Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 921 - Mark Chavez

Episode Date: November 11, 2025

Improviser Mark Chavez returns to talk pajamas, Halloween, and the Beaches. 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. Welcome to episode number 921 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name's Graham Clark. And with me, as always, is a man who,

Even though it's a, you know, Halloween's a distant memory, he's still got some of that candy, Mr. Dave Shumka. So much of it. It's disgusting. The way, well, first of all, I'd like to point out that I don't know if Mark and I made eyes to each other because we noticed you said welcome. You said welcome. Oh, no. Welcome. Wecklam to the show.

And, but we did have a Halloween. We had a happy Halloween. But it's what bugs me is that there's like 10 potential candy, like, chalking. and you just get them over and over. Yeah. Yeah, what's with the collection? I don't know, but there's like, you can get, uh, when I was at the drugstore, shopper's drug market, Canada's drugstore, I think.

Everything you want in a drugstore. Absolutely. Canada's Walgreens. Yes. Yeah. It, uh, there was weird, they were like off brand like suckers or lollipops. Well, what is the main brand of sucker or lollipop? I mean, I would say, Tutsi would be the, you know, it might go to sucker.

What's your, um, boy, if it's especially, especially if you're reading like a screenplay book, Tutsi is all over it. If you're like how to write a comedy in 1982. But yeah, they had those and then they had the Halloween kisses, they call them, the little molasses guys. Every kid who came to the door, I was like, can't give you a Halloween kiss?

And that's why Dave just got bailed out of prison. But we also, so we handed out those standards. The big, like, the big four, Yeah. The box that is the most common is the... Coffee Crisp. Coffee Crisp. Carrow and Smarties.

Yeah, we handed out Snickers, Twix, two others. Yeah. We avoid the Snickers because it's a nut. So you don't give it out. You don't give it out because, you know, we don't want to be... I had to do when I was a kid. We'd have to do like a swap. Plus, like the day after Halloween, everyone starts no nut November.

Is that what that right? And then, but we gave away, we gave away those standards, but then we also got little ring pops. Oh, nice. And then weird sort of like, they looked like hamburgers made of gummy. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. A bunch of components, like the. Those were popular. Yeah.

Well, that person you were talking earlier, that's our guest for the show this evening. He's a very funny man. Do listen in the evening. He's, uh, he's co-host of the town show. He is part of the Sunday service that. Just celebrated its 20th year here on Earth. Wow. It's Mark Chavez.

Thank you for having me. 20 years. 20 years of an improv show. I have not been involved for 20 years. No. No, no, not me. But most of the members haven't. Yeah, I mean, it was started by Ryan and Taz.

Yeah. Was it Ryan Taz and then Kevin Lee was the next? He was the next. But I think was Alistair originally. Alistair. And then I think even Sean Devlin was in it. Sean Devlin was in it. There were a couple of members that were in it briefly.

Yeah. Yeah. But that was back in its early, early days when it was figuring itself out. Yeah. And now it's a cosmic zoo. Well, no. Is it Wink? Oh, yeah.

I mean, that's when I first guested with the Sunday service. At Wink? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. So I've been around. Because Wink didn't last long a year maybe. Maybe, yeah.

Because the Wink's the one on 8th. Yeah. That Alist her own. Yeah. On that one. Yeah. Did we get to know us? No, we didn't.

But let's get into it. Get to know us. So how many years do you think you've been with it? 50? No. No. Last 10? 10?

Probably officially, but guesting since, as I said, since the beginning. What brought you to Vancouver that you were guesting? What was going on here? Back when I toured with Shanoa Allen in the pajama men. You just were in town and then? We would, uh, we, we came and did, uh, the Canadian Fringe Festival circuit. Oh, okay. And I, so my first time in Vancouver was 2001.

Um, and, uh, the, um, and, uh, That's the, that's when I, maybe you met them the next year or the following year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you were part of a duo called the Bajama Man. And do you, do you remember playing in, were you in like the basement of a church at some point? In Victoria, we were. I'm sure he played many basements of many churches. No, I mean here in Vancouver.

Here in Vancouver, I don't think we ever did a, we mostly performed on Granville Island. That's where the, that's where the fringe was. And then there was, the fringe was on commercial drive. at one point, but I don't think we did a show there. I don't know. Do you still wear pajamas? I still have a lot of pajamas. Yeah.

But are they in your costume trunk? They're my cockled trunk. Do you sleep in? What do you sleep in? I sleep in full pajamas. So this is not. No, no, no, not matching full pajamas. It's like I wear long pajama pants.

Yeah, but you're top and bottom. No, no. Just top? The top, no. Yeah, I just wear his pajama tops. I'm my dingling and out. No, I wear a t-shirt But not a matching set

Yeah, that's what I do I usually wear a t-shirt In like maybe a little pair of shorts Little pair of light sleep shorts Last night I wore Little pair of shorts And a matching like top robe thing That's kind of fun

My partner got me Yeah If this was a Like a magazine article How the Pajama Man sleeps Yeah Oh boy We got no week

That's like That was our big question That's not the idea That's sort of in the subtitle yeah yeah um did you why did you guys start wearing the pajamas i'm sure you told me but i cannot remember why you were doing it um it was cheno cheno's idea i believe he wanted to do we wanted to have a base costume and he and the first thing he pitched i remember was uh was like skin tight clothes okay that that was probably rejected out right the skin tight man i was just way too

self-conscious to yeah like there's no way i would have done that and so looking at your penis the whole show oh it just like just like just body shame, just my own body shame. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just did not want to do that. So, uh, pajamas, Mark, just like, like privately off mic, you got a slamming body. Absolutely.

I was just going to say it's straight rock. It was pretty, it's pretty slamming. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I want to touch your abs. That's rude, but yeah, if you can find them, you can touch them. You're more than welcome. Uh, yeah.

So, yeah, and it, and it just persisted. We weren't called the pajama men, hilariously. we were called sabotage and then like we rebranded based on the pajamas that's pretty good yeah we toured for like 20 years that's a smart like you know we should rebranded yeah let's call ourselves the jeans guys yeah but you don't always wear jeans you wear always wear jeans do you only wear jeans pretty much yeah i wear jeans mostly yeah i don't like unless i have i have two pairs of pants that go with a suit yeah wow and that's it the rest is jeans jeans and cut off jeans

That's my Dave's you've got many pants You're a man of many pants You're a man of many pants You got a lot of jeans Got a lot of khakis Some corduroy Oh boy yeah

And love corduroy Fabric oh fabric of the king Really Yeah so that's that's what I did Now I just go to Now I just raise my son Just raise your son It's really the most important job there is.

It's the most important job, and I'm a perfect father. Good for you. Yeah, I did it. I'm going to see Frozen last night. At, like, Alive, Frozen at the Arts Club. It wasn't like the play Alive, but Frozen. Oh, yeah, that would be great. A lot of those guys did end up frozen in the movie Alive.

They did. Yeah. Because they ate the frozen bodies. Yeah, they ate their butts. Yeah, they ate their frozen butts. Did they not eat, if someone died and they were still warm, they didn't eat them? no they wait it was too good yeah too tasty and like they did things with the bones when they're eating that were funny you know like picking a jaw and going like what i remember you from before yeah and they did that thing like where um uh charlie chaplin does with the forks and the rolls except he did it with the actual legs doing a dance yeah with the legs and the uneaten feet yeah they had to keep their toes entertaining yeah there's not much to do out there uh how i mean the the the cold and the plane crash you would have killed him but really Really, the bored.

It's the boredom that got him in the end. There was, oh, I was watching this movie. It was about Werner Herzog bringing a boat over a mountain. And at one point, the only soccer ball they had deflated, and it became like the last straw. Everybody lost their mind after it. Because that was like the one thing they could do. That was the thing they could do. Yeah.

It's just like, lost control of everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Is this a regional production or is this a full Disney? This production we went to was the opening. opening night. This guy gets all the tickets. The Arts Club, which is the biggest, I think, theater here in Vancouver. They produced the most production of Disney's Frozen. Okay. And Cosmo, my son, I took, we took him. This was in the Stanley? It was. It was on the one on, yeah. Nice. And we, so he's just barely old enough to kind of sit through and, like, enjoy one of these, one of these things. Yeah. When will I be that age? It was, yeah.

It was pretty great. I mean, there was, like, really nice. Like, it was very fun to, but he just talked to me the whole time. He'd tell me what was going on. And it was usually something like, that thing is being lifted with the wires. Like, I know. Like, just enjoy the magic, Cosmo. I was also like, we're sitting at a seat where you could see the wires.

Does he, does he know frozen the movie? He saw it once, yeah. But he's not a big frozen head. Like, there's some, there's some frozen head. What would he die for if it was a live show? recently Ghostbusters Anything Lego You know

How come there hasn't been a Ghostbusters musical There might have been There totally might have been There's a lot of Ghostbusters stuff up there I feel like if they did it It would be something like Kind of winking Like for nostalgia freaks

Not for kids Yeah It'd be too bad We gotta get kids into Ghostbusters We watch it on Halloween We gotta get boys into Ghostbusters That's right Thank you

We need some childhoods to repair We've already ruined a bunch He needs to fix some new ones. And he saw the original, not like a cartoon. He saw like the original Ghostbusters. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, the very, the one that, you know. The one we saw with the gorilla and the.

Yeah, the original one. Yeah. Yeah. He loved it. And there's very boring parts of that movie. Very. If you're four. And a lot of it is about, you know, Peter Vankman's seduction of, uh...

There's some questionable moments that I was like, I don't remember this. Dan Akroy does get a blowy Yeah, there's a succubis that comes in And sucks his miss And so your son was like Is it true that man has no dick? Dad, go back What was that thing about a guy not having a thing?

No, no, no, no, forward, forward. We'll continue to watch forward. Don't say anything. Don't ask any questions. They're lucky when they were like Put all the thoughts out of your brain that nobody started to think of something dirty. Yeah.

You know? Oh, I know. Yeah, they were lucky it was stay puff. They're so lucky it was the stay puffed. Yeah. Yeah, which I Relearned, which I continue to That's there's a T at the end of that.

I always think it's stay puff. Stay, that's fine. Either way, It's a good, like, fake branding of a fake thing. Like, yeah, but, like, do marshmallows deflate? Like, why is that there, brother? That it will stay puffed.

Yeah, I guess if you're the bottom of your grocery bag. But even then, I think you give them a little time. Yeah, most marshmallows do. I don't like marshmallows. So when we buy them, we don't go through them very quickly. And then we end up with stale ones. Oh, stale marshmallow That's like cereal marshmallow

Stale puffed marshmallows Speaking of cereal marshmallows Last month Count Chocula It was only back For one month a year now What? It's been canceled? Like you don't do Count Chocculia anymore?

Yeah, he did some shit He did something to Frankenberry I want to say He let's just say He turned someone's milk brown And not the way you're thinking The Yeah

So I bought some for my kids and they loved it. And it's not as good as it used to be. Yeah. It's different. What is, you know? But then they, I bought a second box after they devoured the first one. And they were like, well, you don't like it that much.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, so you have some left you're saying. Oh, yeah. You want to take it home? I would love to try some. Um, the, but then this month I bought, uh, I saw at the store, uh, they had stranger things demogorgon crunch. Oh, my gosh.

I like that you're a fun cereal household. Of course. It's the way to be. And the Like a cornflake Only one kid was willing to try it It's got Well what is your knowledge of stranger things

Did you ever watch it? Yeah they're in the upside down There's the demigorgon is the D&D monster There's a demagorgon What do you think the theme of the Serial is? 11 Well let's see I saw

What is 11 eat? I saw a stranger saying things Ego Ego's Egos It's a waffle theme It's a really game Okay I guess it must be made by Kellogg's as well And then

But it's It's what they're a little waffle shaped. It's so confusing. Oh, yeah. And they are, um, uh, uh, maple flavored. Okay. Which tastes okay, but stinks. Like you open the bag and the room reeks.

Oh, wow. Seems like an oversight. Yeah. Um, and then they have demigorgon, uh, marshmallows. Oh, fun. Oh, they're shaped like a demigorgon. I guess. So it's like a, a unplaceable blob.

I don't remember. I, yeah. I don't, I didn't, I don't remember much. Just they, they had a strange flower-like faces, the demagorgans, if I recall. Oh, yeah. What did you guys have when you were young? Because I had favorites, favorite, favorites, golden grams. Yeah.

Golden grams. Absolutely. Cinnamon toast crunch. I had golden daves. And how, did those come on the marshmallows? Golden daves. Yeah, they came with mushrooms. Yeah.

I mean, I would eat anything, really, but those are like, I love those. Golden grams and. Cinnamon toast crush. Cinnamon Toadish, oh, my God, sure. And then, like, yeah, if I was lucky, like, Pac-Man cereal. If you were lucky, if you got Cinnamon Toast Grudge, you already loved. No, no, that was all lucky. And it was never supposed to be for breakfast.

If there was a, what was it supposed to be? It was, like, an afternoon snack. It was after school. It was, like, not for breakfast. I'm hitting that cereal first thing in the morning, I got to admit. That's cornflakes, so it's barely even a fun cereal. I still crunchy, which is so good. Yeah, we would get, my, my, I'm the youngest of four.

And so they often talk about how my parents gave up parenting by the time I came along and then same so they would like and when I was very young I would get Rice Krispies and I would shake a little bit of sugar on yeah remember that you're putting sugar on cereal

that's wild and then now we I would do every like golden grams no no um not golden grams sugar crisp sugar can you get enough of that sugar yeah you never got enough of it and then you go tricks you get tricks

tricks were a little intense even for me like fruit loops were If you wanted some fruity fruit loops Was I couldn't get down with fruit loops too To probably didn't like fruity brubbles Did you? No I don't think I ever had fruity pebbles to be honest They're like fruity rice Krispies

I think Yeah I think so My favorite Now are the Coco Krispies But we can't get them in Canada Oh So I used to go down to Target and get them But I don't go down to there anymore

Still I think The reigning champ of the sweet cereals is frosted flakes. I feel like that's pretty good, but I don't know. I mean, just the crunchiness, it stays crunchy the whole time. Does it? Yeah. No, it does. Yeah, it's got like a varnish on it.

It turns to mush. You just, you're eating it too slow. Yeah. No, no. You're reading too much in the newspaper. As a parent who picks up my kids' bowl after they. Do you guys have frosties? Sometimes.

All right. Right now. Frosties. Right now. They have cocoa crisper or count chocula right. Yeah, well, no, we don't have, we have Demogorgon crunch and only one of them liked it. What do they have this morning? They, Margo had eggs and Poppy had.

Very adult thing to have. Do you want eggs or Demigorgon crunch? What did Poppy have? Well, what I've been having is Honeybunches of Oats. Nothing else has that taste and nothing else has that crunch. Is that the commercial? That's really good. Nothing else.

Do you remember the commercials for Nutten Honey? Yeah. What do you have your breakfast? Nothing, honey. But tell me. Shut your mouth. And there's shut your mouth, honey. It was weird that they got, um, having Costello to do.

Yeah. Those commercials. They reanimated them like, yeah. The, um, uh, what was going to say? Um, I forgot what it was good. Shreddies. She had shreddies. Oh, you're shreddies.

Oh, yeah. I haven't had shreddies. I do combo. I usually, like, I, like, I, I, have granola, and then I'll put cereal in it. Nice. And I'll do a little combo platter. I gotta go pick up some more fun cereal.

This cornflakes is not kind of the best. We would do, my brother and I, after school, we would pour, you know, when you go to, like, 7-Eleven and you get a commemorative cup that's like a giant plastic thing, we would pour the cereal into there and the milk and eat it up like that. Oh, wow. And then my brother, I never did this, but my brother, like, oh, if we were, you know, oh, there's only like a little. little bit of fruit loops left and grab the next cereal cinnamon toast crunch and put it on top and mix I couldn't get on board with that so sugary it's a lot it's just it's just it's no more sugary than than just one of them it's all the all the sugars from all of them you know it's all mingles and oh god that sounds disgusting the milk solidifies turns into a cheese yeah yeah yeah sell it

then you sell it you become rich yes yeah I ever had that uh in new york there's a milk bar is it called and they make ice cream out of the out of uh cereal milk oh like like they'll flavor the ice cream with cereal they'll you they'll make like they'll make their kids milk from their fruity pebbles they'll put it to a big shared fat yeah make ice cream out of it and we'll call it fruity pebble cereal milk yeah something like that i had it once and it was disappointing as often these things are when you're like oh you gotta try well Something about really into drinking the milk afterwards. It's always kind of gross to me.

You were? No, that's the big, that's the big finale. Yeah, you drink the sugar milk. Yeah. And then you think, boy, I could use another bowl. Yeah. One bowl, never enough. Never enough.

My tongue, I can, my tongue doesn't hurt enough. I need more. So, Mark. Yeah. Graham. How are you? I'm well. I got to see you briefly this weekend.

Oh, what a show. Oh, Aguar? Uh, no, Emmett. We went and saw a Necronado. Emmett Hall, front man of Necronado, a speed metal, thrash metal? Kind of like a thrash metal. Thrash metal band? Yeah.

What's faster speed or thrash? Well. I gotta go with speed. I'm gonna get speed. Yeah. It's got to be faster. Yeah, you were the first one there. Yeah.

And I was the last one there. Where was it? A bar? Yeah, a bar. It's called Lanna Loo. Lanna Lus on Hastings. It's like a real rocker roll bar. Yeah.

You can picture the bathroom. What does the bathroom look like at a rock and roll bar? Christine. Sort of like, have you seen the shining? Yeah. It's the wall, floor to ceiling, stickers. Did you, did it used to be called something else? Possibly?

Maybe. I don't know. It looked like they were like, just put the tables and chairs anywhere. We're going to do something. Yeah. Eventually. Like, I don't, it's called it. It was like a rest, when I looked it up on Google Maps, it was like restaurant.

And I have a certain idea when something says restaurant and I got it. It's like, no, there's like a whole spaghetti factor. Rock and roll bar. Yeah, yeah. No, it's, to call it a restaurant is not fair. Yeah. Lana Luz. Lana Luz.

It was part of a, it was part of a small festival. I had just come from, I'd watch two other performances that night, that we were just coming from a, a play about, these neurodiverse people in French it was a very different show it was in French was that was that frozen no no

something else and so we watched that and then booked it over to see Emmett's band oh it's been Lana Luz since Google Street View has been around I mean that sign

oh wait no it used to be oh ok Japanese house yeah is that Oko or Yoko well it could be Oko it's uh the tree's in the way there's no way to know oh no

it moved but yeah it was like it was an honest to goodness rock and roll bar set up around a stage I was like we got to get there early because there's like five bands on the roster so I'm like if each band has 10 people then it's going to be packed going to be full yeah so it's like we got to get there first so we showed up before the door person even showed up and I tried two more times to go to the door person to give the money they were not there until did they did you pay oh yeah I paid $40 and sweet cash I never dead never got a chance to i guess i could

on the way out the door i was it forty dollars was it 20 20 20 20 oh yeah yeah um and he was the first their band was the first one up yeah and uh man oh man i just remember from like did each band have 10 guys in the audience uh no no i think i honestly think that i keep peeking of it so i'm kind of loud i honestly think necrano

i think that had brought in the most people because it kind of windled after that i was so we parked and i was looking for the venue we're like it's around here somewhere that I just hear I'm like oh I think it's over there and it was like Was Emma wearing his leather jacket? He was wearing a leather jacket and he had a skull That his dad

Oh he had an extra skull That his dad had a bunch of them from a play And so he had the skull Was it a neurodiverse French play? No it wasn't that one That he is the same skull Mark had to bring it over from one venue to the other That's why I was in a rush.

But apparently there are guys that they're the dudes that are at every show. There's like five or ten guys that go to every single metal show in the city. Yeah. And I was like, hmm, maybe I'd be one of those guys. Yeah. I should join up with those guys. I think I'm more French. I think you're more French.

You're not, you're more French. Just we autistique. Bam. The, uh, I immediately put, um, wet toilet paper in my ears when I got there. I had earplugs. You should have just attached. Oh, you had spares? Yes, they were also wet, though.

Yeah. I couldn't even touch. I give them on the inside of my mouth, like tobacco. The irony, or maybe this isn't ironic, but the, like, the need to get your attention to ask for earplugs and how loud that environment was. It was so. It would have been impossible. I mean, earplugs. Oh, dear.

I wish, I thought that you had them, so I didn't. Guitar-based drums? Guitar-based drums, and I forgot from early days of playing gigs. So much setup, so many cables. Oh, my God. So much testing this and I'm testing that and. And the stage, oh, yeah, because you were there for the whole thing. Yeah.

The stage didn't fit the entire band. So the bassist and the guitar player were off the stage. Yeah. This is a small stage for a four-piece band. Very small stage. Good thing. Not everyone brought 10 people. Yeah.

Well, then I witnessed the next drummer rehearsing while the band that. That is true. Well, Nekronado was playing the drummer that was going to go on next. Uh-huh. He was like practicing. with earphones and like a drum, like a little pad. He was like looking at stuff going

but there was a different beat going on that was very loud. Do you know many drummers? My brother was a drummer. Guy that I worked with at CBC was a drummer. You played the drums. I played the drums poorly. Yeah.

Do you find that when you're hanging out with them they're constantly tapping on stuff? Yeah. It's part of who they are. I do that anyway and I was never a drummer. That's how I was. playing along with the music because I was doing a lot of drumming

because I didn't want to stand I had a seat tap it to tap it up to tap it yeah periddle periddle periddle I did some of those but is that is that your first time seeing Emmett yeah I didn't see them there was two other opportunities

that I missed and so I was like I cannot miss the chance and Emmett was just on the town show and he plugged the show and I'm gone I think I think you're right I think he brought in the most people, but whenever you see a poster, you're like, okay, so these are the opener openers, and this is the headliner, this is who's bringing in all that.

But if it's a real metal show, the names are inscrutable. They're just ink blots. Oh, yeah, just, yeah, look like they're like, yeah. And I had an Echronado shirt, can't find it, but I could have been wearing the shirt or the band that I know. Oh, I know. Mark, so you mentioned the town show. Yeah.

What is that? Yeah, what is it? Oh, let me tell you. Um, it's a show where, uh, Ryan Beale and I, uh, past guests, uh, interview, uh, Canadian, too. Uh, usually we have a guest on and we, a comedian style person and we interview them about where they're from or a town they lived in and we talk about a little bit of that, like what stood out about their town. And then for the second half of the show, we do improvised, uh, scenes in our town that we are building, uh, bit by bit piece by piece. So we'll add a new piece of, uh, building. or a character, and then we improvise in and around that, and it's a hoot.

Dave's been on it. I've been on it. And so you're building this town in your mind. Yeah. You're about a year in. Yeah, recently. And you have like, like, someone will come on and be like, this place needs a skate park. Yes.

And then we'll do scenes around a skate park. We've had, we don't have a skate park yet. What did you bring? I brought a 50-style diner. Oh, like a Johnny Rocket kind of, yeah. Yeah, the place I grew up near was called sodas. Nice. And then I think we also came up with like a CanCon style way of having music in the town.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's exactly right. So do you have this, has anybody mapped this town out? Yes. Yeah, an artist just got in touch with us and was like, here, I've drawn your town. Wow. Everything up to that point was represented. Wow.

And we're going to, we're working on. And you were like, I think there's a French play, you might have. You should be in. Yeah. Yeah. The community is really great. We've, um, some people have like made a, we did a call out for a flag or town need of if I had a lot of submissions and we now have a new town flag.

What is the flag? Um, it's, so, uh, the first episode had, uh, Peter Oldring was our, was our first guest. And Peter said we need a town. We need a fountain. Sure. So we have this fountain with these two legs that are sticking out. And the town motto is written on the fountain. And the motto is never shall we know where the legs do meet because the two legs meet under the water.

Oh, okay. And that saying in the lore of our town just means, God only knows. Or, you know, we should never understand. This is not for us to know. Yeah, not for us to know. And so it's a picture. It's kind of a version of that fountain with a, with a, the motto.

Yeah. That's very nice. Did you grow up playing SimCity? Yeah. Yeah. We've actually talked about SimCity and Sim Ant. Very recently, we had Ellie Entwistleline, and she brought up how she played either roller coaster tycoon.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. She was like, yesterday, I paid seven hours of this roller coaster game. And so we're like, oh, we love talking about those things. And so, yeah, we, uh, SimCity. Mine would always, I'd make it work and then just leave off the last part. Yeah. Everybody would.

I've never played it. I really want to. It's Sims-esque. I think I played something similar where it was like a theme park tycoon or something. It might have been that. And then you could get on it. You could ride the rides that you. Yeah.

Yeah. You, yeah, you manage the. Anyway, yes. And we, it, there is a connection there. I also played the Sims a lot. Yeah. You know. Keeping these characters alive in these games was not my forte.

Oh, really? Yeah. Like by accident? No, on purpose. He took the ladder out of the swimming pool kind of guy. Yeah, exactly. He's got a closet full of soaked tamagatchez. Yeah, exactly.

And that's when the cops find me, that'll be evident. So I'll be wearing a tamagachi on my face that I carved off. You're sick man. Yeah, he's been kind of going through an Ed Gein phase. Every 45-year-old does. That's right. What are you made those gloves out of? Never mind.

Oh, my God. And like, when you started, what was the thing from your town that it was that you added to the town? Was your initial contribution? Or do you get to do that as the host? We don't really get, like, we did do an episode where we've done an episode where I introduced, where I interview Ryan and Ryan interviewed me. And I think, I don't remember what I added. There's so many things. What would you add?

What would I add right now? Well, a skate park. Nice, nice, very cool I would add I would add a weird tunnel A fat camp We already had a tunnel

A fat camp A weird tunnel You mean like a There's like a drainage tunnel Or something like that Where kids hang out Weird like dangerous tunnel Yeah yeah

But we've had similar stuff already Though we had so many things I would add a I would add a craft store Oh nice Like a Michaels Yeah I went to Michaels this week

Did you? Did you? Um, Bopsicle sticks. Um, no, Margo needed a certain shade of brown paint. She's making a miniature bed for her calico critters. There you go.

Oh, oh, I saw that on your counter next to the free for all Halloween candy. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I feel great after eating that candy. I know later I'm really not going to feel great, but right now, top of the world. You had like three pieces.

Uh, yeah. Is that enough to make you feel bad? Uh, we'll see. They're fun size. I know. It's true. And maybe I'm having fun because they're fun. I had a cat, I had a caramel milk.

Caramel, yeah. Is that a Canada only? No, I did say it like I didn't understand it, but I just couldn't remember. The big thing, do you remember their advertising slogan? It was how do you get the caramel in the caramel milk bar? This might be Canadian only. Maybe it is, yeah. That was their big, and it was like, who cares, man?

Just keep making that. There's too much caramel. So the night that I saw, that I saw Emmett's band and that I saw this other play, that Dave keeps bringing up. Well, I think it sounds like my kind of play. I saw a third performance, and it was this person doing a, just like a kind of a, it was a free performance, and it was like this kind of comedy mixed with like just weirdo art stuff,

which is, it was great. But she started by just playing this song that was like so deep for my childhood, and it was an ad for Nestle's white chocolate bar. And the song goes Um Uh Annie How does it go

They just spell Nestle's N-E-S-T-L-E-S You guys didn't have that though, did you? Did you ever have white chocolate? Nesley's white chocolate? No, but are you just singing hot to go? You might be singing hot to go. Oh no, no, no.

It was a I did do it to the hot to go It's hard to get that out of your brain. I know. Now it's just in my brain. We have to look it up. I'll have to look it up. Um, so this is a

uh, yeah, we had, we had Hershey's white, chocolate white chocolate became like such a thing

in the early 90s or the early 90s maybe yeah is it the Nestle alpine white no

dream commercial 1986 is oh that sounds about right sweet dreams are made of this that looks like

the guy yeah that was Marilyn Manson this is a we're getting the bars in town why is it

doing the bars five seconds left no this is shit sweet dream this is it sweet dream

Seems he can't resist N-E-S-E-L-E-S A guy in a white turtle neck The guy looks so good This does look pretty good There's a woman figure skating She's turning into cream She's got a hood on

This is pretty sexy as that's good This isn't for kids No, it's an adult chocolate bar for sure Oh wow, he's about to found her Holy cow Yeah I couldn't resist it Why would you?

With a sexy promise like that? No, it's suggesting my mix. That's counting crows. Well, let's listen. No, it's a commercial. No, it's Angels of the Silence. This is for the second album. I like that that's part of your feed.

I have so many commercials in my brain from, like, like, too many. Yeah. I got sparkles in my toothpaste. Sparkle, sparkle in a starry shape. Starry, story is they, like, why do I have? that in my, like, I could do. Yeah, I'm trying to think of one that, uh, I feel like there's one for cussars. I'm the master rapper and I'm here to say, I love fruity pebbles in a major way.

Um, what, uh, so we do these bonus episodes on the show where we get people to call in with their local jingles from what, that's great. From where they're, uh, from. A lot of water parks. A lot of like everywhere has, every local water park has a jingle. Yeah. What was, was there one in Albuquerque or what is this the jail? There was the beach.

There was the beach water park, but I can't remember what the jingle. was the jingle from your, like, from your town. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's such a good question. Like one of mine was two, seven, three, seven three, seven three, pizza, 73. Uh, there, I only can think of, there was a guy, there was the guy, the, we carry contracts. We carry, it was Mr. Credit and Mini Credit, but that's not a jingle. That's pretty good, though, yeah.

Hi, I'm Mr. Credit, and this is Mini Credit, and we carry our own contracts, and I still don't know what that means. Like, what is carrying their own contracts made? I don't know. Who was mini credit? He was the other guy. Was he small? Yeah. Kind of.

He's just a little bit smaller? Yeah. He was maybe a bit shorter than Mr. Credit. No, there's, let me, I don't know. No, it's fine.

You're on the spot. No, but no. Like, I'll go to a town and I'll see their local, you know, like if you watch the local channel, you'll get to see their local commercials. Oh, yeah, yeah. They suck. Exactly.

They got nothing on my town. But there's a guy in Toronto that buys gold. He has like, he's kind of like the character from gold member. Like he's like, I love gold. I buy gold. Yeah. And he's this weird old looking guy. Gold's going by in the background.

I do love the idea of like, yeah, I've always wanted to run my own business. But mostly I've always wanted to be in my own commercials. The ones I'm remembering are just, they're so very like that one was a mobile. home selling place. And they just did the most uncreative is called A1 homes. A1 is number one.

Like that's as far as they got. That's all you, that's as far as you need to go. That's great. There was a great billboard that I remember that's still around that it just says hurt called Burt. There's a picture of Burt. There's one in Washington State

called Olympic Boat Center. Do you remember the theme? No. Olympic Boat Center will make a boat nut out of you. And then I think it, like, came later that they changed their, the jingle got so popular that they changed their phone number to 1,800 Boatnut. We got to buy it off a porn company, you know, no kidding. Boatnut. Yeah, there was a guy growing up this way.

Are you guys doing Boatnut November? Doing it now Doing it right now There was a guy in Seattle Where was he But be sure to honk When you drive by Vern Fonk Oh that's great

Yeah That's really great And you know what Drove past it Honked It was the best Can I get your opinions On a thing

I recently came to My desk My mind That came across my desk That those stickers That said This topic is I knew you were gonna say this

The topic came up recently. The honk if you're horny, honk if whatever. I always thought when you read that, you would just like honk happily. Like honk if you like, whatever, Star Trek,

can you honk? But somebody explained it somewhere that it's like, no, if someone's mad at you and they're honking at you because you've done something. And then you're retaliating that they're honking because of their horny.

Yeah, you can just tell yourself. Is that what it's, is? I don't know. I don't know. I want it. Personally,

I want to know who's horny. Yeah. This whole, well, actually the chicken is crossing to the other side, trying to get to the other side, and the other side is death. Like, that doesn't, yeah, I don't get anything out of that. I don't need these things to have multiple levels. Okay, here's another one. Godfather's pizza.

Do it. That was national. Yeah, he had a big white hat. Did he? Yeah, he looked like a gangster. He looked like Al-Cabom. Do it. Do it.

We had Blake's Lotta Burger. They just said, everything just, They just sang their own places. Yeah. Yeah, that's what you got to do, man. Yeah. Now, my mind is really, I'm trying to remember the one for chicken on the way. I remember that just being a funny name of a place, chicken on the way.

Blake's Lottaburger in our town was one of the, you know, how Vern and Ernest, you know, Ernest. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was our, that was what he did for our. Oh, really? Yeah, it was Blake's Laudderberger. Wow. That was the most confusing ad thing to me. So for people unaware, Ernest from the Ernest movies.

Jim Varney, yeah, started at, the character started as doing local advertisements, but not local to one place. He did national local commercials. And so he would, they would, I think how it worked is they would set up the day and he would, they would set up the shot. And then he would do all the different ads for the one, for the one setup and then do, and then they would, they would sell it to different regions all over the country. And he became so famous by doing that, that's why they gave him a movie. Yeah. Well, not just one. That's true.

Oh, yeah. Dynasty, really. And he was a good actor. Oh, he's great. Yeah. He always did different characters in his movies, right? I mean, he mostly did Ernest, but he did. I mean.

He was in Beverly Hills. Yeah, it was an Ernest-adjason character. And he was Slinky Dog in Toy Story, I think. Oh, was he? Yeah. He was replaced by a name Blake something that has a similar kind of voice. Blake's Ladaberger. That's him.

Yeah. A couple weeks ago, it might even been last week, we were talking about a, commercial for a submarine sandwich place in Chicago that, uh, I mean, we should probably show Mark so he can enjoy it, too. Oh, please. Yeah. This is, uh, this is the, the 90s when the Bulls were like at their, this might have even been the late 80s. No, it's 1989, yeah. So this is, this is a young Scottie Pippin.

And this is a real ad. Chicago's original submarine, Mr. Submarine. This is one six foot. I can't hound the one-on-one. Ladies, let's have a party. Choose for Mr. Submarine's great lineup of your favorite subs. Mr. Submarines' king-size sub, a regular sub piled high with your favorite meats and cheeses. For the best-tasting meal around, Mr. Submarine is the real stuff.

Mr. Submarine. Oh, my God. There's so many things in it. It looked like they were green-screened onto a basketball court at one point. They didn't have the sub. sandwich high enough to Photoshop in a giant sub

So now my YouTube has suggested I watch a Like a fake fireplace A two hour fake fireplace Of just a pumpkin scene Yeah What happens an hour into this thing?

So he's speaking on Oh the candle moves Yeah That looks like AI Yeah I think it's AI I've already been I've been duped by a couple

Cute Animal videos Oh really? I'm like, well, it begins. This is the slippery slope. My algorithm wants me to watch AI people stealing packages and then it exploding into confetti. That's fun. Yeah. At least your AI is having fun.

Yeah. I guess your raccoons in a vending machine. And I was like, this is like one had got in and was dropping down chips and stuff. We're helpless if it's something awesome like that. I know. You're going to have to watch it. Oh, God, I'm so in the, my brain is just doing a rolodex of all the, I'm sorry. If you come up with another one, just to shout out.

Sorry we did this to you. Oh, no, I just want to. Chicago's original summary. What do you say? This six foot's too much for me to handle. This is one six footer. I can't handle on my own ladies. Let's have a party.

And then the, uh, they say cross-legged on the court. What does he normally handle six-footers? Well, six-foot's pretty small. Yeah. For the NBA, it seems like not. I imagine Scott. They shouldn't have Bugsy Moogs. Six-eighter, yeah, or Bugsy Mokes maybe.

Wecklam to the show Bugsy Mokes. And the cheerleaders are called, do you remember what they were called? The Bulls cheerleaders? Yeah. The bullets. What were they? Blets. Lovable.

The lovable. With your favorite meats and cheeses. Can you throw on my favorite meats and cheeses? They have so much fredded lettuce in the sandwich. It's really, yeah. I remember the BC Lions cheerleaders. the Canadian Football League team, their cheerleaders were called the

felines. Oh, that's funny. Which is, I guess, like, female lions, but also cats. Yeah. Yeah. That's like they could lionesses. It's so good.

Yeah. Gee, now I'm trying to think of what the stampede. It's probably just stampeder girls, but. Yeah, cowboy. Cowboys. Cowboys. Yeah. We had a.

The Dixie chicks. There was a hockey team, weirdly, in Albuquerque, a very small promotion. I think they, they were like the quad A kind of. deal. They played four of their five other

teams regionally and they the scorpions their cheerleaders were called the stingers. Yeah. That's good.

Yeah. People came, came, you know, I bet they did. For the stingers. Yeah. Was it

Paula Abdul who's, and then Jennifer Lopez also? Jennifer Lopez was a fly girl. She was a fly girl. That's right.

Fly girls were the cheerleaders for them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Man, when they got it

right on that show, they got it right. They figured what do people want right off the bat? Cute dancer. Remember when In Living Color did a Super Bowl halftime show? Very much. I don't remember that. Yeah.

They did it so you could tune in to In Living Color is a live broadcast. Right as the real. Oh, wow. Really? Is this for real? Yeah. You changed the channel. That's amazing.

In Living Color. It was a really smart move. I've done that where I changed it to the puppy bowl. And I've watched the puppy ball at noon. At noon. How do you watch the Puffie Bowl? What's the puppy bowl? It was like, it was on another channel.

They would throw a ball and they'd just kind of run around this like a fake stadium. Oh, no. Graham? That was AI. Oh, shit. Oh, no, no, they were running on a treadmill. They were hitting. Human hands.

They were saluting a soldier. A veteran. The, yeah, because like prior to like 1990, that Super Bowl halftime show was like hands across America or whatever like up with people yeah it was the one I think we talked about ages ago the Indiana Jones like salute to Indiana Jones oh God it was just a weird kind of like stunt stage show yeah and who was it that broke the the rule of it and it became like a celebrity maybe Michael Jackson yeah new kids on the blog you guys excited about that new Michael uh biopic I didn't I knew Michael Jackson biopic yeah it's

and there's a scene in it where who's playing Michael Jackson I don't Oh. I honestly don't know. I saw a picture of him. I don't, I don't, uh, I don't know who he is, but. The movie is called Michael. It comes out in 2026. What if they got John Trevold to the book. What's the, what's the take? Uh, it's Jafar Jackson as Michael Jackson. And, uh, he's Michael Jackson. He's unstoppable and nothing bad ever happens. The end. No. I bet you. Miles Teller is John Branca. Branca.

Who plays Quincy Jones? Um, what? What era of his life is Kendrick Sampson is Quincy Jones In the trailer he says Michael, just don't do that dancing in here That was the kind of like Coleman Domingo is Joe Jackson

Oh, do you think they covered the Jackson five years? That'll be AI I guess they might Well, also there's a young Michael Jackson Yeah, I could see it There's a Diana Ross There's a Barry G Bubbles of the Chimp

Latoya as herself Who's bubbles at Chim? I want to see his mom Andy Circus. Yeah. Yeah, it's a... Looks to be a Dick Clark involved. I don't know where...

Like, because it's always a span of time in their lives. So I wonder if it stopped short of... It's not always a span of time. Yeah, sometimes it's the whole thing. Yeah. It sounds like origin story all the way to... This looks nostalgic more than... Damn it.

Yeah, it doesn't look like it's going to do anything. The, um, uh, like, uh, the Bob Dylan one was. It's a short span of time. Yeah. And apparently the Bruce Springsteen one is a short span of time. Same with the passion of the price. That was a short period of time. That's a biopic.

Is it considered a biopic? I guess. It was sort of, yeah, it was like one crazy night. Yeah. The Jesus had. What was the Elton John one? Was that a short span of time? I don't know.

No, because he starts as a child and then they start. It's a musical. And then I saw what else is playing on this plane? Oh, that. And the Bohemian Rhapsody was years. Yeah. And years. Yeah.

Even years after he, Freddie Mercury passed away. Oh, the movie continued. Yeah. It's still going on. Yeah. It's happening right now?

Yeah. I'm going to do you. Nothing, man. Come on. Shut up. Give it to me. We had Halloween. Yeah.

Fun? Yeah. It was pouring rain until like Trickers reading started. But all day long, it seemed like this is going to be a washout. Yeah, this is going to suck. Mm-hmm. It's good at 6 p.m. Yeah.

6 p.m. You could go. But my kids trick-or-treated in other neighborhoods. Yeah. So I was like mostly. And at different times, like one kid wanted to be dropped off at 7 or at 630. One wanted to be dropped up at 6. So I'm like, I spend the whole night driving, which I hate doing on Halloween.

Oh, the scary. And I stayed only on the main street and like parked a couple blocks from our house. Right, right. Because I didn't want to drive into the neighborhood. But we drove, I want to say, 15 kilometers an hour down the streets to make sure that it was, those kids, they're dressed dark, first of all. Oh, my gosh. It's not like E.T. where they're trick-or-treating in the daylight. Yeah, yeah.

Remember an E.T? That always blew my mind. It's like, why you know what I was on the light? Like, your parents are even home from work yet to end up candy. Yeah, it's, yeah, it would be kind of fun to trick-or-treating in the daytime. Not a spooky. When we went trick-or-treating my wife, and she implemented a zigzagging technique across the street, which I never did growing up. Well, she would be like, well, let's go, we'd take him across the street to the house and we'd go back across the street to the next. Instead of doing a street.

I think it was because our neighborhood was probably like 50% lights off. Sure. 50% jack-o-lanterns out front. Yeah. You know. Also, we have this doorbell that, um, that, um, that, always does like you can program in we have an app for it and you can program in like sounds so in christmas time it will play a jingle bells or whatever at Halloween it'll do like a witch laugh

when you ring the doorbell oh nice and uh it was the company is called nest they were purchased by google a couple years ago i was uh told i needed to change my app the doorbell now is a brick So as of October 31st, the one day we need to the doorbell, it was not working. The, disappointing. If you get a car share in Vancouver, Evo, the welcome message was done in Vampire twice. That actually, I wouldn't say it scared me, but I did have like a bit of a jump. Yeah. Where does the welcome message come from?

Your phone or the car? The car. It comes from inside the car. It goes, welcome to Evo. It was pretty good. Yeah. I hope fingers crossed, they keep that all year.

Yeah. It has got a really great response. People love it. I don't see why we can't continue this. I hope the act. Merry Christmas. Got a one-time fee. It doesn't get rid of those.

Oh, absolutely. And guarantee we know that person. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know who it is. But we never happened to be in the office that day. So yeah, that was one thing. One thing that's a funny thing that happened is my kids' school, they have these

playgrounds and they have wood chips on the ground and then for some reason they waited till the school year started before they did repairs on the playgrounds so like first week of school playgrounds closed yeah the worst that's the one thing you look forward to yeah i mean uh but it wasn't like it was just they didn't need to do major upgrades or anything they just wanted to replace the sort of like uh wood around the edges sure and then they added a bunch of fresh wood chips and it was very cool the morning they were doing it. The guy had, like, a hose. He was shooting wood chips.

Oh, shit. Are you serious? Yeah. Oh, that's so cool. How'd I get one of those? Wood chips hose. But the thing is, they put in way too many wood chips. So can plan out pretty fast and furious or it got clogged?

Can you imagine a fireman mistaking? Oh, God, you're making the worst. That's the wood chips hose. Yeah. Oh, you attached it to the wood chip hydrant. Yeah. Oh, dang it. I'm fired, aren't I?

but they put in just too many like it was it looked great but then as soon as the kids got on there the chips just piled up like there were these huge ruts under the swings

from when the kids were like yeah and then like wood chips got piled up and kids were building like trenches it was like there was like a maze happening

they were really like using the wood chips yeah and the principal told them to knock it off. Yeah. Get out of eight. Stop playing around. Yeah. This is the morning's announcement. Stop it. Knock it off. But that first day with all the fresh wood chips,

ooh. Yeah. Oh, I love a fresh wood chips. A smell? Yeah. It's better than that Demogorgon crunch. Yeah. Way safer than when we were little. Yeah. I had gravel. Yeah. Do you have gravel? Yeah. Or dirt. Yeah. A lot of our playgrounds are just like on dirt.

They were really, they tried to keep us from having gravel fights. But you know what? Yeah. take away the gravel then yeah yeah we had wood chips i remember like falling off the swings and getting splinters in my hands but then now i see a lot of them have like squishy they got like rubber yeah those are like a wet suit material yeah yeah there was uh when i was walking to go to sally's sister's place to hand out candy there was uh like a Halloween display but we're like what is it on and it was a sunken trampoline so oh yeah which i never said that was great yeah i That's so cool.

Was it like a full size? Full size. I don't think they're that cool. No? Because I see them in my neighborhood and they don't like, I think like people put them in their yards because they don't want the eyesore of a big trampoline. But then you don't get up as high. But they're safer day. They're safer, but also I don't see kids.

The kids don't seem to use them. Yeah. I mean, I should be allowed to use them. If I go by and there's no kid on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I should be able to do some fun bounces. Yeah. Crack the egg.

Do a flip. Yeah. Did you ever a trampoline as a child? No, we didn't, our family didn't have one, but I did a lot of trampolining. I must not have a friend. Yeah, I had a couple friends. Yeah. We got one eventually, but I was too old but trampoline at that point.

We had them, we had one that we would rent it in the summer and then eventually our neighbor was like, well, why don't we buy one with you? And then we take it in the 10 months of the year, it's not summer, and you take it in the two months that summer. Pretty good deal. And we were like, yeah, sure. Yeah, nice. um did you guys like did you do wrestling we did wrestling yeah we did we did uh we did uh double bouncing we did a bum war we did a new war what's bum war it's bum war it's like uh you you just see it you saw who many who could do the most bum drops in a row which is kind

of like you would just like one two three four out of bum war and then you kick your legs out from yeah you land on your feet you land on your butt land on your feet oh and you try to Keep the rhythm up. Oh, that's great. Yeah. Yeah. We'll go to the place I saw. We'll go jump.

We'll do bum work. Yeah. And then there is a. Bum fights came out of that and that was way horrible. Very different. This was a, this was before they had like the fences around them, the like net around them. Yes. And ours was square.

And we would, um, we would do a thing where like people would, you would get your stuffed animals and you try to throw them at the, it was basically dodge ball, but you're on a trampoline. That's fun. And you'd throw stuffed animals at the person in the middle. We put sometimes sprinkler under the trampoline in the summer. That was fun. That's good. So dangerous, but we all survived. I think there was a couple kids.

Because of slipping. Oh, because you didn't have the netting around, of course. No, no, no. We lived at a time where it was just, you just jumped off. I think my friends didn't even have pads on theirs. It was just straight up springs and. Yeah. Now, we sometimes take our kids to the trampoline park out in the suburbs.

And that is, um, I feel like that wasn't on. Is it indoor or outdoor? It's indoor. Right. And it's, uh, it's, uh, it's, uh, It's everything you want in a drug story. Yeah. That wasn't around, at least not Calgary when I was a kid.

We didn't have one growing up. But did you, do you just like take them and they go into the air and then you sit and have like a coffee? A lot of parents do. Yeah. Or do you go in? My kids are a little clingy. So we would come in with them as a family. Now I think I could take them and leave them.

But not leave them, but like observe. Go have a coffee. But then you go in, they make you buy special socks. uh and then you have to buy socks yeah that's how they get you yeah it's always the socks exactly and then there's like really long like trampolines that are like a a like a long strip that you can run down there's some on the walls right there's some on there's some that like jump into like a foam pit yeah how big is the liability waiver the you have to side uh you do have to yeah it's so dangerous you have to sign a waiver yeah um uh uh uh

God, yeah. We, I mean, we had laser tag. That was the, which laser tag is still on offer now. Yeah, you can still do laser tag. Laser tag was like the, that was the fun indoor. The place I go is right now. They have a laser tag on site, but we've never gone. You should leave your kids trampoline.

I'll be right back. I'm going to do a little bit of laser tag. Laser tag, like you wear a little receiver thing and then it would like buzz if you get hit. Yeah. Yeah. And then you say, no, I didn't. Yeah. I didn't feel that.

Got you. And also it would have black light. And also as a kid, it would play Mortal Kombat theme song. The best theme song in the world. The trampoline plates also does, like, suddenly turn out the lights. And then it's blacklight unannounced. And then, like, how long is this going to last it, 45 minutes later? Oh, my God.

But also, you don't want to be, you don't have the black light just sprung on you. Because God knows when the last time you cleaned your jeans were. You know what I mean? We went to, did you guys, have you heard? There was a pumpkin festival here. Oh, no. Uh, and I didn't get an invite. It's this, it, you just, it's a, it's a, it's in a park and you just walk around and they have a whole bunch of sculptures, all met, everything's made out of pumpkin.

Okay. Just full pumpkin. I didn't know what it was in for. So we like, when we bought the tickets online, it was like, do you want, uh, uh, tickets for the maze? I was like, you know, take the maze. Yeah. So we did the whole pumpkin watch, which was like enough. And this is like, we went with a little friend.

Where is this? It's in Burnaby. Okay. Okay. Out in the burbs. Out in the burbs. Uh, it. Not deep Burnaby, but like, anyway, it doesn't matter.

Beautiful, fun time. But then we get to this maze part, and it's black, black lit. And the maze is like, it's chrono three, chrono vision 3D. So you wear these, like, glasses that, like, make the light just a bit weird and give you a headache immediately. Uh-huh. But we got in. And the guy that were with the dad of the little boy that came with my son, Cosmo, like, is, the dad looked at it at the end of he's like, what? You guys have, like, green on your lips.

And we were both like, what? We look, we both had, it looked like we, like, it looked so, like, did he? No. Did anyone else? No, we both just had this, like, green around our mouth from, that the black light shut out, we were, like, frantically wiping it off. I didn't know what, I still don't know what it was.

Like, it might have been a lip balm or something. Oh, yeah. And you were, you were doing a lot of kissing in the car on the way of it. Yeah, look at we, like, got caught. Like, I just imagine, like, if it was, like, me and, like, someone. They shouldn't have been kissing or something. I feel like it would be so much fun to go like an art exhibit where they hand out some kind of fun glasses at the beginning. Like, this is going to be great.

Yeah. You know, it's, uh, I love that pumpkin place because they have this great jingle. And it's like, it's a. Burnaby Pumpkin Yard. Burnaby Pumpkin Yard. Yeah. Where everything is made out of pumpkin. Don't go in the maze with the woman that you're cheating with.

It'll be a. parent. Don't go in the face with the woman you're cheating. Why not? You got to do something. Yeah. What have you taken Cosmo to the Burnaby, um, the train? We did the train in confederation park in the, the, I think so.

Yes. How many trains are there? There's one big train and that goes around a little, oh, how many, yes, that one, yes. Yeah. We did it for a birthday party and it was so fun. It is a like, like, it's better than it should be for the price. Yeah, it's a very cheap, and then the train ride goes for a while. Like, you get on this train, like, you're past other trains.

They're like, well, where did they come from? And then you find out, because later on, you're on that same track. Yeah. It's like half an hour, 20 minutes. That's pretty good. Yeah. And it's the best, yeah. I'm going to go, I recommend.

Yeah, I think it's probably close for the year. No, no, it's $360. And then there's, of course, there's the Stanley Park train, which is harder to deal with. It's not doing, they're not doing it this year. They replaced it with a Harry Potter. thing. That's right. Or a tribute to

J.K. Rowling. Just, yeah, just her. Yeah, God, that was poorly received, wasn't it? Yeah, well, you know, you won't know until you put it up. Yeah, you got to try. Yeah.

That's the lesson of Harry Potter. It's like, try. Yeah. Just be yourself. There's no bad ideas. Graham, what's going on with you? Just to recap, what's going on with me? My kids had some extra wood chips

that they're still. Nice. Nice. Good. All right, well, so last week I was talking about how I went and saw Guar. Oh. And this past week, we saw Emmett's band. There was the third band in there they went to see called The Beaches.

Oh, the gorgeous ladies of rock. Yeah, Glor. What? Who were the Beaches? The Beaches is a band from Toronto, named after the Toronto neighborhood, The Beaches. Did you attend their tiny desk concert? Yep. I was just trying to work

We work Get off my tiny desk Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck I got a band that's coming in I got a deadline I clean up my man I want them to think I'm cool But they're like a fun rock

Kind of pop group And a lot of lyrics about Going out and partying And stuff like that And where was this? The Commodore? No this was at Out of the University

Oh Doug Mitchell Yes Doug Mitchell of Thunderbird Stadium. Oh, yeah. Indoor, right? Indoor. I don't think I've ever been there, but I've heard of it. Not the stadium.

Not the stadium. No, no. But although when we got there, we were walking towards the stadium before we checked out with the name of the place. But it was, there's so much fun. All their songs, it's kind of a genre.

They're all kind of the same. It's kind of like seeing like the Ramon's play. Like they, you know it's going to be about partying. You know, it's going to be about. Or like this show is like, yeah, every episode's different, but it's kind of the same. You know, it's going to be about old commercials. But it was, it was fantastic.

And when I showed up and we were walking around, whole different, huge span of ages. I would have thought it would have been like teen girls, maybe. That's sort of why you went. That's why I was there. It was a trap. It was from the movie Trapped. I'm going to try to trap this pervert. Yeah.

Yeah, that is weird And the movie Trapp It has nothing to do With the reason for the concert Isn't because he's Yeah Have you seen Trapp? Yeah, yeah

Fantastic I thought for the first 10 minutes It was filmed here But it wasn't Toronto In Toronto Yeah, yeah Normally Chamalon will do

Philadelphia Oh yeah Maybe was it set He's sort of the Bruce Springsteen of Pennsylvania I watched I watched Trap with TAS But we watched it Just texting each other at the same

time. Love it. Like, we both turned it on at the same time and just made jokes. If, uh, spoiler, that movie ends so many times and each ending gets crazier and crazier and they're like, okay, well, that's the end. What? Yeah. Uh, yeah.

Yeah. Um, anyway, sorry. Yeah. So, uh, like old 50 year old people. Mm-hmm. Old 50 year old people. Little kids, uh, with their, their parent that were, you know, maybe their first rock show. Aw.

There was a kid. Oh, now they think about it. There was a kid at the Guarca. concert up on his dad's shoulders and he wasn't wearing ear protection. So I think that's that's not right. No, it's not right. It's too loud. It's too loud.

But when I was a kid, I didn't put in. Oh, either. No, I didn't do it until I was in my mid-20. No, I didn't do it until my ears started hurting when I would hear things and I had the ability to plug my ears. I would just stick my head in the speaker. Yeah, yeah. So a lot of kids did that.

And I was, I was reminiscing about when I got my vaccine shot when we got in high school, everybody would get in the arm and then guys would just keep punching each other because oh yeah yeah yeah do you see do you go to music as often as you went this past week no but i feel like more more more i'm going out and seeing going to go see a live show yeah i really i enjoyed a lot i got to do i got to do it let's just go to the rickshaw we'll just pick a night do it we'll just see whatever band when i was in high school we all got our HPV vaccines and then we would punch each other the cervix do you ever get the injection into your cervix no we got it in the arm yeah we know he showed his

arm. He touched his arm. We knew who was going. I mean, ultimately, that's what it's for. Yeah, I'm seeing, I see too much theater. I gotta go see more music. You gotta go see some rock and roll. There's time.

There's room for both. The way you should start doing is TV. That's what I've been watching. Yeah. I heard about that. And honestly, if you got a TV, you gotta check out trap. It's so great. I know, I do mostly watch movies.

I've been trying, I have a list of TV shows and I, I, I can't. I can't dedicate that much time to, The thing. Yeah. It's hard. I was like, you know what? I made it 11 minutes into that show, The Pit. Oh, yeah.

And then I realized, oh, this is just going to be gore. Yes. It's just people's, like, injuries and stuff. Oh, gross. Yeah. We're watching a task, which is the funniest. Oh, yeah. Is that, Funniest name?

Is that Ruffalo? Yeah. Yeah. I love Mark Ruffalo. Yeah, me too. You can play a young Mark Ruffalo. Yeah, or a kid's age, Mark Ruffalo. We're looking for a Mark Ruffalo type.

We couldn't get him for his biopic. But we need a guy to do like a Markeruffalo, welcome to your Evo. Welcome to your, yeah. That's the secret. I'm always at an Evo. Hi, guys. Who does that actually sound like?

That's a good way to do impressions. Just do a voice. What is they? Yeah, what is this? Hey, who's this? Hello? Hey. Yeah, exactly.

Assign it. Then I can do the impression. My problem is I have a bunch of people. a bunch of TV shows that I've already watched like the first three seasons of and I just just so much effort

to do season four but if I watch like two episodes of something back to back I'm like I could just watch a movie like I'm no I'm not deeper into this series than I would be done

and I feel like there's so many good movies that I haven't seen yet that I would rather just like watch and they're like apparently what's going on in Hollywood these days

if someone has an idea for a movie the executives will be like I see this as an eight episode So, series about penguin. Everything that's the one guy. Is there a way you can work penguin into it?

And then even movies that are, they're like, oh, this should have been, like this movie actually should have been a series. Yeah. Yeah. They say the, what's the one that just came out? The Gien one, that had Ging one. It was like a very small story stretched over five episodes. Like skin stretched over a lampshed.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. And then there's, like, the different storylines, and there's always, like, often, not always, there's like a, the teen storyline and then the adult storyline, and then I just, I fall off, yeah. But, yeah, I went and saw this young band of rock and rollers. I'd seen them before. I saw them at the Commodore. And they, uh, they, uh, the, it was seated. And then, like, a couple of kids stood up was like, oh, no.

But luckily, there was no kids in front of us got to sit the whole time. Oh, nice. Yeah. Just like Necronado. Yeah. And Guar. I also said. Where was Guar?

At the, the Vogue. The Vogue. Yeah. And they, I'm sure you already talked about it. So, but they hold up. They're doing this. This is my first time even seeing them.

Oh, wow. Yeah. So, and it was great. I'd go again the next night. It was so much fun. It's like a, it's like a puppetry. It's like a performance art. Wow.

Yeah. It does feel like in Canadian music, there's only ever one band at a time that is like the band that is like the bandit can play arenas. Yes. And is it still Russell Peters is ours? No, it's currently the beaches. Yeah. The beaches can do it.

Prior to that, it was the Arkells. I believe it was metric for a time. Yeah, it's just it's like when I was growing up, it's like you can, there can be one comedian celebrity. For a long time, it was Rick Berser. Right. Oh, in Canada. Yeah, in Canada.

Yeah, there was Sean Cullen for a while. Certainly, Russell Peters stayed overstayed as well. Oh, come on. He's a friend. He is a friend. Russell, if you're out there, hey. Hey. Call me.

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we like to hear things too. Why not? Why can't we hear things? And if you want to send one into us, you can send it into SBIR. you at maximum fund.org. We always like to start with the guest. Yeah. Do you have an overheard?

I do. I have one. I haven't overheard, and then I want to share with you a quick oversaw that I saw. But it's my overheard. There was this couple. I wrote it down. It was like, first time it was like, because it was a while ago. Yeah.

I'm going to remember this. It was this young, probably, like a little young couple walking by and a guy and a girl. And the guy was like, um, uh, the woman was like, that this was the diagnosis. and he said, they can diagnose acne? Ow! Yeah. Simple blood test. Yeah.

Pimple blood test. He was like a bit, yeah, he seemed like a little bit shocked. Yeah. Well, what else would it be? I don't know. Mosquito bites. Yeah. Did you guys, either you guys have acne when you were in their goose?

Oh, yeah. I went to, I had it on my forehead. Me too. Yeah. My head was the hot zone. Yeah. I had it all over my. face but I didn't I never got a doctor involved no oh I did yeah yeah and they just made it we just

made it worse did he just use like some kind of acid or something there's this thing called retinae that was big yeah in all my like is that the one that makes you go psychotic maybe it was at a time that it might have been like yeah they would like put this on and they in the dermatologist would always say like now it'll get worse it's like why would I want to do that it'll get worse and then it'll stay worse, because that's what happened. So I, yeah, I just, but it was like, you just grow out of it. Some people do, yeah. Some people do most.

But like when I was a teenager, there was something called Oxy, which was pads. Oh yeah, yeah, that was the over-the-counter stuff. Enzoil peroxide. But it would just burn, but I couldn't get enough. My mother would never let me get that. Like, I would never buy that because I was like too young to like just go to the store and spend my allowance on Oxy.

Yeah, there was oxy and then there was Oxy's benzoyl peroxide and then Boy, another one was like salicylic acid Yeah And that is a different brand But I forget what Just remember Oxy being in like a black container That looked like it was for the boys

I remember one of my mom's friends Told me you can just put toothpaste on it And that made me think Oh, I must have really bad acne If a woman Unprompted is giving me advice Oh, man. Ah, remember.

We never, never popped them. No, my siblings wanted to so bad. But what if they, but what if they were like so pop, like, like, these like screaming white heads? Yeah. Oh, yeah, I guess that, like, but I even then I wouldn't. You would just let them naturally pop? Yeah. Or like dry out.

Unfortunately, once you pop, you can't stop. Yeah. Did you guys ever do this is acne related, but the nose strips? Oh, yeah. Which apparently you're not supposed to do. When they first came out, I did them just to say... Yeah, me too. But, like, my nose pores filled up right away anyway.

Because they're supposed to. Like, they're supposed to be full of whatever that is. And, like, the amount... You can spend an infinite amount of money on goos and pasts and... Serums. I remember my sisters would say, oh, can we pop your zits? And then my brother would come to my defense and say, no, you don't want to end up with acne scars like Brian Adams. Oh, yeah, because he popped his zits.

There's a song about it. Shade. He did it in sort of like the spring of 1968. Yeah, yeah. He did a duet with sporty spice about it. Pop and Zits.

Now, you had another one? Do you want to go around? I had another one. I just wanted to share this with you. I was at a, uh, a, uh, a awards show, a local award show here in Vancouver called the jessies.

Okay. For local theater. And there was a woman sitting next to us. And, uh, I looked over and she had, um, she had very huge text. Yeah. Size. And the, and I,

it was, believe me. Like, I didn't have. to look like it was it was like a billboard and the pre the text that on her phone on her phone the text that she had received said is it at least entertaining and she was writing slightly and then i that i've heard in my eyes because it just that i i didn't want to do you how are your eyes my eyes yeah do you need a big text no i but i have terrible vision uh but i I recently, I think I talked about it on the show, I had a laser surgery. Yeah, I had a retina detach after getting a cataract surgery by retina detect.

So I had early, early cataract where they were like, this is too, they didn't diagnose it for a long time because it was too early. Yeah. And then they finally did, got this surgery and then my retina detach and then I had to have this like crazy operation to make that better. Right. So now I have one eye that's like all fixed and one eye that's my old. vision, and, and one's way more, the new one, way more clear, and the old one's sepia. What? Yeah.

Really? If, it would happen to you, too, like, if, because I can compare it, because one's, like, the fluid has been completely changed. Right. Oh, change my eye fluid. Yeah, they changed my eye fluid. Just top her up. Yeah.

And do you ever, do you notice that you have, like, green around your lips? Because we can see it right now. Yeah. You see the green? Yeah. What was it? It's sepia, actually. We, uh, because the reason I ask is like, I have older siblings and they have now, like,

gotten to the, oh, yeah. To the age where, like, they, they hold their phone close, like, they can't, they have to find the right distance from their face. Yeah. And now I'm starting to get that way. Yeah. With, like, fine print on a pill bottle or whatever. And there's no, there's no right way for the fine print.

That's just gone. And then I was also, like, I had a, uh, splinterested. or in my thumb the other day. From playing on the playground? You want to see it? From getting squirt with a wood chip hose. Do me. And I had it in my thumb and I, it was like 9 o'clock at night and I was like, I got to wait

to the morning. Yeah. I'm going to need a full sunlight to do this. Oh, no, it's awful. And I, yeah, I have to, like, I carry glasses. I wear one contact, but if I put the other one in, then my, like, my reading vision's completely gone. Oh, shit.

have like uneven vision usually. So do you have glasses, one eye, different prescription than the other? If I take out my one contact lens at night, I just have a full blurry eye and then like a very clear eye. Weird. Yeah. So if with the

CPI, do things that are, like if you watch like a Buster Keaton movie or something? Yeah, or that, what's his name? Ken Burns? Who's the document? Ken Burns Baseballs. Is it like, is it like extra sepia? Or does It cancels it out. It cancels it out.

Oh, good. Yeah. And that becomes color. It looks full color. Boy, Mordecai three figure brown is looking stacked. Dave, do you haven't overheard? Here's my, uh, here's my overseen. This is a piece of graffiti.

Oh, fun. I was walking by a box, uh, like, like a utility box where the, you know, electric company keeps all their, all their power. All their springs and dongle. Yep. They keep all the electricity in there. I love it. And there was some graffiti on there.

Just, pardon me, I can't find it. That's okay. He's holding the phone very far away from this way. He just keeps moving it. And it was covered in, like, so many people's tags. And, like, it was all inscrutable. I couldn't see what anyone had written, except one person had written, public castration now. No!

Not now? Not ever. I think I've seen one of those. Like, you've attended one? Yeah, public castration now. I saw it now. You saw it with the little guillotine? Yeah.

That was a wonderful show. Yeah, I guess it's mostly done in private. But yeah, we should be able to. Yeah. Well, it could mean a number of things. It could mean, like, a public execution. Or it could mean castration available to put people. Like, get it now.

Yeah, it's public. It's castration and it's, you know, it's part of your medical under the health care. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The public castration.

Yeah. Yes. That's right. I'm tired of paying out of pocket to be castrated. Right. Every time I get castrated. Or it could be mandatory. Yeah, that's what I, that's how I read.

It was a mandatory. To all. To all a good night. Every member of the public. Yeah. Chop, top. I watched a video about a guy who makes, like, he makes, like, spaces to sleep in that look like things that just would be regularly out on the street.

Oh. So he made a dumpster. that has like a bed and TV and all the stuff in it but he had to graffiti it he had to like put posters on and rip them off oh nice put a bunch of different stickers on it and graffiti it and it was amazing

how fast it looked like a real dump wow and then you open it up and it's like a super cozy bed yeah yeah so he could just like sleeping in the city and I mean I don't know if he does or not yeah yeah the graffiti oh also this week

oh maybe this might get to know us guys go back so we bought these pumpkins and we carved pumpkins. Did you carve pumpkins this year? Oh, yeah. Did, um, we bought ours two weeks before Halloween thinking that would be enough time that they wouldn't go bad if we were wrong and they were as soft as, well, a pumpkin pie by the end.

And so the day after Halloween, um, so my, we, uh, our house has a green bin. The city gives you a green bin, which is like a compost thing where you put all your yard trimmings and food scraps in there. And once a week, a truck comes and takes them away. Well, the truck had damaged our green bin. Oh, no. And so there's like a hole in the lid. And we thought, oh, it's fine.

We can keep using it. And so on November 1st morning, I brought the green bin out. I got a shovel and took our two pumpkins and threw them in. There were rats living in the green bin. Oh, of course. I didn't put that together. That's a rat paradise. And they were, oh, my God.

I guess they just, like, spent the weekend humping in the pumpkins. You know what? They've gotten so big here. It was AI. It was AI. Oh, good. Yeah, it could be, like, in an actual place? Yep.

Wow. It's happening right here. Dave's just the, Dave's sleeving upstairs. Did you, did you have a jump scare from the rats? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So are you going to get a new thing, or is it just that rats?

Yeah, I've reported it to the city and our, we haven't put any stuff out this week. We put it all in the freezer. You're going to put it on the day before. Do you get the yellow bag for your paper? So we have the big plastic yellow bag to put our paper recycling. And so ours got like stolen, I think. And we didn't get a new one and we just started throwing paper into like a blue box and they take it. Sure.

They'll take anything. Yeah, I didn't realize that. I thought they were going to be very like. They'll take anything. They're recycling people. So all the other stuff, the garbage and green bin get taken away by trucks that like automatically pick up the box. But the recycling is picked up by people who throw the stuff in the thing. And then they chuck our bit.

Like, I feel like they're trying. They get a little thrill out of how badly they can smash it. It looks hilarious. The street looks hilarious. It's like the little bucket or thing with wheels on it? Like the recycling? The recycling is the blue bin. Oh, because we've got like bins, like big bins for everything.

Oh, no. This is like a, like a, yay big? The way, big? I got you. About this? About that's what's going on with me. Rat Factory, what's going on with you? Do you haven't overheard, surely?

Yeah, it was public castration now. That's right. That's right. Public castration now. Now! Mine is courtesy of a... Enough small talk. We've been talking.

Let's get down to... Let's get down to the brass tacks. Come on. Let's get down to the brass tacks. Now. There's two guys walking past me. And I just, the only part that I heard was, there's a Will Smith and a Willow Smith, come on.

Nice. Come on. Come on. You're pulling my leg. Too many Smiths. Willow Smith whipped her hair back and forth. Yeah. Then cut her hair.

And now she's maybe a singer or she has some songs. Okay. Yeah. I think she just goes by Willow. Willow and Will Smith, you can see some stuff. He's been doing some recent raps. He's dying his beard. So he looks weird

It looks like Do your beard Wanna look weird? Yeah Dyer beard Yeah, right Now And then he had AI

Well he was famously AI of Spaghetti Yeah I don't think he made that I think someone else But his latest music video has like He made his spaghetti

No it's the audience is all AI and it's like He's flipping the script There was a time when we talked a lot About AI on the show And then I think we got Bummed out and sick of it Yeah

Well it's passe No one uses it anymore. Right? Right. But it's, well, it's crept back into the show and

Well, like I know that I get ads for AI that say like over 40, you can still learn about AI. And I'm like, come on, come on, man.

No, I can't. Yeah. Come on. I won't. No way. This is the guy so incredulous. It's not me.

Are you serious? I'm a one-trick pony. I own, I just want to learn about hoop and stick. Love that game. No, we also have overheard sent into us by people all over the world. If you want to send one in, set it into sb.Y at maximum fun.org. These are two back-to-back, somebody mumbling something to themselves.

Oh, nice. Good theme. And you can do accent. So I might get you to, I'll do the read, and then you can see if you can, it's a French accent, is what I'm looking. Okay, I'll try. Yeah. Okay, this is from Mickey C from Kalamazoo, Michigan. I'm a librarian at a university library.

I was walking through the library one day and saw a man looking around who seemed lost. I asked him if he needed help finding something and he explained in a heavy accent that he was there with his wife, a scholar visiting from France, and he was waiting on her while she browsed. As I walked away, I heard him mutter sadly to himself,

I'm not lost, just French. I'm not lost, just French. I'm not lost. I am a scholar living here with my wife. And why do you ask? Oh, silly woman. I am not lost. I am just friends. That's what he is.

Here I am in Kalamazoo. I love being in Kalamazoo. How do you say? Kalamazoo. This next one comes from Dave C. This is from Pennsylvania, Hershey Park. Get rid of your accent, ready. Here we go.

Hershey Park, I got it. And we made fun of Hershey Park on here. and so he calls me out on it saying that it rules. Do you remind me what highway it's on? Yeah. And why does it rule? This is from Dave C. I had this one for years.

It was outside Hershey Park. That's where he says it's cool. And a little boy about five to six was with his mom. She clearly ran into somebody she knows and stopped to talk to for a minute. Oh, the worst is a kid? Oh, when you're like waiting and your mom's like chatting to someone? that? Do you do that with Cosmo or you guys do that with your kids?

He hasn't started to where it's like really annoying yet, but I, it's going to happen soon. Yeah, absolutely. Sometimes, oh, my mom would come to pick us up and they would just chat and I'd be on the car. Come on. Oh, I last, okay, I'll tell you about the frozen thing again, but finish your, so we, so we were at, again, at Frozen and like, there was, there was a notion there's going to be

a party and like, we're all in the lobby and like just talking to people. just chat, blah, blah, blah. And Cosmo, he's like, I want to go to the party. We're like, this is the party. He was like, I want to go home. Sorry, kid. This is the party. Yeah, I mean, fair enough, right?

Did everyone have, like, yeah, as a kid, you're like, what makes this a party? Yes, yeah, he was like, he really, no, not yet. There was going to be, but anyway. What makes an adult theater party is little plastic cups of wine. Yes, yeah. So this is, she granted into somebody. She knows and stopped to talk for a minute. The little boy was just mumbling to himself.

He could hear the people in the park having fun and screaming on the roller coasters. All I heard him say in a low mumble was kind of through his teeth. Your screams only make me stronger. Your screams only make me stronger. He was a small little tough French boy. Now that, like, I've heard that at Hershey Park, there's like a sign that It says this rides guarantee to give you the Hershey Squirts. Yeah, and there's also, you can only get on if you're feeling this heavy.

Yeah, yeah. You can only ride this if your pants are full of foam. There you go. Okay. There's a baking show that I watched one year around Halloween or Christmas, and they brought them to Hershey Park, the theme park. Right. And it was just, they were jazzing out like, we're going to Hershey Park.

And you could kind of like, yay, okay. and the mascots are a chocolate bar and a Hershey's kiss but apparently according to Mickey C. from Kalamazoo, Michigan. No, that's wrong. It's David C. that was sticking it to me. Yeah, right, right, right. So all the C families with us today.

This is a last one from the space girl. Yeah, is there any other famous C's? Pop and Zitz. If there are any other last name C's that we're missing right into us, Yeah, please. This is welcome from Laura in Vancouver. I was waiting on the bus, and I heard a group of teens who were very excited.

One said, okay, so it's Othello, but Othello is a podcaster. And later on the bus, I heard, and the internet is Yago because cancel culture. Oh, wow. Okay. Okay. Well, he's whispering in the podcasters. And it's a rap. Yeah.

Yeah. But that is like an assignment you would get, like, go home and make modern Athel And Othello. Yeah. Do, what would you do with Othello? Yeah. Yeah. See if I care.

Yeah. That would be a funny thing. It was a sign off of a teacher. Like, make it. And you know what? See if I care. I think we did. I did Othello once or in English class.

You performed as Othello once? Yeah. I did the whole thing myself. Friends, Romans, countrymen. Oops. That's Julius Caesar. We did. But I never did Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet.

in English class or drama. Yeah. Drama. But three times I did a midsummer night's dream. Oh, really? I don't know why that was so bad. I don't think we ever, we did Romeo and Julietette. We did Athala and we did Macbeth.

Those were the only ones. I'll say that in here. Oh, yeah. In high school, we read Julius Caesar. We read Macbett and Mackers. Macers. Romeo and Julietters. Did they show you the crazy, sexy Italian?

Yeah, Romeo Julia. Yeah, we watched that. It was a big day. Yeah. It was a big day. They could have edited it, but they did. Was it a nude? Yeah.

Are they, uh, are they, uh, um, of age? Well, I was a child. Yeah, there doesn't really matter for me. Is that the one where they've gone back later, years later, and we're like, hey, this wasn't cool. Yeah, not probably. Give me my money back. We read Frozen.

There was this thing, we, I moved chairs watching, Sorry, I'm just thinking about Frozen. And so when I was sitting with Cosmo, we were like, we had really good seats and then, but we had to trade seats. So Anita was sitting far away. Yeah. And so I was like, you should sit with Cosmo because it's really fun. So she came and sat in a good seat. And I went and sat with her friend and then like really, really close to the stage, but all the way on stage right or audience right.

So just like at the corner. And the funniest thing is like you get this really funny view down the, down the, but with all. of the characters, like, come up to the front to sing. And there's, like, 12 or 15 people on stage, like, all belting it out. You can, like, you get a real up-close personal with a guy that's very close to you. And they're just doing, like, punctuated, like, bits. And so it's just this guy, like, going, like, revenge. Yo!

And we shall! Like, just so close. Like, this is not... That's the way to see theater, man. Oh, it's so... As close to the stage as possible. And as a person who, like, is a practitioner of the, it's the stupidest thing of the world. And you were so sad because you had an auditioned for that part.

Oh, I just wanted to say, revenge. That's Olaf. Is he funny? Olaf, yeah, Olaf is funny. They, they call them drool. So with a thing like a Disney product like this, you could, it's clearly there's a big man, like, they get assigned. Like, you have to do it a certain way. Yeah.

You know, if you let go and do a Neil Simon play, you can do it however you want. watch. Right. But if it's Disney's frozen, like, you're going to get, you have to get approval if it's Disney's the odd couple. Yeah, if it's Disney's The Odd Couple, you'd have to do approval. Olaf is like this puppet where the actor is very visible puppeting this little snowman in front of him.

So he's both puppeting, but he's also acting. So if you choose to watch him, you can watch him act or you can watch the puppet act. I can never. If there's somebody to do it, I want to look at that puppet. Well, I'm going to do both. I'm going to go twice. Yeah, wait a one time Yeah, one time you'll watch that, yeah

And then Sven? Sven is the rainer, yeah It is one person in what should be a two-person costume With hand stilts and foot stilts And just lumbering around And Spend doesn't talk, so it's just like Julie Tammor's frozen Yeah

Huh Yeah, hand stilts Did you do three? Yeah, you sure? Yeah, we did. So a couple muttering to themselves Kalamazoo, yeah. Two of them French.

Oh, I didn't do the third one in French. I don't remember what it was. That's okay. Oh, it was Othello. Oh, yeah. The internet is Iago. I remember in French people are very protective of their language. And they don't want too much English invading it.

And I remember we had to like do a thing in high school French. And I was talking about the internet. and my teacher was like, no, that's an English word. We're going to have to come up with a French equivalent. Did she? He.

Sorry. I shouldn't guess. He said, all French teachers are. I thought they were. There was a rule. He was, he said,

like, Lenterrezzo. Yeah, that's pretty good. What does that translate to? I don't know. Radio internet. It's like, no, like reservoir.

Like, um, right. Give me Google Translate. defaults to Serbian What's the Serbian one? We're not doing that, yeah, yeah. Internet.

Network. I just network? Yeah, inter-network. Oh, inter-network. Okay, all right. We just have to make it their own. Okay. In addition overheards that are written in, we also accept your phone calls.

If you want to call us, our phone number is 1. 844-7-9-763. one. That's one. Ugh. Spypod one. We also accept voice memos and send those to SPY at maximum fun.org. Damn right. Like these people have. Sweet dreams you can resist.

Any STA. Hi, Dave Graham. And guest, it's Heather from Vancouver calling in with an overheard. I was sitting at the picnic table outside of Main Street brewing. And a dad came out with a stroller and a single beer. canned beer, cracked it, and said, now it's a walk. That's my word. Thanks. Bye. Nice.

Make it a walk. It's not a walk until you have a little road pop. That sounds great. I feel like breweries are really a place that are, it's a place you can bring kids. We go to one. Yeah. Seems like it's like a big enough area to have your strollers and get a bit, you know, buy a big breadstick. Yeah, yeah, exactly. They're kind of perfect, yeah.

And they know it. There's always, like, games and kid-friendly. Oh, yeah. My friends own one, a brewery, a microbrewery, and I ran into them, and they said that last year was the best year they've ever had. And I was surprised because, like, I think of, like, 2011 as like. Yeah. Yeah. Right buying beer in a jug.

Yeah. Refill my growler. And if they had this brewery since around 2011 or earlier? I think so. Yeah. Right. Wow. Here's your next phone call.

Hey guys, this is calling from San Diego, California. What is going on? I'm going to work right now, and my coworker just overheard the craziest thing ever. She was walking by, and someone sitting at the bar said, if you learn how to play a saxophone, I will get pregnant. Thanks a lot, guys. No fucking way. I've been staying away from you for this very reason.

Can I get a little more bass of the monitor, please? I would like to re-hear so I'm not focusing on him talking I just can focus on what the music in the background Hey guys This is calling from San Diego, California I'm at work right now And my coworker just overheard

The craziest thing ever She was walking by And someone sitting at the bar said If you learn how to play a saxophone I will get pregnant Thanks a lot guys No freaking way Nice

That's a live band for me Yeah Yeah, he called us from the mosh pit. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, some horns in there. Yeah. They had actually that night, they had all you can mosh.

All you can mosh? Yeah. Like it was, you pay one price and you can mosh. You can mosh all you can mosh? Yeah. They got that too. Yeah. Nosh and mosh night.

Atlanta loose. Yeah. Surf and turf or mosh and nash is like little like sort of, you know, hors d'oe. They have a little snack and a little moshing. Do you guys ever mosh when you were? young? Did you mosh? Yeah, it comes up a lot.

Yeah. Does it? Mm-hmm. My moshing ears are behind me, I figured out. Oh, shit. I'm going to Guar. I couldn't fight my way into that. I have yet to finally mosh.

No, no, it's too late. I'm going to get into it. Live through Cosma. Let him mosh. He'll mosh. I'll let him mosh. There's been a lot of moshing since we had this, um, Canada's embrace this elbows up philosophy.

We've taken that to the dance floor. Yeah. Doesn't, uh, yeah, it doesn't matter the type of music either. You can just start throwing it. elbows with, you know, whether it's a Tate McCray concert or Brunson Doyle all the way from Nashville. This guy loves music. I love me. Are you naming famous moshers?

Yep. Brunson Doyle, one of the best. Best in the game. And here's your final phone call. Hi, David Graham and beautiful guests. This is Christina calling from Vermont. My two-year-old son recently had a minor's surgery on his. his testicle, and his father, I heard them from the other room, was asking him how it felt.

Is your testicle feeling sore? And Desmond, with no hesitation, says, like an eagle. Thanks for me. So, off I go. He said, like an eagle. Like an eagle. Is it sore? Like an eagle.

Oh, I hope he's okay. Yeah. Oh, testicle surgery. It's funny if it's an adult, but for a kid. I know. But you got to get it early. Yeah. A little guy.

Got to get that. Yeah. And now it's done. Yeah. You know, like an eagle. I'm going to start saying that. Yeah. Oh, I'm sore like an eagle.

I worked out yesterday, so I'm pretty sore. Oh, like an eagle. That's good. That's good. Yeah. Where do they get these? Where do they get these? Where do they get it?

From the mouth of babes, you know. Yeah. Well, that brings us to the end of this year episode. Mark, tell us all the places people can find you online and otherwise. Hey, everyone. My name's Mark. You can come check me out here in Vancouver every Sunday night at the Sunday service improv show at the Fox Cabaret doors at seven. Show is at eight.

Sure. So there's one hour before the show starts. You can do whatever you want. You want to mosh? It's all you can mosh. It's mostly all you can mosh. You can find me online at the town show, wherever you get podcast. That's the town show.

We've had Dave on. We're trying to get Graham. Very busy. And we'll nail him down soon. But that's, and we're over a year in. And brother, it's been, it's been good. Maybe I've started playing this game called City's Skyline. Oh.

And it's sort of a new SimCity. It's like SimCity. I've heard of City Skyline. Yeah. And is it good? Yeah. It's the same. Same deal.

It's different. Obviously, it's different. But it scratches that itch. Good. Just you wait till you find out what I bring to the town. Oh, I can't wait. This is the meanest face I've ever seen you. Yeah.

Well, thank you everybody for listening. Is that everything? Was it just two things? Yeah. Do things? I think so. Check out Mark and Frozen. He is the understudy for Olaf.

I wish. Yeah. And he's going to learn those hand stilts and he's going to get into that radio. He's the understudy for Olaf and the overstudy for unlawf. Who's the overstudy for Unlaw? Tonight's play will be played by the oversight. I did too much work on this. I'm well too prepared.

Well, thank you everybody out there for listening. And, you know, head out to your local music venue, see what the Mosh and Nosh situation is. And come on back next week for another episode of a stop podcasting yourself. Maximum Fun, a worker-owned network of artists-owned shows, supported directly by you.