Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 918 - K.C. Novak

Episode Date: October 21, 2025

Comedian K.C. Novak returns to talk moving to New York, fall sunlight, and a puppet slam. Follow us: Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky. Join our Discord.

Hi, he's Dave Shumka. And he's Graham Clark. And together we host. Stop podcasting yourself. Woo! Hello, everybody, and welcome to episode number 819. No. Sorry, 918.

Sorry. You're going. Hello, everybody, welcome to episode number 918 of Stop Podcasting yourself. My name's Graham Clark, and with me as a guy who just tried to enjoy some red velvet cupcakes, Mr. Dave Schumka. I had one. Yeah. Did you enjoy it?

Yeah, I like it. It's chocolate. Yeah, I guess it's chocolate. It's just color for fun. Yeah, I think in the old days, they would use beats, but when you get it for Betty Crocker, it's just pink chocolate. Yeah. Beats, lovely.

And it comes with a cream cheese icing. Oh, yeah. No, thanks. You say no to cream cheese icing. I say down with cream cheese icing, give me anything but. What would go well aside from vanilla? I guess vanilla would be the gang. Vanilla, chocolate, frickin' mint.

Red velvet itself. Banana. Mint. Wow. To anything. Sure. No, chocolate and mint. Those guys are pretty close friends.

Oh, our guest is not feeling that at all. Uh, she's a returning guest here to the podcast. Uh, you can catch her on the new wave of standout comedy on CBC's gem. It's Casey Novak. Yay! Hey! Did a big, like, fingerthal. Yeah.

Like, like she was, uh, she was a little tar herself to Graham's, uh, go on top me with a tar combo. Um, yeah, actually my favorite YouTuber who, for where I do workouts, uh, she does that for her little opening because she has a little swirl graphic that comes in. She's like, let's get to it. Oh, okay. When you say her little opening. you don't mean. No, I don't, Dave.

Wow, all right, let's get it. She takes her finger and swoops it around. Damn. All right, Club Comedy. Let's go. Should we get to know us? First of all, you're wearing a shirt this is unsubscribe. I love it.

With a heart. I love it. Is this merch? Is this your merch? I wish it's from Old Navy. Yes. Old Navy. What is Old Navy trying to say?

I don't know. Yeah. Because what is they want? people to subscribe to their channels. They're kind of being counterculture. They're like, don't listen to this podcast anymore. Don't. You've got to get off our email list.

Yeah. I think times are so dark that old Navy is punk now. I think that's what's happening. I guess it is. They do have a lot of rock and roll t-shirts, don't they? Or is that? Yeah, they do. They have like a whole back section now.

That's almost like Spencer Gips. Yeah. Yeah. Like I, where would you get band teachers in the past? Maybe you're in town of Tommy Lee? Oh, back in the day? Back in the day. Oh, the rock shop.

The head shops. The head shops. Head shops. I felt like that was the only place to get a rock. Unless you went to the concert. Yeah. $80. But now, anywhere.

Yeah. What's the best concert t-shirts that you guys have? I have a pretty, well, the most exclusive one I have is I have a tour t-shirt from Lizzo's last tour before she became big. Oh. So she was still, she was at a tiny little club here in town. I thought she was amazing, bought the t-shirt. Cool.

That's probably the best one. Yeah. My best one was a modest mouse Okay But I lost it But it had like a raised Almost like a felt Buffalo on it

Oh shit So it wasn't just like the print A texture yeah Did you ever wear bad t-shirts? I did but I don't wear any t-shirts I mean I wear t-shirts But I don't wear things on them I don't want everyone to be like

Hey it says unsubscribe What's that all? Okay That's your hell Yeah Okay cool But I have I still have from when I was 16

A Weezer t-shirt Where they're all in Elvis outfits, jumpsuits. Oh, cool. And they reissued that with the new bass player, but this is back when they had the first base player. Oh, yeah.

It's, oh, so they've added in the first. Okay. With AI. Yeah, they did it with AI, probably. I wouldn't put it past them. They'll write it anyway. Now, you are anti-chogalette and mint, or just anti-mint?

Well, the red velvet idea with a mint frosting. Yeah. I was rejecting. But do you like chocolate and mint? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm there. I think it was the color idea, but I guess it is Christmasy if you have to velvet

with a green. Yeah. But that makes me want to keep. Look, let that be your plan this Christmas. This is a fun thing for you to tackle this. I don't know. Just hear those sleigh bells jiggling. Giggling too.

Do you, Casey Novak? Yes. You like mint in general. I do. I love mint. What about cilantro? Yeah, I'm okay with cilantro. Salonra? Yeah, say, whatever you're true.

Which country am I in? Salantra. Yeah, my bells are a blender now. Yeah, I love cilantro. Yeah. I feel like it's either a lover, hey. Because it tastes like soap to something. It's a genetic thing.

So it's not even like, I think, a preference. So I don't judge anyone for not liking it. Well, Sydney Sweeney has good genes. Wait, Dave, Dave. We'll have to see whether she likes it or not. I don't know about that. There's cilantro flavor. Is there a good or a bad way to feel about cilantro?

Well, we'll have to do a swab of Sidney's sweet. Okay. Are you guys pro or? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. Great.

Is there another one like that where it's people love or I feel like I am that way with every artificial sweetener. Oh, okay. I can't. It's the fact that other people don't spit it out immediately is... But don't you go to a dairy queen, aren't you pro? Okay, go come at me. Okay.

No, wait, artificial. Oh, you mean like aspartame. I mean like, yeah, diet. Oh, I was thinking like chemical. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, like invented flavors, right? Yeah, no, that's fine. Okay. But like, yeah, the invented sweetness is my weakness.

Is it too sweet for you or is it? No, it just tastes. Like, yeah, yeah, I can't enough. I love Diet Coke, though. Yeah. And I'm fine with losing my memory. Like, that's fine. Yeah.

Is that what it does is get rid of you? There's like new studies. What's my excuse for losing my memory if I'm not? I got me too. There's some studies with like Alzheimer's research with being connected to. Ah, crap. DC. Yeah.

But who wants to remember stuff? You know what I mean? I guess people that I don't know. People. I should make jokes about this. But anyway, yes. Yeah. It's a real thing.

Like, can either of you guys remember, like, two weeks ago what happened in your, like, off the top of your head? Okay, give me what's today? Today is the 15th. So the first one was the Tuesday, though, first of October. Yes. Well, you maybe turned over a calendar. I was definitely turning over a calendar. And it was a Tuesday.

Oh, yeah. So it was Taco Tuesday. It was Taco Tuesday. It's Taco Tuesday. It's Toot Tuesday at, wait, it's Taco Tuesday. Never mind. It's not Tuny Tuesday anywhere anymore. It used to be it.

KFC. Oh, I missed that. You used to have $2 movies, dude. Do you ever second run movie theaters? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Tuesdays are still cheap, too. But then now they're like $10. Yeah.

Right. But that's what everybody did basically. Two weeks ago, yeah. Okay, great. Yeah. I look back on it with fondness. No, I'm going to journal it because the past week was so crazy. I need to go through it because I want to remember it.

So I'm going to sit down and intentionally. I think it's too late. Oh, it's gone? You got to do it the day of. Well, the rest is. Still unwritten, so. Oh, that is true. Yeah.

Do you feel like you're serious and you take out your journal? Are you a good journaler? No. Okay. I'm intermittent. But you, do you feel like you're staring at the blank page before you? And then you're like, oh, fuck, I've got to open up this dirty window. Yeah.

The window always dirty. I don't know how to clean it. Did you ever try and keep a diary or a journal? Yeah. I think I did. That's like a writing exercise. When? What age?

20s? Oh. I was in my teens. And I was in my teens. Basically, my thing is, if I write this down, somebody's going to find this book, and then it wasn't anything bad I was writing, but it's like, oh, I'll just say it. They'll just repeat it in a dumb voice. Yeah. Today I went to the store. Classic. No, I think it's good. People should journal. Yeah. It's pro-journaling, anti-red velvet.

Okay. We're starting to see the full picture of what Casey's all about. With mint. Or anti-red velvet in general. No, I just never really had it too much. Mm-hmm. I mean, no one. I don't seek it out. Yeah, I don't think anyone's had it too much. Okay. And you, last time you were here, you were living here in Vancouver. Correct. Now you have relocated to the Big Apple.

Big Apple. And how's it going? Good. I want to redefine the phrase, right? Like, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. Like, I physically made it there, so I can physically make it anywhere. That's how I want to redefine that. Oh, I don't know.

Riyadh. Minnesota. Oh, God. Oh, boy. Yeah, you know what, that campaign? It's working. Yeah. It's on everyone's lips.

Jeez, Louise. What a time. What a time? So you live in New York. Yes. Take us through, what's your lifestyle? Are you living in an apartment? Yes.

Okay. Moved in with a best friend to their apartment. And this has been a beloved apartment in our friend group. Other friends have lived there. Now, you are. I have friends. Do you? You know from where originally?

Ohio. Oh, hi. Ohio, and then you move here. I do. Some of things happen in between, I'm sure. Correct. And then you move there. Yep.

And so the friends, your best friend was already living there. Yes. Yes. And you're like, please come live with me. Actually, yeah. Yeah. She needs money. It's a nice two bedroom.

Yeah. Well, actually three bedroom technically. Ah, what's in the third of little office? Oh, please do your YouTube workouts? Right. Well, yes. Yes. And right now we're calling it the Doom Room because it's just like clutter, like just all the.

Oh, Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Overflow of everything else. Were you traveling light coming from here to New York, or did you have stuff in Cincinnati that you transferred over to New York? A little bit. Yeah. I'm like leaving little clues for myself later on. I don't know. Yeah, but those clues jog the old memory. Yeah. It is like a squirrel situation that I'm trying to take upon myself. No, I need to get better at packing. Are you guys good at packing? Yes. To move? No, just like travel. Oh, I don't know. I'm very good. And I've been told by agents that have done a fantastic job packing. What's the hack? Like, what's your philosophy?

And what agents do you think he's talking about? Real estate. No, it's Hollywood. Yeah, I just, I jing it together very well. Okay. Do you do the rolling method? I would do the rolling method. I also stuff things inside of other things.

Smart. You use the rhythm method? Use the rhythm method. And then when I arrive, I use the pull-out. Yeah. Hell yeah. How many, are you just like, these are my pants for the week? Yeah, it depends on what the forecast of the week is going to be.

Is there a potential cold snap or is there potential accidentally spilling something? I'm going to eat like a chili dog wherever I go. I'm going to the piss pants conference. Is that pro-pice pants or anti-pish pants? And also, like, even if I'm good, will my guy sitting next to me piss my pants? Wait, what are piss pants? Pants you piss in? Okay, got it.

Got it. I just want to feel in. I'm going to be in the loop, you guys. Have you had any tums yet? No, it's more like an emotional support tums. Okay. It's just good to have for there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. I have the same thing. I always have to know where's the closest bathroom at all time. Wherever I am in any situation, like, well, you gotta wait until I get home to take care of business or, you know, get the bay in time. Yeah. The bay's gone.

I know. But I could probably be around the corner of it or something. No, it's like a FBI agent where, you know, you need to know the exits. That's right, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, uh, you're living for the pal. Yes.

In New York. You're living, you told us off mic. Upper West Side. Upper East Side. Oh, upriest. Oh, she moved. That's, uh, the homeblaze of, uh, East Side Marios, right? That's where we're all started.

Yeah. Yeah. Bada boom. Bada Bing. Um, so what are you, what are you doing in New York? Are you working? No, I'm not, I'm not doing much, you guys. Are you doing sets?

Uh, yes. Yes. I just started doing sets. that's in September. I was scared. I'm scared in New York. September. How come?

New York is scary. New York is scary. Everyone's so good. The first mic I did there, it was in a bowling alley. It was just for other comics like Mike, open mic style. Everyone's so great. They could have been, they have a type five. They should be on late night.

Yeah. The two that are left. Yeah. Does anyone want to go on late night anymore, I guess. I guess. Or Don't tell or the other ones. Yeah. Don't tell is the big one, right?

Yeah, I think so. What's the other one? The other big. I guess if you were Tony Hinchcliffs. What's Don't tell? It's a. Started as, like, doing shows in kind of odd locations, like a bowling alley or something like that. And then it's turned into, they do recordings of people.

They do, like, you know, 10 sets or whatever in San Diego or wherever. And do the comedians, now they're being recorded? Nope. And it's usually mostly in the bathroom when you're changing your piss pants. Okay, amazing. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.

They did one in Canada. Yeah, you know, it's very exciting. Yeah. Yeah. I know who was on it, but did they release them already? Yes. Okay. Yeah, they're like, don't tell them.

I know who's on it. Yeah, it really works. Don't tell me. So, yeah, no, I just started going to Mike's last month. Otherwise, I've been real lazy, you guys. I'm just walking around. We're right by the river, so I'm walking up and down that river. And I get a few droplets in my mouth.

I'm like, East River. I ain't infected now. Is this how it ends? Why are you walking open mouths around the river? I really need to talk to my doctor. I don't know. I can't close my mouth. It's because I'm screaming.

I'm a little scared. Because I was in Montana last week, and it's at elevation. Like, it's 3,500 feet meters, I don't know. But, like, on the flight home, I was like, oh, it is a struggle to breathe right now, so. Right, really? Yeah, yeah. Had to be in Canada. It's come on into the ER.

Is 3,500, wow. That's usually the feet around. Isn't it a mountain? 1,000 feet is enough to, like, last Quentin Tarantino a weekend. Ah. Someone at the festival I was at, they were like, what's the name of Quinn Tarantino's movie theater? I was, like, foot theater, but they thought I was being serious. They're like, oh, well, where is foot theater?

Yeah, I was like, no, it was a joke. Maybe I'm not funny anymore. You're funny? At all. I'm sorry, I'm messing with the headphones. Things are going sideways. That's great. Yeah, it's, uh, when you go to a new place to see comedy, you really do get a sense of, uh,

wow, people are really doing their best sets all the time. I feel, I feel like I've done that in New York and L.A. Where I'm like, whoa, everybody showcasing everything. They're not working on a new material at all. This is like, really good five minutes, like you say. It's nuts, yeah. Always be showcasing, apparently. But now all you need is one minute. You're going to kill Tony.

You just need that one minute. Oh, my God, you're right. Yeah. One of those guys is on SNL now. Yeah. Yeah, he's very funny. That's all it takes. Do your one minute.

Okay, everybody. Let it down. Okay, here we go. How's everybody doing tonight? This is what you're using? Oh, yeah. Hey, who's smoking weed tonight? Hell yeah.

Oh, yeah, me too. Like, it looks like that guy is too. Hey, Mr. What do you do for a little? He got him good It's medicinal I have glaucoma And so on and so forth

That's why I'm in the front row Yeah See you better Probably somewhere He has all the better to see you with Jesus Comedy's great Why is that wolf-looking old lady in the front row

All the better to see you with Yeah she's the wolf She's my grandmother Whoa You You do stand up Do you do sketch Do you do improv

I did improv. I actually started with improv. And did you, you've gone away from it forever? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I did. My line is like I did a lot of improv in Ohio, which is like saying you had a lot of sex in prison. Like it was, there wasn't a quality control on that statement. Sex and prison is actually pretty good. Pretty good from your experience. Some of the best guys. Cool. Yeah. I didn't watch Oz. But anyway. Oh, you didn't? No. It's pretty hard hitting stuff.

I bet. But, yeah, but I started with improv, but then I didn't want to pay to be on a team again when I moved here. And that's when I started doing the stand-up. And mainly writing. I'm a writer. I want to not talk to anyone and just write. What do you want to write? Jokes for people, hire me.

Oh, okay, for like an award ceremony. That kind of stuff. Well, okay, Graham and I are going to host the Oscars this year. Amazing. We need to kick out. Who was going to do it? It was going to be, I want to say, Kimmel, Conan. What's Nate Burgotsie hosting?

He did the Emmy's At the moment Yeah Oh okay Yeah Anyway so we need 500 jokes about

Yeah The smashing machine Yeah I'm there I can't wait to see it Some re-ed comedy You can't wait to see it Yeah

The Rock trying to get an Oscar Yeah I want to see that It looks like a terrible bummer from the moment Yeah Yeah Frame 1 to frame

frame one of the trailer It looks like that What was the Jeremy Allen White movie with the wrestling brothers. It looks like that. Eagle Hook.

Yeah. This looks like. What was that called? It was called the guy's move. Yeah. Eagle Claw. Oh yeah. Iron Claw.

Iron Claw. Eagle hook was pretty good. Eagle hook was pretty good. It looks sad in that way where like men can't have feelings so they wrestle each other to death. It looks like one of those movies. It's what we were taught in school. Yeah.

Yeah. Have you seen the wrestler? No. Oh, it's a real uplifting. Okay. Great. Great. The fighter is, I think, the same.

It's pretty bleak. Yeah. I guess Rocky's like the only feel good fisticuff. Yeah, probably. Inspiring story. Unless you consider every which way but loose where Clint Eastwood and an orangutan often get into fights as they're driving drunk across the country. Oh, I haven't seen that.

Was that a series of movies? Was there like an any way, any which way you can? Any which way you can. Any which way, but loose. You know what? He's still alive. Still alive. Yeah.

That orangutan also still, get them back on the screen together. Do you, like, if you, would you be your ideal writing, like late night writing? Yeah, yeah, that's what I was going for. You have a packet? Yeah, I've submitted so many times. Oh, yeah? I've gotten so many nose, yeah. Well, that's good.

They get back to you. Yeah. Do they really get back to? Yeah, actually, yeah, this hour has, yeah, very sweetly, yeah. Just give me a little hope. Yeah. Just a little glimmer. Yep.

If you had your druthers. where would you write jokes for? Oh, last week tonight. Last week tonight. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they're so great. But I applied to them and it didn't work out. So I think it's a one and done situation.

Oh, really? Go team. Yeah. Okay. That's what I heard. Yeah. And I mean... That's why I'm waiting to apply.

Yeah, you don't want to shoot your wad. Or blow your wad. Wow. Yeah. You can do them both. It's your wand. You're a dynamic writer. Yeah.

That's not one and done. Yeah, but yeah, I'm hireable. Yeah. I'm unemployed. You're very hireable. Thank you. Thanks, Graham. What was the last job interview you had to do?

Oh, my God. That's a great question. I mean, this is sort of one. Oh, yeah, this is kind of one. Is, are you hiring? Where do you see yourself in 500 years? Jesus, on this podcast. I think in the last job interview I had was the job I got fired from, the first time I've

ever been fired. Which was? So it was for a French bakery in Vancouver. Okay. I worked there for a month. The Petiterie Franca. No, not so French, but a little. It's a little French.

I know what she's talking about. The Petit-Pu. I'll tell you off. The pan, le begette, whatever. But anyway, so the manager took me out to the shed. I'm not joking. And they're like, as you know, you're in your trial period. I was like, I did not know that.

You're in a verbatism. And they were like, it's just not a good fit. And what I know at the time, and then there was some other stuff going on, I was very depressed at that time, not hiding it. But I literally, I'm pretty sure I got fired for being too depressed to work at a French bakery. Face forward. Yeah. Too depressed for the French. This was the guy French that was giving you the turf?

Some of them were. You need to work at like a Czech bakery. Yeah. Actually, I do. Because I, yeah, we're Ukrainian in my blood. Yeah, me too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What, as Ukrainians, what, uh, good feelings?

What's, like, what's some good Ukrainian to Ukrainian culture sharing? She's from the east. You're from the west. How do you guys each do Ukrainianism? Um, how do you celebrate it? Yeah, parogi. Parozy's. I don't do a lot of Ukrainian stuff.

No. A little, uh, sure. Um, that's support the right side of the war, you know. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I flip flop on it. Okay. I'm playing both sides. A real Mitt Romney. Wasn't that the big accusation for Mitt Romney? He was a flip-flopper. Oh, sure. I remember that being like a sick burn during that election.

Everything leading up to Trump's first presidential win. So quaint. Absolutely. Everything that like that guy that got kicked out for going like, yeah. Yeah. Or Dean. He got kicked out. Yes.

Michael Dukakis got kicked out because he was in a tank. Well, voted not for. Same difference. Yeah, and now we're in the culture of like Grinan and Barrett, Trump. Yeah. From the Tylenol thing. Like any one of those things would have eliminated him. Oh, yeah.

He's impervious. Yeah. It's narly. So you're that, right, like flip-flopper. Or John Kerry was on a U-boat or something? What was he on? I believe it was a swift boat. He put his dog on top of the...

No, that was Mitt Romney. Oh, shoot. Okay, he had two things going on. What did Mitt Romney do? He put his dog on top of the car and drew, like... For family vacation. Yeah. Like, in like a crate.

He had binders of women. He said corporations are people, my friend. He was dropping great moments. But yeah, I feel like the core issue would have been the dogs. Yeah, but he was a flip-flopper. Yeah, and you can't have that. There was also like a thing like, what candidate would you most like to have a beer? Yeah.

Oh, right, right, right, right. For me, it's sleeves rolled up Obama. Yeah. He's the last a guest on what the fuck. I think it's just called WTF. Oh, sorry. Thank you very much. Yeah.

This is a family show. This is a family show. Did you listen? Is it out? I just saw Mark Maren's post about it. Is it out? Did they have snipers on the rooftop? I should listen to it now.

I'm sure they did. Yeah, why don't we do a quick? Channel it in. Let's just listen to the far where Mark Mare is talking. Yeah. And then we'll skip the interview. Do you a fan? Yeah.

Yeah. I was a fan the first few years it was on. And it was all comedians. Yeah. And he was like hashing out his bad behavior. That was great. I liked it when he got into big. celebrities and you would get like hey so what's it like being iron man yeah yeah yeah the deep cuts

who's your guys on iron man wow spider man but did you guys start at the podcast around the same time no we started we started before oh okay hell yeah but same like before i started doing stand-up that's how i got into wanting to do it like oh really inspiring to me yeah and who do you like what interview you're like man that guy's oh god that guy or gal is so funny oh many shoot i hate sorry whenever i'm on the spot i blank. It's the diacoke. It's the diacroke. It's the diego. It's the worst when you're like, I know there's something so good in there. So good. And I took notes, but I didn't take a note about this one. It'll come to me in like 40 minutes. That's all right. We'll be here. Thank you. How about you?

Standout? Gallagher's. I thought his, Gallagher's was amazing. Gary Shandling's was fantastic. Oh, right. Yeah. And Norm McDonald's was like very unexpectedly sweet and very like deep kind of conversation. Yeah. Those are the big three I remember, but. I remember, like, the first year when it was like just not even famous comedians. Just comedians, yeah. Yeah.

That he had done wrong somehow. Yeah. Or that he was like worried he had. Hmm. Does he still say that at the end of the pod? Are we all good? Does he say that to Barack Obama? Do I know?

Casey, do you know? No, I tapped out. Okay. Around 2017, yeah. I tapped out, I think, with a lot of, shows when they started doing two a week. Yes. Oh, yeah.

WTF started doing two a week. And I was like, oh, this is not my full-time job. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. His episodes would be like two plus. Eight hours long. Yeah, for sure, very long. Like, maybe I should go back and listen to those episodes while I'm like washing dishes and stuff, vacuuming the apartment. I mean, it's a great archive because it'll be there forever.

What, you don't know that? Now that he's done, he may be tearing it down. Well, yeah, the free speech of it all. Yes. I was just in Montana, you guys. I'm scared. Tell us all about Montana. The big sky.

But you've been living in New York. What's different? Well, for one, everything is a casino. I didn't expect that. Every business has an attached casino. Yeah. So you can really have joy everywhere you go. Sure.

Are you a casino person? Yeah, I like slots. Yeah? I got ready for a joke. at Dave is Excuse me He's putting it in his packet Right

Oh slots Oh yeah I guess there are Certain body parts That resemble those And then maybe Blackjack Because I can understand

That one Yeah Hit me How about you guys Do you play cards I play cards But I don't I find casinos

To be very very depressing Yeah They're so sad Yeah Yeah They're the American Retirement home Yeah

Yeah It's But yeah There are a lot Of casinos In the Pacific northwest giant kind of square that would include Montana.

It's a big casino country out here. Yeah. Like in New York, you probably don't see a casino anywhere. Actually, I think there's something, they're lobbying to bring one in at the moment, but hopefully we defeat it. You're on board. You're taking signatures? I play fast and loose with my opinions.

You guys, I can be persuaded either way at the moment, but I think for some reason they're bad, but I forget why. No, they're good. Okay. They're good because they're fun They're fun They're fun You see boys to men there

Yeah That's right Yeah Have you ever gone to a show In a casino? No not properly We went to Atlantic City Which I appreciated

Just because of the Bruce Springsteen song Atlantic City is a place That we do With a casino Exactly Yeah I sing the chorus Have you ever seen one leg a dog

That's from the wrestler But are you excited about the biopic that's coming out? Do you get enthused about the pictures? Yeah. I'm not excited about that one because I don't care much about Bruce Springsteen and I don't care much about the bear. Fair. Oh yeah. Fair enough. I care about shameless now though. My Rumi and I watched all of Shameless together. He was on that. He was on that. And I assume that's fantastic. It's amazing. Yeah. So great. Yeah. And that's Bill Macy. Yeah. The Bill Macy program. He calls a Bill because he's pals. Oh, Bill? Bill Macy. And it was originally a BB

show, which I didn't realize. Oh. That they translated for American audiences. Into English? Into Chicago. Oh, okay. Yeah. Who was the Bill Macy and BBC?

Yeah. Yeah. Probably. I did not do my research. What is, are you looking for? Do you Springsteen? Yeah. Love Springsteen.

Yeah? Yeah, I don't roll that deep with all my, the information that I have right now. But I love those songs. Like, my dad played them a lot growing up. I think that's a lot of millennial. Neil's introduction, yeah. Yeah. Their dad played it.

I met a woman years ago. She was obsessed with Bruce Springsteen in a way that I was like, this woman has no room in her life for any other guy. It's Bruce Springsteen or bust. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm kind of that way. Are you looking forward to any movies? Jeez, Louise.

I'm not even sure what's coming out. Because it's Oscar season, I guess, technically. It's getting there. Yeah. Did you see one battle after another? No, I need to. I'm excited about that one. You saw it last night for the first time?

Oh, cool. Oh, wow. Yeah. Kept trying to go, but just something always came and had gone the way. So just saw it last night. And the great thing about it is when it's super quiet, you can hear the projector running. Yeah, it's the only 70 millimeter in Western Canada. But I forgot how much of that was a part of going and seeing a movie, was hearing that sound.

Oh, wow, yeah. I was about to try to do the sound. I don't think I can. There it is. Close, yeah. I was like, turn it up. Yeah. Loop that, ASMR.

Was it full? No, it was probably half, half full. No, it depends how you look at it. Yeah, that's true. For the first, like, couple weeks, it was not, like, no, not, like, sold out, but, like, very full. Yeah. I, because I went the opening weekend, and then Abby went a couple weeks after me, and it was still very full. Yeah.

And she had a crowd that loved. It loved it, like, a crowd that was, like, cracking up at everything. Yeah. That's fun. She didn't like that about it. Oh, okay. She was like, these guys are over laughing. Okay.

I had, in my screening of it, there was one person who was like, like, just guffod. Is it a comedy? It's got some funny, yeah, funny bits in it, for sure. It's got funny performances, I guess, more than jokes. But it's, and then there's, like, some action stuff that happens. And the one person in the theater went, woo! That's got a fun. Hell yeah.

I like that. Did you have you haven't seen it? I haven't seen it yet, but you guys, you liked it. Yeah, we liked it. Did it change your mind, your life? I don't know. It feels like one of those movies that's being presented to me as like, this is going to mess you up. Well, it's not, I don't think it was that.

Okay. It was good. Like, everybody in it, you're like, that's why they're movie stars. Yeah. They're fantastic at this. Yeah. It cost a hundred and something million dollars. It did not look like that.

It didn't look like that. It's a, that must be Leo's. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, yeah, you're right. He all seems like it was just kind of shot. I don't know if it was shot in 70 millimeter. Is that possible that it was just on whatever?

I don't know what they do. I saw it in 70 millimeter. I've seen a few movies in 70 millimeter. I don't know. Yeah, I saw. I've seen two there, Oppenheimer and the hateful eight. And I felt like both of those were just in one room. And he didn't need the extra space of the screen.

Who didn't find if is 35. if it was 30. What do you mean one room, like a smaller room? Mostly just inside of a room, yeah, like a play. Oh, okay. Yeah, there was no like vast expanses or that kind of thing. Are you looking for in anything of the summer of the summer of the summer of Sloss Sam? Are you

looking for anything of the movie season? Movie season? Yeah. I did but again, my memory's so shit right now. I forgot what I'm excited about. I don't know. I mean, I didn't want to see the smashing machine. Yeah, I'm going to see that. The gag of it. It's a, I've here. Oh, the season, sorry

movie that's going to be coming out. It's like a metaphysical comedy with Keanu Reeves playing an artian angel. Yeah. It's my kind of humor. It looks so fun. Oh, nice. I was expecting something more Oscar seasony. Why have standards anymore? You know what I mean? Yeah, they get in the way. It's something that speaks to your soul.

It looks really good, though. Yeah. I feel like the smashing machine is also what a British person says when he like, I don't know. When he has sex? No. It's like, oh, that's a good, that's a good, that's a a smashing machine. It's a smashing. When he meets a, or when he buys a new car?

Yeah. Okay. I was going to say washing machine, but that's too close to the smashing machine. That makes it quainter. That would be a good wacky package. Yeah. The washing machine. And it's a washing machine that looks like the rock, but with a wig on.

Yeah, I like that. No, yeah. He could host SNL. That could host SNL right now. Yeah. A washing machine with a wig on. Wow. If someone got her packet to deny it twice.

But I do, I missed when you became in love with tar. Like, is that? I really liked tar a lot. It's great. Yeah. Is it last year or the year before? Maybe three years ago. Three, maybe, yeah.

There are dozens of us. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, big tar fan. It's a good kind of like, it's 9.30. I'm not going to stay up all night. Well, I'll just put on tar. I'll fall asleep. At 1 a.m.

No, no. I've maybe only made it. through it three times. Okay. Have you ever seen the ending? I've seen the ending. The ending rules. Yeah, it does.

So great. Have you seen Tar Graham yet? No, it just wasn't for me. I tried to try the first 20 minutes. Actually, it's not for anyone, but that's the cool part about it. Yeah. Also, the weird thing about watching the first 20 minutes is they run the, like the full credits at the beginning.

Yeah. Yeah. Like a TV show. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Miller-Boyette. That's a Miller-Boyette production. You're right.

Once I started watching it like a comedy. That's when I was like, oh, this slaps, as they say. Oh, yeah? Is it supposed to be viewed as a con? I don't know. I mean, certainly the end is very funny. Yeah. Okay.

Well, maybe I should watch it just for the end to see it. Yeah. It's on it's got to be on a streamer, right? It's somewhere. I mean, I own it, so I don't know. Physical media? No. Oh, okay.

Do you have any physical media left? Oh, that's a great question. No, I don't. You? Yeah, I've got some DVDs and CDs kicking around that I think are... Do you think she could move cross-country with physical media? I did hire movers though Wow

I'm an adult now Yeah Like from the whole From to oh okay Truck drivers Yeah How long did they take Ooh

Oh yeah Does it get transferred from truck to truck There's not the same guy Who picked up Same guy Really And they were all named Andre I'm not joking

I was like are you Andre He's like yeah But not the one you were talking to Not that guy down the hill He's Andre 30 thousand It took like a month and a half I love them so much Did they mess with any of your stuff?

they actually to their credit they lost the foot of my cafe table like it's a little screw on piece and i was like hey just on the off chance you find this they found it and they shipped it back to me oh nice without charging me for it so should do yeah i never thought i would see that again i've never i have hired movers but certainly not city to city okay yeah yeah it's a new thing for me you have pieces that you love yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and it worked out so that's nice yeah but now there's no room for the cafe table so i have to sell it i don't know what to do with it. I just put it out in the street.

Put it in the third room. No, no, no, there's no room there. Well, Dave, any other ideas? I don't know what a cafe table is. I don't, I, because it's not like a regular dining table and it's not a desk. I guess it's French for coffee table. Yes, cafe. Depresso.

Oh, someone's getting fired from her patisserie job. It's like, how do I call this back in a non-bad way? But, no, it was originally like a headboard, wooden slats, and then it was converted into a table with, like, wrought iron legs. Okay. You want to make any jokes about that? Can you picture what you're talking about? Nope.

I was just during a lot of mime that made me uncomfortable, though. It was like legs. Yeah, it's got legs on a kind of a table top. I was milking a table, yeah. Yeah, you get it. Yeah, you get it in tables. Yeah. How high.

Do you eat at it? Do you put it? It's pretty high. Do you eat at it? Do you type at it? Both. Yeah. I don't have enough room to not.

You don't have a desk furniture. Yeah. No. Well, there was a desk there, and it's one of those, you push a button and it raises a standing desk. Oh, yeah. Yeah, then it plays every time I hit that button. It's a Canadian table. So I can do a Zoom call.

Outstanding. Yeah. So I might keep that one. It's a real Sophie's choice at the moment between which desk can we keep. Josh Grobin, not Canadian. Really? Yeah. Why did I think?

Oh, Bouble. Blay. I get them back on my apologies to them yeah oh who did booblay booblay owns the Vancouver giants the um oh yeah the uh western hockey league junior hockey team i think i heard he just brought on co-owners the property brothers no yeah wild so they might do suey de chanel night that would be great i'm surprised the team was giants and not crooners you know that could have been an easy that's an easy fit for a Michael Booble. The Vancouver crooners? Yeah, the Vancouver crooners. Dave, are you playing hockey again? I am.

Cool. How's it going? Scored two goals the other night. Hey! Hell yeah. Usually I get one every five games. Okay. Yeah, you're on fire.

I'm on fire. I want a couple of last minute faceoffs really helped my team out. Nice. Where they have lots of pads on the back? Lots of pads. They kind of like, they tried to put me on their shoulders, but I reminded them we're wearing skates. Oh, yeah. And also, come on, guys.

What's the age range? the team? Oh, what am I? Forty-four is from 44 to 500. I guess it's about 40 to 60. Great. Great. So I'm still one of the young speedsters.

Yeah. Nice. That's why you scored those goals. Yeah. Well, normally I'm not so good with my hands. What are you usually when you're playing? What's your position? I'm usually a winger.

A winger. But if we have a really full team all place, third line center. Nice. Okay. Yeah, I don't know those positions. I just thought of a maxi pad with wings That's all I think That's all you think

Are you do you play the sides Is that Okay, got it Great I got there Do you do any physical sport? No, I need to I don't want to join a team sport

Or do a mental sport Ooh You said physical but I'm like Yeah, what about yeah Mental gymnastics Mind fuckery I do that a lot Yeah

Pub trivia Actually I did I went to a bingo night And I thought it would be Not fun But it was so fun Yeah Yeah.

What's the average age there? Ooh, Gen Z, I think. Oh, really? Yeah, it was younger in that neighborhood. I guess, like, a lot of the OG bingo players. I mean, O&G are part of bingo. Nice.

Yeah, it was all seniors in the year. Yeah. They're dead. They're dead, exactly. And it was all. It was like a hip little bar, but it was definitely. It was very smoky back in the day, too. Yeah, you smoke.

The prize were winning the rounds at this place. It was doing, like, chugging a beer. So that was the reward. That was the reward? Yes, that's a young person's game. I was like, I hope I don't win. Yeah. Yeah.

So, yeah, you don't just get a beer, you have to chug it. You have to chug it. At gunpoint? No, you know what? Now it's all coming back to me, Celine Dion. No, it was, if there was a tie, then you would race off to see who won, but they did have prizes every round. It's all coming back to me, me, me, love. Is that, wait, did I mess it up?

They both did it. Really? Yeah. Oh, look at them. Synergy. And if whichever one. you like, that tells you a lot about that person's stuff. What's the difference?

Yeah. If you're a meatloaf versus lean. Yeah. What's the difference? Yeah. Lots of things. I wish they would do like a Jeremy Allen White as meatloaf by OPEC. A little get there after this.

I was listening to this podcast about... Would it just be called loaf? What would the name of the meatloaf would be called? Bad Out of Hell? Yeah. Or out of hell or something. Out of Hell. Yeah.

Or just Batman. Yeah. So the people come and see it. They did this podcast about who wrote all the songs? Jim Steinman, is that his name? Yeah, that's right. He wrote... John Steinbeck.

Yeah. He wrote all of the Better to Hell songs and then all of meatloaf's hits. But he also wrote... What's the Total Eclipse of the Heart? Oh, that was my favorite song when I was 12th. There were like versions of it. He had this musical written. There was a version of it in a musical, like, way before he was famous.

Oh. Wow. He just kept holding on to, like, the lines of he's like, I know this can be a hit. And Meatloaf wanted to do it so bad, and he would never let him. Oh, wow. Turn around. Yeah. Yeah, because that would have been really weird with Meatloaf.

I think it would work. I think it would work fine. I really need you tonight. Yeah, it would have worked. But I love the one who did it. What's her name? What's her name? Bonnie Tyler.

I was about to say Bonnie Rate. Okay. Close. Close. Close. One Bonnie. No cigar. Speaking of cigars, a lot of people in New York still smoke.

Yeah. Yeah. I see, like, are they called stubs, like the end of the cigar? Yeah. The lingo. Is that the lingo of it? Yeah. I see those.

Yeah. And smoking is like people smoke in New York still. Yeah, but more vaping. Oh, more vaping. Yeah, it's sad. Remember when Marito Lopez was here and was like just talking about how he loves cigars? Nice. Nice.

Do you, have you ever had a cigar? No, I've only had one cigarette in my life. And you really? like not for me. Yeah, I felt nauseous the whole next day. Do you count how many you had? What's that? How many, like, can you estimate or did you keep a diary of how many cigarettes you had?

Cigarettes, oh, no. I mean, in the hundreds of thousands, I suppose. Oh, my God. When did you quit? When I was, like, more than 20 years ago. Oh, wow. What was the most you did in a day? Like a pack or more?

Oh, I used to smoke a pack a day by the time I was. Wow. By the time I gave it up. Man. Yeah. It does sound fun. It is fun. It's great. It's a great way to spend your money.

Yeah. It's so rare now that I smell it from a block away. Yeah, that's the thing is like, and always when people are smoking here, they're from Alberta or they're from Toronto. Or they're working construction. Construction sites is where I smell it the most. Like, I smell a mix of cigarette smoke and like dust. Yeah. That actually sounds like an okay, like drywall.

Yeah. Like a nice scent profile. It sounds like respect. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Did you smoke ever? Okay.

Yeah. You've smoked cigars, right? Oh. I, no. No? Have I? I don't know. I don't believe so.

Yeah, I've just, I've come across. I've smelled them and I love the smell. That smells awesome. Yeah, they're not as, well, no, that's not true. They are fun to smoke. You get to do O's and you get to just, like, hold an ankle through your nose. And you used to get one when you had a kid. Yeah.

Yeah. Hospital issue. And there was me and these other two men from Orientar. We tried to light one, but it turns out there's a rubber cigar. Oh, interesting. What happened? It was loaded and exploded. Oh, shit.

Classic. Very classic. Yeah. I mean, Christmas spoof songs, it's the best time of year. Yeah, nobody really takes on the Halloween. Back the halls with Santa's balls. Jingle Bells, Batman smells. Classic, yeah.

Joy to the world. You're seeing no Halloween songs? Well, no Halloween spoofs. Yeah, oh, no. But, you know, you've got your thriller, you've got your Monster Mash. You've got Ghostbusters theme. Yeah, and it has been documented.

They keep trying to add anything to a playlist, Disturbia by Rihanna. It just has a word of it. I feel like Maham by Gaga. It's the category this year. Is that new? Yeah. New Gaga?

New Gaga just dropped. I was listening to old. like a spotlight Spotify playlist that's all old Halloween songs like from the 50s There were so many of them

So it's like Tried to be the monster match I feel like It's a spooky dokey party It's totally cool That's exactly what it is There's like a hundred Dracula's driving in a Cadillac

Okay Okay Take it away boys I wonder if they're still making money Off those songs Maybe it's someone's nest egg I think they're probably all dead Okay, great.

Yeah. And then is that what happens when you died or do you keep getting royalties? Yeah, then it's the estate. The estate. And the estate gets mad at people. But these are probably old enough that anybody here could do a cover of it. Yeah, fine. Has it entered the public domain yet?

Yeah. Well, Spooky-dooky Cadillac is with the name of yours. Spooky Party and Dracula and a Cadillac. It should be Catadrack. That's a rewrite. Right? That's just a first draft. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Forgive me, I was on an Ohio improv team.

Legit, yeah, my level. No Thanksgiving songs, though, period, right? Jingle Bells was originally a Thanksgiving song. Really? Was it? For you? Same lyrics? Yeah, there's nothing Christmas in the lyrics.

It's about dashing through the snow and a one horse opens light. Those bells want to be on a Christmas stage. Yeah, there's no. And then the great thanks. Thanksgiving movies are like playing strings and automobiles. Uh-huh. I can't come up with a second one. Yeah.

Yeah. For a Thanksgiving movie? Yeah. I'm sure there's a second one. There should be a hundred of them because America's crazy for Thanksgiving. No, it's true. Yeah. I just did the one here.

Yeah. Yeah, it was Canadian Thanksgiving yesterday. It was. And? It was great. Yeah. We had chicken. Okay.

Who's we? Um, my friends I'm staying with. Your pals? My pals. Um, and then we had pumpkin. pie. Oh, nice. Very important.

Well, actually, I brought the pie. So I brought pumpkin, berry pie, and a slice of apple for the person who didn't like either other option. Nice of you. I love pie. It's really for me. We're talking about pie just an episode ago. But also, I feel like it.

I was trying to catch up. I was listening to spies on 1.5 speed. Sure. I was trying to do it on three times. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like if it's Thanksgiving and you don't like any of, if you don't like pumpkin pie, just you're out of luck. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, maybe we'll have a chocolate bar that you could eat just to be with us. But that's nice to bring over a whole slice for somebody. Yeah, well, and also the pies I got, those were half pie, so technically I got one full pie. A sidecar, yeah. What is the one, there's a Christmas song that mentions pumpkin pie. Yes. It's rocking around the Christmas tree.

And then people on. Later we'll have some pumpkin pie. Yeah, and we'll do some girlie. But home alone happens. People think, or some people have thought that she's saying, later, well, have some fucking pie. Yeah. They're pushing it in wherever they could in those days. Yeah.

Pushing the envelope. The envelope. Dave, what's going on of you, man? Oh, boy. Well, did I mention that it was Christmas yesterday? It was Canadian Christmas. Canadian Christmas. Oh, we should do that.

We should have Canadian Christmas. I mean, it's too late to trick our listeners into thinking we have that. Yeah, Canadian Christmas is November 2nd. But you guys do have Boxing Day, and that's. It's different. Yeah. Yeah. The English do it.

Yeah. Well, it has been really great knowing you both. Oh, and you as well. Oh, God. Okay. No, it has been a really pretty fall here. A lot of sunny days. And I like that the sun is, like, lower in the sky. Yeah.

And I feel. The colors? The colors are great. Uh-huh. Yeah. Oranges. Oh, oranges. Reds.

Yeah, yeah. Falling. Uh-huh. Motion. And, um, and, the colors. there's a, when I walk my dogs, the, the road I take is very, it's very beautiful. But there is, there's a lot of, I guess there must be oak trees because there's acorns coming out of them. And the acorns land on cars so loud.

But don't seem to damage them, but it is like the cars are being shot with. It sounds like, yeah. Do acorns only come out of oak trees? I don't know. I don't know. Like, I know they're basically the seed, but do you do something with one of those? Can you eat them or something? I mean, the squirrels seem to. Yeah, they love it. I got their cheeks full of them. I wonder if you can eat one. You just heat it up like a chestnut. If you were starving. Yeah. Like if it was a survival situation. Probably tastes. Acorns come from oak trees. Yeah. Can you eat them? Yeah. Are they edible? Okay. Hold on. New search. Google eat. Google acorn recipe. You used to not have to, like, I feel like the way people Google has changed.

It used to be just like acorn, edible, and now people, can you eat an acorn? Yeah. It's advanced. You can eat acorns from any oak tree after they have processed, or a process to remove the bitter, toxic tannins. Oh, yeah. So, yeah, I get rid of the toxic stuff. I wonder what the acorn tastes like. Probably bitter and toxic.

Yeah. They're free, right? The key is proper preparation. Yeah, that's the same with anal sex. Wow, okay. We're there. Well, isn't it? You get your lube.

You go talk to a squirrel. Man, I mean, we're in such a wholesome fall and acorns and whatnot. I forgot. I forgot what this podcast is. Yeah. It's not that kind of podcast. When you censored me earlier, I'm like, oh, yeah, should I not curse? What did I censor you?

I said something and you're like, this is a family program. You asked if we say fucking bye. Yeah. No. I'm going to talk about butt stuff I mean you probably get some acorns up there I am going to the butt doctor tomorrow Oh that's top of line, yeah

Do you still have That's what I mean when I say butt doctor coverage Do I? Yeah, I'm still paying taxes Oh yeah? Yeah, I'm cool You're welcome, you're welks Any concerns? Yeah, no, we're managing something

But what I do want to share is that he has these The old school tables, have you seen these tables where they tilts forward. No, I mean, I mostly know cafe tables. Yeah, fair. I'm going to convert mine into one of these. So what is this? It goes, you're sitting on it and it comes up?

No, you're, so you start kneeling like at a pew and then you put your arms. Please God, don't do anything to my butt. And you put your arms forward to your, your body's in like a 90 degree angle. Yes. And then it starts the hydraulic start. It's sort of a smashing machine. It's a smashing my ass machine. And then I tip forward, you tip forward.

So then you're, you're, why am I being sensitive now? Your ass is on, you know, up in the air. Sure. And I've gotten the explainer from the nurse in the front. She gave me a tour. She's like, they're actually, because I was like, these are from the 19. She says things like, I hate my job. And I'll, yeah.

She, I noted them. I'm like, they look like from the 50s. She's like, they're from 1935. Wow. Oh, my God. These were around. During the depression. Yeah, all of it.

And they are like horroxes, so they're full of souls. But anyway, so there's two of them. And the one I go into is the only one where tall people can be on it because the other one is like a size queen. You have to be smaller. But they're powered by a mercury vapor. Okay. So I started looking that up, and that's how I learned that mercury used to be. It sort of has a bitter tan and flavor to it.

But that's how I learned mercury was like the main course of medication until we discovered, you know, science for like syphilis and stuff. So, like, people would just be poisoned to death. What do you mean it's powered by mercury vapor? Like, she was saying that he's had to hire. Like, now all the technicians who could work and, like, fix them are dead. Now, like, no one exists. But a lot of their ghosts are still working. Oh, can you imagine you get to the other side?

Now I have to work as a proctologist. Oh, man. He's true. Someone's a tool bag drop while you're in there. So that's always thrilling because it's so different. And she explained that that's actually, it's a better way to do the exam because now they have these like multi-purpose tables and they're not good for anything she was saying that's why everyone is so uncomfortable whatever you have to do on it um but now you like curl up

into the fetal position on one of those normal tables but this is like did they knock you out with the horse rink club horse rink yeah they should i was at um but it is the thrill that's why i'm back really honestly yeah thank you yeah i like uh i mean i don't know that i like it but i um but you don't lump it you do like it sure uh uh i i just remember when, so I don't remember when I was born. Okay. But I was born here in Vancouver at Children's Hospital or BC Women's. And it, back then, when I was born, it was called Grace Hospital.

But my whole childhood, it was BC Women's. My whole life, it's been BC Women's, except for when I was born. I don't know when they changed it. Well, that you can't remember when you were born. I just know that it used to be called Grace Hospital. And then when my kids were born there, I saw the, the, um, curtain next to the bed still said Grace Hospital. Oh, this was a throwback.

35-year-old curtain. Yeah, it was. Hell yeah. I never thought about that. They used to make them good. Yeah, because like now they think about it, the table that was in my old doctor's office had a lot of cracks in the whatever was the faux leather kind of. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was like the stuffing coming out too. Yeah. Yeah. It should have been a warning, right? I don't know. Or maybe a good thing. This guy's been at it for a long time. Yeah.

He's doing. Yeah. So, yeah. So the weather's been nice. Very nice and fally. It has been very nice and falling. Acorns are smashing machines. Smashing machines.

But I was walking it down on a really pretty day. And like, you see these like, like, I guess they're like grubs or something hanging from the trees. There's like tiny little bugs. They look like maggots, really. Oh, yeah. And you're dangling from a thread. Yes. But you can see them all because the light is hitting them in such a way that it's just refracting or reflecting or whatever.

Yeah. And you see every spider web. And I saw this woman running down jogging. And she didn't realize. But she had so many spider webs just trailing behind her. She was like she was at a cape of spider webs. That was embracing spooky season. Yeah.

That's good. That's part of the time. It does. Yeah, it does add to the time. Yeah, I do love those. So I took a video of one last year. impressive, cinematic. Yeah.

Yeah, dangling. And then I said it to Evanessence. And then I said it to Evanessence. She said it to Evanessence. I thought she said it to them. I thought she said that too, but no. Amy, your last name? Yeah.

Take this out. Do Amy? Amy Lee? Amy Lee. Good poll. Yeah. Were you a big Evan essence fan? I think I didn't have a choice.

They were so there at the time. They were everywhere at the time. They were, I only, I didn't know that they were as big as they were. Like, we talked about Lincoln Park last week. I was like, well, this is a passing fancy, but for some people, that was their, that's where they stopped. Yeah, right. I only knew, wake me up. Wait me up and a side.

Oh, yeah, wait. Music used to be good. Yeah, sure. Sure. Yeah. The music you grew up with was always going to be locked in. Always. No matter what you're listening.

Do you listen to new music? Do you listen to anything new? Yeah. Yeah. You know, there's like, you know, there's artists that I like that are current artists. But, you know, when you hear that song that you're like, oh, I remember driving to this song when I was 16 or whatever, it's still there. Also, the current artists I listen to aren't, I mean, they're current, but I don't think I've discovered any since, like, the pandemic. How do you mean, like, people who are already established?

Well, no, I mean, like, the things that I can. consider like new artists have now been around for eight years or whatever yeah okay fair yeah you have a new artist that you like no i that's where i'm noticing like i'm kind of losing the plot with that like i'm not listening to new people like i know tay mccray is out there i but i couldn't name a song really oh you gotta listen to tate mccray she's canada's answer to sprina carpenter yeah that's right that's right no no yeah nothing really no that's fine it's fine yeah no worries is it that's fine it's fine it's fine it's fine it's that time.

You actually might need to have some Tate McCrae spoofs for your packet. Oh, yeah, really. That's when I do plug in when I have to write something. I'm like, oh, all this news I've been avoiding. Yeah, do you, when you send in something to SNL, is it desk jokes and character jokes and like just a sketch joke? Yeah, there's a sketch. There's a desk, what do they call it, like a desk segment?

Desk piece, yeah. A cafe table piece. But like a character. and then topicals, yeah. And then you ever write like a mango? Oh, yeah, baby. I had three mangoes that they passed over. No, the only sketch on the way over I was thinking about that,

I was like the only one I remember writing, it was transition lenses for women where they just turned into shades when guys start saying bullshit at you. Oh, that's fun. Thanks, okay. Yeah. But that's the only one I remember. It's all right.

It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. And my kids' school, the kids with glasses, I would say 50% of them opted for transitions. Really? Yeah.

Oh, crazy. It seems like a cool idea. They're pretty cool. I mean, when you see them change over, it's, what's that? I just double up. I wear my shades on top of my glass. Nice. That's a good look.

I have clipons. You do? That's great. I need to upgrade to that. Oh, boy. You're fine. Casey, you're doing fine. You're not listening to new music.

Doesn't matter. An 81 year old man did tell me in Savon before I came here that I was young. So I do feel I'm okay. Yeah, there you go. It's great. Did he tell you. He's 81? Yeah, he did.

Well, okay, the setup for this was there was someone in the store making a gagging noise, but it was coughing, yeah, close to that. And we both, like, made eye contact and we were like, what's going on? And he came back around and he was like, that was someone coughing. I was like, man, I have my own health things that I'm worried. Or what did I say? I said something really poetic. I'm going to go into the hydraulic butt machine tomorrow.

So don't worry about me. I'm just fine. I was like, I thought I had health problems. He's like, oh, you're sorry. so young. And I was like, oh, yeah, but I have stuff going on, including hydraulics and mercury vapor things. And he's like, oh, I'm 81. And then he just bounced off. And he's like, you're a kid. I was like, okay, bye, you look great. Yeah. That's great. So I am doing great. I am doing great. I am doing great. I am doing great. I am doing great. I am doing great. I was running and I got all these spider webs. I didn't.

know it was I didn't know it um my uh thing I did this past week uh recently in the not too distant past I went to a two week intensive puppet workshop stop I did cool so then now I'm tuned in tuned into whatever puppet things going on out there I'm Googling of you know getting recommended videos sending it a packet sending it a packet to puppets it's just pictures of your hand to see if they'll like you do what about this Then what if I go that way? So there was a thing on Friday that I've never heard of before called a puppet slam. Oh, wow.

Like, oh, this is for me. This was in town? This is in town. Yeah, this is in town. Part of a giant theater building that's like houses six different theater companies and they were doing. It was kind of, it was amateurs, professionals, whoever decided they wanted to go on. And man, oh, man, it was great. What is the slam implies some kind of confrontation?

Yeah, that's a good question It wasn't like a battle I think it's like something they maybe started When Poetry Slam was still going on term In my mind I picture a poetry slam as a confrontation I've never been to one It is with the powers that be Sure, yeah

I guess what I'm telling poems to power Yeah When I picture a poetry slam I'm picturing the rat battle from eight mile Yeah, well not wrong Yeah There was, would there be a winner at a poetry slam? No, I, I dabbled in poetry before I got into stand-up.

Before I got everything, come on. I couldn't do it because I was like, no one's laughing. I need to really get out of a year. You wouldn't get laughs at the poetry slam? Well, I wasn't trying to. I was doing my feelings. I was like, this feels awful. If you're even a tiny bit funny at a poetry slam, you get standing ovation.

I was like, I just really hate this feeling. What kind of poems? Oh, stuff about. Poems, all sizes? Yeah, size queen poems. Pumps about my proctologist No, it was just like earnest poetry about my life and feelings

I was like this sucks But other people were amazing Like I did appreciate it I did some earnest poetry You did one? Ice cream Yeah, there it is I know he's gone

Ernest Why do you keep going to camp Yeah, why can you save Christmas this year Ernest? Hey Vern I want ice cream But that's a better reference since no one knows what I'm talking about. Since no one knows, Ernest Ice Cream, yeah.

Yeah. Puppets. Yeah, so went to this puppet flat. And it was, like I say, arranged. The people who were professional were so fantastic. Is the style of puppet generally a Muppet style? It was one Muppet style. And then the rest was, oh, there were two kind of Muppet style-looking things with, like, them ducked behind the, you know, the draped curtain thing.

What's back there? I don't know And I don't want to know Okay I just want to Oh you just watch I thought Yeah no I wasn't in

After the workshop You brought No no This is this is me just enjoying What does the local scene Have to bring? Yeah And you know what

Wow me Yeah There was one guy That had a pretty big puppet His feet were attached To the puppet's feet So it looked like he was walking independently

And he came up And lip synced the song And had his arms Going up in the air And everybody just Killed themselves laughing Cool Then he did another song

And people were like, no, we just wanted the one song. We're over. Damn, no patience for puppets. Yeah. And so there was, I'm working on some new material. No, we just, you're showcasing here. There's scouts. Yeah, exactly.

We're in your own puppet at home. Well, there's two very mean guys in the balcony. That's amazing. Yeah. Do you want to continue? Like, is it something you're interested in trying? Now that I've seen how they do it, I'm very intimidated because they were, the people who are good, were, like, amazing.

Okay, yeah. And, like, the one person was two that I didn't care for, and they were both just. Name them? I can't. I don't know what they were called. I don't remember who they were. They were just a puppet behind a screen. What would your puppet be?

Like, I made a couple. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, sorry, I didn't care. There's no wood. There's no wood. What would your puppet be? Who, tell me about your puppets?

Tell me about your puppets. It's, uh, mine, because I went to this workshop, everybody that knew how to carve. and except me. Yeah, it sounds like me on the slopes. No, you were good on the slope. I know how to carve. Yeah, man. But I was hopeless.

And so I collected all their cast-offs and glued together to make a guy's head. You Frankenstein? Yeah. Oh, my God. Have you done any of the puppet making at home now? Not at home yet, but I'm gearing up. Okay. Like, would you need to get a sewing machine?

I have a snowing. Snowing machines like me on the slopes. the smashing snowing machine Perfect I should call that a movie The sewing machine And then people watching it What the fuck?

It's me The Showing machine Is that your rock? Yeah Do you know what the rock is cooking People were talking about how he got so skinny Yeah Well, comparatively to his giant

Yeah Did you see? I'm skinny? No, because in the movie he's big I know, but then... He's not the rock, but then... Oh, no, I don't pay attention

to men's bodies. Yeah, good policy. Skinny Dwayne Johnson. Out of respect. This is, uh, yeah, he looked, um, let me move it over to your screen there. Oh, yeah, he looks...

But also he's, what age is he now? He looks fit. 50 something, probably? He looks 81. Fit and fine and 50. He's like, and I'm just a baby. The, uh, but people,

I've heard someone saying like, oh, he must have done it was them pick. No, he just, didn't lift weights for a month. Also, it's funny that the comparative shots is one, he's wearing shorts and a tight t-shirt and the other one's wearing kind of a golf shirt and slacks. Yeah. Those thighs are insane.

Yeah. Good God. And I know it's been said on the podcast many times, but his diet mostly consisted of cod. Yeah. Then it says then and then new. This is now. That was then. This is new.

Yes. Well. So you saw this thing? I saw this thing. I enjoyed myself immensely. And the thing is like the theater world is so different than the stand-up comedy world. It's jarring. Yeah, it really is.

Because I did fringe the other year. I was like, oh, yeah, I forgot. Yeah. People want to, like, take you seriously and feel things. And they also, yeah, they want to be sincere. Yeah. Yeah. And then they go do stand-up and you're just like, wow, everybody's just talking over each other.

Yeah, cool. I mean, so this. And they're really big into clowns. Like, I didn't know clowning was so important. and big right now. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Apparently, Toronto's got a happening clown scene.

Yeah, same with L.A., yeah. Oh, L.A.'s got the ponty. Yeah, they have the show called Stamptown. Have you heard of it? I know the Stamptown races sing this song, Duda. That's basically it in a nutshell. It's just chaos. It's organized chaos.

Is there no clown scene in New York? There probably is. I haven't. I don't know where to go yet. You'll find it. They're all smoking cigars and I'm like, I can't find you. Yeah, just follow the scar smell. Yeah.

If you hear any, just follow that. And eventually, you'll find your, your, Your tribe. Yeah. Do you want to be a clown? No. No. No, but you're not saying.

It's too late for her. I did take clowning. Like, I did technically take a clowning class. So I kind of like. What's that like? Yeah. Not my scene. We did really wear red noses.

That was part of it. Why is that part of it? It's to raise money, I think, for English people. What is it called? Red nose day. Yeah. I don't know. It's something about breaking the social contract.

I don't know. I don't know, man. Yeah. I don't want to get that deep. They're going to feed you a lot of bullshit at the cloud classes. You either have it or you don't. The rest is a con. We had a warm up where we were like in a circle warming each other up.

And we had to announce like we said heart chakra open for business. And then we had to go around and saying, I don't know anything. And keep doing that. I'm like, bitch, I know things. Yeah. I know a lot of things. I'm out of here. I mean, and then I remember my clowning teacher came over to me and I was sitting because we're doing a group activity.

I was sitting in the corner. And he knelt down and he went, you have a hard time playing, don't you? I was like, yeah, but I'm not working that out here. Yeah. Yeah, that's what my job at the patisserie is for. That's right. That's why I was fired.

I don't know anything. I think when you realize you don't know anything, that's when you truly start learning. Okay, well, I reject this criticism. It's not for you to sit back and listen. To like, no. Let me reject my clowning, okay? I want to move away from this part of my history.

That I know anything is laughable. No, I respect people who can do it, but they can commit to something. I don't like committing to something. Yeah. Yeah. It's the worst. Yeah. Because then you're locked in.

Then you're locked in. And there's a risk in that. Give me a funny example of how you are afraid of commitment. Oh, well, unemployed. Yeah, unemployed. Tap into that clown. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I signed a one-day phone plan, that kind of thing.

Yeah, yeah, that's good. Oh, yeah, shoot. on the spot again I still need to think of my WTF episode Jesus Christ Yeah you said that assignment would be done by now Yeah that was I'm a dual citizen is that

Sure Okay all right I never book a flight Until the week before Yeah that's good Okay that's great yeah Yeah yeah Thank you for sharing

Thank you I packed a pair of jeans I haven't worn once since I left Put them on today No I can't Why I think I outgrew them already I was in Montana

I was eating a lot of cheese We just had meat Okay That's all that happened I think At Alexander Hamilton He was a dual citizen Am I right

No I get it Yeah One thing I learned From Broadway That's a run fair joke Yeah Oh yeah

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Overheard Overheard The segment of the show Where if you overhear things We want to overhear you say them And we always like to start with the guest Casey, do you have an overheard? Yeah, this one is actually something I said

But then my friend I saw her overhear me And I saw her reaction to me Okay So that was a new experience But I was like I said Montana This Comedy Festival And there was this great First Nations comedian who also did a presentation for us.

And his name's Casey Nicholson. Okay. Same spelling as you? No, with K-A-S-E. Okay. Yeah. So this was Friday. Very tired.

Like I'm getting like average three hours of sleep in night. Okay. So anyway. Because of the altitude? The altitude? Hell yeah. And then I'm at the casino all night. And there's no clocks there.

There's no clocks there. So, anyway, it's before our competition show and everyone's nervous. And I step up to the group and I'm just going to remind everyone something that Casey said. So I said, as Casey Anthony said, choose happiness. And then my buddy Diana stepped in and she's like, what did you just say? I was like, Casey Anthony from today. I just completely blanked on his last name. But that was horrifying.

You should have like total Casey command. You should know all the kids. Casey's. I know. I think I do the opposite. I try to avoid acknowledging there are other ones. Casey in the Sunshine Band. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Your whole life. Your whole life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All of it. KS9, the Seattle PBS station. Yeah, do you get that? All of it. Isn't there a chopper too? Anyway, Probably, yeah. Probably. So that was a horrifying slip on my part, but I got to see someone experiencing over her. How is Casey Anthony these days? She's a stand-up. She's a stand-up. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, so it's full circle. Oh, wow. Yeah. I don't know if you're joking.

No, I'm not joking. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think someone there had seen her. There's a very low bar to entry, you know? Yeah, there's no test you have to pass. And actually, the Casey Novak of Law and Order fame, there's a character on Law and Order named Casey Novak. Oh, wow.

And the actress is, I don't watch it. But she does stand-up comedy now. Really? Her too? All Casey's have to. So the actress does it? Yes. But she doesn't do it in character.

No, she does that. What was the character, a cop or a lawyer? Special District Attorney. Okay, sure, yeah. Yeah, I think we knew this at one point. We probably looked it up on the show. There are only like five facts about me, so that's... Yeah.

And we went through the one, I think. Yeah. Dave, do you have one overheard? Yeah, sure. This is a... I was walking in the neighborhood and I saw a van that was for an axe-throwing company. Mm-hmm. And it just said the two things that they...

Well, the lettering was coming off the van, but I'm pretty sure I figured it out. but it just says learn learn hand-eye coordination and anger management oh you both oh wow very important I'd go to the first one first would be anger management then

I think I just think it's funny that there would be people doing like alongside like oh I'm here to get out my rage oh I'm just here because I you know I I'm not very good at like threading a needle that's a big promise

it's a huge promise yeah Although a lot of the letters had come off And it really just said Learned Hand, Coordinationo Angerma That's also the tagline for puppetry, right? Yeah.

Yes, yes, yes, yeah. My overheard is courtesy of I went to a wedding two weekends ago and I was the MC for said wedding. It was past guest Yumi Nagashima's wedding. Happy wedding. Yeah, congrats. Yeah, thank you.

Thank you. on her behalf, thank you. But they had speeches from quite a few people, but they were all really short and nice. But every single person went up there and said, oh, I'm very bad at speeches.

And then knocked it out of the park. And then at one point, the guy that I put on as the headliner, Charlie DeMeres, and he went up to the mic, and said, actually, you guys, I'm really good at this. Oh, the laugh it got.

My God, it was fantastic. But yeah, it was just such a, it was just such a right on, exact right thing to say. And he is very good at it. Yeah. Yeah. But all these people,

they was all sweet, short, sometimes have a little funny twist, you know, and everybody that I brought up looked like they were going to go to a firing squad. Like, they all looked terrified when I called their name.

But then when they got up there, no stumbles, no nothing. Amazing. Yeah, stumbles, no mumbles. No stumbles.

No mumbles. And now they have a credit. That's right. Wow. I got to say, You and I were really low on overheards. Yeah. Dave, uh-huh.

And we're recording another one last week. So we're sure, our overheards are limited and low. Our cup run of thunder. Yeah. Yeah, corn empty. As in cornucopia? Yeah, cornucopia. Horn of Glinty.

Now, we also have overheard sent into us by you, the listeners. If you want to send one in, set it in to sb y at maximum fun.org. And this first one comes from Melissa in Bardstown, Kentucky. You ever heard of Bardstown, Casey? No, but Kentucky, yes. Yes, okay. Yeah, it's one of the big 50, one of the top 50 states. Yeah, it's up there.

While camping at a Hobbit-themed festival, you got me. And no further questions. I overheard two people in the next tent. having a conversation. A male voice said, my first roommate wasn't a nerd. He was a juggalo. Yeah.

You confused the two. Oh, yeah. Different circles in the Venn diagram. Yeah. I don't know what the overlap is, though. Nerd. Okay. Yeah.

Like, nerd versus juggalo. They're both nerds? They're both nerds. Really? Yeah. Yeah. All that kind of stuff populated by, there would be rent fair and.

They were like hype beasts. Yeah. I don't know. No. Yeah, maybe the nerd. I don't know if it's the overlap. The overlap is, community.

Yeah. That's right. Correct. Because this guy was at a Hobbit-themed. He was camping at a Hobbit-themed festival. Yeah. Nerd, no, nerd. And the gathering of the juggalo's is a juggalo-themed festival.

Right. Is there a name for it? Like a flock of seagulls? It's the gathering is the juggler. Oh, but is there like a collective noun? Yeah. Yeah. An assault of.

Yeah. a fago of there was I remember when they were playing a show or maybe one person was DJing or something but the lineup on

gravel street fantastic every other person just done up to the tens and 11s and just being very quiet nobody was going nuts or anything

if just wanted to get in there and see their juggalo friends this is the insane clown posse yeah maybe just violent Jay I feel like there might have been

not the full concert but Then again, how many fans do they have in each town, I wonder. Enough. Enough. Yeah. Hey, you know what? If you're any juggalo out there listening, keep doing what you're doing.

Not less what you're doing is horrible. Right. Keep bragging in the free world. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. If you're a nice juggalo, we want to hear from you.

Yeah. You're Santa. I've been of a nice juggalo all year. Um, um, how about a juggalo themed version of Santa baby? I was about to say. Back to the Christmas parody album Yeah Yeah

What would they want? Is it Fago? They would want Math Yeah they would want Oh geez I'm trying to think What the food would be

Santa Jockey Respect Yeah I don't know Fill my chinkos With Vago All right Toho

This one comes from Brittany from Downington You can put that in your pack When you're panty pack Oh I already did Thank you. Oh, yeah.

How many song parodies did you have to send it? That's correct. ICP and mango bits. Yeah. Great. New mango. This is, yeah, this writing bag we got in is insane. Everybody gather around.

A while ago, I was behind a car in traffic that had a bumper sticker with a cute frog on it that said, Oh, is you going to let me merge? Yeah. Did you guys know those bumper stickers that say, like, honk if you like pizza? It's about, like, excusing the fact if anyone's honking at you? Yeah. Oh, I thought it was like, if you like pizza, a honk. That's what I thought it was.

But it's also like, if someone's talking at you, you could just tell yourself, they probably just like pizza. I didn't know. It was like a defense move. Oh, see, I've always thought about it. I thought it was a pure like, hey, let's vote with our honks. Yeah, yeah. Someone had one on the, what do we call it, the Discord?

Discord, yeah. The Stop Podcasting yourself, Discord. Oh, you go there frequently. It's brand new. It was brand new. And they posted a bumper sticker that was for a very cheap car. And it said, this was $700. I'll be merging now.

Okay. Nice. I like it. This last one comes from Charlie and Cincinnati. Hey, Cincinnati. What's up? Was that Cincinnati? Is that what?

Yeah. Is there anything else? Sin City. Sinci juggalo? I don't know. I don't have anything else. Because we do. Cincinnati?

Cincinnati. That's a good one. That's good one. I haven't heard that yet. Yeah, that's good. I mean, it's just a nicer or nasty. Notting more nice. Yeah, it's just naughty.

It's more Christmas time. Yeah. But like, uh, what was Vancouver is what? Mancouver is what I call it. Yeah. Vancouver for a while and that was a little crazy. Yeah. The 604.

604. Terminal City. Some people call it. Not Toronto. Yeah. Not Toronto. Yeah. Um, Hollywood North.

That's right. This last one comes from a feature on a local Facebook Messenger or Marketplace app, sorry. This breast pump, and the title of it was $100 breast pump, called it a boob juicer. Okay. Well, 100 for a boob juicer? Not wrong. That's not bad. Not wrong. Yeah. I feel like, is that something that you'd buy secondhand?

Were you in the market? Yeah. Well, I am friends with people who have babies and, yeah. And titties. Yeah, and ditties. Dave. Sorry, boobies. You can sanitize things.

That is possible. I do think that is something that we saw, yeah. Did you get a new one? I think we... Get inside one. I think we got a new one. Okay, yeah. Does you still have it?

You can sell it on marketplace for 100 bucks. Yeah. I don't know. There were some things that were like, oh, you definitely need that new. And other people were like, no. You can just get it used. Yeah. Yeah. The only thing I think of is car seats definitely have to be new.

Do they? Yeah. Oh, why? Because they change, right? They change the specifics. Well, no, we got some second hand. We didn't buy them, but like we had hand-me-down car seats, but they do expire. Yeah.

Okay. Like the rocks muscles. Those are not expiring. He's just on hiatus. He'll get huge again. You'll see. Yeah. You'll all see.

Now, if he, if he was that giant and he's. Like, were we ever going to see him with his shirt off again, or, you know what I mean? I guess he did for the smashing machine, but... What do you mean? We just always saw him topless forever, and I'm just wondering. And oily, yeah. He seems thinner in that photo than he would have been in the smashing machine. I feel like that's...

Yeah, even in the then? Yeah, well, I don't know about the bin. Well, the new one, yeah, he's definitely thinner. Yeah. But why would he not take his shirt off? That's what I mean. I want to see. We don't know yet, too.

We can't know. Too soon to tell. Yeah. What if he's doing like a... Maybe in the spring when the ground doll comes out. Yeah. The rock will see you. What if this is for a role and he's playing some Pipsqueak?

Oh, sure. Yeah. In the Bill Nye biopet. Oh, man. He looks kind of like Al Roker this far away. Ah. What a good time. The Rock, if you're out there.

We love you, no matter what size you are. Bill Nye, if you're out there. Science rules. I love Bill Nye. Yeah? Number, yeah. I constantly say I'm just concerned if he's happy. or not in life. I just wanted to be happy.

He is. The Mariners are doing really well, so he's Oh, he's lit. excited, yeah. Very good. I know for a fact. He's a big Mariners fan. I do not know that. If you were in Seattle, you know? Well, in addition, overers that are written in, we also accept your phone calls. If you want to call us, our phone number is 1. 8447797631. That's one. Ugh. SpyPod 1. Like these people have. Or send us a voice memo.

S.P.Y at maximum fun.org. Like these. people have. Hi, this is Nick calling in from Missoula, Montana. Hey! This is at a coffee shop over hearing. Coffee. The brief is conversation,

which is something to do with how annoying drones are, how they're not any fun to record with, but the only real part I would get a little to clearly catches the end of the conversation or a woman said, yeah, no mirror over the bed.

Drones instead. no freaking way Yeah So our voicemail quality's going way there But I made out what he said But it was a struggle Yeah It's funny that we're at the point that

Things that I thought would be in the future Exist and people are already tired of them Yeah They exist and suck You're so right And it rhymed though the advice, right? Yeah That was her slam poetry

Exactly But I saw a police drone in New York That was pretty cool and eerie. How did you know? Did it have a gun shooting? Almost. It was going in a perfectly straight line horizontally, and then it went at a 90-degree angled down and then landed right by a cop car with the lights going.

And it was at night, yeah. So I think they're surveilling. So, like, I'm not over it. I'm a little scared of them. Yeah. I'll say that. Especially when they're in my bedroom. I don't like them because every single movie I've seen since they've become available

has an overhead shot. Yeah. And weddings, too, now. Like, that's a big thing. like up a dramatic value of your wedding production. And like real estate videos. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Those things I'm less familiar with. But they have like, I'm not, that part of it, I still think is cool. The real estate thing? No, no, the, a drone camera in like. Oh, yeah. Your home movies or something? Well, no, just even then like, oh, this, what used to be like a 48 hours style, like crappy

true crime thing now is like a prestige thing because they got they got the drone over the river where the body was seen

yeah yeah I'm pro drones you're pro drones I'm pro drones I'm pro drones okay all right

next phone call this one's a voice memo hi Dave Graham and possible guest this is Mark from Louisiana calling in with an overheard

I was at my synagogue with my kid for Hebrew lessons and the rabbi was teaching the kids had to sing different blessings in Hebrew and that was a lot of type of singing

and then as we were leaving later on I just hear the rabbi kind of singing to himself and I hear oh oh oh O'Reilly So yeah Rabbi had the O'Reilly

Otto parts jingle in his head Nice. I don't know O'Reilly's was national. It's not international. We don't have it here about it. But we've heard it in our jingle episodes. We've heard plenty of.

Riley's is auto parts. Auto parts, yeah. Like, but it's across the country. I don't know. In Ohio, we get it. It's a famous jingle. Okay. What's the big grocery store in Cincinnati?

Broker. Do they have a jingle? No, they don't. They have a, a wellness fair every year. It's a big deal. What's the big water park near Cincinnati? Well, there was the beach, but it died because Kings Island, an amusement park.

They built their own water park. Do they have a jingle? Yeah, I can't do it. It's a, let's say, a diet Jamaican kind of song. Oh, sure. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

But it's come to the beach. Come to the beach. But you can put your own place on it. Oh, okay. Yeah, Ma. Yeah. I, because we do these episodes, a bonus episodes where we get people to call in with their regional jingles. Oh, it's so fun.

I love that. And we've discovered that everywhere has a water park. Water park? Yeah. Are they all that flavor? No, no. No, they vary. But there's other jingles that also have that Jamaican flirts.

Yeah. Yeah. Classic. One when I was growing up that it was really racist that. to Japanese people. We're not trying to be mean to it. For the waterpark? No, for a restaurant.

Okay. For a restaurant called Japanese Village. Look it up. Look it up if you want to hear it. Yeah, I forget there was one, never mind. What's the best case scenario? Anyway, here's your final phone call. Hey, Dave.

Hey, Graham, and likely guest. This is David in Chicago. I was sitting at a bar having dinner. tonight and two women sat down next to me and were having a conversation, somewhat drunken conversation about something that had apparently happened, you know, seemingly within the last hour, I guess they'd been there for a while, where in one of the two women went out for a smoke break and in that time the guy she was talking to

that she thought she was going to go home with left and so she was talking about this at great length and she kept on referring to what she was after from this gentleman as Schneckhams

so she was talking about how she missed that on the Schneckham's and, you know, she was talking to her friend about it and saying, it's like, oh, just trying to remember this guy's name. And her friend was saying, if you can't, if you don't know the name of the Schneckhams, you don't get the Schneckhams. That'll talk.

Wow. Married Schneckhams to all. Oh. Oh. Oh. What a. I love it. What a moment.

That's a nice family way of, you know, talking about having casual sex. Yeah. Just a little bit of schneckham. It doesn't have to be casual. You could have long-term relations. With a schneck-cums? I don't think so.

I think that's a one-night stand. Oh, yeah. The term, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mary Schneck kill. Yeah. Nice.

Well, that brings us to the end of the podcast. Casey, where can people find you? Where can they see your hilarious stand-up comedy and writing, et cetera? Thank you so much for asking. I am on Instagram. Please follow me. I need numbers at k. Novak. You can check me out on CBC Gem, a new wave of comedy. And then also I just want to shout

out my good buddy, Blake Hammond in Cincinnati. He's a great comic and check him out as well. He's at at Blake Hammond Comedy on Instagram. Wow. Oh, look at you. I'm starting out of friend. Yeah. He was also at the festival I just did and he's such a crusher and I just want to share the love. Yeah. Yeah, he really needs help these days. We're really worried about Blake. Yeah. You're going to pull through it, man. You got this. That's nice. I don't think anybody's ever done that before. Oh, really? Oh, yeah.

I would rather be his manager than a comedian at this point. Now, before the show, you asked if I had any tums. I brought a thing of Tums. Yeah. Did you Tum? No, I'm so proud of myself. Congratulations. My time is doing great.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Distro-rotisinal. Just rotissory. It's what I'm going to brag tomorrow with at the doctor. Hey, I went out of the podcast. Didn't need a single tum.

Well, thank you for being our guest. Thank you so much. And thank you everybody out there for listening. If you think to ask your proctologist, see if it's one of the 1930s or 40s situation, or see if you've got a better table before you pick the proctologist for you. And come back next week for another episode of Stoppike's yourself. Maximum Fun A worker-owned network

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