Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 905 - Erica Sigurdson

Episode Date: July 22, 2025

Comedian Erica Sigurdson returns to talk sewing pouches, a veggie update, and island news. 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 905 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name's Graham Clark and with me as always is a man who the rain in the summer can't keep this guy down, Mr. Dave Schumke. No, it's nice.

It is kind of nice, but it's a little bit too botanical for me. Yeah? When it started yesterday, it was like a real aroma fest. It was a real aroma fest, but just soon, just too- Oh, botanical because of allergies? No, just because it's that kind of like being in a, you know, biosphere. Oh, you mean like tropical?

Yeah, tropical, too tropical. Botanical, I think of sort of like, was there like a herbal essences botanical shampoo? Yeah. Or some kind of botanical shampoo. That gave your head orgasms? Yeah. I kind of get that with ASMR yeah it kind of gives my head orgasm like if someone scratches the microphone or if they're like if you just yeah yeah

like freaking you watch something that's like mysteriously satisfying. Or whatever. Or whatever. Hardly satisfying? Yeah. Anyway, that's the show and we love y'all here. Erica Sigurdsson is our guest this week. I'm sure I am. I was like, Erica, pay attention. Our guest this week is one of our all time faves, one of the funniest people in all the land.

It's Erica Sigurdsson. Hello, Erica. Hello. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me on this rainy day. Should we get to know us? Yeah. ["Get To Know Us"]

Get to know us. Now right out of the gates. Yes. You're a comedian. I am. You're somebody that's very, you buy a lot of stuff online. Now it turns out you're selling stuff online. Oh, buckle up.

Here it comes. Buckle up. No, I thought we were gonna get into this more naturally. Oh, really up. Here it comes. Buckle up. No, I thought we were going to get it to this more naturally. Oh, really? Oh, OK. Let's slow down. No, no. I know we can buckle up now.

But she was like, well, I got nothing to plug except my Etsy shop online. And I was like, OK, let's see if we come around to that. Well, I'm diving right in. We are here. Yeah, I have recently, not recently, about a year and a half ago, I took a sewing class at VCC. Oh, shit. And I have become obsessed.

Really? With sewing. And like I go to sleep at night and I'm like, when can I get back to sewing? Really? Yeah. So I have just been, there's zippered pouches every time I, I didn't bring them for you guys.

Zippered pouches like kind of pencil case style makeup. All style. Don't limit me to one type of zippered pouch. Oh sure. We're talking little change purses, we're talking pencil cases, we're talking shaving kits, we're talking cord keepers. Okay.

Yeah. Are these made to order or these are just, We're talking cord keepers. Okay. Yeah. So. Are these made to order or these are just, this is what struck me and now I'm selling them? Well, I only recently got good enough that I was like, I could sell these. When you did this sewing class. Yes. How many things did you make?

Two. And they were both zippered pouches? No, they were not zippered pouches at all. Okay, can I guess? Have you ever sewed before? Well, grade eight sewing, you know that. And we're talking sewing machine. Or are we talking?

No, no, sewing machine. So we're talking sew a needle pulling thread. Yeah. Yeah. A few of my favorite things. No, that's a different song, isn't it? Yeah, it's not far off though. Okay, all right.

It was one of the things you made, a pair of pajama pants? No. Okay, cause that's like the big thing you make in home ec. I had to make a pillow and it didn't get finished and I got it incomplete. Oh no. Guys, I made it and then they- Did you lose sleep over it?

Get it? Erica Sankerson everybody. She's one of the best in the country. Thank you, good night. I'll see myself out. Where did could go? Well, when you made this poem, did you use corduroy? Yeah, and unfortunately, it really got into the papers.

And it's been. No, it was a very stupid looking, it was shaped like a penguin. They gave us like three different, what would you call them? Designs? Templates? Templates? Templates?

Patterns? Patterns, there you go. I keep calling them recipes. This morning I said to Jay, I was like, well the recipe said, he looks at me, I'm like, sorry, the pattern said. Now is, I feel like, and I could be way off on this, but sewing feels somewhat mathematical to me.

It feels like everything has to, kind of like carpentry, everything has to match up exactly right to it. Those are the oddly satisfying videos I watch, people doing carpentering. Yes, yeah, there's like the precision and having to slow it, because I am very much like, I'll do it once, and then I'm like, I'm pretty sure

I've got a better way to do this. Right. And I didn't at all. I had a terrible way to do it once and then I'm like, I'm pretty sure I got a better way to do this. Right. And I didn't at all. I had a terrible way to do it. So, yeah, it's made me, there's a lot of life lessons here. Okay. Okay, there's also a book coming, I guess. Yeah, take us through.

Yeah, oh, it's my journey through the needle. Yeah. Through the eye of the needle. It sells all this money at like recovery centers. Oh, we thought it was a different type of needle anyway. I came out on the other side, changed. Changed first. All right, now we're cooking.

Yeah, let's get going. Yeah, so anyways, yes, you do have to slow down and pay attention. It is very difficult to have this hobby in a two-bedroom apartment. There is scraps of material and threads sticking to almost everything. Now, you and Jay, you've lived together in,

always in a two bedroom or? No, we moved to a two bedroom during COVID because I was doing Zoom shows. Right. And he was trying to sleep. And he was trying to sleep, yeah. And he's a hobbyist as well. He's got all sorts of hobbies.

Is that second room just hobby room dedicated to like- Sort of a hobby lobby? Hobby lobby. No, because he has a shop, like he fabricates for the film business. So whatever he needs to do, he can do there. And actually there is a sewing room, so I'm surprised he hasn't brought it up.

So our spare room is part weapons. That's what I was wondering, how many weapons are in there? We have two safes, one of them's tall, I'm not going to say what's in there. More weapons. We've got sewing machine, weapons, and a guest bed. So sleep tight. And in case there's a break in, here's a combination for the safe, but only the big one.

Sleep tight. The, because Abby and I share a house. She's my wife and her own person. And she is a sewist. Yes. We don't say sewer because if you write it down, it's sewer. Yeah, that's true. And our dinner table has never been used for dinner because she sews on it every day. And I get a podcasting room. And our dinner table has never been used for dinner

because she sews on it every day and I get a podcasting room. So. What do you keep your weapons? I mean, it was Flex's bicep. So do you just have to discourage your kids to take up zero hobbies? Like you're like, mommy and daddy have kind of cornered the market.

No, I think hobbies are really good. Like I think I've heard about, uh, this new generation or at least like. Jen Zed Z maybe the millennials, um, not having hobbies of just like they, they meet each other and like, what are you into? Well, I watched, I'm into the first four seasons of the office. And I'm really into the apps on my phone. So I think hobbies are very good. Yeah. And did you take the sewing right away? Or what did you,

because I've always been fascinated by it. I've always thought it'd be a cool thing to know how to do, but it seems insurmountable. Yeah. I was decent in the class. Like, it was a lot of students for one teacher, and some people fell behind. And once you fell behind, goodbye. You get it incomplete.

Yeah, yeah. I don't even know why you keep showing up. You're still on your tote bag. I'm on my skirt. Those are the two things I made. And it was, yeah, but it took some time to like, slow down, watch YouTube videos. My mom is also, like she quilts, she made my graduate,

like she's an expert. Oh wow. But she lives a couple hours away, so I'll send her messages for help. And do you, what's she working on right now? She makes quilts, a lot of quilts. So when I went over there, and so she does like quilts of valor, so they send them to veterans.

Oh. And she'll make them for gifts. And because my newest stepfather, newest? That's not right. Makes my mom sound like she's Elizabeth Taylor. My stepfather, Larry Portensky. Just that both my stepfather's names were Doug and Doug one passed away and we're on to Doug two. So just put a bit of a nail polish on their back to tell who is who.

Yeah. Yeah. Was that from turtles? Turtles. Give them different bandanas around. That's also for turtles. Give them different bandanas around. That's also for turtles. So he's an accountant, so he was telling her, he's like, just sell one of these and you can start writing everything off.

Because, and like, they're like, a handmade quilt's really expensive. Yes, and like, I have realized now just buying fabric and all the things like there's a reason why when you go to like, you know, one of those outdoor markets and there's handmade clothing and you're like, what the hell pants for 150, everything's very expensive and it takes a long time. So I'll be selling some zippered pouches. They're $400 a piece, but they are collectors items. Would you ever go be a part of one of those markets? 100%.

When we moved to Quadra, like Jay's been really getting into making bone broth and I've been making zippered pouches. I'm like, we are ready to move. Yeah. And we will be at the Saturday market with our little booth. What do you- He'll be selling his wet pouch.

Yeah. Abby makes, she's made like a million pairs of the same pair of pants basically. Sure. But the latest thing she's been making is sandbags to hold open like as doorstops. Oh, that's a very good idea. Because I've stubbed my toe on a million doorstops, and she's like, what about these little soft guys? Did she sell those?

No, she hasn't sold a thing. She just does it. Does it as a hobby. Yeah. She pitches them out the window at people. And I'm like, I'm an accountant, just sell one and you can write it off. Yeah.

But do you feel like every time that you have a hobby that there's a pressure to like monetize, feel like that's like the thing is if you're good at something like people pay for it. It's just cause I keep making this stuff and I gotta get rid of it. So I could just randomly be giving. I did have this idea to make pouches.

And if anybody in Vancouver wants to get on board with this, I thought about making pouches and you could give them to unhoused people, especially women, and like put like feminine protection stuff in there. Sure, sure, yeah, that's a good idea. So I might, you know, make. And you could also give them to housed men and put a little note that says, you're next.

Don't get too comfortable. Is it, was, when I was talking to you last year, talking about Jay is now he's into bow hunting. Is that correct? No bone broth. Bone broth, bow hunting. Bow Jackson. Bow Derrick, which I am not a big fan of. I mean, she's like, nine and a half.

Yeah. So yeah, I guess I'm not a fan of bow hunting. I mean, I'm not a fan of bow hunting. I mean, I'm not a fan of bow hunting. I mean, I'm not a fan of bow hunting. I mean, I'm not a fan of bow hunting. I mean, I'm not a fan of bow hunting. I mean, I'm not a fan of bow hunting. I mean, I'm not a fan of fan of. I mean, she's like nine and a half. Yeah. So yeah, I got him for Christmas a like butchering class.

So there's a place in Vancouver and you can learn how to like butcher a pig. Okay. Is it BYOP? It's bring your own pig. We've got a class pig if somebody doesn't remember to bring their own pig. Everybody've got a class pig if somebody didn't remember bring their own pig.

Everybody give a little bit of your pig. Some of the students are falling behind and these pigs are like half dead. They're piling up. Yeah, so anyways, and they do like a weekend retreat that you can go and learn bow hunting, which he did growing up and stuff, but I think it's like a man's weekend away. Oh, sure. Graham, would you ever bow hunt?

I mean, if the, you know, if the world all, all society fell apart, sure. If you were part of the most dangerous game. Yeah, absolutely. If it was them or you. And if you were part of the most dangerous game? Yeah, absolutely. If it was them or you? Yeah, I think if it was, I mean, would I be bad at it? Oh, hell yeah.

Would I accidentally somehow get the arrow in my eye, like pulling back, catching it on my own ear, that type of thing? Oh yeah, it looks hard. I'd be like, you guys catch it and I'll butcher it. Ugh. I didn't take that glassy thing. I'll sew something for you, I'll butcher it. I didn't take that class. See? I'll sew something for you.

I'll sew it up. Does it need a pillow? I am taking, or my kids both took, like there's parent and child pottery classes. And we did those and I think I will now take a adults only after dark pottery party. Through a beaded curtain. Oh, yeah, that look, I like pottery is another thing I could see.

And those people, they monetize right away. I don't know if you've ever been to a Gulf Island, but, and even in Newfoundland, we're in this 300 person like little village and quilts. We need a mug. We need mugs, quilts, they are everywhere. The thing about pottery is like an ugly mug is still pretty kind of cool. It is pretty cool.

My favorite mug is one that's like a handmade one. It's got a Sasquatch on it. And it's, I love it more than if it was just a conventional ceramic. Yeah. Well, you were way out east in a town of 300 people. What were you doing? What do you point Newfoundland?

So it was the 10-year anniversary of their little two-day comedy festival, and I did the first one. Steve Patterson. The first one was Steve Patterson, Derrick's Again, myself, Nikki Payne and Trent McClellan. Okay, good lineup. Good lineup. But that was a whole festival of just five comedians?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's only 400 people there. It was two nights. Yeah, well, let's bring it down a notch. You got to call it something. Yeah, comedy night. Yeah, comedy night. Comedy, two nights.

And then this year was Derek's again, myself, Steve Patterson and Deanne Smith and also Derek Edwards. Oh, Derek Edwards. Yeah, and Steve's daughter did two minutes of standup at the start of the show and she's really good. How old is she? She's 10, yeah.

Wow. She showed me her notebook. She's like, can you read over? And I was like, this is better than 90% of the- Like this is a lot of, this is racist. I don't understand where you would get this from. I did have to talk to her about that. I was like, listen, you can't get canceled

right out of the gate. Although, you know, where it's a small town show, they probably will like it. Yeah. Yeah, don't do this stuff in the city. Yeah, this doesn't go on TikTok. Yeah, just have everybody put their cameras away. Was it fun? Is it a good?

Yes, it was very fun. I don't know if you can see, I was eaten alive by some bugs. We got taken on a boat tour on the Zodiac. That's your first mistake. First mistake. Well, I got out of the boat and I heard you're not supposed to do that. Don't let go of the rope. I had a bunch of cod bites on me as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was wearing this perfume I bought, just the essence of Atlantic cod. But there's this beautiful field full of flowers and so Scarlett, Steve's daughter and I went up

to pick flowers and got eaten alive by bugs. The one thing I get for some reason in my algorithm is things to avoid bug bites. Oh yeah? What do you got? One is like you drill a hole in a bar of soap and you make a necklace of it. That's a good craft. No need to monetize that. Isn't that called soap on a rope? It already exists. And the other one is this like fake dragonfly hat that you wear. Is it worth it?

It also will keep everything else away. People. Why was soap on a rope such a big thing in the eighties and never since? What was it? It was just soap on a rope? Soap on a rope. So you didn't drop the soap in the shower.

Oh, is that really what it was? Yeah, I think so. And you tie it around your wrist? No, it kind of hung on the shower thing and then you would take it off, I guess. Yeah. Wash yourself and then. You gotta fix it to something to help yourself.

If dropping is the problem. Oh, you mean like wrap it around the wrist or something? Yeah, if the problem is dropped. Well, yeah yeah safety first. You do a double loop and then. Are you good? Are you good with knots? Oh yeah, that's a good question. No, but Jay is. He knows how to tie every knot. Do you know what his favorite knot is? I would know it by watching him do it. I don't know what it's called. Okay. I just call it the, oh you're doing that one again knot. Yeah, yeah. Hangman's noose is what I think is, I've made that up.

Graham, would you take a course? I would take a course. I'm very interested. TV, VCR repair correspondence course. I would, yeah, I wanna do it from home. No, I would take a course in sewing, sounds like, but I just know I'd be bad at it. I know hand-dyed coordination.

It's the attitude that's kept me away from it all these years. Yeah. You're going to be, but then your classmate goes on a podcast and says, these people are weeks behind. I don't know why they keep showing up. A bunch of bums. I'd also, I would take a class in magic. I would take a class in learning magic.

Oh, sure. I think you have to start with the oath. You have to say, I will never reveal my secret. And then they're like, bring forth who you're gonna saw in half. And I'm like, I didn't, can I use the class first? Can I use the pig from the butchering class?

But I watch videos of like how they do, like slight hand kind of stuff they do sleight of hand. A lot of it is what you think it might be is the trick. It's like the most obvious solution is what it is. But man, I love it. There's this couple, they're somewhere like- Lerner and Keller. Yeah. It's this couple,

I think they're from Spain and they show how the trick works, how it's supposed to look and then they show the reverse and show you like where everything goes. A lot of fake thumbs involved. Yeah. Yeah, which I think is pretty cool.

Fake thumb. See, the problem with magic versus sewing, if I was going to steer you into one direction- Sure, sure, sure. If you show up at any event, as I just did in Woody Point, zippered pouches for all is what I was just giving them out. People were thrilled.

Of course. I gave one to Steve Patterson's sister-in-law. Steve's just bringing the whole brood. The whole family was there. Everybody's just through, oh my gosh, I didn't have anywhere to put my chapstick. Now I have a little pouch. Chapsticks all over the floor.

But if you. They're slipping on the wall. Like marbles. But if you show up and say, does anyone want to see a magic trick? Hands down. Clears the roof. Yeah, that's a pretty.

It's basically on par with having a dragonfly hat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. People are like, I gotta go tend to my zippered pouch. I can't be here for this magic trick. Would you ever sell zipper pouch as merch after show? It might come to that, yeah. I was like, because I have that joke about the upside down pineapple. Go on.

Yes. Is it a swinger thing? Like, cause I have that joke about the upside down pineapple. Go on. Yes. Is it a swinger thing? Yeah, I didn't know that it was a thing, a swinger's thing. And the whole- Handing them out after shows. The crux of the joke is that you should, everyone should know this because I've just been

indiscriminately carrying pineapples around, I guess being kind of a tease to my neighbors. So yeah, I thought- How's that joke go over? They love it. A certain section of the audience really loves it. And then they find each other at intermission. So I thought a fun sticker would be like a pineapple

with my name either way. So you could put it upside down where I set up. And then of course I'm at Dresso and I see some pineapple fabric and my brain just starts going. I'm like, I invest $50 in this fabric and I sell these and I could be down $50. What's the state of Dresso these days?

For people not from Vancouver, Dresso is a big fabric warehouse, but they announced they were going out of business. Yeah, and they still are. I think the company owns the building. Sure does. And the building is for sale. The building is for sale. So they have signed up that says,

is Dressos closing? And then it says, right now it's business as usual. When the building sells, we will update everyone on what's happening. Will we reopen? Yes, we will update everyone on what's happening. Will we reopen? Yes, we hope to. Okay, good.

It's a big, it's in the downtown East side and like their windows were getting broken all the time. So they're covered in wood now. And they, I think they won't do Halloween stuff anymore. Is that part of it? Maybe, there's still some random stuff. Like I was in there last week because I was going to see my mom

and she needed some stuff. And they had, now this is, I've gotten out of control because they had boxes of a hundred zippers for $5. And I also love a sale. And I was like, a hundred zippers, they usually go for a dollar each. So we're talking. Yeah, big save.

Big saving. So I just bought two boxes of giant zippers. I'm now committed to pink or blue zippered pouches for a while. Okay. Um. You can do like gender reveals. Oh, that's pretty good.

I think I absolutely hate the principle of, but cannot stop watching them on TikTok. Which one is, like what style do you think is the best? Like a smoke or a cake exploding? I don't love any of the exploding ones, but I'm obsessed with watching them put like a champagne flute into cake. And I'm waiting for the time that the glass breaks

and someone cuts their hand open because that like I have a huge scar on my hand. Me too. From a, oh my gosh, matching scars. Yeah, right on the thumb. And I'm nervous every single time. And then I just want cake after watching it. Mine was from washing a glass.

That's what I was doing. I was putting my hand in and smashed it. Yeah, it's, oh, we're scar buddies. Yeah. Aw. My favorite are the ones, the gender reveals where it's a balloon and then the balloon gets away before they can do it.

And then I'm like, they probably shouldn't have a baby. They couldn't take care of a balloon. I mean, babies don't float though. That's true. Whoa, that's a tough lesson to learn. I hesitated. I wasn't going to say it. I was going to say it.

I was going to say it. There was one that I watched and it was in Florida and they had, there was a gator and they were trying to put a watermelon in the alligator's mouth. Oh, it was a real gator? A real gator. And the guy was standing behind the watermelon or behind the- Was the watermelon a gender reveal watermelon?

Well, because they're pink inside, like naturally. So I was confused as to, I was like, did they fill the watermelon with something else? But the guy kept prying the alligator's mouth open and trying to get the watermelon in and it wrote. And then I just, I thought 100% these people should not have a human baby in their care. Like they are through.

I don't know, they can take care of an alligator. Or it's like one of those things like in a high school where you've got to carry around a watermelon and don't drop it or anything. And if you put it in an alligator's mouth, fail. But if you can like, once you can pry open an alligator's jaws, a diaper's no problem. That's true. That's true.

I just feel like this is a family that would come up with a lot of bad ideas. Like a balloon boy situation. Balloon boy. Remember that? We watched that together at City New Twist. We did. As it unveiled, unfurled. Unfolded that? We watched that together at City Newtist. We did. As it unveiled, unfurled.

Unfolded. Unfolded. I think it unveiled. It unveiled. It was, for anybody who doesn't remember back that far, it was a kid that, it was a guy that had like a giant weather balloon. Yeah. And then his kid, they thought had snuck into the balloon and it took off.

And then they were waiting for it to like, weren't there jets? Oh yeah. It was the kid. The kid wasn't in it, but then they, they didn't realize it until much later. Like, yeah. How did they, so it landed. They got the kid back without anyone seeing. The kid was hiding in the house. And they, I think it came out that the dad,

the whole thing was a publicity ploy because the dad had all these crazy inventions that he was doing. And they were like, this story is not adding up. Yeah. I just don't know the detail. And then they interviewed them on TV and they asked the kid a question He was like I was here the whole time

But I don't know how the like we got from the kid is in the balloon to the kid is safe without anyone Seeing the kid in the balloon. Yeah. Well, nobody knew yet Nobody they thought maybe he was in the balloon, but there was no way to communicate And they couldn't get it back. Yeah, and it was like a whole day. It was like the OJ Simpson chase. Yeah. Except, yeah, it was, I guess that was when like one story could like.

Yeah. Speaking of OJ Simpson. Everybody followed one story. I am very excited for the new Naked Gun movie. You think he'll make an appearance? I mean, he's in the trailer. Yeah, that's true. But just like, I was just telling my kids like, I want to take you to this because if

it's funny, it will be the greatest experience. If you're in a movie theater and everyone is laughing so hard that you can't catch your breath. Oh, it's been so long since that's happened. Have you seen friendship? Did you go see it at the park? I did, yeah. I could not stop laughing.

I felt like I was on drugs. Like I was laughing because I generally don't like that kind of ridiculous. It was so ridiculous. Like Jay was like, are you okay? And I was bent over like, yeah. It's weird for me to hear you say that you don't like ridiculous. Like Jay was like, are you okay? And I was bent over like, yeah. Like. It's weird for me to hear you say that you don't like Ridiculous. I feel like you do love Ridiculous a lot.

Yeah, that's true. Like when you were younger, what was the funniest movie that you got to see in the theater? Okay. The memory, the first time I lost it was The Gods Must Be Crazy. Oh my god, that was so funny. They are driving a land cruiser that has no doors and it's got no windshield in it, but it has the frame of the windshield and the guy fills up the gas and he comes out to wash the windshield, which of course isn't there, so he just sprays cleaner into the lady's face. And like I fell on the floor laughing so hard.

I don't like ridiculous things she says. Okay, I take that back. I do like ridiculous things. Oh man, yeah. I remember seeing a liar liar in the theater. Everybody was like ridiculous things. Oh, man. Yeah. I remember seeing Liar Liar in the theater. Everybody was like, yeah, everybody's losing everything. Because everybody was so excited. Like, oh, it's going to be so much fun. And then the first, like whatever the first gag in the movie was,

everyone was like, ah. And it just got funnier and funnier. It got crazier and crazier. I think all the like Naked Gun and Hot Shots movies, I saw all of them. And like, what else? Like, I feel like the like Naked Gun and Hot Shots movies, I saw all of them and like what else? Like I feel like the first Austin Powers people were going crazy.

Yeah, Austin Powers was really funny in the theater. Something about Mary, that was pretty great. I saw that three times in the theater. Now have the kids seen Naked Gun? No. Is it a pro, I can't remember. I watched it as a kid. You know what, I've shown them bits of it

because I'm like, that first scene with OJ Simpson, No. Is it a pro? I can't remember. I watched it as a kid. You know what? I've shown them bits of it, because I'm like, that first scene with OJ Simpson, not to lionize him too much, but where he gets shot by everyone on the boat, and then he gets like his, he puts his hand on a hot kettle, he gets his foot stuck in a bear trap,

he falls on wet, or leans on a wet paint, is like, ah. He goes, ah, or leans on wet paint, a wet paint, it's like, ah! He goes, ah, no! Ah! Ah! Ah!

And then the visual gag, cause he jumped, or he falls overboard, and then you see the next day they've got the chalk outlines floating in the water. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's a gag, and I showed it to, like somebody that had never heard, like a younger person never heard of Nick again, I showed them the scene where he's paying off the like stool pigeon and they're paying each other back and forth

She thought it was the funniest. Yeah Yeah, I also showed them see where he Keeps his microphone on while he goes to the bathroom Yeah, so good and wasn't there a scene where there was the girl in the back of the plane? It was sick. She was like- Oh, this is airplane. Oh yeah. Yeah.

Oh right, okay, yeah, I'm getting them all confused. But go on, the gag. And they come to play guitar and he's like rocking out and knocks her IV out and she's like dying. I also thought that was very funny as a kid. Oh yeah, and then they make a gun with the, like automatic hospital bed that folds them in half. Oh man.

Oh, classic. Some of the best films ever made. I really hope it's good. I'm taking the family whether they want to or not. I know, there's certain movies when Malek comes to stay with me, I'm like, we're watching this movie. And she's like, she wants to watch something current.

And I'm like, absolutely not, sit down. Oh, what have you like? Like Ferris Bueller, Back to the Future. The Truman Show she wasn't that into. Okay, all right. Not that I thought it was funny. I just thought it had a real good message. But she did like, you know, like she's liked most of the ones.

Drop Dead Gorgeous, which. Yeah, we were really thinking about that one. Okay, so I have it on DVD. If you need, you can't find it. Oh really? Just stream it anywhere. Oh really? So I ordered the DVD. Wow, you'll have to order me a DVD player too.

Maybe I should try to put it on the USB. Oh sure, yeah. Don't report. Do you remember the fear of being a kid and watching that FBI warning come up when you watched like. Stockholm, 1977. Yes, and like kids now, Do you remember the fear of being a kid and watching that FBI warning come up when you watched like- Stockholm, 1977.

Yes, and like kids now, like it was, even though we were renting, there would be a moment where I'd be like, ooh, like if you had more than one friend over, you're like, is this a public viewing? Do I have express written consent of the major League Baseball? Which one of the classics did she really take to?

What's her favorite? She did really like Ferris Bueller's Day Off. How old is she? She's 12 now. Okay. Almost 13. Ferris Bueller's Day Off has got it. That's important that I say that.

My kids love teen girl movies. Oh, Mean Girls. Mean Girls, both the musical and the regular. That's important that I say that. My kids love teen girl movies. Oh, Mean Girls. Mean Girls, both the musical and the regular. Now, did I tell you, I feel like I told you this last time. Clueless, they love Clueless. Oh, they love Clueless? Oh, Clueless is so good.

When Malo went to see the new Mean Girls, because she saw the classic one with Lindsay Lohan, so I texted her, I was like, hey, how was Mean Girls? And she's like, not as good as the original. They weren't that pretty, the clothes weren't good. And I was like, oh, you have learned nothing. Whoops. Yeah, that must just be, that's kind of an exciting thing.

Like introducing, okay, here's a cool thing that isn't Star Wars or something, you know, like this is fun. Cause like even when I was a kid and watched Ferris Bueller, it was old when I was a kid. Cause it was, what was it like the mid 80s? Yeah, so like I saw it probably when I was like 11. I was like, this guy rules,

I wanna base my whole life on this guy's blueprint, this guy's amazing. I wonder the breakfast. Good friend, good boyfriend, good brother. Everybody in the school loves him. Good brother. Good brother I said. Only where my mind went.

Breakfast club I think maybe, cause Mala and her best friend will come stay with me for a few days to do fun Vancouver things. Yeah. And so last year we watched both of The Quiet Places. Oh, cool. And we thought the third would be out, but it hasn't come out yet. And so I think maybe The Breakfast Club.

Yeah. And The Shining. She wasn't allowed to watch The Shining, but she really wants to watch it. What about Jurassic Park? My House, My Rules. I think she's seen it, I'm not sure. My kids watched one of the Chris Pine ones this weekend,

and they were like- Chris Pratt. Chris Pratt ones this weekend, and they were watching it with like, the way I watch a bad movie, like they were like oh that wouldn't happen oh yeah like like you'd be able to run in a high heel like they're doing all this like oh cool yeah did they see the original though yes because the originals great yes and it's still good after all these years

because they used practical effects okay okay mr. Okay, Mr. Wizard. But have you seen a movie from that time period that uses computers? Well, it also uses computer effects. But not like the Scorpion King. Right. Where it's just like, wow, this did not age well at all. I don't even have a hard time believing in the time that it was in the theater that people were like,

this is awesome. They must've at the time still thought thought this is bad, but Jurassic Park So in Ferris Bueller, I was we watched it a little while ago and I always thought That Jennifer Grey his sister is his older sister But she must be younger, but she has a car I mean he makes a big deal about he has a computer and she has a car. Right. But I- He's graduating.

He's graduating. And, but it doesn't like for, in my mind, she was always the older sister. She looks older. She looks older. She's- She acts like an older sister. Like he's a brat.

Are they possibly fraternal twins that they just decided to never bring up? Yeah, maybe. But why would you get one of your twins a car and the other one not? It's just too bad that one actor ended up being an awful, awful man. He's really a footnote of all these great 80s movies.

Yeah. Which one? Jeffrey Jones. Who does he play? He's the principal. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like OJ Simpson in Make It Good.

Cool, I'm glad you brought that up. And that lady that plays the secretary. Edie McClurg. Thank you. She's also in Office. No. No, there's a different one. A different redheaded secretary woman.

Yeah. Right, but she does, she's looked the same in every movie She was on a TV show maybe called the Hogan family where she was mrs. Poole was Funny neighbor, I think on the Hogan family. I just remember an episode where she's like Hosting or teaching kids how to make a cake and at one point she goes isn't that yummy? She holds it up and the cake slides off and I thought it was so funny. We love gags. We love gags. Especially anything involving a cake,

like somebody knocking over a cake. Now Erica, we've talked about your selling things. Yes, my dones. Is this Etsy store open yet? No, absolutely not. Okay, this is an idea. I have to learn how to make my own tags. Oh, but what do you think of my brand name?

In Stitches. That's good. Because I'm a comedian. Yeah, that's good. And I leave you in Stitches. And you're gonna like have a whole page that like tells your story. This is our story of the brand.

This is how we started. Yeah, yeah. We. We. Started with one person. Started, it continues with one person, but we don't know. Yeah, it could be many people, you don't know.

But you're a lifelong consumer of Internet things. Yes. You're a big Instagram ad. Should I tell you what I bought recently? Yes, please. I should have brought it because I haven't opened it and tested it yet. But have you seen the thing where it's like? Dragonfly hat? No.

Hahaha. Instead of brushing your teeth, you stick the whole thing in your mouth and it just brushes your teeth for you. Hahaha. Honestly? Is it shaped like a mouth guard? Yes, and it lights up and it's supposed to whiten your teeth. I'm a little scared. It's whitening or brushing?

Both. Okay. Does both at once. I was literally thinking this last night when I was brushing my teeth. I wish I could just brush my teeth and walk around and kind of do chores. Oh my God.

As I was brushing my teeth. I have the worst, I'm so lazy, I'm like, well, my toothbrush goes for two minutes, I'll lie down. And then I want to be in bed forever and I'm like lying there with mouth full of toothpaste for 10 minutes, looking at my phone. Is this the word? Like I would buy one of these.

Have you received it? Okay, I did. And cause here's the thing, I know myself. So I get to the checkout window part of like I enter my PayPal address. Mm-hmm, but then I was like, what are you doing? Let's let's stop ballpark me a number of what this costs $56. Okay, and I'm not sure if that's American or Canadian sure I never, it says it's from Scandinavia. Oh, sure.

It tells us that, so. Oh, you might have shiny teeth like the Travago guy. Exactly. I asked Paul Meyerhog, cause he was in Norway at the time. I was like, hey, can you ask your doctor friend? Cause the thing was like, if you're using a toothbrush, your teeth are gonna fall out, idiot.

You need this thing. So he asked his doctor friend who said, no, I think that's bullshit. Because they basically said that everybody in Scandinavia uses this thing. They don't. Okay. So I'm going to start it. Are you nervous to try it or you just haven't tried it?

I haven't tried it. It's still in, cause I didn't realize I had actually bought it and then it just showed up and I was like, what the hell? And I guess there's some websites have a thing where if you don't check out, they're just like, we'll finish the job for you, ma'am. No way. Yeah. Or were you, how many glasses of wine did you have?

No, I quit drinking. I haven't drank in a year and a half. Oh my God. Yeah, zero. I feel great. Good. I've got new in a year and a half. Oh my god. Yeah zero. I feel great good I've got new hobbies. Yeah My teeth are whiter. Yeah, I guess my hobby is drinking. Yeah. Yeah, you know, I guess I take a drinking class. I Mean they do like wine taste

Mixology it could make you do mixology. I Could show you one of those cool aprons that the hipster mixologist. Yeah, honestly, an apron is just a tote bag with an unfinished head. Yeah. It's kind of like the chaps of the- Of the torso. Oh yeah, because it's assless.

Yeah. What if I made an apron that had a butt in it? Like you stepped into it like it was a pair of shorts. Put a butt on the back? Yeah. Wait a second. This could be my million dollar. This is good. This is my tooth brushing thing.

I have to find a pattern. How are you going to make this pattern? I guess I just don't get how you're supposed to whiten and like, is whitening, do you use a different like paste that you put in for whitening? I haven't even opened the box. It's sitting at home. But you said it also has like a UV light.

Something lights up. Does it vibrate? I hope so. Yeah, but doesn't it work for one thing, it might work really well. What is the point, oh my God. I was telling Steve Patterson about this and then he goes, he's like,

do you have an electric toothbrush? And I was like, yeah. And then he's like with the rotating heads and I was like, no, no, no, it just vibrates. He's like, yeah, I bought an electric toothbrush. And he wasn't, he must obviously wasn't really thinking clearly because he's like, he's like, yeah, I finally invested one.

He's like, but I got it used. And I was like, what? And of course, and then I was, I finally invested money. He's like, but I got it used. And I was like, what? And of course, and then I looked at him and then he's like, no, sorry, I meant I got it on sale. I mean, you could get an electric toothbrush you used to change the head on it. I was on, so I'd never used Facebook Marketplace. I was on, so I'd never used Facebook Marketplace. But I recently did.

And I was like, oh, this is interesting. There's so much stuff on there, and you can get some stuff for super cheap. We need some, like, accent chairs in our living room, because the ones we had, we got used, and they are just, like, smashed to pieces. Like, the butts, our butts are going through them. So now they've moved to the bedroom. They're no longer in the living room. And then I was like, oh, maybe I'll join one of these like free groups, buy nothing groups.

And I joined it for one day and I was like, people are posting constantly. Oh yeah. And it's like one zucchini. Yeah, people. Oh, you mean buy nothing. Like people in the buy nothing group in the West End, it's like a thing of ice cream with some scooped out

and it's like, I didn't like this flavor, come pick up. And I'm like, you have a lot of trust in your fellow human. Because like, I get it, it's wasteful to throw it out but I don't know if I'm gonna go pick up some randos and open ice cream. And it's a- I mean, I did, but.

What flavor are we talking? Peanut butter chocolate. Oh, that's good. And like, you know, but. What flavor are we talking? Peanut butter chocolate. Oh, that sounds good. And like, you know, that's not a true story because there's no way somebody's giving away peanut butter chocolate ice cream. It's the best. It rules.

Which one, the Haagen-Dazs? Is that your favorite? I do like it because they have big chunks of peanut butter and you feel like it's like, God. You can get, yeah, you can get a really big vein and it just like, well, half the, I just pulled out half the container. What a life we lead.

There's a very funny comedian named Megan Keester and she, her kind of whole business is buying and selling things off of Craigslist and stuff like that. And she has a whole series on her Instagram that's just horrors of the Craigslist free section. that. She has a whole series on her Instagram that's just horrors of the Craigslist free section. One of the great things is people taking pictures either like shooting down until their feet are in the picture, or them taking a picture of something reflective to sell the mirror in their underwear,

or they don't realize that they're in part of the shot. Anyways, the things that people give away on there, wow. I follow this woman who is a chef. She just does recipes and normally, I don't think this has ever happened in one of her videos before, but in the video, she looks down at the counter and her feet are in the shot and she blurred her feet.

Smart. Don't give away for free. Dave, what's going on with you, my friend? Well, speaking of zucchinis. Yes. I've been gardening a lot. Well, I've been growing things. Things have been growing or not. You got some Zooks on the go? I don't have Zooks. Okay. Last year I did tomatoes

and kale which I didn't like and cucumbers and I got so many cucumbers they all came at the end of the year but like the plant was growing all summer long and peas. I got peas all summer as well. This year I was like, okay, I'll just go back to what works. I didn't really like the tomatoes. I'll switch out the kale for a different kale. Yeah. And I feel like my stomach's about to growl so loud.

Ha ha ha. Mm, he's talking about kale everybody. And so, and then peas again. So this year, the peas have not grown. The cucumbers have not grown the kale. I switched to lasso natto kale. Sure. Dinosaur kale, black kale. Other big rubbery kind.

Sort of like brainy kind. Yeah, yeah. It's growing so much. I've been eating kale. Is that a big rubbery kind? A big sort of like brainy kind. Yeah, yeah. It's growing so much. I've been eating kale. I like a big wad of like 12 leaves a day. Smoothies for everyone. Smoothies is a good idea. What do you do? What's your preferred?

Chop them up. I put them in a rice bowl. Oh, okay. Just raw or you? I raw. Cause like you- bowl. Oh, okay. Just rod you get you I brought raw cuz like you Flushed him down the toilet. Ha ha ha Yeah rice bowls sometimes with chicken sometimes with egg, mm-hmm, which came first by the way, oh Think about that for a while.

I like chopping it up, putting a little nutritional yeast or something on it, pop it in the oven. Did that? Like a chip. Yeah, delicious. Yeah, did that exactly? Yeah. Did some with the nutty yeast,

did some with garlic powder. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What about milk powder? I haven't done that with milk powder. I was, before the show, they caught me with my milk powder. He was doing lines of milk powder. Evaporated milk powder is an ingredient in these. Cookies. Cookie, this cookie recipe.

Anyway, I'm a full-time kale guy. Yep. And what does. I thought this conversation was more of a- Does anybody else in the family like kale? Are you solo on this adventure? Oh, Poppy, my eight-year-old, loves kale. Oh, really?

Especially this one kale salad I make. It's also just chopped up with a dressing and cheese and croutons. Sounds like a little bit of a- And shredded Brussels sprouts by any chance? No. There is a very good, it's like almost like a little shredded Brussels sprouts,

kale, lemon, some garlic and Parmesan cheese. Anchovies? You can put anchovies in there. I'm not a huge fan, but- The anchovies are in the, you mortar and pestle those. Slimy. Sounds like like a pretty slimy. And then you can hear them scream. Yeah.

Yeah. See. Or maybe they'd like it like a massage, like a rough massage. Oh, I need this. This is what they would say. I think I'd like a massage. You know what? You can get I can't.

Canter won't. I can't. Can't or won't? I can't, no. Do you not like massages? I've never had one. Oh, so many men. Like, last year we went away to Oak Bay Beach Resort. I wanted a couple's massage. Jay hated the whole thing.

Did he, he actually did it though? He did it and he was just like, gah. He was like, that was just like somebody whispering in my ear for an hour. Yeah. That was like, I was being butchered. Yeah. He did not like it. That's somebody whispering in my ear.

It's like someone whispering in their ear or were they actually whispering? They were because like we were in the same room, which I don't really get the point of a couple's, like there's nothing romantic. Yeah. Or you're just lying with your face in the thing. Oh, you don't do face to face, somebody lying on the back. And their masseuse is under them trying to massage up,

getting absolutely no pressure. It's not one person massaging the both of you. No. Because then it would be like, well, we got the same massage. Yeah, yeah. I'm ambidextrous. But they. Because then it would be like, well, we got the same massage. Yeah, yeah. I'm ambidextrous. But they would just lean in and be like, okay, now I'm going to get you to flip.

And it made it feel creepy. Although there is, you can get a massage where two people are massaging you. And that's a couples massage. I know. And I like, I wanted- They're fighting over things at home. But like, I just picture myself like you're lying on the table essentially naked and now like there's two people in this room massaging your body and like, are they making eyes at each other? Like, oh, grouse

or like, you do that part. I don't want to do that part. Like, and my brain, you hear them flipping I don't want to do that part. Like, and my brain- Did you hear them flipping a coin? And then best out of three, what? Yeah, I should go back to school. But I'm very curious, like, can you tell whose hands are whose? I think you can. Can you?

You can probably like- What if you're like, they really split up north and south? Do they? Yeah. Or like, can you tell, you're looking down through that hole, right? Yeah. And so can you see their feet?

I guess. Yeah. But how do I match the feet with it? Oh, you can tell. Unless, oh, the twins. Oh, the Adderst Bueller and his sister. The Adderst Bueller and his sister. Genie.

Oh man. I've had a couple of massages lately because I fucked up my back. So I've gotten some like physio massages, not like nice, you know, soft massages, really like digging in, making you kind of wince. I have done physio where they like just like, oh, your hamstring is messed up, here, let me go hard on it.

Yeah, I've had, that's the only type of massage. I haven't done soft massage. Yeah, soft music. Yeah, and just like gentle. Oh, I don't want that. No, and I don't, even in a relaxing one, I'd like them to go pretty. Hurt me. Hurt me is what I say.

And then they're like, please don't use those terms in here. You can only say harder three times before they ask you to get dressed and leave. I will sometimes ask Abby to walk on me. Put your heels on. It's a real doormat that day. And it never quite gets the job done.

It never is like, well, that's not exactly what it, I mostly am now feeling the pressure of the floor up at me. Yeah. I, but yeah, because I've never thought about it before that a couple of the songs, like why, why? Yeah, why is this yeah, because I've never thought about it before that a couple of massage like why, why? Yeah, why is this a thing? Yeah. What else if you get like a couple's spa package, what else do they do together? Like toes? Do they do toes?

Maybe that's another thing Jay will not go. I'm like, I think you'd really like a, like a pedicure. I think men should go. And he's like, well, and to be fair, he, he's like, I don't need a pedicure. I take excellent care of my feet. And I'm like, yes, you do. Okay, well, yeah, fair enough. Send us some pictures, we'll post them too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, he's on there. How do you think I'm funding my sewing habit? That's J's hobby, feet stuff anyways. Yeah, oh, he doesn't know, I just. He's not gonna listen to this, right? No. Yes. Couples massage. I imagine there'd be some sort of a glass of champagne or something like that.

It's just basically drunk. Yeah. You're just in a robe and then you maybe get your toes done and then maybe a facial. Maybe a facial. Yeah. Never had that. Have you done facials? I've done a couple. Maybe a facial. Yeah. Never had that. Have you done facials? I've done a couple. You don't have much of a face available.

That's true. I only have the top. So I'd be getting ripped off. Getting a raccoon facial. Yeah. They're just really focusing on the forehead. Yeah. Well, and honestly, I could use some work up there.

That's, yeah. They don't even need to worry about here down. Have you done? I've done a facial and I did not realize like how greasy like they're putting oils all over your face, which is I guess to be expected, but then they run their fingers through your hair. So I had made a lunch date immediately after. Is it real something about Mary kind of? Yeah, like I just like, it was so greasy.

What's wrong with Erica like, was so greasy. What's wrong with Erica? She's so greasy. Are you sweating? No, I'm just. I'm glowing, just kind of facial. They want to like extract any, like if you have like blackheads or whatever. Sure, sure.

You're just like, you look terrible after a facial. Cause it's all red and like. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. And they stick this vibrating thing in your mouth to clean your teeth. And you're like, what are you doing?

And they don't, they only speak Norwegian. Yeah. But you know what? I think if it were on offer, I'd do a spa day. Why not? Well, you know what you gotta do. Go on. Go to like the Scandinavian spa in Whistler.

Okay. So we went to one, there's one in like Blue Mountain. So when we were on tour, um, it's in Ontario in like near Collingwood. So we had four, three days off. So Pete and Dan wanted to stay in Toronto and Paul and I stayed at Blue Mountain. And then we went to Scandinavian Spa and like got massages and did the hot tubs and the cold plunging. And that was really nice.

Like a massage plus. And then we did, we did a little gummy. So we were pretty zenned out. It was really excellent. Yeah. Okay. Well, that's, I mean, that's endorsement. That's a date.

The thing I don't like about the Scandinavian Spawn Whistler, let me spill the tea. Take spill, queen. I sat up straight for this. So it's supposed to, like, it's supposed to be silent, like a silent retreat, which I get because you don't want a whole bunch of tourists in there yapping. Yeah.

But everyone is like, so hey, how you doing? It's just a little whisper. Right. So I got a little whisper. Right. So I got shushed. Fine. Fine. So then I was trying to communicate to my- You got shushed by like the, an employee or-

By like a 21 year old employee. There was also a man walking around, shaving his face with a razor. I was like, how about we concentrate on that before we come after the, and there's also a couple making out. Like, how is my going like? Gross. Yeah, I know.

I'm like. Hey, look at that couple. Yeah. Shut up. They're in the middle of their couple's massage experience. I was getting out of hand, guys. Yeah. They're doing the tonsil hockey packet.

So then I get shushed and I was like, okay. Well, now I can't relax. Now I can't relax, I'm all mad. And so then I'm trying to be like, hey, do you want to get out of this pool and go to the relaxation room or whatever? So I use my best mini sign language and I make this move, hey. Let's wrap it hey, let's wrap this up and go over there.

And then when we got out to go over to the next thing, the same 21 year old came over and was like, there's actually no signing. And I was like, yes, told me you couldn't sign. She's like- Sorry deaf people, you're on your own. Yeah, yeah. We use ESP here.

Yeah, you just have to slowly melt in this hot tub until your friends have to get the paramedics to come. And it really, like I was so annoyed cause she's like, yeah, this is, it's a complete silence, so no gesturing. And I was like, okay, why don't you fuck off? But I was also like- And she's like, put away that middle finger that's gesturing.

We will ask you leave. But then I, then I got so indignant because I've been to Iceland and like the pools, this whole experience is like everyone in town basically ends their day going into the, the, the hot tubs and the cold punch and that's where they talk politics and they do. So I'm like, this is culture appropriation of my heritage as an Icelandic person and they do talk in Iceland. So fuck you.

I saw someone on the news the other day with the last name Sigurdsson in Winnipeg. Of course. And he's doing a like a master's in Viking studies. Ooh. Sounds about right. doing a like a master's in Viking studies. Ooh. That's about right. Yeah. He was like,

Hey, there's one thing I know about Vikings. They did not talk in a cold plunge. But everybody's allowed to shave there. So it's the guy shaving that is the. That's the real. I think like the making of that's fine. It's just steamy. Especially if you're silent about it. But like. They weren't. There's a making of that's fine. It's just steamy Especially if you're silent about it, but like they weren't

What the guy shaving it's a bridge too far that is that's locker room material. Yeah Anyway, it's a Mikhail King now what's going on with you? What a journey we went on. That's the point. We're recording tomorrow. I don't have too many topics. Yeah, me neither. So you and I, Dave, we all have experience as we spend some time on the islands here

in off the coast of New Zealand. You have relatives on Gabriel Island, you go to Quadra Island, my in-laws live on Salt Spring Island. So you go there, totally different vibe, right? Small town. Oh, yes, from here. From here, yeah.

I think they probably have similar vibes to each other. To each other, yeah. But you go there and it's like, everything's a little bit slower, a little bit more hippie dippy. You know, lots of crystals for sale and such. Different pouches. Yeah, people just took their first pottery class

selling it all. Oh, I gotta pick up my pots. This is pot pickup wheat. But sometimes in these communities, one thing is the story that everybody talks about. There's one thing going on and that's all anybody wants to talk about. So Salt Spring, big thing right now,

they're expanding one of the roads. Oh yeah. Oh no. Boy, is that got some people's nose bent out of shape. Cause you know, summertime, that's the time to build a road, but also that's the only road that goes under the ferry. So you better believe there's a long line up going each way. And which ferry?

Long Harbor, Vesuvius. Long Harbor. Okay. Yeah. Okay. And a lot of like, it's one of those things where it's, okay, this lane is opening up. We're going to let 30 people in and then we're going to let 30 people the other way. All anybody wants to talk about. And it's my favorite thing in a small town.

And now is this the same on Quadrant Gabriel? Do they have a newspaper? Yeah, the Gabriel is sounder. Yeah. Yeah. It's like the bird's eye. Yeah. It's more of a pamphlet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's sort of like the coffee bean that you get in the coffee shop. Um, yeah, they do have a horoscope section in the newspaper.

They have a little bit of like trivia for kids. And all of the zodiac signs are just pissed off about the road. This week, you will not accept change. Um, but yeah, it was very funny, uh, getting the local newspaper, top top story front page, the road, second page, bear. Yeah. Somebody's out there. There's that one bobcat that's been around or whatever, the cougar that's been seen on the island again and again.

It's just a different way of living, isn't it? Yeah. Here's what's probably going on on Gabriel at the moment is while they're gonna they are the their ferry terminal is getting upgraded as well and it's going to be a headache because it's the only way on or off the island. And you got to do it. You're just a I have the tourists. And then the other thing every summer they have a big on the golf course they have a big tribute show like a tribute band comes and plays.

Oh, nice. That's fun. So someone will do all of Rumors by Fleetwood Mac. Oh, that's not bad. I don't know what it is this year. Yeah, we did go and see a cover band and they, it's weird when you see a cover band, you don't know any of the songs that are playing,

so it's not the fun of a cover band. You're not like, oh, I know this one. It was all- This is just a band. Yeah yeah it's like uh there's like bonnie rayett songs and i don't i don't know the catalog of bonnie rayett fantastic but i don't know are you saying bonnie rate like bonnie rayett is it a bonnie ray is it bonnie rate or rayett i say rate but it is spelt weird it's spelt rayett but i have always said Bonnie rate. But I do not claim. I'll go along with majority. Well, let's just, I'm gonna look up

Bonnie rate pronunciation. Okay. Are we gonna play this? There we go. We're gonna play this. I don't think it'll come. Little blue pronunciation mouth. I don't know what it's gonna come through.

So we may, listeners, stand by. Bonnie rate. Bonnie rate, through. So we may, listeners stand by. Bonnie Raitt. Bonnie Raitt, okay. There we go. And you can slow it down as well. Bonnie Raitt. Oh, it's a little bit. Oh my God.

Slow it down enough. That's the American pronunciation, but we go on to the British one. Yeah. And also in slow. Bonnie Raitt. Pfft. Bonnie Bridsbilly.

So yeah, the big news, big news. Is there any big news going on at Quadra? What's the big? The big hullabaloo? Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I'm going on Saturday, so I will find out and I will report back. Cause it's one of the kind of nice things is it's like,

you can start a conversation with literally anybody. Oh yeah. All you have to say is that road, eh? Conversations off and running. Yeah. I'm a big conversation with strangers guy. You love it. You absolutely love it.

He's working Kail into any conversation. You gotta kind of you absolutely love it. He's working kale into any conversation. You gotta kinda massage it. Yeah. Yeah, you do. Or cut it up really small, that's what I do. And you wanna put it in a, not for too long in the oven, you just wanna leave it just to- Oh yeah, those are like five minutes.

Well, three minutes, give it a little check, then another three. They'll burn, they'll burn if you leave it in too long. Do you ever saute it with a little- No, let me just finish that for you. No. Well, go on. I wanna hear the rest of this recipe.

A little bit of olive oil. That sounds good. And then some, I like to throw cashews in. Are you cutting it up small or is it your big leaves? Well, I think I might also be thinking of chard, but aren't these cousins? They might be kissing cousins. I feel like whenever I see Chard, I'm like, oh, hey, that's Rhubarb.

It's not Rhubarb. No, it's not Rhubarb, but it sure could play Rhubarb in a movie. What fools these mortals be? I was going to say something, but I forgot what it was. I still forget. So the two things that I enjoyed on this trip, one of which was going to the farmer's market and finding a stall that sold all gluten-free things. So I was like, I'll just have 12 of your cookies, please. And they were fantastic.

And they don't have a storefront. They're just part of this market. So you're like, I have to get these now? Yeah. And I don't have a storefront, they're just, they're just part of this market. So you have, like, you're like, I have to get these now. Yeah. And I have to eat them now. Yeah.

Maybe I should freeze them. Anyways, I didn't get that far. I ate them all before I had a chance to freeze them. But that was fantastic. And then I went to the, like one of the thrift stores there and in the clothing racks and the t-shirt racks, there was one, hey, let's stay six or 12 meters apart. And then one anti-masking t-shirt, same rack.

Nice. And that's the thing, the island, you know, there'd be a lot of people that'd be anti-vaxxers there because they're, you know, a lot of holistic people. A lot of... They're dead now. What's that? I said they're dead now.

They're dead now, that's right. I love that kind of stuff. Yeah. What kind of stuff? Again, I had something I almost wanted to say and I forgot. Let's get you a little pad of paper. You just start jotting these thoughts down as they come in.

I had a... So I'm making cookies right now. I made, kids are off school. Margo made, Margo, Abby was home yesterday and I came upstairs and Abby was like, Margo's making cookies all by herself. And they were, and I was like, oh, that's great. And then she actually cooked them and they were not great.

They were- Missing a key ingredient. Missing a key ingredient. And then it will, then I like, I don't, cause I didn't supervise, I don't know what it was. And I Googled, like there's a chart I had seen before of like what different cookies look like. Right, if they're two, if they're flat,

they're missing this. Yeah, yeah. And it was clearly the not enough flour. Oh. Then I looked up a different chart and the other one was different kinds of flour, and the not enough flour and gluten-free flour looked exactly the same. That makes sense.

As much as I love a cake being dropped or somebody running into a cake, I do like this is the design of cookie I wanted to make and then it just being the cookie. There's a thing, a trend I've seen of people making a sculpture out of the cookie, like a cookie dough, and then they put it in the oven and it just falls flat. It's like this was Shrek and now it's not. It's just a blob that's probably raw in the middle. I might make cookies when I get home.

A lot of cookie time today. Now, can you have almond flour? No, I'm allergic to nuts. Well, yes, I know you're allergic to nuts. No, no almond flour. I didn't realize. So you're gluten-free journey. So there's almond in almond flour?

How dare you? I think so. That you remember to say. Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah.

Well, I jotted it down. Oh, some people who are allergic to some nuts. I hold up a note that says Erica equals doofus. Ah. Ah. Ah. Ah. Last appearance on Spy.

Ah. Last appearance on Spy. Well, because there are certain things that are like allergens for you, but in certain state like apples, cooking apple. Yeah, cooking apple. I'm fine. If yeah, if it's almond flour can't have. But a lot of times they just use coconut. I'm not sure.

I'm not sure what the, like it's a combination of things that could be like rice flour and tapioca flour and a lot of times it's a blend of flours. Because consider the coconut. I'll have a coconut. Sure. It's a little sweet taste too. Yeah. Do you guys want to move on to some over her? All right.

Hey, I'm Alan McLeod the host of walking about and I'm here with Adam Hello, you know as a member of the month, you're the member of the month. You'll be getting a $25 gift card to the maximum fun store. Holy moly. Oh, yeah. I can't wait Thank you so much for supporting this show and the network Happy to do it. What made you decide to become a member? I just said, you know these people give me so much entertainment and joy and fun in my life I got it. I got to support them somehow the outpouring of love and support that these folks I mean, they made me Maximum Fund member of the month

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Can you help me with that one? Ooh, I don't think they cover that. Reading Glasses, every Thursday on maximum fun Overheard when you hear it we want to hear it and you know what if you see it We want to hear you relay it and if you dreamt it all the better and we always like to start with the guest Erica, do you have an overheard? Hey! Hey! Okay, I have an overseen.

Sure. And many overheard this more like just a little cute story, but let's start with my overseen, which you play a role in, Graham, because I received a text message two days ago that said, are you available Wednesday not to be a guest? We need you to host. Yeah. And I was like, yeah, I was like, well, this is obviously a great opportunity

or the worst insult of all time. I send that to her every week. I don't think you're available to not a guest this week. I just want to see if you're free to not come on our show again. I bet you got bloody a time for that. But then I was like, because he had previously asked me to be a guest on different week and I was busy. So then I was like, oh, is Graham wanting, he's like, don't get your hopes up. This is about something else.

Like I thought way too much about it. I was like, does Graham, is Graham asking me out on a date? What about Sally and Jay? How are we gonna tell them? Jay's gonna bow hunt me in the field. Yeah, that was pretty good. Pretty good typo, pretty good, a lot of fun. Pretty fun.

And then you say you haven't overheard or was this- Oh, do you want back to back? It's up to you. It's up to you. Wanna go around? Well, no, cause then this one is just kind of cute. It's another Woody Point story. So very generously, the Patterson gang,

and probably the money from the gig, took us all out to dinner. And Deanne Smith's partner, Alex, who is absolutely wonderful, came to dinner, showed up late though, and I was sitting across from Steve's youngest Nora, who has an adorable speech like I used to have like W's and R's. The cutest.

That was until like two years ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It still pops up. And so she's telling me a story and it's loud. So I'm leaning in and, and Alex gets there late and sits down beside me and just looks over at Nora, like And just looks over at Nora, like, continue. And Nora looks, gives her the worst side eye, and then looks back at me and then looks back at her and goes, I was talking to Eweka. And it was like, and then Alec was like, oh, excuse me.

And then like started talking to Steve's older daughter. I love that. It was quite, I was talking to a. Adorable. Adorable. I love that. Dave, do you have one over? I miss that. I miss when my kids, you know, couldn't.

Could be an Aowut cookie. Couldn't enunciate? Yeah. Yeah. There was a time when Poppy for a year just said, doot-doot. Like her only word she knew was doot-doot. She would point to something, doot-doot. This was, I don't know which way to go. This was six months ago. I already made that joke. Um, yeah, my overheard,

we were at brunch. The sort of this, okay. You guys know breakfast and you know lunch. Yeah. Well in between there's a, a special waffle based meal. Yeah. Only for adults. I feel like brunch. No, we don't. The kids and I were out for brunch with Abby, all four of us, the whole fam, uh, you know, sort of like school's over. Let's have brunch. Let's go to a restaurant and get drunk at 11 a.m.

Yeah. I guess that's the thing about brunch, but brunch doesn't need alcohol. No brunches can stand on its own. Sure. Uh, it hurts if you're trying to keep the budget. The brunch doesn't need alcohol. No. Brunches can stand on its own. Sure. It doesn't hurt to have. It hurts if you're trying to keep the budget low. You're like, oh, suddenly this is a $200 semi-meal. So no, it was a dry brunch.

Dry brunch, okay. Except for the syrup, plenty of syrup. Yeah. And the table behind us, I heard the waitress talking to the guy, they were like settling up their bill at the end. And I just heard the waitress say, I believe staff discount only applies when staff is dining.

And the guy goes, I am staff. Oh, shit. And so they had to have sort of a, pleased to meet you. Oh, I only work brunch. Oh, I work dinner. Oh, sure. They wouldn't have never the twins will meet if you're a brunch.

Ships passing in the night. I wonder out of the two who gets better tips, a brunch service or a dinner service? Well, dinner, cause alcohol. Alcohol. Alcohol, right. But I always, I'm trying to keep the, yeah, I'm trying to keep the brunch. Well, dinner, cause alcohol. Alcohol. It's alcohol, right. But I always, I'm trying to keep the, yeah, I'm trying to keep the brunch,

yeah, yeah. I, like if you go to kind of a place, like now I'm thinking about how wildly expensive our breakfasts have been recently, like $70 for two people, no alcohol. I'm like, how the fuck did this happen? Yeah. But like, if you go to a greasy spoon

and your bill is like $14, I usually tip like way more than 20%. Cause I, I'm like, you're, you're working so hard at breakfast for like, practice giving it away. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, um, yeah, I do steal some of the cutlery just to balance it out.

Yeah. Yeah. But they got that greasy spoon. They got that nice heavy cutlery just to balance it out. Yeah, yeah. But they got that greasy spoon, they got that nice heavy cutlery. Oh yeah. You think they would have a famously greasy spoon? It does slip right out of my pocket. If you're talking about those stuff,

you're gonna steal a greasy spoon. I got sticky fingers, greasy spoon. Waiter, how greasy is your spoon? Oh, greasy. Holds it out of his armpit. Where did you go for brunch? A place called None of Your Frickin' Business. Okay.

No, I went to Elio Volpe, which is a fancy restaurant in our neighborhood. And, but breakfast is very reasonable. Brunch, very reasonable prices. Okay. A lot of $10 items on the menu. Perfect. Yeah, I feel like without toast, brunch and breakfast really kind of take a hit. It's, because then you got,

you're kind of left with eggs, potato, maybe. You're gonna want to- Without toast. Yeah, like I feel like toast is a real thing. Oh, and then you're gluten free. Yeah, yeah. I was like, what the hell are you talking about? But Jay doesn't eat toast, never you're gluten free. Yeah, yeah. I was like, what the hell are you talking about?

Jay doesn't eat toast, and you know who has great? You can get their Bennys on Jam Cafe. They have those hash browns, but they have one in Vancouver. They do? Yeah. There's a couple, if you like long lineups, it's great. I love it. Yeah, yeah, get there first thing in the morning.

But you can get your eggs Benny made on one of their hash browns, because their hash browns come in almost like a disk. It's so great. And they made it, because you can get your eggs, Benny made on one of their hash browns cause their hash browns come in like almost like a disk. It's so great. And they made it cause Jay doesn't eat toast. So he will get grilled tomatoes. Nice. And then some potatoes and then eggs.

There's your stomach going. Yeah, as soon as I heard about this potato situation. It's because when we arrived, Dave showed us cookie dough and all of our brains went, cookie? And then he slammed it back in the fridge and said, no. You confronted me about my powdered evaporated milk. Do you have an overheard, Greg? I have an overseen. We're all familiar with the band Matchbox 20.

Yes. Rob Thomas outfit. That's right. This is a contest you can enter. It's one of the weirdest. Where did you see this? This is on Facebook. This is a Vegas competition you can enter.

This is the prize. Win a Vegas trip to meet Rob Thomas at his show, plus take home his cashmere sweater. He's going to be in Vegas. He's going to be, this is too hot. Yeah. That's not a prize. You're like all night. Oh, this sweater. He peels it off at the end of the night.

Here you go. What a weird prize. Yeah. Like, it's not like he's famous for sweaters. Does he like throw one into the audience every night? Mops his brow with it. Well, now that they sell a cashmere at Uniqlo, it's very affordable.

It's not the same quality. But he probably buys a pretty good cashmere. Not if he's given one away at every concert. Yeah, that's true. I feel like this is a big one. This is a big, like, maybe he's had this cashmere sweater for years, it's his favorite sweater. Made from the finest goats.

But it's like a, have you ever heard of a competition where somebody giving away like a regular garment? Yeah. I will sometimes give away my socks just. Just for fun. Just for fun. Good creeps. Yeah, good creep. Well, that's who gets them.

Nobody else is lining up. There's very few, like you reach in to do the draw and there's three pieces of paper in there. And you know, whichever. There's just one guy, greasy guy combing his hair. And she's got back from the spa. Well, sometimes when I'm in Tokyo, I'll buy used underwear out of the- Yeah, yeah, vending machines. Of the vending machines.

Classic. Oh yeah, that's also, if you don't like the cashmere sweater, you can have Rob Thomas' underwear. And stage worn underwear. Anyways, I thought it was a great- Rob Thomas here, he's so smooth. And yeah, he's seven inches from the mid-day, so I'm too hot in that sweater, if you ask me. Oh my God, in Vegas, you're like six inches

from the mid-day sun. Now we also have Overheard sent in into us by people all over the world. If you want to send one in, send it in to sby at maxmofund.org. This first one comes from Matt in Winnipeg. And it's one of these, an overheard where you know what he's saying, but he's saying the wrong thing.

My wife, this is from my wife selling a car seat adapter to someone on Marketplace, the buyer after deciding not to purchase goes, thanks, but I think I'll just keep Jerry McGuire in our car seat situation. We got to keep making it, you know, show us the money. Yeah, I mean, honestly, that's probably where the Facebook Marketplace thing broke down over the money. Yeah, I mean, honestly, that's probably where the Facebook marketplace thing broke down. It was over the money. Yeah, yeah, what's the money?

But did she respond, help me, help you? Yeah. You complete me. These are the lines. These are the lines for the film. The human head weighs eight pounds. I was in a car seat. Yeah, that movie, eh?

Has it stood the test of time? I haven't seen it in 20 years, let's say. I haven't seen it in forever. I've never seen it. Let's watch it tonight. Yeah. What is, yeah, that's, I think, also my big Facebook marketplace thing is I would only

wanna sell things that you can have for free. Yeah. This is $20. Could you do 10? Hey, you show up, you can just take it. You know what's always on Facebook marketplace or especially Craigslist free section? Trampolines. Oh, yeah.

Always trying to get rid of trampolines that are worth nothing. Oh, pianos as well are impossible. Yeah. Yeah. I have a theory. It does not matter how nice a house is. As soon as you put a trampoline in the yard, it looks like trash. It's true.

And no matter how nice the trampoline is, it just, it's not a good looking. And there's here in Vancouver, there are a lot of people who have trampolines in the front yard. I know, I'm like, that kid is gonna go flying into traffic. There's one on like, I think it's like Victoria, like it's a very small yard and it is wedged

right against the sidewalk. I'm like, this is not safe. And a lot of the ones in the front yard have like kind of a netting on it so that strangers can't just have a bounce. They all have netting now. Do they all? Yeah.

For the best. Yeah, there's one on my streets and my kids are like, can we get a trampoline? And I was like, you can learn to make friends with those people. Yeah, I had a friend down the street that had trampoline for years. Eventually, my parents bought a trampoline for my youngest brother. But were you a trampoline in the household? We weren't even a household.

We were a townhouse. You have a trampoline? I guess no. No. Community trampoline. Community trampoline. The yard is everyone's. We were a trampoline house. But we had, we would rent a trampoline from Sundance Trampolines for July and August every summer.

Nice. It's just when we have July and August. And then our neighbors down the street were like, why don't we buy a trampoline and we keep it 10 months of the year and you keep it July and August. And we were like, yes. Yeah, weird deal that you've set up, but sure. You ever put a sprinkler under there? Yeah. Yeah.

Well, no, no, no, this was a tarp. Like it wasn't a mesh. Oh. So the trampoline, if you put a sprinkler underneath, you stay dry, but we would pour water on top and you would cave in and like, you would definitely sploosh around on it. And no netting around it.

No netting. Just open. Open. Foot goes through the- Foot goes between the springs. Yep. Yeah. We really, really almost died as children.

It was fine. A lot. Like it was totally fine though. Like well, I mean, I know some people who broke limbs on it for sure. Yeah. Definitely like did all the things wrong and I was fine and not, I don't mean that in the like these kids, they're too soft. But the netting is a good idea because a lot of people go flying off of those things.

This next one comes from Sam in Hertford, UK, outside a small model railway exhibition being held in an ancient local church. This is the only in England, you know. Just think how Mr. Bean is going to fuck that up. There were two little boys, one one only about three years old, with their mom. One of the boys ran off into the grass excitedly said to the other, there's lots of good gravestones in here. We haven't seen a decent one all day. Oh wait, I bet you the graveyard will have some pretty good gravestones.

Yeah, I wanted to do some etchings or what do you call them when you're rubbing the gratings? Yeah. Yeah, I think old I've never thought of doing that That's really a kid's the only rubbing I do in the graveyard is a little heavy. You're gonna. It's a little bit of triumphant This last one comes from Scott in Omaha Now a week ago my wife and I got back from a trip to Little Corn Island, Nicaragua. When we first arrived, they led us to a bar. They have a little local newspaper. Oh, absolutely.

What's going on in Nicaragua? On Little Corn Island? Big corn harvest this year. Yeah, as a, you know, not like our name, big corn harvest this year. Do you think that the name, not like our name, Big Corn Islanders this year. Do you think that the name of the newspaper has the word ears in it? It must. Yes, the Corn Islanders, yeah.

When we first arrived, they led us to a bar restaurant and playing on the speakers was a soft soulful cover of a familiar song. So I thought, upon closer listening I heard, and this is a, what if God was one of us is the tune here. And yeah, yeah, God looks baked. Yeah, yeah, God smells good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, what if God smoked cannabis? Oh no. And it goes on, okay, fun,

whatever y'all are having a good time. I heard that same song six more times over the board day. All the other songs were easy listening songs like you can call me Al or under the boardwalk, nothing else remotely transgressive. And I never heard another song repeat. And I- What are they gonna write?

What's the next line? I don't know. What if God smoked cannabis, just to slop. I mean, it's, you know, it's make up your own lyrics really, but the fact that there's a parody song that they can play at this resort. Oh, it's by Bob Rivers. Why do I know that name? Noted Parodist?

I guess he's a Noted Parodist. Here's the next line. Hit the bong like some of us. That's pretty good. Drove a tight eyed micro bus and he subscribes to Rolling Stone. Nice! micro buzz and he subscribes to Rolling Stone. Nice! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Or voice memos. And voice memos. In addition to overhers that are written in, we also accept your phone calls. If you would like to call us or send a voice memo,

you can send a voice memo by email, spy at maximumfun.org or call us at 1-844-779-7631. That's one, ugh, SpyPod one, like these people have. Hey, Dave and Graham, this is Jeremy from Milwaukee. I manage a small bakery, and this goes back to January. We had new calendars up on the wall, and one of my clerks said to another one, Hey, let's see when the first Friday the 13th is.

And she starts paging through the calendar and pauses after a few pages, quietly says to herself, huh, it's not a Sunday this year. Well, off I go. That sounds like a naked gun joke. Quick silly little thing. What's the gag where he goes like, what do you look like? He's like, six foot tall, like? He's like six foot tall mustache.

It's awful big mustache. Yeah, just like the idea of being at work and you're so bored at work that the calendar comes in and you're like, ooh, exciting. Anyway, we love all bakeries. Yeah. Big and small bakeries. Yeah. Big and small. Yeah.

Yeah. The small ones, the light fold, the big ones doing it exactly like you like. Yeah. I guess the big ones are generally they're probably baking for they maybe have a chain and they're, you know, the big ones. They've sold out. Yeah. Yeah.

Sellouts. You have three locations, but all the baking happens at the mothership. Yeah. Yeah. Joe Rogan's mothership bakery. Exactly. They're definitely doing some baking over there. What if God spoke cannabis? Who gave her a subscription to roast? Hey, Dave and Graham, this is Lee calling from Vancouver with an overheard. I was at the Canada Post Office inside of the Shoppers Drug Mart, inside of the Kingsgate Mall today. And there was a woman ahead of me and she had a printout. And she went up

to the guy and she was like, Hey, I would like to extend the mail forwarding that I have for this address. And he goes, Okay, I just need to see an ID to match it to the address. And she was like, well, that's not me. I'm just getting it forwarded. And he said, well, I need the person that's male it is to be here with a valid ID. You cannot get somebody else's male forwarded. And she goes, well, that's not possible. And he goes, okay, well, I can't help you extend it because it's actually illegal to

interfere with somebody else's male. So you have to come with the person and their valid ID. And she goes, well, she's dead. And the guy's face was just like the look of shock in his eye, all the blood, all the color just dropped from his face. And he goes, okay, well, I can help you then. Thank you so much. And he does it for her. I mean, she could have led with that. And I feel like maybe she was just doing it for the drama because it was quite a dramatic presentation on her part.

Off I go. A photo of the dead body. Yeah, because then like, why wouldn't she have to brew it with a desk? Where is it getting forwarded to? Heaven. Or hell. When I die. Where should we forward your mail?

I guess yeah, you can just like get the catalog, like you can keep the catalogs. It'll be in your will. You'll get the Lee Valley one. I don't get a ton of great mail. Yeah. Costco connection. Oh, is that the Costco newspaper? That's yeah, and it is, it's a magazine

and it is worth every penny that I pay. Yeah. Which is nothing. Oh, you pay membership fee, don't you? Yeah, you sure do, you sure do. But does it have all sorts of deals in it? We get the little one that's like the coupons, but we don't get a journalism.

Mm, well, well, well. We don't get, I mean, I do all my reading in airplane magazines, in flight magazines, en route. Years and years ago, there was a comedian around named Vic Lepucci, and he had a spread in one of those. That's right. It was WestJet. Yeah, in their magazine. Yes.

And I always remember being like, I guess in Canada that is kind of making it. Yeah. You made it into WestJet magazine. It's probably the best press you could get in Canada. More people would see that than anything else. I think they would write the article in English and French.

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I remember him getting that and being like, that's the credit. He got it, how did he get WestJet? Oh my God, he got it. We've got some scouts here tonight from WestJet. Exactly, whispering to the comedians backstage, I heard there's someone in the crowd from WestJet.

Is it a pilot? It's a guy sitting there, no pilot. See, that's another naked gun-esque game. Well, that's Seinfeld, they had. Oh yeah, the pilot of the audience. Jerry's manager. Well, it is your final one. Hi Dave Graham and possible guests. My name is Court from Maryland.

I'm calling in with an overheard. I was just in the grocery store and there was a man, a very harried man with his two, they look like maybe nine year old kids. And he leans over, they like run ahead of him and he goes, hey guys, don't you think the Punisher might already be autistic? No freaking way.

What is what's proceeding? He becomes autistic? Yeah, like, Oh boy, I bet that's why the Punisher won't take vaccines because he doesn't want to become autistic. Yeah, I mean, sure. But of all the superheroes, I don't know that I picked Punisher as the most. Yeah, maybe let's figure that out. Yeah, let's say, you know what?

Send in your ideas of what superhero is most autistic. Or just send us a whole Marvel spectrum. Yeah. Send us a whole Marvel spectrum. Yeah. Well, that brings us to the end of this episode. Erica, thank you so much for being our guest. Thank you for having me. I had a delightful time. Do you think you will actually set up this Etsy store? Will we be able to link to this Etsy store? Either Etsy or maybe just on my own website, I will have things for sale.

Okay. Because that would surprise corporate clients. They'd be like, oh, she has a keynote, she can do comedy and wait a second, we needed parting gifts for all of our... Yeah. You're a one-stop shop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it's a corporate gig, but all of our employees are swingers.

That's right. We'll take 25 of those pineapple pouches, please. Well thank you again for being our guest. And thank you everybody out there for listening. You know what? Pineapple or no, we've all got a little bit of swinger in us. And come on back next week for another episode of Stop Podcasting Yourself. Maximum Fun, a worker-owned network of artist-owned shows supported directly by you.