Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 899 - Darcy Michael

Episode Date: June 10, 2025

Comedian Darcy Michael returns to talk Darcy and Jer, crow attacks, and Graham’s 24 hours of comedy. Trigger warning: there's a lot of cancer talk in this episode. Follow us: Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky.

Hi, he's Dave Schumke and he's Graham Clark and together we host Stop Podcasting Yourself. Hello everybody and welcome to episode number 899 of Stop Podcast Yourself. My name is Graham Clark. With me as always is, for the first time this year, wearing shorts, Mr. Dave Schumke. Oh, it's toasty. Hey, it is toasty. It's going to be a high of 26 today. And you know what I do at the end of every spring?

Got all the legs off of my pants and make them all shorts. Then I staple them together in the fall. But like, that's funny and everything, but don't you? I got a couple of pairs of shorts and the- Are your shorts, the shorts you own, are they shorts or are they cutoffs? Mostly cutoffs. Because that's what the boys in the yard like.

They like see me wash my car. Oh, sure. You do that sexy car wash. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're like, you're the rivets on your jean cutoffs are scratching up my finish. Our guest today, also a boy of summer. He is a world traveler, a comedian. And right now, just announced he's on tour in 2026. It's Darcy Michael.

Hi, hi everybody. Thanks for coming back on the podcast. I was gonna say it's been a minute. I think the last time, well, yeah, you said we were- Let's look it up. I love this part of the show. We were on Zoom, I think it was COVID, and I was probably living a happy COVID-

Yeah, it was 2021, I think. What year are we now, 2025? 2025, yeah. Four years. Darcy Michael, October of 2021, prior to that, April of 2018, and then, oh my God, you did 2015, and then five years before that, you were on 2010.

You're not like a, you take years off. I'm pretty consistent in trying to avoid doing this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been chasing down and then like, I knew you were in Vancouver. And I was like, just box them in. No, it was great. I actually had it in my calendar for yesterday

to reach out to you to book it. And you had already booked me. So it was, we were both trying to make it work. You were trying to get on episode 900. I was trying to get on episode 900, but yeah, you know, I've been a little busy. Sure. Do we get to know us? Get to know us! Oh, spin us a yarn! It's been a huge, crazy, wild, horrible year.

It's been a fucking shit year. Oh, can I swear on you? This isn't the radio? This is how long it's been, guys. Well, we're on the radio now. Yeah. We're going to get back to you. We just got to hear Pink Pony Club.

And there's trouble on the Cassiarr connector today, so you want to avoid, you want to go on the second arrows bridge. Yeah. Mad man is loose on the Cassiare connector. There's a gentleman out there with no shirt and a katana. What do we do in this section? What do I talk about? We're just talking about your life.

Hey man. It's been, I don't know man, my life is a bit of a country song right now. But right down to the fact that the mechanic just called yesterday to say my truck needs new tires. You got a truck? Yeah, I've had a truck for a while. I'm an islander. I need a truck. Yeah, it's it's kind of like an island, right? That's where you went. That's where the stat went. You and Pete Davidson. That's why you had all your tattoos removed. I wish I could afford it. Now, wow, I think a mechanic,

like, that's day one of mechanic school. It's like, get them on the tires. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get them on the tires. It worked, it worked. My name is Darcy Michael. Yeah, I am one half of for now, Darcy and chair. Well, here's your husband here is my husband. They people probably know us from social media. What's your biggest social media? Tick tock? Are you a tick tock? I don't even know.

Is that the number one? Yeah, tick tock I think is the number one, but I stopped looking to be honest. It stresses me out. We have a video that when, I think it's, someone told me this morning it's at like 50 or 60 million views from like three days ago. And it's- Same here, same here. Isn't that crazy? Same day, same day.

I probably watch 50 million TikToks in a day. I'm addicted to the app. Do you even have the app, you liar? I see all my TikToks a day. I'm addicted to the app. Do you even have the app? You liar. I see all my TikToks on Instagram. Six months later. Yeah, like since I'm a grown up. But I think, unless I'm wrong, since the last time you were here, you became mega famous. Yeah, I guess. I don't know. Yeah, October 2021, we would have just been like, kind of hitting, hitting our stride with like,

a couple million, but I think we're close to 10 million now. 10 million followers? Yeah, across platforms. It's pretty stupid. But your biggest on X now because you're... Yeah, yeah, yeah. X has gotten really good. It's all my right wing my right wing thoughts and feelings.

You're on Truth Social. Oh man, huge hit on Truth Social. We actually do have a handle on Truth Social. Do you really? Just so someone else couldn't take it. But I didn't bother with X. I was like, I don't. I'm like, ugh. I deleted that like five years ago and it felt great. Hmm Probably impact you've probably would have 51 million. Yeah

I think after 15 years on Twitter at the time. I had like 3,000 followers So it was just never the thing for me. Anyways, what? well, I loved it when there was a trending topic and I was like Marshmallow celebrity soups. And you're like, okay, um, uh, let's see. Um, uh, freaking, uh, I believe that's called the P did he trial. I bet I'm not giving up enough to get that joke. Is there a soup involved?

That's a lot of grease and oils. Greasy celebrities. I was going to be like a cream of John Taylor Thomas. Sure. Cream of Wil Wheaton is what I would say. Well done. So last time you were on, I don't think you had started traveling the globe as a comedy duo. No, no, we definitely that started in, I think Jer quit his job in 2021 December.

And then the following year, like 2023 is when we started touring. It just started with one show in Vancouver for the JFL Vancouver Festival. Is it still going? May it rest in peace? Okay, it's still going. Good for them. Pete Slauson May it rest in peace and welcome back from the dead. Pete Huston And then it just kind of exploded into, you know, like, let's take this show on the road. And so, we toured for two solid years. We did, I think, 75 shows around the world. Wow.

Yeah, he was nuts. Like the fact that Jer, like my corporate, like he says all the time, comedy is super easy once you're famous. Oh, yeah. You know, like he's never done a PowerPoint presentation for more than 10 people and his first time on stage was at the Vogue for a thousand people doing a 90 minute show of untested material. And he just like, and he just went out and crushed it. And I was like, are you kidding? Was he like, wow, why doesn't everybody do it? Yeah. He's like, this is what you've been complaining about for 20 years.

Like, you would like come home at two in the morning from doing five sets for five people. Yeah. And you thought it was bad. Like this is pretty easy. And then he went on the road and was like, Oh, some of these shows suck. I'm like, yeah. Oh, do they?

Yeah. Oh, for sure. There's definitely like, like our version of suck now is different. Uh, go ahead with it. Whatever you want to do with that. Come on, please. I refuse. But there's definitely some nights where you're like,

wow, all right, this wasn't our night. Okay. Jer, I think my favorite thing with Jer is after our 10th show, he were in the dressing room getting changed and he was like, they were really slow to stand up tonight. I looked at him and I was like, Chair, you've done 10 shows and gotten 10 standing ovations.

I've done this for 20 years and I've gotten 10 standing ovations. You spoiled little bitch. Yeah. I remember seeing a TikTok or an Instagram post where somebody was like, oh great, another social media guy trying to do stand-up comedy. You just roast the whole career. Literally, I was like, because that's the thing, I get it. A lot of people didn't know I was a comedian or an actor, writer before we blew up as a couple. But I was like, how dare you not think I know what I'm doing.

So yeah, I just rolled the tape and it was like, here's Norm MacDonald and Nick Offerman and all these other celebrities introducing me for my, you know, like I think 15 years of Just For Laughs and three standup specials like fuck you for not, you know, for coming for me. But that was also just a really nice ego boost for me to be reminded like, oh, I did have a career before this. Just no one knew about it.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When you go on tour, is it only English speaking countries or you planned expats or? No, we're just doing that. We just did like last year, I think it was London, like the UK and Ireland and then North America.

And then this year we were supposed to do Australia, New Zealand and North America again with our new show, which you kindly came to our writers room. Yeah. It was you, Ivan Decker, Erica Sigurdsson, and the four of us just sat in a room for two days and just talked. Yeah. Like it was literally-

A lot of reminiscing. There was a lot of reminiscing and very little writing. And I got home and Jerry's like, let's see the script. And I said, there's no script. I just had two great days with some friends. It was like when's the last time the four of us could just sit in a room for six or seven hours and just gossip. It was great. Graham does that literally every day.

He meets up with Ivan and Erica and they gossip about you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Probably, probably. I would. Yeah, that was a blast. It was super fun. And then have you done any dates of that show or? No, Jared and I were leaving. It's a weird story, but Jared and I were,

because the last tour was a lot of fly in, fly out, it was a lot of time away from the dog It was hard mentally like on my health So we decided this new tour was gonna be a bus tour so the dog could come with us, but it started in Halifax So we had to get you are a hundred pound golden retriever Yuma from Vancouver Island to Halifax And we won't put her in on an airplane in the luggage thing because she's just a princess. And Jare being the corporate stooge that he is, was like, we're gonna do a partnership with an RV company and we're gonna drive from Vancouver Island in an RV,

just the two of us and the dog, and film it for content to Halifax in January. Nice. I was like, well, this is awful. Neither one of us had ever driven an RV before. And we get to the RV company. It's 32 feet. We load up the RV, the first corner we take all the dishes fly out of the

cupboard and crash onto the dog. So now the dog is terrified of this RV. And we get to see, it was awful. We get to Seattle, we settle in for the night in a hotel. And you were, was anyone like, you're going the wrong way? We were literally like, we're going through the States cause we're like, we're not dealing with Canadian highways in the winter. But then the next day Yuma wouldn't get in the RV because she was terrified of the flying dishes.

Uh, we got her in and we're driving to Spokane and we're in the mountains. There's a blizzard and we're on the side of the highway watching YouTube videos on how to put chains on tires. Oh, and I just looked at Jared and I was like, we've worked so hard and now we're going to die on the side of a mountain in Spokane. Like no fucking way. So I said, I was like, we're turning around. We're going home.

We're rethinking how we're gonna get there. Like whether we're gonna call every rich friend we know and be like, you got a jet we can borrow or we're just gonna hire a driver and they're gonna do. You know any friends that might have jets? Well, no, but they can borrow. I know friends who have friends who have jets. We were like, we've got a network.

Let's see what we can figure out. But really we were like, we're gonna cancel the RV and just get a tour bus and hire a driver to get us there. And so Jer was like, wow, you're so like dead set on getting home. And I was like, just book us a hotel in Vancouver for three days. And we're driving literally down Camby street. And I was like, we're back and we dropped the RV off. We picked up my truck. We're driving to Camby street. And I was like, I'm going to call my parents because I know they're beside themselves worried about this blizzard. And I call them and my dad answers my mom's phone and I was like, my dad does not know

how to answer an iPhone. So this already, I'm like, what is going on? And long story short, my mom, in the 48 hours that we were gone, my mom had been admitted into VGH. And I was like, we're literally, dad tells me this as we're driving down. And so I just turn on 12th and drive right to VGH. And you know, long story short, my mom had breast cancer five years ago. It then turned into leukemia while we were, she got the diagnosis and they were like,

it's severe enough. You have to be in the hospital for treatment. And I was like, okay, well, like we're not going on tour. That's that. Like I'm, if there's one thing we've worked hard enough for, it's to be like, yep, I, we can afford to be home for a few weeks and help out. And so we, you know, like obviously have to announce the whole tour postponement, but we were only postponing for like two months at the time. We're like, we're just gonna move it to the summer. Everyone, let me have some time with mom.

That was on the Friday. And then, you know, like, obviously we're digesting all this stuff with mom. Like the prognosis isn't great. And then on Saturday, Jer gets sick. And I was like, oh, like he starts having these weird symptoms. And I was like, well, we're home.

Let's just go and see our doctor. She works on Saturdays. So we were lucky enough to call in and get an appointment. And Saturday they order these tests. Monday he goes for the tests. On the Friday, Jer's diagnosed with cancer. And we're just like, what? Like, okay, like, what? Like, okay, like what's that gonna look like?

Now your dad's answering Jare's phone. That's true. And the whole time this is happening, dad also has cancer. So we're like, I'm just like, you know how they say, when everyone has cancer? Well, yes. You know how they say, you know,

like if everyone in the room is, you think everyone in the room is an asshole You're the asshole. Am I the cancer? Like I know I'm a lot to deal with but I didn't know I was tumor growing a lot But that's one of the reviews I read of your I think the quote was I'd rather grow But it's this weird thing because it's like, we always, we say like, if we, if it wasn't for the tour, we wouldn't have publicly announced anything. But because of the tour and now because of the unknown, we have to postpone the tour

for a full year. I had so we're like, we don't want to be those guys that are just like due to unforeseen circumstances, cause like, we have to be real. We've put our life on the internet for five years. We've got, we have to respect the fact that our fans have changed our lives for the better and there's that parasocial. We got to get some fans who change it for the better. Friends with friends of friends have a jacket.

So we, you know, but we also have decided not to talk about what cancer Jer has because the comment section is so insane. Like the, the cures for cancer that people send us every day. Uh, and I was like, I don't want to deal with that. Toxicity. The apple cider vinegar. Have you tried it? I do with it.

Do you? Well, just added a new kink to my list. Um, so you've had to be in Vancouver for months. Yeah, we got to go list. So you've had to be in Vancouver for months. Yeah, we got to go home, Jer had two surgeries. And then we got to go home for three weeks. And it was, it was just heaven because like, home is very private and like we don't see people and it was just us and the dog and paradise. And then we just ripped the bandaid last week

and had to come back for six weeks. But we've been living in hotels from January until now, other than the three weeks we had at home. It's been a lot. You like hotel stay? No, like we've got a little apartment. Are you like Eloise? Yeah. I don't know either. I don't know that reference. No, like we've got a little are you like Eloise? Yeah

The dog loves it she's a big star in in the city cuz oh, yeah So she's just a giant dog and everybody loves a golden retriever in the lobby She's just a giant dog and everybody loves a golden retriever in the lobby. Yeah, everybody's friends with golden retrievers. Yeah, I miss the privacy. Big star in the city that you just reminded me of something. I saw a poster on the post today that said that there's a pizza pizza pig out happening tonight. Oh, hell yeah. We got a time on that.

Yeah, it's a pizza pig out. It's happening at the Yale. I've got a gluten on that? Yeah, it's a pizza pick out. It's happening at the Yale. They got a gluten-free crust cooking. It's in support of kids' sport, but I was looking at it and it's for $50, $50. $50? You got all you can eat pizza, one drink ticket and an entry for door prizes, but-

I could eat $50 worth of gluten-free pizza. Easy. Easy. I do every time I order it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. $50. Yeah, one pizza. And then for the VIP experience, early access 30 minutes before. That's what you want. That's what you want. Yeah, fresh pizza to drink tickets, exclusive opportunity to mingle with VIP guests. I'm guessing the other people who paid for the VIP experience. Also Darcy's dog will be there.

Local personalities and event sponsors so I can mingle with, I'm guessing. City TV host. Yeah. Graham Clark. How is it not that? I'm gonna be at the pizza pick up. How are we not the local personalities? I'm going to be at the pizza. How are we not the local personalities?

I know. We've been on a record as loving pizza and loving to mingle. When I think of Dave Schumke, I think that's the guy that loves to mingle. He's pretty good. You're pretty good at mingle. It's not true. I've seen you mingle. You're good.

You're good. When we do live podcasts, you can can mingle. Oh live podcast where I'm a celebrity If you go to if you go to like a cocktail party, are you mingling? Or you like no, I'm the guy in the corner being Statler with someone being my Waldorf Yeah, you know what? I mean? Like I can't. You people watching? Yeah. I'm not gonna go and talk to people. I'll talk to somebody.

Yeah, I find the person I know. Yeah, that's kind of the same. If they're talking to someone new, hey, well, I guess I'm not gonna talk to them. Yeah, good luck, enjoy that. I'm really good at hanging out in bathrooms at parties. That's my favorite. My favorite thing at a party is...

I'm sort of, I hang out near the all you can eat pizza. With your one drink. I like to make up a whole career that I don't have. I did that. I went to... In our lives, it's sort of making up a career we don't have. And I did that. I went to our lives. It's sort of making up a career we don't have. I went to, this is like 2010, me and my best friend, Maureen went to

Mexico for a week at a resort. And the only rule was it had to be a new life every time we met people. So like new job, new relationship, like we were sister, brother and sister to somebody, husband and wife, to other people. So like new job, new relationship, like we were sister, brother and sister to somebody, husband and wife to other people. And fast forward, it's like 2016, I think it's the, what's the name of the club in Calgary? Laughter. Laugh Shop. Laugh Shop. I finished a show at the Laugh Shop and this couple walks up to me and I

instantly remember them from Mexico and they were like, you told us you were a dental hygienist. Sure, during the day. It came back to bite me. Yeah. I've had it happen where, because I would always tell people I'm a technical writer, which means that I write instructions for industrial applications. And I went and got got a physio massage, and then six months later,

I went back to the same woman. She's like, how's everything in the technical writing business? I'm like, oh, it's an hour of training. Oh, man, I worked on that. Sony came out with a new alarm clock, and I just can't crack it. I can tell there's knots in your back.

Oh, yeah. I was stressed out over the whole. I can tell there's knots in your back. I'm stressed out over the whole of the way. As long as nobody asks three follow-up questions, I'm fine. But anything else? It's the third follow-up. Yeah. I'm like, okay, now I'm really losing control of what this career is. I think instructions have gotten so much better.

Yeah. Because they're either, the thing comes with like a two page pamphlet, that's got nice diagrams, or it just sends you to a website. But gone are the days of like, like I'm reading the German instructions. Yeah, remember you would get like a small, something with an alarm clock, you get a small little book

and it would fold out like a map. Yeah. Yeah. Nobody does instructions better than Lego. They now have the Lego builder app and it's all 3D. So you can spin the piece to make sure you're putting it in the right spot. It is the most satisfying instruction. You told us off air, you got, you've gotten into Lego as a, it's my cancer chronicles. Hotel activity. It is,

it started innocently enough when mom was a VGH at the L, on the leukemia ward, you can't take flowers. Uh, you can't have any plants. And my mom is like me, she's a big gardener and, uh, Jerry suggested, he was like, why don't you just pick up a box of Lego flowers? Uh, and that way she's got something something and I was like, Oh, that's great. So I picked up a box and mum and I sat in her room and did them. And I was like, I don't know, maybe it's a little bit of my tism, but there was something so satisfying about the click and like the bill. I love building IKEA furniture and this was like the closest feeling to it. So then I was the the next day I went and bought another plant

and then by time, you know, a week had gone through, I'd built every Lego flower that existed and was like, well, maybe I'll just get like something cute to build. And fast forward, I just looked on the app this morning because it counts your pieces for you and I'm at 65,000 pieces. Oh wow.

Since February. Wow. Oh, wow. Since February. Wow. Yeah. And for a guy with no income for the year, this is a problem. It's insanely expensive. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Like it's $500 for a box. Like I just bought the hotel at the one I'm staying in. Nothing to do with Lego. I just thought, you know what? Why am I paying them when they're paying me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you need to build equity. Instead I spent what it cost me per night

to stay at this hotel on a tiny miniature hotel. Yeah, I'm a Lego purchaser as well. Are you actually? Well, I have children. Oh, you have children, okay. I have children too, she's 26, but I'll blame it on her if I need to. But we also inherited a bunch from my nieces and nephews, nieces mostly. And so we have a bunch that are like sats that you build.

Do you ever do the like when I was was a kid. Like the free build? Yeah. Yeah, I, my parents still have all of my childhood Legos. So I've been like slowly bringing it over to the house because we've, we've had to turn our like ping pong table into a small village of my collection. And I was like, oh, we have all the old pieces. I can actually build like a little village. So I've slowly started it, but have you seen the app that if you just take a picture of your pile of Lego,

it'll tell you the things you can build? No. You just blew mine. Yeah. What are you talking about? It's just called like bricked or. Oh, yeah. OK, I got to just one. I don't have it. So I will be writing down a little note. Darcy's taking a bag of Lego. What's gonna happen there?

For the longest time I thought being bricked up meant something else, but now I'm bricked up with Lego. Do you ever, I sometimes encounter people who refer to it as Legos. Like each piece is a Lego, but I believe that all of it is Lego. Lego, yeah. Yeah, I'm a Lego person.

Yeah, me too. But I'm corrected on the internet all the time about pop culture things. I grew up, and maybe I know I'm wrong, because it's Wario Mario, but I grew up calling it Mario. Yeah. Yeah. We've just had this conversation a while ago. Did you guys actually?

Okay. Because I get so confused. I then I applied it to like Tony Soprano. Wait, Soprano? Which way? Which is it? It's Soprano, isn't it? It's Soprano.

Yeah. But just now I have to literally before I say Mario, I have to go Wario. Mario. That's how I, I, um, I think it's funny that you don't call it Legos because so many people call you Darcy Michaels. Yeah, that's right. Now a lot of the time people don't even know my last name. It's great. I'm just Darcy. That's right, because you're Darcy and Jer. Yeah, for now.

Yeah, for now, right? For now. Is that funny to Jer? Yeah. Yeah. He's the one. He did this video the other day. It's so stupid. But during his, cause he had a couple surgeries and we just started his treatment last week and we're doing treatment. We, I say, I'm just sitting there. You're just doing like, no, I'm scrolling on Tik TOK probably. And it goes knock, knock. And I'm like, who's there? Tumor, tumor who two more months to live. And I was just like, it was pretty good. But then I got mad. Cause I was like, who's there? Tumor. Tumor who? Two more months to live. And I was just like, it was pretty good. But then I got mad because I was like, bitch, I only booked the hotel for

six weeks. Like, I need to know if I have to extend in summer. Like, they're probably sold out. You know, you dragging this out by an extra two weeks. Jare has gotten so funny that it actually bothers me during this. Cause he's just- He's gained some sort of super power. He's just, he no fucks given anymore. And you've gotten so corporate. I literally, we've had, as I'm in pajamas here. You're calling the RV company?

Yeah. I've had to take over like, cause Jared's fully stepped back from everything. So I am the one doing all the corporate side of things and it's awful. I fucking hate it. I'm not very good at being PC in meetings, like not PC, but like just not being blunt. Like I would, I always had Jare to filter, you know, like when he's dealing with brands and stuff and they give notes on like an ad and I just tell them no fucking

way am I doing that? And then chair would be like Darcy would prefer if we went this right, you know, like that kind of thing Where's now I'm the one being like, what are you fucking talking about? Why would I say it like this and they're just like Bad. Can you put your on the phone? Yeah, sure. So, um, when you guys, uh, like, cause you're on tech talk, you're on Instagram. How many times do you have to post a day? We'll just want today.

No, we don't even do that anymore. We're maybe once or twice a week. Oh, really? Yeah. Other than like stories or stuff like we, we don't really, we've never treated it with a during the height for sure like when we were really like like growing and stuff but especially this year i don't care about entertaining people like if something's funny to jaron and i and it's we just film it for fun and put it out but like we posted on what saturday i don't have any intention

to post anything for the rest of the week. Right. But it was, we were daily. Me neither, me neither. We were daily for like three years. And then I was like, we can't keep this up. Like it's just burnout. So then I was like, let's try three days a week.

And then we, during this like whole thing, because our entire business model blew up, with not being able to tour, we had invested all of our money in the tour and the merch. And so we definitely had to pivot pretty quick. So we started a Patreon page, where I just do a weekly podcast on there. I think I'm on episode nine,

so I'm pretty close to you guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're gonna get into the double digits pretty quick. But it's been, that's been our saving grace. Like I say, so Patreon I'm definitely more active on. People love, like the group chat is just like an ADHD nightmare in there with, you know, a couple thousand other neuro fabulous people. There's a lot of plant talk, a lot of weed talk. And then I try to post like some photos and stuff, but I'm like, there's this thing called, we call it grief tourism. Because we've been had to be a little public with it, we're trying to limit a, you know, like, I don't want to profit off of Jare's illness or anything like that, but it is crazy how-

Pete Slauson By the way, I would profit off Graham's illness in a heartbeat. Jared Liesveld Yeah. We haven't, we've signed a pact. Pete Slauson Yeah. For the record, you've been profiting off of Graham's illness for 899 episodes. He was out there with the katana on the Cassi R connector. We announced that Jare was sick and we jumped 200,000 followers. And I was just like, well, that's bizarre to me. I was worried we were going to announce that the tour was postponed by a year and we were

going to have just a tank because people would a year and we were going to have like just tank because people would be mad at us or something. You invested a bunch in merch. What was the best piece of merch? That's what I was just going to say. What's your merch? Well, the merch was for the tour. Yeah.

So it's sitting in a warehouse because we're still going to use it. But it's just shirts and toe bags? Anything? Yeah. Oh, the thing I was most excited about is we have clacker fans, you know, like the drag queen fans. Oh yeah. Because it's great for people that can't clap after jokes, they can just clack it.

It says the tour is called average at best because we want to set expectations for the second tour. Ten clacking ovations. Yeah. Uh, so yeah, we've just got, uh, a bunch of, uh, merchant warehouse that hopefully doesn't get destroyed by some hurricane before. Oh, sure. Cause the worst thing about it is like you get tour

insurance, right? You get insurance when you're going on these tours, you have to for live nation. Uh. But because we were doing the road trip before we went on the tour, and because Jare and I were driving, we couldn't do tour insurance until the drive stopped, unless we were going to have someone else drive us. And so because Jare and my mom both got sick in the window before the tour started, none of our tour insurance covered any of the cancellations or postponements.

So we've just been sitting on this merch going, hey, wanna buy some merch next year? Cause with the tariffs, there's no point in even trying to sell it online. Cause we'd lose any profit. Gosh. These are all things I have learned very quickly. We're a problem.

Yeah. You also said, I didn't know you were into gardening. What? Oh, I'm quite famous for my plants. Let's see. You haven't been here very much. Yeah, okay, fair. But you also, I know you, what I know most about you

is that you're a huge pot smoker. Yeah. Do you grow pot? No, I don't. I used to, but I'm at... Used to, before it was legal? Before it was legal, I would grow it. And then we, I don't know how to sound.

Sorry, I just need to call the fucking police right now You've been Actively, I don't know how to say this without sounding super privileged But I haven't bought weed in four or five years like we just get sent so much weed I so much weed do with these tariffs even with the tariffs every like pretty much every weed company that Sends us we just got like 48 cans by sweet justice my favorite little weed company Cans of weed pop I'm imagining oh we

He ate cans of weed pop. I'm imagining. Oh, weed pop. Like Coca Cola. I was imagining Popeye squeezing a can of spinach into his pipe. Does Jer smoke? Not as well. He doesn't smoke, but he does edibles. Does that always stay?

I just think of him as this straight and narrow. No, he, we just. I do dirigibles. I fill a blimp with weed smoke and I. Did you just follow it around. No, I go in it. Oh, you go in the... Jerry loves a good little night out. We, just last week before we left the house, we, before he was starting treatment, we were like, let's just take a fuck ton of mushrooms and lay in the yard and blast music. And so we just took the speakers outside and got high for six hours and listened

to our favorite songs and screamed, cried at the sky. It was great. Pete Slauson I'm so mad at the sky. Pete Slauson Yeah. Pete Slauson It's been a pretty angry year, guys. Pete Slauson Yeah. Pete Slauson Not gonna lie. It's been a lot to process. Pete Hsieh But you are here for another two weeks no we've got five weeks ago five weeks ago and then just treatment plans three years long. So it's not great but always coming back here or yeah we come back every three months for three to six weeks depending on the cycle.

depending on the cycle. And then the nice thing is, I say nice thing, there's a six month break, and it happens to be exactly when we go on tour. It's a six month break. But think of this standing ovation. Yeah, oh my God, they're gonna be so quick. We just put out a video where he's literally dressed like Weekend at Bernie's, cause I just want people to be like, set your expectations low for what the chair's gonna be. Oh, that would be a great start of the thing that you're carrying about, Weekend at Bernie style. Oh, absolutely.

He's just gonna sit in a chair. In a chair. Is this something you came up with in that writer's room? Yeah, yeah, yeah! Do you have to redo it and get them, and we're gonna come back and do all these things? We gotta rewrite the whole show, and things have changed.

Are you, you probably are, right? We do, we gotta burn at least half of it. And then, well, I'm starting to write it now just to get ahead of it, but I don't wanna overcommit in case he gets really sick, and I'm like, there's another half of a show gone. Yeah. But we're writing this one, the new version in a way that Jer can not have to be on stage

the whole time. So it's going to be a lot more solo. And Jer will come kind of in and out. Yeah. And it's sort of what you always wanted. You know what? I thought so. Being on stage with Jer was a dream come true. Because it just gave me that one, like it just, it made it, I talked about him on stage for 20 years, but then now it was just like here. We thought you made him up. Yeah. A lot of people didn't think I was punching above my weight.

A lot of people didn't think I was punching above my weight. He, yeah, I love it. I think it's so funny to have a straight-ish man beside you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't know if I'd like it, but he's surprisingly good. He's really good at it. Yeah. Yeah. He picked it up.

I think, you know, he's had a crash course. He sat backstage at shows for 20 years. Very good at the eye roll. He's very good at the eye roll. He's, uh, Darcy. That's the thing too, is it's become like, there's like the, uh, did I do that kind of curse of our thing where it's like, you gotta do the eye roll, you gotta say Darcy. We filmed something with during the Junos, Michael Buble was hosting and we filmed it backstage and then we didn't end up putting it out, but it was Michael trying to audition to be new chair. And I thought it was very funny, but it was too soon for us

to be that dark. But it was him following me around being like, but look, look, and then rolling his eyes. Darcy. Imagine being so successful. You're like, I don't want to post this Michael Buble video. It was just okay. It just wasn't punchy enough. You know, I had notes. Um, yeah, well, that's, uh, uh, like amazing and then horrible and scary and The prognosis is good. That's what I keep, you know, like we've got a bumpy road at, but he's, you know, like they're, they're confident that we caught it early. And that's the

thing, man. If you have symptoms that are weird, go to a fucking doctor. If you can, I get that. That's privileged to say to people outside of Canada. But we are lucky enough to live in Canada. And from the day of his first symptom, he was in surgery within three weeks. And then he had a second surgery four weeks after that. That's seven seven weeks two surgeries and seven weeks. Yeah Promise that's good Well, I'm super glad that you were able to squeeze us in while all this shenanigans are going on The excuse to get out of the hotel room truthfully, yeah like a prison. We're in the same room we were in the last time we stayed. And at first we were like, oh, this is great for the dogs. Cause we also

have my mom's golden retriever as well. And we're like, oh, this is great. Cause they're used to the routine. They know what to expect. And then we walked in and we're like, oh, we got a lot of, a lot of undeaded trauma from the last time we stayed in this room. Yeah, of course. Because Jared had a lot of medical equipment after his surgeries and stuff. And we're like, it looks bigger.

And we're like, oh, right. Like none of the medical equipment's here yet. But it's been great. The hotel eventually, for security, we can't talk about where we're staying, but I have to say like- But we have people who support the show and we'll still tell you on in the private feed. Yeah. And it's not a single tree, but.

Listen, I say we're broke. We're not that broke. Come on now. They've been great. Good. Yeah. People with DoubleTree been great. Good. Yeah. Good. People at DoubleTree are great. Is DoubleTree the one that gives you the soft cookie? The soft cookie. Yeah.

I mean. Yeah. I never know. I wouldn't know. I'm celiac. Yeah. I know. The last time I was there, it was just like, oh, it smelled so good.

And you are... I'm a smelly egg, actually. That's very true. I am a smelly heck. You brought me warm gluten free sesame bagels from lemonade. Oh yeah. And that's all I was thinking about. Yeah.

Oh, and they're good. They're good when they're warm. Oh boy. Even when they're not like those ones, I literally just, when I buy them, I end up eating at least a whole bagel on the drive home just as is. Absolutely. Delicious. Yeah. And you're, you're, you're actually celiac, you know?

Yeah. I'm not doing it because it's trendy. We were talking upstairs. You were the first celiac of the comedian to win celiac. I was patient zero. 2008 was when I got diagnosed. And I had to drive, there was one bakery in North Van. We lived in Ladner, so it was like

an hour drive. And you would go and get a literal brick, like it weighed so much, this loaf of bread, that you had to toast like six times just to make it edible. Yeah, there wasn't anything like that. I want my celiac, celiac, celiac. I swear to God, the reason I only come back every four years is because I feel like I bring nothing to the conversation and I just laugh at you two, the entire podcast. You're very good. Thank you.

You're very good as well. It's so great to have you back as it goes. You haven't listened to my solo podcast on Patreon, available at darcyandjair.com. Yeah. What's it called again? The Patreon. No, the podcast. Oh, SideQuest. SideQuest. And it's just me talking. It's a very lo-fi podcast. I use a lavalier mic, and I just talk to the camera about whatever I want for 20 minutes.

Do you have one of those little square fuzzy road mics? I do. Yeah, and I just, oh no, I don't have the road mic. I have the Amazon rip off. Right. And I just hold it even though it's a lavalier mic because I know it drives people nuts that I hold the mic. But people, that's the number one microphone of walking up to some stranger on the street.

Yeah. With your body count. Yeah. With your body count. It's Charles Bronson. You don't want to know. There's a guy that does it on New York subway. Yeah.

And he's got it behind like a transit transit. Yeah. When I saw somebody else doing it, not on transit. I was like, the whole gag is that he's on transit and it's not that I like that one. That there's, I'm not a big fan of the streeters cause I'm like, you know, using other people's content. Yeah.

It's when I worked in broadcasting, like that was the lowest of the low. Yeah. It's like, oh, we have no angle on the story. We'll just talk to people as they leave the subway. Yeah. Oh, it's gross. But they're all eating sandwiches. The only ones that are like-

Sir, are you eating fresh? Yes or no? Do you know there's one about, I can't remember what it's called, but they just go up to couples in New York and ask them, like, are you a couple? What's your story? And that one I like because ask them, like, are you a couple? What's your story? And that one I like, because it's usually like, how'd you meet? And you would be on there making up a little fake life. I would absolutely.

I'm a dental hygienist married to a tech writer. Hey, you want to see how to put in a dental dam? That's our jam. He wrote it. I slam it in. But yeah the The ones where they're like, can I see your apartment? I'm like this must have been pre. Oh, yeah Those ones are those ones are fully staged. Yeah, they'd have to be I like the ones that are like

Here's a bunch of geography questions or so. Yeah, I like the ones really like do you hawk to a spit on that thing? I like the ones where they're like, do you hawk to a spit on that thing? Is this a multiple choice question? Dave, what's going on with you, man? Well, things aren't as bad over here. Sure. I think you don't say. Well, one thing I like about doing this podcast

year after year is it sort of like sets markers in time where I'm like, oh, was it this time last year that, oh, yes, it was. It's right now, it's time of year that comes around every year where I look out my front window and I see crows dive bombing pedestrians. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got dive bombed the other day. Did you?

Is this, this happens here? It happens for about two days, two or three days that there's. Oh, is it like mating season? I were like, the babies are born. Yeah. Uh, and there's just like, uh, all day long they're cawing and cawing and people walk down and they hear the cawing, but that's what crows do.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're chatty. And then they go right by your ear and they. Yeah, this one flew like right over my head. It wasn't as scary as I thought, because I was just like, well, that's what they're, this is their time of year to be doing that.

Let them, let them swoop. They're smart. And they scare me. The adults are, but I think that some of the young birds have, the reason they're freaking out is because the young birds are going out and doing stuff and they're stupid and they just get stuck behind a flower pot in my backyard. Did that happen? That happened.

Oh no. Oh no. We're a little guy. Yeah. And then, but he figured it out. Nice. We left him alone for a while. I was like, do we help him?

Yeah, yeah. Let's see what happens. No, he's got to learn this life lesson. And, but like all day long, it's just, you see a pedestrian or a cyclist going down or a jogger and you see two people coming at different times and you're like, which ones are the crows gonna get? When I walk the dogs, I bring my umbrella. Oh, sure.

Do you actually? Yeah. That's wild. Oh, I'm glad I, I bring my umbrella. Oh, sure. Do you actually? Yeah. That's wild. Oh, I'm glad I know this before I leave. Have you ever had this happen? No, I got dive bombed by an owl once. And it was my friend Diana and I were walking and the owl tried to steal her hair barrette. Like it was just like, obviously something, the sun

hit it. Jared Slauson She had the mouth-shaped hair barrette. Pete Slauson Yeah, and it got her, and I just felt like this like thing, but she looked traumatized. Jared Slauson It is freaky. I mean, owls are huge. Pete Slauson They've got those big claws. Pete Slauson Yeah, yeah, no, it like, it grabbed her head and her hair got all teased and she, the rest of the-

Jared Slauson Some people pay a lot of money to have a hair barrette. Pete Slauson She spent the rest of the people pay a lot of money. She spent the rest of the night being like, I can still feel it touching me. Yeah. Oh my God. I think crows would scare me because I wouldn't want to piss them off. Yeah. Because there's such, they have such memory. Yeah. Yeah. We had a crow that thought he was a woodpecker at my parents' house and he would pack at my dad's window sill in the mornings and so one day my dad just put his gun he was a cop on the window sill and the crow never came back like that's when I knew his business yeah that's when I knew

grows they know shit and they were like okay it's not fucking around anymore This will just tell the whole neighborhood, no, that's important as well. There's a website called Crow Tracks. Okay. Where you can report where the crows attack you. And some of them, like you fill in like the number one to five, how aggressive they were. And then you write a little thing about what happened. And I was going through a bunch of posts, like seeing what was around and so many people are like, I guess they expect the crows to be much more

aggressive because they're like, ah, the crow scratched my head and attacked me. Two out of five. Two out of five do not recommend. Yeah. That's what's the point of a website like that other than giving someone a space to just tell somebody else? I think that's it. Or like nowhere to avoid if like... Yeah. There's a guy in the West End I've seen like at least once a week that walks with

a group of crows. Have you ever seen this phenomenon where they like have like 20 of them and they just follow him as he walks through? He's a Piper. Like he feeds them every now and then and stuff, but like he'll be down at Sunset Beach in the mornings sitting on a log and there'll be like 20 or 30 of the crows just hanging. Oh.

And they must be bringing them the shiniest objects they find. Oh yeah. Our neighbor feeds the crows on the island and we every now and then get little trinkets at our front door from the crows because they like pay it forward. Bring your gun, hey, I found this gun.

Yeah. What I will say about that is don't feed the crows. The crows are doing fine. Yeah, they're thriving. They're thriving. Yeah. So that was one thing. The other thing that happened this week

is I went to see Lilo and Stitch. Live action. Ooh, the live action. I mean, see Lilo and Stitch. Live action. Well, the live action. I mean, Lilo's live action. OK, all right. Who plays Lilo? I know. No. Well, Lilo. Isn't Lilo.

That's who plays it. He's Lilo. Lilo. Wait, themselves. Wario Wario Lilo. Am I doing this right? Was it good? What are you asking me? No, it wasn't good.

Was it tolerable? It was fine. Did the kids like it? Did you go with the kids? I went with the kids. You just gotta have some me time. It was better than like the Snow White. Sure.

We see all the remakes. I haven't seen the originals of a lot of these. Yeah. Have I seen Lilo and Stich? I haven't seen Lilo and Stich. Yeah, I don't know. I definitely. Zach Galifianakis is in it.

No way. He's a bad guy. Like as an animated guy? He's an animated guy who gets, like when he comes to Earth, he becomes a human being and switches bodies with comedians like Galifianak. Good for Zack. Yeah. I love what he's done with himself.

Just like totally separated, moved out, given Hollywood the finger and then just pops up in Lilo and Stitch. Well, sure, and then just pops up in Lilo and Stitch. Sure, I'll be the heavy in Lilo and Stitch. Yeah. Yeah. Every actor wants to do that. That Shakespeare, you want to be a guy in an animated film. But my favorite thing that happened during Lilo and Stitch was, I went to go to the bathroom and there was a dad and a son,

and the son was like six, and he was wearing, you know, those Spider-Man, like all the superhero costumes have super big muscles now. Yeah, yeah. All those Spider-Man, I don't consider a very muscular. Yeah, he's a lean guy, yeah. But he had the muscular Spider-Man thing, and we were in the bathroom, and so he had to take it off,

and he takes it off, and underneath he has another one and then he has to take that off so I'm like washing my hands I look in the mirror and I see this little kid with four sleeves hanging four muscly sleeves hanging down he looked like a spider yeah yeah yeah I figured he probably like his parents were like, oh, okay, you've outgrown your size five, we'll get you a size six. And the kid's like, no, I keep both. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna put one under the other.

Yeah. And it's like a jumpsuit? Or is that why I had to, okay. Yeah, that's so funny. That's so cute. I mean, it's exactly how Spider-Man himself goes to the bathroom. Yeah, he's gonna take the whole thing off.

Well, he probably just pisses on the Empire State Building. Pisses his pants? Yeah, pisses his pants. Pisses his pants, moves on. Are they like, it's not like a vinyl, like fetish suit that like, were not a bubble of air can escape. Uh, Spider-Man? Yeah.

I would assume it's pretty formed. It's pretty formed, but if he pisses, does it get soaked or does the piss stay inside? Like just like a bubble starts. No, I didn't. It's like a water balloon. Get me pictures of Spider-Man. Not now. Yeah. Get me pictures of Spider-Man, not now! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

I guess he's the photographer himself. That's right, he's good friends with Spider-Man. I just figured it out, yeah. Anyway I check out Lilo and Sting from Disney. People are poking big holes in there. Some of the logic of the movie. Like what? There's a big Medicaid issue.

Really? Yeah, Lilo's older sister, their parents are dead. Okay. And Lilo has to like make a good impression to the social worker played by? Jane Lynch. And Allison Janney. No, a Hawaiian celebrity. This takes place on Hawaii.

The Rock. Two time winner of the Grammy Award for Hawaiian Album of the Year. Dawn. Elvis Presley. Tia Carrere. Tia Carrere. Oh, okay. No idea who that is. You know, the gal from Wingsworld. Oh, okay, yeah, fair.

And she's the social worker, and she's like gonna take away Lilo if Lilo's older sister doesn't take care of her. And then they end up in the hospital because of a surfing accident. It's a heavy movie. She's like, well, you know what?

If you give her over to the state, then Medicaid can pay her bill. And I don't, I mean, I'm Canadian. I don't really know the internet. But they go out like a whole scene where like, now you copay, all you have to pay is the deductible. If your employee is gonna match a quarter of it. Now, if they're not, you can apply to the company.

But what about, I hate Obamacare, but I love the Affordable Care Act. Will, I got news for you. Yeah. Yeah. I shouldn't got news for you. I shouldn't know any of this. Yeah. Oh man. So people are like, well, actually they would both be covered by Medicaid

because of their income levels. Like there's a big spoiler in the plot. Somebody who was really bored with the film and like, yeah, well, more importantly, how did you discover these holes in the plot or the conversation about the holes in the plot? Oh, I mean, I'm on a different internet than you, man. Yeah. David likes to research the movie as soon as it's done,

get all the ins and outs. Is, is, cause I don't think I've heard, Lilo doesn't speak, right? Or speak to- Lilo is a human girl. Oh, sorry, Stitch, cause I don't think I've heard, Lilo doesn't speak, right? Or speak. Lilo is a human girl. Stitch is the, uh, Stitch in the movie picks it. I don't know about the original in this one. He picks up a bit of English by the end.

So it's very sad. He, cause he's, he causes all this chaos and he says something about like, I'm bad. Yeah. Stitching up that. You're just too bad things. That's the line. Yeah. Oh, really?

Yeah. So check it out. Lilo and Stitch from Disney. Yeah. The upstart. Yeah. They're the A24 of giant movie companies. I wonder if their past catalog, have they mined it for all it's worth? They're the A24 of giant movie companies.

I wonder if their past catalog, have they mined it for all it's worth? I heard one of the reasons they remake these things is so they can renew their trademark. Oh. Yeah, so they don't get the Mickey Mouse. Yeah, so like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Well, we just remade Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,

and they all have the names that we came up with right? Okay. Oh, I didn't realize that's it. They also had horny horny. Yeah That was the one they really wanted to protect Yeah, what is horny doing the movie? Oh, he's uh, they can't find Doesn't want to wake up. Let's just say he whistles while he works doesn't want her to wake up. Let's just say he whistles while he works. What's going on with you, Graham? I know what's going on with you. You had a big weekend. Had a big weekend. This weekend, I performed. 24 hours straight of stand-up comedy. Thank you.

Standing ovation. Wow. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It took a while to get there. Clacker, clacker, clacker. You did it in 24 hours. did people stand up at the end? At the very end, yes. Yeah, people stood up and clapped. Walked out. Yeah, that was it.

We're done. Where did I leave my keys? I watched online. You were very funny. Thank you. It was great. I watched online and in person. You were there, you were a joke writer.

I was a joke writer? Well, I was mostly reminiscing. But it was, yeah, it was a lot of fun. And then, oh, the shenanigans that go on in a 24-hour show. Two babies during the shoot. That's it. Yeah, I thought there would be more but one. Because I was there for at least one.

You saw the baby that stayed the longest. The other baby, I think the parents sat down and started crying, they just walked out immediately. This is fine, you know, it was worth a shot and they were up at six or something, six or seven in the morning, so it was probably like, yeah, we're already up, let's go check this out. I was fine with the baby crying, that's fine. At one point the fire alarm went off

and it was going off for a good like eight or nine minutes and- Everybody just stayed. Yeah. I mean, because it was, yeah, we stayed, but it was like, uh, it was a false alarm. Okay. Yeah. How does it, can I ask at like for the 24 hours, do you allow yourself bathroom break? Yes.

Okay. How often? Uh, it just kind of- Every hour for about 59 minutes. Yeah. Usually because they have a table of writers. When the writers shift over. Then you take a break. Yeah, just because there's like a natural break or whatever.

So when the writers come in and, was it two hours? Yeah, two. And my shift started right on time. And then the next shift started quite late. And I was like, Graham's having a bathroom trouble. Yeah. I hear him splashing around in there like, oh, I got this figured out. Yeah. So there was two babies,

a dog, somebody brought a service dog. Cute. Because during the show, I throw all the jokes in a pile, this giant leaf pile of jokes. And people are writing, you get teams of writers. Just cranking out the material. Cranking out jokes, they go in a bucket,

you finish, you tell a joke, you throw it in a pile. Yeah, and it becomes this giant pile on stage. This dog came in and we're like, how do we get this dog in the pile? We want this dog in the pile. There was a lot of writers who would write the word treat into their joke. And at first I didn't understand it.

I was like, I know what you're doing here. But so the owner threw a bunch of snacks in the pile. We just stood there and watched them nose around and stick a little face in there. What time of day was that? That was probably, I gotta say that's gotta be like... The morning of Saturday morning? Yeah, it was in the morning.

Because I was there at noon and it had happened. It had happened. But the dog was gone. Yeah. And the dog was so cute. What hour in 24 hours do you think you're the funniest? Oh, that's a good question. Probably in the first stretch and then the very last stretch.

Yeah. I was there at noon and I think that's when you're the meanest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was there as the queen of me and don't come for my act. Yeah. It's so much fun to write jokes and do it for two hours. I don't know why you do it for 24 hours. It is fun most of the time.

The only time it wasn't fun was... I heard. What did you hear? I heard there was an unpleasant person. Yeah, yeah. Oh, what happened? There was somebody on the writer's table that brought somebody with them, which is not. Okay.

And the guy that was with him was pretty manosphere, let's say, kind of hating woke things that I'm like, why are you here? You don't have to also- Like heckling? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But was he writing jokes? I don't know.

I don't know what he was doing there. But you weren't getting jokes that are like, this is too unwoke? Yeah, it was. Okay. I was like, I'm not gonna say that because this is being live streamed, right? So it'd be one thing, I guess,

if it's just like the 10 of us in a room, sure why not. But, and then- It's like the whole point of view is being woke for 24 hours. Yeah. You're fighting off the urge to sleep. And yeah, so that was weird.

And then there were reoccurring people kind of popped up. They came back after a stretch of time. And there was a guy, at first when he came in, I was like, God damn, this guy's going to be so much trouble. His name was Big Gay Al. And while he was in there in a cowboy hat, I was like, oh, fuck me. Like, how are we going to deal with this? Oh, fuck me big guy.

If there's time. But then he ended up being lovely. He's real, he's a real hippie and he like grows his own hops to make beer. I feel like that happened last year as well, where there was someone who was like so drunk and out of control and then they slept it off, came back later and brought you a gift. Yeah, they brought me an onion. Sure. Because the woman was, when she was there late at night, just reeked of onions.

She must have just had like a, you know, like a swarm or something like that. And so every joke was about how this woman smelled like onions. It does, it's so fun how the jokes will just like, you'll get in a pattern of the same jokes and like the same topics. Sometimes you're doing a callback from six hours early. Yeah. Well, do you, were you there with any come tree jokes? Yeah, I was there in the heat of country and diarrhea. Well, we all know who started that. Yeah, that would be Alicia. That would be Alicia. That would be Alicia. Diarrhea Factory.

Diarrhea Factory. And she also wrote about Big Naturals. Yes, Big Naturals, of course. And then so every combination of those three things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Was there something, there was those ladies who left for brunch after two minutes of seeing the show. They were amazing.

This like squad of, what do you say, like in their 50s, 60s. Yeah, usually 50s. But they were, I thought they were just like, here off a cruise ship. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they all had like beautiful gray hair. And just at one point, they were like, off to brunch and like walked out. They had sat there for less than 10 minutes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's amazing. They went out to brunch. There was one guy, there was two people that were there the whole

time. Really? Yeah. There was a woman named Natasha and a guy named Michael and they were there from the very beginning to the very end. Wow. And there was another guy. Did they donate? Their time.

Thanks. At the price of a ticket, I guess. And the woman, Natasha, she is a nanny, so she's quite good at reading bad handwriting. I had to hand anything off to her that I couldn't read. That's how she became. The nanny. Who would have guessed that the girl described

was just exactly what the girl described. She's a lady in red when everybody else is wearing tan. Oh man. Do you ever see the nanny, Darcy? No. The flashy girl from Flushing? I know it, but I did not know that that's what you guys were singing. I've never seen an episode. Oh, that was.

It was a bit behind my time. Right. You're R-Age. Am I? Are we? Are we the same age? I think so. We are. Yeah, because you went to school with my friend Bill. Yes. You were roommates. No, we were in the same dorm, but yeah. Okay. We were down the hall from each other. They're dorm mates. Oh, man. I would have killed myself if I was Bill's roommate. And I would have killed myself if I was Bill's roommate. Yeah. I understand.

That weird new fee pouring sugar on pizza. Really? Yeah. That's, I love that you remember that from 20 years ago. Yeah, still does it. I remember one thing about everyone I've ever met. Sugar on pizza. Sugar on pizza, wow.

Yeah. Is that, that is like a Newfoundland? I don't know. That's just two a Newfoundland? I don't know. That's just two things about them actually. I don't know if they're connected. I don't know if they're connected, but it is surprisingly good. Well, of course it is. It's sweet and salty.

Yeah. Yeah. I wonder if they'll have it at the pig out tonight. Bring your own sugar. If they have a gluten-free, I got the night open. I could easily go down. That's the trick with pizza. You can only eat so many slices. Yeah, I mean, it's a fun way.

That's not, I've yet to reach my limit of slices. When you were younger, did you go to the Pizza Hut? I worked at Pizza Hut Buffet in Northam. Buffet? Yeah, the one by Cap Mall. I worked there and then on 16th and Lonsdale. I worked for pizza hut. That was the longest job I've ever had in my life.

And what did you, like, I guess there are only so many jobs in a pizza hut. Were you a server? I would make other pizza pie. You'd make it? I worked in the kitchen most of the time. That was my favorite. Was there a buffet? There was a buffet at the Marine Drive one.

Did you refill the croutons? Oh, I refilled the croutons. Then there was that big, like, giant ladle that you could get a salad dressing. And that was when I used to pizza at the birthplace, I think, of dipping sauce for pizza. Yeah, sure. Long before we, it was a thing that you would buy.

We would always crack open a little ranch thing and dip in I'm not a huge fan of dipping pizza. I've the crust is bad. Yeah, that's where I Like a marinara sauce with a with a pizza to dip in but yeah, I like it saucy Where's your favorite gluten-free pizza? Have we had this conversation here in town? Yeah a place called parlor I was gonna say we had that together. Yeah in town? Yeah. A place called Parlor. I was gonna say, we had that together at the writers room. Yeah, I like Parlor. I'm a big fan of Domino's gluten-free.

Yeah, it'll do. It'll do in a crunch. Yeah, but they only sell certain size. Smalls, so you gotta get like eight of them. You gotta get eight smalls. It's a real financial thing. Each one equals a slice. It's a real pizza pig out.

But yeah, oh, that's amazing. You worked at a pizza hut. I was a pizza boy. Who were you? Do you think you were celiac back then? Oh, absolutely. You should never argue with a celiac. Nice.

I wasn't sure where it was going, but I like where it ended up. When I got my job at Pizza Hut, the training video was Siskel and Ebert. Oh, yeah. Remember the two thumbs up guys? They were in the training video? They were the training video for Pizza Hut. And Bill, your dorm mate and I would always, anytime we'd make a pizza, we'd look at each other and give each other a thumbs up.

Like, hey, we did it. I bet that's on YouTube. I bet you it probably is somewhere. There's Wendy's training videos. There's the training video you've seen the guy at the carving station, the training video where they're like they make conversation. Did you see the game last night? Yeah. They're ruining our country.

Those people. We, we once had to paint the bathroom at the pizza after hours. And Bill, uh, spilled a bunch of paint in the bathroom and we both stood nipping like, what the fuck? And then Bill walked from the bathroom in paint covered shoes across the restaurant to get a mopping bucket. So Bill. And then we were both just like, what do we do? So we gently mopped it and left for the night and came back and we had done a terrible job

mopping and the entire floor was just like streaks of white paint. It was great. Let's leave. They'll never know. They'll never know. Yeah. Couldn't be anyone.

We were pretty stoned in the 90s. Wow. Yeah. Was it, is it like just a pre-made Crested-in or do you actually have to like roll out? Oh, no, you may like I'd go in in the morning. I loved it. I genuinely I think it's like the Lego thing where it was just like you go in the morning, you make the dough, you spread like you roll out pizzas, you put them into the into the

warmer so you'd make like, I don't know, 200 large pizzas and fill the once you would see how much oil was in those pans Mmm for a while. I think one medium pizza was like three or four Tablespoons of oil in the bottom and then the pan and then the the dough I make pizza at home I cannot make the dough a circle. Oh, yeah I know it's because yeah, it's impossible. Yeah, you gotta go with the rustic look Yeah, we have a pizza oven at the new house and I love it know it's because it's impossible. You gotta go with the rustic look. We have a pizza oven at the new house and I love it. Is it an uni? I don't know.

I have one friend with an uni, I have two friends with an uni and a friend with whatever the Swedish version of an uni is. Is there a specific look to an uni? That's the one with the dome. I don't know. No, ours is a black stone or whatever it is. Oh, sure.

We have a, we just have a barbecue with a pizza stone on top. Oh yeah. Yeah. And it, but I have to, I had to get some like fireproof bricks to elevate it so it doesn't burn the bottom. Have you done it? Yeah. And results? Good Have you done it? Yeah. And results?

Good, it's fine. Yeah. It's not as good as an uni. Are you not using wood, are you? No, ours is attached, like it's its own thing, but it's attached to the propane of the barbecue. Oh yeah. It's like a ceramic thing.

Oh sure. That is just like, I don't know, you just turn it on and throw pizza in. Sounds good. Oh, yeah. Oh, like a ceramic thing. Oh, sure. That is just like, I don't know, you just turn it on and throw pizza. Sounds good. Yeah. It's fun. It's my anytime we're having more than Jare and I for dinner, which are you is a homemade gluten free crust? Good. Oh, no, it's horrible. We get these. Char is the brand, you know, use code Darcy Jr. 15 to save. No, that will not work. Darcy said this would work. What the hell?

I've ordered 20 of these things. But they make a great crust. The problem with making pizza at home is like getting the cheese and sauce common. Yeah. It's hard to get that like commercial taste. You've had the Costco one, right? Yeah. The Costco one's great. We actually have them in the hotel right now.

I think that's the plan tonight. Nice. Couple baked pizzas. Did you bring your pizza with you to the hotel? Yeah. With the amount I packed, we probably should have. We brought our air fryer, our ice maker. This time around, I was not fun.

Did you really? Yeah. I was like, I want all the things I can bring. Like, uh, if we're going to ice, there's an ice maker that we got forever ago. It's the little tiny cube. The pellets. The pellets. It's from Costco. It's the best thing in the world.

I drink so much water because of it. Is the, the, that feel like that was a pizza thing as well. The little pellets. And maybe it was, wow. We're really connecting the dots. As I remember you get those brown tumbler glasses. Yeah, the brown glasses. And I feel like there would be those circular.

I just feel like the light fixtures. Oh, the light fixtures, oh my God. The booths, I mean. There's still the building for the original Pizza Hut is still there and it's now in insurance. And it looks ridiculous. It's like, what's with the hut? Speaking of back in the day,

there's something we've been asking a lot of our guests is when you were a kid in school, what movies did they show like either to kill time in class or this is connected to chemistry because it's weird How did they make her in weird science was it chemistry was it compose yeah, it was probably computer science. Yeah, what was the one? Like with the it's not lost boys, but it was the. Yeah. That one. And the one with Jerry O'Connell, uh, stand by me, stand by me. That was the one that could stretch into two or three class viewings. Right.

Yeah. Uh, what's his name from taskmaster? Greg Davies just talked about that. He, when he was a teacher, it was every Friday afternoon, he would put a movie on for kids because he'd gotten drunk at lunch. So then it makes you go back and go, yeah, it always was Fridays. Were they all just drunk? I think, yeah.

Or like the entire month of June, pretty much. Yeah. Well, we're close enough to the end of the year. Here. Let's get wasted. What did you guys watch? Oh, boy. I feel like we watched Time Bandits at one point. Time Bandits, Breakfast Club. Breakfast Club, here. Let's get, what did you guys watch? Oh boy. I feel like we watched time bandits at one point. Time that's breakfast club, breakfast club. Yeah. Which is funny. Like,

I don't know if you could play that one today. Probably not. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I remember that being a robber who prints a thieves. Oh yeah. Whatever we're reading. Yeah. Don't I think we, we didn't get as many as you. Yeah, I really. On a story. Yeah. There was like, I feel like the things we, it would be for a special occasion, like, hey, it's the last day of school before Christmas. Let's watch The Grinch.

Yeah. Or like you're, or this year we're doing a French film class for your elective. So French connection. Beauty and the Beast because her name is Belle. They're in France. The whole thing. Gaston is certainly French. I feel like we may have watched the Disney movie as well.

We definitely never got Disney movies. I don't know if our school had the budget for it. I think you're right though. I think my drama teacher was somebody who was always kind of hung over. Yeah. Would show us a movie. They would show us this like

Pizza Hut training video with Siskel and Eber. That sounds pretty good. Thumbs up. Thumbs up. I bet you that paid so much money. Oh, I bet you. Good for them. Yeah.

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Overheard. Overheard is a segment of the show where if you got them, we want them and we're talking things you've overheard or overseen or on occasion, over dreamt. And we always like to start with the guest, Darcy, do you have an overheard? I have an overheard and I also have an over read. Perfect. But they're both dark also have an overread. Pete Perfect.

Pete Slauson This one I overheard. I've changed the name, but the way the husband emphasized her name just made it so much funnier to me. So, I've changed the name for their privacy, but it was a couple arguing next to my mom's room at the cancer clinic because this woman was complaining that she was running out of time to get Aaron's done. And he goes, must be nice. I'm not running for anything because I don't have legs anymore, Sharon. And it was just like, Sharon, you gotta stop using running terminology to your

husband who just lost his fucking legs. Sorry, I'm trying to get a leg up at work. Oh God. Oh wow. He's got legs, he knows how to use them. No. The important thing is I got four new pairs of shoes that day. Pfft. Pfft. Pfft.

Pfft. Pfft. This dark comedy's working for you. This is good. Pfft. I didn't even have to wait for them to wash ashore in Vancouver. Wow, there it is, a double. Pfft.

For people who don't know here in Vancouver, pretty consistently feet will wash up on shore in shoes. In shoes. Yeah. Nobody's quite sure what it is, but any which way it's a... I did. I used to do a joke about it because it happened like 200 feet from our front door in Ladner. And I only know that because I use the foot to measure. Man, you gotta get, you gotta be the dark and stormy guy.

TikTok loves this kind of stuff. Yeah. Dave, do you have a word? Yeah, these are, I just took a bunch of pictures of the website, Crow Tracks. I was going to say, if it's Crow related, I'm in. Crow dived on me, tried to grab my hair, one aggressiveness. Crow seemed chill at first, sitting by the bench, but then it landed on my head. It wasn't too bad. They flew away and did not come back to re-land. Aggressiveness, one. first sitting by the bench, but then it landed on my head.

Wasn't too bad. They flew away and did not come back to re-land. Aggressiveness, one. One, okay, that's not bad. Aggressiveness, five. And there's a typo which I enjoyed. Attached and scratched my head. Blue blood.

Really? What was the rating on that one? Five. Five, okay, Yeah, fair. I think it, I think I meant attacked and scratched my head. Hmm, yeah, not attacked. Yeah, yeah.

Emotionally. Imagine, oh my God. But here's one that is, just a van I saw in the neighborhood today. The name of a tradesman on the side of his van, it says, Young Boy Drywall. No, nice. No, okay.

Old Man Drywall. Yeah. So about this young boy you're sending over. Yeah. Yeah, maybe it means something in a different. Oh, well, yeah, I don't know. Yeah. But Abbie grew up in Bern, Switzerland, and the local soccer team there is called the Bern

Young Boys. Oh, wow. And I think even in German, they call them the Young Boys, like the English words. So maybe it is. maybe it's a German I don't know. Also there the stadium they play at the young boys Wank Dorf Stadium. No, really Jokes right themselves. I mean even if they don't it's fun to say yeah Anyway check it out Young boy Anyway, check it out. What is it called again? Young Boy Drywall. Young Boy Drywall.

No, the Crow website. Crow tracks. Crow tracks with an X. Oh, is it? Yeah. Yeah. Hell yeah. That's trendy.

Brian, do you have an overheard? I do. You must have overheard something in those 24 hours. I did. So on the way to Little Mountain, I passed by a pizza slice place. It was called 911 Pizza. And it's a police-themed pizza place.

We've talked about it. Yeah, and it's, so I was talking about it and maybe laughing, we were all laughing. And then it became 911 Pizza and then it became its own stream. And then these two kids came in, this guy brought us two kids, and when I was asking him how old they are,

9-Eleven, everybody lost their mind. Are you kidding? Oh, he did that as tribute to those who fell. That's right. Yeah, but it was just like, couldn't have been more perfect. Were they, so you had babies, and then you had a nine-year-old and an 11-year-old. Anyone in between? Anyone else bring their kids? No, that was the kids and these kids had been the year before and they also wrote jokes and put them in the box. Did they actually? Yeah. Oh,

that's cute. Well, you know, one of the classic. Was it Knock Knock? Who's there? 9-11. 9-11 who? And you said Never Freak. Yes! My kids are going to be 9 and 11 next year. Well, we know what their Halloween costume is. They're not exactly twins. But yeah, anyways, that was a nice moment. Okay, but we talked about the 24-hour thing. How was the success?

Because it's a fundraiser. It's a fundraiser. It's a fundraiser. It's a fundraiser. It's a fundraiser. It's a fundraiser. It's a fundraiser. It's a fundraiser.

It's a fundraiser. It's a fundraiser. It's a fundraiser. It's a fundraiser. It's a fundraiser. It's a fundraiser. It's a fundraiser. It's a fundraiser. It's a fundraiser. that was a nice moment. Okay. But we talked about the 24-hour thing.

How was the success? Because it's a fundraiser. Yeah, it was good. It was good? Yeah, I can't remember. I don't remember. I don't know what the final tally is. Did you break three figures?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We got up into the, we're in the fours. We're definitely in the fours. That's great. Because it's a fundraiser for Little Mountain Gallery. It was some of it went to Little Mountain

because it's a not-for-profit. Yeah. But the rest went to Filipino BC. Oh, amazing. Yeah. Oh, that's great. And they had like they sent somebody down and they took all sorts of pictures.

You were on the news. I was on the news. Yeah, I was on radio news and television news. Oh, also there was, the next day, what seemed like a really popular fundraiser for the Filipino community. A local restaurant had the soup Nazi. Oh really?

Yeah. No really. The soup Nazi was there. I saw somebody post it, but I was just like, oh, maybe that's just a... And it was raising money for Filipinos. Wow. For the lapu-lapuu is it the guy who played or the actual the guy the actor the actor okay fun fun that's cute cuz I did know he does that for charity

and it becomes like a fun silly you know yeah action I mean people were lined up yeah I would yell that, I would go. I don't even like soup. No? No, hate soup. Really? Just across the board. Just don't give me soup.

It's so labor intensive. What about stew? What, to eat? Yeah, it's exhausting. Tiny little spoon and. It's like no, I don't like it. Stew. What about hashtag celebrity soup?

Yeah. Patrick Stewart. Are we talking or Stewart? Are we talking orgy? Are we talking orgy? I don't have the energy for that either. After your 40 years, it's orgy time is bye bye. Have you heard of nachos? That is a satisfying time. Man, I made nachos the other night.

I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym. I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym. I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym. I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym. I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym. I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym. I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym. I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym.

I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym. I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym. I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym. I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym. I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym. I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym. I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym. I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym. I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym. I'm like, nachos? That is a satisfying time. Oh man, I might. I made nachos the other night. I'm going to show you a picture because they actually for hotel room nachos, they like look at that.

Oh, that's a, that's a great thing. That the air fryer? Uh, no, I use the oven for that one. Nice. Yeah. Hope not the same oven they use for those cookies. The double tree cookies. It's just me in the lobby of the double tree. I gotta borrow this for a second. Checking in again. Sorry, my cancer patient has a craving. Yeah.

The chair was literally like, you made nachos? Those nachos look good. They were good. Jared Slauson Did you do layers of, or was that just one big layer of cheese on top? Pete Slauson No, no, it was a double layer. I wasn't fucking around. I had a lot of weed pop sent to me. Jared Slauson Yeah, you got to get through that weed pop.

Pete Slauson Meanwhile, Jared was like, can I have a soup? Jared Slauson Like, oh yeah, I guess I should make- Jared Slauson We don't like soup as a couple. Pete Slauson Yeah. Jared Slauson No, I should probably make you something too, eh? Jared Slauson Yeah. Jared Slauson You want like tortilla soup? I got probably make you something too. Yeah. Like tortilla soup. It's got to have a just stuff lying around. I could spit on the nachos. That's tortilla soup for you.

You're gonna water down the guacamole. Yeah. Take some pain medicine. Go to sleep. Now we also have overheard sent in to us by people all over the map. If you want to send one, you can send it into sBYMaximumFun.org. And this first one comes from Julian in Edmonton. Tarzan just played the phone number. The phone number. It's great.

I'm going to start calling in and leaving voicemails. Just catch up times. Yeah. If you see anything funny. Or even if you just want to catch up. I just want to talk. Yeah, yeah, see anything funny, or even if you just wanna catch up. I just wanna talk. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who has to listen to these?

Me. Really? Oh yeah. We gotta take a picture of this. 22 minute call. We should get an intern. Yeah. Yeah, maybe.

Might be time for high boys. Spratt Shaw and see if anyone's the intern for the summer. How long has Spratt Shot Community College been around? It's funny because it's almost been, well, it's 1903. I can't do the math, but. Okay, sorry, do your own. This comes from Julian from Edmonton. I was sitting on a brew pub patio,

and there was a group of about six women in their early 20s sitting nearby. They were servers at a nearby restaurant excitedly chatting away. At one point the topic turned to how they resembled their parents, and one of them said in a completely sincere way, I look so much like my mom and dad. It's like if they had a kid together, it would look exactly like me. A past guest, Amber Harper Young. She does a joke because a lot of comedians would back in the day, especially I know what you're thinking. It's so and so and so and so had a kid together.

And she does like Stephen Harper and Mary Young. Oh, my parents. Oh, sure. Oh, yeah. Someone else does that joke as well. It's a pretty, it's a solid joke. Yeah. Oh, there was a very good comedian I saw do that, the hackiest version of that joke. I used to have one about Dom DeLuis and Rosie O'Donnell. That's pretty good. That's pretty accurate.

It's actually getting better with age. Yeah. I got to bring it back. That's pretty good. It's pretty actually getting better with I gotta bring it back. Thanks guys. Yeah, when would the cuz that's the thing right like reference wise What's the cutoff of people who know Dom DeLavis, right? Like I do you remember What was the club that was started in Vancouver at the casino? What was that one called? I forget. Oh. When they branched off from.

Jokers or something? Yeah, and they brought in, oh my God, I'm blanking on his name. He was the parrot. Yeah, yeah, Gilbert Godfrey. Gilbert Godfrey. I hosted for that. You hosted that show, and remember that show,

all of his references were just so old. So old. No one knew what he was referencing. Yeah. And that's where I'm at right now with comedy. I'm like, do people know Dom DeLuise? Are we at the age now where we have to start referencing down? You're trying to get a younger and younger.

Try it. Yeah. Because Dom DeLuise I feel like was an older reference even when I was. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Cause what was your experience of like, how did you know who Dom DeLuise was? Cause I was a fat kid that everyone told me I looked like Dom DeLuise. Beard in grade six.

She was my best friend. Because I remember when I was a kid, his thing that I knew from was he was like a chef guy. No, I knew him. Isn't that Paul Prudhomme? I don't remember. Who's Paul Prudhomme? Chef Paul Prudhomme. It looks like. Does he look like him?

Yeah. Yeah. I knew him from commercials. Like just from selling things. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That does look like him. That does look like him? Yeah. Yeah. I knew him from commercials. Yeah. Just from selling things. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That does look like him.

Is that me? That's you. Pretty gluten free. Yeah. Oh, and he's got a big turkey there on the... Yeah, big turkey. Now, we also have an overheard sent in by Daniel C. From Davis, California.

I was in line for a Jack White show at a fairly new venue in Sacramento. They heard this exchange, security guard. Who's been here before? No one? A bunch of virgins? I like it. Child behind me.

No one in line has had sex before? Parent, no, that's not. Well, child, then why did he say that? Have you had sex, parent? Oh man. Yeah. Yeah. They're at a Jack White show.

Those parents, fuck. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But just like accidentally having to. Oh shit. That happen to you at all? Where you've had to like explain like, what was that guy referencing?

No, we're pretty, meat and potatoes about it, is that the expression? Yeah, sure. We don't hide things like that. Okay. But also it's like, it embarrasses them if we like. Of course. Yeah, so we like that. Yeah, one also it's like it embarrasses them if we like, yeah. So we like that. Yeah. One of our friends has other daughters like four or five and

they're very scientific about like body parts and stuff and she hit the corner of the couch and went, oh my Volvo. And then they had to explain to me what a Volvo was. They had to explain the Swedish station wagon? You don't want to be paying out the wazoo. You're going to bump that on the counter. Oh, what's the wazoo? Well, when parents love each other very much, they have wazoo. Our last one comes from Tyra in Indianapolis, Indiana.

I am at the airport waiting for my flight home from the Indy 500 weekend when I overhear on the intercom. Now boarding group C, that's C for civil war. Oh boy. I've spent a lot, I usually go to Indy 500 and that is- Oh, you go every year. That's right.

Yeah, we didn't go this year. You really do? Yeah, one of our best friends is a racer. And that Civil War is definitely know your audience. Yeah. What is it now, NASCAR? No, it's still Indy. Indy, okay.

Yeah, Indy 500. It's the largest gathering of sports. Juggalos. Of Juggalos. They're all there, sure. They've got a side stage. For sure, it's three or 400,000. One in every 1000 Americans are at the Indy 500.

It's very impressive. So look to your left and look to your right. Yeah, and then he's gonna die at the it, uh, it's a wild experience. I, yeah, they're just to get to, do they call it an arena? What do they call it? The track, the brick yard. Uh, we had to do, uh, with the drivers, they do a police escort just cause there's so much traffic.

So they closed the highway. Uh, and we just went by everybody, uh, and then there's so much traffic. So they close the highway and we just went by everybody and then get into the brick yard. Yeah, I definitely, I didn't miss it this year for sure. I was like, okay. You know, you've seen it a couple of times. You're like, this is great. Very happy for my friends. Yeah. And is it, uh, Darcy's good friends with Al Unser Jr. Yeah, I was trying to think of what. He's friends with Bobby Rahal. Darcy's good friends with Ari

Leyendyke, Senior. And Junior. Wow, good both. Well, in addition to overheards that are written in, we also accept your phone calls. If you want to call us, our phone number is 1-844-779-7631. That's 1-UGH, SpyPod one, or send us a voice memo, those usually sound better these days, to SPY at MaximumFun.org.

Hi Dave and Graham and super cool guests. This is Neil from Edinburgh phoning in with an Oberherd inspired by Arthur Simeon speaking about how he used to watch No Retreat, No Surrender 3. And it reminded me that at university, my friend Paddy had a copy of No Retreat, No Surrender 2. And it had some classic like movie bad lines in it that have stuck in my memory. And like the hero goes to, I think it's Bangkok to look for his girlfriend and meets up with his buddy Mac Jarvis. And in one scene, Mac Jarvis reveals that he's actually been making money through arms dealing. And the hero says, Arms dealing and the hero says huh and all this time I thought you were a brain surgeon

Jarvis says kid anyone with brains enough to need surgery would have been out of here by now Wow every part of that. Yeah, this is. Great. Great voice memo. Oh, yeah. Love it. Probably from a Yeah. Jarvis. Love Mac Jarvis. Hey, that made me miss Edinburgh. Did you, you two are there? Yeah. We we've just vacationed there. Yeah, we did. Where else in Scotland? We did the show in Scotland, but not Edinburgh.

What's the other city? Glasgow. That's the one. Yeah. But one of our best friends lives in Edinburgh. So we always just went to an Indy car driver. He's Daniel Sloss. Oh, yeah.

Standup comic. Yeah. Who also drives cars independently. That's why they're called Indie. Yeah, it is. Independently driven. Nothing to do with the city they were built in. No, it's all about jangly guitars and college rock. All right, next phone call.

Hey, Dave, Graham, possible guest. This is Dan in Kansas City with an overheard. We were recently on a family vacation in California and had stopped to use a public restroom in a park. And there was a bunch of people there. So there was a line to use the facility. And there was a group of three young men, probably in their mid to late 20s waiting next to us outside this restroom. One of them had taken his shoes off and was sitting on this big

boulder that was a part of the landscaping for the park and he was in a meditative pose with his legs crisscrossed and his palms resting on his knees facing upward and his eyes closed. And my seven-year-old daughter took off her sparkly pink cowboy boots, climbed up on the rock opposite this guy, mimicked his pose and started saying namaste over and over again. And my older children who are teenagers started laughing and this guy's two buddies also started laughing and he immediately stopped doing this pose and they left, no freaking way. Ha ha ha ha ha.

Being harassed. Yeah, just a seven year old, mid year old. Just doing the little bitch. Namaste. Namaste. Namaste. While we wait for the bathroom. But he said barefoot.

I was like, you better not be watching in the bathroom with them. But sometimes happens at the beach when you're a kid, you know? For sure. Yeah. Little barefoot action. Yeah. Young boy drywall. All right. Final phone call. Hey, Dave and Graham. This is Rob from Jenkins Town in Pennsylvania. I am driving on the highway right now and, uh, Toyota Corolla just drove past me with a vanity license plate.

Uh, the vanity license plate read H L K space H E R Y. So I don't know where he's going, but Hulk angry. Yeah. Hulk angry. No, I look angry. Oh, okay. Hulk agriculture. Yeah. Hulk angry. No, angry. Hulk agriculture. Oh, man.

I had a toilet. Corolla. Yeah. Oh, boy. Reliable reliable. That's what our daughter drives. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a safe vehicle. It's a safe, reliable car. Exactly. An import. Yeah, that's true.

Yeah. Why don't we make cars in Canada? Yeah. Why don't we make cars in Canada anymore? Yeah. Why don't we make the Brickland anymore? Well, that brings us to the end of this year episode. Darcy, you're going to be on tour in the new year. Yeah. Tickets are available and you can save some of that money for the merch. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Make sure to bring all your, you know, your saved up money, your square jar money or whatever. Get ready to clack, clack those fans. Clack those fans. Thank you so much for being again. Nice guys. It's been nice. I can't wait to do it again in four to six years. We guarantee it. We absolutely guarantee it and thank you everybody out there for listening If you want boy if you want a delicious cookbook either you're gonna go with Paul. What's his name Prud'homme Prud'homme or

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