Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 867 - Steph Tolev

Episode Date: October 29, 2024

Comedian Steph Tolev returns to talk jumpsuits, Chappell Roan, and crowd surfing.

Hi, he's Dave Schumke. And he's Graham Clark. And together we host Stop Podcasting Yourself. Woo! Hello everybody and welcome to episode number 867 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who very kindly, when he went out of country to a little place called Trader Joe's, brought me back something, Mr. Dave Schumka.

Yeah, I know you're a gluten-free person now and so I brought you some gluten-free noodles. I'm so excited. Two kinds, they now have a ravioli and I think you'll be really happy with the results. You're gonna like the way you look. I will like the way I look and I also love pasta in all of its forms. So the more I can have, the better it all is.

Yeah, you mean all those shapes and your stuffing? Yeah, I like a rigatoni. I like a fusilli. I mean, I really want to pull our guest in for this, but I would just, let's keep this private for just now. What's your favorite noodle shape? Oh, I like a round. I like a round kind of thick noodle is what I meant to.

Let's get our guests. We want the guest to weigh on this. What's a round thick noodle? Oh, I'll tell you in a second. Our guest, returning guest to the podcast, oh so funny. She is touring across Canada, coming up in the next couple months, yes? And you can find her online at her Instagram, let's say,

at Stef Tolov. It's Stef Tolov, hi Stef. I love a round thick noodle, hello. say, at Stef Tolov. It's Stef Tolov. Hi, Stef. I love a round thick noodle. Hello. Hello, okay, thank you. I'm going for, you know the shell ones? And when you bite down, all the extra sauce squirts out. Oh yeah.

Yeah, those little guys, they're not around that much, but I like the little shell. Yeah, the shell's good. When you say round thick noodle, do you mean like a big spaghetti? Like what you kind of would get at- A Thai restaurant? Like a Chinese restaurant.

Yeah, yeah, that's what I was thinking. And that size. Oh. Yeah, that's sick. I was going strictly pasta. Oh, I see, okay. Then probably, I mean, if I had my choice of all of them, I'd probably pick a ravioli.

I like a ravioli. Ravioli is good. Yeah. I grew up on Chef Boyardee ravioli, that's all I ate. Yeah, me too. I found a mega once and I pushed it aside and I kept eating it and give a fuck Does that I think with a lot of people oh good I think with a lot of people that was like their first cooking experience was either that or ramen or

Kraft dinner that was it. I know you thought you were something else, just putting it in a pot and stirring it till it, I eat it cold. I wouldn't, I put it in the microwave. I would eat it cold too. I was over it, like the middle would be freezing. I'm like, I think it was shit.

I would throw it in the microwave for a minute and then just eat it like that. Just staring is so impatient. We didn't have a microwave until I was a little older. So I was, you know, I had to do it. You know, we had to do it. You know, we had to do it the old fashioned way. On the stove.

I haven't had a microwave in 10 years. I don't have one. I only have one because one was given to me, but otherwise I probably wouldn't have one. Although I just used it and it was amazing. Oh, you guys, I got one in every room. You got one behind you? Yeah. He's got his office microwave.

Yeah. His balls are sitting on it. We'll get to know us in a second, but a weird thing, like, you know how microwaves are safe and everything? And they don't like... Supposedly. And like, they're like reinforced so that the radiation doesn't come out of them. Every time I turn my microwave on, my Bluetooth headphones go like out of phase.

Oh, shit. It was like the stereo stops working and it's like. Oh, it's probably affecting all of our brains. Yeah, it's cool. Anyway, do you wanna get to know us? I do. Get to know us. Steph, I'm so happy for all your success

that you're having right now. This is a- I actually, David- I have a bone to, yeah. David has actually pissed off and cannot believe after the years he's known me that I've gone this far. Last time you were on the show was, I think you were our second last episode before COVID.

Yes, I was in town for the debaters. Yes, yeah. And we did a corporate debaters and it was only a quarter of the people showed up. Because it was like, because everyone was worried about COVID. It was like the day that everybody was like stuff shutting down.

And it was like this big, it was in a giant hall kind of thing. And there was only like, what would you say? How many people there? Not a lot, maybe 35. Maybe 35. And they had like food trucks and all this stuff. I felt bad. And it was like, it was a good crew.

It was, I was like, this is a fun lineup. Me and Steve Patterson got hammered that night. Yeah. Oh, we went to like Joey's like, mom's a whine. I'm like, it's just the two of us. We got wrecked. It was very fun. Getting to like Joey's like, mom's a whine. I'm like, it's just the two of us. We got wrecked. It was very fun. Getting drunk at Joey's, I like the sound of that.

Yeah, it was fun as hell. And we're like, was it, I can't remember. Were you guys like, should we be sharing a microphone? Like you guys were like, you know, scared of it as well. And it was, I remember. Oh, now we know it's a hoax. Now we know it's a hoax and none of it as well. And it was, I remember- Now we know it's a hoax. Now we know it's a hoax and none of it was real. On the way there, they canceled the,

what was it? The Emmys, no, Emmys with the Canadian- Oh, yeah, the screen awards? No, what was it? The Junos? Junos, they canceled the Junos, yeah. Yeah, I remember at that show, they also had an up close magician working it.

I was like, hmm, this doesn't seem like the right time. Yeah, that's the way he shouldn't be anywhere ever. They're just gross. You're right. That's true. They wash those disgusting those cards. Everyone's touching them. And that's a very good question. Do they wash their cards? The cards are soiled. Everything they put in their mouth, little balls. It means gross. There was an Instagram magician I saw,

and he had walls of unopened boxes of cards, and he would do a trick, like pull a box of cards off the wall, open it, take the wrapping off, and then start his trick. Wow. For every trick? Yeah. We have a very different algorithm. What's your algorithm serving up?

Honestly, right now it's bad. I don't know what happened. I looked at one burn victim and now I have a really big, it's a lot of people who severely burn. I don't know what, I don't know. I don't know. It's very bad. It's actually upsetting that and dogs.

So it's kind of nice. It's a nice balance, but it's like really badly burning people. And I don't know. I looked at one link to the movie, Terrifier 3, and now the internet is like, this is your favorite movie. You want to know more about this movie. Yeah. Here's some behind the scenes of this movie.

Oh God. But when you were last on the show, we had a little pact, the three of us formed a pact that we wouldn't get super successful. Yeah, what the hell, man? You broke it. I don't know what happened. Yeah, what the hell, man? You broke it. I don't know what happened.

I'll tell you what happened. I got fucking lucky. No, you work hard. You do. No, I work hard. No, I'm a crazy hard worker, but it does come down to luck. And especially as a Canadian, which we all know how hard it is, I got lucky and Bill Burr fucking took a shining to me and then things started to pick up.

He loves you. Bill loves me. He does. That's so cool. It's so crazy to think of it because it's funny because all the guys that love him are like, those are my trolls. So it's so funny that I'm like, whenever I get trolled, I'm like, it's so hilarious that you guys hate me and you love Bill, but I'm like, you have no idea that Bill's like

in bed at night watching my wink videos and dying laughing. And then you're like, ugly trans pagan Bill's like, ah, like commenting on it. Like it's so crazy. Oh yeah. I don't think I want success. Yes. Oh, it's, I'll tell you right now.

Any, any you know, it's bad. It's a lot, it's very mean. When you, you opened for Bilber in Toronto. Yes. In like Rogers, What is it called? Roger the Social Bank Arena. Yeah, yeah And when you were doing that show was there anybody in mind that you were like fucking stuck it to that

Oh son of a bitch. No, Nico my high school bully if you're listening, I cannot stop I always bring him up because he's the one or Mike. God. I hope he's in this crap It doesn't even matter now. This guy's such a loser. My friend saw him eating at Swiss Chalet with his family recently, and he looks fat and he was balding. And I'm like, why do I care about this loser? I don't know why.

That's some shade on Swiss Chalet. That sounds wonderful. I know, and she like almost called me. Oh my God, my grade five teacher just DM'd me saying, I always knew you were funny. I'm like, I wasn't funny at all in grade five, so you're a liar. But she like, I wasn't funny at all in grade five, so you're a liar. But she's like, I'm getting very bizarre DMs from people.

Wait for Mark Breslin to say I can do yuck yucks. I'm kidding. That's it. When did you move to America? It's been 10 years. Really? Yes, I know, it hasn't seen that long. Because I think you were on the podcast like the week before the

Canadian Comedy Awards were happening. Yes, and you were like if I don't win I'm gonna kill myself It's actually that was a blessing that it was canceled because Sophie won and I'm such a sore loser That it would have been very embarrassing for me to be there. So it actually it actually turned out quite well I'm such a sore loser. I don't, I'll tell you a story, one time when Lady Stash lost to Peter and Chris, and I made the biggest scene on the planet that Ron James told me to calm down, ma'am,

because I was freaking the fuck out. It was, I took Chris's car to his hotel room and I wiped him my ass like, ooh, you need this, and I was being so, Alison was like, can you please stop? Like it was so embarrassing, so it's a can you please stop? It was so embarrassing. So it's a blessing. That was the Canadian comedy award.

They won two awards in the same year and I was very pissed off. So I was like, they can't win sketch troop and best play. Yeah, you did a hundred shows in one year. It's crazy. They know that I have this riff with them and I'll never drop it. It's comical to them now. But yeah.

Do your grudge hold, you hold the grudge. But this is what's driven me this far. My hatreds to Jason Lawrence and Mark Breslin, to them now. But yeah. Do your grudge holder. You hold the grudge. I want to hold the grudge. But this is what's driven me this far. My hatreds to Jason Lawrence and Mark Breslin, that's driven me to do this. I swear to God, when I got signed to the Comedy Store, my name was on the wall, I literally was going to tag them in my post and be like, remember when you said I was shit? My manager's like, stop. You stop it.

You simply collapse. Ma'am, ma'am, you're making a scene. Ma'am, calm down. You're making a scene. Put down that hotel card. Put it down. Why do you still have that? That's why when I check into a hotel,

I always get two keys. You should, because one of them's been in my ass. Yeah. Yeah. Your name, like, so it's on the exterior or on the interior of the converse? Exterior. So they're running out of room now.

So I'm down way down the parking. So regular people don't see it because it's so far down. My wife and I tried to find you. Yeah. But it's on the, I was on the other side. Yeah, were you at the club watching a show? No, I just, we passed by and I saw that you had like, just had it put up or whatever.

So I went to go look. Outside, that's nice you went to look. It's very cute. On the outside, but yeah, if it's open you can't see it. You need to know we're obsessed with you. Yeah, exactly, we're, you know. You went there just to see my name, we're going to LA to see Steph's name.

We're gonna see where they film Selling Sunset, we're gonna see Steph's name, we're going to Musso and Frank's. You flew to LA just to see Steph's name, and then when you didn't see it, you're like, oh well. See you later. Let's go boot the dudes. Let's go back to Vancouver.

What is their, is there a ceremony? Is it like becoming a maid guy? No, it's funny because not really for mine, but Deb just got passed and they had a fucking cake and they had this whole party. And I was like, I was standing in in a driveway Robbie Hoffman was yelling at people I'm like that was mine cuz like nobody I didn't even invite anybody because nobody's around and then I was like, okay I got a couple photos, but I think they made a bigger deal than now

It was that we had a big main room show and I bombed so bad It was hilarious getting past the company store my first set I bombed it was New Year's Eve and then they were painting it over just really quick out in the alley They shut up It was New Year's Eve. And then they were painting it over just really quick out in the alley. Yeah, yeah. They said, oh, um, it was a bad set. It's, yeah, so that was, I think, the start of things, that getting passed. And then Bill put me on his special Friends Who Kill

on Netflix, yes. And that was insane. And that is what I think put me on the map for the American clubs, because I was headlining a cure in there and then hey guess what I thought finally booked Winnipeg after I you know You finally get some big Canadian clubs to like you after you start shining I was like I'm one of the years. Yeah the You I think you said in an interview or something. Like I said, we're obsessed with you

Where's you've never absolutely upset you tell, like I said, we're obsessed with you. We're obsessed with you. You were absolutely obsessed. So you tell me what I said, I don't know. Yeah, we found your interview in the paper. We cut all the letters out and we sent a threatening message. Yeah. Was the people showed up for your show like wearing a wig or something like that,

like to look like you? Yeah. Is that, that's awesome. So that's why I chose Boston to record my special in. I know I'm Canadian, but Boston, when I went to the show there last year, last October, a whole group of Bachelorette party, they all came in mullet wigs and jumpsuits and they sat like the third row and I was like, what the hell is happening? And like now people show up in jumpsuits and they find like what jewelry I have

and they've caught my jewelry in my boots. It's very bizarre. Wow. Yeah, it's very- Yeah, I thought we were obsessed with you. No, you guys are just both wearing, it's disgusting, you're both wearing jumpsuits right now. Would you, has the mullet become like your bread and butter?

I think honestly since I got this hair and I like, I've become more, things started to happen. I don't know, I think I finally got my hair do. I don't know before what I was doing. I don't know why I had no bangs. It was bizarre. I mean, this is my hair. It's like naturally curly, it makes sense.

The hell I was thinking. So like, are you now afraid to do anything with it? Yeah, I can't, this is who I am. I tried to grow it out a bit and my wife was like, yeah, it looks nice once I grow it out. I'm like, this is what you get, I'm not changing it. I don't wanna tell you, this is who I am. I try to grow it out of it. And my wife is like, yeah, it looks nice. It's like growing out of my. This is what you get. I'm not changing it. I don't know you. This is who I am. I have to wear jumpsuits.

I have to fucking be grown. That's it. Now you're that's I remember like years and years ago. I worked with Imo Phillips and he had like his classic look. He had kind of like a Prince Valiant haircut and he would wear like overalls or something like that. And when I knew him, he was trying a different look. And then he's gone since gone back to the original look, because that's, you know, Ronnie Dangerfield is not going to just

go with no tie on stage, you know? It's really bizarre. Sometimes I'll wear like, I still kind of wear like rock T sometimes in jeans. And sometimes people say something, but it's not as bad. Like I don't wear jumpsuit every night to the store. I'd be insane. Well, how many jumpsuits do you own? I think I own about 50 now. No Every color the rainbow every color every style I have one place is finally sponsoring me because I was like these are not cheap

The problem is jumpsuit like $200 a piece. Oh shit. Yeah, I'm like these are not I so if I like thrift shop, those are when I find the good was, like the old Dickies one. Right. Those are like 20, 30 bucks, which I'm like, that I can handle, but I'm like, this is getting a little expensive to look like a fucking janitor on stage. What the hell? I've made a huge mistake. You are sponsored for your jumpsuits?

I get wild fangs, that's me free ones now. Okay, I don't know what that is, but I- It's like, it's a good brand. If you're listening ladies, mad, whoever, they're cool, they're fitted, they're all sizes, really good material. And also go to BetterHelp and you can have a check out, a SPY check out. Use offer code mullet for your jumpsuit. Yeah, there's no code.

I'm not getting money from this, so I just get free ones. I got to say it every once in a while. Well that's, man, that's all like so like, did it feel like nothing was happening all of a sudden it was just like took off like a rocket? Because that's I feel like I've been around people where that happened. It kind of it was like a very slow until the as soon as the Netflix thing came out. I think I I don't think anyone thought I was going to do that well from it. Especially my agents are like, oh, shit. And then because it's only it. Especially my agents, they're like, oh shit. And then, because it was only seven minutes.

So I think they were like, well, what could you really do on here? And I'm like, well, I could do a lot in seven minutes. Your agents are really talking down to you. I just don't think anyone thought. But now, yeah, that really helped. And then Bill's movie definitely gave me a little jumpy jump, too. That's great. And then, yeah, it's very good.

And now my special is going to be coming out on a large streaming network that for some reason I'm not allowed to say which one. And I'm very excited because I filmed it at a Paradise Rock Club. Oh, where's that? It's in Boston and it's so fucking cool. And the coolest bar, which is very Canadian, which I'm very proud of. So I'm obsessed with Death From Above, 1979 and my favorite band. Do you have them all the time? I'm a little creepy.

Oopsies. I used one of their songs is going to be it when I come out to it. So we like got a license from them and everything. So I'm like, it's cool. I know I'm very excited. So that's very Canadian still. And this is like a rock club. Yeah, it's a, yeah. So it's a paradise rock club. If you look it up, like everyone's played there.

Debbie Harry, Alice in Chains, Zeppelin, I think. It's insane who they've had there. Yeah. So I don't think they've had, I think there's been some comedians as well. Paul Poundstone, I think did a special there years ago, but it was really, it was really fucking cool. It was really intimate. I'm like, I want to do something. some when I see this first of all, I don't think it's not a huge either So I'm like I need to do hey, hey, Vancouver get those tickets November 9th Um, I I was like, I don't know if I don't want to be pressured for that So this was like 350 packed in with a huge balcony

So people would lead you right now if It felt, we made it like a rock vibe. Nice. Yeah. And then like you're touring across Canada. Where are you, where's the, where are you stopping? It's just, we're doing a little West Coast tour in November and then one show in Toronto. And then I'm doing just two shows in February

in Halifax in Ottawa. Oh nice. And that's it. It's my first theater tour. So that's why I'm like pushing these tickets, because it's much harder to sell a theater than a club with 100 seats. Yes, yes. Turns out, very hard to sell a theater out.

I don't know how Matt Rife does it. Maybe I'll get a Chizu jaw or a fucking tongue twister. Yeah, yeah. Get a little, start mewing. What do I do here? What do I, do I start planting people for my crowd work? Is that what I have to... Hello.

Oh, is that a... Of course that's a thing. Why didn't I ever think that that was a thing? There might be a thing. Wow. Oh my God. Oh my God. Ooh, the scoop on...

Yeah, you ever notice it's the same guy in all the crowd work? The same guy in every crowd? Yeah, imagine. The different wigs. Yeah. But he's getting larger again. That guy's hair is really growing quickly. All of the crowd works. Imagine every crowd. These different wigs. Yeah. But he's getting larger again. That guy's hair is really growing quickly. All of the crowd works about his hair.

That's all he's got figured out. Hey, this guy's hair is crazy when we did that one. No, I think some of it's real, but some of it might not be. That would be cool. Like, I would totally, like, I gotta respect it. It would totally- It would be hard to do a full special on just crowd work. Like, that would be- Right do a full special on Just Crowd Work.

Like that would be... Right, that's what he did. Like coming into these shows, coming into these like new shows, I'm like, I don't wanna, I can't do this hour now. Cause I'll tell you what, I didn't have a full hour ready. I had, I thought I did. And then I taped it and like I had to add in some more jokes and some of them pretty old.

Oh, we got a closer, he's the old comedy mix that I post in there, excusez-moi. Yeah. I joke that's literally 15 years old. They're like, I don't give a shit. Sorry. It was like, oh, that just last tape years ago. Sorry, it's on the special. You know, it's hard to build a whole special

out of crowd work. It's, you know, even harder to build a whole special out of lip syncing to a Donald Trump audio clip. Oh God. And then watch that one. Who did this? It was a woman who was going, she went viral for all of her.

She went viral for TikTok, it was really crazy. She would always like lip sync to Donald Trump like soundbites. I don't know what that was. And they were like, you should have a special. That was crazy, she's gone now, right? That was, she was in and she was out. She's gone now right that was she was in and she was no longer with us that was wacky she really get a special or is that oh yeah no she was on Netflix yeah I was pretty brutal did you see the special

with the guy that did it with no audience there was a can't remember who maybe drug Carmichael produced it and it was a guy who think it was for HBO. And it was him doing his hour with no audience. Yeah. Who was that? I don't know. But he talked about having herpes. I remember that. That was. Oh, oh, oh, oh. White guy. Yeah. Michael something.

Michael something. He's got herpes. I know because he is. I remember I saw him do a set, I thought it was Gilles and herpes, and I went, I still fuck him. In my head. I was so sick, I was like, maybe there's a outbreak. Drew Michael. Drew Michael, that's it, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, it was wild, man. White guy, was it a white guy with herpes?

White guy with herpes, that's what it was. Who did I, someone did a special recently, I'd a lot of specials and to get prepared for this and Some people are not giving a fuck about their appearance. It was very bizarre. Oh Do tell what are we talking about outfits or makeup or hair outfits and hair and wetness first of all Joe Rogan was Sopping wet on his I know his was live but I was like I literally there's a riff I did during mine and I kind of want to keep it in,

because I had a, I was so crazy with my hair, because my hair, the bangs, they go over and I look like a weird wet pig and I'm like, the bangs can't do that. So I had a special bang light. So at one point in my stand, my boyfriend was doing my teleprompter for me, which everybody has, and no one,

I would keep talking about teleprompter, and everyone would be like, do the teleprompter? I'm like, everybody has a teleprompter. I remember, it's like an hour and 15 minutes, you psychos. So all of a sudden he was typing bangs, bangs, bangs. I was like, so you teleprompter? I'm like, everyone can teleprompter. I remember I was like, you got an hour and 15 minutes, you're psychos. So all of a sudden he was typing bangs, bangs, bangs. I was like, so I stopped the tape. I went, all right everybody, I'm wet, I'm powdering. And then my makeup guy came out and fixed me.

And then I riffed during it. I'm like, I don't wanna look like Joe Rogan, I'm not lactating. And the crowd was like, yeah. I was like, I might keep that in. I might keep that in the old and special because it feel pretty hard. But it's like he was-

Joe Rogan was lactating? He was, did, he went live, did a live show. Even though he did this, they should have brought out, yellow shirt, mustard. Oh, a mustard color shirt, geez Louise. I knew, I know, although when I went to practice, I was saying I did not watch the special, I saw clips. Yeah.

Just so you don't think I'm at home taking notes on Joe Rogan's special. No, thank you. Well, just so you know, I watched that whole special with no audience. Yeah, so you'll think I'm at home taking notes and they're always special. No, thank you Well, just you know, I watch that whole special with no audience Yeah, you can and now you can memorize Joe Rogan's and do that. That'll be your next Yeah, he's lip-syncing with Joe Rogan. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. That's meant to go viral. No audience. No, no Yeah, he was soaked. He was soaking wet and then there there's a couple of people that like, what's the thing? Working your face. I'm like, what is this skin tight t-shirt?

Your nipples are out. You look gross. You have money. I don't know what's going on here. Do you think like, because I feel like some comedians, a lot of their act is that they're schlubby or whatever. Do you think like more comedians should like get a stylist or something? Because they know what you're talking about.

I dress just black jeans and black t-shirt. Like I don't do anything special, but yeah, I don't know what would you like to see on the fellas out there? Even the women do. There's one woman specifically I don't want to say who it is because I think she's funny, but she was wearing an oversized gray t-shirt and like ill-fitted jeans and sneakers. I like you're at a theater you look crazy like I don't know what's like I hired a stylist and I got a tailor-made jumpsuit oh nice crazy it fit like a fucking glove I lost 25 pounds for the special I was fucking something to that damn

thing I did I for the last two and a half months I was on a crazy diet barely ate starving and I worked out every single day and then I got this like tailor-made fucking jumpsuit. So I wouldn't, I didn't want to wear spang-somi special. That was the goal. Turns out it's allowed to wear them. Very hard to get rid of belly fat when you're 39 years old.

Anyways, slice it off soon. Anyways, it was, I was like, and I feel like I looked fucking good. I felt good. Oh shoot, wouldn't you want to look good? I don't know what. I want to talk about, when you hire a stylist, because who did we talk to?

Was it like Dave Merhaj at his movie premiere? He had worked with a stylist. Someone at a movie premiere had worked with a stylist. Yeah, I think that's right, yeah. What, like, is it, do you go in for multiple meetings or is it just like? This is what we see. No, she came to my house.

So she also styled me for the Bill Burr Netflix special. Okay. So that was, she did that. And if everything was perfect, I'm like, this is great. So she came to my house and I explained to her, I wanted to look like rock and roll comedy, comfy jumpsuit. I need to be able to deep squat. I need to be comfy.

So she came up with this idea. It's like an old, it was like a tuxedo turned into a jumpsuit. Oh, that's cool. So yeah, I can show you guys. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, um, because I'm like, I'm so it looked literally incredible. Like I'm so I'm so happy. That's the front. And then the back. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The back. Check out the back. The name of the title. Oh, shit. In like, literary lettering yeah, oh yeah. And the bat, check out the bat. The name of the title, Phil from the Bat. Oh, shit. In like glittery lettering, though.

Glittery, and then I had this crazy, these like insane boots, like really high fun black boots. Kind of like Doc Martens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it said Phil from the front here, and then a little pocket, it was very cute. How did they measure you for your squat? Do you have to squat and they just pull up?

Tailor we had to have very specific Material for my spotting and my sweat so they had to also make a little back slit for air because I get so fucking Hot and it will be melting Shelly spaghetti Yeah, we needed to be haired out. And that's why I was wearing shorts, because I knew it was going to be hot and I was soaked. I could have rung it out after. I am, yeah, I don't know how, like, musicians do it. And like, play a three-hour show without being completely soaked.

It doesn't make sense. You're wet. You're soaking wet. Like, I felt the jerk. You're moving around. You doesn't make sense. You're wet. You're soaking wet. Like I felt under... You're moving around. You're under hot lights. And you're stressed. It's very, very stressful. Dodging panties.

Dodging. Yeah, yeah. People were just throwing wet condoms at me. Can you imagine? It's so gross. Not used. Just damp. Well, they come out of the package wet.

That's the thing. Yeah, they're slippy. But it was... I'm very excited. They're born slippy. They're born slippy. I'm very excited's the thing, yeah, they're slippy. But it was, I'm very excited. They're born slippy. They're born slippy. I'm very excited for it to come out, I'm very happy. It went like, I did two tapings.

The first one was, as it was happening, I was like, time to act, because they were, it was at, I did a 5.30 and a 9.30. Oh, 5.30, I think that was on you, really, putting a show on a 5.30. Being like this, at one point I did powder, and I see the girl on her phone and I go, you not enjoying the show?

Just all my kids, I go, what are they, in the hospital? And then I was like, okay, I gotta calm down, I'm being mean right now. But I got off stage and I was like, I was so pissed. Everyone was like, oh my God, you killed it. We got the tape, it doesn't matter what happens now, every joke hit, I'm like, hit what? The wall?

I was so pissed. I was like, I wanted to cry so badly but my makeup was so good I couldn't. So I went up to the set and I'm like, hit what? The wall? I was so pissed. I was like, I wanted to cry so badly, but my makeup was so good I couldn't. So I went up to the set, and everyone was like, well, what are you talking about? That was amazing. And I was like, if by adding only a laugh track to every joke is amazing, then that's amazing. And then the second show, it was insane. And I was like, that's the tape.

That's the tape. That's it. That was what the show was. I don't know what the hell you guys thought the first show was. I was stupid. So mad. Came backstage, called everybody stupid, pushed around. I was trying so hard.

What I love about you, Steph, is you are your authentic self. You're like, is she fake mad all the time? No, she's mad all the time. No, I'm pissed. It was just, everyone was so happy with how it went. They're like, you didn't even flood the line. I'm like, that sucked. I was so pissed.

But I'm very happy. And that's done. It just needs to be done. I've been real, the stress leading up to it was not normal. I've never felt like this. What was the diet? Tell me this diet, because I need to lose 25 pounds. Okay.

No, Graeme, you don't. Yeah, that's how the diet is. Take your fridge and fucking throw it in the goddamn East River, because you're not eating. I count every calorie. Salad dressing, bye. Oil, you like oil? Not anymore, see you later. Really?

I'm on an all oil diet myself, so this is devastating. Hey, plug your ears then. Everything you like is gone. Every morning was protein powder with some oats and some almond milk. Lunch would be egg whites and a handful of spinach. Snack would be maybe I'd have a rice cake with like, I don't know, nothing on it, dry.

And then dinner would be zoodles. I make zucchini noodles with lean ground beef. And one cup. I thought you meant zoodles out of a can, like. No, no, I'm like, I don't know, it was wait. No, like the zucchini noodles with one cup of sauce. You had to measure the specific sauce as a very low calories. No salad dressing.

Hilarious. Dry. Did you like, were you tired all the time? I feel like that's not enough food to make somebody go. I was exhausted. I was so tired. And I was I started getting hives by the end of it. I had hives before they came back. I was just like so, so stressed and And then running the hour and I was like, what is happening?

It was too much. Are you back on fun food? No, I ate like a pig for two weeks. No, because I lost weight. Everyone was like, whoa, someone looks good. I'm like, oh great, I was a fat pig before. So now I'm trying to like keep it all off. Hell, I hate this.

But I will say- We were trying to compliment you. I know I'm pissed off. I'm mad. Fuck you, I know I look good. I know I'm pissed off. I'm mad about it. Fuck you. I know I look good. I'm just mad about everything.

But I do. The issue is now I do like my body right now. So I'm like, I do. Good. But I'm starving. So it's like, I'm either I hate my body or I'm eating or I'm starving and I look like the body. It's stupid.

Yeah. Well, that's what Spanx are for. That's what I'm going to start wearing. Some really like constrictive Spanx. Let's get you sponsored. Spons's what Spanx are for. That's what I'm going to start wearing. Some really like constrictive Spanx. Let's get you sponsored. Sponsored for Spanx. I just, I'm going to just do the Ricky Gervais tight t-shirt and see what happens.

Tight, skin tight shirt and that's that. How do we all feel about Ricky Gervais' standup? Do we all, do we all love it? I mean, he says what we're all thinking. Do you all love it? I mean, he says what we're all thinking. He, I think like there was special that he did with, it was like an interview thing with him and Chris Rock and Louis CK and somebody else.

And he was putting himself, he was like, you know, when we're doing standup and they're like, when we are doing, the three of us, when we are doing standup. Does he even do it regularly? Like I was confused when he had a special come out. I watched the old recently when I was watching all these things prepare. I watched Heather McMahon. I'm not sure if you know her. Hers is very funny and Pete Holmes. Those are the two that I watched. I was like, oh, these are funny. Yeah. These are good specials. What's her

name? Heather McMahon. Heather McMahon. Okay. Yeah. It's really weird. She's like super big, but no one, she said that she has a special Netflix and she just had one on Hulu. Her director actually, Jen Zabrosi, I got her director because hers looked so fucking good. Nice. I was like, I need that woman.

And yeah, Heather's actually doing a cruise in April and I'm performing on the cruise, which I'm excited about because- Have you been on a cruise before? I have. My boyfriend works on cruises. He's here that's why, motion over there. He does like a rock and roll show on the cruise ships. So I go with him sometimes. I don't love the cruise ships.

He also does the princess, so they're older. Right. But we did the Alaska one, it's beautiful. From Vancouver, we went up to do very nice. Do, do, do, do, do. You didn't perform, did you? No, I'd be thrown overboard. We went from Vancouver, we went up to very nice. You didn't perform, did you? No, I'd be thrown overboard. I will not be allowed to do any sort of comedy on the cruise ships he does.

Cause he did one joke where he got a complaint and he plays Jerry Lee Lewis. So he did a joke about having to join twins and sharing a diaper. And then a woman went to the next morning, went down to the person that like runs the shows and was like, I wasn't offended by somebody might have been by this joke. I just want you to know I wasn't, I laughed. Others might be offended.

I just wanted to tell on them. I just wanted to tell on them. And then the cruise director was like, yeah, we love Jefferson. He kills. So I don't know what the hell to say right now. Yeah. This is off. Cause I think we know people who are cruise ship comedians and it seems like a good deal.

I've only been on one cruise and it wasn't for me, but. No, isn't a good deal. I don't know. It doesn't feel like maybe you're always on vacation. I don't know, I have no idea. I think there's maybe people, if you're the right comedian and you have the right personality, it can be great. Okay, if your personality is you like sleeping in a tiny little cell, you like eating slop for weeks on end, and you like having no, like, they can't say anything. Who do we know that goes on the show? I know Graham K. got kicked off.

Anyway, come see Steph on the Heather McMahon cruise. That cruise will be fun. That's all like her people. I know Graham K got kicked off. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was doing, I can't remember, but I think Norwegian I think got kicked off

because he said he swore did something remotely sexual because you have to be so clean. Yeah. And then do they were just like, get out of the next board? Or were they like, you're in the hull of the ship for the rest of the cruise? Go to the board. No, get out of the next port. Or were they like, you're in the hull of the ship for the rest of the cruise. Go to the board. No, they actually do the next the next one.

They make you go off. It's crazy. The next port. They're like, you're done. See ya. Oh, wow. Oh, yeah. Bizarre. Yeah. Isn't it weird that that's like a thing that's it's just a commonplace thing in the bit like same with corporates. Like it's kind of just this like Started that I don't know right now. These cruise ship comedians are unbearable

I'm I'm sitting in the like as Jefferson. He does music He doesn't call me between he's like he does jokes or something. He's built as a musician I'm sitting there with people in the audience and they're like the half a little bit this guy's funny You should see how bad the comedians are the ship.. But I'm like, I know, because they're like old, old hacks that have like 500 Instagram followers and they don't, it's like the same like waiting for the elevators like this. No, after you. Like it's the same, they all do the same joke. It's crazy.

It really is wild. How many Instagram followers do you need to be funny? I mean, it's just, it's comical when these people are saying they're comedians, they're cruise ship comedians, and my sister has a bigger following than you. I mean, that's just comical to me. Would she play on a cruise ship? She'd kill harder than these fuckers.

When I was on the cruise that I went on with my family, that we went and saw the comedian, and he bombed very badly. It wasn't really his fault, because the crowd was being awful. But the next day I bought a CD in the gift shop and gave it to my mom for her birthday. Wait, can you say the name of this person? I don't remember it. Okay, because I was like, I guarantee it might be Gary Delaney.

I think I know. Did he do musical comedy? Nope. Okay, okay, okay. She names names. I think I know who, did he do music comedy? Nope. Okay, okay, okay. She names names. I know, I know, Gary actually ended up being nice,

but he actually had a really funny life. He was like, he did music comedy and we were, cause we were gonna watch it, cause there's nothing else really to do. And at one point he said, then I saw her face, she's a retriever. And I laughed, I honestly had the laugh out of it. That is pretty good. No, but that line, that line really.

That's gonna get you another couple hundred Instagram followers. That's a good line. Yeah, I feel like there's a lot of comedians I've seen over the years where they just have that one amazing joke. Like everything else is just like tepid, but they've got this one joke. They're like, why do you have it? I want it. What are you gonna do with it? You know, well, that's what they do with it the cruise ships do you Do travel other than Going to you know shows and going on cruise ship with boyfriend. Are you traveling?

No life we tried to have a vacation. We tried to plan we have March We have one week in March, right after, before my birthday. So we were going to go to Europe, but we don't have a year of a week. So we're just going to, I think we're going to drive the West Coast together. Nice. Yes. We're officially a year dating. Congratulations.

Uh huh. He's, I love sharing this, but he's, um, uh, Jefferson McDonald. He's Christopher McDonald, the nephew, uh, shooter McGavin. McGavin. McGavin. Anduder McGavin. Shuder McGavin. And everyone always comments on my videos, he looks exactly, yes he does,

because they're simply related and just simply look at the last name. Yeah. Which wasn't that. Yeah, but there's not very many McDonald's out there. Yeah, I know. But when you look exactly like somebody, you would assume.

Yeah. Yeah, you would assume. Yeah, people often ask me, hey, are you related to Don Shumka? Yeah, it's my dad. Yeah. You would assume. Yeah. People often ask me, Hey, are you related to Don Shumka? Yeah, it's my dad. Yeah. You can't stop all the time. Yeah. All the time.

His dad has a lot of Instagram followers. So. She, that'd be so funny if your dad had way more Instagram followers than you. And it's just all sleight of hand magic. You're like, this is what I was watching. This is what people like. I barely post on Instagram.

I'm not that kind of a performer anymore. I do this show and we just joined Instagram last week. Yeah. Are you serious? Yeah. Yeah, we are podcast. You guys even do clips? You don't do?

We just started, we're doing clips. Wow. Hey, this'll be our first clip. Oh boy. Cause this is, you know. Things are crazy here. No, but here's the thing. Your podcasts and so is Marin's are doing so fucking well

and they don't do clips. No clips. Well, yeah, Marin and I, we talk about this a lot. You're on the first Canadian basis. Yeah, we have a lot of like, hey, which one of our shows is doing better? Look, you guys are doing great. Why would I beg you to have me on a-

There was no begging. There was no begging. Mark Maron is currently in Vancouver shooting something, so he's in the clubs. He's working on bits and stuff. Oh, okay. It's fun. Yeah. Where is he?

What's good on Vancouver now? What are we doing here? What's happening over there? There's a lot of bubble tea. Yeah, we got a lot of bubble tea places. All the clubs are like independent clubs. They're run by basically comedians. Okay, okay.

Yeah, because all the clubs closed, so. Oh, finally. Yeah, so it's weird. The scene's weird, but it's good. Okay. So yeah, if you come up just for like a couple days or whatever you just breeze them through town Let me know I'll connect you with everybody. I Let me if I don't sell out the vogue. I'll be hitting the mic after being like I'm

Exhausted I know I think who has been a very good scene to me ever since I've Started coming out there. That was like one of the first places that had let me the mix. Oh, yeah well, I'm glad I'm glad to hear that. The weird thing is, like I couple times when I be emceeing at the Comedy Mix, somebody who just played like the Vogue or the Queen Elizabeth Theater would come and do a set. And I'm like, isn't this kind of a would this be kind of a come down from you doing a whole show and then I'm going to do seven minutes at some grotty club?

You know, I love that. I like the set up there. I mean, I hated that you can drink on stage. doing a whole show and then I'm gonna do seven minutes at some karate club you know? I loved it! I liked the set up there. I mean I hated that you couldn't drink on stage. I'll never get over that. Yeah. Oh that's right! Yeah yeah yeah.

So yeah on the stage itself they said it wasn't liquor licensed and I was like you just don't want comedies to drink. That is it legally and makes no sense the middle of the room? What are you talking about? Oh it is weird. It is. There's no way. No it is.

It's like, there are the weirdest liquor laws in Vancouver. Some of them, I think have gotten better in the last 10 years or so. But I've been at Graham's old show at the Havana. Yeah. There was like- Oh, you can't drink in there, right? No, you couldn't drink in the theater, yeah.

But also at the bar, you could get a drink from the bar and there was like a little art gallery attached to the bar where you could look at pictures, but you could not take your drink one foot that direction. That's right. And if you were standing at the bar, someone would come and put a stool under you.

Right, yeah, yeah. What the heck? And it's like right now our mayor is Johnny Goodtimes, like he's a, he shotgunned a beer in front of the press and such. That's so funny. So he's the guy, he guy's like I'm gonna make sure you drink anywhere you want oh god he actually was like when he got sworn in he was wearing a toga no shoes or socks I met one time I was so mad at that law I made a really really long

straw I attached like 12 straws. And I had somebody in the green room with a suit of curtain. I was really hard to suck with through 12 straws, but I did it to prove a point. Also got no laughs. And I was like, well, this is the funniest thing I've ever known in my entire life, but whatever.

Not funny in the crowd, but it's pretty silly. It's pretty funny. It was your coming out as a prop comedian. You were like, this is what's been missing. I would love to do props. I'll tell you what, Carrot Top's one of the nicest people I've ever met. I went and saw his show in Las Vegas and I loved it. I'm saying right now, he would do this podcast.

I asked him to do mine and he goes, all right. I was like, what? He's so fucking nice and chill and like, you know what? I feel bad that people make fun of him all the time. He's also funny. He writes stuff more than any of us. I think he's doing fine. He's doing great. He rewrites a new show nonstop. He's constantly funny. He would he writes stuff more than any of us. I think he's doing fine. He's doing great He rewrites a new show. Don't stop. He's constantly new jokes and he

The weird thing about him is that he's had so much success and then there wasn't like a wave of prop comics that we're Also trying to have that success. It was like him and then nobody else has been a prop comic. What about Marty putts? Who the hell's Marty Putz? Marty Putz, do you remember the show? It was on the Comedy Network, I guess it was from Comedy Central, called Make Me Laugh? Yes. And it was a game show and there would be like a contestant who just, a comedian would like do comedy in their face. And it would be, they would win a hundred bucks if they didn't laugh.

Yeah. in their face and it would be they would win a hundred bucks if they didn't laugh yeah and so they would be true and then Marty putz was one of the like and he had he always wore a hockey jersey and like blue pleather pants I mean you might have the same style I like the sound of Marty putz right now I'm gonna be googling Marty Putz all night. I want him to come up with my algorithm. Yeah. The more I say Marty Putz, the more I'm going to say it three times, as Marty Putz appears.

Yeah, because it's weird, right? Do you ever see a prop comic in LA? There's one guy, Darren Carter, the party starter. OK, I like the name. I like that name a lot. I wanna not like him, but he fucking kills. He has this bit where he brings out a flashlight and does his nightclub thing, and the crowd goes ballistic.

Oh, ballistic. And he does it every night, the same set, and it's like, be beloved. It's like the fact that he gave himself a name, like how Cedric the entertainer was like Yeah, but he's the party's there and Carp is such a long name. And yes, I have to know some it's really wild Would he destroy on a cruise? Oh, he would destroy in a cruise. Yeah, he would absolutely murder on a cruise Yeah, so I'm I just did a Google image search for Marty putz and it looked he looks very

Funny and I'm seeing so many funny looking props,z and it looked, he looks very funny. And I'm seeing so many funny looking props, but there is the same, he's doing the same bit over like, it looks like footage from today and footage from the 80s. Like he's had this one bit in his act for 40 years. And it's just him with giant fake muscles holding a dumbbell. Oh, that's, I'm not gonna lie, I like Marty Putz. Maybe we should do more prop company. I like a dumbbell. Oh, that's... I'm not gonna lie, I like more to puns. Maybe we should do more prop comedy.

I like a prop. I've been... I mean, I feel like there was a lot of stuff that I thought was, like, corny when I was younger. Now I'm like, who cares? It's great. Yeah, I want to laugh. That's it. So, like, I picked up somebody had a really gross pretzel at a show because it was penis. I kind of done a whole set with it.

I was like, I gotta put this down. It was really weird for me to do that. of done a whole set with it. I was like, I put this down. It was really weird for me to do that. Then I felt bad. The whole show was like, we're sorry, since you're food. But I was like, hey, it might have been very funny stuff. I love it. I love it. Nice props. It's yeah, it's crazy to me that there wasn't like a whole wave of them and that they're like, you say, you know, one. And I can't even think of one.

But do you remember like watching old just for laughs clips like from, you you know from the early 90s or whatever Yes And there was a guy his whole act was swallowing things and bringing them back up you remember that well I don't remember that guy know oh god made the Freakiest sound when he swallowed things he was all like a light bulb It would swim would drink a glass of water and then with a fish in it. And then spit it out. And he did like he oh, he could do change he could put in some

loose change and then bring it up. Like by its worth like a 2510 510. Rearrange Oh, wow. Yeah, that's insane. There's no way they were actually getting swallowed down there. We can you imagine being on a show and that guy's also on the show You can't there's no way you could have been able to follow that back of the day. There's no way no no no exactly And like going on after a celebrity. Oh, I did what you guys know ti is yeah the rapper Oh, yeah, the rapper so did you follow him expeditiously? Oh?

He thinks he's a comedian and listen to I if you're listening, you gotta put the mic down. Yeah, he's a big fan. Yeah, he's a listener. He does all the time. Could you stop emailing us? Yeah, we don't want you in the podcast. Polly Shore brought him on stage thinking he was going to do three minutes. I'm at the back like, OK. He won't get off stage.

He is not get off stage. T.I.'s not getting off stage. Paulie's at the back. Is he getting laughs? No, pity laughs, like celebrity laughs. Right. So Paulie's at the back and he's like, now five minutes. And then the lights, he is at the light.

Paulie's like, it's okay, he'll bring you up. I'm like, T.I. doesn't know who the fuck I am. He doesn't know that you, it's shotgun style. He's knowing what's happening. Right. The guy on the piano starts playing him off. He's like, okay, dude. And then they call you, they try to grab the mic and they do this thing

we're like fighting and he won't give him I'm at the back like this is not go I had to go on after and I was like well well well what the fuck was that I had like reset the room took a bit I wasn't my best sound thing that very bizarre it is to follow a rapper who isn't funny and who should not be there and then wouldn't leave. It was bizarre. Wow. Yeah, I really like, I read a story from Tim Allen said in an interview that he was on Just For Laughs. He was the closing act of the gala and he was before Home Improvement. So he's well known as a standup, but that was it. And the guy before him, his thing was like lighting a rocket out of his

butt, like he put a rocket in his butt and then like, it was like big sparklers coming on and then Tim Allen had to go up there and be like, oh, that's so funny. And they're like, put a rock in your ass and then do the sound. Now I'm picturing in the butthole, but I'm guessing I'm assuming for JFL it was butt crap. Yeah. Well, there's no way just for laughs. Maybe the French side, if it was just the French speakers.

I think it was a different time back then. I think you probably got away with a lot of stuff in the early 90s. A lot of stuff. Oh, God. There was one guy is like, he was a guy who didn't speak any English, but he could do elaborate shadow puppets. And that was like, he could do like a celebrity shadow puppet, and he was, he, the only words he could speak was who the celebrity was.

Okay, he didn't say the name? He wasn't selling you on what, you know, anything else, it was just shadow puppets, and it was like, man, what, JFL used to rule that they would do stuff like that. Also was comedy way easier back then, what the hell? You shoved a rock in your ass and were like, this isn't that, but your happening times, I showcased for just the last seven years straight, didn't get it. Yeah.

I needed a rock in my ass. Yeah, where was your rock at? Where's my fucking rock at? Where's my shadow puppets? I would have done that, what the hell? I just shadow puppets, somebody knows that there was celebrities, I celebrities to be like this whoever the fuck I'm like, this is crazy Just screwed up. I screwed up screwed the hell up

Dave what's going on with you my friend? Well, I can I take it down. Can I get serious for a bit? Well Halloween is coming up. Oh, yes. And my children are going to, they're going to both dress up as Chapel Rhone. Okay. Yeah. Brand new, popular singer. She's a singer.

Okay. She's, you know, she wears a very distinctive outfit, so they're gonna have like a big red wig and powdery makeup and kind of like a sequined sailor moon outfit. Okay. And you know, you hear about what happens every year at Halloween, there's like, you know, you hear the stories about people tampering with candy and they give it out to trick or treaters.

And they're like. We used to do that every year at my house. Used to. What'd you do? We'd open them up, rub them on the floor, wrap them back up again. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of work.

A lot of work. You hear about like people putting needles in chocolate bars. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Poisoning lollipops. And, you know, people say it's an urban legend, but it's not. It really happens. So every year after trick or treating, the kids, you know, they pour out their candy,

they put it on the table and we spread it out and I have to go through all of their candy. Yeah, you got to take a little bite of everything. Well, yeah, that's the thing. It's like I look at it, but I have to, you know, take a little bite. I, you know, maybe I chew it a bit I swallow it I usually end up eating you know 70 to 80 percent of the candy like are you're because I feel like there's kids that like they like the hunt but they don't care about the candy and those people drive me insane because why are we they care about they care

about the candy but they they you know asked them, do they resent the fact that I end up eating most of their candy? And they're like, no, dad, we, we know it's important and you're actually really brave for protecting us. And so they actually, they wrote me a song. They did not. And they wrote me a song and they... This is so cute. This is adorable. Yeah.

What the heck? And they sang it to me and it went like this. He's cruel, insane, putting razor blades in apples just to cause some pain Throw him in jail, floating snickers in the toilet filling nerds with nails Come November 1st, I don't want my stomach burst I only want to enjoy all my candies safely You can taste a hundred poison bars Make sure we don't choke on a candy necklace You can have my only fun-sized Mars

We appreciate all you do to protect us You're great, Dad. You're great dad. You rule dad. You have to stop the man causing all the chaos. You're great dad. Big hugs dad. You're a normal dad and we're not embarrassed. And they did not write this song.

This was you. They wrote that and they performed it for me. I can't believe I bought that. I got so... So did I! I thought what cute little girls you raised and then you sang the stupidest song I've ever heard in my life. What the hell?

Well, it's Chapel Rhone is what it is. Take it to the cruise ship. That's what I said. Okay, okay. Guess what? Then kill the cruise ship. Yeah. Kill in JFL?

Kill. Kill. Team Marty Putz. Yeah, it would kill in JFL. It would kill. It would kill. Team Marty Potts. Yeah. The OG Potts over here. That's adorable. And it's adorable. Are people gonna know who? Well, it's not adorable, because none of it's true.

There's no way, has anybody actually ever found something? Like honestly, all your years of sugar treating, have you ever had any? I've never heard, there's no no way and apparently the things that are the only like instances of kids getting poisoned are their own parents oh sure like it's never like some scary boogeyman Steph are you a Halloween person I am very large big. I'm very excited because My boyfriend I already look like Hall of Notes. So we barely have to do anything Has my haircut he got a mullet and I'm like, okay and I just need a mustache So we are going as Hall of Notes or we were gonna go as we already filmed like a spoof on

Shumman Gavin and mr. Larson. So I have the wake with the nail in my head still. So we might just do that again. That's pretty good. Did you once go as a character from Big Mouth? Were you the gym teacher? Yes, I was Coach Steve. Yeah, I've been Coach Steve. Last year, okay, last year was my funniest costume, but... Here's the thing. I got really into this. And I went to the wrong party.

I ended up going to the, do you know Gabby, do you know Robbie Hoffman's girlfriend? She's on like a reality show, Gabby. No, I've heard of her. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So I don't watch reality. It was her and her friends party. Okay. Don't watch reality. Don't listen to Chappell Rhone. They're very attractive, very cool lesbians. Okay? Okay. Have you guys seen, obviously seen

rest of development? Yeah. Yeah. You know when Tobias gets the grab versus host the transplant, the hair transplant and he has to be in a wheelchair? Yeah. So I thought it'd be really hilarious to come to a house party in a full fucking wheelchair and now I can't, of course I can't find the fucking photos. I show up in this Tobias wig with legions all over my face. My friend Jess, Jess and Michelle also come in and comes with me. She dresses up as Tobias with never nude. So full, nothing on her tits, just like little fake things and just jean shorts. We looked, no one knew who we were.

No, they're, no, so people thought I was making fun of somebody's wheelchair. So I come in and everyone, the whole party halts and they went into this beautiful, like charcuterie spread like towers, like towers and fondues. And I'm like, oh fuck. And I just roll in and then I go right outside and someone's embarrassed.

So I'm in the backyard and everyone's like, do you need help getting in your chair? And I was like, it's a bit. And then it was like, it bombed for so long that we had to leave. We were there for like 30 minutes, I was like, we actually have to go. It was so embarrassing. I drove three hours to get that fucking wheelchair,

because it was very hard to rent a wheelchair, and then at one point I fell out of it, like he does in the thing, and people were like, do you need help, what is this? And I was like, we're filming for Instagram, and they were like, okay, it was so embarrassing. The year before that, I was Clifford, from're filming it for Instagram. And they were like, okay, it was so embarrassing. The year before that I was Clifford from Mark and George Clifford.

Oh nice, that's good. That was dang on. And then before that, what the fuck was I? I, yeah, I was like Weird Al. That was also very good, very weird, that was a very good one. Alice Cooper years ago. Well, my kids actually this year,

my kid, I got them little jumpsuits and mullet wigs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stop lying. I thought your kids were cute. Now I'm pissed. I don't want to tell what my kids are actually going. No, don't.

People are pigs. I don't know. You don't show your kids online, do you? Nope. No. My sister is a beautiful baby and I'm like, I have to actually go home and have a full sit down with my mom and dad and my uncle and be like, in case I go off after this special, people will be creeping on you maybe,

and this baby cannot, I watch way too much London Road SVU, I'm on a weird TikTok right now where I'm seeing, and I don't know what, I feel like I have kids, listen to me, people aren't just, they're finding the photos that you have of your children and screenshotting them on Instagram and Facebook

and putting them on the dark web. Right. So I'm like, nobody's, no one's getting posted. The baby's not getting posted. I'm even a parent with closer Instagram accounts. I'm like, this is not happening. There's sickos out there. Yeah. Sick. Or is she like Steph is such an egomaniac. She thinks my kid's in danger. No, no, she knows this. She's this kid's so fucking cute. She actually is. I'm actually concerned. I kind of wish she was ugly because it wouldn't be a problem, but she's insanely cute Yeah, so I'm like we can't we can't be doing this. I don't trust anyone. I was gross

Are you like you live in a apartment or a house or like are you trick-or-treating? Is that an area? No, I think we'll probably Go, I don't think he's here. I think I'll probably go and do a scent the store I'll probably but I'll probably just dress up with a mustache and do a weird scent. It's always, I did a scent one year and when I dressed up like Clifford, bombed my dick off. You know, you can't kill, I was like, what is that?

Is that a man or a woman? It's very confusing what's happening. So there's no, you're not getting laughs. Like you're just kind of bombing. Right. It's bizarre. Yeah. Do you dress up, Dave, with your kids?

No, I do the bare minimum. I have a Mr. Plow jacket from the Simpsons and I walk around the neighborhood wearing that. That does it. Sort of like a little like the hat he has, Homer Simpson has that's like the winter hat that's got a goodflap, baseball hat. The big thing this time of year is just walking my dogs around the neighborhood and they get so scared of giant skeletons now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so funny and cute. I would think that a dog, wouldn't that be their big score? Oh yeah. Like just so many bones. Isn't that what dogs love? No, my dog, we have to cross the street sometimes because she sees them she gets so freaked out Yeah, what kind of dog do you have? I'm the golden retriever. She's

Unprotective sweetest peachy stinks so bad. I know she had She's a retreat. That's why they had hard. They love it very you're gonna be saying that I was walking my dogs the other day and someone had like a graveyard on their front lawn. Oh yeah. And my dogs just looked at it like kind of sadly. Oh. Like they were like. Is your story real, Dave?

No, this one's real. They looked at it sadly and in fact it sounded like this. And then there's you barking. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Full bark song. This is what my dog barked to me. Let me just find a karaoke. Mmm, Frank.

Yeah, that's what's going on here. We're revvin' up for the Halloween. It's gonna be the best. It's gonna be the best Halloween ever. You go with the like ordinary, you know, the muck around with everyone else. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's sick.

I go with the more my wife goes with them. Yeah, you don't trust anybody. She dressing up? I don't know. It's, I don't know, she is for work. Oh yeah, her work is like, they go hard. Nice, nice. What, did she have hers planned out yet?

I don't wanna spoil it. She's got like a week of costumes planned. Oh, Jesus. That's maybe I'm wrong. That's heavy duty. She's also, she like, she sews, she's always sewing stuff. So she's was right now, yesterday she was making a She-Ra costume.

Oh, like from the demon. Extended yeah. From the princess of power. Oh yeah. You know her. Yeah. Are you dressing up, Graham? Yeah, well, I don't have anywhere to go just yet.

It's my, that's my, cause I'm run a show on Thursdays, which Halloween falls on a Thursday. And if you ever want to come down to the show at 7.30 PM at Little Mountain Gallery, Laugh Gallery, good time. Even on Halloween night, the show's happening? Yep.

And then after that, I'm going to go somewhere and party or just go out to a field and drink or whatever What else are they doing on Halloween night if you're not dressed enough which I'd say majority don't anymore What's the show? What the hell are you doing? There's? in Vancouver, there's the thing called the parade of lost souls and it's everybody's in Halloween costumes is like families and You know like groups together and they all march down this street called Commercial Drive. And then it all ends in a park and there's people

that are doing fire breathing and doing all sorts of crazy Burning Man kind of shit. Marty Putz is there with his all-marchals. Marty Putz is killing. He's the grand marshal of the parade. Ha ha ha ha. He's at the beginning and the end of it. But that's last year, the year before, I went as Forrest Gump with when he's running,

like across the country. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I saw that photo, that was very good. And my wife was a box of chocolates and the people, they went bananas for it. People eat, they love a couple costume. Yeah. People eat those up. Well, you guys are going to kill it with the Hall and Oates situation.

Simply a mustache and already what we wear. Nothing else we do. That's it. We're done. Stupid. I love it. I love it. Graham, what's going on with you? Well, a couple of weeks ago, we had a guest on the show who has been a regular guest on the show named Emmett Hall. And he, when he was on the show, we were talking about that he bought like a punk rock leather jacket

and he was gonna wear it at a show. He's the front man of a metal band called Necronado. And we went to see him and it was like, this was his true calling. He was so fucking good at doing this. And like, it wasn't silly or anything. Like it was really like, he was amazing how good he was at this.

And I was like, can you do that? Can you, is there any career in you being the head of a rock band? Cause he was great. He was outstanding. And it's funny because he's done like fake heavy metal stuff. He's got a good like screeching voice. And it's like, oh, he's very influenced by heavy metal.

He knows the like, he's authentic with his like spoofs of it. Yeah. But. But he was so good. He was so good. And it was like at this place that used to be like just a really grotty punk rock club, which has been cleaned up a bit, but still I wouldn't like touch surfaces. So I ball. Cobalt. Yeah.

It's been cleaned up a bit. Yeah. It was a dance club for a while and then it changed hands and then it's so it's like still a rock club, but it's not like you can use the bathroom now like that. Okay, you know like that's the level not me But I'm up at any punk rock show. I've wear a diaper They are disgusting in there people piss everywhere. Did he crowdsurf what he was doing it was he up there do it No, he was just like his he was like had all sorts of fantastic moves, you know, like rock and roll lead singer kind of moves. And he was hyping up the crowd, which the band before them kind of just really like

shoe gazing, like just didn't even raise their heads up. And, and then he came out and he was like getting the crowd. He's like getting them to chant stuff and like, you know, pump your fist in the air and all this kind of stuff and so yeah they turned it on so fast and so what happened was there wasn't enough people to crowd serve but a mosh pit started during their their set that's fun and it was I've never seen how a mosh pit starts and so that's a witnessing how it actually like begins because I've always just seen them like as they're happening. But somebody's got to get the ball rolling, right?

I've started what I hate to brag, but I really you just you just show up. You do a big show. You do people you kind of as a group with you and you're kind of you're looking around. You need one person to sheet it. Yeah. And then you kind of also it's easier for you as a woman because then, you know, as I was aggressive. So I'll shove a guy and then they'll come in, okay, then a couple more shoves happen and then all the shoving starts. Yeah, so this guy that started it,

pretty much the same thing, but he was cruising around a circle to see who might be interested. So he's making eye contact with people like. So when you say mosh pit, you're talking about like, when people are like body checking each other. Yes, body checking and flying around. A mosh pit literally is just people shoving each other.

Sometimes you know if it's just like a big mass of people are like there's if there's not enough room to like run and like hit each other in a circle. Some people just call that a mosh pit even when there's like people are just like jostling. Yeah that's more like just overcrowding and just getting that's not really a mosh pit. A mosh pit is where there's room to like push and kind of like, it kind of creates like a circle with the people that want to be mucking around there. My favorite spot, edge of a mosh pit.

Cause you can see the bed is way better. Yeah, that's what I like on the edge of the mosh pit. Oh, I think you could add a couple little pushes, pushes here and there. You don't have to. I'm not saying what. You're part of the like fence. You're part of the outer.

Yeah. And you're pushing hard. I push hard. But this guy, he kept cruising around in a circle, like he made eye contact with me, like kind of in a way that he- You look like- I look like I would enjoy. You look like you want some. I would push you. I think you would be a pusher. I would-

I would probably push back. I'd probably, I'd get in on it. But anyways, it was just so much fun and like I said, I've never seen the birth of a mosh pit so But Steph she's all over it. So next concert. I used to be a big mosher I'm not anymore the last time I went in I peed I went in it was death from above and I To be funny I literally went in and I started like kind of bouncing and I was like, oh fuck and I pushed somebody then like a bit Of pee came in I was like, oh my god I just I just fully pissed my pants and I was like, oh my god

I came out my friend was there and she's like, hey whatever stuff exaggerating then I just fully pissed my pants. And I was like, oh my fucking God. And I came out, my friend was there, and she was like, hey, whatever, stop exaggerating. And she changed her cell phone, and like I'm trying to tell you, I'm wearing a jumpsuit. Green, she went, oh my God. Like it was a full pile of piss. I had to go to the fucking change room, and I had to like put the hand dryer on.

Oh sure, yeah. And it was death or above, and they got me backstage passes. So I got to meet them after for the first time. And I was like, hi, I'm peed. Oh backstage passes. I told him I peed, he said, why'd I go? I'm pissed. He said, okay first time I was like back to this is Oh back to business I told the peas it was a go I pissed he's okay it was like uh-huh bye I was like so fucking weird it was so stupid so embarrassed what was your do you recall what your first mosh pit was yes snow jam snow charger yeah Yeah, I've been in the news lately. Really?

Yeah. So what did he do? The last thing, what did he do? Yeah. Are you serious? Derek Wibbly from Sum 41. That's right. The lead singer of treble charger was their manager and there were some abuses.

Yeah. Allegedly. Allegedly, yeah. But you know, why would Derek Wibbly be why would he lie? Why would he lie? He's not looking great these days. Anyways, he doesn't need this press. Oh I felt bad saying it. I actually feel bad saying it. I just saw him in a video I said, oh, he's okay. Um, I hate that. Yeah, this is ruining my first my first mosh experience. Snowjob was a much music.

Snowjam. Well, Snowjob was a much music. Oh, yes, yes. But that's what I thought you meant. This was at the CNE, the Canadian National Exhibition. And it was so long ago. Treble charger and oh my God, Yoko Oli. What was that band? It was a white two white rappers one guy had dreads but he

was white. Oh swollen members. So swollen members and treble charger and I was in high school. Moka only. Sorry. I'm cancelled. I crowd surfed for the first time and then I somebody hogged my tip. Yoko only actually broke up the band. Yes, that's the problem. You crowd surfed. Did you get to the stage and jump off? I got up to do a wait. There's always a security gap and then I got dropped off there and then I ran back around

and I didn't go back in because somebody kind of funneled me. But how did you get up on it? How did you, where did you jump from? I was standing over the back and someone was like, you want to go up? And I went, OK. And then I just put my leg up. But I put my hand in his feet and hands like this. And it hoisted me up. And then a bunch of guys caught me.

And then I kind of flipped around. And then one guy went, oops, I'm a tent. And then I was like, oh, and I slide back around. And then I was like, well, did he say oops when he did it? Was he like, oops, he went, sorry. As you can see, I didn't mean to. Did he say oops when he did it? Was he like? Oops, he went sorry as he hopefully said. Oopsie. Didn't mean to. I did much crowd surfing in my day.

I remember once I was in, I crowd surfed at a, boy it was moist opening for I'm Other Earth. Wow. Doesn't get much more Canadian. What singer, what I'm Other Earth singer was it? Edwin of course. Oh, Edwin, I like the other guy better.

Well, actually it was Mud Girl opening for all of them. And then during Moist, I crowd surfed and lost my shoe. Oh no. That's so funny. I was sort of in grade 11, grade 10. I lost my shoe and like five minutes later, found it in the pit. Nice.

That's so funny. Also how do you cross with the moist? Is it more they were chill? Yeah, my voice had some bangers I think. Okay. I mean you get a bunch of grade 10s in an arena. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was, whenever they were big 95, say something like that.

They played at the mall near my high school and they started up and then right away somebody started a mosh pit and like security was like, this is a mall, you can't do that. And he had to like tell people not to do it. And if it started again, they had to leave, started immediately and they left the stage. That's funny lead singers name David Usher so if there's anything he would be good at is telling people what to do in the audience one

thing he laid down a lot and he he did exactly what he said he was gonna do he said he was gonna only walk he He walked. He simply walked. And also their big song is Push, which is like all you want to do. That's literally it. You're telling people what to do here. Come on. You asked me how did we crowd surf to Moist. They had Mosh in their name.

How silly me for getting Moist's bangers. And you get Moist jamming around in the Unicrosser. Yeah, that's true. You get quite moist. Everything about them. Yeah. You guys wanna move on to some Overheards? Yeah.

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Sleeping with Celebrities, hosted by me, John Moe, on MaximumFun.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Night night. Overheard. Overheard is a segment where if you hear it, why not let us hear it? That's only fair, right? And we always like to start with the guest. Steph, do you have an overheard? I do, yes. So I was filming my cold open in Boston for the special. Let me tell you, let me just tell you, the cold open's gonna be probably better

than the whole special. The cold open's- So now, for people not in the know, cold open is? Is the first minute you see before the special. Right. So because- You're not on stage, you're doing something funny. You're doing something funny.

And because I'm a sketch comedian at heart, I needed to do something wacky. I don't want to give the whole thing away, but I will say there's a bit that I've been doing for years where I fall for a really long time. I fake fall for a while. I love this. So you're going to love it. I'm telling you, it's better than anything I've ever done. So the whole joke is I'm going to start falling from LA. There's going to be a big celebrity that starts it. I think we know who it is.

He's gonna push me. I'm gonna start falling. So we're filming this long fall, the next day after the, all across Boston. So we get into Fenway, crazy. Fenway Park, we're outside Fenway. We're all, we're like down by the harbor. We're everywhere.

So I- And you're falling this all the time where you're going like whoa, whoa, whoa. And I'm like whoa, whoa. So my arms are up. If you fly, go on my Instagram, I have a million of these videos. So a couple of them went viral. So I was like, this is what I have to do,

because it's so insane. Yeah. And very physical. So we're shooting right outside Fenway Park. And we're doing it all pretty, we're not asking people to do shit. We're not telling people what's going on. We're just filming it fucking like guerrilla style,

like go, stop the cars, go. So I start doing so the people that work if I like know what's happening because I have to fall into the park So I do this insane. I think I was going forward and I was just it's it's so over the top So I like whoa whoa whoa, and I just keep falling I fall through these cars across the street and I this woman and her husband where I guess we didn't notice this giant camera There so I fall right by her and the woman goes, whoopsie daisies. And I like, I was like, oh my God. And then she started walking and she went,

did you see that woman? She didn't stop falling. And I was like, oh my God, I cannot believe, A, someone said whoopsie daisies and B, she thought that was real. Like there's no way in hell anybody would run like that. And her and her husband were so, they kept looking back at me going, oh my.

And they thought, I was like, that right there was the funniest thing that could have happened from the whole thing. And it's so, it's like so wholesome. Like, whoo. It was so wholesome. And she was like, whoopsie daisies. And she was so upset. She kind of like clutched herself when she did it.

I love the idea of someone just believing in comedy. Wow, that guy really doesn't get any respect. It's so, yeah. It's so crazy. Anytime I film anything out here and people don't really notice or don't react, I'm like, do you just think the stuff you'll behave? Just fake falling for no reason? Like, it's crazy. It's so funny because our current Prime Minister,

that was a bit he used to do. He used to fall down the stairs at parties to get people like- It was one of his famous bits he did at parties. He'd say, forget what the other one was. I, ss, ss, ss, ss. Wait, did he actually do that? Like he actually meant to fall?

No, he would do that. He would do like- He would fall down the stairs. Oh my God. On purpose and like get everybody to laugh. So why he hasn't done it in office, I have no idea. It's all we want. I mean, he probably should. That's hilarious. I fell once at a party for God. On purpose and like get everybody to laugh. So why he hasn't done it in office, I have no idea. It's all we want. He probably should, that's hilarious.

I fell once at a party, I forgot, I dressed up years ago, I dressed up like my mom pregnant with me in the 80s. And I fell down a flight of stairs at this Halloween party. I was so drunk, everyone thought I was pregnant. They were like, oh my God, fuck, fuck, all these frat guys, like call the police, call the ambulance.

I was like, wow, I'm my that good at fucking faking Like everyone believes everything people believe you were people believe you were in a wheelchair people believe my kids sang that Chapel Road song But that was my mind is very wholesome and nice very whole like that's very sweet Dave do you have an overheard? I have an over dreamt, Graham. Okay, now just for Steph, this is something wacky that happened in a dream. That also is under the banner of overheard. Okay, okay, that's new. So this is a, no, normally my dreams are quite boring.

Yes. But this was one, I had a dream and you were in it, Graham. Oh shit. We were in like, so in my dream, you and I are in this like chalet in Washington state. I love this. And we have a show the next day. It's Monday and our show is on Tuesday.

Oh, so we got a whole day to just chill. And I hate this place. I'm so unhappy. I hate it there. It's like pretty crappy. And I'm like, I gotta get out of this place. And I'm asking you like, hey, when our show is over tomorrow night,

can we drive straight back to Vancouver? I don't want to spend an extra night here because we're already a day early for this stupid show. And in the dream, you know how when you're in a hotel room, they have that like binder that's got a bunch of information about the hotel? Yeah, yeah. Well, in the dream, there was one of those binders

and it had like, you know, those plastic sleeves inside that have like paper slid into them? Oh yeah. And I opened up the binder and in one of those plastic sleeves was a can of Spaghetti Ohs And there was just a note next to it that said Tuesday dinner What the fuck? I love the way you're like, we do was it really boring this one crazy. Yeah, this one's insane

What is the nuttiest dream he's ever had. Wacky stuff. Is that boring? No. It's not boring. It's very wholesome. Your life is very wholesome. Well, I mean, famously, my boring dreams are,

one, I had a dream my travel agent was retiring. Dad. Wow. Two, me and a bunch of guys were fixing a garage door. Oh my God. I dream I'm being like murdered and torn into shreds and my dog is falling off like huge buildings and breaking her leg and dying in front of me.

And you're like, a can of SpaghettiOs in a binder. I want to go home. A can of SpaghettiOs in a binder. I want to go home. I want to be with my garage door that we fixed. Oh my god, that's so funny. If I find out that my Travelation booked me at this frickin' Chelle, I'm gonna be so mad. Aww, that's very wholesome. What's yours, Graham? Mine is, it's on the sadder side of the spectrum,

but it was funny, the way that it worked out. So there's in Vancouver, I've been told if you're out on the street and you see somebody like lying in the middle of the street to like clap near their ear to make sure they're okay, right, that they're conscious and like, because it works better than like yelling at them or whatever. So I do that every the middle of the street. Well, on

the sidewalk or, you know, in a, in a doorway or something like that, just to make sure that they're like, okay, and yeah, wake. And so I did it. There was two guys lying on a grate. And one had an umbrella over his face. And Iapped near them and I said is everything okay? And the guy said real alright chief Real alright chief chief is hilarious. You don't hear enough chiefs. You don't hear chief anymore. Yeah, I was throwing down chief I get a lot of boss. I get a lot of champ. Yeah champ. Absolutely chief is nice What's your what is your dog's name, Steph?

Susan. Susan, okay. Because I was talking on the podcast that nobody has the classic cartoon dog names, like Fido or like- Rex Rover. Rex Rover. Susan is from the game Guess Who.

Remember Guess Who? Oh, shit. Yeah, okay. Well, same color hair as Susan. What does Susan look like? Same color hair. Oh, okay. Can I get her in here? She was color hair. Okay again. She was blonde. She's white white

White oh Yeah, yeah, yeah cream go to me Now we also have overheard sent in to us by people all over the map if you want to send me when they should make A new guess who that's like way a way bigger board If you want to send me when you should make a new guess who that's like way a way bigger board Just like it just hundreds of people. Yeah, you have to guess so it'll take you like all she hears me calling her now The work and here fucking scratching the damn door there she is That's a cute dog

I'll get her. Come on. Oh, are you kidding me? Doesn't she look like a Susan? She smells. Oh, she looks like a Susan. Smells so bad. Oh, gosh, she thinks it's bad. Yeah, Steph's been trash talking you re your smell. So disgusting.

Is it just dog smell? It's dog, but because it's in gold in their hair, they like the two layers of fur. It's like a smaller and thicker. It's just people have been petting her. she's like greased it's greased up she's greased. Sit. Yeah. Oh oh oh breath oh my god I thought she farted that's her mouth. Oh god. Oh fuck that's so bad. Eyebrusher teeth. Well somebody's due for a shower. She's going in Sunday this is hell. Over smelt, so it was bad.

Now we have ones that listeners send in, if you want to send one in, it's sbymaximalfun.org. And the first one is Jeanette from Illinois. She was a substitute teacher and she has a ton of stories, but I was subbing for a fifth grade class and there weren't enough textbooks for everyone, so I had a girl run to another teacher to get more. While she was doing that, a kid with bright blue hair stood up and said, let me introduce myself. Hi, I'm blank.

I'm kind of a class clown. And he later walked up to my desk to hand me a folded piece of paper and said, follow me on my socials. And then it was a bunch of usernames on the piece of paper. Oh, God. The balls. The kid getting you to follow him on socials. I love it. I'm kind of a class clown too.

Prove it. Yeah, prove it. That better be a funny Instagram. Did you, did you class clown, Steph? No. You were a theater kid, Steph? No, no. You were a theater kid, right? Yes, but I don't think I was funny until grade eight. Yeah, your grade five teacher said you were, but she was lying.

I was a liar. I was, I grade eight kind of came into my shell. Okay. I was kind of like quiet and I didn't really hang out, because I danced a lot, so I was on like dancing trips with my family a lot, so I didn't really have a lot of school friends. So I think by grade eight I was like trying to, I was getting out of that, so I was like hanging out more and being silly and sort of being gross, which I'm a little more of a sex. I thought it was hilarious.

So I was really hilarious. It is funny and it's gross and weird. So I was like being nasty and stupid. I think I'm boy. I don't know when I, I don't think I ever came out of my shell. Maybe I started out of my shell and I just went into it. Yeah. Back in. This next one comes from Heidi Y from Reno, Nevada. Heidi. Heidi.

I was browsing through a five below. I don't know what that is. What's a five below? Is that a magazine? I think it's a store. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Mountain from a co-op kind of thing. Okay. Walking through a Five Below, when I heard a little girl say to her mom, Mom, is this the last place we're gonna go before we go home?

And her dad said, no, we have about 16 more places to go. And the little girl said, Dad, I'm sick of your bad jokes. Mom, is he telling the truth? See, that's wholesome and real. That is wholesome. It's wholesome and real. It is. It's five below is a discount store. So everything is $5 and less.

Wow. Love it. Love it. That's the big like difference when I went to LA for the first time is the dollar stores have so much stuff. Oh yeah. It's not just like junk stuff. There's like food and all this crazy stuff that I've never seen in a dollar store.

Do you guys have a Daiso out there? You do. I believe you do. Yeah, we have a few. Japanese. Oh, yeah. Have you been there? Yeah.

That place slaps. That's where I go. When I have a night off, I get high and I go to Daiso. It's my favorite place. I get it. I swear to God, I go there. There's one right in my house. I love it. It's like there's cute little sponges and little stuff. It's nice. I swear to God, I'll go there. There's one right by my house. I love it. It's like, there's the cute little sponges

and little stuff that is nice. It's like two, two bucks. Graham, there's one now in city center mall. Or city square. Maybe I'll have to get high and go there. You gotta. Dave, you wanna get high and go there? It's walking distance.

What the heck? You gotta go. Yeah, we're gonna go. We're gonna go. It's okay if we're gonna go. I can't go, I'm too high. Yeah, Dave's back in his shell again. I was gonna go to Daiso, but then I got high.

We have a musical episode. This last one comes from- This is a show you haven't been on in five years. This is all the show is now. Yeah, I was like, I don't know. It's all songs, that's true. We should've told you that we're kind of like podcast glee. Okay. That's our vibe.

Had no idea. Very few people do until they come on the show and then they're blown away by how awesome we are. Yeah. This next one or last one comes from Sasha from Vancouver. This is around 2001. I was watching the Knowledge Network. They were doing a travel piece about high tea offered at the Empress

Hotel in Victoria, which was used to be such a big thing. And they had all these different theme rooms and stuff like that, with the focus on being how the Empress had just started offering Japanese matcha tea ceremonies. I assume because matcha was quite novel at the time, the segment started with the TV host asking the manager, so for the viewers at home, can you describe what green tea is like? And the manager said, well, have you ever tried green tea ice cream? And the host said no, and he said, oh, well, it's like that.

Wow. Very descriptive. Very descriptive. The Empress, like, it had these theme rooms, I think, probably from the 50s or the 40s even, and some of them were like pretty racially, you know, not so great. Not gonna hold up. But it like lasted till like 2010 or something like that. Like it wasn't...

Well and the hotel's still there. The hotel's there but they took out all the... And they took out the Bengal Lounge? They took out the Bengal Lounge which was one of the ones that you're like, I don't know. It was a martini bar themed after India. Yeah. Okay. I have, I think it was like a napkin. It's the ceramic element, elephant from there.

I think it was like for holding napkins or something. You stole it? No, no, I bought it on Etsy. Oh, nice. Wow. So wholesome. Couldn't even steal it from a racist tea place. You're like, no, I'll buy this when I find it on Etsy.

That's me, Mr. Wholesome. I was just switching between screens and I had looked up Marty Putz and one of his gags is he has a leaf blower with a toilet paper thing on the end and it like shoots toilet paper at the ground. I'm already, I'm loving Putz. That's very Blue Man-esque, but I'm loving Putz. Yeah, we love Putz.

We all stan Putz. Well he wore, he was wearing blue way before the group. In addition to over-hears that are written and we also accept your phone calls. If you want to call us, our phone number is 1-844-779-7631. That's one. Ugh. Spypod one like these people have.

Hi, Dave, Graham, and possible guests. This is Ryan from Ohio calling from Overheard. I was at Taco Bell ordering from those, the self-service screens. And there was a father and his probably five or six year old daughter having a great time ordering and neither of them apparently could contain their laughter.

And not a moment passes from him finishing the order that I think I'm being ordered right now. They call out an order for Santa. They come over in a hurry and this kid just goes, look dude there's no way we can put like all five hundred of these things on this burrito. And I don't know what happened from there, but he clearly had to break down, like legitimately break down his one burrito order into multiple other creations. And I tried my best to save this for a while. I think you guys fell asleep in the middle of that.

Yeah, I think I did. I just had a quick daydream about fixing a garage. It all started out, I was like, oh, I love it. I love when they call in. And then I was like, what the heck? This guy's cadence. I got very upset. Because he started great. I'm like, oh, from Ohio, we love Ohio.

Then I was like, I hate Ohio. Yeah, don't film a special in Ohio. Yeah, I don't want that crowd not laughing and then pausing for way too long in between weird pause breaks I was gonna be able to edit that out but I guess not now look he needs to know that he's not gonna talk it into a voice no thing here I guess so Steph says it sorry work on it man sorry troll me he sounds like what my trolls are oh he's got that he's got a troll voice I can tell it's a white guy Steph says it. Sorry. You gotta work on it, man. Sorry, you can troll me. Sorry. He sounds like what my trolls are.

Oh, he's got a troll voice. I can tell. I can tell. It's a white guy from middle of America. He's probably like, he's probably in his mid to late 30s. He doesn't like me, so he can hate me already. He already hates me, so let me make it worse. Yeah, exactly.

We love you. Thanks for calling. Here's your next phone call. Hi, guys. This is Emily from Cleveland. Oh, Ohio again. We love you. Thanks for calling. Here's your next phone call. Hi guys, this is Emily from Cleveland. I'm the owner of the Kids Say the Darndest variety. How's that? The doctor's office and there's like a shared building

with pediatrics and a mom and her two kids walked by and I'll just kind of like transcribe the conversation. Mom, it's gonna cost a lot. Kid one, how much? Mom, a lot. Kid one, but how much? Kid two, probably like $1,762. I thought it was so specific and cute.

Okay. That's the biggest number they could imagine. That's so funny. Was it $1,726? $1,700 and yeah, something. That was very cheap. That was a lot of money. And in America, that's normal. That is what your bill will cost. Yeah, I don't know if... That is like nothing. At the pediatric, at the pediatrician being like, well, the surgery is kind of gonna cost $1,700. Right. And like, have you had to go in the ER or anything in America?

No, thank God. I've been good, but I had like an allergy thing and that was like $500. And I went recently, I had, oh, I thought I had rosacea. I thought lupus. Turns out it's rosacea. Oh, shit. Yeah, it turns out it's rosacea. So, TikTok Live was like, do you have lupus?

I was like, what? And then I panicked. Wasn't, but that cost me like $800 for someone to take my blood and go, no, it's not. And being all most fucking stupid. That's a great way to get someone on TikTok Live. Fuck off. I'm a dude working for Kaiser Permanente.

What the hell is this? Hell they don't. Neither. Kaiser Permanente is one of the funniest names for a business that I've ever heard. It's so fun to say. I pay $400 a month for what? I don't know, because every time I go to the doctor, I still owe more money. So I have no idea.

It makes no sense. It's money's just whipping out the door. I'll never understand it. Toilet paper from a Marty Putz leaf blower. Here's your final phone call Hi, Dave and Graham and possible guess possible goes. Sorry I it was just in a person's home doing some work and Their little daughter came out and was asking questions about what I was doing and all that and the dad was explaining And then she was quiet for a second and she goes caught on her breath she goes his freaking nuts everywhere he goes nerds she goes

yeah nerds well off I go so freaking nodes everywhere yeah that's one of the cutest fucking nodes everywhere. Yeah, that's one of the cutest speech impediments you could have is turning R's into W's. Does she mean his nuts? Or is she talking about the candy or is he a nerd? I don't think she means his nuts. Cause that, I was like, this is funny, but this is inappropriate.

But I'm just. Yeah. I was doing some work in these people's house and my nuts were hanging out. And the daughter was like, it's nuts are everywhere. See? I have to make it sick. It's part of my...

It's fine. It's legally my brand. I have to have a mullet, I have to be gross and I have to wear a romper. That's it. That's showbiz, baby. That's it. That's how it's gotta be. Well, this brings us to the end of the podcast.

Steph, tell us all about all the things. Just follow me on Instagram. And if you're in Canada, just please come. Colloquium November 6th, Victoria the 8th, Vancouver the 9th, and Edmonton the 10th. All the tickets are in the link in my bio on Instagram. That's it. If you like raunchy comedy, if you like crowd work,

if you like women yelling at men, then you'll like me. Yes. You don't like those things, don't come. I really like women yelling at men. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's something like it. I didn't realize I liked it till I found out I liked it. Oh wow, Dave. And you, if you have never seen Steph live, it's a treat.

I've seen her at the Comedy Mix a couple times. This was pre-Jumpsuit. This was a pre-Jumpsuit era. And I was, I wasn't even good then. I think now I'm actually funny. Before, I don't know what I was doing. Now I'm funny, I'm in the moment, I'm yelling. Yeah.

No, you're funny. If I, you know. I'm funnier now. Okay, you're funnier now. Okay. Yeah. So if you've already seen her at the Comedy Mix and you think, medium funny, she's funnier now. Yes. Buy a ticket.

See her at the Vogue. And thank you everybody out there for listening to the show. She's funnier now, buy a ticket, the Earth of Vogue. And thank you everybody out there for listening to the show. If you're going trick or treating, this episode's coming out after that, so I hope you had a nice Halloween. Oh, is it before that? Yeah. Happy Halloween, everybody, and come on back next week for another episode of Stop Podcasting

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