Stop Podcasting Yourself - Episode 932 - Dave Merheje

Episode Date: January 27, 2026

Comedian Dave Merheje returns to talk cold plunges, two sports in one day, and long walks. 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! Good day and welcome to episode number 9.32 of Stop Podcasting yourself. My name's Graham Clark. And with me, as always, is a man who, like me, I assume, is loving these foggy, foggy nights here in Vancouver. Mr. Dave Shumka.

Do you like hearing the horns? Yes. I like hearing the horns. I like seeing the lights and how they refracted. And like walking around like, Jack the Ripper. Yeah, it does feel very Jack the Ripper at night. I'm going around town on the cobblestone streets. Did he rip or was I consider him more of a strangler?

He ripped. He did a big hook? I think he had a big hook. What did he rip with? A guitar? Yeah. He was the first to do a solo. We're going to look up Jack the Ripper today.

Didn't he use a knife? I thought he used a knife. I think he stabbed people or used a razor or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Jack the Ripper. weapon weapon of choice

butcher's knife surgical knife or a dagger well yeah it's quite a ripper yeah and he if you go to London England

you can't walk down the street without going on a jack the ripper tour was that like how they talked back then

they're like oh this guy's been ripping people you've been ripping people yeah he's been ripping people all of

I never thought about that why is he called the ripper um listener send in any of information you have

Jack the Ripper, like who he is, his identity, if you think you know. Yeah. Did they use DNA to find it? I think they settled on a guy that it was not as exciting as the, like, somebody thought it was a royalty. Yeah, somebody thought it was Shakespeare. Our guest today, as far as we know, not Jack the Ripper, he is a return guest here to the podcast. His comedy special, you can see it on YouTube called Daoud. It's Dave Mershaj.

Hello, Mur Haj, not Mermaj. Oh, you guys. No, I like that. I do like that. Dude, there has to be different renditions every time. Yeah. I want my last name to jump into different ethnicities. Yeah?

Like, you know what I mean? When they do the caption thing in different languages, it could be my last name and different. Oh, sure. Does your last name mean anything? Someone told me it meant clown, but I don't know. I never did no research.

It sounds like somebody was trying to insult you. And it'll tell you something, but you don't know if I trust Google. I googled Jack the Ripper. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, is that maybe that's just his last name, the Ripper. Yeah.

Did they ever find the Zodiac Ripper? No. No. He's still up for grabs. But they did find the Orange or the Golden State Ripper. The State Ripper. They found Ted Bundy, the clown Ripper. Yeah, and Richard Ripper is the Night Ripper.

The Knight Ripper. So they didn't find a Zodiac one. No. That's wild. Yeah, and he was, he was taunting. He was sending in letters and, you know. Yeah, good movie. Have you seen it?

I did, yeah. It rocks. It does. Show that came out was like two seasons where they used like other serial killers to catch other serial killers. Mind Hunter? Yes. That's the, that's like on this, the downside of your serial killer career, that's where you can really find something for yourself to do. It's a senior.

It's like their podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Like it's something like it kind of settled into. They're good at it. They're good at it. Well, that's what Hannibal Lecter was all about. Oh, yeah. Did they, I didn't, I feel like everyone loves that show.

And I love Zodiac and I love every other David Fincher thing. But it just didn't do it for it. I never saw. So Chris Gordon, very funny community, we were watching the, the, on Netflix. What was the last one that they like monsters, but it was third, not the Mendez, the one after the Mendez. Oh, yeah. Yeah, there was. They did the one on Tony Inkey Mendez.

From Letterman? from Letterman. But they were featured, not featured, but there was a scene where they had the Mine Hunter type. And then he was like, you should watch Mine Hunter. And I was like, okay. And I was just like roped in. Yeah.

I was like, this is everything. I mean, I love the trope of like, we're going to find a killer because the killer's the only one who can know what's going on in a killer's mind. It was just fascinating how you could use that. But then, yeah, the serial killers were like on top of it. I'm like, these are detectives now. Yeah. No badge.

Yeah, I've never talked to a serial killer. I think you guys, you've ever done some trouble with names, words today. A celery killer. It's later in the day. Dave Mercage. I've talked to people where I'm like,

that could be a serial killer. Woo. Just in general. I feel like it's harder to be a serial killer now because there's cameras. And there's so many podcasts. And there's so many podcasts. So many Instagram live. I feel they would Instagram live by accident.

Yeah. That's true. Yeah. But dials on while I was killing. Do we want to get to know us? Yeah. Yeah, I'm just thinking, how come, like, there's many horror movies about social media and serial killers working together. But that hasn't happened yet.

Tell me what are you talking about. Like, either sending out teases to the cops via a YouTube or like that. Like, nobody has there been like a. YouTube killer in real life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like. Are we ready for that as a people? I know. I mean, there's rappers who have like alluded to who they took out or

through like by accidentally on a, not by accident on a song. So not YouTube, more SoundCloud. Yes. SoundCloud and on their records or Instagram live. Yeah. I know why I'm laughing. They do that a lot in like,

um, uh, law and order SVU or law and order. They'll just take a, they'll make a face. social media site and incorporate that into the crime. Yeah. Yeah.

It's because people like to, I mean, you know how it is. They're just like so social media addicted. Yeah. Like I got to kind of report what I'm doing all the time. Do you love social media? I mean, no. No. I feel I'm also like, don't know how to like my niece nine years old.

She like made a, she showed us on like Snapchat. She made it with using Capca, a really funny video making fun of I think her mom or somebody, you know. Oh, I would love to know, this is really good. And I was like, after she, like, walked away, I'm like, oh, damn, should I hire her? That should probably be cheap, right? Yeah, yeah, because I don't know how to do a lot of stuff. So I'm like, am I old? But then I see people with my age who really are good at it. It's just not good at it. I'm not good at it either. And I think hiring somebody is the right way to do it. And you know what? You're already, if you already got some good evidence that she's good at it.

I should probably hire her. Yeah, she's good. But even I don't. like the, not that I'll like this. She'll just make fun of you. She'll make fun. Yeah. Well, she's good at that. My dumb ass uncle. She did probably say that in just a different way, but it's more of like, you know, if you post something and it does well, it's not the same dopamine I would get from like actual

being there. Yeah. When you put something out like that, you refresh it a million times? Yeah, yeah, just to see like, but then you, I was, then you, like Instagram now will just post something like, oh, if you want to capitalize on this or do, I just think it's bad.

It's like it's setting you up. Then you post the next one. It doesn't even do any thing close. And then you're like, oh, this is just a bad for my mental health. Even if I'm winning. Yeah. Like great,

you know, I'm fine with not getting views of which I, you know. Hey, me too, man. I've got news good over the years. And then you're like, then they make you want to do more. And then that one doesn't do as good.

You're like, dude, this is just a bad cycle. Yeah. Have you ever had one do really well? Like recently one was like maybe over 400,000 views. That's a lot. Yeah. That's crazy.

And that one was like, it was a bit, it was off this special. I wasn't even going to do. It was in between shows. Yeah. And it was about like reverting to Islam. Right. And then I was a comedian friend Rami. He said he was the one that was like, he was at the show.

He's like, dude, he didn't, that's, why do you just tell them how you actually kind of like converted? Yeah. I was like, oh, that story? Yeah, why you just try that? And we did it in the second show, but I was never going to do it. How did you convert? Yeah, how did you? I did it.

It was an online thing. I filled out of form. That's, yeah, do you. Welcome. Yeah, well, thank you. Thank you very much. We had Marito Lopez on the show. And he's crazy.

But he just comes out of nowhere with, like, and then, yeah, by the way, a Muslim man. Yeah, yeah. That's, I mean, I've known for a while. Mine was pretty gradual. How did you, like what age were you when you decided to? This was like 2002. Oh shit. Yeah.

I didn't realize it was that reason. Yeah, it was very, I mean, I grew up with Muslims my whole life. You know, I mean, Windsor, there's a huge population and we're Lebanese Christian and you just, you know, but like I never really put into it. It was kind of organic how I happened. Yeah. I'll pray loosely with friends. I was like, okay, I'm spiritual. I'll pray, but never really thought anything of it.

And then as I kept doing it, it just made sense. Yeah. Do you have an app on your phone that tells you where Mecca is? Yeah, I can show you after. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen it. I've seen it. Okay.

I saw a guy on the street, like, pull over his car, take a little rug out and then get his phone out. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. Guess you got to do it on the go. Like, you get in that air. I used to not do it. I'm in public, and now I do it more, but not.

I still don't. I mean, this is just me. I was like I still get like super scared and nervous. Yeah. Like I was flying into here. I was at the Vancouver airport. I found a place to do it like a couple of times. Yeah.

And the staff will work with you. They'll hold a towel in front of you. Yeah, yeah. They're like, oh, you got to find this cubby hole. Yeah. But they sometimes let you pray in certain rooms and stuff. What do they call it a not, like a, some kind of chapel? Yeah, they have that at there, but you have to leave the airport.

Oh. I was like, oh, I see. how you're trying to stop Islam. I think there's a booth where people can do, like women can feed their babies. I feel like there's a closet. And there's like a peephole where I can watch, right? Yep.

It's a whole no where you can see it. Yeah, yeah. That's, yeah. I've heard of you and the people and the airport. There's legend. It's the one thing I need, I need to see. Legend has it through all the gates.

Is, um, How many days, or sorry, how many times during a day do you have to? Five. Five times a day. I wasn't doing that at first. I still, now the last year and a half, almost two, I've, or last year I've stayed on the five. Yeah. But not always at the time.

Sometimes you'll be just somewhere else and I'll just. Yeah. Do you remember what was a great eight? You learned all the rules? I think we learned them all in social studies in French. The rules of different religions? Yeah. Well, I specifically remember the like pillars of Islam.

Oh, really? Yeah. I don't think we learned this. This is, in Calgary, I don't feel like this made it. Oh. I don't think this made it into the curriculum. It was the pray five times a day. Pilgrimage.

I forget what else. Yeah, I mean, it's, I just tried to, yeah. I didn't think it would, I would do that. Yeah. Like, do you know what I wasn't like I'm going to do? It just kind of really happened organically. Is this funny or offensive? Here it comes.

Everybody buckle up. Is this funny or? Well, just like you were talking about, like, yeah, I'm doing the five a day. Like, it may be some kind of bit where it's like, you know, you're talking about like you're getting your reps in or something. Oh, like a bit like. Yeah, something like, well, I'm up to five a day. I'm trying to.

Well, yeah. I think you're, I. I'm his law maxing. I mean, you could try it. Can I? Yeah, Dave, you could try it. Yeah, yeah, you could try it. Okay.

It's weird sometimes someone like a, like a comic who's done. Muslim will do jokes about Islam and then you can see the audience just immediately buckle. Who's the world's least likely Islamic person? Muslim person. Little John just converted. Oh, did? Yeah. Okay.

Him. Kat Stevens, Yusufizlam. Yeah. I think that was a surprise to a lot of people when he switched over. That I did not know. Clay Aiken? Clay Aiken? No.

Whoa. Hey, man. It's a wild world out there, you know? That would be really cool. I was trying to go over with the most surprising one, and I did. I think half of the Backstreet Boys? Yeah. Howie for sure.

Do you have to go to church every week? Or is that just as you can make it happen? You should probably. I try to make the Friday prayer at the mosque whenever I can. So if I'm home in L.A., I could do it probably every Friday. Is that like an all-day thing? No, no, no. You just pop in?

You just pop in. Shakes of hands. I don't think it's all day. You could stay all day. Sure. Yeah. Like, for me, church was an hour a week on Sundays. Yeah.

And then talk to Dino Archie. He was like, it's an all-day Sunday thing for him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it really was. It was like, whatever it was, 10 to 11. Yeah. Coffee after.

and then maybe you go to McDonald's. And that was a wrap. Even when I went to church, it would be half, maybe like three, four hours. Like when my parents would take us. Here four hours, what would you do? Well, not three. In the church, it's maybe like an hour,

but then you hang out downstairs. It was in the church that had the basement more coffee and the kids would hang out and the parents would hang out. So you're there maybe like three hours. Yeah. Not the church part of praying is not long. Did you have a friend that you had to be friends with

because they were only the only guy your age? There was a lot. Oh, really? No, but I had a friend that. his parents were in the choir. And we and him were good friends for like a long time. But I don't think we were four. We were just the same age and we went to church together.

Feel like I was forced into some friendships because I was the only in Sunday school. Oh, for sure. I probably was. But him, luckily, he was, because there was steps at the back of the church we'd go to and we would hang on the steps. He would hang there because his mom and dad would be in the choir. Nice. Maybe I was, if I was forced into friendships, they ended the moment I left for church. And I, by the way, I was trying to get out as like as fast as I can't.

Maybe get a little cup of orange drink on the way out. But I didn't understand a lot of the, because I knew how to speak Arabic and I understood it, but the sermon would be in Arabic. Sometimes I wouldn't really understand certain things and stuff. Did your folks talk Arabic at home? All the time. Yeah, I just kind. And then Deacon Ray would show up.

And Deacon Ray was like, was he full Lebanese or half, but he would do it in. Graham, was he full Lebanese? I'm going to go out on a lot of. a limb and say, he's a straight up layagan. Deacon Ray, no, Deacon Ray was half Lebanese. Deacon Ray's half. Maybe half

Syria. Deacon Ray came to our high school because there was like violence and he talked to all the youths. Really? Oh yeah, I saw him in the library. I didn't say it out loud. George Deacon Ray. He just came in. It was like the government. Like the presidents are coming in because they were like, oh, we got to talk to these kids.

They're causing violence. Right. He came in. Did it work? Probably not. Was it a violent high school? There was like a huge fight broke out like a couple times and I think the school was like like a massive fight where they kept the kids. There's two groups fighting each other and they kept some of the kids that were being like basically attacked in the principal's office.

Like there was beef another like in a pool hall. These two factions got no fight. Yeah. The guys were at our school and then the dudes came from another school from another high school, like maybe like 50 guys. Yeah, you got to keep that. The other high school hates your high school. We had a big thing in our high school is people from the Philippines and people from Lebanon.

Oh, yeah. Hated each other. This is, so this was like a Lebanese, no, versus Italians. Ah, okay. Yeah. It would be so funny if it was like World War III. And it was like, and who were the major fighters? Well, it was Philippines and Lebanon.

And they started and everybody else jumped. Yeah, brass knuckles. Did your schools have a. Like a police officer who worked there? Yeah. I don't think ours did. Ours did. Yeah.

And like a gun carrying cop too. Like not just. What the hell was wrong with your schools? I don't know. There was a lot of fights. Constable Michaels was his name? Was your school here though, right? Yeah.

Okay. What was, was it a bad school? I think it was just the, no. It was just the standard. Like, and they took them away and there was like a controversy recently. Like they want to put cops back in schools. Oh, shit. And then yours was just.

Calgary. Yeah, it was just Calgary. And I remember once the sheriff's badge and yeah, he had a cowboy hat. I remember once the constable came to talk to our class about drugs and no one cared about drugs. We all wanted to know if he'd ever shot anyone. And he was like, no, but I came really close. And everybody was like, yay!

And they could tell, I meant it. I pointed to my gun at them and they looked at me and they were like, okay. But I think you've probably mentioned this before, what area did you grow up in Vancouver? Kitsilano. Oh, your kids? Okay. Very, well, before I went there, everyone was like, oh, yeah, it's a big Greek school. But I don't remember very many Greeks.

How many plates we got smashed on that, like, yearly basis? Oh, like, I don't know, 5,000. Every lunch hour. We're allowed to do this on account of our Greek. Yeah, and we, yeah. We did the only non, what was it? Was I the only non-Greek there? I guess so.

I was always refusing to eat a year. Yeah. Did Greeks and the Ukrainians? Do they have a real beef going on? No, they had a swarma. Nice. Dude, what was in there in the high school besides the Greeks then? Another prominent culture in your high school.

Oh, boy. Boy, I mean, the culture was friendship. The culture was, you know, scholastic achievement. Okay. High level grading. No, I just, I don't even know. Like, it was multicultural. and the only people like Adelia where they were from were the exchange students.

Rudy was from Haiti. Rudy from Haiti. That's an easy one to remember. Rudy from Haiti. Do you like, do you like, did you like being in kids? Yeah. Okay. Do you like it now or is it like?

Do I like the area? Yeah, it's fine. I mean, I don't know that it's the same. It's very, like, it used to be kind of the. It was known for Greeks and hippies. And now it's just rich people. Oh, I like it back then. Yeah.

Yeah. Were you ever in a fight in high school? Yeah. Yeah. Not in, no. We actually just talked about this. And my two buddies from high school, we still see each other now. Oh, really?

Like when I go back to visit in Windsor, Ontario, we'll hang out. The last, like, maybe like, three times we've went and had lunch together and hung out and And our one friend remembers everything in high school. The other guy blocked it out. Right. So it's like three best friends, basically. And so he remembers all these. He said, do you remember when he threw a snowball at the kid that he used to get picked on?

Because I would get picked on, but I was a scumbag and I threw a snowball at the other guy. Yeah, you were trying to like, well, as long as there's one weaker than me. Yeah, yeah. And the school didn't like it. No. They were like, oh, and he brought. No, that would be funny if the school was like, yeah, get him. Get him.

And then my voice still, when we talk about it, like, why would you do that? I go, I don't, I don't know. I don't know. I was picked on as well kind of thing. But I remember grade nine, I was getting, like, you know, you bully, they bully the, but my, one of my cousins, like people knew them. So when they found out that they were, I was related to them, they stopped. They like legit stopped overnight.

Wow. And then I never got picked on. Was your cousin tough? My cousin was tough, but also my cousin, when I look back, he was 19, but he looked like he was 35. Yeah. Like, he just was massive.

He looked too big to be in high school. Yeah, was it here that we were talking about a couple weeks ago about the kid in school who was like an adult had just like developed faster than everybody else. Yeah, there was definitely a guy in my high school who was just Mr. Body Hair. And I'm still till this day scared of my cousin.

Yeah. Like I just saw him at a, I did a show outside of Windsor, like at the Leamington Lebanese. It was like a Lebanese club. Yeah. And he came with his wife. And I was late.

And I'm trying to go in the venue and he was outside. He was Dave. And I'm standing. I'm like, oh, I got to go in. And he's like smoking a cigarette on a bench. And he goes, sit down. I sat down. I was like, I was late.

Yeah, yeah. So I just sat. And then I was just like, well, when he stops talking, I can go inside. Yeah. What do you want to talk about? Just life. But he's not like that much older than me anymore. It's like when you're, you know, I mean, but it's still.

That doesn't go away. Terrified. When he said, he literally goes, sit down. I was in the middle. of like I got to go in on a lady go sit down. Isn't it funny how fast you go into that whatever the relationship was back then? Yeah. Just like instantly you're like, okay, yeah, right.

I was a little cousin to him. Even if I have like a job, I'm just little cousin. I don't know. I think I can break out of that. You'll never be able to break out. What is our status dynamic? We're both alphas. Yeah, I forgot.

That's what I sense. I do sense a huge alpha dominance. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we were kind of pre-heal rick of testosterone. It was very like, we ate lamb on the way down on the steps. Yeah, we had bench presses. Yeah, we had. Lamb is the most alpha food.

Or elk? You know what someone was like, I ate elk? I read somewhere that the alpha thing, because it's like derived from wolf pack. Yeah. That that doesn't exist. Doesn't even exist within wolves? Within wolves. Because they're literally, they're pack animals.

Like, there's no. boss of the wolves. So alpha males got it wrong. Yeah. Shocking. You know what? A lot of our listeners are alpha males and Dave doesn't speak on him. Don't beat us up, please. Sorry.

Sorry for that section of the world. Yeah, I remember the big guy in my high school. His name was Isaac and the gym teacher who hated me made him wrestle him on numerous occasions. He made the tough guy wrestle the teacher? No, wrestle me. So the teacher would be like, hmm, let's see. It'll be Isaac and hmm, who else?

Graham, what? Let's see how if Graham can. Wait, why won't you do that to you? Oh, he hated me. Oh, he hated you. Yeah, because you were smoking. As I smoking, I talked during instructions. I didn't try at all.

Well, you were smoking on your own time and he was mad at that? No, it was during gym time. Wow. In the gym? No, like outside, though, if we had to do laps, like, I just. Really? Oh, God. Oh, I was joking.

That's so cool. Yeah. Yeah. But he didn't think it was very cool. Well, I mean, you're really missing with his athleticism. Oh, yeah, his class. He had no athleticism. This guy was on his way out.

He was a guy that was, yeah. Oh, he passes prime. Yeah, an old guy. But, oh, he hated me so much. And I hated him. Okay. I wonder if we met now if we still ate each other. Is he around?

Is he alive? He's got to be dead by now. Do you ever hear about a teacher dying? Yeah. They're just like us. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yeah, I've never had a teacher that post-graduation was found in any sort of scandal.

That's something that never, like a teacher that did anything bad, then nothing like that, never came up. Yeah. Oh, my teacher, Bernie Madoff. What did he do? Yeah, he sort of had like, he sold Kevin Bacon's money. What's his last name? Bernie Madoff? Bernie Madoff.

Mr. Madoff. Did you have... And my other teachers of the Menendez brothers. They had kind of a scandal. And they were like... Popular school. Yeah, Lyle and Eric. They would co-teach.

Did you have a teacher that hated you or that you hated? No. Well, Mr. Cousamano, which were cool, were boys now. Mr. Couss, I'd get kicked out of his class on my own undoing. I wouldn't, didn't want to wear... We wore uniforms. Oh.

So I had like the found these... pants that I really like, but they weren't the uniform pants. So every time I'd come in, he'd be like, Dave. And I go, come on. You can't wear Zubaz. I was wearing Zubas. And then he kicked me out all the time. That's a starter jacket.

I had Fubu. I had a Fubu jacket, I think, after high school. The uniform was just like pants on a polo or something? Yeah, basically. It was a Catholic Central. comments. Right. So I just got kicked out.

But we weren't, I didn't hate him. Right. But I mean, now he comes to shows. Like, you still know. Oh,

Miss Coos' watches, like stuff I do. Really? Coos is still comes to show him and his wife. He had a fundraiser. On the sopranos? Is there a Victor Cozamano who also goes by Coos?

Yeah. It doesn't appreciate the nickname. The Coos loves that he coached basketball. So he coached my sister. Okay. She went to, we all went to the same high school. Me and my sister and two brothers.

That's so he knows the whole family. Really? Yeah. He's like really like he'll message me. He'll be like, me and my wife saw this and he'll come to shows. Really? Yeah, so we're all cool. We make fun of it now.

Yeah. You kick me out of him. You're still wearing fancy pants. Comedians should all wear the uniform. Are you of the school of thought that there's anything a comedian should or should not wear on stage? Because I know the old school comedian says no shorts. No, I love shorts on stage. I think I wore shorts.

it's too late in comedy. It's like, dude, it's fucking hot up there. It is hot up there. What am I doing? Why am I not using? I'm like, also the idea of an audience member being thrown off. Yeah. Well, I get if it's like I want, you know, I want, you know, my club to be respectable.

The comedy's not even respected. That's true. That is true. We're not running for Senate here. What are you talking about? It is funny when somebody gets overly serious about comedy where you're like, you know, this is like one of the lowest our forms under juggling. They're talking about.

The Stewart Jugglers do have like a very refined skill. So the National Hockey League, the hockey players always had to wear suits. And this year or the year before, recently, they've kind of taken cues from the NBA. Oh, NBA dress great. Like there's the players dress really cool and like there's what are they called hallway fits. Yeah, yeah. And so the NHL is trying to encourage this. And so players no longer have to wear suits.

and they can dress however they want. And they are just the most boring. Like some of them will wear suits, but like, it's a suit, but it has. It's like a drawstring. So it's like, oh no. Yeah, they're not doing it right.

The NBA does it super, super, super good. Yeah. But also like, if I'm like young and I'm into sports, I'd rather see somebody in some cool fits that I can probably go buy or want to buy as opposed to suits. I don't understand that. So is it, do all these guys have stylists?

Is that how it works? Not all of them. Not the hockey ones. Not the hockey ones. I can tell you the hockey players. They probably have like a gift card to RW. No, they will wear like with whatever like high fashion label. Mm-hmm.

Like showing off the, the logo. The logo and stuff. Yeah. Right. Although some of them are, you know, making league minimum. Yeah, that's got to be a weird. dynamic in the locker room. It's a million dollars, but.

But still, there's a guy over there that's got $40 million. It's crazy. Yeah. How am I going to dress as well as him? You know? It was a big deal in Edmonton a few years ago. Connor McDavid, the best player in the world. Someone asked him, like, they had a big snowstorm, and they asked him if he had any

trouble getting to work. And he said, no, I have heated driveway. Hmm. And it was like kind of a thing in Edmonton about like, look at this fancy pants. heated driveway. Like, wouldn't you? I guess I would. That is.

Yeah, I didn't even think that was an option of a thing to have. Yeah, I didn't have a heated bathroom floor. Why can't you? That's cool. Yeah, I just put a heating pad down and just plug it in and that's how I heat my bathroom floor. Curl up on the floor. Did you play any sports? I did.

I played soccer. Yeah. Till like, like, like, older. 18. Like where my dad would like in. still it in me and stuff like my nieces both play and still what it in you he loves so to be a team team leader oh okay he said defend the base at all times okay even when we were home get up and defend the base he had me running drills at three in the well because my dad made me play soccer like he's

like you can't do nothing you have to do something well he he loves soccer he played soccer he was a goalie so he wanted us to play and then now my niece is play so he's like loves it he goes to their games We just did a trip to Florida for my niece's travel team. She's like nine. She got to go to Florida? Yeah, we all went to Florida. Is she the same niece who did the video, the Cap CatCat thing? Yes, Katie.

Katie's great. You know what? Can you put me in touch with Katie? She seems really cool. Actually, actually will. Or at least with her reps. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's awesome.

But yeah, we played. And then I would play road hockey, but I don't really count that. Sure. But, like, soccer was the after school. This is what we're doing. Yeah. Were you good? I was, like, decent.

I would play midfield. What is the, uh, uh, uh, in Ontario. What are the, what's the, like, what parts of the year are you able to play soccer? Like in, I mean, she can play, right now, she can, like, what, up until what year you can play? I guess I'm talking about you, not her. Oh. Well, I just played in those little, those leagues that signed you up to like, 17, maybe. But here you play, it goes with a school year.

So, like, you start in September and you go. through to the spring, but I imagine in Ontario you don't want to play in January. No, that's what I mean. I think I was only playing in the summer. Right. Yeah. My brothers would play in the summer outdoors and then indoor. Indoor's fine.

I played indoor. Actually, my dad, I don't know how, so there was a travel team in the U.S. that, you know, you would use sometimes Canadian players or there was Canadian players. But somehow my dad got me in there for one game. Oh, really? Maybe somebody was injured. And I just had one of those things where I was just defending. I was just stopping the ball. I had luck.

I was like, I just was on a role that night. Yeah. And Ben, I was hustling a lot because I would make it up for skill. I would hustle. Yeah.

I was like, well, I'm not as good as any of these people. But if I can run around. If I run around, guard them, I do all the thing. And then in the locker room,

the coach, we lost or there, there was their team. And he was yelling at all these like really good players for me too, but I was only there for the night. And he goes,

coach, can I leave? I'm only here for the day. I don't want to be yelled out of it. But I think he said something along the lines of like, you know, you guys weren't hustling. He went to this whole monologue about hustling and how skilled they are. Something along the lines, from what I can remember, it sounded like he's like, this guy doesn't have skill, but look at the hustle. And he pointed at me.

Oh, no. And I was just on the thing like, yeah, I'm not even part of this. Like, it was a backhanded compliment where, but my dad was jacked. He was, he did good. I go, I think the guy fucking shit him. Well, and also he was turning the whole team against you. Yeah. Turn the whole team against me.

Why don't you mean more like this guy? Yeah. This guy's game is trash, but he tries hard. So it was, yeah, but I loved indoor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it was over the wall.

Yeah. You better believe it. I spun around when you said that I go, somebody so fun. Yeah. Just kicking it off the. Yeah. That's also, you know how you know I'm not that good, that that excited me. Yeah.

And also you're like, Like you ever go to a gym and the clock has a cage around it? Yep. Man, it would have been so sweet if the cage wasn't there. I forgot all about that, the cage clock. Yeah. And then here's some gym memories. Okay, here we go.

Long brown benches. Yep. Yeah, yeah. Is it folded in the wall? No. That are just standalone. Oh, yeah. And then you put them on their side and put them in the corner so the ball doesn't go

to the corner. Yes. And also, like, if people are substitutions, they wait behind those. Whoa. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This, I think, I didn't think we did this, but I can picture it. Some gym nostalgia for you. I love, like, house league, like, in between classes or at lunch break, you play soccer

house league with the nets, the mesh nets. Inside? Inside? Yeah, we'd have, like, in our high schools, like, the soccer house leagues. Once a year they would take out, the whole gym would be dominated by gymnastic equipment. That's my life. Key Hall of high school memory. Yeah.

It's like the pommel hoars was there, the parallel bars. And nobody should have been going on those parallel bars. Those are crazy. It's crazy. Little muscles. My kids' school, they get, in the spring, they get a different thing every year. Like sometimes it's gymnastics. A guy I'll come in with a bunch of gear for two weeks.

Yeah. Sometimes it was hip-hop dance a couple years ago. Whoa. Was that cool? I mean, it was. Was it like, um, Like what kind of hip hop They got this Australian Olympian to come in and do it

Wow I can't believe it No it was like Still doing it huh The guy It was before that Olympics And the guy who ran it was like Hey just so you know

The Canadian who's gonna represent us In hip hop dance at the Olympics is really good And he ended up winning the goal So it was like a friend of his Oh wow But the kids So the kids would all kind of like learn a dance routine And then get a few minutes to free

style. Wait, and who took the chance to some kids who also did like dance classes. So they were cheaters. Yeah, and some kids who did gymnastics would be like, check out this cartwheel I can do. Some kids would just run in a dab.

Yeah, they could have something for the kids. And then last year they did Bollywood dancing. They brought in a different kind of choreographer. And when is, is that happening in the Olympics this year? Bollywood dancing is not. Oh, no. My kids forbade us to come. and watch that

because at the end of the two weeks there's a show. I forbid you to see my Bollywood written. That's wild. That's so funny. And it's speaking in the Olympics. The Olympics is like coming up,

right? Isn't it like happening? I thought FIFA was coming here. FIFA's coming here. But the Olympics are first. The Olympics. They're going to do Winter Olympics in February this year.

Yeah. And it's here. No. No. in Italy. Italy. Oh. Yeah.

Winter Olympics and Italy. FIFA's happening here. Yeah. And, uh... FIFA's happening here. Apparently, we got a bad draw. Like, people weren't excited about the teams that are going to be playing here. The Philippines and Lebanon?

Is it got to give up apart? They hate each other. Did Lebanon get in? I don't know. It could be anyway. Normally, it's always been 32 teams and now they have 48 teams. Yish. Oh.

How many games do we get? Do you know? I don't know. No, me either. In the, in the single digits. But like, well, Airbnb, people are going to make a killing. Downtown's was seen, so a friend, well, was, I was walking last night and I was like,

this feels like quiet. And then he was like, yeah, because that's how I found out about FIFA. Yeah. Because FIFA's coming. I'm like, oh, because I used to go down. Because yeah, I've been coming to Vancouver since 2010. Yeah, yeah. Like, this is really quiet.

I think I walked to the Scotia Bank Theater. Yeah. It's like, what? This is not the, but what, why, what does FIFA have to do with it being quiet? I think cleaning it up, or not cleaning it up, but like, oh, okay. Instruction everywhere. Yeah.

It didn't feel like it was happening. Yeah. Like anything was happening. Every, I think everything that is. Did you check out the fog? I was right in the fog. Hell yeah. That's probably why it didn't feel like it was happening.

People don't want to get, you know, grabbed out of the fog. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, we saw the fog when we took the Nanaimo fairy. Oh, that's a good. And you must have heard the horn so many times. Oh, horn three, four times. I love. love it, man.

I feel like I'm jealous of people in London that they just get fog, whatever they want. It was cool. Did a cold plunge? Did a sauna? You did a clothe plunge? Yeah, in the lake. A clode plunge. Sorry, my mouth is all over the place.

That's not my vibe, but I was in it, bro. How long do you sit in the clode lunch? Clodge? I didn't sit long, but you go back and forth. We paid $40 or something like that for it. It was in Parksville. Okay. Yeah.

So you go in the cold blunge, into the sauna, just keep going back and forth. I couldn't do it. I don't think I could do it. I couldn't. I was with Patricia and Alex's car. So Patricia was like, she does it all the time. I think she was going to the ocean in the morning and jumping in her.

So for her, she was standing in there. She was like the Michael Jordan, LeBron James of the cold blund. There was like two other couples and we're all in the water. and I was like terrified. Yeah. But she goes, just dunk your head in once. I did it like twice after.

And she's like, you'll feel good after you leave. Did you? I did. Yeah? Yeah. I'm like a city. We grew up in the city.

So it's like that stuff I just want to get better at. Yeah. I, uh, before I go to exit, right? I guess so. I just want to be able to look at like an admire nature and not be like such a

city guy. But you get a cold plunge in the city as well. They didn't feel the same way. No. You know what I mean? It felt like I'm like I'm out here. Was it Cold Blanche outside? Yeah.

It was like in the river. Did you see there's in our neighborhood, there's like, so much construction. And then like brand new houses get built and no one lives in them and they just, they're, they are up for sale. And then they'll like sort of stage the furniture in the house and the front yard. There's one that has an outdoor sauna. And I don't think it's permanent. I think it's just like, yeah. Is that how they get people to buy the house?

I guess so they're like, no, I could see myself living in this neighborhood and sauning in the, like, in the front yard? Like a window out to the sidewalk? Got my trampoline out there, got my sauna. Just budgy cord out there? I had a friend in high school that his family had a sauna and it was just full of boxes. Like, it just became a closet. I think probably they moved in like, well, you're sunning every day. And then you just don't.

It's good. I can't do it. I enjoy it. Too hot. It is too hot, but we were in there for 15 minutes at a time. Do you prefer sauna or a steam room? Steam. Yeah, because that's kind of like indoor fog.

It's indoor fog. You're all right. I love that you love fog. I love it. That's the weather? It's not really weather, isn't it? I always call it weather. Okay.

It's weather. It's additive. It's additive to rain. Exactly. Thank you, Dave. Dave, what's going to do? Other Dave? Well, speaking of the way.

Olympic. Yesterday I had a two-sport day. By the way, nothing's going on with me. Winning a two-sport day? You played two sports? I played two sports yesterday. Okay. Can we guess? Yeah.

Hockey. Yeah, hockey was one. Hockey. That's what I play on the regular. Yeah, that's not fair. I knew that he plays hockey. Indoor tennis? No, but I have done actually a two-sport hockey tennis day before.

Yeah. Okay, so you do play tennis? I'll play with my dad But still counts It does, yeah And then But yesterday I went Snowboarding

Whoa How far There's not much I went above the fog You Did you leave the city Did you leave the city I went to north Vancouver

Yeah That's leaving the city No Yeah So it's an Well It's an hour drive With so much traffic

On the mountain Yeah Did you go with family I assume I went with my family Yeah Yeah Wait, did I say with family?

Yeah. Yeah. No, you said, were you with child? You said it was not weird. Wait, did I weird at all? No, I made it weird. Technically, with family could imply you went with an uncle. I did.

Yeah, that's true. But you said my family, which then that's. But I get right. Yeah, with family sounds like it could be any, yeah, any relative. It was. Be hard on you yourself. No, I'm sorry. If I'm being hard on you.

you. I went with my daughter. Yeah. The rest stayed home. Did they feel away? I feel, no? Yeah, were they upset? Yeah, they were really upset.

I had to lock them in the sauna. Interesting. That's what my family does too. They don't want to start. But it was, so we went up to the mountain. We went up to Seymour Mountain. Do you own a snorboard? It's not snorboard.

I'm sorry, my, the nice thing would be to just let it pass. No, but now we have a list. Now it's the thing. So I, so my daughter got a, she, so the school also does snowboard lessons. Okay. For the grade five's every February. And last year she was in grade five. And so she took snowboard lessons.

Yes, you? You have a question? I don't want to keep interrupting. I'm sorry. Is that a Vancouver thing? Yeah. I know. It's her school.

It's a her school thing. I don't know. I didn't do it as a kid. We did it in Calgary. He did. Yeah. So, okay. Like, you either had skis which we didn't have or you just rented them.

Yeah. And so she rented them, rented a snowboard last year. And then for Christmas, I bought her a snowboard this year. And I assumed I had my old snowboard and I do not. So I went. So I've been renting. And then this last. Last week I bought one on Facebook Marketplace.

What do you get at Burton? I got a... But it's... I want to call it Battalion, but it's spelled differently. It's like, it's spelled wrong. Battalion, maybe. Batalian, okay. So it's a bootleg snowboard, yeah.

Does it have a skeleton snowboarding on it or does it have cool artwork? The artwork is reminiscent of Mondrian, Pete Mondrian. But go on. You know, the squares. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, sure. So I got that, but I don't have boots, so I had to rent boots. Okay. So we went up and it was just so crazy crowded. And you have to like reserve a part, like a time slot if you want to be able to park.

Is it always been like that or just this particular day? I feel like it's gotten crazier in the last couple decades. Yeah. But it was so sunny. Yeah. And it's mid-January. And we were like, well, let's, like we did one run and then we were like, let's put our coats in the car. We got to be, we got to go short-sleeved for this.

Whoa. Were you wearing jeans? You know that we see somebody skiing in jeans? Yeah. Oh, man, that guy rules. Yeah. Is that like somebody working out in jeans? Yeah.

Okay. Same dude. Same guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And so we did that. And then I was like, and my hockey game started at four. And I was like, let's make sure we leave the mountain by 2.30. And then we just wanted to get one more run in. Yeah. And then it was, I was going to be so late. It was, I was white knuckling it from the time I left. So did she come with you?

Sorry, did she come with you? No, I dropped her off. So you made it. I made it. And then, so I dropped her off, grabbed my hockey gear, went right to the rink. Oh, okay. And then I played and it was, I was so tired. Yeah, of course.

Yeah, that's great. I don't know how these biathletes do it. They, one at a time. Cucumber? Cucumber juice. Oh, maybe it's cucumber juice. Yeah. What's that? Do they juice a cucumber?

I guess? What I've heard since ancient times is they do take a couple cucumbers and put it through a blender. Yeah. Okay. I mean, it's all in the other. I guess in ancient time it would maybe be more. motor and pestle. Yeah.

It was motor and pestle. Sometimes I put a little bit of cucumber in water. Yeah, that's nice. You feel a little energy. I feel a little josh. Yeah. I have tried beet juice. Apparently, that's good for it.

I tried that too. Yeah. I think last week before, there was an ad that I saw that was called America Beats, which was the one beat brand in America. I, uh, but I like a hard beat. I like a solid beat. He liked to bite into a beat.

I've been taking gummy beet. What is that? Beat root. Oh, yeah? In a gummy form? Yeah. Is this a daily? What's your vitamin?

Yeah, what's your vitamin regimen? It's a lot. Yeah? I don't know why. Zinc. Zinc. Magnesium. Magnesium, I do.

Calcium. Iron. Is magnesium for sleep? It also keeps you, as it said, on one of the bottles, comfortably loose. In what way? In all the ways of the counts. Oh, cool. Are you doing able nitrate poppers?

But they're in a magnesium bottle. I'm like, oh, okay. That keeps the loose. So you're doing the whole oil of oregano? You do vitamin D? Okay. Do you do it every day? Every day.

And how many pills total? Do you do it all at once? Yeah, all the ones. Fish oil. Oh, fish oil. Do you have a little daily like seven day a week pill thingy? No, I wish. It's just out of the bottle.

I only do it once a day. Yeah, but it's like you have to like make sure did I get this one? I don't want to do two of these by accident and did I put this one in? I'm that way all the time. Yeah. I'll be like, oh, I should take an ibuprofen. Wait, I can still feel an ibuprofen in my throat. But then I take on top of it cholesterol pills, something for thyroid, allergy medication.

Yeah, now it's just I live in pill form, man. Is it like a dozen pills a day more? Probably now with my age, maybe. Yeah. Oh, that's, I mean, you just add more pills as you go on. Yeah. Yeah. I take Cialis. I take hornyco weed. I take Viagra's the big one. I take Viagra. Yeah. Every day. I just sit there on the couch, just waiting for an opportunity. You got to be ready. Oh, there's a Pussy Gettles video on. I sit on the couch in 2004. who uses my head to just jerk off. Someone does. I'm sure somebody does.

You're wasting it. That's fine. It's for me. Yeah, that's true. It's a little meat time. It's just so expensive. It's whatever. I'm worth it.

What can I say? I had a good year. Leave me alone, all right? I got them. So in a little blue pill You got them? I have some There's, I was in Mexico and they sell

Viagra and Seattle for like nothing. Like yeah. Yeah. I might go over. Yeah. I used one a couple weeks ago. Yeah? Good?

I've never used one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Does a charm? It's kind of dangerous because you just kind of like, it's really works. Yeah. You kind of like not focused maybe emotionally.

Oh, sure. It's just, it's leading the way. What I need is emotional Viagra. You do want your emotions to be in the right place? Absolutely. Do you remember that Todd Barry bit about, I think he was talking about Larry King saying, at least I don't need Viagra.

And he was like, well, that's just a medicine. It would be like if someone said, well, it's not like I need chemotherapy. Yeah, it's, God, yeah, how many pills do I take a day? Quite a few. I got a whole regiment as well. So, but I have to, I have to put them all out on the counter. Like, I have to line them up.

But I keep them in the, they're still in the bottle. So they're in the cabinet, so I'll pull them out. Yeah, mine are still in the bottle, but I like, I take, okay, take three of those. Oh, you have to line them up. Because otherwise, like you say, I forget, did I take the, I'm that way with, like, uh, After I get out of the shower and I, like, moisturize and do my beard cream and hair stuff, I'm like, there's an order I have to do it. So I, just so I, I don't want to have to wash my hands in between. Yeah.

So I'm like, okay, if I do this first, then I can have a little bit of moisturizer still on my fingers while I do this other stuff. But if I did hair product first, then I got to wash my hand. Yeah. I have to put deodorant on first or sometimes I'll forget now. Yeah. It's weird. And it's that panicky moment. when you're out of the house too far away to go back and get some.

Then you got to buy it from like a convenience store. You look like a psychopath. I've done that. I've had so many single-use deodorants that I... This is not my brand. I'm buying whatever they have. Whatever crap. There's no single-use deodorant.

You get a few out of it, don't you? No, I mean, I use it and then I don't want to use it anymore. Oh, yeah. It's like, because I would get them in New York at the bodega. I'd always forget to put deodor on and I'm like, I ain't going to use this brand. And it's got dust on it. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, when it's just like speed stick for men, but it's like an old brand. Yeah, like there's old bodegas. You're getting like, they're next to the chips. They're not, no one goes back there. That's funny because like the, uh, the drugstores have so much stuff behind glass now. But deodorant, not one of them, not here anyway. No. Uh, and that's something you could just like go sneak a swipe.

Well, and that's, 100%. Yeah, I remember somebody telling me that, like, when I was a teenager and I've never forgot it that you could just go in. There's no security. It's not plastic wrap. There's a little plastic guy you just pop off. Yeah. And then they're so weird. It's like, why are you locking up the fuck, sorry, the floss.

Just give me to lock up to the owner. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's lock more stuff up. I guess you could do with floss. Oh no, they're usually in a package you just open up and have a quick little floss. The last few years I've been in the summer, I wear regular deodorant.

Speedstick. In the winter, I'll go natural deodorant because I don't get as hot. I don't get as stinky. Sure. I had natural deodorant's too expensive now. What's natural deodorant? $20 deodorant.

I thought all deodorant's $20. Oh, speed stick's still like five. It is? Yeah, man. No, there's nothing for five. Guys, come on. In the U.S. or this is Canada? This is Canada.

I mean, if you order it online, I'm sure you can get a five. The Cooper's Drug Mart right now. Here we go. Okay, what do we think of speed stick costs? $7. And it will come in two sizes, though. I don't get the bigger size because I feel like it runs out of usefulness after when it gets to the end of it. Right.

It is true. At the end of it, it is kind of like. Speed stick. And this is by minute. $5.99. Oh, $5.99. What? Okay.

Well, let's see if they have. They don't have it in the U.S. I'm in paying $16.99. You got to just load up here and get all. my god, it's called naive, naive, I get. Well, native. Oh, native? Yeah, that's a nice.

That's natural deal. Yeah. That's what I've been doing. Yeah. That's good stuff. But it is expensive. I can't even tell the difference. Yeah, you've been using like a natural.

Yeah, these are, this is 16 on sale from 20. Yeah. I got, there's a cucumber one that's pretty good, though. Yeah, I've had the eclipse. Eucalyptus. Yeah. I put a little bit of the cucumber one in water. Oh, yeah.

I got to load up on speed stick. What am I doing? Yeah, I was a, I was like a speed stick original guy for a long time. Oh, I mean, I still like use all the same products I used in high school. That's amazing. I use the same zest. Zest, use aqua velva. Is there, so if I, I'm going to buy some before I leave, but speed stick, is it like leave residue?

It's a residue leaving kind. No, no. This is the, if you get the blue kind. The blue kind, I'll remember that. Is that ocean breeze or surf? Yeah, ocean surf. It's deodorant. It's not antiperspirant.

It is ocean surf. I don't use antiperspirant because it ruins your shirt and people say it causes Alzheimer's. What? You don't want either of those things. No. Does this have aluminum in the one I'm looking at here? No, I don't think it does.

Just deodorant stick. Sometimes it says, no aluminum in it. But like, if it's deodorant, it wouldn't have aluminum. It's the antiperspirant that has aluminum. I don't know what I'm talking about. So don't write it.

I'm scared. Yeah. But also I remember, because I famously do a beer can chicken. You do a deodorant chicken? Where I put a beer can up at bottom of a chicken and put it on the barbecue. Oh, nice. I used to use an actual beer can.

Now I have a device. It's cast iron. But it, my friend was like, you're not worried about aluminum in the chicken? Like you're heating up a little. aluminum and the Alzheimer's Society says there's no link between aluminum and Alzheimer's. Oh, okay. Thank God. Yeah, because I like wrapping food in it, you know?

That aluminum is handy. It's cool. And when I get like those, you know, little chocolate eggs on Easter, I chew on the aluminum afterwards. I like the whole thing. Just to feel alive. You just eat it straight up. Anyway, two sports in a day.

Congratulations. Well, it leaves you very tired. I was so sleepy last night. Sure. But I, you know, I'm going to try to stagger. them. Yeah. So is Marga's going to go again to ski.

She snowboards as well. Yeah. Yeah. And I was, yeah, I'm going to try to get my, uh, feed into some cheap boots somehow.

Or is there been like a lot of, uh, technological process on the boots? Are they still saying? They have a, like a, it's called the boa system. Mm-hmm.

Okay. You just, uh, instead of laces, you just crank a thing. Oh, sure. Yeah.

Oh, that's cool. And then you're, you know, you're in and out. Just like that. Yeah. God, it's been, well, I mean, 20, let's say 30 years since I was on a snowboard. Oh, come with us. Okay.

Yeah, I think you should. Yeah. It's too long. It's, yeah. And I think I'll probably know how to do it still, right? I think you just naturally just put yourself off there. I hadn't done it in about 20, and I, it's like riding a bike. Not as much pedaling.

Yeah. And, you know what? One time I got on a bike and I was like, this is hard. It's hard. I don't remember how to do this. Recently. Within the last five or six years. Like when I don't ride a bike.

Yeah, that is true. It is like, they say it's as easy as riding a bike. Or you remember, pick it up like riding a bike. But if you've gone decades, it's like, what do I do with my hands? And also when you get on it, you're like, ow, admitting my balls over the place. I knew how to do this before. I loved it. Yeah?

Yeah. You a cyclist? No, no. I got a, yeah, no. You loved it back then. No, within the last seven years, I biked. I used to bike when I'd go back to Toronto. Yeah?

Yeah, with two other comics. You'd bike in the city? We'd bike for like over an hour. You were a three bike crew. Crew, gang? That's white gang. Yeah. Who were the other comics?

Do they remember this? They do, but one of them is Boomer Phillips, but he's like an actor too, so he's really active. So yeah, Boomer bikes a lot. So it was him and his ex and me. So he'd have extra bikes. so if I was in town just for access. Was it like you were between him and the X so that they wouldn't squabble?

Sometimes maybe. Yeah, we were all, we were, because we used to walk in, uh, when they had to stay at home order. Oh, okay. We were walking for an hour to three hours a day because there's nothing open. Yeah. So I was staying near them. You were you? What was it called?

Uh, your coat, not covert. Your cohort? Coral. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But then in the summer, if I was in town, we'd go to the gym and we'd bike some, we'd bike through the city.

Like, we go to Toronto Island. I guess it would be okay because there's no traffic or anything. Or hills. Yeah. Yeah, that's just really hilly around here. Great workout, man. Yeah. Yeah.

We biked even to like one of the, uh, not a towbo. Yeah, maybe past the Tobico. Really? Toronto, yeah. It's like, I get the enjoyment factor of it, but I'm like, I do not trust the drivers in this city. Yeah. Bike paths.

That was the problem. That was the, sorry, not the problem. That was a good thing. So when he was the problem. They let us out with the wild. Yeah. They didn't really, I didn't want to test myself. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

See if I got rocked by a car. Yeah, I nearly got hit by a car the other day. Just as a pedestrian? Just as a pedestrian? I nearly hit someone the other day. Oh, what the? It was my guy that had two snowboards on his roof. I don't know.

It could have been on anybody, really. Yeah, anyways, maybe we should get on a bike this summer. What's going on with you? Well, I, you know, I'll, like on a, Sunday, I like to go for a big long walk somewhere, right? Okay. And I thought, I'm going to go for a walk where I haven't ever even been before. See, people think our show's boring, but we're doing, we're like going for long walks.

We're talking about our vitamin regimen. We're talking about what deodorants you can purchase. If there's anybody young out there listening, this is what you talk about as an older person. And it rules. This is what the 80s should have been, man. But I decided to, Sally and I decided, okay, we're going to go for a walk. Who's Sally? It sounds my wife.

Okay. And my manager. My momager. She's my work wife. But yeah, we decided to go walk in an area town called Railtown. Okay. Went down a rail town, which is, as you might imagine, down by the train tracks. So what is real, I know it's by the tracks now, but what is the significance of Realtown?

What is the history? It's kind of. Why didn't you ever go there until now? Because it's heavily industrial. Yeah, because of the rail industry. Yeah. But it's industrial. It's been frozen in time.

So like there's there's some stuff that's brand new, but most of the things are for rent. And there's like one that was a business, huge marquee on the business. It was just a cash register store. Oh, wow. And they had like a building, you know, like a professional sign. It's still there. But I don't know. Like you look in the window and you're like, these look like they're very old.

Yeah, wow. So it was like that kind of stuff, like offices that you're like. Trophy store. Yeah. Or like it would be like a lot of importers and like. And no residential. There was residential on one side. The right side of the tracks or the wrong side of the track.

I don't want to say. But let me tell you. You came out of it safe though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, hopefully. I, uh, so we walked around the like residential part. Lovely. There was a group.

Do you see any trains? I did see a train and like old rusty one, you know, like. Is this, so rail town geographically, it's like east of the downtown east side? Yeah. Northeast. Towards commercial drive. Yarr. And it's like the residential place?

Great. Lovely old houses. There was a huge family of people listening to a very up-to-date Iraqi protest song that I was like, this sounds like it was written. week because it's about Trump. How did you know it was an Iraqi protest? Yeah. Because there was a family of people and their Iraq flags were everywhere. Oh.

What were they protesting? I don't know. Well, they were protesting. They were just partying on their stoop. Oh. But the song was a protest song. It was like, so somebody, because it was about Donald Trump and this invasion and all this stuff. It was in English?

It was in English. Oh, wow. Yeah. It was a. Was it AI? That's the only way you could write it fast enough. But yeah, so we went through that neighborhood. It's fantastic.

And it was like a nice sunny day, but it was crisp, you know? Oh, it was like we're talking like six degrees. On the mountain it was 10. Yeah, so like. Where should have been zero. There was a guy in the park. Shirtless. Shirtless dude in the park.

Not, not like, not bothering anybody. I think maybe he was hitting golf balls around or something, but like. And this is this past Sunday. This is, yeah. This is, this is yesterday like out shirtless. We walked a whole circuit came back still in the park, still shirtless. I love a good shirtless January?

Yeah, hang as well. Well, it's like it's the natural cold plunge If you just go shirtless on a cold day. Yeah, that was sort of my New Year's resolution To be more shirtless And be more present. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I felt the most comfort I felt shirtless

Was in the Middle East. Yeah, I took my shirt off a lot. I most comfort I felt shirtless was in grade three. Yeah, I went to Mexico with my family in December and I wore a swim shirt. I couldn't. I wasn't go shirtless. Around family?

Come on. Get out of here. Round family. Were your brother shirtless? Yes, but they're all in fantastic shape. They're showing off their muscles they work so hard. And you can always just use the, oh, I'm the sun. Yeah, I'm pale.

It's because of the scout of the sun. Yeah, you're, what do they do? One brother is like, absolute running freak runs. Profession-wise, too. Accountant? runner, safety officer, weightlifter. Fair. Those make sense.

Yeah, yeah. Artists don't need that. Safety officer. What does that mean? My brother Dan, he's like contracts to companies that are like developing safety systems within the, no more. Yeah, exactly. Like, how much of this do you want to know? I was actually going to school for that.

Were you really? No. It's possible. I did go to school. I could do accounting or marketing. Really? Yeah, in college. Yeah.

it's very lucrative, I guess. I don't know. I don't know anything about that. I graduated, but it was a college in Windsor with marketing diploma. Right. But you could have either done marketing or accounting. Yeah. Just accounting felt boring.

Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah. Yeah. The hilarious gag was one time we watched the movie The Accountant, starring Ben Affleck. And then when it was done, we all turned to him and said, is that what it's like? It's pretty good. And I hear they're making a safety. The safety officer movie with Matt Damon.

That's awesome. But yeah, so this whole area, and then, like, there's this giant, like, Willy Wonka-esque factory that I've never seen before. And I was like, I think that's Eritzia's, like, factory. Oh. And it's also Herschel's factory. Oh, yes, yes.

Giant, giant factor, like, super. small chocolate? Uh, yeah, because, uh, I was eating a Kit Kat. Okay. There's no chocolate involved in the, uh, at Ritz. Yeah. Sounds like a chocolate brand. Well, Herschel sounds like Hershey.

Yeah. Does, it's true. Hersil does say Willie Wonka. Yeah, I got excited. Because the one in Toronto, the chocolate factor, you can smell the chocolate. Oh, shit. Yeah. Dunnass West, like, like closer to Dunnest West Station.

And that's, uh, round the corner, fudge is made there, right? Oh, that's from the milk quarter, corner of milk and lemonade. Bro, big time fudge is made there. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Oh man, I do something called Big Time Fudge. Yeah, so no chocolate, although it does sound like a chocolate place. Herschel sounds like, ooh.

Yeah, but you also said it was like Willie Wong. It was, because it looks like, it looks like Willy Wonka's factory, and it's got, it's so out of step with the rest of the neighborhood. Like, I think it's old. I think it's been there forever. But it's kind of, there's like used car dealerships and stuff down there. Like, everything's rusty, except this. the parking lot there.

Beamers, Mercedes, everybody doing all right at the, at Eritzia. But it was great. It was seeing businesses that have been around. There was one, I'll do it for my overheard, but the old signs were the best. There was one sign.

It wasn't for a mechanic. And it was, it was all, it was before Photoshop. So they had a woman leaning over an engine, but a face that obviously wasn't her face that they had airbrushed in, I guess they must have. And I was like,

like, boy, you just wouldn't see that anymore. It's just like of an era. And it was great. It's like I, if you, it's like one of those things where if you live in a city, there's places you don't, don't ever go. Yeah, I mean. Like you just don't think to go there. And this is like, have you been to most places?

I think so. Okay. But this is like I hadn't been there for, you know, 15 years. Not too much to change, but it's great. Be a tourist in your own backyard. Yeah, I feel like I went to a party in that name. neighborhood once, maybe for the comedy festival. That sounds possible.

Was there a bang on t-shirt factory there? I mean, maybe at one point. That sounds like a cool place for a comedy party, though. Bang on? Just in general, that area. Yeah, down in it. Because, and that's what I think a lot of the buildings probably are, like, art spaces or, like, party spaces that are just, you know,

used to be offices or whatever, you know. Because you wouldn't have, you wouldn't, uh, wake anybody up with your rocking and and rolling. Yeah, that's true. Except people who were sleeping at the Herschel factory because they worked so late last night. Yeah. I'm trying to think up a new strap for this backpack. How many pockets are we allowed to put in this thing? They have bunk beds.

They just make them stay overnight. I mean, there's not a lot of new stuff in backpacks. No. Although someone advertised that has like a vacuum thing that you can use. I mean, the fact that Fannie Packs came back as like a cross-body bag. Yeah. Is they really, someone got a Christmas bonus. that year.

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And we always like to start with the guest, Dave, do you have an overheard? Yeah, I was like part of, I was part of this, but then later on I overheard. Okay. Does that count? Yeah. Okay. So we were flying to Florida for that trip. I was, so it was like my dad was coming, but we, he came, we booked his flight later,

but he's like older and sick, so we wanted, we were all sitting in certain sections, so we wanted to bring him up with me. So I asked, he needs to be taken care of. And they were like, yeah, you can put him right next to you. I'm like, oh, perfect. So, uh, we get in on the flight, um, before I was, I, we're trying to, because I'm in an aisle and he's in an aisle across from me. Oh, guy.

This, um, guy, this woman is like, I, I, she's not, she's like, I'm not, she's like, I'm sitting in that aisle space where my dad is and we're like, I don't say anything, but this other guy who's not part with us, he goes, I don't know, ma'am. Like, he's getting into it. He's like, no. And she goes, yeah. Like, she's an old, like, older white lady. And her husband is just not saying anything.

And they, this guy, this guy gives up on it, this other younger gentleman. He goes, whatever. My brother-in-law's mom is with us. And so she saw that. How many characters are there? It was like five characters. But finally, I don't say anything because I just realized that this woman is going to make our life miserable. I could just feel it.

It's like a Karen. I'm like, this woman is atrocious. It's going to be awful. She stinks. So my dad goes in the middle. Like she tells him that's my seat. Sure. And I don't stop it.

And my brother-in-law's mom sees this. But my youngest brother is he don't. care. He's ready. He's with whatever. So I knew he was coming at the end. And I, like most of my life now, have went and told him. And he proceeded to try to, like, he was like, hey, lady, he's like, hey, this is not your C. And he went in at her. And they started arguing. Oh, wow.

Got the flight attendant involved. So they finally moved her. And the funny part is that we were speaking Arabic. Right. And at one point she goes, she, when she got removed, She was like, she got removed and was seated in the back. She goes, you people. And I was like, oh, dude, I've never heard of you people in person. I've heard it on the internet. I was like, but when, so it's before she got kicked out, we're all just sitting there. And she's in the middle now.

She got moved out of her aisle to the middle. So my guy's next to me and I can hear her mumbling. And she, and I overhear her and go, she goes, I'm a, they need me in the aisle. I'm retired. I used to work with the law. She's like, so if the plane, something happens in the plane, they might need me. For what? The plane goes down?

You're a retired cop? Yeah, yeah. If we landed in a court stenographer. She didn't even say she was a cop, but she's mumbling it. And I was like, that's, yeah, that was my overt. Wow. That is, wow. And she got, she wanted an aisle seat and she wanted my dad's seat.

But she kept claiming that's my ticket. But did she? Did she? I didn't say that. She bullied me and my dad basically. And then my brother-in-law's mom was like, they're both from Detroit. She goes, nah, Dave, she goes, Dave heard it. He allowed it.

He got passive. And I'm like, oh, yeah, of course, I am passive. But my brother was ready to fight. She recorded my brother. Oh, really? Oh, my brother doesn't care. He was ready to fall. My brother got to almost, I don't know, fight.

Go into Florida and returning. He found a way to, yeah, he don't care. Is he a soccer hooligan? What does he do? He's a personal trainer, but he's just since he was a kid, he's like my dad. He don't care. He won't put up a bull crap. He's a safety officer.

Yeah, he's a safety officer. I should have the aisle seat. You know, he may need me if we need safety. For safety. Has anyone ever been needed on a flight? No. No, but I've been on flights where they're like, is there a doctor on board? Doctor, yeah, but a retired police officer?

Is there anybody who used to walk the beat? I mean, do they still have air marshals? I'd hope so. I don't know. I've never, I guess they're undercover. Yeah. I don't know. I don't think I've ever heard of another profession being.

Like, obsolete? Yeah. I mean, you would get an air marshal if there's like any kind of like taking hostage or something. Like, when do they step in if it's like two passengers fighting or something? Those air marshals have to be like, no, this is not worth me. Yeah. Yeah. Especially because it's like, like, you know, flights are so full.

Yeah. Like, you really have room for an air marshal? Yeah. They have to, do they get free booths? All they can drink. I like them liquored up. I watched a video of somebody, the pilot telling somebody they had to take off a hat to one of the passages. I was like, what the, why would you have to take off a hat?

And then she showed it. It was a man's face and she said, fuck. You guys like, take off that hat You can't be on the plane Wear that at Yeah, I think you can get away with that on a plane I've seen people are There's no regard for this

It's like the worst I mean they do even make you take your hat off When they do the National Anthem on the plane You have to like kind of have your head Kind of underneath the camera Everyone please rise but also stay seated Dave do you have it over her? Yep

So a few weeks ago lost my wallet. Oh. And I've just been rebuilding my life. Yeah. Still no sign of it. No. Oh, that's...

But no one's, uh, spent anything on the credit card. Yeah. I've had the, uh, I got a new driver's license. Well, I'm applied for it. I went, had my picture taken. Did they give you a piece of paper in the meantime? I have a piece of paper in the meantime. Uh, and then I went to get my new debit card.

I went to the bank, the credit union, if I'm being honest. Sure. And I said, uh, or I was, there's a little lot of, I was, there's a little lot of lineup. And as I was waiting, I could hear what was going on in one of the little glass offices where one of the important bank guys was talking to a client. Yep. And I heard him say, okay, well, we're done. Your account is set up. And I usually like to meet with my clients twice a year. So I'll call you about that in a few months. And good luck with the Miata search. Ooh, nice. So I guess like I was setting up an account to buy a Miata. To buy a Miata.

What are your short-term business goals? So we'll meet a couple times a year, and you can tell me about how cool the Miata is if you got one of those bras for it. Oh, did he say, did he tell her why he was opening it up for that or just in conversation? No, I would just, I put that together. This is what the small talk they made. What do you think of doing with the account? Well, he doesn't mind, dude. And also, he was like a bank.

banker guy in a suit and then the guy, the client was a guy in a jean jacket. Cool. It was Brian Adams. It might have been Canada's number one jean jacket wear Brian Adams. My overseen is courtesy of Railtown walking around all these old signs. And there's, okay. No, Joe, tell me, was there a picture of a lady leading over a car at a mechanics place? There was.

this, okay, this is a sign, and it's, I've never seen a sign like it. It says, want to buy, trade, lease, partner up, ideas at 516 Alexander.com. That's the sign there. Want to partner up. Yeah, that's right. And then it's just, he's got, he's got an email there. And it was, there's no windows on the place. Is it?

Do we think it's buying real estate? Maybe. Like, if it's a car. You want to partner up on a car? Yeah, you would buy lease a car. Yeah. Pond shop? Maybe pawn shop.

No, you wouldn't lean. You wouldn't lease anything at a phone car. And you also probably wouldn't partner up on, hey, me and a couple of buddies want to buy this stolen drill. But like, yeah, I don't know what business would incorporate all three of. Or a business front. Well, if this was a front, it drew attention instead of drawing it away, you know? This is true. That's okay.

Should I just email this guy's email and see what it is? Necessary. If we could get that by the end of the show. No, I'll just send it in as a voice. What is the... I like that it's ideas at 516 Alexander.com. What if it's an ink? No.

Do you have, have you... Do you go to pawn shops? I do. I've been to a fair share of pawn shops. To buy or sell? I've never sold anything at a pawn shop. You? Probably.

I can't remember. But I know in my lifetime. in the ways I was. I don't think, honestly, I don't think I own anything that would be funnable. Before you found Allah. Before I found Allah, I might have dabbled in to. I had to have. I had to have.

I can't remember, but I had to have. I don't own anything that would be funnable. Maybe my phone. Yeah, you go in, you show, you sell your, you put it on the counter. They take out their jewelers loop. They look at your guitar. This isn't a real iPhone. Yeah.

Have you? No, but I was like, I got this base and I don't have an amp for it. And I'm like, maybe I go to a pawn shop and. Oh, yeah. Check it out. Are you going to? No. All right.

It's just like an old vintage store. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Some of them are like high security, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They have to buzz you in. Oh, yeah. And there's a sniper, like a red dot on you the whole thing.

The upscale pawn shop. Yeah. I don't think I've ever been to an upscale one, but they must exist. Well, just that, I feel that to me that's upscale. It's like, okay, what are you protecting? Right. What's going on here? Yeah, and I have been in a couple where they buzz you in, and I'm just like...

There must be high-end, like, higher-priced things. Of course, I'm only looking for the high-end thing. But then I go in and they're like, what are you looking for? and I say I'm just browsing and they don't like that. Yeah. It's also some, like, older ones that you see have a lot of tools.

Yeah. A lot of tools. Oh, and those are all stolen. Oh, sure. Yeah. I mean, what would you pawn a tool for? Probably not very much. I mean, if you had tools,

you probably make more money by using them in your trade. Not forward thinkers. Yeah, no. Have I bought anything in a pawn shop? Well, not that I can think of. But sometimes there's something in a window where you're like... Yeah, they do.

It is alluring. Yeah, like maybe I will play the banjo. A nice banjo up front, something like that, you know? But, you know, visit your local pawnst shop. Support. Yeah, support. Absolutely. Now, we also have overheard sent into us by people all over the map.

You want to send one in, send it to SBI at maximum fun.org. The first one comes from... Person unknown. They wrote in, didn't say their name, but I like the overheard, so here we go. I was at, I run a toy store here. I'm emailing you from a library computer. And their email handle doesn't have a name in it either. So I was like, there's just nothing to glam on to, you know?

Glam on too, sorry. It's okay. I was going to let that one go by. Hey guys, I run a toy store here, and this is at Christmas time. Does a kid say the darndest thing? I was ringing up a woman who was buying a stuffed cat and two smaller stuffed cats. All of them looked exactly the same. I said, oh, nice.

It's a family. And the daughter says, yeah. Or the woman says, hey, my five-year-old daughter asked for a dad, cat, and two babies. Me. That's so cute. Yeah, I had to ask her if there was something that Santa could get from the store because the first time I asked her what she wanted. She said, I want a king cobra. I want a million dollars.

And I want to be buff. Is there anything to send a goodbye at a shop? That's great. Get the cobra in the back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you want to be buff? We can inject you with some steroids. I feel like a pawn shop would be the guy would know a guy who could get you a snake.

Oh, pawn shop. Yeah, a pawn shop. Like if you went in and said, Can you not get a, I don't know. I don't know what size of snake you're allowed to have. Yeah, let me just check. Facebook Marketplace. Snake.

I love Facebook Marketplace. Well, now once I look for it, I'm going to get nothing, but that's a very cool. I saw that this morning. 1972 City Car, Vanguard City Car. Yeah. So a single person? This is going to be wild. There's no way that it's not going to be wild.

Snake. Oh, wow. Is Snake also a hose? Yeah, what is that? Is that a decoration or is that a snake? Yeah, this is... Is that a snake tattoo? No, that's a snake ring.

Oh, okay, okay. There's a lot of snake jewelry. Is this? Oh, my God. No, this is decoration. There's a panda bear. Snake-shaped decoration for AirPods Pro Max. Cool.

Give me a real snake. And we're back to Snowboard's boots. This is just... Will you turn the snake in? Yeah, there's some snake skin. snowboard boots. Oh my god. Can you imagine? No, you cannot get a snake on Facebook marketplace. I don't think they do live animals. It's more of a Kijiji thing. Oh, wow.

This next one I picked. It's from Keith from North Riding of Yorkshire, England, because the lead up to the overheard is so long. I loved it. And the overheard so small. Letchley Park is a country house and a state which during World War II was the Allied Center for Code Breaking is now an extensive historic visitor attraction and well worth a visit. Here, thousands of mathematicians, engineers, and linguists worked around the clock in extreme secrecy to decipher German, Italian, and Japanese secret messages. Their pioneering work played a crucial role in the development of the first electronic digital computer and is estimated to have shortened the war by two years.

Outside Hut 4, where the secret messages from the infamous German enigma machine were deciphered, who walked past a college-age couple. the girlfriend was explaining to her boyfriend with great enthusiasm that sometimes I cut up my food into smaller pieces so I can eat it longer. So the overheard didn't eat any of that front of it. Yeah, I didn't eat any of the sort of. What was the Benedict Cumberbatch movie? Oh, the imitation game? Imitation game, yeah.

And then there was one. Bletchley Park is such an ugly word. Bletchley. I love the lead up, though. Yeah. So detailed. And you know what? I didn't know any of that stuff.

Yeah. Shorten the war by two years. Yeah. You know what? They should have shortened it by more. I feel like that war went on for too long, man. They should have shortened it up by three. They really dropped the ball.

Yeah. And there wasn't that there was a movie called, was it called Wind Talkers? Yeah. It was a Canadian one, right? Yeah. And the code was like a native land. And nobody could decipher it. Oh, yeah.

Anyways, you know, if you ask this guy, I'm sure he'll tell you where to go. If you want to talk to Keith, he probably has. Or you could grab it. This last one comes from Alex. I was in a stationary store while in vacation in Japan. I overed a couple leaving the store. A person one, sorry, I get a little crazy when I'm in a stationary store, person two. I know.

This has been a problem. I keep getting on my Instagram algorithm. them. These five products are the winners of the Japanese Stationery Awards for the year. Really? Yeah. It'll be like a cool bookmark. I honestly, if I go in a stationary store and they have that wall of pens, like little cubbies for all the different styles pens, I could be there all day and they give you a little, you can try them all out for thick as a line. I love stationary places now. Yeah, I love collecting. Yeah.

I started collecting like toys. Really? Yeah. Like what? What are we talking? Everything. Chris Gordon. who collects as well. Yeah. Like all wrestlers. The stationery store sells wrestlers. I'll still go in and look for if they have like something. Yeah.

Like I mean, I'm not just wrestlers. Pins, pencils, wrestlers. Transformers. Sure. White out. Transformers. Oh.

Anything I go in a look. Sure. Sometimes they have like Walmart is a big one where you can find like I found a double, a double dragon. You know Streets of Rage? No. Streets of Rage Video game

Two was the big Sega Genesis game Yeah So I found one of the guys Really? Yeah Randomly in Walmart Where do you display this? All out in my room

Yeah You got shelves You got shelves? Yeah shelves And then over Which Uh I can't believe what I was saying

This A lady Came Was hanging with a lady Sure She saw the wrestler She was Oh man

She's like This is She's like She's like She's like She's like And I was like And I was like

Oh And then But she had turned and there's another shelf. She goes, oh, whoa. And then walked to that. She's like, there's more. I go, yeah. She goes, what did you like collect these when you were young?

I go, no. I am young. Two weeks ago? Had me my Viagra. I was dying. When you were young, when you were eight? No, no. This has been the last many years.

A couple weeks ago. It's a huge collection. You think an eight-year-old did this shit? Yeah, I know. Keep it in this good condition? I went to a guy's, office and he had so many action figures on shelves on the wall. I couldn't

focus on anything except I was like oh I was like okay that's a collectible that's a Todd McFarland you know kiss I got two John Snow's I got Pee We Herman. Hell yeah I leave John Snow on a package not at the front door you come in you got to see the King of North

Yeah it's King of North You like John Snow? I love John Snow I think he's not only he is a proper representation of empathy and how to be a human and how to be a warrior and how to be somebody who protects. Yeah, I love John Snow. I didn't really get that show.

I didn't really get that out of him. I am obsessed. That show had more characters than you're overheard. I should have preface that there was so many characters. It was great, though. There's a lot of, like, there was more, too. I didn't even introduce. Well, yeah, come on.

No, maybe in season two. Season two. Now, in addition to overheards that are written in, we also accept your phone calls and your voice memos. Send us a voice memo at SPY at maximum fun.org. Or call us and leave a voicemail at 1.844. Oh, no. It's spreading. We shouldn't have kissed.

1.844-7797631. That's one. Ugh. Spypod. One. Not because I got a kissing disease, but because my tongue got such a workout from the kissing. Hey Dave Graham Impossible guest

This is Mayven St. Louis I was just shopping at the family dollar And I overheard a couple of older women Who were shopping the next aisle over And one of them Says to the other Oh Now why are you looking at the Valentine's Day things

You're just going to make yourself sad And then later I heard her say When is St. Patrick's birthday? So anyways, off I go. Oh, man. You know I'm not buying you a Valentine this year, so you're going to be sad. Don't get your hopes up. That is very sad.

It's very sad. Valentine's Day, even when it's good, it's sad. Very relatable. Yeah, yeah. Very relatable for the lonely. Yeah, like, what do you do? I don't know, who you get a Valentine for, if not a partner? Do you get friends Valentine?

Valentine's. No, you just got to live. If you got nobody, just live in sadness. Just live that day and sadness. Don't branch out. Yeah. But who likes it? Uh, kids, I guess.

You know, they do get to hand out the little things. They go to little. Valentine's. Um, my mom still has a package of Michael Jordan ones from where we were kids. Really? Yeah. Oh, those are worse. Yeah, they are, dude.

Yeah, I'm going to bring them home, put them on a display. Are they photos or are they? Oh, okay. Yeah. One of them said, uh, time out for fun was one of them. You know, you look like a good player or something like that. It was weak. It was weak.

Yeah. Okay. But they were a fave. Fave as a youth. Okay. Next one. Hello, Dave and Graham. It's Steve from Pennsylvania.

I was at the movie theater and a few seats down was a group of young teenage boys. And after the message came up, the one boy said to the other, hey, silence your phone. And he said, I didn't bring you. bring my phone. And then he said, well, then silence your face. Okay, thanks. Bye. Ouch.

Yeah. Yeah. What kind of friendship is that? Doesn't seem like a fun joke. I think it's actually like a really good friendship. Yeah. Would they communicate to each other? Yeah.

Hey, silence your phone. It is silence your face. Yeah. Oh, my God. You're like a brother to me. Yeah. Old brother. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm encouraged that young people are silencing their phones in movie theaters. I hope so. Yeah. There's a couple chatty people yesterday when I went to see a film. What did you see? Marty Supreme. Yeah.

That's all you need to say. Well, I'll say that. I'll say one thing. I'll say one thing. But it's a spoil. It might be a spoiler. Okay. Fast forward a minute.

Yeah. If you don't want to get spoiled it. But here's, I'll spoil it first. He goes to Japan and plays ping-ball. That leads me into what I was going to say. If the woman that you impregnated get shot in the chest, why are you going to Japan

and leaving her behind? He's maybe a flawed character. It could be a bad guy. Yeah, that's where I was, that's where I was like, what is it? What is? For me, the movie is full shot in the chest. Sure, like, but dead?

No, no, it's confirmed. Okay, she's all right. Jimmy, it's the three words. It's Kevin O'Leary. Yeah, that's the turn off for you. He does it turn off? No, that's why I wanted to see it. Oh, did you see it?

No. Not well. have to anymore. Damn it. No, I saw it and Kevin O'Leary is the worst. Like the worst person or just like bad at what he? He's the worst person and he's bad at acting and he ruins the movie. Oh, wow.

Okay. Yeah. I knew who he was, but it's... Oh, he's just not a good actor. What I would love to see from him is him to release an album because he's always playing guitar. He is always playing guitar. He's got to like runs, has a little backing track to play along with.

Yeah. He seems like a menacing. human being in real life. Yeah. Yeah. That tracks. I think he's... But you don't have to put him in the film.

There's nothing appealing about him. There's like actors for that. Yeah. I don't understand why, yeah, exactly. I'm like, well, I didn't need this. Yeah. We got actors galore, you know? Oh, my God.

Oh, man, so many. Yeah. I can think of 10 right off the top of my head. Do you still... Do you want to do that Glenn Gary Glenn Ross speech? You call that a lead? Thank you. Your final phone call.

Hey, Dave, Graham, Jess, and Invisible. I'm calling from, this is Nick, and I'm calling from a bridal show in Costa Mesa, where I just heard someone shout, That dress looks amazing on you. Your kids are fantastic. All right, take care. Bye. Hey, compliments, a compliment, yeah.

On your wedding day, do you want people to be looking at you like, oh, boy. Yeah, that's why I. cut out a big part of my shirt so that the I want them to say, yeah, what a hot guy. Look at those sexy lips. Oh, man, he's off the market. I can't believe, yeah. Yeah, I want compliments galore.

Whenever. Yeah. Horny ones? Sure. I'll take what I could get, you know? Sexy ones? Let me let it rip. Yeah, I don't think I've ever yelled at somebody a compliment like that.

Your tears look amazing? Yeah. No, you did. Oh, it is? Yeah, yeah. What was it? um oh uh

queen's jubilee yeah i gotta come over with a good funny one to end the show um and uh funeral yelled it to Ellen John um

well that brings us to the end of this year episode Dave where can people find you if they want to see every time you say it I think you're talking to me oh yeah Where can people find you? People can find me. I'm around.

I'm kind of, you know, mixing it up. Yeah, he'll be looking at kind of your higher-end pawn shops, looking for a speaker maybe, their boots. Graham didn't say, but when he arrived today, I was just finishing, making some hard-boiled eggs. Yes. Protein. Yeah. Yeah.

Dave, where can people find you and find your special? People can find me on top of a ski hill. Yeah. Just lounging, no, just normal street clothes. Yeah, absolutely. If they want to contact me, they can go to Dave Merhesh on Instagram, message me and be like, yo, what's up with you not skiing? And then I go, I don't ski.

I'm here for the sun. But if you have some downtime, watch my special on YouTube called Dawood. And, yeah, I got this fly two con. So what's up? Yeah. You just got a fly too con. Yeah, absolutely. Well, thank you so much for being our guest.

Thank you, guys. And thank you everybody out there. If you got the time this week, go visit your local. pawn shop, see what's for sale. Take something in that you've been meaning to get rid of, and come on back next to you, try another episode of Stop Podcasts of yourself.