Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 919 - Michael Balazo

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

Comedian Michael Balazo returns to talk Blue Jays fever, Signs, and going-out-of-business sales. 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 919 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name's Graham Clark. And with me, as always, is a man who's got. Halloween fever, Mr. Dave Shumka.

Ha ha ha. See, I told you. I'm a witch. Now do a Wolfman. Oh. Now Dracula. Blah. You're good as any sound effects playlist.

That's good stuff. Okay. Seriously, this is Dave. Graham, you had like a keyboard that had a bunch of button. Wait, Frankenstein. Fire bad. Classic line. Um, mummy?

You're giving me your mommy, please Oh, you're asking, okay Wait, uh, brain Probably No, do zombie Iroglitzx Our guest today Return the guest to the podcast

First time in person Very funny comedian He is recording his new album November 28th and 29th In Toronto at the comedy bar It's Michael Blasso. Hello, Michael. Hey Graham and Dave,

I'm saying, are you scared the damn hell out of me with all that Halloween stuff. It's really hard for me. Do you have a go-to-Halloy-impression you can do? Blob. Oh, go for blob. Blubba-blob. No, I just turned to Adam Sandler doing the blob, I think. But that's okay. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, this is your fourth time. Yes. Remember last time I was on, I was recording remotely, and I was doing it at the office where I was working, and it was so late that all the lights in the building went off. And so the last 20 minutes was me in the dark. I truly,

scary. All of our Zoom episodes blur. Yeah. The whole pandemic has just been like one long, but it's nice to have you here in person. Yeah. Yeah. I'm so happy to be here.

Should we get to know us? Yeah. Michael, I did a show with you last night. Yeah. Very, very funny. I've only seen you perform once before just a few minutes of comedy. So this is nice. to see you do a whole set.

Yes. There's a bit at the end, but I don't know if he should ask you about it because you're going to record it on an upcoming album, so I don't know if it should... Well, I won't, uh, ask me, ask me anything. Oh, okay. Change my mind.

Oh, no. Oh, I can't. Jeez. Is he, he's not that guy, though. Change my mind wasn't, uh, Charlie Kerr. Oh, so what was on it? Okay, his thing was...

His thing was... His thing. His thing was get out. Speaking of things that blend together, when I heard Charlie Kirk was killed, I was like, which one is he? Me too. Is he louder with Crowder? Is he Ben Shapiro? I've got a deck of cards that have them all on it, like the ones from 992 with the, the, uh...

I think those were from the 2000 Iraq War. Yeah, right, yeah. I bought a set of those that had, like, uh... Did it have chemical alley? No, well, it had like, it was from Newsmax, I think, and it was like... Some of the Lawton was in it, I assume. I think it was American, Americans, like Michael Moore and Hillary Clinton, who were like anti-Iraq war. Rosie O'Donnell's got to be on that.

Sure. Yeah. God, where are those? I was going to leave them to my kids, 26 each. But you have a very, very funny bit about briefly dating an adult film star. True. And I just was, how did you guys meet? So I was in L.A. about 10 years ago, 12 years ago, and it's a lonely city if you've spent any time there and you don't have a, you know...

I've seen the movie Drive. Yes. My experience was basically the same. But I was at a bar one night on my own and in my neighborhood. And this never happens to me, but like a woman just sat down across from me. It was like, hey, I just struck up a conversation with me. She was attractive and friendly. And then... And so were you.

Well, thank you. I'd like to think so. And then I told her I was a comedian, and then she was like, oh my God, you're a Canadian comedian. And she ended up knowing one of the kids in the hall and had just been in Toronto with one of the kids at a hall at a strip club. Don't name names, but we can guess. Scott Thompson. No, not Scott Thompson.

But then she got excited and we were drinking. And by the end of the night, he was like, we have to write a screenplay together. We need to do shows together. She told me we had to go to Paris together The next week And then we like made out that night And then we had like two other dates The final date was on Valentine's Day

And as I got to know her more I got more and more anxious Because I was like this is not Probably not going to end well Yeah Did you know that she was an adult film Oh yeah she told me From the get go

In the first few minutes And I went home that night And I looked her up and saw her Doing all of the classic movies And you were like, oh, we just made out? Yeah. Huh. So she wouldn't go all the way with her?

But all of my friends still think that I'm like the biggest idiot for not like sleeping with an adult film. So she was very nice, by the way, very nice. And she was like, we got her right to screenplay. Okay. So this guy's delivering pizza. Yeah. I've known people that have worked in adult film on the male side, but I don't think I've ever met somebody on the female side.

Yes. It was my first time, too, and I was like, this seems unlikely for my life's trajectory that I am dating an adult film. What would happen if you'd stayed? What would your life look like? Probably a mustache. Mustache? How many, like, different kind of Canadian alternative comedians.

date porn women or I guess it could go you know gender or whatever gender yeah I mean there was a

like and that have like long like you know 10 year relationships get married Howie Mendell did Jenny Madell and Jenna Javison yeah

remember their sex tape that was crazy you put a glove over his head while they were doing it it was a condom to be fair um yeah I would say, did I say on the podcast that I watched, like, America's Got Talent's 25th year anniversary show.

And they're like, Terry Cruz is like, and we got one of America's greatest living comedians, Howie Mandel. And then they cut to him doing a clip where he's doing a helium voice. He's like, I go to the hospital. Oh, one of our greatest living comedians. Yeah. There was a while where the America's Got Talent, maybe still the hosts or the judges are none of them are American. Because it was like Heidi Kloom

Sean Kretchen I like the way you do that song there Kofi Annan And Was it Is Simon Cowell? Simon Cowell is on it And it's Mel B

from the Spiced Girls British And there's Heidi Clum Heidi Clum's not on it anymore it's I remember when she was coming up and she was on a magazine cover

and like she wasn't a household name yet so they the magazine cover said Heidi Kloom as in boom boom nice it was probably Maxim no maybe it is

Heidi Kloom she's the one that I feel like she goes out first on all the like she puts the X down pretty easy I think yeah don't bore me I'll see this in In fashion, you'll In the way of Judges, right?

We're looking for judges, not host. She used to judge Seal every time they kissed or made love. She would be very harsh with her criticism. Simon Cowell, Sophia Vergara. Howie Mandel and Mel B.

Was Manny from Modern Family also? A judge. Remember Manny? Who's Manny? He was a little boy. He was a little boy. But he was big, but he was little.

And now he's a man? He's a now boyie. Now that he's a man. He's changed his name to boy, ye. Get it? He could date, because he's probably of legal age. He could date Sophia Vargaro now. Yeah.

If she wanted to. Yeah. Or she dating was somebody Joe. Oh, my God. Manjonello. Oh, right. From Magic Mind. Yeah, and he, I just remember Sophia Vigara saying, like, he wants to have more kids, but I'm done.

I'm sewing it up. So there won't be any little menangelo's running around. Will there be any Pantolianos? But then Howard Stern was one of them for a while. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And like... He seems... He actually seemed like genuinely, like, nice and, like...

Of all the people that would have been crazy, like, Pierce Morgan's obviously the worst, but... Sure. Howard, there could have been the worst. So is David Hasselhoff at one point. Right. I mean, at least Hasselhoff had song and dance and acted in a way that maybe Pierce Morgan has it. Can you pull up his Wikipedia?

I just want to make sure he didn't sing and dance professionally. No, just amateur. Now, Mike, you, Mike, Michael, Michael. Michael, you're coming from Toronto. Does everyone there have Blue Jay fever? Everyone is Blue J fever. I left yesterday morning, arrived here. I was preparing for my show yesterday.

I went to a bar to have two alcohol-free hynikins. They were showing the Jays game, and the Jays ended up, I think, beating the pants off of Seattle, 12-2? Yeah, they swung their bats, sat-thoms. And wasn't the previous day also a spanking, but for the banners? It was an opposite spanking.

Yeah, they've been doing opposite spank day. They made an agreement. Either or. And then the last game we'll flip for it. Yeah. The time of this episode's out, we'll know the outcome of everything. Yes. Are you Blue Jay fever?

Or are you just coasting off of James? Yeah, James has a real... He must be going nuts right now. He's going damn nuts. I'm coasting off his residual or excess Blue Jay fever. I'm not a huge baseball guy, but I, you know, go J's go. Yeah, sure. Yeah, that's the time.

Two games this past season. And they were... I think they lost both of them. Yes. So. Little did you know, they'd be in the contest. Now, they didn't even hint that they would make it this far at when I saw it. That's the key, though.

They're trying to make you feel comfortable. That's when they get you. Yeah. They, um, yeah, they were negging you. Don't bother coming anymore, games. Um, you mentioned James. James, uh, is one of your co-hosts on the Evil Men podcast that I don't think we've mentioned yet. Oh, yeah, we haven't mentioned the Evil Man podcast.

Thank you. You're welcome. It's a very funny podcast. I guess if you've never heard, it's Michael, it's James, it's Chris Locke. Yes. And then sometimes guests show up. Yeah, Graham and I have both guested. Yeah, we've guested past guest, Jackie Pirico is a regular guest.

And your girlfriend from the UK is a regular guest? Suez Kempner. How many times she's been on? She must be the all-time. Maybe four? I think maybe Jackie has done a few more just because she lives near where we live. Yeah. So Jackie's sort of the girlfriend of.

She's the show. She's the show's girlfriend, and it's serious. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You mentioned on a recent episode that your girlfriend, Sue, subscribes to a dressage streaming channel. Yeah. Called, so it costs more monthly than Netflix. What? And it's called, she actually, she told me she subscribes to two.

One is called Clip My Horse, which she tells me is a inside joke for the horse world. I don't know what it means. Humans. Humans don't think it's funny, but the horses really like it. It's like clipping is getting their hair cut or something? Or I would think a testicle? I would think clip, clop, clip, clip, clip, I'm a horse. And plus video clip. So it's like, sure, I don't know.

But it does cost more than Netflix, which was funny because it doesn't even feature stars in movies and TV shows. They see them on horses, though. Yeah. And the other one is, I forget what the other service is, but it's like she has two. So she spends at least 35 pounds. On horse TV shows. I believe one of, isn't, doesn't Bruce Springsteen have a daughter who is like an Olympic horse rider? I think she did dressage, yeah.

If you were seeing a one-legged horse, he would sing to her. So whenever like a Bruce Springsteen song comes on is your girlfriend like, hey, this is the guy who's the dad of my favorite horse rider? She knows him through, she knew of the daughter first and was like, hey, do you know that that girl has a famous father? he actually used to sing rock songs back in the day and I had to be like he's actually the boss and he still does

yeah out there sings and dances what if Bruce Springsteen did he won an Oscar for the streets of Philadelphia Bruce Springsteen does a tour no guitar no backing band he just dances for two hours

to his own songs to like whatever he just he has headphones on he's just dancing to his own music whatever music he wants to hear that sounds really good Courtney Cox come out dance with him.

Yeah, yeah. As Pierce Morgan. There's Morgan's there as well, break dancing. Pierce Morgan's just trying to get his union card. I want to be a respected dancer. Is there a... I know there's a stage actor's a screen actors union. Is there a separate Canadian dancers union?

Oh, yeah, yeah. We're called the Caduce. Do you really want to know? I can find out. Of course I do. Why do you think I flew across the country? I'm going to ask my friend. Is your friend a dancer?

My friend is married to a dancer. All right. This might be a very insulting question. Can you dance at all? Are you a dancer? No, not at all. I mean, I have my own style. If I'm at a bar and an ABBA song comes on.

What's your style? I'll groove. Um, I don't even know. Okay. I'm not trying to put you on the spot. No, there's no, I am asking if there's a Canadian dancer's union and it occurs to me there's a grave dancer's union. Oh yeah. Which was of course

the album by Solisleisle. I owned that album when I was a kid. I know every song. Runaway train. Somebody to shove with the big black gold. Black gold in a white fine. Would you fill up the tankless go for a ride? That was good. Yeah, it was Bruce Ringsteen.

Yeah, I just realized. I don't know how I would describe my dancing, and that makes me nervous. I couldn't describe mine either. Arms in, arms out. Arms out. Arms out. Wiggling around, yeah. So I guess sort of like one of those blowy men.

Oh, sure, yeah, yeah. What are they called, blowing men? The car dealership guys. Oh, yeah, the wacky wild, armed and platable men. Not blowy men, who are the guys who hang out behind my house. I heard some whispering as I approach. Yeah. I was like, what is that?

I'm trying to get a blowy. or give a blowy Either way Is that a British? No blower Well blower would be a British Give her a blower Give us a blowo

Blowy I don't know Do you need to text Someone and find out the slang What do you call Is there a blowies union As well I did see a very

When the Blue Jays Were playing the Yankees New York Of New York Yeah I saw an anti-Yanky pro blue jay t-shirt that was quite ribald. I think I know the one.

Well, what was it? Said one BJ is better than nine yanks or something like that? I guess that's true. I'm doing the math in my head. Yeah. It's like, we, yeah, I don't know how it, if you think about it logically, like you, receiving the BJ is better than receiving nine yanks. But I'm also thinking is nine yanks, is that to completion?

Or is that nine separate yanks? Yeah. Yeah. Like, because nine yanks sounds pretty good. Yeah. I mean, sure,

I've got my, if you stamp my card every time, I'll probably get the 10th one free. I like, I love a T-shirt that just is made in the moment of something. That's like, it's hilarious, it's on point.

It's so funny for that exact moment in time. And then there were a lot of them post-COVID. There are a lot that you find at thrift stores, a lot of, you know, don't have to. One BJ is better than two positive COVID test results. Yeah.

You're a big thrifter. I'm a big thrifter. Is there like a, do you see these things showing up? Oh, yeah. Flavors of the month? The one that was the funniest to me, not funny in the terms of the story, but the guy lead singer of head. Hedley, disgraced singer of...

Jacob. Hogggy. Hogg. Hogg. Honkker. When I went to Valley Village once, there was no less than 25 of those shirts that had just been dumped there. Headley shirts? Yeah.

Wow. And they just had them all batched together, too. They didn't, you know, try and sprinkle them throughout the store. It was just... Imagine this is one of those time machine moments where if you got those shirts and you had a time machine, you could go back like 10 years. Make a killing. selling those t-shirts.

I remember wearing those t-shirts. Yeah, making a fortune. The guy with 20 shirts. People are just handing me money because I'm wearing all these headley t-shirts. When Graham and I we once made a podcast called Our debut album where we made,

we wrote and recorded a song, we wrote a song in an hour and then recorded it. At the place where we recorded the drums, it was like a rehearsal studio. One day we were there, and Jay Arner, our friend, said, oh, the guy from Hedley, that's his Hummer. So they must be rehearsing today.

And then later, like, around the same time, I had to go to a clinic to get, because I couldn't get in with my doctor. And the person at the clinic was like, all right, I'll give you this prescription. I don't know how it came up, but she found out that I, I met this doctor for two months. minutes when she told me her daughter loved Hedley. I don't know how it... I see you showed up here on a Hummer. That's like breaking the Hippocratic oath, isn't it? You're not supposed to do that. Do no

harm, like no Headley. But she was like, oh, my daughter loves Hadley. And I was like, oh, I know where the lead singer sometimes is. Okay, well, if you ever see him, here's my phone number.

Calling your daughter? I don't remember what the... Is the guy? from Headley's across the street. Yeah. For our non-Canadian listeners, Headley was a Canadian rock band. Is a Canadian rock band?

Well, maybe on hiatus for a bit. The lead singer is disgraced because of sex. Sexual stuff. And it got his start on Canadian Idol. That's right. Which was hosted by, or co-hosted by past guest, John Doer. Yeah, it was John Doer.

And then who was his Brian Dunkelman? He was the brine. Ben Mulrooney, yes. Far right commentator, Ben Mulrooney. Is he now far right? He pretty much. Yeah, I think he's a new show on CTV or. I mean, we all assumed he was pretty right.

Yeah. Just from his lineage. Yeah, yeah. But anytime you see that somebody's like involved in the entertainment industry, you're like, no, they must be a liberal, you know. Yeah, not Ben, he breaks all the rules. I wouldn't say he was involved in the entertainment industry. Well, wasn't he peripherally?

He's always talking about E. Yeah. Did he host E Talk or E.T. Canada. Oh, that's a good question. I think he was E talk. He was always dropping E on TV. Yeah, you would do it before every show. Canada has or had two nightly entertainment TV shows, at least.

Mostly on America with a bit of Canadians. Yeah. Coming up this season on Emily of Newman. moon. Oh, yes, please, no. I'm so sorry to do this, but we were talking about Headley in, to bring it to another disgraced Canadian musician. Here we go.

Have you guys talked about the drummer from the new pornographers? Not specifically, but. What's going on with him? I know he's not in the new pornographers anymore. And you know why? No, no, no, no. The original drummer left. So the most recent one, I think.

If I have my timeline, correct. He's also probably not in the band anymore because he was charged with... The drummer from the new pornographers was charged with possession of child pornography. Oh, man, that headline. Yeah. I was joking with my friend Joel of like... You usually get a joke about child pornography with your friends. We were talking about maybe years ago when they were trying to come up with their band name,

he kept going like, I know we should call ourselves. They were like, no, we can't call ourselves the child. child pornographers, we need to put a different word instead of child, the new pornographers. How about the old pornographers? No, no, no. That's awful, too. Band vote. There was, I know, yes, this does ring a bell, but yeah, it's not the original drummer

who was also in Age of Electric and Limelifter. Right. Oh, okay. But I hadn't heard that this, the new pornographers news doesn't necessarily. even though they're from here. Yeah. And I'm a big fan. They're not really from.

They're from here, but none of them live here. Right. The ones maybe. They formed here? They formed here with a bunch of, but I, I, when I worked in Canadian music on CBC, I just remember people being like, yeah, we can't, like, we would try to, like, organize, you know, interviews with people and people would be like, no, none of them are here. Yeah. Oh. E.

C. Newman lives in Brooklyn and, um, a frickin. And Nico Case lives in, I don't know, Nashville. Let's say Nashville. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, hey, the drummer, I know they don't live here, but their drummer has this really cool hard drive. Now, I was wondering. Hard drive solo. Oh, no.

Oh, no, it's reformatting. Now, Michael, I was wondering this. Now, you, I don't, are you on any kind of, are you on blue sky or anything? I'm on blue sky, yes, and Instagram. I used to follow you on Twitter. Yeah. And I'm not on Twitter anymore. You were a good follow too on Twitter.

Thank you. And there was a, uh, a tone to your tweets that was very like, kind of making fun of earnest Canadians, like, making fun of people who are like down home, like Canadian culture, Tim Hortons, which by the way, you're drinking right. now. No! You're going to ruin my brand! And then I always thought it was very funny because there is this, the surge of like,

pro-can, like, earnest national, not nationalism, patriotism in this country was always quite cringe. Yeah. And then in the last six months or so, there's been a real surge in earnest patriotism. How are you dealing with that? Oh, it's my, my, I've lost. all business. Business has absolutely gone through in the toilet.

I'll still find it cringeworthy. The whole elbows up thing. You do a very good like rural Ontario Canadian guy voice. Hey, Mr. Trump, if you think you're going to stop me from listening to Spirit of the West or new pornographers, even though their drummer gotten some trouble with the law, you got another thing

common, buddy. He's still the best drummer out there. Show me an American drummer who's got arrested for child pornography as good as this guy. Now, I will point out that the guy who replay the guy you're talking about is American. Oh, okay. I mean, oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, elbows down. I was like, I want him to be Canadian.

As is Nico Kay. She's from somewhere in Washington. state. I think so. I believe she came to Vancouver and played in Cub or Mao. Yes. Or both. And now solo. And we love her for it. We love her for it. Absolutely.

We love her, don't we, folks? Elbows up. Elbows up. Yeah, what have you been doing to contribute to Canadians' elbows up? I've been podcasting like the dickens. I've been performing stand-up comedy. I've been playing acoustic guitar. Oh, yes. apartment. You play very hilarious funny songs.

Thank you. I just, so in August I did the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the second time, a full run. And this year, I thought I would incorporate songs into my show because I hadn't played guitar period for like a few years. And I realized like, oh, it's something I love to do and I have written comedy songs in the past. So I'm going to do that. And I did them when I was rehearsing the show in Toronto. And then I brought it to Edinburgh. and I had seven songs in the show by the end of the month that was one song

because the songs were not working whatsoever with the audience in Edinburgh so I one by one took the songs out of the show did you have to travel with a guitar or do you get a guitar when you're over there so my friend Mark Forward told me he's like just fly a cheap guitar over and then just leave it there when you're done

so you don't have to pay the luggage fee and I was like no I don't want to break my guitar so I rented a guitar there. Right. Cost so much money that I hardly used it in the show and had to carry it to and from the venue in the heat every day. Just a bad decision all over. Sure.

Yeah. When I was the first time I flew over to the Edinburgh Festival, the flight going to Scotland went out of Newark and the plane was delayed. So there's this very small area for departures in Newark internationally. And so it was all filled with fringe performers. and it was the goddamn worst thing in the fucking universe. Did someone bring out a mandolin and start singing? That is a thing about Canadian culture that drives me crazy every six months or so. It's like, you'll never believe what happened when this plane was delayed and a Newfoundlander brought out a fiddle on the plane and started singing about the ocean.

And everyone's like, oh, it's amazing because you don't, and it's like a plane flying to Newfoundland as well. It's like, you're going to hear this music before you even know it. I would love to see a picture of the people on the plane of, like, one person with their nose buried in a book. I don't like this. They should have a button on planes where if that happens, you press it, and the plane just explodes. Oh, my Jesus! Oh, remember when that guy was going to explode the plane with his shoes? Yes.

He really screwed it over for the rest of us all those years, you know? Yeah. And those other people who were going to combine a bunch of shoes. shampoo travel shampoo bottles I guess there were full-sized shampoo bottles because you're still allowed to travel. Yeah, you could carry your whole thing of perk plus. It was the underwear bomber as well. Remember that guy?

Oh, yeah. And they didn't make, so they made us take our shoes off after the shoe bomb them, but they didn't make us take our underwear off at security after that happened. You know, it's easier if you just have your underwear pre-removed everybody. This is the line where you have to well they never know

they do have those things where you have to stand there sometimes and it gives you a little it x-rays your body and it gives you a score out of town odd or not

and it and you never know what they can see but I always see them snickering I always tell them before I go through I say I know you're just doing your job

I know this makes the flight safer promise me you won't stare at my genitals when I stand there. Promise me that. One time I went through and I still had my belt on and they were like, remove your belt, sir. So I gave them my belt and my pants started falling down there like, ha, yay. They gave you like they're a lot.

Not your ass. Sir, can you hold your pants up? Sir, your barrel? Sir, can you please put on this squirting flower right now? But yeah, they probably do see a lot of genitals, those guys. That's why it might not pay a lot, but that is one of the perks of the job. Live pornography. That's why when they go on strike, they always cave.

We want more money. Oh, God, I miss those little travel penises. I miss when an old woman in a wheelchair goes by and I get to see what she's packing. Well, I do. I get to see what's in her bag. Oh, man. I guess you don't say that about women. People don't say that about women.

Older women? And you shouldn't say that about anyone. Oh, packing is usually. I wonder what that woman's packing. Yeah. Yeah, I guess I don't say that. Yeah, I usually say it about, yeah, guys' penises. Yeah.

Or like if I see a sailor with a duffel bag, what's he packing? Yeah. Probably like limes for scurvy. Yeah. Sailor Jerry's rum. My older brother, Terrence, told me a while ago, because we always think Popeye is funny

we always think Popeye's funny my brother was like I read the Popeye Wikipedia and apparently the character Popeye was based on a real

life sailor in Chicago who is a Polish man and hearing that Popeye was originally Polish blew my mind because he's not portrayed as a Polish man in the cartoon or in the movie

imagine Popeye with a Polish accent I think it would sound a little something Michael Michael take it away I want to eat the speech That's pretty good. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I guess I never thought of the nationality of Popeye before. He's a Polish man, and he shouldn't be ashamed. But when you say the name Popeye, it does sound like Eastern European. It does, I guess. I don't know. This is my friend Popeye. Yeah. What accent am I doing?

This is my friend Popeye. Dracula? Yeah, Dracula. Chicago I want a deep dish Pizza I will just have Borst

He's into olive oil That's maybe more Mediterranean Yeah, that's kind of About this olive oil She's into Polish guys What's Brutus's

Is he Roman? I don't know What is his What is his ethnicity? Yeah, Wimpy, well, he will gladly pay you for a burger tomorrow. He's got a lot of money tomorrow. He's got a lot of money.

He's got a lot of money coming to him. In burger futures. I want to measure all of the skulls of the Popeye characters just to see where they're from and what their IQ is. You know what I mean? Have you had your head red? I once went, there was a museum. It was called the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices in Minneapolis. Love this.

Or was it Wisconsin? And they did have an old phrenology head measurer thing. And I think I tried it on. Nice. And I don't remember how I scored. Well, it's questionable. It's on your driver's license. Yeah.

I think you should do a new version of the big short about guys trying to get rich off of wimpy, not being able to afford a burger. He was the original credit card. He was like, yeah, I'll pay you today. Pay it tomorrow, I swear. Give me that burger today. And he's just hoping that he dies every time. Is that his thing?

But he would eat tons of burgers? He would eat tons of burgers? Well, how was he getting... How are they giving him so many for free? He had a tab? I don't know. Yeah. Is it fair for me to say this?

I just thought of this. Wimpy walked. So pop... Sorry. Wimpy ran so Jughead could walk. I think he walked and he could run, yeah. Walking that running.

No, no, no. I like the way I said. Was Jughead a deadbeat? Did Jughead pay his tab? He didn't have a chughead was a skinny guy, skinny eater. Although after COVID, have you seen him? He blew up. Oh, did the Archies do any COVID stuff?

I wonder. I wonder if there's a comic where they're wearing masks. They must have. I wonder. Reggie would not have got vaccinated. Yeah, Moose would have been clueless about what to do. You're right, Reggie. You're right about Reggie.

Reggie, he gives off sort of alt-right vibes. this is according to Snopes Betty in high school 2021 did Archie depict remote schooling in 1997 well sure Yeah sure okay There's an Archie comic for everything

Archie predicted everything A Betty comic book page Shared largely online in March 2021 was authentic And it came from February 1997 It doesn't seem that long ago We had computers

Yeah we had like You could do a video hat with somebody, right? Archie also predicted the rise of AI girlfriends. Oh, right. Yes. Yeah, I just feel... This is from Maclean's.

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Oh, my God. I've got to subscribe to Publishers Weekly. Jughead had to be intubated at one point. Well, this article's too big. But, like, Jughead has a very, like, prominent, long, So that would be hard for him to put a mask. You'd be one of those guys to just put it under us now. And the crown, he's not taking that off for anybody.

That's right, yeah. Maybe Jughead would be. There was something called Big Ethel Energy at one point, apparently. Wasn't Ethel? She was the one that wanted to be with Jughead? She won't, yeah. And who was with Moose? Midge.

Midge. Yeah. And Moose was a psychopath. He was jealous. He was jealous, but he was also dumb. He could get, Reggie could kind of get him in a scam or something. Yes. Yeah, Moose was dumb.

Yeah, Moose was dumb. Reggie was mean. Yeah. Dilton, remember the science? Yeah, Dilton was in there. Yeah, they bring Dilton in from time to time if they needed them. Dilton had a whole in-cell storyline. Dilton Doily.

Dilton Doily. An Irishman. Irish scientist. Yeah, and then there was Mr. Weatherby, was the teacher. Yeah, sure. Grundy. Miss Grundy. Sven, the janitor.

He was a Swedish man. Oh, really? Oh, yeah, with a big mustache. And then the red-headed one. Cherry Blossom? Yeah, that's not a thing. Homer and Marshall. Cheryl Blossom.

Homer and Marge. Simpson. Sure. Velma. Belma. Pop-I. So, do you both remember the whole Bo-Nose Nike ad campaign from like the early 90s?

Yeah. Bo-Nose football, Bono's baseball. This was Bo-Jackson. Yes, because he played. two sports professionally for a short time, right? Baseball? Yeah. Yes.

So that was a very North American-centric ad campaign. A few years ago, as a joke gift, I bought my girlfriend Suze in the UK, a Simpsons, like, knockoff shirt based on that that said, like, Bart knows books, and it was him burning books, a little extreme. Bart knows beer, it's Bart drinking, Bart knows babes, and it's him with Lisa and Marge. And he's drawn, everyone is drawn really shittily. And I was like, ha, ha, ha. funny, I gave it to Suez, and she was like, what does this mean?

Because she didn't know the Bo-Nose Nike campaign. Yeah. So it just was absolute gibberish. I mean, everything about it is really hard to. Over here, Bonos is like if they managed to clone the lead singer of you too.

That was the bootleg Bart t-shirt craze was a real time in our history. Yeah. There was a lot of like... There was like Tijuana Bart. Yeah, there were a lot of Black Bart.

There were a lot of Black Bart. Like Reggae Bart Simpson's. Yes. Did either you guys have us? Bart Simpson T-shirt? I had one. I had, I didn't have knockoffs. I had a few real ones.

I had a real one. I had the Who the Hell Are You one? I mean, that's what I am. Controversial. And I think the one was just them is... I had the don't have a cowman. And they like, as far as everyone knows, we're just a nice normal family boy.

Good early Homer. Oh, for some chocolate Frosty milkshakes, which is another thing that they disposed of. Homer loves chocolate milkshakes. The chocolate milkshake thing isn't testing well with the audience. Do you remember people were like, yeah,

like, this family is taking, like, this is the beginning of the end of our society, this family of hateful people who meanwhile goes to church in every single episode I think because it went up against the Cosby show

when it first started and Cosby obviously was such a nice man the ideal father ideal family well times have certainly changed yeah I remember

there being a TV guide cover that said Will Bart beat Bill and I was like there were stakes in it back then these days the t-shirt would be

I'm Bill Cosby who the hell are you yeah He's wearing a sombrero The The And meanwhile, Both those shows

Probably had 80 million viewers Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember being like, I would gobble up anything Simpsons related at that time And every written article about it was like, you know, there's a honeymooners

is kind of the proto and the Flintstones and all this kind of stuff and then you look back, it's like, Simpsons was much better than any of those. So now, like, there's, um, kids say,

like, random stuff all of the time. Oh, yeah. There's like what it was known as brain rot. Mm-hmm. A lot of just, like,

weird, just trendy words. And I've seen videos of like, adults trying to define them and there's things like, skibbitty toilet. Skibody toilet, and just like skibbitty, just as a thing.

And they're like, yeah, Skibbidi, I think Skibbidi means bad. If something is Skibbitty, and that's not true. Skibbidi is just a nonsense word. Yeah, it doesn't mean anything, does it? And was, and I was trying to think of the equivalence to our time. And I was like, was Kawabunga our nonsense word? Because no one, no one said it except, well, the turtles. The turtles said it.

The turtles, sorry. They said it best. Yeah. But I feel like our nonsense, my generation's nonsense word was buyakasha. I just remembered that there's a reference to Bo Jackson in the song, Here Comes the Hot Stepper. At one point, I know what Bo do. Oh, yeah.

Oh, wow. I don't know why that, I don't know where that was buried in my brain, but you're welcome to you guys. I remember those boat commercials. I had a, no, I didn't have a boat. I remember in grade three, I had a Nike shirt that said, Just Do it. And kids were freaking out. Oh, yeah, of course. Because we just learned about doing it.

Get it, guys? This is something we can have. Yeah, there was a kid in my school. I think he had a South Park shirt and they told him he couldn't wear it because it was, Kenny was dead on it or something? I don't know. My mom wouldn't let me wear my prized Megadeth t-shirt to school in fourth or fifth grade. It was the Megadeth logo with a nuclear mushroom cloud and their skeleton character rising from the hell.

Yeah. And I was like, oh, Mom, I can't wear my Megadeth t-shirt. Now, how are you into Megadeth so young? I feel like that was at least like a great six or a great seven. It's because my older brother was into metal. He was into, like, Metallica and Danzig and stuff. Oh, yeah. I got him about Megadeth, and I was like, he'll be the Metallica guy.

I'll be the Megadeth guy. That's how our parents will be able to tell us apart. Did you like the music? I think I did. at the time, but, like, looking back, it's not very good. Yeah, I think in grade seven, I was like, I'll try it. Like, you know, you can buy CDs now and, like, CDs nuts, obviously. But, uh, I was like, oh, uh, whenever, like, there was a, the, uh, Perry Farrell's

side project, porno for pyros came out. Yes. And they had a creepy music video and I was like, let me try this out. This seems very adult. and for the rest of my life I can't say in the Perry Farrell's voice. Wait, you don't think that we'll make great pets?

We'll make great pets. The first single was, Cursed female. Cursed female. Yes, not great. Yeah, I think I also, I think Guns and Roses was my

entryway into the 80s, early 90s. And then my friend really loved poison and there was the cover where they were all done of, like, beautiful women, I was like, this is very... This is for me. Yeah, I was like, this something is happening here. This is out of this world.

I also remember reading guitar magazines in the early 90s, and there being an ad for the new, I think it was Megadeth album, and it was called euthanacea. Yeah. And it was with the word youth, like... And then was it in Asia? No, it was, I feel like it was a woman hanging. A baby on a clothesline by its toes or something? Yeah, yeah. I mean, just where do they come up with these ideas?

Hey, maybe let's pick the second or third idea. There was, oh, was there in the 90s? Corn had like an iconic t-shirt that I know, not with their name, but it was like, someone like a little girl on like a hopscotch or something like that. Well, yeah, there was the music video with the bullet, the little girl. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And the, like, bullet goes through everything and then, like, she stares it down.

Yeah, right. And I remember that being a shirt. I'm Corn Simpson. Who the hell are you? Would that be a good shirt? That's pretty good. Yeah. The band Corn, all saying it, they all have, like, a little speech balloon.

They all have spiky hair like where it's a little shirt. There's going to be a great shirt. I'm corn There was I once went to a speech Like a talk given by one of the Simpsons writers Who had been there from the early days

And is still like a producer And he had this like prepared speech And One of the things that he did He was like I also worked on the Simpsons movie And it was great And we love it Everyone loves the Simpsons movie

And we got We got to work right away on the next one and I tell you if I could make a Simpsons movie a year I would and but he never acknowledged that that didn't happen but now there is a new one

there is a new one not a moment demanded it yeah yeah finally they're striking while the iron is hot hey remember in the first one where they showed Bart's penis yeah what's next no thanks

Bart's anus that's what we're gonna see don't have what do he say don't have a cowman And what would he be his phrase and he'd see his butthole? Will this be the movie where Barton's... Don't take a shit, man?

Don't take shit, man. Don't look in there, man. That was really weird. That was really weird. Yeah, like it's something we were clamoring for. They did it. We finally got to see it after all these years talking about it. I know a certain drummer who watches that movie a lot.

On a loop. He just has that, yeah, that scene forever playing. Simpsons movie, I'm excited to see if they have the story continues of the first movie. It's also, remember when it first came out, there was, like, promotional everything. Like, certain stores would turn into a QuigEmart. Yeah. There was just, like, so many collectible, you know, there was collectible, you got, like, Simpsons Donuts, but a lot of people kept them because they thought they were going to be.

Oh, yeah. You get, like, a Simpsons collectible cup at 7.11. You could get the donuts at 7-11. It was really just one promotion. No, they did the thing. That was where you could Simpson-fi yourself. Oh, right. The operation.

This lady has spent $800,000 to look like Marge. In the Simpsons universe, is Marge hot? Because, like, she is hot, right? She's hot. And she's gotten, like, I haven't watched a lot in the, recent years, but I feel like the attitude towards her, among other characters, is that she's hot. And that she's, that Homer married up. Yeah.

Yeah. And certainly in the sidebar ads, I get, she's very hot. She's very hot. And doing a lot of stuff with Milhouse. Maybe we'll see something of Milhouse in the movie. Oh, yeah. Maybe we'll see his penis or? What type of society things do you think they're going to take on?

What are they going to skewer in that movie? What did they skewer in the first one? They got a dome put over the city? Yeah, it was environmentalism was part of it. Because what's her name was in it? Aaron Brockavitt was in the movie. And Homer went to Alaska or something? Yeah.

Does he go somewhere in the snow? He has to go somewhere. Yeah, because he gets out of somewhere. And Spider Pig is involved. Spider Pig was on the roof. And Tom Hanks was in it. Tom Hanks made an appearance. Do you think they'll bring back Aaron Brockett?

If not Aaron Brochovich, it's certainly Michael Clayton. It's in her contract. She's like, I'll be in the first movie. And if there's ever a sequel, I also have to receive top billing and B in the second. Not billing. Aaron Brockovich in the suitz movie, too. Name above the title, an Aaron Brockovich joint. My friend has not replied to me about the Dancers Union.

Oh, no. Maybe he has a ticket for a runaway. way train. Never going back. They did a, did they do like a 25th anniversary redo of that with current missing kids?

Oh, or did they find any of the kids? They found a lot of the kids apparently. This I've learned from pop-up video. This was the new milk carton. It was a milk carton for the MTV generation.

Yeah, where do people get their milk carton kids now? Back to milk cartons again. I guess though. Yeah. In Canada, we have milk bag kids. Canada's most popular kids. show the milk bag hits um yeah did i do you go see the simpsons movie in the theater absolutely i did

yeah i think i may have seen it a couple of times yeah yeah um i feel like they had tom hanks what's starkey maybe tom cruise but have they had tom cruise on the show like maybe what do you mean was tom hanks in the movie yeah and he played himself in the movie i mean you got to get like sidney sweetie probably yeah she's if they do that dave i'll be going as many times as i can afford to see the Simpsons sequel she's heart can't resist she's the hot she's the hot girl du jour I love her I'm not afraid to say it yeah I watched Tom Hanks was like a guest on Jimmy Kimmel you see this where you like have you heard about this

you can't see this no he did a it was a fun thing like he did the machine from big like if the kid came out and like put in the coin and then it was Tom Hacks he couldn't got the jacket off faster he was like done with the bit immediately like he had to wear like a bitch and immediately he's like

dropped it all right thanks Andrew yeah exactly you guys get what I'm doing it also instead of the machine can I get a typewriter I'm addicted to typewriters that's how he takes his payment 50 typewriter And how tall are you, Tom Hanks? I'm about 14 typewriters tall.

Didn't you have, you had a great tweet that I think it was something about his height. Oh, well, it was, I'm looking for the president of the Tom Hanks fan club. He's like, yay, big. That's a quality tweet. Yeah. I hope that was your final tweet before you logged off forever. No, it was about 10 years before that. Do you guys still have your accounts?

Yes. I do. And I don't. Every time, they used to have a thing when you would log in, it would tell you that you had notifications because your tweet was liked or whatever. Now it's just notifications that Elon Musk has said something. Yes.

Yeah. No, you didn't ask for that. Yeah. Or did I? Yeah. Does my algorithm know. Yeah, I used to tweet all day, every day. Now I'll tweet like once a month.

Yeah. I don't even like I, I, I, for, well, we as the show have an Instagram a Facebook group and a blue sky I have not been updating the blue sky

Yeah blue skies There's so little payoff to blue sky Like I mean there It probably is okay I mean the playoff to Facebook is immeasurable

Now we have a discord now Join our Discord folks I am There's a great channel on there called My Travel Agent Retired Yeah that is a good where people share their boring dreams.

Dave has a history of having very boring dreams. Like once I dreamt my travel agent was retired. For instance. Do you still have, or do you ever had a travel agent? This question comes up a lot. Yes, I do. Her name's Lily. Really?

Yeah. You don't just book it yourself, Wikipedia, Travago. Go to Wikipedia first. Expedia. Mata. Uh-uh. Well, I book my flight out of here on Wikipedia. Let me look up Buenos Aires here

Oh Longitude and latitude Hold on I do Her name's Lily She's great She sends me a thing Telling me to

She sends me an email Telling me to renew my passport Yeah But when it's going to come up She She can get But like she's very She knows things

She has like a lifetime of knowledge Yeah So she's like, actually, this place you're going to stay is not as good as this place. This is a place better for families. This is, this, here's a better way to use your points. Sure. I, uh, have you ever had a boring dream? I rarely remember my dreams at all.

Yeah. And the last, I can't even remember the last dream I had. They had a dream about a big green tree. That's about, yeah. I had a dream past guest Tim Gray and I were having a conversation with my dream and he was wearing a time. And I was not. So I don't know what.

Ooh. Yeah. So I wrote him. I told him that. He was like, why? Why are you bothering? Yeah. Let me alone.

Do you both interact with people on Discord? Or do you let them do it and you just observe from on high? Well, I'm the one who started it. So I've been like asking for help. This is only two weeks old, this thing. Yeah. Okay. And so I've been asking for help.

Really? People were like, hey, why am I getting notifications about every little thing that happens on the Discord? And I was like, can you turn off? your notifications or do I have to turn off your notifications? I'm confused about the notifications because I've turned them off because I don't want them but the thing still

boops and I don't know where they're, I don't know in relation to what things I feel very like so we're just we're here to announce the closure of the discord you have a discord do you interact with the evil men

I rarely do I'll post about shows or that's basically it or today I announced like oh the episode is late but it's up now but James and Chris spent a lot of time interacting with the evil men fans sure and I don't do that

I've just been yeah it's new so I'm poking around so we have an overheard's channel and you were like get rid of that yeah yeah it was like overheard's come my way but people are posting like hey I had an overheard on the show five years ago

Absolutely. That's fair play. Also, if it's something that would be too hard to describe visually, that's the place for it. Oh, sure. But speaking of overheards, I put out a call for people to send them in. You guys answered the call. Thank you so much for sending it so many overheards. I'm overwhelmed. Overwhelmed. Dave, what's going with you, man? Well, it's spooky time of year. Absolutely. And I like to get into spooky stuff, but we kind of narrowed down my feelings about Halloween. Yeah. I like a little bit. of scariness. Yeah.

I love candy. I don't want to dress up. But you don't mind being the chaperone? Oh, sure. Yeah. I'll chaperone Sadie Hawkins dance. I'll chaperone, you know. Uh-huh.

Pink pony glove up, sure. And so I've been trying to like, you love horror movies. Love them. I don't like horror movies. I like kind of a mysterious, spooky little bit of something spooky. And so I have a few that I'm going to try to. watch this month. I'm excited for this list.

Bridges of Madsen County. Yeah. Because there might be a troll in a deep. Have I either you guys seen that movie? I worked at a movie theater when it came out so I've seen it many times. As a teenager,

every teen's dream come true. He's doing it in a love story. That was an enormous book. Like, size book? No, just like in popular. Popular books.

Huge. Like that, why do I remember all these, like, 90s, like, Memoirs of a Gatia, snow falling on Cedars. Oh, yeah. That just, most of them were, like, not great movies. Bridges and Manich in County was nice. It was a good movie. It's a Clint Eastwood directed as well. Yes.

It's him and Merrill. Clinton Merrill. Merrill. He's a photographer of Bridges. Ah. You know, one of those movies. So the spooky movies, I think I'm going to work out of the courage to see Scream. Okay.

The original? Yeah. Okay. I've never seen it. You've never seen Scream? No. I don't like, I don't like horror movies, but I feel like I know enough about, like, I think I know the ending. Yeah, Scream's fun.

Like, I've seen the opening scene many times. And it's not gory. Like, there's blood, but there's not, like, wounds and things. It's more of a who-done-it. Yeah. And it's also self-referentials. Like in horror movies, this happens. Oh, sure.

So I know this is about to happen. Yes. Right. And then what I watched the other day was a blind spot for me. It was an M. Night Shyamalan movie called Signs. Signs. Now I, you never saw it. Do you know the ending of it?

I don't know even the beginning of it. Oh, okay. So I am, so I saw the, I saw the sixth sense in the theater. Do you know the ending of that? I do, but yeah. I saw Unbreakable in the theater. I loved The Sixth Sense. I really loved Unbreakable.

I mean, I think I love them both the same. I, for some reason, missed signs, but I don't know why. I liked his other movies. I saw The Village. Yeah. I liked The Village. Although I guessed the ending one second in, yeah. Oh, man.

And then Lady in the Water, I didn't like so much. And then I never saw another one of his movies. Oh, you didn't get to see old? I never saw old Should I see old Should I see trap Uh Yes you should absolutely see trap

But like have so Have Abby there to joke around with Because it's so silly Is it scary? Is it something I need to do in October? Uh, no It's a gripping suspense story Um

So there's this So you know the plot of this movie The police put on a concert To trap Yes Lady Raven is coming to sing They shot it in Toronto I remember what people were

talking about that. Yeah. I think they used the sky dome or the Air Canada Center. Anyway. Yeah. Um, and so we, uh,

so I watched, uh, I got home like, uh, at like 10 o'clock after playing hockey. And I was like, well, I'm not going to fall asleep.

I'm, it takes me a while to fall asleep after hockey. I'll watch a movie and it'll, usually I'll watch a scary movie in the daytime. This one, I'm like, I don't think it's that scary. uh plus i know how it ends yeah so signs is mel gibson is a dad of walking phoenix no walking

phoenix is like his younger brother oh okay his kids are abigail breslin and a colkin one of the culkins and uh they get these crop circles right and then there's he's a farmer he's a farm well they live on a farm he was a pastor who no longer believes no longer believes in god because his wife got um and so oh yeah until it was spoilers all around if anybody's never seen it but she gets hit by a car she gets hit by a car driven by m night chamoan really well he's got a peer in all of his yeah he does that's true oh okay and uh and so he uh yeah so his wife and so he's like there when she dies and then he's like i'm done with god yeah yeah and then so his family and then Anyway, it turns out there's these aliens invading.

All the major cities and this one corn city. And there's like, they're like hovering around the cities for a few days. And then they're starting to invade. And, uh, but apparently, look, I liked this one. Yeah, I like to do, but I do not remember it. But the way, the confrontation of the end is very silly because it's, the aliens are. are just like humanoids. They're like maybe six feet, six inches taller than the average humanoid.

Yeah. And they don't have any like tentacles or anything. They just kind of like are kind of hunched. Yeah, big green guys. Yeah. And there's a great scene in it where you, the actor doesn't see that it walks behind them in a doorway. And it's, I remember that big like the like, oh my God, right there.

Yeah. That stuff is all done really well. Yeah. And then it ends. And it's like, so the aliens are going house to house just doing hand-to-hand combat? Like, they're just, they're either going to get beaten up by Mel Gibson? When did this movie come out? Was it like a...

2000-ish? So was it before the Iraq War? Because I was going to say, it sounds almost like a... No, it wasn't, it doesn't mean anything. No, okay. But it was like, I was like, okay, these alien guys aren't... They're also, I'm going to spoil the absolute thing that kills them. Yeah.

Water. Yeah. Oh. And he remembers, he thinks back to, like, his wife and her dying, and she gets pinned to a tree with a car. I think he gets pinned between two cars, or maybe it's to a tree. Yeah. And she's, like, he's talking to her at the very end of her life. And she says, swing away.

Well, Swing Away is what, uh, uh, Joaquin Phoenix. He's a baseball player who, who. holds the record for the most minor league home runs but also the most minor league strikeouts so that's why you never made the majors hey guess what you would totally make the majors

yeah they don't cancel each other like yeah a lot of guys strike out but if you hit the most home runs you're probably gonna anyway I believe Babe Ruth had the record for the most strikeouts or something but then doesn't he doesn't that inspire him

to hit? He then hits them with hits the aliens with a baseball bat and then water lands on them because his dog Abigail Breslin always has little glasses of water all over the house which as a parent I'm like

get her a plastic cup these are going to smash but they get water on them and they're like and earlier in the movie M Night Shyamalan's like I'm getting out of town because I noticed these aliens

aren't landing I'm going to the lake because I notice these aliens don't land near water they really yeah they really planted the sea He knows that. He directed the damn movie.

Maybe the aliens were like, oh, my mom said, I'm not allowed to get wet in these clothes. Remember that when you were a kid? Yeah. Yeah, did you have very special. Did you go to church as a child? We would go to church until I was like 11 or something because my dad taught, my dad was a teacher. He taught in the Catholic school board. And it was like this, like, they would check up on staff to make sure they were going to church or else you could get like.

reprimanded or like lose your job if you're not seen at church it's like weird very high pressure weird surveillance situation going on and then god's the ultimate surveillance he's true yeah he sees you when you're sleeping he knows when you're awake night vision goggles um so anyway i knew this movie was i i really liked it yeah enjoyed it i knew it was silly and i was like oh these stupid aliens and then uh afterwards i was like a little bit afraid of the aliens yeah I was like, ugh, I don't want to look at the window. I don't know what I'm behind me right now. So you like horror movies so much. Yeah. But do you get scared? Like, are you scared afterwards? I think if I was watching something really spooky by myself late at night, I'd probably get

a bit of like, maybe I'll leave the light on. But you watch it with Sally? Yeah, I always watched with Sally. We watched one that was so grim the other night. It was great, but it was just like, whew, it was that, that was a dark movie and a dark ending, and it never let up for a sex. Like, it was just really doom and gloom. What was it?

It was called, what the hell was it called? Not Weirical lurks, although that one was crazy. I can't remember what's called. Bohemian Rhapsody. Do you? You should have seen this guy's teeth. Do you like scary movies? No, I rarely watch horror movies.

Yeah. I think we might have that in common. Although you're ahead of me now watching this. I don't want to, I don't want to. I don't want major scares. Yeah. I also, I don't want anything that's a gross out.

I don't need to see something gross. It's like, if it's kind of related to the plot, then it's fine, but I don't just like seeing a groat, like a wound or something like that. Did you see, uh,

the long walk? Uh, no, I haven't seen it yet. It's kind of, it's pretty gory. Yeah. Not too gory,

but they don't shy away from it. And did you see, you saw weapons. Yeah. That's very gory. Yeah. And it was a lot of fun. And I've seen videos of teachers running

out of classrooms with the doing the legs or the arm thing. Do you know this? I haven't seen weapons, no. What is your, what is your go-to film genre of choice? I know you're like a historical. That's my guess.

You like a historical thing. Yeah, Dunkirk. You love Dunkirk. I fall asleep every night to Dunkirk. I mean, I guess I'd say, like, what was the last movie I saw? We saw a screening of, Sue's visited me in Toronto.

We saw a screening of the Virgin suicides. Okay. Yeah. I don't know. Seventies. American movies Well you know Virgin Suicides takes place in the 70s

But it actually was modern It was modern shot in Toronto Down the street from where I live right now I know somebody who's in it Like briefly he's one of the One of the crushes that they're obsessed with His name was Dustin Ladd Oh yeah

He was a handsome young man Also two Sloan songs on the soundtrack Yes which I picked up Watching it I was like hold on That's historically inaccurate What the hell But yeah But I guess I would watch

Okay we have 70s movie. Oh, we have an answer. Oh, we have an answer. Dancer's Union? Yeah. It is C-A-D-A. Well, let's see.

My wife is at work. I don't think she, I don't think there is a union per se, but C-A-D-A is probably the closest thing. They recommend hourly rates. Hmm. So what is the... Instead of a salary. Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists. Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists.

That sounds, that's close to a union. Union, Alliance? Yeah. Yeah. If they go on strike, this country shuts the fuck down. Who will we give our grants to? Have either you ever gone and seen a dance performance? Yeah.

Yeah, I have as well. It's, uh, I feel like everyone in the room knows more about what's going on than I do when it comes to a dance. Oh, sure. Like, boy, is she going to fall in love with that nutcracker or what? They've got a real one of them, well, they won't they? Is this guy a swan or what's his deal? Those are the big two.

This is big two. I dated a girl for a very short time who was a dancer, so we went to a couple recitals. This was not, this was a modern interpretive. Yeah, and you were like, oh, God, I hope if I marry her, maybe I can get some of her union benefits. Were you heckling like, do some tap dancing? Jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz, jazz. So, yeah, getting in the shummel. Milan spirit of things.

And maybe I'll watch scream before the spooky night itself. Yeah, Scream's such a good one. I have seen so few horror movies, but I will say the ones I love the most, and they're both from the 70s, or late 60s. Rosemary's Baby, have you seen that? I haven't. It's so good, and it's gross out, but it's, it'll fuck with your mind. And the original Wicker Man.

I love the Wicker Man. Oh, yeah, Wicker Man's really good. It's so eerie, so spooky. Now, you really like the director of Rosemary's Baby, is that right? Yeah. I didn't know he made films until recently. I was just a fan of his other work. Yeah.

I was a fan of him fleeing America. He did it with Panash. Maybe I'll check it out then. What's going on with you, Graham? Well, here's the thing. You and I, we live in the same neighborhood. And not far from where we live, there's a rugstore. And this rug store has been going on a business since I moved to the neighborhood.

God knows how many more years before. But that's been their whole ploy. The building next to it burnt down, but it stayed a floor. And it's the whole thing is we're clearing out sale. They've been clearing out sale since five or six years or whatever. They must have so many rugs to get rid of. Yeah, at discount prices as far as I know. But they recently put up a new sign, an even bigger banner that said like actually closing kind of sale.

And I was like, okay. The wrong store who cried wolf. What we need is a bigger banner. So people know we're going out of business. But the one thing they did differently is they put a countdown, days left countdown. Is it a digital? It's not. So they've had to print up all the different pairs.

But I was like, oh, this is just a. How many days? It started at $9,000. It's out of 56. They're counting it down. It's actually being counted down. Okay. Yeah.

So the number started. going up What Have you gone in? I haven't gone in But I feel like Probably at this point I should

Yeah I mean At your respect Hey yeah Hey you guys have been Such a great part of the neighborhood What do you think is gonna move in here

A Freshie We made you some food Please just have it Must be a difficult time for you They've got so many rugs They've got so many rugs And then I thought When I was a kid

I remember my parents decided to change to the carpet in the house we went to a carpet warehouse was the most fun thing in the goddamn world Yeah, you rolled around You rolled around on it

They had a forklift That was just like a rod Oh yeah Rugs and lifted it up Wow Playing with that Even though we're not supposed to Playing with the forklift

Trying to hang off of it But yeah Did you find out If the carpet Match the drapes Yeah For certain people Yes

Other people's surprising I wonder as my hair gets grayer If will your penis look more distinguished Graham? Yes I was wondering if my pews would also get great Yeah, that's what I mean Yeah, okay

I'm keeping tabs on this rugster And the thing it just so happens Thinking about getting a rug so should I Should this is just the stars lining up for me That I should hold the trigger Yeah What kind of rug are you looking for? Circular

rectangular rectangular Yes Big, small middle Middle Funny picture serious picture

My wife Sally forward would be A series that somebody 9-11 themed rugs Are you looking for Is it to go over Hardwood?

Go over hardwood Yeah To go under a couch And Table situation Yes under a couch table situation I like something Do you want something

ethnic? Yes. What a name? Something Polish like Popeye? You got a Polish spinach. Do you sell Popeye rugs? You know, Polish? Go in there.

There's a picture of Popeye on your phone and go, do you have this? Yeah. If there's a language barrier, just show them a picture of Popeye. I remember a few years ago they did like, someone did like Like photo

Like photorealistic pop-eye And it was all the characters And it was grotesque Yeah Yeah With that weird jaw he has Doesn't translate Yeah

I never bought a new rug before I've never like gone to a rug store I bought a rug I'm always Really inspired by the Huey Lewis song I want a new rug Go on That would be a good name for a store.

You know what? I know of a place that's clearing, liquidating. Would it be, I want a new rug, asterisk. This is a play on words of the Huey Lewis song. I want a new drug. Just in case you didn't know. Which is actually, the drug ends up being love in that song. Oh, shit.

And he believes in the power of love because it's curiously. I think it ends up being love because he wants one that makes me feel like I feel when I'm with you. Nice. Oh, if there was only a drug like that, nobody would ever leave their house again. I watched, so there's this Instagram I follow that is old SNL clips, and they do,

so many of them are just like musical performances. Huey Lewis in the News were the tightest band I've ever seen do a live performance on SNL. Incredible. If they were still performing, which I don't think they are anymore. I think he's got hearing issues. Yeah, he's hearing.

In fact, he's singing. Yeah. He has some hearing issue where he has good days and bad days and he doesn't know when it, like, he can't predict that tomorrow will be a good day. Yeah. Yeah, I never got to see them live. But I imagine they, they seem like they would be a good day. My brother saw them live once, twice, once with Bruce Hornsby in the range opening for them.

Yeah. And once with Canada's version of Huey Lewis in the news, Doug in the Slug. Doug in the Slugs, yeah. And was Huey having a good day or a bad day? That was back when he had nothing but good days. You may be think of like the Back to the Future poster, and this guy who designed all those posters just passed away. I didn't know it was one guy.

I thought it was just a genre of posters. Drew Struzen? Yeah. He did all the like Indiana Jones and like, like, ton of the episode one, Hook. I won free tickets to see Hook when it came out when I was, kid and I'm so happy He did this Alice Cooper album

Oh, welcome to my nightmare All Star Wars All this stuff Wow Yeah Like Oh, human centipede And he was right next to

And he did like Six human centipedes in anticipation Of sequels In his final day just kept drawing more and more human sensitively images. We also just lost Ace Freely from Kiss today. I stopped. I didn't hear that.

Oh, wow. Oh, my God. Well, I'll have a listen to Back in the New York groove when I got home. Do you guys think we should move on to some overheards? No, no, no. Because you move on to a little bit of business. That's right. It's Jumbotron time, everybody. Maybe you don't know what this is, but what it is is it's a way for you,

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I don't think so. I think that's right. It's been so long since we've done one. But we love doing them. And this one, this one is for James. And this one is from Dan. And the message goes like this. Happy birthday, James.

A message from Dave and Graham is far more valuable than any present I could think of. James had listened to every episode of SpyPod, including Boko, and the pod is a staple of any road trip or long drive we take. So I'm as grateful to Dave and Graham for entertaining us as I am for James, putting up with me for 20 years. Happy birthday. Aw, that's very heartfelt. That's very nice. I like that we're together with them on their road trip.

Yeah, that's annoying. If you're with someone and you're in the car and you put out a podcast. It's quite passive, aggressive. You're saying, I don't want to speak to you. I don't think we have. Let's hear, instead of us two guys talking, let's hear two other guys talk. You think we have chemistry. Do you think hitchhikers, they're like, they get picked up and they're like,

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She deserves to win. Well, should we get on to some overheard? We might as well. Hi, I'm Travis McElroy. I'm here with Maria, and we're excited because as a member of the month, Maria, thank you so much for being a listener and a supporter of the show. Hi.

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At some point, I'll get a cup of coffee into your hands to pay you back. Okay. Maria, again, thank you so much for your support. Thank you very, very much for your time and getting a chance to be the member of the month. My daughter was shocked when she found out about it, so I can't wait for her to actually maybe catch a little bit of this. I can rub it in her face a little bit. That's what we do it for. Thank you, and thanks to everybody for your support.

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If you're out there in the world and you hear something great. Don't just keep it to yourself. Share it with the world. And we always like to start with the guest. Michael, do you have an overheard? I have two. One, I was more of a conversation.

And the other one was true overheard. Okay. Do you want to do both? Do you want to do one? Then we go around the horn back to you? What do you want to do? I'll start with one. And if you guys want to hear another, I'll do it.

The overheard was a couple of weeks ago, we had to bring my mother to the hospital because she had some trouble with her leg. And we were waiting for a doctor to come. and there was a woman in the sort of bed area beside her. He was hidden by a curtain. I just heard her go, nurse, I need to go to the bathroom. I think I'm having diarrhea. Nurse!

And then, not a nurse, but a guy from the hospital came was like, what's going on? And then he was like, okay, we'll get a nurse. And it was another 10 minutes until the nurse came. I think I'm having diarrhea. Nurse? There should be an alarm that goes. There should be a button you can press that explodes the hospital. From the makers of plane blow-up button.

I remember when Joker almost blew up. I guess he did blow up the hospital. But for a few seconds, he couldn't get the button to work. Yeah. And apparently, that was an improv. Really? Yeah, the thing didn't work. So he just improv hitting it and the rest of history.

Well, you know how those signs are like, here are the telltale. signs of a stroke. There should be that for diarrhea as well. Do you know if you're having diarrhea or if it's something else? Right. Yeah. What are the... It's fast, right? It's face arm. Are you currently sliding into home? Are you?

You're driving in your Chevy. Your pants are getting heavy. Hey, the little hiccup there, but we didn't lose much. We mostly went down a diarrhea trail. We tried to come up with another possible four-letter thing.

It came up with Trot. I came up with Trot. If we didn't come up with letters for them, we noticed the computer stop recording. Yeah. But we're back. We're back. And you know what? We love diarrhea here.

It's the best. It's one of the funnier bodily functions. Dave, do you have an overheard? Barely. In my house, so I have a daughter and another daughter. Do they know? No, I'm doing a constant like Mrs. Doubtfire situation where I'm putting on an old lady mask

and then running to the other side of the room. Of the room. Don't look over here. You give your eyes, opposed to that way. He was in one restaurant at the end. He was in one restaurant, yeah. And so it was one big room. One big room.

A lot of people in it. But you said you don't watch horror movies yet you've seen Mrs. Doubtfire? Yeah, one of the scarier. Did he ever make a horror movie? One hour photo. One hour photo, and he was also a tale of a possession. Hoppie.

Yeah. He was on an episode of Law and Order where he played. A guy who harassed a lot of people using different voices and different cell phones. Oh, wow. He's a guy to do it. Yeah. So they played the things. Is this Frank Kellyendo?

He was up for the role, and then Robin stepped in. A man keeps calling me using some pretty pretty. problematic accents and he does this gay voice in a jive brother voice I mean who even uses that phrase anymore No, it's actually multiple different people calling you Okay, so

I forget how But Abby and I My wife and I were talking about Elvis And we talked My daughter, my What is she eight now? Yeah Yeah

they're two years apart except for the three months when they're not two years apart my eight year old daughter was there and I said to her hey do you know who Elvis is and she goes yeah

he's an old singer and he died on the toilet yeah they're teaching them young yeah teach the controversy yeah lean into it

I wonder how old I was when I found it that Elvis died on the toilet seems like something I'd be way into as a kid Elvis was everywhere my whole life Yeah

He was and then There was that famous thing With like the fat Elvis Young Elvis old Elvis postage stamp Yeah Yes And he died before we were born Sevent 77

He died at Star Wars Yeah Who's that hairy guy on the screen He's going Those are his last words Those some kind of Chewbac off there That guy's real cool But, yeah, he was very, like, the Elvis influence was everywhere my whole life.

Yeah. From Honeymoon in Vegas to John Stamos. Do you remember, they don't do it anymore because he'd be well dead, but in, like, the early 90s, there was a series of shows called The Elvis Files, where it was like, it was a live show. It's like, phones are open for the next hour. We're taking your calls. if you have seen who you think is Elvis. There was a possibility that he was still alive. That was a big thing, yeah.

And they would do, like, showing reports, like, could this be Elvis? There was a fat guy cited in Nashville who was eating butter and peanut butter banana sandwich. Was it Elvis? Yeah. Then Sir de Tupac took over as the fake dead guy. What was the, what was the logic? Was he? Why would he, no, Elvis?

Why would he be not dead? Couldn't handle the fame, even though he was well? past it. Yeah. He wanted to, like, I just have a regular anonymous life. Well, it's too late.

Yeah. Yeah. He's the most iconic person of all time. And if you faked your death, would you hang around in the areas where you famously, like,

and look like Elvis? Well, he was in Nashville. Elvis was from Memphis. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, you wouldn't see him in Nashville. Um, but two involving overheats involving toilets.

Oh. Mine doesn't. Maybe if the nurse, maybe if Elvis's nurse didn't let him go to the toilet, he'd still be alive. Until they laughed today. Because it was a killer toilet. Have you seen the teeth on that thing?

Tore into him. Hom nom, nom. Hey, little buddies, stop biting so hard. I was going down. The toilet's last word somewhere. The toilet died too. You said a mouthful. Elvis died on the toilet.

Also, toilet died. Of shock. Toilet to Elvis, drop dead My overheard is Courtesy of two people looking at the same phone Two fellas and one guy saying either You can always count on Aldo Oh yeah

Shoes? Yeah, Aldo Shoots Absolutely Wow You're in, you're out Aldo there for you You guys own an Aldo shoes? I have, I think I have a long time ago.

Yeah. They're still around, right? Yeah. They must be if these guys are shy. I went, never been stronger. I went, I worked in an office. The first time I worked in an office, I need, like, oh, I need office shoes. And I bought them.

And they got the heel came apart from the, or the soul came apart from the upper. Yeah. I took them to the shoe doctor. And he said, don't bring all those shoes. Don't buy all those shoes. They can't fix these. I'll just glue them. them, but they're not fixable.

So you can't depend on them. It's contrary to with this guy. Yeah, I mean, they'll have it. It'll be there. You can buy a shoe from them. They'll be open. Now, we also have overheards sent into us by people all over the map. Oh, wait, you still had another one.

I had more. I was just the, I was just warming up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This week, an all new episode of diarrhea hospital. Nurse. It's happening again. The doctors are all horny and hooking up. And meanwhile, every patient is like, I think it might be diarrhea.

You can't fire me even though I'm saying sexist things. I'm this hospital's top diarrhea surgeon. Or it's like house and he's trying to figure out what the patient has. Well, the poo is awfully. It's watery. She's sliding into first. Let's consult this chart. Yeah, let's see how tight through these pants?

So you feel like they're going to burst or... It comes floating down the gutter on a piece of bread and butter. I'm not familiar with that. Yeah, I don't know that either. Well, it's diarrhea. It's a B-side. Yeah. Some people think it's gross, but it's really good on toast.

I don't agree with that at all. But you have a second overheard. Yes. Some people think it's funny, but it's really warm and running. True, true with both statements. It is funny and it is. I overheard this because I was part of it. of the conversation that was taking place at the time.

And that's what I just want everyone out there to be a part of the conversation. Get in the mix. Yeah, yeah. Tell us hashtags. Tell us a hashtag. Yeah, everyone tell us a hashtag. At us. So I was after the...

On blue sky. Yeah. I did a show last night here in Vancouver at the Little Mountain Gallery. Great show. You Graham and Ummer Singh opened. Yeah. It was so much fun. And even Mr. Brent Butt was in attendance.

I couldn't believe it. It was. After the bar closed, we went. to a bar nearby and I was there with Ummer's uh he was outside his girlfriend and I went in to get a drink we were waiting and there was a guy in a tank top who locked eyes with us and was like hey um my friend said that she'll give me a bump of coke if I can convince someone in this bar to let me give them a lap dance and he looked at Ummer's girlfriend was like do you want a lap dance and she said of course no I'm good then he locked eyes with me it was like how about you do you need a black man in your

life? And I was like, possibly, but not right now. I'm just here for a drink. And then he walked away. I like that you left the door open a little. Yeah. Possibly. Catch me on another night. Who knows? I've never had someone say that to me before about cocaine and a lap dance in a public bar decorated for Halloween. No, me neither. I've never been offered a lap dance outside of a strip club's financial exchange scenario. Yeah. Yeah, certainly not at just an average bar. Especially not while Shania Twain is playing. Oh, yeah.

Boy, it's wrong. I, hell, I feel like a lady. Hell, I feel like a lady these days. Heck. Fuck, I feel like a woman. Fuck, I'm like a woman. Nurse. This week on Diary Hospital.

Special guest star, Shania Twain. Michael, you'll notice that these are the Should I Twain McDonald's Promotional Boots keychain I have here? Yes, I saw she had a little promotional thing With McDonald's to raise money for McDonald's We're raising money for women who don't have access to McNuggets And they had a strawberry pie that was to die for

Really? And some shaker fries that were fine. Okay. Yeah, sounds all right. Sounds like a fun meal. I don't know if I'd take a divorce. forced woman's advice about food, personally. But thanks, Shania.

Yeah, if you couldn't keep Mutt Lang, you can't keep me. Was it, was it she and her husband, Mutt Lang? Yes. They, they, he cheated with a woman. They lived in Switzerland or something. The nanny, I think. I thought the neighbor. Oh, okay, okay.

Because the nanny was from Flushing Queens. Yeah. I think it was a neighbor. And then Shania ended up. I don't know, dating or marrying the neighbor, the neighbor man. Right. Well, whose boots have heard that under? Have another drink there.

What? Her's your boots. The best thing about having some boots. You can leave them under your friend's bed. Now, we also have overheard sent into us all from all of the map. If you want to send in it to SBY at maximum fun.org like this, first one. Dalton from Fresno, California, at the

zoo, saw a family standing in an exhibit where you can see the animals under the water. Mom says, look at the seals. They're wrestling. The daughter, about eight, says, yeah, they're playing. Or is the male and a female? Are they mating? Is it like that? And then I'll say, I don't know. Let's just leave it at wrestling.

Yeah. Yeah, like, today's not the day. We're not going to have the talk. Coward mom. Coward mom. Yeah, she's afraid to have the talk. As a parent, I will say that the talk happens in little bits over the years. Dribs and drabs and drabs. But also, the animal part of it is, it's not part of our lives as adults to witness mating.

No, I mean, you do see dogs hump each other. That's kind of our city-dwelling animal humpins. If you were saying you took your daughter to a bar and you saw me getting a lap dance from a big man. Yeah. How would you explain that to her? Okay. Well, that guy wants cocaine. Say no more.

Say no more, dad. And that's my friend Mike, and he's, I guess, allowing this guy to do that in a moment of weakness. This next one comes from Patrick from Edmund, Oklahoma. the other day I was at a grocery store and heard a couple of friends talking about Blade Runner. Friend one, it's hard for me to imagine

Harrison Ford and a sci-fi, friend two. Star Wars? Friend one, well, I consider that more Americana. And in unison, friend two and one both went, ugh.

I guess if you've only seen him in American graffiti, you're like, what? Yeah, what the hell? The Americana Star Wars. Yeah, it's got all that folk music in there. Everyone lives on a ranch and has a pickup truck. Yeah, that's Chewbacca, that's driving truck.

That's Chewbacca, man. It's chabaca, are you hungry? Let's go into town and get some hamburgers. Pick up my friend Wimpy on the way. You speak Polish? Yeah, Papa. Man, what I wouldn't pay for, one of them laser swords. Hey, Yoda, why you talk?

that way. Why you're talking on that Yoda? Hey, Yota, what's a problem with your syntax?

Yo, do you from Alabama or you're from Mississippi? Yota, can I use the force over here? You're from Degobah?

Hey, Yota, you're from Degaba? That's cool. That's cool. Hey! Oh, if I saw Darth Vader, I'd give him one

of these. Hayia! In Vader going to milk friend for me, man. This last one comes from Jason F. Wait, Ben Kenobi

and Obi-Wan Kenobi are the same guy. It was the same Kenobi. I was coming out in my Recreation Center one evening after the sun had set, but the whole area was lit up with intense floodlights in the pickleball courts

across the street. There was a family a few steps behind me, and I overheard the 10-year-old say, look at the size of my shadow. I've outdone myself. Oh, my God. Check the chart, mom. I hated playing soccer growing up, but I loved

if we had a night practice at a field with lights. Yeah. You could do stuff with you. I'm stepping on your head. Yeah. You could see moths spinning around in there. Yeah. You could take a pine cone and do the shadow of you pooping it out. Or you could actually shit and you could

see the shadow like that. You can only do that at night. Well, in addition to over, herds that are written and we also accept your phone calls and your voice memos. You want to send us in a voice memo and do it to SPY at maximumfund.org or call us,

leave a message at 1. 844-779-7631. That's 1. SpyPod 1 like these people have. Hi Dave, Graham and awesome guest. This is Eleanor from Suffolk, England, calling in with an

overheard. This happened at a cafe that I go to quite often after park run and it's in this little village quite a quaint sort of fairly posh village pretty nice anyway I was in the queue outside the cafe and a couple of young people came out looking a bit disgruntled and said oh it's just full of posh dickheads and I thought oh it's a bit you know it's a bit unfair Um, but straight after they did that, uh, some guy, sort of, yeah, some middle-aged man shouted across to his daughter, who was stood behind us, um, monkey, uh, can you get me a latte? And I'll bring the Land Rover around.

Timing was just perfect. Yeah, latte still, yeah, kind of a person who has a latte. That's still good. steamed milk means you're in a different tax bracket. That's the only people who can afford it. She really painted a picture of this town. I mean, I could listen to that accent all day long. Like, what was that? Mel B or Mel C?

I feel like it was a bit more posh than Mel C. Well, there is, there's not a posh one of them. I found it scary. This is actually the month for scary. Oh, yeah. So listen to Mel B's solo album. Yeah, listen to I Want You Back by Mel B featuring Missy Misdemeanor L.A. Let's get it to number one by the 31st of October.

The big thing over in England is their Halloween single. All right, here's another overheard. Hey, Dave Graham and probable guest. This is Ed calling from Colchester in Essex in England. Hello, hello. There was an episode with Adam Christie recently where he talked about his overseen of a woman getting changed

but not very discreetly under a towel and it reminded me when I went to a football match soccer match recently after the match had finished I needed the loo so I went and as I was washing my hands afterwards I turned my head and then did a genuine double take because I saw

a fully grown man standing up doing a wee in one of the urinals but with his trousers and underpants fully pulled down like a toddler. No freaking way. Off I go. Why are your pockets soaking wet? Never mind.

Nothing. I mean, that is amazing. Yeah. Yeah. I'm trying to remember when I lost that as a... I remember when I realized I didn't have to do that when I was a kid. Yeah. And it absolutely changed my life.

Yeah. I was maybe eight? Yeah. I remember being a kid and my youngest brother, like, peeing standing up for the first time. And it was the celebration of the day. He's doing it, everybody. Oh, by the way, it's British Month here on the show. So if you're from England, call in with an overheard.

Just how we had two toilet overheards between Mike and myself. Yeah, too British. We had two British, but we don't have a third. Oh, boo! but keep it up stiff up her lip keep coming Harry on

Harry on keep Harry Prince Harry's tawry warm and away we go hey Dave Graham and guests this is Camille from Seattle voice memoing in an

overheard I was just walking past this group of three people and the one guy goes well come over this way and I'll show you guys the bars and stuff and then the guy with them goes but do they have monster energy?

He's very European. How do you say the energy a monster? The energy is monst you would say in your country monster energy. It tastes better in France. The recipe is different.

Yeah, true Monster Energy comes from the monster region of France. It's to do with the soil and the sugar? Yeah, is the Frankenstein? Do you have the Jake Paul Prime drink? Have either you guys tried Prime? Oh, we tried on the show.

We tried it with Abdul. Yeah. He force fed us Prime. Have not tried it, no. We might still have some in the fridge from a year ago. I had, last year around this time, my mother had a can of Fanta, and it was a beetle juice. Yeah. It was disgusting.

It was a green, sour apple or blue apple. apple beetle juice plant so we each had a little taste absolutely repulsive absolutely vile they were selling 12 packs of it and the groceries were

like this is a mistake it's refreshing you crack it open you chug it it was the most revolting thing it was really disgusting made by the Coca-Cola

Corporation yes well that brings us to the end of this here podcast Mike well where can people find you I was going to say Mike

but I stuck the landing and it's fine and let's go. Michael. What is your deal? Hey, it's my name, and that's all I care about. Don't wear it out.

Tell us all the things. Tell us what you're doing. You're recording an album. On November 28th and 29th in Toronto, Canada. It's going to be a long album. Yeah. Two days. 8.30 p.m. each night I'm recording a new comedy CD.

There's a guy who works, he works at the mall. He'll press you a CD. Line up to be announced, but please. Please come out, and the tickets will be available very soon, probably by the time this episode goes out. Also, follow me on Instagram at M. Balazzo and look me up on blue sky. But only if you want to. Also, I have just confirmed I'm returning for season three of Diarrhea Hospital. Oh, shit.

Oh, God. I didn't know that season three was on the way, so. Yeah, they're starting with season three. Yeah, they'll do flashback seasons later on. And I will be on as well. It's a very heartbreaking episode. I play an old man, and my family's all there wondering if they're going to pull the plug, the butt plug. That is holding it in.

Beep, beep, beep. He's gone. He will still shit for the next couple of hours. Well, thank you very much, Michael. Thank you for being our guest. Thanks for having me live and in person. It's been a dream come true. So much fun.

And thank you everybody out there for listening. And, uh, hey. Hey there, Chewbonger. I'm worried about these clones. You all heard about these clones, Tobogga? This is a Jar Jar Jar Bix guy. I love everything it does. I knew a guy like Jar Jar Jar Jar back in the day.

Back in the service. I served like a job Jajab Big. You, sir. I know Jajar Pete. If you, anybody out there, if you've seen Elvis anywhere, please send us a report and come on back next week for another episode to stop podcast with yourself. supported directly by you