be like,

huh, this is, maybe this is my true self. It's hell to get out, but my skin never looked better after. Show me your skincare routine, bestie. That's what I say to the duck.

Yeah. My overheard is also something I saw in a bit of media. Oh, I love media. Oh, I love to consume it. It's very rare that I will watch a movie and not finish it, even if it's terrible, terrible, terrible. I will get through it. And this movie, I couldn't get through it.

I can't even tell you the name of it. It's Motel Something. And the guy who's the star of it is also the writer and the director. And he has a really strange accent that I couldn't put my finger on what it was. Something French, German, hybrid, Italian, maybe in there a bit. Couldn't figure it out. Italian maybe in there a bit. Couldn't figure it out. But he the plotline

is that he what is the plotline? It doesn't really even matter. It doesn't matter at all. But it takes place in a motel. Oh, and here's one of the things. That he keeps ordering room service from a motel and they bring a room service. So it's

like this guy's never stayed in a motel ever. Because the guy who wrote it. Yeah. And he gets kidnapped at some point in the movie. And he's tied to a chair. And he's negotiating with his kidnapper. And his negotiation, this is his one tactic.

He says, I've got money i can give you a thousand dollars a month for the rest of your life this is my first offer basically just some child support yeah yeah like a minimum wage job basically yeah yeah something like a living wage kind of thing yeah you wouldn't hate to see it on your uh yeah oh yeah i forgot about oh good thing i kidnapped that guy so long ago i keep forgetting when i yeah but at the end of every month yeah wait what year was this made was it perhaps oh no this was like 2013. Oh, no. Or it could have been 2023. It's one of those movies where it's timeless.

Yes. I consider it time blind, maybe, less timeless. Oh, but it was so bad, but I still couldn't resist. But you also couldn't finish it. Exactly. still i couldn't resist but you also couldn't finish it exactly like the um the kind of synopsis of it was so juicy that i was like this is either going to be like so bad and so funny but it wasn't funny bad it was just bad bad and so the synopsis is now let me just replay the synopsis a man who maybe is french or german goes to a motel

orders room service gets kidnapped and offers to pay twelve thousand dollars a year to get out of it yeah twelve thousand dollars yeah a year yeah that's right and that's before taxes that's uh oh you think he'll have to submit like he declares it on his yeah day. Yeah, yeah. That's a ransom. Yeah, that's a ransom. That's my ransom income. Now, we also have overheards sent into us by people all over the map. It would be cool. You know how, like, in the States, anyway, if you win the lottery, they're like, you can get a lump sum that's smaller or you can get you can get the hundreds of

millions yeah in a way he really did that kidnapper struck struck gold and uh yeah um now uh yeah we have overheard sent into us if you want to send in it's spy at maximum fun dot org and this one's good this this first one dovetails into what we were just talking about like a minute ago. I, this is from Tracy from Essex in the UK. I was in the supermarket and saw a middle-aged couple having an intense whispered argument.

As I passed, I heard the man say to his wife, I just want to have a really good look at the oils. I heard the man say to his wife, I just want to have a really good look at the oils. Was this a grocery store? This is a grocery store. So I'm thinking we're talking canola. We're talking. Yeah.

Olive. Olive. Yeah. Those are the two I know. I'm sure there's other ones. Have you been to a fancy grocery store that has like $100 olive oils? Yes. Yes.

Yeah. I don't know what I would do with them. I guess rub them on my body. If I got something like that, it would be a family heirloom. Like I would pass. I would never open it. I would just pass it down and pass it down. And I assume oil doesn't go bad.

It probably does, but I kind of don't want, I'm going to not believe it. Yeah. I wonder if they date like wines do. Is it like the particular year for this olive oil was? Yes. Fantastique. That could have been German. That could have been French.

You really do the lingo. Thank you. Thank you. The second one comes from Krista from Minnesota this is from way back in 2009 that's when Krista heard this I was waiting for my drink at a local coffee shop and just caught one sentence from

two teenagers to my left I'm going to go home and play Super Smash Bros or finish that college application and you know what he probably if he really stuck to finish that college application. And you know what? He probably, if he really stuck to playing the games,

he'd be a rich man by now. They have game testers all the time. Oh, game testers. I thought you meant like a Twitch streamer. Oh, but that's exactly it. I know a guy who's living is, he's a Twitch streamer. Yeah. Yeah. It's amazing to me that that's, but then when exactly it. I know a guy who's living as a Twitch streamer.

Yeah, yeah. It's amazing to me that that's... You're so popular. Okay, Grandpa. You know what I mean? When I was a kid, I could sit there and watch my friends play. When I was a kid, we had podcasters, and that was it. And we were happy with what we had.

Yeah. This last one... Yeah, I do remember as a kid being like, Oh, yeah, I'd love to work in video games. Well, you can make video games or you can test video games. Right, right, right. Oh, it sounds like a dream job. You get to play all day. Yeah.

Oh, my God. This last one, city and name withheld. This was overheard by a colleague and a middle school teacher to student. You can ask somebody to touch your muscles at lunch. Oh, my God. We're trying to do a rhythmic tick here. Oh, I'm so, so the guy was going around being like, hey, get a load of these. Yeah, get a load of these.

He's distracting everybody. So, you know what? That's a lunchtime activity. Flashing your muscles. Did they say touch your muscles yeah the the kids the kids muscles the kid was obviously oh he's asking everyone to touch his muscles yeah it's just not the time or place but but she assures them hey once you get out there on the playground everybody can touch your muscles probably just biceps right i'm guessing

maybe forearm you might do a like a mercy fight or something like that abs maybe i yeah maybe abs yeah if i had abs i don't know when i would stop getting people to touch my muscles i'd be right i also never want to see a child with abs really oh and i've seen have you ever seen those like videos of like a kid that's a parents or bodybuilders and they are kind of like. Oh yeah. Yeah. A little Hercules. Yeah.

Oh gosh. Yeah. That's a. Little ripped kids. Yeah. But then, I don't know. I don't know what happened to these kids that are ripped when they're kids, you know? Like what do they turn out like?

Yeah, because their body's not done. Yeah, exactly. And it's like you've achieved so much at such a young age it's fairly really hard to yeah you were like go into adulthood mr universe jr you're chasing that uh that high of the lifter the lifters high the pump well oh is it time that's all the overheards from my end of the the circuit well in addition to overheards that are written in we also accept your phone calls and we expect your phone calls if you want to call us our phone number is 1-844-779-7631 that's one spy pod one like these people have hi guys this is jul Julie from Woodbridge, Virginia.

And my daughter and I are playing at the playground. She's four almost. And I told her everything was covered with dew. Everything's a little bit wet. And so now she's going around telling the other kids that everything is covered with goo. So watch out. Love the show. Off I go.

Bye. out of the show off i go bye i as a kid i don't think i knew what do was and as an adult i'm not sure i do either yeah it's is it yeah is it condensation i think so yeah no i agree it is but i don't really know is it just water in the air that sticks to grass i think so i think maybe it's a temperature gets a certain way yeah i think there are listeners who hate this wait you're the weather guy why don't you know yeah that's true check your app look i i only look up i don't look down at the dew i look up at the sky do's none of your business oh yeah but we either are listeners who are so mad right now yeah people who get accused a lot of being stupid well here's the thing mountain dew can you imagine a soda less like its name that's yeah

you're right that's like if if the dew at your mountain was that color or consistency, it would be like, oh, climate change is real. I know, and they... Consistency? They did a pivot. I feel like when I was a kid, it was just like a green beverage or a yellowish beverage, and then it became an extreme beverage.

Okay, Grandpa. But is it now because like sports drinks rule the roost now is yes is mountain dew extreme enough for today's uh gamer twitch gamer you know what i had this weekend uh have you ever had liquid death yes yeah it's water right it's just water but it's just like it's marketed as though it's like an energy drink yeah the can looks like a tattoo on a biker and the guy who created it said that it's death to the water bottle that's his oh okay yeah he doesn't want you to die of quenching i also i don't know if this is correct, but I think I remember hearing that

it's partially owned by the Winklevoss twins. Oh, I'm all in then. I thought that would get you on board. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Water, it's what they're known for rowing through in that one scene. here's your next phone call hey dave and graham mallory calling from alberta i don't think i said that i called you earlier today um about the dinosaur puzzle that said please make five animals uh it's just a real

banner day today ignore that over scenes because then i went to a little afternoon rodeo and bought a program which had a typo on the cover so it was the medicine lodge roto off i go sure it's a pretty big typo yeah for a rodeo. Yeah. They left out, you know, 20% of the letters. And it was funny that it just sounded like a thing that happens every afternoon. Like I went for an afternoon rodeo as opposed to, yeah, like I went for an

afternoon coffee or a midday rodeo. A partner, have you ever been to the rodeo? No. I think it would stress me out it's yeah i grew up in a in a city that's very much they're a cowboy spot yeah so they would have the stampede every year and there was all sorts of chuck wagon races and roping and bull riding and all that kind of stuff but you're right it is is stressful, especially if you're worried about the animals because they don't seem terribly safe.

Yeah. But, you know, if I got an afternoon free, maybe I'll sneak in a quick rodeo. Yeah, yeah. Sneak in a quick rodeo. Yeah, your wedding, Graham, or not your wedding, your party. Yeah. You wore a fancy cowboy shirt. Yes. Yeah. And there was another guy like a a fancy cowboy shirt yes yeah and there was another guy that had a fancy cowboy shirt and i was talking to your brother and he was like yeah everyone has

their fancy cowboy shirts that they wear one day a year that is the policy that is a policy in calgary you have to have some you don't necessarily have to have cowboy boots but it helps you know You don't necessarily have to have cowboy boots, but it helps. Is there a thing in Washington, D.C. that happens once a year that everyone in town does? I don't think there is in Vancouver. Except for that one day that a bunch of people wear white and have a picnic. Yes, that's right. Yeah, I don't think so.

Well, that's fine. A city can, I think, get by without having a... A city can dream. Yeah. Well, that's fine. A city can, I think, get by without having a... A city can dream. Yeah. I think they're just working all the time to try to get everyone on the same page, and they never can. That's true. They have bigger issues on their mind. There's all this red tape.

Well, here's your final phone call. Hey, Dave Graham and gorgeous guests. This is Jesse from Pasco, Washington, calling in with an overheard. Hey, Dave, Graham, and gorgeous guest. This is Jesse from Pasco, Washington, calling in with an overheard. I was on the ferry from Victoria to Port Angeles and was sitting next to a woman and her child who was being kind of a pain and was whining a lot after a while. And after a while, I heard the mother say in an exasperated tone, you need to stop complaining because you know who else is on this boat?

Santa. And he's always watching, so you have to be good. Anyways, off I go. Is that canon? Is that, uh uh yeah santa's on this boat and he's always watching he's always watching but he also has to be on the like within like a few hundred feet of you to watch yeah he's looking at you through binoculars on the other end. My parents used to literally, like, pick up the phone and dial a bunch of numbers. And then, hello, Santa? Yes, David is not putting his pajamas on.

Okay, I'll do it. I'll do it right away. Hang up, hang up. Yeah, do they still do that to this day? Yeah, they still do it. David is not driving me to the airport, Santa. I'll do it. I'll do it.

Fine. Yeah, I'll do it. I swear. Well, that brings us to the episode conclusion. And Aparna, thank you so much for being our guest. Thank you for having me. Your book, Unreliable, narrator narrator when's the drop date when does it drop september 19th tuesdays beautiful um and uh where uh do you have a website the central

where where do people find you online oh sure uh a parna comedy. Okay. Should take them to all the things. And yeah, thank you so much for making the time to come on the podcast. And I can't, I cannot wait to read the book. I'm super excited about it. Thank you. So yeah, thank you for being a guest on the podcast and thank you out there for

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