Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 897 - Taz VanRassel

Episode Date: May 27, 2025

Improviser Taz VanRassel returns to talk crushing pennies, owls, and casino crowds. Follow us: Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky.

Hi, he's Dave Schumke. And he's Graham Clark. And together we host Stop Podcasting Yourself. Woo! Hello everybody and welcome to episode number 897 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name is Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who, even though he's had this thing for years, his phone still gives him trouble when he tries to turn on the air conditioning, it's Mr. Dave Schumpke.

I know, it's these ones and zeros. Yes. Sometimes I close my eyes and I see them, they're like anthropomorphizing and they're attacking me and it's like why can't we just go back to the old days of? Having a big block of ice. Yeah, no fan next to it. I guess that would have been it back in the day I mean, I've seen it in cartoons before but and where does the guy there's an ice delivery Yeah, they're delivering big cubes and I was in just the last couple months in Barrie Ontario in the movie Sinners does any of that happen I feel like there might be a big block of ice that gets delivered

yeah I saw no ice in Sinners well then that issue's dead mm-hmm that voice you hear regular guest here on the podcast, a returning guest, somebody we love very, very much. You can see him and his cabal of friends every Sunday night at the Fox Sunday service. It's Taz Van Rassel. Hello, Taz. Hello. Hi. Hi. Thanks for having me.

Thanks for turning on the air conditioning for me. We'll see. It's on. I can feel it. You can feel it? Yeah. Oh, I got for me. We'll see. It's on, I can feel it. You can feel it? Yeah. Oh, I got a feeling. Chris, nice.

Yeah. Well, we're into late May and, well, I guess we're recording this on the 16th. That's the second half. Yeah. Well, I guess it's a 31 day month. Well, we're in the afternoon of it though. We're well past the eye.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you know what? It's just gonna be a scorcher the rest of the summer. Now any summer plans Tads? Yeah. Well, I bought an air conditioner a couple of years ago. So I'm gonna hook that up again.

Me too. Mine's very loud. Is yours very loud? It's pretty loud, but I'm happy with my purchase. Is it just a drone or is it a kukunk kukunk? It's more of a war Yeah, I like raspier than that white noise. Yeah, yours is raspberry like what? That kind of thing but it's like it's loud It's louder than you would like you can't watch TV when it's on its worth turn it off

It's absolutely worth it. I'd buy the same thing again the TV up Hmm be that guy turn the TV up. No, no, no. I don't want to start a war between me and the people upstairs. The war in apartment 1812. That's an indie music joke you guys don't get. You guys will never get it. But do you? Let's get to know us. Let's get to know us. ["Get To Know Us"] Get to know us. Okay, so I hear the sounds that drive me wild. In a good way or bad way?

Bad way. Oh, what makes you hot? Oh, what makes you ick? These sounds give me the ick. Yeah, yeah. I feel like it's maybe just my age and my hearing is going, but if the fan above the stove is on, I like, I can't watch TV.

I can't. Cause it's got a like hiss kind of thing? It just gets in that whatever frequency it is, interferes with my, whatever lets me listen to TV. The older you get, the less things you should be able to hear. Right? Yeah.

So put that one on the list. But I do, but I get the TV is the only thing I don't hear. Have you ever like been in a really busy restaurant or bar and like think that you've been listening to the person but then you're like, oh no, I've just been listening to everything around me and I have to like refocus in. I feel like that's a hearing. Every, yeah, the warble of a party. Sometimes I get lost in the warble. The walla. I, every party I'm at, I'm like,

oh, everyone's just pretending they can hear each other. Walla, walla, walla, walla, walla. Yeah. Have you done a lot of walla work? I have not, but I would. Is that what it is? Is that where you go and you make background noise? Yeah, you just have conversations in the background

that will be turned down really low. But this is for? I think like animation. Oh, okay. And maybe commercials and stuff too. I feel like it's probably, there's just a library of them. Yeah.

At this point, there's gotta be a library of every possible sound unless it's brand new. AI can make that. That's true, leave it to AI. I know, we don't like AI making things that are like don't do my voice but do background. Yeah. Yeah. Take their job. I'm okay with AI like, I don't know, digging a hole. I don't want to dig a hole. Yeah, they I want to do they want to wash my car. Absolutely. That's what it's for. I don't like AI because it keeps churning out stuff that's gross.

I feel like they always, making celebrities do things that are gross. What I don't realize, I've recently come to realize is that we're in the minority. People love this dumb shit that they see on the internet. Do they? And it's not AI doing that. Someone still has to tell AI to do that. Sure. Right?

Unless you can get an AI program generating one to the other. Oh, so it's coming up with it itself. Yeah. OK. I mean, that's the eventuality, right? I assume is. Is that what they call it? The eventuality?

The eventuality. John Connor, we've got to kill this robot before the eventuality takes place. Taz, it's been a while. Yes. What's happening? We saw you once during our Zoom era. Oh yeah, we did. But this is our first time seeing you in six years in person.

Do the Zoom ones not count? They don't stick to your ribs. Yeah. Are they on? Oh, they're on there. OK. I just don't remember anything that happened. Yeah, I think everybody was so stressed out that it just like,

because I can't remember anything that happened during the pandemic either. I remember sitting around a lot. Yeah, I had a great time. Did you? This is really your jam? I like being alone. It was fine. sitting around a lot. Yeah, I had a great time. Did you? This is really your jam? Yeah, I like being alone. It was fine.

Do you like alone and quiet, or do you like listening to the noise of the city? I'll turn the oven fan on, dishwasher, air conditioner, all of it. I was chatting with Taz briefly before we got to Dave's place, and he reminded me that he goes to schools and does improv. It sure does. Our listeners know this because we talk about it every time. It's a job I've had for quite a while. Yeah, we've talked about you. You hang out in the equipment

room before in the gym. Yeah, before you get introduced to the students. And you look at all the different utility balls. Yeah, the pennies, everything, the gym before you get introduced to the students. And you look at all the different utility balls, the pennies, the gym strip. Are these conversations coming back to you? No, absolutely. Talking about the skipping rope, really, like, yeah. Recently it's been, I've realized that I really have to tell the vice principal, it's usually the vice principal

who introduces us to get them to clap. Because if they don't say it, don't get them to clap, the children just stare at us when we walk out or run out of the equipment room, because they don't understand what shows are. Yeah. Yeah. And sometimes they don't get them to clap and we just run out and they're like, yeah, looking at us and then we have to go clap for us. Where do you learn that? Looking at us and then we have to go clap for us. Where do you learn that? From laughing? Yeah, that's our that's the service we're doing Is that what you're clapping around? We're teaching them how to be audience members. Okay, so they can go to the opera And not embarrass whoever they're with. Yeah, exactly. You've been to the opera

That's the one. Have you been? No, I don't think I've ever been to an opera. Have you? Uh, I don't believe so. I did go to a musical last night. Six. Six.

And good, bad, indifferent? I felt bad that I disliked it so much because everyone stood up. It was like, have you ever been at something where it's a standing ovation and you're like, oh no. Did you get up? I didn't. You didn't? I was very far in the back.

Yeah, no one taught me. Well, that's like advanced. Yeah. I didn't get up. No, I don't blame you. Yeah, and it felt like a moment where I'd gone too far sitting and like, well, I'm not gonna get up now. It's hard when it's like, if you don't blame you. Yeah, and it felt like a moment where I'd gone too far sitting. I'm like, well, I'm not going to get up now. It's hard when it's like, if you don't like the thing.

Yeah. And they did an encore and had everyone stand. There's an encore of a musical? Yeah. Really? I don't know if you know Six. It's kind of like Hamilton meets the Voice meets Girlbosses. Do we ever find out why Six is a rate of seven?

Yeah. Wait, what is it? Seven, eight, nine? Yes, that's it. Yes, that's it. Bosses. Did we ever find out why sixes are afraid of seven? Yeah, wait, what is it? Seven, eight, nine? Yes, that's it. Yes, that's it. That was in the young part. You hear in like con film festival that people do standing ovations for like minutes on end?

20 minutes or something, yeah. That can't be. It's fascinating. That can't be true. Well, it's true, but it's fake. But they have like seat fillers or whatever stand up and do it. No, it's performative. It's like. That can't be true. Well, it's true, but it's fake. But they have like seat fillers or whatever stand up and do it. No, it's performative.

It's like, they kind of decide. This was not, everyone really liked it. But everyone was having a nice time. And I wasn't having a terrible time, but it was like, oh yeah. Just wasn't your. Yeah, it wasn't my thing. I got last minute tickets for my sister.

Oh, okay. Someone else was meant to be there. Sure, she would have enjoyed it. Oh, she had a great time. Okay. She was there. Oh my sister. Oh, okay. Someone else was meant to be there. Sure. She would have enjoyed it. Oh, she had a great time. Okay. She was there. Oh, she was there.

Yeah. Did she stand and just look down at you? She couldn't quite see me, but I think she knew. Okay. We went to Elf the musical a couple years ago. That's fun. I'm very, I felt bad how little we enjoyed it. Cause it's a bit like you're watching it,

you're like, wow, all these actors are doing great. You know, the sets are great. The costumes are great. I am not connecting with this play at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're leaving intermission. That was how I- Did you leave it intermission? Well, intermission- This one has no intermission.

Intermission took forever. It was like, oh, well, this, obviously, this song, after this song, it'll be intermission. Nope. Okay. Well, obviously, this song will be, this is the perfect way to set up intermission. Nope. Okay. Going to one of those things is very expensive to go to like a musical in this.

Which is also why I felt a bit bad for not liking it because I was like taking a ticket. Yeah. Yeah. I like a spectacle. Like I'll go to the Jurassic Park Live or Disney on Ice. Real theater. Yeah. Stuff I don't mind saying. It wasn't bad enough for it to be fun.

It was like, oh, this is pretty good. It's just not for me. Right. And tell me more about this dinosaur thing we can see in Jurassic Park Live. Jurassic Park Live, you've never seen this? Oh. Yeah, they tour, they'll probably be back. And they have a whole show and it's like a theater thing.

And it's such a big, it's like at the Peony Coliseum or something. It's so big that the actors have to lip sync their lines. Oh wow, it's not on ice. That is not on ice. Okay. But it's the same place where I saw Disney on ice. But there is now, I think there's a new Cirque du Soleil

on ice that is gonna be here soon. And then don't they, in Canada we have, what is it called, Stars on Ice with like an Elvis Stoico. For branding, Elvis Stoico, Elizabeth Manley will come through. Those are all Canadian stars? Yeah. Yeah. It's, I'm sure I went to that when I was a kid.

And it's sponsored by like, hmm, boy. I want to say I was gonna say McCain. Yeah. But I also feel like it could be some big insurance company. What was the juice one that Elvis Stoico was that McCain? That was McCain. Yeah. McCain. Yeah. He still he still got it as far as I know. It's just athlete stars. It's not. Yeah. It's like Canadian stars. Yeah, he still got it as far as I know. Paul Muller? It's just athlete stars. It's not just like Canadian stars. Yeah, it's not Paul Gross.

Right. And Robin Thicke. On ice. It's not the band Magic with their hit Why You Gotta Be So Rude. Do either of you guys go to like Stars on Ice or something on ice? I've been to Disney. Disney on ice, yeah.

I did Super Mario on ice. Oh really? As a child? Yeah. Or as an uncle. No, as a child and I was so bad at stunk, I hated it. It was based on the movie with John Leguizamo? It was just lookalike of Bob Hoskins.

It, they couldn't, you know, they couldn't bounce on a Goomba's head. So they had to like do a fire extinguisher. So I was like, this sucks. Right. I think I was just a little too old for it. What do you mean by do a fire extinguisher? What do you mean by bounce on a Goomba's head?

You know in the game where he jumps on a Goomba and it squishes him? I know, it sounds like there's some, it's a little sexy. Oh, did I want to go out and bounce on a Goomba's head now that I'm single? Get back out there. And then Mario had a fire extinguisher and sprayed the Goombas with it and the turtles. That's not canon.

No, it's not canon. And like I say, I think it was it called ice capades? Ice capades. Ice capades, yeah. And there's also, of course, Kavalia. Oh, yes. Yeah. I saw that one here.

You did? Yeah. Did you love it? It was fascinating. Was it the best thing you've ever seen? No, but it was fascinating. Like they have to- I want to know everything.

Because it was the best thing Larry King ever saw. Okay. It just seemed scary because their horses are so big. Mm-hmm. And if their ears are back, they're mad, or if their ears are forward, it's one of the two. And I kept looking for that. Yeah. I was like, are they mad?

This is going to explode at any moment, I think. I don't think it comes here anymore. What do they do? Maybe something happened. I know it's dressage-ish? And running and like, fancy, like hanging off the side of the horse and like high-fiving each other as you go around and.

Like the motorcycles in the dome. Yeah, yes, like, yeah, what's that called? Yeah, what is it called? Like Ball of Death or something like that. Ball of Death. Yeah. There's a movie called Beyond the Pines. A place? Oh yes, a place Beyond the Pines. A place Beyond the Pines. A place beyond the pines.

He's in one of those. It's not a velodrome. No, that's where you do bike racing. Yeah. My keyboard's not working. I wonder if a velodrome bike race would be fun to watch. It goes so fast. Yeah. It's not instantaneous.

It's not one lap and it's over. I think it's like any long circuit race. It's Yeah, I think it's like any long circuit race. It's just keep watching. It's like any long circuit race. Yeah. As we know. Do you, what are the other, there's a lot of spectacles now that you think about it.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Monster trucks? Oh, there was something there was- I went to monster trucks in the summer last time. It was a bit disappointing. They can't go as high because they're inside now. Oh, this was outside. Okay, that's better.

I saw an ad, I thought about getting my family tickets to like Monsters of Magic or something. Oh, that would be awesome. That was coming, but I was like, hmm. Wait, they're monsters? Well, no, it's like the way that- The Wolfman. I don't know what it was actually called.

Okay, motorcycles in a cage. Yeah, I think it is ball of death. Something of death. Globe of death. Globe of death. The circus or carnival stunt where stunt riders ride motorcycles. Like, upside down. You can clean this sentence up.

Get in there and edit it. It's Wikipedia. You can do it. It's Wikipedia. Wikipedia. And what was the magic show that's coming to town? The Goombas of Magic. Champions of Magic. Champions.

Who are the champs? There are no one I've heard of. There are four people, three people in sunglasses and one guy nodding sunglasses. I know a guy who's, does it say what the names of the people, I wonder if he's part of this. And their graphic is like the old, like, JFL. Like, the graphic they were doing for everyone,

like, 10 years ago. Maybe the JFL is what's sponsored by an insurance company. Oh, sure, yeah, yeah. Information, no, their names are not in here. Inspiration? Houdini. These are unnamed magicians, but they got all the apparati. Oh, do they have the tank from like Houdini upside down,

chained up in the water tank? Can anyone punch them in the stomach? Anybody can. You're entitled to if you're proof of taking them. Yeah. You're entitled to if you have proof of ticket. I know a guy that he's like a touring magician. It blows my mind. He's been on...

America's Got Talent? No, yes, but also the Penn and Teller one. Oh yeah, she was your teacher. And he's stumped them. Oh yeah, it looks like Wes, right? Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, being a's stumped them. So he's- Oh yeah, it looks Wes, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, being a full-time- Yeah, we know Wes. I don't know Wes.

We should have one. He can do a bunch of visual tricks. Just Google magic Wes. So we've been through all the local spectacles. Yeah. And speaking of, you got new glasses? Sure. Nice. Yeah, in the of, you got new glasses? Sure. Nice.

Yeah, in the last six years since you've seen me. These are a little sort of like a turtle shell, but the turtle's green. Yeah, a goomba? No, they're mushroom heads. A koopa. A koopa. Yeah, a koopa to you.

Yeah, I killed a koopa troopa. Took his shell and made glasses. Bounced on a goomba's head. Yeah. Did you get yours in a store or online? I saw them online, then I went to the store. Usually the opposite I see in the store go online. Yeah, they know when I'm looking for glasses,

the Internet, and then they show me stuff and then I go try it on. Nice. Yeah, that's a good way to do it. You buy yours on the Internet or you buy yours in person? These are Internet, yeah. And what do they have, like a thing that you can put the glasses on your face? You can see what they look like or you just like... Yeah, I rolled the dice on these. I had a similar pair, though.

I like had the same sizes. Yeah, but you can AI put it on your face. You can AI put it on your face and you can also bounce on a Goomba's head. Yeah. I don't know why I like it so much. You can AI put it on your face and you can also bounce on a Goomba's head. I don't know why I like it so much. So Sunday service, still going strong all these years later. Yeah, 20 years. Shut up, really?

This year, it's 20 years. Wow. So the show started in Wink. Yeah, 2005. 2005. Wink Cafe, which was a vegan vegetarian cafe. Yeah, that you lived on top of. Yep.

And then... That was on 8th and... 8th and Main. And then how many venues has it been? Has it just been the three? Three, yeah. We moved to... The Cosmic Zoo that was also... Hennessy. The Hennessy.

Then the Cosmic Zoo, then it became Seven Dining Lounge. Yeah, now it's not any of those things. It's another. Yeah, now it's just an Italian place, I think. Yeah. And they got rid of the stage. They must've sold their performing license. Oh, sure, they had one.

That wasn't just. Those are grandfathered as we know, Vancouver. Yeah, oh yeah, I know there's a Mexican restaurant not far from here that does musical Performances all the time. I like guaranteed that's not oh, yeah, they're also in the doorway Yeah, but they mean that's how they get through the like we're not quite in the right. Is that the place on Cambie? Yeah Yeah, that's good. I didn't know they did musical performances when we were having ice ice cream and they had, and they were singing modern pop songs. I was like, okay, this is kind of fun.

And then we- I was there at the same time. I probably didn't see you. Yeah, but it was fun, right? But maybe that's how they get around it is like, if you guys perform outside, technically you're not on R. Technically you're busking. Yeah, so it throws them coins.

I feel bad for buskers now, because- No one has coins? Nobody has coins. Nobody has coins. Like buskers used to make so much coins. Except for collectible coins. Oh yeah, well now because no one has coins. Nobody has coins. Nobody has coins like buskers used to make separate collectible coins Oh, yeah, well, we all have collect. Yes coins. What's your favorite collectible? You got the new black toony with King the King Charles newly minted King Charles Jet black toony. I have a Terry Fox a Terry Fox loony from nice

20 probably 20 years ago as favorite coin Well, I wear whenever I go somewhere touristy. I will crush a penny No, not in the machine. So I have a lot of those collecting dust on my counter Well, where else is it gonna exist? Yeah, where I guess you could wear it around your neck Yeah, good suck on it remind yourself When when you're reading a book about huh, he could taste metal in his mouth, and he knew he was bleeding. The taste of.

Tasted like a bag full of pennies. Yeah, that kind of stuff. Yeah, I love those machines. Have you ever flattened one on a train track? Not in a long time. I was always scared to do it when I was a kid. No one's saying it was recent. Yeah, not in a while. But I was always scared that it would derail kid. No one's saying it was recent. Yeah, not in a while.

But I was always scared that it would derail the train. Yeah, that's right. That was one of those. I don't think so either. Yeah. I think very few things because you see- That was the myth. Yeah, a train could pass through a car. I was not a bad kid, so I was like, I don't know.

Yeah. Did you have a lot of those? I feel like I said before on the podcast that my mom told me when I was a kid that pinching causes cancer. So we would pinch each other. Wow. That's. And she's a nurse.

Okay. So we, we, we. Yeah, you have to believe that. Yeah. Yeah. But the, when did you learn? Just like three weeks ago. Yeah.

Yeah, I was on the Mayo Clinic website. Okay. What? And you were there and you're like, oh, I should stop smoking. Yeah. Well, why didn't my mom tell me anything about smoking? Did you have one of those?

Where I was like, it's not an urban legend. Oh, yeah. I've talked about this. Yeah. It's my sister, whenever we got Chinese food, she would eat all the baby corns. My mom said, baby corns give you cancer. It's cancer? Cancer misreverence.

Yeah. And of course, if you can put your hand over your face, you have cancer. Yes. And then this one where it's like somebody's holding your fist. Well, and you see if you can pull it towards you and they let go and then you know yeah yeah it's a pretty classic like it'll go like this and then they put a plate with flour on it and and then a jug on either side with a string and then they cut the string you go flower in my face that modern. Yeah, or either holding a

Bottle of water against the ceiling with a broomstick. Yes, you have to hey, can you hold this for me for a second? Wait a minute These are pranks. Yeah, I mean you guys and those give you cancer. Yeah pranks. Yeah, absolutely And Putting pennies on train tracks kill everybody. Yeah Yeah, I've never done it with different trains. I did in Calgary in kids There was trains when I was growing up, I guess but I didn't there was a junction down there down by Granville Island They would come through. Oh, yeah, they were still like active were they not People trains, but no, they were just they were just moving stuff down to the water I guess. The Bay. So you just do that on a truck now?

That sucks man. How are you going to hobo around the country? There's a secret train tunnel. What? I went for a walk with Mark Chavez recently and he lives out near the Burnaby area. Near that, what's that that bridge the second there second arrows bridge underneath that there's a secret tunnel where a train goes in and apparently it goes under the city really now I don't know where it goes probably to where all the trains go like the train station yeah area there sure but I am there's trains going under the

city at least in East Van. I mean we also have subway Like we're going out also those trains. But yeah, I'd love to cuz like isn't Seattle Isn't there like a city under Seattle? That's like From that's Paris. Well, I know there's one under Paris, but for sure that no Paris is under Seattle Holy shit. Way cooler. Yeah. And then also Edinburgh has a town underneath the town. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So some things to check out. Yeah. The Graeme's Graeme's. Look up. Graeme's plugged in with all the mole

people. Yeah. All the people. Orcs. Yeah. Orcs. That's right. Not goblins. Goblins are kind of more. What is Not goblins, goblins are kind of more... What is a goblin? Chuds, there's all sorts of chuds down there. What does it stand for? C-A-B. Okay. Those were little toys? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, real muscle man. Yeah. I had a lot of those. Oh man. When I was a kid, that was either there was gum at Canadian Tire that was shaped like a hockey puck. That was a big one.

And then they would have stuff like that, like little tiny things in an egg. The things that you would get for a quarter. Yeah. And you would crank the handle and you couldn't believe how you had to keep cranking. Keep cranking. It's not going to come out. Yeah, just keep cranking it. Yeah.

We had slime when we were kids and it came out of those machines. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Well, we had like the sticky hand. Sticky hand. Yeah. Sticky hand.

You get homies. Homies. Homies, right. They were great. Yeah. Maybe a little parachute man. Those are all like one time toys, you know what I mean? Like, and then they're destroyed. You do that, you're not playing with that army man parachute.

The homies are collectible. Yeah, all my homies, well, they were crushed under a train track. Oh no. Yeah. You were trying to flatten them out. I was trying to flatten them out. No coins. No coins, yeah. I would spend 25 cents on a homie.

Yeah. Well, and it was like, Did homies stand for something? Probably, but is it something good or something bad? Hmm. I mean, look, it's not for me to say, but like that was all I could focus on when we went to like Canadian Tire.

I was just thinking about it the whole time, like on the way out. And what is your, you're going to Canadian Tire with your siblings and your dad? No, yeah, yeah. Sometimes my siblings, but always with my dad, where I was like, get the fuck out of that house. So your focus on that, what's your dad focused on?

Uh, on us stopping, going in the door section and opening up all the doors. That was his main focus. Oh, he's a Foley guy? Yeah, he's a Foley guy. Cool. He was doing, he's got a box of sand that he has two shoes that he.

Crash box. Did you ever, in CBC, did you ever go in the Foley room? Oh yeah. No. Oh wait, no, I didn't, oh, did they have doors on the floor. Yeah. Yes, I did go there Yeah, yeah, we did a whole sketch Sunday service in there for like for this is that oh cool Really? And we got to just run around like open all the drawers and rattle the chain love it Yeah, I

When I was a kid we went to Universal Studios and there there was an attraction where you could do the foley. They picked somebody up from the audience. And this one guy- It was a classic improv scene. I could give him a microphone. I did it the other day. Oh yeah. With the microphone.

But it was like, I can't remember the show, but the one guy was just waving at his daughter the whole time, and then they played it back, and there were no sound effects except the wife like clanging the grandfather clock. Anyways, we all lost our mind. It was so bad. What was he doing to the grandfather clock?

The wife was banging a pot to be to the time of grandfather clock ringing and he was just standing there waving at his daughter. It's just a pot? Yeah. Man. Yeah. Amazing. Yeah, and then also I remember CBC getting rid of all of their like canned reel to reel.

Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And all sorts of like sound recordings and stuff like that. Why'd they get rid of them? AI. I think they digitized a lot of it, but also they did very few radio plays anymore.

Yeah, I wonder if I would have liked radio plays back in the day. Well, I mean, there would be no option if I was back in radio play day. Yeah, I did. Yeah? When they, you know, when I wasn't a lot like Dave stay in your room. Okay, I'll listen to this. Back in the 20s, you were listening to The Shadow. No, they would play it on Sunday nights.

They would play it from 10 to midnight. The Shadow? And The Shadow was one. There was like a bunch of knockoff Shadow things. There were like a few. Phantom was one too, I think. Yeah, sure. And then like, well, The Shadow was Alec Baldwin.

The Phantom was Billy Zane. Mm-hmm. Two of our most enduring heroes. What was it about the 90s where they were like, we can't quite figure out how to make comic books into movies. Dark man, I guess. We can do old, like... TV shows.

Old moldy old, like... TV shows. Old moldy old, uh, like TV shows and comic books that aren't quite part of Marvel or DC. Yeah, and there were ones that was like the man from Uncle and you're like, well, that doesn't mean anything to me. That's been... Well, they remade that in like 2012 or something. Yeah. With Armie Hammer.

Oh, Armie Hammer. Guy Ritchie, right? For sure. I think it was probably a Guy Ritchie joint. Seems like it. Army Hammer was like, can I get paid in toes? You know, he's a cannibal guy. Yeah, yeah. I feel bad for the guy.

Do you? Is it because he wants to eat a person? I think he was just got out of hand with his DMs. I don't think he ate anyone Like yeah, oh maybe he's like completely asexual and he just doesn't know what to say. Yeah. Oh, yeah girl I'm gonna eat your toes Yeah, like to put some barbecue sauce in between them Yeah, we wish him the best. Yeah. Yeah. God bless.

And then we're we're coming up to summer. Any summer plans? We are coming up to summer. I have very few plans. Okay, for the summer probably gonna stay out of the sun. Yeah. Probably alone time alone time with my air conditioner conditioner. I am watching the progress of the construction across the street from me. Okay. And they're building a very tall building. So that's a big thing.

They're at eye level right now. So you can stare in, they can stare out of the way. Yeah, I'm on the sixth level, sixth floor of my building. So now I can see everything they're doing. How tall is your building? I think it's 13 floors or as they say 14. But we know. We know Craig Bierko and Gretchen Moll

know everything about the 13th floor. Deep ball. Did you see that movie? I saw it in the theater. Was it like a reporter going in and trying to see if it was haunted or something? No, I think it was like, I want to say virtual reality. Whoa.

Like you get to the third, that might just be the movie poster. Right, yeah. But it was. That's just where the laundry is, usually. Is that where it is in your building? No, I'm building like a hotel, that's where the staff like. Oh. In your building, do you have a garbage chute?

No, I wish. You have to walk, you have to go all the way out? I don't wanna take the elevator. Oh man. Those like, it's the only place that had a garbage chute. It's the best. There's a guy on Instagram who just throws his garbage out the window.

Oh yeah, and he tries to get it in. Tries to get it in the garbage can. That's so New York. Yeah, it might be New York. I felt like it, I wanted to say it was Chicago, but. Yeah, the garbage is on the street. So it's definitely not Vancouver. Also just like the zeroing in,

like that's all we do on this channel is me throwing things into a garbage can. There is like- I'm watching. Yeah. Yeah. There's a guy I follow who just does this, just does clips from this one.

Did I tell you about it yesterday? What? Where you're just like these medieval guys fighting. And you're, but it's like one-on-one kind of gladiator style. Yeah. And people are getting disemboweled. And the guy who's fighting is like, Yeah, you did.

He's always kind of like surprised, like, oh wow, I took off that guy's leg. Ooh, yikes. So he's just watching clips? No, he's doing it. Okay. He's playing the game and I'm watching the clips. Oh, it's a game.

It's a game, yeah. It's not real. They're not really getting disemboweled. There's a couple that just goes in an ice bath together and that's their whole feed. There seem to be, I get, there's more than one couple that is an Italian man and an American woman and they are like, she, oh, I'm gonna break the spaghetti before I cook it. Why you do this to me?

Over and over again? Basically, it's like, oh, my husband's so Italian. Yeah. If you find something that works, you know, like, I haven't found anything that works personally, but I'm not married to an Italian. Well, we do, we did 900 episodes of asking what our guest summer is gonna be.

Yeah. That's sort of the same thing over and over. You're here on Instagram now? Yeah, we are. Monetize it. Right? How do, ow, yeah. Are you on Instagram now? Yeah, we are. We monetize it. Um. Right? How do, ow. Yeah.

Um. Are you on TikTok too? Uh, no. Not as a couple. I tried, I tried TikTok for a couple of weeks and I was just like, I quit instantly. I was like, I'm only getting 30 views on this thing. I like when, I like not being on everything

cause then someone will send me a TikTok link and I'll click on it and it doesn't work. I'm like, oh well. Yeah, I try. Sometimes it'll be like, align these two pictures together and then you can watch this video. That's kind of fun. And so it's a game within the game.

Yeah. Yeah, it's a mental game. Are you TikTok? Are you on TikTok? Never been. Insta? Yeah. Insta till he dies.

It all shows up there. What's that? It all shows up. Yeah. Insta till he dies. It all shows up there. What's that? It all shows up. Yeah. TikTok shows up there eventually. And Facebook for Marketplace. Oh yeah. Facebook for Marketplace. And going, looking through and seeing like, oh, someone died or something. Like that's where people post. Oh, like the estate sales? Information. Yeah. No, no, no. Like a human being. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, I'm a state sale because somebody... Yeah, yeah, but there's other things that happen as well. People pay tribute to their loved ones and stuff.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That doesn't happen as much on Instagram. So that's where I find out information from the community, I guess, from my older friends. My kids are like, what happens after you die? And I'm like, well, then there'll be an estate sale. You get like, are you a surf guy? I'm Keanu. Keanu, what happens to us after we die?

You live on forever on your Facebook page. Well, the people who loved us will miss us. Remember when Keanu was wise? That's a pretty good impression. That's not bad. Have you been working on that? Is that just on the fly? That's on the fly. It's good. Cultiv a pretty good impression. That's not bad. Have you been working on that? Is that just on the fly? That's on the fly. It's good. It did cultivate it cultivate it. I mean

Okay, it's good. It's but I'm not the first like no, that's true He's pretty doable. What about like Past guest Tom Henry. He can do an amazing Johnny Depp. Oh yeah? I think once you hear it, you're like, okay, that is how you do Johnny Depp. I'd have to hear it. It's really good. I can't even picture his voice. Do you have his number? I don't have his number, but yeah, call him up.

Yeah. Bring up an old episode and play that on this episode. He's done it on Evil Men, and that's where it was. Check out Evil Men with Tom Henry. Yeah. They did an episode, I guess, about Johnny Depp. They did an episode about Johnny Depp. Did they get him on because did he, was he, what, like?

He was, uh... He was a guest? Yeah, he was a guest. Johnny Depp was a guest? Yep. No. Cool. And Tom Henry...

He's like, I'm evil, I'm in. He went on, so did he go, I haven't listened. Sorry, boys, I don't listen every week. I've been really backed up, constipated. But did they have him on because he does an impression of Johnny Depp and it would be fun? Or did he discover it in the moment? Or?

They did a live show where he played Johnny Depp. Oh, I'm definitely not listening to a live podcast. I just assumed he was part of that show. No, he's the, you know, he's good friends with all those. Yeah, there's only so many seats, you know, that's true. Yeah, as we can see here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Was the guy that you discussed most recently, Eric Clapton. Yeah, I don't do an impression of him, but the similar glasses.

Yeah, I don't do an impression of him. But the- I do have similar glasses. You told the story that the Hard Rock Cafe was basically started by him putting a guitar on the wall. I forget. But he was like- Like mark his table. Oh, sure.

With my guitar above the table. Nice. Then- That's why he's evil? Or he's evil because of I shot the sheriff? He's evil because of, I do believe. He like, he was, he was like, uh, you know, not nice to his friend, George

Harrison kept harassing his wife until she left him for him. Yeah. He, uh, did have a young woman. He got addicted to heroin and she died and she was like his teenage lover as he was an adult. Sure. Um, I believe he went. He was an adult. Sure. I believe he went on a racist tirade. Yeah.

Wow. Pretty disgruntled about not doing shows during COVID. Yes, he did have an anti- Van Morris. Yeah, they did those anti-vax songs. It's a shame we lost Van. When I go on that show, I give them a list of potential people.

Oh, who else did you have on the list? I want to learn. I want to go on and be like, because they're doing the research. I'm like, tell me about Al Capone. Yeah, well, Al Capone, I don't think they've done Al Capone. They haven't. I know. I've suggested it twice.

If you go to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, they're huge about Al Capone. Yeah, they got the whole bunker. What is it? Well, they under, didn't he have like underground? Everything's underground with you. It's underground city, Al Capone city. But it's dubious whether or not he actually ever set foot in Moose Jaw. Oh, it's a lie.

Wow, I don't know if it's a but the town's really based themselves. He never set foot in Moose John he never said John Moose foot I thought that was Al Capone Al Capone is probably like see he's really Let's see. Why don't we go away, why don't we cultivate some impressions? Yeah, theater of the mind. Who's not being done? Oh, Donald Trump, Donald Trump.

He would go like, hey, hey everybody. He's doing the gestures. Yeah, doing the gesture, which is good. I don't think I could do any impressions of anybody. Well, you'll discover it in the moment. Like, I'm trying to think. Does somebody do a Tony Danza? Hey, Angela.

Angela. Angela Moaner. Moaner, Samantha. Tony Danza, is he okay? Is he alive? Yeah, I think he's okay. That's kinda cool. He shot a reality series where he went back

to being a teacher. Oh, yeah. Oh, I feel like he's an evil man. Is he? Yeah, maybe. Tony Danza? I don't know. Poor feel like he's an evil man. Is he? Yeah, maybe. Tony Danza? I don't know. Or Shitty, he's just a shitty guy. I think he's nice.

I think he's probably the Hollywood's nicest man. Don't correct me on this. I think he did, he went gray recently. He did, yeah. And it was- Gratesfully? Very, hunky, still hunky after all these years. Oh good. Kill hunky after.

I do pulse-mime. That's your first time? I think he's gone far conservative right wing. Yeah? I think so, but I- Kevin Sorbo. Oh well, he's far gone. Yeah. Yes.

What is the show was he was, it was Hercules? He was Hercules. Yeah, he also did a space one. Yeah, that space. Andromeda? And one that space andromeda Was Kevin Sorbo fuck I can't figure these out The last person you talk about that has to be the one you're doing. Hmm, but like you If you hear an impression and you're not told in advance what it is, a lot of times you're like, I don't know who this is. I don't know who they're making, you know, but you say, this is my impression. Okay, here I go.

Here we go. Do I have to say a line by the guy? No, you're like, make it difficult. I was at a party and Johnnie got for it. Oh yeah, well, I'm not going to say who it was, though. I was at a party and this famous guy was there and he was like, hey, Dave. Jack, that was it. Yes!

Dustin Hoffman, ah. I didn't even do the hair thing. Dave. I thought it was Dustin Hoffman. Okay, here comes another one. Here we go. Was at a party and this gentleman came over and he said, Dave.

Lucy Lawless. Yeah. Nice. No, you know what it was. Dave. Uh. Andrew Dice Clay. Nope.

Oh yeah, that's what I was thinking. Andrew Dice Clay. Give us a little more. Sorry. Maybe I did it wrong. Robert De Niro? No, let me get, that's a party. This guy came up to me and he's like, Dave. There it is. Was it Woody Allen? No, I don't let me get that's a party this guy came up to me like Dave

There it is. Was it Woody Allen? No, it's Christopher Walken you buffoon. See that's what happens I can't get it. I know if I don't give you the clues. You got Jack though. Yeah, well your Jack is legendary. Yeah.

Dave, what's going on with you? Jack. Here's, hey. Wait till you get a load of this. Where do I get all these beautiful toys, et cetera. Top five Jack quotes. Oh, okay. Yeah, where do you get those wonderful toys?

Where you make me wanna be a better man? What's that from? As Good As It Gets. As Good As It Gets, yeah. Oh, As Good As It Gets, I was going to guess the line from that is when she asks, how do you write such great women? I think of a man and I remove all something. Yeah.

Reason and accountability. Yeah. Does he get? This town needs an enema. Town needs Reason and accountability. Yeah. And he does he get this town needs an enema. Town needs an enema. It's something about chicken salads. Chicken salads. What about witches of Eastwick? Come on. Oh, I got three witches here and they're all of Eastwick. Nice. There we go. Does he say something in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? Nice. There we go. Does he say something in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

Uh, yeah, he's like, get this water out of here. Right? I ate this water fountain. See? Al Capone. Here's Johnny. That's a thing. That's a class. Five Easy Pieces, is that the one with the tuna salad sandwich? Yes.

And it's what he's like, hold the tuna. Give me toast. Uh, I keep remembering Chinatown. Oh, yeah, because the guy says it's China. That's not him. Yeah. Forget it. It's Chinatown. He gets his nose snipped by Roman Pol Polanski of all people and somebody asked him how's it feeling? He says it only hurts when I breathe. There, classic Jack Nicholson. You know what it is when I'm notable actors. Anyway, here's what's going on. Yeah, thank you. I was talking. I was talking over a good. Can I have it again? It only hurts when I breathe.

That's good. Yeah. You should be the guy. No, it's Dave. You got there first. I'm just doing Dave's impression. Yeah, it's like that. Yeah, it is like that sometimes.

James Mason. Is that one? That is one that I only know from impressions. I don't know who James Mason is. I know he's an actor, but, and the impression is very funny. He has a very funny way of speaking, but never, whatever the source, you know?

So here's what's going on in our neighborhood, down at Douglas Park for the last couple of weeks. Buddy, I've gone twice. I know what you're talking about. There's a family of owls. Yeah. Owls in a family of owls. Yeah. And there are owls in a tree, owls in the family, fully mow its own.

And there's, I think, like I've seen posts online, I've only ever seen one owl. Yeah. Sometimes. I saw both. Okay. Now they're living in the tree or on somebody's roof? They're living in the tree in the park, but sometimes one of the owls flies across the street.

Yes, in front of a house. Yeah. It just keeps going there. That's where I saw one of them. Yeah, I saw one of them in the like in front of the house. Yeah. Yeah. While everyone else was standing in the park.

I was like, you guys are missing out on the street. This has been the news in the neighborhood. It's great. For like two or three weeks now, the tree that they are in is cordoned off. It seems- Orange fencing. But it seems like it was done-

Is it post everybody seeing an owl? Like don't get too close. There's a handwritten note on it. There's a handwritten note. It says owls live here. The chicken wire fence is drilled into the ground with these steaks that have pool noodles on the tips because I don't think they... Because it's so no one gets hurt.

But I don't think the city did it or anyone. No, it seems locally done. And there's a, I don't know what you call many photographers. A parliament of photographers. A phenom of photographers. And they're all wearing camo when I went. And they all I'm shocked at how many people in the city have a long camouflage lens for their camera. I, I, some of them are cameras.

I think maybe some of them are just. While that's happening, it's also at one of those exercise stations yes yes there will be a guy that runs by and like does pull ups like like just in front of everyone and then runs around the families it's so great well he's going he's trying to make out that's what he's doing yeah um and they're like, did you see any owlets? I have not seen any owlets. I think they're hiding in the knot of the tree or the like the divot. That's where they're in the knot.

Like it's very fairy tale. Have you seen the owlets? No. I don't know anybody that's seen the owlets. Oh yeah, I've seen them. Oh yeah, he's the one guy I know. How many are there again? Too many to count.

Oh yeah, that's right. But I'm not a very smart man. Forrest Gump. Ah. It's good when the quote isn't the quote. There we go. J'nay. There you go. That was good.

Someone local was very smart and set up their garage sale near the owl tree on Oh, that is good. On a Saturday and they were moving stuff. It was great. And they had like, did they have like an owl theme? They should have. It was all owl pellets. Yeah, it's a hoot.

But the garage sale's a real hoot. Here's my hooter t-shirt. But it's like, there was tons of people there when both of you went there. Yeah, I mean, I haven't been I haven't seen you haven't been at all. No. Oh, man. I went today. Yeah, I walked the dog there quite a bit. And they yeah, like I've gone many times and I've sometimes see the sometimes

I'm just embarrassed because I'm like, I know I'm just going to look at the owl. I'll go, huh? Yeah. Yeah gonna look at the owl and go, huh. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, there it is. Yeah. That would be awesome if you had lens like- Today was raining and there were people still there. It's like everybody's talking about it. Yeah. You don't have to look.

You can just walk by. I looked. There were back lit. It was back lit. I only saw one. Seeing like a night vision, that's what I would like to see it like grabbing a rat or something like that. That's why they're there, I guess,

because there's lots of rats in the neighborhood. I mean, there's lots of rats everywhere. That's true. Yeah. There, you know, we're only one step ahead of the rats. They're Raptors. Rats? No, owls.

Yeah, you're saying Raptor wrong. It's not rat, it's Raptor. Raptor, no else yeah you're saying Raptor wrong it's not rat it's Raptor Raptors all right yeah they're uh they're you know they look all wise but they're yeah they're like Eagles oh those claws mm-hmm did you you saw it flying no I saw it fly from the little tree to the bigger tree okay nice and I saw two every time I was there I don don't know how you're missing two. I'm not trying to get... You're not looking. I'm not, yeah, I'm not like where everyone's set up

with their cameras, I feel like I could just, I could certainly nestle in between them, but... That's when you meet your neighbors. I know. The community, talk to people. Yeah. Yeah. I'm on a community,

are you on any community groups on Facebook or anything? No, I don't engage on Facebook. I just look for who's dead. You go to the marketplace. For who's dead, yes. Yeah, just do a quick set up. Who's dead, what are they selling? Yeah, who's dead, what are they selling, where's the estate sale?

Who's dead lately? Oh yeah, who's dead? No, I don't say it. My parents used to do that every morning. They would look at the obits. Yeah, mine still do. Yeah, just read all the obits. But the Facebook's the new obits, right? Not for the...

Yeah, not for my... Like for people you know. Yeah, I guess, but I don't... On Facebook, I have unfollowed every... Like, I'm still friends with everyone, but I unfollowed... I just don't want to be scrolling Facebook for... Right. At all.

Yeah. So I... And if anyone new tries to be my friend I I'm just gonna make you my friend and then put you on but yeah on silent or whatever because I really just have like eight family members that I get updates from then like do you ever whenever I'm on Facebook there they tell me how many friends I have in common with somebody very famous and I'm always like, add friend. You just do your one click away from being friends with. Yeah, I've done no updating. My picture still says I'm vaccinated.

I'm just leaving it. I don't care. I am. It hasn't changed. Yeah. Oh, that's perfect. That would be great if that was your headshot. This is what I got. I voted. Yeah. I have a really old picture of mine.

It says, 9-11 hasn't happened yet. You knew though. Yeah. Dave saw it coming. Didn't stop it. He knew that it was coming. Also Facebook. Good for you. Yeah. knew that it was coming. Also Facebook. Good for you.

Yeah, well, I was like, oh boy, I sure hope they lose the the on account of its cleaner. Another Army Hammer movie. And also another evil man. Yeah. Zuckerberg. I think they did a two part on him. There's a lot of evil stuff he's got. I did listen to Evil Men while I painted my daughter's room last week.

Oh yeah, they painted a whole room. Hours and hours of painting. Yeah, and he didn't get any pants or anything like that. Just had shorts. Really? No drips. No drips. Good for you.

My shorts covered in... Oh, you guys' shorts covered in it. Yeah, yeah. But it wasn't pants. It wasn't pants. So. What color, what color? Paint or pants? Both.

White paint, black shorts. Okay, well that's your problem right there. My childhood room was a periwinkle. Was that blue? It's like a bluey purple. Purpley? Yeah, and a Muppet wallpaper as well. Nice. That's what I'm talking about Yeah, I had a friend who had a one wall that was just like all the moon

Like if you're on the moon, he was a cool guy and the surface of the moon. Yeah Oh, like that's fun moon looking back at earth kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I had a when we moved into my House Yeah, it was but I was like 11 and my parents were like hey my friend makes Custom blinds, so let's find some bedsheets you like and we'll turn them into blinds Oh, that's fun, and they were hockey. Nice. They had all 21 NHL teams. I had Venetian blinds and they were a rainbow.

Nice. I had the pull down and then they snapped back up. Ah. Style. Oh yeah. I believe mine were Roman shades if we're naming all the kinds of blinds we had. Interesting. I just remember so vividly, cause you know when you're a kid,

you have to go to bedtime whenever your parents say that you go to bed. And sometimes in the summer, you could still hear kids having fun outside and like the sun peeking through these. They just hear like nothing but joy. Just kids like, yeah, don't be looking out the window. Can I listen to radio plays? No. That's why the Venetian blinds are great because you hear the window Graham. Can I listen to some radio plays? No, that's why the Venetian blinds are great because you hear the crinkle. Yeah, you could be a snoop. Bent metal.

Yeah, oh, these are forever damaged now. I went too hard. Do you have any like blinds or curtains in your apartment? What do you got? Yeah, they hang. Yeah. They're like single slats that hang. So kind of like the best of both worlds.

And then they can open up and I hate them. Oh, okay. Yeah, and they rattle around in the wind. Oh yeah. Yeah. We have some in the ones in my bedroom. Anytime anyone opens a door in the house. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Rattlers. Venetian blinds all the way. I don't like them. They're impossible to What are mine called that we have in our room? They're like cellular. Oh, I can't picture it cellular. Am I getting am I naming that cellular shades? Yep. Honeycomb. Oh, is it in the glass? No. What is it? It's like a sort of a cellular shade. Okay, so you cellular shade. Like that you can see little cells in the side. You can just push it right up. You push up or you can push it down from the

from the top. Yeah. Oh cool. It's a membrane. It's sort of a membrane of sorts. Yeah. Cool. Anyway, that's what we're rocking. Cool. I like shade talk. Yeah. Yeah. As an adult, have you ever painted any place that you've dwelled in or are you just like, nah? No.

No, move in and that's what I got. Yeah. Yeah. You know who wears shades? Rachel. Jack. Oh yeah. Do your Rachel's. You got the right one, baby. Rachel. Jack. Oh yeah. Do your Rachel. You got the right one baby. Oh, Pepsi.

Yeah. Diet Pepsi. Oh, Diet Pepsi. Yeah, you got the right one baby. That was pretty good. Yeah. So yeah, we're on owl patrol 24 hours a day. I gotta go over.

Why haven't I got it? You gotta go over. I gotta go over. Yeah, take a walk. But like. Take a look. Why are they awake in the day so much? Isn't that their- Because everyone's looking at them. Yeah, I don't know if they're awake.

They're not like doing stuff. They're sitting there in the tree. Oh, they're not like- Their eyes are open. I got some good photos. Oh, but like they gotta get, you know, when you're looking, when you're not there, they're, how many hours a day does an owl sleep?

I don't know, how many? That sounds like the beginning of a riddle. It's like a riddle. It's like a writing desk. Yeah, I guess. I feel like the answer is who. But the riddle of that one is the guy who plays first. Right. Don't worry about it. What's going on with you, Graham?

I had the occasion to go to Regina, Saskatchewan last weekend. You've been? Yep. You've been? No. No? Just Catoona only. It's fine. It's a government town and the people there are pretty-

Did you hop over to Moose Town? No, in a previous trip I went to Moose Town. I saw all the things, you could see them. You did the top level of Moose Town or you go to the underground? I went to the underground. I was like, I don't think this is Al Capone did this. This seems fresher than that.

All I know about Al Capone is he's untouchable. He's untouchable. He's, of the untouchables, the good guys. Yeah, I believe so. And then he's- Got a scar on his face. And that's Scarface. And then he's also the guy responsible

for milk not going bad. That's right. He's sort of a nice man. He's a nice man. I think he killed a lot of people. And he tricked Geraldo. That's true. He tricked him real good.

And he was sort of, they tried to make him a thing. They were like, young Al Capone is in Boardwalk Empire. Oh yes. Yeah. I just remember in Unpunchable's, him gettingmn. Yeah, I wonder, was Al Capone sexy? I mean, he had a mystique about him for sure. If people like Tony Soprano. Yes, yeah.

Then Al Capone is daddy. I don't know, he's saying Mario. Super Mario Brothers. Mario. Sopranos, the Sopranos. I do get that. Gabagol. I never, I'm. Sopranos, the Sopranos. I do get that. Gabagol. I never, I'm. Sopranos.

Sopranos? My brain is twisted with these drama drama. Drama class. Yeah, drama class. Sounds like I'm putting on air. So anyways, Regina. Yeah, Regina. Regina.

Regina, yeah. Regina. And it's, I was there to do a show at a casino. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, did the show that night, was out the next day. I realized that I forgot that myself and casino crowds aren't the best match, was what I was reminded of. Oh, yes, yes. Absolutely not. You should advertise your shows to the people listening to the podcast,

so maybe they would come. I know some of them live there. The fans might show up. It was mostly, it was this. Yeah, I don't want them to. Yeah, exactly. They would just watch me bomb. Bomb in front of all this casino crowd.

And it's backstage during Yumi Nagashima's set. I dropped a glass and it shattered and it became a whole thing. Could it be heard from the stage? Oh yes, everybody heard it. And they were that guy. The stage, yeah, it was that guy. I really fucked up. Cause you're probably not even supposed

to have glass back there. Right. Yeah. It's like a swimming pool back there. Similar rules. I was trying to think of where you're not allowed glass. But yeah, I stayed at a hotel that was blocks away from the casino.

Casino not have hotel? No, casino have no hotel. I performed in that casino during the Canadian Comedy Awards like 12 years ago or something. Yeah. Hard crowd. Yeah, same crowd. Dave Foley was hosting, hard crowd. Did they like him at least?

No? Wait, he didn't like them. That's what it was. Right. Yeah, yeah. The... Isn't that... Don't we put up walls as performers?

I'm not going to let you hurt me because I don't like you. I'm going to not like you first. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Preach. Yeah. Isn't that what we do? Yeah. It might have been justified.

Well, it would have been in this case. They didn't like me. Yeah. I'm not going to let you hurt me because I don't like you. I'm going to not like you first. Yeah, yeah, yeah, preach. Yeah, isn't that what we do? Yeah. It might've been justified. Well, it would've been in this case, they didn't like me. But the casino is very much like,

the show's only 90 minutes. 90 minutes exactly. Right. And then we were like, okay, yeah, we'll do it. They're like, we got a clock on the stage. We got the champions of magic coming in right after. They wanna just get people out of gambling as fast as possible and go out on stage. They got the champions of magic coming in right here. They want to just get people out of gambling as fast as possible and go out on stage.

Clock wasn't working. So we were all just guessing our time and we landed it. We stuck the landing, but- Just the two of you? No, Charlie DeBeers was our headliner. People listening to the show would have been driving from Moose Jaw to-

They would have been driving from moose job to driving from Leidmuster. Yeah. Yeah, there's a Vancouver special show then Yeah, yeah, and It was presented by the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. So it's just kind of like that was the brand It wasn't we were I don't think on a poster anything like that But the next day, you know, it was on a poster. Al Capone wanted posters. Yeah, that's true. And then he like got them on like

make a fraud. Tax evasion. Yeah, tax evasion. Yeah. Something like that. But the hotel, I would stay again. I went to the restaurant the day of the show to have some lunch, slunch. Slunch. And the.

Just so you know, last time you were on the show, you talked about your pizza difficult. Yes. This is falls in the same category. Okay. Except it's a good story. This time it's a positive spin on the classic hotel story. But I went to their hotel. Also, I just mentioned that the hotel bar in Winnipeg is called the Velvet Glove.

So just a fun fact. Wow, yeah, good name, right? velvet glove. Anyways, went into the restaurant to have lunch. Well, I got it mel tormay's proctologist's nickname. There it is. Nice. Can you mel tormay? No. boo boo boo boo boo. That's him. Can you do a mel tourmé? No.

Boo boo, boo boo boo, that's him. Anyways, I was in there. An old man sat down almost right next to me. It was insane. There was nobody else in the restaurant. And then he just pulled out his phone and brought up the news and just sat there listening to the news. It was his breakfast table.

Oh, video news? What's that? He was listening to it? He was watching it? He was watching it. But it was like, we're the only two people that go across the room or do this in your hotel room or something. It's like my screen time.

Yeah, I've got to spend some time by myself. I think there is a generation gap of like, there's the younger people today, but also the old people. Yeah. Phone's very loud. Yes. Everyone in between headphones. And anytime that you hear a phone ring, that's an old person.

Yeah. You can pick them out that quick. Or me, and I forgot I left the house. Yeah. You keep it home when you're in the house? In the house I do. Okay. That's probably a pretty smart thing to do.

So if somebody- For all my important calls yeah actually come to think of it I go through phases where I get like scam calls ten times a day yeah it's been a couple weeks since I've had any I've got some you get scam taxed I've had a couple scams oh sure. Your package can't be delivered. Yeah. Oh, well I'll log on. Oh, fuck it. I'm not even expecting anything, but I gotta give my... I gotta have this thing.

I gotta send them the... Are we still on for lunch tomorrow? Oh, I do get the... Those ones are silly. Some very weird ones that are like a... Open-ended plans. Or just like a sentence that's... Oh yeah, I had one that's like,

can we talk or something like that? Ominous. Yeah. It was a Joan Rivers. Can we talk? Oh, cool. Yeah. Anyway, so that's like you say, it's a generational divide. I don't understand it.

I can see doing it at home, but that's at home, you know? Like outside is this is time for the New York Times puzzles and things like that. So we should be doing outside. Anyways, I just, I was looking up, uh, ran by that. Here's one I got from a number I don't recognize. Are you resting at home after work? That sounds like somebody trying to be a human. Also this one, they only sent me one text ever. Are you resting at home after work? That sounds like somebody trying to be a human.

Also this one, they only sent me one text ever and it just says, I bring peace, memes and mild chaos. Like send me memes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you send back, send me memes? I didn't get, I'm just- Is that a threat? I'm shy. Yeah, anyways, the same restaurant, the next morning,

I go down for breakfast. I'm just gonna order regular breakfast, I think. I sit down, the server comes over and says, we have the menu, but we also have the breakfast buffet today, and then she's kind of overselling the things that you could get. There's an omelet station, you're gonna have coffee and orange juice, it comes with both of those things.

But you have to mix them together. Yep. Make a jug where you pour them in together. Potash. Yeah, potash, canola. Yeah. Oh, sure. Normally in Alberta, you get shale.

You get shale, yeah. Free shale. And then she was kind of like, you can tell that she felt like, like, she didn't want to say how much it costs because in her head, it seemed unreasonable. $20. Oh, $20 for omelet station. All you can eat breakfast, make your own omelet or someone makes it somebody makes it for you. But you get to pick out nice. Yeah, you go back as many times as you want. I did waffle. I had machine? I had, I had a omelet, I had cereal, I had oatmeal, I had fruit, I had yogurt.

I felt so sick after, but I was like, I'm gonna have a waffle robot. No, no waffle, no pancake conveyor belt. Now, as an allergic man, this is all rolling the dice. Oh yes. You might walk into the buffet and be like, I can have one thing. I can have a grape. I can have a grape.

I can have a solitary grape. If I have two, I'm in big trouble. You're not allowed to look before. You buy it, then find out. Yeah, you don't even know what's in there. Just going into a garbage can. But yeah, 20 bucks. That's like the most remarkable deal.

This is, yeah, prices are out of control, man. Yeah, I know, right? Although I feel like some ways back with a $5.99 situation. I go out so rarely that like Abby and I will go out to a nice dinner twice a year. Yeah. And a cocktail will be $21. Yep.

But is a cocktail $21 only at a place where we went to a nice dinner But is a cocktail $21 only at a place where we went to a nice dinner or is a cocktail $21 everywhere? That's a very good question. Yeah, cocktails are always like, they're quite expensive no matter where you go. Unless it's like a happy hour. I went out for dinner in Kamloops recently.

Nice. By myself and it cost $50. $50, what did you get? A meal. A meal? I got a sweet potato crusted haddock on a bacon infused risotto. Okay.

That's all right. With roasted vegetables. You did the little thing with your fingers when you were talking and that adds 10 bucks. Yeah, it was right there. And a fake Guinness and that was $50. What's a fake Guinness? A harp?

0%. Oh, okay. A harp. Right, really brown beer. But yeah, I one time, I was drinking with four people and we all had a cocktail and when they brought the bill I was like Godzooks like that's so fucking expensive. We're easily in the hundreds. So oh wow I was drinking with four people and we had one tequila two tequila three tequila floor. Nice

But yeah, why do people listen to this? I don't know at least my impressions Okay Okay, you're walking down the streets of London. Who's that over there? It's Pondington Bear, it is. Hello, hello, it's me, Pondington Bear. Oh, you said the name. Pretty good, eh?

Yeah. Ooh, okay. Elementary, my dear Watson. Oh, yeah, Sherlock, guys. I'm Benedict Cumberbatch. Can you do one, Taz? You've been enjoying as the audience. From Britain?

Sure. Yeah, from Britain. Oh, me umbrella. Oh, it's the Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins are nice. Very good. She was cockney-racing. She's practically perfect in every way.

Did you, like, what was the last time you guys went to a buffet? Is it, man, it's great. So bringing it back on the ferry. Really? Yeah, apparently. Quite popular demand. I guess so. I've never been to it, it's just like a seafood buffet, right?

No, it was just above, it was a place that you could get, definitely get a seat. Nice. Some people who are willing to shell out like 25, could get like a private area. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like. And all you can eat Jell-O. I'll pay $25 to get access to your private area.

Okay. Yes. Jump on that Goomba. Yeah. Jump on me Goomba. Yeah. That was very poppin'. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so then, yeah.

A spoonful of, jeez, what do goombas eat? Yeah, what do goombas eat? Some sort of grass that they have in their mouth? A spoonful of Mario helps the goombas go down. They eat Mario? Plumbers. Don't they? I guess they do, yeah.

They get a touch. It's like a touch death. Yeah. He dies, but you gotta know they're feasting on him. Yeah. But he falls out of screen. He falls out of screen, but off screen, you never know what's going on in there.

Yeah, there's an upside down, there's an underground world there as well. Probably roasting him on a fireball. Had you guys seen the Mario Brothers movie? Not the new one, but like- Oh yeah, with the, and the lizard guys with like the trench coats and like the tiny the tiny heads yes it was a long time honestly I'd watch it again just to see how cuz it's I remember is like Dennis Hoffer was King

Cooper yeah he just had like a hairstyle yeah he just like slicked his hair and also had a trench coat like a leather trench yeah yeah it feels like it's somebody that made a movie based on one picture that they saw of Mario Brothers. I think it was based on the names of the characters. Yeah. And that alone. Yeah. I get it mixed up with Tank Girl in my memory. There was the kangaroo man and then the lizard man.

Kangaroo man, that was Tank Girl. Yeah. Oh man. Ice-T was a kangaroo man, I believe. He was? Is this in Tank Girl? Yeah. Huh. You got to watch a kangaroo man. I believe. He was? Is this in Tank Girl? Yeah. Huh.

Gotta watch this again too. Good soundtrack. Didn't it have a good soundtrack? What was on it? Boys. Blur? Sure. I think it had- Gorillas?

I don't know. L7? I think it had a lot of female artists. Yeah. I think it maybe also had Scott Weiland. Oh, a solo project. Well, a side project. All the Magnus ambassadors, I think it was called.

OK. Excellent. Excellent work. Well, do you guys want to move on to some over-hears? OK. Certainly. Hey, Sydney, you're a physician and the co-host of Sawbones, a marital tour of misguided medicine, right?

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hey, what movie character made you feel seen? We're doing it every week at MaximumFun.org. We're doing it every week at MaximumFun.org. Overheard. Overheard is the time and place where you hear the best of the best out there in the world. And we like to share all that gold with you. And we always like to start with the guest. Taz, do you have an overheard? Yeah. Yeah. I got one that happened during a show. So we do in a school and we're in a gymnasium. Picture this. Yeah. We're in a gymnasium. Are the, are the basketball

nets up or down? This time I got that little hook and I pushed it aside. Oh, nice. Now you who I know we've talked about this before and I'll let you get to your overheard, but just for a little more context, you've been hired to go to high schools, elementary schools? Usually elementary schools, we do middle schools and high schools as well. It's by the school district.

The school district will hire you for just to teach. Is there any- No teaching. No, nothing educational about it. It's just a two person improv show. Yeah. Yeah, and we go in and we get kids up for like basically every single scene. And that destroys.

Yeah, and it goes really well and then we rile them up and then we leave. Nice. And it's like 45 to an hour. Is there a time of day that's a better show? Like before lunch? Yeah, earlier is usually better. Last block before on a Friday is the worst. Mmm, cuz everybody they're ready to go

Yeah, they're riled. Yeah, are the high schools that not those are hard. Yeah, those are You just kind of do like an adult show but without the content of an adult show And they fold their arms and then you slowly win them over and you make fun of the bullies and then they respect you. And you're not, and you don't, you were telling us off air, you're not, you no longer allow kids to use brain rot words. Yeah, yeah.

Well, we- As suggestions. This actually ties into the overheard. So we do a game where we get them to come up and be like word machines. And so whenever we point to them, like, you fill in the blank. And we've discovered this is the best way to ban the brain rot words.

So you get a kid up there, usually a young boy, and I go, there's like, hey, don't stay out of the bathroom. Don't say like violent things. And you know, kids are here, right? And you say that. And then a boy will usually be like, oh, yes, I understand.

Okay, I'm part of the, got it. Yeah it oh I have a job okay and then I say and no brain rat words or Minecraft stuff and then the kids kind of go oh and then I'm like see this is why and the kids like oh yeah I get it cool I got a job got it and they're always cool about it and we were playing this game and the overheard, we point to them and they just fill in a blank and I was going into a castle, something to this effect. And then I was like, oh boy,

it smells interesting in here. It smells kind of nice. It smells like, and I pointed to this little boy and he said, Ford Escape. So confident. Just Ford escape. Wow. Which is a very, it was it was so specific. So specific. Yeah, it was great. Usually they're looking around like sometimes

they say like basketball hoop or whatever. And I but this was yeah, this kid honed in. It was like you gotta say not these bad words of what's the first thing that comes to mind. Be specific. Don't just say SUV. Name the SUV. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Which led to a nice new car smell for the teachers. The kids didn't understand that. Right. Do you, in the elementary school, the school I went to didn't have this, but the ones that I went to Cubs at had this. It was like a thing that came out from the wall that was all like jungle gym stuff

against those are gone those are gone those don't exist anymore they're too dangerous yeah dangerous just don't exist when they fall back into the wall sometimes a kid's trapped in there yeah like you don't see them yeah it crunched yeah sadly they're gone though yeah I don't know what? Yeah. They're crunched. Yeah, sadly they're gone though. Yeah. I don't know what this is. It was just like during, I don't know what unit of... It was like three of them that would fold out and then you had a ladder, you had a rope.

You had Venetian blinds, cellular. Stuff like that. Did you ever have to, when you were you were youth try to climb a rope? Yes. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I figured it out. You just got to put the rope above your ankle and then shimmy. Oh I didn't ever it's not upper body strength. It's just leverage with your feet. Hmm. No, I wish you'd be like a magic trick Yeah, yeah, it's like when David Blaine can levitate for a split second. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Champion of magic. Mm-hmm. But yeah, I can see why they don't have those anymore. Yeah, but surprisingly, they do have a lot of climbing walls.

Oh. Which also seems dangerous. Yeah. Yeah. And then it usually says like, no climbing without supervision. It's like, why put a climbing wall here and kids aren't allowed to use it? Yeah, you can fold it back into the wall. You didn't even know it was there. Those climbing wall salesmen are so slick. Yeah. That's how we end our shows. We sell a climbing wall on the way out. All these small towns. We've actually been hired by the climbing wall company. Yeah, all your impromptu. Let's say, give me something you'd find in a school.

What's something that's like bouldering but bigger? Yeah, I heard, anyways. Here's some pamphlets. You had another overheard or? Well, I had one more when I was having dinner by myself in Kamloops. Uh, because my tutoring partner, Ray Carson, was visiting a friend.

So sometimes you eat dinner on your own on tour, as you know. I love it. Yeah, it's nice. And I was sitting beside a table full of nice women who I figured out were part of a church group. And they were getting very excited about gossip and meeting men for other women, like setting up.

Oh, cool. Setting up stuff. And then they kind of came to the consensus. I don't remember the exact wording, but that they were gonna have a slushy machine at the next prayer circle. And that was the big, they're like, yep, slushy machine at the next,

Pastor Dave said it was okay. Yeah. We're gonna do it. And I think that was how they were gonna lure new men or like, yeah. Got a climbing wall of slushies. Yeah, why not? So that's what I overheard while I was, while I was doing my crossword and eating dinner,

a $50 dinner. Are they gonna buy it? Are they gonna rent it? It's unclear. Yeah, it sounded like a rental situation. Is the prayer circle just gonna be at a gas station? It might've been be a prayer gathering. I'm not sure.

Free slushies, as many slushies as you want. A bit of a Bible study. Yeah, they were using names like Malachi and Oral. Oh, Oral, yeah, right. So like, I don't know if that's specific to something. Yeah, Malachi and Oral are a couple of, I mean, honestly, a lot of guys there with just the promise of oral. Yep. There it is.

I was told there would be a slushy machine. Dave, do you have it over? Yeah, I was in a coffee shop and I overheard just this, it was a woman and I was walking past, I only heard this little snippet, a woman talking to another woman and she said, for me it was impossible because I was being asked to accept the things I could change. Yeah, cause it's like, don't chase after those.

Well, isn't it like, grant me the the wisdom the power to change the things I can and yeah race to accept the things I can't but it's like this doesn't work I can change it but I'm supposed to accept it yeah I don't know from I think it's maybe from a sign you get winners. Yes. Home sense, that's a home sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, they're attached, aren't they? They are.

I think on 98 Fiance, every base has those live laugh or this is a house full of love or that feels like that's very much, or maybe it's anyway. Are they all just sitting at Airbnbs? Yeah. We've only got one fork. Every time, like I go sometimes on vacation at places that my parents stay as well

and they book an Airbnb, and I don't think my parents get that, the concept of an Airbnb to my parents is, oh, someone is giving up their home for a week so we can stay there and we're paying for it. Not this is a purpose built Airbnb. It's all of the art on the walls is just what they got for cheap at winners.

And my parents like, oh, what do you think they use this for? They don't, no one uses this. Yeah, I've been to ones that were so that, that it wasn't even, like the sheets were bad. Like, bad sheets. Yeah, and lack of surfaces is a big issue. I stay in a lot of them on the road.

It's like, there's no bedside table. Yeah. Because you don't think about that when you're just furnishing a place you're not staying in. Have you ever been to one that is something that somebody lives in and like you kind of like figure out their whole life by you're like, okay, well, she's, she's a fencer. She fences and this is her, this is her family over here.

Those ones usually have locked cupboards. Yeah. Yeah. What's in here? Really personal stuff. Yeah. That's so funny. Cause yeah.

Oh, just Airbnb. They've locked up the slushy machine. Oh shit. It's clearly in these pictures. Everyone's praying around it. Mine comes from being at a bar having a drink, and at the bar right next to me were a British couple. Oh, yeah.

It was very, can I get- Like an umbrella. Yeah. It was a 10 flight, no, 10 beer flight. It was like a giant flight of beers. And they were just kind of, they were having a good time. And then another guy came in and sat down next to them. And he also just happened to be British.

And so they ended up having to talk to each other. Well, I mean, like, he was pushing for a conversation. At one point he looked over at me. I was like, no, no, I'm doing a wordle. I'm doing wordle. I don't care to talk to anybody. But they were talking all these British things. I'm from, you know, Scarsmith and all that kind of stuff. And then the guy, he was so annoying. He kept saying things in the bartender was like, what? Like he would say things with his thick English accent. And then at one point he went,

I'll have a bowl of what you call fries. And it took the bartender at least three times to be, what? Fries, what you would call fries? A bowl of fries? Anyways, he sucks. That guy sucks. Oh, you mean fries?

Yeah. What you would call fries? Oh, that's cool. Yeah. He was cool. Yeah. He made some friends that night. Oh, they're not chips because we call them crisps.

We've got to put you in a taxi after this flight. After a 10-drink flight. Put you in a taxi. And then you're like, oh, I'm going to go to the gym. And then you're like, oh, I'm going to go to the gym. And then you're like, oh, I'm going to go to the gym. And then you're like, oh, I'm going to go to the gym. And then you're like, oh, I'm going to go to the gym. And then you're like, oh, I'm going to go to the gym. And then you're like, oh, I'm going to go to the gym. And then you're like, oh, I'm going to go to the gym. And then you're like, oh, I'm because we call them crisps.

We've got to put you in a taxi after this flight, after a 10 drink flight to put you in a cab. What do you call it? We could call a blacktop. Where I come from. But in English he also does that. What do you call it? We call it chips.

Do a 10 beer flight, how big are the beers? Little guys? Little guys, but like such a long wooden, what do you call it? Like kind of a tray. Paddle. Paddle. Yeah. Hazing paddle.

I haven't had a flight of beers in a very long time. I feel like that is from the microbrewery era. I got a flight of pickles a couple weeks ago. Oh, that sounds nice. At a brewery, because I don't drink. And I was like, what am I going to do here? Yeah. The pickles.

I. Very good. Yeah. Yeah. This is a lot of like. Spicy one. Spicy one. Sweet one.

Do you remember when people would go fill up their growlers at a microbrewery? Yes. Is that not happening anymore? Maybe it is, but it was everywhere. Oh, you gotta own your own growler, otherwise you're paying growler fees. And it was also like a surefire way to have like a warm beer, like out of a growler.

It was never refrigerated. So I brought a growler. You bring that to a park and it's just so warm. I kept it between my legs the whole bus ride over. Now we also have overheard sent in to us by people all over the world. If you want to send in, send one into SPYMaximumFun.org. And this first one comes from Brian V. and it doesn't say where. So this is, here's an overheard courtesy of a conversation

between my five year old daughter and my wife. They were listening to music when bitch better have my money by Rihanna came on. Daughter said, is bitch a bad word if it's in a song? Wife, yes, it's okay in the song, but don't say that word at people that I said, then why do you always call daddy a bitch? I'd say it is a bad word in the song. Do you- Bitch better have my money. Yeah.

Do you find, I was talking to Chris Locke about this, that all the music that teen or like adolescent kids wanna listen to have a lot of swears in them? Yeah, I mean like even the Britney Spears' of our generation didn't have that's true. Swear words in it, but Taylor's got some swears. Yeah. Olivia Rodrigo's got some swears.

Sabrina's got swears. Yeah, but do they do clean radio edit anymore? I know that What's the one where? Yeah, don't embarrass me motherfucker. Oh, yeah in that one they change it to little sucker This next one comes from Chelsea from the Chicago suburbs. New pope, new pope guys. My five year old daughter is obsessed with jokes lately. But she should listen to our podcast. You're gonna love it. All five year olds. The last one might also be a five year old. We'll see. Five year old daughter is

obsessed with jokes lately, but she doesn't quite grasp the format. She has also been helping me in the garden, so her latest joke attempt involved flowers as the main characters. Here's how it went. What did the sunflower say to the zinnia? I don't know, what?

You're going to die. It's as good as any punch line. Yeah, I mean, they're all gonna die. It's probably gonna block the sun. Yeah, oh yeah. And then it'll die gonna block the Sun. Yeah. Oh, yeah, and then it'll die logic logic That's a good joke. Yeah The joke is logic my zinnias have sprouted, but they're not growing now Oh dear, I don't know. Maybe the later. I think they're a late summer guy. They tall small. They're tall

They're tall. Okay, your dog spits in the garden. No, okay Good cool This is last one is from Brendan in London UK everybody No, not five years old This is something that made his family laugh context I've been doing my best to expose my kids to more culture. Always one of their kids five Yeah, possibly speaking to my Alexa best to expose my kids to more culture. Oh, is one of their kids five? Possibly. Speaking to my Alexa, I said, play Nessim Dorma by Pavarotti.

And Alexa said, replied in her standard semi-robotic voice, play Nessim Dorma by Timmy Trumpet. Pretty good, right? Yeah. Timmy Trumpet. Doesn't sound like Pavarotti at all, but God. God, I love the opera. I didn't know Timmy Trump, love it, love it. I didn't know Timmy Trumpet did a cover of that song.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Timmy Trumpet, he's got lots of swears. You can't even listen to Timmy Trumpet. He's got going down on me in the back seat of the car. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's one of them. Amongst other foul things that Timmy Trumpet gets up to. Yeah, Pavarotti does that too. Yeah, he's, oh, was he like a womanizing kind of guy,

or was he just like- Is he being an evil man? No, so I don't know if he's an evil man or not. I think he, yeah, I think if you're Pavarotti, Pavarotti? He's off limits. Yeah, that's true, he's, yeah, he's off limits. I know he was like a- He's true. He's yeah, he's off limits. I know he was like a- He's beloved.

He lived big. He ate, he drank, he sang. What more can you ask for? Anchor chips. Yeah, right. But yeah, did he ever throw one out in the audience? You know, rock and roll style. Find me, bring it back.

It was Pavarotti, Lassito Domingo? Oh, the three tenors? Three tenors, Jose Carreras. All right, bring it back. It was Pavarotti, Lucido Domingo? Oh, the three tenors? The three tenors, Jose Carreras. All right, Jose Carreras. Not as popular Carreras. No, he's the third guy. Yeah.

He's the one on Seinfeld that got drunk. He was the other guy. He wiped his mouth with Jerry's pants. That's right. In addition to overhares that are written, and we also accept your phone calls and your voice memos. Send your voice memos, if you wanna call us, on VoiceMemos to SPY at MaximumFun.org

or call us at 1-844-779-7631. That's one, ugh, SpyPod one, like these people had. Love it, it, it, it, it, it, yeah. I don't even know that I could name another or kind of fake another opera song. Another tenor? Yeah. Name another tenor. I mean, Andrea Bocelli.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, there you go. I only know that because you said the name before, but it is good. It's a good impression. He was blind, right? He is blind. It's a good impression. He was blind, right? He is blind, he's alive. Okay, oh my God. Yeah, and-

Don't tell him I said that. Well, I'm gonna say it for dinner. He can't hear this. Oh wait, no, he's not deaf. He's got ear blindness. Can you like name, how many operas could you name? Aida. Barbara Seville.

Yeah. Madame Butterfly. Three Penny. Does that count? I don't think so. Deflater Mouse. Oh, nice. Tristan and Isolde.

Wow. The Magic Flute. Oh, the Magic Flute, yeah. Swan Lake. More I'm like. More of a ballet. Ballet, yeah. We're doing high culture. I only do when the VSO is playing along to a movie.

That's why it has to be like, VSO plays die hard. Yeah, yeah. Something like that. VSO does splash. Ah, that would be fun. They do Home Alone every year. Yeah, there was one, there was a. They do Home Alone every year. Yeah. There was one there's a weird one that... Labo M. Okay. Tosca, The Marriage of Figaro, La Traviata,

Don Giovanni. These all come up in crosswords a lot. Yeah. Good. Yeah. Okay. Carmen. Oh, Carmen. What will you get up to next? Is she Carmen Miranda? Does she have a big fruit hat? I wonder if Carmen Miranda always had to wear the fruit hat every time she performed or was that something that we've just isolated and then that was her... Yeah like Lucille Balls always eating chocolate... Okay here we go... Hi stop podcasting yourself! This is Megan in Baltimore. I'm behind a big truck,

a big horn and it has bumper stickers that say Trump fans 2024 and it says LGBT and L is the Statue of Liberty, G is a gun, B is beer and T is a set of titties! So that's pretty cool. Cool guy. All right, love you. Off I go. Lalalalala. Nice lalala to you as well. Why did they leave off Q and what would Q be?

Qbert from the old, from the 80s video game. Qbert reference. Yeah. Well, I was thinking maybe a Quiznos. Oh, Quiznos would be good. Oh yeah, what if you, your business just accidentally became politically affiliated outside like a group of people like Quiznos is our restaurant.

We've decided we're Quiznos now. Well, Calvin and Hobbes got taken. Oh, that's true. Yeah. Or just Calvin. Yeah, Hobbes is safe. He's safe. Hobbes takes a shit on things.

You don't see that as often. But yeah, what is the legal status of like, how are they allowed to make so many Kelvins? Yeah. I mean, I don't know. Can you stop people from making Pumperstool? That's the thing about, it seems lawless. Yeah. There's so many internet companies

that'll make a T-shirt with whatever, like a logo or a famous person on it. Yeah, your red bubbles. Yeah, or like enamel pins that have, and you're like, well, they're selling 200 of these, so is it even worth the celebrity's time to go after them? You know what, I ordered a hat that had a robot on it, and it got shipped in a flat thing,

and so the hat was like flattened. So now it's got two giant divots in the, it looks horrible, but it's, it was such, I shouldn't have bought it. It was like the hat is so cheap and shitty and uh, you're supporting a local artist? Uh, no, no, this is some faceless conglomerate. Uh, in any case, buyer beware. If you're ordering things like that,

can't tell just from pictures. By local Canada made. Yeah, elbows up. Elbows up. Elbows up. Hello, Dave, Graham and possible guests. It's Matt from Kingston calling with an overheard. I was at Dairy Queen, shout out Dave.

Nice. Picking up ice cream for my fiance and I. And this Dairy Queen has a walk up window beside the drive through, and a mother and her young toddler were there to order ice cream, and the toddler was f***ing, and mom said to baby, oh what's that sweetheart? Oh you want to stick your hands down my shirt as you always do? and uh

Give me a pretty big giggle He's doing his own take Reinventing the form. form yeah that was pretty good I don't even remember what the over kids stick in his hand yeah I mean talk about Dairy Queen moms are the original Dairy Queens I had Dairy Queen like a couple weeks ago so delicious still got it oh freaking good yeah. Still good. Yeah. Yeah. Did you, you went to my high school, right? Correct. And there was a Dairy Queen across the street.

I went to your high school. Yeah. You ran that shit. The Dairy Queen Memorial. Did you go to Dairy Queen a lot? There was that Dairy Queen down, right down the street. Yeah. But did you go there like during school hours?

I believe I went there. I would also go to Nats Pizza Loved that place. Yeah You went to my school to Was it the one that had like a giant mural of New York? Yeah. Yeah, I think it's still there Yeah, and I actually was like Dairy Queen not there. Yes. It is. Yeah. I was hankering for there's a new new KFC. The KFC that used to be there is now a garden center. But there's now a new KFC. I'm a Thomas Haas guy. Let's go there and get some chocolate. But they what the fuck is this? Oh yeah, I was driving back,

driving in that neighborhood the other day and I was like, oh, I should stop and get myself a slice of pizza. But it was a weekday at 12.50 and I'm like, I'm not getting in line with these children. No, and yeah, the places near our high school was a gas station, so we'd eat gas station food. Oh yeah, we had a full, we had so many places.

Yeah. Benny's Bagels. Oh, you had Benny's Bagels. Oh yeah, that's right. Nice, nice. And here's your final phone call. Hey guys, this is David in Chicago. So I think it was on your Julie Kim episode,

you had some over-dreams that brought an over-dream to my own from long ago back to mind. This was maybe like 15 years ago, if not more. I had a dream which was kind of in the format of a behind the music style TV documentary and it was all about Bruce Springsteen and one controversy that this particular behind the music focused on was during the filming of Dancing in the dark. And Bruce brings Courtney Cox up on stage to dance with him. Unbeknownst to the world at the time, he had stolen her wallet from her pocket.

And yeah, in the kind of commentary on it, following up on the narrator's commentary, they just had a brief cut to Bruce being interviewed about it and his only reaction was to say so alright love you guys doesn't deny it so big deal I stole Courtney Cox's wall she makes a million dollars per episode of Friends. She can afford it. That's an alternate history.

So? So? There was one a couple months ago that was, it was some dream that listeners had where myself and you were kind of chastising her for not hearing of like something that ended up being like Tommy Trumpet or something like, you't know oh really remember that no I don't I know someone in our Facebook group brought up an old dream I had had about in my dream everyone kept asking me if I had heard have you read Nick Nolte's poem about Poem about bathing an infant There's so many levels to that

These book of poems That's cool. Your brain can make that it was all you see I think it was right when I Had an infant so right. Oh my mind. Yeah, and I wrote a book of, didn't you? And I was reading Nick Nolte's other books He's Yeah, Nick Nolte. He was that guy that came to that comedy show once. Oh, did he? Yeah, and he was yeah, I told you a story where he starts cutting his nails during the show He came in in a trench. No, he wasn't Gary Busey

Yeah, yeah Nick Dolde? Nick Dolde. You sure it wasn't Gary Busey? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I got the mixed up. That's fine. No, it was Nick Dolde. He was wearing a fedora and like a kind of trench coat. He looked like an old detective. Right.

And he sat at a table that maybe there were 10 people in the audience. And in the middle of the... He brought a sandwich that he had snuck into the show. What was the venue? DV8? Yes, DV8. I think that rings a bell, you know. And then during the show, he started cutting his nails. And because the crowd was so small,

you could hear it while the show was, yeah, exactly. I've heard this lore, yeah. I think Sean Devlin was there too. Yeah, absolutely. It was a famous, it's the only thing I can think of when I see Nick Nolte now is him cutting his nails at the table and sneaking in a sandwich from out doors. That was pretty great. Anyways, we wish him the best. Wait, is he still alive?

Yeah, I think so. Okay, good. He was up for the new pope. Oh shit, really? Yeah, he lost out. RIP, pope. The pope, yeah, absolutely. And his potential.

Yeah, that's true. To be the pope. Yeah. My childhood, we just had the pope. Yeah, absolutely. And his potential. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. My childhood, we just had one pope. Yeah, my kids are so lucky to get to have had three popes in their childhood. Who's the guy? Ratz and Ratz and Digger. It was John Rasmurger. John Rasmurger. Oh, I wish I could do an impression of him as the pope. You're sure you can? A norm.

Hey, hey Hey Norm. Hey Norm. Well you see. Say something Catholic. Well you see there's Norm. Hey Norm. I sentence you to 500 Hail Marys. It's a sentence. We're good at this. Yeah. Well, thank you, Taz. This is the end of the program. Thanks for having me. Thank you for being a guest. I had a good time. And every... I only had to walk a couple of blocks from my house.

Hell yeah. It was great. You are every week at the Fox Cabaret. Correct. Sunday service, 20th anniversary this year. Yeah, we have not planned anything might probably won't you should just get the one of those confetti poppers. Yeah, how about we plan your 20th anniversary and you plan on episode 900. Yeah, cool.

But you better get on. Yeah, three weeks. Yeah, we only have a couple weeks to you should do something. I know. I know, but the, it sucks that you gotta do an extra thing. The act of planning? Yeah, like I wanna celebrate myself by giving myself a bunch of work to do. And much like your show, we do a thing once a week and we do that and we're happy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And also as an audience member, the audience likes the thing you do every week. Why would you change it up for a special episode and like have a live episode where people are like doing Johnny Depp impressions or something? We might have a party on a park or something. That sounds good. How about that?

Not for audience, just for friends. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, cool, great. You guys can go. Go see the owls. Yeah, ooh. Yeah. We'll do it there and then we'll poach can go. Go see the owls. Yeah, ooh. Yeah.

We'll do it there and then we'll poach the owl crowd. Have the owlets been born? Are we sure? I have no idea. Or are they just, you're just sitting on them? No one wrote that on the piece of paper on the tree. Oh yeah, in case of owlets call this number. 1-800-EAT-SHIT.

Fuck off. Fuck off. Well, thank you again for being on the show. being okay. Thank you everybody out there for listening to the show. If you have time coming up, I think get out of your house and go see that owl whatever your local owl is. Check out your local owl and come back next week for another episode of Stuffed by shows, supported directly by you.