Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 931 - J.D. Renaud

Episode Date: January 20, 2026

Comedian J.D. Renaud joins us to talk Burton Cummings stories, Marty Supreme, and boutique thrifting. 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! Thank you. Welcome to episode number 931 of Stop Podcasting Yourself. My name's Graham Clark. And with me as always is a man who's, you know what?

We'll get through together. But it's some rainy weather here in this city, Mr. Dave Schumka. It sucks. It sucks. Last night, it was so rainy. I just wanted to be clear and cold. Yeah, I'm fine with that. Bundle up.

Yeah, let me bundle up. I got all these sweaters. Yeah, you got sweaters. Do you have scarves? I've got scarves. I haven't had to commute for years, and so I haven't really worn a scarf. Yeah, I saw a woman the other day with a scarf and it looked so good. I was like, oh, scarves.

Yeah, I don't see them all on this day. But, like, think of how good she'd look, taking it off. Yeah, or just with the scarf. Oh, yeah, big scarf. Trip-Dies. Big scarf energy. That's my burlesque personality, scarf ace. Nice.

Say hello to this little scar. Yeah. Say a lot of my little tits. Our guest on the podcast today, first time guest, he is a comedian. He's a multimedia artist. He helps from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and he has a special out on YouTube at the end of the month.

It's J.D. Renaud. Hello, Jay. Hey, thank you for having me. This is delightful. I have been experiencing a lot of this terrible weather. You were speaking of sucks balls. It does. I'm visiting.

I'm walking around. I'm so. I brought a scarf. You brought a skirt. You'd be soaked. I can't. Did you bring a rain jacket? No.

See, that was your big miss. I should have known. Yeah. What are you going to do? I don't know. Get soaked, I guess. Did you wear you out yesterday? It was crazy.

Oh, yesterday you saw it. Oh, boy. No, I wanted to do a long walk yesterday, no matter what the condition of the weather was. And I did, uh, I walked to the bridge that went tumbling down from the Tom Stopping Tom Conner's song because I wanted to see it. Oh, is that the iron worker? Ironworkers Memorial. Yeah, Second Harrow's Bridge.

I kicked it once, stayed up, and I left. That's, oh, great. I want to make sure it was good. Do you do Stompatom Tourism, whenever, wherever you go? I have spent a Saturday night in Sudbury. Nice. You met Spud to Spud? No, not yet.

Oh, one day. What about Lady Katie Lang? Oh, maybe. My daughter's name is Margo, and she has the cargo. That's right. And Ryan's got the rig? No, Ryan. Reggie's got the rig.

Regg, yes. For those out there don't know who Stomptop Tomnors is, look them up. Yeah, he's sort of Canada's greatest Canadian. Yeah. Billy Joel? He's a chronicler of Canada. And as much as Billy Joel was the chronicler of the East Coast of America. Yeah.

Yeah, he's sort of a Canada's Billy Joel. That was a deep. That was a wild poll. Yeah. Yeah. Do you want to get to know us? Oh, sure. Get to Noah.

I watched, not that long ago, I watched somebody like a concert of Stom Tom Tom Conners filmed it in the 70s or whatever. But it was just at a bar, like it wasn't in a concert hall or anything. So there was people. It's sort of like how comedians do their specials now. Yeah, really?

There were people walking in front of the camera. Because it was, it was just like, it was. It was like Sudbury or whatever. It might have been a Saturday night. Who knows? JD. Yes. Oh, have you seen, witness the good old hockey game?

It's the best game you can name. Oh, yeah, one of them. It's the best. I can't name a better one. He's got me there. What, uh, what you went to one hockey yet?

Uh, yeah, that's enough. Yeah, sure. More you need to know. Um, this heated rivalry should have Tom,

some of dumb calls. Stompin Tom Connors. They probably have enough tracks to like stitch together something. We just do the good old hockey game. About sex and hockey? Yeah. Isn't that what the whole show is? Yeah, yeah,

yeah, but I don't think he does sex songs, does he? Oh, but that he's dead. Yeah. I mean, heard all of his albums.

Yeah. I was on a show with you on Friday night. You definitely were. You live in Winnipeg. I certainly do. And you did a bit, like, he does comedy with slideshows that you've, like, you've drawn. Steve Jobs used to do that. Yeah, I take a lot of cues from Steve Jobs from my comedy.

It's very good. Jeans, tight jeans up, up. Not too high. Just high enough. And I constantly shock. people with my inventions. Does he wear a belt? Steve Jobs?

Yeah. Do we, oh, boy. I'm going to say that he didn't wear a belt. I'm going to say that he did. Okay. Let's Google. Let's go to the judges. And what do you say?

I got 20 bucks on belt. Oh, really? No, I do not have enough money for it. So you said no belt? No belt. I said belt. Okay. The no belt prize.

Steve Jobs. I'm going belt. I got to go belt. He definitely had his finger up to his chin at one. one point. Yeah. And let's, we gotta look up outfit.

Man, that guy got a lot of, belt. Oh, but there, is that no belt? Did he win the Nobel Prize? What?

Why is there a 360 graphic of just Steve Jobs? It's fun of the Steve Jobs video game. Oh, he's more often than not no belt, but sometimes belt. Okay. So, uh, the 2009 keynote definitely had a belt.

Looks like most of the others did not. That's when he launched the eye belt. Yep. Boy, that Mandela effect had me thinking he was wearing a belt. Yeah, I just for some reason, because, like, Seinfeld would wear jeans without a belt and would like wear, you know, regularly. I don't know. I think Seinfeld wore jeans with belt. Let's go to the computer.

$400 on belt. Seinfeld jeans. I have a serious problem. I lost all my money. betting on belts belt oh shit oh cramers got a belt there

looks like he's got a belt on belt that's the same photo shoot just before though what do you see there is that belt oh it's like no belt to me this is a yeah that's no belt this is an odd picture because he would never

wear it he's wearing like a lumberjack red and white buffalo chick yeah the only he would never wear on the show the only memory yeah no belt there Jerry Seinfeld photos is the, the S&M photo that he took with the cast of

Seinfeld, the Rolling Stone, I believe. Yeah. That was a wonderful time. Yeah, they were on the Rolling Stone cover twice. Yeah, it was funny. The joke was there, it was that he was into weird sex stuff. But no, he was into totally normal dating a teenager.

Absolutely. This will take people's eyes off me. I remember in the picture he's showing off his armpit, which is a bold, Is he showing on his armpit or is he flexing a muscle? Well, there we are. Let's go to the day. All right.

$9 million on armpit. Now, you've heard the show before. It's not normally this. I have, and it kind of is. Is it Rolling Stone cover? Oh, yeah, he's not flexing an armpit. He's just doing like a pose. But yeah, it's definitely showing off his armpit.

Jason Alexander has some sort of S&M hat. They're all S&M, right? Yeah, he is wearing kind of a... what would you call that? Kind of a cabby. Sexy cabby. Yeah. Leather cabby.

The hat stays on. Then they did the Rolling Stone where they're the Wizard of Oz. And without looking, audience out there, see if you can guess who's playing who. I mean, Elaine's a gimmy, but who's playing who and the rest of the gang? I'm not going to say. Well, you know what? Let's give them 10 seconds to think about it silent. Okay.

Okay. Okay. That's enough time. You could have paused it, too. The answer is... Kramer Stoto. Yep, Kramer Soto. Newman is a scarecrow.

Yeah. Bob Sacramento's Elphaba. The suit you out to use that angry tree. Yeah. Made you spit out your gum there. I got it, too. Well done. Jerry is a tin man.

Kramer is the hay man. Hey man. And George is the Lion Man. I went and said, have you seen any of the wicked properties? No, not yet. I'm waiting to marathon the two. Yeah. And like, make sure you figure in a bathroom break.

Because it's a long, if you put those back to back, that's a long sit. I got a good place for a bathroom break between the two movies. Yeah, that sounds about right. Right around the credits of Wicked One. I couldn't make it through the second one. I always make it through a movie without having to go. Brage. Couldn't do it.

It was a big, yeah, yeah. I am now at the age where I have to, like, I got to get my pee in right before the, right before any event. And then, yeah, and then I try to eat as much popcorn. So I've got that, you know, whatever I've gotten me. It's like the, when you're a kid and your parents were like,

before we go on this long car trip, does anyone have to pee? You're like, I'm fine. Just try it. Oh, I did need to go. Yeah, yeah. But at the end, I saw a guy on Instagram that was the sexy scarecrow. Do you see his, like, he was showing his makeup and he had like a nice, like a nice swoop of hair that's all hay. Is he the sexiest man alive?

In my heart. Yeah. As the scarecrow, do you mean? Yeah, he's the scarecrow from Wicked. Yeah. He's the sexiest man. I mean, I'm not, I'm not going to argue against it because he, he was a hunk in this, uh, was the scarecrow of the sexiest man alive when, yeah, it was a boss came out?

It was Ray Bulger. Yeah, Ray Bulger, sexist man alive. I don't know these movies at all. Can you name any of the other ones besides Ray Boulder? No. I'm emphatic that I don't. Who was the cowardly lion? He was, like, wasn't Danny Kay?

He has a great name, whoever he is. One of the great... Oh, I can name on Judy Garland. Judy Garland. But was Buddy Epson? No. Buddy Epson was supposed to be the Tim Man. That's right.

He was Beverly Hillbillies. Oh, yeah. The lion does have an awesome name. He said, oh, boy. Huh. It's like Sir Arthur Conan line. Larry Lumpfleton or something. You may know him as,

Larry Lumpfleton. His name is Bertlar. Berthler. Bertlar. Anyway, good to meet you. Good to meet you, too. You're originally from Oakville, Ontario. Yes.

Where's that? A little lower than Toronto, still on the lake. We got... Ontario? Ontario, the titular lake. It's all there. I could see Toronto across the lake from where I grew up in my very rich town where I was very poor.

Donovan Bailey Of world famous Olympian runner And locally famous drunk driver Is from Oklahoma Okay I was like Look up his Wikipedia And like all those accomplishments

And like oh oh there's that Hmm Who's the most locally famous drunk driver here Well was Gordon Campbell at a time But he did his drunk driving in Hawaii Yeah that's true Chad Kroger I think Oh that's a nickel back

Yeah Boy Now if you're an Olympian And you get arrested for Dio you bring the medal with you, be opposed with the metal for your headshot? Headshot.

Mugshot. It's done. I found this place to do as cheap headshot. I mean, you usually have to pay bail. This is what I look like from the side.

This is my other side. So Donovan Bailey, is he the most famous guy from your hometown? Probably, yeah. I mean, I know Mark Forward went to my high school. Oh, okay.

So there's that. I don't know if he's from Oakville, but he went to my high school because I was doing, long, long ago, I did an interview with him once for the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. And I was like, oh, he went to high school there. And we bonded over the fact that we both hated the same drama teacher. Do you want to give a shout out? Yeah, Miss Barrett. She's dead. Oh, no.

I learned that she was dead from Mark Forward because she specifically told him to not get into entertainment because he was terrible. And she told that to me, too. Wow. And then we both pursued lives in comedy, despite her. Yeah. So we're doing all right. She probably died of heartbreak. Yeah, most likely.

That's weird. I don't remember getting career advice from my high school, any high school teacher. No. I mean, what's the ratio of people like a guidance counselor telling you that you're not going to amount to anything? That you then go on to great success. It's every story I've ever heard. Yeah. But also, there's probably a lot of people like, and she was right.

She said I was a loser? Look at me now. I was too scared to ask if they actually had hope for me because I'm like, oh, I'm going to let them down. I'm assuming they all hate me. Yeah, yeah. What were you in high school? You jock. You jock.

That's what I'm going to get. Yeah. It makes a jack. God, dear. Lord, no, I'm so frail. I wasn't under the stairs kid. We had stairs. We were allowed to hide under.

I was under there. I remember the under the stairs. What were you going on under there? Nothing? Just being under the stairs. What were you hiding from? Everyone. Everything.

Did you have a crew of people that were under the stairs? Oh, yeah. Were the stairs indoor or outdoor? Indoor or outdoor? Indoor. We were all. indoors. We had like an atrium in our high school and like under the stairs was this little

landing that like a cool kid from previous years past had like drawn like a heavy metal magazine style version of hell on the walls. It's like all right this is where the kids who should smoke but don't smoke so like we weren't cool enough to smoke but we were all listening to music that would make you think we smoke. I was I'm picturing

like chain link fences barrels full of fire oh yeah yeah do whop singers Every high school has the jocks, the nerds, the hobos. We were the hobos under the stairs. Yeah, my high school, the groups were the scarecrowes, the tin men, the lions, the S&M people. Yeah, the S&M people in high school.

I mean, you know, proto-goth was kind of. Yeah, there was like people dressing like, you know, 9-inch nails and Marilyn Manson. Yeah, I feel like, what's his name? Rob Halford? Yeah, from Julius Priest. It's pronounced Rob Zombie. Rob Thomas. Rob Thomas from Santana.

Yeah, I feel like he was the guy who introduced heavy metal guys to the leather. Yeah. When did they realize? When did they put the two and two together? I don't think they ever did. Yeah, maybe not. Maybe he had never caught none. Yeah.

So under the stairs. people. I recall this group of people that were under stairs. You're not talking about the people under the stairs, are you? I'm talking about

people under the stairs. I'm talking about Harry Potter. Wasn't he a kid under a stairs? He was a kid under the stairs, but the people under the stairs is like a Stephen King. A horror movie, isn't it? Yeah.

And we're going to the tape. It's a 1999 film. I've seen it because it's what's his name as the lead. He was as a kid. He was the lead. I can't remember his name. Okay.

But he was. Oh, yeah. Rames, that's the one thing of Bing Rames wearing a cool leather hat, but not an S&M hat, kind of a 90s. He is not a kid, he's at least 30 in that picture. But he's the, he, he's not long for this world. It's a West Craven. It's a Craven. I, um, West Craven, did he do Nightmare on Elm Streets? Yeah, yeah, I got all these guys mixed up. Because I watched Nightmare on Armstrong Street two last night, which famously is the gay Nightmare on Elm Street. And, uh, yep.

Checks out. Story checks out. What's the gay wicked? I mean, you know what? Some people say, all of it. I watched Scream for the first time a few weeks ago, and he directed that, and he is, people pointed out to me when I said that there's a very funny scene where someone, there's, the janitor is named Freddie, and he's dressed as Freddy Krueger, and it is West Craven. It's funny in the movies they don't, or at least in this movie, they don't call him Freddy.

They call him Fred. Oh, okay. He's Fred Kruger. Well, they don't know him familiarly yet. It's only been the second movie. Fred is a nickname amongst friends. And you, you strike me as somebody seeing all the nightmares on Elth Street. Yeah, I give that off, don't I?

What's your fave? The first one, honestly, is like it sets a lot of, oh, God, I'm going to talk about horror movies on a podcast. It's okay. We all are white guys with beards. Yeah, I know. I'm obliged. I like the first one a lot. First one's fun.

The first one's fun. the second one is pretty fun and they do a great thing they do it in both movies where you're like it's over oh no it's not a little scare before at the very very very end everything's worked out by

oh no well the first one has the ending where like the lady thinks everything's fine and then an obvious dummy gets like pulled through a front window really violently and it's incredibly fake but still scary so scary yeah this is the first one with John Depp with John Depp

you knew Fred Grueger and John Depp yeah And then the second one takes place in the same house. Oh, no. Get out of that house. Fix the house. Fix the door. And they're cleaning out the closet, him and his girlfriend, the main guy and his girlfriend.

And they find a diary that's not hidden at all. It's just on a shelf. I'm like, huh, a diary. It wasn't, the person moved out and it was obviously, they hadn't hit it from anybody. Anyways, that diary provided a clue as to what was going on. Fred Krueger was in town. Oh, God. Yeah.

Does he go from town to town or does he just stick around the Elm Street region? Yeah, he stays around that house even just. He does a great, funny thing at the very beginning where he tells his name's Jesse. He says, Jesse, you've got the body. I've got the brains that he pulls off the top of his head and shows his brains. It's all practical effects. It's great. It's great.

I'm going to watch the third one tonight. Why? Because I've got this DVD player now. So I can watch all the thing Because you can't find it anywhere You can't find your Elm Street I am a hopeless hoarder of physical media still And yeah people are like

Why are you doing that? I'm like because they don't exist most places anymore I tried to watch Sunset Boulevard the other day And it's like no, the internet doesn't have it Yeah I had to like go to an actual video rental store And be like do you have the most famous movie of all time And they're like yeah we do

Because we're a video store And I was able to rent it It was lovely Now refresh my memory Is she ever get ready for that close up? No. She's got problems, dude. Is that, what's her name?

Marlina Dietrich? Yes. Yes. Yeah, it's funny when you like look for, on the classic section on like a Netflix or something, and it'll be like. The accountant too. The internship.

Oh, yeah, that was good. Yeah, exactly. Is that the, the intern is Robert De Niro and Hathaway, and the internship is Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn. What's the quote for the trailer? Google Crashers. I tried to think of the most browser crash. Forgotten movie in my brain as I could, like dig deep to the bottom. It was like the internship.

Yeah. There was a quote in the movie, the, friendly ad for the intern. The intern. Yeah, it was something like, I've learned some new tricks or something like that. Oh, yeah. His old dog, blurting the tree, I don't know. You imagine getting an intern and he's like in his early 70s? He's Robert De Niro.

And he's reading cue cards the whole time. You're at work. Now, you hail from Winnipeg. You are staying in your show. You have from Oakville. You now live in Winnipeg. And we've talked about Winnipeg is connected to legendary music icon Burton Cummings. Yes.

And that everybody in Winnipeg has a Burton Cummings story. It's a wonderful thing we all share, yes. Burton Cummings for anyone who may not know. And if you don't, how dare you? Burton Cummings is one of the lead singers of the guess who. I would call him the lead singer. He'll let Bachman handle. Bachman is like, yeah, he's like the Ringo.

Occasionally he'll sing a thing. Yeah. And they now tour together as Bachman Cummings. Yeah. Because they lost the trademark to the guess who. And then I think in those shows, they will play. Bachman Turner Overdrive songs.

Is Turner still with us or is Turner? I don't know. Okay. Is Hooch still with us? Oh, yeah. Bachman Turner Hooch. Overdrive. Yeah, I saw Burton Cummings with Bachman.

He came out and played one song and then they shuffled him off stage. He's very frail. Burton? Yeah. No, Burton. Burt was there the whole time. Bachman's frail now. Oh, wow.

I don't even know. I don't think that he's, I guess, he sang taking care of business. and then it was kind of... He's taken care of a lot of business. Yeah. You can... Yeah. But you have a great Burton Cummings story.

It's the secondhand. It is secondhand for me. Just to recap. The stories we've seen, we've heard, are about Burton Cummings drinking half and half on the bus. I'm amazed that that has traveled all the way here.

Or coffee creamer or something. Yeah, yeah. I was like, I was going to lead with that if you didn't know, Apparently everyone knows that. And the other one was him at slot machines? A slot machine in Manitoba. They have what they're called VLT machines.

You could just gamble in a regular bar. And he would be seen at random bars. Just throwing money into these machines at any time he wins, he would scream out to no one. Thank you, Lenny Kravitz. Because he did a cover of American woman. And Austin Powers 2. Yes, yes.

But the story, by the way, the video for that rules. It rules. It rules. Dancing on a bus, I want to say. Yeah. Oh, yeah. God, that video does rule. Crabbits knew exactly what he was doing.

He does. If only he could get a proper petter pants. But anyway. You can't restrain that, hog. What are you going to do? Ever since Rob Halford invented leather pants? Rob's like, not as easy as it looks, huh? Oh, yeah.

Off to the side, though, I sent you a review for an Adam Duritz. Documentary. Taring Crowe's documentary. And the whole tree was just about him growing dreads. I saw the clip of him growing dread. I didn't know who I was until I grew Trades, is the quote or something? Exactly.

Power to you, I guess. But you have this secondhand from a friend Burton Cummings story. Yes. If you would. I will. So everyone in Winnipeg, because Burton Cummings has decided to be the big fish in Winnipeg,

people just like have tales of him doing things going around, doing his business. I have a friend who has a friend, so fabulous. He's probably the most famous drunk driver in Winnipeg. That's why he had to take the bus. He's probably. He's drinking the creamer to get off the booze. Or he had a bottle of vodka, making a white rush in his stomach.

Yeah, go to the liquor store to get Kalua. All I have is the cream. I'm out of cream, not going to go back to the commute. And that's the whole day. Back and forth. Shaking his stomach around. I have a friend who has a friend who worked for a pool cleaning supply company, a company that will come out and clean your pool if you give them a call and they'll schedule an appointment to come clean your pool.

And it is Canada Day long weekend. It's Saturday. They're about to close Canada's on the Sunday and they're going to be closed for the Monday. So they're going to be closed pretty much right away for three whole days. And so phone rings, guy answers it and he's like, hello, pool cleaning company. And the line on the other, and the guy on the other end goes, yeah, it's Burton Cummings. I need you to come clean my pool. Like Leeds was saying it's Burton Cummings.

Hey, this is Bert. Yeah, you must respect me. I'm burn coming. And it's like, oh, well, sir, I'm sorry, but we're just about to close and candidates tomorrow. And we're closed on Monday. So the earliest we could come out is Tuesday at around 1.30 to come clean your pool. And the man on the other end of the line goes, son, I don't know if you heard me. This is Burton Cummings.

I'm having a Canada Day party. I need my pool clean tonight. And as the story goes, the young man in the. company goes like, sir, I'm sorry, we could, we can maybe get you in at noon on the Tuesday. I'm sorry, but we won't have anyone who could come out. I can't schedule that. And then there is an audible sigh on the other end of the phone. And Byrne Cummings said, all right, I see how it goes.

And then acapella sang these eyes over the phone to the pool cleaning guy. From the very beginning, the entire song, where there wasn't lyrics, he would go, like you would do the parts of the song that weren't singing. He finishes the whole song. There's an awkward moment of silence. And the pool cleaning kid goes, 11.30 Tuesday is the earliest we could possibly. And then hung up.

And that was it. He calls back and sings running back to Saskatoon. Clapper the Wolfman. All the hits. Oh, yeah. Clap for the Wolfman. Yeah. But I know how this goes.

Yeah. That to me is the crux of the story. because it implies that at certain point in times in Burton Cummings his life, it has worked. Someone has told him he can't have something he wants and V's eyes got it for him. Half and half. Yeah. Sorry, my wife is sitting over there.

I'm sitting here. Could we change seats on the plane? No, I paid for this seat. I see how this goes. I see how this goes. Um, whose jaw tear is at a medicine hat. Dun, dun, dan, nan, nan, da, nah, da. Like Beavis and Butthead, just like...

That's a good one. It's not even my story. It's someone else I know stories story. But they get passed around like this. I don't even know if it's true. And that story could have happened as a prank. It may not have even been actual Burton claims. I want to believe.

I think it's funnier. Have you ever encountered Mr. B? I have seen him around. Oh, Mr. B. That's what we call him. Mr. Burton. We're off. Mr. Burton.

I call him Bert. I don't know if he owns a chain, but there's a series of restaurants, I could call them a series, a series of restaurants in Winnipeg called Salisbury House. Yeah, yeah. And he owns several of them,

including several that have his memorabilia in them. And if you just hang out in one long enough, he'll be there. Yeah. He's around. Yeah. I've been to bars that are owned by X athletes that have all their memorabilia on the wall,

and you have to be really into that one. that one guy. There is one flagship store that has like the big display of like random guitars and some of them aren't even his. They're just like other people's guitars. That's my pal Hanks guitar. Yeah, exactly. He's more of a keyboardist as well.

Yeah. That's the thing. I was like, you don't play. Okay. What is, uh, what's on the menu at us all's about your house? Uh, is a breakfast joint? No, it's like a diner. Uh, you can get, uh, what they call.

I don't like saying it because it's an offensive word out of context. Oh, cool. So I'm not going to. Oh, they have a special type of burger where if you have it, that's what they, they have those. And you could get a really overpriced putteen. And, um, they got soup. Soup's fine. I'm going to order something online from, what's the best location?

Uh, probably on Pemina Highway. That's the one with all the comments. Pemina, Pemina, Pemina. How do you spell Pemina? Pembaena. Pembina. Oh, Pembina. Pemina and Stafford. That's the one.

Okay. Let's see what's. I want to see this offensive This slur burger I just don't want to say it If you were like Oh he said that with a lot of confidence I'm like, no, I don't want to

It's not buddy burger It's not No I'm trying to remember what it is I feel like I knew this But I mean you can get a Salisbury steak there for sure Uh

It's the only It begins with an end Oh Jesus Never mind No not that Now I know Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, not that.

No, Burton Cummings does not support that. It's one you've never heard of before. It starts with an end. It's one of the obscure slurs. Oh, yeah, and you're also from Winnipeg. The first thing that I heard you say when I saw you on Friday was that Winnipeg has caught its arsonist. We caught our arsonist.

Yeah. Well, tell me. A little backstory. We have an arson. Or we had an arsonist. Well, I suppose we still have them. We caught him. How long have the fire's been going?

And what's he been lightened? Or she? A couple years? Very progressive, Dave. It's a he. But hey, ladies. Yeah. You can do it.

I have two daughters and every night I tell them. You could be a criminal of any kind. No, I brought this up because Graham, you asked, oh, how is that venue that we've performed many of fringe shows and probably is several dozen? Over several years, I'm like, oh, it burned to the crown. Yeah, we Johnny's. Yeah, oh, no. It's just gone.

It's just gone. But it was the arsonist? It was the arsonist. Well, okay, alleged arsonist. But they caught a guy, and like many venues in town randomly caught on fire. Was it all, when you say venues, so were they all like performance spaces? Restaurants, bars, a couple performance spaces, a couple just like patios. I believe it was about a dozen to 15 over the course of about a year and a half.

Did he have a nickname? No, because we'd. Honestly, we didn't think it was an arsonist. This is how Highly Winnipeg thinks of it's up. We thought it was all just like 15 different examples of insurance scams. Oh, they were all like that checks out. Sure. Do they, yeah, I don't know.

When something burns down here, they always, on the news they say like foul plays, there's foul play only for murder. Um, I think you can do it anyway. Suspicious. Yeah, suspicious fire. The, I don't know how they do it. Like, I've seen it a bit in movies. where they're like, this was an accelerant was used.

That's the only thing that I'm in Tokyo and Godzilla's running through town and I need the insurance money. And Godzilla misses my place. I'm burning it down. Your insurance does not cover fire theft or acts of Godzilla. It seems every other house was just squashed, but this one was burned to the crowd. Oh, that's when Godzilla did his fire breath thing was on my house. We can see the footprint of a giant thing and it's in between the two toes. It's just a random fire.

Yeah, he's got a fire to. He's the old one, really hot tow. Oh, so how did they catch him? I think they finally got him on, like, security camera, like an outdoor thing, and they finally caught, well, they've arrested him. And, yeah, we were all kind of like, wow, we have an arsonist.

That's like a, that's like a law and order criminal. Yeah. That's like a real one. That's a big city. That's a big city criminal, you know? Like, we were proud of me, maybe might not be the right word. But like, ooh, look at us.

Like, we got, like, we got, like, and it wasn't insurance. It was just like a guy who loves fire. Yeah. No motive, no political agenda. Just like fire. Yeah. Speaking of Beavis and Butthead.

Yeah. They loved it. It was Burton Cummings. When I was looking up the arsonist, there was another story that said that more than once to get out of paying a bill at a restaurant people have lit a fire in the restaurant to get out, which is, you know what? It's going to work. It's going to work.

I remember doing a show, a terrible open mic, a stand-up show. And there were, or not open mic, like Amateur Night at the newest comedy club, whatever it was called. Laflat. That's right. And someone lighting their napkin on fire during my set. We didn't have a light. This is the only way we could tell you you have 30 seconds left. You got to play.

Rooms on fire. I've got to wrap this up. This is my last one. No, that's it. I'm not. There was one when, I think it was Phil Hanley where a woman during the show, like, laughed and leaned her head back and her back of her hair caught on fire. Oh, wow. Because it was like still in candles.

Remember, like, when actual candles were. Yeah. And hairspray was a big thing. It was 1888. Went to go see Elaine Boozler. Just everyone ran out flaming heads of hair. Now, I see in front of you, you've got two black bags. Yes, I do.

I brought gifts I brought gifts We love gift Yeah Well let's just start doing gifts then Okay And as I said upstairs If you hate these gifts

These get edited out of the podcast Sure These are rectangular They are rectangular gifts Now I love physical media Oh boy Oh boy Are you ever gonna love this then

Yeah I'm The other thing I do Along with comedy That doesn't pay me any money Is I'm also a visual artist So I made you each a thing Based off the things So if you wouldn't mind

opening those. These are made out of the actual thing that they represent. This is my live reaction to it. Okay. Oh, wow. Yeah. This is great. This is a peewee Herman. Oh, Big Train Tunes, too. Oh, that rules. So. This is a Peewee's Big Adventure. That is an actual old copy of the Peewee's Big Adventure DVD cover I cut up and put on there.

So you do like, because I have another one at home that's a Burt Reynolds one that I bought from you. And so do you take the other part of the DVD case and make the border of it? The borders from something else. For yours. But Dave, yours is a piece made out of Big Shiny Tunes, too. Yeah, which is I think the second or third best

selling album in Canada of all time. Of all time. So believe it or not, it is not difficult to find copies of that in the stores to make those pieces. Much music put out these compilations of rock music in the 90s and Big Shiny Tunes too was the one. Yeah, that was the

not one, two. All the musicians and stuff on the in the background. The background of yours is, it's all big shiny tunes too. So if you squint your eyes, you can see them all, and the album covers all the back. Is the tea party on there? Is the tea party? Tea party is on there, Dave. Yeah, yeah, I don't see them.

But, yeah, I could definitely. Middle row bottom. Middle row bottom. You know what? It's just a blob. That was what the tea party were like, man. I know. That's what I'm, look, I can see that that's age of electric.

I can see that's third eye blind and I can see, obviously I see that's Bushack, then Holly McCarland. Never two. Never too young to teach the kids about Holly McNarland. Yeah, you tell you, they can be the next Holy McNorland if they want, you know? This is great. Thank you, Dave.

You're very welcome, yeah, yeah. This is going to go up in here. Oh, that would be lovely. You're all going to make me to lose my mind up in here. Up in there. Is that on it? No, it has that. Was it mostly Canadian?

It was a mix. It was a mix. It was about three or four Canadian. And there we got some Brand Van 3,000 in there. We got, half a mention Holly McNarland, wide-mouth Mason. Yeah, they're Canadian, and they played up the street a couple years ago. Years ago.

Yeah, our neighborhood does like an annual block party-esque shiny tunes two festival. The year before, it was... Was it semi-sonic? No, it was Econaline Crush. Just a big public outdoor concert outside the Shabbers Drug Mart. It's right. I like it. It's cool.

It's just over there? Oh my God. In front of the subway? Yeah. That's great. Yeah, it's, uh, when it, when it happened, I went to the, uh, the liquor store, just coincidentally. And every dude in the liquor store, we all looked the same.

We were, I was like, oh, this is, this is my people. Was that a Connolline crush? A Connolline crush. Yeah. Um, yeah, it's, uh, have you seen any of these 90s fans in? Yeah. I, we had a little, like, street festival in. Winnipeg. What did we get last year? We got Feefee Dobson. We got Kim Mitchell closed out the last night.

Oh, nice. That was fun. Got to hear a go for a soda live. Check that off the list. Might as well. And I believe Everclear was one of the headlines. One of the American headlines. We got it. The money for Americans went to Everclear. Graham, I just noticed that your Pee-Werman thing. You're wearing a Pee-Wy-Herman shirt. I could not have nailed that better. I was like, I just took a swing. I'm like, Graham seems like a Pee-Wy-Herman. Underneath this shirt, I have a shirt. I have a sugar race. Featuring Supercat?

Yes, my shirt featuring Supercat. That's the important part. That way you know it's a good one. Yeah, these, where can people find these things? Because these things that you do are really, they're cool. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, I do like visual art and stuff.

Basically like paper and paste on canvas, basically taking old stuff, cutting it up, making new stuff. abstract things. I do the stuff I give you guys. Just follow me on Instagram. Add J.D. Renaud. I'm a very bad businessman, but I'm working on it.

Yeah. But yeah. You should own your own Salisbury House. I really should, at this point, I could put my art up on the walls along with guitars that Burton Cummings didn't play. Yeah. Yeah. I've been able to eke out a career doing that for a while.

It's been fun. Yeah. The one I have at home is a Bert Reynolds one that's all like shattered. Yeah. What was the movie it was from? I don't remember, but I remember that the poster, I don't remember. bought the poster because it's like a it's one of those old 70s painted posters and it's uh bert reynolds pointing like uncle sam yeah and the tagline under the poster says i he wants you to have his

baby and okay i just did that i'm like i need to make this look like he's punching the screen kind of like the cover of uh black flag's damaged album cover okay and that was the inspiration to do that and uh you bought it i didn't even make it for you you're like i need this it's on the all on the wall the uh the uh The Uncle Sam pointing, I want you, that was iconic. And I feel like it's gone away. Like, it was huge for 240 years. And Uncle Sam, like, was a real standard. Yankee Gertold Dandy.

He was also in every editorial cartoon of, let's say, 1940 onwards. I had a friend in high school who was terrified of Uncle Sam. Not even kidding. She was terrified of stilts, people on stilts, and the concept of stilts. and her only experience with Uncle Sam is he is a large, gangly man who is occasionally in stilts. Yeah. So she just was like, no. And his pants are striped.

He's got the... Big stripy pants. Big stripy pants. Big stripy pants. Big stripy pants, too. Apparently the song Yankee doodle dandy. I'm a Yankee doodle dandy. Is a, like, uh, it's, what am I trying to say?

It's a, uh, satire. Oh. Like they're making fun of Yankee doodles. Yeah. They're being so dandy. There was a horror movie that was called Frost Frosty the Snowman. Jack Frost. Jack Frost.

And then the makers of that. I think I don't know. Yeah, you know Jack Frost. But it's not the Michael Keaton one where he like snowboards on a sled. But those makers also made a horror movie called Uncle Sam. We tormented my friend in high school by trying to make her watch that movie. And there is a scene where an Uncle Sam instilts is like peeping through a. woman's second floor window.

She's like, turn it off, turn it off. It's too scary. And like, he's going to fall over. You know he is. And he's going to get killed by the actual Uncle Sam. And he did. He got killed by the actual Uncle's. Does it take place in the,

uh, whatever, the Revolutionary War? It was like Halloween, but instead of Michael Myers, it's like a guy in colonial dress like uncle's, like, dressed like an Uncle Sam for like murdering people on the 4th of July for

for not being patriotic enough or something. Oh yeah. Doesn't he like a flag burner or something like that? Something like that. I'm mad. I imagine. Why not? Dave, what's going with you, man?

Not much. Much. Big shiny too. Here's a pitch for the drink menu at Salisbury House. This might sound bad. Squirt and cummings. It's a cocktail. It's got squirt in it.

It's got squirt in it. It's got squirt. And half and half, Randy Backshotsman, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. What's going on with me? I'm going for puberty. You know how I love, I get Oscar fever every year. I want to see all the Oscar movies. I don't really feel like I want to see very many of them this year.

No, Marty Supreme for you. Well, that's where I draw the line, young man. But I don't want to see like Hamnet. Hamnet does nothing for me. Yeah. Looks like old dirty, rainy. times. Yeah, I mean, I saw, is Frankenstein one of the ones that's going to be nominated?

I don't think it'll be one of the big, I think maybe Oscar Isaac will get nominated or Jacob Lordy. Oh, Jacob Lordy. It's in the name. Oscar. Yeah. You better. But I did see, this weekend I went to see Marty Supreme.

Oh, starring Kevin O'Leary. Oh, God. Did the audience, boo? Please tell me the audience. The audience didn't boo. He's Mr. Wonderful. Yeah, that's true. I felt very alone for most of his existence because people like the shows that he's on.

Yeah. I assume they like him. And I've hated him from the moment I saw him. Isn't his whole thing is that people love to hate him? Isn't that why he calls him of Mr. Wonderful? I don't know. When I grew up, there was a wrestler named Paul Orndorf, who is Mr. Wonderful? Yeah.

And I feel like it's an injustice that he's doing. Yeah. And he, if you're unfamiliar, originally from Drake. then. Now it makes this home on Shark. But it was originally from, wasn't his backstory, backshod,

that he, like in the 80s or 90s had like a children's software company. The reason he became this business magnate is because he had a children's software company and like play school bought it or Mattel or something. And they, they paid hundreds of millions of dollars for it.

Only to realize that it was worthless. And he kind of just like conned them and got away with it. Did he invent number crunchers? What did he do? He admitted the yak back. Oh, okay. Yeah, because there was another guy that became a dragon that invented the penguin

Disney like penguin hangout game for kids. Okay. Which isn't around anymore, but a certain age of kid, if you ask, they'll know exactly what it is. Like, you have a penguin as an avatar. And this guy invented that and he's, you know, multi-multimate. So on the Canadian version of sharks. tank, which is called Dragon's End, which was their first, but wasn't the first.

So who cares? It's Kevin O'Leary. It's the guy who owns a bunch of Boston pizzas. I was going to say, I keep thinking Kevin O'Leary owns all the Boston pizzas. And then when I have a bad meal of Boston pizza, I blame Kevin O'Leary, but he gets none of that. It's, what's his name, Jim Tree Living? His son is a hockey general manager. Oh, really?

Brad Tree Living. Cool. I think Jim Tree Living was a cop who then just got. That's right. He then ate at a bus a piece. I was like, maybe I'll buy this. Everybody here, you're underwrest. And then who else?

It's sometimes Vidge for Viges is on. And, um, uh, Oh, the, Harley, no. The good looking guy who's also on Shark Tank with a good hair. Yeah.

Robert Herdjavik. Did he write the wealthy barber? Is that his? Well, I would explain his good hair. Um, and then what's her name? She's been on it since the beginning.

Mm-hmm. Uh, You know what I'm talking about? Pokeru. Yeah, Pokeru. Her name is... A big of rich Canadians. I've actually met her before.

I cannot remember her name. Oh, I've met all of them. Oh, apparently the current season has Simuliu. Ooh. That guy won't say no to any opportunity. Is he rich enough to be on that show? Well, yeah. Probably.

Probably. Arlene Dickinson. Arlene Dickinson, yeah. And yeah, why would Sima Liu? Because he didn't invest in any... Well, maybe he did, but... He doesn't have a business per se. Isn't he just an actor?

Wasn't Ashton Coucher on Shark Tank for a while? Yeah, you're right. Sima Leo is apparently a guest. Oh, God. He's not a main cast member like Vincenzo or Lane Maryfield. Ted DiBiase, the million-dollar man. Holy crap. The $6 million man, he's in there.

Anyway, so I went to this movie, Marty Supreme. Which is, I went to see it at, A VIP, the, have you ever gone to the like 19 and up part of the movie theater? Hell yeah. I've never gone before. Which, it's wild. You guys, under 18 and 19, you can't believe what's up. But I was like, I just assumed it's just like the regular movie theaters except you can buy alcohol.

No, you go to a whole different floor. There's a bar. There's tables set up for like, I guess you hang out before the movie. Or I guess after, chat about what you saw. Yeah, you get your own podcast to talk about. the booths set up Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I, I, because as far as I'm concerned, you go to the movie, you sit and you watch the,

you watch everything before the movie start. Yeah, oh, sure. It's the trailers, the ads. You watch Tanner Zipchind interviewing, uh, does he on Dragonstead yet? Tanner Zipchin, there's the popcorn guys. Tech expert Mark Sultzman, remember him? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The word, the pre-movie commercials now are terrible.

Yeah, they're all. The one woman who's talking to people in a parking lot is how many retailers that you can redeem scene points at do you think I can name in 10 seconds? I don't know, all of them, I don't give a shit. Do I win something if you do well? Yeah. Like PC points, but worse. Get out of my face. Yeah.

I don't give a shit. Scene points are better than PC points because you can get movies out of them. Yeah, that's fair. You have a scene card? No, I really got to get on that. Yeah. My wife Sally has one. So I don't.

We're a one scene card. household. You shop a Safeway? Oh, not enough. That's where you got to get them. That's okay. So you're in this movie.

Are these the plush seats? They recline. They don't have footrests that come up. Right. Which I would have liked. And a big cup holder? Big cup holder, big armrest and tray. Because they want to bring you.

Ribs. Yeah. They want to bring you a Bronto burger. It ties into whatever. movie you're watching. Yeah, they want to bring me the Marty Supreme Taco. Surf to you on a paddle.

Yeah. I feel there's few people I feel worse for than the waiters at the movie theater. Because they have to take orders while the movie's playing. Well, Abby said, she's been to this before and she was like, oh yeah, I was asking her, how does it work?

How do the seats work? I was booking it on my phone. Like, if I, they come in pairs, right? So I can't just sit next to a random person, they'd be mad at me. How's Marty going to get out of this one? That's Marty Supreme. Is that Marty Supreme?

That's the guy from Dragonstein. In a wig. Oh, this is he wear a wig? Yeah. You got to see it. But yeah, so you go and you sit down and they take your order. Abby was like, oh yeah, and then you kind of got to keep your eye out if you want to order

more stuff later and I'm like, I can't order more stuff later? How many dinners are you having? Also, I just want popcorn. It's going to cost $30. Yep. How is the swordfish? Is that good? Oh, excellent.

Excellent choice. Not today, sir. Yeah, it's all. The Cineplex fisherman died in the catching place. The ocean? Yes. So, yeah, you go, you sit down and you say, I'll. make Eminems with peanuts, please, my good man.

Yes. And then you have an option to tip them. They bring a machine, right? It's not just like... You always have an option to tip them no matter what you do. That's true. You frankly don't have an option not to. Yeah, that's true.

They came to my seat. They said, I'm Burton Cummings. Yeah, I know this goes. Two, three, four. Taking care of his That's not me Um And so

This movie good This movie bad She's come undone She didn't know what she was something for What is one of the more These eyes I mean is obviously that's a famous Yeah What's the one about the bus

Um Oh Get up every morning Get on the bus Yeah I know I should be answering this. I'm very ashamed.

It's bus rider. Bus rider. Anyway, so yeah, you go and you watch Marty Supreme and he's like a ping pong guy. He's a, like, I don't know anything about it that there's ping pong and Kevin O'Leary. It was only two things. And Timothy Shatame. Tim Shalamee's in it. He's 30 now.

Oh, good for him. So it's over for him. He'll, uh, it's over for him. Logan's run out of Hollywood. You know the rule. No, he is a great ping pong player, but no one cares. It's very hard to be a great ping pong player in the 50s or 60s or something. Sure.

Oh, this is a period. Yeah. As opposed to now where ping pong players are much more respected. Oh, yeah. Everybody will go around your favorite ping pong player and go. Forrest Gump. Shit. Marty Mouser.

But he's, he, uh, have you seen? seen inside Lewin Davis. Yes. Yes. It's like that where he's just like a few dollars away from the thing he needs to do and he's got talent, but he keeps fucking things up and he's an asshole, but certain people are drawn to him and it's like just kind of that. And is it in the trailer, there's a lot of running.

Is there a lot of running in this film? Yeah. The trailer promises that there's going to be a shit ton of it. Well, there's running. He's got to run from the left side of the ping pong table for the right side. I got to get that ball. It's running out of the street. It's next ping pong match.

Do you know that there's actually a full-time ping pong bar here in our home city of Vancouver? Downtown, you go in. It's exactly what it's a bar. All ping pong tables. It's all people playing ping pong and drinking. And that's the whole thing. I stayed at a hotel in Los Angeles that had like, it was the home base of the Los Angeles Susan Sarandon Pingpong Club or something.

Was it Susan Sarandon? It was some actress. It was very annoying. That's her Salsbury house? She's a series of ping-pong bars. It's Susan Sarandon. I'm going to need my pool cleaned. I'll do it, fine.

These eyes. What movie do you want me to recite a monologue from? Touch a touch, touch, a touch me. There you go. Yeah, she's sung stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Could you do Ghostbusters? No, that's the Gourney Weaver. Well, you're not getting it if you don't.

Just hold on. I'll go get her. She knows how this goes. I'm playing ping pong with her right now. Is this a very long film this? Two and a half. Is that long anymore? Nah, that's just average. I made it through without hiring or the bathroom. Yeah, good for you.

I didn't make it through without looking at my watch. Two and a half hours. Yeah, when, like, when you're watching a long film, When do you start to check out? Hour and a half? I feel like that's when I start. Sometimes I'm like, oh, I made it 45 minutes without looking at my watch. Nice.

Oh, you go like that early. Pre hour. You're checking out. It depends on the movie. That's true. Yeah. My brain is still conditioned to think two hours is when a movie is done. Yeah.

So if my body clock is like, it's been two hours and like slowly creeps like, dang it. Still have like 20 more minutes or whatever. The new Avengers are, Avengers is supposed to be four hours and 24 minutes. Cool. That's fun. Yeah. That's fun. That's great.

Yeah. I remember seeing. seeing, what was it? It was one of the, it was like the Marvels was about to come out and they said that it was like, you know, an hour and 55 minutes. And everyone was like, why would I fucking go?

Like, people want a longer movie? I was so happy with this. You're paying by the minute? Yeah. I was so happy when the new naked gun was like an hour and a half. I'm like, thank you so much. Yeah. Let me go.

I bet this counting crow's documentary is going to be 77 minutes. Perfect. That's a real thing in Britain is in Britain they feel like the longer something is that's more value for your money. If it's just if it's just an hour and a half, they'll feel like they got ripped off. And you know what? British listeners call in and tell me I'm wrong because I've been told, I've been told this by British people. So, right?

Well, apparently Marvel people are that way. Yeah. What the hell? Marvel people. Yeah. Chill. Chill, okay. Watch it slow.

Yeah. It goes slower. Yeah, it's even cooler. The special effects will be like, oh, look, he's barely moving. Yeah. It'll be your whole day. In Marty Supreme, in the opening credits, it says all the stars. And then one of the earlier credits is about the special effects.

Oh, sure. Oh, sure. I wouldn't think this movie would have much of special effects. And it doesn't really have noticeable ones, except when they're playing ping pong. And you're like, oh, it's the ball. I thought it was Kevin O'Leary's wig you were mentioning. It spins around. What is his character?

He is Gwyneth Paltrow's husband. Perfect. He's a pen magnate. That's as good as what he is in real life. And he is married to Gwyneth Paltrow, who's an old Hollywood star. And she's in a loveless marriage with this rich guy. And I've seen people say that, oh, he's actually, because he's supposed to be such a hateable character, he's actually pretty good. Nope, he sucks.

Of course he does I'm here to tell you He can't do anything right He He sucks He uh you know Watch out if you're on the same lake as him Yeah

There was a story that came out where like He on set like made the director mad at him Because they did a couple takes and he's like All right I think like Kevin O'Reilly was like All right I think that's enough And the director was like What the hell are you doing? Let's wrap this up

Like when Frank Sinatra Was acting he was acting he would say, why, I got it on the first take. Yeah. When I'm singing, I do it all in one take. What do you need for me? Also, I assure you, Kevin O'Leary, you didn't get it on the first take. Yeah, is a, you were kind of saying a couple weeks or months ago that, like, if you see a product that was on Dragon's Den, that you're like, this product sucks.

Not as much as if I hear a product advertised on a podcast. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. sure. What's the suckiest thing I advertised on a podcast? Oh, I probably better help.

Oh, sure, better help. I actually used them at one point during the during the Pando. How did you find a good one? Nope.

She told me to suck it up. That's going up on me. This is worse help. Yeah. The guy I told him to get on the subway and start eating gum off the bottom of seats. Yeah, he kept saying later loser every time they hung up. he was an old guy and he just kind of he rambled and I was like but it's not or do you think

that I'm a therapist that's what I was going to say it's like a party line like you got connected with other sad guys when Britain they want a longer recession they're paying by the thing the guy says that's the whole scam is they think they're getting connected to a counselor or therapist but it's just too sad guys getting connected wouldn't be bad no we have to the lonely man epidemic as they say yeah Oh, if there's any lonely guys out there, uh, I feel for you,

you're in the right place. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, can I recommend Squarespace? Yeah. Or can I recommend being nice to other people. Yeah,

be nice to each other. Eating cherries berries on your satva mattress. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, anyway, so this movie is fine and good. No, it's good. It's good.

I'd never want to sit through it again. Okay. Just because it was like, it's a soft, one of the softie brothers. Yep. And, uh, their movies are very intense.

Intent, yeah. So I don't want to live in this world, unlike Inside Lewin Davis, which I could watch any day. Yeah, the movie, I was watching a documentary about the woman, and I forget her name, who wrote The Talented Mr. Ripley,

and that movie, if it comes on, I would love to live in that movie. And so the locales and the clothes of the music, so nice. He's so talented. And he said the talent. Yeah. Honestly, just seeing someone be good at something.

Very satisfying. And there's a bunch of books. I thought it was just the one book, but he was a character. Mr. Ripley got into all sorts of trouble. Did he do the same thing to everyone in every book? Was he like a con man all the time? I think he was a con man all the time. And she said the key to her books is that he's always going to get away.

Yeah. Spoiler. They did a TV series of it a year ago. Yeah, it must have been more stuff from the books, but yeah, God, bless that Ripley movie. Jesus. We need to bring back con man movies. Yeah, because you just made me think about Catch Me If You Can, and I watch that again. It was like, yeah, frauds.

Yeah, bring back frauds. The Con air is a great Con man movie. One of the best. The best scene in those is when the person realized that they've been duped and then they, like, play clips back of like, oh, it was, that sandwich was not a sandwich. Yeah, it's when he, and then it's like him saying, I would never. dupe you. And they did. Yeah, the

Catch me if you can. Matchstick men is one on saying. Matchstick man is a con man movie, yeah. The one with Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Oh, Heartbreakers? Heartbreakers. That's a good con movie.

Oh, dirty rotten scroundrels. Oh, yeah. What movie, was it, con air that said the con is on? Who's, uh, what movie? I think most movies say the con is on. And for Marty of the Spring, it was the Pinguish Pond? Well, there was a movie called The Con is On.

But also, Bowfinger. Bofinger. Yeah. Well, Graham, what's going on with you? Well, I'm a man who enjoys a thrush shop as much as any other man. I like going to... Especially if any other man is Macklemore. Absolutely.

see him there all the time. He bought a sheet for $0.25 that smelled like piss. Oh, yeah. That's part of the lyrics. He's popping tags. He was popping tags. He wanted a, what else did he buy in that? Yeah, $20 in his pocket.

Yeah. That's right. He got a broken keyboard. You got something about a kneeboard? Yeah. He also got a kneeboard. But I'll go to a local, independent one. I'll go to a chain.

I'll go to a value village. He'll go to extremes like Billy Joel. That's one of the... What is that a song or an album? I think it's a song. Cool. It might be an album too. But I go to Valley Village on the reg.

I've got an account with them that, man, oh man, if you want to talk about points, it is the worst points card in the biz. Really? What is it? I'm shocked that they have accounts. Yeah, well, it's the one I went to most recently, the amount for the hundreds of dollars I've spent at Valley Village over the years. I have 13 cents.

Oh, I know. Dave, your big shiny tunes piece was source from value villages. I will full disclosure. I have never signed up for any of their accounts, things, because, yeah, they give you, I'm not 65, first of all. So I don't get any deals that way. And, yeah, no, don't bother. How many big shiny tunes is did it take to make this? Two.

One for the front cover and one for the back. All right. Nice. But like, uh... It costs $4. Okay. one time it paid off because the woman that was supervising the check-in said, like, are you part of the member thing? I said, yeah, and she scanned in a coupon for me.

It was only for members, 30% off. Nice, nice. Do you ever go to a place, uh, I get this at grocery stores all the time when they say, do you want to redeem your points? And I say, yes, because like, you never know what's going to happen. But also, is it, am I being, you know, pound foolish and penny wise? or am I being, should I be saving up? Like,

oh, if you don't redeem your points, then you get the really big discount later. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think it works that way. I've never traded in my shopper's points. I've got a choices card.

Don't have a seen card, as previously mentioned. And yeah, I got this Valley Village account. Absolutely worthless. How often do you go to a Value Village? Weekly. Every week?

Every week. Okay. Yeah, I got, my grocery store is near one in Winnipeg. And I just, you know, breeze in, check out, say hi to the, you know, they greet me like Norm from Cheers when I want. Do they really? They're not really. But they do, they, I do know the, the, he wouldn't be a checkout guy.

He's the self-checkout watcher guy. Oh, wow. They do self-checkout at value. Yeah. Which is gutsy of them to assume that we're not swapping the labels. I've said too much. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

But no, yeah, I'm there very frequently. And there's a lot of, you know, they've got. decent stuff half the time and the other half the time you're like all right well that was that was a bust yeah leave and uh but you love it you gotta love it yeah i do gotta love it because i there's that there's that ping of excitement when you find something really cool the ping is pong the ping is pong and and you're like oh it's so great i'm so happy i found this and then two seconds later you get the the rush every time of oh someone cool died someone cool definitely died and their parents and their family and their loved ones didn't know how cool they were and they donated this awesome stuff to value village you just moved out

No, they're dead. They're always dead. That's what I always think. Someone cool left Winnipeg and their parents throw other cool stuff. No one would just get rid of two copies of big shiny tunes too. They're dead. You can tell like him of the same person.

Yeah. A collector. I have actually bought VHS tapes from Value Village and pulled them out and they have labels like from the personal collection of whoever. I have several copies of someone's tapes from Chilowack. Oh. Oh, okay. That I bought in Winnipeg.

Like someone moved from Chilawak. with all their VHS tapes, died in Winnipeg, and now I have their tapes. Maybe they moved to Winnipeg and couldn't find a VCR. That could be a problem. They're hard to come by.

The, uh, uh, sometimes I would buy like a VHS tape that had, you know, you had the label on the side. I don't know if this was how you did it, but you wrote everything that was on that tape.

Yeah. Alf growing page, whatever. NHL All-Star Games skills competition. Yeah. Exactly. Um, but yeah,

I, got some of those. It was that. And then there was like videos of a karate tournament that I remember watching and giving away. But I bought 50 taped from TV beta max tapes and a beta max at a yard sale. Wow. And I was like, get these out of my life. And they're all just like stuff taped off TV.

And they have labels on them. And I'm like, are these labels accurate? I don't know. No, I was pretty willy-nilly with the labeling. I went to the effort of actually. labeling them and then I just put them on the wrong tapes. Some of them were and some of them weren't. Like this one's like, this has trading places.

And it turns like, oh yeah, he taped trading places off TV. Cool. Good for you. Would you, back in the day, if you taped something, would you stop it at the commercial? No. And I create a commercial free. I had precious little tape space. I would and I regret it because I want those.

The commercials are the things that don't exist anywhere. That's the things you actually kind of want to find. And then I wouldn't do it because. I just didn't trust myself to catch it to time it right on the way back. Yeah. One of those beta tapes was eight uninterrupted hours of much music from late November of 1988. Wow.

And the reason I knew that is because at one point, the VJ was interviewing Jim Varney promoting Ernest Save's Christmas, which was just about to come out. So I pulled up a calendar and I pulled up on TV. I'm like, I have cross-reference. Twine all over your one hand. me dropping $40 at a yard sale. Am I wrong in saying that at one point you, do we're like in a competition at much music?

I wasn't like much music once. Yeah. And it was trying to be a BJ? It was a competition. They had a show in the early 2000s called Much Takeover. Okay. And you could just send them a tape. Be like, I want to be a VJ for a night.

And I got in because I owned a video camera in 2004. And not a lot of people did. Yeah. So I got on. I was 18 years old. I got to meet George Strombolopoulos. I asked to meet Ed the Sock. He wasn't around.

I didn't know that Nardwar lived here and not in Toronto. I asked to meet him and he wasn't there either. Met Rick the Temp. Oh, yeah. He was nice. Yeah, it was fun. Rick the Temp is now, he's Rick Campita. People not from Canada or from our generation.

Much of music was our equivalent of MTV. Yep. I think people know that. Yeah. And Rick Campanelli was there forever. But when he first got there, he was the temp. And so then he was just Rick the temp forever. Definitely.

And then he went on to host a like Entertainment Tonight, Canada. Yeah. And now he is a morning show host. I heard him on the morning show here. Oh. And then it turns out he just pre-tapes it. It's like a nationally syndicated morning show. Rick Campanelli.

Wow. Good for him. What was the guy, Bradford? Bradford How. He was a funny guy. He was a cookey guy. Mm-hmm. And what was her name? Blonde-haired lady.

She. Rachel Perry? Rachel Perry. Anybody from the States is supposed to be riveting. Yeah. Yeah. And most people from Canada as well. Yeah.

Ed the sock was a, he would do like commentator or commentary. Yeah. And stuff. He would do, yes. A monthly. column in the... You make it sound like he's the

Statler and Waldorf of... No, you make it sound like he's doing he's like Rex Murphy doing like political commentary. It would be very funny if he went and saw an Oscar

nominated a movie and Ed the sock was in a play playing playing Gwyn and called his husband. Fake wig. Fake wig. Yeah. Still smoking the cigar.

Anyway, you're Value Village. I'm at Value Village. So they have now, and I don't know if they're in every city, but they have a boutique value village. I wandered into one of these. What does that mean? Fancy?

Fancy. Curated? People like, it's just the same stuff, but someone actually went to the, to the, like someone Googled the brand of this and actually this purse is nice. Yeah. There are no deals to be had here. No, that, absolutely. Did you go into one here or does there one in Winnipe?

There was one here and I wanted into one of Toronto as well too. The word boutique was like, ooh, they'll have like good VHS tapes. No, no. They don't. Swarovsky VHS. It's more. clothes than anything. Mostly clothes.

And the top floor is all women's clothing. And then the bottom floor is also a lot of women's clothing. And then a little bit of men's clothing. Two floors. Two floors in this place on South Granville, no less. And the fancy art dealer. Oh, that's where it is. Is it standalone boutique?

Or is it like the boutique section of a regular value building? No, it's the whole thing. Okay. And security, tight. They got security all over. No self-checkout, I'm guessing. It was self-checkout, but you know what you get at Valley Village? You don't get anywhere else to get to use the gun.

Yeah, I love using that gun. Yeah. You get to use it at IKEA, too. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, so went to this boutique. And, like, this stuff was nice, but not, you know, like, there was still, like, there was still, like a t-shirt that had like the yellow

M&M on it and I was like well this isn't worth anything they do exist you saw that sure you said that yeah to myself and they said get out you're not boutique quality you're not allowed to like this genuinely yeah and it was it was just kind of like yeah who is it for because it's like it's not for the fancy art district people no and it's

it is weird because at regular Valley Village I found better stuff than what was there, but That way you yelled at them as you were leaving? I've been seeing better stuff of a regular value village. Yes, I'll still buy this t-shirt for

what I bought a black t-shirt, $4.50. At the boutique? Yeah. Oh, that's okay, good. Yeah, it's just a, but the bottom floor, it was just me and then everybody else in there was like some sort of fashion designer. Oh. Everybody was like looking at the stitching of things

and there was people wearing this very like complex wardrobe. This could have been a challenge from from Project Runway, Canada. It's exactly what it was. Everybody in there was looking for pieces for something that was going on. And at one point, there was a woman on the phone with somebody. She said, I found the shirt.

It's purple. And the guy in the iron was like, show me. And she took a shirt off a mannequin and put the purple shirt on the mannequin so the person on the phone could see. Hmm. You said it was purple. It's more obergid. You're fired. But yeah, it was like,

it was just me and them. And then... And you both were sharing a thought bubble that said, yuck. Yeah. But I mean, you know, like when you see somebody who's like a real, like, fashion person, they've got all sorts of jewelry.

Why, I see one every day. in the mirror. But yeah, so the boutique experience, it's nice, it's a nice, you know, it's not horrible. It's better maintained. It's sort of like the VIP experience that the synepristy is.

It really is. But yeah, I think, oh, I think if you were looking for like nicer footwear, I feel like you might get it at the boutique. But the other thing that Valley Village doesn't have and hasn't had for a while, change rooms. Do they have them in Winnipe? No. Yeah.

They don't trust us with that. Yeah. And so. I'm amazed they trust us with the gun. Yeah. Yeah. But I like had to, I was trying on shirts. So taking off my shirt and putting on other shirts.

Why wouldn't they trust you with a gun? You could steal it? Yeah. Or you might shoot someone. Nah. The arsonist might use it to burn down the valley valley. Shooting lasers at the gun starting fires. Yeah.

I don't know how it works. Always got a magnifying glass. I've never shot it at not a barcode. Maybe it would start a fire. Yeah. Yeah. Don't turn it on. yourself.

But yeah, anyways, fun time regardless. Looking for stuff is fun. Impossible if you want to wear try on pants, can't do it. Can't try it in the different

value of it. There's the shortcut that I don't know if it works with everyone's body, but if you take the pants and put them around your neck. Yeah. That's apparently supposed to

be a good guideline. Yeah. Oh, I thought you meant like tie them around your neck like a sweater and just walk out with them like you wore it. That's what you wore in. Like these fashion people? Like Fred from Scooby.

Oh, he didn't wear a sweater. No. He had a kerchief. He had a kerchief. Yes. He definitely didn't have pants around his hat. No, no. You might have Daphne skirt around.

Oh. Hello. And then who was the other one? Velma. Velma. Scooby. Scooby. Scrappy.

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And we always like to start with the guests. J.D. Do you have an overheard. I do. It happens on a plane. Okay. Okay. So I was flying from Winnipeg to go to Toronto for the holidays.

So I'm flying out on Christmas Eve morning. Okay. It's 7 o'clock in the morning. Everyone on the plane is tired. It's Winnipeg. It is what it is. We get on the plane. It's a Porter Airlines flight.

We're all sitting down. We are taxing. We are ascending into the air. And I didn't know this, but apparently the lights inside the cabin of a porter, airlines, plane, there's a light that goes down the center aisle, and there are lights that go along the windows, and they can be changed to different colors. Sure.

And the pilot thought he would do something nice and festive for us, because it was Christmas Eve morning. He's like, I'm going to turn these two Christmas colors. Sure. Red and green. Red and green. Red and green. Very cool.

Popular show here in Canada. But what he decided to, keep your stick on the, what he decided to do. was he switched one of them on before the other one. So for about eight or nine seconds, the entire cabin was bathed in blood red light. As we are still ascending, which is the point where I think most people think if something was going to go wrong on the plane,

it's probably now. And I bet they would do something to make sure that we all knew we should panic, which is turn the cabin bright, blood red. People didn't scream, but there was definitely like muttering and constant, people were not comfortable and clear Isabelle the dude right behind me

he only said one word but he said it in a way I'd never heard anyone ever say it before he just said Christmas and then very shortly there after the green light down the center aisle went on and I heard him go Christmas and that was it

hell I was like I'm going to say hell he's like Groot he can just say Christmas expresses yeah every emotion And I'm not 100% sure he was sitting with anyone because no one responded to him. I think that was just out loud to no one or perhaps to himself.

Or they're just scared. Yeah. They themselves. Yeah. I like flying the closest to Christmas as possible because you're not in the the foo for a. But it can be kind of a little depressing as well. You've flown on Christmas Day many times. I've done that too.

Everybody's in a pretty good mood on the Christmas Day one because everybody's getting. be pretty depressing. That's why we use better help. Well, they're going to talk to your ears off about their bitch wife. You'll never guess what she did this week. Hey, aren't I paying you know you're paying better help?

I don't see a dollar. Why do I keep getting the same guy? It says I can choose my therapist. Yeah, you chose me. Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow. Tomorrow. Dave, do you have an overheard? Yeah.

I lost my wallet. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. I never found my wallet. But I'm now, I've begun the process of getting everything. I've got, or a new credit card is on the way. Yeah. I got to go to my bank and just do the debit in person.

I got my BCAA card. Nice. Now have it on my phone. What else is there? Well, my, so I went, I booked an appointment last week at 9.10 a.m. Okay. to go to the, what do you call it, the driver's license place. I thought this was going to be the hardest thing.

Yeah. This is in our province, the ICBC office. Yeah. And it was, I made my appointment at 9, 10 in the morning. I was like, I'll drop the kids off at school. I'll head over there. And then I'll do it. And I got there a few minutes before 9, 10.

And I was like, last time I went, it was packed. Like, even if you had an appointment, you still had to wait. half an hour. I think maybe because they're changing the licensing system, everything is now smooth. But I got there at 9 o'clock. Yep. Nine bells.

Why am I saying the times? Not important. I did, and I didn't have to either. It's okay. But then I went in and I checked in and they saw me right away and they said, you know, here's your show me your ID, show me your passport or whatever.

And they asked me about like, what's your height and weight at the moment? And I was like, well, stand over on the scale here. Yeah. They took my picture. And then, but there was a guy, an old man next to me,

making love to his tonne of gin. Davey, still in the Navy. Dave, what are you doing here? He was like, you're supposed to be in the Navy. What are you? So got a real estate novelist? And he was getting his thing.

And the woman was talking to him. And she said, okay. And are you still 5 foot 11 or whatever? And he's like, yep. And she said, well, it says here, your hair's brown. I'll change that because he was white-haired old man. Sure. Yeah.

And the guy goes, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Blue. And she says. no, your hair. Then he said, oh, I thought you met my eyes. When you're older, the eyes change color. You have white eyes. Eventually they do, sort of.

Used to be brown, another blue. And then, oh yeah, here's why I mentioned the time. This isn't an overheard. It's just a fun thing that happened. My appointment was at 9-10. I was done, but by 906. Oh, shit. I was back in my car at 906.

I looked at my phone. I checked my email. At right at 906, I got an email from Olivia Rodriguez celebrating five years of driver's license. Nice. Okay. Shit. Pretty good. I'm glad she shared it with me.

The, uh, when I was... Do you remember the day driver's license came out? It was five years ago? Five years ago last Thursday. Yeah. We both heard it on that day. We reported it a podcast that. And it was so good.

With Deanne Smith. Yeah. And we were both like, hey, I just heard the song, Driver's license. Me too. Yeah. And we loved it. We loved it. And all these years later, you find out that the gal that was getting in between her and her fella.

Sabrina Carpenter. Yeah. And who's Sabrina Carpenter's aunt? The voice of Bartson. And what cult does she belong to? Scientology. I love this, Jeff. Yeah.

And Scientology, uh, influence. what movie? The master. My, so, my overheard is Jeopardy uploads certain episodes onto Crave, I want to say. Okay. They add them every week. So they're not new episodes? Yeah, new episodes. They're not super far behind whatever's happening live, but.

And do they do every episode or just some? Every episode, because there's something called the Jerry Second Chance Tournament. bringing back all these people. All the people who broke up with Ken Jennings. And he's giving them a second chance. I've changed, Ken. I've stopped seeing Deep Blue.

You can marry me again. Please forgive me. I'm Buzzy Cohen. But this is something, I feel like when I was watching Jeopardy on TV, they had this kind of starting. But now it's fully a part of the show where, because sometimes it would be like, Jeopardy is brought to you by some kind of insurance company, and that would be it. But now they've embedded actual commercials into the actual show, so the commercials end up on the streaming service. Okay.

And I watched the commercial, and it was about Beets, B-E-E-T. The root vegetable? The root vegetable. Love them. And their slogan was, the number one beat brand in the USA. Can't be beat. is right there. Well,

you're thinking way too hard, yeah, number one beat brand in America? Can't even name it. Isn't the Pomagranet company Palm Wonderful? Yeah, this is Beats by Dre.

I, yeah, I like Jeopardy. Yeah. Would you rather your company gets played your commercial

gets played during the closed captioning provided by or promotional consideration provided by? I gotta go with that close

captioning. Yeah, me too. Captioning is the money sponsor. I've been watching movies at my home now. Yeah. I've been watching them without captions on. You madman. Without without.

For years, I was like, well, I'll just keep the captions on that I can do whatever. Yeah. But I find I enjoy the movie more if I don't have them on. Yeah. Here's a weird thing is like if I watch a foreign movie and it has closed, like if it's got um why am i suddenly forgetting the name for captions or whatever um subtitles subtitles subtitles yeah um i find like i can't tell if the acting is good or not because i'm you're reading though yeah yeah so i'm like reading it in my head i'm like well i don't know like it could be could

be the best actually you ever see when the subtitles are like a little they didn't update it they like they're going off the script and not what was actually said on the weird run on sentences yeah even ender really i saw a it was a a it was a a, it was a Kira Kurosawa movie in like this little theater in Toronto. I'm not bragging. I'm just saying what it was. I'm so self-conscious about seeing a Kerasawa movie and a weird theater. Well, they're not playing them at big theater.

I know. But the moment those words left my mouth, I'm like, yeah, listener, I hate me too. But it was out of a freaking cartoon, like a six foot eight guy wearing a giant hat, sat down right in front of me. And I'm like, a movie with subtitles and you're wearing a hat. Yeah. And you're not in the back row. I'm like, I'm like, I literally had a tap.

I was like, man, I can't believe I have to, I cannot read the subtitles because of your giant hat. I know you can't get shorter, but you're. Was it Uncle Sam? Can you get shorty? Yeah, sure. Like, here, Carissa was get shorty. It was really good.

And I didn't know what was happening. I can't read the subtitles on that. Oh, man. Um, yeah. Uh, was a movie. I watched another, watch a movie the other. Are you, do you watch for subtitles at home? No, no.

unless it's like real lot of slang that I'm not under understanding or from a different you know like if it's English or Irish from the turn of the century I might not be able to understand what it's being said but really newer movies I do because the sound mixing on some things is like giant explosion whatever so I'm like I don't want to keep it at a medium volume so I don't get blown out by loud things and then I can't hear the actual talking yeah so yeah you're a caption guy for like movies released in the past like 15 years kind of or Older movies are usually fine. You know, like, some old, like, noir where a dude's wearing a hat, scream, and I understand everything you're saying. You know, it's crazy that I hate is... Sort of, like, Sunthopoul-Lord. Kind of, yeah. Sometimes the subtitles are white, and then there will be a scene where, like, there's a big cloud or whatever, and you can't read half of the subtitle. They don't figure, like, oh, we'll turn them black for this scene, and then we'll turn...

They don't think about us at all. Yeah, they don't give a shit. It's a documentary about clouds. Yeah. This is a... Cumulus. Yeah, sure. Isn't there one that's called like a lumbolingus or something like that?

Oh, I don't know. Nimbulous. Another word? Yeah, yeah. Nimbus. Yeah, Nimbus. And cuddolingus might be one of them. Check out Marty Supreme.

You feel like that. If you like that. Now, we also have overheard sent into us by people all over. If you want to send one in, then into SBY at maximum fun. org and this first one comes from Meredith from York, Maine. She says this isn't really an overheard, but I think it qualifies. We were talking about Y2K on a bonus episode. Why not?

And I remember leading up to Y2K. Oh, by the way, on that bonus episode, you're like, this year's the 25th anniversary of Y2K. No, it's the 26. Yeah, I know. Someone pointed that out. Of course they did. my older brother would bully me by waking me up in the morning

by flipping the lights on it off and over and over again yelling Y2K Y2K Like many times Yeah yeah But like just on that one day or every day Yeah it sounds like it was a regular

He would bully me Oh that That is top tier late 90s bullying I love it Y2K There's nothing you can say back What are you going to say to Y2K Y3K?

good night this next one comes from Edward S Sizzar hands Yep So I was clipping the edge How did you write this email? No that's true

Voice detect Oh yeah yeah Man that movie's not as impressive If he made it today You handle everything Siri you crimped trim the head Yeah I'll just sit here with my giant

Scissor hands This one comes from Edward Cizher hands My sons He has sons 13 and 8 are playing the James Bond Nintendo game, Golden Eye. The 8-year-old says, where's the golden gun?

The 13-year-old said, in your butt. And the 8-year-old responds without missing a beat. Well, I guess I'm going butt fishing. You guys remember golden eye? Of course. Absolutely. Did you ever play it where you're... Was it an odd job you could be?

Yeah. I played the game. itself, but are we talking about just the multiplayer? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or you do only slaps. It's like you could make it so you don't actually have any guns. You could pick up so you just run around and like public bathrooms just slapping people in the head. Apparently that was just like a last minute thing they threw in. It was like, oh, we can also do this multiplayer thing where you can all kill each other. And that was that was it. That was everybody loved that game. Yeah. That was the reason to buy an N64.

And then there was that game. They turned it into a TV show. show, but it was a bunch of different trucks crashing into Twisted Metal. Twisted Metal. Yeah, love Twisted Metal. Twisted Metal was my game. Yeah. I broke my back on a trampoline in grade 9,

and I got really good at Tony Huck Pro Skater and Twisted Metal. Okay. So that was your rear window, but it was just you being a really good at a video. There was nothing out my window that was worth investigating. How's your back now? It's fine. Oh, cool. Thanks.

Like, on the edge of a trampoline? Or how do you break your back? I was singing a Sir Mix-a-Lot song to make my friends. laugh. Which one? Monster Mac from the Beavis and Budhead Experience album. Okay. Dude, these are formative memories. You don't forget the most embarrassing spinal injury of your life. And I just slipped a little too weird, landed on my neck. My back made a knuckle crack noise. And currently my 11th and 12th vertebrae are fused together. Oh yeah, they do

be like that. They do be like that sometimes? Do they fuse naturally or do they fuse them together? Oh, they got to fuse them together. No, you got to sing up to some mixed lots. overextend yourself. It's the only way it works. This last one comes from Sue from Baltimore. This is an overheard from a guy in front of me at the UPS store. He was mailing a package. The clerk, what's in the box? Customer, pickles. Clerk, unimpressed, what value do you want to put on them for insurance?

Customer, well, they're homemade, so I'm going to save their prices. You think the clerk is just making conversation? What's in the box? Pickles. Oh, he's unimpressed. That was my favorite part. Why did you ask? Because I'm a shipper.

Yeah, because I have to legally ask. Well, in addition to overheards that are written, and we also accept your phone calls and your voice memos. If you want a voice memo us, record it on your phone. Use the voice memo app. And then when you're done, hit the send button and send it to us. SPY at maximum fun.org.

And if you want to call us, the phone number is one. 844-779-76-3-1. That's one. Ugh. SpyPod one like these people have. Oh, also, I want to point out that you didn't over... Well, so you did an overheard on a live episode in Toronto before we knew who you were. Yeah, well, you knew who I was.

I knew who you were. I know who you were. I still don't know who you are. Does anyone know who I am? It was the one, it was a Toronto episode with Paul F. Tompkins as a guest. Do you remember what your overheard was? Yes. I was in a dairy queen

and I overheard two men who were Jehovah's Witnesses who were converting a third man to be a Jehovah's Witness and this is not theoretical because the moment they sat down in the booth adjacent to me they said,

so we think you say you're interested in converting to being a Jehovah's Witness so I instantly like I want to hear everything that happens here and the older man of the duo

he says like oh yeah there's a lot of famous Jehovah's Witnesses do you know that Beck is a Jehovah's witness? And the guy said, no, I think he's a Scientologist. And the guy went very good, like, oh, no, no, no, he's a Jehovah's Witness. And then the younger of the two of the converters went like, aren't you thinking of Prince?

And then the older guy went, no, no, no, no, no. He died. I've thought about that to this day, just the confidence of that man. Yeah, and Prince was, right? He was. Yeah, he was famous. And Michael Jackson as well. Oh, really?

Yeah. That's why he has that thing at the beginning of the thriller video thing. Oh, this is like a cult. I don't like the occult. I'm a Jehovah's Witness. Jehovah's my guy. Happy birthday. I mean, no, happy birthday.

Happy Halloween. No, no. Just happy. Yeah. All right, here's your phone calls. Hi, David Graham. This is Anne from North Carolina. I was out to eat the other day and there was like a group of six adults sitting behind us.

And I heard one guy say to another guy. guy. So your dad's new wife, she's a communist. And the man and his wife said in unison, a communist and a witch. Oh, shit. Hey. Oh, I want to picture everyone's happy about this situation. Yeah. Yeah. How does being a communist impact your, your dealings as a witch? Yeah. Sharon Brooms.

Yeah, share a broom. Everybody works on the pot together. Well, they already do. That's true. Maybe they're the most communist of the supernatals. Every goodie bag I've ever been handed has had multiple witches all chilling and being cool together. Yeah. You mostly get goodie bags depicting Macbeth.

Yes. Here's your next phone call. David Graham. Hello. This is Nathan. I shouldn't have said that. With an overheard out of Montana. I've got the grocery store on the New Year's East pack place.

Some fella with three full grocery carts hollers across the room and he goes, Yo, yo, Joe, put that bullshit yogurt back. I got the real shit right here. All right. Well, off. I know. This was the New Year's Eve, a three grocery carts. Why, two.

We're having a big yogurt party for New Year's Eve. We're popping bottle of yoga. yogurt. What do you think they're talking about the sweetest one, the one that's got the most protein? Yeah, the probiotic one. Yeah. Fruit of the bottom. Oh, man, fruit at the bottom.

They still do that? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's around. Chobani. Was it Chobani? Ooh, that's Jobani. So, so silky. Yeah.

Was it just dairy land, the one that I ate growing up? Yeah, I don't think, well, there was Yopla. There was always Yoplay. Jokers. Oh, Gurgerts, yeah. And there was. Yeah, yop. It was yop.

Frozen yogurt, of course, was big in the 90s. You don't see it that much anymore. No. Yeah, what the hell? Is merchies? Is that a... Merchies is tea. Menchies is frozen yogurt.

Yes, menchis. I just want to know which of the ones we just said is the bullshit one, though. Oh, yeah. What could be the worst? Activia. Yeah. Yeah, or just plain. Maybe it's just talking about plain.

Yeah, Greek. Yeah. Yeah, come on. If you're going to buy a yogurt, go for a flavor. I do a key lime pie. Ooh. And one of the ingredients is just plain yogurt. And it's the only time I buy plain yogurt.

Yeah. You ever try it while you're cooking? Yeah. Well, I end up with like half a container left over. This is bullshit. I trick myself into good thinking it's sour cream and dipping a chip. All right. Here's your final phone call.

Hi, Dave Graham and possible guest. This is Molly. from the Seattle area and I'm calling in with an overheard. I was just in line at the grocery store and there was a woman standing behind me. Her phone rang and she answered it and she says, Hi, what am I doing? The Holy Trinity, Costco Target and Trader Joe's. Oh, yeah.

Off I go. Absolutely. You have that, we don't have it. We don't have that option. No, but if you go a day trip down to the States would, I would go, when I used to go down to the States before, the Cheeto in Chief. threatened our sovereignty. Yep. I would go Trader Joe's Target, but never Costco.

Well, you had that, we had domestic. We have domestic. Isn't the mall that's in the, what is the mall that when you cross the border? Bell is fair? Well, apparently it's hurting. Oh, because the Canadians aren't going down. Yeah. Apparently, it's on the ropes.

One of my most treasured videos I still have saved somewhere is we had a target in Winnipeg for a few months like much of Canada did. I briefly tried to have targets. I was walking by it when a man on a giant cherry picker was taking down the now open sign and putting up the now closing sign in the same trip. Didn't like went up with it, put one down, took the other one down, and I'm just filming him from the bottom. Yeah. I'm like, this is historical to me. This is the transition. This is the transition.

Yeah. Wow. Well, everybody, visit your local targets. Well, you still can guys. Support them. They need your help now more than ever. JD, thank you so much for being our guest. Thank you so much for having me. Now, if people want to see this special that's just coming out, Spanking Brande, what's it called?

It's called I Ruin Things for a Living. If you follow me on Instagram, which is at J-D-R-N-A-U-D, it's French. I'm not French. Just don't overthink that. J-D-R-E-N-A-U-D. I'm going to post it on my YouTube channel. I'll have links. I'll post clips.

I'll do the things. I've been doing comedy for a while. The reason you never heard of me is because I'm from Winnipeg and we don't promote ourselves. Well, at all. So I'm trying my best. And it's funny. Okay. I did my best.

I look forward to it. Thank you. Is the Burton Cummings story on there? No. Oh, God, is it? No, it's not. Oh, so it's an exclusive track. I decided to not do the most regional as regional could be material for the special I'm releasing to the greater world.

Well, thank you so much for being here, guys. Thank you, everybody out there for listening. If you get a chance to eat ribs during Marty Supreme, take that chance. And, yeah, never mind. And coming back next week for another episode of stop podcast of yourself.