Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 873 - Gina Harms

Episode Date: December 10, 2024

Comedian Gina Harms returns to talk Australia, Canadian movies, and Gladiator 2. Want to be a guest on our year-end Q&A episode? We’re recording on December 18th from noon to 1:30pm PST. Email us at [e-mail] with the subject “Q&A” and you could get a chance to be on the show via zoom! Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Bluesky.

Oh, ho ho jingle jingle jingle jingle jingle. What's that sound? I'm gonna throw up in the sash and see who that is out on the lawn. Oh, it's a jolly old elf Look at this jolly old elf. Oh, man. So tubby and oh he shakes when he laughs like a bowl full of jelly Oh full of jelly. Oh god, I got I gotta get this sugar plum out of my head I've been having visions of them, you know I got, ugh, I gotta get this sugar plum out of my head. I've been having visions of them, you know? Yeah, that was the original version of American pie, was American plum.

And that's the same thing, but different. Oh, so he's all horned up for a big sugar plum? Yeah, that's right. There was one left on the counter to cool. He got in there. Whoever was the equivalent of Jason Biggs back in the day. He thinks he's alone because not a creature is stirring, not even a mouse. But then Eugene Levy comes in.

That's right. It's still Eugene Levy, no matter when the film was made. Well, the reason we're talking to you before the show is actually starting is because we have an announcement to make. It's the end of the year. And the last episode of every year, it's become a tradition. It's the listener episode,

where the listeners are our guests. You're the guest, you're the third chair. You're, you know, you're Pete Best, you're et cetera, et cetera. Yeah. Isn't he the fifth Beatle? Famously the third chair of the Beatles. Uh, so, if you would like to be on our show,

if you would like to have five minutes alone with us, think of what you would do. Oh, the mind reels. And you have a few things you can do if you're on the show. You can, it'll be your chance to ask us a question, or it would be your chance to show off a talent. And this year we're doing something special. We'll rate your outfit.

We'll rate your outfit. Also, if you have any hot takes. Oh shit, yeah. But if you do want to be on the show, we are going to record this episode on December 18th from noon to 1.30 Pacific time. That is three until 4.30 Eastern time. And what time in France?

In France, it's nine o'clock at night until 10.30. So if you are free in that window of time and you wanna be a guest on the show, how do you get to be a guest? Well, we have everyone who wants- Let Dave tell you, go for it. Everyone who wants to be a guest? Well, we have everyone who wants- Let Dave tell you, go for it. Everyone who wants to be a guest has to email us, SPY at MaximumFun.org with the subject Q and A.

We will compile all the emails we receive. We will do a draw. And if your name is chosen, we will contact you and we will tell you your five minute time slot and we will send you a link. We're using Zoom for this, so you'll have to be able to use Zoom. So you email us, I mean, let's say by this Friday. Okay. Anyway, SPYMaximumFun.org and if you need those details again, rewind.

Yeah, and we'll see you there. And if you need those details again, rewind. Yeah. And we'll see you there. 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 873 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark, and with me as always is a man who has a brand new spanking sidewalk right in front of his house, Mr. Dave Shimla.

No, don't dox me. There have been like, you people know what neighborhood we live in. Yeah, we live in Gaston. Yeah, but they, there have been some specifics that have come up and I've had to like take them out. There, like there was one, I'm going to end up having to bleep this cuz it's still there Sure, but one time we thought it was very funny that my neighbor had a in their window at a gigantic And it's like four years later, it's still there Yeah, so I don't want people not go okay, so it's got a new sidewalk unfortunately in this neighborhood They're poor in sidewalks left and right. Oh, that's great. Yeah, so I don't want people to go, okay, so we've got a new sidewalk. Unfortunately, in this neighborhood, they're pouring sidewalks left and right. Oh yeah, absolutely.

And you know what, walking over it, you wouldn't know it's new. It's all covered in mud. Well yeah. Yeah, I mean, I defy anybody to forensic a new sidewalk. I wonder if any of the city workers are like, I made a new sidewalk. I don't even get to do anything on it. Yeah, yeah, let's take our group workers are like, I made a new sidewalk. I don't even get to do anything on it. Yeah, yeah. Let's take our group photo on it and then onto the next

sidewalk. I'll bring my wife down here later. We can make out on it. Our guest today, returning guests to the podcast. First time here in person, such a funny comedian. She's also, we just found out a ring announcer. It's Gina Harms, everybody Hello. Hello ladies and gentlemen. Is that the energy you bring to it? Feels weird to do in a office type space. Um, you know, well, it's get to know us. Yeah. Get to know us.

Now you, so you're a comedian, of course. Yes. Everyone knows you've been on the show before, episode 702 or something, and somewhere around there. And you, but, so you're a ring announcer for Boom Wrestling. Boom Wrestling. Past guest, Stacey McLaughlin, her imprint. Yeah, and it's insanely popular.

Yeah. It sells out every time. Yes. And so ring announcing you're just at the top of the show or every match? Every match. Nice. Yeah, so I've been doing it for about a year now.

And you bring big energy to it? I do, yeah. Is there a persona like are you? So I'm like they have kind of like it like an MC Sort of an out there guy who kind of is in the ring the whole time and he He will talk to the wrestlers and he introduces me and then I am like making their way to the ring Do you, no, do the make him ring. Step back from the mic.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, really? Why not? You know what? It's a good like warmup exercise for us to get in the zone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We really bring that WWE energy. And if you wanna introduce us.

Oh yeah. I'm 6' six four 120 pounds. Okay. Failing from Venus. Parts unknown. Okay. Sorry, I keep laughing. Okay, I'll start.

The following match is scheduled for one fall. Making their way to the ring the tag team champions From the Mall of America Dave Shumka and Graham Clark And Graham Clark! This is good. That's good, yeah. Good. Do you laugh between every line usually?

No, it's very serious. Do you have a specific outfit that you wear? I like to dress up for it, but I'm not in the ring. I'm like in a corner. Sure. So really I don't have to. Does the crowd get on you if you're, you know, if you can't, did you

bring it? No. Okay. They're pretty, they're pretty cool. They're chill. What's your, uh, cause they all have ongoing storylines. Do you have a particular favorite that's emerged over the last while? Oh, um, yeah, there's like, I mean, the main guy, one of the biggest guys in Boom Pro Wrestling is Abraham Lincoln. I love that Abraham Lincoln, so funny. And he wears the hat the whole time. Yeah, yeah, and I don't know,

he just, they just had a match with him and this guy, Thelonious Hovinious Harlequin. Nice. And this guy is like this weird Gothic, I don't know, magic. He has this magic trunk. And they had this match where the magic guy put Abe's head and the ref's head in the trunk and then they switched bodies. And so then the ref was acting like Abraham Lincoln.

But they didn't, like their heads didn't switch bodies. They did. No. The guy who plays Abraham Lincoln plays him. Real beard? Real beard. Real beard, yeah. But fake hat.

It's a real hat. The hat. The hat got better because I remember in the first couple, like I saw the first two times they did it and it was not quite the right height. Oh, okay. Not quite the right height on the plane in space. Yeah, but it's good luck getting a ticket.

It's the Taylor Swift of pro wrestling. You're not gonna get in, so don't even try. Each month, yeah, they sell out. It's very popular. Very fun. Taylor Swift of Pro Wrestling, you've given me an idea. Bracelets. New gimmick.

Did you see that, so Taylor Swift is, I think at the time of this episode release, I think she's gone. When's her last show? It's like, isn't it like this week or next weekend? Yeah, so yeah, it'll be over. But, and it's the last tour, last show of the tour, last like three shows she's doing here.

The local police have, oh God. Do you know what I'm gonna say? Yes, there's no, there's no end to how much I hate this. I hate it so much. They've made, because friendship bracelets are a big Taylor Swift thing, yeah And so they've made giant French lit ship bracelet necklaces for their horses. Yeah. Yeah, I saw that I hate it The laughing men statues at English Bay?

Oh yeah. Have them around there next to. And they've just changed the Vancouver sign in. Yeah, in Cole Harbor. In Cole Harbor to Swift Coover. This is the. It's too thirsty, we're too thirsty for this. Well I remember when Justin Trudeau did a speech

and I was like, so if we if we're God forbid ever in a war This guy is the fucking guy in charge. The guy is begging Taylor Swift to come to his country Graham I know what bumper sticker you have on your Ford F-350 It's it's no it says hey give Trudeau a chance, but I'm down in my last nerve with this Trudeau guy Just like I wouldn't whatever he did did that was like this is so embarrassing. Yeah that really imagine if she didn't come too like. That would have been funny. But like she's gotta have a body double right? Oh yeah the whole series she's at home watching it eating popcorn. Well like she's had a show and like three years of doing-

You know, it's the same guy that does Sedan Hussein. You've got range. I do think that when I've gone to like arena concerts that I'm always in the nosebleeds and I'm always like, this could be anybody. Mm-hmm, that's true. Yeah, especially like I went and saw Kiss and I was like, yeah, this could be for oh my god

Yeah, any force seventy five year old man, truly Yeah, did you did you try to snag tickets were in the lottery? Uh, I didn't get in the lottery I did try I would go I'm I'm a fan of her music for sure. Yeah. Yeah, I don't identify as a Swiftie sure that's of her music for sure. Yeah. I don't identify as a Swiftie. Sure. That's, um, that's, yeah. Stan culture is toxic.

Well, I'm more of a little monster. I'm one of Gaga's little boys. Oh, paws all the way up. Yasss. Uh, but, uh, yeah, we, I thought about, I mean, we, I tried to get tickets whenever they went on sale like a year ago and then didn't. And then I took the kids to see Olivia Rodrigo and that was quite overwhelming for them. And I think I was like, okay, well, I'm going to stop trying to get the Taylor Swift ones.

Yeah, there was a kid somewhere in BC that had tickets and decided to auction them off for charity. And how much do you think she got? Two tickets to the Taylor Swift show in Vancouver. Maybe prime tickets, but I think it just had two tickets. I don't know, $80. $27,000. Oh! Yeah, it was for charity.

Yeah, exactly. $27,000! Oh, there were people in this neighborhood on Airbnb that had like their houses for sale for 5,000 a night or not for sale for rent. Wow. Yeah. Smart, I guess.

Yeah, I wish I had a place that I could get away with. Yeah. But there's like a fob. If you see somebody in the building, they're gonna know that you're gonna live there. You know, if the maintenance lady sees anybody unusual, I'm in trouble. Or her new replacement. Oh, what's going on with the new maintenance lady?

No, there's a new maintenance man. Oh my God. Oh no. And he's really good. I got no complaints at this point. How long was the old maintenance lady around? Oh, probably before we got there, probably like 15 or 20 years.

And what kind of maintenance she do? She, if something breaks, she calls a guy. And listeners, this is the show. This is the show, that's right. This is what we call a good radio. If something breaks, she calls a guy, okay. I mean, she's not coming in there with a wrench and doing it herself.

What kind of maintenance is she doing? Tidying? Tidying, yeah. She does a lobby display for every kind of holiday and she does that less now because she's retired. But just everything you need. She's got it. Does she live there?

She lives there, but she manages four buildings. Oh. But yeah. If she's retired. She manages no buildings. Okay. Now it's all the new guy. Yeah.

Does the new guy live there? I don't think so. Yeah. Maybe he lives in one of these other four buildings. Yeah, probably one of the nice ones Yeah, I'm like, how do you get that gig? Like sometimes I think being a building manager would be nice I think it would be it's like you just work from home, but you're like kind of you're not at you're not stuck in your apartment You get free rent cheap rent. Yeah, that's what I wonder. Yeah, I think at the very least cheap rent if not Yeah, yeah, that's gotta I wonder. Yeah, I think at the very least cheap rent, if not. Yeah. Yeah. That's gotta be one of the perks of the job

of being a building manager. I hope so. But then you're in charge of like, you know, sex ed week, and you're in charge of like spirit week, because wait- Stuff you don't sign up for, yeah. Building manager, you don't realize is you're an RA. up for. Yeah. Building manager, you don't realize is you're an RA. But seriously, we love her and you know, we love her, don't we guys?

I don't. Why not? She listener. Honestly, I'm kind of like a little jealous that you like her so much. Yeah, I, I don't. Do you would you be able to Airbnb your place? Probably, like it's a big enough building that I think I could get away with it. Although, yeah, everyone does sort of know each other. Like, I don't know. You have to tell the person, you just have to act like you're my weird cousin who's going through some bad stuff.

That's why you have all this French appraisal. Actually, I just did an apartment swap with a comedian from Toronto. So he stayed in my apartment for a week. And then you went Toronto style? Yeah. And was it a downgrade or upgrade for you? A bit of a downgrade.

He had a roommate and I live alone. So already. And also it was a guy's place. So I'm imagining not as nice a bed. Surprisingly, that's what I was expecting. But yeah, he's like a guy who like loves to like vintage shop. And so there was like art on his walls and like things.

That's nice. Yeah, it's like most men I just find don't have anything on their wall. Yeah. I just have, don't have anything on their walls. Yeah. I just have a target. I know some of it a lot. Of course. Yeah, I've never Airbnb'd my place ever, like in all the places that I've ever been at.

I don't know if I could, because I'm like, what are they doing in there? Are they tooling around and stuff? Yeah, it would have to be with someone you know. That that's the only reason I did this like I know this person I trust them. Yeah, there was a Do any of you play the New York Times game connections? I have played. Yeah, that's the one with 16 squares and Yeah, everyone has a word on them and you have to like Everyone has a word on them. And you have to like decide, try to figure out which four words go together.

And there's four sets of four words. And one of them in the past couple of weeks was, oh boy, pet, house, baby and plant. And they all went together because they're all things that you sit. You babysit, you house it you pets it But you don't plant. Yeah, you don't plan sit. Nobody has you over to stay. Hey, can you take area plants it? You can come okay. Can you come over once a week? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. That's true. Yeah

Have you ever been in like an air be where there's like, clean up the dishes and stuff before you leave and stuff like that? I hate it. Oh no. Yeah. Well, it's gotten crazy in the last couple of years. Oh yeah. They add a cleaning fee,

plus they expect you to clean it. Yeah, exactly. They expect you to clean it and then there's cleaning fee. And there's also sometimes like, don't open this door. Like whatever you do. Don't open it. No matter how many screams you hear coming from inside it you're gonna open the door if it says do not open the door hmm yeah

curiosity is gonna get the scary Airbnb movie oh oh Jesus ah barbarian barbarian yeah did you seebarian. Barbarian, yeah. Did you see Barbarian? No. Oh, it'll really, yeah, it'll scare you Airbnb-wise. Yeah, did it have like a don't open this door thing or? No, it wasn't, but it was like, clearly a door you shouldn't have opened.

A haunted door. Have you seen it? Do you watch any horror movies? Not so much. I'm trying to get back into horror movies. I stopped for a long time because I was like, no, I'm such a wimp. But now I'm like, I'm an adult.

I should be able to watch. I don't know, you live alone. I wouldn't watch horror movies if I lived alone. That's the thing. It's like, you have to watch them with somebody. Yes. And then. Watching a horror movie alone is very.

Yeah. Yeah. Although that's the only way I watch them, but I don't live alone. Yeah, but, exactly. So that noise, it could be your daughter's, just wandering around. Just wandering around in the middle.

You know what, I'll just watch our night vision camera to see what's going on up there. But yeah, there's, I know I've watched a couple of horror movies by myself and there's, I like to have the, wasn't that so scary or, you know, like a little bit of commentary with my wife while I'm doing it, but. When I went to see the substance, I saw that alone, but I saw it in a theater with other people.

But I sat in the back because I didn't want anyone to see me go, woo. I actually, I did see that, but that was like more gross than scary. Yeah. Body horror. Yeah. But I didn't know that going in. Right, that's true.

So when I chose my seat, I might go, whee. There was a guy that I was friends with like ages and ages ago, and I would go to movies with him explicitly because every twist got him like every time there was any kind of like you know in the score even music yeah there was a sting he did oh that's so funny they're just going to commercial oh what's you uh like what's your guys's most hated commercial in front of movies? Mine is the popcorn kernel guy.

Really? I hate them so much. Abby hates them too. I have no feelings for them one way or the other. I think I liked them back when they were a military unit, but now that they're just like hanging out as a group together. And one of them is Orville Redenbacher.

Is that right? Well, it's an old looking one with glasses and popcorn suspenders. You? Favorite, no, most hated? Most hated. Right now there's an ozempic one. I just asked. Yeah. Oh yeah. I hate that. Is that the music in it? Yeah, it's so happy. There's so many pharmaceutical commercials before movies now.

And the rules are different in Canada than they are for the States. So what can they, they can't say? They can say the name of it, but they can't say what it does. So it's just like, you ask your doctor for it, but it can lead on. I'm taking it too. Yeah, exactly.

And things are going fine. They should do where it's like everybody's got. I'm not gonna say it's very good. They should do where it's like everybody's- I'm not allowed to say it's very good. They should have one where everybody's got perfect teeth, right, and then one guy doesn't and you're like, oh, it's some sort of teeth medicine. I get it. Yeah, it's like actually a gum commercial.

Teeth medicine. The one I don't like is the commercial they do for the Robbie Williams monkey movie. No, I maintain that's a good looking movie. It's just so weird because he's like, maybe in England he's kind of like a legend, but here he's kind of like, he's got a couple good songs that we know, but he's not. He didn't cross over in the same way. I feel like he did more in Canada than in the States. Yeah, because we had, I mean, you're younger than us,

I'm pretty sure. But Graeme and I watched much music in the 90s and saw the video for Millennium. I remember, I was there. Yeah. I remember the rock DJ video. Yeah, the rock DJ went of course. Yeah, that was I was there. Yeah, I remember the the rock DJ Yeah, that was a good one, but like in the movie trailer He says it like some outdoor festival for the next hour and a half

It's what it's Neb worth what's that word the festival? Oh, what is that? I don't know. What is the one where you performed? What? I've never heard of that. I don't know. It was like a year or two ago I was Googling. I like to look up Robbie Williams facts. Like concert footage of bands. And I was watching him do Let Me Entertain You. Live from Nebworth.

He enters, you know, upside down in a straight jacket. Never shows him getting out of it. I don't know. He just hangs there the whole... Yeah. LAUGHS Um... I was actually, uh, I knew sort of of Robbie Williams,

but I didn't realize the impact until when I was 20, I lived in Australia, and I was, I hung out with a bunch of British people because I just hung out with other travelers and we did karaoke one night and someone sang angels and every person in the bar was singing every word except for me. I was like, what? Yeah, and like, yeah, he's fine, you know, like it's-

He's fine. He's fine. You see him take his skin off? Good bones. You know, like it's, he's fine. You see him take his skin off? Good bones. Now you lived in Australia for a while and you did a one person show about moving to Australia. I did. It was really, really funny.

Thank you. And you went, you moved because? I moved because I met an Australian man. Because I liked a boy. Just like Sabrina Carpenter. It ruins your life. Yeah, I was traveling in Thailand when I was 20 with some friends, I met an Australian man in a bar

and I was like, this is the guy I'm gonna marry. And we kept in touch for like six months and then I moved there to be with him And you went Thailand back to Canada them. Yeah, that's really yeah, and did he go back to Australia in between? So he was in Europe for like four months and then he went to Australia I was finding himself when I know when I have been traveling and met Australians They quite often because Australia is so remote, they will just, like, once they leave Australia,

they'll just go around the world until they get back to Australia. Yeah. It does seem like that. Yeah, I feel like everywhere you go, you can find an Australian. It's kind of like a block parent. You're like, just look for the closest Austrian.

Yeah, look for the helpers. Yeah, and it's funny, yeah, you went to Thailand and then Australia. I, for some reason, the other night watched the movie, Broke Down Palace. Have you ever seen that? No. Claire Danes. Yeah, and she's in Thailand. She meets an Australian and he plants drugs on her. Yeah.

Whoa. Yeah, she gets caught being a drug mule. Oh. Yeah. I always get it mixed up with beyond Rangoon. What's beyond Rangoon? Same thing? Well, I'm thinking of Beyond Rangoon.

The prego story. The Beyond Rangoon is a Patricia Arquette somewhere in the tropics, sweaty. Yeah, it was very sweaty, very like. Who's, is it Clare Danes and another actress? Yeah, sweaty. Yeah, it was very sweaty, very like. Who's, is it Claire Danes and another actress? Yeah, and she's, is maybe Kate Beckinsale or something like that. Hubba?

Uh. Hubba. Yeah. The movie is like the most cigarette smelling movie. Like I feel like everybody in there is just covered in mud and they're all smoking cigarettes. And Claire Danes, very ugly crier. Oh yeah.

Yeah. Oh yeah. Famously from Spy Show. Homeland. Homeland. Yes. Yeah. She, I never noticed it before, but she cries quite a bit in this film and I was like, huh.

She goes for it. Yeah. She does go for it. Have you watched Homeland? No. She goes for it. Yeah. She does go for it. Have you watched Homeland? No. Graham. Me neither. Well, people are telling Graham he needs to watch The American.

I always hear that I'm supposed to watch The American. But I think you gotta watch Homeland if you're gonna watch a spy show. But does she cry a lot in it? Cause I don't know if I can handle it. Oh yeah, she cries and listens to jazz and goes off her meds, man. That's the dream.

So how long did you live in Australia? He said it correct. It was a year, just about a year. There's a episode of the facts of life where the girls all go to Australia. But anytime in my family, anytime anyone mentions the country, we quote Tootie, who gets off the plane and goes, Hello Australia. And you live there a year. Yeah. What do you miss about it?

Oh, I. Not the boy. Yeah. Well, yeah, he I didn't I I spent maybe less than a week with him. Whoa. Oh, yeah. He dumped me right away. But I still stay.

Yeah. Were you like, I've already hung up my life at home, so I've just got to- Yeah. It was kind of like I wasn't going to college. I had no plans to go to college. And I had told everyone that I wanted to travel for a year, but I wanted to travel to Europe for a year. But I was like, well, I got this visa,

so I might as well stay. Yeah, and did you tool around in Australia to just stay in one spot? I stayed in one spot for like five months. And then I went up and down the East Coast. Coast I went up to Cannes which is Cairns Thank you as far north as I went and then I went down to Melbourne, Melbourne, yeah, which is Canberra Well, so you saw this guy you like, I'm gonna marry this guy. And he was like, he saw you and he's like,

you call that a wife? That's not a wife. Nice, good work, Dave. Yeah, that's good. But yeah, he was, it turned out he was a total jag. Yeah, exactly. He led me on via Facebook Messenger. Oh, they always do.

Yeah. And yeah, but what do I miss most? I don't know, it was the first time I'd ever lived anywhere except where I grew up, so it was kind of cool, just, I don't know. It is, it's cool just to be away and you're like, I can invent my, I can be a whole new person here. Yeah.

I've got a whole new persona. Yeah. And then. And remind me where you grew up. Kamloops. Kamloops. Kamloops. The loops. We, you were on during our Zoom era

and a lot of that washed over. It's a blur. Have you done standup in Kamloops since you've been doing? I have. At the bowling alley? No, that place is gone now. No way! Yeah.

I thought it was just like one of the, one of the heart of Kamloops. Yeah, it was. It's devastating. When they knock down a bowling alley, do they attach a bowling ball to the wrecking ball? Yeah. And then also it's usually in the contract that you can build condos here, but the main floor still has to be built. It's like a soil remediation that has to do after a gas station gets torn down.

But yeah, that was, I feel like that was the first time I played in Kamloops was at the bowling alley. Yeah, the bar attached to the bowling alley. It was called the Dirty Jersey. Dirty Jersey, yes. It's gone, I can't believe it's gone. Yeah, I performed It's gone, I can't believe it's gone. Yeah, I performed at weirdly the movie theater. Oh yeah.

The independent movie theater there now. There's like a Cineplex there, but then there's this kind of old rundown theater, but they've actually restored it and now they do comedy there sometimes. Well we've done nice. The Rio here is a movie theater that does comedy. Oh, that's true.

And the Hollywood also does like shows. Do they even do movies anymore at the Hollywood? I don't know. I haven't. That's where I saw Clueless. Oh, really? For the first time. Nice.

Yeah, in a second-run theater. It was, you know, 1996 still or whatever. There used to be a theater called, was it the Dolphin Theater? On commercial? Yeah. I'm trying to think of the movie, it might've been Broke Down Palace,

I'm trying to think of the movie, the one movie I saw there. I saw Hot Fuzz there maybe. Oh sure. This is interesting. Um. But we all know. You're talking about what used to be a movie.

And what movies you saw there. Well there's an Instagram I follow called Old Vancouver. Oh yeah. That showed a picture of the Capital Six movie theater on the Granville. And they stood there. Wasn't there, there was a Capital Six and then the other one was called the Granville Seven.

The Granville Seven across the street. And they posted a picture. Hey, what movies do you remember seeing here? So many people were like, just naming movies. Beyond Rangoon. Yeah, who cares? I'll tell you what I saw there. I don't know, 50 movies?

Yeah, yeah. It's, there was like, they're similar in Calgary. There's like the old theater that if you wanted to see any kind of indie movie, that was the theater you had to go to. Totally. But then it fell into like total disrepair. Now it's been restored,

but I remember doing a comedy show there like five or six years ago and it was awful. The theater had just like, like it wasn't a romantic old, it was just like tiles were missing. So if you own a movie theater, now I'm asking you as an expert, you've been to Australia, do you, nowadays, you don't need reels.

If you wanna show the whatever 35 millimeter cut of a movie, you do, but. Yeah, I think, don't you, for IMAX, the Sterling machine that. But if you have an independent theater, do they just, you know, text you? They text you the file? This is actually, I worked at movie theaters.

I worked at Cineplex for a long time. And then I worked at a movie theater in Australia. Really? Okay, so you are an expert. I weirdly, I was a projectionist. Were you really? I had to do the film, and then I was working at Cineplex in Kamloops

when they replaced all the projectors with digital. So they'd send you it, you'd download it from a little USB. And yeah. Not quite as fun as stringing it. Wow, it's just that simple now. It sucked. Yeah, like when you were using the actual film,

like what did you, aside from putting it in the projector, like what else did you have to stitch things together? Yeah, so they send it to you in like these big canisters that are so heavy and it's one movie, a two hour movie is like six to eight reels. And then you put them all together. Tyler Durden taught me that. Yeah.

Yeah, but it's not, so like that was kind of in Fight Club. It's like the old style where you have to like be watching and switch the reels quickly. But then there was like a more modern projector where you build the reels into one giant reel. That's like, I don't know. You can't see if you're listening. It's like yay big. Yeah. And this, it see if you're listening. With a listener, it's like yay big.

Yeah. And this, it's not. And it's on a big platter. Yeah, it's like horizontal. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And then you put it through the projector and it goes onto another big platter and then you just hit play.

Nice. But it was cool. Did it ever break? Did you ever have a? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, once in inception, it was. And were people like, this is part of this?

Yeah, people didn't know. But it stopped. Sometimes if you just didn't do it right or it was too tight somewhere, it would just stop and it burned once. Oh, wow. Yeah. It got stuck and then it burned a hole in that little tiny part. I've always wanted to see that in a movie.

Yeah, it looks like the screen's on fire. Yeah. Oh, that's so cool that you got to be a projectionist. It was so cool. Yeah, because now that's the last of that era. Now it's all digital. Were people like the Crocodile Dundee, was it still running when you were there?

Yeah, it just runs. Yeah, once a week we'd play Crocodile Dundee. I remember, I used to work with an Australian woman and I was like, speaking of Claire Danes, we were talking about the Baz Luhrmann, Romeo and Juliet. Oh yeah. And I was like, I don't really like Baz Luhrmann. And she was like shocked and offended. How could you not like Baz Luhrmann? I don't know, it's just so loud and cacophonous.

He is not. You're like, move on, Rouge. I guess I did. I didn't see it. Well, yeah, no, I guess I did like that. I watched a documentary about Australian cinema and they don't mention Crocodile Dundee once in it. For Canadian cinema, we don't really Crocodile Dundee once in it.

For Canadian cinema, we don't really talk about Dudley Do-Right. Yeah, yeah. Although sadly, it's one of our best. What do we talk about, Men with Brooms? We talk about like the saddest films in the world, like The Sweetest Music in the World. The Sweetest Music in the World, Hereafter.

Oh, yeah. You know, a lot of like indie, frozen looking kind of films. Like, could you name, yeah. You know, a lot of like indie frozen looking kind of films. Like, could you name, if you had to, could you name seven Canadian films? Well, I mean, yes. Okay, go for it. Sweet Hereafter.

Yeah. Well, what makes it a Canadian film? Is it like made in Canada and- Cause there's so, like there's things that are made in Canada, but aren't Canadian. Not, no, nothing where it's like, Canada to stand again for New York or Washington or anything. Would you consider Juno a Canadian movie?

Yeah. Two Canadian stars shot in Vancouver, Canadian son of a Canadian director. Yeah, yeah, I know I say that counts, Juno counts. Well then would you count? Dracula? The red violin. Yep, Gino counts. Well then, would you count? Dracula? The red violin. Yep, red violin counts.

Can I just name Adam Maguire movies? That's fair play. Exotica? Yeah. What about Cronenberg movies? How many of those count? His early stuff was all in Canada. I think everything from the fly on was probably not in Canada.

Crash is, it's got that bald guy who's Canadian. John Luke Picard. Isn't the Dune director Canadian? Yep. Denis Villeneuve. But I wouldn't count, maybe his first, his like French language movie. Yeah, that would count.

Oh, if we're doing French language movies, I can name so many. Bucky Boutine. You're making this up. What does he say, Bucket, Poutine? The war of the tucks. Louis XIX. No, that might be French, France, French. What's the one about Florida?

Is it just like, La Floride? Well, that's about fluoride. What is your favorite Canadian film? If I put you on the spot. Favorite Canadian film. I can name Graves. Yeah. Go ahead.

Hardcore logo. I love hardcore logo. Yeah, it was the exact right time for that movie to come out. It was a movie about a punk band. Oh, okay. And I was like 16 and I loved punk music and I was like, this is it, man. Ginger snaps. Ginger snaps band. Oh, okay. And I was like 16 and I loved punk music and I was like, this is it, man.

Oh, Ginger Snaps, Ginger Snaps too. Oh, nice. Nice, Wolf Cop you could have said. Fun Cop, Bad Cop. Fun Cop, Bad Cop. Take This Waltz. Oh, sure. So sad.

Yeah, that's one of the saddest ones. That's a good one. Is Take This Waltz and then what was the other one that had Seth Rogen and Michelle Williams in it? Isn't that, that's what I was thinking. Oh, that's what you think. What's the one about the guy who has Alzheimer's and his wife's visiting him.

It's not the Sweet Hair After, it's not Take This Waltz. It's not Beginners. It's not Beginners. Another Sarah Pauli one. Yeah, yeah, it was the Sarah Pauli one. And it's so sad. Yeah. Well, listeners out there, imagine looking up thisi one. Yeah, yeah, it was the Sarah Pauli one. And it's so sad. Yeah. Well, listeners out there,

imagine looking up this thing and being like, yeah. I was listening to CBC radio the other day and they were playing D-Light, Grooves in the Heart by D-Light. And the song ended, pew! And the announcer goes, yeah, that was Grooves in the Heart by D-Light and the song ended. Pew! And the announcer goes, yeah, that was, Grooves in the Heart by D-Light came out in 1990,

the same year as Road to Avonlea and Nelson Mandela was released from prison. Those were the big three that year. And what I didn't realize was before the song, they did like a guess the year game. Yeah, they played grooves in the heart when Nelson Mandela was released. It came out in 1990, the year the Sinbad movie Kazam came out and Nelson Mandela died in prison. That's right. Yeah, it's tough, it's tough to find a Canadian movie, because we don't really let them play.

We just named 20. Well, you made up a bunch of French ones. Bucky Boutine? Yeah, what was the movie that you had to watch the most as a projectionist? What had the longest run? Avatar, I guess. Oh, sure.

Yeah. That was in theaters for six months, I feel like. Did you ever watch it with 3D glasses up in the booth? Yeah. I didn't get to be up there a lot. Oh, that sucks. Yeah. What was your favorite job there? Like popcorn? Yeah, I didn't get to be up there a lot. Oh, that sucks. Yeah, they would. What was your favorite job there? Like popcorn?

Popcorn as a job? I mean, Projectionist was the best because you would kind of be like, you would be up upstairs in the booth a lot. But they often would be like, hey, we know once you hit start on these movies that there's no work for you to do up there, so come help us.

Right, yeah. Is there anything like culturally different about movies down there? Oh, yeah. In Australia, they don't really eat popcorn. There was a very small popcorn popper, but people mostly eat ice cream, choc tops. Oh, is that like a drumstick kind of thing? Yeah, we had to make them ourselves. but people mostly eat ice cream, choc tops. Oh. Oh, is that like a drumstick kind of thing? Yeah, we had to make them ourselves.

We would scoop the ice cream onto a cone and then dip it, it's like a dipped cone. Huh. That just seems like, I mean, I'm the wrong person to ask because I eat my popcorn in the first five minutes, but I feel like that's something you have to eat right away. You don't really get to enjoy it during the movie. Yeah.

It's like when I did a tour of the UK at intermission, people would go out and everybody after the show was all like, after intermission, we're all looking. Yeah. Yeah. When I went to Europe in 2002, there were intermissions. Yeah. Everything had an intermission and it was ice cream time. Yeah.

Yeah. Love that. It's, and it was ice cream time. Yeah. Love that. And it's like, you know, like how popcorn is like the loudest possible snack that you could have. If you listen to a whole theater, people are like. Yeah. That's, I mean, the fact that popcorn and movies

go together over here, I don't know why that's. Yeah, it's just that we're used to it, but when you think about it, yeah, it's like, it's really loud. Yeah, and you're right, like I, man, I burned through a bucket of popcorn like that. Oh yeah, same. I like to put my M&Ms in it.

Yeah. Oh, that's good. Some people put Skittles in it. I know, right? We're all disgusted. Yeah. I didn't do M We're all disgusted. Yeah. I didn't do M&Ms till I was 30. I only thought of it because of- Erica Zygertzen told you?

She taught me. That's what she taught me. The only time that it occurred to me was watching the movie Whiplash. And, because the Paul Reiser, it plays the dad and him and his son like go to a movie theater and they pour a bunch of, I think it was Reese's Pieces,

but then they turn it upside down to make sure it was evenly distributed. This was a big revelation to me. My kids are divided about it. About having the M&Ms? Yeah, so they both like M&Ms, but only one wants them in the popcorn and I'm like, I love them.

Then I guess nobody gets it. It's fun. It's fun to dig around and try and grab an M&Ms, but only one wants them in the popcorn. And I'm like, I love that. Then I guess nobody gets it. It's fun. It's like fun to dig around and try and grab an M&M. If the movie gets boring, you can. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Going to hunt? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

That's cool. I always, that's one of the kind of teenage jobs I never got to do was movie theater. Oh, yeah. Much later in my adulthood, I got to work at a video store and I was like. Oh, that would be fun. It was fun, yeah.

What are the big teenage jobs? Lifeguard. Lifeguard, oh my God, yeah. Well, I mean babysitter, but I mean jobs where you go to a workplace. I mean a lot of people are like. Amusement park is a dream job. Yeah.

Do you ever work in an amusement park? No. I got to the Stampede in Cal. Do you ever work in an amusement park? No. I got you the stampede in Calgary. Okay. Giant amusement park. Yeah. And still miss that smell. Barbecue and popcorn everywhere you went.

Yeah, amusement park. I mean restaurant. I think you would be a. Sure. You know, busser or something like that. I was going to say busker. The scrub is also known as a busser. Yeah like that. I was going to say busker. The scrub is also known as a busser. Yeah, that's correct.

Well, yeah. And so you moved to Australia for a year, and then do you move right to Vancouver? No, I moved back to Kamloops for probably four years. Do you remember if we talked about any of this when you were on last time? I don't think so. I just remember it was like, oh yeah, I can ask her about the one person show. Yeah, because I hadn't done that at that point.

Like how did you find doing a one person, because it's different than stand up. Yeah, completely, because I wrote a full narrative hour, which is way different than just doing stand up 10 minutes at a time in a bar where no one wants to see you. Oh, can you imagine doing a one person show in a bar? Turn off the TV guys.

Didn't you do it at the Winnipeg Fringe basically? Yeah, but that's people buy tickets for the show. But it's a bar. It's a one person show in a bar. No, no, it was in a theater. Oh, I thought you were like we Johnny's or whatever. Oh we Johnny's. Yeah, well, that's right I wasn't a Johnny's for a couple years and that was a bar, but it was dedicated So it wasn't like they had the right Split some more hairs Well, do you remember when we did a live podcast at a bar we we sold it out in Calgary and they wouldn't turn off the TVs?

No. Yeah. Terrible. That's a real piece of Canadian show biz right there. Yeah. Have you ever after show help put chairs away? Has that ever happened to you at a stand up scenario? Oh, yeah.

Of course. Yeah. A lot of shows over everybody. Time to clean the venue. A lot of shows over everybody. Time to clean the bed. You're ringing out saying at a wrestling thing, you have to put chairs away, you have to get them out of the wrestler's hands because they're just smashing each other. Do they do any chair stuff in the?

Sometimes. Yeah, because I feel like it's... They don't do anything... They don't do any barbed wire or anything like that. I know like it's they don't do anything. They don't do any barbed wire or anything like that I know that's not yeah, they they've done like some like hardcore stuff But I think they want to keep it like kind of kid-friendly. Yeah. Yeah. Well kids gotta learn about hardcore. Yeah, that's true I watched wrestling as a kid. I was very inappropriate when I would like I Would watch WWF as a kid the World Wildlife Fund and It's very inappropriate. When I would like, I would watch WWF as a kid, the World Wildlife Fund. And the, but then my brother would sometimes get

wrestling magazines and they would have like, on WWF there was no blood, but in the magazines there was blood and I was disturbed by it. Yeah, cause it's weird to see, like cause wrestling when we were young was more cartoony. Well, and I watched the wrestling cartoon. Oh yeah, yeah.

Rock and wrestling. Yeah. The era you watched was, I'm guessing, Stone Cold Steve Austin, et cetera. Attitude era. Yeah, you shouldn't have been watching that. He's drinking beer all over the place. He's swearing.

I just was talking about this. One of my favorite guys when I was like 10 years old was the godfather who his whole thing was he's a pimp. He was a pimp, that's right. And he would come out with his hose. It was like a garden hose. And it was like this garden hose. And it was, they would, it was like, this is a group of like 10 ladies who always just looked like they were having so much fun.

It was the Ho Train. The Ho Train. I do remember the Ho Train. And I was like, oh, that looks, I like this guy. He wears bright colors and these ladies are dancing. Yeah. It was a great time. Mom, can I be part of the Ho Train?

I wanna be a hoe. There was such a weird like resurgence in pimp culture in the early 2000s. Yeah, very popular Halloween costume. And just to like, that's so pimp. Yeah. Pimp my ride. My ride, we pimped rides back in the day. Now we don't say that, we say sex worker my ride.

You consider a p him a sex worker? I mean, he's in the trades, he's in the industry. He reads a different part of the newspaper. But yeah, that was like when I was a kid, you know, there was a guy called Tugboat, that was a wrestler and he was just like a guy dressed like a sailor, so that's how silly the era. But then as an adult, I didn't, there was some gap of time where this extreme

wrestling took over and it was barbed wire and big thing is smashing fluorescent lights over each other's heads. Cause it does explode. It's very satisfying, but also they do that in like, I don't know, knocked up or the 40 year old Virgin. Oh yeah. Yeah. they're just like smashing them Yeah, oh, they're so fun to smash and make a loud sound. Yeah, they make a big pop These guys they're like like meatloaf at the end of this thing

They're just all cut up and I'm like they probably made I am I cleared like 50 bucks Me love the singer? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you imagine? In fight, he's in fight club. Like at the end of a concert, he does not look good. Especially now. But he leaves it all out there on stage,

which is what you expect from these wrestlers. I love, Katie Allen Humphreys has a joke about people who can't figure out pronouns and she's like, all the people from your era were fine calling a guy meatloaf. Yeah. I think if I was a wrestler, I would be like meatloaf. Yeah.

I would always have a hanky. Yeah, your whole thing is you could be sweaty and then at the end of the match, you just sweat on top of your butt. Yeah, I think I love the idea of coming up with wrestler gimmicks, but I would not wanna do it. Yeah, oh, especially if you're given a gimmick that sucks. Like, right?

Cause you, I think in like WDF, you've just handed a gimmick. Yeah, I think so. What? There's writers. Yeah, there's writers. Oh right to be a writer for wrestling. It's usually one of those teenage jobs. What are you doing this summer? Well, I'm writing an arc for the Undertaker. For the Ho Train.

Yeah. Yeah. I remember watching wrestling was on TV in a laundromat and it was that guy and the Ho Train. The only people in the laundromat were me and a nun. And we were just smilingly sitting there like, here comes the Ho Train. I was warned about this. That's what she's thinking.

Dave, what's going on with you, my friend? I was warned about this. That's what she's thinking. Dave, what's going on with you, my friend? Oh, well, I got a great story for you. Oh, good. No, not really. But I did, it does relate to what we were just talking about. This past weekend, I went to Gladiator Two. Gladiator Two. The Revenge.

Yeah. Did you, have you both seen Gladiator 1? Yes. Yeah, just recently for the first time. Oh really? Tell me about it. What led to this decision? Well, the, I don't know if you know, a sequel came out.

So my friend really wanted to go and I was like, I like all the actors in it. Oh, was playing somewhere? No, I just, what led to this decision of watching the first Gladiator movie? Yeah, sorry, I just, I thought you meant, you wanted to go to the first one. Anyway, okay. No, I just was like, I should watch the first one first. And then I did Alone at Home,

and I was kind of bored throughout it. Yeah, it would be, it's epic. It should be up on a screen instead of a small, yeah. Did you, have you since seen the second one? Yes. Okay. I saw it as well. Oh my, yeah!

This is a fun thing. I sent a message to G and I was like, you haven't seen Gladier 2, have you? I was like, oh, you should, because then we can all talk about it on the podcast. You said to who? Gina. Oh, okay.

Our guest. I thought you said, I said to Mesh-a-Gee. Good listener, go back. Prove him wrong. Okay, so, well then this will be great. Cause I saw Gladiator One, I don't know, 10 times in the theater. You love it.

Whoa, okay. Abby loves it. Okay. I saw it in the theater a few times. I saw it at the Dunbar Theater first. Did you see it at the Capital Six? I don't think I saw it at the Capital Six. Capital Seven? I saw it. I saw it in the theater a few times. I saw it at the Dunbar Theater first. Did you see it at Capital Six? I don't think I saw it at Capital Six. Capital Seven?

I saw it. Dolphin? Maybe I saw it at University Heights and Cinecenta in Victoria. Ooh. No, maybe I saw it in theater three or four times. Yeah, I only ever saw it on the small screen. I never went to the theater for it. And Abby loves it.

Like the year it came out, her family went crazy for Gladiator. They cut out pictures, they got magazines that had Rutherald Crowe's head in them, her and Sheila. And they would just like put his head on family photos. Yeah, I remember you having like having a framed photo. We do still have a framed photo of him and Jiman Hunsu.

Nice. And so, yeah, so big fan of Gladiator. I don't know that it's good. I think it's probably. I mean, at the time it was won Oscars and stuff like that. It won best picture. He won best actor. That was shocking to me.

I looked that up after I watched it and I was like, what? What did it be? Oh, I didn't see. Let's look it up. Now we need to me. I looked that up after I watched it and I was like, what? What did it be? Oh, I didn't see. Let's look it up. Now we need to know. Yeah. Year 2000 or 2001. 2000, yeah.

Yeah. 2000 and I was the same. I was shocked when I found out that it was Best Picture. I was like, what the? I'm like, it was good. But it's also like the Oscars, it feels like to me it's just like a big action movie. Yeah, it's an action movie.

Oscars usually don't give out best picture to an action movie. They should though, they should at least consider it. They should, honestly. Oh, I think I want the 2001 Oscars. Oh. Right. And yeah, it's Ridley Scott, who I thought was a, he's a famous great director,

but everything he makes isn't very good like you made Alien and Blade Runner and Thelma and Louise but then he but everything else is like I made gladiator he made gladiator but then he's made in the last few years he made that, the Gucci movie. The Gucci movie was great. Are you not entertained? I was entertained. The one with, where they replaced Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer, all the money in the world.

All the money in the world, right. He was like, yeah, no problem. Like, I'll just replace him with this actor. Like, it'll take two weeks. Yeah. But after they'd shot the whole movie, I was like, that's not how you make a movie. Like.

Well, I mean, I don't think you have a choice. But like, it just, the whole, that one felt very much like, well, you know, we didn't build sets anyway. We're gonna have to go hard disagree on Ridley Scott is not a good director, I think. Okay, what we're gonna say. Yeah, does, does make, I feel like making those, like first four that you mentioned, cancels out the bad ones. Yeah, like I think. Okay, well I'm gonna say. Yeah, does make, I feel like making those like first four

that you mentioned cancels out the bad ones. Yeah, like I think- Like those are extra great. Lifetime pass. Yeah. So it beat out Chocolat. Ooh. That's crazy. That's- To your team Chocolat.

I'm team Chocolat. Really? Sorry. Really? I think that's probably the least of the... Gotta watch it again. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Oh yeah, sure. Yeah.

Aaron Borkovich. Oh, Aaron Borkovich, okay. And Traffic. And didn't Julia Roberts win for best actor? Yes, she did. And Russell Crowe beat out Heavier Bardem for Before Night Falls. Never heard of it. Did Julia Roberts win for best actor? Yes, she did. Okay. And Russell Crowe beat out heavier Bardem for Before Night Falls.

Didn't they? Never heard of it. Tom Hanks in Cast Away. Oh yeah, I mean, Tom Hanks deserved it because he like, he did a whole body change. That's another thing, like Russell Crowe in Gladiator, I was like, he's not doing much. Yeah.

Well, they say he won it because he was supposed to win it for the insider. Oh, one of those. Yeah. And then Ed Harris and Pollock and Jeffrey Rush in Quills. I've seen Pollock. I like Pollock. I've never seen Quills. Is that Marquis de Sade? Yeah. He played the Marquis de Sade. Wow. Okay. So, Gladiator beat out some real contenders that year. And he-

Well, now I just want to know what other movies really scum it. What's he been up to? Okay, Napoleon. Yeah, I've never seen it, but- House of Gucci. Have you seen it? No, it doesn't appeal to me. House of Gucci is so over the top that it's really, really fun.

The Martian, the Martian's good. Martian's good. Exodus, Gods and Kings. Don't know. Prometheus, Robin Hood. He does love his Russell Crowe. That was a bad Robin Hood movie. Body of Lies, is that Russell Crowe?

Yeah, it is. Oh, wow. American Gangster, that's Russell Crowe. American Gangster, that was good. It was good. A Good Year, that's Russell Crowe. Wow gangster, that was good. It was good. A good year, that's Russell Crowe. Wow, okay, so this is Johnny Depp to his paper. Kingdom of Heaven, that's Orlando Bloom as a crusader.

Matchstick men, that wasn't bad. Yeah, I like matchstick men. Black Hawk Down, people love Black Hawk Down. Is that Josh Harnett? Yeah, Hannibal's bad. G.I. Jane. Oh, G.I. Jane. I watched that for the first time last year.

You know what? It's pretty good. It's pretty good. Yeah. And it was like the first of a like, where she's a superstar and she shaves her head. Yeah. And then 20 years later, Chris Rock brought it up and got slapped

for it. So, well, he should have got Ridley Scott's fall. That's on you, Rid. 1492 Conquest of Peridot, Black Rain, Legend. He's fine. He's fine. I was too hard on Rid. But like, if it's okay. so one of the things about the sequel is it starts out with clips from the original. Yeah. Which if you're someone who hasn't seen the original or has only seen it once and was bored by it,

then maybe that's helpful. Yeah. I mean, like, this sequel came out, it's like 24 years. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. So, I mean, I guess the first one ends pretty conclusively. Yes.

Yeah. Spoiler, he dies. He dies. Boy, he walks in that tall grass on his way to Elysium. He dies of Lyme disease, because there's a tick in the grass. And he- Very disappointing death. Yeah. Overall in the grass. Very disappointing death overall in the movie.

Yeah, he's like, ugh, just malaise. I'm just tired all the time. Yeah, and yeah, he kills Joaquin Phoenix. Right. But then you see, so in this new movie, I don't think we're gonna spoil anything. Well, you know what? Fair play. Spoilers ahead.

Spoiler alert, spoilers ahead, zip ahead, you know, 10 or 15 minutes, because we're gonna lay out the whole movie. We're going for it. Yeah, as I said, I don't think we're gonna spoil anything. Oh, I see. It's got Paul Mezcal,

who's sort of like a smoky tequila. He's from something? Is he something that somebody I should know? He's from a horny Irish TV show. Yeah. Oh, okay. Normal people. Normal people, okay.

This is somebody you knew before going into the film? I knew, but I didn't watch it. I've actually never seen anything else he's been in. Me neither, but I know the internet, women of the internet are so horny for this guy. He's an internet boyfriend. Yeah, and he's hunky. He's a hunk.

He looks like a Roman bust. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got strong, strong chin, strong, just generally strong face, strong body. He's strong, he's a strong guy. And I guess, like the thing is, it kind of follows the same plot as Gladiator One.

I would say pretty much exactly. Yeah. Yeah. They kind of, okay, well, so I went there, you went to the same theater I did, I assume. Last time you went to that theater, the pop machine wasn't working? Yeah. The freestyle machine?

No, they got old school. They have to port it in. It was. Oh, and what and what and they said, you said, Can I bring in my own drink? Yeah, Sally said, Can we just go get our own drinks? And he was like, Yeah, nobody cares anymore. So yeah, it was pretty. So I go this time, it's a matinee performance, and get their popcorn machine not working. Oh, that's huge. Yeah, you can't go to another place and get popcorn. Get some smart food, maybe.

And so... Boomchica, was that like that? Boomchica pop. Yeah. Some vegan popcorn. And they... No, give me the meat popcorn. Yeah, just get what you could... Give me monkey brain popcorn. And they, no, give me the meat popcorn. Yeah, just get what you could.

Give me monkey brain popcorn. Boom chick pop and then brought it to the theater, like load this up with butter. Yeah, is the butter machine still working? Well, sure, sir. Yeah. We can just give you a cup of butter if you like. So I go, I order and I say, oh, I'm in line and they say, oh, the popcorn machine's not working

and there's a guy fixing it. So there's a hope that it'll be working. They have a person with like a polo shirt from the popcorn company. Wow. Like an outsider is there with his tools to fix it. And that like the previews with the popcorn guys, he must like, that's his whole thing, right? The little kernels.

Oh, sure. He did come in during the previews and I saw a bulge in his pants. Yeah, yeah. He was panting in the back of the... And so I didn't get anything because I was like, you know what, I'm just gonna keep an eye out. They'll be ready. I'm, you know, they're gonna be 20 minutes of credits or of previews. But when the previews are done, the popcorn machine is gonna be buzzing.

I'll go, I'll get my popcorn right as the movie's starting. So I'm watching the previews. I'm keeping an eye out to see other people entering the theater. Are they carrying popcorn? So you're preoccupied. I'm preoccupied. Oh boy am am I no one's bringing in popcorn shit I I had like a I had like a one hour from when I sit down if there's no

this movie two and a half hours long plus 20 minutes of previews yeah if I'm an hour in if if no matter what I'm getting something. Yeah. But I keep watching. I, you know, every five minutes someone is getting up and going, and then returning empty handed. Yeah. Yeah. And it is long.

Like it's usually I don't have to go to the bathroom during a movie, but this was, and it was during a scene that no information had transpired it was just a lot of oh what scene did you go was it jerk was it when I when I came back it was the beginning of the where there was water in the oh that was cool that was cool that was cool okay so whatever was before that I missed so no I missed Pedro Pascal and his wife talking about something which I think was a pretty good time to miss yeah anyway so no one So whatever was before that I missed. So I missed Pedro Pascal and his wife talking about something, which I think was a pretty good time to miss.

Anyway, so no one coming in with popcorn. An hour in, I go out, I still know popcorn and I just get M&M's and pop. There you go. And I bet Abby's gonna see the movie at 6.15 and I'm gonna have to warn her. We took shifts to see the movie. And popcorn for her?

Popcorn as I was leaving the theater. No, they should have given you a free bag. Everybody gets a free bag of popcorn on their way. That's what caused this problem in the first place. Anyway, so popcorn disaster. Yeah, good Lord. When I went popcorn fine. So to fountain fine. Everything was fine. Did you go somewhere with the Pick Your Own Pop? Yes. I didn't actually get anything, but I saw it in IMAX. Oh, nice. Oh, shit. So, like on a grand scale.

Huge, huge screen. Yeah. Did it feel like, it didn't feel like, I think Gladiator probably, if you saw it on the big screen, felt like quite epic. This one just felt like an X-Men movie would have been the same. Well, it felt like when I saw the first one, it was, you know, CGI was not good yet. And so there were like little bits of like,

okay, that Colosseum looks like a screen saver. But there's like a fight with tigers and they used real tigers and they kind of like, you know, they're not really in the same place as the tigers, but they did it really well. And here they had, they overloaded you on fights with CGI animals. The baboons were so poorly animated that I was like, is this a dream? It was upsetting.

The baboon scene was so scary. Yeah. He fights a baboon and he intimidates it by acting like a baboon. And he bites the baboon. He bites the baboon. Like takes a bite out of the baboon. Yeah and then everybody's making fun of him for it after. Also the baboons are killing these guys. They're killing, yeah. This guy bites a baboon and the camera pans up. There's like 20 other baboons there and they've all been defeated as well. Like no way everyone bit a baboon.

And I like, there was, I can't remember if it was that fight or the rhino fight, but he like says like, okay, we'll do this, like you take that side. And the guy's like, what, I gotta listen to you. And he dies pretty quick. Well, in the first movie, he's a general. And so there, everyone listens to him because he knows how to fight like,

or organize battles or whatever. And this one, he's just a guy who got captured. It makes no sense. Yeah. And so like, and then he's so, they do this big battle, this big fight in the Colosseum, which they've filled with salt water, apparently somehow, and sharks. Sharks, yeah. How do they transport the sharks there?

I had such a dumb- From their shark tanks. I was watching it like, oh, they actually do that? They did actually fill the Coliseum with water and get those. But not sharks. Not sharks. Oh. As far as I know, as far as I know. How do they make it? You're probably right. You're probably right. They have like aqueducts they go into. Oh, they had aqueducts. But it was, that's one of the things they do, like recreate famous naval battles. Yeah, me getting the lint out of my navel. That's the biggest battle I've ever, shut up.

And yeah, so they do a shark one, hated it. Also before the shark fight, like he's training, Gladiator is training. Oh, he's training to row. To row, he doesn't do any rowing in the shark battle. Yeah, and it was like a punishment for him to just like have to row all day and all night. Gently down the stream. No, on land, he was on dry land.

No stream. And the, much like the first movie, there's a couple of, there's two fancy royalty. There was just a walking phoenix in the first one. This one has two. Oh yeah. Two freaky emperors. And I- Who are just evil for evil's sake. royalty there was just a walking Phoenix in the first one this one oh yeah to reiki emperors and I just evil for evil sake yeah and I after the movie I was I was convinced that it was like Lindsay Lohan you know parent trap style I

thought it was the same actor yeah the one who the shorter one I recognized from white lotus oh sure the taller ones and stranger things okay Yeah, the one who the shorter one I recognized from White Lotus. Oh sure The taller ones in stranger things. Okay. Oh, okay. Yeah, I thought they were the same guy So it shows you how close I am then so they're the bad guys and then Denzel Denzel oh, he's actually the bad guy. Yeah. Yeah, and he has the best line of the whole movie Which I don't know if you guys are going got nothing on me. No, and he has the best line of the whole movie, which I don't know if you guys picked up. Bing Kong ain't got nothing on me. No, he goes, that's politics.

He is really good. I laughed so hard at that. And also, when one of the twin emperors is talking about how he remembers his brother trying to eat him in the womb, and Denzel goes, you remember that, do you? I just died. It was Denzel Washington's movie. He is so good. He's so good and he's so over the top. You know, it was fine. It was not the best picture. But it should have just, the whole movie should have been

about Denzel Washington's character. He was great. Yeah, and Pedro Pascal is zaddy. Yeah, and originally he's the bad guy, but then he kind of turns into a bit of a good guy. But he's a sad guy. Yeah, and he gets, he gets bow and arrow today. Okay.

But that's, they couldn't have Gladiator kill him Yeah, and he gets, he gets bow and arrow today. Okay. But that's, you know, they couldn't have gladiator kill him because they kind of become buds at the end there. Right. Right? He's not going to kill him. And the guy, though, sorry, the woman who plays his wife, who was the love interest of gladiator one.

Yeah. And the sister of Joaquin Phoenix. I haven't seen her since the first one. Yeah. And the sister of Joaquin Phoenix. I haven't seen her like it since the first movie. Yeah, I don't know who she is. But I was also like, when they first showed her shooing away the child or whatever. Sally turned to me was like, he's the guy he turns into the guy that's the gladiator guy. And it was like, we don't need it. I don't know why that was. It made no sense. Yeah. It made no sense and it was like, why?

Okay, so are we spoiling it now? Oh, we've been spoiling it. I know, but like who, the identity of this gladiator boy? He's connected to the first film, let's say. Right. I mean, just fast forward a minute if you don't want us to spoil it. He's the boy from the first movie. Right. I mean, just fast forward a minute if you don't want us to spoil it. He's the boy from the first movie.

Yeah. Who was the worst part of the first movie? Are you the one they call the Spaniard? He is such a wimpy little boy. And it's like, but like we know the connection between gladiator and this movie. Gladiators. Yeah Like I didn't I don't know and there's a lot there's a dream that is a Rome Marcus really had a dream. It was Rome

Yeah, and there was There was enough stuff that I didn't recall from the first one that I was like I don't know if they're doubling up on this but I had just watched the first one the previous night So I was like did I miss something? But because I was like there I didn't feel like Russell Crowe and that girl really had much Together and apparently he maybe is the father of this boy Yeah, and then I'm like well, he had his own son who died. So did he cheat on his wife? Who he? Yeah.

Oh yeah. And his wife moaned, as they say in the first movie, when the soldiers came and ransacked their house, she moaned like a sex worker. Oh Jesus Christ. They say it in the movie. That was a movie that came out in 2000, all right? That was a long time ago.

Well, yeah, they're calling Russell Crowe the Spaniard. Yeah. Oh, huh. Also, they find his old armor from Gladiator One with his two lions or something. No, they're horses. Oh, they're horses. Scarto and Argento.

And, but they don't have, like, and so gladiator wears this famous armor, but not the famous helmet. No, he doesn't wear the helmet. And also, it didn't fit him all that well. I found that because it kind of was kind of pushing up on him. And I was like, did they use the original prop thing of this and just made him squeeze it to the hard rock cafe and take it off the wall? But yeah, once that plotline came up, I was like,

what the hell? Like, oh, so I do care about this. Oh yeah, no, yeah, this is the emotional core of the film. And you know, he's a good gladiator. He's one of the best that they've ever seen. Probably not as good as, what is his name? Maximus. Yeah, I-

Husband to a murdered wife, father to a murdered child, son. And then, like, I didn't remember the, whatever, Wheatfield thing, and that's the last thing they show. And I'm like, what? I was like, call back to another movie. Yeah, well, no, that movie. Gladiator. Yeah, But it's like, it's all callbacks to gladiator. Like that was the last thing in the film. I was like, oh, is that, that wasn't part of this movie.

It was part of the other. When you die, you go to a little, you go through the Elysian fields and you rub your hand on the wheat and a woman sings. Yeah, okay. But he doesn't die at the end. So why is he in Elysium? Does he not? No. I forget how it ended. He's like, we're gonna build a new Rome.

Oh yeah, there was a dream that was Rome. Yeah. So why did he at the end, why was he dead and going through Wheatfield? It feels like they didn't write an ending. They're like, let's just use the shot from the last one. As spoilery as we are, I don't know that I even know the ending of this movie I just saw.

I don't know if I am capable of spoiling the movie. The one thing that I really glommed onto was that Denzel Washington was most definitely not riding that horse, because you only saw them from far away. And then when he's supposed to be on the horse, he's sitting there and the horse's head comes into the frame, but at no point do you see him sitting on a horse.

So I wonder if his contract like, I can't ride a horse. I won't ride a horse. But I lied to my resume. Yeah. Do you think like Denzel Washington or like any giant star keeps up their resume? Yeah. Special skills.

I can juggle. Yeah, I can ski, play the guitar, speak French. Yeah. Have you ever done any acting? Yeah, I went to acting school. Nice. Yes. Did you have a resume of special skills?

Yeah, I still sort of do. For a while, I had all my special skills billiards Which it's not like actually I'm not like good at it, but I'm like I can fake. Yeah Yeah, like you're confident enough. You can hold the thing. I know how to hold it. Yeah, then cut away I don't need to use that little helper stick. Yeah, the ladies a Man, I love that helper stick. I'll use it for every shot I can. I mean, fuck the patriarchy for calling that a lazy aid, man. Yeah, to me, it's an essential part of the whole game. You know, like, I don't wanna be leaning over all the place,

you know, like it's blue chalks everywhere. You gotta get chalk on your shirt. That is a funny one though to put on your wristband. Yeah. Like not in brackets, trick shots. Yeah, no. But like, I also wondered. Beginner. Do you have to write every.

Beginner. Yeah, I have my. I've got my certification. Yeah, but do you have to write every possible thing you know how to do? Like, can't hold breath, one minute underwater. Yeah, I think you do. They try and say that, like, yeah,

agents are like, you never know what will come up in a breakdown, and it's like, okay, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, I had a friend who many, many years ago played a jockey on some TV show that I think, was it a horse show that had Mickey Rooney on it? Oh yeah, Black Beauty? Black Beauty maybe?

No. It was in the 90s. Yeah. He said that he could ride a horse to play this jockey and he'd never been on a horse before. And when they put him on the horse right away, Mickey Rooney was like, this guy doesn't know. I don't know.

I think you just assume once I'm up there, I'll be able to. Yeah. I'll be able to control this guy doesn't know. Like, I think you just assume once I'm up there, I'll be able to, yeah, be able to control this guy. No problem. But yeah, I honestly don't know. Like I couldn't begin to tell you what the skill set is to ride a horse. Like I wouldn't know how to fake it. Well, getting on it seems to be the big first off.

It's cool. And I think they put you on a crane and they lower you on. to be the big first off, it's called. I think they put you on a crane and they lower you on the horse. But like, yeah, I never acted. I never had to have any special skills. That's the thing, like when I watch an actor in a movie like this or whatever, I'm like, oh, see, these actors can ride a horse. They know how to fight. They've been taught how to fight. They know how to like be muscly like, oh, actors are nothing to fuck with. I wouldn't, you know, I wouldn't go up against a Christian Bale. Are you kidding me?

I mean, depends on the role. Well, I'd be playing Batman. So he'd be playing the guy from the big shorts. Oh, sure. That guy's in pretty good shape. He's in pretty good shape. He swims. I, you know, I may go up against him on if he's the skinny guy from the skinny movie. The mechanic? Yeah.

I don't think it's called the mechanic. It is. No. The machinist. The machinist. The machinist. Yes, oh yeah, yeah. He lost more weight than they asked him to do.

He like went all the way down to like under a hundred pounds. Oh God. And then he- I actually think he looks great. He looks great. And then for Batman, he gained all this weight back, but he gained too much weight, and too much muscle. He was too huge for the suit. And they were like, oh, no, you got to- So in the movie, he's kind of like a bear. They've slimmed him down as much as they could, but he goes all over the place. He ping pongs, he does the-

He's dick-chainy, getting a big belly. That's right, yeah, he won't wear padding. He's all authentic all the time. Yeah. It's yo-yo dieting though, it's no good, no good. It can't be good for you. Yeah, Pink used to do it, she used to yo-yo diet. I remember watching Oprah and they were talking about Pink

and her yo-yo dieting. Oprah used to do it. Oh yeah, she was, yeah. She was fat, she's the Inpica body style. That's, yeah, SNL. SNL with the show that we're Seinfeld hosting. I just had an out of body experience talking about that. So out of 10, what is your rating on Gladiator 2?

Oh, Gladiator 2, I'd give it a, maybe give it a seven. I would give it, I think a six and a half. Yeah. What did I give it? It was fun to make fun of after the movie with Sally. Oh yeah. On the walk home, it was fun to like, and then this line remember when he said this,

but politics was, we both like burst out laughing. Oh yeah. Okay, so I have already rated this in my letter box. Oh, okay. Out of five, I give it two. Ooh, okay. But should I raise it? No.

I can give it two and a half. Do what you feel. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's your raise it? No, thank you. What do I have? Do what you feel. Yeah, yeah, yeah Also like I am I'm really hard on movies. I Will have to watch a movie if I start a movie I do have to finish it at some point and I started a movie last night I don't want to watch the second half of it because they know what's gonna happen. Is it spooky? No, it's Sidney Sweeney, romantic comedy. Oh, anyone but you. Anyone but you, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, yeah. But like, you know where it's going, they're gonna fall in love. Yeah, but that's why you're there. That's why you knew that before you started. Oh, I thought it was an action film. You knew that before you started. Oh, I thought it was an action film. But you know, the guy in it is,

he's like a stereotypical movie star. He's got a strong jaw. Who's he? Glenn Powell. Is that Glenn Powell? Yeah, I was in Maverick. Yeah, I know him. And Twisters.

Oh, did you see Twisters? Yeah. Was it good? It's a lot of fun. Yeah. It's like, it's a lot of fun. Yeah. It's like, it's bad, but I had so much fun watching it. Yeah, you saw it in the theater. I'm just like, yeah. I saw it, I saw it in Hitman and I hated that.

Oh. What was Hitman? I don't even remember that. I liked Hitman. Hitman was, he was a, it's also a romantic comedy, but it's supposed, like, makes you think it's actually gonna be a action movie. Like Fall Guy. Or like Miss Congeniality.

And he's tricking people into hiring hitmen. Oh, okay. Or like if someone hires a hitman, he... He works for the cops. Cops, yeah. Oh, okay. He's a cop. He's a cop and who does he fall in love with?

A woman who wants to kill her husband. It's a very weird... Richard a cop, and who does he fall in love with? A woman who wants to kill her husband. It's a very weird. That is weird. Richard Linklater and him wrote it. Yeah. Really? Yeah. No, I talked about this and all the reviews were like,

seven out of 10, this movie sucked. Like, it would be like, people would give very favorable number ratings and then be like, this makes no sense. I'm really easy on movies. I have letterbox, but I can't bring myself to give star ratings. I'm always like, I don't know. Yeah, I use the heart or no heart.

Oh, okay. Did I like it or did I not like it? Yeah. I have such a sliding scale with it. I'm like, well, I guess this was a good day. And I, yeah, that's the thing. It's like, really depends. Yeah, I don't, I don't with it. I'm like, well, I guess this was a good day and I. Yeah. Yeah, that's the thing. It's like, really depends.

Yeah, I don't do it because. I think I maybe punished the movie for the lack of popcorn. Yeah, well that's unfair. You were in a bad mood, yeah. There should be a subcategory of like why you were in a bad mood. Like to be fair, there were no popcorn.

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Overheard. Overheard is a segment of the show where we dedicate ourselves 24-7 to overhearing things and then we come back here to report on what we found. And we also like to start with the guest, Gina Deoven, Overheard. Yes. It's an overseen slash overheard. So I... I'll allow it. Thank you. I was walking in the West End and I saw a squirrel, a black squirrel, and it had a white stripe

down the middle of it. Wow. Okay. That was pretty cool. And then... It's like Pepe Le Pew, you know? Yeah, but then I heard a girl say to her mom, Mom, mom, it's the squunk.

So maybe they see it a lot and they have a name for it. It's the squunk. Mom, mom, do the squunk. Is that a term? No. I had never heard it before. Maybe they're locals and they- Because my nephew,

my Sally and my nephew were looking at it. She was pointing out squirrels and he said, it's a squonk. And she's like, no, it's a squirrel. And he said, they're also called squonks. And I thought that was something he had just made up, but maybe squonks is- What? Maybe that's a term.

How would you spell it? Cause squonk. Oh, it would be's a term. How would you spell it? Cause Squonk. Oh, it would be two U's. Would be a double U. S-Q-U-U-N-K. Yeah. Oh, that doesn't seem right. Yeah. I don't like that.

But yes, apparently Squonks is out there. Squonk. I guess they're breeding out there. Squonk, yeah, so I guess that's a Skung Squirrel. A Skung Squirrel, but like, I guess that's a skunk squirrel. A skunk squirrel. But like, like there's tons of squirrels around here. But I don't recognize, like I wouldn't know, oh, there's that, there's Jeff again. Like they all look alike.

But if there was one that had a bit of white on its tail. Yeah. Famous. It's the one. Local. Local hero. Celebrity. Yeah. Exactly.

Dave, you haven't overheard? This was an ad on the side of the bus. So Vancouver has a cool jazz station. Okay, what is it called? Mellow FM or something like that? Wave 98.3. Wave, okay, it sounds nice. And this huge bus ad on the side of this bus says, don't pay for sacks. Wave 98.3.

Like, does that mean like they're giving away sacks for free? I mean, it's a thing, a play on the popular phrase, don't pay for sex. We all say that phrase. I say it every day to myself when I look in the mirror. Of all the sex double entendres you could have, it's pretty weak. Yeah. Yeah, wow. Well, be a sax worker, something like that.

Yeah. Also, you should pay struggling musicians. You should pay for sax. You should pay for sax. Yeah. That's a good point. Now I get it for free on the radio. I don't pay for sex.

No, no, no, I get it on the radio. I mean, don't have whatever, unprotected sex. Yes, yeah. What could they? Unprotected sex would be as decent. Get your sex education. The classic sex and violence is Yeah, I think those are all the bigs

I mean if they had With Saxophone a picture of a guy holding a saxophone up to his butt I think it's a picture of a guy holding a saxophone up to his butt. I think it's the anal sax. Anal sax. There you go. Like he's playing it with his butt. Yeah, exactly.

Okay. It's like butt cheeks are blowing up like he's a pig. Like Louis Armstrong? Like Louis Armstrong. Famous saxophonist Louis Armstrong. My Overhead is an over scene that's in the spirit of two episodes ago when we're talking to Colin Sharp, I found an ad on Facebook Marketplace that was for a prank business for sale. The prank wasn't that the business.

Yeah, yeah, it was a business that makes a prank that makes a brand of businesses for sale. So it's $7,000 for something called a pee puck, which you put in the tank of the toilet. And so it always looks like somebody didn't flush. Oh. Which isn't the greatest, we all kind of agreed, wasn't the greatest prank,

cause it would be like flush. Oh well, I guess the toilet's broken. Away I go. Not my problem. Yeah. But he was selling the business. So whatever inventory he had, he was selling the business. So whatever inventory he had, he was selling the website and the exclusive rights to be, I guess, a Peapuck salesperson.

And you know what? I'm on Facebook marketplace every day. I want to see what's being given away, what's a steal. You never followed up with this Peapuck? No, I never followed up because I feel like he would keep harassing me like, okay That time I tried to buy ashtonkutcher.com and emailing me. Oh, yeah, this is true Chired like how much is it gonna cost and they kept coming down on price years after I originally emailed them and they kept coming down on price years after I originally emailed them.

Oh, wow. Yeah, cause it's not, it used to be like essential to have. AshtonKutcher.com Yeah. I wonder if it's just being parked on now or if there's, if there's, has he developed.

Do we wanna go there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. AshtonKutcher.com AshtonKutcher.com Cause what would have been on his website back in the day? Hi Ashton, I'd like the chance to pitch you on our new disruptive consumer startup. Let me know if we can set up a call, regards Mark.

So this isn't- Weird. This is someone who wants, who's bought it. To get his attention. To get his attention. Ooh, well that's, what a ploy. Yeah, huh, that's actually like, I mean it only has to work once.

Well that was the plan I think I had. Think it was, I was trying to come up, it was for some other project where it was like Ashton Kutcher has invested in Uber. And he's got all these tech, he's in so much tech stuff, but you know what he doesn't own? AshtonKutcher.com. Yeah, yeah. My friend, I don't think he's ever been on the show.

Josh Lohan, was he a guest on the show? Long time ago. Yeah, he is like a web developer guy and he bought Wrestlemania.ca because WDU doesn't own it. So he had it and it's now in my Twitter profile. If you click on it, it just goes back to my Twitter profile. So that's why if you check out wrestlemania.ca.

It goes back to your Twitter profile? If you click on it. And he bought it? Yeah, he bought it. And for cheap. Like he didn't have to buy it off anybody. And he gave it, and he chose you? Yeah, I was the chosen one yes but I

found another business for sale and this one's for $2,000 okay with the side note must be gone ASAP I think that price is coming down so it says they're selling it's an inflatable pub it It's an inflatable pub. Which is good, because I hurt myself at the pub a lot. Let's see if I can find, because there's a picture of it. Okay, so this is what it looks like on the outside. It says the pub and it's like, like, It's like a little cavern.

Human size, it's not like a kid thing. Okay. It's inflatable. It's not a bouncy castle, or is it? Is the ground bouncy? I don't think so. I think it's to set up at like a party and that you go into the- But this isn't a business for sale.

So it's like a tent. It is basically a tent, but it says we're selling our pub, it's inflatable and can be rented out for $700 plus. So, to whom? You can make up any number. To Swifties on their way to rent an Airbnb. Selling it for such a low price

because we need to have it gone ASAP. And there's a little bit of sun damage to the exterior of one side. It's mostly to the tarp, but we haven't blown it up to take a look and aren't able to do so. So they haven't even been able to check on me. Fire beware. Yeah.

First come first serve, pick up only. Do they have, can I, like, we haven't been able to blow it up. Why not? Yeah, exactly. Are you selling me the inflator? Or do, well, you get, it comes with the pub, a tarp, tables, tables a pump and rental form slash

Website domain if you'd like it. Oh, so, you know a business 2,000 bucks I feel like you could probably sweep in there and get it for you know, 1200. I think I could rent it for 700 Yeah, I Mean I get like it's kind of a fun kind of kitschy thing to have in a backyard party or something. I don't know what kind of, cause it's for kids, but it's not. It's a pub.

It's a pub and like. It's a pub. Yeah. And it's adult sized. It's adult size. How many tables can you fit in there? That's a very good question. They do not give any of the dimensions of this.

Also it's like, it's like a backyard thing. Yeah. It feels like a summertime. I feel like a summertime. I mean. But like, so you wouldn't want to buy it now, but also in the summer, you know what's nice? Being outside. Drinking my pub beer outdoors. But, you know, according to this, you only have to rent out three times and you've made your money. That's true. Except for storage fees. I'm paying. Oh, yeah. I'll do a whole basement to keep this thing in. Oh, yeah. And, you know, we haven't blown it up. So we don't, we're not sure if it can or whatever. Rats have chewed through most of it.

But yeah, so that's what's happening on Facebook marketplace, somebody else selling a biz, you can get the website and the tar. I don't know how you transport it. You probably need some sort of truck or something like that. Honestly, I think it's better than the Peapuck biz. I think so too. It's a step up for sure. Yeah.

It's interesting. It's interesting. Yeah. And it's cheaper. Yeah. And like. And I can get some rental forms And you know, you could probably write it off it's something it would be taxable income you could write off P puck

You can't be right enough people. Yeah, sure. I you know, I This I pranked a bunch of people. Yeah, I pranked my clients This been seven thousand I pranked my clients. Spent $7,000 pranking my clients. And now we also have overheard sent in from people. All my entire prank business I came up with is worth one quarter of a set of Taylor Swift tickets. Oh. Two grand. You know, I could save up two grand.

I could scare up two grand to start a inflatable pub business. All right. And I'm looking for investors. Dragons. Dragons. We'll do this every time. And for that reason, I'm out. Yes, exactly.. Now we also have

overheard sent in to us by people all over the world. If you want to send one in it's sby at maximumfun.org and this one is from Karen from California. Karen. Oh boy. Here we go. Thank you. Here we go. Thank you. This is an overheard from Home Depot and the loudspeaker came on to announce the following. Attention to whoever drove here with three dogs in their car. The dogs are outside of the car and they are attacking the customers. Oh no. I mean, that's an important announcement for sure. Why do I feel like I've heard that before?

I don't know, maybe the song who let the dogs out. Oh yeah, I probably think of the song who let the dogs out by the Baja men, Baja men. Yeah, I feel like you get a lot of that type of announcement, not dogs escaping, but on the ferry, you get a lot of car type of announcement, not dogs escaping, but on the ferry, you get a lot of car, your alarms going off. But yeah, I haven't heard dogs escaping and- And attacking people.

Yeah, well, when you leave your dog in the car, you're supposed to crack a window, but maybe they cracked it too much and the dogs got out. Yeah, or the dog can figure out how to get his paw out the door and unlock it from the outside. Yeah, that's probably the smart way. It's funny, the dog can figure out how to get his paw out the door and unlock it from the outside. So that's probably the smart way. It's funny the dog stayed and attacked

instead of just running away like crazy. Cause they feel like that's also an option for dogs. I mean, my dogs are, they just want to kill whatever's on the other side of glass. Attack dogs. Yeah, so that's, I can empathize with these dogs. Yeah, so I can empathize with these dogs. This next one comes from JP from Hamilton, Ontario. This was from my 11 year old.

His French tutor is going on a cruise soon. And I asked him if he knew where she was going to. And he said, I don't know, the ocean, I guess. That's an answer where like, you could tell the kid didn't look up from his Nintendo Switch. Yeah, it's just like, it's just not a thing that a kid would follow up on. Yeah. I'm going to Chris.

All right. Go say hi to the crab for him. Say hi to Sebastian for him. And this last one comes from Jessalyn from Santa Cruz, California. I'm currently teaching seventh grade and I broke my foot. So I'm on crutches. I was sitting in front of the class. One crutch was propped up against the wall and one had already fallen over.

While I was teaching the second crutch fell over and a seventh grade boy said, and there goes the second tower. A seventh grader. They have no context. They don't know that it was a day that will live in infamy. That's right. It's just a reference, just a movie reference for them. It's like the way we made fun of Pearl Harbor every day growing up.

Yeah, I guess like kids have to learn about 9-11 in school. No, they learn about it in memes. Right. Which is basically school and streets, right? School and art, no. Honestly, if only our tax dollars could go towards memes. I'd invest, yeah. I think they should raise taxes. I found a business online that I think you guys are going to like.

In addition to over-hearts that are written in, we also accept your phone calls. If you want to call us, our phone number is 1-844-779-7631. That's one. Ugh. Spypod. One. Like these people have. Hi, this is Al from Portland.

I'm calling in with an overheard. I saw some teams and one of them said to the other team, Oh, I just love this brand Nirvana. And the other one, and then the and another team goes that's not a brand And then the first team says yeah it is. Oh, this is really bad. Anyway Off I go Checking out the last second. Did you hear what he ended with though? Yeah, this is really bad. No Uh, it is. Oh, this is really bad. Anyway

is, oh, this is really bad, anyway. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. Oh, fuck. Nice. Um, they are a brand. I mean, it's like a lot of kids wear Nirvana shirts. I see them on their shirts at Zara. Yeah. Exactly.

It's a brand. Yeah. My favorite of that type of brand is a picture of Hanson and it says Nirvana underneath. Oh, I see that. That's pretty good. Yeah. That's fine. Because it's the fact that a kid would haveon and it says Nirvana underneath. Oh, I see that, yeah. Because it's the fact that a kid would have to know

both of those too. What is the, like, you can now get any kind of, I guess the style would be like a hip hop shirt, like that would have an artist's name and their face like three times, but now you can get it with like, I don't know, gladiator yeah on Etsy you can get like any any person like it's I guess I don't know is it a I

would don't know what I would call that style of shirt but it's like maybe it's even like a you know gangster shirt like you would get like you know, gangster shirt, like you would get like, you know, five phases of Tony Supriano. Yeah. That sounded weird. Come on. Um, but personally, I like it when somebody draws all the different jokers hanging out together. Oh, wow. That's the good stuff.

That's the sweet stuff. You'd say they'd get along. Huh? All the different jokes. Yeah. I mean, you know, I'm, I'm definitely seeing, uh, Jack Nicholson hanging out with, um, Cesar different jokes? Yeah. I mean, you know, I'm definitely seeing Jack Nicholson hanging out with Cesar Romero. Yeah, Cesar Romero.

They're kind of both silly guys. They're both silly guys. They're all silly guys. I don't know if anybody would be friends with the Heath Ledger version. Yeah, he seems like he might even scare them. Scare the other jokers. I don't, I mean, the Jared Leto is the scariest.

Yeah, scariest and best thought I owe to him. Sure. And on set, he didn't even like send dead mice to people. He sent a rat to Margot Robbie and she still has it. It's a pet. Oh, a live rat. Live rat. Oh, okay.

Whoa. Yeah, it's, Jared Lowe is cool. If you have never seen House of Gucci, he makes the most hilarious acting choice in the world. Yeah, he says boof a lot. Yes, he does. But it's just like Super Mario accent, it's the best. Hey, Dave Graham and probable guests.

This is Cormac out of Philadelphia with overseen in Philly and one of our parks. There's like the portal thing, which is basically like a, like a live stream to another country. Do you remember this? There was a lady flashed Ireland and they had to close the whole project. And then I think she did it in Philadelphia as well. Really? She went around on a tour. We can't let her win. And then the other country, they also have the live stream so we can like wave and say hello.

And it's cool, like it's like going to different countries. There's like, there's Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, and then space for some reason. Space? But we got to Poland and there was two kids sitting on a bench. And once it came to us, they immediately got up and like went under the camera and like one kid like raised his phone to it, but like he took it down too quickly for it to like focus. And then the phone came back up and it was a picture of nine 11.

And then later they did it again and there's like this old woman that came up to them and like you could tell from body language she's like oh what is that and like they showed her the picture of 9-11 and instead of like scolding them she goes oh so funny. Oh my God. You kids. Oh my God. You got Philadelphia. Oh, sweet. Oh man. You got him so good. I get it, yeah.

Oh man. I love that old lady. That was a kismet that we had a couple of 9-11 kids. We're the 9-11 kids. Do the 9-11. Donate today to the 9-11 kids. Okay, and here's your final phone call. Hi, Dave Graham and probable best.

This is Amanda in Washington State in Vancouver. And I haven't overheard. I was at Costco picking up pizza for dinner yesterday. And as I was waiting, there was two teens, teen boys at the kiosk. And they were putting in their order and I heard one go, man, I really want the chocolate sundae. I had that for lunch today. And I also want the chocolate someday.

I had that for lunch today and I also want the chicken bake, but I had it for breakfast. And Teen Boy 2 goes, wait, dude, you were here for breakfast and lunch? And the first Teen Boy goes, yeah, man, breakfast, lunch and dinner. It's the only way to Costco. Anyway, off I go.

Oh yeah. Wow, what a legend. And like you used to be able to eat like that, you know? Like you could eat two Sundays a day when you were a teen. Oh, and that wouldn't shut you down. Sure. Like I feel after a Sunday, like that's the night's ruined. Oh yeah, I get the Sunday's caries. So you have after Sunday like that's the the night's ruined. Oh, yeah, I get the Sunday Scaries

So you have a been a split Sunday? It's the only way to fight it. Yeah But yeah, I The chicken bake is a thing I have at subway that I've never heard of until these two subway Go it's not subway Costco Costco The chicken bake is something I have at Costco that I'd never heard of until the two Costco, or not subway, Costco. Costco. The chicken bake is something that I haven't Costco that I'd never heard of until the two Costco guys, AJ and Big Justice. Are these cousins of the Rizzler?

They're not related to the Rizzler, but the Rizzler's in the videos. You know the Rizzler? Vaguely. Yeah. Little kid, chubby little kid. Yes. Likes eating fast food.

And there's a father and son, and the father likes the the double chunk chocolate cookie from Costco whereas the kid likes the chicken bake and I cannot make out what the chicken bake is it's a looks like a giant kind of McDonald's apple pie mmm but it's like I'm I don't where, is it coated in? Yeah, where is this chicken? Where's the chicken? It's a brown log that he's eating. Chicken bake.

And everyone agrees that the cookie's better than the chicken bake. Not the Rizzler. Rizzler chicken bake. Yeah, Rizzler I think gives everything five booms. Does he? Yeah. I told you that at the UFC match, he was one of the guys they cut to as like celebrities

in the crowd. Oh my God. Yeah. And he was sitting by himself. So this wasn't a family outing. This was just the Rizzler on his own. I have a friend who always sends me videos of these two. And you know when you send someone an Instagram video, the person just hearts it or whatever?

Yeah. This guy sends me these videos, writes a paragraph. I feel so much responsibility to be like, yeah, wow. Yeah, right, it was good. But I don't want, that's not the, he doesn't realize that this is not how I'd use Instagram. I'm not going to give you a good response. And if you're listening, you know who you are.

Knock it off. Well, that brings us to the end of the podcast. Gina, thank you so much for being our guest. Thanks for having me. Your ring announcer for Boom Pro Wrestling happens once a month, same day? Usually the last Friday or Saturday of the month. Okay, so this is tonight?

This is, yeah, I'm going there tonight. And then the recording is on Black Friday. Check your emails for any discounts. Yeah, I'll tell the story another time. But thank you so much for being our guest. And thank you everybody out there for listening. You know, if you got a little scratch in a little time, you can do a lot worse than gladiator 2. 6.5 out of 10, not too shabby. And come on back next week for another episode of Stop Podcasting Yourself. Maximum Fund, a worker-owned network of artist-owned shows, supported directly by you.