Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 920 - Katie-Ellen Humphries

Episode Date: November 4, 2025

Comedian Katie-Ellen Humphries returns to talk the World Series, scary movies, and Gwar live. 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 920 of Stop Podcasting yourself. My name is Graham Clark. And with me, as always, is a man who's got.

Playoff fever, Mr. Dave Schumke. Yeah, we're recording this a day before. Well, by the time this is out, it's over. Absolutely. All over. So at the... Let's do two takes. Okay.

Yep. Hooray. That's one take. The other one is, oh, boy, those guys, they have crapped their pants any worse. Then then, you know, you just added in the one that you want. Yeah, and it applies to both teams, so we're not losing it. Yes. Yeah.

That's our big, two big fandums, our L.A. and Toronto. Yeah. And what was the other one for a long time? Dallas or something like that. Oh, our fandom? Yeah. Oh, I don't know. By fandom by phone.

Um, our guest today, a repeat guest here on the podcast. So funny, you can catch her. If you're, uh, anywhere in a Nimo or Courtney this week. This week, uh, she'll be playing in both of those places. And she's going to be in the Orlando curated fringe festival. It's Katie and Humphreys. Hello. Hi.

Thank you for being our guest. I'm so excited to be here. Yeah, this is, it's been a while. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And it's just, yeah, this is, you're one of her face. You've been here many, you've been on the show many times since the beginning of the pandemic, but this is your first time in, in the flesh. Yeah.

And, um, well, it's a pretty fleshy room. Yeah. Like, in general, just general flesh. Yeah, I mean, I've got all these lampshades made out of different things. Yeah. It's funny, well, let's get to know us. Get to know us. If you look at the stuff Ed Gein made his very poor craftsmanship.

Ed Gein is the real life, Hannibal. No. Yeah, Buffalo Bill. Oh, no, Buffaloville, Psycho, and Texas Changes on Massacre. Wow. They're all based on that guy? Yeah. Wow.

prolific. Yeah, and I think I said. Because for a while, there was only one murderer. Yeah, it was like, I did a joke about. about, like, Steve Jobs has two films, Ed Gein's got three, and zero films about Orville Brandenbacher. A true travesty. Yeah.

Are you a popcorn fan? Oh, live for popcorn. Love popcorn. You, what's your style? You do microwave. You're making your own on the stove. What's the, do you get it from a store? I was for a long long time.

I was in Air Pop-Gourley. What is that? Maybe is that the machine? The little machine, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then just eating it straight, like plain, like a psycho. Oh, really?

Yeah. Not even a little nutritional yeast or salt or anything? Yeah, totally. It's really, it's just serving the purpose of like, my hands and mouth are doing something. Yes. And but now I'm really, I cannot get enough of the boom chickapop. Yeah, very popular. Is that, so that's a pre-packaged room temp.

Oh, yeah. That is the, for me, that's a bit of an odd. obstacle. That is not hot. Which is weird because it's never that hot. No, it's kind of the maybe the first couple bites. Unless it didn't get that burnt kernel that's too hot. Yeah.

Or if you get it right out of the popcorn. Or if you go to the machine at the movies, put your head under the popperous. That's like somebody's make a wish. Wish is to get face first into the popcorn. So it's Boom Chicka Pop. Is that a, is that many of different flavors? They have many flavors. I also, the smart pop, I think, has a salt and pepper flavor that I love, but it's very elusive.

Can't find it. Yeah, few and far between that one. It is weird how there are like big brands will release stuff in every store. And then sometimes it's like, you got to just, there's one grocery store you know that sells Cavendish waffle fries. Yeah. Yeah. I am a fan of so many things that were slowly phased. out, you know, we were talking about a type of cookie that I was, like, gonzow for.

The wafers? Yeah, chocolate wafer. Yeah. They're, like, chocolate cookies with, like, oh, somebody brought me some cookies to give to you. I forgot all about it. Oh, I got them at home. Cookies in your future. Okay.

Yeah, and they discontinued it without even consulting me or my family, just completely. And then the type of gum I liked. No. That vanished. Yeah, I had to move. a different type of gum, which is fine. It all worked out fine. Was that all the dream you had in

backwards talking Twin Peaks? The gum you like is going out of style? But it was. It was opposite. And the guy who was talking for, anyways. My favorite kind of chip was discontinued when I, like maybe in my

mid-teens. And I still talk and think about it all the time. What was it? My teens were all pretty mid. Hey. Oh, it was in the Orion's thick and crunchy, sour cream and onion. Oh, Ryan.

Does a company even exist anymore? No. Okay. Oh, wow. They only made two flavors of chip. They made sour cream and onion, which was elite. And they made sour cream and bacon, which, you know, can fall into the ocean. I don't care about that at all.

Sure, sure. What, do you remember the last time you had it? Was it unceremonious? You never know the last time. Mm-hmm. Yeah. You remember the first time, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You didn't know it was going to be the last time. I had a restaurant day. I wish I'd taken more pictures. Yeah, I had a restaurant. that I liked that went under and I got to be there on the last day

and it was nice and they packed up all the food well they were like they were like we don't have a lot of items because we kind of sold out all this stuff

sure but yeah it's a it's a sad day if you know it's the last day but you can't know with chips it's impossible

so the movie theater in our neighborhood the park yeah it was like a snap announcement that they're going out of business yeah

that they're and And they're like, yeah, they didn't even give people a weak notice. Yeah. And so people went like the last day to see. That's what I did. You did? Yeah.

You had already seen one battle after. Yeah, but I've got to get on that last day. There were so many comments. They've since, it was the worst kept secret that they, like as soon as it was announced that was closing, someone was like, I heard the Rio is going to take it over. Yeah. That's what's happening. But there were so many comments.

This movie theater that opened in 19. 41 is closing. And there are so many comments that were like, ah, I just saw one battle after another there. Oh, that's too bad. I just saw one battle after. Like, well, it's been open for 85 years. And you win in the last three weeks. The great thing about seeing that in that theater, because they were showing it in like a big format.

So it had to be film. So you could hear the projector when it was really quiet. Do you remember that from when you were a kid that you just hear this like faint? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, good. That's better this time. I was trying to do Chewbacca. It's when I saw the Star Wars.

He was working in the projector. Yeah, just nostalgic, you know? Apparently what I heard. So this is all, I'm knee-deep in the hoopla over this. This is the Drudge Report. Yeah, the movie theater, it's the only 70-millimeter projector in Western Canada. And Cineplex, who owned it. Yeah.

is taking that with them. And I hear they have to use a crane. They have to use a crane. So they have to take the roof off of the building, I guess. And then take the roof off of whatever theater they're putting it in. Or they're like those kind that have a tab and you just roll back. Are you going to the theater person? Do you just like watching from home?

What's your, what's your sitch? I was never a big movie going person to the theater. I didn't understand. I just wasn't a movie person really. Yeah. But I have recently become one, and now I'm like a convert to I understand. I'm, oh, yeah, I love being in the theater. Yeah.

But in particular, that theater, you just mentioned, the Rio, they do a lot. Or I don't know if they always have, but right now it's like just peak kind of elder millennial young Gen X nostalgia stuff. They're just releasing just a ton of 20, 25, 30 year reissue. Yes. And I'm going to all of them. Oh, that's awesome. Oh, it's so fun. And the last one I went to was the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

Oh, shit. I love to see that on the big screen again. That was, so the, that one doesn't have vanilla ice. He was in, he was in the sequel. Which came out like nine months after the original. Yeah, it was so. And so his and his fame even then was waning. Yeah.

And they had to get him on screen as fast as possible. I mean, is that his second most famous song? Ninja rap? Yeah. Probably. I can't. You think it's more famous than I want a ron. I tried to pull another.

What is it called? Having a Roney, damn it. I play that funky music. White boy. There was a thing that they did at the Rio. I think it's a regular thing where they show Saturday morning cartoons like on the Saturday morning. And then like everybody gets all you can eat cereal. Sounds fun.

Yeah. Cute. Vanillaise has a Teenage Mutin Ninja Turtle tattoo on his leg. That's awesome. Which I know because he is in the kind of circuit at one time anyway that would play stuff like tech conferences and that kind of thing. Oh, shit. Okay. And it's a lot of older, like older hip-hop stars because they don't tour a lot, but they will obviously take a gig like that.

Totally. And so my brother has seen a ton of them. and Vanilla Ice was one of them and he was telling me he's like that he came out and of course he plays Go Ninja and he pulled up his pant like

to show everyone the tattoo and he said man I still love them turtles and I think about it on yeah of course they were good guys those turtles but you haven't really yeah they certainly haven't done anything

to like the turtles haven't been canceled yeah I mean yeah exactly splinter on the other hand yeah we know he got a grooming yeah that's true It's funny, Donatello has a vanilla ice tattoo on his leg Yeah, and he loves that guy

Yeah, I still love this guy Yeah, yeah, for his real estate work mostly, but Vanilla Ice is like, he's fun Like he just, he always kind of stayed fun I think he was never super serious about himself I could be wrong, but he doesn't seem to be now I think he was very serious at the time At the time when he was dangled out a window by

Yeah, yeah, it's very, it was a very weird time in hip-hop where it was like you had to be like tough and hard and cool but also wear like a big spangly outfit and dance did you ever see cool as ice I was dying for it to have come up yeah yeah it's I love that movie

it's great incredible this is vanilla ice is on a motorcycle on the poster and he's you know he's got a crush on like the wholesome small town gal is she anyone I mean, jeez, somebody. I'm going to look this up. It was Gina Davis.

Well, that's no reason it wouldn't be. But, yeah, it was like, it was another thing that must have been rushed into production to, like, capitalize on. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah. Someone was like, well, this clock. And it's like, there were songs in it. I think he probably was the whole soundtrack with him doing raps. What's great?

It was Kristen Miller, Kristen Miller from Cool as Ice and from nothing. thing else. I mean, other things. I just don't know of them. Yeah, there's a scene in Cool Ice where they're in a, like, a construction place, like a house that's got the wood frame up. And they play together in this thing. And I was like, wow, they're just stretching for time. Like, they're doing this as slow motion as like, because it's barely 90 minutes. What are the other ones that are like a pop singer got? To do one movie, and then everyone was like, no, that's enough. Well, like, when you watch it, you're like, this is a long music video.

Yeah, there's from Justin to Kelly. Sure. There's a fat boys movie. Disorderlies? Yeah, disorderlies. Do they rap in it? Oh, yeah, all the time. Okay.

There's Mariah Carey glitter. Oh, yeah. There's Crossroads with Brittany. Britney Spears. Yeah. Do you put Purple Rain in this category? No, because he made another movie. Okay.

And I don't put an eight mile in it either because it was really good. And the kid in play, of course, is there's more than one. Oh, yeah. House party. Yeah. Oh, yeah. They were somebody became aware of just because of the movies. I didn't know they were.

100%. Yeah. They were also, they did a, I believe they were on an episode of Square One TV. Oh, for a nerdy kid? Yeah, they had a rap song. about estimating with your thumb. Were you, as a youth, were you a hip-hop fan? Are you a hip-hop fan now?

I think you are. I'm a hip-up fan. Yeah. I mean, I'm not, I don't have, like, an encyclopedic knowledge. That's fine. Who did you like? Well, we're doing our lightning run coming up in the category is hip-hop. Exposed as a poser.

When I was, like, younger, it was Will Smith all the way down the line. And that was, he was the guy, he was on a show, he had a cool haircut. Will Smith was tight as hell. He was. He was. He was. He was. He was great.

Still is. I think he's great still. I want to keep his wife's name out of my mouth for sure. Def. Yeah. What type of music was a young Katie? Well, you know, you went to a Guns and Roses concert with her, didn't it? Oh, yeah, we did.

Yeah. And that was their last tour, right? Or am I wrong about that? Was that? No, they still doing. Yes. Nice. Nice. Yeah, we went to, do you go to a lot of concerts now? I find myself going to more concerts now than I ever have. Oh, really?

Yeah. Yeah, because I didn't really as a teenager, because they were so expensive. Yeah. But now I got money. I got concert money to burn. Hey, Graham, I've been eating this one really big bean that I've been slicing into small. Is it kind of like a ghost when you shave it off? Yeah, you can see through it. And that's a bean split four ways. Yeah, but I'm happy you've got money.

Yeah. Do you need a new candle? Yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't want to be greedy. You know what? I'll drop off a couple tea lights. Okay. Sorry, I'll try not to let the microphone pick up my stomach pangs.

Yeah, do you, do you, aside from the concert we went, together. Do you go to a lot? I don't go to a ton of concerts. No. No. I like, I see the advert and I think, oh, yeah. And then I start to go down the path and then I think, and then I will always be like, well, I'm just going to stand around in the place. I'm like, I don't, because I'll look at the price. I'm like, no, that's not the, no. Yeah.

And I'll talk myself out of it constantly. Yeah, that's fair enough. Like standing for that long is not the best and also people rubbing against you. Just like entertainment in arenas in general is just like. Like, outside of sports, I'm like, they're not, it's not great here. Yeah. Yeah, I guess like it's, you do want to see them in a club. Like a little night club, those shows are fun or even a theater.

Yeah. And, uh, uh, what was the last arena I went to? Or like, what's the last thing I've seen in an arena that wasn't a sport or a concert? Super dogs? Super dogs or Disney on ice? You never saw a comedian in a arena. Oh, well, I did see Charlie Sheen doing his music. missiles of mayhem tour or whatever.

Incredible. And what was the show? It was Russell Peters was somehow involved. Yep. Russell Peters was the emcee and they chatted and people yelled the whole time and laughed early. There was no show. Yeah. You had a real wild time there, that Charlie Sheen.

In the Charlie Sheen dock that just came out, they cover that part, obviously. And they have all this footage of people doing streeters, like outside of that concert. be like, it was terrible. It wasn't good at all. What a waste. And I'm fascinated by these people. What did you think it was going to be? I went, my brother-in-law bought like 10 tickets.

Sure. Oh, yeah. I don't judge him for going. And then I went and I was like, can we leave yet? Like he bought me these tickets to have to pretend. Then they left and I was like, okay, we can go. Yeah. I saw, like, a one weekend run of Cirque du Soleil and Rogers.

Oh, okay. And it was like half of the stadium. Yeah. And, uh, well, I've said before on the podcast many times, I'm very worried about all the people in that show. Sure. I can't, I can't enjoy it because I'm like, if they, if they break an arm, that's it. Like, they're not coming back. They can't do it, men.

Yeah. If you just answer the phones. Well, it was one arm you can't. And we should, we should touch on, even though it's been decided, who wins the big game. But you are probably the biggest baseball fan I know. Is that true? I think so. I mean, that's good, probably.

I think if there was someone else. No, I just mean, if there was someone else more obsessed right now, I'd be worried about them. Because I'm right on the brink of being like, you got to get a hold of yourself. And you, during the regular season, do you watch all sorts of teams, or do you only watch games that involve which ever team that you root for? You root for the Blue Jays primarily? I root for these particular brand of Blue Jays this 20. I mean, I haven't always, you know, been on and off with the Blue Jays throughout my life.

But I have been on for about five years and, yeah, I love these boys so much. Are they the same basic team as they were five years ago or is it, as it morphed? They were so little then. They were just the same guys where they were little. Yeah. They were kind of, they were pretty little. Yeah. A lot of our superstars were 22 when they started.

That's true. They were little and they are fueled by the power of friendship and I love them. Now, they do have friendship on their side. They seem to like each other. For people that don't know, there's a little ritual that I only found out by watching it in a sports bar. The jacket. Oh, the home run jacket. Have you seen the home run?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love it. I love it as a thing that all the guys have to do. So you hit a home run and then you come back to the dugout, they put a jacket on you. And also just, for anyone that hasn't seen it, a blazer, yeah, a sport coat. That has, like, so much stuff sewn into it. Yeah. Yeah, it has all the players' names.

It has a lot of the players. Yeah, players' names and coaches and admin staff and stuff is on the inside. And wear every player's home country. Oh, is on that as well? Yeah, that's what's on the back. I love that. And then they put it on, they walk through, and they high five everyone, and then they take it off. That must feel so good, getting to wear a special thing.

We were to, so I was playing hockey the other night, and we were talking about what is the best feeling in all of sports as an athlete. And I, we, we think it must be hitting a home run. Yeah. Like one single, like, rush of adrenaline from doing that. And then getting to, like, walk. I was going to, well, I think particularly, like, a walk off home run. Well, yeah. Like, for sure, but all of them.

But just, like, the way, if you, the way it, your hands, it must feel so good in your hands as you're doing. it. And it's got to be a little bit of a surprise when it happens, you know, everybody's like, is it, is it? Yeah. Like a second ago, you hadn't hit a home run. Yeah. I think also jumping out the top rope in wrestling part of that's going to feel pretty good.

That's pretty good. Like landing it and not killing you or the other guy. We were like, is a hole in one good? Like, does that feel better? Or is that just kind of like random luck? Yeah. Like you don't have, kind of anyone can hit one?

Yeah, yeah, I mean, I never have, but I don't really golf, so do you play baseball at all when you were a youth or as an adult, perhaps? I played until I was maybe like right around the time I lost, Orion's thick and crunchy. They're all turning point in my life, midteen times. I'm just going to Google these chips because I don't, I totally remember, I know the brand for sure, but I didn't know they only did like two. Orion thick cut No that can't be right Black pepper flavor No that's wrong right

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No these are oh great He's never mind None of these come in mind When you were in baseball Oh run Oh no no no I was not a strong hitter Also the way

Just way the way that age is worked out Because I have a very early Birthday And so the way that the league I don't know how, but for whatever reason, I was always playing, like, a level up from my people, my grade. Yeah. So all my friends would be in whatever, the, like, lower division. And then...

You're playing pro. Well, I'm up with these girls. This is right of the age where, you know, that, you know how sometimes with kids, when you get to that, like, oh, you're like, some 13-year-old girls are like, well, you look like the parent of three. You're a full, that's a grown person. Yeah. Tell it to the judge And I did not hear puberty until I was 18 Oh right

And I was a very, very tiny kid That's like my brother He was the tiny guy in high school I actually at one point I thought I had a pub And then I peed out of it What? Is that true? It's true story

Yeah, I thought I had a mustache And then I peed onto it And that was on how that happened Sure. Yeah. Yeah, I had that, like, in wrestling where I was just the exact weight to put me in the, like, the bottom end of the next weight class. Oh, no. So I was saying, I was like competing against adults, practically.

What you would rather be is in the optimal weight to be in the younger kids. Yeah, and that's what I wanted. Because they're already scared of you. But I couldn't make weight, you know. I couldn't sweat enough as a kid. but, oh, man, I got thrown around like a fucking bean bag. Did you ever try? Did you wear the garbage bag?

Oh, yeah, had to, like, sweat at all on my water weight. I mean, if somebody had told me that was an option at the time, I probably would. Thank God they did. We want to get you started early on an eating disorder. They had, I feel like I wore a lot of garbage bags as a child, like for costumes and stuff. Yeah, yeah. I feel like there was a large part of my childhood was cutting ahead. hole out of a

Yeah, and I remember having friends Like, we didn't want to take a sled around So we'd just take garbage bags fly down the hill But that's so painful Yeah, it sucks. Yeah, but easy. So back on the baseball tip, were you a Blue Jay, Were you around for the, their old world series?

Yeah, 923. Were you, uh, did it, did everyone in your school go crazy? Everyone in my school did. Oh, I have. I have zero recollections of anyone from school at that time. I remember where I was in my family and all that. It was very big in my family. I remember all that.

But I have no idea what other kids were to do it. You remember everyone from your family? Yeah, we're still pretty tight. Is Big John, is he a baseball fan? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Big John's a big baseball guy. How about the misses?

She'll get into it. Nice. Oh, they must be crazy right now. Yeah, yeah. Everyone's very happy. One of my brothers lives in Australia, so he's trying to catch it at weird, like, the middle of the day and stuff. And now, as someone, did you ever, like, fall off baseball and come back? Yeah, there's been errors.

Because I am. I thought you said there's been errors that I was like. Well, that's true as well. That's a big part of baseball. Yep, pretty huge. It's a one way you can make to a first base. One thing that is happening in a lot of these games right now is that, because, because, Because the Blue Jays have won the World Series twice, but not since 1993.

They've been in the World Series for 32 years. Right. The commentators keep saying, especially when they play at home, because they'll be like, look at this crowd, 40,000 people. And then the commentators would be like, most of these people weren't alive the last time. And you were like, I am an old girl. I was alive. I'm a crone. So as someone who also goes away from baseball and comes back, every few years there's like a new thing.

And I'm like, oh, okay. So pitchers don't hit anymore. No. No where. Except show hay. Except show hay. But not as a pitcher. He's a designated hitter.

Yeah. Now the base runners all wear a little mitten. Yeah. I do a little mitten. Now when they win a championship or even a pennant, they wear goggles. You got to spray. Yeah, I feel like that's sports-wide, as it was like this could ruin your vision forever, getting champagne in the eye. And now my, the thing that's really kind of brought me back to baseball is this one Instagram account.

And it's, I think he does a lot more than just this. But the one thing I see on Instagram is a guy who reads baseball players lips. John Boy. John Boy. Oh, we love John Boy. I don't know if I like him personally. I feel like he did a lot of like he has this kind of media empire now

and I don't want to know anything about that I just like the lip reading. Yeah. Oh, it's very fun. Yeah. Like he knows he'll slow down a video and be like now here he's telling here he's telling the umpire that he's fucking wrong. Yeah, and that he's telling his life story

and the guy next to him is like, don't need your life story. But because he has built this empire now, And Major League Baseball likes him quite a bit Like they're pretty His content and whatever It's been very good for baseball And so he also has a lot more context

Than he used to have now So he also can confer He'll like tech He can text people now And he like hey I think you said this Oh he does a little fact check Yeah yeah

I love that Like he awesome can do a back channel Also he's Quite a bit younger than I thought he was He's like 38 or something They're all so much younger Than you think they're They probably

He probably doesn't even remember the last time Blue Jays were in there. Yeah, like, I look at these young players in any sport. And I think back to when I was that age and I was like, I was the stupidest man in the world when I was that age. Like, I don't know. I got no business having millions of dollars. It's nuts. Yeah. And having a microphone in front of my face?

I'm still the stupidest man in the world. And I shouldn't have a microphone in front of my face. Yeah, the, uh, I watched a documentary about years and years ago about sports. athletes that then lost all their money Because they just Like bought a million cars And a giant mansion

Went to a million strip clubs Yeah Do you have Like aside from the everything Everybody gets to wear the coat Do you have a favorite baseball tradition Like Does every team have one of those things

Because I know the Mariners had like a trident That they gave to the whoever hit a home run That's fun A home run celebration? I don't think every team has one. Although, but like other teams, it might be like just a little more subtle because they might have like a specific handshake or something. Yeah, we should try to probably like, if any teams need a thing, like they should contact us.

Yeah, we've got, we've got Milwaukee Brewers, you chug a beer auger. Yeah, yeah, a shotgun. You know, who else? Dodgers, they throw something at you and you dodge it. But something's off. It's not like a baseball, like a pillow. Yeah, the Giants, they should have, like, so you should stomp through the dugout and everyone pretends your Godzilla. You should do some kind of FIFO fun work.

Yeah, yeah. Now, you mentioned that your brother lives in Australia. Yes. You went. You went all the way down under. That's true. A couple times. Tell me everything.

I've never been. So I don't know what is good. What did you do while you were in Australia? What's fun? Do you see any animal that could kill you? Yeah. Every Australian man is comfortable with their shirt off. It's wild.

So what are these that we're talking, guys, mowing a lawn or just walking around? Just anywhere and everywhere. From the city to the country. And my brother lives right on the coast, like right on the beach. And most people who live there is, like, a huge percentage of people there, they're quite wealthy and they're super active. They all have these surf bodies. But then there's also just like... Random dudes.

Well, like older blokes and stuff and they'll come. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what anyone's body's doing. Everybody just be like, we're not. We were born comfortable with being at the beach and we're wearing the smallest swimsuit possible and no other clothes, no shoes, nothing. And just coming from Canada. So you're saying no shirt, no shoes, yes, service.

Yeah, yeah. They're serving. But, yeah, Canada, we're a little bit more modest. Well, because it's just not natural for us. We're not, most of the country isn't on the beach. Yeah. Yeah. I guess I would, I know they'd be like, gnar shoes, gnar shirts.

And? Yars service. Did you go to, did you go all over? Did you just stay in the one town? I have only been to, uh, so where my family lives were there in, like, a suburb of Sydney. and then we also went into Queensland. Oh, yeah. This is the weirdest, like, this is another thing about just being in the southern hemisphere

is that where you have to go north for better weather. Right. Okay. And also north, the more north you go gets more conservative. Oh, okay. Because their, north is their south. Oh. And so, like, when people make fun, you know, norther's, the way that we, like,

they talk about Queensland, the way we talk about Florida. Yeah. And they're like a caravogic is pretty conservative up there. And you're like, Queensland man. Yeah, yeah. And that's where the like that's where the crocodiles and stuff are. And they're like, oh shit. And they're all really conservative crocodiles.

They're like, don't tread on me. I'll bite you. Yeah, did you see a crocodile? I didn't see any crocodiles in the wild. But I did go to like a crocodile park thing. And at any beach that I went to up there, my sister had to be like, hey, for real, like, you can't go, like, don't go to the edge of the water anywhere. Oh, right. And she was like, don't swamps, puddle, like, you just can't, don't be near.

Yeah, smart. Scary. Yeah. There's like, I don't know that this is true, but a lot of different breeds of bug all live in Australia. Like, it's more concentrated than anywhere else. number of bugs Well, that's a good fact I don't know if this is true

But a lot of bugs live in Australia Look it up Look it up. Prove me wrong Yeah, I feel like I've seen People like wrestling With Gators a lot

More than I would think Is possible Where? On the internet Where I got that bug stat from AI is doing crazy things But if you close Did they close your mouth

They don't have up, like, strength. Oh, they don't have up strength? Yeah. So if you hold them down, then they can't open up. So, I mean, maybe that's not true. Is it like a lobster claw if you just put an elastic around it? Exactly. Do you think people get into alligator wrestling because they can't make weight?

They're like, this is the perfect matchup. Yeah, the alligator is a great ahead of you, though. It's got a driver's license. But, yeah, I feel like. I just feel like I see a video like that at least once a month of somebody, not necessarily wrestling, but like handling a crocodile. And I mean, how do you get there, you know? It's nuts.

And even though this park I went to, of course, and they, yeah, they do those shows where they're like, you know, they bring in this gigantic crocodile to do tricks with and stuff. And they're like, oh, they make it do just like barrel rolls and stuff. They put chicken on a stick and they. I poke at it. Yeah. And to them, this must be great.

You don't have to kill a tourist or whatever, go through their shirts. It's just like chicken. No, no feathers. Just like a big chunk of chicken, right? Sure, yeah. Yeah, it's...

Oh, man, I hate to be picking the feathers out of my mouth by my crocodile. Because you only got those little hands, you know? You can barely get them in there. And I don't have up strength of my mouth. Exactly. If you're, if somebody's sitting on your snout, you didn't go away. You're not flossing. for weeks, bud.

What's going on with you, man? Well, it is, as we record this, it is the 30th of October. It's the day before Halloween, and I made a vow to watch more scary movies. Are you a Halloween person or not so much? I'm not, I'm not wild about Halloween because I'm like a year-round, no excuse to wear a costumer. You know, like every day, I'm like, I'm going to put on something silly.

That's true, yeah. I mean, I love your style and always have. Thank you. But yeah, I feel like I'm more apt to be jump on board for Halloween because they just wear like a black shirt and black jeans every day. Yeah, I think it's more fun for people that. So you're like the AV tech in Halloween. Yeah, I wear a little headset. I walk around like a grump, you know.

Yeah, so Halloween, not so much. I'm always, I'm so impressed when people have a like highly specific costume. Yes. And then like from some reference that happened. in this past year because I also have No memory. I have no memory.

If you don't know like pick something that happened this year I'd be like was it me getting up today because that's the last thing I was about hearing about bugs in Australia?

Yeah. I'm going to do the obscure pop culture reference from 2025. Is this dress blue or white? Exactly. I know there was like was it last year

that were a lot of the break dancing woman from the Olympics? Yeah. That was an easy one to put together. Yeah, yeah. I feel like I'm cosplaying her every day.

One thing about, though, I wanted to bring up about the baseball is in, at the L.A. games, there's celebrities. Yes. And there's like Sidney Sweeney and someone and Justin Bieber and his wife. And Flea was with Brad Pitt. The drummer from the Red Hot Jelly Peppers was with Getty Lee from Rush. and then in the Toronto games I've only seen two celebrities and one is Gedde Lee from Rush

and Eugene Levy and then there's this guy who sits behind the plate who's got giant muscles yoked and kind of a small head compared to his body for sure yeah wow like a like are we talking

like a bodybuilder yes oh wow being a Blue Jay's jersey tight though but there's three of them now oh really yeah so it started I think the first dude was at the first game and because he's right behind home plate so he gets, he's on camera

and people online were losing their mind about this like super buff Jay's fan. And then the next game, people are like, there's a bigger one! This is the guy there. Oh, he is big. Yeah. Wow, he's like a comic book, a Popeye-esque

creature. Wow. Distracting the game. I used to go to a subway location. and there was a bodybuilder that worked there and he was super friendly but he like he made a footlox hub look like a tiny little he just had these like massive hands

and when he like he would just go to put it in the bag and squeeze it by accident oh it happened again it's now like a tiny compressed piece of bread and I would time it so that I got to go when that guy was working of course but like seeing somebody that big in person It's a real trip to see like a full-fledged bodybuilder guy. Do you remember when we were in a hotel in Saskatoon and there was bodybuilders?

Oh, Edmonton, yeah. And it was a bodybuilder competition, I guess. And it was the idea that you imagined being in an elevator with them and you both are sharing the same thought bubble, which says. Yuck. Because we're looking at each other's bodies. Yeah. Yeah, you could say I remember that. So, yes, I've been getting into the scary movie thing of swing of things.

I watched. I've never seen it before. Scream. Yes. I've seen this film. I have seen. I want to say, I think just one, maybe two of them. They're in the fives or sixes at this point.

I mean. a mean speaking of popcorn just making popcorn in the first scene and it catches on fire and it's like Jiffy pop

Jiffy pop Yeah And the weird thing Or no The fun thing they did Was on the poster Drew Barrymore is featured

Like she's the biggest cast member And then spoiler She dies in the first scene Yeah And I knew it was I knew how it ended I knew all the like How it's

You know, there's a knowledge of horror movies for all the characters. Yeah. There's one part that I did not see coming, which is when the principal of the school, Henry Winkler, he hears a sound outside of his office before he gets murdered. And he looks outside and there's the janitor and the janitor has a Freddie Krueger sweater and a Freddie Kruger hat. And the principal goes, oh. Hey, Fred. It's like a gag that would have fit better in scary movie? Yeah.

I was going to ask, have you seen scary movie? No. It's funny. You like it? No, I just was thinking because I saw Spaceballs and I'd never seen Star Wars and I didn't understand that it was a parody. I was just like, this movie rules. It's so funny. I didn't know it was referencing anything.

But you didn't, you wouldn't have needed to because it's just like a crazy movie. movie yeah yeah but then when i finally saw star wars i was like oh okay yeah oh i get it yeah yeah where they got yogurt from yeah i feel like that when i was a teenager i learned a lot of references from the simpsons that i didn't know oh totally yeah yeah and then later somebody like say yeah that's from apocalypse now i'd be like what wow what a what a smooth funny smart show um just the other night i went to uh simpson's trivia oh it was Great. Oh, listener, Christine wrote that, yeah.

And there was a costume contest and the winner. Are you familiar with the Simpsons catalog? I think so. There's a scene in one episode where Mr. Burns is talking on the phone like a teenage girl. Yeah. A heart-shaped rug. Somebody came as that. Oh.

I went as Jasper with my beard cut in a pencil sharpener. Oh, cool. Yeah. And it was so much fun. I'm going back again because I enjoyed it. So much. The questions are very difficult, though, aren't they? Yeah.

And they're from the, they're all from the Golden Era. Yeah. And a lot of these were from the Halloween episodes. Oh, sure. In being the spookiest season of the year. Is it the spooky season of year? January, pretty spooky. I'd say this is.

Yeah. Because I just watched three scary movies. That was the first one. So Scream, yes. Yes. Now, I also watched 28 years later. Oh, yeah, yeah. The three-quels of it.

Yeah. And Sandra Bullitt goes to rehab? You can totally see, like, accidentally going to find a ticket to the problem. I thought we were going to catch up with her. And you saw this as well, and you said you're done with zombie movies. I'm done with that breed of zombie movies where it's like an apocalypse and a town has sprung up of people who are, like, self-sufficient. And there's still zombies out there, but the real enemy between humans. But, yeah, what if, had you considered that maybe we're the real monsters?

Yeah, there's that kind of angle. And have you seen any of the 28? No, I don't, I have seen, like, no horror movies. Like, none. Yeah, not really. Fair enough. Like, it's like, if you like him, you like them, if you don't, why bother? Yeah, I don't know, couldn't fathom watching why I would.

Although I do really like hearing about them and I like reading about them. Yeah. Well, there's a giant penis in this. one. No, go on. Yeah, that's it. It's a zombie. Is it a zombie?

Yeah. No, the, oh, the zombies's hung. It's not a zombie penis. No, I mean, that would have been a good, yeah, the little hands kind of thing. Yeah, that would be funny if it fell off while you're sorry. There's a giant penis. It's just like, I got a brain. Yeah.

That's a term for jerking off, right? Yeah. I'm just picturing it like slimy, the worm from Sesame Street. It's just going on its own. Yeah. Anyway, that was fine. Yeah, it's, I didn't hate it or anything. It was just like, I'm done with the genre because they haven't.

And people are like, no, they did kind of a new thing. I'm like, yeah, but you have to sit through two hours to see, you know, a zombie having a cigarette or something like that. What a cool zombie. Yeah, that's true. Now that I say it. It is the thing that it, the fact that it's 28 years later, it's, all the zombies are completely nude now. Yeah. So that makes sense that they would like.

Like, you know, once your clothes wrought off you and you're a zombie, you're not like, I got to get a new outfit. Yeah, fresh pair of socks. Yeah. And the other one I watched was a Shyamalan movie. Yeah. M-night, that is? This was not a horror movie, but it was Trapp.

Yes. Trap. Have you heard of Trap? I've not heard of Trap. Here's your chance to listen to the, like, the plot of a horror movie. Well, not really horror. It's like a thriller. Yeah.

Fantastic. So there's this concert, Lady Raven is, okay, you see, you, you're picking up on it. Sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah, Hardinett, right, Josh Hartnett? Josh Hartnett is in it with his baffling hair. And the movie ends so many times. We're like, now this is the end. Oh, wait, it's still going. Now this is the end.

Oh, it's still happening. And it's shot at the Skydome. Yeah. And so it's got Blue Jays tie in. There's so many extras in it. impressed with how many extras there are

Oh yeah And like The I thought his His daughter Is the singer Chamelan's daughter Oh

And she was good Like she You know And she's not just like On stage singing Like she's a bit She's an actress

She's like Part of the plot Yeah And then What do they Somehow she gets up On stage James

Or Josh Hartnett Josh Hartnett knows the only way out of the arena is because there's cops looking for the butcher. Yeah. That's him, the killer. He's a killer. And this whole afternoon concert has been set up. There's no reason it has to be an afternoon concert. But at the very beginning, they're like, it's so cool that Lady Raven added a second afternoon concert.

I wouldn't go to more concerts if they were in the afternoon, probably. Yeah. Yeah. It implies that she's also got to. a concert later that night. Sure. Yeah, two show. Oh, boy.

A concert? Imagine doing two full concerts tonight. Oh, man. Fucking nuts. Like doing two stand-up shows back to back. I can't know how Lady Raven does it. I was just talking about this because I was talking to a friend about double-headers, like when they play two baseball games in a day because one of the games in this

World Series went 18 innings. Yeah. Yeah. And like, I don't know how they, 18-innings. I have no idea how they did it. And, well, I don't know how Broadway shows do a matinee, like, full of those musicals, and then, like, yeah, okay, we're going to do it again. You're like, ha, ha, ha, ha. Well, with baseball, there's quite a bit of standing around.

Yeah, that's true. The extra nine innings, no one, like, ran a whole base. Like, they scored one run in nine in it. But it's, it probably is one of those things where it's like, well, I'm not going to get to McDonald's, like, I wanted to, it was going to grab something on the way home. but I guess I'll go to 7-Eleven. Yeah, that was a problem for a lot of the players after the game. Only 7-Eleven was open. So, yeah, they go to see Lady Raven do a concert,

and she has set up this concert. She's working with the police. Yeah, this is a giant trap. The whole concert is. To trap the murderer, and Josh Hartnett is spending the whole time trying to figure out a way out of this arena. yeah

and so he goes he finds out that the only entrance not being guarded is the back is the stage entrance because why would the murderer be back then

back there so that that's how he like tells the tour manager oh my daughter's just recovering from cancer can she go on stage can she be the whatever

dream girl who gets sung at and then the fact that it's like a fake singer with these fake songs it's very SVU law and order SVU

coded like there's so many like I got my tickets through ticket con or whatever like all there's so many fake companies involved yeah who open for Lady Raven the Archies the blue notes

anyway it was perfectly fine it was fine yeah It was, I saw it in the theater and behind me was a row of teenagers making fun on the movie the whole time. It was the best. Oh, bliss. Yeah, I couldn't have asked for anything more out of a theater experience just to have teens lipping off to the movie. I went to see, when I saw Cats, the movie that everyone hated it and knew it was going to be bad from the get-go.

Yeah. There was one family that was there that was not on board. That was our family. I felt bad. Like, everyone was laughing. at this movie and they were like, oh, I thought we were going to like this. Do you know that until that movie came out until there was, I could watch, there was like trailers, I did not know that cats was about cats.

Because why would it be? But you knew the musical existed, right? Yeah. We grew up, my mom, we played, my mom played, like, best of Andrew Lloyd Webber in the car constantly growing up. I know almost all the songs from cats. I can sing them all. I had no idea that that show was adult humans in cat costumes.

What did you picture? No idea. I have no idea what I thought that show was. Even the like shirt that everyone got at school. Yeah, yeah. It's not that I didn't know it was about cats, I guess. I didn't know it was adult humans in cat costumes. Right.

That would be ridiculous. I had just like, I couldn't have fathomed that that's what this was this whole time. And it's been out, you know, decades. And this show has been a pretty big part of my life, being away. And then when the movie came out, I was like, wait, what? I had a similar thing because it was, you only had certain CDs or tapes in the car. And there was this song that was just on some compilation. And years later, I found out it was from Starlight Express.

And it was a semi-truck singing the song. So I'm just like, what else? could it be if it could it were you i'm trying literally anything it could be anything i'm trying before you got to adult you people dressed as cats i know i'm just trying to think of like oh would it be better if it was adults dressed in their street clothes singing the songs and narrating actual cats on stage but the cats aren't hitting their marks they're not yeah yeah like a stupid like i was picturing a mr misophiles and i was just picturing a man Yeah, a human man.

Maybe the top hat. Very dapper, absolutely, yes, for sure. Yeah, he's very clever, that magical Mr. Mistopheles. Has there ever been somebody so clever? And of course, there's that railway cat who does the dance or whatever. Yeah, who's the railway cat? I don't know. He was...

Rumble shanks? Might have been rumble shanks. That tracks, name-wise. That's a word I've heard. Yeah. Skimble shanks? Maybe. Yeah, that actually sounds more like it.

Flip it. But what happens is in tentative cover? Yeah, my family and I went to it on Boxing Day, which is like... Incredible. And after that, I was no longer allowed to choose what film we went and saw on Boxing Day. Embargo on any Graham input whatsoever. Fair enough. There hasn't really been anything that can compete, though.

No, but every movie that's out on Boxing Day is kind of not a garbage movie, but kind of like, we went one year and saw The Accountant. It was like that style. movie like not terrible but why would you see it that is Ben Affleck has like murder skills murder skills yeah he's an assassin um I think is it's his cover is that he's an accountant but he's also an accountant yeah like he's actually good at it yeah and at the end of the movie my brother who's an accountant we all turned him and said so that's where your job's like uh fun that we landed on a good gag at the end do you remember in the movie Dave when uh Kevin

Klein is the president and they need to balance the budget. So he calls Charles Gordon his friend over and they order Chinese food. It was just that easy, you know, you just had to sit down, burn the midnight a little bit. You're actually not allowed to order take out to the White House. Really? Yep. How did Donald Trump get all them hamburgers in there?

I think that was different. That was Uber Eats. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Do you ever enjoy a musical? Do you go to a musical? Oh, I love a musical.

What's your favorite musical? Oh, wow. Like something in the top. I heard all the songs from Les Miserables. But I didn't, I never pictured that there'd be old-timey French people. I certainly didn't agree. I didn't picture that a bunch of them would have British accents for some reason. Yes.

I love a guys and dolls. They're big on a guy. I didn't picture them as guys and dolls. Yeah, I thought they were going to be literal dolls. I didn't understand it. It made it Disappoint it Guys and Dolls

Classic Yeah I like that one a lot I've never seen Wicked Live So I also didn't I watched the movie And then I was like I can't fit

I don't understand How there is gonna be another I don't understand How we're not done Yeah that was the same When I went I saw the movie The theater was like

Man they're not wrapping this up at all It seems to be really Oh there's a whole other movie There apparently they're under Like an open-ended contract So they're trying to build a wicked Oz verse.

Oh. So it's like a it's the the MCU for witches. But there were a lot of like the guy who wrote them he wrote a lot of different books

about Oz, I think. El Frank Baum? El Frank Baum. Oh, that's where she got her name. Yeah, the I liked the first music I think I saw alive was chorus line.

Oh. And I was like. Incredible. That is incredible. And it's like the first one I saw, and it's kind of a little bit of inside baseball for... Sure. Yeah. But great.

Great musical. I mean, Wicked is good. Wicked is fantastic. I've never seen like a Disney one. I've never seen like a Lion King or a little more than. Yeah. And you thought it was good. Did I?

Yeah. I think you liked part of it. I liked the Disney songs and not the other things. That's right. The original. Yeah. Um, yeah, I'll still, I'll get into a musical, no probes. Oh, yeah.

I mean, I like a, I like a Hamilton. I've never seen it. Is it so good? I mean, I love it. Yeah. But I love In the Heights. I haven't seen his, I didn't see the cheerleader one. What's the cheerleader one?

Oh, so these are all the, um, who's the guy that made all those? Who's a guy that made them? Yeah, we know. Linda Miranda. Yeah. Lin-Man-Mand-Miranda. Yeah. Uh, in the Heights's first one.

Hamilton's third And in between He did the Bring It On Oh, did he? Oh, that's amazing. Did you see it? No, I've heard the music But I haven't seen it.

Yeah, it's like, When I heard that there was going to be A Saved by the Bell musical, I was like, here we go, here we go. And then it didn't last very long. Because it's not a great format for Sure. Yeah.

Well, I mean, I guess what makes a musical good? Is it just the songs? Because like, the plot's kind of secondary. It's kind of the pace, too. Like, it has to have a certain... I mean, every musical has kind of this particular song and that particular song. Because Saved by the Bell doesn't have, like, necessarily need a good plot.

You just need the characters coming out and introducing themselves, like, I'm sort of the railway cat. I'm kind of... I'm sort of a gelical kind of screech. Yeah, I saw the Beetlejuice musical. Oh, I would love to. It was great. It was great. And I don't know how the guy was seeing because he was like, had this recipe voice the whole time.

I don't know how people can do that for an hour. It's Buck Martinez. You should be watching these plugees games. His voice is that the whole four hours. I can't do. I don't do impressions, but that was pretty good. I've never heard of this game. Baseball.

I was also I saw Jagged Little Pill. Oh, how was that? Juke Bach musical, the Alanis Morse at one. Very fun. And I think that's, like, it's kind of the saved by the bell thing of like, what would this be about? Yeah. Is it a, like, do they have a through lot?

Yeah, it's written by, the books written by Diablo Cody. Oh, yeah. Nice. Yeah, very contemporary. It's very like, you know, mom has a pill problem. Oh, sure. Yeah. Oh, that's true.

Intritional adoption. Sometimes they just do, well, like, I guess Mama Mia, they made that about three potential dads to a child. Yeah. But then sometimes the jukebox musical is just like a biography. Oh, sure. Yeah. Rock of ages is just like, we rock.

Yeah. Wouldn't it be cool if we sang rock songs. And like, what's the one? The Jersey Boys. They had a lot of cool. The one, my high school did Leader of the Pack, which is about Ellie Greenwich, who wrote all the, like, Phil Specter songs. Oh.

And it's just about her life. But, like, you have a. like great songs. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'd like to see a stage show of Tommy. I've never seen Tommy, but I bet you that's a wicked, funny kind of show. You, Tommy?

I haven't seen it. Okay. All right. Just checking it. But it does look good. It does look good. Well, let's get it up. Let's get it on its feet.

Graham, what's going on with you? Well, we were talking a bit about concerts. and I had stated in the past weeks that I was going to see the band Guar. Incredible! Yeah, I went to see Guar last night with Pasquette's Emmett Hall

and was supposed to be your wonderful wife, Abby, but she was not feeling well. Yeah, she flagged on the play. It was so much fun. It was so much fun. So this was at the Vogue Theater. It was at the Vogue Theater.

Amazing. And like, we were kind of standing at the back What time did you get there? We, how many bands did you witness? Two. Okay. So we, we, there were four total?

There were, yeah, four total bands. One of which was a band that I saw when I was a teenager that had reunited for this tour, I think, called Helmut. And there was, there were other two, like, one was called the dwarves and one was called, like, blood something or other. And I was like, you're on the wrong lineup, man, if you're trying to be the blood. Yeah. Had you ever seen. Gore before. No, I'd never seen Guar before. I watched a documentary and I'm fascinated

by them. Likewise. Yeah. And it's, so, like, I was on the floor, but I quickly realized I'm like, I can't do this. Like, I've literally what somehow became the highway through which everybody was going to get drinks and I was like, I can't be rubbed against people. And it was

they had, uh, so there is a famously very bloody show. They spray blood on everyone. Did they take out the seats at the, on the floor where it was standing and did they put down any kind of tarp? They did for like stuff on the floor, but nothing on the walls. Like they didn't put up any tarps on the walls.

And these guys spray like crazy. And one thing you also told me was that you were going to try to wear all white. I did wear all white. And I realized upon doing that, everybody there was wearing all white. That was like, I guess, like a thing because everybody wants the blood. Really? Yeah. And after the show, it was so funny seeing people who were like,

like, soaked. Like, their shirt was, like, bright pink and just soaked. And so, like, these guys, that's all they want to do. They want to be hit by this blood jet. And pretty soon we realized after watching Helmut, we're like, we're going up to the balcony. Oh, okay. Enough of this craziness. Because I, well, standing is one thing, but also, like, getting jostled around for an hour is.

Yeah, you've got old bones. I've got old bones. But they, man, they didn't disappoint. Like, they came out first thing. blood everywhere. Oh, really? They don't make you wait for it. And the guy,

the lead singer, has udders. So they all spray out of his utters. And you could see because, yeah. And because we were up top. I would take milk. Be sour, though, you know? Well, it's not real blood either. We know.

I heard the lead singer has a tattoo of Ninja Turtle. Yeah, because they work together. Yeah. Still loves those guys. But because we were up high, we got to know who was going to, who is connected to the hose. Like from down you wouldn't know, but from up, we were like, oh, okay, here comes somebody with the hose. So wait, what, do you explain the mechanics? So there's three kind of stage assistants or kind of, like, maybe they're roadies as well.

And they would come like from side stage while somebody was playing. and plug in this hose into their costume. Yeah, into their costume. Or at one point there was just a gun that sprayed everywhere. But every time you saw that hose, you're like, here it comes. And they've sprayed a lot of fake blood. So the udders guy, it comes out of his utters. Do the other people have it come out of, like?

Yeah, there was people who came out of their face and like, you know, just arms. Like, it was just, it was great. It was so fun. comes out of their arms. Yeah. I think it would be so funny if there was one dude in the band who never got the hose. I feel like there is. And he was like, come on.

Come on. I think it would be very funny if there was one guy in the band who just, because they're all monsters. Yeah. And one guy is just a human in street clothes. That's the message. We're the true monster. Yeah. And so like not only they're spraying blood, they're doing puppetry all over the place.

they have an egg that's brought in at the beginning that's going to hatch and it hatches into a little monster guy and then I think the plot line was the monster guy comes back and he's like seven feet tall they saw him in half and blood goes around

Yeah Did the blood ever get old? Nope. Every time they did it I was like, this is the best. Do they have to like do they make their own blood I guess on the road for in the documentary they have

a person who's like their blood guy that travels he's maintains the tank and so he's that's his whole job is being blood guy so yeah they bring their own blood well maybe they maybe make it out of powder and yeah he's not going to like okay there's no grocery stores over there I need corn syrup yeah it's uh I think like uh the the whatever it was just going was watery it wasn't like uh sticky oily or sticky um but it was so fun after the concert seeing the people who obviously got there at 7 o'clock found there, it's placed in the line,

Guara gets on at like 11, 10.15. Okay. But yeah, I couldn't do, I couldn't do the pet. I couldn't do it. Were you ever somebody at concerts in the, in the pit in the standing room, jostling? I would always like to be back in my pit days.

I'd like to be right up against the stage. I never like to be, like, in the thick of the, like, so you'd get bumped around and stuff, and you wanted to be close to the stage, but I was never like, oh, I hope I can, like, punch a dude out. Like, that's not part of it for me. Yeah, and there was a group of goons in front of us that were all, like, bros, and I was like, this is not your thing. You should be somewhere else. Yeah, a monster truck rally or something.

This is, this is for us. This is for the nerd. Yeah, this is art. Yeah. And, but couldn't get through. That was the other thing. tried to move forward. Nobody's giving me any, you know,

leaning in with my shoulder and nobody's giving up any ground. I did, yeah, as a kid, a teenager, I would try to get in front of the pit and just get my ribs squeezed against the barricade. Yeah. And then if I, if that was like a band I loved, I would want to be as close as possible. If I was at a concert and I'm like,

I don't love these bands. Let's see what we're doing for crowd surfing. Yeah. There was some crowd surfing, but that was during helmet set. I think maybe it was discouraged because it would block some people's chance to get blood all over them. That's true. But, yeah, the... Also so slippery.

Oh, I can't... It's just falling back into the crowd. But I couldn't, I can't recommend them enough. It's feeder. So you got no blood on you. No blood. Afterwards, did you cut yourself? Hugs of it.

I just wanted to feel something. Did you ever get in the pin try to love someone? What? Oh, yeah, well, maybe. What is that? Is that from Boada-Badda? Oh, yeah. Oh, I wonder what a Chris Rock, not Chris Rock, Kid Rock.

Kid Rock's brother, Chris Rock. Remember when they accidentally hired Chris Rock to host the Oscars? Yeah. They meant to get Kid Rock. But, yeah, I couldn't recommend them enough. And it's like, you can bring your kid to it. Like, it's not gross. It's just hilarious.

Yeah, it's like seeing the Muppets. Yeah, it is. It's like seeing the Muppets. And they could have gone another whole hour, and I would have gotten bored of the, because there's always something coming out next. There's also, yeah. But, yeah, there are other shows apparently that decapitate people, and then the blood goes flying like a fountain.

Did they do a Q&A afterwards? Yeah. And there were. There was a lot of people standing up and being like, well, I've been a Guar fan for many years. I find it very interesting, the choice that you made there. I remember when I was a kid, there was a puppet show that came to our school, and there was like a flash in the middle of it, of like gunpowder. And there was a Q&A afterwards, and every question was about, how did you do the big noise?

Yeah. I feel like it would have been a lot of. How do you do the blood? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Where does the blood come from? But, yeah, there was, the funny thing, too, is all the security were wearing ponchos. And, you know, I'm guessing, like, this is maybe a one-night gig for a lot of these guys.

So when they walked in and got a poncho, they were like, all right. Security at concerts and event, it's, like, almost as fascinating to watch as this show. Yeah. It's funny. It's like, it's a comedy show, and they just stand there, like, not look. can get the stage, Stoneface. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or a band, you're like, you hate it.

Yeah, or like they've, generally it looks like they're, they get to be closer to the artist than anyone else. Yeah, and they've never heard of the artist. Yeah, totally. Past guest, Josh Stubbs and his wife both took gigs of security guards just to see a show, like to be on the ground floor, seeing a show. And they did that for years. And he said, you never have to do anything.

He's like, if things get a little too hot, you're not grabbing a guy. You're not getting involved in a fight. Yeah. You're going to call enforcement. So speaking of Josh Stubbs, when he was here last, he left his, he was wearing like this denim shambray shirt with a t-shirt underneath and sunglasses. And he took them both off and just so he had his t-shirt. And then after the podcast, he left.

I haven't seen him in a year and a half. he left his shirt and his sunglasses here and then a few months ago Abby was like boy I have not seen my shambray shirt in so long and I in my mind I was like

huh that's weird that she's missing hers and Josh left his here I never even like pulled it up to see oh this would not fit Josh I just kept it piled up in a corner next to the podcast equipment and then Abby came in here a few weeks ago

to use the printer and she was like Dave what the hell I've been looking for this shirt for a year and a half I told you about it and I could not compute so I don't think Josh is missing a shirt

you may be the glasses those sunglasses Josh come back and get your white claw sponsored sunglasses nice nice Well, you guys want to move on to some overheards. Yeah. Yeah.

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Overheard. It's a segment where, gee, you know what? It's really fun to hear things and then relate it to some other people. And we always like to start with the guest. Katie Ellen, do you have an overheard? I haven't overheard. I also have an overseen. that's sort of a spooky Halloween

themed. I love it. And I was like, I was on Vancouver Island and I saw this kid maybe 12 years old or so and he had this like metal as hell shirt. It was black and had the skeleton looking all hardcore.

That flames. And then in the writing on the shirt said, sorry I was late. I was cranking the hog. And it took me fully like between like five, maybe ten minutes before I was like, oh, the skeleton was riding a Harley.

Oh! Yeah. I fully was just like, that's the funny shirt I've ever seen in my life. But it's both. Yeah, yeah, but before the motorcycle, I truly was just like, yeah, dog. Sorry, I'm late. I was cranking the hog. I mean, I've been there, man.

Oh, sure. When I was a young skeleton. That's a good gag from a scary movie where two people are being chased by a skeleton. And one of them goes, it's just a skeleton. We're skeletons. And then he'd take his head, put it in his pelvis because he's just a skeleton. I guess he had to be there. So cranking that hog.

Yeah. I was overseen. Do you haven't overheard or do you want to go around and come back? Oh, yeah, sure, he hasn't been around. Dave? This isn't this scary. Boy, I wish it was. I saw so this is an overseen

I was at I was walking past a dry cleaner and you know how they have when you get something from your dry cleaner the the give it to you on a hanger that says we hurt our customers yeah that's so you can always tell that's from the dry cleaner and I saw this

someone had they had a white shirt that I guess they could not get the stains out of because there were big yellow stains on it and it had one of those hangers in it and they just hung it from the garbage can outside It's like you're not

Yeah They couldn't get it out Yeah so like that's it I'm parting ways with this I mean unless you could go crazy And put a lot of colors on it That's true You could tie dye that

You can wear it to a gouache Absolutely Do you pay the dry cleaner if they don't get it out? I always pay my dry cleaner up front. I would gladly pay them today, tomorrow, for a drug. A lot of hamburger on it today. You pay up front of the dry cleaner. The other one I go to.

But, again, that's not something I do very often. I know. It's been a couple years for me as well. Yeah, I don't know, man. I got a lot of clothes that I never wear. and they're all, a lot of them are vintage, so it just smells like vintage shop in my closet. Yeah.

So then if you wear one, you're like, you just got that smell on you for the rest of the day. And these are unwashables? They would be dry cleanables, yeah. But, you know, enough about me. What is that smell? Yeah, I don't know. But it's like, maybe it's dust?

Maybe it's some kind of dry cleaning thing that they spray everything down with? That could be, yeah. Um, It's fragrond. Yeah, it is. And, like, the two things that vintage shops always smell like is that or, like, some crazy perfume that you've never smelled in your life. Yeah. That's more what I'm thinking of is, like, something very perfumy.

I bought a poison shirt, poison the band shirt. Hell yeah. And it's like, that smells like crazy perfume. Washed it. Still smells like perfume. Fine, it smells like perfume. That's what this garment will be for. And then if you get something from like TeamU or Ali Express, it smells like gasoline.

Graham, do you haven't overheard, my man? This was just a little snippet, but I was like, this really, like, triggered something in my memory. It was an older guy talking to, I think, like a slightly younger guy. And he was like talking about seeing a show. TV show, and he hated it, and he said, I couldn't click the converter fast enough. I was like, oh, wow. I haven't heard converter for so long.

Was that in your house? Did you, when you grew up? Was it called the converter? That is the clicker? Yeah. The remote? The remote? No, the converter was the thing, because we had, like, old-timey TVs that only had

13 channels or whatever, and then the converter was the box. that you got that attached the cable like when once we got cable we kept the old timey TV and you had this box on top of the TV that like a wire thing or no just just like a coax cable goes in the back sure from the wall

and then comes out of the converter into the TV yeah it's like yeah for sure my grandfather used converter like I feel that and maybe my mom did too were you converter household I'm having memories of just hearing the phrase Where's the converter? I wonder if it's a Canadian thing or if it's listeners write in.

Is converter something you familiar with? Yeah, because the converter was always in the Chesterfield. Yeah, right next to the Garberator. What's the other one that? Oh, Parcade. Parcade. Yeah. Well, Katie Ellen said she read an advert and I was like, not in this country.

You didn't. When did I say that? Check the tapes. I don't remember anything that's happened Well, look it up There was an advert mentioned I was being nice back then I didn't bring it up

And that's American? No, that's British That's British Oh Now you said you also have an overheard They don't say parkade in Britain They say car park Yeah, I think parkade is like

Exclusively Canadian for some reason I love a parkade Yeah because like America It's a parking garage Gras. Grow up. Did you, we say Garberator, but we never said Chesterfield. My grandparents definitely said Chesterfield.

What about, I mean, Nardware the human serviette. Did you, did anyone in your family, my grandmother called a napkin a serviette? Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, well, another Halloween tradition I love, Nardwar posting. all the pictures of people who dress up as him. Yeah.

I will scroll through endless photos of people in their costumes. I don't care where they're from. It's Comic-Con. Absolutely. Yeah, definitely. And, like, especially at Comic-Con,

there's about a thousand characters. I have no idea who they are. If something from a video game or through anime or whatever, still. Still, I'm House from the TV show House. You have one more. I haven't overheard.

I was at this. from, I was at Sketchfest in San Francisco a while back and I was walking through this green room and there was a younger, I guess a younger, newer comic or something and he was talking about, he's trying to tell people he had, like, auditioned that night at one of the major, the big comedy clubs to get, quote unquote, passed to be able to work there. And he said, uh, I didn't get past. I have to showcase again. They said I was too dirty, but I was only dirty at the end. I closed on a joke about my mom. blowing me?

But the skeleton cranking his hog? He was so incredulous. He was like, it wasn't even dirty. I'd be like, these shows are for regular human people. Yeah.

He does that at corporate. It's got to be corporate clean. Okay. Yeah, yeah. I don't know what we're going to end on. It is clean, but the clean that leads up to this wonderful payoff.

Yeah. That is the filthiest thing imaginable. Yeah. I love it. Oh, yeah. Only a comedian. Yeah. I do love that, having met so many comedians who just don't get it.

Well, come on. That's not that dirty. Yeah. Because amongst comedians, it's not. I didn't. True, but it's like, you have to remember. You have to have met another person. You have to remember.

You haven't, though. Your mom in this joke, would she like this joke? Like, that's who's watching. It's true. I'm just talking about a heinous crime. I'm not committing it. I have a list of overheards from listeners here. If you want to send one in, send it into SBY at maximumfund.org.

And there's three overheards, and that's just kind of silly, not an overheard or overseen necessarily. I just threw it in, but I'll do the overheard's first. This is Jen from Philadelphia. On vacation in Vancouver, she sent this in. Oh, my God. Overheard of the ladies. They were in Stanley Park Overheard in the ladies

Washroom in Stanley Park It's weird having my eyebrows back I just woke up day and I was like Wow, they're back Big day Good day Yeah Can you lock all the eyebrows

And they'll come back Or is they You could shave them and they'll come back Yeah You could bleach them And they'll return to form I guess That's weird

Do you have any eyebrow It's gonna very brow to brow If you did Bleach your eyebrows They just They don't keep Like you don't get like roots Do you?

I don't know you don't have Ombray eyebrows Well yeah Like they would just fall out And new ones would grow I don't know I don't know what's going on With eyebrows

I find them sometimes Is it like a butterfly Where it becomes a pupa And then the new Eyebrow pops out I thought I had a pupa once But then I peed out of it This next one comes from Doc, from Montreal.

Hey, Doc. What is up? Two young men were walking behind me having the traditional young man conversation. Which martial arts beat which, and how would you take down a master of one style or another? They shared a lot of conventional wisdom. Kickbosser beats karate on and on. I picked up one tip. I hadn't heard before

that I thought I should share. You can't underestimate the psychological advantage. So try to schedule the fight on your birthday. Yeah, so Kickboxer versus karate, but what day? I mean, you do feel confident on your birthday. Yeah, you're on top of the world, yeah. I don't know if that's true. Some people hate it.

Well, like, if you had to go to school on your birthday, I mean, which you did most of the time. Yeah, that's how I would feel. I'd be like, oh, it's my birthday, but I still have to go to school. I still have to fight a guy. Yeah, it's, I think it should be universal that if it's your birthday, you're allowed to have the day off. That's just the way it is.

You've got to prove that it's the day, but aside from that, you're just granted the day. It sucks for, you know, summer birthdays, because they have the day off already. They don't get an extra one. Maybe they get to bank it, you know? You don't have to come until a day later in September or something like that. You don't want to miss that first day of school. Everyone's got to show off your clothes. You should be able to pick a day.

Yeah. Yeah. Government get back at us. We're trying to work on a thing here. This was on Liam S from London, UK. I overheard my mother, a native English speaker, announced, without any irony, that she and my father were going to see a tribute to Billy Joel. Like from Superman.

We're going to know my favorite band, Billy Joe, Al. There's some Billy Joe covered, like, tribute act, but it's all like Superman theme somehow. It's him playing the piano, but he's in full Superman. Yeah, yeah. And then it changed the lyrics a bit to be about Kryptonite. Yeah. Jimmy Olson and whatnot. Save us the.

World, you're the Superman, or whatever. No, that's good. And this one's not really... Making love to Louis and Wayne. I just imagine that there was, like, someone really fucked up the poster. It's like, yeah, Billy Joel. Oh, darn, the L's on the other line.

And this last one isn't really... I wouldn't slot it in the overseen category. It's from Sharif Y. where I lived, there are a lot of dumb tech billboards everywhere. One day as I was driving, I saw one that read, calm, the number one app for sleep. But at first, my dumb ass thought it was clam, the number one app for clams. Not technically an overseen, but in the family. Imagine if it was number two.

Clam, the number one app for clams. We can't beat out. That chillfish app Yeah, there's like reviews of different clams And you know, message board You can put your cream But also, I bet it would calm you down

That's true Get you to sleep a little bit easier Why, ever since I've gotten into clams You're sleepy all the time Sing us a song You're a piano Do you have overheard? Yeah, I do

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This is Gabe from Baltimore, calling in a second-hand overheard. My wife took our three-year-old son to a birthday party last weekend and the kids were hitting a pinata and evidently a couple of the, Boys didn't seem to understand the concept of hitting a pinata. So one of them just kind of went up and just barely tapped it with a stick.

And my wife said she heard my son say under his breath, pitiful. All right. Off I go. Great. Great commentary. If you don't know how a pinata works, then you're just like, What is this crazy thing? Sure, I hit it with a stick.

There I go. Is it like bibbidi-bobbidi-boo? It'll open up. Or like you just poke it. Yeah. But if you are waiting your turn and you know how it works, then yeah. Yeah. Pitiful.

Pitiful. That's like a piñata is like the most fun, cheap thing that you can have. Like things are pretty cheap, right? Or am I right? I don't know, Mr. Moneybags. I buy at least a pinata a month. I got pinata money. All right, here's your next phone call.

It's a problem with millennials. He's buying so many pinionettes. And you hit them and all this avocado toast comes up. Avocado, avocado? I lost it. Either way. Duotang. That's a little Canadian.

Okay, here we go. Hi, this is Zach from Delaware County, Pennsylvania. And I have a license plate overseen for you. I was listening to an episode. of the podcast as I merged on to the Blue Root and saw the vehicle in front of me had the vanity plate, M-A-G-K-space, K-U-M, magic gum. I wonder how that got approved. It's because it was K-U-M, right? So that's how they feel like slipped in there. And it was magic with a K as well. Yeah, never had any, in any of my family's cars, I've never

I've never had a vanity. Oh, okay. I've never had magic com. It's like, well, we've talked about vanity plates a million times, so you must be talking about something else. It's, yeah, it's what happens when I watch Magic bike. This is such a, can I tell you a cum story? Yep.

Yes, please. We've been waiting all day for one of your classic. Classic Gated cum story. By the way, you're never going to get past at the comedy club with this kind of the story. I don't know how old, like maybe just before I lost Orion's thinking crunchy this age,

early adolescence. And after swim practice, we had our own lockers. We had like this private hallway by the team chandrums. Nice. We had our own lockers. You could stiff, whatever, it doesn't matter.

Padlock stuff. You can keep stuff there between practices where you were at school. Right. And my friend, her locker had, like her shampoo who had spilled or something. And so it was like,

it was dripping outside of the locker. And then this older boy wanted to point out, wanted to point out what that looked like. Right. I at this point did not know the word come. I understood like what he was probably getting at, but this person, this other swimmer was also deaf.

So he was signing it. Oh. And see. Oh, God. Yeah. So he's like making some signs. It was like, we don't follow. And then he's spelling it out.

Yeah. But now I also, like, he's, he feels like, C-U-M. Yeah. And we keep, no, no, we're just repeating the word. We're like, what are you talking about? We're like, that's, and we're like, that's not a word. You're bad at silent. Truly.

What are they teaching you? But it's, yeah, that, how did they come up with that spelling for it? I don't know. how you differentiate sometimes sometimes and then sometimes not um yeah it's uh i'm like what was the first time i heard come said man i don't know i definitely learned like a big batch of the words all at the same time yeah yeah from some and like the the fact that the c word starts with the same two letters as come yeah yeah yeah well are these things related I mean

But like I don't think etymologically All right Here's your final phone call Thanks Hey Dave Graham And ineffable guest This is William from the Boston area

With an overheard I was out at my birthday Back in July And I was at a hotel bar with friends And we were all chit-chatting and I probably maybe was the only one who heard but at a table near by us there was a couple or a small group

and they I think were having a fun sort of argument like I didn't think it was really heated but it was sort of like well this and then na-da-na-na-na and then the lady says something like you're being unreasonable and he's like I have the best horse attorney and then it went on from there and my friends distracted me

but no freaking way Thanks guys Is the horse that abused you In the courtroom today Well there are like Specific in America anyway Specific like in a car crash Were you in an Uber crash?

Right Were you in a horse crash? Yeah Or like I guess maybe people that own Race horses There might be legal Yeah They're definitely like horse neighborhoods

Where was he in Massachusetts? I mean I feel like you're missing the fact that the horse is the attorney. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I did. I just blew right past that. In the criminal justice system. Horses are considered especially just on the...

Baudacious. Well, that brings us to the end of this episode. Katie Ellen, tell the people where they can find you. I would love it if you all would find me online. I do have a special coming out soon. don't know when because I just started editing. Do you have a name? I mean, I thought I did, but now I started editing it and then the joke

maybe is not good and I might not put it in a joke. So who can say? Yeah. But I would love it if people would subscribe to my YouTube, because I have like a dozen subscribers right now, so it's not really going to pop. I've had a great place if you would love to get a you could follow me on Instagram. That is at M-S-K-A-T-I-E-E-L-E-L-E-N, Miss Katie Ellen.

And I also, I just want to say that spy listeners are generally some of my favorite people that I've ever met. And so if you are a spy listener and we are ever out somewhere or we're out at the same show or something and you do, you happen to, you know who I am, I would love to meet you, come say hello because I'm a huge fan of this show and y'all are friends of the show. and then we already have a thing in common. And I really like meetings by listeners out in the world or online. That's awesome. Yeah, follow Katie Ellen. You need to be in the Katie Ellen universe. I've got to go follow that YouTube.

Yeah, yeah. I'm very curious what's going on there. It's kind of under the radar. Yeah. Yeah, there could be all sorts of stuff going on there. Well, thank you so much for being our guest. Thanks for having me. Thank you, everybody out there for listening.

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