Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 872 - D.J. Demers

Episode Date: December 3, 2024

Comedian D.J. Demers returns to talk combat sports, podcast updates, and Ireland. Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Bluesky.

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 872 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who I haven't seen for two whole calendar weeks, Mr. Dave Schumke. Yeah, it's been two whole calendar weeks.

It's, I mean, we'll get into why, but... Yeah, yeah, yeah, the why's and how's and what not. It's good to see you, my man. Yeah, back at you, bro. You got a haircut a week ago. This is my first time seeing it. Looks really good. Guys.

It's so good to get a haircut. Yeah. Makes you feel like a new man. This is my, we're recording in a very chaotic time in my life. Oh yeah. Dave's, the whole world around Dave's house is insanity. Yeah, the sidewalks being dug up, we've got workers here, we've got the city workers are digging up the sidewalk.

I foolishly was like, come in, use the bathroom anytime you need. Oh. Really? So they're doing coke. They're clogging up the toilet. So much coke, up so much coke. They're chugging some coke. And they, no, that's not part of it.

And the kids informed me yesterday that they have the day off today and I did not know this. Yeah. And, and then your dogs are insane. The dogs are insane. The workman, the guy is servicing the furnace. So that's sometimes those. And he's very, very nice. And he's like, is he allowed to use the bathroom? Yeah.

And he knows he likes dogs. And so I'm like, I can put the dogs away. And he's like, no, no, they're great. But they're, they're, they need to be put away. They're like crawling on him as he's trying to get into the get the fireplace and stuff. Oh man. Anyway, we're we're getting through it. This is you know, the eye of the storm here. It's a blessing to have so much chaos in Wednesday. Our guest today returning guests the podcast, you can see his entire first season of his television show on YouTube called, I can't remember what it was called. One more time.

One more time. I was going to say second time. That's not right. One more time. Playing against sports. It's DJ Demares. Hello, DJ. I'm good. Thanks for having me, guys. Hey, man. It's great to have you back. We had you in January of this year, so we're bookending the whole year. Oh, nice. Yeah.

So like what was happening for DJ at the beginning of the year, what happened in the middle. Yeah, this is gonna be a real reckoning for you personally. This is really great too, because last year, when I was on last time, I remember it was pure excitement because I had just made a television show, it was coming out and I was like,

who knows what the future holds? And now I'm back here and the show was canceled after one season, I'm like, oh, that's what the future holds? And now I'm back here and the show is canceled after one season. I'm like, oh, that's what the future held. How, boy, when you, well, let's get to know us. Get to know us. Okay, DJ, the show is called. One more time.

One more time. No more time. A name that has been etched on our brain. And it was about a guy who runs a youth sports store. Yep. And you were like, back then you were imagining your future. You were like, okay, you know how like George went for the rest of his life?

Cause he played norm on cheers. Anytime he goes into a bar, people yell norm and he gets drinks as many free beers as he wants. Yeah. And you were like, I'm going to be that, but for use sporting equipment. Free shin guards for the rest of my life. Elbow pad, come on, they're on the house, bud.

Your money's no good here. Free shin guards. As many as you can carry to the store, they're all free. Got to pay for the jockstrap though. Can't do it. Can't do it. Do they sell used jockstrap? I mean, that was an exact joke from our show.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. But I doubt they do. I don't know. But, you know, like, huge congratulations that you got a show and you got a whole season done and like that puts you in a very kind of small echelon of people there's lots of people who work for years and years to get a show on the air and they never do Well, he worked for years and years as well But then he did it though. He made it happen. Yeah. Thank you. I mean, yeah

Uh, it was an amazing experience. I learned a lot Thank you. I mean, yeah, it was an amazing experience. I learned a lot. I had the time of my life. Like I just, I loved every second of it. So, sucked that it was canceled. I was bummed out, but you know, to be Zen about it, I wouldn't trade it in for the world. Maybe that was too Zen.

That's too Zen, yeah. You know what though? I wouldn't trade it in for the world. I'm sticking by that. Yeah? Yeah, I mean, it was amazing. Like obviously the ending was disappointing, but the actual experience,

I loved everybody we worked with, the writers room, the cast, everything. So yeah, it was pretty incredible. When you get a show, like you always hear a show's canceled, like, but is there like a formal, like phone call or letter you get? The, I guess not a that. Dear CBC contractor. Your dear show runner man.

I would have killed for that. That was the disheartening part of it. CBC like had no contact at all. I like found out through the Trades. Production company I worked with that we weren't getting another season, but I was like, you know, a phone call would have been nice.

I had the same thing working on this hour, 22 minutes. They were, I was on it for a season as a correspondent and then they just weren't going to tell me that they were bringing me back. It was one of the writers in the writers room like called us and was like, they're not going to bother contacting you but you're not coming back next year. I was like, well, why wouldn't they contact us? Were they just we we just not yeah Like I actually was in contact with them they hope you died what yeah, well that would have been easiest for everybody really Yeah, I don't know why they don't do that because I've heard stuff like that on 22 as well I'm not sure why but a Canadian television industry in shambles. We are naming names. Well, yeah, but it is that exact same thing.

There was a show, I think we talked about it not that long ago, a show called Sunnyside. Yeah. It won a Canadian Screen Award and the next day it was canceled. So it's the Canadian television industry, right? I was just at the Canadian Screen Awards this year and a bunch of the shows that won were also canceled.

And we're nominated for next year, so we might, knock on wood, not that it means anything, but we might win and we'll be another canceled show if we join that long illustrious mix. A show that has been canceled over a year. It's very interesting. Yeah, you're right. Canadian television, obviously, American television has its own kind of

issues and everything too. But yeah, the Canadian television thing feels really interesting too, because you're like, well, we were talking about it before we went on. But like CBC, for example, that my show isn't necessarily going to hit the people that CBC has on their actual cable, like that are watching CBC on cable. Son of a Critch is gonna get all the people in Newfoundland and we were on the same night as them and they killed us in ratings, right?

Like they- Wait, you were up against Son of a Critch? No, they were on before us. But wouldn't that give you, isn't that the TV thing? Get a nice lead in, get the Son of a Critch. Yeah, but- Well, our numbers were half decent. The problem is people watch son of a critch and then they get so horny, they go right to bed.

They watch son of a critch, they watch young Sheldon and they call it a night. Any kind of, uh. But then, you know, if the people that actually are like, probably more of our prime, you know, our demographic are going to have to download CBC gem, which was their app, which is not necessarily the most popular app. Well, I disagree. I think it's one of the more popular apps out there. I think it's that. An app that tells you to drink water is pretty popular. Maybe it is popular.

I actually haven't looked at the numbers, so I'm kind of- I have no idea. I have it on my Apple TV and did this. When I use it, I'm like, oh, this is great, there's so much stuff on here, and then I don't use it for months, and then apparently you have to sign in. Yeah.

I should sign in with my tax dollars, sir. Yeah, exactly. That was another weird thing about being on CBC is comment people would leave on clips from our show would be like, this is what our tax money goes towards. And I'm like, I have no nothing about any of that. I'm just, you know, I feel no political. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm just a guy trying to make a TV show. So they're like, oh, typical Trudeau nonsense. I'm like, I've had no contact with Prime Minister Trudeau. He did not have his hands in this at all. Oh, I used to work at CBC and when I was there, it was like, basically $34 per Canadian per year funds the entire CBC. Sure.

And so it's like every like small town radio station in Iqaluit or whatever, like every tiny radio station around the country, all the news, all the programming is, it costs everyone $34 a year, which like seems like a good deal. Yeah, it's a really good deal. But I mean, this, until I saw one more time and I'm like, this is what I'm paying for? This is what my Trudeau bucks are going towards?

There's a, what I was looking at, cause I wanted to watch just like the news and Because I kind of missed just watching the news just sitting down watching like a 20-minute Uh-huh here are the stories of the day. So I went to gem and it wasn't locked in I was like I can't forget it, but I was looking at some of the shows won't know what's happening in the world That's right. I'm just gonna go to bed But there was two shows starring Joe McHale and I was like, why are there two shows starring Joe McHale on CBC Gem? One of those-

What were the two, the one took that animal control. Animal control, which is a sitcom. And then there's one called like food detective or something like that. And then all I know is the images of him holding like a magnified glass that's a donut. And I was like, well, the images got me intrigued, but why is that on CBC Jam?

Thanks for nothing, Trudeau. That's why they have those bumpers there, because of Joel McHale. He's asked to testify in front of Senate. Yeah. Anyway, so, but on to bigger... Wait, did we even get to know us? Yeah. Oh, good. Okay Um, oh I have one more thing

You know how we were talking about DJ getting free used it's morning and good for that So it's like do you think Brent but because he did so many seasons of corner gas gets free gas free gas no matter where he goes Yeah, he goes As soon as they see it's him they don't even do full serve anymore. But when they see it's in they go I'll pump your gas for you. Oh, yeah, And Joel McHale gets free doughnuts, free doughnuts and free animals. Yeah. So you are in town doing the Biltmore cabaret. Yeah, this this very evening. Are you traveling a lot doing stand-up this because you were doing show stuff before so you've probably Planted a bit and now are you going shows all over the place doing tours?

Yeah, so I was off doing the show for like seven or eight months and then had to Get back into stand-up after that which was very interesting because I had never taken that long off since I started stand-up Yeah, is that kind of felt fresh and new again and also had that kind of feeling of like, I don't know the longest break you've ever taken, but for me it was almost like, I don't even know if I wanna do this anymore. Yeah.

And I love standup, but I was like, and then once I got going, I was like, oh yeah, thank God I still love it. Cause there's no plan B. I was like, if I don't love this, I don't know. The longest break I've ever taken is like 12 years and it's happened, I'm in it right now. I'm sort of in the middle of it.

Yeah, check in in another 12 years. Yeah, no, I remember like years and years ago taking at least like 10 months off to do other stuff. And then, yeah, it was hard to get back in because it's like, you're used to going home at the end of the day. And like you got a little evening routine and you're like, now I got to all that. And then now I have to go out to do eight minutes at somewhere and like work on stuff.

So and then going on the road is different. I got a baby boy at home, like two and a half. He's not a baby anymore. But but yeah, like the road doesn't feel the same as it used to. I'm like, I'm just leaving my wife alone. Yeah, what is the- And are you constantly singing? Baby boy, you stay on my mind, reveal my fantasy. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. I think about you all the time. What's the next line? See you in my dreams. That's right. As you're putting them to bed. Baby boy, now the day goes by. Is that Beyonce?

I wanted to say Rihanna, but it might be Beyonce. I think it was Beyonce featuring Shana Paul. It was definitely featuring Shana Paul. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. But yeah. Okay, well, let me Google it. I think. It's a Beyonce song.

Was she in like a wine glass or something in the video? You're thinking of Dina Von D's. Dina Von D's. I was going to say Kat Von D. Yes, and it does feature Sean Paul. Sean Paul. It's off dangerously in love. I don't know who Sean Paul is. Who's Sean Paul. Are you Sean-a-Paul?

Sean-a-Paul. Sean-a-Paula. Are you going out on weeks at a time on the road, or are you just dipping in and out and doing shows? No, I just go out for a weekend and come back. Do you keep hours? Are you up at the crack of dawn because you would be usually, or do you do a little sleep in it?

No, I'm, my son actually sleeps pretty late. So I get up at like probably eight, which is, yeah, which isn't too bad. I'm not out partying. Maybe boy you sleep until eight, then we eat some breakfast. Sounds pretty nice actually. But yeah, I just finished this Vancouver show is the last on a Canadian tour. And then I'm hitting up a bunch of American cities for the next three months. And then I'm off the road again in March

cause my wife has given birth to our second kid. Shut up. Yeah. Congratulations. Yeah, thank you. Do you know if it's gonna be another baby boy? What's that? Is it gonna be another baby boy?

Another what, sorry Dave? I know the hearing aids. Baby boy. Oh baby boy. Sorry, it's also because you're like right in front of the mic and my lip reading is diminished, but I know you have to be because that's where the microphone is. That's where the mic is. I understand.

What's the biz? Well, I was hoping the headphones would work for me today because I was telling you guys before, but there's something called telecoil in hearing aids that I used to have to use to talk on the phone and listen to music too and I had them reinstall it in my digital hearing aids hoping honestly when I was having it done I was like oh this will be great for the next time I do stop podcasting and I tried it out and it didn't work but anyway to answer your question no baby girl baby girl baby girl I'm sure there is oh there's gotta be I mean there's people that will Anyway, to answer your question, no, Baby Girl. Baby Girl. Is there a song called Baby Girl?

I'm sure there is. There's gotta be. I mean, there's people that will say, hey, Baby Girl, they say that kind of thing. Yeah, and when the kind of music Grave and I listen to, there's usually a little break where a deep voice man says, Baby Girl, listen here, Baby Girl, I got to apologize. I've been so mean to you.

What the hell's wrong with me? You know what I mean? I mean, I'm such a goof. Yeah. You haven't gotten a sleep. Baby girl, I'm angry. Have you heard Shaggy explain how he came up with his voice for singing? No. It's not like his real voice.

He like made all his, uh, I think he was in the Marine, or the Army, but he made all the fellow people in his infantry laugh when he would do this voice when he was singing. And he's like, I might be onto something here. And he like recorded, I think, Oh Carolina was his first one that he did with that voice. And it took off and he was like, I guess this is how I'm singing now.

This is how I sing. Yeah. Yeah, I love that. But yeah, it's not, but I love Shaggy's singing voice and the fact that it's a put on thing. And it's also a fun one to do. Oh yeah. But yet when I do it, people disc, disc, disc. What are his hits?

There's- It wasn't me. It wasn't me. Have you seen the video of Michael Jackson seeing? There's a video of like the American Music Awards and Shaggy's doing it wasn't me. And the camera goes to Michael Jackson in the crowd. And he's like going, I love this song.

You know what's funny about it wasn't me is that that was like my dad's favorite song when it came out. Really? The whole song's about cheating. And like my parents were like divorcing at the time. I'm like, why is this your favorite song? This is my jam.

Well, that was a funny- DJ, I'm gonna have to get you to listen very carefully to this song. This is gonna explain, your mom's gonna say a lot of things. Uh-huh. But that was a funny stretch for Shaggy too, cause he released, It Wasn't Me and then Angel,

which is like such a romantic song. And it's like, is Angel directed at the same woman that you were treating on sure That was a funny time in his career. Look Jackie's doing really well. We hope him. We hope that he has an excellent next year Finding love or losing love. We're gonna hear about it. You know, it's speaking of finding love Raffi is on Instagram threads singer, and he just popped up. I don't really like threads actually. Yeah, we're really being forced into it by Instagram. There's a lot of like,

maybe you're interested in showing you a thread post and you're like, oh, that does look good. And then you click on it. I don't care. Yeah, everything's like, Beatty. Everything's like Rage Beat or like Horny Beat or whatever. Yeah, Warren Beatty. Yeah, but Raffy, you know, I'm a big Raffy fan.

We play a lot of Raffy stuff for myself. Yeah, Baby Belongings, et cetera. He had this thing on threads that was like him standing in front of like a big oak tree. And he was like, you know, some days I think I'll never find love, but I'm still looking for that special woman out there who will share her life with me. And it was like a sweet kind of earnest post by him,

but I was like, I don't need to know about Rafi's love life. Like this is, something about it just made me go, no, you should just exist in my mind, as a children's singer. You're Rafi Kavukian. Is that his last name? Kavukian, yeah. Nice.

But I hope he finds love, but I didn't need to know. Well, he's, he lives on Salt Spring Island. And so, you know, we hear stories about his love life. And you know what? He's doing just fine. He's doing just fine. He may not have found Mrs. Right, but he's found Mrs. Right now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's doing just fine. Let's just say he's, I can't think of any songs of his other than Baby Beluga. What's your favorite Raffy track? Is your listening to it a lot with your kid? Down by the Bay? I think I love that song. I think I go Baby Beluga though.

Another classic. He turned Disney down when they wanted to create a movie based on that song. No way. Yeah. Why? No way. Because he doesn't believe in their politics

and the way they operate. What has Disney ever done wrong? That's true. They've done a really good job so far. Well, I mean, that's pretty cool. I did not know he stood on kind of moral ground. I don't know what, specifically, to your ground. I don't know what a specifically to your point. I don't specifically know what I morally disagree

with Disney about. Well, I just love when people turn things down. I don't need to know anymore. Somebody says, no, thank you. I go right on. Yeah. You don't even need to explain yourself. Anybody that you know what his reason was,

did he actually explicitly say? Yeah, he was like, I don't, this is this giant monolithic company that represents more than just Disney. Yeah. Right? And he just didn't want to be part of the machine. Gotta give it to him.

I would sell out in a heartbeat. Yeah, how fast upon Disney asking you to do something, would it be like that second or would you wait two seconds to play it cool? Like how fast would you sell out? Yeah, they wouldn't even be able to finish their sentence. I'm in. We haven't even told you what we want to do yet.

Full nude, I'm in. We don't want you to do full nude, too late. I'm naked. Well, it is too late, that's our fault. We baited them into it. Some people, someone's commenting right now, you guys don't know why Disney's evil? No, I don't care. I don't like them. They created Cruella De Vil and say no more.

They're the source of evil. Do you watch any like Disney movies with your kid? Are they watching movies at two and a half? Yep, we watch movies. Do you know what's really interesting is like, we watch like Moana and Canto and all these new Disney movies. And then when I try to go back

and show him the classics that I love, like Lion King, Aladdin's a little, he's too young for that, but like Lion King is my favorite growing up. That's like my pinnacle of Disney movies, right? And it feels like flat compared to these new movies. Now, just visually, the songs are still beautiful, but like these new movies are so good.

Yeah. Like I thought I would feel the opposite where I would watch these movies and be like, no, back in my day, they were better. They were, but like, no, they're really, these new Disney movies are really good, man, like Encanto is amazing, Moana is amazing. I'm loving them. He'll watch, he'll wanna watch like 20 times. I'm like, sure, I'll watch Moana 20 times.

So it's like, it's, cause I know there's a lot of Moana being watched in this household as well. There was. Oh, they passed Moana now? Oh, sure. What about the live action remake? Yeah, they'll, they definitely want that.

Yeah, they're excited about the rock. They wanna see Moana too, which is coming up as well. Yeah, they definitely want that. Yeah, they're excited about the rock. They wanna see Moana too, which is coming up as well. Oh wow. They're making two Moanas at the same time. Same universe? Yeah. Oh cool. One is the cartoon sequel to the first cartoon

and one is the live action remake of the first cartoon. Right, and the rock is essentially playing himself in both films. I suppose. Yeah, he's, he's, man, he's killing it that the Rock, I was, I don't know how I feel about the Rock. Tell us, tell us why. I just don't know. I like him as a person. I honestly don't know. Like, I don't even know how to verbalize how I feel about him. I feel no animosity towards him. But I'm never like, Oh, sweet, I gotta go see the new rock. And I wanna know who feels that way. It's just, I feel like he's so much a part of our culture now that you can't,

doesn't matter if you hate him. Yeah, exactly. He's gonna be here regardless. Like Disney. He's like Disney, yeah. Raffy also will not work with the rock. I was thinking, you know how they had that Raffy also will not work with the Rock. I was thinking, you know how they had that Timothy Chalamet look-alike competition? Sure, I entered and lost in the first round. Did you hear about this? No.

In New York, there was a big, they took over a park to do a Timothy Chalamet look-alike contest. And like they had to move people out of the park. It was too many people showed up. And they, and ever since there've been like Like they had to move people out of the park. It was too many people showed up and they and ever since there have been like two or three other lookalike competitions and I was like they should do a Timothy Chalamet look unlike competition and find the person who looks a little least like Timothy Chalamet

And who do you think is the least? I think maybe The Rock would be in there. The Rock would be a contender. Absolutely John Bones Jones from UFC. He doesn't look like him at all. Leslie Jones. You're not a UFC fan, are you? No, but I actually do. If it's on, I'll definitely watch it. I very much enjoy the actual event.

I don't like the Foo-Four Hour around it very much. And the fact that like now every time you watch it, Donald Trump's going to be ringside. Yeah, that part. I'm a huge UFC fan and that leaves me very conflicted. Yeah, right. Like I don't want. Yeah. The fact that you beat the crap out of each other without politics coming in. Yeah, exactly. Politics out of my blood sport. Is there an amateur MMA, like league that's not UFC like that you watch? Because if you're No, I don't want I mean, there's a what do you call it the PFL which has come up? They're not amateur, they're pro as well. And I don't watch them at all really,

unless it's a huge fight. And then like I want Francis and Ghani because he fights over in PFL. Right. And so I watched his latest fight. You watch with your little boy? What? fight. Do you watch it with your little boy? What's what? Do you watch UFC with your kid? Oh, no. But the first time I ever watched UFC, UFC one, my dad put it on and I think it was my sixth birthday party.

Wow. Like six other kids watching and UFC one was barbaric. It was, it was crazy. I'm looking back on it now, I'm like, wow, that was some bad parenting, but that's what started my love affair with UFC. It may have started the divorce papers. Did you show him UFC one?

It wasn't me. Let me put it on the subway. When it was UFC one, was it still like a karate guy versus a sumo guy? It was still like that. Oh yeah. It was a freak show. It was a Viking versus a tiger. Guys who were just clearly like bar room brawlers who had no formal training. You could gouge eyes, you could kick in the nuts. There was a yoga guy who could blow fire. Because I remember watching a clip and it was a sumo wrestler versus like a martial artist.

And the sumo wrestler lasted like all of 15 seconds because the martial artist just like kicked him in the head. And sumo like doesn't have a comeback for that really. I think it might have been Gary Goodridge, who was a martial artist who beat up that sumo wrestler, if I'm remembering correctly Goodridge, who was a martial artist who beat up that sumo wrestler, if I'm remembering correctly. Yeah, it was brilliant. I remember the first 10 seconds looked like, oh, Jesus, the sumo wrestler might win. And then the second the sumo wrestler went down, he couldn't get back up.

It was like a turtle on his shell. And it was like, it was bad news from then on. He was not in any way, you know, prepared to defend himself down there. But yeah, it was, those kind of were the good old days a little bit. Like I'm happy with where the UFC is at because it's sanctioned and you're actually watching skilled people. But something about that freak show aspect

of just like watching a 600 pound dude versus 150 pound dude. It's like, you know, I gotta see what happens here. There was, I was watching a wrestling documentary show, the one on Crave. And it's, there's a scene where Bret Hart's talking about, there was some league that he was in as a young guy, where there was a guy, the guy that had the promotion had a bear and like somebody on Friday night had to wrestle the bear. And it was just like, eye rolling, like, I don't had to wrestle the bear. And it was just like, eye rolling,

like, I don't wanna wrestle the bear. But that was like one of the things you had to do as part of your contract was wrestle a bear. Did you guys, let's have it out. Let's get it all out there. Did you watch the Mike Tyson fight? I didn't, cause you couldn't get it. I was overseas.

I couldn't get it overseas. So I watched all the documentary stuff leading up to it, but then. Did you DJ? Have you watched this since? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I did.

Did you? I watched some of it. So it was on, I couldn't find when it was on. I knew it started at 5.30 and I was like, I had a bunch of stuff to do that. And I was like, I'm not gonna be able to watch this thing. It's at 5.30. I didn't realize there were hours and hours of other fights before. I had a bunch of stuff to do that and I was like, I'm not gonna be able to watch this thing. It's at 5.30.

I didn't realize there were hours and hours of other fights before. It came on so late by the time they got on. Especially if you were out East, I'm sure. Yeah, I was. I was in Toronto. Oh, but if you were in. So I had a show and then after the show

I was like, same thing. Oh, we're not gonna be able to watch it. We ended up sitting in a bar for like an hour and a half waiting for it to come on. And I got roped in. I knew it was gonna be, it was so clearly a money grab and they grabbed my money. I mean, I went, I watched it.

My dad and his wife were like super into it and I bet $10 with her. She was like, Mike Tyson's going to win. And I was like, there's just no way. I love Mike Tyson. Yeah. But I'm like, I don't know. I don't love Mike Tyson.

I mean, obviously he's got a checkered past. He's got a checkered past. Yeah, let's say. But I've been following Mike Tyson more the last five years than ever. Like he's had a podcast and I watched that for a while. Then that went off the rails. He used to have a guy on his podcast with him named Eben, who was just like such a grounding force and was like a real hippie-dippy, ex-NFL player,

but like hippie, like very into meditating and like he just had a really grounding kind of spiritual effect on Mike. And when Mike would go into his weird little aggro tangent, Eben would like bring him back and then they pushed Eben out of the show. Oh, really? Yeah, and then his podcast became just a rotating, you know, cadre.

Am I using cadre correctly? Yeah. Of like famous people who would come in. How did you know he's using cadre correctly? Because I studied in Spain. So, and then it went completely off the rails. You would see episode with Mike Tyson just eating fistfuls of mushrooms on air. Like magic mushrooms, just fistfuls, literal smoking so much pot.

And so I'm like telling my dad's wife, who I bet $10 on the fight with, I'm like, you haven't watched him. She still sees 21 year old Mike Tyson just dominating the sport. I'm like, you haven't watched the amount of hallucinogenics I've watched this man put in his body the last five years training for three months and taking all the steroids He's taken and everything not enough on top of that. He's gonna throw the fight. Yeah, there's no way he's winning Like he's getting a payday. He's 58 years old and then that all came to fruition, but they still got me I still have to wow at me too. I guess he's but

Wait, did you see his butt? No, when do we see his butt? Wait, wait. Did you see his butt? No, when do we see his butt? Oh, well, there was like a pre-match interview, like, you know. Oh, yes. I haven't laughed that hard in something in a long time. That killed me. Because I just saw a clip of it

and someone was like, check this out. And it's like, he's interviewing, he's getting interviewed by someone backstage. His son. Oh, is it? It's his son interviewing him. Oh, because I was like, oh, that's like, oh, the weird bit must be like at the end of the interview he gives him a kiss.

And then he walks away and he's had just been wearing a jockstrap, I guess, because his butt's hanging out. It's such a funny like juxtaposition of like right before too. Like it's, he starts off by saying vicious. He's like, how are you going to win? He's like vicious knockout, vicious. And then says, I love you. And then bears his buttocks as he walks away.

It was like, like out of the naked gun or something. It was like, the timing was perfect. Even the way the camera panned out. Yeah, and then the cameraman panicked and like zoomed in. It was so fun. I didn't know it was his son when I first watched it too. So the I love you took me out. I didn't know it was his son when I first watched it too. So the I Love You took me out. I didn't know it until just now. Because of all this, like, you know, Mike Tyson coverage,

there's the clip that resurfaced of him doing an interview where there was a little person there and he didn't know that it was not a kid. Hasbulla. So he like, yeah, he picked up this guy and he was like kissing him on the neck. Oh God. And then jostling him around like he would.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And yeah, his name's Hasbulla. And I think he's been around MMA for years because he, like when Khabib was champion, he was kind of part of their circle and he was with them. But that guy has had, because he looks like a little kid, that's the first time I've seen somebody like hug and kiss him like Mike Tyson. But he's had the opposite thing where a lot of people, a lot of fighters allow him to punch

them because he's such a little non-threatening guy. But he can still throw a punch. So they've just like, you've seen fighters let this guy punch him and he punches him hard in the face. And then you watch them like try to assess if they can get angry with them right now. Can I beat this guy up? But the Mike Tyson one was like, and then did you see the interview Tyson had with this little, I don't know how old she is. Yeah, she's 12 or 13. About his legacy.

And she's like, yeah, but asked him about his legacy and he goes on this long existential one minute rant where she handled it well though. She did, yeah. And he's like, who gives a, you guys swear? Yeah, yeah. Graham does. Yeah. Who gives a fuck about legacy, fuck my legacy.

I'm gonna be dirt, I'm gonna be dead, I'm gonna be gone. And she's like, that's very interesting. I never thought of that before. For kids news you can use. Well, I thought when you were talking about his hippie dippy co-host, I thought, I was like, oh, maybe that's where he got that sort of like, you know, life is fleeting. This is meaningless.

Right. Where after I'm dead, I'm dead. No, he's really an enigma. Mike Tyson is all about that kind of stuff, too. He's just, he's trying to outrun the kind of tortured, violent past that he grew up in as well. But he, yeah, you can't, you can't fully outrun it. So he's like, I honestly, I'm very, um, enamored with Mike Tyson. He's such a complex character with a different thing, but, uh, there's no

way he was winning that fight. But if you look at the clips, have you seen these clips surfacing of like him pulling punches and like having a clear shot at Jake Paul's chin and not throwing it? No, not throwing it yet. So part of me is like, maybe if he hadn't thrown the fight, I think he actually could have won, which I did not believe. I think if he had, if he had had that kind of lucky punch, like, uh, that he would have been able to knock him out, but he's, he's old, he's a slow moving.

He did not move. Like I'm not a, uh, boxing watcher, but I know footwork is a big thing. And there was nothing like he was. Yeah. That's another thing I'm wondering if that hader, but I know footwork is a big thing. There was nothing like he was. Yeah. That's another thing I'm wondering if that had to do with the throwing of the fight because in round one, he did not look that bad. But he had to go through several rounds and you know.

Yeah, he definitely looked super old, but it seemed like he got worse as the fight went on. But I guess that's also a function of being old. That's true. And a function of boxing in general. Yeah. No one gets better as the fight goes on. I mean, maybe somewhat does. Some people get better.

The one thing I love about when there's a big boxing match is how everyone is an expert. People who've never watched boxing are like, well, you know, the thing is they do a lot of jump rope. During the Olympics, there was a guy, and he was my favorite guy. He ended up winning the gold. And he was like from Estonia or something like that.

And his whole thing was he got really close. And so a lot of the boxers only know how to do it at distance. And he would just keep running up against them and boxing them right in their face. I was like, I've never seen this before, but it rules because nobody seems to know what to do with. And, uh, that's, that's where my boxing expertise comes from watching every match in the Olympics. But Mike Tyson used to do that too, since he had such a height disadvantage, he would get inside on people, just throw uppercuts, body shot.

That's what made him so good. Everyone was like six inches taller than him in the heavyweight division. Yeah. So yeah, he was- I think people are still scared of him, you know? He's a terrifying dude. he's a terrifying dude. Like when that look comes in his eyes, he's not playing around. Like he can access that.

Well, years ago he was on Rogan, like seven years ago. Wait, Rogan and him hang out together? I don't know about this. Well, Rogan's drug free. That's true. But he was not training at all at that time. Mike Tyson, he was, and Rogan asked him, do you ever like going and hit the bag or anything? He was like, I will not.

He's like, cause the second I do that, I don't like who I become. I will become the old Mike Tyson again. And so then now watching him train for this and even Roy Jones a few years ago, like he, he wasn't lying. You see him become old Mike Tyson again, when he starts to get into that mindset.

But I, I hope he's done. I like hippie Mike Tyson better. Yeah, I think he is. Yeah, I think this is probably... No, I want to see a rematch. Yeah, I want to see the next influencer. He was coming up the ranks. Yeah, I want to see...

I want to see JoJo see what. Take a look. Somebody said, and I was like, yeah, eventually what this is all leading to is that eventually there'll be a boxing match Between Jake Paul and Logan Paul and that'll be the you know billion dollar match Well, it's it's a million years in the making like Jurassic Park. It'll happen eventually So just enjoy the time before that happens because everything will be different after you know what I mean guys

Okay, I mean hats off to them, they're brilliant marketers. Hats off to the Paul brothers from all of us here at Stop Podcasting yourself. Only two of you guys are wearing hats, I'm not wearing a hat. My hat is off to them. Yeah, so you watch fights, do you watch boxing as well or just UFC?

I watch like a big boxer like Canelo or Triple G who's a little older now, but I don't watch that much boxing, but I watch a lot of UFC. Do you think if Jake Paul decided to fight a real boxer that his head would actually fly off when he got much? Well, he does fight real boxers. They're just not like like, world class. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's true. He lost to Tommy Fury, who's a real boxer.

Um... But he didn't get killed. I want him to get killed. Everybody does. That's the whole thing with him. But that's kind of the thing of it, too. The allure of it is, like, I want to say, yeah, like, if Jake Paul fought Canelo, for example, another thing is all his fighter exhibitions, so he's roided to the gills, Paul, right? Like that guy. Oh, he

must be just like neon green, you know? Well, he drinks all that prime, you know? Yeah, exactly. But any prime, I still have some prime. I haven't tried prime. Oh, it's great. No, Dave gives his hats off to proud. Yeah, it's off to prime. Like it tastes like it's Gatorade, but it has that sort of chemical diet aftertaste. Yeah. Nice. Are you an energy drink guy?

No, not at all. Coffee. Coffee. Yeah, I can't do the Red Bull and everything. I'm scared my heart will stop, you know? Yeah. I don't know much about science, but I feel like- Do you want to do some Red Bull and everything. I'm scared my heart will stop, you know? I don't know much about science, but I feel like- Do you want to do some Coke?

Of course. Yeah, there's some city workers in my bathroom. As long as it hasn't stepped on. But to answer your question, yeah, I think a real boxer would destroy Jake Paul. That being said, maybe not. And that's what the allure is. Yeah, maybe.

Because he does box, he trains, he's not- He's got nothing allure is. Yeah, maybe. Because he does box, he trains, he's not. Yeah, he's got nothing else to do. So, like I said, hats off to him. He's a deplorable guy. I don't want to listen to him talk. I don't want to look at his face. I don't want to go for a walk in the forest with him, or is that his brother?

That's his brother. But the guy- Can his brother, can he get a brother who looks less like him? Because I don't know the difference. The brother this week was interviewed by the BBC and he sent in a guy that looked like him, but wasn't him to do the interview. Did you see what that guy looked like? Yeah.

Did it look like him? It looked kind of like him. Not enough to fool. Like I would have been like, this is from- Fool the Beeb. Yeah, fool the Beeb. He looked like half Logan Paul, half Tilda Swinton. Boy, you're yoying.

The guy from BBC thought he was interviewing Tilda Swinton and she's just, this is a new role she's doing. She's kind of pulling it off. But it's interesting. I feel like with the Paul brothers, it's similar to Trump actually in that, like if you just stay in front of people and never go away, and you're just always in the public consciousness,

it doesn't matter if people like you or hate you, they know you and that's the most important thing. That's how you make money. If making money is your barometer of like what's important in life, that's how you do it. It really is, right? We can all agree, Money, money, money.

I mean- Shout out to Disney. Yeah, yeah. And the Rock. Disney's gonna make an animated version of this podcast. Oh shit, who's gonna play you? I'm out, guys. I don't know, some voice actor.

They're gonna go the old fashioned way and just get talented voice actors and not the biggest stars. No, I'm gonna get Stone Cold Steve Austin to be my voice in the animated version. About of it, who would he cast as DJ? Have you seen Mick Foley, by the way, lately? Yeah, we have lunch every week.

But he's been speaking about politics and everything and very eloquently and intelligently. Oh yeah, he's written books. But the guy had his brain smashed in for a living with chairs and falling off 40 foot cages. I can't believe how well he's speaking and you know, the quality of his thoughts. Yeah.

Honestly, I would have, I was prepared for a sad decline in the cognition of Mick Fulton. No, he is like, like you say, he's written books. It's a remix to cognition. What? So I'm canceled for quoting R. Kelly now? No, he is like, like you say, he's written books. That's a remix to cognition. I'm canceled for quoting R Kelly now. Where do we draw the line? Yeah, exactly. I can't even do a fun spoof.

I did a corporate gig last year in Edmonton, Alberta. And there was a DJ cause the party was starting up after Michael. Two DJs. Yeah, exactly. And, uh, I asked him, this guy was a DJ cause the party was starting up after my show. Two DJs. Yeah, exactly. And I asked him, this guy was a real character. I was like, do you still play R. Kelly? And he was like, bro, of course. The people love R. Kelly.

And I was like, really? He was like, I'll play ignition like three times in one night. What? I'll play it at the show, then at the after party, then at the hotel lobby. Yeah, he said people had no problems with it. This was Edmunds and Albert. I think if you put on that song, if you put on a lot of Chris Brown's work, Michael Jackson, these are all songs that people are still very much into.

I don't know that being canceled transfers to the audience. Like if I, because people still listen to Michael Jackson. Yeah. And it's like without guilt. Yeah, I know. Like they're like, oh boy, this is, I'm still doing it, but yeah, I feel bad about it. No, no one feels bad about it.

But then there was like, there's a big thing like, wow, we can't play Gary Glitter's song at the hockey games because he was a pedo. And it's like, well, where do you draw the line then? Like, well, it depends on the quality of the music. Yeah, that's true. It depends on the size of the catalog you can get. If Gary Glitter had 20 songs, you'd be like, okay, well, you got to give it to him. But I also think radio stations notwithstanding, there are people- You're so edgy today, by the way. I'm proud of this. There are people who have bombed

the play Michael Jackson. There are people who don't want to listen to him now I think. Yeah, sure, me. So I think it does transfer just not to like the mass public. But like, yeah, like I guess like no one's like, you know, saying like, oh, we're not talking to Graham anymore. He listened to Man in the mirror yesterday. Can you imagine being the person at the party was like, can we not hear ignition?

Like people would be pissed. Can we at least hear the original and not the remix? I don't know. Same with Confessions part two by Usher. Or Gary Glitter's rock and roll part two. Yeah. It's, uh, yeah, I got to see these. I guess they're pretty crazy. I don't know much about Gary Glitter. Is it time for me to get into Gary Glitter's rock and roll part too. Yeah. It's, yeah, I gotta see these. I guess they're pretty crazy.

I don't know much about Gary Glitter. Is it time for me to get into Gary Glitter? Yep. Stock's never been lower. Time to buy Gary Glitter stock. You know the one song though, right? What song is it? Da da da da.

They play it on hockey games all the time. Oh, that's Gary Glitter? Yeah. Oh, okay. And they don't play it anymore because was he, like, a known pedophile? Oh yeah, he was in jail for it. He died?

I think he's dead, yeah. I mean, last time I saw him, he was dead. Oh, let me Google and get on a damn list. I'm not looking it up for you. Dave's doing spoofs he's getting canceled for. He's looking up Gary Glitter. Yeah, no, but in Britain, he had like, he had tons of hits.

It was the, I think the only one over in North America was that one, but over in Britain, he was like, top of the pops. Richard Savile guy was the host of Top of the Pops. Jimmy Savile, that guy was terrible. Yeah, it's, they're all terrible. All terrible in their own way. That guy was just terrible. Yeah, they're all terrible. All terrible in their own way.

The only guy that has come out unscathed, mankind. He's a, yeah. Yeah. Is that why it would lead us to this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, this Primrose. Socko though, he's not doing well. No, Socko got canceled a long time ago.

Yeah. And that's the weird thing. I've seen him in interviews and he doesn't refer to himself as I used to be mankind. He always says I used to be Cactus Jack, which is earlier. Really? Yeah. So this is Mick Foley.

This is Mick Foley. This is the era of wrestling. I didn't watch wrestling between 1993 and present day. Yeah. So I missed a little bit. He came in the aughts, right? Maybe even late 90s. He was the attitude era.

Yeah. Yeah. What a time. Yeah, looking back it's like- Stone Cold, The Rock, McFauley. Yeah, McFauley, lesser characters. Kane's a politician now. What?

Yeah. Is Kane different than McFauley? Kane's a big guy. McFauley's kind of a scrappy. What? Yeah. Is Kane different than Mick Foley? Kane's a big guy. Mick Foley's kind of a scrappy little guy. Yeah. I mean, how are you guys? Kane's like a governor or something now. Kane is?

Yeah. Governor Kane. Does he still wear that red and white mask? Are you thinking of Tim Kane, Hillary Clinton's running mate? Yeah, that's the same guy. I'm going to check into the, I'm'm gonna verify this Kane as a politician. Yeah, I forget his real name, but he's definitely a politician. That I will look up.

I'm not looking up Gary Glitter. Do we have to put a trigger warning at the start of this episode? We talk about everyone bad, everybody bad. We're not pro the bad guys, but you know, we can talk about them, right? Yeah, for sure. Okay, sorry. Kane wrestler, it's asking. He was Undertaker's brother in the WWE.

That's right, yeah. He was born of, he was from hell. He was born of hell. Oh wow, he's got a real, oh, his head shape. It's quite something. Yeah. Uh, it reminds me of there was this cartoon in the eighties called, was it a, was it just called cops? I don't know.

I mean, I remember the show from the nineties called cops, but that wasn't for kids. You probably watched it as a kid. You're dead. Cops. Oh yeah. Yeah. And my seventh birthday party. We put that on. Yeah, it reminds me of this guy. But he was the black guy but has the same shaped head. Yeah, I see it. Yeah. Yeah. With the hair the triangular hairline coming

down. Yeah. Anyway, so this guy, Kane wrestler, his name is he's Spanish. He was born in Spain he was Spain Kane His name is oh he's the mayor of Knox County. Oh, he's a man. I thought I was higher than that. Okay, you gotta start somewhere Yeah, that's true. No, we're Knox County Not far from the Berry Farms as far as I know Knox Knox Berry Farms. Yeah Not far from the Berry Farms, as far as I know. Knox Berry Farms. Yeah.

When he first came around- Tennessee. He was, he wore a scary mask and then he took the mask off and shaved his head. And to me, much scarier. You think? He had a really scary face. I thought he looked good with the mask too. The mask was pretty damn scary.

But his first character when he came out was a dentist called Isaac Yankham. Really? I love watching wrestlers try to figure out which version of like who they want to be. Yeah. I think this dentist character was never destined to be like a kid's favorite. I do like when a dumb character does stick though. I'm talking about Erwin R. Scheister. Was he an accountant or a lawyer? He was an IRS guy, yeah. Stone Cold Steve Austin was some baby faced, like he had blonde hair.

He had blonde hair, yeah. He was like a clean shaven blonde hair, but you could tell that hair was going to Hulk Hogan style and there can only be one balding guy at a time. Yeah, they had to be fully bald or... Yeah, super receding. I mean, even The Rock, he had a pretty high hairline towards the end there. And anyways, we wish him the best.

The Rock, if you're listening, good luck with Moana remake. And Moana 2. And then do you think they'll make a live action remake of Moana too? I mean, God, your lips to God's ears. And good luck with Red One, which is currently out. Oh, what's that? Santa's been kidnapped. And Santa, played by J.K. Simmons, has been kidnapped.

Oh, that's pretty good. And needs to be rescued by Chris Evans and The Rock and Lucy Liu. Oh, Lucy Liu! Or maybe some of them are bad guys, I's pretty good. And need to be rescued by... Chris Evans, I think? Chris Evans and The Rock and Lucy Liu. Oh, Lucy Liu! Or maybe some of them are bad guys, I don't know. Okay. Again, that's the movie I was thinking of when I was like, who's excited to watch that? Yeah.

I could not get my children excited to watch that. And I haven't, we haven't gone to the movie theater in months. I love a good kind good mindless action movie, but something about The Rock doesn't make me. It just won't do it. Yeah. What about Fast and Furious? Will you get into that?

No. Although I never gave it a shot after one and maybe two. I'm sure maybe, I don't know. I don't think so. I love The Equalizer. Okay. But I think it's because Denzel is such a great actor. Why is he a better actor than The Rock? It's close.

But they're making an equalizer four and five he just announced. Really? Yeah. And I'm in. I'm not mad at that at all. I think the thing I've seen The Rock in the most is the TV show Ballers. Oh yeah, Ballers. I watched episode one of that on a plane a couple weeks ago.

I watched, it's not on anymore, but I'm pretty sure I watched two full seasons. Yeah, I think I watched two. Is it good? No. No. But it's brainless. Isn't it funny how brainless shows like that, you can just be like, I got it.

Like I watched all of Suits back in the day. Did you ever watch Suits? Sure, no, but I could see that being a show that I'm like, I'm watching Suits. Yeah, yeah. Text and stuff. What do you know, Mikey Kohlberg was a comedian in Toronto. Yeah.

I think, buddy of mine, he had a whole joke about watching Suits. I forget what the joke was, but he was talking about Suits for like two minutes in this bit, and then that got me into him. Like, maybe I'm going to watch Suits. And then I talked to him after years later. I was like, you know, I started watching Suits because of your joke. And he was like, oh, that was just a joke. I've never seen Suits.

I was like, what the hell? You don't realize the impact you have. Yeah, yeah, that's true. You don't know. Words mean something. Like comedians are the modern philosophers. That's true. I just, I just re-downloaded Apple TV last night and paying 13 bucks a month.

I didn't have it for a couple of years, but on my flight from Toronto to, or Toronto to Vancouver yesterday, I watched Presumed Innocent with Jake Gyllenhaal on Apple TV, well, it was on my plane. And I can't use the headphones and there were no subtitles. Oh, actually, this was one of the few shows that had subtitles on my flight. That's why I watched it. So, I watched it with subtitles and no audio. And episode one got me hooked and last night I got Apple TV again.

So presumed innocent is what got me back into my subscription. I'm only one episode in one and a half. I fell asleep watching two last night, but pretty damn good. I, yeah, there's what else? Oh yeah, did you watch Slow Horses? No, I've heard that. That's my Apple TV.

I'm gonna watch that now. And I wanna watch the new Vince Vaughn movie, or series, Bad Monkey. Oh sure. I love Vince Vaughn, I'm gonna watch that and I want to watch a new Vince Vaughn movie or series bad monkey Oh sure, I love Vince Vaughn I'm not gonna apologize you see the one the crazy Vince Vaughn movie where he's a guy in prison And he has this head shaved and he's like a brawler in prison. Is it like from the 90s? No You mean like Bronson like no no Tom Hardy Are you thinking of Bronson with Tom Hardy? No, I'm not thinking of Bronson. Like, is it not the same guy?

It's a different brawler? Do you see Tom Hardy's penis in this movie? Well, I don't, look, I haven't seen all of it. I see Tom Hardy's penis every time I close my eyes. Oh yeah, there it is. To answer your question from earlier though, to not a baby boy, we're having a baby girl. Yeah. I know, we're having a baby girl. Yeah.

I know we were trying to figure out a song about baby girls. It brings it back around. You gotta love this guy. Dave, what's going on with you? Well, no, nothing. You were out of town for a week. For a week. And we haven't recorded in two weeks And that was all mid-november and I was thinking at a very mid-november. Oh, yeah

Totally mid. Yeah, not much going on. Oh, yes cap. Yes. No cap. No cap. No cap to that Riz we have Riz. Oh, that's a There was I feel like the Rizler he was at the UFC fight. Oh, Riz. Oh, that's a, there was, I feel like the Rizler, he was at the UFC fight. Oh, he might've been. Yeah, they showed all the like people that were at the most recent championship. Trump was there, George St. Pierre was there,

there was other celebrities, and then the Rizler was there. He's a little kid from a viral cookie eating video. Did you see him on the Tonight Show, the Rizler? No. It's the only time I've seen Fallon look like Exasperated with again. He was like, I can't believe I have to talk to this kid. I know

Every time they said boom Fallon just looked like I okay boom which is like so funny because I Haven't really been keeping up with Fallon. I just know that he's like Mr. Positivity all the time. That's where he drives the line. I guess so. The Rizzler. Um, so...

That Rizzler kid, I mean, come on. He's great. I saw a video of young Rizzler when he was like a two-year-old. Was he still doing the crazy... He wasn't doing the Rizz face, but he, uh, it was like like he would not stop eating it was like his mom was trying to cook and he was just trying to see like things off of the he wanted to lick the batter and oh sure anyway so the that's going on and the Rizzlers announcements show announcements this is our last episode

okay yeah so we've come this far and it's been a blast. It's not our last episode. Every year we do an episode where we, the last episode of the year, the listeners are the guests. Yeah. We record it on Zoom. We put out a call for everyone to email us and and tell us, you know, that they want to be on the show and then we do a little lottery and we pick some people who can call in.

Like to see a talent. Yeah, I think a talent, a question, a hot take. Remember the guy who tried to slam slam dunk basketball and it didn't go very well at all. Yeah, I want to say his name was... No, something European. Yeah, Shaquille O'Neal. And so we are... We'll do that again this year.

We haven't come up with a date yet. But next week, be on the lookout for us to announce that. It only comes once a year. The next announcement. Announcement number two. We have a Blue Sky account now. Oh, we do? Yeah, we're on Blue Sky. Are you?

Yeah, I got a Blue Sky account. Never have touched it at all, but I got them all. I got Mastodon, I got Blue Sky, I got threads, I got Twitter, I got Instagram, I got everything you want to do. Blue Sky is just like Twitter, except that everyone's account name is your name dot blue sky dot app or something. Yeah, it's annoying It's a new app or is there a big company that owns it? No, it's like it's not evil yet It'll be evil in a few months countdown countdown to being evil. So no one's I don't even think there's ads on it yet You know, it's crazy is on all these other apps,

nobody seems to like anything. Even like a super popular post has like 24 likes. It's not the gold age of Twitter where you know, you get a hundred likes and you know that it's doing well. It's like- You used to kill it on Twitter. I know, not anymore. Nobody kills it on Twitter anymore.

Usky's burning it up. Yeah. R.F.K. Jr. he's on there. I remember you and Pat Thornton, I used to always laugh at your tweets. You two were the... when I think of the golden age of Twitter, it was Graham Clark and Pat Thornton. It was a good time. It was a good time. Twitter's really... I mean, I still look at it every day, but it's... But like Twitter's still great if you want like, you know, severe beatings. Videos that you're like, I'm not following thiss. You can be videos that you're like, I'm not following this account,

why is this being shown to me? That's crazy. It is funny, my Twitter feed, the ones that I follow are still really good. They're still like funny and kind of positive content, but my for you feed, woo-wee. It is wild, man. Yeah.

What Twitter thinks is for possibly me I don't even know who that man is but do you are you still on Twitter? I have an account but I deleted it years like five years ago And then I got the account back a couple months later just so I would still have my username Yeah, so I'm on there, but I don't really I wanted I was my plan to sneak in and steal his username and then use it to, you know, promote my crypto company. What's your crypto coin called again? My crypto coin?

Oh, it's called GulpCoin. GulpCoin? Yeah. How's it doing? It's up and down. Yeah. Big, big gains and then big losses. But your dividends are NFTs, so that's cool.

Yeah. Yeah. Do you think that board ape is going to come back as a hot commodity? You guys remember board ape? Of course I remember board ape. Oh yeah, Bape. Yeah, Bape. No, no, no. Bape is different. What is Bape. Yeah, Bape. No, no, that's different. Bape is different. What is Bape?

Bape is the like, Board Ape is the NFT. Yeah. Bape is a clothing company. Yeah, Bape is bathing ape. But I think it stands for board, bathing ape? A bathing ape, I think. Oh really?

Yeah. How would you wanna buy like a swimwear for someone called bathing ape? Cause it's, you gotta get some babe stuff. It's true. I've got Rizzlers. I got babesters. Anyway, so that's one of the things, those are the announcements. We're on blue sky. I think I still have a MySpace account out there somewhere.

I think if you could do, I never canceled my MySpace account. So I assume it's still active. I don't know if I ever had one. You never had a MySpace account? I think I just missed active. I don't know if I ever had one. You never had one on MySpace? I think I just missed it. He's young. He watched UFC one at his sixth birthday.

Sixth birthday party. I went on MySpace, but I don't think I had an account. I remember I would go on MySpace and look at Tila Tequila's account. I was indelated by that. Oh, I've heard that name a lot. Tila Tequila. Did she end up being a Nazi that. Oh, I've heard that name a lot. Tequila Tequila. Did she end up being a Nazi or something

or is that somebody else I think? She wore Nazi regalia at the gathering of the Juggalos. Oh, sure. I think so. What a sentence. Tequila Tequila wore Nazi regalia at a gathering of the Juggalos. I might be wrong about the Nazi connection,

but there was something. There was something that somebody, yeah. She definitely got her. That people were beaten up at the gathering of the Juggalers. Yeah. Because there was like a wrestling event as well. And she kind of, where did we first meet her?

Was it on our? I think MySpace. It was on MySpace. She just became a famous person on MySpace. She would have made a killing on OnlyFant. She came out like her era was wrong. I don't know how much money she made, but she had an MTV show or something.

I'm sure she didn't get paid that much. I've heard the cast of Jersey Shore talk about how they were paid like nothing. I'm sure she was kind of in the same boat. She was part of that same era. So I feel like she didn't monetize her fame as much as she could have in today's present. But she's probably on OnlyFans now.

We could have seen, wait, is she dead? Is Teela still with us? It's no longer my job to find out who's dead and who's mayor of Knox County. Well, we know she's not mayor of Knox County. There can only be one. Do you remember in the late 90s or early 2000s, Cindy Margolis got her own TV show?

I remember Cindy Margolis. What was her show? It was just a variety show where she introduced bands. Cool. But do you know what her claim to fame was? Was it from her show? No, she got the show because she was I don't know.

The most downloaded woman on the internet. Oh, nice. Really? Yeah. This was internet 1.0. I can't remember what Cindy Margolis looks like, but I Really? Yeah. This was internet 1.0. I can't remember what Cindy Margolis looks like, but I remember her name. Yeah, she was blonde lady.

Yeah, she's just a lady, right? She is. Do you ever see the show? Yeah, yeah. It was on all the time. Cool. Tequila Tequila is still alive, by the way. 43 years old.

Oh, nice. Speaking of like, shows with variety acts, apparently when Tom- By the way, you have to be Tequila Tequila's age to get the references on our show. Hats off to Tequila Tequila though, if I may just say that. Hats off to you Tequila. Let's all do a shot of some at all.

Let's all do a shot of some alcohol. See, Tom Green was said in an interview, like on Total Request Live, one week he was the number one song with like his bum bum song, whatever. And then he had to retire the song because they had already pre-taped an episode where he wasn't on the list anymore. They didn't know that it would do so well. So it was number one one week and then they're like,

well, it wouldn't just vanish. He officially retired the song between airings of that show. Really? He's got a plaque. They give him a plaque. Congratulations on retiring your show at number one. That was a show in America where they would just count down the most regressive songs of the day. Yeah, and then they would have bands on and interviews.

And Carson Daly. Carson Daly. Yeah. I saw this clip on Instagram a couple of days ago of Carson Daly interviewing Elliot Smith. Oh, yeah. Did you see this clip? I posted that. You did?

I mean, I reposted it. Where he asked him about the tattoo and he's like, oh, this is Ferdinand. The bull. The caption was like, me when I open up to the world about my sensitive issues or whatever. This is Ferdinand the bull. It's a children's story. He's a bull who doesn't want to go to the bull fight,

but he does anyway. And Carson Daly goes, cool, anyway. And you just see Elliot Smith deflate. Like just like, I'm never opening up again. Yeah, I thought I could trust you, Carson Daly. And that's like, Carson Daly, he had a late night show that like slowly devolved. Bless you.

Thank you. It was sort of like the Cindy Margolis show. It just didn't become him just that like, he'd be walking around a market somewhere. Yeah, he used to be, I think it started with an audience. Yeah. And then they had given him like the sweetheart contract and couldn't take him off the air.

And he was like, well, no, he would just like pre-tape his show walking around. Yeah, and just throwing the music videos or bands playing. And he like, wasn't he on after the late, like wasn't there a late show and then a later show and then he was on? He was on at 1.30, yeah. Yeah, he was on at 1.30.

Tough slot, tough slot. What a career. What a career, you know? What's he doing now? Is he hosting? He's dead. He might be dead. No, he's hosting some reality show.

Like the Max Singer or something like that. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like that's the zone for him. Boy, there's a bunch of like game shows and reality shows out there that I've never seen and they're coming out with new ones all the time. I was watching The Floor quite a bit. See, I don't even know what that is.

That's hosted by Rob Lowe and it's a giant floor and you challenge the person next to you on the floor and you get their square on the floor. Have you watched this? I've seen it. I thought it was like the floor is lava. No, that's different. Oh, is that one called the floor is lava?

There's one called the floor is lava. That's like a, whatever, double dare style show. But this one is, I watched it with the kids for a while. And even now it's like too stupid for them. Not that my kids are stupid. They came out wrong, oh my God, oh my God. Dave gets canceled again. But like it's so, it's,

cause I was like, oh, I love game shows. This is maybe one to get them into cause it's not too challenging. But it would literally be like, oh, I love game shows. This may be one to get them into because it's not too challenging. Yeah. But it would literally be like, okay, we are going, the category is kitchen utensils. And they show a spoon on the screen and the person goes, spoon.

Spatula, pork, rice cooker. And that's literally the Rob Lowe hosting. It's Rob Lowe. But it's like you're just the clock is running. And if you can't name the thing, you got to say pass and that costs you three seconds. Then the next thing comes up. What was the one Alec Baldwin was hosting? What that the one was oh, I got you took me a second He did the new match game, didn't he? Oh, that's what and then was he also on Did he do the marriage ref with no? Don Papa was do you remember the marriage ref? No, it was ill-conceived. It was a Jerry Seinfeld game show He's just now shaking his hand. Did you guys see Unfrosted?

No. No. Did you? I watched a little bit of it with Ivan Decker. We tried to watch it and we were about like 25 minutes in and I was like, because it was his suggestion. And I was like, can we please stop watching? And he was like, yeah.

And then I asked, I saw Ivan last night and I said, did you ever end up finishing? And he was like, no, I didn't. I thought he would because he loves it. And I was like, can we please stop watching? And he's like, yeah, and then I asked I saw Ivan last night and I said did you ever end up finishing? He was like, no, I didn't I thought he would because he loves Seinfeld and oh, it was pretty bad What was the circumstance where you and Ivan were picking a movie to watch I crashed at his house. Okay Yeah, I was sleeping on his couch but so Ivan and I were sitting on the couch watching unfrosted and we didn't finish that and then we switched over to Battlestar Galactica, Is that the cult classic movie?

No, it's a TV show. Yeah, no, there's a- Battlefield Earth? No, I haven't seen that. I'd love to. It's pretty, it's fun to watch. Yeah? Yeah, I mean-

That's a roll-to, right? That was a bomb? Yeah. Yeah. It's the Scientology one. Oh yeah, it's like a thinly veiled Scientology or is it, do they actually say Scientology in it? I don't think they say the word Scientology, but it's written by L. Ron Hubbard.

Oh, it is written by him? Yeah. And it's like supposed to be the, it's a sci-fi story, but it has a bunch of the roots of Scientology in it. What's the one with like- Dave, could you look that up? I wanna remember the one I actually watched.

Denise Richards is in it. It's like a space movie, a space. Starship troopers. Starship troopers. Oh, yeah, that's good. Yeah. So that was pretty good. I'd never seen that before.

Pretty funny. It's funny. Yeah. Yeah. And you get to see some butts that shower together in the movie. There's a, I was just asking what like the circumstance because I can't remember the time like a friend, like I've gone to movies with friends and I've watched

like sporting events with friends, but the idea of like, Graham, come over, let's pick a movie to watch. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's see if the unfrosted lives up to the hype. It was actually interesting cause I haven't crashed at somebody's house like that in a while. So I was just on his couch. So yeah, I was wondering like, what are we going to do here?

He's like, you want to watch a movie? It did feel very novel. I was like, I guess. And then I hadn't had the feeling in a while of not wanting to watch the movie that somebody else picked. Cause he's like, you want to watch unfrosted? And I'm like, no, not at all. But sure.

I remember when Abby's brother was here, like lived in Vancouver. Abby and her brother lived together, my wife, and they had other roommates. And one of them was this guy from Wales. And he always was like, oh guys, can we watch Shaolin soccer? I don't even know that. And it's a it's a apparently a really kind of

really great stunts in this movie. Yeah. And we would always laugh and say hmm what should we watch? We would like hold up two DVDs and one would be Shaolin Soccer. No we're not gonna do that tonight. And we would watch anything but Shaolin Soccer and then once he was out of town and we were like, we should watch Shaolin Soccer without him. Oh, I don't think we ever did though. Yeah, I can see that being a movie you'd watch with loved ones.

It's fine. Anyway, so this episode is a whole lot of, hey, have you seen this? Yeah. Well, have you seen this? Have you heard about this guy? So what's going on with you, Graham? Well, I have well have you seen this have you heard about this guy? So what's going on with you Graham? Well, I was watching Shaolin soccer the other day. I Went I went on a whirlwind tour of Ireland Ireland in Northern Ireland last week and

Because this summer you went to Europe. Yeah, and you were planning to go to France Berlin Berlin and Ireland. And Ireland. Just on your own or? My wife and I. Oh, nice. No, I was like, you stay home, I'm gonna go find myself.

But yeah. That trip was cut short. Cut short by a visit to the hospital, long story short, didn't make it to Ireland, but. And I was like, I actually bet your dad's wife that Graham would never make, I bet her $10, that Graham's never gonna make it to Ireland. Yeah, and you know what?

Yeah, do your words, cause I made it. Why'd you have to go to the hospital? Oh, long story short, it was an accident. Anyways, I don't want to talk about it. I'll tell you off air. Because they're still trying to figure out the insurance part of this whole debacle. I got you.

But yeah, I went to Ireland. Have you been? No. You've been to Ireland? No. It's a blast. Yeah. It's a blast.

You go there for a week, you pack in a lot of stuff, but it's, they're tiny places. Ireland and Northern Ireland. Ireland and Northern Ireland. You can zip on a train between the two. Don't say it's a blast. That's true. Oh, the Troubles. Yeah.

I went on a tour, went on a walking tour of the Troubles. This is where this happened. Where, is that in Ireland or Northern Ireland? Northern Ireland, Belfast, going on a walking tour. And it was funny because the walking tour started at City Hall and that day just happened to be their date of remembrance day. And the guy was talking about,

and this is very momentous because this person's meeting this person for the first time. And he's like, and this woman's very, oh, she's right over there. She's walking out as soon as he's saying it so that was fun going on a walking tour I've never gone on a walking tour ever before I've been on hop on hop off tours but never done a walking tour of no I can't yeah I don't They haven't done the damn Freedom Trail in Boston? Did you? Hell yeah. But yeah, it was fun and... You've done like a ghost tour?

No, I've never done... No, I did one on a bus. Yeah. You love bus tours. Like walking tour, no. And you know what? This was long. It was over two hours and it was like...

Did you get your steps in Yeah, I closed the loop That was called when they do 10,000 steps Do you see the influencer that was doing her steps on the plane everybody hated it anyways just came out this morning It'll be old news by the time this gets released, but Yeah, I packed in a lot of stuff, did a walking tour, did some, I did a walk up the side of a mountain

that I can't believe I did, because I don't like heights whatsoever. And- Was that, where was that? That was at Giants Causeway. Went to the Giants Causeway, which is- I don't know. It's a series of kind of cliffs and stuff

that are these very like weird shaped rock kind of like octagon. I don't know, pole. I don't know how to say like, oh, yeah, like you can walk on them and they're kind of like step rocked the guns. Yeah, the rocked again. Thank you. That's the word I was looking for. I went to a famous graveyard and then there was a famous- Who's buried there? A bunch of Irish people I've never heard of. But I mean, if you knew your Irish history, boy oh boy, we had a walk to be remembered. Rob Royce? Rob Royce was there, yeah.

Bono's grave is there. Did you see Bono's house? No, it wasn't part of the walking tour, but he's somewhere in Ireland, right? Probably Dublin. Oh, yeah. He probably has two houses, one in Dublin and one in, you know, the Moors. No way Bono still lives in Ireland, you think? Yeah.

Yeah, where would he live? And he's Van Morrison. He lives in Northern Ireland. He's flying his hat back and forth. That's Bono. I would have thought like Bono is in some castle in Spain or something just with that much money. Well he is, but he's got a place in Ireland.

He's got a place to crash in Ireland. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And when he's in LA, he stays on Ivadex coach. Ha ha ha. Ivan, I've heard really good things about unfrosted mate. Ha ha ha. But also like- Is this on Netflix? Or I was on Paramount Plus

and I still haven't found what I'm looking for. There it is. Where am I? The streets have no freaking name over here, babe. Oh, that was part of the walking tour was that that song came from like trying to prevent an attack by taking down all the street names so nobody knew. Oh.

Where things were taking place and that's where the basis of that song. Uh, see, this is, I took stuff away from the walking tour. Did you go to the Sunday, Bloody Sunday? Uh, that was part of it as well. Yeah. Thing where, uh, the street where Sunday, Bloody Sunday happened. And, uh, it as well. Yeah. Thing where the street where Sunday bloody Sunday happened. And the thing I do, they have

a, like an ice cream shop there. Yep. And they have a special every say good Friday. I don't know when that happened. Maybe a Sunday. But the thing that I found about Irish people, I love them. Yeah. They're great. It's easy to start a conversation with anybody

and it doesn't have to be a long conversation, but having just conversations on the go, found out I love that. That doesn't happen in Vancouver ever. No. Are they friendly or are they like a mean? No, very friendly. And then, but like, they'll tell you,

there was one guy I had a conversation with. He told me his whole sad life story inside of like two minutes. And then see you later. Like it wasn't and like was in the graveyard walking around and this guy just walked by walking his dog and he was like, Oh, what grave you're looking for? We're like, No, we're just we're looking around. He's like, you want to see Harry Potter's grave? And I was like, yeah, sure. And there was a guy named Harry Potter that was buried there. And then he gave us a tour. He's like, ah, check this out. There was this big uprising here and this guy, uh, in the graveyard, it was on the uprising. And, uh, he was like, this uprising happened here and one person got killed and they're right over there in this grave. it was like fun and then he just walked away It was like took us on a mini tour of the graveyard. I love it. I love and you were like, we actually were waiting for the Sun to go down so we can have some goth sex

Yeah, yeah, and it was close enough to October that the monster match wasn't far in the rear view Um, did you kiss the blarney Stone? Yep, I licked it. Everybody else was smooching it, I got in there, you stung. When everybody was watching, I humped the blood. Did you really? Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. What is it, Blarney Stone again?

Did you actually? No. Okay. No. I don't know, it's a big rock. Big rock that people kiss for luck. You know, you kiss it gives you the gift of gab. And everybody in Ireland is kiss this stone

because man, they can gab. Yeah. Yeah, I love it. It's a, you've been to the Maritimes, right? You've been to Newfoundland like three weeks ago. I was gonna ask you if you felt any similarity. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, Newfoundland is like, is for sure, like kind of Ireland light.

Yeah. Yeah. But like just the fact that you can just stop, have a chat. Okay, well, gotta get going. Boy, why did I interrupt? I don't know what I'm talking about. There was a, there's a radio, I think she's a radio DJ and she does a bit where she calls somebody in the Maritimes and just says like, what are you having for dinner?

And then the person will just chat away and she sees how long they'll chat before they ask, who is this? That's great. Is she in the Maritimes too? Or like, she, I don't know where she is. She calls. She's like got connections to the Maritimes. So she calls there and just to ask like one question, like,

wow, quite a storm last night. Oh yeah. Yeah. Um, I saw this, uh this can you drink Guinness anymore with your I had a sip uh-huh it's got gluten in it but I had a sip but there's it's like drinking one Guinness huh that's like a whole meal that's like eating a loaf of bread you see people in Ireland six seven glasses it's I don't understand how their bodies can take it I heard that that's actually not true.

What? That it's not like a meal. Oh, no. I mean, just sitting wise, like by the way, it's in your stomach. Um, I saw this video. This was one of my last days on Twitter. This video was posted of a bartender pouring Guinness and then using like a little piece of wood, like, yeah, like a stir stick. Yeah stick to like just push the little bit of head

off the top of it. And like with three or four glasses in a row, and the caption was, lock this person up. And I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it. No, me neither. I mean, there's a way to do it, but I couldn't tell you the right way to wear a Guinness. No, but I love Guinness.

Do you? Oh, yeah. I've wanted to go to Ireland for years. So you'd love it. You're only a firm in it. Yeah, I actually did an exchange term when I was in university and I went to Australia, but it was my first choice. My second choice was Ireland. So if I hadn't gotten Australia, I would have gone there. My third choice was Denmark, Arhus, Denmark. Anyway, I've always, I've always wanted to go. Like, I just feel like, same thing you just said.

I feel like I would just fall in love with it. The second, anyone I know who's gone there. I was going to go to Ireland. It was amazing. Yeah. Yeah. I love Australia. What was your favorite part about Australia?

Uh, I mean, beautiful. Like the country itself is just so gorgeous. And I was also, it was my first time leaving home. I was like 21, 20 years old. I was away for the first time. And it was like before, like I didn't have a phone while I was there. So it was before phone addiction really kicked in.

So ideal, like in my mind, I was just gone from, you know, I was on the other side of the world, just doing my thing, you know? I love phone addiction. Yeah, that's one of my favorites. That's cool, man. So you had a sip of Guinness, is it like a dietary thing where you can't?

Can't handle the gluten anymore. I got, yeah, yeah, that would be better. But you still just had to have a sip. You had to, absolutely. Did you go to the Guinness factory that day? I went to the Jamison Distillery. That was because you got free, not free, but you got to drink during this tour. And they're like, this would take a sample of these three drinks and tell me which one

you like better. And I was like, I love them all, keep them coming. And that was more of a stumbling tour than a walking tour. But yeah, I didn't go to the Guinness one because they make you drink a Guinness at the end of it. And I was like, I don't want to be the person who's like, I can't, I can't have it. Drink the Guinness. Okay, I'm sorry.

But yeah, I can't recommend a trip to Ireland and Northern Ireland enough. A blast. I got to stay with my relatives, my aunt and uncle. They live way on the North, they live on the beach. Just walk out of the door, you're on the beach in the freezing, freezing cold Atlantic. Northern Ireland, boy, this is sound stupid. Attached to Ireland?

It's attached to the mainland. So yeah, like they're not, I don't think they're connected, but you can take a train between one and the other. But not attached to England. No, England's its own Ireland. Sure, sure, sure, sure. So Ireland's still part of the EU, right? No, Northern Ireland is.

No, Ireland. The EU. Ireland, yeah, Ireland is still part of the EU, yeah. They said no to Brexit. We're going to stay. Were they offered Brexit? Yeah, I think they probably, you guys want to hop on? And they said, no.

You know, you've been good to us this whole time, England. But then we're going to sit this one out. Yeah, yeah, we'll just owe you. But yeah, great time. Now that you've gone there, there's a book I read last year that I really loved about the Troubles in Ireland called Say Nothing. Say Nothing, yeah.

Have you read that? No, but I've had it recommended. Oh, okay, really good. Now that you've actually been there, you might be able to like piece it together with things you saw and you walk into it and everything. I remember nothing about it, but it was great. It's a TV show now as well.

Oh really? Say Nothing, yeah. Is it a TV show now as well. Oh really? Say nothing, yeah. Is it on Gem? Can I get it on Gem? I don't know. You gotta find your login. I don't know where you. I know I don't have my login,

but I wanna see the Joe McHale food mystery show. Actually, he's the star of saying nothing. Oh shit. Yeah. Perfect accent. It's on, boy, it might be on Apple TV here in Canada. Oh baby. Okay, all right. Well, I might be on Apple TV here in Canada. Oh, baby. Okay, all right.

Well, I'll be watching that. By the time this comes out, I will watch this. Oh, I think it's on Disney+. You know what? In the States, it's on Hulu and FX. In Canada, it's unclear. Anybody's guess. Well, do you guys wanna move on to some over-hears?

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we want to hear it too, it's only fair. And we always like to start with the guest. DJ, do you have an overheard? Well, as you know, I've been on this show what, 25 times? Yeah, 25 times at least, yeah. I can't hear, I'm struggling to just hear, nevermind over here. So I was thinking about what I would bring to this segment and what came to mind was it's kind

of a variation on Overheard, but a couple of weeks ago, I had a show in Toronto. Yeah. And one of my openers had left their, uh, water, like glass of water on the stage. And then I had mine on it. There were two stools on stage and I had one on mine on the left stool. and then this person had left theirs

on the right. Yeah. And I didn't know. And there was somebody in the crowd, they told me after the show who for like 10 minutes I would like grab this glass of water and then almost take a sip and then not take a sip and put it down,

but I didn't know. And they would be like, that's not your water. They were calling out from the crowd, but I couldn't hear it because I don't hear that well on stage. But for like 10 minutes, three or four times, every time I grabbed it, they yelled out, it's not your water, DJ.

And then finally, after like 10 minutes, I finally took a drink of it and didn't, and then after I took a sip, I was like, I realized in that moment, I'm like, oh, that's not my water. And the whole crowd laughed so hard because they had been hearing this guy for the last 10 minutes telling me, that's not your water. But I was so confused. I'm like, why are they laughed so hard because they had been hearing this guy for the last 10 minutes telling me that's not your water.

But I was so confused. I'm like, why are they laughing so hard? Because I hadn't said yet, oh, I don't think that's my water. I had just had the realization in my head. And then I found out after that this guy had been yelling at me, literally like increasingly yelling like he was getting louder every time.

This is great. He was feeling panic on my end. Like he was feeling secondhand panic, like he can't drink that water, not his. That's like a very high concept bit that you could have planned out. Like, oh, but I can't hear him, but he will be shouting. There are two waters.

Yeah. So yeah, the whole crowd overheard him. Yeah. Or heard him, and I underheard him. But yeah, it ended up being, the stakes were very low. The weather was fine. My opening comic didn't have any life threatening illness. That's hilarious.

Surprised you didn't get a standing ovation for that. That's quite a bit. I ended the show early. I walked off after that. I had another 45 minutes to do it. But we're done guys. I'm walking. Dave, do you have an over heard?

No. What? Again, it's been sort of a mid November. We're done guys. I'm walking Dave you have an over heard no Yeah, and it's been sort of a mid-november, but yeah but what I did do is I bought a Have you ever heard of rap snacks? Yep, the chips and and whatnot chips and pretzels or whatever little different salty snacks that have a different rapper Like hip-hop artists. artist on the wrapper on the bag. And so I bought a bag of Nicki Minaj wrap snacks. They are sort of a honey barbecue flavored chip.

Nice. Baby. They're really good. And what made me laugh was in Canada, we have everything written in English and French on every package. And so like not only is it, I don't actually remember what rap snacks

were called in French, but on the back they had some Nicki Minaj lyrics. Oh yeah. And so they translated them into French. And? Well, here's it in English, because I'm still hood. Hollywood couldn't change me.

Shout out to my haters. Sorry that you couldn't phase me. And in French. Je suis encore de la rue. Hollywood ne pas, ne m'a pas changé. Les haineux, je vous salue. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha suis désolé de ne pas vous avoir à ma hauteur. Nice. Good accent.

So instead of saying you couldn't phase. Good sentiment. So instead of saying my haters, sorry you couldn't phase me, she's saying, sorry that you can't rise to my level. Great song by the way that those lyrics are from. Yeah? Yeah. I forget one that is, it's her and Drake on that one,

but I listen to that song a lot. Yeah? Yeah, for real. That's a great verse, Hollywood couldn't change. I think it's Moment for Life, but it might be another one that they're on together, which I forget the name of. But- It's Moment for Life.

It is? Yeah. Nice. Nice, great. Nicki Minaj, really? You gotta give it to her. You gotta take your hat off. You gotta take your hat off to make him an honor. I mean, Graham, we'll get to you,

but it just occurred to me that we haven't asked DJ what's new with John Mayer. Oh yeah, what's new with John Mayer? Yeah. Oh. Listen. For the new listeners, DJ is our, John Mayer correspondent, the first person I ever met who likes John Mayer and loves John Mayer.

Really, first person? Think so. And, you know, not the finest tuned ears. You know, I have considered that before how my musical taste, you know, people might not give much credence to it due to my disability. Sure. And that's wrong of them. That's very wrong.

That's wrong. He's hitting all the right notes. You know who couldn't hear so great? Ludwig van Beethoven, okay? And also Jesus Christ. So think about that, you know? Did Jesus Christ have hearing issues? I don't know.

It wasn't there. You read these first-hand accounts. I don't know, it wasn't there. They read these first-hand accounts. I don't know. He weren't hearing it. Can you turn this water into wine? Sorry, one more time? Would you want me to do that? No, I was asking you to turn this water into pine.

Well, John Mayer hadn't released a new album since I last spoke to you guys, but he hosts a show on SiriusXM. I don't have a subscription, so I haven't listened to it, but he's... Well, you get a... It's free right now. Is it? Yeah, Sirius is free in my car. Oh.

So, if you want to go... Well, I didn't realize. I got a new car... Just for November. I got a new-to-me car in May, and I didn't realize I had a free SiriusXM subscription on until I got an email from them telling me it was over. I was like, damn. I missed out on it.

But you know what I've been watching a lot lately and I still listen to John Mayer. Do you know what's funny? I put on a best of John Mayer last Sunday when I was doing the dishes and cleaning and everything. And the best of was literally just all of his songs. That's how good he is. It was like every album on there.

I was going to say, oh, was it a, did you only have like two dishes to do? No, no, John Mayer is the man. But I've been watching this version of Ed Sheeran, another legend. Yeah. You know, what's his big song, Thinking Out Loud. Oh, sure.

And it's from like 2016 or 17. He's performing it at the Grammys and John Mayer's doing backup guitar on it. And uh- That's so generous. He could be at center stage. Absolutely. He's willing to help, which is nice. Questlove is on the drums and then an absolute legend is on the piano and I can't remember

who it is. Ray Charles. No, it's like a real like, I forget his is. Ray Charles. No, it's like a real, like, I forget his name. Ray Charles. Billy Joel. I honestly, I'm gonna look, can you look it up, Dave, do you mind? Okay.

Look up Ed Sheeran and John Mayer, just cause you're so quick on the phone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. At the Grammys. But what's amazing about this performance is, first of all, I love thinking out loud by Ed Sheeran, but then John Mayer. How does that one go? You actually want, you know it, and just want to hear me sing. Is that what's happening right now?

I don't is it oh When my legs don't work like they used to before you know that one nope No, and I can't pick you up off your feet. He got sued by the Marvin Gaye estate for it sounding similar to Blurred lines? Forget what sound, but he won. Did he? Oh, he won? Is it the one that goes,

ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, 17? That's right. And there's the two Filipino kids who have this version that went viral of them. It's like an older brother and his younger sister, brother, I think, singing it. And he's like encouraging her to really sweet video That's nice, but the legend who's on piano in that John Mayer song

He hits a lick he hits his note John Mayer does at one point and you see the guy on the piano behind him Just like so impressed with the note that John Mayer because apparently they've performed this many times. Oh yeah, they're buddies. You're sure it's at the Grammys? Yeah, I'm going to find it for you. Oh, it's from... Yeah, it's from...

James Corden was presenting. Oh wow, what a powerhouse. Herbie Hancock. Oh, Herbie Hancock, okay. Herbie Hancock. Certified legend was impressed by John Mayer's guitar playing So, you know you can make fun of John Mayer all you want but herbie fucking the Hancock is giving No, that's all I need. Okay, you know what I won't make fun of him ever again Now my overheard courtesy of a bunch of lads in a pub in in Ireland. Oh

this must have been Overheard Central. It was and this was one that it just caught just a clip of but he was responding to his friend and he said diarrhea I was strapped to the toilet. You're sitting on that and then you I asked DJ for a 10 minute story about John Mayer and I'm sitting here just salivating ready to go. But yeah, it was over at Central but that was one of the greats. Strap to the toilet, gonna use it. Oh yeah. That's new lingo I'm gonna be trying. Strap to the toilet. Strap to the toilet, gonna use it. Oh yeah. That's new lingo I'm gonna be trying.

Strap to the toilet. Strap to the toilet, yeah. That feels like the kind of session where he was like peeling off clothing during it. Oh yeah, sure. When you have one of those long toilet sessions and you're naked by the end of it. Yeah, sure.

Yeah, we've all been there. I definitely was on my phone a couple days ago in the bathroom and my legs both fell asleep. Oh yeah. Yeah. I was like, oh, I gotta get up, but I could barely get up because of these legs. Graham, that's too intimate. What? This I want the listeners to feel comfortable talking about their diarrhea stories. Send us in your best diarrhea story. What did, no, well, don't. Well, you won the counterpoint. Keep that to yourself. Now, we also have overheard sent in to us by people all over the world.

If you want to send one in, send it in to sbyatmaximumfun.org. This first one comes from where you're living right now, Andrea C. in Toronto. My mother and I were doing one of those online quizzes where you have to correctly identify a movie after being shown a single frame from the film. At one point, an image popped up from the Rick Moranis classic, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

My mother immediately yelled out, Oh, I know, that's from, what's it called? Make the People Small. You're in the ballpark. Absolutely. Yeah. It's probably a working title at some point. Yeah. Movie.

Untitled, small people. Yeah. Feature. Yeah. I think I Shrink the Kids is a great title. Probably one of the best. Like you would sell a script just on that name. Oh yeah.

Yeah. Like Snakes on a Plane. Like it's such a good title that you're like, oh no, I'm interested. Honey's a really pleasing word too. Yeah. Delicious. You feel good when you hear honey.

Yeah, it's warm. Have you ever seen it? I have, but when I was really young, I don't remember it that well. That's when I showed it to my kids that they liked. They thought it was good? Yeah. Nice. A lot of practical effects in that.

Oh, and they noticed. Yeah. The giant Cheerio. The giant ant. The giant ant, the giant Lego piece they sleep in. They hold the giant, they hold like a piece of Oreo in front of the giant ant to make it walk. Yeah. And isn't, don't they fall into an Oreo or something or something they something? They

Oh, yeah. Oreo filling. God damn. It's one you can watch with your kid. Yeah, I'll put it on. I just I totally forgot a few years ago. Rick Moranis got punched on the street random. That's right. Just came back. Yeah. Yeah. Who punches Rick Moranis? I don't know. Somebody who thought, Hey, he's regular size. I'm gonna knock it down That honey of his yeah, that's not good news. No, like honey. Oh, okay. Well, I'm listening He said something nice. I shrunk the kid Actually outweighs the honey. Yeah, so much worse. You fucking shrunk the kids again This next one comes from Michael from Ogden, Utah We were walking past the Riverside path in Austin, Texas,

past a kids baseball game and heard an exasperated man's voice. Run Grayson, you gotta run. No, the other Grayson. I'm ready to believe there are two Grayson's in the same. Well, like I remember when we had a Boston Terrier, people would like, there was a group where you could have a Boston Terrier meetup

and all the, everyone with similar dogs would meet up at a park. I think they probably do Grayson meetups. Yeah, absolutely, bring your Grayson, B-Y-O-G. I've never met a Grayson personally, but I know it's a popular, I feel like it's a Grayson, Braden, kind of... A lot of these last names that have become first names, Carter.

Carter, oh yeah, Carter's a good... Yeah, my nephew's name is Graydon. Graydon, yeah, I knew a Graydon growing up. Yeah, I knew a Grady. Yeah, I think I knew a Grady as well, Graydon Grady. Haven't since though, I haven't met an adult named Graden or Grady. No, they do. They have very short lifespans.

It's like, it's like a big dog. Yeah. If you see a, if you see a Grady running, it means they're actually in trouble. It's not cute. It's actually they're in, they're in distress. Yeah. It's, it's sad, but it's the's the life that they have is a good life. It's a good life.

Yeah. While it lasts. Absolutely. Um, this last one comes from Kevin from Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Father and son walked into a board game store. I was shopping at the dad's side and said in an exasperated tone, you're always talking about Pokemon, get Pokemon out of your head. We're here for magic Oh, yeah, this is the dad laying it down like you're gonna be a magician

No, I think it probably magic the gathering. Oh sure not just magic magic Yeah, I think you're graduating from Pokemon to magic and hearts It's cards and then maybe Yu-Gi-Oh is involved at some point. Yeah, he has to wait until he's older to get Yu-Gi-Oh. Yu-Gi-Oh, I-Gi-Oh, we all-Gi-Oh for Yu-Gi-Oh. Pretty good. Do you ever do any card gaming? Not really, no.

No, me neither. No? No, I feel like when I was younger, it wasn't Dungeons and Dragons was the thing. There was no Magic the Gallery. Pokemon, we're just a little too old for Pokemon. Yeah, it was the in-between. I did a bit of Dungeons and Dragons when I was younger. I loved it.

I don't know why I don't do it as an adult. I had friends who were really into the Pokemon Go stuff when it was a big craze like six or seven years ago, but I never got into it. Was that the one Pokemon Go is where you like- You Pokemon Go to the polls. It was, you went somewhere, right? You had to go to where they were and use your phone. Yeah, you would like see it on your phone

right in front of you. Yeah, it was a fun era. I was in Montreal doing the Comedy Nest one weekend and I was right by Atwater Station there, right where the of you. And you would see groups. I was in Montreal doing the Comedy Nest one weekend and I was right by Atwater Station there, right where the club is. And I just saw like 50 people all running like through the park there. And I was like, what the hell is going on?

I asked somebody and they're like, there's a Pokemon, there's a whatever really valuable, precious Pokemon right there. So we're all running to get it. But it's crazy. Did you follow the crowd or you were like, nah. No, I mean, I didn't see it. I didn't have the phone. Yeah, I don't know. I was like, but it's crazy. Did you follow the crowd or you were like, nah? No, I mean, I didn't see him. I'm allergic. I didn't have the phone.

Yeah, I don't know. I was like, you guys are crazy. Yeah. You're chasing after this thing you can't even see? Yeah, man. I'm going to church. Like a goal. In addition to all words 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. Spy pod one, like these people have. Hey, Dave, Graham and assumed guests. This is Chris from Detroit. I was just out at a coffee shop where the baristas were having a confident yet ill-formed political conversation. And at one point, the one barista said to the other,

communism is Amazon, but nice. Oh, off I go. Like amazon.com? I think so. I wonder what that means. I wonder what the person thinks. Communism is Amazon, but nice. But nice.

But make it nice, be nice with it. Yeah, but how though? You don't order communism and then it comes to your house. I think it's nonsense. I don't think we're gonna get to it. We're not gonna figure it out. No, because I honestly couldn't tell you what communism is in terms of Amazon.

Yeah, in terms of Amazon. I don't like, because in communism famously, you'd have to line up for things, which is kind of the opposite of what Amazon does. In Soviet Russia, line up stands for you. For you. Oh, man. Does Amazon have some bad press or something? Because they've been nothing but good to me.

No, they... I mean, yes, they do. They're famously terrible to work for. Maybe that's it. Maybe because it's terrible to work for, maybe communism is kind of the same. Maybe it's like, you know, communism's hard to work for. I don't know.

I... yeah, I don't... Here's your next phone call. It's a very touchy subject, guys. Yeah. Does communism have some bad press or something? Here's your next phone call. It's a very touchy subject, guys. Yeah, yeah. Does communism have some bad press or something? Yeah, yeah. Did we, wait, did I just rewind the show? Oh, wait, you said Amazon before?

Yeah, yeah. Hi, DG and Fiji. This is Josh from Sonora, California. Calling in with an overheard. So at the company I work for, we just renegotiated a new contract and there was an older guy who keeps up with all that kind of stuff. Younger guy comes up to him and says, hey, when do you think we're going to get our new boning sinus? And the old guy says, excuse me? Young guy has no idea what he said.

He's doing this on accident. He's like, our boning sinus. When do we get our boning sinus? The old guy says, are you messing with me? No, when do we get our boning sinus? And he's like, just repeat to yourself what you just said to me three times. He goes, what?

Anyway, that's it. Did that come through for you? Our boning sinus? He goes, what? Anyway, that's it. Did that come through for you? A boning sinus? Yeah, a boning sinus. Yeah. You could see that though, somebody like trying to make that into a bit. And the guy just being like, no, but come on, you know, there's not, we're not handing out sinuses for boning.

Yeah, or sinuses. Yeah. Yeah, my boning sinuses. Is that what he said?ing sinus boning sinuses Trying to say signing bonus. Yeah, but I can see how you'd make that mistake And then do you just the more you repeat it the more you're like you don't hear that you're saying it wrong What are you guys gonna do with your? My boning sinuses. No, I meant to say signing bonus. What are you gonna do with your signing bonus? I'm gonna get this Apple TV and check out these shows the

Jake Gyllenhaal one and the other one that I said horse horn slow slow sys I'm gonna get a spoiler. Huh? Yeah, you're gonna get a spoiler for your car. Yeah, nice It's gonna tell me how all the movies end How are you? What are you doing with your signing bonus? Do you think it would be a good bumper sticker if you had a spoiler on your car and you had a bumper that just said spoiler alert with like a sticker that said spoiler alert

lined up with the bumper? Don't ruin it here. Trademark, trademark. Trademark. Yeah, this is something that's gonna make your big fortune. Sign with the big bumper label company, get a big bonus sign. is something that's gonna make your big fortune. Sign with the big bumper label company, get a big bonus sign.

Get a big bonus, yeah. All right, here's your final phone call. Hi, David and Graham. I'm calling in with an overseen. I am driving right now through Chicago. I just drove past a pickup truck that has on multiple places across the truck just the words, no liars, no cheats, no lazy dogs, we're here to work.

No liars, no cheats. And also he's trying to tow a second car behind him on just a loose piece of rope and it's not going well. So, I don't know, is this anything? It is. Also you want that rope to be taut. You don't want a loose piece of rope for you in the car. I don't know how towing, like how a car or a truck, like how towing works with a trailer or whatever.

Oh, you mean there's like not towing like a tow truck. Not a tow truck, but like if you're like pulling yeah Something behind it like this is this guy's using a rope Yeah, and it's also like is the guy in the if you're doing it with a rope does the guy behind you? I mean, there's no that's just a bad idea. Yeah. Oh, no, it's terrible. It's a terrible idea But like if a trailer hitch you're like they've sorted that all out. I don't worry Yeah, yeah. Yeah. The only thing is watching somebody back up with a trailer. That is difficult stuff.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Especially in like big cities, when you see somebody having to navigate like narrow alleyways and stuff, you're like, you couldn't pay me enough to do that. No, because you got to like when you're backing up at the trailer, you got to turn the opposite way that you think otherwise it'll jackknife. Like, yeah. And then once you've done that you're in big trouble. Yeah. Don't do it. If you go away doing it don't do it. I get a lot of videos of people

like towing a boat and then having to like get it into the water and they screw up. Yeah so easy to screw that up you know. This is one of the things that you know makes me regret buying a boat. What I know. I'm a boat guy Yeah, you're both guys. It's tough. It's tough for me You you like to go out there catch a big tuna. Uh-huh. Yeah, I do tuna. I do You know wakeboard. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I do wakeboard. That's right And sometimes you just like to get it on the the lake, just floor it, you know? And then it's, but it's dangerous though, Kevin O'Leary is still out there on the lakes.

Kevin O'Leary is out hunting at night, trying to kill people. Allegedly, allegedly. No, he's now he is doing it on purpose. Yeah, that's true. He's wonderful, that guy. Boy, I gotta tell you the two best days of owning a boat, day you buy it, day you sell it.

You can't wait for that second day to kick in. Ooh, ooh, buddy. Well, that brings us to the end of this year program. DJ, thank you very much for being our guest. Thank you very much for having me, guys. Tell people where you'll be, what's going on. Are you touring around in December? Are you taking it easy in December?

No, I'm around in December. I'm going to be in Phoenix, December 5th to 7th. And I'll be in Batavia, Illinois from the 27th to the 29th, I believe. Check my website, DJDemarish.com. And as Graham mentioned at the beginning of the episode, one more time, my TV show is on YouTube now for everyone to watch in America and beyond. So please watch it. We only made one season, but I'm really proud of it

and I love it and I think you will too. Nice, good plug. As good as they come, my God. And as David mentioned earlier- Did you say David? No, Dave had. Okay. I heard David at first too, but then my brain said, he might just said Dave had. Yeah, Dave had. Okay. I heard David at first too,

but then my brain said he might just said Dave had. Yeah, Dave had. I should be a little slower and a little more forgiving of my friend Graham. Had mentioned at the beginning of the program, how we're gonna be doing a year end show where you, the guest. Yeah, and we'll give you some more details

on how you can volunteer for that. Yeah, we don't, This is not a paid gig. By the way, this is a volunteer position. But it does count towards your volunteer hours. That's right. And you can get a college credit. That's right. Yep. But thank you everybody out there for listening. And you know what?

We just want you to really take it easy, take it all in, enjoy the view, and come on back next week for another episode of Stop Podcasting Yourself.